the five-year fight over allegedly at the islamic cartoons and a danish newspaper seems to be erupting into violence again. hello and welcome to the first "european journal" of 2011. poland it possible that rescue teams practice rescuing, and environmentalists fear that turkey will legaze building dams in protected areas, and the italian house inhabited by musicians. of five years ago, the danish newspaper "jyllands-posten" aroused the theory of the islamic world that depicted the

prophet mohammad and suggested a link with violence. now five years on, a number of men have been arrested, accused of plotting to murder of the paper's editors, who said they had not intended offense, but islamic threats have put them on guard. before we can visit the cartoonist, we are visit -- we are searched by security guards. a recent attack at his home shows that he is still in danger. when we are allowed in, he is talking out his latest picture, freedom of expression, as a tight rope act. he has polarize opinions ever since his controversial profit mohammed cartoons. some celebrate him as a champion of freedom, others hate him. >> the caricatures merely accelerated the process, like a catalyst.

at this point, attention would have developed between the two countries anyway. >> the caricature was not intended to hurt religious feelings but expose violence in the name of islam. he still sees things this way, five years on. >> there are always voices urging caution. that makes me very sad. because they live from our freedom of opinion and explore limits and occasionally step over them. >> this person is a muslim w supports denmark's democracy. he is integrated and works for the health authorities. freedom of expression, yes, but isn't there also a right to remain silent? he thinks the controversy has made it harder for moslems to integrate into danish society. this businessman agrees. both often feel they are being

lumped together. >> the problem is hardly anyone sees the broad mainstream with different opinions but wanting dialogue. >> i have to admit that i am beginning to despair. is it really true? are we really as bad as people say? is the media right? i think people treat7 us unjustly. >> many muslims in denmark feel they are under collective suspicion. the characters have turned the country into a target for terrorists, and that has changed the mood. >> we have become more careful and fearful. >> in the past five years, denmark has become much more racist. you noticed the attitude towards foreigners. >> assassination attempts are exacerbating the mood. a man from chechnya plan to send

the letter bombs. the attack failed, the man entered himself, and he was arrested in copenhagen -- the man and injured himself, and he was arrested in copenhagen. the major danish paper yllas-posten" is now on the defensive, trying to shield itself against attacks. no outsider may enter the ground even for interview. the police patrol constantly, checking every vehicle that seems suspicious. the man who created the characters still has bodyguards, especially now that his new bobo hacome out. it is a plea for freedom of expression and reproduces the characters. he says he isot a provocative or b a leral motivated by the climate of fear that he experienced in the soviet union.

that is the idea behind his book, "tierney as silence." >> as we submit to self- censorship, either out of fear of hurting others feelings or that somebody will injure us, we end up with a purity -- a tyranny of silence. >> he knows that republishing the characters could have unpleasant consequences for his family and colleagues, but says he cannot act otherwise. >> muslims must do no more or no less than accept precisely what everyone else in society must put up with, and that is a form of recognition with them. >> this man is glad that denmark's muslims have refrained from violent backlash against the book, but he is convinced that such publications. confrontation -- that such

publications trigger confrontation. >> i have lived here 20 years, self-employed, and i pay my taxes. do i have to stand there with a hot dog and appeared to be accepted? >> this man knows that most muslims want to live a peaceful life. his concern what is with a violent extremists. >> i once met someone who said something very wise. he said we have different viewpoin, but we have to continue discussing the future, and no discussion should and with a burial -- should end with a burial. >> he does not regret the caricature, but he does not want to become a martyr. if you enjoy winter sports,

why not try the tatra mountains. avalanches are not uncommon, so the rescue teams must train to find and they got victims and dived under the ice in case the avalanche throws anyone into a frozen lake. they could talk the borders -- the conduct the training and at morskie oko, poland's biggest lake. >> the team of divers from the mountain rescue unit are training for an emergency. their ice diving and a frozen morskie oko, in the high tatra mountains. they have already cut a hole in the ice and seemed quite comfortable, although the water temperature is only 4 degrees celsius. >> that is looks pretty thin. >> it is not that thin.

it has several layers. snow, ice, more snow. that is why it is so dangerous, although it is 25 centimeters thick. >> they will keep in touch with walkie-talkies in the water. how do they work? >> by using ultrasound waves, the way that dolphins communicate, except we use electronics.s. the sound quality is not very good, but we understand each other. that small box makes it possible.

>> we have made contact with the divers beneath me. can you hear me? how are things down there? >> the view is great. we feel like birds. we are weightless. when the air bubbles burst on the ice, it is like being in space. >> to you feel a sense of happiness when you see the strange and its is? -- wh you see the san images? >> i cannot describe it. i feel like my problems are a long way away. >> happiness may be too strong

of a term. that is a way of getting away from my problems on the surface. >> what would you say to somebody who thinks you are crazy? >> everyone has to find their place in life. i found my place under the ice. i have overcome my own limitations. i don't care if people think i am god. this is my life, not theirs. -- i don't care if people think i am odd. >> the divers are guided by ropes they install to help them find their way back to the entrance hole. apart from a few fish, the lake is almost devoid of lifeo.

the divers find trees that were swept into the water by avalanches. the lake is up to 50 meters deep in some places, and others just a few centimeters. here, the divers have to squeeze their way along beneath the ice. everything seems to be happening in slow motion. the visibility is just 12 ters. the only peoe allowed to die in this nature reserve are the members of the mountain rescue team -- the only people allowed to dive in the nature reserve or the members of the mountain rescue team. we wait to greet them. >> is diving in the winter relief on? >> of course not. no, i am joking, but it is difficult. my lips are swollen from the cold. my hands, also, but the scenery

is so impressive that it is worth the effort. not mama people get to see it. we need to be prepared in case somebody falls beneath the ice. training is important. right now all i need is a cup of hot tea. >> he heads for home, but he will be back tomorrow for a midnight dive. an elderly spanish man has been standing in the way of urban development and the outskirts of madrid. fidel serrano has refused to move fr the diladated shacks that has been his home for 35 years. the authorities wanted to put an electricity substation on the site. it turned into a david vs. goliath battle. >> anyone who has a mailbox has a residence. 35 years ago, fidel serrano built this place himself on a

dish used plot of land on the outskirts of madrid. he is poor, but he is proud of what he has achieved, even if his home is what people call as simple hut. now it is threatened with demolition. >> when i moved here, this was open land. that is why i built this year. there was plenty of space. but now they are building 6000 new apartments and my hut has to go. they could build on either side effects, but, no, they want to build right here. >> the first tenants and owners are scheduled to move in in the spring. in a country in the grip of an economic crisis, this billion euro construction project is an exception because it is not facing bankruptcy. the only person who was blocking things is fidel serrano.

the electricity substation for the project is to be built on the site of his hut. he does not own the land and he never applied for planning permission, butthe hut is registered as his permanent address. because he has lived here such a long time, evicting him is no easy matter. now the planning department has a problem. itthe hut -- the hut was not overlooked, but it was not seen as a serious problem. >> nobody realized we would end up with a situation like this. planning permission was given a long time ago, and we need to build a power facility on the site where his hut is located. >> fidel gets his electricity from an old diesel generator.

he has lived for decades with this provisional power source. it is a symbol of poverty that many consider a thing of the past in spain, but fidel simply did not move with the times. there were around 12 huts on the building site. the council paid the residents to relocate, all of them except fidel agreed. what now? >> we have been looking for a solution for a long time. at first we offered compensation money, then we tried to find him a better home than the one that he currently has. we will just have to keep trying. >> fidel wants to stay because he still has some neighbors in nearby huts. they did not live on the construction site, so they can stay. they look out for him and think he would be better off staying here.

>> when you up route a tree and plant it somewhere else, what happens? that is what moving fidel would be like. >> the digger is on what was once his garden. the council hopes that he will finally agree to a new home. he dreamed of one when he first came here decades ago, but now he wants to stay put. he is no longer interested in being part of a new, modern spain. turkey plans to build hundreds of dams to generate electricity, but opponents say will and the rivers, destroy habitats, and drown or barry ancient heritage sites. they are now proposing to change that law, making it harder for

protesters to save their favorite beauty spots. >> this man is drawn to the landscape with its rocky slopes and wild water time and time again. he says the valley near the black sea coast is turkey's most beautiful spot. >> when we were kids, we used to catch fish and go swimming here. last year was all a mother bear and her cubs. i cannot describe in words what this place means to us. it is the center of our lives. >> but that area is under threat. had the diggers are on -- have the diggers are working on the banks, the site for hydroelectric power projects. according to the plans, the river will be producing

electricity within five years. a 30-meter high dam wall will be standing here and the water will flow through underground pipes three turbine, replacing the natural course of the river. the environmental activist is angry. >> every summer vacation is to have picnics or fish or swim. further down the valley, this is also used as a drinking water reservoir. that will no longer be possible. it will either be polluted by the time it reaches them or will flow into pipes underground. >> some local residents have protested publicly against the plans, staging rallies in the capital or blocked the path of the earth movers. that has led to violent confrontations with construction workers. but some people here are in favor of the dams.

the dispute has divided the village. in the local tea house, some tempers have been flying. >> a lst 25 people from our viage have got workfare. i sell more tea. is that nothing? >> the construction company workers cannot understand the fuss. they see the project as advancement. the economic growth means higher demand for energy. >> this alone will produce 70 million kilowatts of electricity per year. we as the operators will earn around 2.5 million euros at the current electricity rates, and we wilbe putting waterack into the river beds once we finish construction. that is part of the planning. >> a proposed new law will make

it difficult for citizens to raise objections against the proposed 1500 dams. power plants would be permissible in areas that are even currently nature reserves. >> what is in their practice solely means -- practically means that it will be far lower standards. the law will overcome all protected areas. about and is not even in the valley that resistance has been growing -- >> it is not just in the valley that resistance has been growing. the fate of the valley's show whether turkey is prepared to sacrifice its nasa project last nature preserve to the country's economic growth -- whether it is prepared to sacrifice its last nature reserves to the country's economic growth. >> if music has been your life,

you would want to spend it in your final days, too, and that is what residents of the casa verdi are doing, a retirement home for opera singers and musicians and performers who have fallen on hard times. residents go on listening to it and making music, which they say it leaves no time for sadness or regrets. >> as an opera singer, this woman spent her life in the spotlight. now she singslong to her old recordings. a trip down memory lane, to the height of her career. >> [singing] >> these photos remind her of

her performing at the opera house in milan. she plans stay positive in the twilight years of her life. >> we all die some day. it so it is better to accept it. but my bags are packed. i am ready for the final journey. that is why i am happy and relaxed. >> the residents of the casa verdi retirement home get a chance to sing every day. at the nursing care director studied music and accompanies the group on piano. >> this woman's husband used to compose popular songs, and his wife has not forgotten a single lyric.

another member of the group is over 100 years old, but she never misses the daily sing- along. verdi built this retirement home more than a century ago. he envisioned it as a place to spend his old early years with other musicians. in accordance with his final wishes, the casa verdi became his final resting place. this woman's husband was a well- known conductor. he would not let her sing, but now she can perform whenever she likes, to an appreciative crowd. >> opera is about big emotions.

i love that. i just forget all the problems that come with being 80. the troubles are gone, and for three minutes, everything is great. >> this person would rather play the flute and play cards and the day. he was a professor at the music conservatory and a flutist. the 90-year-old plays his favorite piece. back in 1946, after he returned from the war, he bought a radio. >> i turned it on and i heard this piece. sorry. it is so beautiful. i don't know who played it, but it was a great flutist. >> he has lived a life blessed

by music and romance, and family. he feels honored to have been offered a place at the casa verdi. he says he is respected as someone special here, and he is not afraid of getting older. >> no, no, no. getting older is a problem at 50. but at 90, you have no time t worry. there is only time for good things, not worries. it is good to see old professional still enjoying their music and memories.

george bernard shaw said hell is filled with musical amateurs. that is it for today. join us from brussels. until then, goodbye. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--