tv Focus on Europe Deutsche Welle December 10, 2020 8:30am-9:01am CET
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please take care of yourself good to see what you have and if you can stay at home we're d.w.b. are here for you we're working tirelessly to keep you informed on over platinums our own industry in run together from a cancer. stay safe everybody stays in place to stay safe for you to save. you. 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 at gregg's a deal may make it tougher to enter the country dreams of
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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 the jeans new callaway searching for items that migrants might have hidden join the day before crossing to britain and
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they struck lucky 3 backpacks with personal belongings. and an outboard motor for. a 2nd you know a few meters further visiting. for. operative word in a simple fog you know 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. probably. 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
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a financed by the british government to comb 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 for. are no grew up here he knows the beaches like the back of the santa. cruz stover is over there. i wouldn't venture to see this weather. further 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 same it wasn't an isolated incident nevertheless several 1000 refugees afoot to have made it to britain this
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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 who called him abdullah is a refugee he tells us he comes from sudan he was persecuted and they'd fall fled to germany where he studied computer science but his asylum application was rejected they didn't believe his story. to germany at the university and still are not allowed to work i'm not allowed to do anything or nothing thanks and sorry more. abdo wants to apply for asylum in britain he's already tried to cross the english channel by boat but the police caught him it was a traumatic experience. yes they were very aggressive the french police were
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very aggressive. when you tried crossing by boat exactly the police beat me twice. the refugees aren't allowed to leave but i out 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 reach britain via the channel tunnel a safe it trip them 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
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refugees he's convinced that the controls lead to nothing but what it is all the controls only results in the refugees taking greater and greater risks and more of them and of drowning but the more the refugees are afraid of the police so they get into an adequate boat night sometimes the weather is 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. a flu shot crossing in the eyes of the ritchie cheese a final chance for a better life. on downs we accompanied assured us that their unit behaves correctly . the door job we do it with a tough hand but we remain humane our goal is to save lives. when we asked what's the solution for the refugees the police have no answer they
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say it's not their responsibility and so the game of hide and seek continues in the genes the caliphate. have you ever asked yourself where the material for the clothes you're wearing comes from well the cotton may be from turkey it's the leading cotton supplier in europe and it also has a booming textile industry but the demand for fast fashion a round the world's may be forcing turkish children to work on cotton farms although the turkish government says it has officially banned child labor each harvest season tens of thousands of miners have to toil away and the scorching heat . the sun is so hard to stings. but 10 year olds feel like picks the cotton timelessly. 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. we asked civility whether she ever had any free time well after breakfast my father
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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 but picking cotton is tough . every year he works in the fields for up to 2 months. that's how long the harvesting takes. and during this time he and the other children don't go to school. 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 my friends. so. it's my dreams of a better future. he wants to be
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a policeman. i want to have a steady income and i want my children to have a better life than me give it a little less fuss of eli's mother also works in the field with the children. she told us that she is not happy that her daughters have to pick cotton. this is just clothes we want our children to go to school we want to offer them a good live of the mother but we don't have any choice we have to make cotton it's my what can we do if we don't worry we don't have any money for what i believe them so they should stay for. 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
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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 or families can leave their children anywhere they come from separate. you. should have no alternative but to stay with their families they should go to school but who will take care of them so they're here to doing the harvest they have 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. jobber for a professor said that's bennett has been conducting research into seasonal workers for years. he was cautious when we asked who was responsible for the fact that up
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to $50000.00 children work in the fields for several months each year. everyone knows the situation because of the corona virus pandemic bill 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 wouldn't there's no computer those responsible are the key players in our society. does everyone know mark 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 though marks them. getting i don't want to be here. i want to go to school. but it's hard to earn
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a living i think school lessons are much nicer. i'd rather go to school and work here. for mother does not think that her children are very good future prospects. i think children's future looks like their parents future and on the big going to be working in the fields to. a long day in the cotton fields come to an end so if you lie and nurse i'll sit by the fire for a while. maybe nurse ponders over her feet before she can only dream of a better future. this is what a proper english garden looks like impeccably kept great design a feast for the eyes but now there is that in this it's of in eastern england which
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encourages landowners to let go of this perfect large leyton is one of the founders of the project called wild beasts he is returning 20 per cent 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 and not to dig around in the ground almost anywhere on a summer like new state in nice to be england didn't some secret weapon of sorts for the a station and farm some late. for. their very offensive you can you can afford to have got out of pigs. for quite a short time to get the to. the ground to allow open space for new seeds build some malaysians the state spans over 20 square kilometers and he calls the
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mansion home the adjacent park provide space for all the animals to roam freely far from a stereotypical english lawn the stage owner is allowing nature to completely reclaim on one 5th of his property. his father also ran a farm part of the conventional source where it would have been unthinkable for cows and pigs to wander right up to the doorstep i've always been very keen on. nature and wanting to do things better my dad particularly found it very frustrating he had a sort of almost a victorian hangover of tardiness. and we clashed a bit on the. summer lightens pigs are slaughtered but at the same time they also help conserve nature by lending biodiversity to the forest a phone species had run rampant in the centuries and the pigs it meant to keep it in cheek. it in order to. you know stimulate the soil so that
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the seed by the throat seabed underneath and we need to disrupt broccoli and they were here as soon as they've completed their task that piece how to leave the forest again if you just have pigs you'll only have this and that's the disaster of a different god so you know one has to control so rewarding is is a great term but in that sense it's farming going to try and keep the balance right between different species to try and get the perfect sort of habitats to get the most biodiverse environment. but also leighton and those who share his convictions try to win over their neighbors most nearby farm and ask him to. resist change at restaurants particular traditional farmers and rewilding certainly nothing new in that in that perspective it's always stated that you know i mean to say. that there's not there's a lot of people are breaking on it but hopefully will would work when round
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benchley politically. don't simulate and doesn't agree that only wealthy landowners can afford to conserve nature and sees himself as a pioneer venturing down parts but he is convinced everyone will need to rethink things and has already found 200 associates thank you to a few new famines and neighborhood initiatives as well as the nearby warren school for children with disabilities such as. the brits were incredibly good. but that tidying stuff up and managing everything to. be a great example of this or that whether this is a school playing field or whether it's. a public park that's kind of. typical management for the last 50 years and this is you know it's a new form of management. to stimulate the senses. to.
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look at some latencies finding a bone if nature is an experience as many people as possible should benefit from and he wishes to. 100. neighboring marshland. i'm already in that space i'm already halfway there. and white tailed it was kind of walking up and down this river valley but still with cattle and we. saw me systems but that had to be chancellor. first he has to persuade his native. peoples roaming free on the property really 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 fake soft it's
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from the town of bet and may soon be authorities for failing to protect him from being brutally attacked because of a story he had uncovered. i know this is the day in the run 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 beyond their ability they repeatedly hit me in the head hard. i tried to protect my head filled to my knees they broke my hand. i have many head wounds. i was bleeding. could have no idea how long it lasted how many minutes. you know so i can't say anymore he laid back in until his daughter found him he was
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taken to hospital he schumann's those who beat him up to sow seeds of a new tory is a drug lord here written about there are many indications of that but public prosecutors dropped the case years later softish thinks the drug lords politicians and the judiciary too intertwined. with. totally convinced that there was no political will to resolve the case when this happened to all of us have all their faults. it wasn't the 1st time that such church had been attacked in 20 show team there was an explosion near his car. such as you you said the fact that the culprit still had to be found is intentional . or by smart that i told the lady. of the river if i think that this is a message from certain groups to journalists the media. is to restrict press
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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 those and big. the e.u. and others repeatedly criticized the links between politics and goodness crime and the lack of an independent judiciary in montenegro. that's interests and that's very prone to some of these dogs he had been already. investigated in clear old some of them not be further efforts to be invested in these kind of restrictions. when it came to journalist yuval martinu feature the judiciary was seemingly very efficient he was arrested in 2015 was researching drug trafficking and weapons smuggling. he shows us
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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 the nails these 2 girls in through this guard was bound for france some of the stuff found it 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 7 months that i was on assignments. the court just said you know or was irrelevant martin overage spent almost a year and a half in custody he was only released from international protests a court found him guilty of having a ranged a drug deal but he says that this was merely a means of silencing him. the court refutes the allegations.
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are they all. he was found guilty of establishing the contact between the seller and buyer in a deal involving 20 kilos of marijuana. that one there or her. lover did this is a crime that he was found guilty of the body or b s e r but it's not the allies walked or go wasn't created and it has nothing to do and his profession. nationally bitch was found guilty on 2 counts of aiding and abetting but he has decided to appeal the ruling of the importance is behind my incarceration and my conviction by refuse to cooperate with the secret service and 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. but softish doubts the situation will change significantly with the new government
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. or the smalls' daughter was your thirst. 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. 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 billed 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
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grinning bronze devil sits perched on the walls i have of the city narcissistically taking selfies in front of the world famous aqueduct of cigar via which according to legend was built by the devil the statues created by scooter until you have been almost 2 years ago. when he led the us with doctors 2000 years old phones are only a few years old is a timeless being an imaginary devil coming to see if you are 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. in front of the statue refers to a legend in order to use a young girl's heavy burden when fetching water the devil offered to build a water line in just one night but it's came at a price per soul by sunrise however the aqueduct wasn't finished the diabolical.
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unseen rage devil fled the city the roman aqueduct. 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 under sculptor. persist a building a statue depicting evil of all things which the devil represents is an insult so you see this case itself and see what the catalyst. which is why we have to defend ourselves but we must protest against this because we have to choose she not to remain silent. has collected from dozens of signatures and launched appeals from 2 courts but so far invented the term and to continue their fight against the devil of the city to structure still looks on from above say me me me spying on view tension. and that's all we have time for today we have war stories from
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