for the future. to go. to. church. people for information right. to. want to express. on facebook twitter. touch. hello and welcome to focus on hero 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 amal been to unsee 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 pool leaks. amol been to see is on her way to a demonstration the french moroccan woman has been fighting against police violence for years ever since her brother i mean bush 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 family fight and we felt alone confronted with a system of suppresses a kill zone. and when they kill over those they also kill posts of us i don't care . i mean i've been 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 still can't tell 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 do so because of his tragic fate hi jean. amol gave up her job began studying law and found it in an issue 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. and all 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 amol takes us along to a shoot for a video against who these islands are to give illegal advice to rapper joel if an old man. like everyone here has had bad experiences with the cops.

or what we did or this was the last time i was inspected they insulted me like i was about boom. fishy this isn't funny i'm shut up with the insults they've been able to do different i should have had enough of feeling like a victim of the multiple support of the i want the problem to be solved the problem solving. police brutality against people of color is no isolated phenomenon in france says sociologist matthew plea goosed. no 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 i'm also 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 call them succeed often it's had to be to report this people don't talk about it and tell themselves 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 a good 19 in fact many romanians are now blaming the role for the spread of the coronavirus we visited the small town of 2 boris 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 which is one of the few people who come here to hand out groceries to poor roma families all. that that's not your home ok. on the i use those children are hungry too you know.

on leave now with me to create 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 and. sometimes we don't know who will get food and who won't we get it like you know here. i get 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 at a residence in other 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 they can live on 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. it's unclear if this was an act of spite from someone he wanted to incite hatred. but i mean both with that i know if it came from the romanian north or attorneys. aside from containing the pandemic remaining authorities seem to neglect the roma neighborhood garbage israeli collected and the sanitary situation is catastrophic or bad will she be greased the city council should take responsibility go with some locals but it's tough for them 2000 people live in this neighborhood and how many garbage

comes although only for itself say. 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 a 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 i'm sick of this i've had enough i live here shut up i'm talking. about it will go on not. that 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 the i don't know what the problem is. i mean thank god i'm not i'm affected 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

i'm going to get anybody looking for scapegoats and then no longer willing to tolerate things they used to tolerate. 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 well you get what do you have any for an 8 month old baby yes of got 20. 2 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 that's 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 prince charles has joined the company 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 bricks that when eastern european workers might be in just

as short supply and british firms as they are now has one of the brigadiers key demands british jobs for british people borne fruit so there's no you know and i've got plenty more friends which have been furloughed from work which happy to turn up and a hard day's work and say you know 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 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 breakeven there's no point in being here since then as british helpers have gotten down to work through illusions 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 just picking a bit of green stuff coming out of the mud but it's not. and marcus had to be very patient with us i think where we where 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 are 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 gary 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 a bit different because. the english people are more happy. birthday ommaney and then bulgarian people they just walk working through really. talking

just just be walking now it's have a have a happy team 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 visioneer especially now is that. the 1st levy the u.k. government. u.k. public realize the need for a pretty potent role business not that there's no doubt about it without without those but for labor then there's going to be a shortage of all of its way across the u.k. the farmers play it 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 let's be very clear about it our position is unchanged 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 cabinets are briggs and hardliners who reject any extension david haneke 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 to try 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 servant we supported brags that they say this is a lot of people who never wanted to leave the e.u. to start with any extension a day is a plot by the remain as you must not expect marks or a good knows this all too well but hopes the pandemic will provoke a change of heart. and i hope that the british public

this year and i hope the same for the german guys the year they realise that we need to follow. and be shown a bit more respect. make them realise that we do need to be here they do need to do provide a lot to the economy. still if the e.u. don't reach a deal markets are good may 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 and to find out what this is all about. plans josefa police has its hands full in the customs museum in hot kitchen on germany's

border with france a retired customs officer is a volunteer curator of the exhibition in the old border 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 that's just not i mean come to us i never thought i'd see germans having something against the french just because the coronavirus was a bigger problem in france one of the cool night i will never have believed that this would happen again the stuff you know 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 working as

it is often what can you do here with of course the virus doesn't stop at 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 but microsoft when you get told that we are now no longer want to really hurt. people and. not our fault everyone knows it comes from china. so if it could just as easily have been the germans who got it worse. it's not our fault that hurt me. the mayor of the german border town of gas haim also has french roots as his name suggests knievel 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. these are these are the crisis has shown that this friendship may not be as stable as we emerge and 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 off to go. people publicly criticize the behavior of his fellow cylon dos and now faces criticism himself never seriously accused of fake news here because many didn't want what they 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 claiming. that we're moving we 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 same thing war memorial testifies to the history of a border region that was fought over in the wars between the 2 countries are the 2 mayors say it serves as a warning for politicians on both sides they say that careless statements made the crisis worse. 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 and of course people take that into consideration and find the truth you mention and maybe take a russian election. and that's what we've seen here. the crisis has given the old sign of the european friendship bridge and hob new meaning for

lease the former customs officer would like it to be put back in its old place. and for intro to 1st break a friendship as strong as that between germany and france that has grown over decades with nonsense like this question of which 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 the salmon man alive and when he turned 104 event 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 had off on the small village of stuff and there he has found friends who become like family. polish village is now home to germany's oldest man. even to the surprise of the villagers here. because they have never met anyone. i never knew someone like that lived here and stuff that he must love poland if you moved here at his age. he said that status yes. there is originally from the 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.

border 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. had a big house and i was lonely. i had a beautiful garden god. knew what good is that's when you've lost everything.

donald's other passion is whisky he's care or lets him have one glass per day. i've always that's enough whiskey let's see how you feel this evening and then just call white then i wouldn't of months of the of you think i'll notice anything only the whiskey could trigger you again and this led to that. i guess so. great geno you on cheech took care of arnold and his wife for 9 years commuting back and forth between their hot over home and poland and 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 shy. 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 is that we decided to take him into complete cuts of business often if. not involved with master all you know of to me. and i'm not that vision of the show via. the polish border remains shut amid the pandemic are not gleiser can have any german friends over for his birthday party still he loves being in poland. draw water from israel. it's lovely here one of biden. could never leave things to it good all the glory i'm living the good life oh. what a heartwarming notes to close on with all the doom and gloom in the world right now we were. many more happy years the calm and maybe you'll be able to celebrate with

friends and family next year our battle we've come to the end up today's show i'll be back next week with the news stories from across europe thank you so much for watching and goodbye the as. well as . um. if.

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