for me to come to germany. or got my license to work as a swimming instructor. and now our 2 children come to terms describe themselves as to. what's your story take part share it on in full migrants try. hi everyone welcome to focus on europe i'm happy to have you with me here in europe we really are feeling the effects of the climate crisis with extreme heat waves droughts and out of control fires portugal has been hit particularly hard by forest fires over 100 people lost their lives in 2 deadly blazes in 2017 as

wave after wave of flames closed in on the country's cities rescue workers were totally overwhelmed and roads cut off that has left this young portuguese woman cloudy augustine you know wondering what kind of world are we really leaving behind for children european governments she says are not doing enough to protect the climate she feels they are literally putting her life at risk and so she's taking legal action against 33 countries in europe to change that. this side lives cloudier drive to eggleston you're speechless. she can still remember when everything here was green. but ever since the wildfires the pines are old dead. it makes me very sad to see such an amazing place that was destroyed by the fire. this

is very symbolic because it means that it will keep have but if nothing it's then this will keep happening in other places from from our planet and we should fight to change that. wildfires rage through portugal often in 2017 the fires claimed the lives of some 120 people and were deemed the worst in living memory. as each summer becomes hotter and drier than the last the risk of devastation rises. 2 cloudier blames the climate crisis that's why the nursing student from malaria north of luzon is stepping up the pressure but since her voice wasn't being heard enough on the streets she took her case to the european court of human rights and sued half of europe. i'm taking this case against 33 countries because one day i want to being

a world that's healthy and no danger. claudia's fellow plaintiffs are her siblings and her 3 friends her brother martin is 18 and suffers from asthma they say more and more people are getting sick from the increasing heat and fires. we're going to change breathing problems will just get worse. people like me won't get better just it's going to get worse and worse their parents are supportive of the lawsuit to reason is 47 years old and grew up in germany she says she has lived a carefree life but can understand her children's concerns for the future that's why she is glad that the judges in strasbourg have classified the cases are urgent i am a little girl she's only 9 what will her life be like. i feel guilty i didn't really do anything by that god i didn't contribute to the crisis. but i

also didn't think about it a little less fight it like my kids i feel bad about that. cloutier does not want to blame all the generations after all they couldn't have known any better but those who deny the climate crisis are fooling themselves. when people don't believe in climate change i think that those people are the ones who feel more guilty because they don't want to believe it because it hurts it hurts a lot to think what they are we doing to our planet to. lawsuits like this so what the irish human rights organization global legal action network specializes in the strategy of their lawyer gerry liston and his team was risky the european court of human rights could have referred to national judicial channels but the judges have admitted these young people's case were. but failing to address the next

series emissions reduced odyssey standard to avoid catastrophic consequences. discrimination on the basis. facing a. generation. greater risk of future harm. to me just like the show with the lawyer means he's referring to agreements from the european convention of human rights and the paris climate accord to keep global warming well below 2 degrees celsius as pledged countries would have to make a much bigger effort to reduce greenhouse gases cloudier is optimistic and believes this can still be achieved the case is just one of the ways pressure on governments is mounting. a lot of people come to was then they think for what we are doing and that makes me very happy but they still have a lot of work to to do and

a long way so i think that we have we we have. the power and we want to to do something so we are very hopeful. it remains to be seen when a verdict will be reached. for now the $33.00 states charged a still fighting against the lawsuit. now well european governments will have to take a formal position now by the end of may after a court rejected their argument that the proceedings were not urgent. germany is trying to ramp up its energy transition but when it comes to building new wind turbines in the north and baltic sea there is some pretty explosive danger down on the seabed more than one and a half 1000000 tons of explosives and munitions from the 2 world wars have all just been sunk into the sea for years this out of sight out of mind approach worked just

fine but not anymore. their job is to find ammunition collect data and gauge the damage 2 world wars have left behind and the other asian floor. is still there in their sewer munitions from the 1st world war that was more than a 100 years ago now a century later we're still dealing with the aftermath of. the scientist from the home center for ocean research in kiel wants to shed light on the subject. with the help of these autonomous underwater vehicles he wants to get a better idea of the exact locations and quantities of munitions dumped into the ocean. it's a systematic survey of explosive waste sites in the oceans and the 1st of its kind

the mission is crucial i'm. thinking mission is soon ports are not because it's meant that we finally started to compile a comprehensive infantry or munitions with a location where there were some groups you wouldn't want to leak. in late summer toxicologist who are out on the back to investigate the danger posed by explosive devices under water. the risk of them suddenly exploding is one thing yet even more hazardous other harmful substances they release as they corrode. and not to concentration. these substances can be costs in a janick explains professor adman masa head of toxicology in kenya. government and i'm at the base and we expect more and more of these explosives to spread through the sea why the mayor is it and the more the greenies a main thrust the mayor more substances are released into the environment and of us

on this all we need to monitor this closely and with so we don't end up in a situation where certain fish or seafood become too contaminated to the be able to get it through a cause of that's all the shots over. along the entire german coast scientists have already been able to detect traces of explosives in the water. here in the bay of li back there using mussels to investigate the level of contamination of the baltic sea as only about 20 meters deep up there. in the past 4 years a lot of munitions were swept under the proverbial brugge here. several months earlier muscles were placed at various locations some closer to 9 initial sites some further away. we found in the box this is where the muscles are the older ones are attached to the card the younger ones on the books but. muscles felt in your

dreams out of the seawater by passing through their bodies. that makes them ideally suited to help detect toxins. that test found evidence of compounds typical of explosives in the muscles and in the water samples. the actual video not the explosions we found are still trace levels and christopher no we don't have to worry about consuming fish in the baltic or muscles from the b. if somebody was a consumer but the problem is grain west. on the expeditions into the baltic sea the research has with the end grind that spared no effort. the hazardous waste from the war has not only had a major impact on the environment it has also come at a considerable cost to locate it and carry it away but findings show the ad agency of doing just that so. it's easy to make

a have plenty of food to stand video as well as images from the underwater vehicle is that i've documented it what's really down there is that the old. ticking time bombs on the scene bad and that no real secrets of the or. the findings have sharon we can keep pretending they are. watching ships is always fun but for europe there schick it's more than just a past time that's because he also sees more than passing ships since the bosphorus in istanbul leads to the black sea and is a gateway to the mediterranean for russia and also because in some places it is just 700 meters or about 2000 feet wide that means that when a foreign warship passes through europe would be sure to know about it.

this man looks like any other tourist on a ferry taking in the sights of istanbul. but you know this ship is actually observing the ships roughly $50000.00 pass through the bosphorus each year nothing special for most observers but for him each ship tells a story. for example freight ships like this one often travel to the crimean peninsula that russia has an extent i'm interested in what's going on. they really had it where they say they are do they really have the cognitive they say they have sort of your group there for almost the 1st is one of the most important streets in the world connecting the black sea with the mediterranean it's 30 kilometers of always fleet an important rule in the push and pull between the world's great powers. access to the black sea is

important to nato and it's also important for russia to have access to the west to the engine and mediterranean sea we're talking about maybe. just a few days later shows as an example when tensions last truce between russia and ukraine russian warships pass through the bosphorus on their way to the black sea. he then discovered a cargo ship that he believes was transporting me to military equipment to a romanian port in the black sea. when he returns home he rushes to post his discoveries and photos on twitter. there is a whole community of sponsors around the world. what they point to it can be quite since ational at times. it is sylvia the fact that russia was planning to intervene in the syrian conflict 1st became clear from the crazed number of naval ships in the bosphorus i was able to record.

just how they were equipped on deck apart from the russian naval ships there were also civilian cargo ships we were able to prove they were transporting weapons to syria prophecy. so really gives you a little. apart from arms smuggling. who runs his own consultancy analyzing maritime activity has also observed shipments of illegal waste or animals being transported in inhumane conditions. he says it's not spying because the information is freely accessible. he's also not scared of getting into trouble at least not yet. we want to kid turkey's going through a difficult phase when it comes to freedom of opinion. i share my observations openly on twitter net but i try to refrain from making any political judgement you can old moon just the beginning to come to the moment. of course his apartment also

has a few across the bosphorus and he stays in touch with other sponsors 247. is that. we don't have to want each other in advance if the ship set sail somewhere i know roughly when it should arrive here. i know how fast the different models travel i shall you've got to begin who's in the. consume from his perch europe the ship will surely be watching the next time history unfolds as his door step. china is expanding its economic influence here in europe and for those people who've come here to flee the chinese state that influence can really feel like a threat as it does for this man from tibet he didn't want to tell us his real name but he's part of

a large community in exile in switzerland he says he does not feel safe because despite the fact that the swiss government is harshly critical of the extensive human rights violations against sabbaton in china it also maintains good relations there. a bit is ministry about 30 kilometers east of syriac where it's quiet enough the prayers. tens in not israel name grew up in tibet he comes here quite often the prayer hall reminds him of his younger days and the time he spent in a monastery things were simpler than that life came to an end when chinese security forces began harassing the monks here than talk to students every day they bullied and suppressed us and our freedom with affright hope bug and how i put up a poster against it and protested it leave put this to the mark friends warned him

that the police were looking for him so he fled to switzerland where thousands of other tibetan refugees had gone before him tents and has been living in the alpine republic for 7 years now and has a family of his own he continues to observe tibetan prayers and traditions. but like to stay in switzerland and work as a nursing care assistant. or also craig assistant. biden. all i want is to be able to provide for my family and lead a normal life. to asylum application submitted by this probably have already been turned down because he entered switzerland through another country a humanitarian appeal is currently under review the friends he met in switzerland have helped the family deal with the authorities we're. trying to assist in 3 tibetan organizations groups for example as a network of sponsors to help make their daily lives

a little easier life so in china tibetans who fled to switzerland i regarded as dissidents from 2015 to 2020 switzerland granted china the right to dispatch their own security officials to check the identities of suspected chinese citizens. the agreement drew considerable controversy. this writes in switzerland a debate over rose when a contract turned up showing that the chinese authorities had assisted in then defying chinese asylum seekers who swiss authorities had projected and that raised concerns that tibetan refugees may also be affected if the swiss t.v. reported that the chinese ambassador rejected any such speculation regrettably in this document switzerland makes unfounded accusations and attacks upon the political system minority policies and human rights situation in china our reporter would have liked to have spoken to the ambassador in person but also to request

went and answered we would have liked to ask the ambassador about china's economic relations iceland georgia and switzerland and the only european countries that have free trade agreements with china a profitable arrangement for companies on both sides the swiss exporters have maintained their market share and some even increased it and the chinese have exported more to switzerland so both sides have really benefited by the type of government but pursuing economic interests while protecting human rights is a delicate balancing act that politicians are wary to. meet good progress but now we're seeing that the free trade agreement has to be developed further we have to shift our focus on just human rights issues even when we talk about our relations with china. because china has expressed the desire to extend the agreement and identity checks for refugees the profitable economic ties

could easily sway switzerland's position critics warn. you know pete china is behaving increasingly or thora tarion in asserting its interests in economic and refugee policies switzerland will have to react and coordinate its response a better you don't call it in your car 40 tenzin also when switzerland to take a clear stance phase i own peace of mind so i see even yarden i haven't seen my parents or my family and friends for 7 years now nick is in won't say i haven't had any contact at all. and that makes me very sad. out of fear for his relative safety tenzin hasn't contacted them since he fled they don't even know that he started a family in switzerland. it's painful it's permanent it's expensive and not everyone actually likes them

tattoos now i don't have one but i do know that most have to choose whether it's an anchor of flour a dragon or even a bumblebee they usually mean something special to the person who got them. with long there's a lot of room for interpretation though the frenchman is a teacher and he's also a living work of art. despite his years of experience so. he freaking who is still not used to the pain the 35 year old is the most tattooed man in france there's hardly a free spots left on his body. the poor the new all the love in what you want your skin is the mirror of the soul it. rings so true to me because it means i'm free and can do what i want what of course while respecting everyone else around me because we've all told them oh. freaky he got his 1st tattoo 7 years ago he was

living in london at the time he started on his arms with images of muscles and insects. in london i met a lot of people with tattoos who were very tolerant of the tattoo culture is so different there i fell in love with tattoos at 1st sight and that's why i kept doing it more and more over the years. it might come as a surprise to hear that he's a primary school teacher. but his pupils and their parents don't seem to mind. if i may show is not nasty he's really nice that much on the old i have to choose to so i have nothing against them all in all it's what he wanted to do. is serious i scare you know now.

what counts most is that he's a good teacher. it's made for t.v. he's very nice and i think he's the most tattooed man in the world if you like but it. it hasn't always been easy for sort of. 2 years or 2 he was working at a different school and some parents complain they said their child was having nightmares because of his appearance now he's no longer allowed to teach preschool he doesn't want to change professions. being a teacher has always been my calling you can't do this job if it's not your passion i have a lot of fun with the students and at the end of the year or christmas they give me presents i get a lot of nice messages often the parents tell me that the kids didn't used to like going to school but now they love it it's great. so they also hopes to

convey a message. before i will really sure if my looks can help move things ahead if my students grow up more tolerant less racist less homophobic less anti semitic that would make me happy because i will have achieved something and helped break down prejudices this is 2021 after all. tattoos are still not widely accepted in mainstream french society but the times are changing says so vanna learns favorite tattoo artist. there has been a process of liberation here in france. but it's nothing like in north america or england it's still a to boot topic here. suzanne's tattoos have opened up a new world to him. he's

a model in the art world and an actor and now has a huge number of followers on social media almost 80000 on instagram a loon. if you think that i trigger all kinds of fantasies. i know that a lot of women and men find me attractive female with him is a dog i get lots of messages and office. but that often evaporates as soon as they meet me face to face and realize that i'm completely normal if you put all my. hopes that he can continue getting tattoos for the rest of his life. he doesn't worry about running a space. he can always include for older i'm a tease. yeah i still think i'll wait for my 1st tattoo but that is it for focus on europe today thank you for watching and goodbye

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this is do we do is live from berlin no let up in the bloodshed israel builds up troops for a possible ground invasion as the deadly conflict with the palestinian excavates israeli forces pound targets including residential buildings in the palestinian territories and in israel cities communities turn against each other the prime minister condemning reports of mom violence. and purged she feels the trunk loyalty test will now u.s. house republicans have sacked liz cheney from the top job the world our own party

that some see her as a new leader for the post trying to tear up. the ass. on whether mark thank you very much for your company we open this broadcast with the increasing the worsening conflict between israelis and palestinians israeli forces are reported to be building up at the gaza border thomas militants have launched hundreds of rockets into israel israeli forces have responded with devastating air strikes on gaza and mob violence has broken out in israeli cities that are home to both jewish and palestinian communities prime minister benjamin netanyahu has condemned lynchings and street attacks saying this is not us. palestinian muslims in jerusalem come together to mark. the end of the holy

month of ramadan is usually a time of joy but here and in gas the ongoing violence is overshadowing celebrations. was well off i distribute chocolate because i wanted to feel the joy because there's no atmosphere of eat at all it is all air strikes destruction and devastation may god help everyone. unleashes rockets towards israel. and he's really asked strikes continue to hit gaza. the israeli defense forces say they're targeting hamas militants. and many senior commanders have been killed. but on both sides the attacks have also destroyed homes and claimed the lives of civilians including children. like about. these are the most intense hostilities in years. they've also that to an option of

street violence between jewish and arab residents in several israeli towns. this arab man was pulled from iscar and beaten by a mob of right wing israeli nationalists it was the 1st act of nationalist violence to receive direct condemnation from the prime minister. nothing justifies the lynching of arabs by jews and nothing justifies the lynching of jews by arabs it's unacceptable we will not tolerate this this violence is not us. the palestinians message to israel is loud and clear. i address my words specifically to america and to israel. enough is enough leave us we will remain thorns in your eyes we will not leave our homeland we will not leave our country. uncle moreno paid in lieu uncle moreno. israel is preparing ground troops along the gaza

border as airstrikes targeting hamas continue. several airlines have canceled flights to israel amid the ongoing violence. neither side is showing any sign of backing down prompting the united nations to warn a full scale civil war. so i don't know what the situation is to be correspondent on your cramer is in tel aviv for you tanya what are you were hearing about this reports these reports about a possible ground mission in gaza what can you tell us. but from what we understand and what we're seeing here is a very intensive campaign app on bachmann and of course also rocket barrages coming out of gaza but for the moment it seems this is just trying to cheat the israeli army to use the f o's they say they have a secular list of targets they are targeting according to them the infrastructure belonging to hamas or islamic jihad or the militant groups and that is priority but

there is a build up the ground. military build up and as far as i understand our preparations that's being heard i mean the need to be preparations it at some point a ground invasion would be taken into consideration but at the moment it seems that it's best pricing had very intensive back and pain and we would buy that expect that this will be more intensify it in the coming days and tell you what are your sources in gaza telling you about the situation in the gaza strip for right now. when i had the chance to call as some people in gaza that i know from my previous reporting and they are all telling me that it's a absolutely terrible situation they're hunkering down and apartments it's very difficult to see as safe because they are no it's not been safer than hearing.

bartman square that they're close or far it is a very difficult situation it's also the ied so had one mother of one young woman saying that they were you know before monday before this all started there were buying this sweets they were buying new clothes for kids that's usually a custom to do and now it's not a test of a doll you know they're just trying to stay at home there were enough is a family and it's very very difficult days very very difficult days and very difficult days in israel as well there have been some very difficult scenes. of. incidents of violence between israel and the palestinian community how have people reacted now a day after those disturbing attacks. when i think people i spoke to here are really shocked by this people on both sides of the arab the palestinian community even inside israel and israelis. there's even

a curfew now which is unheard of in the city of loot. you know special police it's going to be it's being deployed there and. you know it seems to be a total loss of control and people are really really concerned about it because it's not just in one city it is in several cities and people are really simply shocked about this violence to have used reporting from tel aviv thank you very much. let's bring up history now with some of the other stories making headlines around the world. afghanistan has begun a 3 day cease fire to mark the muslim holidays eat it follows a sharp rise in violence across the country and despite no direct fretting between the taliban and government forces there are reports of a number of roadside bombs exploding today with at least 11 civilians killed. taiwan has experienced widespread rolling blackouts after an outage at

a power plant in the south the cut is being blamed on equipment failure the state run utility type power says more than 4000000 households were affected power should be restored in the coming hours. tesla c.e.o. elon musk says his electric car company will stop accepting bitcoin because of environmental concerns the digital currency uses large amounts of energy from fossil fuels crypto currencies benefited from mr musk so earlier support just as announcement triggered a sell off in crypto markets. like. india has recorded more than 4000 covert 1000 deaths for a 2nd straight day while the situation has improved in many cities the virus is rampant in some rural areas where there's less testing and concerns are growing that a highly infectious variant that immersed in india is now spreading worldwide. and

here in germany the drive to vaccinate people against covert 19 is gathering pace but long waiting lists mean that many are still waiting to get that very coveted 1st job and vulnerable people have now file found themselves at the back of the line and health authorities are trying to make sure that they do not miss out. finally a chance to get a job at this homeless shelter in bonn and around 60 of the 90 people who have found refuge here have signed a production mission today at a special vaccine campaign by the city authorities and efforts to reach those who might otherwise fall through the cracks in the system. i think it's great i don't think i would have been able to sort this out myself so i think it's quite good. going through. apart from difficulties they face making a doctor's appointment there are other obstacles to homeless people getting

vaccinated. most of the people are not so healthy they've had a hard life of experience homelessness extreme poverty drug addiction. they've had to take a lot of medication and it's just comforting to know that they will no longer be at risk of getting a severe credit 19 infection. so far germany has vaccinated a 3rd of its population with their 1st dose but there still aren't enough doses to go around this while older and particularly vulnerable groups are being prioritized the homeless and people in drug programs the city has reserved even $100.00 doses of the johnson and johnson vaccine which only needs to be given once and the people seem willing to get the jap yeah that argument that yes i'm going to be vaccinated today at 1 pm that's when they're starting i will be there imo remove one dose then

everything's done. but i'm happy with it you know new to freedom i have side effects i will submit for one day but otherwise i'm fine. a war. who is french and of a good lawyer i think it's going pretty well but it took too long at the beginning but what's typically german. always take longer to keep things off but now it's going well you have to get the germans vaccination program is coming along and like one other cities are also trying to reach out to move on rubble parts of the population so that nobody is math behind republicans in the u.s. house of representatives have voted to remove liz cheney from a leadership position the wyoming lawmaker was under mounting pressure for criticizing donald trump in particular for refusing to support his claims that the 2020 election was stolen from the party. knives were out for us republican

liz cheney in a closed door votes house republicans removed her from her post in just 15 minutes the phrase by today's vote i do not i think that it is an indication of where the republican party is and i think that the party at is at a place that we've got to bring it back from the wyoming republican is a staunch conservative and daughter of former vice president dick cheney she was seen as a champion for the republican party when she took the leadership role in 2018 but she came under fire for criticizing former presidents donald trump over his claims that he lost the u.s. presidential election jus to widespread fraud last november. and for encouraging supporters to storm the capitol building on january 6th. cheney also joined house democrats in their peaching donald trump but trump has kept his influence over the party and called for her removal. thank you very much cheney lashed out at her own

party before the official vote on tuesday attacks against our democratic process and the rule of law empower our adversaries and feed communist propaganda that american democracy is a failure we must speak the truth our election was not stolen and america has not failed. it's a critical moment for the us republican party where internal divisions on raveling well this change responsibility is to lead our conference in the house of representatives and so she has a particular responsibility as a result of that and it it frankly it doesn't serve us well if you're creating fomenting division in our ranks look i stand with liz i'm proud of her there's a lot of people that are proud of her for what she's done and a lot of people who feel threatened by her and that's their decision but going forward i think she's in be a great leader for this country and this party and the white house has condemned

the move more special guests today. it's disturbing to see any leader regardless of party being attacked for simply speaking the truth and as the president said last week it's hard to understand while the shakeup comes to the forefront of u.s. politics this latest purge is a turning point for the republican party and its future cheney says she won't go away quietly and will fight to stop trump being reelected to office. now who doesn't love a wood fired pizza right but what about when cooked to perfection on top of a smoldering volcano well that's what one chef is doing in guatemala taking advantage of conditions on the erupting volcano the streams of malta lava mean perfect conditions for this mountain pizzeria and hungry climbers help themselves to a slice as well but with temperatures reaching over 1000 degrees celsius please don't

try this at home if your home is there a volcano that is. and it should be you're watching it every news coming up next is ginnell do allow she'll have your business news headlines i'm going to rock in berlin on behalf of the entire industry thank you so much for spending part of your day with us for have the world headlines for you again at the top of the out things. it's an ongoing quest for a bit of. the arab spring began in 2011. people stood up against corrupt rulers and dictatorship. all these moments. have left deep pockets in my memory.