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tv   European Journal  KCSMMHZ  August 27, 2011 4:30am-5:00am PDT

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>> hello, we are back in brussels. there was huge demonstrations in spain. now, marchers protesting against austerity measures. they are protesting in brussels. the forgotten refugees of georgia. is this public enemy number one and ireland? says a new nostalgia sen.
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they call themselves at the indignant, the thousands and thousands of protesters who filled squares' in spain. they were protesting about unemployment levels. now they have set out on a long walk from madrid all the way back to brussels. >> almost 1,800 kilometers from madrid to brussels, this is a long march. this 24-year-old is one of them. >> the son is quite hot right now. we will set off again soon. >> this is the 14th stop on the march. they walked 30 kilometers a day.
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they're spending their nights in the city park. locals give them food. they dream of the time and money does not rule the world. the political system is a slave of the economic system. demography is subjugated to the market. >> they would like an end to government bailouts of the banks. they would like this takes to get that money back. -- they would like the states to get that money back. outside the bank, they said, we will not pay for your crisis. they have been making news in spain for months. >> they are not happy with the job situation. >> that this will keep the politicians on their toes.
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i like the people are protesting. >> two young germans are marching with them. their surprised by the level of public support. >> people give you a hug and think you for marching. >> it will be tougher in france. there is more solidarity here. >> it all started here in central madrid. 8 million people joined a protest throughout spain, and unprecedented popular uprising. the political scientists said that spain has played a pioneering role.
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>> unemployment rates are higher than in the rest of europe. that leads to a social malaise. >> is a sense that the politicians are to distance from real people. somehow, we have to get them to tackle the real problems. >> nearly half of spaniards under 25 have work. people are fighting for their future. some have overstepped the mark. >> the image of the movement has deteriorated over time, that is probably because some radicals have taken advantage of the situation. also, because people cannot recognize any actual demand. i think that interest in this movement will be falling. >> sought the hard cores not
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appeared to except that. they're preparing for the march. they come from all different social backgrounds and want to remain independent. >> the party would become as corrupt as all the other ones. >> they see themselves as a peaceful movement. they hope to help people like families. >> there is some idealism and golf. many people think that changes are possible. we are marching to brussels to complain. >> they want to reach brussels by the end of october.
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>> the north caucasus region is extremely volatile and all sorts of nationalities and languages and lots of tensions. three years ago, all-out russian -- all-out war disputed. large numbers of refugees made their way into georgia. the fighting was short-lived but the conflict remains unresolved. the refugees are still stranded. the traditionally an unpopulated area has been changing. the population has been growing and new houses for a new landscape. more and more homes are built to accommodate tens of thousands of refugees. this is state was financed by germany.
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they killed time playing cards. 300 families were here. some have been here for more than a year. many fled their homes with nothing. >> first we went to -- and then we settled here. >> did you live in refugee camps? >> no, all kinds of places, day care centers, wherever we could. >> this shows the streets directly after the war. they point out where their house used to be. i would never have believed it possible. i cannot imagine that there was a war that destroyed everything. so many people in five days and for what?
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>> this is a war that really did all last five days. the conflict over the province escalated. it the inhabitants declared independence. georgia saw this as a call to war. in 2008, they went into the breakaway province. the country was at war against its own people and against russia. moscow saw itself as the protector and they fought back. at least 2000 people were killed. the territorial outcome was an unofficial border and the declaration of independence, which can only be recognized by
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russia and the couple allies to date. the international community calls for the administrative lines. georgians watch over its while the war is still raging and europeans act as a -- >> that was the main road. as you see, there is no movement on it. >> the situation is not easy. they sent observers and in order to oversee the cease-fire. they say that while the georgians cooperated, not the south of set yet usually do not. they control the border every day. the observer shows us something for a great concern.
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they're blocking themselves then. >> last september, there was nothing here. this intensifies the separation and that is not in our interest which is why we don't much like it. >> the refugees to like it either. they would like to go home and build new houses where the old ones stood but they don't see much help. >> everything could be resolved. if the two states don't talk to each other, how will we get back? that seems like a fairy tale ending now. >> the house and german state are in particular demand. they say they are stable and they stand up to the winters. must say they will be here for a long time to come.
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>> the residents of the village of -- are united against a common enemy, the gray squirrel. apparently they are a threat in the native population. >> this is a coastal village in northern island. this is a quiet place loved by locals and tourists alike.
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there is a threat to peace here, the gray squirrel. they have declared war on the species. they want to kill every one of them. >> they go there, they destroy bird feeders. they just don't fit in in our society. >> this is the chief squirrel hunter. he is on patrol. it the gray squirrel has spread from the south. these glands were not high enough to keep the squirrels out. >> we are trying to establish a buffer zone in different areas.
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and there is the danger at the moment, they're coming in from the north, from the west. >> the group meets once a week and they build feeders not for the gray squirrels but for the native red squirrels. the intruders are slowly forcing out the red ones. >> this will eat the fruit of the red squirrel. >> i think they are a great thing to have. i would like to see them survived. >> the remaining red squirrels
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lead a sheltered life. a motion sensor records their activity. what is this? >> there is one of the red and gray using that feeder. they are a stellar great in that feeding area. >> the locals are divided about what to do with the captured animals but you cannot kill animals because another assist these, you cannot really do that, can you? -- because of another species, you cannot really do that, can you?
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>> they have little sympathy for the gray squirrels. when someone reports one of the scrolls to the hot line, they check the traps in the area. >> if you are dealing with a gray squirrel, they can be quite nasty when they are trapped. this will be covered up and the animal will quiet and die in the dark. >> it is not always work out. the trap was empty this time. in the fight, this role was not his friend. the gray squirrel is tougher than it looks. ♪ ♪
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maybe there is just more of them. they certainly seem determined to make planes despite action by the locals. >> as we have already heard, finding a job for a young person is not always easy, which is why the job center in the eastern germany has come up with a novel idea. they are sending young people over the border into poland to do an internship in a people's home or a kindergarten. this is a valuable work experience the this is not unpopular with everyone. >> he does not like the way he is being treated, nor did the other young german job-seekers. they're supposed to working and going to bed at 7:00. i have, strike.
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>> we have been here for seven days. the first six of us decided we have had enough and are planning to leave in about half an hour. >> the were sent -- they were sent to poland by local job offers. officially, they're not as unemployed, but hard to place. it they have limited mobility. they look pretty mobile as it prepared to leave. these three are staying. they are building a garden in a retirement home. this is for the old people and also for them. they are supposedly learning new skills. they're not exactly brimming with enthusiasm. >> i was more or less forced into it. the work itself is a change. we don't get to eat lunch until half past three and we are not
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used to that. >> the elderly people in the home think it is great that unemployed germans are being sent to help out. especially ones like sandy who does not speak much polish. the languages are a problem. she points and we understand what she means. >> why is she here? >> i just wanted to see something different, a different country, different customs. >> we just want to be back in germany. >> the mood is less cheerful at the bus stop. no one knows how to get back. they will take the bus and then they will have to see. this is a bit of a home from home with the markets and no
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cinema. they came with a project initiated by a polish foundation. what does colin stand to gain? >> this is not a burden. -- what is poland stand to gain? >> we will use what we have learned about the way that germans solve problems with our own young people. >> the idea is that the germans have gained work experience and they will return to germany more employable. participation in the scheme is free and voluntary. >> they could have said it not want to take part from the start, they could have stayed at home. >> young, german, unemployed, and in poland. they could learn a lot from
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their time here. >> there is this a try -- there is a surprise in store. one of the people is back and she is out of money. she said she wanted to come back anyway. >> i made a mistake, i hated it. i want to win back their trust. -- i admitadmit it. >> she apologized and everything is fine. >> after one week, nine of the 13 original participants are still in their placements. maybe leaving their home turf has made them self aware. >> you this law it is not exist anymore, it does not exist since
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it broke up as a result the bloody wars in the 1990's. many serbians still more in the break up. there is a nostalgia for the old days. >> is it surprising that people look back to the past? companies are using the flag to attract business? a couple of years ago, many scorned the nostalgia but now there is a sense that life today is far from perfect. the economy is struggling and people feel the political -- some people are harkening back to the multi-ethnic state. how does the memory work? -- has made a video of summer holidays on the adriatic.
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the tragedy is that visible behind the images. >> everything looks great. sometimes maybe your parents were routed to you. everything was great and everything was lovely. that is how i feel that maybe people think about yugoslavia. >> as the identity out with the country, a group tackles this issue. they kick off the national anthem.
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night after night, multi- cultural yugoslavia is resurrected. the director is a bosnian from sarajevo. he lived through the war and the siege and now he is here. no one cared whether he was a muslim bosnian or a bosnian serb. we would not even have known which he was. >> it looked like a garden with many flowers and no one was bothered. it was stimulating. people flew like bees from one flower to another. >> how to garden became a bloody battlefield? how neighbors suddenly became enemies. there are issues that still need to be addressed. the wave of nostalgia pushes
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them to the forefront. people long for what they fought against. >> people come to terms with their own past. there were discussed as the cause of evil. the whole world the threat to that that model. >> -- was a teenager when the war began, she is now 36 nostalgic. you cannot choose from memories. >> when the war started, this is really dramatically marked the
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lives of our generation. you cannot overlook the crimes. my generation still remembers the lives in yugoslavia. the last war criminal is extradited to the hague. there is talk of a new fear, and economic space which offers certain advantages. >> they say that nostalgias not used to be. with that, we're at the end of
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the program. we will see you here next time. goodbye.
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