i. subscribe. to. the song. hello and welcome to focus on hero of lives show of all european countries france has experienced the highest number of islamist attacks in recent years more than 250 people have been killed in islamist violence since 2015 last october french high school teacher assam will patty was murdered in broad daylight beheaded by

a radicalized young islamist france was rocked by the brutal attack. but he had shown his students cartoons depicting the prophet mohammad as part of a lesson on freedom of expression since then schools and universities in france have become combat zones in the war over an open debate culture at the university and more and more teaching staff are afraid of openly criticizing islam the lecturer. experienced 1st hand how quickly a discussion about proper terminology can become dangerous he currently needs police protection. klaus kinski an instructor at the university of grenoble has to fear for his safety even when doing daily errands like buying vegetables at the market. what we are not supposed to show is that kinsler has 2 police officers keeping constant watch over him. a few weeks ago he was given

police protection as he's now a potential target for radical islamists it all started when a graffiti on a university wall accused him and a colleague of being islamophobia. isn't it crazy the fact that it's easy for them to do this some of i didn't even knew but myself when it happened i was flabbergasted and all the more because no one was willing to defend me. if the person accuse you and then the through. the graffiti sprayers belong to a student group that has been embroiled in arguments with kinsler for years the same group also posted a photo of him on social media channels. islam missed groups then shared it making kinsler a target recruiting islamic fundamentalism which is aggressive and violent and

during the past 50 years these movements of also being able to become more influential around the world is of course on. was this an issue that affects immigrants to as they are also the victims of islamist propaganda. even higher risk of being targeted it's philosophy teacher did you man who lives in paris for security reasons the police refused to let us meet him at his home instead this interview was conducted in a different apartment in an open letter the man had called on france's teachers to oppose radical islam which in his view is growing more influential in schools. and this is where. they've taken over the young people's lives. just a few weeks ago i went back to my school to pick up my things and i saw a 6 or 7 year old girl wearing a veil which is not a religious thing. it's worrying to see adolescents and even children being exposed

to this sort of ideological pressure. for his own safety the man was obliged to stop teaching. no longer work in my profession and i'm not sure where to go from here. back in grenoble clowes kinsler is determined not to accept the same fate he admits to being provocative towards his students at times like when he openly questions whether muslims in france are victims of islamophobia kinsler who used to be married to a muslim believes that these types of arguments are part of academic debate. when you look back at your studies you always remember the lectures you argued with. but those debates taught as a critical of music you argue with those letters and afterwards you go out with them to a bar. the case of klaus kinski has made waves at the university of grenoble

some students complain about his classes saying he was always only interested in talking about salafist. this law student a muslim does not want to be shown on camera. i didn't think it was an appropriate way of teaching students who don't know islam and who might have simply wanted to try out his class might have gotten a very negative image of business because of the professor's subjective perspective . but the student also disagrees with the way things have escalated. so if this issue should have been settled within the university and there should have been a dialogue involving the administration and the teaching staff people shouldn't have to fear for their lives. the french state is relying on tough laws in its fight against radical islamist but some academics argue that this makes it even harder to establish a culture of debate. we often do. these

laws and islam in particular and they give us the feeling that the state doesn't want them here. or here on this then only has to intolerant reactions from certain groups of young muslims or young converts. so i don't believe that drawing battle lines will help find a solution. go. through if you're. to continue the debate is what clough's kinsler in grenoble is hoping to do to he wants to keep on teaching despite the threats. just my have tenure. no one can stop me from continuing my classes in september. so that's what i intend to do. as has fulfilled a dream she has had her whole life she's learning how to read and write at age 60

these are skills that women in turkey don't take for granted just 30 years ago about a 3rd of turkish women were illiterate but. who lives in the province of van and the eastern part of the country made sacrifices to ensure her children got a good education in the course of her life. has paid more loads of flatbread than she can count. she had to feed 10 children she had no time left over for learning she never went to school. be sure she got i was married at age 15 and had my 1st child at 16 it's always been about surviving only owned a single cow now with her granddaughters help she sits at the living room table every day to learn how to read and write syllable by syllable word by word the 60 year old is exploring a new world. i'm sick of always asking other people how to get places when i can't

read the signs for the buses this will never get this content. and then members again grandma came to us one day and said now i want to learn to read. and i said grandma you can't teach that to yourself i'll help you and so we got started i have. the immigrant family lives at the east and end of turkey on lake fun near the border to iran and one of the country's poorest provinces there members of the kurdish minority sunni immigrate didn't learn to speak turkish until she was grown her husband was rarely at home here and his money as a migrant construction worker their son seemed destined for the same but the deeply religious as lee in a veil was determined to give their children a better life. for example we couldn't even afford curtains you know to the store

to eat alternative locally but we wanted the children to go to school even though we had to buy school uniforms and books for them that they didn't have the key decisions all the often we didn't even have the money for a basic notebook doesn't get it. they had to count every single lira but they managed to put their children through school 9 of the kids graduated from high school and went on to college the youngest son is still in high school. now their mother wants to be able to read books too and the strong mother of van province has been praised in the turkish media for her courage and determination her husband is proud of the children success through the hood the villagers we talk behind our backs because we sent our daughters to school sure we never paid any money into that all. our 5 daughters have all graduated from school well almost 4 of them are to. teachers and one became

a nurse not normal because you don't shoot or as a youth this on dukan had to help at the construction site like his brothers today he's a cardiologist at the van city hospital he put himself through medical school working with his father during the vacations with a single tweet about his mother's thirst for knowledge he made his family an overnight sensation across turkey. is what my mother's story reflects the social and economic reality in turkey that's probably why it drew so much attention many turks see themselves in her book and many families have gone through much the same things we did that some of them of had an even harder time. 3 decades ago one out of 3 women in turkey were illiterate today the rate has been cut to 6 percent most who can't read and write are older women in rule areas like us the immigration the images escape poverty through education to thank their mother her

sons have built her a modern house but she still prefers to bake bread in the born or clay oven in the courtyard the way she used to in the village. the children come to visit their parents as many weekends as they can they say that from their mother they learned discipline piety and decency and pride in their origins even if that wasn't always easy. to get costly for a school assemblies for the national holiday my son once said to me please tell the teacher i'm sick people in that says to you that you didn't want to go because he was ashamed that he didn't have a dress shirt. i hope you don't forget things like that. we can get pretty good maybe our mother will write a book which she took she's gone through so much and accomplished so much. they were mostly hard times but what value would memories have if they were only about

happy days. if as lee him of a had gone to school she would have liked to have become a judge now at least she plans to learn another language for that she says it's not too late. europe will soon come emirates the anniversary of the end of the 2nd world war and whether the end of the holocaust photographer kamel wants to keep alive the memory of the atrocities carried out by the nazi regime his project which exhibits portraits of holocaust survivors is called lest we forget for just connell it has become something of a lifetime assignment and a race against time. everything is a journey into the past the region makes portraits of holocaust survivors and records their stories like those of e.t. 6 year old rochelle. pavel my parents were picked

up and taken to auschwitz so that for streets. i lost 17 family members from paris alone. they were all murdered in poland. the photographer is haunted by these terrible stories he works through them as he walks along the rhine in mannheim his home town plays for the coffee and the talk of the years nothing spectacular in and of itself to judge the encounters i have with the people didn't mention all their stories occupy me intensely they just stay in my head this has moved me so much that sometimes i couldn't sleep for days last according to the. new ricci toscano who searches for holocaust survivors around the world here in paris he's met 4 of them who means photographing in their homes he uses a ring like in the photo sessions in makes the faces appear softer the bright light

remains some of his subjects of gestapo interrogations. 95 year old jeannette clinker who survived the ocean it's birkenau concentration camp unlike her little brother and her father they were sent to the gas chambers on arrival luigi toscano is intently focused on his work each photo shoot guys only take several minutes ok so. afterwards she met clinkers life story is recorded like many jews in france she long remain silent about her experiences even her husband didn't know she only broke her silence when steven spielberg was looking for witnesses for the film schindler's list after that she began to get school classes through oceans on i mean you know once you've been in p.r. canal you're marked for life the lie that even if you were lucky enough to come out alive and we were sent to be economic to die at the economic because hitler wanted

to kill all the jews of europe you got that we're focusing in on him show us new easy to scan new things each encounter challenging in its own way. he intentionally keeps his distance and not just during the korean a pandemic. i think read to me 50 i'm fairly certain that if we were allowed to we would hug each other traditions that often thought and there's this sense of powerlessness that human beings had to suffer so dreadfully you feel it in your bones and it's really painful. shroud stuff and all. she let clinkers portrait and story are no 2 in the world along with many others the photographs are shown on streets and public spaces rather than in museums they were intended to provoke. reteach a scanner lives in constant fear that this exhibition will be vandalized by right wing extremists as happened in 21000 in vienna. many of the portraits were deceased

. this destruction made global headlines. i just couldn't stand it anymore. all direct pictures with swastikas over the faces for me showing for it wasn't easy for me so it's really cut me up. after the attack in vienna survivors called scott who urging him not to give up. the 48 year old says a meeting with holocaust survivors who suspects helped him. she quoted the spanish philosopher george santayana seeing those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. see that it isn't school and child she really wanted me to remember the quote she said luigi hold on to this saying internalize it and apply it where you probably need it most

namely when people start to relativize the holocaust or deny it. the reach down has photographed about $400.00 survivors and he's continuing his work he knows that more than 3 quarters of a century after the end of the holocaust there isn't much time where. one main promise by the european union is to provide safety and prosperity to all its citizens but very little of that can be seen at the gates of the spanish capital madrid the quote about the al is considered europe's largest slum even basic services like electricity are often in shia luxury for many here and now residents like zakaria morny and his family have to live in constant fear of being driven out by the authorities. you suck adia at amani always gets a bit nervous in the evening he doesn't like messing around with candles he says

it's dangerous for his children but he lets them play a bit longer before they go to bed he wants things to be as normal as possible for them. trying to be the best of the book and this is mainly for the children to see and should be afraid or feel any different from their friends in the future garden a preschool companion can call in. the area where zaccaria lives is the coming out at a a 16 kilometer long informal settlement in south eastern madrid it's said to be europe's biggest shanty town. nobody really knows if that's true because it's an illegal development the huts and shacks aren't entered in any property register the affluent spanish capital nearly managed to forget the coming out until the lights went out there suddenly last october. *

the protesters chant light is a right not a luxury they haven't had electricity for months and that after a hard winter of subzero temperatures they've had enough. they've marched from the outskirts into central madrid and suddenly they're loud and visible most of them are migrants from morocco or romania but spaniards who've been driven from the city center by economic hardship are among them as well. as in most of us because we've earned respect for hard working people and we want a normal life for ourselves and our children. we haven't had any power for 11 months we're fed up with. the problem is that there are no electricity contracts for the illegal settlement so no company is responsible for restoring power the demonstrators say that's a systemic problem. at off mooning is taking part too he fears that the country out of slum will be clear. that we're going to war you i will not let me push me out

but i mean i'm going to fight the us i won't give up. the family bought an inexpensive generator when's our codea gets it running his wife quickly moves the food from the refrigerator into the freezer if it keeps cold for 2 or 3 hours the milk and butter stay at a bowl but not once the summer starts. early on we can be caught but then it will get complicated good of him and will have to let the generator run longer and that costs a lot. orsino boys but i can always go and buy fresh stuff. at the stores. the next day we drive through an area that starts less than 100 meters behind

zacarias house the neighbors have told us there are people growing cannabis behind many of the walls. the police often show up but don't do anything about the plantations the plants need lots of light and the electricity for that is being illegally siphoned off the aging power lines at some point the network just broke down. you. know authorities in madrid were willing to tell us why 4000 people families with children that have nothing to do with the drug trade have to suffer even the united nations has taken an interest in the case a un special rapporteur posted an angry tweet what is truly irresponsible is to leave children without electricity in the middle of the winter 2. victoria problemo a young lawyer is often in the area to visit his clients his law office represents

around a dozen residents who are intent on staying there as a pundit on the one night people are being resettled in villages that are an hour away from madrid by car and there's no work at all there you get money or you know you're part of it to a friend of instead of solving the kenyatta reality problem they just redistributing it's another problem that i never thought about going to. suck codea built his house himself almost 20 years ago it's his dream his very own small piece of spain the building was never officially registered but it's always been tolerated. he says it's a bad sign that the family has been left for months without electricity and it worries him for. being with us so where would i go then as a sister all my work is here in this house and will miss her family my you know i don't have another have. to leave the country out that way out that's inconceivable

for zaccaria the country may not be a good neighborhood overall he says but still it's home. everyone who has young children old how they love playing outdoors and being active movement is important especially now with the restrictions of the pen demick sports like ice skating are a welcome activity but what do you do when you don't have the money for the necessary sports equipment people in the swedish town of can make use of an unusual service it's like a lending library of a special kind. as often as she can an assumed takes her family to an ice skating rink in cars start sweden her 2 children grow out of this case every year so she bars them free of charge from the pretense bank or leisure bank a kind of lending library for sports equipment vision that if you have heard about

the leisure bank for some time now people are talking about it more and more i think it's fantastic to be able to borrow things for free this factory building income start houses the biggest of sweden's 104 leisure banks it has everything an active person could wish for balls shoes equipment for winter sports and summer all used but in good condition a decade ago deakin corrina hock came up with the idea of giving less well to do families more access to sports. i'm a mother of 2 very active children myself and they wanted to try out all kinds of sport so i thought there must be a place where you can borrow and try out various types of equipment and see if you have fun with it she and her husband henry developed the leisure banks as a brand towns of dissociation provide the space at no cost and the couple and many

others collect the equipment from private owners there are no sponsors 2020 saw 130000 loans and rising. the greeters demand is for ice skates and skis. then in the summertime maybe balls and soccer as well as outdoor equipment like tents. and it keeps on good thing or calming us coming here further and her son recently moved to start from build of germany she's also attracted by the chance to borrow a sports equipment free of charge. it's a wonderful especially 1st sports that are seasonal so you only really need the things for one or 2 weeks a year and the rest of the time of us then just stand around at home. as the ice skating season draws to a close in college start on a cinderella and her family do a few final laps then they'll return the skates and borrow something else for an active summer. well that's it for this week's edition of focus on

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