were 2 part. difficult. is there and the danger is mutual admiration the rest. starts august 3rd. hello and welcome to focus on the hero thanks for joining us today look we're in a crisis has overshadowed many important issues that were meant to be top of the agenda for europe in 2020 such as environmental protection the fight against covert 19 has actually intensified along existing problem and that is plastic waste the ocean floor is littered with huge amounts of facemasks disposable gloves and

packaging material all these are leftovers of items that millions of people are around the globe are using to protect themselves from corona virus. the plastic waste in the water and along beaches threatening eco systems in spain adding to it the numerous challenges the country has faced recently jus to cope with 19 now environmental activists in what i'm mad at bill cigarette north of i worry that that's the increased amount of plastic waste will cause irreversible damage to people's health and to nature. leon i'll be getting is pulling plastic waste from the river segura near the spanish city of alicante there's heaps of garbage everywhere. the focus of the problem is that plastic is very light so it's easily swept up by

the wind and flows down rivers where it ends up in the sea when they're not. really honest says spain's plastic waste problem has gotten worse since march when the corona virus outbreak began. in the middle everything's got worse since the pandemic started using less disposable plastic packaging but now spanish people are buying even more plastic wrapped items because they're scared of getting infected disposable plastic gloves are common in supermarkets so their lights an easily swept away a little bit of everything. but then demick has led to a waste crisis now even environmentally conscious consumers feel safer buying plastic wrapped products. that don't be gathered by that how are you supposed to buy towards here's what a plastic packaging. how would i transport them what. they did.

and then i won't be buying single tomatoes so that means i need another plastic bag . all this is wrapped in plastic so you can buy some unpacked groceries but i definitely prefer the ones that are packaged i'm doing that for the sake of my family and health and you know. here 200 kilometers further south near the city of i'm at the spanish farmers are growing bell peppers and melons under vast plastic sheets. some of them disposable old sheets illegally but catching the culprits is tricky. we managed to find a former farmer who was willing to talk about the problems. even growing crops as their livelihood images like these tarnish their image a few farmers are ruining everyone's image. and his colleagues from the marine conservation organization study what happens to plastic waste in the sea.

they take samples to have them checked for tiny plastic particles. that i mean these substances are toxic. they are poisonous chemical products that break down in the sea should not only be concerned about plastic bags floating around. the tiny plastic particles you can only see under a microscope or even more dangerous. team have their latest sample examined at a lab. and they find yet more plastic particles. and this plastic passes through the food chain through fish and ends of your bodies to also absorb it through our skin when we swim. we're basically contaminating yourself. sea turtles are the worst affected this specimen being studied at the university of

all media was found dead. marine biologist marty got us and her team are conducting a post-mortem to find out what caused its death. they suspect it might have died from ingesting plastic waste which turtles often misinterpret is food when i'm not here to talk about a good i'm going to mother got the coffee get them the plastic can clean up their digestive tract i want to not only that we now know that the plastic can poison them not because of a topic on the. plastic waste in the sea poses a serious health risk to humans and animals alike. that's why i began to spend so much time cleaning up. she says the pandemic shouldn't serve as an excuse for us to produce even more garbage she says protecting the environment also keeps us healthy . that's got us one of the 2 well connected to them but if we destroy the environment we don't want to endanger our own health we are seeing this now during coronavirus pandemic that we're not thinking ahead and not protecting the

environment and not treating animals like we should all the photographs that the european union wants to cut back on single use plastics but these days due to the pandemic the very opposite is happening. it takes some 500 years for these materials to decompose so they'll be with us for generations. when you hear the word mafia you probably think of organized crime groups from italy but oreos for extortion a threat murder and corruption this used to be the case in the town of cast their vote not north of naples which is traditionally a stronghold of the cumorah one of the oldest mafia groups in italy but now they have competition my dear and plans are dominating illegal drug sales and prostitution this man used to be a drug smuggler now he is on the other side and he told us the disturbing details of his criminal past. this is like your.

gulliver not everybody be criminal this is the italian coastal town of castle vol 2 i know we were there before the qur'an a pandemic that once a popular tourist destination it has since deteriorated into a crumbling crime hotspot it's controlled by the nigerian maffia as a former mobster tells us he says his countrymen make millions through drugs and prostitution. is a form of who now cooperates with italian authorities wants to remain anonymous so we'll simply call him. he's putting his life at risk after all thought to. be. from. many places. where he can. do everything. notifying the.

davide i used to work as a drug trafficker he like so many other nigerians would swallow little packets of cocaine and then smuggle them back to italy. or i go swallow up $1.00 kilos you cannot get him off so you have to be without food you would. like him ok. there are many smugglers who die in the process this radiologist majano scully on if just one cocaine package breaks open inside the intestine the smuggler dies scott leone has teamed up with italian authorities to crack down on the nigerian mafia in custody paul 2 a no bradley gunning there these packages are in the interest on their call we'll see about 2030 here each about 7 to 8 centimeters long. or notice a remarkable quantity of cocaine. the. these are a lot of packages and nor do. they go very nasty bother with somebody in

korea and from somewhere like. carrying drugs arriving in italy. a lot of discharged and wished they were just. on the ground and. are with for the person to die they think of the. good the who the more in the face of the value of human being. completely. the nigerian maffia is also involved in prostitution. to humans are treated as disposable because that will get it out on their own up for decades the castrovalva tourneau region has been controlled by a very dangerous and powerful cumorah clan the castle you see. but even so the nigerian mafia has managed to spread in the area that was it for them and the life and i'm sure both criminal organizations have come to some arrangement in our lives

with that audio blessing is one of the women who fell victim to the criminals the nigerian computer scientist was lured to europe by the matthew z. with the promise of a high paying job she came to italy via spain with all the right paperwork but like thousands of other nigerian women ended up on the streets quango. have. i got scared when they took away my phone. and when they told me that i now owed them 65000 euros only then did i realize i was in the clutches of traffickers the money they trafficante. lessing had the courage to escape from her tormentors she went to the police and was taken in by nuns. by estrada. when they put you on the street they're always spying on you watching you. if a car comes by

a customer they keep a list and check your earnings later that evening because you could be hiding money if you get pregnant they give you some abortion drugs. and then lock you up at home for 3 days despite the bleeding. or most of these illegal activities happen in what the nigerian maffia calls connection houses joining a raid on one italian authorities found weapons drugs and signs of prostitution. kenyan punishments meanwhile are dealt out to anyone who breaks mafia rules. and they will give you to any member of this in the group to go and try it in the forest so if the body is sick about it it. surely nobody countries know what there's

a person. the nigerian maffia has practically free raining of all too and all davinder remembers brazen drug deliveries by boat we're going to turn the clock every night there would be boots. and figure brought to the end of the boat i see that it's not a fishing boat it thankfully is. all before you all become a joystick for articles about what is or. what a special day might be somebody a new model. thousands of criminal organizations are at work in italy that's why davida wants to help fight them as the political decision makers but ate in the. crowd. france is currently facing 2 crises there's the corona crisis and then there's

another one which gets much less attention that she is crisis the french are known for their exquisite and tasty. but since the beginning of the pandemic many it seems manufacturers have not been able to sell their products the french are now been called upon to show their patriotism go out and see. a region famous for its cheeses they declared a colony emergency there's simply too much good cheese in storage due to the coronavirus french or cheese maker baton has close to 10 tons of cheese maturing in his cellars and that's creating more than a storage problem cheese has a limited shelf life in particular. the current president.

after more than 2 and a half months you can't sell it anymore the more crucial it wouldn't look very nice or negative 44th would start to appear in the rye and would grow too thick to pull it after more than 2 months or too strong a taste. during the kobe 1000 lockdown artist and all cheeses remained behind closed doors thousands of french cheese shops were shut as were the regional cheese counters in supermarkets restaurants were closed as well so consumers were left eating pre-packed mass produced cheeses with long shelf lives. children who were stuck at home with their families found themselves without their favorite varieties and were not happy about it. oh no we don't have any gets cheese anymore. either it's do to the knock down that just isn't any. for close to 3 months even gora maize had to put up with

processed or prepackaged cheese meanwhile across france artists and all cheeses were piling up over a 1000 tons worth soon after the lockdown was lifted the dairy industry coined a new term for combining the words for cheese mush and taking action. eating cheese has become a patriotic duty all nationally and by buying and consuming traditional french he says people are being good citizens then helping small produces the find themselves in difficulty due to the lockdown and at the same time they're treating themselves to some delicious traditional french cheese it's. the campaign surpassed all expectations and has been seen around the world. for farmers like. who owns 39 cows the campaign arrived at just the right time

now he can once again sell his cable show without any problems but even during the lockdown he came up with a clever idea he contacted acquaintances throughout france and offered to send the cheese by mail. or drupal. along they said to themselves hey we owe them learn a bit of a pickle so they spontaneously said yes for the name of. the farmer thank his customers on behalf of his cows to. get over actual cows don't have a tap you can turn on and off they have to be made. twice a day morning and night before and you have to do something with them now if you. will. the campaign has hit a nerve with cheese lovers in recent weeks consumption has risen in france and the stock piles of cheese are getting smaller all the time. she's makers like batons

are pleased the french are proving so patriotic they hope france can avoid another lockdown that forces people to eat mass produced products. everyone should enjoy the fruits of the cheesemakers labors. it's time for a new episode of our series the russia where we bring you stories about the everyday lives of russians living outside the country's major cities our correspondents met up with dimitri kong called he's a steel worker and unlike many other russians he hasn't been affected by the economic impact of the corona crisis he tells us why he loves his job and his hometown located some 500 kilometers north of moscow and why he sees no reason to

move to a bigger city. 1st a breathalyzer test. to me to be control has to do a test every time he goes to work or it's a required safety regulation of a ship or gets metallurgical combine one of the largest steel foundries in russia. for years to me today concorde has been working at blast furnace number 5 which he and his colleagues affectionately call 70 on the nordic beauty. it's a fiery hell more than a 100 meters long which swallows iron ore and coke at the top and spits out liquid pig iron the bottom. of the chimney. the goal is to melt pig iron and the blast furnace for is a good. one but so we enter money. a pig

iron is cleaned. pressed and shaped right next door the end result to steal the material that's used everywhere construction sites in the gas and automobile industries it's an indispensable symbol of russia's heavy industry. something similar i came here when i was 20 or very young right after the army. would only go back then this was and still is one of the most secure places in the country in terms of income and social security but. more than $70000000.00 tons per year russia ranks 5th in the world in steel production to me to be concord is proud to contribute he loves his country his company and the glowing steel.

people there would then you believe that the foundry my life would be more complicated i've got some new somewhere else to make money. dimitri value security most of all as do many in chip obviates. you know at the stable income and stable social benefits and the reason why people stay can you please because there isn't any unrest or protest here the. people are in decent wage and they know that this money will be safe for them tomorrow some. of the more than $300000.00 inhabitants more than a 10th are employed at the foundry they earn on average the equivalent of $900.00 euros per month almost twice as much as in many other professions here.

the biggest of the cause the beat of my son wants to go to college later i can afford it i can also provide a future for my wife and daughter. that's what i call stability. he believes that russian president vladimir putin is partly responsible for this economic stability putin has ruled the country for 20 years and is still among the most popular politicians for many russians. in all honesty i have respect for putin. first he's a much of a man's man as i am. i work in an all male collective as a blast furnace foreman with machine real men in russia that's a term used to describe someone who you can rely on any situation and someone who consistently pursues his goals and i can't call it love i love my wife and daughter of course but i have respect for putin present during his composure. his

resilience. even though he appreciates putin personally the steel worker from the north west isn't really satisfied with russian politics in general. but i don't want to get into geopolitics and talk about things like the marriage of certain parts of the country or foreign policy. we have enough problems in the country that we should address. remote villages for example or problems in agriculture which for pneumonia. we should import ordinary cucumbers from china to grow them here ourselves just like during soviet times. but to me tree concord doesn't want to live this in soviet times cut off from the outside world. takes a few generations and then we're friends with the others and the others have more

respect for us. the main thing is that is nordic beauty his blast furnace number 5 continues to spew out enough to keep his future safe. many of you will probably remember how for a few weeks the supermarkets in many parts of the world had empty shelves one of the items that people stockpiled at home was flour and even to dig the demand for this every day item is still pretty high so people will live close to milk actually have an advantage i reporter abigail in the land she is a miller and she is thrilled that her rather traditional craft is a celebrating a comeback. brixton is home to work in wind. for the wind no longer drives it sails flowers to ground here 862 the mill stone was wind powered then it was driven by

a steam engine you know it runs on electricity. lead miller avigail hose birth normally grinds flour here twice a month the mill host tours for school classes and the annual bread and beer festival. in brixton a london borough once known for its roughness it had become a real draw. but the coronavirus changed all that. still more flour is now being mill here than ever. the it is that we tend to get maybe 10 or 20 bags of flour. since the pandemic those orders of increase dramatically for the bakers us to see trying to make sure they can produce bread and for people making flour because they can gain supermarkets at home they will be able to make bread and pass the pastries cakes and things at that and then there's the local food bank. personally delivers donations of flour from the brixton

windmill. but in terms of this when people look into these various cases we could be a. 5 year old. and you could be in one on one with peter brooks and there's a real sense of community and the milk is a big part of that. his fear not help in. coping up the mill which is a charity in itself but also helping our people in the area if you want to get access to good quality ingredients good flour that they can use to make healthy lives so it's pretty likely the flour ground at the brixton windmill will remain popular even after the corona crisis is over. with that we've come to the end of the days filled with thank you so much for watching to join us next week for another this and focus on europe for me and the

rest of the team it's goodbye and see you next time. in the. filament.

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