people it why do they keep such a low profile to think about snooping around to catch a glimpse. of hard. to describe the super rich starch due to. him being a. alone a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and we begin with good news for europe because roumania finally appears to be taking up the battle against the corruption that is endemic in the country and to justice it seems has finally caught up with this man livia dragnet of the most powerful politician in rumania has been sentenced to 3 and

a half years in prison for incitement to abuse of office well in the past dragnet has been accused of electoral fraud and embezzlement among other things somehow though he always managed to get off the hook but the scam he's now been found guilty of means that people like jett are thrown chere suffered years of neglect. it's morning in alexandria one of the poorest towns in romania we are on our way to meet one of the local residents. inject the tron child lives in this tiny room just 10 square meters but she wants to move out she grew up in an orphanage and has no idea where her parents are jetta cannot read or write. was she says her life at the orphanage was miserable. enough for all barmy i got small benefit payments from the state until i was 18 but people at the

orphanage kept taking my money and those were really tough times they used to beat me and a lot of the other kids no one helped us i had to hold out my hands and then they'd beat them with a stick. when i watch. their jetta says that the local youth welfare office was supposed to look after them but didn't the office made headlines a few years ago when it was targeted as part of the corruption investigation. at the center of the investigation was leave you truck enough head of romania's social democrat party every senior official in parliament. in 2018 back now was convicted on corruption charges dating back to his time as a regional government administrator. he appealed and lost. and has now been

sent to prison. attila beetle is a prominent investigative journalist he followed the darkness case closely and provided written evidence to prosecutors the 2 testified that the local youth welfare office failed to transfer children to foster families and did not involve them in a local school that had just been built the school never opened. all of them he may be possible but to. too late these were hired by a local protection services agency. but both believe these never worked there but they worked in the office of the local bar that he's bought the. this is the headquarters of the social democrat party in alexandria where doc and i used to have an office. this party member admitted she was given a job at the youth welfare office and earned

a salary but never did any work there. i'm not going to talk about god or his trial. but if you make mistakes you have to pay for them carry a message that. jetta would agree with that but right now she's trying to find out where her mother is living. she turns to the youth welfare office for help even though the office did little to improve her life at the orphanage. if the group want more if the you're an adult down so we're no longer responsible for you read them and we have no idea whether your mother is still alive i can't help hear about the. jet or fears that she may never find her family also so but i'm angry nobody cares about us especially the politicians also. while she was in parliament that man had pushed for legislation that would weaken

anticorruption laws critics said he was likely trying to protect himself and his colleagues against possible criminal charges but voters in romania this month approved a non-binding referendum that said the laws should stay just as they are. back in alexandria that has yet added stops by to visit. she's the young woman's only friend here but she can't do much to help her. i have to take care of everything all by myself i'm still waiting for something to happen will kill. the jet at lunch i am hopes that the children of the orphanage will one day find justice and the chance for a better life. now each year some $10000000.00 tonnes of plastic waste end up in the world's oceans and the people of norway are among those who are increasingly concerned about the impact that it's having on the

thousands of kilometers of coastal waters for instance those around the city of bear and our report begins with one man from the area who's been an anti way start to this since he was shocked into action 2 years ago. rumiko assertions how the cleanup effort got started with a tragic incident off this island near vatican norway that happened in january 27th . doctor thought it would be hard to mean a rare beaked whale that was found stranded in shallow waters. every attempt to herd it back to the open sea failed the whale was weekend emaciated and eventually had to be euthanized. when scientists at the university of better again examine the whale they made a discovery its stomach was full of plastic bags.

people in norway were horrified by the images tens of thousands flocked to the beaches to help. the. ghost of the coastal service had about 60000 trash bags on hand well enough for 5 years. that would have a home back but in no time at all they were all gone i think everybody wanted to go out and collect plastic waste it. on their own and grocer used to work for the oil industry now he joins teams of volunteers to clean up plastic trash along the countless inlets bays and islands of noways west coast today's destination is a small uninhabited island off barrack and these volunteers are members of a society of engineers most of the waste that washes on the shore here comes from britain or big ships many of the bags and bottles have disintegrated into bits and

pieces for the plastic collectors it's a never ending task. fast thermally the deeper you dig the more you turn up and it's pretty frustrating after this experience. i'll be even more careful about using plastic and i'll make sure that i dispose of it properly. that is a hot issue. even the snacks the volunteers have brought along are sealed in plastic avoiding plastic entirely isn't easy. either there are enough galasso now but we want to put pressure on the industry and government to look for alternatives to the use of plastic but for me personally i'd like to keep on catching lobster here in the sea at my doorstep and i'd like my kids to be able to do that to them at. barlow and also that. just 4 hours of work have yielded 5 trash bags filled with plastic.

that home room ago search posts what they've achieved on the internet the site keeps track of every section of coastline the collection team cleans up given the length of norway's coastline that's a herculean task. but meanwhile every political party in the country supports the initiative. the us is leading the studies have shown that for every quarter or euro the state spends on supporting the volunteer effort it gets 10 times that value back in return 1st because of the clean up work itself but also because of the weight boosts environmental awareness and social solidarity but all. we want to go sure and other activists have had a plaque set up at the place where this environmental initiative began in memory of

the whale that came to such a painful and here and then morgan with a stomach full of plastic you brought us the message about what is happening to the oceans thank you for waking us up. a wake up call that's intended to be heard far beyond the coast of norway. well with the yellow vests far right populace and declining opinion poll ratings from says president emanuel my crawl is under pressure from all sides the french people are clearly not happy with their leader with many saying they feel left behind especially in rural areas but in one small town at the foot of the french alps they're putting up a fight against bureaucratic indifference and they've adopted a distinctly how should i say sheepish strategy to help support the local parents and their children. 2

their comfortable existence on a lush meadows of clay and you can noble is about to come to an end the sheep are rather unusual they're about to start school they've already been rolled out the paperwork since it made it down to their birth certificates is this a joke to guy 11 and the other parents in town it's serious business. and there's not much said there to one man i spoke to michele at the peony festival i know him and know he's a shepherd i mean so i went up to him and asked him if he could help save our children's class at school. francis national school administration wants to close the class at the local elementary school in. this student were to be assigned to other classrooms to stop that the class needed new students even if these aren't all that interested in book learning. i'm glad to help the community

is the exact same story with the staple for 300 sheep won't fit 500 you need just too many and then the sheep suffer school is pretty much the same 15 children a class works well but 35 is a whole different story. much to the joy of their new classmates michelle herded his flock into town. then they were registered for the coming school year which will start in september. and the lambs just showed up at school and we were allowed to help them to me. although the class was short only 5 students the authorities told the school it would be disbanded with no warning. the parents are still dismayed. i see the mistiness office exists if the children are just numbers to them we're treated like sheep so we're using humor to protest to no one wants this so we can just resign ourselves to it we have to fight back. the

mayor supports their protest a few years ago the ministry of education told him to build an annex at the school and now they want to eliminate a class he says that's absurd. let's put it think it is a victory to confidence for. the parents have the support of the municipal council so it's an intelligent alliance. so the parents are trying to protest in humorous ways but they could also take more radical measures. is because it's wrong for you to provide. occupying a school in the compressor by the school or were you. the school doesn't want to comment on the protest everyone is presenting a united front they believe the authorities haven't grasped yet that this is about more than a single class at school rural france is being neglected a hostel in

a different in france if you live in a rural area you're at a disadvantage it's called territorial discrimination the next larger city is pretty far away but they still wanted to shut down our bus route and now they want to close the class at school. as part of their protests the parents about supposed to the schools new extension building for sale online vaults classroom for sale very good condition constructed in 2012 no water damage no dry rot good insulation no it's best you don't. the residents of say they may live in the countryside but they're not sheep who will simply do what they're told. now to denmark which projects itself as a country that is cool cozy and above all tolerant but tensions over the issue of migration looks set to be the hottest topic in june national election and those tensions have been stoked by

a law listing 29 areas such as the mail in the park and district of copenhagen as ghettos yes you heard right ghettos it's all in response to politicians not just from the far right but even the social democrats who've been vying with each other to outdo themselves in a race to the bottom each claiming the danish ness is under threat. copenhagen's old new helen like district the town home and the tivoli amusement park every year millions of tourists come to denmark the country that's become famous for coziness not in cars or keeps a slice of the traditional denmark alive with his snack bar offering a smooth and poses sausages instead of kabob pizza and falafel. discovered by those who want to hold on to what defines their nationality let's very important many danes don't even know what a real pulse of or

a smaller bill is any more that only a few people still sell them about sex and. they've given us a visit many danes feel the national identity is threatened by neighborhoods like the park and one of 29 neighborhoods the government has designated a ghetto mohammed a slum has been living here for nearly 30 years unemployment in crime are above the danish average education and household incomes below over half the residents are immigrants or their parents or grandparents were the danish parliament wants to abolish the ghettos over the next decade mohammad us mom feels marginalized by the new law all for the at the as far as i was born in the non-western countries and spent the 1st 7 years of my childhood in pakistan. under the new law now counts as a negative criterion for all 4 of my children's and all it's so discriminatory to say that to a person who grew up here feels at home here and gets by with no problems offense

at these garcia mohamed runs in to use of a university student and resident of the park and there is crime here but use of says that's no reason to lump everyone here together with any of them white and when one person commits a crime it hurts us all even though i and all my friends go to university and but nobody talks about them. they only talk about the ones who commit crimes and. by day he means in particular the right wing populist like rasmussen pollard done who's been agitating against me on the park and he's the head of the strong course party a new anti is wrong group in denmark with police protection he enters neighborhoods where many muslims live deliberately provoking people then he posts the videos online because it demonstrating and cites his right to free speech even going so far as to burn the koran in a public that big that it gets out of here. oh no you get out of

her country. where you have. to counter protesters chant no racists in our cities in the near abroad district protesters call for a liberal cosmopolitan denmark and an end to racism and xenophobia honestly given the effort i'm hearing lots of stories from children who tell me in the schoolyard their classmates play who's the next to get thrown out you because you're a muslim that's damaging to the children they feel like they're danes it's not this is and that is go catarina sarah larson is a political scientist at the europa think tank in copenhagen she's been observing political developments in her country with growing alarm. distrusts immigration has become the main campaign issue for all the parties in denmark and they all take more or less the same stance whether on the right or on the left of the political spectrum to be distributed. even the social democrats are taking

a hard line on immigration an indication of how the political climate has changed. the habits of. the for in the election campaigns of the past 2 or 3 years the parties have actually been trying to outdo each other as to who's the toughest on foreign as an ethnic minorities that opens the door. for certain politicians to carry racist ideologies from the parliament out among the people. on board visit off a little chippy falling 400 years ago shakespeare wrote something is rotten in the state of denmark many here believe this famous quote is more relevant now than ever before. so in a very different note indeed it's time to dip into the british music scene and introduce you to 2 guys who are described as the oldest rappers in the world pete and bass from london are both in their seventy's but they're punchy and they're edgy and growingly would you believe it is their thing the 2 cockneys is best known

track shut your marrow through instantly when viral 1st bumped into each other in a corner shop. directly behind the skyscrapers of london's financial district there's a completely different world low income housing estates in the shadow of big banks . still this district is filled with people who have interesting stories to tell. you find a lot of those people in this corner shop. for example bass. every friday he hits with the back of the shop to give the owner's son keyboard lessons. this is all that boy. ramble beginning still with oh jesus started that why didn't i maybe got mozart in these attic when your blokes yeah i think when you're older you know you know that really forever and you see me

for a good time not for a long time what. you got this true young you got this tree a life you gotta shake you bloody ya before you die was i yeah. one day he tap and by the shop he lives nearby and he's also a musician. that never even bast became good friends right away. it's just a quick thought again is that a lot bulb moment yeah just been paying it was up yeah yeah vegas where do you explain it to us we don't know what is friendship for pin the kids now now. that this friendship. that we just post often each of it is so that we realize that we're 99 percent of the stuff we do over the songs she announces this is you know we don't have. this sheer nonsense are there music videos featuring dr and

underground genre that emerged in london some 20 years ago interest rates. which. bhasin people love it though they're both over 70 the grandfathers of grind are hits even if they still make their own breakfast fry ups. they create their music here in a one room apartment rented by their producer steve he helps them with the digital technology but bass and pete compose all the songs themselves. that human now feel entire concert halls playing music that has its origins in black urban culture because white people as a rule people driving is no ego that there's no bullshit it's just real human beings that are here just being themselves i can feel good and all things running

and swimming upstream where it into more blood busy brain and every child one of them is where they want to get off to a better and better and better and better and better yet. a lawyer of us who idolize. heats biggest fan is his 15 year old granddaughter lily now she's going to see him in concert really got people interested in grime music in the 1st place and she kept trying to more right. to draw him. back. into the bad. bad that she can't change him back there she was a bit more stern was so awful. into it. clearly doesn't have to change the station anymore and now she can even watch pete on you tube where he's become a star. that's.

it can show charts. and enough. also see how the mass crowd of baghdad i shall try my friends and i'll slap shots as well. they're headed for a gig in brighton lily has given pete and bass some pointers on how to improve their stage show. to take should be. sincere. she says. one speed and bass take the stage they look like they've been doing this their whole lives. were. on the bottom i am now back to my. moment of the ready to set. the record for. the next morning people flex on the fact that he has

got a whole lot of time left to enjoy a career in the music business. both to. be out of challenges i've got a lot. told me that i want to get there you know but i was the only one is there is there's gold star taxation that's going to happen anyway if he were to get a call and call it for me. but for now pete and bass will give it all they've got it keeps them feeling young and they're determined to make their mark in the music world while they still can. great stuff so now you know go out there and shake it the tree of life while you come and shake it all that's the message from pete and buzz without soul that's all from focus on europe this time around for do come back next week and so of by boy

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