Currently on trial in germany these are some of the victims families in front of a court in corbins a visual to remember those who were disappeared or killed in syria its the 1st time suspected perpetrators are standing trial to face charges of crimes against humanity the principle of going to wrestle jurisdiction allows prosecution to take place in germany even though the crimes against humanity were committed in syria. Mahmud is one of those were closely following the Court Proceedings she is one of the countless syrians whose families have fallen victim to the civil war thats why she left her home country and fled to germany and now she has hope for long awaited justice. Mahmoud in her apartment in the german capital berlin the opponent of the regime in syria lives here on her own in exile isnt she this is my husband. Says 2012 hes been missing disappearing in a prison run by the syrian secret service. Just like her son my here. Theyve been mediators for the opposition and have been on their way back from outside syria when the protests against the regime in syria started. Aired. Them and i called our son my hair after they arrived at the airport in damascus he said were getting into the car now and will be home soon please set the table. But father was husband and son never got back home. The Syrian Secret Services crimes are cruel these photos from inside syrian prisons were leaked in 2013 victims of torture photographed by a military policeman who managed to get them out of the country. Today the photos are important evidence against assads torturers in europe the authorities were investigating them when they made a discovery and 2018 secret Service Members have allegedly come to europe from syria this guys this refugees one of them is this man and where are the alleged head of the department in the secret service he and another suspected secret Service Members have been on trial in germany since april is the 1st trial ever for crimes against humanity committed by members of the assad regime. From as a darwish a Syrian Opposition where the trial is a historic step towards more justice. The citys darwish was there for the start of the trial he lives in exile in europe to. Example. When youre talking justice. When talking. To the. Legal process of the earth for us. The 1st. Earth and i think. You know. When the trial started syrians opposed to the regime came together outside the Court Building to demand that a son be brought to trial. Assad himself denies any responsibility or wrongdoing. But the evidence against the Syrian Regime is overwhelming. Its kept here at this secret location in western europe. William wiley used to work for the United Nations investigating human rights abuses for human courts in former yugoslavia and rwanda he heads the commission for International Justice and accountability and gathers evidence against assads regime. Basically. What you have in this room are materials generated by the Security Intelligence structures of sure the military structures of syria and the party or political structures of syria at the top level and the government level. Records and files of the Syrian Regime cleaned examined and archived especially for the investigating authorities and courts in europe. Wiley and other investigators are financially supported by european governments when the war in yugoslavia ended in the 9th. Yes the International Tribunal was missing many important files to prevent this from happening again the commission secured smuggled over 800000 documents out of the case of the syrian civil war. Why he is convinced that it will be enough to prove the syrian leaderships responsibility for human rights abuses. As those found while mom living in exile in berlin i dont. Understand if i could end up as a no no and i think justice will take its course and she did and im happy when i see that those people should the prisoners and i know what thats nice ive had that experience myself so theyre full to be very happy if those responsible for true chewing men and women were punished to get passed out we caught up. To night biggest dream is to see their leadership being brought to justice for. Them to pass out. Mahmoud hopes that one day all the crimes of assads regime will come to light including her husbands and her sons fate. London is not just the capital of the u. K. Its also the countrys traffic jam capital last year drivers in london spent nearly a 150 hours stuck in traffic thats 150 hours of people being idle and thats wasted time has cost the city billions now of course the streets of london are much empty here because many people are working from home and that has given way to bikers we met one of them and he is calling for a bicycle revolution on the streets of his city. The cyclist in london cost to be quite confident. When you left with the road what they say if youre a competent cyclist is not really much of a problem but you have to be going at more or less the speed of the traffic a new presence on the road has to be quite strong. Philip talent and runs his bike everywhere he cycle some 20000 kilometers e. M. Up texan excellence and his family are pleased that more and more londoners are discovering the joys of cycling. That will cycling enthusiast from the time when Young Children grow that bikes to school. Thats still something of an oddity in on me but happy could soon change. In schools by then things get people cycling in the next generation i think the definitely be more confident that on the buy a person would think they should just go ahead and close 50 percent. Side streets just close the lid cause dont need to go on 50 percent so give us access to everybody. Cause as much as possible. Those kinds of demands get londons to see guys as the riled up the citys cabbies are among scientists graceless critics. Who dont are psychos get rid of old and get real recycles all the buses. They would and then misses the traffic at the moment is terrible side by colleagues in. Routes or whatever making more cycle lines this is going to make the traffic even worse starting generous because half the people who saw the marmot dont know the high white collars and the small percentage of do not highlight charge. So this should be some sort of a test for cyclists and yet londons in a city is currently swollen. Thing with bicycles has the quran the crisis in a new age of mobility. Cyclists now have some powerful supporters behind them there will be a huge amount of planning going into helping people to get to work other than by mass transit and this will be i hope on of that my own free will as a former secretary of transport i will agree this is should be a new go in a rage for psychic but they must act fast when commuters return on mass and wont be enough buses or trains to accommodate them and take it to social distancing missions if even a small percentage of these commute to start using cars instead london will be faced with 10 children. The temptation to get into medical will be very very strong and understandable so i think weve got a short window of time to reach out to both the politicians and to the public at large to say there is a better writer of to. Manage the city londons financial district is leading the way. During the day access is restricted to passes and bikes only. And sidewalks are being widened to give kids estrin small room. And in some residential districts streets are being slimmest to 3 traffic drivers are having to find other groups 1. Oh well. This just in these few weeks there is an amazing opportunity to connect a lot of the unconnected parts to get the local councils on board to get the local roads resignation or cycle again says stop this because central university. During the corona crisis london feels a bit more like bike friendly amsterdam. Phillip johnson and his family hope it will stay that way to make this new golden age for cycling seems almost too good to be traded. Do you like oysters i have to admit its not a huge fan of but if you are then you surely know what a costly delicacy they are well in france this delicacy now needs its own security detail as he have also come to realize their value they break into farms and steal the oysters to sell them later for a profit its a huge loss for oyster farmers like nicole that one name is now hoping that the local police can help protect his precious. Its Early Morning this is debated off a name on the french brittany coast. Because on the name is an oyster farmer he loves working here but for months hes been extremely worried because thieves have been stealing the precious molluscs. If the tide is out we come here in the mornings to check if everything is all right. Soon he spots a basket that has been cut open again oyster thieves have struck its a major financial loss it takes 3 years until the oyster can be sold and until then they need to be carefully tended to. Weeks ago nicholas says 3 and a half tons of oysters were stolen in one night. Here are 60. 7 or 8000 euros and they stole 250 of them through all. Last year many tons of oysters were stolen across france and the situation seems to be getting worse and once the valuable mollusks have been taken theyre impossible to trace back. Some coastal towns are now set up a special police force like here in london monday as. Oh main job is to prevent oyster so. We go one patrol every morning noon and also at night i mean yeah. They use drones to keep an eye on the coast hoping to catch boisterous thieves red handed. So far theyve proven elusive the thieves seem to know their way around the oyster farms and so usually all the special police force can do is act when its already too late. We then look at the. Other and if. We have to look at. Sending such a big load of stolen oysters. Ploy. Only people from within the trade are capable to do so says nick. Hes convinced the thieves are from the area. Nobody else has the local knowledge and tools necessary to collect the baskets from the bay. Thinking the whole kinds of people. Have a suspicion but no proof that it could also turn out to be one of my friends. Could experience a bitter disappointment. Another problem is that an increasing number of oysters are catching a disease during farming the rare virus was previously found only in warmer waters. And the town of theres a market every saturday. Are extremely popular and he doesnt have to wait long for customers. Very healthy very pure like the sea and also a bit nutty. These oysters have an extraordinary taste that we are particularly fond of. The oysters are sold out before noon. Like so often he says he could have sold a lot more if it werent for the oyster thieves in his view their crimes are an forgivable. But think of robbing neighbors. From. The ne now hopes that the police can finally catch the thieves but the odds are against him. Despite intensive investigations very few oyster thieves have been caught for decades thousands of people were disenfranchised or abused by the state even the Young Children were torn from their parents well the spirit allegation that they didnt conform to social norms. Is one of the many victims now fighting for compensation the atrocities he suffered as a child still haunts him to this day. The swiss authorities took him away from his mother put him in a home and locked him away. At age 6 about her and his beggar was placed in foster care with a parish couple who abused him. In a recent pulled my ears and by hair a lot and beat me he would lock me in the basement or in the broom closet because. There is still traumatized by his experiences to this day he struggles to set foot in a church. The 64 year old set up a small museum in the basement of the Community Center of his village a fair outdoor which makes 10 people how this was state condemned him. Around 60000 people in switzerland were submitted to socalled administrative care by the can tunnel authorities because they were judged to be socially different the practice continued until 981 people including his mother were put in prisons like this one him a spare was born here in 1957. Before moving because my name i suspect that my mother was administratively cared for because she was expecting and illegitimate child. And thats what they did at the time. They put such mothers away they didnt fit into swiss society. Well thats right. People deemed as being work shy drinkers or of having loose morals were taken to prison without trial to foster families or to a psychiatric ward there they were to be reeducated. By a system that had stripped them of their rights and excluded them from society. Historians like ors garamond confirmed that these people were not criminals garamond conducted research for this was government as part of an independent commission of inquiry. By even 4th in the case of those receiving administrative care it was usually not a matter of criminal offenses but simply a way of life that did not conform to social norms and. Stories like voter amas beggars have cast a shadow over swiss history there are around 650. 00 prisons and other institutions in switzerland in which children and young adults were imprisoned exploited and in many cases severely mistreated. Or was locked up for hours on end at his foster parents house he was forced to clean and work in the garden and fields he didnt accompany us to the house as he suffered a panic attack when he tried to visit a few years ago. For of a coral reefs the hut was so strange i hid in the bush like an animal i really felt that this was the end. When he was 11 the parish couple took him to the psychiatric clinic in mr ling and there the boys plight worsened near the it illegally constans the hospital director tested psychiatric medication on him in the 1960 s. And seventys. Crisis time for all i know is that i felt a lot of north korea from just generally bad and lousy. And every now and again id also have Something Like a seizure fall because. The boy does not seem to tolerate tougher new well and we believe that the unpleasant symptoms he is showing are side effects of this medication. It makes my skin crawl. And i ask myself why they did that. In his spare is fighting to have what happened to him and others forced into administrate of care publicly recognized. My hope is that Something Like this never happens again though and also that this whole dark chapter of switzerlands past goes into the history books as rights. And other victims have already received a small sum from the swiss government but he insists that his fight is not just about the money we now take you to a roma settlements in eastern bull garia the roma are a Minority Group that has been marginalized for decades many roma grow up in poverty with no formal education the Poor Health Care services and this small future prospects its particularly tough on children they often cant make it out without outside help. Yes the roma settlement in sleeve in is called. Which means hope. But there is little sign of hope here. The people are poor. 25000 roma live in this ghetto its one of the largest among kariya here a lot of the street prevails. Never lets his 12 year old daughter mariana out of the house alone its too dangerous girls live in constant danger of being kidnapped Child Marriage is common the last of the according to our tradition girls get married when theyre 12 or 13 and then they have children but i dont want to live like that. Since her mother left them mariana lives alone with her blind father hes constantly worried that he wont be able to protect his daughter. I have a dream to get out of this ghetto theres no future here in the dish to. Marry on his cello helps distractor she practices for hours every day shes able to leave the ghetto with her instrument 3 times a week into another world. Into gear argue world. Famous bulgarian violinist has performed on the big stages in europe today he lives in germany but he grew up in a desert. That this is i was just like these kids mr issues and do it today here in his home as my father gave me my 1st violin and it was here that i started playing because abortions. Is familiar with poverty he also knows that for most roma children especially girls its difficult to escape. 10 years ago he got the chance to do something about it and took it. More my partners father died and the fountain. And of the look with money its not much nothing either its the folk who are children and so we decided to do some things that a money in the room a quarter instead of that was lost the my wife said you are a musician the children with your violin is. Decided to open a music school and his sisters garage with the help of donations 300 roma children have since been given the chance to learn an instrument here for mariana it was a long and hard way. The other kids teased me when i went to music class with some of the so when they heard me play in concert they apologised to me and i even proud of me for them my dream is to play the cello and to teach. That to. Mary on a School Principal insists she has to study hard and to speak bulgarian well only then will she have a good chance for a musical career. They have to have at least to see a great average gotten otherwise they cant develop musically. Shows his scholars the countrys most important stage the concert hall book area and sophia. Mariano and her fellow students played together with the virtual of the National Symphony orchestra. Her father couldnt afford the trip to sofia but he knows that marianas concert is a good chance for her. With Music Lessons our children dont only learn music they also experience a whole new culture which helps them to break the roman mentality of the roman traditional all. Niccolo demeanor of wants to accompany his daughter on her journey leaving the streets and as best as he can. In the meantime what more people have decided to support mariana and her fellow musicians so we will definitely catch up with her to find out how she has been faring well thats all we have time for on todays focus on europe think well and see you next week you. Yes you. The beginning. Of the. Double talk show. Strong the clear position is for international restraint to see. Every week we get to the point on our current topic. That. The big controversial come at it right now back to the point. 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