it is enormous. the cleaners are sworn to secrecy they are not allowed to talk about their work. no one asks me to when. we. need to stop or something won't. do social networks have any social responsibility at all. the cleaners social the industry starts to change on. 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 lorad by a false promises from turkey they thought the borders had been opened but the greek authorities pushed the people back violently and the doors to europe remain firmly shep's among those who try to cross the border 6 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 tartarus 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 when i was. 3 years ago the as enemies 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 goal of getting deported. they only let us shower into their flat he takes the temperature when he was them food ration cards they're worried about getting sick without health insurance and they feel unwanted in turkey or they get all of that refugees are being elected potus notices are even if they've paid the rent from the recruiters and we've seen it happen a lot of. us once again raise 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. and the world of the polluted water really know what happened to us at the greek border how hard it was for us there. to. 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 new shot several attempts to cross the border by force what the tyndale. it you're just going to court the court is set up a tent. every day they told us we'd be off today or tomorrow. nothing ever happened to our church i lied to us. 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 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. posters on to buses 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 through. that it may be. a few days later they were taken to a place near. ultimately all the refugees at the greek border ended up on the

streets somewhere in turkey sent to the as the me 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 where mohammed got them off the street and into a t.v. flat because he means share it with another refugee family. but it's unclear if they'll be able to stay. or now 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. reason's father says turkey doesn't want them to but they can't go

back to afghanistan and normalisation gives a go to give somebody just and it does. turn out that we left our food for the sake of our children. now they aren't 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 life's the only option is to wait until. the turkey accepts them for europe opens her own. langan 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 spend 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.

but riding a bike in london can seem like taking your life into your own hands. nor may traffic here in the street really have a. tough time of the changing most cyclists are taking to the streets. or. philip jones and writes his bike everywhere he cycle some 20000 kilometers e.-m. to cyclists and wounded pos to be quite confident. when you're the one with the road what days they were competent cyclist is not really much of a problem but you have to be going that 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. that will cycling enthusiast from the time they

point beyond the children broke up bikes to school. that's still something of an oddity in london but that could soon change. in schools as some bike for advancing get people cycling. the next generation i think the definitely be more confident that on the buy a person with the should just go ahead and close 50 percent. side streets just close to the 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 as the riled up the city's cabbies are among cyclists the racist critics. who don't are psychos get rid of oldham get real recycles or buses. they would and then uses the traffic at the moment is terrible subvocal use in. roads or whatever making more salk alliance is just going to make the traffic even worse as digests

because half the people who saw it drag the marmot don't know the high white collars on the small percentage or do not highlight charge. so the should be some sort of a test for cyclists and yet 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 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 and of the my right of free will as a former secretary of transport i will agree this is what should be a new government agency for psychic but they must act fast when commuters return on mass and won't be enough buses or trains to accommodate them and attend to social distancing missions if even a small percentage of these commute to start using cars instead london will be

fixed 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 to say there is a better way of to. manage the city london's financial district is leading the way . during the day access is restricted to process and bikes only. and sidewalks are being widened to give kids estrin school room. and in some residential districts streets are being flumist to 3 traffic drivers a having to find others will say. oh we'll. this just in these few weeks is an amazing opportunity to connect a lot of the unconnected parts to get the local councils on board to get the local

roads resignation or cycle again to stop this car centric university. during the current crisis london feels a bit more like bike friendly amsterdam. philip jones and his family hope it will stay that way take this new golden each for cycling seems almost too good to be training. 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 when 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 delicacy. never get it back you know. but this is

a comes from the pipe in your region these are fridays you rarely find it's really a delicacy and it tastes great and that event and the fact that the asparagus it's magnificent plan it comes from to read some 200 kilometers away from paris like come to think it's a lemon that shall stimulus has passed to sights but this isn't. ordinarily the police is a restaurant in central paris. millet's been transformed into a little market stocked with regional products i'm. going to the local people line up to buy them from a mundane shine young who normally earns her living as one of the top chefs in paris. you know you do a lot of the supply and has the demand. well just bring the 2 together if you measure my restaurant as i was denny way. 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 there are customers that they can buy locally sourced french foods here. all 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 who 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 search shift. here llorar this is element surrounded by vegetables

lettuce and herbes. the role grown adults are going to firm 50 kilometers from paris. for its asparagus series 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 not to hide any operators in fact a clue of what i buy because they can't live from their work and the costs are sky high and i hope we can change that evidently to the major crisis like this that to make us realize that's all going to go on arguing 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 micro is demanding that 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 killing will say this crisis has taught us that the poultry with some domestic products and materials will stop the strategically important for europe to be independent. 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 skeptical about microns i do this enough that my new france and germany come produce everything themselves and it's not in their interests to do say much 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 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 fall. a member of the european parliament has launched a promising initiative a european alliance for a green recovery that demands 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 if you are using a sustainable efficient strategy we can kill 2 birds with one stone you know so be successful with it economically and ecologically a sort of property goodish that's precisely what dean aims to do everything she sells here was producer going to clean 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 we ate us or i guess from peru an awful awful mainstream china huge battles i. think there's a few people in short to change their behavior management quite well the majority male kind for i don't know and measure just about some indian knows one thing for certain she can't wait to reopen her restaurant. and where staying with food 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 too 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 a campaign to save this delicious food. crispy cold. toasty warm and 1000 calories a serving anything but healthy no matter this is patriotic eating a group and we're asking family to eat fried rice rather than just once a week every. potato storage is or food to the brim. still has more than 5000 tons from last year's harvest the worthless not.

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 youngest off to $180.00 euros a tonne now it's around $10.00 to $15.00 euros the storage is expensive to which we don't know if the market will recover so we have to choose between hoping for better prices and using more of a 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 are the frontin variety the ground specially for frying so they can't really be sold for anything else but so are a coal mine says he's not ready to give up we have now reached the point where we 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 rice twice a week is nice but with the amounts we have that's just a drop in the bucket yeah but here in. the mounds of potatoes is a disaster for the family farm and 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. you 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 nevertheless 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 the storm together since this community was founded in 1057 the 50 to secure has never yet asked for help. but this is an exceptional situation . of the euro and the belgian government and help our farmers ok so now the potato processing industry has had a new endings of around 2000000000 euros now and the deep freeze facilities are almost full. yet from 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 and tens of them that's why it's a good idea to eat more fries to keep the tradition alive and well. 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 if they don't want people i'm trying to eat lots of fries to help the farmers. really i'm doing my part by following the recommendation i'm happy to help with your tip of the mashed salted oras 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 here there is an 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 fights but now he is using his skills to show solidarity with the it's how you and 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. from the front i think it's fantastic we're doing this to meet your whole thing it's like a dream of argo i'm very impressed it's very hard to. you know corners are creatures that inspire the imagination of the symbolism miracles and healing and all good things and good no one thought of course i wanted to use the idea 1st started on people and it's like we're singing fire balconies and i like any of the quarantine of the one we saw what was happening on easley's balconies we thought of

them and are great for going to malls well we've got this toy. on such a busy indeed in showing off european solidarity with its i feel for you there are political shortcomings to use especially at the beginning of the pandemic so i says the 2nd time europe has led if i lay down and during a really big crisis it's good lawson but if you can squeeze of us off 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 phone this creates a link or so and that's how it turned out. movie stars i think are ready. to. leave you. gentlemen fine. young guy.

he is seeing. i'm not. saying our. get you quite quite nice states yet some money said to me about. before that to program a question for the support of the. state she might sort of show you make your thinking that. you can always do something. this is a real mess and i always try to zoom right out. i know when you are. and sadness and gratian but you see steve you some. family.

and a dad's dazzling light brings us to the end of the days phil will 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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