[Swprograms] Deutsche Welle Programs

[Bill B <ka2emz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Todays program preview from Deutsche Welle, Germany. (Audio available 
via www.dwelle.de/english )

LIVING PLANET

India's greenhouse gas emissions skyrocket

According to one of the UN's top climate experts, India will be unable 
to commit to greenhouse gas emission targets when the first phase of the 
Kyoto treaty, designed to combat global warming, ends in 2012. Under the 
Kyoto climate change protocol, developed countries need to significantly 
reduce their greenhouse gas outputs. Developing countries such as India 
and China are exempt from the treaty's emission targets because they say 
their economies are too fragile to face environmental restrictions. But 
Rajendra Pachauri, Indian chairman of the United Nations' 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is warning that his country's 
energy-hungry economy is developing so fast that it may well be under 
pressure to join rich nations in efforts to lower emissions. Caroline 
Vincza has the details.


WWF demands better water management for Europe

Persistent hot weather following months of low rainfall has raised the 
spectre of serious drought in many parts of Europe. Authorities have 
already urged consumers to cut back on water usage and in many places 
imposed bans on hosepipes and sprinklers and prohibited filling swimming 
pools or washing cars. Meanwhile WWF, the global conservation 
organization, is warning that building more reservoirs and water storage 
dams will not solve the continent's water shortage and may even damage 
the scarce water resources that remain. It is saying that inefficient 
agricultural irrigation regularly wastes 40 per cent of water. And that 
better solutions for long-term water supply within Europe need to be 
found before rivers turn to trickles. Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome.


'Big Jump' proves Germany's rivers and lakes to be more or less clean

Last weekend, around ninety thousand people simultaneously jumped into 
rivers around Germany and Europe to show that they care about the state 
of their rivers and waterways. The project dubbed 'Big Jump' was 
initiated by a French-based organisation called the European Rivers 
Network. Back in 1995, they organised a swimming day in the Loire river 
in France. Then in 1997, with the help of German partners, the network 
began the Living Elbe project with the aim of cleaning up the Elbe river 
by 2002. When Germany was reunified, the Elbe river was the most 
polluted river in Europe. But as Cinnamon Nippard reports, salmon and 
people have returned.



COOL

Aktion Tagwerk- German pupils helping Kids in poor countries

Schooldays are supposedly the best time of people's lives. It might not 
seem so when you're there, but there are millions of children around the 
world, who would be glad if they could go to school. Instead of going to 
school, they have to work to help their families survive - they herd the 
cattle or sell tea or work in factories. Now kids in Germany are trying 
to help these kids in a very hands- on way. For the "Aktion tagwerk" or 
"Project Daily Work" , Thousands of German Schoolkids across Germany 
take a day off school to go and work. All the money they earn on that 
day will then go to help children in poor countries. Last week, It was 
kids in the federal state of North Rhine Westphalia who participated in 
the Tagwerk project. Rob Turner talked to some of them.


Bollywood Festival in Stuttgart

Germans are much more exposed to Bollywood now than ever before - there 
are even some Bollywood films have been dubbed and shown on German 
television in the past couple of months. And Bollywood music is pretty 
hip, as well as Indian-inspired fashion. Bollywood is becoming 
increasingly popular among young Germans. Earlier this week, the second 
Bollywood filmfestival ended In Stuttgart in southern Germany - That was 
the second year of the Stuttgart festival, and the number of visitors 
has doubled in comparison to last year. Priya Esselborn was among them 
to watch some films for us.


World Games Duisburg

At the "World Games" currently going on in Duisburg, the sports 
disciplines are somewhat unusual: You get the world elite in tug-of-war, 
Sumo-wresteling, canoepolo and many other non-olympic sports. Which is 
why the World Games get a lot less media attention than the Olympics. 
But the dedication of the athletes is truly olympic - and there's quite 
a few gold medals to be won. Cool's Bridget Guiterrez explored these 
exotic sports and even braved being hit by an athlete's paddle to get 
her interviews.

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