Transcripts For DW Focus On Europe - Spotlight On People 201

DW Focus On Europe - Spotlight On People February 15, 2018

People in russia are outraged here in moscow they are demonstrating against the decision. Some athletes prepare their entire lives for the olympics so it comes as no surprise that some of russias Top Competitors were left frustrated and angry by being excluded while many critics hope the ban would force the country to tackle the doping issue people across russia complain that this is all part of a conspiracy against them a feeling shared by some of the suspended athletes. It was an unexpected twist for evander who can but being barred from the olympics hasnt stopped him training he and his partner Alexandra Steele have been skating together since they were children and working towards their first Olympic Games for eight years. But the International Olympic committee hasnt invited the twenty four year old to pyong chang it considers russian athletes guilty until proven innocent and suspects yvon of doping which he denies i need to have they say you want invited but they havent told us the reason yet but it seems they suspect us of something but they havent told us of watch. You do it and i think i have to tell us how can you accuse someone of something and not say what it is a commercial so the team knew it regardless but the screeching ring not inviting athletes for no reason its so strange its like we havent been invited to a birthday party. But this is the olympics. Among the athletes the russian olympic ban remains a hot topic yvonnes appeal against the decision to bar him was just rejected hes one of over one hundred athletes who arent on the list. In russia their situation is seen as political at a concert called russia in my heart in moscow the doping scandal is portrayed as part of an anti russian campaign. World war two sanctions and now the Olympic Games were strong no matter what hits us. Thats the message here. The olympics by athlete pullen is one of the guests he was also barred from competing and. All of our strongest and things werent invited to the olympics this is unprecedented. Raising the National Colors here isnt much of a consolation for she pulled and his fellow athletes in south korea have to make do with a neutral fly. The russian athletes in china or officially competing as individual olympic athletes from russia not as the russian team still there and transfer the Opening Ceremony has drawn a bit of an audience to this for its part most of those watching are angry about how the Olympic Committee has treated their athletes. Politics shouldnt be mixed up with the olympics its a peaceful event based on friendship between nations and that although. We should have taken part with one national fanatic and uniform at any cost we should i think north all the sanctions against us are not being afraid of anything why us to move ahead of a well known sports site thinks the doping scandal has taken on a dangerous political slant in russia and he blames the government for not trying to solve the problem. At the watching us markets of our korean russia are dropping isnt seen as a problem that has anything to do with sports or as a violation it needs to be punished short in the top instead its seen as the next phase of a new cold war and then to bad because it means doping cant be discussed in a reasonable way the attitude towards doping is seriously problematic here it is not a taboo in russia and soon as a tactical maneuver we will hit the wrist. Doping is supposed to make athletes faster and stronger even argues thats why it wouldnt help in his discipline anyway he says ice skating is about coordination and grace the choosers of their grief i cant speak for anyone else thats a bit i can vouch for myself and say that i am pained that ive never taken anything in my life. At the time they didnt know they wouldnt be at the olympics and they want to bronze medal in the ice dancing discipline. When i wasnt invited it was really hard for us for a few days so then things got easier and now we understand that life has to go on we have to think of a next go. See it certainly. One of those goals will be the next Olympic Games in four years and theyll be ready for a fair fight for medals without doping they say. And open the borderless europe has brought prosperity and opportunity for many but there are those who take advantage of this and make their fortune some crime German Police are trying to crack down on a family clan based in croatia that is said to be responsible for thousands of burglaries throughout europe including here in germany but while the logic criminals can travel freely between e. U. Countries the arm of the law all too often ends at national borders. The trail goes cold in b. L. Of our in northern croatia. According to investigators members of a local family clan of burglars are behind thousands of break ins in germany reporters are not welcome here. This house is a focus of the investigation the cars outside are expensive and have german license plates and i took you for many flights are going to caraway. Tell us about what you know about both of you to speak croatian youre not there so its just you wait. Were ambushed. Our camera team attacked with tomatoes. That i gave. For months reporters with german t. V. Have been researching one of the biggest burglary gangs in german criminal history. A gang that operates throughout europe. Its believed to be responsible for one fifth of the break ins in germany. Last hundred maybe even a thousand break ins are just one part of the gangs. The perpetrators have made off with stolen goods worth millions and flaunt their spoils on social media well the victims are traumatized just recently invasion to your privacy to me thats the worst. Investigation carried out by Munich Police resulted in multiple arrests. But hundreds of other members of the gang remain at large. The first breakthrough in the investigation came unexpectedly in the district of munich Plainclothes Police officers observed three young women behaving suspiciously. And a need to attract attention when they entered this house. When they left it a short while later they were stopped and searched by police. The police found classic burglary tools sewn into their clothes for their questioning by special investigators revealed links to organized gangs in bavaria and across germany solve rates for break ins are low. But police hoped that this case would prove to be different. You avoid once we arrested the women who carried out this break and we wanted to find out who was behind it whos pulling the strings whether its a Major Network that was the first step this want to unstick rooms. The police uncovered a clan of roughly five hundred members active across europe and based in croatia. Police believe it could be behind thousands of breakin stretching over several years. Must mean his hip when you can see here is just part of the wider class but thats the part were focused on as you can see theyre all related theyre all members of the same family none from the outside nothing external at the sky and in extending. Investigators have one woman in particular in their crosshairs. The circa v. The police refer to her as the princess. So gripped the correction capital home to the woman Police Believe is the most skilled burglar of them all. Apparently lives here with other members of the clan in the suburb of suspected. We ring the doorbell. Does it is there to live here you know yes but shes not here right now will she be away for long i think shes gone to the coast. All morning. The mother of. The jackal a man appears jack a movie is the princess his brother hes known to police as a suspect in eight burglary cases in hessen. From germany the german cops think that youre responsible for many crimes in germany. No comment and shouted and im sure there be some kind of but not a border. And it cannot be she supposed to be the best is she the best one for me. Because its not supposed to mean theres no one here. She supposed be very good breaking into holes this is a bit over two grueling you know im not saying anything were not going to comment. Musharraf in which the genders of both are still of the story. How come so many suspected criminals are at large in croatia even within the e. U. Investigations across borders are complex on their home turf the claim keeps a low profile according to a local policeman who wants to remain anonymous was always just to go to. In all honesty i see these houses i see whats happening. But unless a crime is committed to croatia there is nothing i can do but exodus and i can hear that i can only have someone put under observation if i have a suspicion that they are perpetrating a crime on the. Dollars that i was. Working in collaboration with German Authorities Croatian Police have seized a haul of suspected soul and goods. Two investigators from munich are here to collect it. Weve got a copy a watch thats worth a lot. And lots of jewelry and. You know weve got i was cut out for us. While getting all the dolphins in this hall could be used as evidence in germany for leading members of the clan are about to go on trial in munich. The authorities havent cracked the gang yet but theyre their getting. Well criminals from croatia are taking advantage of open borders so it seems is a highly contagious pick disease germany is known for its beer football and its love of pork after all the country gave the world the ubiquitous hot dog but now pick farmers are on high alert for african swine fever its spreading westward across europe with new cases already in neighboring poland with now and available vaccine hunters are now actively culling wildhorse to stop the spread no pigs in germany have yet been infected but farmers worry the disease could still proof a toll for their industry his fingers on the trigger hes ready to take aim but the hunter isnt interested in deer. Target is wild boar. One down hopefully many more to go. The hunting season is officially over but since the outbreak of swine fever in Eastern Europe fear is growing that the disease will soon reach germany too some fifty hunters are tracking wild boar hoping that a cold will keep the disease at bay satisfied name it ensures companies who know that wasnt a great shot. Of him in the conditions arent great. Shots of all that had already been shot youve got a bit too low down over. This thing i would give every here do my job came through the branches in the hopes id hit it with a one to six when peter for some. Of the. Most of the huntsman tracking wild boar here and make him book have hit their target and they get twenty five euros per hog thanks to a regional incentive introduced to protect domestic pigs for now theyre still healthy but african swine fever is threatening to creep into germany. And japan is killing and his brothers keep about ten thousand pigs in a farm thats just sixty kilometers from poland where there have already been a few hundred cases of swine fever its not dangerous to humans but the killings are worried that business will take a hit. At this point no one can really tell how our partners in the pork industry will react. If theyll still buy healthy meat even though it comes from an area where the swine fever. Is. Stored of course when nervous personally i think its only a matter of time before african swine fever reaches germany. Its just a matter of when and how severe the outbreak is. Done just the most yes but how would swine fever even reach germany. Infected polish wild boars would hardly cross the river order in fact its humans that play a major role in spreading the disease motorists from Eastern Europe could unwittingly bring it into the country i have heat and sausage tossed out of a car window and eaten by a wild boar would be all it takes. The likelihood of the disease reaching germany is very high but this is you know what the fewer wild boar there are the less likely it is the disease will spread but of avoided as hunters we have a responsibility to farmers and to societies actually the German Farmers association has called an emergency meeting the killings are attending according to conservationists the expansion of Corn Production has boosted wild boar populations increasing the risk of swine fever the Association President rejects the accusation is because its not just Corn Production and this needs to be spelled out but a large number of conservation measures to help wild boar feel it all near. The Farmers Association has called for a seventy percent call of the countrys wild boar population here to make them work the forty one hog shot today were all healthy. Foods and over on tom weve hopefully helping to ensure that the disease doesnt spread as fast as it would if we did nothing. But can it be stopped we can only speculate acuity if hes white be able to prevent swine fever thats not very encouraging. We still have to take measures against short mufon for the sake of our conscience. And yelling and his fellow huntsman will do what they can to stop the african swine fever from spreading westwards reducing boar populations might help contain the spread but it wont prevent it. A decade ago the republic of kosovo declared its independence from serbia after a bloody war leaving Ethnic Albanians and serbs trying to figure out how to live side by side despite this the e. U. Hopes that by proceeding with a session for both serbia and kosovo all of this would change but the recent murder of prominent kosovo sore petition all over again of it in the city of mitchell future has been a setback for these hopes all reporter what can each of each a to see how the people there live with the tense piece the bridge over the river eve are in the constable city of me tributes are you supposed to connect the albanian dominated south and the serbian north of town. But ten years after constable became independent the bridge is not help to bring both sides together and e. U. Funded construction project for a Meeting Point on the bridge is stalled one year ago the serbian side even erected a barricade in protest which was later removed again and so far an e. U. Funded roundabout is only finished on the albanian side are due to heart on is an albanian student who grew up amid the mcrib its a conflict she was ten when cross about became independent from serbia until i was eighteen to nineteen years Something Like that i didnt close the bridge. Currently only albanians used the bridge strolling along it in an apparent display of normalcy. In the background serbian flags mark the north of the town. None of the serbs ever rest on the benches atop the bridge its not know if it would be normal the would it wouldnt be divided ethnically by a bridge the bridges are used to connect people not to divide them. Or detours as she now does her shopping in the northern serbian part of the city but she says many older albanians are still too scared to venture there. So you know these two men there walking on the right side on their wife ive probably live in the. Neighborhood via but they quickly turn around. The way them feel secure at the close of birth. But many party ten asks them why they turned back from the average when you get on the first plane that. Some people are still scattered i dont want to go that is like a dish he just told you it would be good if everybody went everywhere truckle sealift regardless of their nationality or to just d. N. A. Call it was you know twenty years have passed since the cost of a war that pitted serbs and albanians against each other and ten since albanian dominated kosovo became independent because of our society remains deeply divided its a fake idea that we have been grown up with and thats how we. As a realizing by lying to others realize were ourselves and thats how we came calling ourselves that is not divided between. The serbian dominated northern part of the tributes or. The serbian flags were put up by the norths mayor he follows the party line of neighboring serbia. But attempts have been made to try to bring both sides together he wanted to bridge the divide only by evanovich a moderate nationalistic politician of the cause of all serbs then in. Late january he was killed in front of his Party Officers in a drive by shooting this is back to the perpetrators serbian criminals nationalists or books. The assassination came as a shock to me you know school lubavitch a social worker trying to bring young serbs and albanians together if it is not safe place to say that hes lots of incidents you know if they mentioned it the problem because its big issue because they have not processing those cases through the judiciary stopped working years ago the murder of moderate serb evanovich occurred in your de facto legal vacuum you know impression on people that if you can be killed like you then i ordinary citizen what can i expect. In the northern half of metro beat so there is a pervasive feeling of insecurity and fear of crime. The police are present most cars dont even have number plates serbian nationalists dont recognize license plates issued by the independent because of the state allowed people to drive without license plates. Most shops in the north still work with serbias currency do not although constables official currency is the euro after the close of a war ended middle school bitch started in the northern part of. The song his future there was fifteen minutes to go out before. I could say that i am one hundred percent sure that they would stay seated but. Im not so sure. Many on the albanian side of town think like him half of all albanians in kosovo today are younger than thirty just like. Shes preparing her final University Exams and then she wants to enroll in a Masters Program somewhere outside of crossover. A bridge normally brings people together but here it seems to tear them apart one of my first memories of travelling through france was visiting some of the countrys stunning chateaus or castles in the countryside aside from the famous ones like chantilly there are thousands across france from tiny states to allow brit palaces but many of them are in danger of decaying beyond repair so a frenchman devised a solution that is if you fancy a piece of history. Its like a castle straight out of a fairy town surrounded by tarts

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