we are working tirelessly to keep you informed. we're all in the spin room together to make you believe everybody stay safe to say hello and welcome to this week's edition of focus on europe. thanks for joining us today. germany is one of the leading meat processing countries in europe and back to the sector has been a hot spot for the coronavirus. some of the largest outbreaks have happened in slaughterhouses. thousands of people have been infected by the virus in germany to companies. often the workers can't keep their distance at work or in that day sions

. many of them have come from eastern europe for seasonal work. some of these workers are employed by agencies that provide temporary staff and who don't shy away from dubious methods wage. dumping long, working hours, fake documents, foreign as who signed contracts, as seasonal workers are often vulnerable, like a group of young ukrainians who had been lured by the false promise of well paid illegal jobs. our reporter traveled to advice and failed in eastern germany to find out more about their story. we 1st met maxime, our name for him. at the end of september, he's from a small toad in western ukraine and works in the restaurant industry. but he wanted to earn more money. so he went online to find a job. in germany i

found a ukrainian job agency. there they said the jobs were legal. they gave me papers so that i could travel to germany and work in a major factory in the town of vice. and the merchant for 9 year i was $35.00 per hour. is a very, pretty broad the key is based ukrainian job site international work, organized the trip for him and other job seekers. it took a minibus from ukraine to their place of work in germany, accompanied by a supervisor as known, e.u. citizens. it should not have been that easy for them to enter germany, but maxime says the agency gave him phones peepers. that he was a student with a vacation job. in reality, he's never studied. even c. charge over 500 euros to find him a job. with the reporting of that,

when i said i wasn't a student and asked why i was issued these papers, they said, don't worry, not your problem. dozens of ukrainians like maxine turned up for work at a meat factory in saxony and hauled in 2020. all of them, supposedly students looking for a vacation job some have been offered very different jobs before their journey. but marina, which is not her real name. there were 3 jobs on offer. a supermarket job one in candy, and one in a bakery. but we ended up with a very different one in a meat processing factory. the work was extremely difficult for women and men. the women had to lift heavy crates of meat and meat products that weighed between 25 and 30 kilos. that's the work for the so-called students

started in mid september, but lasted only 5 days. the german authorities quickly realized there was something odd and ukrainians found out that the police had searched their accommodation. when i came home, i discovered that the door had been broken and there was a new lock. our translator had written a note saying that the police had raided our partner broke in the lot and put on a new one. it was level and it was a box of this was a coordinated police operation. in the 23rd of september, across 5, german states, 800 police officers searched the apartments of people working illegally as well as the offices of job agencies. the authorities focused on each and says for temporary jobs suspected of bringing workers into germany with false documents. public prosecutors also questioned the young ukrainians, who were told they had to leech erminie and were banned from returning the 3 years

. the prosecutor see them as both perpetrators and victims. as hundreds show i do sort of mobility of getting into the charges are relatively minor, imo is illegal entry into germany and a legal residence are not crimes. they're misdemeanors as if someone has never been in trouble with the law, so we will most likely drop the charges against a funky bit tougher than say during their stay in germany. maxime and the others were officially employed by the german even see their qana and lento. to meet factory, the company, which is not want to speak to us, is currently under investigation, says nature penalty system guilty. but is a top just $100.00 decision. this involves an actual crime which means that the minimum penalty is one year in jail. for each separate offense that

we looked online for the ukrainian job site international work, which organized the journey from maxime and the others. it's still advertising jobs, in the e.u. but did not want to speak with us. many of the jobs with german work certificates currently do not seem to be feasible because of restrictions related to the coronavirus. many young people in ukraine seek better paid jobs abroad and they too could become the victims of criminal job agencies. paying a lot of money to get a job, getting into trouble with the german authorities and not earning anything. maksim says that he has learned a lesson i would now check everything very carefully. are also turn to specialists to find out information about the journey. not like i did then we didn't know where we were going or what we were doing. if you don't know where you're going,

you not only risk being deported, you could end up in jail. in the end, maxine, many others were in one way fortunate. they couldn't afford their return journey to ukraine, so the city of buys and sells it for them. but he had imagined their trip to germany would be very different. and now the german government wants to introduce the number of reforms to the meat industry, including restricting temporary staff and increasing controls by authorities one of the world's largest, the road and train tunnels is currently being built between germany and denmark. it will be 18 kilometers long and commuters will only need 10 minutes to travel underground from one end to the other. on the danish side, people are looking forward to the completion of the fair man built tunnel, but on the german side, not everyone thinks the project is such

a good idea. going to get hansen is one of those opposing the tunnel. the baltic sea is his home and his workplace and he's afraid of what years of construction work will do to the environment. good. i get hands and heads out into the baltic sea almost every day. to empty his traps. he used to fish for cod herring and flounder, but these days it's mostly eels. but he fears this could be a thing of the past of construction of the tunnel goes ahead. if it's a tough guy, he was, i'm totally annoyed by this whole situation with the famine belts, fixed link. we've been trying to say about fish supplies for decades along with research, as we've tried to keep to all the rules so that we leave behind a healthy baltic sea. and now there's this massive projects which will just to write a cape all the efforts of the past 20 years now has examined all the environmental impact assessments and the details of the tunnel

design. he's most worried that the seabed will be disturbed for years. and the ecological balance in the particularly important region of the baltic sea will suffer. that's helped like it beats from healing the main spawning area for herring and cause it is on the famine belt where they're digging. but there are of course, other valuable fish species and other creatures, such as the porpoises who breed and live there and which are now being scared away by the construction noise. while many people are still resisting the project on the german side, the excavators have already arrived on the danish coast at a press conference at the offshore construction site. the company building the tunnel wants to demonstrate to international journalists that everything is going to plan. and that there's no turning back can see there's

a large gap over there. so you can get there, you're going to go. the biggest working harbor in europe is currently being built on the coast of the danish island of long island. just for the tunnel project. the danish construction firm thinks that the criticism by the german environmentalists is exaggerated. we are taken by medical church very seriously. and we have actually just signed a project or minimize any impact we may have on you by any time we're working dopey, best of the special vessels sailing around the construction site that take a different measurements for instance, for sedimentation in the water. the company presents its vision of the future with coffee and snacks. in the tunnel won't be drilled. instead, she watched concrete construction elements will be joined together on the seabed. the world's longest immersed tunnel with link germany and denmark with journey

times of just 10 minutes. denmark's economy expects the 1000000000 euro project will boost growth. people in the port over what the half and also hope for a significant financial boost from the tunnel. new investments and thousands of construction workers would revive the small town and could help generate much needed business for the town's only cub. its owner daughter of on is excited about the plans. we took political makati, the locals are really optimistic. the project will bring many workers over the next 10 years, which will generate more revenue for local businesses due to the construction company is doing a good job of protecting the environment and keeping in touch with local v.a. . but over on the german side, the mood is a very different one. these blue crosses which can be seen in many places,

symbolize the protest against the tunnel. most residents on the island of fame and oppose the tunnel. they fear it will ruin. it's a deal of charm and deter tourists cutting noirmont rents out. holiday apartments. she's worried. these are island will suffocate and all the destitution and noise. we found that now during the coronavirus pandemic, many people especially appreciate con getaways like this. but they will become even where our, if on a little island is destroyed back to fisherman get tonnes and he had hoped legal action would block the construction project. but the environmentalists claims were rejected at the highest level. kinds of us the christine. i don't understand how something like this could be possible in this day

and age, and i don't understand our lawmakers who are refusing to stand up and say stop this we can't be doing this relies on the small island of fame. unverse says a large scale transport project, the tunnel designed to bring people closer together, is causing much unrest in this border region. tourists mainly know iceland as a place where they can experience the wonders of nature up close volcanoes, glaciers these errors. but scientists, there are also making use of these forces of nature, like in headless havey, which is home to one of the world's largest your thermal power plants. and that added to a t.m. is looking for smart ways to get rid of the carbon dioxide that's already in the atmosphere. it might sound strange, but it turns out that this gas can be turned into stone.

what better place to save the planet from global warming than iceland? it has energy to spare. everywhere the earth is in motion. scientists call it an active volcanic era. icelanders of long realise that the country's hot springs can serve as more than tourist attractions. half hour's drive east of the capital reykjavik la instead. heck, let's hear the power station. it's been generating electricity and heat from steam since 26. this become one of the world's biggest, you thermal power plants. but there's another reason why scientists entrepreneurs are reporters, are not flocking here. they want to meet with out of the c.e.o. of a company called car fix. it's working to reverse the greenhouse effect, albeit on a small scale. basically what's happening is that we are stuck in the office fair

through this machine and the c o 2 sticks to a specific chemical. they within this you need it. and so what comes out is so much cleaner this year, but with much nowhere. so you combine that with my they began using this kind of vacuum cleaner for carbon dioxide 8 years ago. and one of the pumping stations here explains what happens to the c o 2. so here we have our own underground pipe transforming this here to that was captured after. 6 kupchak pot, and it is all the water, and this is then what we inject into the subsurface, several 100 meters underground. to see you to then react with the basle rock and it's stored there permanently. it's a method that works especially well in the volcanic rock here. this is a piece of yourself a quarter. you see the c o 2, both feeling veins within that,

within the course of the factors, but also on the course. so gradually this all of these, these still on course could fill up with mineral lists you depending on how much sweeter the technology is still very expensive. it also consumes a lot of water and can only be used in specific terrain. still conflicts is convinced that this technology will eventually help to reduce the amount of c o 2 in the atmosphere. worldwide, few countries in the world are feeling the effects of climate change as acutely as iceland is once mighty clinton years are shrinking tin-tin yearly. so iceland's environment minister is taking action. the icelandic government instrument, the country c o 2 neutral by 2040. to do this, they're relying on new technologies and the belief in ancient sagas. we have these

stories in iceland, trolls became storms if they were exposed to sun. we can save us 3 are trying to turn c o 2 into stone where our strolls were turned in for a storm. and then after some icelanders knew that they can't save the planet on their own, but they're developing technologies to other countries. can at least one point in the future. and the idea that believing in elves and trains can also help to not bother anyone here. this man doesn't take criticism well turkish president trichet by you've ever go on is known for cracking down on opponents and critics. and it's not just those living in turkey, people who've spoken out against the president are not safe from the government, even when they live abroad. like a politician. she lives in austria and appears to have surfaced on the radar of the turkish intelligence agency,

which allegedly is trying to silence her. the bodyguards never leave barry bannan downside for weeks she was mostly too scared to leave her home. now she enjoys her 1st visit to a traditional viennese coffee house. she gets protection because an assassination attempt on the green politician is said to have been planned by turkey. in a turk, a comes and turkey, they are going to mandated and silenced all critics. by suspending them or locking them up and so a lot of anger, it's now only the european based critics remain a thorn in their side. the critic of the man. i think because, you know, of all cherokees intelligence service mit, he is said to have ordered a tax on foreign based critics at least according to one suspect at mit employee who was interrogated by austrian police. he reported meeting a middleman code named hugh. i think this is designed to spread chaos.

you told me it doesn't matter if she dies or is injured. all that matters is that the lawmakers get the message they're beyond. aslan has been a member of vienna city government since mid october, given her kurdish turkish roots. she has also been committed to human rights in turkey for many years. as a result, she has already suffered threats and insults in the past. security experts are shocked by the alleged assassination order. they say austria's government must finally act against turkey's intelligence agency. as i mean here, different attempt is being made to infiltrate these communities, so that chaos and destabilize the political system. then a red line has definitely been crossed and therefore policymakers here must clearly state so far and no further. we wanted to discuss the allegations with the turkish embassy in vienna. but our request was

turned down. instead, the embassy sent her a written statement, calling them untrue. austria government says there is evidence turkey's intelligence service is deliberately creating tensions. for example, between turkish nationalists and kurds living abroad in june 2020, right when turkish teenagers attacked a kurdish cultural center in vienna. marble near zani and dozens of others were inside the building. when the attackers set fire to the entrance that evening. there was a blaze right there. all these cables burned. club members and other guests on the upper floor noticed the fire and put it out in time. otherwise, things could have been even worse if the staircase, our emergency exit and caught fire, things could have become really bad. austria

is no isolated case for years german political scientist who are poor has warned that uncle rod has been trying to infiltrate turkish communities in europe. now he's concerned for his own safety. several weeks ago, his parents who live in turkey received an anonymous phone call that scared him to buy these oppose war or the color seemed to have information about me. my father and family that was not available in the public domain. that's why why i took this phone call very seriously and saw it as a clear threat as i did it for now. back at the end of city hall, where barry yvonne asan is also accompanied by bodyguards. she says she won't let herself be intimidated even though the death threats have left their mark on her. to mention,

it's only human to ask yourself again and again. why are you doing this to yourself that i was thinking? but then i think ok, all delicate matters in human history involve political risks to me. i'm probably paying a higher price than other politicians. but i am paying for human dignity. i sang to mention a very fine asanas fighting for free speech, but for this she needs constant protection in the heart of europe. it is a steep price to pay. if you see horses on a street of a european city, they are probably pulling a carriage with tourists. but in brussels, some more says have been assigned a different task. and these 2 are helping keep their city claim by collecting garbage and they may not be as fast as a regular garbage truck. but they definitely are. and i kits,

and they always make sure they look the best before heading out some belgian public service employees enjoying a hearty breakfast. and a base of personal grilling if you're setting off to work. this is a city of scarf, it speaks to the team of echoing trash collectors. the 3 horses are assisted by 7 people today. the 2 youngest horses are on duty and have a relaxing start. there's human colleagues calling for carsick as the best you know, are already hard at work signals of that reassure them. you have to look after the horses 7 days a week, but i like working with animals. so it's not a problem for me. after about an hour their coat shine and their means or comb. now the harness horses can be hitched to the cart and to to work. starboard

hasn't rained 130000 residents, so hauling all their trash would be too much for 2. horses trucks take care of that . the horses are responsible for keeping the public squares and parks clean. it's better than jogging. i walk several kilometers a day in the fresh air. it really keeps me fit. the team empties almost 750 trash cans. week after week they've been doing this is garbage for close to a decade. now. the municipal council is proud. they made that brief decision if you know your president has now ended, and there are several reasons, both financial and economic go. for one, it's environmentally friendly. we can empty the trash cans without producing any c o. 2 emissions. the other reason is it costs less horses last longer than vehicles

and a card costs less than a garbage truck with the local musharaff. yumi disadvantage is that the forces are somewhat slower than the garbage trucks, but then they've never been involved in an accident. either the engine your attract attention, where ever they go to their local celebrities. businessmen. stop by to say hello. but it's the children who are most surprised and excited to see them in go while they're sure people love the horses and the clapping of their hooves. that many come up to our windows or want to stroke them. and sometimes they even get a carrot while you also, after all that dish, will they work rain or shine unless they're on holiday like 30 min counterparts. the forces in the public sector are also entitled to 30 days of vacation. i wonder

what horses do when they are on holiday? well, that's all we have time for on today's show. thank you so much for joining us. take care and we're back. the book comes from the flaming me

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