let's say it's like me just like this in the. 50 story. and it takes every personal tips on balancing every. book now. on t.w. . 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 justice it seems has finally caught up with this man livia dragnet of the most powerful politician in rumania has been sentenced to 300 years in prison for incitement to

abuse of office well in the past drug mayor 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 being found guilty of means that people like jett are throwing chairs suffered years of neglect. it's morning in alexandria one of the poorest towns in romania we're on our way to meet one of the local residents. jet that 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. she says her life at the orphanage was miserable. enough for all bonnie 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 want it that way. there jess 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 and senior official in parliament. in 2018 that 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 beadle is a prominent investigative journalist he followed the dogma's case closely and provided written evidence to prosecutors 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 that he may be possible but to. too late these were hired by a local protection services agency. but in those 3 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 harriet that. jet i 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 one more thing that you're an adult down so we're no longer responsible for you read it and we have no idea whether your mother is delightful and yet i can't help hear about. jitter fears that she may never find her family also so but i'm angry nobody cares about us especially the politician also you know. what he was in parliament that night 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 jetta truncheon 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 waste activist 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 . the doctor thought it would be hard mean a rare views 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 i'm bored that bit of a home back but in no time at all they were all gone so everybody wanted to go out and collect plastic waste because. we're going to go search 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 search money the deeper you dig the more you turn up 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. 30 some of them. even the snacks the volunteers have brought along are sealed in plastic avoiding plastic entirely isn't easy. either there are. a lot of thought but we want to put pressure on industry not 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 to go 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 e.u. is. 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 way to boost environmental awareness and social solidarity i don't. want to go 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 log on with a stomach full of plastic you brought us the message about what is happening to the oceans thank you for waking us up back there was. a wake up call that's intended to be heard far beyond the coast of norway. well with the yellow vests far rights populists and declining opinion poll ratings from says president emanuel mccraw 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.

their comfortable existence on the 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 spins that 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 it's not my friend there to one man i spoke to michelle 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. the students were to be assigned to other classrooms to start that the class needed new students even if these aren't all that interested in book learning. why hang on i'm glad to help the community is

the exact same story with the staple for 300 sheep 15501 just too many i'm going to sheep so for a school is pretty much the same 15 children a class works well with 35 is a whole different story. much to the joy of their new classmates michelle heard his talk in the town. then they were registered for the coming school year which will start in september. yeah the lambs just showed up at school and we were allowed to pet 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 to. see the missing is almost like this if the children are just numbers to them we're treated like sheep so we're using humor to protest and 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. lechler think it is if you do it to convert don't throw. their name the parents have the support of the municipal council so it's an intelligent alliance so far the parents are trying to protest in humorous ways but they could also take more radical measures because because the structures you have tried. occupying a school. bus ride by the school or were you. this 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 we're all friends is being neglected. awfully deflect

in france if you live in a rural area you add a disadvantage it's called territorial discrimination on 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 no famine class as part of their protests the parents about the posted the school's new extension building for sale online vulgar classroom for sale very good condition constructed in 2012 no water damage no dry rot good insulation no it's best us want. the residents of clamber done say they may live in the countryside but they're not sheep who will simply do what they're told. no to denmark which projects itself as a country that is cool cosy and above all tolerance bots tensions over the issue of migration looks to be the hottest topic in june is national election and those tensions have been stoked by

a lot listing 29 areas such as the myan the parking districts 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 that danish ness is under threat. copenhagen's old new how and nightlife district the town hall and the tivoli amusement park every year millions of tourists come to denmark the country that's become famous for coziness much in cost for keeps a slice of the traditional denmark alive with his snack bar offering a smooth rub route 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 fully 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 new park and one of 29 neighborhoods the government has designated a ghetto mohammad 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 asked mom feels marginalized by the new law all for the at the as far as i was born in the non-western country 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 and says

he's got. mohamed runs or did 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 does one of them. they only talk about the ones who commit crimes and. by they he means in particular the right wing populist mike ross miss palmer dunn who's been agitating against me on the park and he's the head of the strong course party a new anti islam 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 it gets out of here i. want to know you get out of

her country. where. their dad 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 get me up oh my 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's no. culture minister onsen is a political scientist at the europa think tank in copenhagen she's been observing political developments in her country with growing alarm because she distrusts immigration has become the main campaign issue for all the parties in denmark and they all take more or less the same stand whether on the right or on the left of the political spectrum to be distributed say yes 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. and one visitor falutin before turning 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 on 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 a both in their seventy's but they're punchy and 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. to find a lot of those people at 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 the boy. ramble beginning still with oh jesus dog do that why did me i mean you got mozart in these attic when your blokes yeah i think when you're older you know you're not really forever and you think i'm

me for a good time not for a long time. you got this true young you got this tree of life you gotta shake you bloody ya before you die was i yeah. one day pete happened by the shop he lives nearby and he's also a musician. no one even bast became good friends right away. it's just a quick thought again is that a lot bulb moment yeah just been playing in the shop yeah yeah in vegas where do you buy met so us we don't know what is friendship for him a kiss now. that friendship. that we're just by also for each other there's so out we realize that we're 99 percent of the stuff we do over the songs is 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. sure it's great to see. what you. bason pete love it they're both over 70 the grandfathers of grime are hits even if they still make their own breakfast try out. 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 your men now fill entire concert halls playing music that has its origins in black urban cultures. bright people as a rule people drumming is no ego that there's no bullshit it's just real human beings that are here just being themselves like unfitted and dolphins running and

swimming upstream really into more blood busy brain and every child one of them does when they want to get better and better and better. and better yet. a know if i'd live. heats biggest fan is his 15 year old granddaughter lily now she's going to see him in concert really got interested in grime music in the 1st place and she kept trying to. draw him. back. into the bad. bad that she can't change him back there she was a bit more. open to 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. if

you can show charts. and enough. also on the scene of the mass crowd of baghdad i shall try my friends and i'll snap shots as well. they're headed for a gate in brighton lily has given pete and bass some pointers on how to improve their stage show. to take should be. secure. she told me. once pete and bass take the stage they look like they've been doing this their whole lives. in the bottom up to my. mom nothing really just. sitting there

for. the next morning people reflect on the fact that he hasn't got a whole lot of time left to enjoy a career in the music business. they'll be out of challenges i've got more time to me it i want to get you know but there was only really one is there is there's gold. that's going to happen anyway as if he or he gets a call i 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 of the tree of life while you can and shake it all that's the message from pitts and bows and without soul that's all from focus on europe this time around for do come back next week and so and by

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