person like. 10000000 people in the world at stake they have no nationality and told they don't belong and. that everyone has the right. everyone has the right to see. the union. oh and a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and we begin in slovakia a country where tensions are running high ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections and a country still traumatized by the 2018 killing of a young investigative journalist probing corruption in high places. marion kirshner the businessman accused of ordering the crime is facing trial and what all thora

his hope will be a demonstration of justice being done many slovaks there remain deeply disillusioned well by coincidence the brother of the accused even coach now runs a small cafe close to the courthouse where the trial is taking place and as we find out now the brothers represent 2 sides of a slovakian society that is profoundly divided. a gloomy day in slovakia. as gloomy as the country's political climate says even questioner which he believes is partly his brother's fault. as me it's ok but i don't want to talk about that all has already been said. even as brother is marion questioner a prominent businessman whose actions have had a profound impact on the country the papers are full of stories about him even no longer talks to his brother and he's tired of talking about him. marian stands

accused of having ordered the killing of journalist. a murder that sent shock waves throughout the country. and people this was not a disagreement between different mafia groups this was an attack on honest upright people. and not young people. and that makes an attack on families on all of us. i think the me talk. the brothers have little in common even runs a small confectionery his brother was power hungry and has long been thought to have ties to organized crime. was close to one covering these and marion found out the journalist was investigating him the courts now have to determine whether mario ordered the assassination. the businessman had ties to numerous individuals involved in corruption including high ranking judicial and government

figures. the killing of could siac and his fiance sparked mass protests several politicians judges and public prosecutors were forced to resign the subsequent revelations about maher in question are deeply shocked his brother yvonne who is now taking a public stand against corruption i think it's all the national courageous citizens like even touched are standing up for their rights help makes the vast cast a more just and fair country. but with less than a month to go before the slovak parliamentary elections the country remains deeply divided the governing social democrats are accused of complicity in marian kushner's dubious deals and are expected to suffer significant losses. even kushner hopes the country's liberal pro european parties will receive the majority of votes but their fragmented something that frustrates him. well the situation ahead of the elections is confusing it seems so blocky as parties don't want to work together.

or hopes the country's liberal party is in form a coalition. hasn't happened. i think that's a mistake. a coalition could have pushed for change but now that every party is just doing its own thing. i could because the. base. even cuts no worries the country's far right extremist peoples party could benefit from this situation. they've been railing against the country's roman minority the e.u. and european liberal values polls indicate they could benefit from the population's disillusionment with the political class some party supporters refer to far right leader. as their fear of well their marches eco nazi aesthetics. for some voters it's hard to feel hopeful. that the general atmosphere is bleak the weather is really bad and so is the mood. and yes.

even coach news says his brother is partly to blame. there had been some political and judicial reform since the murder of journalists 2 years ago but much work still lies ahead says even caution. us our fight and our efforts will go on. there's still much to do. is just democracy is not a given and not eternal. democracy is a state which we have to value and actively preserve that about. even hopes to see his brother sentenced as he feels marion's action strengthened the far right and damaged democracy in slovakia it's a country at a crossroads which will choose its path of the upcoming parliamentary elections. now france is still the country of choice for many people hoping to enjoy the fighters cooking or old cuisine and this fierce competition for the coveted stars

awarded by the legendary michel our restaurant guide one star means excellence to extraordinary and free well world class but what if a celebrity chef is stripped of all of his 3 stars will that happen to mark very raw one of the most highly rated flamboyance and outspoken chefs in france and he says that he's no longer willing to bear on submissions judgment. many go as an idyllic spot in the french alps but at the restaurant limits on the tensions are simmering. much better the man with the black hat is a local hero and a michelin starred chef but in 2019 his restaurant lost one of its 3 coveted mission our stars the world. the last of the star plunged him into a deep crisis he learned the art of cooking from his father and reached the upper echelons of his profession or my father would have cried to be pounded it was i was

depressed for 8 months but i'm better now that i saw. her mark that cooking is about more than just food it's almost a religion. making dishes like this one from eggs laid by his own hens and served with herb sauce piped into every shell has a very special meaning for him. to roll d.q. like you know i've always said that cooking is something spiritual you thought the ingredients come from the earth and reach for the sky we respect them food is spiritual a protector of life. and because cooking is almost wholly for him the loss of his star hit especially hard the mission specter who visited his restaurant and animists they claim that their hearts served him as soft lay made from english cheddar cheese. well. you said the souffle was made from french cheeses

publisher and before and that saffron had accounted for its yellow color. just because the cheese was ghetto they thought it was cheddar after that they confuse the cocky son jack with monkfish liver which proves they know nothing of the bad it's all the more. to reveal the criteria it uses when writing restaurants for its famous guide 10 sure justice returns to the world of french cuisine but michelin's lawyer sees things differently. that totally contradicts all of the principles of freedom of opinion critical freedom and freedom of expression if you don't want to be subjected to criticism then you shouldn't be submitting your works to the public. for writers as well as top chefs. but for his fans fed is still a star. only he could pull off a 12 course menu called the woodland symphony. canadian and is willing to

pay the price to eat it he came to france to train in the kitchen of another top chef better known as a. presenter because own life back in 2003 because he feared the loss of one of his 3 michelin stars. says stars don't really say much about a chef's actual abilities so he saved for months to be able to afford one of mark $400.00 euro menus. i had to choose between eating here and sleeping in a hotel so i'm sleeping in my car. level it's ok not to called accountable here though it's always good seeing you come for the coronary experience as believe with more. mask that feels that his fans are supporting him he sees himself as a spokesperson for those who've suffered criticism from restaurant guides now the

restaurant of his deceased close friend poor book use has also lost one of its michelin stars. they show something military and say this man did everything for france for after his death they killed him again by taking away his 3 stossel it's of death knell to a trance and french cuisine the school. there are those like food journalist emanuel have been who are convinced that mission i has a motive for taking away stars he says it's a trick the restaurant guide is using to boost sinking sales at the chef's expense . it's bad but they took away public is this 3rd star because bookies was a star himself politically and after his death it was even easier to do that was pretty currently on issue part such as a lot of rock as we now mark is fighting for his restaurants to be fluted from the michelin guide he wants no part of it. we asked a 1000 people

a 1000 guests why they came here they came for mark barraza regional cuisine not a single one said they came because of the mission on guide but no one cares about that any more often. than not things the mission and guides days are numbered and that francis chaps will be better off without it. well for the time being mark vera has lost his legal battle but the star war goes on and he's appealing against the judgment. now a chilling story from switzerland a story in which thousands of people adults and children were shot away from society in what the heartless bureaucrats chose to call administrative care but why were they shut away well valves are emmitsburg are and many others were judged to be living outside the norms of society the school system continued up until $981.00 in reports now show that survivors are still suffering under the abuse they were subjected to. the swiss authorities took him away from his mother

put him in a home and locked him away. at age 6 about her and his beggar was placed in foster care with a parish couple who abused him. for the whole period on their recent pulled my ears and by hair a lot and beat me they would lock me in the basement or in the broom closet because . they see. amice beggar is still traumatized by his experiences to this day he struggles to set foot in a church. the 64 year old set up a small museum in the basement of the community center of his village affair. which makes 10 people how this was state condemned him. around 60000 people in switzerland were submitted to so-called administrative care by the can tunnel authorities because they were judged to be socially different the

practice continued until 981 people including his mother were put in prisons like this one emma spare her was born here in 1957. we moved because my name i suspect that my mother was administratively cared for because she was expecting and illegitimate child. and that's what they did at the time. they put such mothers away they didn't fit into swiss society. well that's right. people deemed as being work shy drinkers or of having loose morals were taken to prison without trial to foster families or to a psychiatric ward there they were to be reeducated. by a system that had stripped them of their rights and excluded them from society. historians like ors garamond confirmed that these people were not criminals

conducted research for the swiss government as part of an independent commission of inquiry. by even for in the case of those receiving administrative care it was usually not a matter of criminal offenses but simply a way of life that did not conform to social norms and. stories like voter m asparagus have cast a shadow over swiss history there are around $650.00 prisons and other institutions in switzerland in which children and young adults were in prison conducted research for the swiss government as part of an independent commission of inquiry. by even for in the case of those receiving administrative care it was usually not a matter of criminal offenses but simply a way of life that did not conform to social norms and the. stories like voter m. asparagus have cast a shadow over swiss history there are around $650.00 prisons and other institutions in switzerland in which children and young adults were imprisoned exploited and in

many cases severely mistreated. or was locked up for hours on end at his foster parents house he was forced to clean and work in the garden and fields he didn't accompany us to the house as he suffered a panic attack when he tried to visit a few years ago. for of a car which the hut was so strange i hid in the bush like an animal i really felt that this was the end. when he was 11 the parish couple took him to the psychiatric clinic in minutes. they're the boy's plight worsened near the illegally constans the hospital director tested psychiatric medication on him in the 1960 s. and seventy's. time for all i know is that i felt a lot of north korea just generally bad and lousy. and every now and again i'd also have something like a seizure. because. the boy does not seem to tolerate

tough well and we believe that the unpleasant symptoms he is showing are side effects of this medication. it makes my skin crawl. and i asked myself why they did that. is fighting to have what happened to him and others forced into administrate of care publicly recognised he's received $25000.00 francs from a swiss fund but the canton of to go which is jointly responsible stated that there will be no compensation. this statement acknowledged the drug trials but said that due to a lack of further studies the extent of the damage can't be determined. finds these stalling tactics unbearable tens of thousands of people have been disenfranchised by the swiss state he said and their suffering must not be forgotten. my hope is

that something like this never happens again and also that this whole dark chapter of switzerland's past goes into the history books writes. truly cruel bureaucracy is the absolutely worst kind. well when it comes to tracking crime suspects fingerprints have traditionally been an important tool now though many governments wanting to keep an eye on or even spy on their citizens are turning to facial recognition networks and the russian capital moscow is building one of the largest such systems in the world advocates say it will help to create what they call a safe city but alyona pop over and other rights activists see it as a grave threat to people's privacy. security technology trade fair and moscow where the current trend is facial recognition. many

russian and chinese manufacturers have standards. they recognise me. and gatekeeper the camera captures people's faces and a system aps their features only those who are recognised are allowed in. this salesman has a body count on his jacket with which he's recording trade for visitors without their permission in the event of a crime the police could compare the footage to their databases. such as here when a thief stole the painting from moscow gallery in broad daylight police quickly identified him using pace recognition and tracked him down over 3000 crimes were solved in russia last year using facial recognition technology. but the lawyer and activist. is not convinced she's fighting against facial recognition or at least possible to find out the damien are here their exact location. of a square and the time precisely to the 2nd. what we know for certain is that facial

recognition was used to arrest activists from the moscow protests last year with a good guy it's like in china where only people who are against the government are arrested. you know what i think some of. these these security videos were used by the authorities for facial recognition. or get us the news that they show protesting with a poster outside the russian parliament. we tell them if you pursue us without a court order and without our consent then stop you have no right. to which is why you are not in court. were allowed to film in the courtroom only before and after the 3 hour trial as the verdict is. read we can't from the judge but you can hear her voice. and it's of no good just now when you listen to what the case is dismissed. oh yeah right you're muslim but it's not something i'm not

at all disappointed on the contrary where you were the trial encouraged me to keep on fighting that. everyone has admitted to gathering data the other side was nervous and got angry that i'm on your unusual new little guy if someone gets that upset they have something to hide the whole videos of i was not ok is that they're still going to live with this i don't know people over has appealed the verdict and she's not alone with her concerns journalist and reiko gonski wanted to find out whether the data gathered by russian police is facial recognition technology is safe so we searched for it on the darknet york appealed or still i was able to buy access to the city's facial recognition system and found a hitlist using my face which was. many people on the 80 page list look very much like him even if there wasn't a direct match with his face. some of the photos were taken from home security cameras in germany this would lead to public outrage but not in russia.

but a shrewd security is good that's very important because everybody's currently worried about their safety was name your flight is doesn't it bother you that the city knows everything about the night you thought everyone knows everything anyway because even without these cameras just through the internet. they seem to be on the margins look let's at the data could be misused and that makes me uncomfortable if somebody wanted to beat me up they can find out when i come home and who i need not because i want that you know because of the more more social. in moscow however only few are worried for most it seems security is more important than personal privacy. now the italian city of venice ranks as one of the most beautiful in the world and it's famous for its gondoliers who with great grace and dexterity pilot visitors

around the city's legendary canals on their flat bottomed gone gomers but now some of those gone the liers have been laying aside their boating hats and stripey tops and donning instead scuba helmets and wet suits so what are they up to. the nation gondoliers take pride in showing visitors around their city. but now they've also taken to cleaning up the city's many canals. the sake of venice has 276 canals taken together they are some 30 kilometers long we are trying to select those that have been frequently used by transport vessels over the past years. and . the volunteer gondolier divers have gathered in the early morning when there are still few boats about. that will set off. to not put off by the water's frigid temperature but. what they call. within minutes one of

them returns to the surface he's found something. the last time they did this the divers retrieved a staggering 80 kilograms of refuse from the murky waters. of what. then is has a serious garbage problem in part because the city attracts so many tourists. but the city council and the gondoliers agree that the visitors alone aren't to blame for the refuse filled canals. shivani joost oh of the venice city council greatly appreciate the gondoliers help in cleaning up the waterways. we may be fine kottaras it's funny really venice is a city without cars where cars on so loud to drive. but we seem to have the most

discarded car tires in the world. the only unmoveable. the cities clean up operation is sending a powerful signal to locals and tourists alike it wants everyone to get involved. but cleaning the canals can be tricky. as some objects have sharp edges or are extremely heavy. some of the city's waterways are up to 5 meters deep plenty of room to dump refuse. but the volunteers also know that sometimes objects like air conditioning units laundry carts or sinks fall into the canals from transport ships by mistake. that said many locals have also had a less a fair attitude to refuse disposal. than for years folks to do responsibly exactly including the nation's many before they just open the window and toss things into the water luckily it's no longer that way.

the gondoliers came up with the idea of collecting trash while on a diving holiday in a shipwreck stefano and his friends discovered 70 year old rubber boots and were shocked at how well preserved they were they realized this meant the waters of venice must be full of garbage to affect their hoping to change. the norm and we shall be ok it's not work for us we do it willingly yesterday wasn't such a great day because visibility was so bad on the canal bed we could only see $8.00 to $10.00 centimeters so it was hard to find objects to be especially when the canal bad gets churned up she was still we retrieved almost 500 kilos of stuff from washing machine which. right. stefano vio is already looking forward to the next cleanup dive especially since phoenicians are also cleaning up their act. but for now he's in his gone below waiting to show visitors his beautiful hometown of

venice. i love the story about the car tires car tires in venice can you believe it and that's all from focus on europe this time around thanks so much for joining us and if you'd like to see any of our reports again just go to our home page on d w dot com or visit our facebook page d w stormers and do come back next week until and bye bye.

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