damien mcguinness: hello, and a and will very warm welcome to "focus on europe." bringing you the best personal stories behind the headlines. thanks very much for joining us. we have a fascinating program and lined up for you today. in italy, migrant who survived and i the world's most dangerous will you sea journey. in cyprus, the cheese that is a political issue. and in britain, the cyclist who is making the roads safer. this year, the death toll among you migrants trying to flee across the mediterranean is set the to be the worst ever. the number of migrants has athe number of migrants has remained constant, the proportion of people who have died trying to make the crossing have shot up dramatically. you and will that is because the italian search and rescue operation has been stopped, only to be replaced by a smaller eu operation designed to keep people out, rather than rescue them. to find out more about what it's like to make that there was journey, we've been to meet one young man who survived the crossing. reporter: they are the lucky ones. they have survi

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mcguinness was critical of the management style. a.j.a.m.s facing a wrongful dismissal suit which the channel said it would contest. ansi started with c.b.s. and spent time at reuters and the associated press. the channel he inherits is to boost ratings, with figures reaching 30,000, numbers falling behind fox cnn and m.s. m b.c. >>> a year ago this month there was big news out of bangkok when the thai government overthrew the government of yingluck shinawatra. it was the 12th coup d'etat. no country had more military coups over that period. the thai media are old hands at dealing with this thing, figuring out where the red lines, the journalististic bound res are. the aftermath of this coup is challenging. the government of the general turned prime minister lifted martial law, but it has not eased the pressure on journalists. replacing martial law is article 44, security law that journalists and human rights activists say is worse in some ways. the military hoounty gave itself the power to pull news off the air, shut down media outlets and

damien mcguinness: hello, and a and will very warm welcome to "focus on europe." bringing you the best personal stories behind the headlines. thanks very much for joining us. we have a fascinating program and lined up for you today. in italy, migrant who survived and i the world's most dangerous will you sea journey. in cyprus, the cheese that is a political issue. and in britain, the cyclist who is making the roads safer. this year, the death toll among you migrants trying to flee across the mediterranean is set the to be the worst ever. the number of migrants has athe number of migrants has remained constant, the proportion of people who have died trying to make the crossing

do stay with us here at dw. ó ♪ damien mcguinness: hello, and a very warm welcome to "focus on europe- with some of the very best personal stories behind the headlines from all over europe. thanks very much for joining us. and we've got some really cracking stories lined up for you today. in latvia, facing up to a painful past in poland, facing up to an uncertain future and in sweden, moving house -- literally. the ukraine crisis has left many of russia's neighbors feeling nervous, particularly latvia. un

>> mcguinness or one of those firms? >> i don't have his name, it was right after we put in that request for the insurance company to cover the leak intrusion, it was right after that we had someone come in who was a leak finding expert. >> what did they say? >> they said we need today repair the wall. >> okay. >> i have a question as well, have you opened up any of the spaces, any of the -- have you opened any exploratory holes in the interior property? >> no we haven't, but that leak finding expert who came in said he thought -- he was of the opinion that we were going to find so many areas that were letting in water we would end up opening our entire wall. >> i'm sorry you can't speak for him, i do agree slightly to some point with your neighbor in that if you put a new wall over existing damaged areas, you're still going to have an issue. >> right i mean, the thing right now, there is no documented mold. we haven't documented there's mold there. there was for the first time that smell after the last storm and our pur

i'm damien mcguinness. thanks very much for joining us. on today's program -- in scotland, a nuclear fleet may need a new home. in italy, migrant children looking for a better life. and in denmark, the mink that's breaking free. this month, ceremonies at various former nazi concentration camps are commemorating the 70th anniversary of liberation by allied forces. the murder of millions of european jews is arguably the most shameful episode in europe's history, particularly because it's a crime which wasn't committed only by german nazis, but also by europeans from all over the continent. the experience of france is particularly complicated. jews were not only persecuted in the part of france occupied by the nazis, but also in the unoccupied regions run by the french vichy government. but one small village quietly disobeyed. practically all the local people there hid jews, and so saved their lives. >> for pascaline magnard, the past still lives in the present. her memories of this village in france are good, even though they take her back t

♪ damien mcguinness: hello, and a very warm welcome to "focus on europe" -- with some of the very bestersonal stories behind the headlines from all over europe. thanks very much for joining us. and we've got some really cracking stories lined up for you today. in latvia, facing up to a painful past in poland, facing up to an uncertain future and in sweden, moving house -- literally. the ukraine crisis has left many of russia's neighbors feeling nervous, particularly latvia. until 1991 it was a part of the former soviet union - so latvians have painful memories of soviet oppression. but now, as the country celebrates 25 years of independence from moscow, latvians are also having to face up to some of the darker memories of their past, including what the kgb did to ordinary people such as knuts skujenieks, who was held by the kgb for six months before being sent to a soviet labor camp near the ural mountains for six years. to find out more, i met up with knuts last week in the capital riga, and he showed me round the prison where he'd been held. the pain of being imprisoned here is as ra