TV Programm für Deutsche Welle (Engl) am 16.08.2026

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Like many women in rural northern India, Tenzin Dolma was married and became a mother at an early age. Unlike many of her peers, Tenzin is an ultramarathon runner balancing providing for her family with training for and competing in some of India's most grueling races. She also runs up against critics in her community who do not understand her passion or think women should participate in sports.

As the war on Ukraine rages on, drone technology is advancing rapidly - and fundamentally changing the battlefield. What happens when machines gain power over life and death?

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Our deep dive format explains the stories that matter - ####with clarity, context and journalistic rigor. Each segment goes beyond the headlines to uncover what's driving key developments around the world, featuring sharp analysis, expert voices and exclusive on the ground insights from where events are unfolding.

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Colors make our homes more beautiful. They make our clothes more stylish. And colors are indispensable for art. But what looks beautiful can also be toxic: Many colors contain substances like mercury, lead, or chromium.

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Africa

In 1992, three people died in an arson attack carried out by neo-Nazis in Mölln, northern Germany. They were relatives of Ibrahim Arslan, who was seven years old at the time. The film follows the family as they come to terms with their trauma.

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Our deep dive format explains the stories that matter - ####with clarity, context and journalistic rigor. Each segment goes beyond the headlines to uncover what's driving key developments around the world, featuring sharp analysis, expert voices and exclusive on the ground insights from where events are unfolding.

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Lifestyle Europe

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Driving offers women - especially in low-income countries - a pathway to flexible and independent work. But women currently represent just 17% of the global transport workforce, with many still concentrated in administrative roles. Despite this, the road ahead is full of potential.

Living in the Digital Age

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Like many women in rural northern India, Tenzin Dolma was married and became a mother at an early age. Unlike many of her peers, Tenzin is an ultramarathon runner balancing providing for her family with training for and competing in some of India's most grueling races. She also runs up against critics in her community who do not understand her passion or think women should participate in sports.

For almost forty years, it divided Germany, separating East and West. The day the Wall came down, on November 9, 1989, was a day of joy and happiness for the vast majority of people who lived in its vicinity.

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Our deep dive format explains the stories that matter - ####with clarity, context and journalistic rigor. Each segment goes beyond the headlines to uncover what's driving key developments around the world, featuring sharp analysis, expert voices and exclusive on the ground insights from where events are unfolding.

Living in the Digital Age

The Magazine for Africa's Youth

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As Delhi's heatwaves intensify, some workers are using heatwave insurance that pays out in extreme heat. Plus: The young farmer who saved a river, his village, and more, by planting trees.

What happens when you drink and drive? Our reporter gets behind the wheel of a driving simulator to find out. Plus: Carl Benz, his wife Bertha and the Patent Motor Car, and how cycling helps a Sudanese refugee in Cairo.

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Lifestyle Europe

Colors make our homes more beautiful. They make our clothes more stylish. And colors are indispensable for art. But what looks beautiful can also be toxic: Many colors contain substances like mercury, lead, or chromium.

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Driving offers women - especially in low-income countries - a pathway to flexible and independent work. But women currently represent just 17% of the global transport workforce, with many still concentrated in administrative roles. Despite this, the road ahead is full of potential.

On Location

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Three men, a hydrogen balloon, and a shared dream of reaching the North Pole. In 1897, the Andrée expedition vanished without a trace. It wasn't until 1930 that their preserved bodies, diaries, and photographs were discovered on Kvitøya.

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Our deep dive format explains the stories that matter - ####with clarity, context and journalistic rigor. Each segment goes beyond the headlines to uncover what's driving key developments around the world, featuring sharp analysis, expert voices and exclusive on the ground insights from where events are unfolding.

Living in the Digital Age

Select DW video podcasts enrich the program with current analyses of world politics and its influence on our daily lives. There will also be space in the program for lively discussions about social standards and taboos.

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In Sweden, enormous American cars, roaring V8 engines and chrome-covered classics have become the heart of one of Europe's most unexpected automotive subcultures. Known as raggare, generations of Swedes have built a way of life around American cars, rock and roll, summer cruising and rebellion.

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From the runways of Accra Fashion Week, with this special episode KMJ from Ghana explores for Afrimaxx how Africans are challenging stereotypes and redefining inclusion through fashion, art, dance and entrepreneurship.

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Like many women in rural northern India, Tenzin Dolma was married and became a mother at an early age. Unlike many of her peers, Tenzin is an ultramarathon runner balancing providing for her family with training for and competing in some of India's most grueling races. She also runs up against critics in her community who do not understand her passion or think women should participate in sports.

Lifestyle Europe

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Living in the Digital Age

What happens when you drink and drive? Our reporter gets behind the wheel of a driving simulator to find out. Plus: Carl Benz, his wife Bertha and the Patent Motor Car, and how cycling helps a Sudanese refugee in Cairo.

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No other sector in Germany employs as few women as the construction industry. The few female construction workers face many challenges - including sexism. This report follows four of them.

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Like many women in rural northern India, Tenzin Dolma was married and became a mother at an early age. Unlike many of her peers, Tenzin is an ultramarathon runner balancing providing for her family with training for and competing in some of India's most grueling races. She also runs up against critics in her community who do not understand her passion or think women should participate in sports.

Africa

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Driving offers women - especially in low-income countries - a pathway to flexible and independent work. But women currently represent just 17% of the global transport workforce, with many still concentrated in administrative roles. Despite this, the road ahead is full of potential.

On Location

Prehistoric inhabitants of Europe had dark complexions. Skin tones only started growing lighter around 5,000 years ago. Plus: a large Celtic structure is unearthed and a new ESA space telescope is ramping up for launch.