testers there are really reveling in this new kind of freedom and you felt that people were more than happy to speak with you everybody was extremely open and willing to to to share their perspective on the new sedan when we would stand in the middle of the sit in and make interviews people would gather. in their masses which i think shows the interest that people have in this event that it's going on in their country but we faced i would say know little to no difficulties from from the protesters themselves and felt extremely safe reporting on the ground and that's the time that's just a start and you're good to know now the military council says it is likely to extend the. dummy's do not plan to transition to civilian government anytime soon how could this play out i think the feeling that you get on the ground at the sit in is that people they really feel that their occupation of this space is their bargaining chip in this negotiation for them getting there and holding on to this physical space for so long is what has been pushing the negotiations it is what has

given the civilians negotiating with the with the military a legitimacy they have the legitimacy from the people on the streets and if you know the civilians have accuse the government of stretching this period not wanting to give power and have threatened for civil disobedience and general strikes so i think in the short term what this will need is that we are seeing the people remain on the streets and stay there and on the long term more distrust unfortunately between the military and the civilians and the young people that have driven this uprising let's see how things go right by him many thanks for your time. now. on wednesday. elections since the end. for the afghan national congress led by. the feast yet voters have given large

majority. of the party twenty five. the country remains divided economic and unemployment high twenty seven percent. to find out what people hope this election. we just want them to take. take. take care of children make sure that. people who. want to see. it. because they need to feel. people and i think. so ever when.

you take people seriously and listen to what the people want it's very easy to make promises. it's another thing to actually implement and become the government that people vote for you don't. think. you'll stay for as long as. the trucking industry dominated by men in most parts of the world and that's true of but things are beginning to change and women are driving right through this male dominated industry. she's rumbling along the rutted road at the wheel of a giant truck. delivers fuel to. abigail is one of twenty one female drivers at the all women company ladybird logistics. tells us we're proud to have the have nots so i'm courage and when you see we have companies that's all female is the fairest time in. ghana the whole world

so. to enjoy the country for years to empower me to trash. the ladybird women are slowly changing attitudes in a tough industry ordinarily dominated by men the reaction from other companies and from male drivers has been positive. drivers we've not had any major in answer than today so i think there's a lot of respect for the men and they realize that these ladies are good drivers and twenty fourteen survey found that just opened three of the nine women were employed in the transport and storage industry compared with more than twenty times as many men being employed in the sector. but employing women in a male dominated profession is not only empowering women says paying more for it

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around. twenty seven years ago but there's no holding back history. thank you for cinema dummy starts may twenty seventh on the c.w. . france's president claims europe is in the grip of a civil war and it's really hungry in poland leading. latish and say they're fighting to save europe's christian soul which way will the continent turn back to our debate from the european parliament here in the heart of brussels thank you. thank you. hello

and welcome to the conference on the debate battle lines are being drawn ahead of the european elections with more than four hundred million people eligible to vote and increasingly it's a europe of stark contrasts last week about a thousand fascist sympathisers gave stiff arm salutes and clashed with riot police in milan this information campaigns are said to be running at full tilt and commission president john told you because more and for this nationalist parties on the margins of the right and left take the upper hand it would mean the end of liberal democracy and free society so on issues ranging from migration to rule of law or security and sovereignty our panelists have plenty to argue about something insulters a dutch n.d.p. and first vice president of the alliance of liberals and democrats for europe she's a member of several parliamentary committees including civil liberties. dominic touchin ski was a member of the polish parliament for the ruling law and justice party he sits on the foreign and e.u.

affairs committees joel leinen has been a member of the european parliament for twenty years with a progressive alliance of socialists and democrats and is well known for his support for a federal europe max prize vice chairman of the f.t. the i'll tell it even if advice lands in the german state of saxony and number three in the party's federal list for the european elections that's our panel. before we take questions from our invited audience including members of civil society groups i'm going to ask each of our politicians to set out very briefly the kind of european future they'd like to see sophie and can i ask you to start us off one minute thank you very much and good evening everybody. we are living in a world of trump china that's becoming stronger political global actor a world where we see big forces like facebook while way apple who are actually

more powerful sometimes than states and that is why we need a very strong united and unify europe in order to stand up to these forces and to protect our quality of life our way of life but the second thing i would like to say is just as important this is not just about a strong europe it's also about europe as a community of values and those values are equality equal rights for all and not everybody believes in that and i think this is very much on the ballot on the twenty third to twenty sixth of may and i will be campaigning for equal rights for gender equality for freedom of conscience for bt i write a europe that is for everybody ok thank you very much you want to united europe you want a strong europe but voter turnout has gone down in every single european parliament election since they began it's going to be different this time. we don't know i

think first of all we see in the polls that support for europe is actually going up and the fact that people are critical is not a bad thing it's a good thing maines that people are taking ownership of europe to do that there's still jerry yes we'll see whether that trend will continue and of course the turnout has to go up if we have to right to vote we should use it because that's how we we keep. a life. this is an organization the european parliament has failed time and again to connect to ordinary people brett said is proof of that and you know i don't think bricks it is proof of that we don't know that the analysis on what breaks it really means is still out because i think you know the reasons why people voted for bricks are maybe very much connected to the reasons why american people voted for trump and incidentally to turn out if you're in. their free time you can maybe you can carry out the american turnout at the american elections is not very high either but it's clear that people are facing

a choice of the kind of world they want to live in some people would like to go back in time take rights away from people you know end equality and pluralism and free democracy and that is really what's at stake here for i don't have a dominant touching scheme kind of europe would like to see i'd like to see christian europe christian europe as a faith as a law as a culture i'd like to see the europe which was built on the christian values this is who you are this is what i've said previously that christianity is our d.n.a. and it's not about our faith only it's about the ages of all of the previous generations it's who you are and from the christianity comes out the whole the whole culture roman law greek philosophers this is this is what was built on christianity so what i don't or and. as a new structure of the society. without christianity i don't like people messing

around like mr shorrosh he's playing with the nations he's financing organizations who are absolutely anti christian some agree that equality is very important that's why i don't want i want to see churches like twenty four churches within week burned in france i don't want to see that so that's the only same thing right that's the symbol so i want christian roots i think safety even to europe we've got the point you pride yourself on christian values that's right but your attitudes to immigration run directly counter to christian values don't they at least in the eyes of the pope the catholic pope jesus is present he said in the migrants and refugees who seek safety and a dignified life in a new land it is christ he said we're not on our door hungry thirsty a stranger naked under certain degree and in prison well you'd better be not knocking on your door because you won't let him in because the difference between illegal immigration and refugee is a legal difference by the international law i keep repeating it for the last three

or five years we don't mind to take the refugees if they submit their documents and ask for permission to be told that we don't mind nothing's changed in twenty years of free poland you don't want muslim immigrants they don't want illegal migration and you don't want to muslims now you're talking about you go christian no no no no you want a distance we don't want illegal migration if it's christian if it's mostly if it's hindu or it's not believe or we don't want illegal migration we don't want people on the boats coming without documents or with a five dollars there's a little let me here let me let me finish so if they want to come to poland they can apply that in some but they documents but what is happening now is just a madness which is again something rules and regular you say arsalan is alive and the west's soul is dead and that's right suddenly your expert on cells what makes you the keeper of the sacred truth for instance first of all just quickly yes because i'm a roman catholic so the spirit is very important to me obviously this is just the picture. through firs that eighty five percent of polish societies catholic and we

cherish our traditional telling the rest of europe how to live by without telling anyone we want you saying it's the values the real value for europe we value our road into christianity not about the beautiful words john and your vision of europe these intimate imo roman catholic myself i have a totally different vision of polish pretty much is there for the slogan of yours diversity and unity unity and diversity diversity makes us rich in any aspect and i think relived the visit very good sixty years of european integration has poured us this peace and freedom and now in these years we have to secure well being and security so i think that we have to complete the common market to digital europe. really as it we have to be fair up in social aspects i think it's a scandal that some people don't pay taxes various normal people have to pay their

taxes look on the gulf like amazon and google they don't pay their taxes is the absolute candid and certain sustainable ecologically i mean it's a must to be live over the planetary limits and i think climate protection is one of the key issues in next year's all right you've said. you've said also in the past and to want a strong and sovereign europe to defend the union's interest and values in the globalized world this is what you've said but the e.u. already has enormous power as the world's largest trading bloc and it's not using it for that is it it's not defending values basic values you know a lot about human rights for instance in egypt continue to sign trade deals with you don't use the power that you do is right in the only family economically real really a giant the biggest market in the verge but i have like i don't think that here we are twelve and indeed we have to really improve. in our political

let's say outlook towards two. really. verkin reseller values and our principles but i think that you also see iraq in agreements with libya saying your rights migrants have them incarcerated for years in holding centers where they're abused and beaten not looked at do you i'm going to be proud of. the word fifty percent of. human aids is coming from the we are not as good as we should be but let's sit down and work to earn it next legislature make it a priority through that it's all about words it's all right isn't it isn't it true because i am i am also object strongly to those deals who are not in line with our values but i think part of the reason why europe is concluding these deals is because some governments like your government refuse to participate in the common the signing of migration. policy and you're actually you're hearing well you know

the nation as you have you know saw income you have youthful words but you you don't actually put them into practice and it is true when you say that on the one hand you basically want to create a theocracy and christianity has to be christian and at the same time countries democratic ok everyone can you know you don't see one so if you're going to tell you that i don't know it's on the center and then i briefly and then i go to your mother did you want to say anything else don't just what i'm saying is our country is very open we are democratic country everyone is free to believe or not to believe whatever he wants what i'm saying is as a lawyer as a polish as a christian when i see throughout the ages when i see the history and when i see the state of the you've been you now i do believe that the real value is not the it's not out there in google it's roman law right where you as if you have a really hard to get into that later max cry your vision of europe you know in a minute the first thing is that we distinguish between europe and the union europe it's a place of a lot of virus of diversity and variety of peoples and cultures on

a very small room globally and that's makes you rich. and we well you the riot says governments of all those peoples and countries we have in europe on the other hand there is a common ground of my colleague told us which is the tradition of philosophy and roman lore. and of course we have to do something in common and every serious european politics which is reliable has to balance our between the acceptance of serenity and off the diversity of cultures on the one hand and on the other hand to look what is needed to do in a joint way and what we've seen today is that almost all parties we have in germany except us the only say more brussels and more unionist and we say no it's not the answer we have to look or does better solve better government on

a regional level or a and that is our point you've said in the past that europe needs to rediscover and value its cultural heritage and identity why some europeans do some some don't said choice countries move forward that is true but countries evolve the world evolve yes but you you only can involve onion know where you come from you need it you need a common ground the common ground you want to go back to days of strong nation states too strong we won the first sense of the truth isn't it was felt back at that isn't that the first thing that these these nationalist extremist parties the friends i hate you know when they get to power we want in fact women's rights is attacked b.t.i. right the first is attacking those that is allegedly to mr know women's rights women's rights and i tried like a. chemical woman that arrives and and gay rights are now under attack because of the muslim immigration and you know walk a straight right into an area of me under attack. women's rights and your rights

and in countries like poland and countries undersea econ trees you don't have attacks on the streets on gays and on women force that you have it you have it in country it's very i have a very high i have inherited their nothing and their governor great women's right we. really. poland is a free country germany is a free country france is free country every country is a free country the european union is the first let me you you are to interventionist and let the others talk and it's better than i can you know deal being union is a free assembly of nations all of them had. to join or love a really. put down loyalty to the principle. decision done in common so i don't see this sudden. for the deck in the last century

usa my nation is to create just by nation is to free is ok some months. ok listen to your new one not only tonight but what you write and what you talk to i'll tell you i want you to as i want to of any and i want to take the discussion on a little bit simpler i want to. shoot it serves both and you need to talk just on the subject of migration i'd like to continue with it for a few moments because not only is it one of the biggest issues facing the european union but it's arguably one of its biggest failures isn't in the way what what chance that the next parliament will do better than this one in setting out a policy that can command a consensus because you don't have action actually parliament actually reached consensus on the entire assignment package and other micro it is actually to cancel where it's completely member countries in the council that you don't chose are to represent this of the liberal m.p.'s so i am going to and that's exactly something

you can sell to that time seems like there's a lot of experience or can i just have you know some scientists that you know the council has become somewhat of a. of a kind of black box everything stops there nothing moves forward whereas the parliament has actually been able to find broad consensus polluting the extremist but the socialist liberals e.p. p. greens i mean there was a. brought to life and very but resolution yeah ok so i'm going to come in let me let me tell you how it's like they set up the fire and now they trying to use the water to set it down complete nonsense ok thank you very much for you then you let me know. that it is not in the film and you're going to be considered once much variance in the european parliament socialist liberals. so and the council is socialist and they have all the tools they can set up the if they do something else conservatives are there is no nine eleven letters you know i don't want to give you

a chance to come in so i can sell the majority for years liberals if p.p. and socialists they have all the tools to set up to solve the problem but they can't they do not know how i'm gillum rickles looking for cheap labor she didn't want to help anyone and then she found out that she they don't want to work they don't want to learn the language so they she found out i have to send them back some of them that's why she yeah that's what if you speculate to send them saying i'm out just a tiny one so that they are just very very you want out of that listen to such nonsense but ok that's and look for someone who is the average mom is it might go like this it is so the angle on that i could avoid having the immigrants for cheap labor. finished visit i think we had a problem in two fifteen to sixteen because rate of boy. the boy in syria. in our neighborhood and nobody could see that the hundreds of thousands of people

walking out of the misery but in the meantime if you look what we have achieved we have a whole package of measures we have no dentistry cation everybody who comes in the euro is it and the fight we have. worked on our board us respond takes we have done the package with africa the countries with most of the poverty mike and scum so i think sit up in the notion. yeah. yeah yeahs i think is. very successful policy because you have not the migration flows of four years ago you are of i don't have anybody who are doing prices in the middle east and poverty in africa you will have migration all the time and. you have two minutes together and that place it is you are like me go let me go let me go. to you really get. water in your mother's grave you know i'm going to mexico and i'm going to see if

you are sure of your described if he correctly like these are the call i started i just cry. for you he started weeping goliath so we did lose just let. quests are the typical lies of the german left frontex has increased in numbers of of migrants over the mediterranean sea and then our friend mathilde so he came and closed the borders and closed ports he stopped migration the balkan routes are stopped but. i don't know why his marital wouldn't be chancellor any more if he didn't stop the migration and two thousand and fifteen that means or man and salvini did the job what do you know tell us.