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Families Under Pressure From Coronavirus

Corona: Familien unter Hochdruck

Working from home and remote learning don't really mix, but over the past year parents have had to balance work and family life with far less support than before. BR journalists follow three families as they navigate family life in a time of coronavirus.

This programme by German channel BR is part of the European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SSR SRG and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

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COVID 19: The Crisis Continues

Working from home and remote learning don't really mix, but over the past year parents have had to balance work and family life with far less support than before. BR journalists follow three families as they navigate family life in a time of coronavirus.<br /><br />This programme by German channel BR is part of the European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SSR SRG and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Working from home and remote learning don't really mix, but over the past year parents have had to manage

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Covid is spreading mainly in overcrowded disadvantaged neighborhoods. The measures, very strict, are saturating the hospital system of the territory. The new Fanchang Hospital, built with Chinese assistance, currently has more than 50,000 patients. Health authorities, too, have different opinions. Some advocate the abolition of mass testing and say a complete lockdown of the city is impossible, while others say Hong Kong should take inspiration from the mainland.

Hong Kong: The Victims of China's Covid Policy

Is Hong Kong's covid policy causing as many problems as it claims to solve?

ARTE Reportage

With nearly 500,000 deaths from Covid-19, India is one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic. The second wave that swept through the subcontinent in Spring 2021 destroyed entire families and is estimated to have left behind more than 100,000 orphans.

India: Covid Orphans

The second wave that swept through the subcontinent in Spring 2021 is estimated to have left behind more than 100,000 orphans.

As infection rates reduce across the continent and more people get vaccinated, homeless and migrants remain amongst the most vulnerable in the pandemic.

Europe: Homeless in Covid Times

Idlib is already weakened by a decade of war, but now its residents must also face the devastation of the coronavirus. In this overcrowded enclave, social distancing is impossible. One in two people here live in camps, and humanitarian aid is trickling across the border. The hospitals have no beds, and are turning people away.

Syria: Idlib Battered by the Delta Variant

The hospitals have no beds, and are turning people away

Cameroon, a Central African country of 27 million inhabitants, has been spared the worst of the coronavirus crisis. It's only had around 100,000 cases and less than 2000 deaths. That's an incidence rate 50 times lower than that of European countries. But herbal homemade 'remedies' to covid have flourished. 

Cameroon: Anti-Covid Witches

Herbal homemade 'remedies' to covid have flourished in Cameroon

Tourism represents 10% of global GDP and for some nations is of vital importance. A focus on our changing travel habits from the late nineteenth century up to the present day and beyond.

Tourism Post Covid

Mapping the World

More than a third of the population of Israel has received a vaccine for Covid-19, with the majority of over-60s now inoculated. With 200,000 infections a day, Israel hopes to return to relative normality by the Spring.

Israel: Secrets of the Vaccination Campaign

We saw it all this time last year: A recent rise in cases in part of Beijing has led to local lockdowns, more restrictions and an increasing sense of déjà vu.

China: Covid-19 is Back

With a high mortality rate, a chronically underfunded health service, and doctors leaving to work in other European countries, Romania is in danger of being overwhelmed by Covid-19.

Romania: Health Service on the Brink

Wuhan was little known in the West before the pandemic. The central Chinese city the size of New York, was a vibrant city before the pandemic. After a strict lockdown, social life in Wuhan seems to have returned to normal with busy streets, lively restaurants and packed nightclubs.

China: The Wuhan Paradox

After a strict lockdown, social life in Wuhan seems to have returned to normal with busy streets, lively restaurants and packed nightclubs.

Living in Guernica, Argentina, is nobody's dream but everybody's last resort. The pandemic left these families no longer able to pay rent, and so instead the shanty town of Guernica sprang up in July in a matter of days. But even this last refuge is under threat, as the land the shacks are built on is private property, earmarked for a luxury development. 

The Homeless of the Pandemic

Living in Guernica, Argentina, is nobody's dream but everybody's last resort

The entire world had closed its doors in a desperate attempt to halt the spread of coronavirus. Africa has learnt techniques from Ebola but doesn't have the health system to cope in the event of a major outbreak. Countries in Asia meanwhile learnt valuable lessons from SARS. But worldwide, confined populations are lonely and isolated, prompting a new way of coping to go viral (metaphorically): the coronavirus blues. 

The Coronavirus Blues

Worldwide, confined populations are lonely and isolated, prompting a new way of coping to go viral (metaphorically): the coronavirus blues

As Europe comes out of lockdown, blinking in the sunlight, life is almost back to normal. But will this normality last?

Coronavirus: Is This the End?

It's impossible to say for sure how many people have been infected with coronavirus in Brazil due to lack of testing, but estimates suggest well over a million cases. The number of deaths has skyrocketed, exacerbating tensions in a nation of extreme inequality.

Brazil: How a Virus Divided a Nation

The red cloth in Colombia that hang out of people's windows are silent cries for help. In lockdown, the nation's poor are starving, and the red flag lets others know that this is a household that is going hungry. Claudia Lopez, Bogota's first female mayor, launched an appeal for donations, and neighbours are banding together to bring help to those who need it the most.

The red cloth in Colombia that hang out of people's windows are silent cries for help

Colombia: The Red Rags of Hunger

In several countries around the world, there are signs that the pandemic may be waning. Small victories against the virus - like being able to leave home without a permission slip - gives many hope. While life is not back to normal and may not be for some time yet, a new normal is emerging. 

COVID-19: The Worst is Behind Us?

In several countries around the world, there are signs that the pandemic may be waning

2.4 million farm workers work in the US, and many are undocumented, without health insurance. While doctors and nurses are cheered on daily, these workers are crucial to the American society, but these farm workers have been forgotten. 

Covid-19 in the USA: A Sickness of the Poor

The 2.4 million undocumented farm workers in the US are the forgotten heros of the pandemic

The global lock down in response to the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a massive spike in food insecurity. Those who were already on the breadline are now desperate, with no way of making money and left dependent on hand outs. While the world's doctors fight the virus, people at home are fighting hunger.

Hungry in Lock Down

While the world's doctors fight the virus, people at home are fighting hunger

Since the appearance of Covid-19 in Lebanon, Hezbollah has mobilised its military and civic sectors, a veritable state within a state, to fight the spread of the virus.

Lebanon: Hezbollah verus Coronavirus

Taiwan is not far from China, where COVID-19 came from, but unlike its giant neighbour, it has had only a handful of deaths, and low numbers of detected cases. How were they able to escape the clutches of the disease and succeed where so many other countries failed? It learnt hard lessons from the 2003 SARS epidemic and wasted no time putting measures into place.

Taiwan: A Role Model?

Despite being so close to China, Taiwan succeeded in containing the virus when so many other countries were unable to do so. How did they do it? 

After weeks of confinement to protect the Chinese capital from COVID-19, Beijing begins to glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel as its residents begin to venture outside again. 

China: Life After Coronavirus

After weeks of confinement to protect the Chinese capital from COVID-19, Beijing begins to glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel 

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On the French Caribbean island of Martinique , large-scale use of insecticides caused serious damage. But the earth is being revitalised by several initiatives inspired by age-old agricultural practices. 

A Documentary by Florence Lazar

Revitalising the Earth

Fati's Choice

Generation Africa

In 2017, Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev was living and working from the separatist region of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Critical of the self-proclaimed republic, he used pseudonyms to protect his identity. But one day he was exposed which led to his imprisonment and torture in the notorious Izolyatsia prison

The story of Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev who was imprisonment and tortured in the separatist region of Donbas.

The Bright Path

Katanga is a bustling district of Addis Ababa where many locals dream of making it big in the capital. Enkehone, a street vendor from the countryside, lives in Amele Mamo's makeshift hostel. Both are part of this struggling community on the brink of extinction, as city developers edge ever closer to their derelict neighbourhood.

Katanga Nation

A struggling community on the brink of extinction

Manuela is smart and enthusiastic at school, but sad at home. She's eleven years old and preparing her first school certificate. She lives in Edéa, Cameroon, with her grandparents who do not understand why their granddaughter is unhappy when she wants for almost nothing. Except for her parents. They left when she was just four years old, to go work in Italy. Even if she understands it was for the sake of her future, Manuela still keenly feels their abandonment.

Njel and The Separation

Manuela's parents left her behind to find jobs in Europe, and the 11 year old is heartbroken by their absence

Almost Somali

"People tell stories, but when it comes to theirs, they either lose their memory or decide to shut up." Born in 1994 in the Democratic Republic of Congo,  Akili Nadege had to leave her homeland for Rwanda, and then Burundi. She's suffered prison, torture, a murdered father and a torn homeland, and suffered isolation and loneliness. In this intimate documentary essay, the director Claudine Ndimbira had the young woman tell her testimony through a group of readers. These men and women who know neither Akili nor her past, but they will develop with her, over the course of reading her story, a deep bond of empathy.

Lend Me Your Voice

A choir of strangers tells the difficult testimony of a young Congolese refugee

"I was 5. I was 13. I was 16." Originally from Fana, Mali, Mariam was sexually abused by a neighbour, then by her brother-in-law, and first cousin. During the last attack she tried to fight off her abuser, and her shoulder was injured. Dancing awakens the old pain in her shoulder and reminds her of the assault: but dancing is also how she reclaims her body for herself. Pregnant with her first child, she takes part in a workshop during which, with the support of the supervising choreographer and the other dancers, she reckons with her painful past.

Stay Upright

How an abuse survivor in Burkina Faso uses dance to heal herself

With May the 9th Europe Day, Karambolage asks what Europeans living in France and Germany miss from their home countries.

European Expats in France and Germany

Karambolage

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