tv Focus on Europe Deutsche Welle September 5, 2024 7:30am-8:01am CEST
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to become a civil service, but i didn't like the idea of getting such an old fashioned job and being stuck with a dream coming through making money, having a fun way not feels injunction stuff, september 19th on d w the . this is focus on europe. i'm alara babble a welcome. in germany, a far right party has won its 1st ever state election in the history of the country's federal republic. it was a bitter and shocking moment for the political establishment when the results became clear. the f. d or alternative for germany has come out on top of state elections in 3 year and place 2nd in neighboring saxony. but the f
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d is likely to be blocked from taking power. as all other parties have refused to form a coalition with them. to. one reason is because germany's intelligence agency has classified several of the after these regional branches as of right wing extremist. this includes the eastern state of the ring. yeah. as political divisions deepen, a tax on politicians are rising. earlier this year, our reporter met with 2 local politicians, the poseidon shots, bella, and michelle miller. there was mainstream political parties in east germany over the course of their careers. they've been insulted and threatened miguel was even the target of an attack. both are now asking themselves if their work is worth the risk. arsonist targeted his house 1st is car, then his front door. since then everything has changed from a shy and made up
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a local, social, democratic politician. suddenly, every noise, every movement could indicate a threat. miller was not at home on the day of the attack, but a visiting family once dunbar and cooled off the investigator came and saw that the entrance that'd be ignited as well as a car under the fuel tank. live in tongue flights were on in the house, and there were obviously people in sight fall in this house. so the assumption was that someone was supposed to die. so the case was raised to attempt to murder fun partners, joshua whole school to of, for so want me to admit that had previously organized a demonstration against right wing extremism in his hometown. the attack shortly afterwards could have been related to his engagement. yes, my boss is the 1st of all, it was very suspicious for a very strange coincidence. know that the office windows of 3 s p, the politicians here in syringe here it was, were smashed in the same night and was all in one night quite
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a winter. then i left the mark till 5 time. most of them is a mission. me that doesn't want to be afraid, but it's difficult. local politicians like him are known in the community. many involves his house and know where he lives. the question quickly arises as public service worth, the fear of the magnified type? is it worth giving up my free time for a community which then farmington is me for my trouble court. no. that couldn't be, and fewer and fewer people will volunteer their time and effort from municipal and community councils. and you think of my more as local america, and i'm to, you broke on my of the the so what's my extreme violence against public officials in germany is becoming more and more frequent. henrietta baker, the mayor of cologne narrowly escaped death and 20151 day before the election. a right wing extremist stabbed her in the neck. and in 2017 andrea as hostile mayor
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of the town of obtained that was also stabbed in the neck. and 2020 shots were fired at the constituency office of don't just talk member cover on but the abi and in 2019 castle district president vault to lucas was murdered by a right wing extremist. according to a survey, more than half of all matters in germany had been insulted, threatened, or physically attacked. vivo saw him shots, feather is the mayor of the east german town, saucen. she felt the hate while campaigning. it's one of our come signs during my election campaign, the atmosphere, and so some was really extreme. for instance, that was the, as i'm question, is the new met is lemma sizing the town itself and on because my husband is of turkish descent again. but what's really difficult is that it's increasing more and more, and i noticed it in the political atmosphere too. it's long the long i'm or whether
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threats, insults, or violent attacks, nearly $12000.00 mayors throughout germany, usually experience residents, frustration at government policy, 1st hand. the info, so when you get to the point where you cancel events, possible basically field disputes by a mold when like you pump freely express your fusing public and democracy doesn't work anymore than fulton yet. and i think we're getting to that point side of mine as often as not. that's why many local politicians are thinking about stepping back from politics. because a huge fonts, butler has been warning about the consequences for years. this is not listed goals, it's a really big challenge because we realizing that now even with an actions, right wing parties and right when people are taking this thing and from the actual society. as i'm going to call this off, you hardly have anyone who really commuting to engage in local politics often when i pretty take so much. and if you don't have anyone decent to pick on an election
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ballot, i know this, this tomb of which is supposed to eventually then been for years bosnia and herzegovina has been a popular transit country for migraines. trying to make it to the european union, the land root is an alternative to crossing the treacherous mediterranean sea. but many heading west are unaware of a leaf will trap that you were in a border river. scores of migrants have died trying to cross it, pathologist, vx, the match, tries to bring dignity to the departed. he's determined to return the disease to their families. but despite his best efforts, some migrants who had hopes for a better life and up very nameless with nobody to claim them. the cemetery small, but it harbours many secrets. each grave conceals of personal tragedy involved in the nearby border river. trina vaccine, which shows us the site just outside the small town of galilee, now in bosnia and herzegovina, oval. this is,
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this is the most recent as of january a woman imagined. then she was found unusually far from here, the invalid and i will go up to him. otherwise it's only meant in the cemetery. young healthy man says doctor cmh. he's the pathologist who examines the bodies here the drain looks peaceful on the opposite side. lie serv? yeah, the river plays an integral role in the lives of people. here. we are both element 3 and we are doing the green a. it's beautiful, our paradise for that. but the gina is also the most devious, treacherous river in the world. and i bought a vehicle, i see at the end of the the civil defense of bosnia herzegovina knows why it's so devious. goren skill you that and drag and ravage patrol there, stretch up the river regularly, around 40 kilometers of border, tempting for migrants wishing to enter the u. v. i the but as i said,
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the dream is 1st and then the shallow parts unpredictable. it's one of the fastest rivers in europe that which is why so many people don't leak. it's from one bank to the other. united small makes us found one of them just 500 meters down stream from here means what? not based on met rapidly changing water levels and treacherous whirlpools combined to make the dream a deadly trap. dragon grew up by the river. he knows every meter of it, but he wouldn't try swimming from one side to the other for all the money in the world. for now, the dream is still full of water. but that changes at the beginning of summer. and then the other bank looks tantalizingly close. 4 years ago, a bosnia and herzegovina, young journalist filmed what that can lead to dozens of refugees and migrants tied together. many of them can't swim and risk everything. what looks like
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a walk in the park can be life threatening. the button 3 people come talk us down, drowned in the river. then the 3 of us. last as yesterday. there's been a decrease of people using this route in recent years. as serbia's taking action against them, so smugglers have changed their routes. but bodies are still found floating in the water. really cool, these nice got equity and enough it's uh, yeah, i came to the river to fish. so what did i there? i see the body floating under the water. so for the 2 adults, i called the police. the light came and we pulled it out. took a photo at the time. it was a refugee from us, got us down. i think the dragon's boss tells us what happened next. they were able to identify the young man with the help of the photo the show. but lucky that i've gotten that his brother came from france and
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brought him back home to have a gun to stand. where they buried him, besides actually to the wonderful old name of, to still more than what we do, what we can to helps to rudolfo marching out. i'm not sure as to what it was. so good. i'm training the dream that does not always release it stead so quickly. sometimes it takes days even weeks. then they end up with dr. cmh pathologist is retired, but he continues to work anyway. this will go to the seas, have them sign up. let's take, for instance, families from i've done this done talk is done on morocco who are looking for their relatives. it's just impossible they, they might even know that their loved ones drowned in the dream or not, but finding and identifying them impossible to collect. so in each case, doctor, seem it takes dna samples, which he saves in the database. today's he's collect the dna from 40 unknown bodies
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. now the international commission on missing persons in the hague wants to analyze the samples. this gives the pathologist help with the dates is set to little appeared most that simplifies everything forward. so what are cool or the usual a family and morocco goes to a laboratory who's the parents give a sample for you. and then that lab contacts the laboratory in the hague and we compare profiles all the profile. it was for the the portal that the little code. so less than a week for the family knows where their loved one is buried. cool. so whether and be elena subordinate or somewhere else, now they will be in the adult. it was what they told him and they put to risk. and so perhaps the cemeteries along the river will reveal some of their secrets after all. because people like the ducked c mitch, wished to give the dead back their dignity and their names to. now this is an office with a view mario sans loves getting up for work every morning. he's dedicated decades
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to his profession, and no the line between work and his personal life is blurred. he wouldn't have it any other way. mario lives in spain high above the cliffs of the mediterranean sea, but his days there are numbered. mario's line of work is dying out as a modern technology is making his profession redundant. before that time comes, he's determined to shine a light on its heritage. the solitary beam of light 23, not a miles long. the the photo then missed out all done. in under lucy, a lighthouse, mario sons has lived in for 32 years. he's one of spans last lighthouse keepers to him, but we'll know by that, but i, so i think sometimes i feel like i'm a squatter in paradise. i'm going to,
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i don't know, i think i don't deserve to work in such a beautiful place and it's a real privilege to see of looking at. i only realized that myself, after a few years in a little space coast, was once home to 500 lighthouse keepers like mario today, he says that number is closer to 15. mario's work consists of a stick, daily maintenance regime now connected to the grid. 160 years ago, the light was generated by oil of the i size. i feel there was always something magical about. lighthouse upset about light and shadows, a beacon in the darkness, and not only for the ships they also cast the spell over me that you have a different perspective from here. the internet and the the windows need regular cleaning, so it's not block any light. but the 63 year old is used to the dizzying heights
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like a little bit. i never thought about it. if i was sent to the highest inhabited lighthouse in the mediterranean and 222 meters above sea level would be the if i didn't have a head for heights, i'd have had a bad time all these years ago. for the the mario is proud of his lighthouse and he knows that the old technology is still indispensable in modern times. and ok, business gps is great to that. i mean, but almost all ship captains that we say they watch for beacons confidential and reminder that there could be a problem with the satellite. so obviously out there guessing not, but the lighthouse is always there within reach of a piece, a goal. with that feeling, mario grew up in madrid, almost 400 kilometers from the sea. you had a bar there until he decided to become
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a marine signal mechanic. far away from the big city the when you leave the city, you realize that you're part of nature. on the one hand, you realize that you are independent and can do more than you think on the other and that you're just a tiny dot on earth. it isn't going to be the mario also maintains befuddled the mohawk of the newest and most modern lighthouse in spain. it's uninhabited, so everything here is remote control road. this is what the future looks like. mario only needs to check in once a week. then they don't fight on, they will. my lighthouse is 160 years old. this one is just 325. so they represent a change in the world of work in the past. how many people worked on site everywhere? yes. what that on a home on today, remote working and working from home are very important. it's the same with
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lighthouse us on it. i think it's a shame, but that's progress at all. i want to feel this. i think it's only a matter of time soon. all lighthouse is will be remote controlled here. mario is set to retire in a few years. but if you can, you will continue to look after the lighthouse museum, keeping the memory of his profession and his predecessors alive. the experiencing storms here, bottle helping ship wrecked people being a base on the coast. all that will be lost in the end of it because i mean are you good? my photo will remain close. i the last lighthouse keeper on this side. if i don't say that, it's nice to be part of this heritage. i need to know, what am i bought, the, the, the unit i'll always remain connected to the lighthouse. somehow they'll have to deal with me here until i die and scatter my ashes in the sea. they've got to get back into the photo then miss all done and will continue to live on sending its
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rays over the sea, but remotely to our next story also blurs the lines between working and living. but this one comes with a very different view in the polish capital of warsaw. there's a big demand for tiny spaces. micro apartments have emerged as a nation market. people like are to, is that good, you have ski are finding creative ways to fill their homes with life. his micro apartment is fit for royalty, but the small space has come with one big catch. the future of living has come to warsaw, 15 floors, 3000 apartments, most of them tiny and narrow hallways. but some polls are making palaces of them. look at best of them is he sensitive. hello and welcome to my micro apartments in more so i meant to know if i've substitute for the 1st you come into the
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entrance for your thing which doubles as a living space, then the kitchenette with every thing. and if i need to get to see if another positions through it looks like literally the 14th, but we're in the home with our 2 or the 1st. the clears difference to versailles is that our 2 are resides in just 18 square meters. but he too, attaches great importance to pump in splendor, the positive, intimate threes bottles of every centimeter account is going to send us the bathroom, had a sliding door which make the usable space larger. and on top of that much more glamorous single bit more. there are videos of even smaller apartments on the web as if they're trying to break the record for the smallest. minimalist living is the current real estate type in the publish metropolis apartment towers as close as
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possible to the city center, popularly known as little hong kong or china to too much or shift scheme as an architect at a warsaw university and sees minimalism as the way of the future, when you consider how much you actually need to survive to sleep, you may come to the conclusion that you don't need. you don't have to have a huge, i thought. out to a socket yeske, you would agree. the button this has traveled extensively and now has many apartment is home. phone. that's an apartment like this is quite enough for me. and i've always been something of a reckless and so it's enough for me to retreat into this enclave to face and call it this will be a financing. yes. so along with a few 100 neighbors in the residential tower. how are they ferrying here? we want to ask them, trying it dozens of apartment doors on almost all floors,
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but no one wants to talk to us on camera. no wonder because there's a major catch with the micro apartments. they are illegal. but guessing you have an apartment must be at least 25 square meters inside. so audrey tazarsky knows what he's talking about. he's a credit advisor in warsaw. his banking district, micro apartments are booming, even though the apartments are much smaller than is allowed. and that's the trick, considering them and it will come when developers build the space below that minimum area. and if they're not counted as apartments, but as commercial spaces, service units echo, okay, we'll just go over that. let's, we'll go that they were attractive for investors who buy the properties and rent them out by the thousands. as in the elevator. they are officially listed as offices, allowing them to bypass building regulations. it supports the trend for apartments
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being rented cheaply in short term. that's still the exception for poland, for almost 90 percent of people own their homes. you don't have to have it on your own and you don't have to have it for your life. you can rent it. you can have it here. and the next year you can have it elsewhere. you can be today in the worst . so tomorrow in munich, and 2 years from now, you can be in hong kong or divide. how 2 of the 1st has settled into his many precise for the long term. if he's not planning to move out of his 18 square meters, any time soon? yeah, i'm, i'm, you have to pay part of i haven't had a house warming party here yet because it's not all finished. but i'll invite friends and have a nice evening meet us. we haven't spun to the bed though, and he doesn't want to show it to us. well, it's a bit of messing. it's
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a classic sofa bed, so i filled it out and sleep here. but 1st, every evening he takes in the view from his micro apartments over the booming city of warsaw every year on the southern coast of england, a highly unusual competition is held. teams gather with the hopes of coaxing, hidden treasures to the surface. they are not searching for instant artifacts or gold with thereafter will soon return to the earth. it's a competition that encourages participants to on earth, their creative side, attracting both young and old. the techniques employed very widely, and there's plenty of wiggle room for experimentation. welcome to what could just be persons wackiest festivals. this is the one charming championship every year. teams competes on the cornish coast to entice the mice ones for the soil. with some techniques less willing to sick then of is
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the pricing for you 6 year olds, sunny and 8 year old luna. and they use the site that said the defending champions. not keen to see that ties to regular way the last year they backs $21.00 box with competition fees. they're going to have to dig deep teams can come up with their own with wonderful ways. depleted ones by creating vibrations in the soil. luna and sunny had taken the lead from the beds to pat cool stumps and mimic rain so regular, around the square on the fields,
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others are taking a less cautious approach on the other one well says key here with strict rules in place to keep these useful creatures on scale and event organizer relate clauses, georgia candles just as keen to celebrate the serious as the city houses with silence between incredibly impulsive and i'm incredibly upset. so i think that like very intriguing characters and that just incredibly important for all soils and also existence by the same time that one is like he didn't creak. chairs that we don't know much about which seconds to go to teams last out, that final vibrations, the
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terminated account begins, and the competition moves from the stools to this boils. i think it's a really fun event, but i think there is quite serious settlement in terms of the competitiveness that people ever chose to hide. but no one wants to admit in the case really serious and they want to take it everyone wants to it. i think secretly like when you're standing next to the test. so it's the moment of treat for study included and it's not the result they wanted to tennessee. one wrangler is sweep to victory. 30 to ones. luckily, lunar and sunny sporting to the end of the week, they promised to come back next year to re unite with the perhaps well, the models, multi friends, the perfect house. pat, if you asked me,
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