captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> we are back with "european journal." march is protesting against austerity measures and gasp unemployment are in brussels.

>> the forgotten refugees of a georgia's war. a new and as dollars up for the old yugoslavia. >> they call themselves the indignity. thousands of protesters have filled the squares in spain over the last few weeks. they are protesting about unemployment levels and the influence of the financial markets on politics. they have set out on a long walk from a dread all the way your to brussels to bring their complaints to the headquarters of the european union. >> almost 1,800 kilometers from madrid to brussels. it is a long march. the 24-year-old student is one of them.

>> the son is quite hot just now and we are taking a break. we will set off again soon. >> this is the 14th stop on the march. they walk 30 kilometers a day. they are spending the night in a city park. water is available there and locals give them food. he dreams of a time when money does not rule the world. " the political system is a slave of the economic system. that is why we are so critical. democracy is subject dated to the markets. -- subjugated to the markets. >> they want an end to government bailout of the banks. not in our name, it is their chance. -- chant.

outside a bank, they shout, we will not pay for your crisis. they have been making news in spain for months. >> they are not happy with the job situation. they're keeping the politicians on their toes. i like the fact that young people are rising up and protesting. they need to protest in a way that makes sense. >> to down the germans are marching with the indignants. they are surprised by the level of public support. >> people we have never met before and give you a hug and thank you for standing up for their rights, too. >> it is going to be quite a bit tougher in france. there is more solidarity there. the police do not bother us that much. >> it all started here in central madrid. as many as 8 million people joined protests throughout spain.

bupolitical scientist says spain has played a pioneering role in the european protest movement. >> unemployment rates are much higher than the rest of europe. the that leads to a social malaise. there is a sense that the poticians are todistant from real people. somehow, we have to get them to tackle the real problems instead of playing their internal power game. >> nearly half of spaniards under 25 are out of work. that is the highest quota in western europe. young people are fighting for their future. some overstepped the mark. >> the image of the movement has deteriorated over time. that is probably because some

radicals have taken advantage of the situation. and also because people cannot recognize any actual demands. i think interest in the indignant moment is -- movement has fallen. >> the hard core of the movement is not prepared to accept that. it is early in the morning and they are preparing for the 36- kilometer march to victoria. they come from all different social backgrounds and want to remain independent. >> 51 to form a party, we would have to play by the political rules -- if we wanted to form a party, we wpuld have to play by the political rules. >> they see themselves as a peaceful movement based on solidarity. they hope to help people like families whose homes are threatened by repossession by the banks. >> there are some ideas, a lot

of people think that change is impossible. but we believe in it. we are marching to brussels to complain. >> they want to reach brussels by the beginning of october. another 1,300 kilometers lie ahead. >> the region between russia and georgette is extremely volatile. three years ago, all out war erupted between russia and georgia over one of these disputed regions. what numbers of refugees made their way into georgia. the fighting was short lived, but the conflict remains unresolved. the on populated region of northeast georgia has been changing of late. the population is growing and new houses make for a new landscape. morend more homes are being

built to accommodate tens of thousands of refugees. the construction workers -- work is being paid for by the international community. they killed time playing cards in a street. 300 families live here, some have been here for more than a year. no one has worked. they all fled their homes and neighboring -- they all fled their homes, many with nothing. >> we settled here. >> did you live in refugee camps? >> no, in all kinds of places. erever we could. >> they got this video from a journalist. it shows the street directly after the war. she and her husband point out

where their house used to be. >> i would never have believed it possible. i could not have imagines that there would be a war. destroying everything, killing some many people in five days. for what? after benefits? -- who benefits? >> itas a war that reall only lasted five days. three years ago, in russia and georgia, the conflict escalated. the inhabitants of their declared independence and moscow offered its support. georgia saw it as a call to war. in 2008, a georgian tanks rolled into the breakaway province. the country was " -- at war against its own people and against russia. moscow fought back.

at least 2000 people were killed. tens of thousands lost their homes and fled. the territorial outcome was a border. it has only been recognized by russia and a couple of allies. the international community calls the border and the ministry of line. georgians tch over. as if the war is still raging. >> that was the main read. there is no movement on it. deadlock. >> deadlock is better than deadly war. the situation is not easy. but you send observers in directly after the war in order to cover -- the eu send observers and directly after the war.

they patrol the border every day, which separates former neighbors from one another. all little further on, the observer shows us something that is a cause for great concern. they appear to be blocking themselves in. >> last september, there was nothing here. this intensifies the separation and that is not in the eu's interest. that is why we do not like it. >> the refugees did not like it either. they want to go home and build new houses where there old once stood. but they do not see much hope. >> everything could be resolved. if the two states will not talk to each other, how will we get back? going back seems like a fairy

tale ending right now. >> the houses and the german state are in particular demand. the refugees say they are ablend stand up to the winters. most suspect they will be here for a long time to come. >> we are off to a northern ireland where the residents of the village are united against a common enemy. apparently, they are threatening the native population of a red squirrels. the battle lines have been drawn. ♪ northern ireland, this is the coastal village.

about an hour's drive north of belfast. a quiet place. it is loved by locals and tourists alike. there is a threat to peace here. the gray squirrel. they have declared war on the species. locals want to catch every last one of them. >> in people's gardens, they go there just to pass. they destroy it bird feeders. they do not fit in in our society. >> he is the chief squirrel hunter. he is on patrol around the village. it has spread --

they just were not high enough to keep the squirrels out. ♪ >> we are trying to establish a buffer zone in different areas. they report sightings of greece girls. -- and a report sightings of gray squirrels. >> the group meets once a week. they build feeders for the native red squirrels. the north american intruders are solely forcing out to the red squirrels. >> the grey squirrel will eat the fruits and will then pass on a german. it inevitably kills the red

squirrels. >> i would like to see them survive. >> the remaining red squirrels leaped a sheltered life. the activist know almost every one of them. ♪ a camera with a motion sensor records squirrel activity. >> there is both the ragged and the gray using the feeder. that makes us aware of that that is going on in that beating area. -- feeding area. >> the locals are divided about what to do with the captured animals.

t>> you cannot kill them. you cannot lead do that, you? >> they have little sympathy for the gray squirrels. when someone reports a gray squirrel to the hot line, this sets off to check the traps. >> if you are dealing with the likes of a gray squirrel, you wear protective gloves. they can be quite nasty when they are trapped. when we go to remove a trap, we take a bad such as this. the animal will quiet down in the dark. >> it does not always worked

out. the trapb was emptied this time. and the fight man against squirrel, the squirrel one this time. or maybe there are just more of them. they certainly seem determined. >> finding a job as a young person is not always easy in europe. that is why the job center in eastern germany has come up with a novel idea. it is sending long-term unemployment -- employees over to poland to do an internship. it is a valuable work experience, but it has not been popular with everyone. >> he does tell like the way he is being treated.

nor did the other job seekers. they aresupposed to be working and gone to bed at 10:00. they're going on strike. c>> we have been here in poland for seven days. the first six of us decided we have had enough. they're planning to leave and about half an hour. >> they come from -- they are sent to poland by their local job offices. they are not just unemployed, but hard to place, officially. they have limited mobility. they look pretty mobile as they prepare to leave. they are staying. they are building a rock garden in a retirement home. it is for the old people, but it is also for them.

they are supposedly learning new skills. they are not exactly a booming with mixed -- enthusiasm. >> i was more or less forced into it. we do not get to each lunch until half past three. we are not used to that. >> the elderly people think is great that unemployed germans are being sent to helput. especially ones like sandy, who does not speak much polish. >> the language is not 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 of the bus stop is less cheerful.

no one knows exactly how to get back. they will take the bus and then they will have to see. it is a bit of a home from home. the germans came with a project initiated by a polish foundation. what does polenta stand to gain? -- poland stand to gain? >> id is not a burden. it isn experience. we are learning, too. we will use what we have learned about the way germans solve problems with their younger generation with our own young people. >> the idea is that the germans are going to gain work experience and a return to germany more employable. participation is free and voluntary. even so --

>> they could have said they did not want to take part right at the start. they could have stayed at home. >> their supervisors think the participants could learn a lot from their time here. there is a surprise in store at the nursery the next day. she was among those who left yesterday, but she is back. she ran out of money, but she said she wanted to come back anyway. >> i made a mistake. i admit it. i want to win back their trust now. >> yesterday, she wanted to go home. but now she is back. she apologized to us, and everything is fine. >> after one week, nine of the 13 original participants are still in their placement.

maybe leaving their home is already making these young germans a little more self aware. exist anymore. it has not existed since the 1990's. many still mourns the break of the former davis lobby. -- the former yugoslavia. there is a nostalgia for the old days. >> is it surprising that people look back to the past? a couple of years ago, many scorned yugo-miss taza. -- nostaligia.

how does memory work? this artist has made a video from old super 8 films. the tragedy of yugoslavia possible collapse is visible behind the images. >> i think it is like when you are remembering her childhood. everything looks great. sometimes it was not that great. sometimes your parents were rude to you. or maybe people in school. when you are a grown-up, you remember the same way. everything was lovely. that is how i feel. >> has the yugoslavian identity

outlived the country? a theater group tackles this issue. they kick off their show with the national anthem. the audience always join soon. -- joins in. ♪ night after night, multi- cultural yugoslavia is resurrected. the director is a bosnian. he lived through the war and now he is here. when he was a student in the 1980's, and nobody cared whether he was a muslim. he would not even have known which he was. >> yugoslavia was like a garden with many flowers. nobody was bothered by the sound of any of them. it was stimulated.

>> held a garden became a bloody battlefield, how neighbors suddenly became enemies, and long suppressed nationalism led to an indescribable atrocity. those are issues that still need to be addressed. it pushes them to the forefront and begs the question of why people long for what they fought against. >>q it is a way for people to come to terms with their own past. before the war, in yugoslavia was described as the cause of all evil everywhere. the whole wall was directed at that model of yugoslavia. now people realize that they were lied to. >> she was a teenager when the wars began. and 25 when the bombing and did them. she is now 36. she catches herself describing

herself as yugoslavian. she says that you cannot choose your memories. >> when the war started, it marked the lives of my generation. you cannot just overlook that. you cannot just overlook the fall of yugoslavia. you can not overlooked because my generation remembers the lives in yugoslavia. >> the past is never over. no matter how much people would like to believe it is. now that -- the last war criminals are extradited. there is talk of a new yugo- sphere.

if only it weren't for the war. >> they say that it is not what it used to be. we are at the end of the program. we will see you again next time, i hope. until then, but by. -- goodbye.