feature pantheon the great tenors certainly he's one for the ages. in. the uk. it's july 10th. hello and welcome to focus on europe i will are about the lola it's nice to have you with us there are few places where europe's failure to tackle the refugee crisis is so evident as in greece thousands of refugees are stuck in overcrowded camps waiting for their asylum applications to be processed and there are new are rivals daily this despite the deal with turkey that was designed to halt the flow

of illegal crossings to europe while the refugee camp on the island of samuels is filthy and crowned well it was originally intended for just $650.00 people but it now houses several 1000 it's a situation locals like maria mikaela's tend not ignore the couple are extending a helping hand to the refugees despite objections from their neighbors. every day at noon maria macro jani waits for guests and they arrive on time refugees from the nearby camp on the island of sawmills. list on its 2 young men from somalia. maria has prepared pasta with chicken she hosts refugees in her apartment every day . when i see refugees i offer them something to eat i have always done this.

the refugees on her mama maria. the pensioner not only offers them a warm meal but also canned food and clothing. for. the ball and sometimes 500 you cannot sometimes you cannot go forward to something 3 years ago maria and her husband many colleagues were honored for their willingness to help back then they owned a tavern at the beach where refugees could get a free meal it was a place where people from all over the world who had lost their homes could feel welcomed. but then maria's lease was terminated a shock that caused her to have 2 strokes. all of them in the army then a good little boy back then all i did was think of the refugees after getting up i

would start cooking. today the sentiment has changed and is directed against the refugees locals don't see any solution. 5000 refugees now live ensembles which has a population of just 30000. the camp is overfilled many people have to sleep outside in tents. some have been waiting for years for their asylum requests to be processed local aid organizations say europe finally needs to take care of these people really you know that also to ensure that human lives are not lost at sea but also. a fee for sick persecution and. receive. decent. reception conditions. but samples tells a different story we're not allowed to enter the camp but we made mohamed again and

he uses his phone to film inside children are playing next to rats in indescribable hygenic conditions. there is only one doctor for 5000 people here. comes the jungle and the regime is. going to come. and often it's very nice some time this we don't have any law and sometimes we don't have any but our. life at the port of the has changed to. germany has sent a coast guard ship for support but that has hardly helped. many greeks feel europe has forgotten them they're appalled that some e.u. states are refusing to take in any refugees at all. then you can go to the other countries should open their borders in order for these people to move on or the traffickers who brought them here should take them somewhere else. these

people are stuck here that doesn't work you know we want our lives to be the way they were before very much going to be going to. be cali shows us his former tavern maria doesn't like to return to the place she was driven out of because of her support for the refugees. that was 3 years ago her husband still remembers how it all began. we planted a few tomatoes and we saw a refugee pick and. that's when we understood that they were hungry and maria who has a kind heart started cooking for them if you must. meet his former neighbors they say they were never against what he and maria were doing . but they are bothered by so many foreigners from africa coming to the beach to swim. is shocked by this. decision they say we fouled the

beach with the refugees. even though we always took care to keep it clean. it's much dirtier now. the. living conditions in the refugee camps on the greek islands are getting worse by the day and at the same time and he refugee sentiment is on the rise people like mama maria who refuse to accept that are becoming more and more isolated. it was once considered a hidden gem in the adriatic sea a place to escape the mass tourism prevalent in other parts of the mediterranean kotor montenegro a medieval walled city overlooking a picturesque bay now attracts tens of thousands of tourists every year and its population nearly doubles during the high season but almost as others are leaving behind more than tass and locals like fisherman dragon sled dogs are alarmed by the

destruction caused by the cruise ships that dot the coastline on a fair day like this drug and search will throw his cast mates out twice a day like his father and his grandfather before. they never had to roll far out because that they a coach or used to be full of fish but over the last few years stocks have dramatically decreased. where did they do the study. used to be so many fish. we can't show blue fish white fish and julies. but those days are over there are no more shows here now. dragan thinks cruise ships like this one are to blame more and more are docking and co tours being hardly a day passes without at least one of the huge ships to scorching throngs of tourists into the small city. tours become one of the top cruise destinations along the adriatic next to venice and dubrovnik. but while the letter to have been

overwhelmed by mass tourism and have put on the brakes the number of crew shifts in culture is increasing. after all a single tourist spends around 40 euros. he had been on the time this is the only way tourism can prosper here and a lot of people live off it. unfortunately kauto doesn't have any beaches or even hotels. and there's a. coach or only gets davis others it's not a sustainable model as the local tourist office well knows but they don't want to give up the lucrative business. plan to quote other people the only thing that would make a real difference in court order would be something hotels then the same number of tourists would bring more profit and cause less environmental damage there wouldn't just be cruise ships here then but other day visitors to. even it would leave.

but there's a shortage of concrete ideas. i. earlier when buildings began shooting up around one of its world heritage sites unesco was alarmed. but now says drought on the base entire ecosystem is under threat. for both. the us and if you like the idea that this is a desert. whole bio diversity is collapsing if you. know live oak and small fish survive here. born when they're being exposed to such an enormous coward. every time these giants dock or are put to sea they're about planes and stern thrusters act like a huge blender roiling the water in the bay. the coast of victoria is considered

one of the smaller ships the really large ones like the mine ships 6 weighing 100000 tons anchor outside the bed. for hours on end they bring their guests to shore with tenders. it's catastrophic for the sensitive ecosystem in the bay marine biologist best known much says but the complex mix of salt and fresh water is somehow still intact for now. the maritime environment can withstand a lot and can regenerate but there are limits. once this system collapses it will become extremely difficult protracted and expensive to restore it to be blunt i'm scared of what's still to come. this. mine shift 6 poles that anchors sluicing tons of mud through the big again.

the passage out of the big leads through a narrow channel barely wide enough for the giant ships to pass. it's a tourist attraction and marine biologists and by merit the same time and hard to imagine what would happen if a ship went to ground. vesna says the bay of coal. tor should already be a protected area if montenegro wants to join the e.u. it will have to set up all the reserves. of. every country should protect 10 percent of its coast. that would mean about 30 kilometers here. montenegro has been working on some marine reserve projects for the last decade but unfortunately we still don't have any. well.

there used to be hundreds of fishermen in coach or drug on service now just a handful are left and if things don't change his generation might be the last. it's a place that was shrouded in secrecy for decades until its dark past was on earth near the bellows capital of minsk mass executions were carried out in the forest of tirupati between 10371941 hundreds of thousands are estimated to have been killed there by stalin's secret police while a group of activists feel the site should be a place of remembrance but in a country accused of white washing crimes of the past it's become fair game for commercial development for people like urban ovitz seeing buildings on what was once a killing field is unthinkable. these woods on the highway to minsk were the

site of a mass murder and right next to the improvised memorial is a restaurant. let's go and eat is just a short drive away for the residents of the belorussian capital. and it's a nice sort of bundle of each thinks it's horrible that people dine here the 29 year old is handing out flyers to the guests he wants to ensure the atrocities committed here are not forgotten and that the restaurant is closed. for some of the visitors are aware of where they're going and some aren't and some people don't mind being on bones. then he stands vigil outside the restaurant every weekend he's a critic of the government and sees himself as an opposition activist he's the chairman of the young front a nationalistic youth movement pushing for democratic change the activists call this the restaurant of death and they stand outside it in shifts the owner of the restaurant doesn't want to speak to us and we're not allowed to film beyond the

driveway. the activists say when the restaurant complex was built the official border of the mass graves was shifted but ultimately no one knows where the memorial should begin or end joseph stalin had between 30250000 people shot here in the late thirty's and early forty's declared enemies of the state those murdered were innocent victims of the soviet dictator's purges it was shortly before the end of the soviet union that the knowledge of the site became public since then it has become an impromptu people's memorial and a center of opposition activity send us or by knowledge came here the 1st time when he was 15 with his father and it was a usually it smells like pine needles and leaves in the woods but here you have the feeling that thousands of candles are burning denise's great grand uncle is one of the victims buried here he was a teacher denise has sworn to defend the memorial. i just can't give this place up

i don't know how i could ever close my eyes to quote a party i won't be able to sleep at night if i do. when i come here something shifts and me i start thinking differently. a half a year ago the belorussian government set up an official monument to the victims of stalin secret police. at the edge of the forest the government removed dozens of large crosses and built a fence around the whole area officials said the crosses had been put up illegally for denise the move was yet another warning signal he's concerned the government wants to take control of the memorial and points out the country's president aleksander to look at shankar has often praised stalin's legacy. we have to have a plan on how to finish fixing up but no one should be able to do anything here without permission what's going on here are demonstrations it must be in someone's interest these are political protests. look i shan't go has also said that the

restaurant by the mass grave doesn't bother him but in minsk not everyone agrees. it depends where the restaurant is. it's not in the middle of the cross it's. somewhere on the edge of the exit. i think that's fine in minsk everything is right and proper. there are bones everywhere in belarus we don't know everything that happened here but life has to go on. so now people go to a spot where people were killed to have a good time it's not right. it's a nice agrees he makes the bus journey from minsk to corrupt party at least twice a week he has been protesting against a restaurant here for a year and demonstrators want to keep fighting and he said the others see this restaurant as an attack on the memorial and for them that means it's an attack on the people of bella roots. we don't really have anything of our own anymore but we

do have quite a party they are here and we have to defend them if the government destroys this is not i won't call myself about to receive anymore. pacing for bella ruse and for the victims here in the woods it's a prayer for the dead but. has demands for the living as well he wants the whole historical truth of this place to be revealed and is demanding the opening of soviet archives. the climate crisis is forcing many of us to rethink our daily habits in order to reduce our carbon footprint and when it comes to electric vehicles norway is miles ahead of the curve thanks in part to generous incentives for consumers norway has the biggest per capita market for cars those who opt for gas or diesel powered vehicles don't get to enjoy perks such as free parking but the boom has come at

a cost and now the government wants to roll back some of those incentives that made this a success. buddy the pioneering electric city car has had its state it helped bring electric power to norway's roads but now used bodies are often abandoned to used car sales lots but they're creating paper and evens aren't willing to give up on them just yet the next generation but he already exists at least on paper. the more they would have you never know who will survive in the end many have fallen by the wayside but we're getting a 2nd chance for. the battle for norway's electric car market is on major carmakers arrived on the scene long ago now mercedes has invited journalists from all over europe for the no return premier of its new electric s.u.v. . this is understood this is an important market in europe because electra mobility enjoy such great support here and it has such a large market share that's part of the reason we're here it's

a key market in europe for electric vehicles. electoral votes. currently about half the new cars on norway's roads have electric drives course dain item levels is a member of norway's parliament he's been driving an electric car for almost 10 years norway exempt electric vehicles from v.a. and high registration fees which has made the tesla more affordable it's also exempted from municipal tolls and parking fees from the business or so many norwegians are buying electric cars or hybrids that the state is losing too much revenue so now we're discussing how we can get drivers of electric cars to pay something parking fees or tolls or sales tax for instance. the state is losing money used to take in from gasoline and diesel powered cars. to be little victim of norway is gradually changing its policy in june the capital also low

introduced a very small toll for electric cars other towns are thinking about reinstating the parking fees for electric cars. the electric boom seems to be pushing its limits norway has abundant hydroelectric power but not enough fast charging stations. taxi driver goal i'm right he me often runs into problems trying to recharge his car. you always have to wait here with at least 3 cars ahead of you and not all of the charging points are always working the manufacturer doesn't service them it's irritating even when i come here at midnight there's a line. for all of them so norway's electric car association has drawn up a list of demands including 8000 new charging stations by 2025 especially enbrel areas. the association secretary general christina boo is something like the face of immobility in norway

a constant stream of c.e.o.'s and reporters my house through her office alone wanting to know why norway is such a success when it comes to electric cars she says the answer is simple we're taking home letting the essence of norway's electric mobility policy is to make sure the new technology gets established in the marketplace. the more it does the more the incentives can be rolled back. but it's way too early to dispense with all the incentives now. we have to do that gradually. dropping electric motor scooters are another booming market in march a number of startups began renting out east scooters this one charges around 5 euros for 20 minutes which isn't exactly cheap. not the cheapest thing but it's ok because if you i don't know if you are from somewhere to somewhere you don't get to see a round. you also pay a lot so i think it's

a good way of spending money so. writers and on slow have to photograph their scooters when they return them to make sure they don't get misplaced. otherwise there are a few rules. there's motor grammar there the problem with the scooters is that many writers simply forget they're not the only ones on the paths. that's one of the reasons it can be dangerous and cause problems. even the better and movement the creators of the body have expanded to electric 2 wheelers their evil acts are selling like hotcakes this is their latest model in september they'll be taking it to the world's largest bicycle trade fair in germany. don't have it tested every year also in norway intends to set an example for electoral mobility in europe in the future too and for what happens as ever greater numbers of people go electric. it's something that many of us here in the european union take for granted clearing

your schedule for a spontaneous getaway on the continent well it's a freedom that many who live in kosovo are unable to enjoy the country gained independence only 11 years ago so for the time being citizens of kosovo must have visas to travel to 26 european countries and they are not always easy to get well the situation has become somewhat of a national joke one that acts as a much needed antidote to the bureaucratic headaches. when close of ours take a trip they start having adventures even before setting out ok television series is devoted to the trials and tribulations of obtaining a showing in vsa. and it's already run 3 seasons says losing but sola who plays a somewhat gangster risk head of a visa referral agency the episodes are inspired by a stark reality. with a model for a 5 day trip to austria i had to spend

a week collecting documents. and it's the same thing every time i go there before me then you have the put a stop to what we know of cases where they asked for a grandfather's death certificate or a marriage certificate. we picked up on these cases and gave them a comic spin. on the bush. in kosovo specialized agencies organize appointments at the consulates the faster the more expensive with as much as 150 euros for express service they always have long lines at their doors a touch of humor can help pass the time. on which i like the series it shows the sad reality in a comic vein. because. i was in the embassy today for a visa application and i felt just like i was in that series. i've been boycotting the shaken countries for 10 years because they won't give me freedom to travel.

in one episode some ambassadors are invited to the opening of one such agency this is a big step for. this is a big. focus so. he needs their goodwill for his business concept to work someone anyway can profit off of kosovo's visa problems. they are saying that they are over the board. i think the way the consulates treat us is inhumane or. you know if you feel like something lower than an e.u. citizen this isolation also harms the economy in my words it's all you have your plan all the. characters in the series promise that course of ours will soon be enjoying freedom of travel to as soon as 2076 that leaves time for many more seasons you know you're told ok. well as casco once said believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made thank you for

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