which is a plan b. abandoned. or. it's happening faster than anticipated. mass is supposed to prevent flooding but the only delay for. how we live in the future. 660 levels starts on d. w. . the team. hello and welcome to focus on europe we are 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 to your old remain firmly shep's among those who try to cross the border 6 is the as any 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. he knows it's barely enough for one meal for the 7 member family he's about to visit them only. 3 years ago the as enemies fled to turkey from afghanistan. they'd planned to have arrived in europe a long time ago and fled instead for their stuff here in 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 only let the ashar into their flat he takes the temperature in there was them food ration cards they're worried about getting sick without health insurance and they feel unwanted in turkey or that all of the refugees are being affected by this notice and are even if they've paid the rent from your experiences and they've seen it happen a lot of. the solution today raising the family's eldest son is appearing on the

social media channel of mohammed's relief organization he's recounting their experiences in recent weeks. the overcommit it was already know what happened to was at the greek border how hard it was for us there. on. the 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 beaten down. at each other to the currently set up a talent. every day they told us would be off today or tomorrow. nothing ever happened to our church highlighter us. our show. the few who made it to the greek side were violently driven back into turkey. night fees

iranians who were even stripped of their claim. on. the island for a month raised as the me and others waited at the border in the freezing cold and fell for then one night the turkish police showed up. to let you go to dinner they dragged those out of our tents with force then they set their belongings on fire. pushed us on to pass' and drove us off we were on the road for 20 hours. we only hunted dried bread to eat and we weren't allowed to disembark. the family was brought to monetti 1400 kilometers away they were put in a quarantine facility like this yes. they did maybe. a few days later they were taken to a place near uncorrupt. ultimately all the refugees at the greek border ended up on

the street 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 work and mohammed got them off the street and into a 2 flat because he means 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 for he is a nice dream of a life in europe has become a nightmare. reason's father says turkey doesn't want them to but they can't go

back to afghanistan and normalisation gives a girl get somebody to listen to this. we left our home for the sake of our children. now they aren't even able to. unsound they do what they can to get by with just some bread tomatoes and a few are life's the only option is to wait until. the turkey accepts them for europe and police around. london is not just the capital of the u.k. it's also the country's capital all the traffic jams last year drivers in london spends nearly 150 hours sack in traffic that's 150 hours of people being idle and that wasted time has cost the city billions of cora's 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.

talking up i can london can seem like taking your life into your own hands. no major traffic here is a string they have a. tough time is it changing most likely it's the taking to the streets. or. philip jones and rides his bike everywhere he cycle some 20000 kilometers e.-m. to cyclists in london us to be quite confident. when you work with the road like this if you're a competent cyclist is not really much of a problem but you have to be going get more or less the speed of the trough and a new presence on the road has to be quite strong. altec finished so insane and his family are pleased that more and more london as it discovering the joys of cycling . that will cycling enthusiast from the time they were young the children grow that

bikes to school. that's still something of an oddity in 120 but that could soon change. in schools. for them if they get people cycling in the next generation i think the bethany be more confident that on the buy i personally think they should just go ahead and close 50 percent. side streets just close enough to cause don't need to go on 50 percent so give us access to everybody. close as much as possible. those kinds of demands get london's taxi driver has the riled up the city's cabbies are among cyclists the racist critics. who do it outside those get rid of old and get over cycles. they would and then it says the traffic at the moment is terrible so by car use in. roads or whatever making more cycle lines is just going to make the traffic even worse stages because

half the people that saw the marmot don't know the high white collars and the small percentage of they're not the highlight charge. i did. 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 crisis in a new age of mobility. cyclists now have some powerful supporters behind them there will 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 never but my writing for will as a former secretary of transport i will agree this is should be a new golden age for psychic but they must act fast when commuters return on mass and won't be enough buses or trains to accommodate them and take it to social distancing missions if even a small percentage of these commute to start using cars instead london will be

faced with 10 children. 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 the politicians and to the public at large to say there is a better writer to fish. than is the city london's financial district is leading the way. during the dead access is restricted to passes and bikes only. and sidewalks are being widened to give pedestrians small room. and in some residential districts streets are being close to 3 traffic drivers are having to find other bricks. oh oh. this just in these few weeks was an amazing opportunity to connect a lot of the unconnected parts to get the local councils on board to get the local

roads. or cycle again to stop this through university. during the corona crisis one feels a bit more like bike friendly amsterdam. philip johnson and his family hope it will stay that way. they face new gold in each cycling seems almost too good to be trailed. 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 assess like i won the shunyo currently don't have a lot to do but that's not stopping her from doing what she loves and that's selling food she is giving her fellow perez the ends of the chance to rediscover home made delicacies. identical to back you know. this hey

comes from the crap in your region these are fridays you rarely find it's really a delicacy and it tastes great last time for the event and then there's the asparagus it's 1000000 if ascends planned it comes from to read some 200 kilometers away from paris like come to think it's a lemon that shall bestival to sight this is an. ordinarily police is a restaurant in central paris. millet's been transformed into a little market stocked with regional products. the country what is it going to the local people line up to buy them from. who normally earns her living as one of the top chefs in paris. yeah you do a lot of the supply and taste the demand. well just bring the team together my restaurant was promised anyway. i started with the cookies then i found the guy

with the lead preserves and little by little it's ground. but 1st i only opened in the morning so now i'm open all day now for customers that they can buy locally sourced french foods here. chain is just crazy to 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. the new delivery has just arrived didn't help spring in the projects. 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. so it's brilliant as the only chef i've worked at so it's come up with this idea this is a 3rd shift. here llorar isn't as element surrounded by vegetables

lettuce and herbes. the role grown adults are going to firm 50 kilometers from paris. it's asparagus sees of the ranch discerning customers appreciate his produce under willing to pay a pretty penny for it. still it's not an easy time for growers published with us want to hide any operators have got a clue of what i buy because they can't live from their work and the costs are sky high. i hope we can change that evidently to the major crisis like a 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. is the mandate that not just fronts 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. this crisis has taught us that. with some domestic products and materials strategically important for us to be independent of what we shouldn't be but is that even possible these days it's quiet on the famous shaun's elisei in paris and sophia seif works as an economist here she skeptical about microns i do this enough that my new france and germany comp produced everything themselves and it's not in their interests to do same better and 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 love because globalization gives us affordable access to a vast array of products and quadri i do quickly dream potion the economy look post

corona green says pascal confines. a member of the european parliament has launched a promising initiative a european alliance for a green recovery but the man's reforms to create a climate neutral economy and transform agra food systems while generating jobs and growth almost 200 politicians union reps and even large corporations like coca-cola and ikea have to clear their support cover your home we need to work together because this time we must do better than during the financial crisis a decade ago goodenough view by using a sustainable efficient strategy we can kill 2 birds with one stone you know so be successful with economically and ecologically a sort of property critters 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. or i guess from peru an awful awful mainstream china huge loss i. think that's a fairly new p.r. collishaw to change their behavior from him and so will the majority male kind for i don't know any measure just about some indian knows one thing for certain she can't wait to reopen her restaurant. and where staying with food and moving from french cuisine so 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 back to 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 cold salty. toasty warm and 1000 calories a serving anything but healthy no matter this is patriotic eating a group and all we're asking for. to eat fried rice rather than just once we. put into storage is our food 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 is no demand for spuds no more normally we get about $150.00 young to $180.00 euros a tonne now it's around $10.00 to $15.00 euros the storage is expensive to 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 combines have 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 that affronting variety the problem especially for frying so they can't really be sold for anything else but some are a common says he's not ready to give up any other of these the point you need to throw them out give them away we can still keep them fresh for 2 more months before

they begin to roll in the idea of eating fries twice a week is nice but with the amounts we have that's just a drop in the bucket and yeah but here are the mounds of potatoes is a disaster for the family farm and all of belgium more than 750000 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 in the world produces more potatoes than belgium. around $5300000.00 tons each year but the fry factories are only running at 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 weathered this storm together since this community was founded in the ancient 57. has never yet been answered. but this is an exceptional situation. just moments of the euro and the belgian government and help for farmers oxen now the potato processing industry has had a new evidence of around 2000000000 euros now and the deep freeze facilities are almost full. yet try stands are gradually being allowed to reopen. so get them 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 invented them that's why it's a good idea to eat more fries to keep the tradition alive but. 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. there isn't for their country now if they don't want people i'm trying to eat lots of fries to help the farmer. really i'm doing my part by following the recommendation i'm happy to help with the work of the mashed salted oras frogs the teachers 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 over like designer in a backyard in munich to see the show he has dreamed up to bring back a glimmer of hope. for the 4th i think it's fantastic for this 2 metre tall saying it's like a dream or though i'm very impressed it's very difficult. you know corners are creatures that inspire the imagination the symbolize miracles and healing and all good things and good one probably the court i. wanted to use the idea 1st started on people and it's like we're singing fire balcony in front of the beginning of the orange and of the when we saw what was happening on easley's balconies we thought of them and our great recording was well we've got this toy.

on top of this indeed we didn't show enough solidarity with it so you will be there are political shortcomings to use especially at the beginning of the pandemic so this is the 2nd time europe has led if i lay down during a really think crisis could listen but if you think because it was off the on those used a moment in time 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 him because he wanted to send a signal that not all of them had lost their phone this creates a link or saw and that's how it turned out. movie star i think they're ready. to. believe you. done a good fine. young lives are. not

pleased. i'm loving mom. our. you did she quite quite nice dates yes someone easy i think about. before that different demand question for this one of them it's. just that she might sort of show you mr thinking that. you can always do something. they seem to miss and i always try to cement out. and our when you are. and sad to see creation but you see steve do something. and leave. oh. oh.

and the bad dazzling light brings us to the and today's feel we'll be back next week with more interesting stories from across europe from you and the rest of the team thanks for watching and goodbye.

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