tv Focus on Europe Deutsche Welle August 14, 2020 8:30am-9:01am CEST
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why do you answer this honestly to bring you more cancer. would we be exhibits greed. can we protect us we can't be. meant to see reason to be. hello and welcome to focus on europe with me liz show europe is fighting the cold in 1000 pandemic and while the focus has been on preparing for a possible 2nd wave of infections little attention is being paid to the rising number of migrants arriving in southern europe from africa. most of them start their journey across the sea it from to his yet thousands have already processed
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the mediterranean on rubber boats to italy where authorities are warning of that the situation could get out of hand. those who make it to italy are desperate to find ways to earn money many end up as farm workers on tomato or lemon plantations but they have no rights and for years they've been toiling away for countless hours and for a minimum pay these workers are called the invisibles and by now and there are hundreds of thousands of them reason frame and you alone was introduced to improve their lives but the law is having little effect as our italy correspondent found out he traveled to the southern part of the country mm to the region of. known as italy's a bread basket there he met some of the migrants. somewhere in the middle of nowhere among the vast wheat fields of southern italy we meet them on a chain who found shade under the pa yes the 30 year old from booking a fossil is
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a harvest worker without a residence permit and with limited prospects their own little 12th night and living in it only for 11 years. the authorities have only ever issued me papers valid for 6 months 'd. this was supposed to end in 2011 'd because it wasn't until 2016 that i was able to apply for a residence permit again and once more for only 6 months. precisely because i don't have a work contract. it's the same story for everyone here even those who don't want to be found they have settled down on discarded sofas and mattress camps in the open air with outright without status officially this should have changed since june 1st it's now he has had a new all that is supposed to ground harvest workers legal residents in the country will no need to learn and i know a farmer here he might be able to hire me with a real contract then the new law would apply to me too. many
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migrants are hopeful hundreds of thousands like him harvest asparagus in the spring tomatoes in the summer and oranges in the winter in italian fields migrants especially from africa are exposed exploited and defenseless people who want to oppress then the attorney in government who wanted to stop this responsible minister who was once an unskilled agricultural worker her self was visibly moved as she announced the change for limits you want with us no more of these invisible aquaculture a farm workers will be minimal visible in the future may not even be seen. but the nor does not reach the invisible ones in the fields says i took a hold of a lot. the lawyer is a voluntary legal adviser to many migrants he fights. senseless regulations that make legal work and residency almost impossible for day laborers it was all got a lot worse for the labels police department has to intervene give the ok all of
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these procedures that are completely apologise questi garcia. or to man it's a vicious circle the bureaucratic obstacles are complicated and incomprehensible even for legal experts. this is hearsay for a typical obstacle course to discourage applicants if. they have to provide evidence of their place of residence on financial security how they provide for themselves and their regular work contracts at the same time. but even one of these requirements is missing the residence permit will not be extended to social gospel dramani his hope of finally being able to legally work and live in italy is sinking. but i never had the time to learn a new trade properly so this whole time i've had to fight to get by. on top of this there is now crime the employment contracts required by the new law are being sold
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on an extortion me black market. also fights for migrants rights but he's a farmer as well so he knows what some of his colleagues do or new boat that it was but there are some who charge between $4.50 euros for a work contract with. backbreaking some for day labor and but politicians in southern italy doing little to protect themselves from black market trade for work and residence permits this frustrates. he would love to hire migrant workers with temporary contracts through an official employment agency he says this is the only way to put a stop to illegal activities and mafia organized middlemen in the harvest industry . just sort of the. day laborers earn even less. trying to save. her for
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6 or 7 euro early wage goes to those who brokered the day job. try mani and those he lives with on deeply disappointed they are stuck between the fields and running from harvest to harvest like nomads while being exploited the hope for a humane life and what it can it in it is sinking in once more it's summer in europe and although most of us don't mind a bit of fun shine the heat records are a growing concern that only out at the russian border with finland is one of the places that is facing an increased threat of wildfires because of the high temperatures and lack of rain climate experts are alarmed and many russians who are spending their vacation in the region are also worried like a lame volunteers like a mighty out. our own patrol to make sure that's no major fires break out.
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early morning emergency. there's a fire in one of the many islands of make the western russia. this team of volunteer force protectors is trying to get there as fast as possible. but. some tories called us at 7 o'clock they told us that must have caught fire on the surface if. they can't put it out themselves they asked us to come and take. the tourists meet the volunteers at the shore. a small drink fire appears harmless but it quickly turned into a major fire and spread. looked at the broken watch it looks as if someone started to come follow him but didn't put it down properly. before that but it seems the when the cars are spread and setting fire to the mosque which. fortunately these holidaymakers knew what number to call them real estate agents team arrives in time
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to put out the smoldering fire. just a few days ago the volunteers almost arrived too late to put out a fire that it's spread on a neighboring island it took hours to extinguish the flames. and about 20 of the force protection volunteers come for this company the lake every summer they're all from the region which i love summer students others have taken time off from their jobs. to go. i don't think i could live without blake logica. it is just 1st for me it's the most wonderful place in the well doing it so much gracie was so mature just amazed turns into. keaton is a mathematician by profession. he prefers his volunteer work over his paid job at
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the computer but i mean that's the he will do it if we don't know. this is a magnificent place. we came here about 15 years ago managed by canoe it 1st and now it's burning here it's terrible. you come back to a place that you've been visiting for years and it's the earth down at that. it will take years to reforest all of this. that some of us on our roads in the city later every day the volunteers go up and down the coast sometimes up to 70 kilometers away to check for fires. in that. lake the dog is the 2nd largest lake in russia i survive because it's in the caribbean a region that borders finland it's a unique national park and it's under risk of being completely destroyed. this year many russians are spending the holidays at home because of the covert one to put
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into every comfort increases the danger of a major forest fire. which gets us nowhere it would be great if everything worked perfectly here will you if there were enough forest protected and a functioning fine of apartments there's the problem i don't know but i don't know then we would only have to help out in the bahamas i'd stand doing all the work for the national park authorities movements and i know but. the volunteers have been doing this work every summer for years and even paid for their own equipment helps by support from donors and sponsors. this year there are more fires than usual because it's been so hot and dry a clear sign of climate change. soon after coming back to the camp and that measures he gets called in and stress
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levels rise again more money. but it turns out that it was a false alarm. i thought it was 3 out of 4 emergency calls turned out to be just smoke or campfire. thank you but it seems suspicious at all that we always try to find out what's happening as fast into the but i get it much more in the booster our national the hotter the summers become the more fires there are going to be i have missed our 4 were pushed out of the. meanwhile authorities if you have to support these efforts so the team continues to work for free and the volunteers do their best to put out as many fires as they can to protect their home region. this amazing view of picturesque mountains and a lake is what you get when you visit the village of high stats in austria some
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hail it as the most beautiful religion in the whole country each year thousands of visitors come here some spend a few days and others just enough time to a snap a cell fear for their instagram but since the corona crisis things have become more quiet and several villages are realizing they like a comma so they're thinking about what the new normal could look like and how once the pandemic is over. in her austria many locals worry no tourists would come this year to admire the mountains the lake and the quaint village because of corona and know tourism would also mean no income but the worries are over. this it is or here in abundance. which is good for hotels and also for carlina habsburgs boat rental business. but it's a different mix of tourists have a moment then he counted we don't have all nationalities here because of the fly
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problems but we've got austrian germans basically your planes before the pandemic the village through many international tourists and day trippers. the alpine setting is popular on instagram and last year over $21000.00 tour buses brought around a 1000000 visitors to the village with just $760.00 inhabitants. starts near doesn't miss the era of over tourism. if you have these it could be anything in the world for them far greeks with a guide carrying a flag in front of its own people wearing head sextet so it was very loud. that's how it was too much for some locals saying it would stand for $300.00 because of want. then suddenly in spring austria had to go into lockdown because of covert 19 . grew quiet restaurants were empty and there wasn't any money coming in.
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but the local population discovered something else. too it didn't seem to this was well stocked wasn't very pleasant anymore because of the mass tourism that so i think it's right there during these 2 or 3 months of our start was just for us locals and in terms of life quality that was great that their lives experience it as it once was. now its main. the european visitors and house start and some of them wouldn't have come before. there were fewer foreign tourists here now because of coke in 1004 we have heard about the place in knew that it would be quieter this is not why we came to this with all contacts. with wanted to with the place and yeah now it's great because there is no tourists. but what about the future actually returning to preterism days isn't an option the municipality the pens an income from tourism to subsidise services such as school meals and care for
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the elderly. locals value tourism but there is a question of what kind of tourism. because there must i think that we should cut mass tourism down by half and double quality tourism and we're visitors stay for a longer. football guy would be a good mixer if he could be from. carlina has a different view. proclaimed i need. to live even if the hotels want higher quality tourists you seem stay here for longer but i don't think that kind of long term or tourism it's fashionable at the moment because it's not safe before the pandemic. post artist currently developing a new system to deal with the tour buses the number of which is expected to increase again in the future they will have to register in advance and stay longer . it's not clear whether this will impact the amount and form of tourism
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but the mayor doesn't want to go further. i think that when we start getting more international visitors coming to see our cultural heritage again the others will start coming. what we don't want to do is to tell some people to come and others not to because we don't want them you sure that's not where we are so bright if you look in the village would rather not repeat come what felt like an open air exhibit for masses of day trippers but a void in dothan the future would require a balancing act for hot start smear on its citizens. this man sat on the spanish throne for nearly 40 years and now the former king juan carlos has not only left the royal palace but also the country is probably not what he had imagined for his retirement a life in exile investigations are underway one carlos is accused of money laundering and corruption these latest scandals have thrust the royal family into
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a deep crisis many spaniards like marta are now calling for an end to the monarchy . this fanfare is meant to help the end of the spanish monarchy. a democracy with a king is. a horse pulled by oxen says the sign at a protest in madrid. marta is one of the demonstrators here who has had enough of spain's royal family. yes i have always been always nice to demonstrate against the crown and i want to keep that right now with the right even me i can tell everything daniel to that the money i'm the fan of i'll use. corruption affairs and moral bankruptcy for years spain's former king juan carlos made headlines for all the wrong reasons he abdicated in 2014 and this week you have spain it's been suggested his own son king philippe pushed him to leave the country where he is
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under investigation by the public prosecutor tapes leaked to the media are said to contain talk of huge bribes and it is only going to king juan carlos kushti of everything he's especially in the gulf states the united arab emirates so the arabia he accepted gifts and donations and used the network of frontman to hide the money. market from the protest is a nurse so she's under a lot of stress due to the corona pandemic yet she only earns enough for a room in a shared flat. i meant that boy i can't afford anything else even a studio with a little kitchen and a day that is too expensive so i have to live in shared accommodation. marcus says the royal family has the nothing to support or comfort people during the corona crisis. she felt no empathy from them during spain's strict lockdown.
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block as i see it off we didn't hear anything from the palace. they were in that $100.00 square not to rooms during the lockdown so of course they've no idea how ordinary people feel. does spain need a monarch more and more people here are saying no. on the internet in particular they're rallying support for online petitions videos and songs. on the run a child farewell to the crown some polls say the majority of spaniards now want their country to become a republic though experts remain skeptical it's not we're still sort of like yes there's a lot of discontent most of those parts are really us attain a trend we need more data no more polls conducted over a longer period of time. to find committed royalists we went to the countryside and spoke to older spaniards like on how they nest carlos
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she lives in a village outside the capital madrid. she still has vivid memories of the attempted coup of 1901. and a horn closed his televised address in which she bravely defended spain's democracy i grew to hate the kings and counties for me that was like a given of him going down again and i said dear god thank you for this end this person but it's the best for my friends to bring the. well she regrets the recent scandals she still supports the spanish royal house including king philippe. and stops the plans to trade him in for a head of state elected by the people. for whom this is going to too many young folks demanding this having to clearly if they think they invented politics and life in general as if we haven't left before i think it must be done to. a new spanish republic still looks to be a long way are the hurdles to changing the constitution are high and a referendum would need to be held and unlike his coalition partner podemos prime
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minister pedro sanchez refuses to call one. still opponents of the monarchy plan to keep on demonstrating for royalty free spain. scientists have been trying to uncover the secrets to a long and healthy life for a century in a matter of lifestyle do we need to follow a certain diets well one answer to the secret of a long life may be found on the greek island of we send our report a bear and my impression is that reaching an old age may have to do with enjoying life to the fullest. here in a sea of. lies the idea of a career. its famous for its namesake icarus from greek mythology and for the adela an east it's been ages. but these days is mainly
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renowned for the long get off its residence and is known as the island of the centenarians. demetrius crusie is one of the centenarians actually he's 101. his wife is 93 when crusie was born there weren't any streets electronic aria poverty and hard work to influence his lifestyle and diet but to this day he only sees his doctor for routine check ups what's the secret to his good health or a shot of. worry it's a lot of fish. do in after all i was a fisherman myself girl who grew bored i eat meat twice a week at most. you are to. and i really liked lentils. maybe that oddly like here my wine doesn't agree with me it gives me a rational because i only drink beer. close to a 3rd of
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a career as 10000 residents live to be older than 90 finding out why this is has been keeping countless greek and foreign researches busy for years. men because callum bulgaria says please let it korea centenarians have attracted international attention however he's also concerns that the elderly could soon be an only ones left on the island without ever giving up if you want to we have to improve our infrastructure so young people stay on a career. like we need to make investments in health care education and transport pleasures. in a better ports roads to make british political like you seem a condition our streets are a. minority most of which we're always having to slalom. in. we took one of the island's better roads to speak with someone who should know more about why people in korea live so long. for. the islands resident docs are and
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yes larry addis suspects that genetics play a role but he also thinks it carians love lives have something to do with it. norma's with the horde though here you have all the directors it's for a good sex life a positive attitude of the what a healthy body and soul before lots of social gatherings there's a brief monday of celebrations at what you already are then the opera recently a 92 year old be into my practice and set it up with yes dr spite of my age i can still do everything well the way up it is i ask what do you mean by everything on him and for those of us at the reply when i say everything i mean with everything this one man familiar with this is fun gala schedule exhausts known as the james dean of a career now a 90 years old he's been married twice but he says women just get too jealous
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that's why he's now living on his own on his farm with his all if we've been. there but his energy is boundless his next project to drain the well on the hill behind his house. we have clean air and clean water. that's the main thing you know the 90. sauce is still fighting fit and making plans for the future. because. if you've been married twice you can always try adjustor time. but you can't. especially not on a career. life on this stunning island in the i.g.n. sea is full of passion and free of stress and strife and pressure that is the secret behind the long given t. of a career is serious. now i'm actually thinking of moving to
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