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i know nothing at the germans and sometimes now that they stand up with the camp david and i think deep into the german culture here nudity will take that as granted can you tell us that's all that good enough i may tell you i mean anything can be of course. 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 a mass rally last weekend they were calling for a second referendum on whether or not britain should stay in the european union and
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over five million people had signed a petition for briggs it's to be scrapped and 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 in getting has been on the road for two hours his clients are expecting him that evening in bandon he's been doing this trip for fifteen years twice a week he says it takes place his work routine could change radically. there would
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be a lot more problems with the border checks with all the imports and exports would be subject to different models will need different permits. will have longer waiting times longer walk the story than figure. eric has a video of how the traffic situation could look saved on his mobile phone on his last trip encounter a kilometer long tell backs on his way to england caused by extensive customs checks even before breakfast it. is delivering food for punching bag a company in north rhine-westphalia. it produces an on meals for caterers all over europe. punkin back does up to thirty percent of its business with customers in britain deliveries are closely timed punctuality is of the essence. for now the paperwork is manageable but in the event of
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a heartbreaks it that would change and producers like funk and back could face far more challenging conditions. we're 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 means that are being loaded up now already listed on in flight many 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 take care he rides in the french port of dunkirk by mid-morning to catch the cross-channel ferry to dover. but if you can before the terminal everything comes to
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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 heart breaks 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 has made little progress and he doesn't expect to make it on board today. and all the remaining ferries are fully booked. the. one three i know thirty year.
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oh my god. before you can board he's got to pass customs first the french then the british. cameras are not allowed doing the checks. eric has to wait about half an hour logistics companies are estimating that after greg said it will take about this long for a truck to clear customs on the trip from the easy to britain. 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 course now he's running hopelessly behind schedule and his next trip is at risk he won't be able to complete this run until midday. there's no this is annoying if this happens every time it could really get to you
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and it takes way too much time and it could cause problems with our permitted driving periods to the start of leaving him. 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 briggs it but will it be enough. now for some time the deadly swine fever has been causing serious alarm in rumania the disease leads to internal bleeding and hemorrhaging is in pings and to prevent it 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
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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 fearing this about the whole issue and how it has been handled. romanian farmers really uncommon as you once owned twenty six pigs. but all of them were cold because of african swine fever. what if. there were two here and two more there. come and 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 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.
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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 pics 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 no no of course 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 friends will cry not. sure how to stop the. romanian vet and hunter done dragomir is also disappointed with the authorities he is in charge of a hunting area and organizes commercial hunts which he films. but
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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. the digital regime alu she must receive 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. love it if one of. the state wants romania's hunters to carry out this mask oh so far no cases of swine fever have been reported in drug amir's hunting grounds
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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 awhile for. this law is just about wild boar the state is ignoring other factors that contribute to the spread of the disease. like wolves and bears who eat the dead wild boars. 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. ducks a former commissioner for agriculture agrees with drug amir's criticism of the book but the way romania has handled the swine fever outbreak and everything to do with it has led to
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a catastrophe. take for example disinfection measures risen 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 ploy 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. don't want that 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. we are live stock farmers if they also if they are buffalo are infected will have to emigrate. romania's swine fever outbreak has hit
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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 for people like kaiser one of the most popular and fulfilling professions so just what is it that finland is getting so right. ok ok arms up who wants to listen to music while they work. for us today most of these second graders at an elementary school in helsinki do during their finnish lesson plans teach a hundred cosell of the students to write independently each time they write two sentences they can take a lego piece and stuck it up the other is. today the class has agreed on
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a goal of sixty pieces. and a cousin has been a teacher for eighteen years mainly working with first and second grade is. upset 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 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 like a family we need time and resources we need support from special education teachers for pupils with special needs and. attitudes of
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a family 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 aides in case children get ill special education teachers what 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 a fifth grade history lesson. work experience is integrated into their studies.
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so i used to 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. now to engage 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. when it's not someone who has a cause but are no less i said the point will be helpful that i think that intolerance and hate speech is increasing these days. and i want to raise future adults to see things from different perspectives one is the young man to respect others views. teachers in finland have the freedom to pass on
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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 with the text and it's good when people want to learn something that there's someone there to teach them. see and every hope they say that. apart from their school lives. exams finished peoples don't have to take many standardized tests still finland school system is exemplary while its no longer number one in the pisa international assessment tests finland still close to the top. even after a nine hour day is the never tires of thinking about his teaching methods but about her pupils so that they don't think about you have to be prepared to give something of yourself it's a very personal job but one that allows you to show
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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 nova 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 water much to the delight of a city girl can who has an almost spiritual connection to his local forest. says that despite the roar of the chainsaw being under the trees relaxes his soul
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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 locals say sometimes they had to wait for their permit for up to four months but. 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 and we help the forester's clean up the woods. the forest rangers are
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keeping a close eye on things that may be 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. we have to clear up the deadwood anyway otherwise it's horrible in the summer. everything starts burning and the fire is hard to stop. so having the locals clean up the forest is helpful to us and the people who live in the communities around here need the wood . for not many places around here have access to gas and yet this is what. personally 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 capital around one hundred fifty people live here in this village but many of the
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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. i used to go to the forest to collect wood with my father we got apartment 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. 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 this year. but until the gas pipes are laid even boss of the seventy eight year old mother has to chop wood
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sometimes. the family uses gas from a canister to cook for some neighbors in the village i started buying coal for heating. oil in the day a literal so sick of hazing the. days so much that we just. one thing's to be easy to be able to get up and not have to do anything because the house is already womb. we are all looking forward to being connected to the gas line we can hardly wait. but silly 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. the way things were in the soviet union that is being revived under vladimir putin. and that applies to the laws as well with them. or personally i am very
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grateful that he is doing something for the people that are not all that still to deal. having to collect firewood means vassili 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 scene of a murder. here in the dutch city of appledore and
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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 is fake the murder weapon is plastic. the apartment is the stage set the corpse is just a dummy. like all of the plot 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. nielsen is a specialist who photographed 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 v.o.r. technology 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 looks 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 scene and want to see what happened there. well nielsen processes the three hundred sixty degree panorama his fellow detective matanya prepares the apartment for the next step the
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white balls are not for decoration which i know all the rest of. the scans use these white reference point. during processing the program recognizes the boss and assembles 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 if i was 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 suddenly much honey receives a call to a real emergency an apartment has exploded in nearby arnhem several knives have
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been lost but when his expertise is needed and his skin is already in the truck. and that's all from focus on europe this time around thanks for joining us and do come back next talking until the end. of the book. the big.
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