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that plan through and he has suspended parliament a move that caused outrage even within his own party and further polarize british politics well it's a tell the war that is dividing the united kingdom and testing the nerves of those with a lot at stake like residents in northern ireland the small town of nuri is just a stone's throw away from the republic of ireland the majority of people there voted against briggs it our reporter went to the border town to see how the drama in london is affecting their lives. it's 9 30 am at a coffee shop and nuri where folks are once again scratching their heads about the latest developments in the bracket saga. people are following the political drama in london closely the majority of voters here voted remain and still want to stay in the e.u. . some are enjoying the spectacle. watching the british just making fools of

themselves and relationship breaks if you know we living in doris' this one fortunately for them they don't exist so. we have much enjoy who. i but others like the cafes owner are angry. graham finnegan has invested a lot of time and money in his new business but bricks it hangs like the sword of damocles over his head and has for a long while. yeah absolutely sick to death of record because i'm sick to death of being that the truth and they are against hope that british governments. second david cameron trees and. bars the buffoon johnson. particularly for people in the north of ireland. outside big trucks thunder by as near relies on a major transport route between dublin and belfast what will become of the free

trade of goods will border checks be reintroduced there are many questions but no answers. yet some in the cafe support breck's in. june we had an election that said ok that's it like we're leaving and it's sort of prolonged and that's one excuse after the other and when sam forced johnson's biggest found thoughts he seems to be dropping a lot of those guns lacey's you become soft on. these young bankers worried about the drop in the value of sterling the weakness of the british pound is also a problem for graham finnegan. he orders coffee beans from berlin in barcelona and pays in europe's foods like this fresh salmon come from the republic of ireland. he's unsure whether his suppliers will deliver after breakfast. but that snow. his biggest worry. for people living on the border. that the real threat here

isn't a more expensive gaze in the supermarket but i actually tried to pace in this country . a tasneem shares his concern. she experienced the bloody conflict in northern ireland known as the troubles firsthand in the 1980 s. . now she's tweeted excerpts of the diary she kept as a teenager. is making people anxious i think especially older people who through the troubles and you know what it's like. a part of us maybe wants to feel it can never really go back to that create a silence. going to make a task he wants to show us what happened back then she says at one time new really had the highest rate of bomb attacks during the troubles more than 50 people were killed here. today it's hard to believe that civil war like conditions plagued the city. all the shops are boarded up because you couldn't. touch.

the shops there was shootings on a pretty regular basis army patrols army checkpoints. back at the cafe graham finnegan's young son comes by after school. graham hopes that his boy and other children in newry will grow up in a united europe not a deeply divided united kingdom. affordable housing is becoming increasingly scarce in european cities the places that are popular with tourists are especially hard hit like barcelona which is one of spain's top destinations while more and more apartments are being rented out to visitors and it's the residents who are paying the price $1.00 company has found a solution so called beehive apartments are booming in barcelona around the size of an office cubicle they were originally designed to accommodate tourists but the

lack of social housing has made the cramped quarters home for some it took up and you'll lives in barcelona on just 4 square metres when i'm with the city and this is a sleeping box it's pretty tight but it's basically almost a room with. but i want to thank all the essentials for it we both. will get the card on me and no meaning for this box he pays $200.00 euros per month next door a small shared bathroom lounge and kitchen for $24.00 tenants. it's an emergency solution for ect or a year ago his relationship fell apart and he moved out but he still has to maintain the apartment and support 2 children on an income of a 1000 euros. does it bother me because i'm no longer with my family and can't find a full time job i can't even afford

a room. when we. got our have to take money from my savings every month for the. barcelona is booming the cost of living is rising. a room costs an average of $500.00 euros rental apartments are now an affordable from any. market only they wants to profit from his business idea called mina or beehive his project living in boxes but as the graffiti at the entrance to his exhibition space shows there's a lot of opposition to it his explanation sounds like an apology if this is the man we're going to have thought info about over this system was never intended for the inhabitants of the cities the point is that you only for travelers for tourists what a few but not for people who live and work in the city people who at the moment are in misery you know for the. people like santiago or take the colombian has lived in barcelona for 2 years he can't even afford

a room from sales of his handmade wooden figures so he sleeps in the coalmine a prototype on exactly 2.64 square metres in a room only $1.00 metres high no visitors allowed. when i price was the deciding factor but if i can say but it's not ideal for living. the project is just beginning says mark only bay he wants to expand together with investors he wants to build a complex with up to $650.00 sleeping boxes here. he doesn't feel sorry for the residents. main or this is the lesser evil after all you sleep in a normal but with normal dimensions but you share the place with other people temporarily maybe 2 years unless you can hold out longer so i was going to end up without one thought of. ingrid leone thinks it's outrageous for days the ecuadorian

woman has been camping in the outskirts of barcelona she was kicked out of her apartment because she lost her job and couldn't pay the rent. she's hoping for state assistance living in a sleeping box is out of the question for her. other than the me by we don't even live like this in my country you know that is inhuman. i can't imagine living like this i don't know that's so depressed and you know that's i know it's early on is that they don't them. in the meantime an entire organization is fighting along with ingrid against the decline of affordable housing it actually worse sees a new threat in the coalmine us. form though this basically undermines dignified living if you can't call it living if you're packed into a box. with their living space is reduced to a minimum i get that how can one live like that. what

a bore they really. barcelona city council is also concerned about the coal miners and wants to ban them we don't get an interview but we do get a mail that says the boxes don't meet the minimum required dimensions of living space. market leave it doesn't agree he says the definitions are not clear cut the coalminers are a legal gray area in demand is great. he has already received more than $3000.00 applications for the other more or less the a basically we're offering 10 square meters per person. but only $2.00 in the sleeping box. but all the rest is for everyday life in the common room so what if but i thought for the. big to come in your has now become used to it living in the cold manner for more than 6 months now he never thought he'd stay this long but until he finds a better job his life has to fit into a box. the

recent fires in the amazon have drawn attention to just how crucial forests are for absorbing c o 2 emissions and reducing global warming but brazil isn't the only place where forests are under threat the northern european country of finland is the most forest rich nation in europe finns call it green gold and it covers the vast majority of land where the country aims to be carbon neutral by 2035 and the forests are a natural defense system against global warming so why then is tree logging in finland at an all time high and viral mental activists paloma have known and is fighting to preserve the country's forests but the revenue they generate makes the issue less clear cut on her days off polo manone and loves heading into the woods the environmental activist is glad that 2 thirds of her native finland is covered in forest although most of it are commercial forests and not

wild ones like in this national park near helsinki for us 3 forests would be pretty harvested for the trees to go faster bigger and they would be. like fertilizers might be used for to create more growth in a shorter period of time. when the lumber industry it seems is out to harvest and process more trees than ever last year a record number of trees were cut down to make wood and paper products. but environmentalists like paloma known and are sounding the alarm. watch at the moment where we're burning all forest and we're using them for the short short lasting products and also the young forests. they don't do a so called efficiently as the little bit older ones finland's forests play a key role as c o 2 sinks after all global warming is having a very strong effect especially on northern europe. the country's center left

government has therefore decided that finland's lumber industry must change. it wants to make the country carbon neutral by 2035. but mass logging certainly won't help achieve this goal. in couldn't have a majority of the forest this privately owned so we will have to find incentives for force owners to to grow their forest older perhaps harvest more selectively older. so those specific tools and policy or financial incentives need to be developed but the direction of travel is clear and that's also clear. to the industry. but the country's timber industry which forms the backbone of finland's economy wants to keep operating as before after all

one out of 5 finnish export goods is made of wood and industry representatives say they're looking into making sustainable products like textiles from cellulose fibers. you need to do so would otherwise it it becomes again. a meter of c o 2 so if you want to be part of the solution using 3. way of capture of c o 2 the latest you need to also use the wood and plant new trees that's the way you have you keep it seemed for for many decades but paloma had known and doesn't buy this argument she says logging always harms the environment. and the numbers of threatened species for example in forest. is growing so carbon seeings are decreasing so obviously we're not doing enough so people are now starting to see what what does

it mean on the ground level to increase the logging so that kiya cuts are are in people's backyards they are they are. they're affecting the waters that people use they are affecting the forest the people you for picking parries and mushrooms on that for recreational purposes so in the local level people are waking up now and resisting big investments kick outs finland is still largely covered in forest but paloma known and is very worried that it still won't be enough to weaken the effects of climate change it's an event that promotes love and tolerance but also triggers anger in the hearts of some in the bosnian capital of sarajevo the rainbow flag was proudly on display during the country's 1st ever gay pride parade with sniper units watching from above members of the l.g.b. community marched for an open and tolerant society well the conservative country

has long been hostile towards queer people like adnan by ram ovitz the parade was seen as a test for bosnia which has hopes of joining the european union. this is sarah it was 1st ever gay pride parade. and over a 1000 police officers are on the streets to keep the protesters safe after all being openly gay lesbian or a member of a sexual minority is still a big taboo in bosnia. 20 year old is among the protesters he's bisexual his coming out was a long difficult struggle but at this year's gay pride parade he can finally be open about his sexuality without fear. i've been to many gay pride parades before but it's something really special to have this sense of freedom in my home city. i'm overwhelmed.

but. this is the new sarah eva. the sarah of oh he is known so far is very different. doesn't want to show it's his neighborhood out of fear of running into people who know his sexual orientation. i was alone for many years i was lonely i pretended to be someone else well congress will claim i adopted an identity that was not really mine to hide my true self. he shows us where he went to school and where he 1st spoke out for days after which he was beaten up by some of his fellow schoolmates. the funny thing is they didn't even know my sexual orientation i thought i'm a straight guy supporting the gay movement from giving up and that's why they

attack me after school. i guess you learn to deal with them for existing. adnan says none of the teachers bothered to react to the incident that he says is just how things are here. ever since the bosnian war conservative saudi wahhabi islam has begun spreading in the country it's gradually displacing bosnia's more liberal islam it regards homosexuality as unacceptable. inspired to go to the family is a fundamental unit in the society of bosnia and herzegovina we want this message to be hood. and we are just. several 100 fundamentalists have turned out to stand up for what they deem traditional bosnian values. what a beauty to this is how things are supposed to be if god had created only men only women humanity would die oh it created us to procreate and this is only possible

within the family. and these counter protesters are worlds apart even though some people he knows could be here some which. i'm kind of afraid i might see one of my neighbors or relatives and. so it's not to me you can get used to the hatred in the country in other cases but it is different when you're hated by someone who you know so well you know it's. news talk a nickel doesn't diminish the loss. by law nobody may be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation but bosnians are divided over gays and lesbians are not the dollar does all the every person has the right to love whoever they want that's their free choice. i am against people publicly demonstrating for something that should be a private matter. this name. publicly expressing your sexual orientation is an acceptable i thought of. syria goes 1st ever gay pride parade is in the media

spotlight more than 2000. people have taken to the streets to call for tolerance and to protest against discrimination there are even several western ambassadors among the crowd. the large police force keeps hecklers encounter protesters at a distance they want to stop the march going ahead. but today is not bothered by them he just enjoys the atmosphere. yesterday was all about hate and traditional values but today it's all about love. even if it's love that is protected by a huge police presence. finally we would like to introduce you to

a frenchman famous for his powerful and controversial voice i'm talking of course about more raised their rooster who's crowing landed his owner in court well the squabble on the island of has ruffled many feathers and pitted city dwellers against countryfolk marius's on a covering fest saw is using her voice to gain support for her rooster as a dispute with her neighbors becomes the subject of a larger debate. 6 6 am on the french island of all of on maurice the fisherman's rooster crows as loud as he can he's just doing his job no problem until tourist spot a neighboring holiday home and wants to sleep there undisturbed without the crowing of maurice. you know if they asked me if i could give the rooster away you know i politely answered that i couldn't go in

that i wanted to keep my rooster like you fuck you. and either they could live with it if we were they could go on vacation somewhere else he said death to. the new neighbors are putting pressure on her with calls and letters they hire an expert to prove that the roosters crowing is unbearable 3 days in a row he records maurice's crows. have chemical attack the exam my lawyer told me they spent a lot of money on the experts 1500 euros for 3 days for the rooster only crowed on 2 of the days from think. the expert's report on the rooster sounds very professional new home we went into my client's bedroom and opened the window at 641 the rooster began to crow shot in fact maria's close normally as any rooster does but still too loud for the neighbors who want to silence him by law they don't want to be identified and reject our interview request as absurd as the case may seem

the mayor of san. tells us more and more 2nd homeowners are complaining to him about local customs who continue over you. know the last 3 or 4 years it's been getting worse report i've been getting more and more complaints it was disease people tell me that the bells are ringing too loudly. they count exactly how many times the bell has been struck and how many seconds they have been disturbed during the night and thought that if the division even received a complaint that our fishing marina smells too fishy. stimson what really bothers me is what is behind it that people want to change our lives. not for rooster owner kerryn she created an organization to defend maurice she and the other islanders sell t. shirts to pay for the legal fees. after all they believe the rooster is the

national symbol of france and must be allowed to crow. and see if maybe they're bothered by the crowing but they should have solved it peacefully i'm shocked by the way it was handled. the men did you isn't it's a shame that people go to court over something like this. you only doing that as we come from a place where people from the city have complained about farmers with callous. he says you know what the cows were here long before they were injured so that i find something like this ridiculous we don't want them they should stay in their cities period. cohen is also putting up all her resistance and the name of all those who had to give up their animals. to help and i've heard that other rooster owners in france gave up and killed their animals. it's the same with cows they took their bells or drove them somewhere else the repression and i do not

like that and i don't think it's ok and. that's why i want to do it differently he pulled me off i want to show that rule life in france has always existed and simply belongs here. well if you get there. a little bit of. korean passionately rehearses songs in the garden for concerts she gives on the islands. she says that rooster maurice has been very upset by the whole thing the whales will be close less now he's upset i think he sensed everything that's been going on. this is. a race should feel better soon the court has ruled in favor of corrine but the plaintiffs are checking if they can appeal the ruling. looks like 2019 is shaping up to be the year

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