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they are going to be more severe and. more discouraged. starts october 24th. i am. hello and welcome to focus on europe i'm laura baba lola it's nice to have you with us turkey has taken in more syrian refugees than any other nation in europe around 3 and a half 1000000 were let into the country as they fled civil war lately the mood towards the refugees has shifted to one of hostility the southeastern turkey an angry mob vandalized an area and habited by syrian refugees are shouldering the
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blame for unemployment housing shortages and crime as the country grapples with an economic crisis while those who found safety in turkey are once again living in fear also race you settled with her family in istanbul but she worries she may be deported back to syria turkey's president is under pressure and has announced plans to repatriate refugees to so-called safe souls in syria's north agora says they're returning voluntarily despite the ongoing war. mohamed has been gone for more than 2 months. when awful racial thinks about what happened to her son she feels helpless lost. and in early august mohammed was riding a friend's motorbike in istanbul the bike wasn't registered the teenager was
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stopped by police and then sent to a detention center. about 12 days later i got a call from him and. he said adam and eve take me to syria. to. the only i know what was his last phone call then read about him and i haven't heard from him since. not of. something similar happened to a family in their neighborhood. i was sent to jail and then the porter to close up there it was taken by al nasra fighters. they shot of in the head and sent a photo of the body to his family. that was. a lie because i'm heartbroken i know what we can learn from syria he was still a small child but now they have sent him back to that place and i when he is about to see.
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hundreds of thousands of syrians live in istanbul a number here in the fire district many have heard that the turkish authorities have begun deporting refugees in recent months and most of them are frayed that they could be next. year when they started sending people back i was so scared that i didn't leave my house i don't want the imam day or i want to kill him nor restrictions on us now and people are being deported back to syria with their new mom but we can't flee turkey for europe anymore because it's too dangerous. yeah. we syrians just feel welcome here. that is changed. and it's also now we feel like i don't want to the migrants again. until. i see yes these mobile phone images from other night in southeastern turkey childress how explosive
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the situation is. dozens of people recently attacked a neighborhood in which many syrians live there were rumors that a refugee had sexually harassed a turkish child the claim was false but that did not hold back them up. the police had to use water cannons to stop the riots. and the mood is heated up in istanbul as well. took the losses the adulteress. honey so if neither of them come or go i don't want to live in this neighborhood and in this country anymore it's maybe. going to try get along with most of the syrians say if there are some bad people but you get that everywhere. you go the bag want them to leave as soon as possible we don't want them here anymore he said build the turkish president wretch of tired out one has recognized this change in public sentiment he
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has made repeated promises that millions of syrians will return home to a so-called safe zone he wants to establish in northeast syria the government insists there are no deportations and that syrians who are returning are doing so well interrogate. america checker goes disagrees the attorney is trying to help get offered initial son back from syria mohammed and his family have valid turkish documents and protection status chucker goes has filed an appeal with turkey's constitutional court. it is still sending a person to a war zone is a serious human rights violation. as along with iceland 100 is not an isolated case because this is happening to many syrians many have been supported in recent months . not the lawyer also says that many deported syrians attempt to return to turkey
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illegally and often at a high cost of paying a lot of money to people smugglers. and as dangerous as that might sound mohammed's mother often is clinging to any hope that she might see her son again in safety. there were images that caught the world's attention last april the historic notre dame cathedral in paris a blaze what followed was an outpouring of generosity france's elite pledged hundreds of millions of euros for its restoration and president emanuel proclaimed it would be rebuilt in just 5 years but months on concerns are mounting and those like to michelle insall who live in the area worry that the president's words may ring hollow. not to damn cathedral is very much a positive denise shed on son's life. every day from have balcony she looks to see
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if it's still standing. after year after the blaze denise has still not got over the trauma of it along with every dollar bear straight ahead was exactly where the tower wanted to sleep. the only that will be said they saw we saw how it caught fire best started wobbling left and right and then broke off the . phone that it was terrible. the fire broke out on april the 15th why is still a mystery. but will did and in fifa not true damn thousands of people gathered spontaneously in front of the cathedral millions worldwide in front of their screens through the night to knees and her husband anxious lee watched from their balcony move and i felt the heat up to my chest i stood here screaming with rage i could not understand why they could not put out
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a fire the tears did not come until the early morning that i cried. like. nothing in her neighborhood is the same since the night of the fire where they used to enter the metro they now run into a construction fence the old lady as they left in the cool the cathedral is suddenly inaccessible and many people suffer as a result really really who ruled it when i'm sad when i was born there as were my great grandparents so my grandpa just became. my children were christened in the cathedral. that's my son asks all the time we'll note become whole again but i say look they're working the crane is lifting up the building material you shouldn't look too far ahead every day is a small step forward for these revisions evolution. moving forward perhaps but much slower than residents would like the cathedral is still in danger of collapsing. the building must 1st be stabilised says architect and. she is angry at president
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emanuel mccomb. he promised to rebuild the cathedral in just 5 years that's completely unrealistic see or feel they need renovations will take at least 10 years and that's only if a miracle happens and they find the right kinds of wood and stone and if all those employed work well this fire has plunged us into an enormous crisis. down there on the mall we expected the government to ask the french people to trust us experts . but that was not the case with one center. after all not true dam is a unesco world heritage site the government must put all its cards on the table. it owns it to the brazilians and the tourists $50000000.00 of whom came here every year before the fire. that. will be touch the whole world we watched it on t.v.
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and it hit me really hard because we were there a few days before today's travelers and tourists think seem to want to stay as long or shopping not true damn people to listen to it so that if my father had to cut our employees hours some have worked for us for 35 years that's traumatic for these families. what eyewitnesses on the night of the fire could not have known was that more than $400.00 tons of toxic lead would be vaporized and spread over the neighborhood official information on the dangers after the fire was almost non-existent. this so shocked. that she took on what the authorities failed to do. she went from door to door over the following weeks to warn the residents yeah mr murphy i know per day actually the entire construction site must be completely sealed off because for the city to let molecules must be prevented from getting into the environment during the construction work you don't continue to load and
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the knees are worried about the neighborhood. children meanwhile the city has cleaned the courtyards of schools and a campus they say. closed and unease on devout catholics and belief that god has personally protected not freedom from collapse until now do you feel there was a protecting hand that's how i see it that to move off from all nothing to happen to the virgin or child because there was debris everywhere and she didn't even have a scratch not even a scratch and that's a surprise is sussudio some pursuit pontificates. lowden danny's not quite sure but then not sure down we'll stand 2 here as splendidly as people make hope they will live to see it. if you're swimming in the mediterranean and you feel something to clean your feet it's more likely to be a plastic bag than a turtle the sea is awash with plastic the world wildlife fund says the equivalent
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of some of the $34000.00 plastic bottles go into its waters every minute and it's only fishermen like gianni kohli are taking action to clean up the sea that sustains their livelihoods under a new initiative italian fishermen are now permitted to take waste on board for recycling our reporter took to the seas with the fisherman who moonlight as garbage men. it's the daily morning shift at 4 o'clock janica allele and his boys go out to see. the congolese have been fisherman for generations but for how much longer nobody knows. a lot and also that's obviously what i have a fish tank has somewhat recovered but i'm fortunately there is a lot of plastic because many people go pleasure boating near the back of the journey that you more recent years we fished a lot of plastic out of the sea feel it was going to look to me and.
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johnny has recently become a part time garbage man. if he catches plastic in his net he doesn't toss it back into the sea as is usually done in italy due to accusations of illegal waste transport and a new law he now collects it and brings ashore 6 killers a plastic instead of fish this makes him angry not if we live from sea fish if there isn't much to catch then you earn less and you have trouble supporting your family when you have a 1000000 c.d.'s at your advantage. a whale recently washed up on the beach in sardinia with 22 kilos of plastic in its stomach it simply starve to death. as every now and when we catch a big fish swordfish for example they've got it on board we often see plastic in their stomachs this happens more and more are being told on problem of the janitor
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. johnny and his boys are environmental conservationists because their very existence depends on it humankind is ruining itself and its planet they say they experience this every day. the mediterranean is considered the dirtiest sea in the world the italians are slow to understand that they have to do something i please cut or keep we're giving a green light to fisherman. who want to work on this project with us no you don't a lot of this it means that with official courage you also help the italian state protect the sea but scum. he's also thrilled that italy is developing alternatives to plastic in bellone a for example the company bio on is a young team led by marco as. they relied on 100 year old research to develop their bio plastics the white powder is a poly were produced by bacteria it's converted into granule it which can then
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become all manner of products bio on now sells licenses all over the world for its bio plastic and the great thing about this by alcohol is that bacteria decomposes if you leave it in water or soil and. not so it's completely harmless to vironment and nature. of your they've got about. 50 composes in less than 3 months normal plastic doesn't biodegrade at all around the world an estimated $350000000.00 tonnes of plastic are produced every year some of that ends up in a pool in jan a call at least nat but the fisherman is optimistic about the future at least most of the time. my us better get i hope things get a lot better we really need to focus on cleaning up what we have done over the past few years you will get your southern end of us out in the harbor of porto to savio
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certified arrives to greet the fisherman. ordinates the waste disposal with them so that's everything for today. it's better to get rid of this stuff the leave it in the sea these alerts are plastic everything's plastic. it was never johnny's dream to become a marine garbage collector but he's motivated to do it to provide a better future for his children. double decker buses and pubs common sights on the streets of britain a look a little closer and you may spot something else surveillance cameras look again and your face just may be scanned to a database facial recognition software is being used by authorities without any legal framework in place while the orwellian technology is leading to fears of a police state and in south wales one man is taking action and bridges has filed a landmark lawsuit against police critics of the technology want to ensure that
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someone is watching the watchmen. every move and bridges makes is being monitored by c.c.t.v. cameras in the welsh capital cardiff they're ubiquitous in britain he's grown used to the constant surveillance but recently discovered something that really shocked him the van was parked just around the corner and the by the time i was close enough to see facial recognition technology written on the phone it had already captured my data several times over and that felt like an invasion of my privacy i'm a law abiding member of the public i was going about my daily business i wasn't committing any crime i was no threat to anyone and yet the police were there filming me and capturing my data is actually i now he's taking the welsh police to court over this technology the police continue to use it scanning hundreds of faces per 2nd checking them against wanted lists. it's been
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a range of offenses it's been possession of class b. drugs there's been a possession of a blade article on a range of things that you would expect to find in the general population so we are learning we are developing and there are actually people being taken off the streets who are wanted for offenses or to be the court as direct result of the deployment of this technology. and bridges doubts that the ends justify the means welsh police force child the facial recognition technology at cardiff's millennium stadium allegedly to help combat terrorism if you look at how the technology has been used since then it hasn't been to the people on the terrorist watch list is being to a relatively low level for minerals wanted relatively low level offenses and that's really where we get into the issue is is this technology being used in a proportionate way. in london c.c.t.v. cameras are practically everywhere. the british capital has an estimated 500000
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surveillance cameras in operation around the clock more than any other european city. experts say britain has become a veritable surveillance state but few points seem to mind even if you totally trust your police and you totally trust your government now it is entirely possible to build surveillance technology that could become extremely dangerous and weaponized against the population in just a few years time it's a more authoritarian or racist or xenophobia back or homophobic rights sexist government were to be elected into power i this isn't a far fetched already today many of those police force of racism and say that nonwhite london has almost stopped and search more often than honest if wages is worried that the deployment of facial recognition technology could exacerbate this discrimination by joining the technology is sufficiently reluctant to even bring them to the public could feel confident that they can demonstrate because these
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countries times you know you're on the receiving end of those challenges i don't think that's a really cool thing to get right particularly for women particularly for people from ethnic minorities who are much more likely to be the result of false positives . even british consumers on now starting to equip their homes with facial recognition cameras. it's a great market says the salesman. because you can go on facebook get people's profile images and easiest upload them onto it on software criminals etc in the place uploaded images all over the life you can pick up the men which is on them to your security system when the person crosses your cameras your system picks it up so it's as easy as that now apparently privacy is a thing of the post. some pop owners have even started using facial recognition cameras to help serve customers in the right order. and
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bridges finds this use of technology extremely worrying and hopes his port case when the newest bridge to the naming danger. now to a place that has intrigued and stumped scientist with just a few 100 residents or chance to is a village brimming with girl power they're learning how to fight fires and save lives jobs traditionally done by men so what's behind the change and unexplained phenomenon no boys have been born there for nearly a decade. this volunteer youth fire brigade meets twice a week in look at which of me yet say chomsky balbina magdalena jennifer and their friends carry out emergency drills and one day hope to live up to their idols the professional firefighters that fire a member because of this brigade there are no boys. this is sure you know it is
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even better without voice. why is it better without for as they as they shout all the time whenever they do anything it takes ages. to try sushi. you know someone for life and they listen to you more carefully boys always do lots of things at the same time. all 9 girls packing to the fire truck to start the exercise a garden house is on fire on a sports field and the youth fire brigade needs to put it out only this is just a drill. the girls also need to rescue and look after the injured they even practice resuscitation. the fact that only girls train here is no coincidence only girls have been born in the village for nearly 10 years there are simply no boys. who have up ideas coming
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from all over poland on how we can produce a boy for the next problem i think we just have to keep trying until it works that's what all the villagers think. thank you mr a couples here who already have 3 daughters. and i don't want to try any more brutal. yes it's a chance here is a small village in upper silesia with 300 residents and the situation is starting to cause many of them concern so is there a solution. gynaecologist zygmunt runs a practice about 20 kilometers away in case a scene post late that treats around 6000 women a year including women from the yes that's a good chance here is often asked for advice about how to influence the sex of a baby or if it's even possible just as we've seen recently there are lots of old wives' tales if you want a boy should put an x. on the battery if you want to grow a flower it can go
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a little bit but there's no scientific proof that it was overwhelming and clearly any attempts to influence the sex have failed for lack of boys has also left a hole in the local catholic church. the sunday service is a mandatory date for most of the villagers. at mass it's mainly girls who perform as altar servers i priest wasim august on iraq is concerned that there will be no boys to take over she's prayed for divine assistance i. told you if the prayers of the community are answered and the village is finally blessed with a boy the village council plans to show its gratitude. for the monsters of partition to be found out of this village was only producing baby girls i had an idea. if a couple had a baby boy i would make a present for them so their own skin and yet they would be
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a surprise when the boy is born cuban gets a car your kids are then their hope to children so-called until. there's a fear that the village founded in 1679 could die out many young families have moved away to find work but it's not all doom and gloom. is puccini's girls are the future and happiness of the village nice boys from neighboring villages will come and vice versa i'd be just like anywhere else me so . that's still a long way off for the budding all female firefighters though. there should be more boys in the brigade yeah a. lot to do you mean you're better for your system of that of course. these fiery young girls have proven they'd be more than a match for any boy. coincidence or is there an explanation let me
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