many years their love for the sport had disappeared. aged 10 and primed for big things the twins moved to an elite training center near cologne but when their performances dipped they say they were called fat and lazy by their coach. slim's the front is the worst thing was when he said he wouldn't come to competitions with us because we were embarrassing him when you're 14 or 15 you need a coach who supports you no matter how badly he always let us down just before the competition saying heavy embarrassed i may be out a mess on one occasion injuring a balls exercise naomi said she was purposely dropped on her head to teach her a lesson before i had pushed me 2 or 3 times to go down lower but i knew he wasn't holding me properly that's why i didn't go lower and then i did under pressure but he let go of me and said there you see. in a statement to the local association the right nischelle turner said it was quite

surprised by the allegations adding the r.c.b. takes the allegations raised very seriously and will clarify the facts as soon as possible. at the time naomi and ruby were given 3 options either put up with the coach quit the sport or if they ended up doing move to the olympic training center in penates earlier this month problems there were uncovered by the sheiko magazine a dozen other gymnasts accused the head coaching chemists gabrielle a fraser of bullying them and making them train through injury naomi and ruby say pain killers and injections were handed out freely without prescriptions and without the knowledge of athlete's parents but the twins felt they couldn't speak up because of the baggage they'd come with. by it because we were always told we were annoying a we were the problem we didn't want to be a nuisance we just wanted to show we were actually hardworking. and so that's why

we didn't mention a lot of things. when tom. fraser who's been suspended pending an investigation has cooled all the allegations baseless and says she never overstepped the mark it was her strong denials that prompted naomi and ruby to tell their story. stating that we can definitely confirm these baseless allegations that the other girls have meant by that i mean 2 or 3 of them were with us in canada and we witnessed how badly they were treated it like we can easily say it's not baseless. and. these days the twins only compete in the nationally no longer trimming of international success but at least now they can perform again with a smile on their faces.

10 years ago today a genuine street vendor stood in front of his local government offices and set himself on fire it was a desperate act to protest official corruption and it triggered a wave of evils across the region that became known as the arab spring but while the protests led to the toppling of longtime dictators they also foreshadowed a number of civil wars that continue to rage today. this man lit the spark that left scorch marks across the entire hour bridge and on december 17th 2010 mohamed bouazizi says some cell phone fire to protest official corruption in chinese he died from his injuries a few weeks later but by then his story of desperation had inspired a nationwide outpouring of rage. and soon afterwards the arab

spring protests took down their 1st high profile political target. as soon as the especially an autocrat zina ben ali fled to saudi arabia with only a few family members and close aides in tow. the antigovernment protests multiplied rapidly be on chin izzie as borders with anger over repressive regimes economic hardship and political failure spilling onto the streets social media was used to spread the word unorganized and few of our countries were left untouched by the unrest some of the biggest upheaval was experienced in egypt where decades long ruler hosni mubarak was overthrown setting the stage for a power struggle eventually won by the military. and libya syria and yemen became embroiled in for trucks of conflicts which are still

taking a huge humanitarian toll today. over more i'm joined tonight by sara yorkies she's a senior fellow with the carnegie endowment middle east program so it's good to have you back with us here on the day you've focused a lot of your research on tunisia the one country that has an active democratic institution since the arab spring is tunisia is it these success story of the arab spring. it certainly is the most successful of all of the arab spring countries and i think if you divide tunisia's political and economic situation politically absolutely if there's free and fair elections a robust constitution vibrant civil society people in the streets criticizing their government which would have gotten them thrown in jail 10 years ago that is certainly in the success column but economically you know the issues that really drove the revolution in the 1st place in that case speech is actually worse off

than it was in 2010 unemployment is higher g.d.p. rates are lower people are actually having a harder time feeding their families and they were 10 years you know further afield the east many had hoped for democratic transition in egypt which is the region's most populous an influential country what went wrong there after demonstrators succeeded in toppling the mubarak regime the difference between egypt and tunisia is the role of the military or the military in egypt played a much more heavy handed role from day one even during the revolution they were much more willing to kind of go against protesters adventurously they staged a military coup that unseated the democratically elected muslim brotherhood government so egypt you had this idea that there were power forces at play that were much bigger much more powerful than the protestors in the revolutionaries whereas in tunisia the military was on the sidelines they never played that sort of interventionists role and then you've got other countries agendas syria and yemen

that have descended into chaos and civil war does having populations divided along sectarian lines does that make it harder to you know to plant the seeds of democracy. sectarianism is definitely a factor and the more divided the society is the more difficult it is now in the case of tunisia one of the things that made it a resoundingly success in the early years was the ability for all the political leaders to come together you had people islamist secularists people who really did not agree with each other or decided they were going to put democracy and its democratic transition ahead of their own political goals you did not see that in syria and libya and yemen or egypt in those cases you had such the tearing divides but you also had just general societal divides and people who really wanted to be the winners present in egypt people decided you know what democracy is more important to us than actually having our own party the elite here and you know when you look at all of these countries in northern africa in the middle east but they

have in common coming is that they have young demographics and we're talking about majorities in the population under the age of $42.00 is a younger population is it easier for the city of strongman leader is it easier for him or more him or her to control i mean is that a lesson from the arab spring. i think that the youth factor helped spur on the revolutions and one of the reasons for that was the use of social media which it's hard for us to imagine right now but you know 10 years ago socially was still pretty young so people across the arab world used social media in a way that really surprised the dictators at the time the youths who were in the streets they were using these tools that the governments were not familiar with unfortunately the government caught on pretty quickly in the case of egypt mubarak shut down the entire internet but something that's pretty impossible to imagine happening today but i do think that the youth had a major factor you know that they were the ones who were much more innovative and

they were much more willing to take risks than i think maybe some of the older generations were but that generation is now a decade older you know there are doubts not middle aged by any means but there are more mature and so they're handling the situation differently are you still see protests for sure everywhere across the region what you're seeing a different approach it's not the same sort of brazen approach that i think people who are in their their late teens or early twenty's would take and what about the role that played by foreign powers you know who i'm talking about those in the west but also iran. so the foreign powers had a influence on things in both mostly bad ways i would say actually you know one of the reasons but today also succeeded where others didn't is that tunisia was in a country where people are really pushing for democracy where the west where outside powers were really pushing for democracy the ben ali regime was very closed off it was a country where it didn't look like democracy was anywhere close to being on the

horizon compared to a place like egypt or morocco or jordan where you had some sort of façade democratic reforms you had quite a push from the united states for example as well as from the european union in egypt on pushing for democratic reform which i think that fiery i mean some of the revolution and she was much more kind of grassroots based it was much more natural it came from the people versus this idea that it was imposed by sort of imperialist powers but you also have the other powers in the region you mentioned iran but also the gulf states who have continued over the past decade to play a role there is you know qatar saudi arabia people who really that's right are trying to kind of have a proxy fight in the region in a way you know each of them have their own interests qatar supporting the muslim brotherhood and egypt saudi arabia certainly not ok syria is a red rep if they're on syria he's with the carnegie endowment middle these programs here we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you thank you . for finally many times this year many

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. subscribe to a documentary on. hello and welcome to focus on europe with me liz show it's something that a few years ago most europeans never thought would be possible but now brags it is really happening how we'll trade between the u.k. and the work the uncertainty is palpable at the ferry ports and the channel tunnel connecting england and france. this could be

a taste of things to come near the french city of cully trucks form kilometer long queues to cross the channel drivers wait for hours and there's no sign of things improving. and what are things like on the other side many people in southern england wanted to leave the e.u. for example in cannes known as the garden of england but now residents are afraid that their region will turn into a massive holding area for trucks near the town of ashford the hour reading some signs of that's happening. once upon a time there was a quaint 13th century church in a sleepy part of canton south eastern england. but ever since threats that the tranquility is gone. noisy construction work has begun on a vast customs clearance center near ashford to the dismay of locals called the idea here is that the various would have to present their paperwork by going out

and coming in from the opinion. the government belatedly realised that h. the sentence above the traffic with europe does come through. and because there is no space to set up a customs station in dover it is being created near. the plants $25.00 hectares site will process up to $1700.00 lorries per day. liz wright who is a green party city councillor in oxford opposed to bret's that from the start. some people who voted for breakfast a problem probably were getting a sudden they weren't told anything like this would happen in fact it was a completely denied wasn't it they were told it would be less access to computers would deal with a toll but in reality countless customs declarations will have to be processed and information booth at a nearby petrol station is supposed to offer help on what paperwork will be

necessary but the stuff won't tell me much we're not really allowed to own so any questions and that kind of thing i can tell you where we're just here to help and basically just to support just to make sure that the guards. they don't get. stuff the helpers don't actually know what the future holds in store which is why most of the truck drivers don't even bother asking them. your mommy informed there is very little information. for mark the little we get is dished out bit by bit the political trip nobody here knows which caused them forms we will need to hear the birth of. a german lorry driver has had it with this uncertainty they'll do one more run to the u.k. and then never again. that's definitely it for me then i'm only open to meeting halfway in a meeting in english truck and taking the trailer back and filling it up again but heading over there in this situation of definitely not so it's a bit sad isn't it is where parting ways it's

a cut option as my. pager does not want to experience the border chaos again. things are complicated by the fact that the region around ashford often floods as more ground is sealed if the water flows elsewhere obstructing construction work. locals like the cops heads could have worn to the bricks administered but nobody asked for their advice. and no one had the foresight to all ask the local fish what happens with the watch where it goes what a state they've just gone and done what i think is roy and he's totally wrong right now start welcome to some day to do a catch up i still don't believe it returning time so went over long he's gonna. sit on the votes i think if people don't vote i would talk to steve. yeah right.

local conservative politician called bartlett agrees even though his party was in support of brecht's said now he is trying to find the silver lining in the project so little church the diplomas try. school to spending about half a 1000000 pounds on improving the. they're putting in the community cafe which will be a wonderful asset for local people choose a new car park so that it's more cesspool. even more parking spaces for kent county that the british once proudly call to the garden of england. if no post breaks a deal has been struck by january 1st authorities will have to improvise. and so the british departure brings destruction just like these noisy construction vehicles. some people go to a church when they want to pray others go to

a mosque in eastern turkey him out of these like cannon good to go to the source of a river in the mountains the elevated sect is not officially recognized as a religious community in turkey and is now one of its holy places is under threat in the months or valley in at the river where canon and others come for pilgrimage as they have plans to build a huge recreational area. the moons of valley national park is an area of spectacular natural beauty and of great spiritual significance to al of ites like canada get but the landscape around the eastern anatolian city of 2 jelly could soon be radically transformed. what is happening here is making us all of these despair cannot accept this. he shows us what he means at this construction site near moon's all river. dozens of stalls have already been set up. for plans to build

a kind of amusement park right here this valley which governments biking. such a target attraction right here along the springs is seen as a threat by the l a v community. cannot get who heads the local alibi to cultural association is outraged by the project talk with order to get clearance leaked to us water is something holy you want your water stands for purity these construction works are meant to assimilate us they want to make our spiritual sides disappear. you know it's your little weird self the idea is to build parking lots restaurants and picnic areas here pilgrims wishing to visit their holy sites would have to pay entrance a range of dams are planned as well which would cause large parts of the national park to flood. for hundreds of years i'll

avoid surveyor these springs on the untouched nature as holy pilgrimage sites. and as it has to this sick would be brought here to people who are convinced that there's an area would heal them that's what building here shows us that they don't respect our religion they also like goodwill for months locals have been protesting against a construction project last summer thousands gathered in the valley and formed a human chain but the authorities refused to back down. asked for comment the regional governor refers to a statement he made in august. it claims the construction work will protect the region. and that social media is rife with misinformation. he also shows his plans of the finished project without any mention of alibi to pogrom insights can i get and many others from turkey's elevate community distrust

the turkish state. of the $1.00 and $5.00 turks belongs to this religious community it is not officially recognized in the country. these days their places of worship are tolerated. the televisa are still not allowed to offer their own religious instruction in schools. resent what is growing . either way we pay taxes in this country. you know turkish religious or thirty's have built thousands of mosques with our money. so we're justified in demanding our constitutional rights. by a sudden paving not. unlike sunny muslims out of ease focus on the prophets rather than muhammad they see their faith as a mandate to work for equality among people including the tween men and women as

illustrated by their commute times and even alcohol is permitted. this makes them apostates the eyes of radical so nice. again and again olivia is have been attacked received death threats and their homes have been vandalized. so if you could google those reviews we should be we are constantly worried about our security. and what we know that it doesn't just stop at threats we've experienced it should. have already been killed in this country. for gingrich. the mayor of the town of 2 jelly has also spoken out against the amusement park project. is turkey's only communist mayor and is under observation by the state. but speaking to a camera he formulates his criticism carefully. inside get used to be the entrance

to the area will become a commercial design in principle the idea of renewal may not be bad on the bench but we don't like having such an emphasis on calm a little less mad going to be going to your boss not to last minute your life. a living you say that the soul moves or river is the soul of the people the turkish government's project with desecrate one of their homes 2 places on the boat on the v.a.'s aren't ready to give up on the moons or valley yet. if you have ever been in a skill lift you know that it's pretty hard to keep one and a half meters this between people but despite the coronavirus endemic the ski slopes in switzerland are open while some neighboring countries are more restrictive the says are determined to do things their way and the ski instructor i mean you in the tunnel then divide it is quite pleased about that. so i said then do so if you go this way fast one point is going downhill that's where you

shift your weight ok let's try again yes a. little sienna is facing the challenges of the snow instead of being one of the crowd she's getting an individual lesson this is what the start of the season including devolving and looks like the snow is perfect the slopes mt love bravo nicely forward leonie honda has been a skiing struck to pull 3 years she doesn't know if she'll have enough work this winter. north feet we're hoping for a lot of kids like sienna and i think it'll be fine. but it doesn't look that way at the moment this was government has told foreigners to cancel their ski plans and stay home the ski school has 90 percent fewer bookings than in previous years for the most part guests from germany elsewhere in europe and asia i'm missing. all along he's everything ok with distancing. myself home bag-o.

runs the ski school he make sure coronavirus safety measures are being observed on the slopes. when we. talk to people who can't social distance when we take a break to get there and of course we pull the mask. while ski lifts are at a standstill in germany france and italy things are expected to be booming here over the holidays and the protective measures are not all that strict inconnu vowed as in all other swiss ski resorts mosques and social distancing are compulsory gondolas can be up to 2 thirds full that's a cause for concern to some. it has i'm afraid of the gondolas when they're too crowded i get concerned and there are lots of people around. we're getting on. these were the crowds in some art at the beginning of the season also in sas very

unfair year no sign of social distancing railway operators say these were isolated incidents. steve this wasn't worth the money being. made a mistake and it won't happen again. but. throughout the can't on a valet so called slope angels and now ensuring that everything runs smoothly in kind of they're also rethinking how best to protect ski is with rule breakers facing harsh consequences. for those with a lift on top and stop the lift and report the person. first we're trying everything to make sure the corona safety measures are being implemented because it's true that there's no place ski socializing you need a reservation to enter a mountain restaurant good picnicking spots are in high demand. the pandemic is having drastic effects on the industry must sell home bad guy has

never had so many job applications from skiing struct is especially from austria for the time being he can't hire anyone. we usually have $35.00 employees in peak season around christmas and new year. currently planning for 17 and of course we're hoping the whole season goes ahead otherwise or employees won't have work but if i thought the young for our ski region is relying on the appeal of its legendary i go north face hopefully at least the swiss themselves will visit. the phone for the holidays there will be a lot of swiss guests they definitely won't let us down. but infections mustn't be allowed to rise any further or swiss ski resorts could spend the rest of winter in complete hibernation. the islands of the a.d.n. see.