Have you heard about DW’s new environment podcast? This week, we feature two episodes of On The Green Fence. The podcast's presenters — Neil King and Gabriel Borrud — travel to a small town in Southern Germany, where water contamination is plaguing residents and they visit a farm outside Berlin to hear how the expansion of agriculture and the use of pesticides is endangering insects.

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WorldLink: Contamination & Endangerment

Just in time for the holidays, we're bringing you stories from across the world about some unique Christmas traditions. From a town called Santa Claus in the US to festive frolics on hot-hot Hawaii, this program features narratives of Noel.

WorldLink: Jingle Jangles

On the Green Fence is a new podcast from DW - dedicated to all things environment. On this week's WorldLink, we feature two episodes from the podcast, presented by Neil King and Gabriel Borrud. We hear from a woman who believes that the best solution to combating climate change is to stop having children and we learn about how conservation efforts have led to the return of wild wolves in Germany.

WorldLink: Children & Conservation

On this week's show, we're going to India to meet a group of comedians known as Aisi Taisi Democracy who are taking a no holds barred approach to satire. We'll also talk to Russian rap legend Ptakha about the political shakedown on the rap scene there.

WorldLink: Art smart

On this week's show, we'll go behind the scenes of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, we'll find out why people are fighting to speak French in Louisiana, we meet a Down's syndrome drag troupe that's changing perceptions and visit a safe space for the LGBT+ community in Seoul. Plus, we find out how Kurdish music is used as a form of protest and how an ancient Greek instrument is having a revival.

WorldLink: Past, present, future

This week on WorldLink, we meet rising pop star Lipa Schmeltzer who's been called the Jewish Lady Gaga, and hear the story of how an Uzbek cleaner found her passion DJing in night clubs in Moscow. We also speak to the Turkish jazz musician credited with creating fusion jazz, and travel to New Zealand, where a 2500 year old tree survives in one of the last remaining patches of native forest.

WorldLink: Music to my ears

We hear from Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, where armed militants have gained a foothold in the world's largest refugee camp. And we discover how Rohingya are using songs and stories to preserve their culture. Plus, we meet the Colombian musician turning guns into guitars, and the South Korean activist making her country more inclusive for people with disabilities.

WorldLink: Music and belonging

This week on WorldLink, we meet a man who crawled to freedom through a tunnel under the Berlin Wall, and hear from someone who was there the night the divide finally fell. We speak to a woman piecing together her grandfather's experience of WWII, and visit the most famous military cemetery in the US.

WorldLink: Freedom and remembrance

On this week’s program we take stock of the situation in Chile where President Pinera has been making some concessions in a bid to stem the country’s fledgling protest movement. And amid claims that US sanctions on Venezuela have resulted in the death of at least 40,000 people we’ll also be taking a closer at just how the international sanctions are impacting on Venezuelans.

WorldLink: Faultlines

On this week's show, we hear from an Italian-born woman who's lived in England since she was two but no longer feels welcome in Brexit Britain, from Moroccans who long to experience another country outside their own, from the fight for LGBTQ rights in India, Chile's first transgender school and we attend the second largest Oktoberfest in the world, which is celebrated in Brazil.

WorldLink: Home and Away

On this week's show: Canada's liberals brace for an election battle, Turkey's military offensive in northern Syria puts US-Turkish relations on edge, and the widow fighting to uncover the truth about her husband's murder during Northern Ireland's Troubles. Plus, the environmentalists striving to protect Australia from the damage caused by gold mining.

WorldLink: Still fighting

On this week's show: We look at how Poland's ruling party is targeting young voters, and follow student protesters in Brazil. We hear the difficult story of Nigerian migrant women who have returned home, and how Brexit is inspiring new music in Northern Ireland. And DW's Southeast Asia correspondent Charlotte Chelsom-Pill catches us up on protests in Hong Kong.

WorldLink: Power move

This week on the show, a look at the escalation of violence on the streets of Hong Kong, and the Brazilians who are planting trees in defiance of arsonists seeking to destroy valuable forests. Plus, how a newly unveiled trove of home videos is shedding light on life in former East Germany, the plight of mothers in German prisons, and South Africa's township wine.

WorldLink: Trees, tear gas and home videos

This week, we meet villagers in India who fear the government is trying to strip them of their citizenship, and Iraqis who are at the forefront of a cultural renaissance in Anbar province. Plus, a Cambodian refugee returns home 40 years after fleeing the Khmer Rouge, and the Spanish maestro who created the remarkable Concierto de Aranjuez.

WorldLink: Home, sort of

As people around the world come together for the largest mass climate protest in history, we introduce you to DW's brand new environment podcast, On the Green Fence, examining issues of climate change, pollution and conservation. Hosts Neil and Gabe visit a Bavarian town where the water has been tainted by a dangerous chemical and head to the Black Forest where the legendary wolf has returned.

WorldLink: Time to save the world

WorldLink connects global voices: People around the world tell their own stories and help us understand what political, economic, cultural developments mean for their lives. Listen to emotional stories that show the human element behind the headlines.

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