you know where the shutdown would be and look at the bridge attraction don't you talk to. africa's population. and young people clearly have the solutions to your job. and the 70 percent now banking on d w. hello and welcome to focus on europe liz show great to have your company and insist scandal is rocking friends 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 affected we never talked about it and then

others knew the others were experiencing the same. there 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 gave him the 1st time it happened i was 7 years old i was in bed early because i was a child. my father lee done 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 no where in this world is really safe anymore. you always have the feeling you're standing on quicksand. but. according to a poll conducted by the market research and consulting firm i p s o s n 2021 in 10 french children have been the victim of sexual abuse by a family member but many suppress 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. 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 he used 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 knife 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 these social values by making it taboo to talk about sexual abuse. it's like a code of silence in the mafia so that everyone abide by pulled it off. the unique

oyama now 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. yet has also broken his silence in january 2021 when he saw the hash tag me too incest on twitter he wrote right away me too from age 7 to 14. to this day homeowner mya 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. you'd probably be openly bisexual and. at 3 he might have children with it but he for satisfy his needs another way nuku nuku. you know that wasn't possible for my father back then

. coming from a poor. catholic background and bored with. 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 and by the scheme i told my girlfriend everything that happened to me. is unimaginable not to. that's why i'm extremely optimistic. the world is changing and i things like this shouldn't happen as easily settled it would be less likely to happen a toll. today is among 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 new 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 garbage sites our reporter got an inside look into this brutal sector in bulgaria and servia.

a morning in the serbian special 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 street dogs everywhere is nothing unusual such a point say 90 percent of them originated from illegal breeding farms social news most of the dogs in the time. you have a 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 for the purpose of the pie like to help them home but i don't have the means or. i would never wish you. 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 in severe bulgaria with

a puppy tree 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 in the pub these have little real immunity. and they don't get the inoculations they need so they won't catch diseases. probably. the budget that's a serious problem. combating the dog matthew can be dangerous animal rights activists recorded these images in the legal breeding farm with a hidden camera and investigation was only launched after they reported it to the

authorities. we tried to get one of the few registered breeders to talk to us about the business but number yet willing. to serve. 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 from a belgian animal welfare organization and finds homes for them with animal lovers. just like they were here for a dog that finds a new home in belgium through a registered voter organization must for the entire body tighter test and in. these dogs can interdict you completely legally. and i can bug area and insight you. at the end of april and a new law will take effect here that says only registered animals can be sold.

as a fee. that's an area in dimitar you know ski slopes 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 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 all thought. it was determined that the dog had come from serbia one of the principal sources for the trade because he's not in the e.u. when the trail leads there are no further action can be taken about that particular trip 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 over movie and television shoots. and says the responsibility lies with the buyers

if they want a dog they have to know exactly where it comes from a new the dogs cost time and money. records a price 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 illegal 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 food own room. 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 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 is a serious message behind this campaign climate change is affecting the lives of residents like timor to harm 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 too hot 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

they used to be. normally it would have been sold at 1st comes to below 0 degrees on the rivers and creeks they freeze and then really get the snow on top but now this reenter the last 3 into really got like 2030 centimeters of snow on the frozen land. every morning t.-mo to house still checks his most valuable reindeer the ones that pull a sleigh to succumb to sala love the sleigh rides so the attraction is a good earner. solid claims to be the coldest place in finland. aside from pretty 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 hack and pack up the sleighs if the winters get warmer here. climate change could even keep the summer visitors away.

and last time of 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 20 with just perfect for the summer so that's how i would like to keep things. 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 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 in 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 it would transfer 2 to 33 to 4 degrees. in the in the arctic areas so in this a considerable and very serious issue. salas mayor says they broadcast the seriousness of the situation effectively to the whole world with their sumo wrestling pick at it attracted a lot of interest on line people discuss about it. i'm quite sure that this discussion goes on. then people who we want also the people. share what they have done. while tourist

guide t.-mo to how worries about the effects of climate change in the future reindeer herder. 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. in winter time when there is snow and sand comes raining water and then comes freezing time so they are on the snow and the rain to have any fault under the ice without the expensive store bought fodder the reindeer would go hungry and nina much would have to move her family and livestock somewhere else or give a pretty reindeer her son i know has just begun learning how to throw a lasso and care has been a 100 years. living like these

and i hope there is a 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 and time of death is that is one of the brothers he currently has a lot to do due to the pen demick. 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 one of the bodies in a public place so we have to hurry up to do it because they need to open the street again. let's see what awaits us go to the front of the design is 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. isn't broke it got a hold of it because i was there it has to be done or when it's all over that's when the feeling smug with but now i've got to go to work you need it thick skin and you have to know what you're doing for that ok ok i know that. 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 over 3 people all year long we've had more suicides nobody is really prepared for a lockdown like this one it affects your psyche. he could have and when someone is already suffering from mental illness is the final straw of a lot of ego but of look here's a photo. of brotherhood like the blood of christ in 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 playing in the 13th century. then it was the spanish flu and now it's corona and hundreds of people were dying at the start of the content 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 led by gay men and. then as

now many people still feel panic. and working with anyone can in fact anytime anywhere but we're losing control of that where he says people if you're looking up some even keep away from the other people who have long recovered from a covert infection. we see that all the time who are being stigmatized and i thought one of them. 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 you go people who don't survive it you for the young and old it gets to the people who are not affected emotionally or must be very can sense it if

there were dozens if you look at. many died aloon relatives weren't even allowed to attend burials. nobody. died of corona in a home for the elderly. will be a similar feel are 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 he said is confronted with loneliness and death almost every day he's a male nurse and has also worked on a korean award. from the look of a woman it's harder to order because that's the problem you can't really process a day in morning text form. longer before the. exact his own call with the

brotherhood for a whole week to collect the deceased. he calls over 10 times on average at any time of day or night but he feels it's a vocation thing when they're in the i'm not planning on stopping you know i'll do it as long as i can hopefully for the rest of my life but of the it will be. as always he has to deliver the body to the forensic institute in south dakota then his work is done but the feet of the deceased will long occupy his thoughts. air 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 air 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 slovenia 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 it 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.u.'s 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 bangun the new milestone on your. electric aircraft he's probably going to be safe with the other propulsion

so this is open the plane is powered by a battery which could be 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 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 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 good back. to.

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live. this is you don't reduce life for a girl and tackling a thorny topic era leaders hold crisis talks on how to slow it covert 900 search there olding a virtual summit to address the continent's agonizingly slow vaccines roll out we'll take a look at how europe's leaders are proposing to boost the vaccine supply is also coming up the german lawmakers prepare to vote to extend the military mission in

afghanistan we'll hear from our german soldier who has served there over the course of nearly 2 decades. and where the heart thank you so much for your company everyone you leaders are meeting virtually to discuss strategies to tackle the coronavirus pandemic pressure is piling on officials across the block many european countries in the grip of the 3rd wave are battling a surge in infections but the vaccine rollout in the block continues to be plagued by supply problems now frustration is growing among some member states and out of the virtual summit french president a man who had complained that vaccinations in the e.u. are far behind other countries he acknowledged that europe lacked ambition over its

initial vaccine research and procurement effect efforts well currently less than 10 percent of the residents have had at least one shot that's far behind the unite. a kingdom where the vaccination campaign is full speed ahead but rapid fire jabs are the order of the day in the u.k. even churches like the renowned westminster abbey have been commandeered in the battle against the virus the strategies seen some 30000000 u.k. residents vaccinated so far just under 50 percent of the population old e.u. member countries put together have only managed 57000000 the e.u. had ordered adequate supplies from producers but pharma firms have failed to keep up. cure vakil supply of 405000000 shots but it's vaccine hasn't been licensed yet for distribution roughly the same quantities are on order from astra zeneca along with the recently approved johnson and johnson jap the e.u. wants 300000000 doses from sun ofi as soon as the european medicines agency gives

the go ahead the same number from by on tech modern a is expected to supply 160000000 shots. all those pharma companies have production lines in the e.u. their most important locations are in germany france spain belgium italy and austria and production is being ramped up over the coming months the european commission has been angered by the sight of vaccines from e.u. production being export it was there in short supply here this year between the beginning of february to mid march 41500000 covert 1000 shots were exported from the e.u. to the u.k. the americas asia south africa and australia. do you k. alone got 10000000 of those doses to the european commission says british swedish producer astra zeneca has barely supplied the e.u. with 30 percent of the quantities agreed what europe's vaccination program needs

now is a short and beyond. shot in the arm and you do have a user brussels birchip alexander the nominee is at the e.u. summit for us today the virtual once there she is right there where it's happening i was under the goal is very clear more vaccines for you countries what action will the european union take. according to the german chancellor the key issue here is to accelerate for adoption in the european union and actually we have some good news here. in develop a biotechs has started for the auction at its new plant in germany and stood a ostracize in a submitted a request to the european medicines edge agency for the authorization of its dutch plant and if it gets swift approval we could see 1st deliveries from this deliveries from this plant by the end of this month however we can also expect the

majority of e.u. leaders to support the european commission's decision to introduce strict to export rules and to possibly ban exports of that scene if necessary many e.u. member states say this is the right way to move forward to make that scene producers meet their commitments all right now meanwhile earlier today americal addressed the german parliament defending her handling of the crisis and the decision to allow brussels to handle procurement let's take a listen to what she said exactly and then pick up our conversation after that. that's about it it was right to focus on the joint procurement and approval of vaccines by the european union anyone who seems that even with small differences in distributions there's a great deal of discussion i don't want to imagine that if some member states had vaccines and others did not that would shake the foundations of the internal market and that's why i'm believe that we've laid the foundation to pass this greatest

test of the european union. and now this of course decision has come under some pressure in many a member states alexander would it have been even conceivable for the e.u. not to be the one to purchase vaccines collectively well i think that was something that richer countries such as germany. considered at the beginning but it was not an realistic option at all because that would be the end of the sole authority member states would be competing against each other to purchase vaccines poor a smaller countries would be struggling struggling to get any of them so i think in the end it was important for the european union to purchase those axioms together now i understand that the u.k. and the commission have kind of patched things up but i still would like you dress

i mean they almost went to the brink and then decided not to continue because obviously there is this perception that britain is failing to share vaccines and i'm just warning has the worst now been avoided. well at the moment it seems so both sides are talking instead of accusing each other they issued a statement yesterday saying that they're trying to create a win win situation and to expand they exceed supplies for every citizen so we still have to see and way to whether they could come up with a real solution to the problem that i did over his eyes on a front i'm reporting from brussels thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic everyone traveling by air to germany will soon have to present a negative covert 19 to speed for boarding their flights according to a leaked draft the new rule will go into force from sunday and poland has announced

more restrictions as the number of daily infections reached a new record high on thursday child care centers are among the facilities that will close and israel has now administered 2 vaccine doses to more than half its population new infections have dropped significantly despite most of the economy we opening in recent weeks. and here are some of the other stories making news around the world. greece is celebrating 200 years since the start of its struggle for independence from the ottoman empire the anniversary is being marked with parades and ceremonies attended by foreign dignitaries including britain's prince charles but the events were scaled back because of the pandemic with other spectators not allowed to attend the parade. there's a facebook google and twitter are set to testify before the u.s. congress lawmakers will grill the executives on the role the tech giants play in promoting extremism and spreading misinformation they hearing could lead to legal

reforms to make the companies more accountable for the content they host. turning to north korea now which has launched to the list of missiles according to south korea and japan it's believed that they too short range missiles flew 450 kilometers before landing and see all analysts say the country has a history of testing u.s. administrations with missile launches and other provocations to force the americans back to the negotiating table. jemma lawmakers are expected shortly to approve a 10 month extension of the country's military mission in afghanistan german troops have been serving there for nearly 2 decades making it the country's longest military deployment in modern times do you have you spoken to a long serving soldier about his experiences. what miller has been to afghanistan 3

times as a soldier in the german armed forces he was 1st deployed at the very beginning of the u.s. led to intervention just months after the 911 terror attacks. with his service dog eat or were asked was to track down mines and diffuse them as far as a person an atmosphere of a new beginning was in the air like we can make a difference here we can bring the afghans the security they deserve in explosives detonated 2 weeks into his mission as this team was handling it. 5 ice of soldiers were killed instantly melissa vive seriously injured and traumatized. 160000 german soldiers have been deployed to afghanistan since 2000 to 59 of them have lost their lives it was meant to be a short intervention to stab allies the war torn country. almost 20 years later despite progress made on women's rights and democracy the security situation in

afghanistan is worsening. more than half of the population still lives in poverty. and the militant islamist taliban are pushing their way back to power while months of intra afghan peace talks have made little progress. islamic scholar would learn karimi lived and worked in kabul for 3 years she's now observing the peace negotiations from berlin if you want to really when peace close an agreement you have so many root causes of it's not clear what kind of government you want to half what kind of constitution you want to have what role women should play in their society how you do power sharing. how do we expect to have such a peace agreement being cost in a couple of months or even a couple of years it will take a long long time. for her but merely his deployment will stay with him for the rest of his life he feels the war has come home with him. calm about it at night the

comrade who died next to me who died in a very horrible way came to me and i could hear him calling for his mommy and yes i had to help myself 1st because there was no psychological and no therapy in any form or on the contrary one of the doctors even said it's best that you go back on a mission again that would help me and so i actually went back to afghanistan in 2005 with a diagram was post-traumatic stress disorder. eventually the trauma caught up with millar he had trouble sleeping suffered from flashbacks and suicidal thoughts it took him years of therapy to get better and a long struggle to get financial support from the buddhists where. today seeking his own peace he wants to leave the bundeswehr and work on this apple farm. the afghanistan mission will never end for me never very hard in the media when i look at the media today and i see that afghanistan is once again ruled by the

taliban that peace treaties are being signed with the taliban that i asked myself where the seriousness is where is the promise that we made to the afghans there's not much left of it for the particularly. the left hopes that someday they will be peace in afghanistan so that his sacrifice was not in vain. she is known as simply the best while now a film about her life premiered this month at berlin's international film festival and is coming soon to h.b.o. and sky tina that is tina turner promises never seen before footage featuring personal recollections from tina turner herself. look what i have done in this life with this body. i began to look like i don't feel as if i sell their place was not talk to me. jane it's always how a young go born is and i'm

a daughter became the superstar you know trying not the story of the hell she lived through with husband and musical part not ike turner and how she escapes is familiar but still packs and the motional punkish. in some ways we are telling that story to a new generation. but we are also hopefully exploring it through tina's point of view and what it means for her to be kind of. so associated with some of the worst times like i had a decent life there's no other way to tell the story. a 978 sheena china divorced her husband i can't go on a solo career by the 99 g.'s she was one of the biggest pop stars in the world now i don't consider it a comeback that never. hurts to have to remember those times. in the same state forgiveness takes on. a fierce tina turner now

europe's largest active volcano erupted overnight for the 10th time since february the southeast crater of mount at now sent ash and lava rocks flying up to 10000 meters into the air at night is the largest of italy's a 3 active volcanoes know it injuries or serious damage have been reported after the recent blast. stick around a bit of business is up next with stephen beardsley and i'll see at the top of the hour. i'm secure in the volume or not hard and in the end is a me you're not a lot of the year and more we will send you that. are you familiar with this. in the smuggler's we're alliances of the what's your story. 'd

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