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The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close...
The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close up" is informative, gripping and visually powerful.
07:45 Living in the Digital Age
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11:15 On Bananas and Republics
How did the banana become a global export product and the United Fruit Company - now known as "Chiquita" - turn into a multinational empire that could...
How did the banana become a global export product and the United Fruit Company - now known as "Chiquita" - turn into a multinational empire that could downgrade Central American nations to easily manipulated "banana republics" and destroy millions of hectares with monocultures? Using the banana as an example, this documentary shows how globalized capitalism actually works.
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The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close...
The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close up" is informative, gripping and visually powerful.
17:45 Living in the Digital Age
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21:15 The Money Deluge – How the Rich Get Richer
For years, the world’s central banks have been pursuing a policy of cheap money. The first and foremost is the ECB (European Central Bank), which...
For years, the world’s central banks have been pursuing a policy of cheap money. The first and foremost is the ECB (European Central Bank), which buys bad stocks and bonds to save banks, tries to fuel economic growth and props up states that are in debt. But what relieves state budgets to the tune of hundreds of billions annoys savers: interest rates are close to zero.
The fiscal policies of the central banks are causing a uncontrolled global deluge of money. Experts are warning of new bubbles. In real estate, for example: it’s not just in German cities that prices are shooting up. In London, a one-bed apartment can easily cost more than a million euros. More and more money is moving away from the real economy and into the speculative field. Highly complex financial bets are taking place in the global casino - gambling without checks and balances. The winners are set from the start: in Germany and around the world, the rich just get richer. Professor Max Otte says: "This flood of money has caused a dangerous redistribution. Those who have, get more." But with low interest rates, any money in savings accounts just melts away. Those with debts can be happy. But big companies that want to swallow up others are also happy: they can borrow cheap money for their acquisitions. Coupled with the liberalization of the financial markets, the money deals have become detached from the real economy. But it’s not just the banks that need a constant source of new, cheap money today. So do states. They need it to keep a grip on their mountains of debt. It’s a kind of snowball system. What happens to our money? Is a new crisis looming? The film The Money Deluge casts a new and surprising light on our money in these times of zero interest rates.
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23:15 Petra – The Nabataean Necropolis, Jordan
From the 3rd Century BC to the year 106 AD, when it was taken over by the Roman Empire, Petra in the Wadi Musa valley in southern Jordan was the capital...
From the 3rd Century BC to the year 106 AD, when it was taken over by the Roman Empire, Petra in the Wadi Musa valley in southern Jordan was the capital of a powerful tribe in the Near East, the Nabataeans. Its name means "crag" or "rock" in Arabic.
By the time Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, disguised as Sheikh Ibrahim, discovered the former Nabataean city in 1812, nature had already reclaimed it. The lofty facades, cornices, half-pillars, and gables of the monuments carved out of the stone were had been worn down by age, wind and rain. Visitors today can marvel at the interplay of natural forces and an ancient, extinct culture in this 2,200-year-old necropolis. Through the "Siq," a long ravine through the rock massif, one reaches the treasure house of Pharaoh. Hazne al Fir'un, carved in one piece from the rock, was built together with the first dwellings. Now only the tomb monuments have survived. For centuries, Petra prospered due to its location at the intersection of trade routes between Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean. The sacred district shows its beauty in its interplay with nature: the colors of the Petra’s architecture range from ocher to pink, deep red and gray.
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The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close...
The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close up" is informative, gripping and visually powerful.
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The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close...
The weekly half-hour program delivers in-depth reporting on topical political issues and newsworthy events. Revealing the story behind the stories, "Close up" is informative, gripping and visually powerful.
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21:15 Secrets of the Stone Age – Part 1: From Hunters to Farmers
Around 12,000 years ago, humans underwent a transition from the nomadic lifestyle of hunter-gatherers to the settled life of farmers. That epoch, the Stone...
Around 12,000 years ago, humans underwent a transition from the nomadic lifestyle of hunter-gatherers to the settled life of farmers. That epoch, the Stone Age, produced monumental building works. Part 1 of this two-part documentary illuminates the cultural background of these structures and shows the difficulties Stone Age humans had to contend with.
Until around 10,000 BC, humans lived as hunters and gatherers. Then an irreversible change began. Settlements formed. "For millions of years humans lived as foragers and suddenly their lives changed radically. This was far more radical than the start of the digital age or industrialization," says prehistorian Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. For a long time, scholars believed that a sedentary lifestyle was a prerequisite for constructing large buildings. Then archaeologist Klaus Schmidt discovered Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey, a 12,000-year-old complex of stone blocks weighing up to 20 tons. Its builders were still hunter- gatherers. They decorated the stone columns with ornate animal reliefs. How these structures were used and who was allowed access to them remains a mystery. But we now know that the site was abandoned and covered over once settlements took root. Human development continued its course. The discovery of agriculture and animal husbandry led to larger settlements, a changed diet and ultimately to dependence on material goods. This social upheaval in the late Neolithic period has influenced our lives up to the present day. But experts agree that the monuments of the Stone Age prove that humans have gigantomanic tendencies and a need to immortalize themselves.
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23:15 Monticello – A Concrete Utopia, USA
Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States of America, wanted the Declaration of Independence to guarantee the right to freedom and self-determination...
Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States of America, wanted the Declaration of Independence to guarantee the right to freedom and self-determination to all men. He decided a new style of architecture should be the visible representation of these rights.
Himself an architect, Jefferson set out to create the prototype of this new architecture at Monticello, his plantation in West Virginia. He spent half of his life working on the neoclassical main house and turning it into the concrete utopia of a committed Enlightenment thinker.
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03:15 Secret Animal Transports – When the Law Fails to Protect
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05:15 Love and Sex in Japan
Japan has a problem: romantic relationships and sex are becoming a rarity. A quarter of all Japanese between the ages of 30 and 40 are virgins, and half...
Japan has a problem: romantic relationships and sex are becoming a rarity. A quarter of all Japanese between the ages of 30 and 40 are virgins, and half the population admit they rarely have sex. The social impact is enormous: birth rates are so low that the Japanese population could plunge by one-third by 2060.
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11:15 Cahier Africain, Part 2
Filmmaker Heidi Specogna spent more than seven years accompanying Central African women who had suffered war atrocities. The focus of the film is a small...
Filmmaker Heidi Specogna spent more than seven years accompanying Central African women who had suffered war atrocities. The focus of the film is a small school exercise book filled with their courageous testimonies. In it they wrote down the crimes committed against them with the hope of bringing their testimony before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
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21:15 Secret Animal Transports – When the Law Fails to Protect
Millions of animals are transported across Europe every year, as far as North Africa and the Middle East. Sheep and cattle are often crammed into trucks...
Millions of animals are transported across Europe every year, as far as North Africa and the Middle East. Sheep and cattle are often crammed into trucks and ships for days or even weeks. Since 1991, filmmaker Manfred Karremann has been documenting the fate of animals on long-distance transports. Despite improvements in legislation, not much has changed over that time.
Manfred Karremann has already made an impact with his documentaries about the transport of animals across Europe. On several occasions the EU has responded to his reports by improving animal welfare regulations. But this still offers too little protection to the animals. An everyday occurrence: the brown and white cow in the truck is breathing heavily. It's down on the floor, where other animals can't avoid stepping on it. After 20 minutes the animal is dead. That is a scene shot at the end of August 2017 on the EU's external border with Turkey. An exception? Exports of cattle and sheep from the EU are on the rise again. Along with Turkey, most of the live animals are headed for the Middle East. Even young calves are transported over distances as great as 3,000 kilometers at a stretch. Arriving at their destination after days or weeks, the animals from Europe face an end with terrible suffering. Animal welfare activists are sounding the alarm again: They say that the laws are no longer obeyed once the animals leave the EU. They report dehydrated cattle at the Turkish border and unspeakable torment on old cattle freighters and after arrival in the Middle East and North Africa. More than one million signatures protesting this state of affairs were recently submitted to the EU Commission in Brussels. The background: The European Court of Justice decided that animal welfare rules apply up to the animals' final destination. The problem: nobody monitors the transports once they have left the EU, as filmmaker Manfred Karremann proves. Just outside the EU's borders, he encounters dehydrated cattle, and cows giving birth and dying on trucks. Karremann wanted to know: Are these images of animal suffering just exceptions? Or is the law being systematically broken? Karremann's months-long investigation takes him from German farms through Bulgaria and Turkey to Lebanon.
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11:15 The Mobility of Tomorrow
Travel has always been a dream of humankind: to reach distant places or foreign countries in the shortest possible time. Even today, roads and rails are...
Travel has always been a dream of humankind: to reach distant places or foreign countries in the shortest possible time. Even today, roads and rails are overloaded and resources are scarce. The most innovative idea for a solution is the Hyperloop. This is a capsule that is supposed to glide through a steel tube at 1200 kilometers an hour. Will we travel from Berlin to Paris in less than an hour?
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05:15 Mexicans - Dying for Justice
Drug wars and crime are tearing Mexico apart. In recent years, more than 200,000 people have been murdered, tortured or simply disappeared without a trace....
Drug wars and crime are tearing Mexico apart. In recent years, more than 200,000 people have been murdered, tortured or simply disappeared without a trace. The responsibility lies not only with the drug cartels, but also with the police and armed forces. Three human rights activists collect testimony on the atrocities for submission to the International Criminal Court.
