brace yourself for and many others a week for help. on your. next. passion drama competition boy marketing numbers atmosphere powered by the time and traditional love hate money. fans from seinfeld stands and friends. on you tube joining us. welcome to a new edition focus on europe thank you so much for joining us today thousands of migrants dream of reaching europe but at the e.u. borders they often get a rude awakening like here in the bosnian refugee camp it recently burned to the

ground people have to brace the bitter winter cold authorities have set up new tense but there is still no running water or electricity. from here seems within reach for most migrants and the lipa camp was now is just a transit stop their goal is to reach the e.u. and so they try and try to cross the border to neighboring croatia for. the living conditions in the camps are so terrible bad moving to a nearby forest seems like a better option for him his big goal is to someday make it to germany and he's willing to enjoy our numerous hardships to make his dream come true. this camp in the forest is what. he used called home for 3 months he shares his homemade tent with 5 other men. this from.

the. feds reviewed aid organizations passed by they distribute a bit of food and clothing to the approximately 30 men from pakistan and bangladesh living in this camp near. it's a small town in bosnia-herzegovina along the croatian border. but beyond that all the other supplies are. of the often as just all his own firewood temperatures frequently drop below 0 at this time of year. but he and the others want to hold out in the cold and mud until their next attempt to cross the border into croatia and enter that you know who i want to.

place catch. for them. in the course of order. to successfully. stop or hopes to find work in germany it was a daily struggle for survival in his hometown of pakistan. life here in the forest is hard. but still better than in the lead refugee camp an hour's drive to the south where he previously stayed. the lethal camp has been in the international headlines for weeks 1st for being cleared out and then because it burned down these bunk beds are a lasting reminder. there are now new tents for the refugees and migrants but many here say the accommodation is now worse than before. this is a. living place here we are suffering here that's why we dasn't going to leave

this is a. suitable place for leaving during tax season the bosnian authorities have faced harsh criticism in the wake of these images but in the nearby town of be hard the mayor shish the fossil each places the blame on the bosnian government and the e.u. . european on so much money in crisis but. has not received any any euro we have been dealing there on. his european union on. should treat crises as a european problem as a global problem the bosnian public is also growing increasingly wary of these migrants fears protests cause this refugee shelter to close its doors a few months ago the e.u. wants refugees to move back in here a nightmare scenarios they residents have been protesting against it every day they

said to us that we are we are not processed 3 years we suffering and helping the people they don't want to stay in bosnia they just want to go to the border in europe and dear europe open the border take them. but for many of the 8000 or so refugees and migrants the chance of being granted asylum in the e.u. and therefore being allowed to stay is very low including for pakistanis like well here's the offer. but that doesn't scare the 25 year. who has no desire to stay in bosnia and no intention of returning to talk to stan and this is not who or what are you doing do you have water can i have nothing. europe have everything. had food is good go to school and everything. will. be as soon as it gets warmer

for once to make a new attempt to cross the border into croatia but for the time being he has no choice but to stick it out here in the mud rain and bitter cold. the austrian town of bill is mainly known for its extensive skiing slopes in the auld buds last year it's made headlines for becoming one of europe's 1st coronavirus hot spots for almost a year now the town has been on shaky ground despite ideal snow this year tourists are nowhere to be seen austria's key villages are in lockdown that means trouble for a band had sung out he and his family run a hotel and a bar which are popular among lovers of appreciate parties now he only has his animals to keep him company. sango is only busy running

a 5 star hotel to restaurants and the priest keep his family owns in his stall is never has so much time for examples he comes here every evening now the produce from their own form is usually delivered to the hotel and restaurants but they're still closed and with. the former it just isn't worth it says bernhard. the basic question is whether or not we'll have visitors because everything depends on them. we're into the hope we can get everything up and running as soon as possible into becoming the whole town is reliant on tours from germany belgium and the netherlands it has 1600 residents and 12000 beds the village looks like it's ready and poised for the moment things pick up again at a cable car and running test mode with clothes and no tourists around when the cable car just isn't profitable says operator but if skiers do come he wants to

avoid crowds forming at all costs only $12.00 people are allowed to pick and dollars instead of $24.00 and the interior has to be disinfected and aired out a regularly to hear them at the station keep the windows open they should be open that's not always possible of course because when the weather is really bad snow flies in. the cabins should be ventilated when possible. the skin area is still booze 170 kilometers of slopes but as long as the situation remains unclear they're only preparing a quarter of them. and that's west of earning the snow conditions this year are the best they've been in a long time her house and growth took over the appreciate our kisko a year ago it used to be an insider tip for a good party but after a bartender got infected with cove it 19 march. first pitch and then.

made international headlines bernhardt was approved to people that appreciation is a. reckless party this winter there will be fewer guests social distancing reservations and hace regulations. where you're going to be able to move around as freely as in past years it will be a different kind of priest so you should see it that way and you still appreciate being able to go on vacation and enjoy the mountain and ski. skiing in schools where shops also have no customers we'd like to talk to some people but no one wants to not like you can the free. carers are no longer welcome initial tourism director andreas can see why they're. still deeply distressed by media that they were complicit in making a scapegoat for the spread of corona virus throughout europe. we didn't create this pandemic just by risk it was brought here. so the fact that we were

being confronted with it for so long afterwards at the center of attention and wrongfully receiving the blame that hurts but it's painful. cibo says his goal has learned from the mistakes and it now aims to become a role model as soon as he can part of the plan is to turn the cultural center into a coven 1000 testing center. we've already ordered the wounds and everything which we receive next week to do the things we saw the movie 5 stations through 5 stations will perform 3000 official p.c.r. test a week enabling us to get tested here on arrival and shortly before leaving again the foster hotel owned by bernhard girl's family is running on a skeleton crew around 100 seasonal workers are on call waiting at home in hungary germany and austria the year round employees are on site taking the 1st cautious

reservations mostly from germany 30 colorado for the 13th to the 20th of february ok. one double room i took and claim they booked in one decide last minute whether to come. the that means you can't plan it if i think all hotels in the hopes of the rest of europe face this issue none of them complain to hand. out of the manager would need to hire seasonal workers and prepare the hotel for a guess for now he's just waiting he's hopeful but skeptical they've opened their doors in january for 3 times i have been convinced with start welcoming guests 1st of november 25th then on december 15th i'm now in january hope things will work out this time around but we'll see from this winter is cold austria's most exclusive ski resorts it's tough for you up to us even so the town is adored and festive much

locals remain hopeful that things was improved. we now take you to southern italy over the last they cave the region has with the continuous the population a high unemployment rates coupled with a high crime rate of driven many people away from towns like sync with the area is the stronghold of the calabrian mafia them blankets up but locals here want a fresh start and a new image for their town mayor that mckayla courneya him has plans that may help attract new residents you know that his town desperately needs a facelift but he is also aware of its potential. chirping birds and an idyllic orange grove the moment you enter town. who wouldn't like to have a place here that's what you call a film these mer mickael a county are thought to. be in francesca lachie from the town council are having a look around the area where they'd like new residents to move in. and sort of put

those who are a quarter down they are put in an elevator that goes straight from the parking lot up to. and then and now the other really beds so this part of town what were by those opposing a center for the entire region as a whole not only. tourist highlights are few and far between in this part of calabria sort of town council is offering houses for just one symbolic euro but they're afraid that still won't be enough poverty and lack of economic opportunity are driving the local people the way to other parts of italy even worse this is a stronghold of the and drug into the calabrian mafia. journalist mikhail ian the naisi has long complained bitterly about organized crime you know is all too well the scars the end drunkards are has left the area of. the earth

towns that have actually been depopulated by the feuds waged by the rival clans towns of 10000 people were watching a video of the men and women henschel joran were murdered for vendettas but. graf among the 2 has experienced some spectacular police raids the last one about 5 years ago when 55 people from 2 clubs were arrested and customs of weapons seized. be caylee of an a.z. has needed 2 policemen to protect ever since. the journalist from to quote from the has received death threats because of his inquires. but he won't be intimidated. so along with. this country belongs to those who are decent those who was a sinister and criminal president is right in that if i left that would only prove

bad people not the good ones who control. the other minister. he's hopeful that man mikhail a county has planned to sell local homes for a symbolic euro will improve the situation. cannier an independent official has governed from the for 6 years now. he wants to lend locals fresh optimism. they signed the curse to highlight problems. is more important than ever. funding but the entire world. once the pandemic is over the municipality will hand over the 1st 13 homes to the new owners for just a year lachey who runs the project mikael a county in screen thousands of applications sent from interested buyers in northern italy europe and even the us. unfortunately we cannot enter any of the

homes the minister polity is still waiting for former owners to return their keys judging by their derelict exteriors and these room down at least buyers will need to invest large sums to restore the houses lucky tentative buyers must meet one criterion. when a date their house within 3 years according to the architectural standards that is in storage town center. it's a day it's difficult to picture how quaint this area must have been. still of america's convinced to change course from the has a bright future ahead if everyone works together but over double what we want to create something beautiful including in the hearts of our people who want to give them hope they'll return to calabria invest money or at least spend their holidays here for the order for this to become reality calabria must be finally freed from

the grip of the powerful and drunk it's a mafia group. otherwise it will be hard to breathe new life into to small italian town. the smell of fresh air has become a rare commodity for many russians especially those living in the suburbs of big cities huge piles of trash are causing a terrible stench in these areas people living close to the alex since the landfills suffer whenever they step outside or even when they open a window the damn sight is becoming bigger and bigger emitting toxic fumes your yaphet all say of us feared for the health of her children and so she moved away but she and others are keeping up the fight against the growing heaps of trash. the fumes from the landfills start to stink horrendously. your eyes burn your throat hurts and you feel sick. it's as if someone is pouring water down my throat

it makes me cough i can hardly breathe they say everything's alright but to mergence the services have detected 25 times over the limit. up with them it's all because of the dumb p.r. . here julie if it. means about 500 meters from the house she was born in. the us is the plan a field near the village a short piano is one of the dozens all around the mega city of moscow this $32.00 hectares in the area for about $45.00 soccer pitches. only a few years ago the pit was some 30 meters deep say local residents now it's a hill rising about 20 meters high and it keeps getting bigger as to the population's health problems. if it is a haven us is that some days it's take so unbearable a she couldn't open her apartment windows her children if you're old and 7 year old

cover saba started feeling ill more often the point came when you here couldn't take it any more she moved away from her home village shop over 7 kilometers to the town of clinton one. that would the little ones always had something wrong with them one day the pediatrician told me their lungs were making rattling noises i didn't have to think about it i started looking for an apartment hearing plane for us later after the movie went back to the same doctor and oh what i thought what a miracle the noises in their lungs were gone how come very simple we moved away from the landfill. professor gave us case was no isolated one waste disposal is one of russia's most pressing issues greenpeace figures show. so less than 4 percent of waste in process and only 2 percent going to incineration plants the west coast straight into dumps ironically the country with the largest

land area on earth can't find enough space for the estimated 70000000 tons of waste its population produces annually moscow's landfills in particular are ticking time bombs made them fail to meet the official safety standards contaminated soil ground water and air over and over local residents have poll tested as here to our congress i don't really have a scene in the results. julia feticide he has joined the effort for clean air in her home region she and her fellow activists pooled their funds and bought a gas analyzer that measures radioactivity chlorine hydrogen sulfide kimono yet another politicians. who are both unbuckled will use this data to compile what we call them up of the stands for the whole area and then decide if you can go outside with the kids who are not meeting. their results are alarming their activists

report them to the environmental agency regularly in 2017 the state emergency services finally had to react and measure 25 times the maximum allowed for hydrogen sulfide activists took the matter to court but with no success our reporter contacted the landfill managers and the city of claims but received no response. and so the offense really has to consult her detector before she takes all children outside to see what is the way analyze the air today would you know right now it's looking good so we can go visit grandma and shop us. julian fellowes so he is a 67 year old mother. still lives in their home village. can you come and have some tea and sausage with. her grandchildren maija coming to visit she definitely briefly her house to his perilously close to the

landfill but she's not going to move away to where would i go who could i sell my house to with all that stench out there they're not exactly lining up for you and how could i live in the city i only get a pension of about $190.00 euros and i'd have to pay $130.00 euros to rent a one room apartment. they visit with grandma for a couple of hours you know if that is how he shows her kids her old pretty quickly before the winter games and the smell is unbearable again just to have something done. for nothing. but that's the wood so i don't know how long we can keep on fighting this system we're too few and we're starting to feel helpless and desperate almost seems to mccord it's. mountain of garbage keeps growing and there are even plans to expand this field with briggs it has officially happened and the brits have said goodbye to the european

union but that doesn't mean they have left all their problems behind one reglued related issue is that a viral many people in scotland to break away from the u.k. and rejoin you of course the british government doesn't want to see this happen our reporter met 2 men who uncovered a long forgotten monument that symbolizes scotland's past and maybe its future. like most riggins keith and david are tending to the upkeep of the world's largest 3 dimensional map of scotland keith discovered the overgrown concrete map over 25 years ago 1st he wasn't quite sure what he stumbled across but he taught he recognised the shape of a scottish peninsula. and minutes later i had walked north discovered ben roland walked across rather more climbed over ben nevis and arrived at the north coast of scotland at the white house peninsula realising that this was an astonishing

relief model this is the brainchild of young thomas chick a polish world war 2 veteran who displayed it in his hotel gardens near people's scotland he created the great polish mark of scotland to express his gratitude and love towards his country 2018 and david's charity finished restoring the relief model to its former glory. great britain was still a member of the european union with scotland and poland part of the same minus keith from england is rather a skeptic from scotland is rather pro you so this is where david and i diverged i think it's a super romantic idea that experience has shown to be totally i'm not going to accuse keith of having narrowness of mind or anything like that but i think. so we see all those who were on one aisle and i

think somehow my impression is that the english people are more in chile than 26 team 2 thirds of scottish voters rejected briggs that great britain's decision to leave the e.u. has divided the country. more and more scots and scotland would benefit from splitting off from great britain david a scotsman himself thinks scottish independence is impossible for geological reasons if nothing else and at one stage there would have been a sea between scotland and england when scotland moved on to england england went underneath and then volcanoes came up in the line and so we're sort of stapled if you like to. do england i think it's rather difficult to get away from them. has shown just how complicated leaving the political you can be many

scots or whatever are going to turn by this growing segment of the population wants out. and we'll keep you updated on developments from scotland and other parts of europe right here on our show and on our website and you can also find me on twitter thanks for watching.

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