mother was born in 1969 the world was already 8 years old and you know my grandchildren were born after the world found born to my. 3 generations only on a journey through a recent german history at new. york's number 60 on d w. the at. the at. the alice. alone a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and europe is it seems on a high a never before have there been so many drugs on the mark that cocaine consumption for instance is at record levels and there's also a flood of cheap drugs they come in tiny packages for just

a few euros and the mixture might include dried herb's with a cocktail of chemicals it's strong stuff and extremely addictive the result is panic attacks the dizziness profit asians and even fatalities where one place hard hit by this epidemic is greece's 2nd largest city thessaloniki we joined a former user there who's determined to understand the root causes of the problem and find a solution but it is not optimistic. as darkness descends on thessaloniki drug dealers swarm into the city's parks. many of them are young migrants working for greek or albanian drug lords. the substances they sell are becoming cheaper and more dangerous for example increasingly popular pot pourri also known as synthetic marijuana basically herbs coated with synthetic

chemicals. used to be a drug addict himself today he's a social worker helping junkies get clean he's alarmed by the substance abuse in his home town these days and he wants to find out more about the drugs. he meets an old friend who is still part of his drug scene he tells them about a drug called. a cheap knock off version of crystal meth the friend explains the dangers of pot pourri. it is a potent it's like heroin and what does it cost just $20.00 euros a bag i've sworn never to touch that stuff again my mother once found be tripping after taking it i thought i died was. drug consumption in greece has been rising many attribute this to the country's youth unemployment rate

of almost 40 percent. of voters who are in many drug users have psychological problems. its name now and then you do you have to be a good reason they just care about a drug been cheap and not about what's actually in it. carry curiosus wants to learn more about the notorious part probably drug. he's heard it's even sold in some shots under the counter. after all it's a concoction of substances that are legally available like artificial fragrances. that's why drug expert fed on color is calling on greek authorities to act he says the country faces a particularly and see set epidemic it is quite a big deal because people want it more and more because of its power it's a powerful it's a potent substance a potent drug unlike heroin hearing is

a downer we call it a dollar here are some of the really briggs brings you down so or this makes it also very attractive. the catastrophic effects of pot pourri and césar are evident on thessaloniki street in some parts of town locals are too scared to leave their homes at night and some shopkeeper say the drug users are harming their business. but. they attack each other with stones clubs annoyance was not only people who want to cross the square feel unsafe and threatens years also shopkeepers like goods are in mortal danger. i've heard about these new cheap drugs but. there are many who consume them in the student neighborhood your particular. police are going after a dealer here the country's new conservative government is clamping down on the drug trade there are now more police controls and the number of arrest has

increased but often suspected dealers harry too few drugs on them to warrant a conviction. have obtained a packet of the notorious pot pourri drug it looks like marijuana but it's far more dangerous 10 doses cost about 20 years ago with good better to buy this drug can be produced by anyone with just the basic understanding of chemistry. will have a major impact a new many people's lives we still don't know enough about the long term effects of this drug and attics. but it seems the drug lords couldn't care less night after night dealers spilled out into the streets of thessaloniki. so what is it's a farce or a tragedy well one thing is for certain the chaos known as briggs it continues to rock every aspect of life in the united kingdom it's been especially traumatic for

the hundreds of thousands of poles who have made the u.k. home in recent years now many say they no longer feel welcome and are heading back to poland but one man is doing all we can to persuade his fellow nationals to stay on. solid cursed pork belly on a bed of sauerkraut a polish style dish made with ingredients from the british county of camera chair it's the creation of polish chef damien in virginia. i treat britain like my home and i cook my home food in my new home if maybe that makes no sense by you know that this is what i'm trying to do i try to create something completely completely new for this environment for this guests. his menu and his restaurant house of feasts reflect damian's identity he came to england in 2005 next so many of his compatriots when poland joined the e.u.

he's worked his way up even cooking for royalty like princess dan. and prince william. but most of his guests are eastern european. some of them don't even speak polish but they come in here they look individual does doesn't look polish and then they eat that issue as if this is like my mom cooked so this is what i think makes me smile. hello sophists is located on the outskirts of peterborough in the east of england it's many factories and farms and workers from eastern europe who are long welcomed here with open arms. tens of thousands of poles settled here but since the grex referendum many feel unwelcome to be allowed to stay p.s.y. gens girl lived here for 8 years and she's worried. they can score in the boy at the moment i don't want to have to go back to poland mainly because of my 13 year old son he speaks very little home and it will be so i don't think he has

a future there because of new ease of his there is. she's brought all of the documents which prove she's lived in the u.k. for more than 5 consecutive years to damien's restaurant outside of opening hours a polish social worker comes here to help people apply for settled status online. a lot of us have not been keeping these documents. you know this whole time because who would know that would actually be required at any point so the anxiety around the settlement scheme comes from comes from not being you know not not being sure whether they're going to be able to prove that settled state is even if they get it damien didn't get his at 1st either though he's lived in paid taxes in britain for 15 years but he fought back and now has the settled status by hosting

free info sessions he hopes to stop more poles from leaving. the numbers in britain fell from over 1000000 to under 900000 last year making it harder to find staff in last 2 years is drastic is huge issue and. well probably because of breaks or because so many friends of mine already left. and they were well settled. we have also chefs which came here 56 years ago they work for me they left so he's also using the info sessions to recruit staff p.s.y. visions guest as thanks but no thanks against all odds damian plans to expand michael that there are gas. he started 12 trailers to sell his polish style dumplings from cambridge here although over the u.k. . now the

russian capital moscow is of course a huge city and it's facing a huge garbage crisis there's very little recycling and waste sites are quite simply overflowing so the of origins had wanted to transport the problem to a so far unspoiled location more than a 1000 kilometers from moscow as i say that was the plan but in an unusual show of grassroots activism local residents are up in arms saying the proposed garbage tip is an environmental disaster in the making. moscow with its $20000000.00 inhabitants is a rich metropolis responsible for a quarter of russia's gross domestic product. russia's capital boasts luxurious cars and restaurants catering for all tastes. on the flipside is this garbage a lot of garbage. most of it still ends up and dumps hardly any garbage is recycled

. therefore local authorities would like to use trains to transport the garbage here 1200 kilometers to the northeast she is a rail station and a tiger by chance hunters found this construction site which came as a shock for a local residents like on your check of. the plant but plan very 1st they said they were going to cut down $300.00 hectares of forest now it's already up to $3000.00 isn't what they're planning is unbelievable really they simply want to destroy russia's north which to all. of us worry about the swamp land becoming europe's largest dispose of the syllabi they believe toxics could see 1st into rivers and then into the sea certainly no ecological impact studies was commissioned and construction was never approved. a new chick oliver and other residents have

started protesting. they blocked gas trucks sort of the fuel had to be delivered by helicopter. but there were 35 of us at the helicopter landing site when a group of at least 60 security personnel came toward us they started beating us and carrying us away asking. construction has been suspended but the atmosphere remains tense massacure the personnel dance the site were recorded too and the policeman takes note on his phone. day and night activists monitor the site aware that construction might start again. but instead of fighting them could learn from. here these are experienced in garbage separation in the nearby town of earth the citizens themselves constructed a central collection point for cycles. to survive came up with the idea to separate

recyclables into 10 different categories each symbol represents a different material can be found on the packaging. the initiative and or the mother has earned them awards and is inspiring others. to have much of that their own what with the realisation that life can't go on is before results from human beings learning and understanding by example. 100 over for the protesters and she. volunteers come from all over the region some of them have travelled by car for 12 hours they've erected a camp and keep an eye on the site day and night. the governor has promised jobs and investments into infrastructure schools and hospitals provided the dump will be constructed the activists want to prevent this at all costs.

just a few meters away the operating company is passing out information a p.r. employee explains the garbage from moscow is safely whether the boxes for them or construction here was just a policeman or in some a nation will be to be made look at least 10 iraqi buildings like these trailers and the loading and unloading side are the minimal infrastructure necessary to start construction to start examinations with. much of what. the activists don't believe a word he says they've called for further protests and over 20. you have the ability. to get in the middle of the. what could go place but even that is so gladly pack up and leave as soon as the authorities decide to abandon construction plans for this dumping site until that

happens will stay i don't always like i need to stand the little. marina and her husband take on shifts at the activists monitoring site till they don't want their efforts to be misunderstood as a conflict between cities and rural areas. we're not against must our citizens that both they and their bosses need to understand that it's time to start separating garbage and to give up plastic the activists emphasize that their protest is peaceful but we are repeatedly being told that if needs be they can start blocking rail tracks once garbage arrives from moscow now the series of wars that followed the breakup of yugoslavia back in the 1990 s. were notoriously bitter and bloody and still today militant nationalism plagues the region with accusations and counter-accusations our reporters visitors a small village in the sheba nick region of southern croatia where the serb

minority has regularly been faced with violence but one local man boris tadic 0 says the time has come to begin to look to the future. the people of his job he will never forget the day a group of men attacked boys pet co's bar boris his family and friends had been watching a football match when they stormed the bar beating up everyone inside and wrecking havoc. a 16 year old boy from the neighborhood was even hospitalized with a serious head injury. to a local but was on his for they were told they werent local men. also spoken of it . wasn't so they travelled here for more than 100 kilometers. one of the bits missing this was a premeditated attack. yeah exactly what the last thing. i

want the authorities to find out who organized this. and who something was well you're going to you know the one of the old boys has since repair the damage some suspected attackers are now behind bars although the background of the attack has not been cleared up. boris who belongs to croatia serve minority has been subjected to intense online abuse from right wing croatians they accuse him of being a war criminal an ex police officer who tortured croatian prisoners of war. the authorities and media have never refuted does accusations you know that are to . be aborted nobody has made clear this wasn't me pepco. they've all kept silent. nobody has explained that i was only 12 years old when the war broke out. the legacy of the yugoslav wars is still evident today there croatian

count you mean she beneath was once occupied by serbs and then retaken by croats many ruin still dot the region today thousands were massacred and fell victim to ethnic cleansing hundreds of thousands were forced to flee the retaking of conine during operation storm became a symbol of the croatian victory and are celebrated every year with great pomp and fanfare this year a president called linda grab architect of the church said she wished she'd fought alongside the croatian troops nationalism is on the rise in croatia attacks on the serb minority are increasing but the region's governor claims the attack was an isolated incident. mislabel you know where no such incidents the situation is peaceful and stable there are no excesses hate crimes or anything like that as much as little the croatian government sees things differently they've strongly condemned the attacks and are demanding that local authorities track down the perpetrators. but the problem is much bigger than the authorities want to let on

says journalist vasco radulovich gangs chants nationalist slogans and stones are thrown into windows that night though she says only a fraction of the attacks become known. the border. in villages where mainly older serbs live they don't want to talk about it when something like that happens or they have justified fears because something like the attack and could happen anywhere. fast they were doing of it has documented many such cases. here people's olive trees were chopped down they lived from all of their farmers and of course no one asked them how high the damage was and they didn't get any compensation either. but boris is not intimidated he says he gets along with everyone whether service. apart

from the bar he runs a farm and has big plans soon he hopes to turn his bar into a restaurant that will serve neat he's raised himself. we have to look to the future not the past we want to live work create something that's all about a. near his house is a commemorative plaque which remembers the 8 serves killed here almost 15 years ago during operation storm they all died on a single day in all were over 60 old people who couldn't or wouldn't flee their killers are still at large here history is long from being forgotten. now on a very different note the illegal dog trade is a large lucrative around the growing market it's driven by the fact that more and more people in prosperous countries like germany want pure bred parrots knock down

prices and that demand is satisfied mainly by unscrupulous suppliers from eastern europe however i'm all rights activists stuff unclip star in has made it his mission to expose the illicit trade which requires some real courage as we find out now. stephan clips china and a friend of his are on their way to the next case they want to expose illegal dog smugglers in berlin. they pretend they want to buy this puppy. the smugglers were filmed with a hidden camera right there and you can get it for 500 on. this deal is a trap. the police take action animal welfare worker stephan clips dying here on the left witnesses scenes like this almost every day. that a. big. animal rights activists use these methods to work against

romanian dog smugglers. that they want to save the animals. or to thailand to live years or inflamed i have limitations when i hear information it's the dogs perhaps 8 or 10 weeks old he shouldn't be in germany and he shouldn't be sold here but it's like if you were called to. puppies can only be legally exported within the e.u. from the age of 15 weeks. they have to have received all their required vaccinations before hand clips time works to ensure these laws are up held he's been attacked and injured by smugglers many times. you've got to be the one speaking out or doing something against this face has been stalked and intimidated . so much so nobody is doing anything against it because if you do then you will be facing a lot of trouble. for rick and cliff stein looks for dubious ads on the internet

he says 8 out of 10 ads on e bay classified are illegal. most puppies imported illegally come from eastern europe especially romania that's where the dog mafia uses another trick they also smuggle stray mongrels as well as pedigree dogs got to get more blood on it sounds strange at 1st they're going to make money with stray dogs but they're one can just touch dogs in the street or get them from unemotional tours or given away for free and with the going to the other words are when they're sold in germany and money is made because people take pity of course because of the record or it's a. book arrest the romanian capital stray dogs are a big problem here. battles the smugglers the other end of this criminal network he files police reports and tries to get lost changed he also started an animal shelter for rescue dogs. this one was dumped by

smugglers when marya's exposed them today he's part of the household. photos of stray dogs are also part of the business and shady animal welfare groups in germany are involved working with their romanian partners together they raise money on the internet mostly through facebook setting off a string of profits. for them where this sort of start rescue was right we need money for the transport and germans the italians the brits started pay so you raise a few $1000.00 fellow docs into a van and bring them to a shelter where they look for sponsors again the same people who already gave money donated then. used that's what we're talking. back in berlin stephan clips diners looking for political support he meets with beyond voice that animal rights expert

of the christian democratic party. the author of i'm often on my own documenting researching and contacting the police of the view that i often feel like the political will to actively come down and this is lacking. it's fun for us it's good of you to have both but this is actually the state's job every local council should have an animal rights department. up to now authorities haven't been effectively clamping down on dog smuggling of. it infuriates me that this is still possible with selling animals online still has not been banned. as a dog lover stephan cliff stein wants to ensure that all the dogs being smuggled to germany month after month get the protection if they deserve. so all from focus on europe this time around thanks so much for joining us and if

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