>> hello, and a very warm welcome to the show. where next for europe? thats the question we are focusing on in this week. thanks for joining us. and we've got some really interesting stories lined up for you today. the refugees who flee war in the middle east but find chaos in europe. dead as a dolphin in bulgaria. and the french island where women are the driving force. the huge flow of desperate refugees to europe is the biggest humanitarian crisis facing the continent today. many arrive first in greece,but their aim is to head north, to get to richer countries.

but the problem is that poorer southern european countries don't have the resources to cope. which is why we've seen terrible scenes over the past week at the southern border of macedonia. things spiralled out of control, and riot police were sent in, as tens of thousands of people streamed across the border, including families, pregnant women and children travelling on their own, many of them hungry, sick or injured. >> it's 41 degrees celsius in the shade on the border between greece and macedonia. after making it across the sea with the help of smugglers, these people are being allowed transit north by the greek government, where the macedonians are likewise overwhelmed by the influx. >> i have my two little daughters with me. >> they're aged 6 and 7. their mother is ashamed of being a refugee. the names on the list of the group's senior member are in

many cases their only documentation. their boat capsized off the coast of greece. they were rescued at the last minute. >> we are 33 people. over 80% lost their papers in the sea, together with their money and possessions. >> mohammed takes care of the group. he has medicine in case anyone gets sick. before the war began in syria, he ran a successful hardware store. the group have another 2 kilometers to the next train station. the group got lost while they were walking for an hour in the beating sun. this young mother is so exhausted she can no longer carry her baby.

everyone is shattered, mentally and physically, having spent nine months on the streets to get this far. after all that, now they have to wait at a dilapidated old train station. mohammed is worried that the group might not have the strength to catch the next train to tabanovce, where macedonia borders serbia. the train is due to arrive in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day. at the station they are given transit papers valid for three days. although in practice, the authorities have stopped checking the refugees passing through the country. jasmin rexhepi works for an ngo that now operates in the region. he appreciates the pressure the local authorities are under. identity checks on this scale are both impossible and

unnecessary, he says. >> what we can see here is many people, families and kids. also the people when we talk with them, they say they are running away from the assad regime, and from islamic state. >> the group then make a decision. some of them are too weak to manage the four-hour train journey in the afternoon heat. the group prefer to stay put, rather than board the overcrowded train that has just pulled in. others, like mohammed, are determined to continue their journey. he arrived in macedonia this very morning from greece. he's 16 and on his own. his goal is to reach his uncle in sweden.

>> i want to go take my brother, my mom and my dad from syria to greece. >> but for now he has a long and uncertain journey ahead of him, as does everyone here, dreaming of settling down in peace and safety somewhere, sometime. >> of course, sweden is the big game for a lot of those refugees and it is also known for the scandinavian crime drama. sarah lund in her famous woolly jumpers in "the killing" is of course a particular favourite. but sometimes real-life can be even stranger than drama which is certainly the case when it comes to sweden's most notorious self-confessed serial killer thomas quick, who throughout the 1990s confessed to more than 30 murders throughout scandinavia -- except it turned out he had lied -- which meant that the real murderers escaped justice. now the father of one of the victims is determined to find the truth.

>> every time bjorn asplund goes over the official investigation report, he's reminded that he's still in mourning for his son, almost 35 years after his death. on saturday november 7, 1980, 11-year-old johan failed to come home after school. it soon became apparent that foul play was involved. the authorities launched a search for whoever had taken the boy. there was a suspect, however, a former boyfriend of johan's mother. >> my ex-wife anna clara and johan earlier lived with a man who was excessively jealous. it became so bad that he did not allow anna clara to go shopping on her own, meet up with friends or go to the cinema. she could not go anywhere. she was totally under his

control. >> for years bjorn asplund tried to persuade the authorities to investigate the man. they refused to proceed or even listen to him. in the early 1990s, thomas quick, originally called sture bergwall, hit the headlines. he was a convicted bank robber who had earlier been accused of molesting adolescent boys. in a secure psychiatric unit, he suddenly confessed to brutally murdering johan. >> we never believed thomas quick's story. he said he'd killed over 30 people across scandinavia, including israeli special forces soldiers. it was completely impossible. >> not so incredible for the police, psychiatrists and judges, however. his confessions saw him given a life sentence for 15 counts of murder. a number of his statements

conflicted with the crime scene evidence, but the serial killer's story was a welcome one for the authorities, with countless murders unsolved. jenny kuttim and two fellow-journalists were skeptical of the confessions, and conducted extensive research on the case files. eventually they were able to prove that quick could not have committed the murders, and that the prosecutors never tried to verify the statements of the psychiatric patient. they uncovered the largest miscarriage of justice in swedish history. >> we met him three times, and are still in contact with him. he told us the truth. when he took back all his confessions during our third meeting, he said, "i've given up." >> the authorities scrambled to process the revelations. quick, having since reverted to his birth name sture bergwall, was released from detention in 2013 after the convictions were

quashed. the justice minstry ordered an investigation into the scandal. the resulting report was a devastating indictment of the officials involved. >> clearly there were appalling mistakes in the judicial process. the prosecutor simply ignored exonerating evidence. there was collaboration between the defence attorneys and prosecutors. there was no opposing side, nobody trying to find out how the confessions happened. >> bjorn asplund now plans to take the authorities to court for failing to follow up on his leads, despite there being a suspect in his eyes. >> until now, the authorities have always held out for the statute of limitations to come into force. that's how they got away with it. this time i'm going to make sure

that doesn't happen. >> but far worse for him, of course, is that his son's killer has still to be brought to justice. >> now to the next in our summer series about the seas and oceans of europe. and this week we're off to the black sea and the bulgarian coast. a beautiful region, but where something very ugly is going on. every year dozens of dolphins are found washed up on the beaches there. and it could be something which any of us who visit the bulgarian coast might be contributing to. >> bulgaria's black sea coast

could be a picture of paradise. but appearances deceive. what may look like a pleasure cruise is actually an environmental research effort. marine biologist dimitar popov and company have set out in search of dolphins. they see none. popov trains volunteers to monitor the black sea. it needs monitoring. nowhere else in europe is the water quality worse than here. >> the pollution has increased to the point where the water here could become a dead zone. the black sea is actually an enclosed basin and very sensitive in terms of its biodiversity. >> the marine biologist places much of the blame on the resorts concentrated in the sunny beach and golden sands area and the tourist masses attracted by cut-rate package holidays, a huge money-maker. environmental activist doncho kirov sees the consequences's rt

dolphins have washed ashore dead near krapets on the romanian border. >> are there dead dolphins here? >> tourists point the way to one they spotted here the day before. right near the sun worshippers lies the cadaver of a black sea dolphin. the population is endangered. >> this one here is a baby black sea dolphin. he must've died two or three days ago. >> kirov documents the find. he's observed a massive decline in the dolphin population along bulgaria's coastline, running parallel with the boom in tourism and the construction hotel complexes. dimitar popov goes right to the source of the problem -- a sewage treatment plant not far from sunny beach. it was built to handle waste water from the local residents,

not from thousands of tourists. now the raw sewage is dumped into the sea. the impact on the ecology has been dramatic. >> the process of decay causes eutrophication, or over-fertilization, depleting the oxygen in the water and damaging the entire food chain, from the plankton to the little fish to the bigger fish to the marine mammals, like dolphins, they all suffer. >> in 2007, the european union provided funding to built a new treatment plant, but it's still just a shell. construction has been proceeding at a snail's pace. at the same time, vast hotel complexes sprout seemingly overnight, without the necessary infrastructure. to popov, it's a political scandal. >> all the authorities have to grant permits for construction. on paper, it looks as if all the

requirements had been met and the inspections had taken place, but that's only on paper. >> at the mayor's office of nesseb'r, we had an appointment to speak with the construction commissioner about the misuse of eu funding, but she never showed up. kirov informs dimitar popov about the baby dolphin. when the dolphins start dying, he says, it's just the tip of the iceberg. bulgaria doesn't even have a laboratory to examine the cadaver. the environmentalists are left up to their own devices. but they're all the more determined to raise public awareness of the plight of the dolphins and the threat to the black sea. >> of course the problem for bulgaria is that it's one of the poorest countries in europe. so often environmental protection takes second place, when ordinary people are

struggling with poverty. let me know what you think about that or any of today's stories. in the west we often talk about the ukraine conflict as if it's a clear-cut fight between good pro-western ukrainians on the one hand. and bad pro-russian separatists on the other. in reality, of course things are much more complicated, including the fact that some of those who fight on kiev's side are extremist ultra-nationalists, such as the militia group the right sector. they provided much of the muscle in the pro-european maidan revolution. and today they are still fighting in eastern ukraine. but there are worries that their brutal tactics are undermining any chance of a ceasefire. >> the paramilitary fighters of ukraine's right sector begin the day with a prayer and a rallying cry. >> glory to ukraine! glory to the heroes! glory to the nation! death to the enemy!

>> shoom is a commander. for months, he was on the front. now he's training new recruits. >> like many ukrainians, i say, if you give me a piece of land, it's mine. nobody has the right to make themselves at home on it, not even my brother. >> once, russia was like a brother. now, according to the ultra-nationalist right sector, it's the arch enemy. they train in a former children's summer camp. the fighting is barely a hundred kilometers away. the walls are covered with pictures ukrainian children have sent as an expression of gratitude. most fighters are eager to get to the front. their basic training only lasts a few weeks. >> after awhile, i can tell if someone can't shoot. but he can still help at the front -- as a medic, for example, taking care of the dead and wounded. everyone is useful on the front.

>> they practice with live ammunition to make it as realistic as possible. they learn to shoot intuitively and stand by their comrades in arms. the right sector fighters are often found in areas where the conflict is most intense, winning them the admiration of many ukrainians. former kick-boxer lito is 22. he decided against joining the ukrainian military, because he doesn't trust the politicians. he says they're corrupt and incompetent. this is his fifth day at the camp. >> it's a great feeling to be here. the guys are just awesome. you can count on them to cover your back for you. we support and protect each other, no matter where we are and what's happening. that's what comrades do. i love them like brothers.

>> they range from nationalists to right-wing extremists. many came to the right sector during the 2014 revolution centered on the maidan. shoom was there, too. he soon worked his way up to bodyguard for the right sector's leader, dmytro yarosh. now he's devoted his life to the war. his nom de guerre means "noise." >> in the army, you're somebody. in civilian life, i was a waiter. but that was not for me. here, i've got everything, a uniform and food, and if i urgently need some cash, i go to my superior -- for example, if my mother needs something, or someone back home falls ill. >> they say they get no pay. and if they're wounded, they get no money from the state. but they do get frequent hassles. they refuse to follow orders from the regular army. their numbers are estimated at nearly ten thousand. a certain oligarch is rumored to be financing the right sector,

but he's denied any such connection. the group claims they're funded entirely by donations. they've been accused of nazi and fascist leanings. >> and even if we were fascists, what would be the problem? you can't compare our leader dmytro yarosh to hitler. why then aren't we murdering jews in masses? where's our genocide? i don't see any fascism here. nationalism, yes. >> but swastikas are drawn in the dust on a transporter. and once the camera's off, the racist comments fly. and a "sieg heil" is heard. most of these fighters say the state is too timid about going after the pro-russian rebels. they've branded the minsk protocol's ceasefire unconstitutional and vow to keep fighting. >> in the regular army, even when facing direct aggression, they don't get the order to fire because of these minsk agreements. what good are agreements, when a tank is rolling toward you? nobody wants to be cannon

fodder. that's why they come to us. >> lito's family knows he'll soon be heading to the front. before the lights go out, he sends a text message, "mama, everything's fine. i love you." >> i can remember at university there were just as many female as male students in my class. and then when i got my first job there was still quite an equal balance between men and women in the office. but you very quickly notice that higher up the hierarchy, a lot of the managers are men. and statistics show that this is also the case in france. but there's one island off the northwest coast of france, where women are most definitely in charge. >> the atlantic ocean along the french coast can be pretty rough. but the people who live here, the bretons, are used to it. many here make their living from fishing. but near the island of ouessant,

the rocks make it dangerous for fishing boats. dozens of them have crashed . but captain ondine morin keeps coming back here. she knows these waters well. she was born and grew up in the region. >> you can do whatever you want on ouessant. it's a place where i can practice my chosen profession. i have complete freedom on this island. >> ouessant is sometimes called "women's island." for centuries, many of the women here had to get along on their own, because the men had all signed on as sailors on merchant ships. they'd given up on trying to feed their families by fishing the treacherous waters around ouessant. some of them left, and never returned. most of them visit their families just once a yea th's wh christians husband does.

>> the women had to take on all the responsibility, and make all the big decisions by themselves. we couldn't even get word to our husbands if one of the children was seriously ill. the men were off in singapore or valparaiso. so it was the women who had to make life-and-death decisions. >> the women did what they had to, to organize the community, and by doing that, gained a certain independence. they ran farms, paved the streets, and built homes. here on ouessant, more women work in typically ma professions than anywhere else in france. mireille drives a fuel truck in all kinds of weather. she's proud of the fact that women here can do any kind of job. they've demonstrated that over generations.

>> in other places, women who do typically male jobs always have to prove that they're better than men -- for example, in the navy, or the army, or on fishing boats. they have to show everyone that they can do the work. but that's not the case here. >> this expanded role for women workers has made ouessant famous throughout france. even though the island is sometimes caricatured as a stronghold of feminism, many local women don't like that idea. lydie jardon, a pianist from paris, found out about that she runs a music festival that features women composers, and women soloists from all over the world. it's held on ouessant every year. >> it was perfectly logical for me to hold the festival on the island. ouessant is known as "women's

island." if you can't hold a women's music festival here, then where can u? so i wt ahd with it. >> but the local women did not take particularly kindly to a proposal from a big-city feminist, and they've made a point of boycotting the festival. the men of ouesst have got used to the distribution of labor, and the fact that wen outnumber men here. in fact, some men find these circumstances more than acceptable. >> back wheni was still working, we didn't have to worry about anything. i'm retired now, and i still don't have to worry. my wife takes care of everything -- the taxes, the paperwor and all the computer stuff. >> but the women of ouessant want to see responsibilities divided more equitably between men and women. captain ondine even convinced her husband to give up his job as a merchant

seaman. ondine grew up without a father. she doesn't want that to happen to her children. >> my father was always gone while i was growing up. that was tough for me. when he'd come back on leave, i wouldn't even hug him. i simply didn't recognize him. >> the women of ouessant will continue to make their presence felt in traditionally male jobs. they won't give up the freedom that they won generations ago. but they also say it's time to bring the men back on board. >> an inspiration for all of us maybe to pull our weight a bit more at home. well, that's it for today. thanks very much for watching. do get in touch. for now it's goodbye from me, and see you next time.

steves: while neighboring croatia is famous for its coastline, slovenia enjoys its own 29-mile stretch of adriatic seafront. that's about one inch per resident. its best stop -- the town of piran. many adriatic towns are overwhelmed by tourists and concrete, but piran has kept itself charming and in remarkably good repair while holding the tourist sprawl at bay.

crowded onto the tip of its peninsula, piran can't grow. the main square was once a protected harbor until it began to stink so badly they had to fill it in. a colorful mix of work and pleasure boats fill today's harbor. these days, piran's walls are inviting, rather than defensive, and the town is simply an enjoyable place in which to relax. explore the evocative back lanes. hike up to the cathedral. scale the venetian-style bell tower. on top, catch your breath by enjoying views of piran and nearly the entire slovenian coastline. the traffic-free harbor front, lined with slovenes enjoying fresh seafood, is made to order for a stroll. swimmers frolic

while sunbathers claim more than their share of the national coastline. piran clusters around its showpiece square, piazza tartini. as with most towns on the adriatic, it was long ruled by nearby venice and retains its venetian flavor. in fact, the town is officially bilingual -- slovene and italian. today the square is enjoyed by visitors and locals of all generations, savoring the good life where the slavic world, the alps, and the mediterranean all come together.

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hello there and welcome to newsline. it's tuesday, september 8th. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. the president of the ruling democratic parauncontested. registered candidacy at the party headquarters on tuesday. his term in office is set to expire at the end of this month. he expressed resolve to press ahead with economic policy. >> translator: our mission is to maintain a cycle of the