stonemason builders are in the park. with each other. jerks. this is home massive churches the towers pierce the clouds like skyscrapers are current. contest of the cathedral are 12 b.t.w. . hello and welcome to focus on europe liz show great to have your company and insist scandal is rocking france at the moment on social media countless adults are using the hash tag me to insist to share how they were sexually abused as children by

family members these revelations were prompted by an unusual book in her publication author comey question him is accusing her stepfather of sexually abusing her brother for years the fact that her stepfather is a prominent intellectual has heated up the debate even more this man of all malemute also suffered abuse in his own family is one of many in france a recent study shows that in an average class of 6 graders 10 percent of very likely to be insists victims many keep that secret for years just like lumia now he's ready to tell his story it shows how sexual violence against children takes place even in the supposedly best of families. we were 3 brothers and all of those were us that we never talked about it and then

of his knew the others were experiencing the same. it was a kid like many others he had 2 brothers and a sister his father was a teacher and his mother worked at a radio station. lived with his family in an apartment in paris outwardly a seemingly normal life but the crimes that took place in the family home haunt the actor to this day. i know what i did and the 1st time it happened i was 7 years old i was in bed early because i was a child. my father lay down beside me and showed me his penis. he asked me to masturbate him and i was only 7 years old i didn't know whether that was normal or not. it was in him but. back then mom and his 2 brothers were regularly raped by their father their mother was blind to the sexual abuse that was taking place behind the facade of their normal middle class life.

i felt completely betrayed by the 2 people in the world i trusted the most. when your father and mother betray you it means nuclear in this world is really safe anymore. you know you always have the feeling you're standing on quicksand. according to a poll conducted by the market research and consulting firm i p s o s and 2021 in 10 french children have been the victim of sexual abuse by a family member but many suppressed the memory it took years for me to remember the terrible thing that happened to her when she was 5. back then she spent a day alone with her relatives at the family's house in the country. she says it was the worst day of her life. her relative pretended that he was going to teach her how to ride a bike and raped her. with

a pointed don't. you know when i was 37 years old i suffered an emotional shock and suddenly the memories came flooding back in incredible detail. it was like having a camera at a child's eye level i saw the aggressor his jewelry his underwear. his who bit more difficult me you call your mother has now found dry and she did following assault a girl crying also occur which means help a snake and then nice symbols of the attack and time and again a man with a moustache at the time no one questioned why me it was drawing these things. there's really a paradox in france. the french place a lot of importance on family values and yet paradoxically they destroy the social values by making it taboo to talk about sexual abuse. it's like

a code of silence in the mafia so that everyone abides by. the unique oyama in our heads of french association for victims of sexual abuse it advocates there should be. no statute of limitations for such crimes that way perpetrators can't simply get off scot free if their victims take decades to come forward all mahlum year has also broken his silence in january 2021 when he saw the hash tag me to incest on twitter he wrote right away me to come age 7 to 14. to this day home on time yes still finds his father's actions in comprehensible because he was also a loving dad who cared for his children well even now almost struggles to find an explanation. if my father were 20 years old today. he probably be openly bisexual. at 3 he might have children with it but he could satisfy his needs another way. you know that wasn't possible for my father back then

coming from a poor. catholic background. years later his sister found out about the abuse and informed the school authorities their father then took his own life hamas spent years in therapy. by the scheme i've told my girlfriend everything that happened to me. is unimaginable not to. you that's why i'm extremely optimistic. and the world is changing and that things like this shouldn't happen as easily. and be less likely to happen a toll. today is home on them yet doesn't much care what the rest of his family thinks of him speaking so openly about the terrible past he says too many people are still remaining silent.

to. this. france now wants to increase protection for miners against sexual predators and you law is expected to be passed in the coming months don't secure its little dogs like these make you wants to cuddle them right away well the business with puppies is booming here in europe especially now with contract restrictions many people are getting themselves pets to fight loneliness and isolation but reading pets can be a shady business in a number of countries in southern europe dogs are bred illegally those that can't be sold are sometimes this posed of at garbage sites our reporter got an inside look into this brutal sector in bulgaria and serbia.

a morning in serbia such a place which is on the lookout for puppies his mission to save their lives we accompanied him for a day. in a matter of minutes there are stray dogs everywhere it's nothing unusual such a point say 90 percent of them originated from illegal breeding farms social news most of the dogs in the time. of the panic so i can only take in puppies or dogs to really bad shape if their lives are in danger i just don't have enough troops up so that i like to help them home but i don't have the meetings or. i would never which are. a few weeks before sasha recorded these images on his behalf soon. he found these puppies by a garbage dump sasha says they were abandoned because they were mixed breed rejects of the breeders without him they would starve to death.

150 kilometers further east and safina bulgaria with the poppy trade is also booming. officially 20 breeding farms are registered in bulgaria there are many more illegal ones by far and internet search reveals that dealers offer thousands of puppies for sale each day most of them destined for buyers in germany says matt dillon opinion of the animal welfare organization for paws that's where they fetch the highest prices but the puppies are taken from their mothers too early in violation of animal welfare laws. later the puppies have little real immunity. and they don't get the inoculations they need so they won't catch diseases. the catch is that's a serious problem. combating the dog mafia can be dangerous animal rights activists recorded these images in an illegal breeding farm with a hidden camera and investigation was only launched after they reported it to the

authorities. we try to get one of the few registered breeders to talk to us about the business but number yet willing. to serve. us it says the dark side of the puppy trying to lurch to hang this gate. he's taken in some 800 dogs here over the past few years. he takes care of them with the needed funds and help belgian animal welfare organizations and finds homes for them with animal lovers. every dog that finds a new home in belgium through a registered owner who organization must for the entire body tighter test and in. these dogs can ensure that you are completely legally. and i can bug area and insight you at the end of april and you law will take things here this is only registered animals to be sold. as

a fee. that's an area and dimitar you know he hopes the new law will help but he doesn't really put much faith in it he explains the dog matthew uses all the tricks of the trade off and forging documents and chips with a veterinarian's help he's even found his own name on such papers the black market dealers at fortune's stamp and signature to sell a puppy. it was determined that the dog had come from serbia one of the principal sources for the trade because it is not in the e.u. when the trail leads there are no further action can be taken about the particular took finally an official greeter a crow to talk to us reading is a sideline for vince's last duchess. he concentrates on training dogs and follows strict regulations his animals are in demand this therapy dogs are for movie and

television shoots. and says the responsibility lies with the buyers if they want a dog they have to knew exactly where it comes from a new the dogs cost time and money. supply for every compromise the buyer makes the animal loses quality it's not up to me to make these demands but if we're going to get the trade under control there must be more checks. in the evening in serbia sascha passage by screwed for the dogs on his farm. he spends $1000.00 euros a month and dog who don't loom. he couldn't manage without the donations but he says he will be able to keep it up much longer he's afraid the numbers of street puppies will only rise and the illegal breeders from bulgaria will move their operations to serbia where they fear neither laws nor checks that might interfere with the lucrative illegal trade in puppies. we're now introduce

you to a small town in finland it's called salah and it has applied to host the olympic games in 2032 this candidacy is quite unusual because the games in 2032 are summer olympics and yet sala is one of the coldest places in finland now this may sound like a joke to some but there's a serious message behind this campaign climate change is affecting the lives of residents like timor to have the olympic bid is an attempt to create awareness. a skier in shorts braces along the icy track pulled by a reindeer the video clip is a humorous advertisement to stage the olympic summer games in sala northern finland . the reindeer driver in the video is chemo to how he says it was great fun but the video comes with a message climate change means winters in his homeland are no longer as cold as say

used to be. normally it would happen so that 1st comes the below 0 degrees on the rivers and creeks they freeze and then we get the snow on top but now this reenter the last 3 into read got like 2030 centimeters of snow on on the frozen lines. every morning t.-mo to house still check says most valuable reindeer the ones that pull a sleigh. tourists who come to sala love the sleigh rides so the attraction is a good earner. salo claims to be the coldest place in finland. aside from reading reindeer 3000 residents make their living from tourism and selling wood from their forests. the visitors appreciate that they can ski here as late as may for the time being at least. but to work and pack up the sleighs if the winters get warmer here. climate change could even keep the summer visitors away.

and last time i was guiding middle european people in summertime the reason why they came to love london summer was that it was too hot in in germany in the netherlands and they said that the hour plus 30 plus 40 is just too much so they decided to go to the arctic where plus 15 plus 20th just perfect for the summer so yeah that's how i would like to keep things are they definitely don't want it to get is warm as it does for the summer olympic games despite the fact that in this tongue in cheek video they're playing volleyball in the snow and swimming in the ice. and scientists are confirming salo isn't all that cold anymore climate researcher took up pet of the university of helsinki has a research station near sala your choice he says the northern finland climate

change has reached crisis level. the arctic areas in general general are warming faster than the the global average so even double the global average so this would mean if we talk about $1.00 now global average transfer 2 to 33 to 4 increase. in the in the arctic areas so it this a considerable and very serious issue. salas mayor says they broadcast the seriousness of the situation effectively to the whole world with their humorous olympic ad it attracted a lot of interest on line people discuss about it. i'm quite sure that the discussion goes on. then. we want also that people. share what they have done. while tourist

guide t.-mo to how worries about the effects of climate change in the future reindeer herders. has to deal with them here and now. she and her 2 children regularly have to take extra fodder out to their herd a direct result of climate change. intervene to a time when there is snow and sand comes raining water and then comes freezing time so face ice on the snow and the rain day can't have any fault onto the ice without the expense of storebought solder the reindeer would go hungry and nina much would have to move her family and livestock somewhere else or give uprooting reindeer her son i know has just begun learning how to throw a lasso and care has been 100 years. our grandfathers

leaving like peace and i hope for future for our children everyone in the chilly little town of sala in northern finland hopes there is a future for them here. but without the summer olympics. the spanish city of that i go has had its share of deadly diseases in the past the plague the spanish flu and now at 19 for more than 7 centuries a special group of men has been helping out when such disasters hit the brotherhood of the blood of christ they blessed and bird people giving them dignity in time of death is that is one of the brothers he currently has a lot to do due to the pendant make. it's early morning in the spanish city of san. pasqual is collecting a body for an autopsy. someone has died after falling from

a window. i mean the body is in a public place so we have to hurry up good because they need to open the street again. let's see what awaits us going to. he's not just a member of the catholic brotherhood of the blood of christ since the middle ages they have collected dead bodies here in south dakota when someone dies of unknown causes and by judicial order. he is proud of his volunteer work. the same broken government a whole lot of if i go with it has to be done when it's all over that's when the feelings of all ugly but now i've got to go to work you need it thick skin and you have to know what you're doing a. low key i know. the man fell from the each floor

is act suspect suicide perhaps as a result of the karuna pandemic because it's not just the virus that kills desperation drives many to take their own lives. i don't mean by that but if you keep it all year long we've had more suicides nobody is really prepared for a lockdown like this one it affects your psyche and when someone is already suffering from mental illness it's the final straw for people to go look at a photo. of brotherhood like the blood of christ is out of the takes care of corpses is the only one of its kind left in spain in the last year the brothers were called out more than $500.00 times the tradition dates back to the plea in the 13th century then it was the spanish flu and now it's corona. when hundreds of people were dying at the start of the country mick the brothers even had to help undertakers collect the dead. death and disease are

a fact of life for the 48 devout men in the brotherhood. minutes then as now many people still feel panic. if we're going to have work or prefer not and working with anyone can in fact anytime anywhere but we're losing control if we're going to that where he says people if you're looking up some even keep away from the other people who have long to recover from a covert infection. with all the heart we see that all the time it would be stigmatized of us nothing of us. if nancy has had couvade himself he's recovered know his evil to do the voluntary work again. but the sickness has left its mark. i was in hospital for a week and there are you know people who don't survive it you for the young and old it gets to you and the people who are not affected emotionally are must be very

consistent if they were putting these as you look into them are. many died aloon relatives weren't even allowed to attend burials likely a nobody. died of corona in a home for the elderly. or similar feel our we loved her so much of course we would have said goodbye to her after she died but we weren't allowed to because she lived in another province and the borders were closed yet and yet it would have really helped me to go there and say auntie i love you. brother is confronted with loneliness and death almost every day he's a male nurse and has also worked on a career in award. from the look of a move from a. it's harder to morning because that's the problem you can't really process the dead in morning text or mongered before one of. these are his own coal with

a brother who had for a whole week to collect the deceased. he goes out on calls about 10 times on average at any time of day or night but he feels it's a vocation thing when they're going to i'm not planning on stopping you i'll do it as long as i can hopefully for the rest of my life you know but if it were real. as always he has to deliver the body to the forensic institute. then his work is done at the feet of the deceased along occupy his thoughts. if travel is a real climate killer we all know that by now but what if we can one day travel to sunny far off the summations without blowing too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere well in slovenia we get a glimpse of how environmental protection and travel may go hand in hand it's a clean electric and

a pretty quiet solution. this is what it sounds like when in the electric powered plane prepares for takeoff. airborne in a 2 seater light aircraft from slovenian manufacture a piece trail that runs solely on electricity the pilot explains that the plane is as quiet as a vacuum cleaner. right from the start he had the feeling this aircraft would change everything that uses just 110th of the energy of a conventional plane. what we're witnessing here is a revolution in aviation this is the 1st fully electric plane to be certified by the e use aviation safety agency after a challenging decade in development it's a triumph for pippy style founder evil by scott all it has been compared to tesla's elan musk. after the piece from engine and jet engine it's the new milestone on

your. electric it cannot be surprised to be safe is the other propulsion so open the plane is powered by a battery which people also developed that was the engineers biggest challenge because the goal is to power bigger planes and increase their range so eventually even international flights could become more environmentally friendly. 0 emission flying does not mean flying on battery power alone hydrogen as a fuel source is an opportunity to fly with 0 emissions also super long distance but i think we can look forward to 1000 kilometer flights in the new. decade and simply transferring this to prance oceanic piece trail is now working on a hybrid solution a combined electric and hydrogen powered aircraft because the aviation industry knows the aircraft of the future must be greener and quieter it's far less noisy it's far. less complex thought for it so start up the engine like you're starting

up a home appliance in your kitchen flying over slovenia and this trailblazing electric plane is a revolutionary but totally relaxing experience. that's it for this week we'll have more stories from across europe next time until then take care and get back.

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conflict so few women. robbed of their soul that's what if people experiences when their heritage is taken from them countless cultural artifacts were true stolen from africa by colonialists and carted off to europe. what should be done with the stolen north from africa. stolen so starts april 13th on d w. are we alone it's a fundamental question of humanity trying to figure out whether or not. life existed on mars pretty clear water was there and quite abundance while that would be interesting so on mars the atmosphere is 100 of what we have here on earth it's very very cold at the past it's like antarctica you could imagine bringing some

supplies and you know if you do it and build a little self-contained pressure vehicle or vessel which is be on the surface there are things like oxygen that you can harvest from the atmosphere to help make living possible. if you want to think of humanity if we really want to survive for ever we're going to have to live off the earth eventual and i know that seems a little crazy but you've got to start somewhere. frank food. international gateway to the best connections road and rail. located in the heart of europe you are connected to the along with. experience on standing shopping and dining offers and trying our services. biala guest trends

food bought city managed by from a blog. 2 . this is developing news live from berlin a u. turn and an apology from germany's chancellor over easter lockdown plans and let merkel scraps of 5 day holiday standstill saying the closures were not feasible and that they were a mistake also coming up an unexpected find italian inspectors uncover almost 30000000 doses.