i dare say right now i am on. going through our 10 year new year's day right here in. our 2 part series the 3rd reich. starts november 12th on d w. hello and welcome to focus on europe i'm wired it's great to be back here in europe with the coronavirus pandemic has again brought life in many places to a grinding halt spain is one of the worst affected countries and the government has declared a state of emergency for 6 months well that has led to outrage in some places like madrid where people rioted against the measures these include

a nighttime curfew and in some areas the closure of restaurants bars and shopping malls well their anger is mixed with fear for those struggling to get by the future looks bleak residents in cities like barcelona were already struggling with unemployment and high rents since the economic crisis a decade ago and the pandemic has only exacerbated their worries grasso martinez is a bailiff who carries out evictions it's a job that can be both emotionally taxing and dangerous. clearly he's a bearer of bad news. we have a court warrant will you open up. some martinez works in barcelona's last b talent area his job is to even. the coronavirus pandemic is a busy time for him more and more people slip into poverty and can no longer pay

their rent we have a court ruling you have to leave today. why were we told. live fine here now you must have been given plenty of notice from the fathers i know. the owner of the apartment wants them out and he has the law on his side. i want the apartments back. for my son. so that he can live here. the locks are changed to straight away courts are cracking down especially on behalf of private owners when apartments belong to banks or companies decisions can take longer. our. landlord has the final say if he's willing to give them another 2 days then that's what happens if he wants them out today they're out it's up to him. as you go. down this department was owned by

a bank would be one thing. but the owner is someone who worked for decades to buy property it's different. i have no sympathy for them. spain's housing problem is nothing new high rents low incomes during the financial crisis several years ago many people couldn't pay their mortgages and many homes were repulsed by banks now the pandemic has ushered in the next crisis. people who were struggling before are now at rock bottom they had precarious work contracts and now they've lost their jobs so they stop paying their rent. the chronic housing crisis is on full display at his next appointment the building belongs to a bank it's now being occupied illegally calls for assistance. i need police backup illegal occupants aren't opening the door. we've

been threatened with knives and someone turned on the gas to try and cause an explosion your article it can get dangerous that's when we call in the police officer. poco knows a lot of the police officers well. how's it going the bad guy again. the police go in ahead to check the situation. one of the squatters is still there he's sick the others have fled to. be. fed up of living like this of course the father the mother lost everything. i'm on the side of justice there's always someone who gets the short end of the

stick a lot but that's the way it is after all a judge has made a ruling that's the way the law is i don't have a guilty conscience or morgan but. this water won't leave so he's taken away. sees a lot of misery in his job which makes him even more aware of how lucky he is the 52 year old lives with his partner in their own apartment and he is mortgage free. a few streets away he's called on 2 of the day young woman from the dominican republic who gave birth just 2 weeks ago. i'm not doing well where am i supposed to take my child. longer term a group of activists are here to support her. can do is try to get her more time everything depends on the landlord the woman's last hope is a phone conversation with him. you know the welfare system doesn't function right

now. the only way to get another apartment would be. barricade yourself in the mayor's office if you. want the landlord agrees to let the woman stay another 6 weeks but after that she has to go situations like these still upset even after 12 years in the job. there have been many occasions when i've had to grit my teeth and get on with it if it were up to me i'd cave in on humanitarian grounds. but when you've been told you're being evicted 4 times and you haven't looked for a new home at some point you have to draw a line. pago has been called to 8 of the actions today in his district alone he knows that number will keep rising the longer the pandemic continues. while the corona virus has put a financial strain on many people in russia

a vaccine for covert 19 has arrived but there's a catch the vaccine has not been fully tested still russia's government is pushing for mass vaccinations and thanks to volunteers like sergei gavin knows this could soon become a reality or he is one of 40000 people who are about to trial the vaccine but the majority of russians are wary of signing up. the past months have been a struggle for photographer sergei gover us studio was closed and jobs to spawn and . to be sure the coronavirus wouldn't cause him of any more trouble he wants protection under snow one of the 1st to test russia's vaccine. besides his studio photo shoots gover us works at weddings with large gatherings of people. relatives including older people come to the weddings from cities all over and i have a lot of contact with if i suddenly became

a carrier it wouldn't be good i wouldn't want people to suffer because of me to think about it. cover us has no worries about the vaccine. like this model all good pasture. i wanted that seemed to have been tested for several years and maybe then i'll be willing to get myself vaccinated i'm afraid of vaccinations in general and even more so the coronavirus eckstein which nobody understands anyway are you. sure you can be afraid but who else is supposed to test the vaccine for us. i'm not sure but here's one of 40000 people who are to test russia's 1st facts in. production and shipping are already on the way the vaccine has been approved even while the test phase the still progress doctors police officers and teachers are getting the 1st injections voluntarily it's been stressed presidents putin regards

the vaccine as a matter of national prestige and he apparently wants russia's political elite to set an example. have you had yourself backs unaided. moscow's mare has pretty prime minister tatiana going to cover as well you've already received the 2nd vaccination how do you feel it. was issued. another test subject this politician value only got tongue now in a video message he says he's contracted to covert 19 but rather than cast doubt on the vaccine the tongue suggests he was part of a control group every 4th subject received only victims so researchers can check the effectiveness. of selling the vaccine to other countries like syria and venezuela where the 1st delivery and arrived in the capital caracas infection researchers criticized the fact that the vaccine is being delivered before testing

has been completed. i think it's the wrong policy a policy of reporting great successes where there are none this vaccine might in fact work but we don't know that yet because the testing has not been concluded. many russians share the skepticism the survey by an organization close to the government showed that 73 percent have no plans to get vaccinated yet moscow's mare who heads a commission to combat the coronavirus once things to move quickly. toward the end of the year will have enough vaccine to carry out a mass vaccination. i hope it happens. the manufacturer says that over 2 thirds of russia's population could be fascinated with a new year perhaps a vaccination stations like this one from one of the doctors and just underlines are only given flu vaccinations no appointments needed and free of charge it only takes 10 minutes coronavirus vaccine has to be specially cooled which to pose

a problem soon sergei gover us will be receiving his 2nd dose of the vaccine in a moscow clinic every day he protocols his state of health in an up signs of fever and other symptoms. as a test subject he hopes to hope the worlds get back to normal. credible much now my money i hope van will be able to deal with each other normally again and not be afraid of contact shake hands again and live normally that would be nice. for now nobody can say exactly when that might be not even in russia. how do the terminally ill prepared to say goodbye to their lives and loved ones well for some it means visiting a special place just one last time but quite often they're not able to do so because of their physical condition or coronavirus restrictions well it's

a year and in that frank runs low knows 1st hand after his wife passed away he dedicated himself to granting dying people their last wish in the northern german town of engle he goes the extra mile in honor of his late wife. our task today is to pick up our passengers at the low end c.s. hospitals and got there because they exit. from fans low and his assistants are ready whenever a terminally ill person in northern germany would like to go for a ride it ters are free of charge the stuff volunteers he has his own specially fitted ambulances their mission is to fill a dying person's last wish servian oil and has been a hospice for several weeks. the 55 year old has turned cancer. the doctors say her 2 is an operable because it's too close to the spine. today she'd like to return

together with her son and his fiance to the town where she grew up. even past the happiest time in your life some place that it's just nice to be back there again and to be quiet to just breathe to feel. we'll manage just fine won't we. no one's home town is just half an hour away she was given morphine for the pain a man who trains paramedics for a living vents low tries to fulfill his passengers every wish he and his colleagues had out up to 2 times a week he's even driven all the way to the north cape. we've got to take it as it comes and then you can handle things quite well right i'll just keep going on up there i certainly hope so. sylvia's chosen the church as their 1st stop. the attendance was rolled the stretcher curfew over the cobbles. every bump is

painful for the patient. sylvia went to church here when she was a little girl today the memory somehow comforting. but yes i've decided that i'd like to be buried here as well. how fitting that. for many relatives a last journey like this is tougher to bear than it is for the dying person themselves. that 1st sylvia newman son says he feared the emotional stress of the trip. but now he is glad he came. but now i can see what this is doing for her and how valuable these moments are and that in the next days or maybe weeks however much time she's got left you shall draw strength from it that's important and beautiful city and the trip continues on

a ferry across the visa river. for sylvia it's another childhood memory. she wants to see it's mostly waters one more time. from france alone reserved a special place for her with a view look there's a lighthouse in the background on a short walls of the v.a.'s are follows in the middle of the waterway the ferries captain the circles the boat a few times especially for some of you know i'm going. back outside the associations headquarters to nations and feeds from 1st aid courses that from venza oh and his colleagues offer paid for everything here. all the associations vehicles bear the name of venizelos late wife elizabeth. 6 years ago when she was dying of cancer she wanted to make one nurse to trip to the north sea prevents low couldn't find an organization that could fulfill this final wish

because health insurance wouldn't pay for it. if we cannot offer our fellow human beings a last bit of humanity and kindness in their final hours for purely financial reasons then there's something terribly wrong in this country that was the last straw that's what. since then venza has organized hers like the one for so if you know him and. she wants to take another look at her grandparents owned neighborhood. watch her thoughts on the coming days. pretty relaxed i think you know i was back here again and that's really beautiful. and i look at the pictures again but there is something more to it. something poignant and deep. for turn lasts for

hours then it's time to go back to the hospice from vince low husband counted how many last wishes he's fulfilled he says as passengers shouldn't be reduced to statistics. then it's time to say farewell to the passenger. and like every time it's goodbye for good i just said goodbye and i said if we don't see each other here anymore than someplace else what else can you say to people. the next morning winslow prepares the ambulance for its next passenger. he doesn't want to arrive too late. i'm sure there are many families who are grateful for his service. they are the largest demonstrations in poland in decades tens of thousands of people are protesting a court decision that bans nearly all abortions and they fear that the country is

sliding further into autocratic hands as the ruling law and justice party pushes a conservative nationalist agenda olga sabbagh is expecting her 1st child and she is alarmed by the government's plans she says the protests as a fight for self autonomy in her country. these are some of the biggest protests in decades in poland. women and above all young people are demonstrating against the new extremely strict along on abortion. it would mean that in the future an abortion would be illegal in poland even if the fetus is so ill it would die at birth women feel deprived of their rights. the ship over here to show that we're strong and able to fight for our freedom and right to decide we don't want to be terrorized we want to have a choice i mean if you put your as an adult i'm simply ashamed i've been ashamed

for several years already that i live in such a country i'm really mortified. that you know we're being stripped of our rights we've been abandoned and need to fight for all the women in poland that covered her advice. is pregnant with her 1st child. she supports the demonstrators from home because of the coronavirus. with me but no i haven't been at any of the protests my husband and i wanted to go but the fact that i'm pregnant kept me from doing it finishing it used. olga and her husband artur are looking forward to the birth of their child they already know they're expecting a girl. and the doctors say she's healthy. but what if that weren't the case what if the fetus was terminally ill and unable to survive. if i found out now that

the pregnancy was threatened or that something bad would happen to the child right after birth and then she would die and i'd still have to carry the baby to the end . i'd be able to feel the baby but i'd know that it would die. that would be an inconceivable atrocity to the mother am the child who is going to die anyway. what really has all got upset is the timing. well being and making a decision like this during a pandemic when you can actually predict people being opposed to it it's not the 1st time people have demonstrated against this the luckiest shyla i the nation why demonstrations involving hundreds of thousands of people are about far more than abortion laws they are protesting the right to self-determination and freedom in polish society that the abortion ruling was made by a government friendly constitutional court just adds insult to injury. the

fine opposed to the ruling made by this fake court because i'm a woman and i have my rights ok i thought you know 3 of my knowledgeable people did you know if we want to live in a normal western society we're fed up with a few 5 gentlemen running our lives for us in the here but you know. the protest in devoutly catholic poland is directed at the church as well demonstrators have interrupted masses the police have been brought in to protect the churches but ultra right nationalists are showing up as well spoiling for a fight there have been clashes. there has also been heated debate on abortion legislation in the polish parliament the same the deputy prime minister is demanding harsh measures be taken against the demonstration organizers during the pandemic. which was in crowds of people to mortal danger or criminals just plain folks just there to put them down. but the

intensity of the protests has apparently shaken the resolve of the policymakers president andre duda is proposing compromises to allow pregnancies to be terminated not only in cases of incest after rape or if the life of the mother is at risk. but many of the demonstrators say that's simply a poor compromise their continuing to protest here for example by blocking the streets opposition politicians are supporting them. it says if i steal a 100 from you and give you 50 back. despite all their joyful anticipation olga and her husband artur are left wondering about the rights women have in poland. i feel threatened because i feel my rights are endangered i'm no longer sure about my future here in this country.

and it is this uncertainty that is placing a stressful burden on the mother to be. have you ever waited hours at a bus stop in the freezing cold well for young kids in rural sweden like the ones we're about to meet it comes with the territory but some have found an alternative means of transportation there is the ingenue it and a legal loophole they have found a way to drive on 4 wheels despite not. and their vehicles are quite special. they may look like they've got a lot of horsepower under the hood but far from it. despite the tricks none of these pick up trucks does more than 30 kilometers per hour that's why they're marked with a big triangle above the rear bumper for young people in rural areas here in sweden there are huge trend that's because you can drive a so-called tractor from age 15 with a moped license. your boy i live in the country i can use it to get to school and

they're nice way to get together and hang out it's fun. also be home. who are about the same age or in a snap chat group together we write to each other and see where everyone is. air fresheners stereo systems all for cars with a top speed of 30 that are really tractors by long the vehicles 1st came about when people in rural sweden started converting old cars into farm vehicles they were used to pull trailers through the fields they only had space for 2 people. you take the rear part and move it forward. so you end up with a space for transporting stuff. that would last. used to be used in the fields. that's where the farmers could learn things. today the pickups or have become the hobby for young people in the countryside and they're also

a way to gain some independence according to 15 year old john who owns 3 of them this one hasn't been approved for the road because a cable in the control system could be manipulated. so 30 switches off of the inspection the authorities have a problem with this cable. needs to be more securely installed. it can cost up to $10000.00 euros to convert an old swedish car into a fashionable pickup truck for a 15 year old but it's better than waiting ages for the bus or riding a moped in the freezing winter and besides the meet ups are a great excuse for a party. a steep price for a slow car but it looks like fun thanks so much for watching focus on your app but do let 6 me know your thoughts about this week's show on twitter and don't forget you can watch more of our program online. by for now.

i'm going to. enter the conflict zone research really my guest this week is him bob boyce minister of foreign affairs and international trade cboe see so much. as a former army chief he was also the face of the military coup that propelled amnon babatz of power. wills and bob vila to see genuine political economical. conflict so few believe the.

september 19th $93.00 israelis and palestinians signed the oslo accords. in the middle east seemed possible. new videos and private documents to tell the story of the tough negotiations behind the scenes for a grim it's reached and the bitter collapse of the above. slow diaries. in 75 minutes on d w. the world population is increasing the climate is changing it's getting warmer and there are going to be more and more places where you cannot grow traditional crops we have to fix that some the whites to do that is to use the modern genetic

modification methods to make that across it is a lot safer than anything we've done by traditional genetic modification you take one gene you know exactly what it is you put it into another plant to make a map exactly where it's gone i think we will be able to provide enough food for people by 2050 if we can make crops that will grow under 70 arid conditions this will achieve a much greater stability in the food supply that we have at the moment.

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