you're watching news from berlin coming up next the doc film looks at the future of europe through the eyes of some young visionaries i'll be back at the top of the hour and i forget the web site is there for all the latest at the dot com for now though i'm anthony howard thanks for joining us. to. go beyond. the stories that matter to the. country. whatever it takes. to running. things let them know that. you made for mines.

bigger than. the big mom. mom mom mom. said in the bushes look it's dangerous to think that we couldn't lose our freedom again we need to remain vigilant if we don't it could be taken from us step by step couple from the get out. of it to smash the semitism racism xenophobia whatever form hatred takes it has always existed and always will be it's up to us to decide to stop these processes and it's our responsibility. to. have spoken the sort of the unknown i believe there are many top. i used to

bind young europeans together for this because we're fighting for a better united europe in which everyone has the same opportunities they may i'm not must go so the. law. with tension underestimate person narration. but the few new wave of activism across europe and it's going to give me hope.

didn't bother me but i just must be you know what i used to take piece and what we value about europe for granted you get more than ever i have a sense that it's actually something we young people need to fight for the tide comes to see. who caused the holocaust have you ever heard this with before. just not. you have never had it before ok. have bought our water good mr god i was born to a jewish mother and a non jewish father just part of the nazis called people like him michel meaning mixed race or half jews. that's why he wasn't to cause it to a concentration camp straight away like many others and managed to survive quite so once you are going to protect what he had to do for slave life most of the event

what's your impression of god if he reminds me of my granddad ok ok was that the smile john he looks wait. a little but i met. a guy who looks pretty old but he looks intelligent. i fear i know the jewish people won't allow him to do certain things that i thought everyone from back then was dead but they're not there that's what i learned today. i thought. this is a mistake that it's important that young people know what happened no one said that it never happens again. is that it was much worse than a 100 lines to my mother used to tell me what happened one day i'll tell my own children about it because it's important to note i haven't lied to him by some just for that i.

think. it. was a little bit strong the current government has managed to instill a fear of immigrants and the general public the idea that they bring to zeal and sometimes a transformational for all purposes a close friend have turning people against one another and inciting fear like the protests the worst are. just terms my gosh. her advice when you have all this get all your advice find a boss get caught up thank you but i. cut the fish to catch a cold she was casual just the toll we are at least i felt i was getting all the delegates out of a lot of the illegality doubtless i

. couldn't it's not correct and yes that's and that we have a serious problem with nationalism and the government except that we're seeing a growing number of attacks on the street and of people because of their background or sexual orientation as it's been about it as it's well know or it's a. tough one in the castle was the way to say i'm instructions like these patriotism has been used to stir up hatred against anyone who in matthew doesn't belong to that although the most i think is an example of how poland's right wing is trying to control the political narrative yes locust of those posters are latent aggression and i sense that the situation could escalate at any 2nd of that stuff just as i'm getting out of you can't say this isn't the right place to try and find common ground to stick with it there's no point in seeking a dialogue with this lot. it was meant to sell.

us nothing a lot of young people in athens and greece grew up with the idea of a united europe social movement and a europe that offers everyone equal. opportunities for open misfit is go. overboard but now i wonder if that was a europe that never really existed to open. up the field and when it was the port of the railroads it's the biggest in the country

and one of the biggest in europe. just because the when the 1st huge wave of refugees arrived in 2015 a reception center was set up here at the port misses the money. insall to solve this sea and this ports are symbols of the journeys so many people undertook to reach europe from turkey to completion unfortunately also of the deaths of many people of the scale of this but many of them drowned when their boats capsized. this issue ation has improved but ultimately greece has been left alone to deal with the problem come on it's not going to be soon to say european union has taken a step back but because of the visual. delimiters

another by color just to consider the figures we're talking about a 1000000 refugees who came to the e.u. which is home to 500000000 people. social because they owe it all all personally i see immigration more as an opportunity than a threat. when you believe in yourself that things need to change now and the one else is doing it and it's your responsibility to do it and in the was situation you fell and you try again. i was 22 when we created which is upon you. before i could actually have a real voice in politics i could have waited an extremely long time if i joined

a traditional party really i could have but i think that there's a real edge and. when you look at global challenges like migration flows 'd climate change fiscal justice we don't have a choice but to deal with those issues that you can. avoid the word actually means energy the unit of measure of energy we want to end it and what it takes but most important is the same way that you know every single night when you see how it. all behind the same. increase in polls as a result. there was so many wrong things happening and we need for the continent was going the wrong direction you know the rise of my hand up in france in germany the far right was also rising and it kind of came together and on the

put ok let's create a you. and me. so here's something to work on the idea for a bit and i was helping out and then we had a man who joined. we had to create a national party is to be able to run for election but we're running on one program . europe's younger generation is waking up 70 percent of votes members have never been politically active the full. day responding to populism with this. vision of a tolerant united 11 volt is pushing for greater solidarity among many mistakes and an economy that is so environmentally sustainable the 6. i have 2 worlds a kind lighting here in the middle of walsall where demonstrations of pro european

liberals and polish nationalists taking place side by side the police are out in force but the also regimes rarely crack down on racist or anti semitic rallies mostly so grassroots activists block far rights marches say that they're often penalized thanks. i think i was actually was that it's not that we can't express our opinion or demonstrate against the government but increasingly then face consequences you're so hot and might be searched one morning or you might be arrested as a demonstration that's it for now the justice system is still in the pendant and we're fighting a legal battle to protect our rights but even the fact that this fight is necessary and we have to take it to the cool this is a worrying development so go beyond china and help fellow lawyers do pro bono work

on behalf of people who find themselves having to defend their basic rights against the state. i think. i as a sentiment of i'm not sure this is about the rule of law and you know as lawyers we help ensure there's a fair relationship between the powerful state and ordinary citizens who suddenly find themselves facing a court battle that's the use of sound then opposition to they all let the facts thank you very fulfilling work. helping is more gratifying than the moment in court when you hear the words g.p.s. of course. it's the defendant on all charges it's just a hotel it's a family look at each other and feel very proud of ourselves but there are just this look there's another. look at this.

dear mr potter we were very moved by your story. we were shocked by what you had to go through nowadays people are also discriminated against because of their skin color or their religion. or your story has taught us that we need to be more aware of these issues here. is it starts off so we admire the courage and strength the test for you to share your story with us. i'm also writing a book about my journey to germany and the difficulty if i had in my own country. if you're interested in reading my book you can have it sent to you by the high mark zuckerberg association. because new issues lean hard like to read it in. terms of the moments in the not. so yes that's gosnell's. how often. is it. comes is your belief. i'm always very touched by these

letters this year do you. like this generation is growing up and i hope that when they start playing a responsible role in society will improve it. and your thought make it a diverse and welcoming society is a society that truly values human dignity its. reversal. i thought. that. i thought of. this. candidate so i remember a time when no one would listen to us and our boys. this is were silenced on kind. of. this internets were the last of this generation. mission or to harass better rights we need to realize what that means even and rise to the task of. lacka like the concentration camps themselves

we the survivors are the last witnesses to what happened there and we need to think around i will remember it when there are no eyewitnesses left sargon are scum and. i think the mother of democracy is many layers especially now consumerist nowadays . if i look at the receipt from the land sold journalism i think democracy is under threat media in greece are not independent nowadays. boron and with the media began during the financial crisis. as the guard compatible

locker room of the many jobs were cut and many journalists were forced out because they didn't comply with the agendas of their new bosses. so to response one of the generalists who didn't comply in 2015 he launched an english language website about life in greece in the wake of the financial crisis athens life the nonprofit project is part of an international network of independent media the refugee crisis began shortly after its launch. visited the refugee camps to report on the situation. a little around the time the 1st big wave of refugees arrived in 26 team journalists had relatively easy access to the refugee centers it wasn't hard to get in to interview the people there. you.

see them in this discussion the field here in the refugee camps there was a group of 15 young women from afghanistan. about the media accounts of their story weren't accurate still so they decided to become journalists themselves and give the refugees an authentic voice. so there'd be at the 1st move very just enough they said that's not. after. the 1st newspaper. men off they come came to us sunset how well they read. and just. for us. and. i think it was the. us. because we were

a to change the mind of afghan men about. the choice to name our news. on to list we believe we could supply through this news. with spain if allied to the. votes candidate in from. but her dream of securing a seat in the european parliament never got off the ground. she blames the french political systems complicated administrative rules. when you vote in germany and in almost every european country you do this on

a single ballot trances difference you have one ballot perk party and this means that parties are responsible for printing their own ballots in the 1st place and. the parties so to print but it's for the european elections it's amounted to approximately 1000000 euros which for a new political party is almost impossible and to this is added the fact that we couldn't open a bank account for a very long time because the financing those put it put into questions are so strict that every bank refuses we couldn't open a bank account so we couldn't collect money to print ballots which meant that we couldn't compete. it's extremely difficult to accept that because of some reading messed up rules and the lack of democratic will from the government you have to stop so it was for me it was heartbreaking to have to start this way

you know not doing it i think because you can convince people it's one thing being stopped by you your own country and this is the main place from being able to represent others and from me able to partake in society is heartbreaking. colombe remains undeterred she's continuing to work on behalf of votes in other european countries in london she's campaigning for andrei events on who had initially planned to run for election in italy. but to a new party. he has little hope of getting anywhere. he lives at it would be a logistical nightmare was to run of course you have because you have different legal systems and the systems to run for election and it is the case we can run in countries that we can't run in many of his.

father my grandfather and grandfathers or people come be with me here we don't even be able to. room off to the civil war and now we are. brothers we can never meet in a war on these on this continent is something that only brought us and that we should 1st serve on the board not that. i don't believe in you because you see you but i think it's just the best solution we have. this is an amazing project that was built by past generations need to make sure we keep. on the moment people nationalist movements are right sponsor there's a reason for it i don't agree with it but this commute reason puts people on the dump put on

a mean if they're going to turn to such extreme put it it's because one they feel a bit like this any other chinese. when you have a part of the nation that is suffering from hunger that doesn't have access to housing. that's not peaceful society. and i have prayed for. belltown is also campaigning for a fairer society she what some behalf and victims of the housing crisis. out of the building that was struck up here it needs more social justice there's a housing crisis across europe we need a europe wide mass movement calling for a right to housing that would benefit everyone just what he believes is 80 she's

lived in this apartment for over 70 years now she's been given notice. but added almost all of the renters have had to move out of ready like that i'm one of the last who's left that i'm continuing to fight the landlord is doing everything in his power to force me out. and i've been intimidated i've had nasty phone calls in the middle of the night that all i could hear were strange noises as if someone was telling me i would be hung out to dry that. but at least it's very hard to protect someone against a forced eviction or an extreme rent time to sleep through the law isn't really on the side of renters where fighting for the right to housing to be recognized as a human right that was devoted.

to that jane you've heard this in the past we lawyers are usually go on picnics with the car it's yours but we've known one another while now since they were the 1st renters i represented i remember how nervous and stressed i was for us but that's another secret bonded us we've come a long way since then but we've stayed friends in the. us about audiences help was invaluable without her support i would have slipped into debt and even moved back to school days as some people had stuff. heart attacks because of the stress if we could have been out and working for us for free we'd have all ended up sleeping under bridges the night before. decision my upright is out of the box working with elderly people i'm with people who have no money keeps me grounded but when you see social inequality firsthand don't see the desperation you motivated to keep up the fight because it's in the

war. on saturdays so serious meets up with the young journalists outside the refugee camp together they planned the next edition of the newspaper. then the home of the we're not out to craft brilliant articles and win a pulitzer prize it's about young people coming together and learning how to express themselves whom one. guys this is omar with us talk about your article. are from iraq i'm serving in you're the oldest is nice to meet you all know there are going to go 3 or 4 hours that's talking about is the 1st one says no one got back by this a certain group so that's my little. has no bottom letting our newspaper brings together different nationalities and religions almost all have

a project like this would never be possible in the countries we come from. because of racism and religious differences. it was known. to us. to go to welcome everybody this is another show of the regular down the line don't . go through along with the newspaper project the young refugees have also started a podcast i. share in it they explore questions such as. what does democracy actually mean. people are living here 615 years 20 years i think 30 years but i asked one of the persons there are you walking this year and he said no i cannot because i mean we're going to do we i don't have the right toward an election in european elections so what we should do as a shy before their integration into their in your society.

i was with. my family 1st arrived in germany people gave us so much help my parents were clueless they couldn't speak the language they didn't know they had to register or where they had to go to do so i remember an elementary school teacher who was just amazing she knew that my family and i had come from russia i never felt like an outsider and that's how i'd like it to be for people today. if rejection and fear of the 1st things you encounter then things aren't going to go well. for me. it's about 6 months ago or maybe a bit longer and i was in the metro with my friend. and a group of men i got in my mind i'm one of them had

a bottle of beer. and i tipped it over some guy's head and insulted him in a racist way it's just but i just. thought it was very aggressive and things i just instinctively stood up and challenge him. on the bank the 2 things that bothered me most were that no one else got involved. and it may be very sad that the guy had to go through that and just shrugged it off in a resigned way as if to say. you know this kind of thing happens to me every day when i don't want to. discuss it maybe i'm tired. of the mother. i'm going to smile with any gestures of support from other students when a business call anyone at all. and phone me go hard not to no one help.

notice no one helped we have become social outcasts. does are all for as we are for europe we envisioned in 1905 was a different one it was a europe that would grow together unify. hyuk sargon fragment if any 100 were i. guess the heart and heart but i also have 3 if that today's younger generation will triumph in just as we do on the last years to shop a better world so we started by so in that sense. joy i am optimistic about the future of europe and its and of course it's so cool shops are open.

as it is today called likewise all of that has happened if you keep it all cleaned is one micron started out i hope that he would present a new political vision while became a local political party itself i soon realized he didn't have a political program and suitable to this will cause i made that up and that is that one of the reasons i was drawn to the idea of violent it excuse me when i saw happening was a kind of populism even though his populism share some of my values with it at all but it's a complaint of his right. hand have these have moved in ok i was a host of late i have confidence that today one of us will have a seat in the european parliament whether in germany on kerry or elsewhere at the end of the day that's all that matters because i had hoped that we could stand in

france and italy and defense are inevitable i will run next time will a lot of us informed. hi everyone i just voted in the european elections you can actually put in 8 countries so make sure that you go out and you have a good day. to have more to control you know you have to come past which initiate but you can't change that's not going to be so so convenient. and on this journey you have a particular spot which kind of stuff if you possibly can be put in a channel. and you see why hasn't. come out that change is something that you don't expect to see you know you know be important to.

historical events or history doesn't repeat itself in exactly the same way but human nature is what it is man. it won't be long before the last holocaust survivors have died. samia believes that makes memorial sites all the more important they document the atrocities committed by the nazis. on the annual walk from auschwitz to birkenau thousands remember the dead and pay their respects to the survivors i say i survived for 3 long as it's today. doesn't feel a lot of the social lives we hope that so many people from all over the world

gather here for the annual march of the living and have been doing so for about 3 decades. that's. it ensures that history is remembered and the stories will never be forgotten and i really. believe that. it's going to miss the art form i'm very touched by the students and the one of them pointed out that the science people are carrying on like gravestones for people who were denied them even if you're happy. for me and. i feel this can help survivors a lot of it for you to get you knowing that young people are interested in them in their story and what they went through right.

now they have battled back to mr god has said that he hopes our generation will fight for a society that respects the dignity of all and welcomes everyone. the message i'm getting today is that i will read from him the name. even mccarthy i'll tell you what right now democracy is in crisis so it's all the more important that we journalists support independent projects such as migratory birds and our nonprofit website the more we boost the independent media the better it is for democracy than you can you give him about the armands. deal.

yes. but i mean that i'm pretty excited. we've been working towards this for 2 months. in the finally i get to pick up a new copy of our newspaper. then when i would if this is the only newspaper by and for refugees you can buy in greece i'm very happy about. this new minute maybe this paper gives a voice to people who haven't been heard so far. with this project we're helping change the public's view of refugees for the better and we get mail from readers who say that the newspaper has even made them reflect on their own lives even if maybe. they now do that on some days i feel very tired. i feel like what i'm doing with my activism

goes far beyond the call of duty. and i think wow it's a lot of work but at the end of the day it's very gratifying it's the 1st money. ever made here. i think. that's. a. that isn't so as a i want my country poland to respect human rights and our poled the rule of law i fight for these principles in the courts salads on the. weekends but i would joe dumars that my client was filmed at an anti-government demonstration by polish state t.v. and described on a new show as a common provocateur we're demanding an apology from the t.v.

station and we want to show that the t.v. report was manipulated on. the growth of interest groups that this is the 1st time that an ordinary citizen is bringing an action against the state t.v. station to meet people and not the other way round but this is my biggest case so far and it's a landmark case for society. most but my guess it's very challenging but i feel good about it because the good i feel i'm defending european values and contributing to something important that is but it does but it is i'm fighting for a more democratic society that up holds the rule of law as well but to the market it's there but it was wrong that. it was gives for example i love my job i love sorting out the final details the night before a court appearance the adrenaline on the day that. especially when it's a case that has broader social relevance. i just i get very invested in the whole

thing in that has been reached what it was to me on that. day. in court spatter describes how her client has suffered both personally and professionally because of the t.v. report. he's had to switch jobs and he feels he's been publicly shamed just that. in the end the hearing is adjourned and not for the 1st time. the case is put on hold for 6 months. but if you look at the comic edition signed on to a group of lawyers currently working on the many many cases because of the 40 percent of our cases a program. we represent people with no money who are fighting what we see as an important case. there are many lawyers in poland's doing what we do. but the some of my colleagues laugh at me but i don't care about what matters to me is what

i see results. even though my client gets to stay in their apartment because my refugee is granted papers to stay in poland for my work can improve people's lives but i try to make sure they get their morning made me and can sleep at night but i don't want to spend small going. in and. basically the gardens 1st projections it looks like i mean i mean. so dreadfully yet but it looks good really good. now. you got. me into a. website years ago the critical thing we had 0 a idea of how politics actually went. 2 years in and this is why i've been back it's if i had

a i'm so proud of what we have achieved. we campaign in countries women as you built wealth but it's gonna take yes we have almost $40000.00 volunteers so obviously i hope that we are going to be like them once and i think our. way. no. he doesn't sleep because this is an amazing success for bolton germany and an amazing success for european democracy the thinking in this image shows that in just over 2 years we managed to rally together people across the continent. them with the positive democratic vision and a shared program is the folks with an opposing t.v.

in them kardashian nothing just. showed that we can do it we are capable of getting elected who will evidence based policies be fought using puppets discourse and and we keep the lid off changing the political landscape one small step at a time. i mean everyone has a world of pain in politics and and in society as a whole to make sure we've got a society it doesn't he said you have to be in office that many ways to laugh at but i think the time to sit back and hope that all this will do it but it's gone and everyone has a responsibility and we'll get a complaint if we don't do anything to take is to meet.

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this is the w.'s line from filled in it's closing time in the city of los terrace boss if they last drink says francois despoil non essential businesses in the closed spine just a step further and tells residents to remain inside the haunts 0 moves to control the spread of runabouts. here in germany shops remain open and many of us still out and about but there's plenty of evidence of panic buying his shop was prepared for potential warranting. and that the us president gulped.