my choice to discard it has given me a way to transport troops. and international image and i will. indeed have. a low in a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and we would like to take you back 5 years to 2015 when europe faced its biggest migration crisis since world war 2 now the momentous late summer of that year hundreds of thousands of people were on the move fleeing conflict and economic hardship. for

many germany was their preferred destination and initially they were welcomed with open arms with chancellor angela merkel famously proclaiming her mantra this isn't us it's happened we can manage it so 1st there was euphoria but then came harsh reality. now the largest group of refugees making their perilous journey to germany and other european countries were syrians desperate to get away from the murderous civil war in their country they included the superman family who we met up with 5 years ago as they headed for burlington and the question is now how are they fared since then. well it's just after 6 am that the silly man's day has already begun we brush your teeth and. you know yet. most of us with a man and his wife appear are getting their 4 children ready for school and daycare

with their thoughts on my own ok fight. this with a month into germany 5 years ago after fleeing the war in syria the parents came with their sons jude and a rom and daughter lama. their youngest child sam was born in germany. they'd imagined life here would be easier after 4 years in countless moves they finally have their own flat. in my house we gradually our situation is improving and we feel more and more comfortable with and. but i still can't say that this is my new home world. who i'm growing more accustomed to life here. and now understand the country better be a world may i jump around on the way to school in berlin's chandel district give me your hand sammy we're going to cross the street. lawman likes going to school.

because i'm doing better in math and slowly it's become my favorite subject things . i'm dealing with this school and daycare is a full time job for mustafa and out here they help their children day and night integrate into their new environment for the next day was. and that requires great fortitude after all they've been through. back in 2015 mustafa saleman was in turkey preparing his children for the perilous journey across the mediterranean in a rubber dinghy weeks later the family reached germany via the balkan route their odyssey was captured in a torch of other documentary. i mean. the war and their flight from that inflicted wounds that have yet to heal most of us with a man was injured by a bomb he's lived in fear ever since and is now undergoing therapy.

you know mr sulaiman please come with me. to. have a seat. today your point in his with me as your regular doctor is on holiday is that ok. this is ok no problem. mother died in syria 2 weeks ago he's haunted by the fact he couldn't be there with her. she was very ill. and then she was taken to hospital. i tried to speak with her but she could no longer talk and didn't recognize me anymore and that. my daughter for me well actually. he's very close to his family in syria is father died when mustafa was just 14 so as the

eldest child he assumed responsibility early on who is mother raise 9 children on her own. and she must have been a strong woman. a very strong woman very strong. this is the santa he lives with from me and you have experienced a lot of terrible things and borne a lot of pain. but i think you're doing well now to sound good looking to the future and concentrating on yourself and your children into something. you can be proud of yourself he said. mostafa is still having a hard time finding his place in germany many of the syrians he knows here have jobs or started their own businesses like 109 now who runs the branch of a restaurant. but it takes time to develop something called our restaurant is now very well known and has

a good reputation ask anyone and they'll tell you wow the police is great and it's going well so yes it's known for its good food cleanliness i'm good services to come to that moment. mustafa hopes to find work soon too but he needs to improve his german 1st his children found it easier to learn the language and berlin is now their home i want. you out here. jude wants to become an engineer in berlin but also help to reconstruct the family's house in syria less would a phone line with was hit by a missile. so i want to help repair it. take your hand away you want to love me. i love both of you i love you all.

well there's no doubt about it the summer of 2015 brought huge changes to germany and the rest of your hundreds of thousands of desperate people were heading for a prosperous northern europe and not to turn to grow. a number of countries to try and curb the migrant flow by building border fence what was called the southern balkan route also for instance pass through croatia and slovenia and slovenia join the countries putting up those barriers and as we find out now it was a decision that has continued to poison relations between the 2 neighbors. the 1st grapes are almost ripe so the harvest can begin it seems like it's going to be a good year for mark and page of each. he has about 5 hectares of vineyards in the whites can you all a region on the border between slovenia and co asia. both a 3rd of the mind in croatia this area is on the so-called balkan routes used by

migrants the slovenian authorities are planning to build a further border fence here. i hope that it won't happen that i've been out of slots as it would go straight through my vineyards in japan all they've talked about it again is since the borders zigzags here. it would be really quite difficult to build it. just a few kilometers away a fence has already been built along the river called. slovenia has already closed off over 200 kilometers a 3rd of the border with croatia is sealed. police patrol the fence several times daily as a deterrent. and i meant by the aim is also to warn people coming into our country illegally that the areas where they are trying to do it are dangerous but it's never been as a meek. however refugees continue to arrive but not as many as 5 years ago at the

height of the refugee crisis this year there have been about 1000 illegal crossings in this area. the police use surveillance drones day and night to track down illegal activity. the police say that the majority of refugees are held by human smugglers you know course of the illegal migrants are from afghanistan morocco tunisia algeria bangladesh and pakistan their pockets. in metz leka a small town on the border locals are divided about the border fence. is that it and there aren't so many it's a kind of protection. these it doesn't keep refugees and i think it has. got that. they had that it's good that it's there in one way but it's also not because of tourism is the view that they go by you are called to by the smugglers

martin linda church who runs a company site a few kilometers up river says tourism is suffering he and his wife and dreyer organize canoe trips on the river culpa. but now the view along much of the route is spoiled by the fence. he says they sometimes have to wait for hours before the police open a gate for them need neato which will keep going to court it's not like it was it's a problem in authority it shouldn't be a fence here in this landscape to score a deal or 2 it's hard if we're talking about tourism to square the barbed wire like in a concentration camp or wanted everyone who calls asked about the fence and the migrants cocoa beach area of brush where the sheets or cries me get on. the culture valley used to be unspoiled area very popular with holiday makers.

they came to go hiking cycling and canoeing a place where you could relax these days it's not quite the same. to neither man it's not normal to build a fence like this in such a natural environment it's mad there's something wrong you can orbit you more in this untouched landscape going on that it is if that will rescue europe you know doctors it was. another border in europe the 1st of its kind in this region the government says that the fence is only temporary but that is something nobody in cult of valley really believes. now since the beginning of the war in eastern ukraine between government forces and russian backed separatists in 2014 detainees have been subjected to systematic for some of the abuses allegedly taken place in

a secret prison in the eastern city of donetsk called. and the ukrainian journalist stanislav assaf is among those who've suffered terribly in that building so just let me warn you that many details of his story profoundly disturbing. street of the illuminated way number 3 this is the address of your let's see a burning bush isolation. once insulation material was produced here this is the beginning of the war in 2014 pro russian separatists allegedly detain and torture people here. neither the red cross nor any other international aid organizations have regular access only testimonies from former prisoners remain. and then there's a lot said will be heard of that is a lot syria was drug and the issue of you went through all the cells both male and female cells. she beat up everyone and he beat me up to what ships in the chicago

muslim like for 2 years journalist and this life as i have reported undercover from separatist territory for the ukrainian media until 2017 when his cover was blown and he ended up in the he's a let's see if this thing with them gives you the procedure is the same for everyone a cell or if a metal table in that they remove people's clothes then tie them tightly to the table with it he says tape which and the electrodes are applied usually one wires attached to the genitals a 2nd electrode can be inserted into the anus because this is the cruelest part we all heard the screams or what they could even tell from the scream was with the wires were placed over the air there's no convinced that his fame and a campaign by his supporters saved him from an even worse fate but he was well aware of what was happening in the prison the suffering of his fellow inmates left its mark. the guards didn't hear that he would be able to tell the world about it later one testimony shocked even experienced witnesses of the conflict. in the

doctor's always present during torture and also takes part in that either he had ministers in objection of circulation stops my supplies smelling salts if the president has lost consciousness your doctor is not only present he also. dissipates in the torture other than that says stanislav as the doctor was never seen it was only the cell mates who took care of the sick and exhausted torture victims as i have remembers his fellow prisoner lady matthew sink who in particular . well you know what i should be valerie was beaten up before i was with him because they dragged him out into the corridor. we heard him scream that's when you scream after electric shocks you should be don't confuse them easily then they brought him back to the summer but. broken his ribs and you think you could meter sits for stunned with the morphine more so as an exception they let him lie in the bunk bed during the day. but. i saw it was transferred from these who last year to

an official remand prison in autumn 21000 after more than 2 years shortly afterwards he was found guilty of extremism and espionage for ukraine he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. then a few weeks later just before new year's eve he was freed as part of a prisoner exchange between the ukrainian government and the separatists. allegations are supported by those of other prisoners the un has also reported the systematic use of beatings electric shocks sexual violence and said that there was a continuum of torture and abuse in the detention facility. the so-called human rights officer of the pro russian separatists in donetsk refused to comment on the allegations he did not answer our questions. the fact that the. n.g.c. a won't provide regular access to prisons to the i.c.r.c.

or to the whether it's other you know authoritative institutions means that the onus is on them the burden is on them to prove that these allegations are false when they don't provide access means that they have something to hide. before the coronavirus pandemic tens of thousands of people used to cross between the government and separatist controlled areas at the your check point. today this is a close as valerie met you shank was wiped out jana can get to him. then and you saw thought i live in hope. that this conflict will soon be over and everything will be like before you have the before we move that i'll get my husband back in which i and my son will be able to hug his father. but it will never be like before so consciously avoided. who was kidnapped in the separatist controlled area in july 2017 his wife says that he had never made any bones about his prue ukranian stands

it to her mum's to find out what has happened to him. and thought of all was that i was immediately taken to the easier but if he was in such a bad state that the other prisoners that he would die but then the abuse started but i've been told that the prisoners were forced to sing a separatist him at gunpoint or beat each other out with the $5.00. no news that her husband is no longer in the it's a lot see a detention facility is reportedly still in bad health but the separatists refused to release or exchange them for another prisoner she thinks only foreign pressure would help but this has not been forthcoming. as you know this is the 21st century in europe is just watching on silently but there is no reaction europe and international organizations aren't doing anything to close these torture chambers or schools or communities. how is that possible it's terrible because we still talk

. and it's important to point out that rights groups say there have been similarly shocking abuses on both sides to this better conflict. now on a very different note london has long had one of the most profit hungry real estate markets in the world but the corona pandemic has changed all that persuading many londoners to skip the commute avoid downtown and work from home so can you believe it sway the prime office space a standing empty. many people can only dream of working in an office building like this. james brincat is one of the lucky ones. his company trains bank employees in this line of work having an office in a prestigious building is seen as an important start a simple. but since the coronavirus pandemic that's not so important to him anymore

. as time went by everybody started to really enjoy themselves productivity was just as good and we continue to flourish so everybody was very comfortable at sishen for us to to move out of london per minute. that saves them a lot of money some which but at the end of the month you can register 15 percent more profit working without an office is a totally new business model. and one that's here to stay provided his 50 employees can cope take on your o'carroll who is no sitting at her dining table like most of the staff she lives outside of london now bring cats only sees her during video conferences. on yoko ono save some $550.00 euros a month on train tickets she no longer needs to travel into london to work. i

definitely like the lack of commute. she still sees her colleagues every day just not in person so that's one disadvantage. the best approach is to have the majority of the time working from home but then have. have the option to go into the office maybe once a week maybe twice a week pending if people need need to go in an office it's also important to keep the kind of social interactions off tomorrow some are heralding a real estate revolution. that's being specially felt by people who earn money with real estate at the shard london's tallest building. agency is trying to rent office space this modern office costs $15000.00 euros a month. i don't think it's a crisis so i think there's a correction in the market a slight reduction in the amount of space required but the key point is what but space is useful it's no longer going to be about rows or upon row of best people

processing email because we know we know we can do that effectively so actually it's about using the office space to bring people together to collaborate to educate them whether that's formally or informally but a radical change in people's working lives is evident in percent of businesses in london have now given up their offices entirely change is exciting and it gives people more opportunity to have a better work life balance we've been talking about that long enough that we still have people coming in and our on the cheap goods at the center of love the by not o'clock in the evening leaving at 5 o'clock with the other half 1000000 people coming out out of the square while that's not work life balance this is giving us an opportunity of really addressing i think it's tremendous lee elliott is trying to book this trend stressing the benefits of having an office he says it offers something working from home country place. spaces that really invigorating

staff support their staff in their wellbeing and in their creativity so spaces like this at the very highest end of quality still many businesses are taking a different tack and calling the very valuable offices into question. change is definitely in the air in london's working world. now strange things happen at high altitudes heads get dizzy in the shadow of the legendary matter whole mountain that lies between switzerland and italy in the alps one country gets bigger another recedes they take away your past and offer you something called rusty instead what is going on well it's a border dispute with a common every dimension and the only thing that certain is that this man lucho trucco is close to despair. it's all about rocks rubble and ice and a mountain rescue. the true true cool runs the refugio good to chill of you know

it's located in italy up until now anyway because climate change has shifted the national border in favor of the swiss and as a result swiss italian relations have turned frosty up here in the mountains. so convoluted according to this whistle you know the border runs right through here a bit but a part of this would be the very small italian particles this side would be the swiss parts with i guess that's the cash register. car so bar the border has moved to cool cannot believe in 84 the mountain refuge was clearly built on italian soil. it was common sense tells you that it has not ruled out the romans neither has the mater horn mountain it's a passion why a way of life i pity those who want to harness i learned this from the

swiss office of typography carried out the new survey the borders have shifted because the glass years have melted. he shows exactly where the new border runs from here it runs to the next point over there from here it goes on to the next point over there. the old border ran right in front of trickles doorstep for generations it has always run along the glass here but now not much remains of the class here. the borders are constantly changing not only here. the border between switzerland and italy runs for several 100 kilometers across new and ice. is little switzerland getting bigger and bigger then follow ups in this case with the line clearly 1150 meters but this was done all along the border which means that switzerland sometimes one sometimes lost and that balances things out health. and if not planned this was. the swiss one

drops boulders and ice in exchange for part of the marriage along. a completely normal procedure between italy and switzerland. when it comes to troop was meant to refuge italians insist the old border remain this isn't a discussion about bare rocks. who is also fighting for his little piece of italy in the mountains and that it works because we have traditional italian cuisine we still talons like that which is also a very in which appreciated by foreigners is the expression of the swiss 30 there are an awfully are more we surpassed. an italian express a. little bit fairy good to want to. look to true cool also has a suggestion to keep everyone happy the swiss italians could share the refugee coolly and he would serve italian pastor and swiss wristy well that's a tough choice to chew over castro or rusty i personally like both of you have

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