i. am i. am i am. i am. w. . the atlas. i. am. hello and welcome to focus on europe i'm a lot about a lola thanks for being with us europe's refugee crisis continues on abated thousands of migrants are stuck in bosnia herzegovina living in squalid conditions the e.u. and human rights groups have warned that the makeshift refugee camps are a danger food and medical care are scarce and now the threat of winter is looming

and with no heating available at the camps there are worries that the cold weather will be deadly it's a pass that sounds of migrants have traveled over the balkans to reach the e.u. but the croatian border is impassable for most making this the end of the road for many who have made it to bosnia herzegovina local and national authorities can't agree on a solution leaving migrants stranded and news ribble conditions and in the town of be hatched the crisis is escalating there asylum seekers are being housed on a former landfill and officials want them to stay put. at least there's a power generator in northern bosnia's boucek migrant camp so abdulla freddy can help those here charge their phones. but you know. hundreds of men mainly from pakistan and afghanistan have been living here for the past 6 months the site used to be

a garbage dump and now many residents are suffering from escapees pneumonia or other serious diseases which tech is currently the most perilous micro-cap in europe that they stay because the e.u. border is just a few kilometers away. but they're going to their worldview today for a new president bashar wanted croatia and e.u. member states lies just over these mountains. so many times you try to get the great at least hard. to get time to do it why did you cut rewards and get a new lease. if it was in the tradition of janet reno and partner in a bit of a i think the victim is going to be sure to join the service. of the police sent abdullah freddy straight back to the camps as. the winter is approaching fast and that means there could soon be up to 2 metres of snow accuse so there's not

much time left to try to flee it's money. it's an appalling conditions you know people say that they've been in winter you know having been. at the isolated makeshift camp was set up in the summer. up to 2 times per day. has a tank truck filled with drinking water for the migrants the head of b. hatch a civil protection directorate is trying his best to keep living conditions from terry orating even further which occupied it and so has been left to itself in the solstices of a protection directorate got involved to prevent infectious diseases from spreading in the camp to the tune of behind. the. over the past 2 years more and more migrants arrived in the area a growing number of locals have grown annoyed by the situation including employees of the hatches water works both hard enough it's a tough situation for these migrants but for the locals to the situation needs to change you can hardly walk through town anymore without seeing migrants there are

more migrants the locals now. be had just full of migrants hoping to make it to the neighboring a year or. 2 years ago there were an estimated $200.00 now it's believed there are over $5000.00 and around the town. then last summer the local authorities opened food check and brought them there. be touch me or sure at faslane insisted on the camping set up. companies to stay open. i need to choose between the people of the one hand and the migrants on the other but i will choose my people. is now calling for a 2nd camp to be opened even further away from the hatch. meanwhile civil protection had lived back of it has arrived into

a check with fresh drinking water the migrants depend on help from the local community. food is supplied by the local red cross. the problem is that we have not received any help from the federation or the state of bosnia and herzegovina and 35 weeks. like. neither seem to care that the campus situated in a minefield left over from the bosnian war. locals feel they've been abandoned. bosnia and herzegovina has struggled to set up migrant camps elsewhere because of its complicated political situation a legacy of the. bosnian war in the 1990 s. . the hatches mayor had suggested opening a new migrant camp 60 kilometers further south on this disused farm in a serbian enclave. but with the cue ball of the serbian mayor de haan proceeds categorically rejected the idea of coquetry going by the border with the. we barely

have any commonwealth shared agreements in this country yet the. turn of b. how to solve the migrant crisis this way but the regional authorities here in northwest bosnia want to take a different approach and then we also have republican serbska as well as international aid that's how things are in bosnia and herzegovina there's no coordination no common plan with. abdullah and the other migrants are stranded in the camp with nowhere to go. and the 1st snow is expected soon. spain is preparing to host this year's world climate summit in madrid and ahead of the event the country's president reaffirmed his commitment to a greener future but away from the capital an ecological disaster is threatening to destroy europe's largest salt water law gruen fish are dying on mass in marman or

in southern spain it's a disturbing sight that is costing fishermen like money well martina's their livelihoods. this lagoon is their life manuel martinez and a fisherman by choice it's a labor of love they work in the mama nor in the south of spain it's the largest water look in europe. but i mean if it means a lot to me. it's more than a good it's a mother or what about these waters feeders provider daily bread. but the good the slow to perish. the few bits go dead fish were found washed up on shore that suffocated the fisherman still confident that the. euro edition of the good have never died on such a large scale before the fishermen seem to know what is to blame you know

a lot more joy and you know pollution has been a problem here for a long time and. it comes from the towns and from farming. everything gets pushed into manu and. causing bacteria that destroy the seed it. leads to a lack of oxygen in the water i wanted to fund. the fishermen have hung up their nets and mom and often now in an effort to protect the remaining fish sales were falling anyway due to concerns about contamination at the same time efforts have been stepped up to find out what's causing. catastrophe like the fishermen environmental activists are convinced the problem stems from the lagoons in it's. an unhealed one of their own say that water contaminated by an overuse of fertilizers is entering the lagoon and for. both ground and surface water enters the lagoon from intensively farmed fields. and it's full of nitrates.

and. it's clear that the agricultural sector is responsible for this pollution. but it's doing nothing about its. test indicate that much of the pollution comes from the pond and behind the lagoon where broccoli lettuce an artichoke some grow some fields have apparently been irrigated illegally. but farmers like my northern martina's refute such claims he says more pharmacists switching to more modern irrigation systems which allow them to use fewer fertilizers he says the real culprit is the weather. i give the name of the men to load the most. people have to realize that in the last few years we have experienced torrential rainfall. which in september for example. of water will do washed away from the fields and to the lagoon. fishermen agree that climate change

is making the situation worse they say it's precisely why pharma should reduce fertiliser use and they say it's a political issue too because those in power have been too lax with risp regions and that culture. regional government has done nothing to improve things. for years we've been telling them our minority is in a dire state. regional government says it's up to madrid to introduce tougher regulations. but years of instability in spain's central government have left the region to deal with the issue on its own. not just the reputation of the lagoon or of this region that is at stake here. but

the stake is the environmental reputation of all of spain. we have to learn from this this time we found a solution which. by the time such a solution is found it could be too late for manuel martinez another local fisherman some already planning to sell their boats it might be years before fish stocks return to normal if ever. i don't know what to do. fishing is my life. i have been doing it for 1314 years. my family especially is waters for 4 or 5 generations. i can't do anything else. although there is little demand for fish from the waters of mama north right now some fishermen still try their luck like the lagoon they too are struggling to survive. should scotland

be an independent country in the 2014 referendum the majority said no and the country remained a part of the united kingdom but now brags it has reignited the debate around scotland's sovereignty staying in the u.k. leaving that something that hundreds of thousands of scots have protested against while the country's 1st minister is pushing for a 2nd referendum and 2021 george ormus and ancestors settled in scotland centuries ago and the flute maker from stirling believes that it's time for the country to disentangle itself from the united kingdom. george or mr and says it's the wood that sets the piece for his work and that's exactly what he loves about his job he's a qualified engineer before more than 40 years he's been earning a living through his passion making wooden flutes. he

won't become wealthy but that's not important to him. he says in this regard he's very scottish just like his family. come from a long line of scots who could be traced back to the year 547 george says scotland is home and not the u.k. i have a feeling of being scottish 1st of all. but then all at the same time i have this feeling of being european i'm not i don't really feel gratified because to be honest i don't really know what british has. as i say they're all their own you can give a name to something you can draw a line on a war but that doesn't mean that that's what as an os what people feel in the hot. during the referendum 5 years ago he voted for independence but a clear majority of scots were against independence back then. castle is near

george's workshop. the union jack of the united kingdom still flitters here demonstrating the union of england wales northern ireland and scotland. unity which would mean equality on the husband been the quality of discourse have always been made to feel 2nd class well i'll give you an example of the scottish buying to have their own money the have their own pint you know it and i went up to fail the scottish 20 no saving 24 of money and. so these are the kind of things like so it's difficult. just south of stirling castle is the town of panic burnt 800 years ago the scots triumphed here against the english army an important victory for many it's the symbol of scottish independence even if the balance of power repeatedly shifted in the centuries that followed. the

story of the battle is digitally simulated at the memorials visitor center. like scotland itself the visitors here also divided on which direction scotland should take we've stuck together for 300 years and it's been to the benefit of both countries and i would like i would like it to continue not separate them of all the norm that's one after the whole kind of exact thing i mean being tempted to vote yes us time you know if that ever happened i won by and yeah i think i probably will for you know. scotland's independence was decided by the 2014 referendum but now because of brags that the debate is again making the headlines. according to a recent survey there are currently more scots in favor of independence now than there have been in the last 7 years 50 percent. the scottish national party sees this as their chance. alan smith will stand in the

upcoming parliamentary elections he must win staring back from the tories his chances aren't bad not least of all because boris johnson and his brags of policies are deeply unpopular in scotland. we were told we were a partnership of equals a family of nations but then we voted strongly to remain within the e.u. and the u.k. voted as a whole to leave and we were told that doesn't matter shut up so that is the election more about threats to the in the there they're absolutely linked because of brags that we're being taken out of the european union against our will if we were independent that would not be the case. in the british parliaments without a clear majority the scottish nationalists could become kingmakers. they've already announced that they would only support a government if it in turn agrees to a 2nd referendum on independence. even if a 2nd referendum is held george ormiston is not sure whether

a majority of the scots would be in favor of independence. but they'd be in the end just like us flutes independence just needs time. time is also needed to heal the atrocities that took place during the 2nd world war in the winter of 1945 the red army began its advance on berlin to defeat hitler the german village of cles and was reduced to rubble as the verum act tried in vain to stop the soviets almost 75 years later millions of soldiers are still listed as missing across europe and one special association is working to give the fallen soldiers of the war a final resting place it's an act of compassion carried out regardless of the soldier's uniform. swiss anthropologist. and italian student lauder trotty carefully removed the earth from around the

skeleton so. they're looking for clues about the age and identity of the deceased. they believe he was a young soviet soldier. who wouldn't cakes and the dead were left on the battlefield when the war ended because there were too many bodies to bury its they were often placed in military trenches or shallow pits. and covered with sweat. did . in the early 1945 heavy fighting east of berlin near the river order claimed the lives of thousands of german and soviet soldiers many of the war dead still lie here. now members of the association for the recovery of the fallen in eastern europe excavating the old trenches at the 2 annual excavations they've already exuma the remains of more than $200.00 soldiers . you're happy because you find them but you know if you have

a lot of problems how do you take him out right is anything broken so there is of course exciting because you found this problem that you have to solve as well. experts from across europe historians and for apologist an archaeologist are collaborating on this project. they do this work on a volunteer basis using their vacation time to look for soldiers remains one group of volunteers is from russia. and. we don't think it's right that soldiers who fought against fascism or german soldiers lie here in the fields and forests or in russian swamps. and in those neighborhoods and. they should be buried in dignified places where you live in military cemeteries where people can go one on of the. remember that. i'll push too loud the chairman of the association coordinates the work he says the fact that volunteers from the ukraine

and russia dickhead together it's an important sign of reconciliation together they can give back dignity to the foreman of the 2nd world war. is in here but we're here because we want to resolve the fates of these soldiers who senselessly lost their young lives but at least give them back their names with dignity with a proper grave in the name of this god i've even done on it. in order to later identify the dead the volunteers carefully remove the remains from the ground and look for don't tags or personal items the moving find the greater the chance of identifying them and notifying families that their missing relative has been found this rarely happens but 23 year old danielle ham on has experienced it once all of the time but this was on moment for that was a moment when i realize that this is hugely important work for them. with their efforts and the few left over papers that were lying around somewhere for 70 years

that person's fate could be revealed long. enough to 6 or 6 like i'm going to hurt. her. the next day the volunteers and guests gather at a military cemetery to bury the remains of 15 german soldiers in a solemn ceremony. at about ohms in the burials are always very emotional for us that's what we do this to give the soldiers the last place of rest and it's with britain can and this is also the end of one year of research so it's almost like i follow the days that all across their cycle from their emerges from the ground today everybody else and that something quite powerful to behold. next spring. the volunteers hope to return and search for more fallen soldiers. thousands more remain in the area and discomforts. there are and everyone here

knows that only a small number of them but at the d.m.v. couplet. the eiffel tower and shape wandering through the streets of paris it's not a prank or protest but one man's quest to bring more country to the capital for a brief time the french city is forced to slow down while the shepherd counts as sheep. love. is hardly an everyday occurrence in paris. but one that might become a little more frequent thanks to give yang and his flock of sheep. to the new people his young so those who live in the area know their region least well it has a chance to discover their region at the speed of sheep i.e. very slowly 1.7 kilometers an hour. the speed of sheep doesn't seem to be a problem in the big city. of course the group only crosses when the light is green

and the traffic police is there to make sure everyone gets across safely. yet the sheep even find something to nibble on. and take a liking to the urban playgrounds. yet all the. tourists and locals alike seem enchanted. this is be the 1st time it's great this. time for rest and for lunch. and there's no doubt that the local children don't mind sharing their patch with these gas.

cuts take only a is the mayor of a paris suburb and the chair of the greater paris metropolis which has provided the funds for this project to make the area in and around paris a greener. we want to double the area there are currently $102.00 farms on about 2000 hectares. 5000 by 2030 people very ambitious of course it is a. the sheep are somewhat less ambitious as they make their way through the city i was how even with its 7000000 inhabitants paris boasts a few green areas where the sheep can graze they provide free fertiliser all the plants are particularly tasty in the wealthy 16th or on the small the flock currently has about 20 guests shepherds some spending just a few hours others a few days. it's really interesting to see how animals can also find

a place in the city to see how the space can be used. in the is that the move i time. to deal meant to sheep live in la canoes just outside of paris. healthy fodder is important hey provides fiber and it's mostly produced without pesticides here. so gillum sheep are popular with some of paris's top chefs. leader of the school don't look pretty decent there have been scandals so now the idea is to bring back some order reestablish control over what we eat with us when think about what used to be down then everyone can make up their own mind mr super quick so. after a week in the big city the sheep are visibly exhausted the time for a well deserved rest. i i. that's also how i feel after

spending a week in paris thanks so much for watching focus on here by for now. i'm going.

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