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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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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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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.
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"Sarah’s Music - Contemporary Classical†is DW’s weekly program dedicated to the rich diversity of classical music. Presenter Sarah...
"Sarah’s Music - Contemporary Classical†is DW’s weekly program dedicated to the rich diversity of classical music. Presenter Sarah Willis gets up close and personal with the stars of the classical music world.
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Laura Mvula is a British singer with Caribbean roots. She has studied music composition and plays several instruments. Her debut album, "Sing to the Moon", reached the Top 10 of UK charts in 2013.
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20:15 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.
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21:15 Truth Detectives – Part 2
More and more war crimes and human rights violations are brought to indictment. In almost all conflict and crisis regions in the world, people are now...
More and more war crimes and human rights violations are brought to indictment. In almost all conflict and crisis regions in the world, people are now using their smartphones to document events. And older crimes can be reconstructed using satellite imagery. The documentary shows how state-of-the-art technology helps uncover these crimes worldwide.
Lawyers and human rights activists around the world are gathering evidence of human rights abuses with the help of their victims. Atrocities committed in conflicts and crises around the world can be more easily detected and documented using the latest technologies. The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Fatou Bensouda, for example, successfully used an interactive visualization tool for the first time in the trial of Islamist leader Ahmad al-Mahdi. He was sentenced in 2016 for the destruction of historic and religious sites in Mali. The organization Euromaidan SOS scours the net for YouTube videos, tweets and webcam images depicting the development of the conflict in Ukraine, checking the authenticity of the information directly on-site. After nearly half a century of civil war in Colombia, tens of thousands of people are still missing. With the help of relatives of the disappeared, the human rights organization Equitas is searching for the victims in remote regions. Satellite images, 3D mapping and algorithms are lending new momentum to the seemingly hopeless search. Using a 3D model of the city of Rafah, the research group Forensic Architecture has reconstructed the blackest day of the last Gaza war in 2014. By situating images, videos and witness testimony on the model, the Forensic Architecture team sought to provide a detailed reconstruction of the events of early August 2014. Equipped with just a cell phone camera, civilians today can call for justice. Networking through social networks makes the whole world witnesses - even to war crimes. Bottom-up surveillance by citizens and individuals - also known as ‘Sousveillance’ - is an effective weapon against abuses of power.
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"Sarah’s Music - Contemporary Classical†is DW’s weekly program dedicated to the rich diversity of classical music. Presenter Sarah...
"Sarah’s Music - Contemporary Classical†is DW’s weekly program dedicated to the rich diversity of classical music. Presenter Sarah Willis gets up close and personal with the stars of the classical music world.
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05:15 No Solidarity - Racism in Former East Germany
"Beat the Algerians to death!" cried mobs of young men rampaging through Erfurt for three days in August 1975. Assaults on foreigners did not fit into...
"Beat the Algerians to death!" cried mobs of young men rampaging through Erfurt for three days in August 1975. Assaults on foreigners did not fit into Communist East Germany's official self-image at all. Nevertheless, foreign contract workers were repeatedly hounded and subjected to violent attacks. Many of these crimes are still unsolved today.
