it helps at so many m.p.'s in her own party because it was a sop to the opposition labor party saying that they will be the possibility of a 2nd referendum and also promising much closer ties with europe over this customs union and that's what they didn't like and that is why m.p.'s were clamoring for her to go including the resignation that we had on wednesday the leader of the house of commons andrea lead some of brick city here who stood by her throughout this time then saying i cannot do this anymore so that is why the writing was on the war cabinet saying this can't go on and you have to go so now the question to you alice what happens next who's next what's next what does this mean for greg is it on the u.k. side well 1st of all who's next will we know that there are various candidates who have already put their name into the ring the most famous being boris johnson the former foreign secretary but there are of those 2 and there will be a whole between them when this actually starts going in the middle of june at the

moment it is boris who's the front runner but in within conservative party politics you can always say that that's the way it will turn out with bricks it well what changes i mean the enrichment tick in the house of commons in parliament is still the same that person is going to inherit this mess this mass knowing that at the moment the u.k. is jus to leave the e.u. on the 31st of october with or without a deal some of those candidates don't want there to be a deal and some do so i mean there will be a huge amount of work for that new person to take on to make any difference to what reason has already done and bob out to you in london what does this calculus look like for brags that on the brussels side you've been following that end of things now there's a big question mark as to who the new representative of the bring that deal will be . or in brussels there will be very few of course of our. this even though the

development has it they could see the development come for quite a while because they know that the biggest threat to peace and quiet in the european union at the moment is for the successor of to reason may may be boris johnson are may it be another hardliner probably go back to brussels and say oh here i am let's reopen the books let's restart negotiations i cannot accept what reason they had reached negotiated and now let's do it all over again the europeans on their side have said numerous times this deal is close what's on the table is what you can get so there will be a lot of acrimony if this is happens this will be happening which is to be expected and so there will be a sort of rehash of breck's of talks that we have seen in the past when everybody in brussels at be quite happy to turn their backs and said ok it's done and dusted whatever they do with it and britain it's their problem so breck's it can very well

become brussels problem again. and bob in your mind you had said that boris johnson looks to be one of the most likely candidates to take over as well what sort of break is it deal is he going to put forward what would you predict because he was one of the starkest leavers when that vote was happening in 2016. now the problem is boris johnson is that you never know because he has been changing his mind throughout all of this length sucrose his numerous times remember that originally was the david cameron still in office he was a remainer and then overnight he suddenly decided ok no i'm going to switch i'm going to now be a break to cheer so from then on he has sort of shifted and moved around and the latest we heard from him was of course a very hard line because he was hoping for the support of the hardliners capris mog and so boris for heartbreaks that lets them the door let's walk away we don't need

anybody we particularly don't need the european union and you know it konami consequences be thrown over your shoulder so that is boris bought if he does come into office that can very quickly change again because then he knows this is not going to be just words he will have to bear the consequences for instance of a hard break which can be very dire indeed so he might have another saying there actually is no challenge alex your thoughts on the it just interesting that the 2 reason may very strongly there outside downing street saying compromise is not a solution and this is what she's saying to her conservative party look we have been fighting like cats and dogs we have got i have tried my hardest i gave you 3 times i put my back to deal to you you don't like it but you have there was going to have to be compromise to get to make sure that it happens she wants price it to happen the majority in her party want to see it happen but if you have

a hard line of who was happy to go for a no deal then they are going to be alienating the other side of the party and that is why she is pleading with them please think about compromise and alex last question will she have any legacy left to look back on especially after these past weeks of so much ugliness. she at the end again of her speech was trying to list the positive things that conservative government has done but let's face it will they think she is basically nothing in her 10 year as prime minister and that is very difficult for her that's what she didn't want that is why she's been clinging on to power she wanted to legacy to be the brics it happened and it hasn't and i'm afraid to say that is what she will be remembered for forest whiting for us in our studio and thank you also to bob levey is all standing by for us in london

check and irish voters are heading to the polls today on the 2nd day of the european parliament elections in total over 400000000 voters across that use 28 member states are eligible to vote most countries will go to the poll on sunday's check voters have until tomorrow to cast their ballots with polls closing in ireland later this evening ireland's main parties have campaigned heavily to cement the nation's place in europe as uncertainty continues over brags that meanwhile turnout could be an issue in the czech republic only 18 percent of voters turned out at the last elections in 2014. all right we're going to bring in our brussels correspondent. brussels correspondent excuse me max hoffman is standing by for us max let's actually go back to our breaking news story now with theresa may how are things looking in brussels now that there's going to be

a new face trying to negotiate bragg's it with the e.u. . i'd say the priority of the european union in the last years was to have one person they could talk to in london somebody who ideally it would have had influence over what really happens in the united kingdom and would have been able to defend the position of the u.k. and really negotiate an outcome that after that would have been supported by the house of commons back in the u.k. as we all know this did not happen and over the years i would say it became increasingly clear to the leaders of the european union so for example i'm going to or am under way michael and of course the people in the e.u. commission and also in the council of the european union that the recent may was not the person that was going to be able to deliver that result so in the beginning i would say they supported her to have stability to have somebody they could talk to because the alternative was always up in the air they would never know you know even if 3 somebody leaves who is the one to come after her but this priority has

shifted in the last weeks as you could see at the last big summit to deal with brags that when basically the other leaders of the e.u. excluding theresa may decided the timetable for braggs it themselves extending this article 50 period so basically delaying delaying bragg's it so now they they have neither they don't know who they're going to talk to just have to wait and see whether it's boris johnson or dominic robb or somebody else in the u.k. both of them are probably not there you know their favorite people to do this because as we know boris johnson has always fought for for hard drugs it's something that you wants to avoid so they don't have that on the one on the one hand and on the other hand they have absolutely no stability because they can't talk to anyone so i would say at the moment for the e.u. here in brussels it's all about waiting and see how the u.k. sorts this out. and one of the biggest problems at least on the u.k.

side of this whole bragg's it deal was their inability to actually vote on anything passed anything that theresa may put in front of them on the e.u. side does it look like the next person might be able to get any new concessions out of the e.u. to create a more palatable deal to bring back to the u.k. well we have to make it we have to differentiate here between we've done a 1000000 times over the years but you all that always have to recall that there is the withdrawal agreement that's the divorce agreement that's the one that's legally binding and the e.u. has repeatedly said they will not change this and they really have stood for firm i don't see any indication as of now that they will change their position there because things like the backstop for ireland the northern ireland so the thing that is supposed to avoid a hard border between northern ireland that's part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland that is part of the e.u. that seems untouchable i mean that's the core principle of the european union the smallest member of the e.u. is more important to the e.u.

in this case ireland than a big outsider like the u.k. will maybe some day be an already isn't the case in the case of this now the 2nd thing is the political agreement that's sort of outlining what the future relationship between the u.k. and the e.u. could look like and that's where the e.u. is flexible but again that is not legally binding that was what 3 some i may try them till the end changed that maybe to give it to give a more positive outlook to give the hardliners a little something so they can agree on this it has not worked and if it you know you have to decision in the u.k. was against that actual. as against a recent may 3 some way out of the picture that because we don't even know who will succeed. ok we seem to be having some technical difficulties thanks to max hoffman for us in brussels now we're going to quickly go

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her own party after she failed to get support for her breakfast deal with the e.u. and they says she will remain as caretaker prime minister until a new leader is chosen a process that could take several weeks. you're watching news coming up after the break focus on europe on my ass waiter stay tuned and thanks for watching . their piece of video and its consequences. political bombshell in vienna. austria as government is in chaos. what role if any to the intelligence services played in this scandal. and how close are the right wing talkers to russia . to.

quadriga international talk show for journalists discuss the topic of the week the zoster in the making sorry some predicting a big surge for far right parties in this weekend's irritated i'm sure the will of video scandal you know strip persuade people to think twice before voting to the people strong to be going on for 3 good shortly. quadriga 60 minutes on. the gym which. any time any place. video never. happened at the back of those.

someones to sing along to download it is difficult. to do i am. very. into active exercise it's the right thing about d.w. dot com slashdot actually and i'm on facebook in the i'm still a. demonstrator w. u. l o and a warm welcome to focus on europe nice to have you with us they are recordings so explosive they've plunged austria's government into chaos the country's then vice chancellor caught on camera offering state contracts in exchange for campaign support. here in a villa in

a pizza christian straka of the far right freedom party talks to a woman posing as a wealthy russian over the course of several hours they discuss boosting the party's election results with the help of russian financing. well the video has left austria's coalition government between the conservatives and the far right populist in shambles with the freedom party have made no secret of their desire for closer ties with russia in the past but the footage reveals just how far they were willing to go for power so how close are europe's right wing parties to russia our reporter went to vienna to find out. the honor has long been a bridge between europe's east and west. decades after the cold war it's still a playground for foreign agents who employ methods like the one that helped topple austria's freedom party. political scientist and hunch

accost office also based in vienna he's an expert on the influence of moscow exerts on europe's far right far right organizations and parts is. some of the few. political forces in europe that are still ready to cooperate with the kremlin the kremlin needs. in the west. in 2017 russian president vladimir putin attended the wedding of austria's foreign minister a member of the freedom party. on its you tube channel the freedom party celebrates its close ties to putin's united russia party. the after party leadership for bridge builders and peacemakers in moscow. in 2016 that then head of the freedom party heinz christian structure signed a cooperation pact with the united russia party despite the rift between russia and the e.u. i think about 2000 foot seeing all the developments in 2014 especially trained they

mobilized or they you know they made relations between the european far right and moscow more active those close ties have now brought the freedom party to its knees a secretly filmed video has emerged of heinz christians in a villa in a beezer spain it shows a woman claiming to be the niece of a russian oligarch promising illegal donations from under cleared sources apparently not a problem 1st off. there are a couple of very rich people who are contributing between 500000. and 2000000 euros . here is. the contact was apparently arranged by johann goodness the parliamentary group leader of the freedom party goodness has long been known as strong as right hand man and has close ties to russia.

the. from at the who the supposed niece of the russian oligarchy is well that was a clever setup given the relationship between austria's freedom party putin and the united russia party sloan's how much damage this scandal will do to austria's far right remains to be seen many observers say it's unlikely that the freedom party will break with moscow thank you sir for being with your they'll continue to maintain these ties with you we've often heard rumors that money is changing hands even though the freedom party has always denied that as you move up the student so what do people in austria think so they're very critical of it they find it peculiar particularly because the freedom party has always pursued its own russia strategy long. the party wants the e.u. to lift sanctions on russia and they take a very different stance to russia's annexation of crimea. austria's freedom party has been useful to moscow's ambitions anton chekhov stuff is certain that russia

will continue to bolster europe's far right for the kremlin the chance to influence european politics is just too good to pass up. it's been called a cancer of british society by prime minister theresa may the knife crime epidemic in england and wales well so far this year over $100.00 people have been fatally stabbed the attackers are mostly young males who've all but given up on life it's a cycle of violence that paul mackenzie is fighting against in london and he's calling on the government to join his cause. a new day a new crime scene last night here in east london a 15 year old was stabbed to death with a knife. social worker paul mckenzie has visited many such crime scenes but this time it really gets to him the victim was a friend a business. certainly too much isn't the seas these are everywhere you

see a bunch of flowers years ago and it meant something very sore when i read the very question just why is too many to read more because somebody wanted to prove something to somebody else. that's that's the sad thing is that life has become a point system. and now somebody somewhere say. they know that and that person but. often it's a case of rivalry between members of youth gangs but innocent bystanders can also fall victim to knife crime and some guns knifing someone is proof a youngster is worthy of belonging to a guy. looking at all like 13 years old been arrested for not but. what happened. mackenzie talks to gang members and makes videos to show how quickly things are deteriorating in some parts of london. why do

you carry a 15 inch not a big and you get scared but if you say. cause i don't want someone put up with me let china. killed me so oakley. paul mckenzie feels that the government doesn't take knife crime seriously enough he supports an initiative which demands that the government treat the violence as a national emergency you know. from the. last my younger brother from march through tonight this was my son i say it was my 2015. when i lost my son on the 30th of september it's because of the 17 months that let me thank god for not crime on the 5th of february the city. is not

. in some neighborhoods young people don't leave home without a knife as they think they must be prepared to defend themselves. mackenzie says it's a scandal that combat knives are some 3. that rabbit my friend particularised is the favorite knife at the moment collect for rambo knives and you get discount you can see all sorts of different types of knives in the window and for me it's not something you want to advertise in the window specially with what's going on moment jason isaacs was stabbed to death one and a half years ago he was showing candles eldest son. now her younger children always have to come home straight from school because she fears for their lives jason was killed early in the evening when he was out with a few friends. just as we're far friends so 5 of

them and yeah that's all of their lives and they all went in different directions and jessen got call and stabs 8 times jason was targeted by a gang which he himself had nothing to do with everyone that knew jess and you always hope you were christian which was nice because every every time we went our physical eyes i was i love you mom case and that's what we got that night and we did everything together really we it was a very family person. jason's killer was caught he was just 17 time rock videos of him and his gun can be seen from the internet. no one is drill the style of hip hop is very popular with british youths. and. talk about stabbing people in the back which is what they do

and jason obviously was stopped in the park so. i mean the boy ended up dead what influence does drill music have what can you do when carrying a knife is considered normal. these are the kinds of questions paul mckenzie asks in the talks with teens so everyone here is familiar with the drill they all know kids who carry knives. finding answers is tough. but these youths and their parents agree jail time isn't enough i know someone that's in prison and he's still able to get a fine and paste and snap chat he's in jail in prison it's just listening to music rock band did all that out so prison isn't really a big thing to them the issue here is a systemic one violence is normalised now unless we start looking a bit. to young people we're never going to get to the bottom of this that he

values any new belief systems they need to believe there is a future you talk to some of these young people they can't see past 20 and any society that has a generation of young people at constant past 20 you've got it you've got to address that from above. and beyond mckenzie no mr aren't any quick fixes to the situation the british government has now committed itself to investing in youth work and strengthening the police presence. everyone knows the problem has simply become too large to ignore to greece now where a centuries old tradition is on the verge of extinction the country's one fishing boats known as are synonymous with the greek islands building the boats is a craft that's been passed down for generations and it's a heritage the greeks are very proud of but the government and the e.u. are paying owners to turn what many see as works of art into scrap wood boat

builders like demetrius moore acas fear that the cailleach here will vanish from greece's coastline for good. there are a familiar sight for holiday makers in greece the colorful fishing boats. but the traditional wooden boats are an increasingly rare sight the european union pays fishermen cash if they scrap their. demetrius maracas is the last boat builder on the island. now he has to destroy the boats that he built over the past decades otherwise the fishermen won't get their subsidy maracas is appalled. after days after i think about all the energy i put into them i want to mensa be over the years now live by says that i know i'm supposed to destroy this. i'm sad. breaks my heart. here but the real problem is is that a puts the fishermen in this terrible situation. i don't as

us owns a fish restaurant he also gave up his boat last year taxes for it kept rising and his catch doing. it was a difficult decision but at least he got $100000.00 euros for the boat. now he has to buy his fish for his restaurant elsewhere and he still misses his boat. it was tough. i didn't want to destroy my boat. i'd even have paid money to keep it for myself or use it to ferry tourists. but the agriculture ministry wouldn't agree to it no chance. the un calls the mediterranean the world's most overfished sea though they are hardly to blame the greek government would like the boats to be used to ferry tourist but that's not financially viable for the fisherman. image that women nationally want to save the

traditional wooden boats but to do that the e.u. has to change the guidelines. and there's a lot less money to use them for tourism but the financial incentives should be the same as for scrap and i think. that really what that i. received. a museum dedicated to that is being built on the island of somers the greek ministry of culture has rescued 20 old boats all lovingly made by hand custis the muni these is an architect and an expert on greek ship building traditions he's fighting to preserve the old boats more and more people including government officials now say they should be protected as an endangered cultural heritage. you have to keep things from the past and to to save memories to save our route there is that the traditional boat building which is a very integral part of these. sculpture i don't have to find ways to keep

them. to give a future to where grandma lived for the future for the young people. demetrius maracas also gives both building classes for young people and adults he'd like to be able to take on an apprentice. rocky's can't accept the greece's maritime heritage is on the verge of extinction. as a stopgap measure he's figured out a loophole. instead of completely scrapping the boats he takes them apart to render them unusable. i will be my last may and i disassembled the boats in 3 parts which are still intact. a good boat builder could put them back together no she and other describe maybe some young people will come along and want to who knows.

as long as creaky or continue to be scrapped the craft will die out that's why greek boat builders and fishermen are calling on their government to reopen negotiations with the e.u. even if the yukio can no longer apply the seas they could at least be preserved as a tourist attraction. to this day the turn noble disaster and what is now northern ukraine remains the worst nuclear accident in history experts say it will take 20000 years before the area is habitable again but many may not realize is that the vast majority of radioactive particles released landed not in the ukraine but here in the south of bella ruse while the region is a no man's land frozen in time and less heard with abandoned buildings but a few refuse to leave their homes despite the dangers among them was adam over she says her decision to stay put is the reason she's still alive.

once thriving communities now only ghost towns remain. nature is reclaiming the countryside. life came to a sudden end here with a nuclear accident in nearby chernow. at the time a few people refused to leave the exclusion zone. is 90 years old she couldn't bring herself to leave her animals behind to starve and she couldn't imagine a new life in a city apartment there is no stage area when you would almost everyone from our village who was resettled is dead now. only one man and a few women from our village are left. the women are a bit stronger anyway almost all the men are dead he. believes his husband died in 2016 now her son leonid lives with her. he couldn't leave his mother to

fend for herself and she didn't want to move to belarus capital minsk with it's better health care now they both live from her meager pension. to buy yeah yeah where why should i be afraid i survived a terrible war and i've seen charred corpses really that was horrible. but the radioactivity it isn't even visible need. once galina made it clear she would not be moved out of her house the authorities gave it a special cleaning. at 1st they heard a geiger counter on my chest to measure the radioactivity they measured inside the oven and in the beds there was quite a lot of radioactivity. but life before the great disaster as she calls it was so pleasant she never wanted to give it up she shows her son the old photos over and over again. no more water.

then. of course i'm sad i remember everything the way it was here i can see our villages beautiful houses in front of me and all the lights. but if you look young people used to get together and have a good time. now everything is silent like in heaven. biologist max include gene disagrees once humans left the exclusion zone nature began to move back in he can see the evidence all around such as. but radioactivity is still very much present. richardson is good isn't it he's in some places we measure 15025000 micro sieverts a fairly strong radioactivity it's always dangerous people can't really live here.

but host animals like these elk can. maximize spotting more and more animals that weren't found here before the reactor disaster such as these bison there have even been reports of brown bears and the biologists aren't finding any deformed animals or cadavers like they did in the 1st years. radioactivity is always dangerous to both people and animals. but animals don't live long enough for the radioactive substances to accumulate in their bodies and be passed on to the next generation. some animals even live in the abandoned houses and villages. maxim has been observing this process for 20 years even if the new residents are easy to see. the evacuated villages have become wildlife community was.

once german was taught in the schoolroom now animals have free range. that they've reclaimed the villagers. are monitoring is shown that now on the elves are using the attics and badgers are settling in the foundations. in the autumn a lot of hoofed animals come here because of all the apple and plum trees still growing here. maxim to jeanne's compiling his observations and a study that's attracted worldwide attention it shows how radioactivity affects humans and animals in the long term. scientists are still debating exactly how dangerous radioactive contamination really is now after 33 years some of the radioactive substances have soaked deeper into the ground but as maxim points out it still poses a danger especially in the woodlands where mushrooms and moss collect the toxic c c m. the

exclusion zone has turned into a vast open air laboratory where humans play only marginal roles. growing vegetables in the zone is still prohibited. so every 2 days a mobile grocery store wise to supply the few remaining residents with fresh fruit and vegetables linnet also shops here. he and his mother have read in the papers that a new reactor will be going online in december some 500 kilometers from here built with cutting edge russian technology. skeptical then sure yeah. people used to just plow the land and grow their own food now we've invented these nuclear things. are we supposed to eat adams. but how galina and the other inhabitants of the exclusion zone have lived so long in spite of the

contamination is a mystery yeah i don't know but i don't regret having stayed here if i had moved i would have died long ago it's just the way i am. she's fortunate that her son leonard was not afraid to come here and support. everyone else she used to have for company is long gone. while many were tired seniors join clubs as a way to stay active d.j. vico from poland prefers to spend her time in a very different kind of club but the 80 year old is a fixture of warsaw's clubbing scene where she plays for party goers of all ages her curiosity and her ability to keep up with all the fast changing technical equipment helps or to stay on track. these dancers may not be as light on their

feet as they once were but they've still got the moves virginia make sure they used . to be going to our party to have a great time you have a job. d.j. is 80 years old and one of poland's hottest acts. and she emphasizes she doesn't only do senior discos. clue what will this heat i play club music when i spin discs in youth clubs i mix club music with the top hits by madonna. jennifer lopez. lady gaga. d.j. v. cats warsaw moving turn his sizzling hot beats the retired special education teachers been spending the vinyl for 25 years now. conscious while the digital i met was young deejays and learned how to use the computer i bought a mixing console because the young people said you can't use just a cd player but that's about all you told of the end of the but i saw how they mix

and scratch is going to choice to have her children left home long ago her husbands passed on pridgin you didn't want to just sit around and mark time. when i was told not to get folks we're going to do something new i have to learn new things and that keeps me young most but i get my brain regenerates itself i become curious and it's great. and the awesome v.k. has another thing to say beauty is not reserved for youth. that people should take an example for me life has many beautiful colors. on this evening and more sight least nobody is even thinking about taking it easy that stuff like disco is the best medicine for poor health get out of it. and d.j. bekah is living proof of that.

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