take all the challenges of the world with. the 1st 3 with entrepreneurial like you look at those 2 problems and make them one to share. the w. . hello and welcome to focus on europe show and it's great to have you with us the death of the african american george floyd has shocked many here in europe for 8 minutes and 46 seconds a white police officer pressed his knee on floyd's nick the death of a black man at the hands of a white officer has caused an opera or not just in the u.s. . tens of thousands of protesters are taking to the streets in european cities like

berlin london and paris they are standing up against police brutality and racism and they are calling for an end to racial discrimination especially by the police. in france of the death of george floyd has ignited a heated debate about police brutality in the country the frustration is particularly high among immigrant families i'm all been to and see is hoping that the protests will be a wake up call and that they will lead to lasting change because she has experienced firsthand what it means to have a loved one killed by the police. amol been to the scene is on her way to a demonstration the french moroccan woman has been fighting against police violence for years ever since her brother amine was shot by a policeman. ever. so mall is happy that finally people in france are protesting against racism in the

police force this is the same fight and we felt alone confronted with the system most oppressive and kill zone for those and when they kill over those they also kill posts of us i mean. i mean i'm trying to grow up as a troubled youth in the suburbs of paris as a teen he was sentenced to 6 months in jail for setting a fire in a school as a young man he was jailed for robbery before violating his parole and going on the lam. 8 years ago i mean was sitting outside this bar when the police found him he ran up this street until a policeman shot him i mean think of that. i was very attached to him. so i have to speak up for him. because he deserves it. not just because he's my brother and i love him. to also because of his tragic fate

hi jean. amol gave up her job began studying law and found in a mission of to combat police violence in court she proved that an officer shot her brother in the back not as initially claimed in self-defense the police man received a 5 year suspended sentence. a mole says her brother's death is not an isolated case in recent years many youths from immigrant families have been killed despite numerous requests the police weren't willing to comment on the matter i'm all takes us along to a shoot for a video against you these filings are to give illegal advise to rapper and show live phenomena. like everyone here has had bad experiences with the cops shoot there you. came here to what is the last time i was inspected they insulted

me like i was about their own. fishy this isn't funny i'm sad about the insults dominican do different shit but if you have enough of feeling like a victim of the multiple support of the i want the problem to be solved you problems with a little. police brutality against people of color is no isolated phenomenon in france says sociologist matthew please goosed. the people that know the color of a person's skin or the racial identity either opens doors or shuts them in all areas of society. whether it's looking for housing or a job dealing with the police in health care. at school or on the street. on every level the racial question is a structural problem in france so people from the former french colonies are dealt a worse hand than those whose ancestors come from france that's why the police

respect them less than white citizens amol says her organization has developed an app to help witnesses film incidents of police brutality the images are uploaded directly to a server so even if police confiscate the phone they can't delete the recording. this won't really record them succeed often it seems to be to report this people don't talk about it and tell them selves nothing will come of it. but that's just the opposite of what must be done will make a complaint help the victims and don't hesitate to take legal action the street. now imo hopes the demonstrations across france will lead to real change and that people of color be treated with greater respect. discrimination and violence these are 2 things that the roma community in romania is also familiar with many people from this ethnic minority live in squalid settlements with families often living very close to each other

a lack of sanitary facilities adds to conditions that allow infectious diseases to spread rapidly like over at 19 in fact many romanians are now blaming the role for the spread of the coronavirus we visited the small town of 2 morris to see how the roma are getting by in these difficult times. this is a roma neighborhood on the outskirts of target. it was temporarily guarded by romanian police apparently to stop them spreading coronavirus to the city. maria correct works for a humanitarian organization well she's one of the few people who come here to hand out groceries to poor roma families all. that's taken out your home ok. on the i use those children are hungry too you know. on leave now with me to get the lockdown was hard we had nothing to eat and

a few days ago we were allowed to collect scrap metal and to make money that now we can buy a few things but i've got 9 children and 5 grandchildren. sometimes we don't know who will get food and who won't get any like you know. i guess some eggs and. helps maria decide which families need help most urgently she doesn't have enough for everyone. he's roma himself so he sees the imbalance firsthand. up on money we all residents of the neighborhoods were allowed to move about freely . but here the army and police imposed a total lockdown. maria tells us that a list of names and addresses of people infected with the coronavirus was published online. only roman names were listed as also going to understand that but what about the fact that only people with traditional roman names were on the list

creates the impression that only 30 are infected and. this is very manipulative and discriminatory. i mean. it's unclear if this was an act of spite from someone who wanted to incite hatred. but i mean both with bad or if it came from the romanian north or it's. course wrong. aside from containing the pandemic remaining authorities seem to neglect the roma neighborhood garbage israeli collected and a sanitary situation is catastrophic or bad will she be grieved the city council should take responsibility you know with some locals but it's tough for them 2000 people live in this neighborhood and how many garbage comes although only 4 it's all safe. maria helps other roma communities in the region as well

there are several others around her. tensions often flare up between roma people and other residents that's one roma man who is being accused of living in the shed for the garbage containers you're urinating in the bin it stinks like you. do you see in the urine. what you're going to march and i'm sick of this i've had enough i live here shut up i'm talking. all that it will go down not. up you wake up the neighbors every night with your noise we always have to call the police it's a disaster. took a look at you good but i don't know what the problem is that i meant thank god i'm not infected i'd like to work but i can't find a job. the roma community has faced even more hostility in light of the pandemic program going to get anywhere looking for scapegoats and then no longer willing to tolerate things they used to tolerate.

roma families have clashed with police on several occasions in recent weeks. this came after police took action against roma people who returned from abroad because of the pandemic but didn't observe the lock down. footage of this conflict made national news. poverty aggravates these tensions maria correct is especially trying to help roma mothers some can't get diapers oh yeah what do you have any for an 8 month old baby yes about 20. i this has to be maria's last stop for the day her organization relies on donations which have dried up lately. she's trying her best to support the minority roma people the situation as a con from bad to worse during the corona virus pandemic. romania

and the would be welcome guest in the u.k. of the moment since they make up a large portion of seasonal farm workers there but because of the corona virus outbreak travel between the u.k. and rumania has been restricted so if thousands of workers are missing on british farms like on the new more farm the government has called on its own people to pick for britain even france child has joined the campaign but it's not as easy as it sounds mark for a good is the owner of the new more farm and he doubts that working with local labor as is really the solution. from afar it looks like a pastoral scene but this is the self declared british land army in action during the current crisis it's also a training exercise for breaks that when eastern european workers might be in just as short supply on british firms as they are now as one of the breaks or 2 years key demands british jobs for british people borne fruit say there's no i you

know and i've got plenty more friends which have been furloughed from work which happy to turn off and a hard day's work and say you know i don't i don't i don't understand this we need more eastern european workers flying in farmer mark thurgood sees things differently. he's had to with his new recruits into shape they think it's a bit of a holiday it's a bit of a novelty but then you know. so we went with it for a week or so and i said right that's enough that now we're here for a reason you know i've got a quick pick my crop if i'm not going to make any money out of this so i'm going to break even there's no point in being here since then as british helpers have gotten down to work through allusions about idyllic farm life have been dust robert hawkins a carpenter by trade was surprised that harvesting asparagus also takes real craft on the face of it you just pick in a bit of green stuff coming out of the mud but it's not. and marcus had to be very

patient with us so i think what we what we learn because you've got to read the asparagus you've got to decide if it's long enough what grade it is if it be better left for another few hours. and that's taken a while to do not really sure to be honest it's i've have a respect for the job that they do now and i know that it's actually a lot harder than. a lot of people think but yeah i have a respect for the remain years that come here and work on here every year because it's not an easy job to do. foreman juggle hungary and show the new recruits the ropes. he tries to be diplomatic when asked what it's like working with this new squad. it's it's different because. during lish people are more happy. birthday domania and then bulgarian people they just walk walking we're not really. talking just just be walking now it's have a have a happy dream and everybody's happy. it's good so having british people picked

for britain isn't really a long term alternative thurgood's eastern european workers were quicker and more motivated and no deal brags that that leaves e.u. citizens needing a work visa would ruin him especially after this year what hope of the visionary especially now is that. the 1st movie the u.k. government. u.k. public realize the need to put important role is newsnight there's no doubt about it without without those but for labor then there's going to be a shortage of its way across the u.k. the farmers' plates isn't much of a concern in london right now. though the corona crisis has hampered british negotiations boris johnson's government refuses to extend the transition period if you think that's been very clear about it our position is on change the transition period ends on the 31st of december that isn't showing to know there's no intention

of changing that that's because most members of johnson's cabinet are brags that hardliners who reject any extension david henig sat in on many of the negotiations in brussels and thinks the talks will likely fail. i think the u.k. government we've got a trade deal something simple why don't you just give us a simple they don't realize how complicated this is that's why we need more time but the people who still fervently supported greg's it they say this is a lot. to start with any extension a day is a plot by the remains you must not extend. marks or a good knows this all too well but hopes the pandemic will provoke a change of heart. and i hope that the public this year and i hope the same for the german guys. they realize that we need to follow. and push on a bit more respect. make them realize that we do need to be here. they do provide

a vital service to the economy. still. reach a deal max or a good many have no choice but to call in the british army again next year. germany and france share a deep friendship and open borders but when the corona crisis hit suddenly the borders were closed the friendship between the 2 countries was put to the test because the germans started suspecting the french on the other side of the fence of spreading the virus the borders are now reopening about their relationship remained strained we visited the region to find out what this is all about. flans yosef police has his hands full in the customs museum in hot kitchen on germany's border with france the retired customs officer is a volunteer curator of the exhibition in the old porter house there aren't any

border controls anymore and today the museum mostly serves as a symbol of good neighborliness but now the cross border friendship faces a new challenge the coronavirus crisis growth does not include the us never thought i'd see the germans having something against the french just because the coronavirus was a bigger problem and friends. who will never have believed that this would happen again just a few go because you know. french people faced insults and were accused of spreading the virus before the borders were closed again in march like at this bridge a german authority had declared the neighboring french region a risk area only those who worked on the other side were allowed to continue crossing the border police says he understands why it had to close. plus were considered welcome what can you do here with of course a virus doesn't stop with any border in the world it's the people who come across with the virus who spread it. it hit. hard he's french and commutes

to work in germany then the border was closed overnight without notice he was allowed to cross the border but some german suddenly began to treat him as a threat that microsoft when you get told that we are now no longer want to really hurt. people it's not our fault everyone knows it comes from china. so if you could just as easily have been the germans who got it worse. it's not our fault that hurt me but them. the mayor of the german border town of gets high and also has french roots as his name suggests. read the reports of cross border commuters from france who were insulted on the streets by people who told them to go back to their corona country in germany's francophile state of silent of all places franco german friendship was being put to the test. the

crisis has shown that this friendship may not be as stable as we imagined and wanted it to be. and i believe that we have work to do to establish a feeling at least among the locals that this partnership is important for europe but the year off to go. publicly criticize the behavior of his fellow cylon donors and now faces criticism himself never seriously accused of fake news here because many didn't want what i said to be true but i think it was important to say loud and clear that we have a problem. now that the border is finally open again the german wants to set an example by visiting his french counterpart in neighboring claim they. think hemant is experiencing the friendship crisis from the french side he worries that the german reaction could leave scars. if you it's created a climate of distrust. in

a way our history has caught up with us again. extremism suddenly comes out in one way or another. the looming war memorial testifies to the history of a border region that was fought over in the wars between the 2 countries the 2 mayors say it serves as a warning for politicians on both sides they say that careless statements made the crisis worse. that the political rhetoric also influences people's actions and how they deal with the fear that's around them and so if you tell them for weeks that you have to protect desire landers from the french then of course people take that into consideration. and maybe take a rational action. and that's what we've seen here. the crisis has given the old sign of the european friendship bridge and hub kishan new meaning please the former customs officer would like it to be put back in its old place.

and for intro your 1st break a friendship a strong is that between germany and france that has grown over decades with nonsense like this one question a couple on i cannot imagine that this has caused permanent damage absolutely not. in any case the coronavirus border closure will find a place in florence yousif least little museum as a new chapter of front god german border history. they say you're never too old to try something new and that's probably the model of life is the all that's german man alive and when he turned 104 he didn't try out a new hobby you know he moved to a new country poland it's an interesting choice because when he was young poland was considered an enemy but today he is in love with the country it's been 5 years since his left his hometown or found on the small village of stuff and there he has found friends who become like family. 'd

polish village is now home to germany's oldest man. even to the surprise of the villagers here. because they have never met anyone. because i never knew someone like that lived here and stuff that he must love paul and if he moved here at his age his status yes. arnold lie so there is originally from a german city of hanover and recently celebrated his 109th birthday. he lived through both world wars and has a past connection to poland because of his brother. my oldest brother was 16 when he got drafted into the army. a poor right away they sent him to poland. after a few weeks a polish soldier shot him in the leg. river god. that's how it all started.

you'll figure out on one of those now i'm in love with poland. arnold worked as an architect until he was 77. after he retired he turned to his passion of painting. his late son was a well known painter and a source of inspiration. arnold was married for 75 years but after his wife gertrude passed away he decided to move to his polish carer's home. you know have a big house and i was lonely. i had a beautiful garden god 1st knew what good is that's when you've lost everything. donald's other passion is whisky his carer lets him have one glass per day.

i've always done enough whiskey let's see how you feel this evening and then i was called white then i'm 6 bent of mind. you think i'll notice anything the whisky could trigger your brain and this led to that. i guess so. great gino you on took care of arnold and his wife for 9 years commuting back and forth between their heart over home and poland. her sister christina helped out too . when arnold asked to move in with gina she was immediately open to the idea she remembers when she 1st met arnold. out of not so high now just. arnold said to me listen your family now you're not a cleaner or some subordinate you're part of our family. and because arnold is such an easy going guy and not at all moody. we decided to take

a man complete cuts of business often if. not evolve with master or you are not up to me. i am not that vision with the sheer. polish border remain shut amid the pandemic so arnold life's work and have any german friends over for his birthday party still he loves being in poland. for your furnace real. it's lovely here one of. the i could never leave things to it good all. i'm living the good life oh. what a heartwarming inodes to close on with all the doom and gloom in the world right now we were. many more happy years the calm and maybe he'll be able to celebrate with friends and family next year our that we have come to the end of today's show i'll be back next week with the news stories from across europe thank you so much

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