that's my. strong point to teach two classes from closing time this is where if you are. welcome to the seventy seven percent. i mean. this weekend the e.w. . hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe thanks for joining us now and again there are events and images so extraordinary that the entire world is seemingly moved the fire at the historic notre dame cathedral in paris was such an event onlookers watched in shock as the flames ravaged their way from the rooftop to this fire the

firefighters could only extinguish the flames the next morning when notre dame isn't just any church it's the heart and soul of the french capital and though parts of it have been destroyed the structure of the iconic building has been preserved and french president emmanuel mccaughan has vowed to rebuild the church within just five years for parisian and those who love the city the fire was a reminder of just how beloved new to down is. live it was an incredible sight more and more people gathered in front of notre dame cathedral which was burning before their very eyes they sang and prayed together parishioners and tourists from around the world. the fire had already been raging for three hours the iconic twin bell towers were in danger of collapsing many here were hoping for a miracle like josie and early christians from lebannon. they had to go in there's water on either side. but it's on fire and they can't put it out. even in

france with all of its modern technology they can't put it out that you were praying to god said. also this you might use if men can't do it maybe the good lord will help us. so that. it's not just not true donna from paris it's not true dom of all humanity that even the muslims next to us started singing with us when they saw he was singing in arabic. much of notre dame's roof had collapsed the fate of its invaluable artworks and relics was still unclear a best of somewhat better for me this is the symbol of paris i'm in love with paris and it's art and culture that this could happen to such a powerful symbol i can't believe. people hoped and prayed firefighters could put out the fire there never been one like this at notre dame many of the beams in the

church's wooden frame were almost a thousand years old. put them through. my heart my soul. was i'm a parisian born in paris to me it's our most important building. everyone cried tonight i stood beside muslims jews blacks whites this united everyone it touches our soul and breaks our hearts. some people stayed all night. then in the early hours of the morning the fire department announced that the blaze was under control though the damage is huge many of the most important artworks were rescued . who long work for the roman catholic archdiocese of paris is relieved and impressed by how many people of all religions to together. last night the grand the rabbi of france cited the old testament that's common to both christians and jews. your prophet said he my house will be called

a house of prayer all peoples. and that's what not represents for christians of course but for all men of good faith whether they be jews or muslims or otherwise. even. some say it's a miracle notre dame is still standing. still i believe in resurrection. will rise again due to the extraordinary solidarity of those mobilizing to rebuild it before going to get out of the failed i think we're capable of doing it maybe differently but we have to do it in this world no matter what the cost will be huge but that doesn't matter it must be done and when you profess. notre dame in paris are experiencing an outpouring of solidarity people around the globe want to help restore the treasured cathedral to its former glory and help is on the way through

an outpouring of generosity hundreds of millions of euros from individuals and companies have already been pledged to rebuild. these people are demonstrating for a liberal and cosmopolitan spain for a tolerant society well the current socialist government supports these values but with elections coming up in spain they are facing a serious challenge from the far right the populist locke's party are gaining momentum after their surprise victory in regional elections they are unapologetic about the country's former dictatorship during which tens of thousands were murdered many others were imprisoned and tortured well the effects of franco's forty year reign of terror still have a profound impact on the victims and their relatives today. it was the most terrible experience of his life billy merrow was just nineteen when he was thrown into this prison in madrid. today it's hard to imagine the horrors that took

place here during the fascist regime of francisco franco to force mayor to speak the police staged his execution. and. when they point to post and press the trigger with no bullet in that split second two things can happen you can just stand there speechless like i did or you fall apart. also that. the young communist did not reveal any names his time in prison in the early one nine hundred seventy s. helped spur his decision to enter politics where he eventually served as m.e.p. for the united left block mayor fears that right wing populist are gaining support in twenty eighteen the far right box party took eleven percent of the vote and to lucy as regional election now the country is heading into a general election. if. i feel safe today but i'm very worried because a political force like box is yearning for a time in which we lived under

a dictatorship of. the far right the box party wants to unseat the socialists the crowd of vox supporters have come to this bullfighting are enough for a rally many have written the slogan spain for the spanish on their flags they want to ban abortion and same sex marriage and they glorify the years under the dictatorship. grayle if we had the franco years weren't so bad there was a good side. of our border ok it was a dictatorship but a homeless one. just let me out we just let it go at least i'm proud of spain's history thanks to franco spain made progress and became what it is today. for franco's victims and their families sentiments lie. these are a slap in the face for nine years they've been demonstrating every thursday in the center of madrid. they're calling for truth justice and retribution they

say the dead should be exempt from mass graves and given a proper burial and their murderers and torturers brought to justice for the people here the rants of the far right is a shock. from their lot and they want to recant ques a recount quest can you believe it this is a disgrace to spain. that's why we're here demonstrating against fascism not for ourselves we're old they're not but for our children our grandchildren. the crimes of the dictatorship have been swept under the carpet agrees nicholas sanchez. under franco he became a forced labor he fled spain and only returned after franco's death he wrote a book about his life spain's younger generation he believes has learned far too little about the horrors of the dictatorship that's why many are now joining the far right. for me i haven't properly

grappled with our own history we're going through a lot of we had an entire series of very conservative governments. they made sure that schoolchildren never learned about what actually happened in this country. they undenied that we had a dictatorship. that. spain's history has divided the country far right box leader santiago rejects the notion that any form of reckoning or redress is necessary to come to terms with franco's nearly forty year dictatorship but you only look or you won't apologize for our history we should acknowledge its glory it's a darker side and all that best out of it and take pride in it you know you're really mayor. is dismayed and angry at the spanish left which he says failed to counter the rise of the far right he hopes the radical right won't have a strong showing in the general election and become kingmakers in

a new conservative government as they did in and. save yet we're not allowed not to that was one of the most terrible nights of my life. this war that after so many years of struggle and sacrifice of this of after so many disappeared so many who were forced to flee from credit so many who were tortured this would be a step backwards. it would be like starting over again at zero there's a third of. billy mayer says he won't give up he'll continue to fight for a just and lightened and modern spain. many girls the world over dream of becoming famous and reality casting shows can offer a fast track to fame and fortune eleven year old tag from russia dreams of making it big as a singer but first she has to win over the top judges to make it through to the

finals with millions of russians tuning in the competition can be brutal especially for children but from china's preventions city of to there the draw of the big stage in moscow is worth the risk. to make it big you've got to stop small. a rehearsal room into via a provincial russian city eight weeks before the show. at just eleven years old lead singer tanya is one of russia's youngest roxy. has to move on with my bandmates are quite a bit older but if i were to play with kids my own age or even we could never achieve this quality level we're team. tanya's been chasing her dream of talent show success but she is she'd applied for

goal us russia's version of the voice once before but didn't make it past the first round since then she's been rehearsing every day in her hometown to the city lies on the ball and on the rail line between moscow and st petersburg. tanya's having private singing lessons with her voice teacher. listener to britannia has an unusually strong will to sing rock you must have an inner motivation tiny house that and a natural presence with you but you for the thread if you. just four weeks to go till the show tanya has to go to moscow to rehearse with the orchestra for russian television channel one but the on phone bill has little experience with hard rock so can it work.

and is there any way usually play the song twice as fast. as his wish i'd listen to thoughts. well. finally the day of the show has come and tommy is hoping that a slower version of the song will strike the right chord with the jury. here but the dollar will be ready to go on at twenty two eleven. that those millions of people all across russia are waiting to hear who the jury will send to the final round russia's been in a talent show frenzy for years now. young performers sing their versions of songs by big stars.

at last time you know girl keenness on with her own interpretation of nirvana is grunge and smells like teen spirit. the jury's made up of three famous russian thing as. they sit with their backs to the contestants judging solely on what they hear if nobody's turned their chair around by the songs and sing us out of the running. meet he'd see. like you and i got to see him. and that's just how he goes for tonya none of the jury members turned around the

eleven year old aspiring the singer from to via has to fight not to break down into his rhythm that was what can i say she's just not right for this format or rather channel one's not yet ready for tanya's music. they'll be hearing from me. no happy ending for tonya other youngsters are waiting backstage hundreds while thousands sit at home in front of their t.v.'s watching. the. weeks ago we shared with you the story of how a young man from iraq who are camped out on the french coast of cali with no roof over his head he was left to sleep under a bridge in the middle of winter and not told us his goal was to cross the english channel over to the u.k. before border controls were reintroduced for braves it he repeatedly risked his

life trying to cross the freezing waters on an inflatable dinny or correspondences and adore haggar has kept in contact with hammer and brings us this update. february twenty fifth twenty nineteen hama from iraq squeezed into a refrigerator truck with other refugees trying to cross the english channel from county to britain without permission. they were all risking their lives. after nine hours without knowing what was happening around them the truck was in britain fear melted away only now did hama dare to take videos on his cell phone. you cannot describe the feeling it's unbelievable as it's happens because something when you did not expect something and you wanted to happen when it's happened it's you cannot explain it. the asylum authority

sent hama to liverpool it was his first time on british soil after at least sixty attempted crossings and over ten thousand euros paid to people smugglers. after all he's been through his room in the refugee shelter here feels like paradise welcome this is my home this is my bit. in here is better warm safe and no objection of the police no in trooping or anything else. hama says that in iraq he was roughed up by the kurdish secret service and threatened with murder his dream was to get to britain he imagined english gardens stately homes and best of all an open liberal society. but the reality of britain is very different. hama is afraid to walk the streets at

night in this neighborhood some locals are less than welcoming and far from cosmopolitan. when you walk. in you know walking. near to them close to them. they look at you by some way that you are not belong to this society i've got a different one night friend of me. how my don't. walk around on the midnight. in the night because lots of people in here are drunk they say they want to make a problem so it's for your safety. and he gets homesick especially times like this. someone has placed roses in a tribute to their mother on a lamppost that reminds hama of his own family. i left my my country

i didn't tell him you didn't tell him i was i was in greece. i was in greece my brothers. and i didn't. with you know i guess it's. just arrived at through to me i. i i speak with here on she. she she writes lots. how much doesn't know when he'll see his mother and siblings again he can't leave britain until his asylum status has been decided. he tries to communicate with people were ever he can murphy is new in here so why do you think that if you bring revenue to recall even this will be a problem or. some some kind of people will be with the other girls that night and every everyone's going to have a different opinion about it he said i don't see a problem thanks thanks i said. if the u.s.

banks got off early. on his way to britain often acted as an interpreter for other refugees in an effort to be of service here to he offered his services to the red cross fortunately for him and the red cross his language skills are needed. meanings he said this ronnie and i are. that's fantastic for us to to to have an interpreter with us providing support with with them skills yet it's just one of the many many ways of integrating are becoming pocked you. see and we recognize that it isn't science it does have a lot of positive contributions to. hama has applied for asylum now he's waiting for the interview that will help determine his future. my dream become true that's what i think so maybe i'm right maybe i'm wrong i will fight just like i fight to

come here i will fight to stay here. he's made a start hamas wants to study nursing at a university and start a new life step by step. in security and freedom. tackling food waste is becoming increasingly important as we seek to make our world more sustainable the european union has committed to reduce fuel waste by fifty percent by the year twenty thirty and in the czech republic the government has already acted by introducing a new law that declares war on food waste it's an initiative welcomed by people like stanislav said elect but critics say it's crossing the line. once a week stanislav said he like opens up his garage for the needy he distributes groceries

mostly to pensioners and single mothers today he has pizzas that have almost reached their sell by date supermarkets are no longer allowed to throw these products away they are legally obliged to give them to charity organizations marta franco about is happy she can now invite her grandchildren to dinner molly. i get a small pension of about three hundred and when i have to buy call and pay the electric bill it's hard to. jonica come out of a comes here every week at age thirty she's on disability because of heart trouble receiving the equivalent of one hundred sixty euros a month but groceries cost about the same in the czech republic as they do in germany she comes away with three pizzas and a pair of ridge she says these will last five days. this is did you know at first i was ashamed because this was someone i didn't know and i've never done anything

like this asking a stranger for food even if i know he gives it to others they're due for a student because we didn't know what she usually told me i can come here every thursday at a certain time. so i do. there were two of them or that's the reason john cherry picks up the food items daily from supermarkets in and around prague the discounters are now required by law to give him urchin dies about to reach its best before date this staff member of a prague food bank wholeheartedly supports the idea. it's terrible when you see how many people have nothing to eat and then the stores just toss all these products in the dumpster or you that's just horrible. new boxes of yogurt fruit and chocolate stacked up in the prag food bank about ten tons of groceries are distributed each day to around twenty two thousand people in need hardly anything is thrown away people either pick it up directly or it goes to

homeless shelters and soup kitchens. that haven't dalek of the new law means we have much more food at our disposal and a greater variety get more perishable goods including fruit and vegetables. the discount supermarket say the law is a mistake and. the regulations are quite strict sometimes it's not easy to determine which fruit were still allowed to pass on and which we need to throw away after all the charities have to document that the perishable goods will be used quickly a complaint was filed at the constitutional court by some czech senators they said the last of communism and that other potential beneficiaries were losing out. we lodged a complaint because the state was deciding who the supermarket should give food to . for example some discounters have been donating such products to zoos that. well

now they're not allowed to do so despite the quantities available being enough for everyone to. blow things up when i was an emotional stanislav said elect disagree there's not enough to go around he says food prices are so high that even ordinary pensioners rely on food banks the state isn't providing enough support. the problem is that there are many people like me. my pension is enough i don't need to work i can volunteer. i don't earn anything from what i do here. what stanislav citylink would really like is a freezer the law may have made more food available for distribution but the czech republic is by no means a paradise for those in need. plenty of food for thought well that's all for this edition of focus on europe feel free to get in touch about this week's topic on twitter you can also find more stories on our website w dot

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