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system that will come in towards the end of monday. the cloud increases here and it is really into the afternoon for northern ireland and western scotland, we see some rain moving in, some hill snow again in scotland. the winds gusting up to around 60 mph with that in the western isles. for much of england and wales, for daylight hours it will stay dry. the winds here still light. quite a bit of cloud around, some sunny spells. probably the best in kent, and it is going to be a cold day. the wet weather with rain and hill snow sweeping south overnight, monday into tuesday morning. hello this is bbc news with martine croxall. the headlines: two people are arrested following a car bombing in londonderry last night. police believe dissident republican group — the new ira — may have carried out the attack. the prime minister briefs her cabinet ahead of a statement to mps tomorrow about the ‘next steps‘ on brexit. a funeral is held in hertfordshire for six unknown auschwitz victims — whose remains were handed to a british museum more than 20 years ago. police speak to the duke of edinburgh after he was seen
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driving without a seatbelt — 48 hours after being involved in a crash near sandringham. .‘l . -l’lgif.-. .l. . l..-..s.l.e...;l=la§!l: from all across england. here's natalie graham. as the brexit debate continues eastern european poultry workers are leaving norfolk. since brexit we've never been fully staffed. we cannot fill every position in this should a jewish man with a holocaust family history apply for a german passport? i want to go to germany. i want to go to poland, find out more about these places are just weigh up really what will be best for me. not only in practical terms but emotionally. and kent prepares for no deal.
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how concerned are you about the no deal brexit? to me it's a fearful situation. we're stepping into the unknown. hello, i'm natalie graham and this is an inside out brexit special in which we look at how leaving the eu will affect our lives and our work. well, a town in northfolk was transformed to 15 years ago by the arrival of thousands of europeans, many came to work in the poultry industry. since the referendum, the industry and the town has suffered uncertainty and people, so what lies ahead for them? and what does it mean for ourfood production? david whitely reports. it's early morning and gregory is getting ready for the day. he arrived from poland 15 years ago, he
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lives in thetford. he has climbed the career ladder to become a manager at a free range poultry farm. ok, i'm ready, see you, bye. he has a family and owns his own home. he left poland because of high unemployment. the last four years i was self—employed with variable incomes but i am low in one month, nothing for the next couple. yeah, it wasn't easy. he has worked hard and life is good but the upheaval around brexit has had a big impact on his hometown. with a number of polish people leaving. just in the last couple of months yassan karim who runs this supermarket, mainly selling eastern european food, says he has had a number of families coming in to see him just to say goodbye. so they are going back to eastern europe? yeah. they feel they are not welcome any more. last month, i don't know, around 30, 40 families going back.
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the numbers leaving have been constant, ever since the referendum. the year after the vote, nearly a third of non—british people living here in breckland left. and it's farms like traditional norfolk poultry, where gregory works, that have been hit. 75% of their workforce are eu migrants. i'm really concerned and at the same time i'm very upset. not enough workers can help us out. not enough manual labour coming in. in the agricultural sector it is very, very important, especially in the livestock industry, you need manual labour. the company relies on labour from eastern europe as recruiting local people has proved virtually impossible. the work is hard and the majority of the workforce are polish.
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the company is owned by mark gorton. he has run the business here in shropham near thetford for over 30 years. hi, guys, how's it going? everything 0k? mark has suffered from the uncertainty of brexit ever since the referendum. since brexit we have never been fully staffed, we cannot fill every position in this business. d1"%{1 eff'iié; .=’ ..l...ll...l..l.l....l.l.l this year, and this is the first year we have done this, we are busing people in from much further afield outside of the countyjust to find them. we are just not having people coming looking for work. are you paying enough? yeah, we pay competitive wages to the industry. we offer people a chance
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to come and work here and go up the pay grade. we are not just looking for basic minimum wage people, supervisors, line leaders, team leaders managers. people can have a career here. which has benefited people like gregory. but that could all change. under the latest government proposal, if someone now comes into a low skilled job, they may struggle to move into management as he did. madeleine sumption from the migration 0bservatory at oxford university has been helping inside out make sense of these plans for us here in the east. the government's proposals make a strict distinction between high skilled work and low skilled work. and someone who comes in initially into a low skilled job would not be able to switch into the high skilled route under the proposals. they would need to go home for a year and then come back on another kind of visa, so it would be much harder
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in the future for people to have that upwards mobility from low skilled to high skilled work. gregory is shocked, he had no idea this was on the cards. it would affect anyone trying to move upwards. there will be massive problem for people. how can we get someone and make him get enough skills if he can't work from the bottom? if he can't get enough skills working with a shovel up to the desk with a computer. for many the uncertainty is too much. there is many shops shut down now. have you seen it? imagine how sad it's going to be for thetford, really quiet, like there's nothing going on here. do you think the town will die? if it's not die, it will be almost. you know, it will be really down. sad.
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look at my face, you think that i'm not worried. i'm worried, i can't even sleep. you don't know what is going to be happening. people feel sad. i feel sorry for them and for myself as well. eastern europeans aren't going to disappear from towns like thetford. lots of other people we spoke to say that they have been here for years and are staying. it's their home. people like gregory, they have bought houses m ll-l llll —llllll lllf at least for now. gregory has no intention of leaving and because he has been here for years he has an automatic right to say, whatever happens with brexit. all i have now is thank to here obviously. i've got a family, house, good job. i'm glad i'm here, it gave me everything really. that was david whately
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reporting from norfolk. coming up on inside out. the lorries rehearsing for no deal in kent. not in my lifetime have i had anything like this really. it is very uncertain times. now admit all the political uncertainty one thing is for sure, eu the automatic - to live work unless get a of fa and; but one is proving be most is proving be most ethicali is proving . be most ethical decision ing . be most ethical decision he . be most ethical decision he has e the most ethical decision he has ever had to make. —— difficult. adrian goldberg has spent his
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broadcasting career getting under the skin of people and politics, getting answers to tough questions, now he is facing a tough question of his own. aj's family were originally from germany and he qualifies for a german passport and with it the right to live and work anywhere in the european union after brexit.|j would potentially be able to work in any one of 27 countries without filling in paperwork. that is not only a benefit for me but a potential benefit for my children. good night to. learning the language is one thing but getting a german passport is proving a far harder decision to make. it is about what is in my heart and could i honestly swa p is in my heart and could i honestly swap my british passport for a german passport given what germans, albeit many decades ago, did to my
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father. rudolf goldberg wasjust13 when father. rudolf goldberg wasjust 13 when he and his brother were put on a train bound for britain. this transport what thousands ofjewish children to safety. those left behind based almost certain death in nazi germany concentration camps. the emotional baggage i attach to this is immense. this is the country that welcomed my father into this country, made him as a refugee feel at home. rudolf, known as rudy, made his home in birmingham. he died in 2012 at the age of 87. on the sabbath adrian's mother praise for her late husband. they raised four children but he could never escape the horrors of his childhood. do think it left his mark on him over
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at the years? i think so. so this was the paper that got him out of the germany and again it has bees natty sta m ps the germany and again it has bees natty stamps on it —— nazi stamps. what you think you would think if i was getting the german passport?” don't think you would want you to go live there. not even to get the passport? no. he had enough of it, they never did anything for him. passport? no. he had enough of it, they never did anything for himm is something adrian did not expect his mum to say. it makes his decision harder. her phrase was the germans give nothing to him. i have to balance that with the knowledge that was then, this is now. i have got to think about my own family at my dad's experience weighs heavy. to help them make up his mind he is heading to berlin. my dad's and used
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to runa heading to berlin. my dad's and used to run a small factory in berlin so there is a link here but i also want to seek for myself how far as germany has, since those dark days. everywhere he looks there are people reminders of his family's past. like the transport memorial. it shows the train to life and the other route to the concentration camps and death.” cannot imagine what my dad must have felt as he was seen off by his mum and dad. his mum can not go to the station to wheeze him off, she was too choked by the whole experience as you could understand. having seen the sun off to freedom adrian's ram pa rents the sun off to freedom adrian's ram parents ruth and julius were put on a train themselves to auschwitz. they were never seen again. the holocaust is in all the golfing ——
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golfing experience, it builds up around you. it is as though the world is losing in. at the holocaust memorial adrian remembers the terrible cost. my dad's father, his mother, aunts, uncles, cousins, they we re mother, aunts, uncles, cousins, they were all murdered, all exterminated. vermin, that was how they were seen by the nazis. they were human beings and they were my family. if i was a think about living and working in germany i would need to have a strong sense as i could possibly code that the germany of today is utterly, completely different to the germany of the nineteen thirties. i'm going to go and see a woman now who like me is rediscovering her germanjewish who like me is rediscovering her german jewish roots. i who like me is rediscovering her germanjewish roots. i want to find
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out what it is like to live in modern—day woollen. —— berlin. out what it is like to live in modern-day woollen. -- berlin. the sons of german's politics are shifting. the far right party is become the biggest opposition. jewish groups are concerned about a rising anti—semitism. jewish groups are concerned about a rising anti-semitism. unfortunately the levels of anti—semitism has increased in the last years back when me and my family were making this decision it was actually not so present. but even then i am not sure that we will have made a different call. she moved to russian -- she moved from russia to german on it immigration programme ten years ago. ican immigration programme ten years ago. i can understand the value of the german passport for reasons of work and leisure but on the other hand this country has done such grievous harm to my family. what do you think i should do? it is a ethical dilemma
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andl i should do? it is a ethical dilemma and i know people who would never get a german passport out of principle so it is an individual thing. thousand miles from birmingham adrian is still unsure whether he should get a german passport. he is heading to his father's home town, now in poland before world war ii it was part of germany. it was a place where as a 13—year—old rudolf lost the freedom to make the simplest of choices.” did invite him here but he could never bring himself to do it. the nut is raided —— be nazis raided this town. the synagogue was that the light —— synagogue was set on fire and that was the moment his pa rents fire and that was the moment his parents knew it was not safe for
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jews to be here. outside of town thatis jews to be here. outside of town that is thejewish burial ground with huge significance for adrian. todayis with huge significance for adrian. today is the anniversary of my father's death and he lived such a fulfilling life in england and if it wasn't for that visit from his mother at this graveyard but told him to go to england, he would not have had that life. he is still undecided about what is best for his family. whilst there has been darkness that there has been hoped for his future, surprisingly from strangers. when i came here for his future, surprisingly from strangs‘é. when i came here bad. for his future, surprisingly from strar gaeeaezkhefl cam headstones, for his future, surprisingly from stra view seekherh cam headstones, for his future, surprisingly from stra view that |en4 cam headstones, for his future, surprisingly from stra view that i m cam headstones, for his future, surprisingly from strz view that i stillm headstones, think about think aiare think ai are lost. teenagers
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here jews. should know, here are buriedjew does hurt me to think that the it does hurt me to think that the people in the town now do not seem to care, this is a previous generation that has gone. this is my family, my family helped make that town. there's been so much for a dream to take in, on the anniversary of his father's death of all days. but now he knows what to do. my decision is that i am going to get a german passport. having a german passport, not just for me german passport. having a german passport, notjust for me for my children, should, if the time comes, give us another means, and escape. that is the reality of our family situation. then godfrey reporting.
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in the event of the no—deal brexit it is predicted that border delays lead to - queues of lorries the motorways leading to dover. on the motorways leading to dover. recently the tested part recently the government tested part! operation which recently the government tested part! operation - which the ef “seat“ eck ie h'htbe , ,., ~ ,.. ~ ~ , ef aeeataa ask ial h'htbe , ,., ~ ,.. ~ ~ , af aeeataa ask ial h'htbe , ,., ~ ,.. ~ ~ , in kent af aeeataa alak ial “anal , ,., ~ ,.. ~ ~ , in kent is af aeeataa aak ial “anal , ,., ~ ,.. ~ ~ , in kent is used af aeaataa aak ial hahtaa , ,., ~ ,.. ~ ~ , in kent is used as af aeaataa aa'a ial hahtaa , ,., ~ ,.. ~ ~ , in kent is used as a lorry airfield in kent is used as a lorry park, so what did we learn from that exercise? it's 5am in folkestone. colin has been driving lorries for more than 30 years, he works for int logistics mainly doing deliveries from the continent. this morning he is up
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early to do a special government would —— job for the government. here the driver of a lorry commissioned by the department for transport. digging part in a post—brexit traffic avoidance exercise. if there is no deal it is feared that extra border checks will cause traffic chaos around dover. but the government has come up with a plan called operation brock. mansfield airfield will be used as an emergency lorry parked. i'm going tojoin as they an emergency lorry parked. i'm going to join as they put it to the test. how far is it? 45 minutes to an hour. to me it is a vehicle situation. —— fearful situations. we're stepping into the unknown. i'm frightened. - are
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we're stepping into the unknown. i'm frightened. lorries are scheduled to set off that atm to coincide with set off that atm td’tdi ncidewiti'r rush—hour set off that atm td’tdi ncidewiti'r —mh;hm——- set off that atm td’tdi ncidewiti'r rush—hour —— set. at set off that atm td’tdi ncidewiti'r rush—hour —— set at as approach it is still dark. we we approach it is still dark. we have a bit of a weight in a queue to get inside. 0nce have a bit of a weight in a queue to get inside. once inside colin is joint by another driver. once you have got a thousand trucks stuck here, is the german truck or french truck or spanish truck, going to send more tojoin truck or spanish truck, going to send more to join the queue? three months away we don't know how it is going to work. the plan was that the lorries are supposed to leave at eight o'clock. it is now eight
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minutes to and all the drivers are still in their briefing. got a number to go still in their briefing. got a numberto go in still in their briefing. got a number to go in the windscreen. some kind of instruction. this is the first instructions you have had? yes. the purpose of this trial is to test the layout on manston airfield. then we set off. colin had been warned at the briefing that the turning out of manston airfield would be a little bit difficult. are we on route? the lorries had been let out 25 at a time but later it emerged that only 89 of the expected hundred and 50 lorries had turned up at all. it seemed pretty quiet on the roads. from the cabin seat it
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was hard tojudge the roads. from the cabin seat it was hard to judge what was going on around us. so i asked an expert to cast an eye over oui’ around us. so i asked an expert to cast an eye over ourjourney. i've come to imperial college london to see a doctor who has researched the impact of potential delays on dover after brexit to date we wanted his view the manston trial. in principle he thought it worry park to divert traffic from dover was a good idea but the experiment, he said, did not prove anything. there was it enough lorries to show up. it does not compare to be 10,000 lorries on a daily basis. part of the route included a cordoned off holding lane. i'm joining included a cordoned off holding lane. i'mjoining the back included a cordoned off holding lane. i'm joining the back of the
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queue now. that could actually pass local road networks. it could create a complete blockage of traffic. they have got to come up with some system, have got to come up with some syste m , eve n have got to come up with some system, even in the event of a no deal exit, they need a system. whether our politicians and european politicians are capable of covering up politicians are capable of covering up with some thing like that, i do not know. the department for transport told us it is the duty of a responsible government to continue to prepare for all eventualities and contingencies, including a possible no deal. any lessons learned from today and any further mitigation will be considered carefully. by the
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time the lorry convoy reached dover there was little evidence of any kind of queueing problem. this is because the trial used only a relatively low number of lorries and you would expect queues if there was post—brexit delay. with this mitigate that problem? in might do something to alleviate congestion slightly but in terms of the delays for those trucks, it is going to be ona similar for those trucks, it is going to be on a similar level because we have a bottleneck outside of dover and it does not matter how the shift traffic around it, they are going to have two converge in this one point. weathered the government needs to carry on preparing for a no—deal brexit is something that is still to be decided. i've not done anything like this in my lifetime, it is very
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uncertain times. - rachel uncertain times. is ifor this —— exit thank you for watching. hello, it has been a brighter day for many of us today but more in the way of clear weather overnight, that will lead to a widespread frost. here is sunday sunshine from north wales. we have had a week by the front with wet weather in scotland and northern ireland. this area of cloud known to england and wales, a little patchy rain but hardly anything associated with that. where
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you have the biggest cloud the temperature might hold out. a lot of blue showing up in map on monday morning so that is the frost. be sharp frost in place. in rural spots could be minus six or seven. there will be some viewing of the total lunar eclipse in the morning but we are watching this as we go into monday morning. a more vigorous weather system. for much of england and wales it will stay dry with variable cloud and he the brightness. cloud thickening all the wealth and northern ireland and scotland. winds picking up in the western isles added to the afternoon for northern ireland and western scotland, the rain and snow on the hill fog, especially for scotland. single figure temperatures for many of us, another cold week to come. this rain and hill still in scotland and the pennines, maybe some snow in the workplaces. witching southwards going into the early hours of
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tuesday, wintry showers following to the north—west and a frost for many of us as tuesday begins. there is a flow of cold air coming in on tuesday and the showers may have rain along the coast, but a lot of these have sweet, snow and hail. we are going to see some lucky relations out of this, notjust on hill fog, billy on heavier showers to lower levels. beverages are coming down a bit, a strong north—westerly wind which does make for quite a call today on tuesday but there will be some sunny spells around. frosty night to come for the rest of the week, there will be few showers around but quite a bit of dry sunny weather. wednesday night into early thursday there could be some snow showers in parts of east anglia and south—east england. the week ahead is cold but by friday little cold. —— a little less cold. this is bbc world news today.
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