no one asks me to. agree. i need to stop or something will be. to social networks have any social responsibility at all. the cleaners. the industry starts on w. hello and welcome to focus on europe we're living in a time when staying at home is the new normal but we want to start today's show by looking at those who don't have a place to call home refugees millions of them are stranded in turkey and their biggest dream is to find safety in europe. back in february tens of thousands of migrants try to cross the border into greece lord by

a false promises from turkey they thought the e.u. borders had been opened but greek authorities pushed the people back violently and the doors for europe remain firmly shep's among those who try to cross the border is the as the me family but just like many other refugees they had to give up they were taken away by the police and watched followed was an odyssey through turkey they traveled from the greek border in the northwest to the turkish inland and then in several exhausting trips they made it to istanbul the torturous journey took them $22.00 days our reporter met up with a family to see how they getting by. refugee web cam mohammed has cut some pitta bread a few tomatoes and soda for the children. in those it's barely enough for one meal for the 7 member family he's about to visit for not only. 3 years ago yes he means

fled to turkey from afghanistan. they'd planned to have arrived in europe a long time ago but instead their stuff here on the outskirts of a stumble. for weeks now they've been afraid to leave the house out of fear of the coronavirus of getting deported. they can only let the ashar into their flat he takes the temperature where he was them food ration cards they're worried about getting sick without health insurance and they feel unwanted in turkey or rather that all of the refugees are being evicted part of notice or die even if they've paid the rent from will drop a little creatures and we've seen it happen a lot of good and that was enough and today the razer the families eldest son is appearing on the social media channel of mohammed's relief organization he's recounting their experiences in recent weeks. around the world of the polluted

water really know what happened to us at the greek border how hard it was for us there must. be as emus arrived at the greek border at the end of february along with tens of thousands of other refugees. the turkish government had just announced that the doors were open for them to go to europe but on the other side of the fence greece had slammed the door to the e.u. shot several attempts to cross the border by force what the tyndale. rich are going to set up a tent. every day they told us would be off today or tomorrow. nothing ever happened to our church i lied to us too. the few who made it to the greek side were violently driven back into turkey. like these iranians who were even stripped of their clients. on. the

run for a month raise that as the me and others waited at the border in the freezing cold and fell for then one night the turkish police shelled out. their logic or dinner they dragged those out of our tents with force when they start their belongings on fire. pushed on to buses and drove us off we were on the road for 20 hours. and we only hunted dried bread to eat and we weren't allowed to disembark. the family was brought to malathion 1400 kilometers away they were put in a quarantine facility like this. a few days later they were taken to a place near uncorrupt. ultimately all the refugees at the greek border ended up on the streets somewhere in turkey said at the azimi family. the people around the world they say have lost any interest in their fate. will be taken advantage of as

a political football everyone knows that by now not just the refugees but the whole international community. at the end of their odyssey the volunteer refugee worker mohammed got them off the street and into a 2 flat because he missed share it with another refugee family. but it's unclear if they'll be able to stay. on or go and i know there's a coronavirus to on their way to europe is blocked and we can't work here is there are life is hopeless here when i ask for work they say we don't take foreigners here from the is a nice dream of a life in europe has become a nightmare. raises father says turkey doesn't want them but they can't go back to afghanistan either the normal routine gives a somebody just in the. joy of it and we should return. we left our home for the

sake of our children that's a little better but now they are even able to go to school. and so they do what they can to get by with just some bread tomatoes and a few are lives the only option is to wait and hope hope that turkey accepts them or europe opens her around. london is not just the capital of the u.k. it's also the country's capital of traffic jams last year drivers in london spent nearly 150 hours sack in traffic that's 150 hours of people being idle and that waste of time has cost the city billions of course the streets of london are now empty because many people are working from home and that has given way to bikers they are taking back the streets. no idea mike in london can seem like taking your life into your own hands. normally

traffic here is a street may have a. tough time is it changing more thoughtful is that taking to the streets. or. up the mountain writes his bike everywhere he cycle some 20000 kilometers a year the cyclists in london cost to be quite comfortable. when you're away with the road what they say if you're a competent cyclist is not really much of a problem but you have to be going at more or less the speed of the trough and a new presence on the road has to be quite strong. altec finished films and his family are pleased that more and more london as a discovering the joys of cycling. the role of cycling enthusiast from the time they were young the children drink that bikes to school. that's still something of an audit seen on t.v. but how could soon change. in schools. for events

they get people cycling. the next generation i think the bethany be more confident that on the by i personally think they should just go ahead and close 50 percent. sidestreets just close the lid cause don't need to go on 50 percent so give us access to everybody on clothes as much as possible. those kinds of demands get unstuck see guys as will riled up the city's cabbies are among cyclists the racist critics. who don't are psychos get rid of old and get over psychos over buses. they would and then misses the traffic at the moment is terrible sabar colleagues in. drugs or whatever making more cycle license is just going to make the traffic. even worse study dress because half the people that saw the marmot don't know the high white collars and the small percentage of do not highlight charge.

so this should be some sort of a test for cyclists and yes london's in a city is currently swarming with bicycles as the qur'an the crisis ushered in a new age of mentality. cyclists now have some powerful supporters behind them they'll be a huge amount of planning going into helping people to get to work other than by mass transit and i this will be i hope i did about my writing very well as a former secretary of transport i would agree this is should be a new government agency for cycling but they must act fast when commuters return on mass and won't be enough buses or trains to accommodate them and to take it to social distancing missions if even a small percentage of these commute to start using cars instead london will be faced with templates the temptation to get into medical will be very very strong

and understandable so i think we've got a short window of time to reach out to both to the politicians and to the public a large to say there is a better word of to a place. that is the city under his financial district isn't in the way. of managing the debt access is restricted to places and bikes only. and inside will to be widened to give pedestrians more room. and in some residential districts streets are being close to 3 traffic drivers a having to find other bricks. oh well now this just in these few weeks there is an amazing opportunity to connect a lot of the unconnected parts on to get the. local councils on board to get the local roads. or cycle again to stop this current university.

during the corona crisis london feels a bit more like bike friendly amsterdam. for the internet his family hope it will stay that way they this new golden age for cycling seems almost too good to be true . a few weeks ago france will slowly started loosening its lockdown restrictions but restaurants remain shut probably for a couple of more weeks that means assessed like one day currently don't have a lot to do but that's not stopping her from doing what she loves and that's selling food is giving her fellow paris a bit sam's to rediscover home made delicacies. that difficult if you don't think this is a comes from the pap in your region these are varieties you rarely find it's really a delicacy and it tastes great. and that there's the asparagus it's magnificent

explain what it comes from to read some 200 kilometers away from paris like i'm talking it's a level that shall best of all you have to cite. ordinarily police is a restaurant in central paris. millet's being transformed into a little market stocked with regional products. going to local people lined up to buy them from. who normally earns her living as one of the top chefs in paris. yeah you do. the supply and here's the demand they don't just bring the 2 together people imagine if my restaurant was closed anyway because i started with the cookies then i found the guy with the least preserves and little by little. at 1st i only opened in the morning so now i mention all day i don't know that there are customers that they can buy locally sourced french foods

here. the chain is just crazy you buy products that come from far away and don't even necessarily that good stead of supporting local producers can make great products right here you know a new delivery has just arrived and then helps bring in the project's. long barrow he comes to paris twice a week with his freshly picked vegetables normally he only supplies restaurants like um indians but the crisis has changed everything. it's brilliant that is the only ship i work that's come up with this idea it's a 3rd shift. here llorar isn't as element surrounded by vegetables lettuce and herbes. the role grown adults are going to phone 50 kilometers from paris. it's asparagus ease of

neurons discerning customers appreciate his produce under willing to pay a pretty penny for it. still it's not an easy time for growers but it is with us want to hide any operators have got a clue of what i buy things they can't live from or work and the costs are sky high . i hope we can change that evidently to the major crisis like i run a virus to make us realize that i can recall now you know with the corona crisis force the french to change their ways president emanuel micron thinks so and it's banking on domestic goods just days ago he visited farmers in brittany micron is the monday but not just france but all of europe real national is important branches of production to reduce reliance on overseas imports he wants lessons to be learned from the shortages of face masks and medicines during the pandemic the

key to this crisis has taught us that the poultry with some domestic products and materials strategically important for europe to be independent of what when she went to bed but is that even possible these days it's quiet on the famous shaun's elisei in paris and sofia seif works as an economist here she's skeptical about micron's i do this enough that my new france and germany come produce everything in silence and it's not in their interests to do say. we need to ask ourselves in what areas it makes sense to remain independent during a crisis but we shouldn't become opponents of globalization i have to because globalization gives us affordable access to a vast array of products i do quickly dream how should the economy look post corona green says pascal come from. a member of the european parliament he's launched a promising initiative a european alliance for

a green recovery that demands reforms to create a climate neutral economy and transform agra foods systems while generating jobs and growth almost 200 politicians union reps and even larger corporations like coca-cola and ikea have to clear their support carvajal home we need to work together because this time we must do better than during the financial crisis a decade ago it's good that you are using a sustainable efficient strategy you know we can kill 2 birds with one stone so be successful with it economically and ecologically who to me is sort of probably greater that's precisely what dean aims to do everything she sells here was produced organically and locally but her wares don't come cheap food prices have risen by as much as 12 percent during the crisis i'm indians customers do ask about the items price but the french are generally more willing to shell out for good food than germans are for example. in her kitchen

and indian only every uses are going to regional products. does she think the corona crisis will change people's eating habits. and that told me all of it when up until alaric makes everything up. on i guess from peru an awful awful men's from china hubris i. think that's a fairly new p.r. collishaw to change their behavior for him and when the majority male kind for i don't know any measure i think this is about some indian knows one thing for certain she can't wait to reopen her restaurant. and where staying with food the moving from french cuisine the belgian kids and i live in belgium and i can tell you if there is one. one dish that the belgians are proud of it's their fries but now that's 2 is at risk due to the corona outbreak

farmers have harvested times of potatoes but it's the demand for fries has dropped sharply and that's why all belgians are now being called upon to take part in the campaign to save this delicious food. crispy coltan. toasty warm and 1000 calories a serving anything but healthy no matter this is patriotic eating a group in the homes of long we're asking. to eat fried rice rather than just once a week. potatoes storages are filled to the brim. still has more than 5000 tons from last year's harvest the worthless now. as long as cafeterias restaurants and fast food chains are closed all over europe there's no demand for spuds you know normally we get about $150.00 young to $180.00

euros a tonne now it's around 10 to 15 euros the storage is expensive to get we don't know if the market will recover so we have to choose between hoping for better prices and using more of the thought or. the good minds of been raising potatoes for 3 generations. they've modernized operations over the years nobody in the firm can remember a time when potatoes weren't in demand. it could be the worst year for potatoes in history these are the fun tame variety they're grown specially for frying so they can't really be sold for anything else but some great command says he's not ready to give up we have now that's the point we need to through the road give them a way we can still keep them fresh for 2 more months before they begin to roll in the idea of eating rice twice a week is nice but with the amounts we have that's just

a drop in the bucket and yeah but here in. the mounds of potatoes is a disaster for the family farm in all of belgium more than $750000.00 tons of potatoes are at risk of either being fed to bio gas energy plants or animals but the farmer says that even his cows are getting sick of sports. know with the country and the world produces more potatoes than belgium. around $5300000.00 tons each year but the fry factories are only really get half capacity right now. this is where tater gets trimmed down to fry size for his or belgians national dish never the less around 90 percent of belgian fries are export it mostly to other european countries since everyone's in the same boat. they should all weather this storm together since this community was founded in 1057 the

party to secure has never yet been answered. but this is an exceptional situation. just moments of the euro and the belgian government and help our farmers to know the potato processing industry has had a new era news of around 2000000000 euros now and the deep freeze facilities are almost full. yet fries stans are gradually being allowed to reopen. so get on while they're hot . this is one of the everyone thinks fries come from france because they're called french fries but that's nonsense we belgians and tens of them that's why it's a good idea to eat more fries to keep the tradition alive. the secret of belgian fries is that they're cooked twice in beef drippings at 2 different temperatures.

they're not vegan but few belgians are. 3 easing for their country now they say don't want your i'm trying to eat lots of fries to help the farmers but i'm doing my part by following the recommendation i'm happy to help with your tip of the mashed salted or as frogs potatoes every day. belgians are doing their bit because if it's a choice between improving the national body mass index or rescuing the national dish it's a no brainer tasty fries tipped the scales every time. many big events have been canceled in light of the corona pandemic so right now big theaters and concert halls remain empty and dark which means that there is little to do for people who are normally responsible a lighting up big stage. like the german light artist georg fights but now he is using his skills to show solidarity with the italian victims of cope with 19

we visit had a light designer in a backyard in munich to see the show he has dreamed up to bring back a glimmer of hope. for fun i think it's fantastic we're doing this 2 metre tall thing it's like a dream of argo i'm very impressed it's very difficult. you know corners are creatures that inspire the imagination of the symbolize miracles and healing and all good things and good ones but of course i. wanted to use the idea 1st started on people and it's like we're singing fire balconies and getting of the quarantine of the other when we saw what was happening on easley's balconies we thought of them and our great recording was well well we've got this toy. on such a busy indeed in showing off european solidarity with its early would be there were

political shortcomings to say especially at the beginning of the pandemic so this is the 2nd time europe has let down i mean during a really big crisis it's good lawson but if you think because it was so often the on those used a moment of hiding i didn't understand the atmosphere in italy very well with the lord it over the people there were really angry but i think especially by german politics titans it's in because we wanted to send a signal that not all of them had lost their fun this creates a link or so and that's how it turned out. about the movie star i think we were ready. to. be hugely. gentle to fine. young. enough to be seen. i'm loving mom.

mom. did she quite quite nice dates yes someone easy i think they're both. people bit different graham and i question for this one of them it's. the state she might sort of show you make sure thinking that. you can always do something. this is a real mess and now it's as it might sound. you know when you are. and sad the situation but you see steve do something. and leave. oh. and a bad dazzling lied to bring that so b. and today's feel we'll be back next week with more interesting stories from across

europe from me and the rest of the team thanks for watching and goodbye.

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