refused to take even one single migrant from italy agrees especially hungary poland the czech republic and also slovakia and now the e.u. has the toss to find a more permanent solution mechanism to relocate their rivals from greece and italy but still there's this fear is a position from eastern countries and still there's no solution in sight but all agree the current rules do not work so we have to find a solution and also the budget is a aspect of that because many people say you can't have money if you do don't take migrants so dirty is not a one way street we mentioned that at bragg's it is also a big issue on the agenda what's next in the time table and are the other twenty seven members united. as of now the twenty seven united they have now to a degree negotiate with the brits about a transition period a two year period from. the final solution and this is also very difficult

because the us offering britain a kind of a membership without voting rights for these two years so the brits would have to pay and would have no rights. to vote in brussels and after that in march then the negotiations about a trade deal and the further relationship after to transition period should start and it's not clear where this will lead to because there's no current aim the british government has has named to the european union but they really want to achieve so this is seems to be very complicated and the timetable is very tight there's only one year to do all of this so complex issues on the agenda what about bulk area bando what is this country hoping to get out of its stint at the head of the e.u. presidency. by the guardian leadership the conservative government wants to brush up the image of the poorest country of the european union corruption and organized

crime still very big problems that. the special monitoring system by the e.u. commission the first time that a country in this circumstances has the presidency so there's a lot to do and for example the minutes of parity of sofia is trying to clean up the streets the smog and the garbage and everything that is clocking the streets as they try to brush up the image that might be difficult because many parts of the book area are still very poor and have a long way to go to adhere to the standards of the european union did bantry good for us in brussels and thank you for that analysis. well bog area will be hosting a number of the high level meetings over the next six months giving diplomats a reason to visit but the country's capital sofia is also a tourist destination in its own right the city is a treasure trove for history buffs and word is getting out with mountains in the

background the bug area and capital and it's perhaps most famous landmark the alexander nevsky could feature. sophia has been shaped by seven thousand years of history under the roman prison time and also among them was. stunning stuff cancer cough is an actor and tour guide in sofia he's very optimistic about the city's future ten years ago so if there was more grain now it's like more colorful more vivid a lot of interesting places a lot of events occur. can be seen from all over sofia at least when the clowns don't block the view. of the status of cancer coughs group begins the day with a visit to sophia's oldest market the women's market bombers from all over bug area sell their produce him as well as unusual souvenirs. this metro

station is called savvy cars which was the roman name for sophia while building the station workers found remains of the original city and simply left them on display . less than one hundred meters from the roman excavations is the bunya mosque built by the old summons and right next door the sephardic synagogue the jewish and muslim communities in sofia i'm now relatively small but the building still have great significance in the city. what we sold so far are most athena go to christian orthodox churches really really close to each other that's why we like to call the square here the square of dollar runs because we like to say that. they're only one stone throw away from each other but they never for all stalls at each other. if you start to feel a little cold during your winter tour sophia's thermal springs are never far away from the public pass and no longer in use but anyone is free to sample the whole

natural mineral water. next it's on to the presidential palace and then one of the city's best kept secrets the church of st george or the rotunda as it's known locally can you guess why this roman complex together with this church was surrounded by these buildings like this to keep it secret exactly to hide it i told you that the communist guys they were not really keen on religion because either you have the god like communist leader like lemmings or you have got. the byzantine frescoes inside the early christian church are up to a thousand years old they survived sophia's checkered history on the many layers of paint was any join the twentieth century that they will once again i'm confident.

of is probably the most underrated place in in europe a lot of history and not the first but that things that have to be seen here so i would be for all the world to see the beauty of our. bunk area was ruled by the communists for nearly fifty years until nine hundred ninety today the museum for a socialist start serves as a reminder of life under the communist regime. after their busy tour the group are ready for a hearty meal at a traditional restaurant called the crux my. bug areas rich history is all. so reflected in the local cuisine typical eastern european dishes a mixed with spices from the middle east a ball game in combat made of pork is very typical. darkness falls during winter but there's still plenty to see the experience the friday dollars one of the

most popular pubs in sofia to a guy just on his life is now an actor on stage together with friends. to. see a misfit he's contagious even for those of us who don't understand a word of all gary. you're watching good news still to come gary oldman transforms into british prime minister winston churchill in the political thriller the darkest hour we'll take a sneak peek at the performance that's earning lots of award season by us. but first deforestation is a major contributing factor to increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere a growing populations especially in developing countries with tropical rain forests require more land to live and grow food on it is a tricky balance to strike in the democratic republic of congo home to huge forests

and carbon storing bog land. the start of a new day in the democratic republic of congo. behind the village is done and. satellite images have revealed the existence of a peach vault here in the forest. biologists say it's one of the most important ever discovered that's why a team of british and congolese scientists have embarked on a joint research project getting to the peak both involves an arduous hours long hike through the swamp everything is soaking wet english geography simon lewis has been surveying head for years trying to better understand the development of the bog which began forming tens of thousands of years ago made up of decomposed plant material the piece held some surprises for the researcher is that this is peak bodies so this is the partially decomposed plant matter that in

a store of carbon. needs is now sampled every fifty centimeters and this is to me just to training tuesday one of the surprises that we thought the paint here would be maybe fifty centimeters maybe one meter maximum and actually we've got much deeper so that suggests that potentially we haven't done all the work yet but potentially there's even more carbon stored on this side of the congo river. the scientists now calculate that the bulk is far bigger and deeper than they originally estimated the peak is up to six meters thick in places and covers an area about the size of great britain that's why maintaining the area is so important for the environment as you see there is the seas rounding the forest to the forest is also still is trying to cobble and stroking the cowboys so it's a double stroke incumbents above ground by most don't need to count one and also the underlying deposit and if you want to use forest that's got double times

releasing the com one more carbon in the atmosphere the forests of the congo basin around the ever increasing pressure. similar primeval woodlands and asia have already disappeared and deforestation is now also a threat in this part of africa. illegal locust taking down more and more trees meanwhile the government is granting licenses some according to environmental groups and g.p.s. circumstances but as local populations grow so does the need for our the land to plant kosoff for instance farmers like valentina gobo say they have no choice to acquire new fields they say they have to drain at least some of the most for. the reasons that we have to maintain a balance between preserving nature and survival yes we need alternatives to deforestation but it's not that easy it would be seen there are no projects in

place to help people pursue other life he heads that's why the environmental organization greenpeace has stepped in to support the scientists financially and logistically and to teach the villagers more about why environmental protection is vital to a government official explains the difficulties the country is facing. we would have to provide aid to the people here so they don't take resources from the forest but such projects cost money money the government doesn't have you know. that's why we need the financial support of the international community. the activists say it's imperative to develop a strategy that provides financial support for the entire region otherwise the congolese authorities will continue to permit looking which will eventually lead to the release of vast amounts of sequestered. unison internazionale because we need

to find international solution is not only to help these countries protect these primeval forests but also to further study the peat bogs in order to protect them because they contain huge amounts of carbon into ships which there are some thirty billion tons of carbon trapped in their rice miyan that's the equivalent of three years of total global emissions from coal oil and gas combined in god's hands the scientists have finished for the day but it'll take months to record an analyzer all the data they've collected providing more insights into one of the largest call them reservoirs on the planet. germany is known as a nation of neat interest the average german consumes close to a whopping sixty kilograms per year now activists are urging germans to eat half as much not just for health reasons but also because of the harm meat production does to the environment some experts say growing meat in labs could ease the burden on

the planet but that approach has its own problems. daniel is twenty eight years old he's a typical european meat eater that means that so far in his life the proportion of climate damaging emissions created by the meat and milk sector is huge the minuet produces acidifies lands and oceans and short meets environmental footprint is dismal that's a view shared by dutch biologist mark passed in twenty thirteen he hit the headlines after going public with the first artificially created. i think what it will be better is that it has more i haven't made. it so it's better for you. we need much less resources. we could use so that we can produce much more. resources so that we can feed. in the usa israel and japan by

a technologists are also looking into growing meat out of a petri dish posts first burger cost around three hundred thirty thousand u.s. dollars to produce now that's fallen to only eleven dollars but a big problem is the nutrient solution in which the meat grows. you know order to have a nutrient solution for the meat to grow in for the muscle fibers to be able to grow you have to develop a serum which of take from cow fetuses from the blood of the fetus you know that means you have to kill this cow killed a fetus and get that growth serum from officials in my opinion that's definitely also a form of animal suffering is it. all the hopeful up grown meat have also since been dashed. in twenty eleven it was thought that artificially created meat used around fifty five percent of the energy needed for meat from a real cow. but in twenty fourteen it turns out that energy consumption for

artificial meat far from being less was in fact even more. the editors of the new meat after less don't see lab grown meat as a magic bullet that will solve all of industrial meat productions problems. in view twelve flies in vitro meat is in our opinion as a struction a token act here in our western countries we must really urgently haul for our consumption from sixty kilograms to thirty kilograms. of tries to kill all and what the report's authors are also calling for that germany stops flooding the world with one of its exports cheap meat. now to a new film that takes on one of the most towering figures of the twentieth century winston churchill it looks at the summer of one thousand nine hundred forty when churchill became british prime minister and ordered his troops to resist the german army a transformed gary oldman stars in the lead role let's take

a look at the journey of the circle of forces. when churchill is made prime minister he doesn't only have to fight the nazis in world war two he also has to define those who are chum to negotiate a peace deal with germany a remote path to the arctic in death or glory if the odds of firmly on the former nothing employers in trying to shorten a war that we are clearly losing. your right there. has lost a collapse was preparing for his role after gary oldman discovered sides to the man he hadn't known before chip ice suddenly started to actually see recognize and see the genius of man it was he was not i thought it was a twinkling zone i he was so who's naughty and and cherubic the darkest hour takes a close look at a man who was disliked by many around him and still managed to take a firm stand in

a time of crisis. when. it's kind of about leadership and doubt and a crisis of confidence. and how winston rose above. the difficulties to have but it's not just church elder statesman was here it's the man himself with all his flaws and securities. true qualities your current my poor judge. of humor. you walk. yourself. darkest hour is a riveting political thread hour but also has a few jokes in store protocol of that in our order that may well i wouldn't think that i would advise the whole i spend time with

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