tv World Stories - Korea Hope for a divided country Deutsche Welle June 18, 2018 1:15am-1:30am CEST
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that's your news wrap showing us again at the top of the hour don't forget you can always check out our website d.w. dot com or follow us on twitter i'm miles waiter in berlin thanks for watching. my first boss like i was a sewing machine. i come from women are almost by the social tools to miss something as simple as learning how to write a bicycle isn't missing since i was a little girl i wanted to buy cycle of my home and it took me years to until. finally the game. and returned to the sewing machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for girls than writing and. as knowledge i want to meet those
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women back home for bones and social rules and inform them about the basics like. my name is the amount of people homes and i'm more into. this week on the world story. looted or should it be returned to nigeria. a year after the huge fire in london. but we begin in south korea relations with north korea seem to be thawing and many people in the south hope they will soon be reunited with their relatives in the north thousands of families were torn apart when the nation was divided decades ago. a few old
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photographs and a couple of letters that's the only proved one sign has that he has relatives somewhere in north korea it would put them in danger to show their faces on television. his older brother chants sign tells me fought for south korea and the korean war almost seven decades ago chunks of bach was taken prisoner by the north. the family was told he had been killed but then sixty years after seeing his brother for the last time chang sign received a letter from north korea from his brother delivered through a contact in china that was ten years ago it may chang sign happy and sad at the same time. when i saw the photo i could tell they were my brother but you can see how depressed he looks rather than actually i remember him as such
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a cheerful person. you know. his brother passed away shortly after chang signed up a letter with but he left behind a family of his own turned sign hopes that with thawing relations between north and south and the upcoming summit he might finally get the chance to meet his relatives . with as i get older my desire to meet them is growing stronger i want to get to know that side of my family now whether some or no seems more likely we'll have a chance to meet which i'm still not sure if i should trust the politicians but i just can't help but hope it will finally have. people rooting for the me there's a. sometimes turn sign in his wife come to the national cemetery in seoul to find his brother's name on the wall of missing soldiers. even though chancellor bach is no longer missing they don't want his name deleted saul
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was his home they say and they hope that maybe one day his children in north korea can come here to. the periphery fire and london's grunfeld tower occurred one year ago seventy one people died because of the fire remains unclear to this day the former residents are the tragedy the bento shell of friends the tower follows honeyed while the wherever he goes it's always in his mind in this empty space used to have this fish store the area. where i can go and i need used to live on the sixteenth floor now he lives in a hotel like many other survivors. or this is my store. of got some stuff here for my. book for my new house when i get my house we buy some
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things because everything is is going on the fast. so this is it this is it's just. made things he was able to escape the flames because he was strong to keep fit he had always taken the steps instead of the lift luckily his family was not at home that night imagine the reality of hospice living with your family and not just instantly everything once. in a different way. you were planning a you know are thinking about she's teaching your kids you'll probably need everything once these soul we see struggling from day up to now. after almost a year a public inquiry has finally started to investigate what went wrong. clary mehndi
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lost a cousin mary in the fire mary stuart acadia also perished like many others she blames the corporate culture that put profit before people construction company is this apply is a contract this is a holy book people. who are embedded in this social mud down because this is what is this social madame by negligence enough for us what we ideally want is gross negligence on stilts on because they need is about individuals and it's really important that we say individuals in the till the fight for justice has left many survive a strained how mead wants to go back to work but says he conks find the strength he's asking for more psychological help. it's like he does just to kill you i'm working and helping people that says. this is what i'm going to do for the rest of
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my life help as much as i can. helping others because on the night of the fire meat was unable to rescue his friends from the burning building fest though he now needs to help himself and try to come to terms with the haunting image that is ground for us hala. more than one hundred years ago british soldiers brought the so-called binning bronzes to europe from nigeria now a growing number of people are calling for their return because they are much more than just value pieces of art. scepter for the new royal sculptures erekat but modi began making such objects when he was just a child he comes from a family of bronze artists and learn the techniques from his father this tradition goes back to the thirteenth century in his home of ben in city in southern nigeria but modi has ancestors started producing plaques and sculptures for their king. and
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. recorded. movies good a new camera. so we use. the committee events you know to use you and i asked to come into their. duties to do all replicate or to present what they have seen in the palace artists produced thousands of these valuable objects over the centuries but painting city is museum on the has a few of them in its collection most were looted in one thousand ninety seven when british soldiers invaded the royal palace. collectors and museums in europe then purchased them at art auctions. nigeria is now pushing for their return negotiations have been happening for the past eight years according to theory off by the museum's director but there's been little headway europe says that more intensive research is needed to determine the origin and acquisition of
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the artworks. those critical of their return have a different argument they say the bronzes are now part of world cultural heritage and would be better preserved in large international museums than in a nigerian province but artists like nike davies o'quinn de view such arguments with cynicism she's the owner of nigeria's largest private gallery her mission is fostering the younger generations talent and those young artists often cannot travel to europe and. conti. i see. eric and his colleagues in benning city have also never seen their ancestors masterpieces in european museums but they say there is
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a positive side to the debate over looted nigerian art it's a confirmation to the world that africa is rich with sought after cultural treasures. turkey goes to the polls in one week's time three million turks who live abroad are also able to vote the question is are you for or against president. and important issues also for ethnic turks living here in berlin. tickets electing campaigning in a german capital is good good advice and. friends are canvassing for turkey's pro kurdish h.t.t.p. party system but this is for the election in turkey were against the one they did get was against area one ok i'll take one over. this very left because of president are gone he's very concerned about politics in his home country he's been. indicted and i've been in germany for six years and won the
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guns and many of my friends and my entire family are still there free then and they're dissatisfied and we have to change it or topple this government but not everyone here is against and on these women are complaining for the turkish president and his a.k.p. party they don't like speaking to the german press and initially brushed me off. this whose party colleagues from the age c.p.c. to present often take a piece of porter's as a provocation they shout added one is that terrorist agha one is a murderer. a heated answer comes right back the passer by says you are the real murderous she's doing the right thing with you you did sue if it i'm happy that type aggro on exists oh i took. this who tries to defuse deceit to a certain he doesn't like these public disputes with the a.k.p.
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supporters he thought it was shouldn't insult but did you hear what they said to this i think you. know this i know they are insulting you but try to stay cool don't do the same thing as they do. that they live in germany but they are more fired up about politics in turkey to take a piece of poor to say it's only natural this is internally is our real homeland our families live there and we're doing this work here for them with god's help. those here is convinced there is no. more to it than that. if you don't they spoke there they have an identity problem because they've heard a lot of bad experiences. that's why they want to vote for turkey and why so many support the a k p. but not everybody does. and it still those who don't support adirondack is good it's helping to mobilize by
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canvassing for the h d p campaigning in berlin against the two kish president. and to the conflict zone with tim sebastian. afghanistan is fighting on many different fronts these days not just with the militants but also against human rights abuses and massive corruption our guest this week here in london is abdullah abdullah his country's chief executive why is there so much disunity in what is supposed to be a unity government conflict off to the left. on the brink of you all. in good shape and underestimated disease diabetes i often hear that patients with diabetes can only blame themselves for getting sick and this is not always true dr
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starch july in. afghanistan is fighting on many different fronts these days not just with the militants but also against human rights abuses and massive corruption my guest this week here in london is a dollar a dollar this country's chief executive role akin to that of prime minister why is there so much disunity in what is supposed to be a unity government oh oh .
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