downloads are supposed to come from super. to be. very close it is kind of into active exercises are you saying that on the d w don't comes to actually don't plan on facebook in the i'm still. learning german for 3 weeks w. me. a warm welcome to this week's edition of focus on europe thanks for joining us today more and more migrants are hoping to reach the u.k. now because they fear exit deal may make it tougher to enter the country dreams of a better life are leaving them to embark on the risky journey from france across the british channel some are getting on tiny boats using shovels as paddles their

goal is to reach the wide cliffs of the english coast the coast guard often has to help migrants in this press because the crossing is so dangerous most migrants are aware of how risky it is to cross the english channel they know they may drown in the icy water and yet hundreds still set out from the french port city of cully in hopes of reaching the british city of dover now authorities and friends are stepping up efforts to prevent migrants from making the same tourist journey it's a daily cat and mouse game between the migrants and the french police. the. french police are on patrol in a gene sneak kalai searching for items that migrants might have hidden during the day before crossing to britain and they struck lucky 3 backpacks with personal belongings. out of it. and an outboard motor for.

you know a few metres further visiting the. upper devonian said the function of this is the boat it's still very new that's courage together it's not heavy. the police beat the refugees to the scene if they wanted to leave the same night it's more than 40 kilometers across the icy cold sea to the english port of dover. we have prevented a crossing that could have ended in a fatal disaster. the boat is much too small and the engine is not strong enough by far the most likely they would have capsized. 90 french policemen a finance by the british government to come on the coast their mission is to prevent refugees from reaching british soil. this is

probably a gasoline canister. it must have been lying here for a long time with. our no grew up here he knows the beaches like the back of the st. dover is over there. i wouldn't venture to see in this weather. out the waves are 3 to 4 metres high. it's a dangerous passage narrow with huge container ships and tankers. a few weeks ago an entire kurdish family drowned in the seine it wasn't an isolated incident nevertheless several 1000 refugees thought to have made it to britain this year. many more refugees are prepared to risk their lives they come from example from eritrea around. most of them have enjoyed enormous

hardships and paid smugglers a fortune to get this far they see the police as a threat. this young man we'll call him abdullah is a refugee he tells us he comes from sudan he was persecuted and they're full fled to germany where he studied computer science but his asylum application was rejected they didn't believe his story. yesterday to germany at the university in seguin and still are not allowed to work i'm not allowed to do anything nothing makes sense anymore. after wants to apply for asylum in britain he's already tried to cross the english channel by boat but the police caught it it was a traumatic experience. yes they were very aggressive the french police were very aggressive. when you tried crossing by boat exactly the police beat me twice.

the refugees aren't allowed to leave but they are welcome to stay either several people tell us that the task force used tear gas and destroy their tents again and again pitches a daily police arrest meant that a refugee posted online. now after wants to hide in a truck and reached britain via the channel tunnel a safer trip than by boat. but later the police find a refugee with sniffer dogs giving up is out of the question for abdo he will try again. though persecuted by the police the refugees are supported by aid organizations. works for utopia $56.00 which distributes clothes to refugees he's convinced that the controls lead to nothing but what it all controls only results in the refugees taking greater and greater risks and more of

them and of drowning are the more the refugees are afraid of the police so they get into an adequate votes night sometimes the weather's bad but they try their luck anyway no matter how many gendarmes they use the number of refugees who want to go to britain does not decrease. crossing in the eyes of the refugees a final chance for a better life for john downes we accompanied assured us that their unit behaves correctly. you're a job we do it with a tough hand but we remain humane our goal is to save lives. only us what's the solution for the refugees the police have no answer they say it's not their responsibility and so the game of hide and seek continues in the jeans me callaway. have you ever asked yourself where the material for the clothes

you're wearing comes from well the consul maybe from turkey it's the leading cotton supplier in europe and it also has a booming textile industry but the demand for fast fashion i round the world may be forcing turkish children to work on cotton farms although the turkish government says it has officially banned child labor each harvest tens of thousands of miners have to toil away and the scorching heat. the sun is so hot stings. but 10 year old seville i picks the cotton tirelessly. while elsewhere other children her age play or go to school civilian or siblings have to work in the field with their parents and relatives. just civility whether she ever had any free time well after breakfast my father says come on let's go and work and in the afternoon my mother tells me to look up to my younger sister.

she was upset when we asked if she ever had any free time to play. and that is 12 years old. has been driving a tractor since he was 10. he says that he enjoys that the picking cotton is tough . every year he works in the fields for up to 2 months. that's how long the harvesting takes. a drink this time keep the children don't go to school to learn optional we pick cotton from 6 in the morning to 6 at night when the sun the whole time it's always the same and the same for all of my friends. but your father shenouda with you tonight for the. dreams of a better future. he wants to be a policeman. i want to have a steady income and i want my children to have

a better life than me. severe lies mother also works in the fields with the children. she told us that she is not happy that her daughters have to pick cotton. this is 1st class we want our children to go to school we want to offer them a good life. but we don't have any choice we have to make cotton and we do if we don't word we don't have any money for. only them so they shouldn't. the families who work here come from villages as far as 50 kilometers away during the harvest they live in tents. every fall tens of thousands of children work to help their families get through the winter even though child labor is officially banned in turkey. but there is no social welfare to.

the owner of the land rama zone and knows the children are not supposed to work. families can leave their children anywhere they come for us every one of you. should have no alternative but to stay with their families they should go to school but who would take care of them so they're here to do in the harvest they have to fetch water for the lot. of the families are paid per kilo of cotton $0.08 per kilo seville i can pick about 20 kilos per day. that's one euro 60. feet professor said that barack has been conducting research into seasonal workers for years. he was cautious when we asked who was responsible for the fact that up to $50000.00 children work in the fields for several months each year. everyone

knows the situation because of the corona virus pandemic to your seville i should be in front of a computer receiving online lessons but she's doing something different and the economic situation doesn't allow her to do anything else even if she wanted to there's no computer those responsible are the key players in our society. does everyone know yes well anything be done you know. how you. know so surveillance 12 year old sister when she's finished picking cotton she helps to wash laundry she also works the whole day remember the mock them. getting i don't want to be here. i want to go to school. it's hard to earn a living i think school lessons a much nicer though. i'd rather go to school don't work here.

for mother does not think that her children have very good future prospects i think she hundreds future looks like their parents feature on the way they're going to be working in the fields to. a long day in the cotton fields come to an end of eli and nurse i'll sit by the fire for a while. maybe nurse opon toure's over her feet before she can only dream of a better future. this is what's a proper english garden looks like impeccably kept great design a feast for the eyes but now there is an initiative in eastern england which encourages landowners to let go of this perfection large sum of leighton is one of the founders of the project called wild beasts he is returning 20 percent of his

family estates to nature meaning wild animals and plants can grow and thrive as they want some of his neighbors are a bit skeptical of the idea but at least the animals love their new found freedom. for. these large black says they are called to dig around in the ground almost anywhere on the summer like new stage in nice to be england team 6 secret weapon of sorts for the station and famu to some late. they're very efficient you can you can afford to have quite a pig's. for quite a short time to get the to. the ground to a lot of open space for new seeds being some late stage spans over 20 square kilometers and he calls the mansion home the adjacent park provide space for all the animals to roam freely far from the stereotypical english moon these strange

china is allowing nature to completely reclining on one 5th of his property. his father also ran a farm out of the conventional source where it would have been unthinkable for cows and pigs to wander right up to the doorstep had always been very keen on. nature and so wanting to do things better my dad particularly got a very frustrating he had a sort of almost a victorian hangover of tardiness. and we clashed a bit on that. lot so malaysians pigs are slaughtered but at the same time they also help conserve nature by lending crisis biodiversity to the forest a fern species had run rampant paid for centuries and the pigs in it to keep it in chink. in order to. you know stimulate the soil so that the seed by the floor seabed underneath we need to disrupt broccoli and they will be here as soon as they've completed their task that piece how to leech the forest

again if you just have pigs you'll only have this and that's the disaster of a different guy and so you know one has to control so rewarding is is a great term but in that sense it's farming so we're going to try to balance right between different species to try and get the perfect sort of habitats to get the most biodiverse environment. but also to leighton and those who share his convictions try to win over their neighbors most nearby farm and ask him to. resist change at restaurants. traditional and. in that respect. but. doesn't agree that.

he is convinced. to hundreds. such as. a public park. to. experience as many people. from and he wishes to. 100.

and. he has. too much. in montenegro journalists investigating corruption and organized crime often puts their lives at risk the balkan republic wants to join the e.u. but rights groups criticize frequent violations of reporters rights montenegro's press freedom has deteriorated in the previous years journalists to fix soft it's from the town of better than it sued the authorities for failing to protect him from being brutally attacked because of

a story he had uncovered. i know there's a certain day in toronto in ne in montenegro as always generous to a few soft each party in front of his house it was dark he didn't see too many lying in wait for him. but to be on your bill they repeatedly hit me in the head hard. i tried to protect my head filled to my knees they broke my hand. in a mirror for i have many head wounds. i was bleeding. could have no idea how long it lasted how many minutes. you know i can't say anymore and i laid back in until his daughter found him he was taken to hospital. those who beat him up to say she had 70 tori's a drug lord he had written about there are many indications of that but public

prosecutors dropped the case years later soft which thinks the drug lords politicians and the judiciary too intertwined. i'm totally convinced that there was no political will to resolve the case when this happened to one of us of all their flaws. it wasn't the 1st time did such a been attacked in 20 show team there was an explosion near his car. such as you say the fact that the culprit still hadn't been found is intentional. or smart but i told the lady. of the river i think that this is a message from certain groups to journalists the media. is to restrict press freedom. it's not a one off either intimidation of journalists and violence against them quite common

in montenegro the country is ranked 105 in the world. press freedom index behind closed and beg. the e.u. and others repeatedly criticize the links between politics in this crime and the lack of an independent judiciary in montenegro. the last interests and that's very true to some of these docs he had been already. investigated in period some of them not be further efforts to be invested in this kind of investigation is. going to change the journalist you bill maher to north beach the judiciary was seemingly very efficient he was arrested in 2015 was researching drug trafficking and weapon smuggling. he shows us a video that should provide evidence of his research arms trade as had hidden machine guns pistols and hand grenades here and years ago they took that there was

impossible through this guard was banned from france some of the stuff ended up with terrorists. and it was confirmed officially that. the weapons from the former yugoslavia were used in. terrorist attacks. the court would not admit this evidence that i was on assignments. the court just said you know or was relevant motion of each spent almost a year and a half in custody he was only released from an international protests a court found him guilty of having a range to a drug deal but he says that this was merely a means of silencing him. the court refutes the allegations. are they all. he was found guilty of establishing the contract between the seller

and buyer in a deal involving 20 kilos of marijuana. one there or heard that. this is a crime that he was found guilty of bloody obvious that it's not the allies walked or go wasn't created and it has nothing to do of his profession. martineau which was found guilty on 2 counts of aiding and abetting but he has decided to appeal the ruling i think politics is behind my incarceration and my conviction barbara has to cooperate with the secret service on police part the. on many times at least the almost only potent d.p.'s party was recently voted out after almost 30 years in power. parts of teach doubts the situation will change significantly but a new government. or the smallest daughter was. the old

government has left behind a difficult legacy of unsolved cases of attacks on journalists this is a major problem for press freedom and for the future which is. the new government has said that it will respect press freedom. the city of segovia is a popular tourist destination located north of the spanish capital madrid and aqueducts and built by the romans as one of the city's monuments and a unesco world heritage site now legend has it that one residents made a pact with the devil centuries ago after years and years the devil has returned to segovia and just like a regular tourist he couldn't resist the temptation of taking a selfie in front of the city's most famous monuments. little grinning bronze devil sits perched on a wall high above the city narcissistically taking selfies in front of the world

famous aqueduct of cigar which according to legend was built by the devil the statues created by scooter until you have been almost 2 years ago. the us were doctors 2000 years old while mobile phones are only a few years old but the devil is a timeless being an imagineer devil coming to some of you proud of his work and nowadays of course he has a mobile phone with him and if they like everyone else it was worth looking at the list. and fight the statue refers to a legend in order to use a young girl's heavy burthen when fetching water the devil offered her to build a water line in just one night but it's came at a price. by sunrise however the aqueduct wasn't finished the diabolical deal was $40.00 to $1.00 team arranged to devil fled the city for roman aqueduct and so go via is a unesco world heritage site and

a popular photo motif but the devil's return is controversial. catholic associations are angry about the statue and that sculptor. persists a building a statue depicting evil of all things which the devil represents is an insult so yeah of course in this case itself it's the work. which is why we have to defend ourselves we must protest against this because we have to choose she not to remain silent others. have collected thousands of signatures and launched appeals into courts but so far i'm going to turn in to continue their fight against the devil over city blocks to structure still looks on from above see me me me view tension. and that's all we have time for today we have war stories from across europe on our home page d.w. dot com please don't forget to join us next week for another edition of focus on europe thanks for watching take care and good by the by.

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