the people of the islamic revolution i outlined to. making its initials are to own strengths and states of emergency 6 of chaos in egypt and britain still. maintain 79 and their creative traditions he slips december 23rd w. to. the asked 0000 a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and we begin in belarus where 20 years ago death squads targeted opposition politicians no exclusive don't chevelle or research shows how those politicians disappeared

without trace after being killed in cold blood and there seems to be little doubt that the order came from the very heart of the country's leadership. the suspected his men were apparently members of elite units loyal to the head of state in belarus that is alexander lukashenko their official mission combating organized crime. but to the units where it also seems tasked with liquidating political opponents in order to bolster the offer or a tarion regime the president lukashenko still today rules with an iron fist one man whose name is your account of ski was a senior member of such a special unit and in conversations with our reporters he's provided some telling testimony. yuri ski says he was involved in the murder of belorussian opposition figures over 20 years ago now he wants to come clean he's currently

applying for asylum where we cannot disclose. the belorussian secret service might come after him. i received information that they either wanted to arrest me or put me in jail. but i don't want to be locked up i'll give testimony or meet hues of something i did not even do. them. with a rough ski broke his hip in a car accident and bella reuss he was operated on in the country and where he is now seeking asylum garage he has recovered and no longer needs crutches but he's certain that his traffic accident was actually an attempt to kill him he finally wants to speak out about his role in the assassination of belorussian opposition figures. 20 years ago 3 opposition politicians vanished without a trace in the belorussian capital minsk among them was the then interior minister

your reason. on the evening of may 7th 1909 had parked his car in front of the old fire station in central minsk he left his car and made his way home by foot. according to the testimony of key witness. 2 men followed the minister. 2 further men then blocked his path. he says they were undercover members of the elite sober unit. one then told the police follow us. although the political situation in belarus was turbulent at the time that had been the leading opposition politician and had been determined to stop the country's turning into a full fledged dictatorship his aim was to oust president look. in the mid 1990 s. organized to controversial referenda that effectively consolidated his dictatorship

he stripped parliament of its powers even ignoring lawmakers on hunger strike since then has ruled the roost with an iron fist the country is deemed europe's last remaining dictatorship and the epitome of a police state. was 18 years old at the time after completing his military service he joined the newly founded elite sober unit where he served for 5 years and rose up the ranks. he has copies of documents from the time as evidence. he keeps the originals at a secret location. this here is my special forces veterans association membership card. is issued only to people who served in combat units to the interior ministry i was deputy commander of the 1st unit this id card is only issued to sober members. has many elite special force units

all of which are loyal to look at. the official purpose of so was to combat smugglers and organized crime though he says that wasn't its only role. according to the minister did not resist his abduction he was taken to a military training area northeast of men. on the right there he reportedly asked his captors to make his death as painless as possible. the rough he says he then handed a special assassination gun to one of the officers. shot at close range and instantly died. when munster a small town in northwestern germany. goes wife and 2 daughters live here in exile . as well as their children who never met their granddad elena

oldest daughter. she works as a saleswoman and is the only family member willing to talk about their experience. this is the 1st time she is confronted with testimony about the murder of her father. she reacts skeptically but also deeply moved. it's difficult to learn about all this and to see the place where he was buried and to hear how he died you need nerves of steel for the. president look at change go has so far refused to shed light on the suspected murder of the opposition figures even the council of europe investigators believe he might have orchestrated their disappearance which is why he has been persona non grata in the west for years. in november however he made an official state visit to austria. at the press conference he was asked about the disappearance of the opposition

politicians. but he refused to comment. claims he was forced to participate but he also says he feels guilty towards the victim's relatives and wants to aid the investigation. i offer them my sincere condolences as i was involved in these murders. i apologize to them. i can look at the burial sites number of. everything else know the pens and them and the better use in just a system of. your line is that correct co is struggling to find the right words after hearing confessed to his involvement in her father's murder. if he knew and. even this is not about this is about the system he was a part of you can't blame him for anything. people like him were dependent on the system. they were forced to carry out bloody crimes like these just.

each year a vigil is held in minsk in remembrance of the ranko and the other politicians who disappeared. he says he knows what happened to them as well 20 years after these events the truth about hit squads in better roofs might finally come to light. well it's certainly chilling stuff and that testimony will surely be of interest to the council of europe special investigator who has long believed that the order to kill was issued from. now on a very different note british prime minister boris johnson has it seems finally got what he wants after more than 3 years of torture at an acrimonious debate it's going to happen brags that the united kingdom's exit from the e.u. is just a couple of weeks away now as a result many foreigners living and working in the u.k. say they no longer feel welcome and that includes a significant number of people from the baltic republic of latvia and now they're

going home but starting another new life is far from easy. no more big ben no tower bridge and goodbye to bricks it more and more latvians are turning their backs on britain and building lives for themselves here in riga edgar's context has already taken this step he spent 7 years living in studying in britain. now he's working for a lack in construction company enrica the backseat referendum to change his life forever. i was shocked so it's and because of. all these things that were warned before beforehand all these i'm canonic implications of course which is important for me as a student and a potential future workforce i decided to make decisions going back to libya. he had dreamed of working in the british auto industry now he heads the accounting department here at 1st it was like taking

a step back in time. for life you know you know i was sort of not sure about it i was in doubt that i made the right decision but after that it's all crystallized and i don't think i'm going to make any other future in any other country. has also left the u.k. and returned to latvia the uncertainty about living in a britain that's no longer in the e.u. drove him to leave. back in england to tim's operated a small gardening business now he wants to make a fresh start he's arranged to meet fellow gardener she and her staff attend the grounds of reagan's only croquet club. but he hopes to get some advice but the weather is giving him 2nd thought to shape the gardening season is much shorter here in southern england it was 10 months long. as we start mowing lawns just before christmas and started again in february. it's made in response hard to

imagine how you can survive the winter here how you can make a living as a gardener in latvia but there's also a big discrepancy in pay some of it. britain is home to more than 100000 elections many moved here after lexia joined the e.u. because the wages were good or in the wake of the financial crisis. on sundays children take classes at select and house in london learning the life in language learning songs and their own culture helps them stay connected to their homeland. for months breakfast has been causing turmoil a worry for many latvians what about their residency status what about their pensions. at a reception in the last few an embassy they speak with their foreign minister many tell him that the attitude towards foreigners has changed dramatically here. at the other end the open dark hole they should have ever had which i've never thought it

was given this before they actually came out with. abuse to people who was speaking the same language she was saying i thought that was desperately sad. i mean it's let me in foreign minister edgar's drink a vigil travelled specially to london to woo the ex-pats to return home of the he sees it as an opportunity for latvia. i would say the brics it globally was good if i buy a say in their sales go up and read it before starting story saying what they want to do in the future if you carry with us i do maybe some of them really have a 2nd look at the chance to return i. put readjusting to life in latvia isn't easy for many moral rules and knows that all too well she lived in britain for several years herself. so she another returning is founded the group

with world experience in life via most of its members are 30 somethings whose the things the chaos surrounding bricks it will lead more latvians to return uncertainty and the perception that perhaps it's not them what will happen with their children what will happen with the next generation i think those are still open questions that i'm sure i'm sure that people do have those concerns and thoughts and and. ways of course that is more likely to push them to come back rather than make them stop. at a tango session in riggers old town asters 2 tins is making new contacts. 3 months after returning he still feels a bit out of step with life in latvia yet he also knows britain is no longer the place for him. now germany's northern both think port of rostock front itself in the spotlight

this past summer when it became the 1st city in the country to elect a normally german mayor close through a madsen who's a danish citizen was voted into office on an independent thinkers the question is how's it going to go down with the locals well perhaps one of the best places to find out is a traditional german christmas market. the largest christmas markets in northern germany and it dana in the middle rust close months and that's not a god now i can open the christmas market in 5 minutes i hope it's around the corner before i get into trouble i'll go ahead. and there santa claus pies santa. i don't know but you'd be saying something later something spontaneously i don't have anything prepared. main thing is to say something like no don't last till christmas market this open ok ok it's my office calling probably nervous about whether i. follow. the mare marched unprepared to the

opening and the town hall is worried. about 3 no big deal i'm here with santa claus couldn't have a better advisor. the town hall isn't used to his relaxed money yet german brock received meets danish offhanded this that's what election was a test of courage for him but voters in rostock he believes also were courageous. and. can be proud to be the 1st big city in germany with a foreign mare which proves how cosmopolitan rostock is and it's cool when people say hey we're about the content not the passport passed on to me you know i don't feel in large files in this desk copenhagen is this role model like the danish metropolis must look is to become a bicycle city. there is enough space out there to create something really intelligent both in tunica and this also through the commodore ham so we could have

an idea competition or something for a bicycle friendly downtown. politics close to citizens this is how rostock wants to counter the political trend towards right wing populism which months and experienced himself. there are a few who write to me directly about things they don't like is that have a right at my beef well they're a little more to the point for example. well there's a comment or 2 about the fact that i'm not german. back to the christmas market and it's not a home game matson was previously a furniture dealer and not a master of ceremonies. i should say something so dear children i'm supposed to open the christmas market is that cool. and i think that's mega cool if i were not mer i would like to be santa claus. i know why because he only has

to work once a year. he was elected because voters believed he would be able to tackle the german administration that he is danish is seen by some as an advantage but not by everyone. it's change you have to be willing to accept change but don't know if it's ready for that. might get to you conscious a german no foreign i think it's a bit silly. but he doesn't have a german passport. i don't really understand that there are people who have 2 passports german and another one i don't know why he hasn't got a german passport stick to it i have my danish passport and no other and i think that's right. because it's a fact if someone was born in germany and moved to london he doesn't become an englishman. the new job as mayor can have its pitfalls is trouble finding the

entrance 1st next appointment finally he's let in. a discussion in a high school on the topic of education. in denmark 8th graders get grades for the 1st time here it's stress from the 2nd grade what kind of grades to pay to and hans have. i don't even know the names of all these daily exercises and tests examining . it's insane only you need another when it comes to education the germans can certainly learn from the danes they're far ahead. of where the christmas markets are concerned according to mayor madsen rostock is the best. again a change of mood in the week as are a turkey ethnic minority many of whom were held in force detention in a network of internment camps in china's north western region of shinji now critics accuse china of subjecting the wages in these camps to indoctrination and abuse and

that has prompted a growing number of these mainly muslim community to seek refuge in the turkish city of istanbul among them is goldberg jarrett over who's been sharing details of her treatment in change with our reporter. going for walk with her grandson just over a year ago given her jolly lavar wouldn't have dreamt it was possible at the time she was in china in an internment camp full week is hundreds of thousands of members of the predominantly muslim minority are believed to be held there the leadership in beijing calls them education centers. on the butler this is from the day i was arrested when the chill of that he is it states my name my birth date and that i'm a terrorist it apply here don't call it a. goodbye has said is the chinese authorities never explained why they thought she was a terrorist she tells us about the cruel conditions in the camps about

torture. and sure mediation will throw the sock away with a lot of the clever spoke weaker was locked up in a dark cell we also had to write out lines of praise to the chinese communist party looked. 10 days we got an injection in our arm we don't know what it was. that the younger women stopped having their periods was like going to. split them we had to do sit ups in the nude didn't matter if you were 14 or 84. was that's how they violated our honor. cooked. when goober how was finally released she fled to istanbul like many other week is around 25000 now live here as snake religious and cultural ties with turkey have made building new lives easier for them they say but most week is

a here because they feel safer in istanbul than in china. in this primary school in istanbul for example it is quite normal for the children to learn nneka. singing reading or writing in their mother tongue. the teachers see a say in china that would be impossible. china's ambassador to turkey considers the criticism to be unjustified he says his government has done a lot to develop the week a province change on and he rejects reports of human rights violations. that was the education centers are not prisons here they are not concentration camps. the media claim this in order to dramatize the situation. in fact these places are more like boarding schools with us and the human rights of the students are respected.

so if you know where i have the impression that some media and others are. abusing this object to cast china's shinji on policy in a bad light just don't. and yet all the week as we meet in istanbul say that some of the relatives back home have gone missing up to rahman talk to for example he hasn't heard from his children and his wife in over 3 years at that time they went to china to visit the family they never came back. talked to recently discovered this video online it appears to be a chinese propaganda clip the boy says tufty is his son. who does what's your name after izzy's your age for home country people's republic of china. after 3 years the 1st sign of life for my child the last time i saw him when he was very young you could only say mom and dad now he speaks chinese

when i saw that i cried my eyes out all the breaks my heart no i never stated them. also knows dozens of such stories she herself made it out of ching junk to freedom but the horror in the camps changed her she says all she has left now is to tell her story so that the world won't forget the fate of the weakest. and the really can be no doubt the time has come for the world to listen more closely to the story of the people. now there are long and thin crisp and crunchy the great french bread gets a national institution however france is it seems not just a proud but also a wasteful nation wasteful too over its bread which prompted one inability of bangka to come up with the great french really break. our daily

bread. day after day it's thrown away by the ton so almost 4 years ago friends became the 1st country worldwide to ban food waste by supermarkets stores now face fines if they throw away edible food rather than donate it to charitable organizations from kool aid has found a way to make day old bread new again he designed the crumble or to make bread crumbs. but security this i wanted to prevent waste but also produce quality. to ensure high quality in germany it's recommended that fresh bread contain no more than 6 percent recycled bread crumbs but while 8 uses 20 percent the rest of the recipe remains unchanged yet when it comes to france's famous baguette bakers remain wary of going with it because all bakers were thrilled with the idea of being able to use their day old bread to make new bread some promote it's just that the big get is sacred here so we don't touch the recipe she said but our new method

allows us to bake new types of bread that looked like the gets would keep the pot. there just call something different and so on plenty of ideas. so that so the baguette eva day was born literally the baguette that evaded being thrown away like woman. so now even cookies are being made and tire leaf from old bread so there is nothing stale about the way they taste so. they're simple but they taste great just like regular cookies yet not their perfect one. 70 bakeries are currently using the crumbly to recycle their day old bread and reduce their food waste and well it would be happy if more joined in. the ability to double most we were told me so of course i'd like this idea to be employed an all day course that will cut this is so that ultimately no bread is thrown away all the new the moderates recycled into new high quality tasty recipes that please everyone lose that. well

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