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this is not the kind of freedom that me. how did it become a deep way to islamist terror. until now has historical animosity or saw. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. philippines in the sense of i guess starts april eleventh on d w. a low and a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and passions are still running high in the u.k. and the rest of europe over briggs and all its potential implications a million protesters took to the streets of london in
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a mass rally last weekend they were calling for a second referendum on whether or not britain should stay in the european union and over five million people had signed a petition for briggs it's to be scrapped all together. now many argue that especially a hard no deal bragg's it could have painful consequences such as delays in the transportation of fresh food supplies to and from the u.k. or even the breakdown of those supplies it could all be very bad news for belgian trucker erik herring who twice a week delivers cargoes of frozen food products and we accompanied him on one of his tools from the german to the british border and got a feel for how tough things might become in the very near future. six o'clock in the morning on a highway near brussels truck driver it like giving has been on the road for two hours his clients are expecting him that evening in london he's been doing this
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trip for fifteen years twice a week he says it takes place his work routine could change radically. there would be a lot more problems with the border checks all the imports and exports would be subject to different laws different permits. will have longer waiting times longer walk the story than three with. erik has a video of how the traffic situation could look saved on his mobile phone on his last trip he encountered kilometer long tail backs on his way to england caused by extensive customs checks even before breakfast it. is like is delivering food for punching bag a company in north rhine-westphalia. it produces and was all over europe. punkin back does up to thirty percent of its business with customers in britain the deliveries are closely timed punctuality is of the
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essence. for now the paperwork is manageable but in the event of a heartbreaks it that would change and produces like funk could face far more challenging conditions students were bracing ourselves for an extreme impact on the supply chain longer delivery times less flexibility which is a very essential quality in our line of business. and for the mid-term we have to deal with questions of tariffs important restrictions like what products can be imported at all and of so under what conditions. the ones that are being loaded up now already listed on in-flight menus they need to be at london's heathrow airport by this time tomorrow thirteen tons of frozen meals including chicken teriyaki and six. back to giving he rides in the french port of dunkirk by mid-morning to catch the cross-channel ferry to
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dover. but if for the terminal everything comes to a halt. once again french customs are to blame. the officials are worried they won't be able to handle the increased checks in the event of a heartbreaks it. this slowing down border checks to show what they may soon be facing and that means lengthy delays. there's not. just everything they have. to get across. now it's. eric has to sit it out by evening he's made little progress and he doesn't expect to make it on board today. and all the remaining ferries are fully booked.
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on. one three i know thirty year. you have to pay for. my god. before you can board he's got to pass customs first the french then the british. cameras are not allowed during the checks. every castaways about half an hour logistics companies are estimating that after breaks that it will take about this long for a truck to clear customs on the trip from the easy to brace and. eric has to spend the night in a parking lot. only the next morning he finally drives onto the ferry after waiting about seventeen hours in the port now he's running hopelessly behind schedule and his next trip is at risk he won't be able to complete this run until mid day.
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there's no this is annoying if this happens every time it could really get to you it takes way too much time and it could cause problems with our permitted driving periods too responsible living human. at six am the ferry finally approaches the british ports. it's taken twenty four hours to cover the distance from brussels about two hundred kilometers. and if a heart breaks that occurs that could become the norm. as you might expect the e.u. has been preparing for that eventuality with additional customs officials and customs posts ready to deal with the heart of bragg's it but will it be enough. now for some time deadly swine fever has been causing serious alarm in rumania the disease leads to internal bleeding and hemorrhaging is in pigs and to prevent it
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spreading still further hundreds of thousands of animals both infected and healthy have been culled it's cost millions of euros and put thousands of jobs at risk so let's go to the small settlement of rousseau national which lies in central rumania where our reporter has met with pig breeder lillian coming to a school he's among the many locals who are furious about the whole issue and how it has been handled. romanian farmer lillian commonness you once owned twenty six pigs. but all of them were culled because of african swine fever. what if. there were two here and two more there. come in ask you who lives in the village a ruse initiative has footage showing how his pigs were killed. the locals say the romanian authorities killed his livestock without even bothering
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to check if they were healthy the officers had to call for assistance when things got heated. in which lab did you check the blood samples. so. romania has failed to get its african swine fever outbreak under control the states did not take any action in the first year then in twenty eighteen authorities started culling pigs but with more than one thousand sources of infection the situation still isn't under control and the minister of agriculture says he's not to blame no you know what i am not incompetent as some have alleged my actions prove i am competent but this outbreak is a vast proportions. you just did it spread through russia ukraine and other countries. she was young french will cry not confident they'll surely she shall go stop the. romanian vet and hunter done dragomir is also disappointed with
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the authorities he is in charge of a hunting area and organizes commercial hunts which he films. but now a new law has ordered all the wild boar to be cold in regions with reported cases of swine fever though it's not clear this drastic measure will actually help in. fact hunting the animals could spread the disease even further. which is a provisional or she must be disabled this isn't a professional decision. it's utopian to think we can actually kill one hundred thousand wild boar just because romanian authorities demand this most difficult but they are under pressure to show they are taking action and that is why they passed this pointless law which shifts responsibility to us because hunters. hope that if one of the little. the state wants romania's hunters to carry out this
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mask oh so far no cases of swine fever have been reported in drug amir's hunting grounds though many have occurred in neighboring areas dragomir is preparing for the hunting season and is now also forced to monitor the wild boar population for signs of a possible swine fever outbreak using automatic cameras he thinks romania's authorities should not only be going after a while for. this law is just about wild boar the state is ignoring other factors that contribute to the spread of the disease which like wolves and bears who eat dead wild boars means that they're the ones who can find the cadavers and spread the swine fever. animal herds and sheep dogs who could spread it are not being checked either. a former commissioner for agriculture agrees with drug amir's criticism. the way romania has handled the swine fever
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outbreak and everything to do with it has led to a catastrophe. you could take for example disinfection measures reason ash the locals say the authorities placed to special mats at the village entrance though without applying any disinfectant. they had planned to carry out disinfectant measures here local authorities were happy to collect the funds for this. but then they used water instead of real disinfectant. but they kill healthy pigs this is how things are in romania this is how they govern and this is why we keep getting poorer but one that is the e.u. rules are being ignored and we are desperate there are no rules only sheer and utter stupidity. the farmer has only a few water buffalo left. then we are live stock farmers if they also if they are
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buffalo are infected will have to emigrate to romania swine fever outbreak has hit livestock farmers very hard and many fear they could lose their livelihoods completely. now being a teacher can be a great job having the opportunity to communicate with to encourage and perhaps even to inspire young students still it seems that a growing number of teachers in many countries including germany feel overstretched under-resourced and underappreciated in europe's north however in finland teaching is the people like kaiser one of the most popular and fulfilling professions so just what is it that finland is getting so right. ok ok hands up who wants to listen to music while they work yeah. for us today most of these second graders at an elementary school in helsinki do during their finnish lesson class teacher one hundred cosell one for the students to write independently each
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time they write two sentences they can take a lego piece and stuck it up the other is. today the class has agreed on a goal of sixty pieces. as been a teacher for eighty years many working with first and second graders. website on the children are the best thing about my job every day is different especially with younger children they're enthusiastic about doing things and enjoy learning. yeah yeah yeah. hannah has the freedom to decide how to teach and so she doesn't use textbooks in her class instead of filling in the blanks and workbooks her pupils write things on their own. teachers in finland just under thirty nine thousand euros a year not that much but the conditions are good and they need some it i guess and we need time and resources we need support from special education teachers for
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pupils with special needs. edited down. we need lots of support from supply teachers. and we need a peaceful environment to do our own work. that requires lots of personnel and not just in the kitchen every school employs extra staff to help children with social problems medical aids in case children get ill special education teachers with children with learning disabilities and a psychologist. relaxes in the teacher's lounge she rarely finds time to come here. but if she runs into problems she knows she can find help from colleagues and other contacts. if you can almost is the way is that the key teacher training school which is part of the university of helsinki. here second year students il marie and thirty a student researcher are observing
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a fifth grade history lesson. work experience is integrated into their studies. so i don't see you know along with good grades don't marry and had to prove their aptitude in the multi-stage selection procedure. last year just ten percent of the applicants were accepted into the teacher training program. for many teaching is a dream job. and now it's in your head it's in your you witness the children's development and help them not just to learn but in the rest of their lives it's a cooperation in which the teacher not only influences the child but also the other way around. you learn together a lot so while it's awesome when you have. less i said the point for me to be helpful but i think that intolerance and hate speech is increasing these days.
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and i want to raise future adults to see things from different perspectives what you want the young man to respect others' views on. teachers in finland have the freedom to pass on to the children what they think is important in this trust their teachers and see them as role models. it's a really good profession. if i could. i become a teacher to. help out the text at class because it's good when people want to learn something that there's someone there to teach them. see every hope they say africa or us. apart from their school leaving exams finish peoples don't have to take many standardized tests still finland school system is exemplary while it's no longer number one in the pisa international assessment tests finland still close to the top. even after a nine hour day and a high is the never tires of thinking about his teaching methods or about his
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pupils so the debate now you have to be prepared to give something of yourself it's a very personal job but one that allows you to show a lot of your personality that you know about the business. the things are proud of their school system which is internationally renowned and if there's any secret to its success it must be in the trust and confidence spence place in they teach us. now despite russia's huge natural gas resources many people in rural areas of the country a still dependent on collecting firewood from local forests in places like layer novo for example a small village might lie just an hour from moscow but it's not on the gas grid now though a new law is making it's a lot easier to collect sward much to the delight of vasily go cain who has an almost spiritual connection to his local forest.
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can says that despite the roar of the chainsaw being under the trees relaxes his soul the fifty two year old russian loves the forest and can't imagine life without it but his affection for the forest has practical reasons as well particularly in winter. and his neighbors come here several times a week to collect firewood which they used to heat their homes it used to be illegal to remove fallen trees and branches from the forest without permission local villagers had to pay for the privilege they had to rent an area in the forest to collect wood if they broke the rules they could face a fine or even a jail sentence sticking to the law wasn't always easy local say sometimes they had to wait for their permit for up to four months. for the new law has made everything easier we no longer have to run around with paperwork to get permission we just come and talk to the forest inspector and he shows us what we can take he helps us
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and we help the forester's clean up the woods. and the forest rangers are keeping a close eye on things that maybe because of our camera they want to show they've got things under control but they too are relieved about the new law it helps villagers in the winter and the forest rangers in the summer. dead trees and wood lying around is hazardous when it comes to fire safety our part of the forest is extremely flammable. for the fall and would essentially makes it a powder keg. so it has to be cleared up with the little girls and yet the. only has always lived near the woods during the days of the soviet union he was a tractor driver on a farm now he works in construction and like many here he has to commute to moscow for work. lenovo is less than one hundred kilometers from the russian
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capital around one hundred fifty people live here in this village but locals say many of the houses are abandoned there isn't any work and despite being so close to the capital the village is not connected to a gas line for gas heating having to chop wood to keep their homes warm isn't an attractive prospect for potential new residents but for vastly it's tradition. so what i used to go to the forest to collect wood with my father we got a calm and collected firewood for the winter so it would always be warm at home. for boulder and. i like chopping wood it soothes my soul sawing and chopping i've been doing it my whole life through your. russia is known for its vast energy reserves but nearly a third of the population isn't hooked up to the gas network the government has promised that will change in lieu a no vote this year. but until the gas pipes are laid even
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vasily seventy eight year old mother has to chop wood sometimes. for the family uses gas from a canister to cook for some neighbors in the village have started buying coal for heating. oil in the day a literal so sick of hazing the city there is so much that we just want things to be easy to be able to get up and not have to do anything because the house is already womb. we're all looking forward to being connected to the gas line we can hardly wait. really is optimistic he sees the new law about collecting firewood as proof that russian politicians have the people's best interests at heart that includes the russian president. he says. the way things were in the soviet union that is being revived under flat near putin. and that
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applies to the laws as well with them. your mission or personally i am very grateful that he is doing something for the people. started you'll be. having to collect firewood means for silly doesn't get to relax much between his night shifts in moscow but that doesn't bother him until the village has access to gas he has a good reason to spend his free time in the forest. well the police need all the help they can get to fight crime and one of the latest technologies out of their disposal is computer generated three d. images which enable them to reconstruct crime scene investigators use the equipment to work out who did precisely what by for instance visualizing bullet trajectories and one european country that is leading the way in developing these systems is the netherlands where two police officers take us to the seeing of
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a murder. here in the deaf city of apple adorn a special police unit has been called out someone has found a body. are you a bit nervous but a little warm. nielsen and attorney are the first detectives to arrive on the scene even before the forensics unit. it seems the victim tried to defend himself against his attacker with a baseball bat but wait the blood to spank the murder weapon is plastic. the apartment is a stage set the corpse is just a dummy. michael moore later plus at the scene of the crime we try to visualize the events we make an initial evaluation to get an exact picture of the scene of the crime plus a little doubt. we have come to the training grounds of appledore as police academy
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. every detail of the crime scene is documented with cutting edge technology. newson is a specialist who photographs the entire location in three hundred sixty degrees and immediately processes the images using custom software. the program turns the images into a panoramic view then through the arctic knology nielsen can practically place himself in the scene of the crime. now i see the crime scene i can look around and get a good impression of exactly how the scene books i feel as if i'm actually on site . that's an advantage for a fellow officers who are working on the case but can't visit the seam and want to see what happened there. well nielsen processes the three hundred sixty degree
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panorama his fellow detective matanya prepares the apartment for the next step the white balls are not for decoration the time the ball the raffle the scans use these white reference points. during processing the program recognizes the boston anderson the image. the dutch are leaders in the use of this virtual reality technology but it's still not in common use one reason is the cost of the equipment. the scanning needed to produce a three d. model of the crime scene can cost up to one hundred thousand euros. but if you are more films very i think it's great that we can play an important part in establishing the facts and informing the family members about what happened
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suddenly months honey receives a call to a real emergency an apartment has exploded in nearby arnhem several lives have been lost but when his expertise is needed and his scan it is already in the truck. and that's all from focus on your of this time around thanks for joining us from do come back next talking until the end. of the book.
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how's it feel of the world. where i come from but oh is that clear to cisco just like this chinese food does measure of where i am i suppose which reminds me of home after decades of living in germany china is for just one of the things i miss the most but better taking a step back i see things
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a little of difference minolta the benefits of processing undergone a chauffeur that includes the other part of the war which haven't been implemented in china and that's new for a lot of china it's a home wondering if they're going to say the. but if i have the right to unlearn that it is this is the job i'm just under to my how i see it and that's why i left my job because i tried to do it except maybe an hour a day my name of the newsroom and i was added up to. what's the connection between bread flour and the european union dinos guild motto w correspondent alan baker can stretch this book in line with the words sex by the teachers. tots. instructing recipes for success strategy that make
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a difference. baking bread on d.w. . for consumer. economy president to follow. the end of the rwandan patriotic front to include the rebel army and in the one nine hundred ninety four genocide wasn't when total in the rooms there was and when close given you didn't talk about me to reinforce the closer i knew this blood was up and he was not floating in a group. a controversial leader whose success is beyond question. the time to. london tragedy starts people fifty long t w.
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this is you know we news live from berlin a migrant hijacking on the high seas ends in a maltese port the vessels rescued refugees and migrants off the coast of libya and was ordered to take them back but when the captain refused to change course some of them sick matters it into their own hands was it an act of piracy or a desperate bid for self-preservation also on the program the british government tells lawmakers to expect a first.

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