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tv   Focus on Europe  Deutsche Welle  October 3, 2019 9:30am-10:00am CEST

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from the pilot. from causing. this incident with. the 77 percent. to a close with the e.w. . news. to. get. to the a. fellow in a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peace occur even and europe is still struggling to get the refugee crisis under control with tensions running particularly high on the greek islands and in recent weeks thousands have been making their way across the mediterranean to greece like this family most of them were previously in camps in turkey where the government is no though taking
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a harder line on migrants or just how bad conditions in greece's refugee camps are became clear in recent days with a deadly fire the morea camp on the plains boss and the situation is just as drastic on other greek islands as our reporter found out when he visited zama office where many say they've had enough of all the shocking problems caused by the migrant influx but one local resident though a woman called maria remains determined to do all she can to help. every day at noon maria macro yani waits for guests and they arrive on time refugees from the nearby camp on the island of summers. this time it's 2 young men from somalia. maria has prepared paster with chicken she hosts refugees in her apartment every day. when i see refugees i offer them something to
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eat i've always done this. to refugees on some os call her mama maria. the pensioner not only offers them a warm meal but also canned food and clothing. the movie making for. a little. limbo bolivia for girls is very big ball and sometimes fighting you cannot sometimes you're going to go thought something 3 years ago maria and her husband my 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
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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 over filled and 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 i'm sure that human lives are not lost at sea but also. those who feel for sick persecution and. receive. decent. reception conditions are good but samples tells
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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. jungle. consideration. when they come in. and often it's very nice sometimes we don't have any light and sometimes we don't have any but our. life at the port of fathi has changed too. many greeks feel europe has forgotten them they're appalled that some e.u. states are refusing to take in any refugees at all. 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 like very much going to going to new york we can. make our lives
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show says 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 in the. remote when that's when we understood that they were hungry and maria who was a kind hearted my started cooking for them if you must. when macalister meets 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 macallister is shocked by this. you think of the book and they say we felt the beach with the refugees. yes even though we always took care to
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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 people like mama maria who refuse to accept that are becoming more and more isolated. well the government in athens now saying it will make every effort to get the comeback kid order before winter sets in and transfer migrants to the mainland . now on a very different note tourism can be a blessing or a curse as the people of the pretty medieval port of coto on the coast of montenegro are discovering the town itself in the beautiful bay of coto draw a large numbers of visitors many of them arriving on huge cruise ships the big questions are being asked about the environmental sustainability of the tourist onslaught and drag on a local fisherman told us about the great concerns that he has for the future
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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 the bay a coach or used to be full of fish but over the last few years stocks have dramatically decreased. below the billabong of. the used to be so many fish like alive people are weird catchpole shows blue fish white fish and jellies. but those days are over there are no more shows here now where you. dragon 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 discoursing throngs of tourists into the small city. coach tours become one of the top cruise destinations along the adriatic next to venice and dubrovnik. but while the letter to have been
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overwhelmed by mass tourism and of put on the brakes the number of crew ships and culture is increasing. after all a single tourist spends around 40 europe's. it in the time that 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. but there's a. coach or only gets day visitors it's not a sustainable model as the local tourist office well knows but they don't want to give up the lucrative business. plus a quote that if 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. you that it has no
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business. 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 ocean if you like the idea that this is a desert. byard a version of the collapse think if you. don't live oak and small fish survive you're. born when they're being exposed to such an enormous current. every time these giants dark or are put to sea they're about planes and stern thrusters act like a huge blender roiling the water in the bay. it's
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catastrophic for the sensitive ecosystem in the bay marine biologist best known my church 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. 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 mail at the same time hard to imagine what would happen if a ship went around. vesna says the bay of course or should already be
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a protected area if montenegro wants to join the e.u. it will have to set up more in reserves. as a name of this that. every country should protect 10 percent of its coast. that would mean about 30 kilometers here. and i'm going to visit montenegro has been working on some marine reserve projects for the last decade but unfortunately we still don't have any. there are 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. now across europe people will shortly be marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall and the crumbling of communism it was a breathtaking moment of historic change with poland's solid dollars trade union
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movement playing a central role in that movement was led of course by lead when so but in today's poland a starkly divided country many are dismissive of the heroes of yesteryear. this old barrack and dunce was originally a torpedo warehouse located some 500 kilometers from berlin this is where the iron curtain began to crumble back then this was still called the lenin shipyard today it's still used for welding shortening or lengthening ships the smell of rust and iron heins in the sea air here we find the european solidarity center the heart of liberal poland. we meet the hero of the solid movements less for ones still a non-conformist even the surety is wearing seems to be an open challenge directed at poland's current governments it reads constitution in quotation marks the nobel peace prize winner and former polish president but then co-founder and leader of
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the solid donnish movement. question here. feels it technically speaking it was our sally darn ash movement that eventually led to the fall of the wall. but political leaders at the time and the whole world could see that communism was coming to an end the time was ripe for change. in the spring of 2019 celadon a celebrated its 13th annual round table a further polish democratic convention the anniversary was marked by a container outside the center the conservative government did not send any form of congratulations at selling absence. the government is more concerned with supporting people like albert but let's get. he lives in eastern poland where birth rates are higher and church pews are phoner. his home village has just over 2000 residents virtually all of whom voted for the national conservative law and justice
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peace party the farmer says peace keeps its promises. i love a good dalai bender was probably i voted for the peace party in 2015. keep voting for them because i don't. leave everything to keep the villages in poland strong dollar you will trim our $7000.00 for the party came to power in 2015 thanks largely to the $500.00 plus program on the which families receive 500 per month along with free school books earned money for school starters it's said to help people get up from their knees as they say in poland. that's not. ok. we can tell by our wallets. the money is benefiting our children it's for additional tutoring and classes and for vacations yeah. the money from the state which receives generous subsidies from the european union makes life more
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comfortable for the farmers and yet the but let's be family wouldn't say they're grateful that communism ended and the iron curtain fell they feel the former hero left for when zipper trade them and made a deal with the communists or not their supper when like when that was president he invited foreign investors into poland not up to russia. to iron back then that might have been a good idea but they let too many too many polish people were sold out thank goodness the piece put an end to that shit. today the polish capital warsaw is like a portfolio exhibition it's a city of global klingler there sleek cosmopolitan skyscrapers would fit anywhere in the world the city has changed beyond recognition since the fall of communism. german car manufacturers chinese banks american consultants a reporter asks has poland sold itself out.
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this is a different world is a new world. oprah anyone with enough motivation power and finances can take whatever they want. things aren't good the way they are like rules. but i'm sure it'll sort itself out in 100 years. but left home villages hosting an agricultural trade show they are all proud of their new prosperity they can keep up with the rest of europe at least when it comes to agriculture even if they are peace fodor's now living in a unified europe is a given 30 years ago that was. the case the founding of the 1st trade union in the port city of danske all those years ago set off a historical chain reaction between the east and west that led to the end of the iron curtain. now despite growing fears of being sucked into a global recession europe stands for prosperity but not for all such as the
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hundreds of thousands of roumanian workers who made their way to italy in a desperate bid to escape grinding poverty at home where as a result whole regions are being depopulated now meanwhile in its early many remaining migrants struggle to survive on a legal work that pays only make a wage is the best most of them people like patrick and ronnie you end up living on the margins of society. it's 5 30 in the morning in buffalo on the outskirts of rome this is where day laborers wait for someone to offer them work most of them are from romania. a van pulls over. one of the men climbs in and discreetly of course the police could show up at any minute. the others stay behind and keep on waiting most of the time it's in vain italy's construction
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sector is in crisis we ask some of the men how much money they can earn here. heavy labor can get to 60 to 70 years a day. he says some of the people that pick them up are italian and some are remaining pitcher come under no you had no luck finding work this morning. his unlucky streak has lasted for more than a week now. what must i moonlighted what our employers prefer that so that they can avoid paying taxes and insurance stocks they would rather take you as an undeclared worker. let me agree to have to give money a little sometimes i don't get paid to talk. they say they're paid to morrow and then they never show up again and again go money oh well like. a 63 year old welder has been trying his luck for years here but with less and less success. he says
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a while ago his wife and his 2 children left him. since then he's been living at the edge of the city in this makeshift hut good piece and i've got my kids with their grandparents what they're waiting for that that to come back but i'm not coming back. every evening picture cocos to bed early he'll have to wake up at 430 if he wants any chance of getting work tomorrow. god what a curse it life this is. but pinta is not alone in his plight yulian montoya from italy's construction union knows of many others just like him originally from romania he says many of his countrymen come to italy hoping for fast cash thought that when they came because they were promised the land of milk and honey here but they found something entirely different. pay to go was also looking for
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a better life when he set out from romania to italy many years ago. this is where he used to live in the village of s. now now his house is abandoned his family has moved away many other houses stand empty here the local bar is the only place left with a bit of life in it here they remember their previous neighbor oh great only it's out of money he said there was no point staying here in a country. that was earning his daily bread and everything else he needs it might be if i could go that way i think it's better to stay here on a romanian feels. at least here you can get some sheeps cheese even if romania is per. packet but. he set up a watch one. back in rome like every morning is up early driven by the hope of earning a few heroes today. for
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i'm sure rome is beautiful again for his not for me brought it out. i would not tourists were slaves in the might of that. but. there are few people looking for cheap labor in buffalo today a bad outlook for people like pay took a under no you the romanian welder. now the vikings of norway big blood thirsty marauders spreading fear with their bushy beards and their hole and helmets not so apparently historians are discovering that they weren't for quite a cultivated lot and some norwegians are responding by taking special classes to learn more about the ways of their peace loving ancestors. today's lesson is how to pitch a tent the way they did a 1000 years ago of course. they be on has made it to the viking school senior year
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and the pole is a from a hardware store but the tent is fashioned after what archaeologists have learned about the viking age this is quite different from the history they'd be on learnt at school the local dog here at school you don't know anything about the vikings daily lives being there that's what's so incredibly fascinating through spend the money. on the. interested perspective vikings can apply to this beautiful community college and sell you out in southern norway it's even office room and board so much knowledge it's not hard to spot from which students are taking the viking class. teachers have no problems with using modern tools the training supervisor explains it's more about exploring the viking way of life the precise reenactments but if i don't i always think about what materials people had available to them back then. and then we use that and build something with the techniques currents have
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a time to meet up so you feel. the popular series by kings focuses more on techniques for a minute during and pillaging the fighting's the fabians temperament find the commercial image of the northmen problematic it's. the to my people here that i'm interested in viking things they like approaching about its most basic they know a lot about vikings from what they've seen on t.v. . so i always have to explain what's accurate about that and what's not. because of. this my king has no objections to television's depiction of blood thirsty swashbuckler as i'm just cola who belongs to 11 men a group of hobby vikings dedicated to keeping norway's mediæval legacy a knife in their free time he climbs out of his car ready in full battle gear. the left men have faithfully reconstructed
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a viking longship they even forge their weapons into arm of themselves they also practice this sort of play scales. you're not allowed to strike their head or neck the legs or hands. you only score points or if your sword touches your opponent's body. wooden planks instead of sleek fine but last leather shoes instead of sneakers no women on deck norway's modern day vikings bring the past back tonight. it all got to be today we live in a highly intellectual culture if someone's good at school get ahead and earn money . it. didn't but when a viking age started whoever was stronger and could lift the heavy stone was valued higher in scope but. those virtues are much closer to human nature to them students of the viking school who learned that life back then wasn't
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necessarily all that primitive even if they have to make fire using flint it's certainly a change from computer games and you tube. fabian has learned a lot of this college but he's worried that the viking trend could be misused by political extremists. you know sister racists or neo nazis misuse vikings on the ruins claiming they are racially pure germanic people. may reject that. but just running around in these clothes i might be mistaken for someone who believes ideals like that your so called airbus it also man you know them all the viking school once there is to open possibilities for a simpler more often take lifestyle and that's what more and more young people are looking for not only in a way. and that's all from focus on europe this time around thanks so much for joining us and to come back next week until by and by by i found
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