that's what to do with all our waste so. we can make a difference by choosing smaller solutions overstrain said you know always. holding onto those limits a series of little $3000.00 on the dollar and all morning. everyone welcome to focus on europe it is nice to have you here with me we're starting today in the southern part of italy which is known for its beaches its food its beautiful architecture and unfortunately for its mafia for example naples at mount vesuvius with its historic buildings and alleyways is dominated by a powerful mafia clan called the camorra once it gets dark these criminal gangs

keep the police busy as they do their bosses bidding. for the young or the unemployed in naples the idea of making some quick cash by doing the mafia's dirty work can prove to be irresistible but the decision to join can prove to be a fatal one as it was for a young man named lugo russo now though a controversial mural of hugo is causing a stir in naples with some seeing it as a mockery of the victims. a moped stops in front of a convenience store a robber wearing a helmet and a face mask enters and threatens the cashier with a gun to extort a watch for money. many young criminals think it is simple and easy. but then a plainclothes policeman or a carbon yera witnesses the robbery and it ends with deadly consequences. 15 year old google raso died when a military policeman opened fire on him in the middle of the night in the elegant

heart of naples. we just saw my son was murdered he was shot twice in the chest and once in the back of his head you do all these. google father and his youngest son stand in front of a huge mural that dominates a small square in the spanish quarter. it is an image of google staring at his family and neighbors demanding truth and justice. the fact that google committed an armed robbery is not spoken of here. many approve of his mural and complain about police violence and slow investigations they claim that the legal proceedings against the military policeman never really started. there for the russo family is receiving more and more support also from those who demand clarification as well as more solidarity between the rich and the poor in naples one 3rd of the prevailing

mentality in the city is to each his due there is no social solidarity for the rich remain richer you look for it remain for. the youth who commits a crime should be shot if she's own fault you should know. who goes father who has been known to the police since adolescence also believes this to be true. nobody in the city genuinely wants to know why such robberies are. her why these young people do such things we still they just want to destroy us to trample us like vermin which. we visit another neighborhood with another mural this one commemorates 17 year old luigi chaos with candles in an altar. last october he too was shot dead by a policeman in civilian clothes whilst committing a robbery. meanwhile the merrill has been removed by the police criminal should not be glorified the reaction in the neighborhood is aggressive people are angry at

the state and their young criminals portrayed as saints religious worship within the come or a maple's mafia is well known to priest luigi maryla he has been fighting against it for 20 years. you know such are murdering up a picture of someone who committed a robbery. or is the boss of a clan. and worshipping like a saint sends a very bad message. has it that bad would become a good start by german mine no that's not true all the moderates are certain very mildly. the priest works against these illegal demonstrations of power and has also been threatened. however behind high walls he continues to do use work now during the pandemic he helps youths with homework on line and in normal times with recreational activities. families hit particularly hard by the pandemic receiving

aid to stop the next generation from getting further involved in criminal activity . when you've got theory i was through a couple every neighborhood has its clan boss but most of these bosses are now in prison good not so. many young people take advantage of this may form gangs that fight each other not really this increases violence because the actual boss has law . control and can no longer maintain order in the neighborhood like before a problem it could all be in a. post in addition the characters of popular mafia series become real role models for many young people. experts say this increases rivalry and the readiness for violence in the streets. of. the lead up to this violence is justified so to speak as the state doesn't

intervene in. nutrition and there is a lack of perspective from police or prosecutors which makes the criminals feel they can get away with anything. without being arrested prosecuted or held responsible for the. city. but perhaps times are changing because more and more people in naples are calling for the image of google russo to be removed it's 15 year old small time crook is no saint no god like the god of soccer a few streets away. only diego armando marra donna the deceased idol who once played for s.s.e. naples unites the city and may be worshipped like a saint by good and evil alike. wouldn't it be nice if you could just flee the cove in 1000 pandemic and head off to

a secluded island well martin mickos and his wife sandy they actually did that they traded san francisco's hustle and bustle for a small part of an archipelago off the coast of finland in the baltic sea they're now surrounded by trees wild animals and extremely icy waters and they're sharing their pandemic paradise on social media with millions of people around the world. on the edge of the frozen baltic sea lies a small finnish island it is now home to 2 people who are living beyond the reach of the coronavirus. husband and wife sandy a lawson and morton me coast love the icy landscape. they spend several hours a day out on the frozen sea. and here just for the fun of it i have got to big ice floes to see how they react now when it's

a good thing sunny and warm and how they will mail melt and how they may move around. throughout the winter saniel os and with her drone has shot videos of her husband's activities shoveling snow off the footpads and searching for open channels. the tweets from their pandemic paradise as they call it in their short videos have gone viral. i just wanted to make people happy because everyone is so sad and miserable because of the pandemic rowing boat than i thought very mundane in a way but it just shows you that when you are in innovative and new just take whatever you have and try to make the best of it the house in the woods was finished just before the outbreak of the kobe 1000 pandemic. the couple eat mostly

fish they catch themselves boar locally sourced game morton macos usually runs a technology company in silicon valley california but for months now he's only communicated with his employees over the internet from the wilds of finland it's a totally new work day rhythm for him and not just because of the time difference so in the middle of the night and you go out to just and watch the scar your feel the fresh air so of course it gives me a good contrast his wife zenyatta is also hard at work she's a journalist she doesn't miss life in a large american city anymore either she was surprised by the worldwide responses to her twitter account especially the fascination with her husband's efforts to clear away ice flows with his rowboat but the russian media developed an entirely different story from the images they turned into a couple that cruise ship stranded on an island they had to get out and the

guys who were in them save them. but in reality the couple's life is far less sensational as long as the ice holds up they can walk across to their car on the mainland and go shopping in the summer they take their boat they even receive occasional visitors most recently at christmas inside to say this is a. dry year and place where they dry hay so we came in here christmas day in the morning with us pitch black we had candles with us and small natural light so we went in there and then we sang a few christmas songs. merry christmas. lawson and make us are well aware that there are privileged few people can afford to escape the pandemic like they have but the experiences of the past months have shown that people can rediscover themselves during lockdown. you can be early or

a silly and on your own even though we are social creatures we all are also equipped to be on our own that's how evolution has worked so we can be on our own we can be isolated there's always in the world there's things that you have to respect and fear out here we have to respect and fear the thin ice so we don't know when we go out there whether whether we fall in. that fear too can be overcome as because proves that a hole he saw in the ice you just have to be properly equipped and this case with ice picks in an emergency if he can use them to rescue himself. exists and then you go. back to safe i say and get yourself warm and dry the frozen pandemic paradise has many more adventures in store for

these 2 selves isolators the ice along finland's west coast will soon be gone but sadly it seems the coronavirus pandemic might continue for some time yet. well we are going to stay in the water for just a moment as we head now to britain where fishermen are struggling for their livelihoods as a result of breads of britain's withdrawal from the european union and all of the rule changes that have come with that have meant that exports to the e.u. have plummeted now in the land that's known for its fish and chips huge stockpiles of shellfish are starting to cause a stink. even the seagulls in with still southern england seem to sense that something's amiss. james green fishes for oysters this would normally be his busy season but there's very little for him to do

besides check up on things. these are life areas would normally be destined for the european market but he hasn't sold a single one since january 1st these barracks if you go all of this area of the phone is now market so it always does refer to double backs up here to make space for them so this is where there is probably 100120 tons of market some sources ready for the continent to market really i'm not entirely sure what to do with them because you know there are where can i sell 120 tons voices in the u.k. that just is not the market. the business is going. this isn't just a temporary problem. for hygiene reasons the european union prohibits the import of life spiny oysters from all dealers in nonie you countries which the u.k. now is. an exception is made for shellfish from very clean waters

but this area is category b. . whitstable is largely dependent on sales of shellfish oysters mussels and lobsters before breakfast at the cleaning process was taking care of in mainland europe. one solution would be to clean the shellfish here before exporting them. graham west is already doing that but only for the domestic british market. for you to do always so we come to you have to it will catch up we moved things you said you would all do so about your. play then come into the union which you would do that to do so they will always choose who they can get to work and close to my full day to begin with something. once cleaned they could be shipped to the e.u. but the cleaning facility is much too small to handle the hundreds of tons in the

e.u. clients don't want pretreated oysters graham west also has wealth since country only they have to be boiled to for their exported to asia he can't do that himself so he's always sold them on to distributors but they're also located in the e.u. . he's got all. among the osha quickest route because of course happening with bricks we can also when you think lawyers. getting worse and worse could be stuck in the queue will be stuck in a container but it always gets into emotions of this means that he can neither sell to the e.u. nor asia. with simple has been hard hit. right now few people in britain are eating oysters or lobster either. the pandemic has closed the restaurants including james screens at least that will eventually come to an end says james but the e.u.'s import ban has eliminated half of his trade virtually overnight permanently

and that was a blow he did not see coming that wasn't foreseeable from our point of view and the reason why it wasn't for simple from our point of view because to her we're constantly reassuring the industry that tripe would continue after bricks. but the government in london places the blame for the disaster on the e.u. not itself. but the e.u. had said originally that trade could continue their own laws provide for it to continue and actually refer to a significant it would enable it to continue but they have had a change of policy change and although there's no legal impediment to this straight the european union told us a couple of weeks ago they were allowed to continue. the e.u. maintains that this is simply untrue let's be clear there are bigger lation burning import of these shellfish into the european union was already on the table

for. which to play east brics you itself james screens oyster tanks are empty he's using the time to renovate them. james by the way voted for excess. now he sees that as a mistake the government's rhetoric blaming the e.u. for all the u.k.'s ills no longer flies with him people say oh it's the big difficult i thought going on i don't think that was the reason not the purity don't start for us on a new negotiations or the last 3 years that work for them to degree a lot of proportion of incompetence or not. so the shellfish industry is among the big losers of pex it. and the impact is being felt acutely here in with people. here in europe we are now at the beginning of these 3rd wave of the coronavirus

pandemic one of the new variants of the virus the one 1st discovered in britain is more contagious it's more dangerous and it's spreading fast now even if the e.u. had enough vaccines at the moment which it doesn't surveys have shown that europe is the most vaccine skeptic region in the world one nurse in belgium though is working to combat those conspiracy theories and to change perceptions of the cove in $1000.00 vaccines her name is christina rodriguez and in a country where some nursing homes have seen just 30 percent of its staff choose to get vaccinated she's rolling up her sleeves to fight that battle herself. geriatric nurse christina rodriguez wants to encourage others she asks a colleague to take photos of the message look at me i'm getting vaccinated. this is rarely i really hope that i can get other care workers to get vaccinated

and my own family and the entire country to act. like christina care workers across belgium are trying to convince back scene skeptics to get themselves back sedated in the french speaking part of the country many belgians still vehemently refused to do so nurse obama as one of them. wanted to do when it comes to medicine you always have to assess the risks if you can in this case there just hasn't been enough time or not but look you know we've only known this virus for a year now and we hardly know these genetically modified vaccines either if you we are manipulating genetic material we need answers to all the unresolved questions before we can speak of trust was equal feels. online. calls on people to boycott facemasks lockdown measures and above all mass vaccinations and many agree with her more than 50 percent of care workers and privately run nursing homes in

the french speaking part of belgium and brussels have refused to be vaccinated or the director of this nursing home is one of them. we will only know what side effects the vaccine can have in 20 years time it's sort of like buying a new car you feel like it's safe to but you would rather wait to see a chrestus 1st. test vast software the week of the belgian association of private nursing homes is perplexed by this with online campaigns and training courses largely unsuccessful they're considering making back summations mandatory i did not understand i do not understand the it was so awful that. this so a lot of rape of elderly people who died there's so the loss of life and it's unbelievable odo's people do not understand that they can protect themselves it's

a big question but experts say that is also part of the answer traumatic experiences and low wages despite being overworked could have time to care workers into vaccine skeptics. and there it's such a sweet situation of distress that when when when when they hear stories of down it's actually use unless it's just to to to force you to to get vaccinated then and and reach does big from a critique on a company's i would totally understand why someone would want to believe such a thing and they want to make sense of it and and conspiracy theories are help you make sense of society of what happens to you. on social media these theories are spreading like wildfire some worry that vaccine is being used to spy on them others say it leads to infertility or even death many of these rumors come from neighboring france where there are many vaccines skeptics in order to get them to

change their mind the european union is testing the back scenes thoroughly to gain people's trust there was no emergency authorization but movie obama is not convinced to back in fact some of us of work we're not even told what check seen we will be getting it's did he know that but it's our right to know that humans need to consent to being experimented on we need to be able to sign something that says yes i want to be vaccinated with this vaccine with this technology i can't move at that point as you. move the nursing homes doctor on the other hand argues that the vaccine has been sufficiently tested and that time is of the essence during a pandemic. there's always an open door for the virus and then it will quickly spread again this could go on for years which is why we will collective effort we need to does vaccination to be mandatory for everyone if people where we'd say they need to understand the risks posed by the vaccine or in no way comparable to the

risks of an infection. christina regus agrees she's experienced many tough days in the nursing home today each report. and to a man now who is battling the pandemic in a very different way as christopher cross us is that the fight against the coronavirus is also a fight against monotony and loneliness ever since the 1st lockdown began here in germany about a year ago he's been doing his best in all kinds of weather to make people's lives just a little bit more positive and at the retirement home in the small town of flint and bag if you can pronounce that one he is very eagerly awaited. every evening everyone you can at this nursing home shows up at their windows or the door to listen to gustav scholars a plane serenades exactly at 7 pm the 80 year old man starts to play his baritone horn.

one card. you have your mind that's great he is 80 years old and yet he still does this you know. the residents know the 80 year old. he has been volunteering here for years. these regular visits during the pandemic are very dear to him. by the huge mega bieb of wing as i notice that the residents miss affection and warmth talk dog i used to come by every day before the pandemic. could not attend so i wanted to create a new connection with the people here would be an object some wonderful feeling when people light up when they see me. because this would not. bad weather does not deter because. he just needs to make sure that the rain does not trickle into

his horn. when it rains and i must blow like this. and actually there's never been a good reason not to come one could give to come at the end of his performance these 5 loyal residents await him. and villein august schmidt watches from the window is i fax lovely to have something to look forward to in the evening and then boom and if we don't hear him we become very impatient with. this stuff because i have been playing here since march 29th 2020 and hopes to continue once the coronavirus pandemic is over. and hopefully not too long now until those nursing home residents can finally give him a hug that was focused on europe for this week thank you to everyone out there for watching take care and until next time good bye.

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