reason it never worked the people around trump refused to help. this is the day. i think lou did get the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed and the structure of the justice offense no collusion no obstruction. i. never was by the way and never will be no one outside the department. has seen the unredacted with the deputy attorney general and i disagreed with some of the special counsel s legal theory should never happen to another president again i m having to take you. also coming up tonight reporters without borders new press freedom index is out never before have journalists been hated so much never before have political leaders been so vehement in denying that fact of course we have to also work in order to protect freedom of expression freedom of. movement of that but we do not see that there is a problem with that in our country. well to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day reading them all the reports and the more we read the more we ask does this lead to impeachment of the u.s. president today the much anticipated mobile report into russian interference in the twenty six thousand presidential election was finally released an infamous is on the word finally before today we did not know if the public would ever see the results of the special council s two year investigation u.s. attorney general barton made it clear today that he was sharing the report solely at his discretion now the four hundred page report that i have right here is also free directed in places you can see parts blacked out for national security reasons among others but there is enough inside to better understand what robert mueller was thinking especially concerning the question of obstruction of justice by president trump in the report muller and his team write that the president s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the president declined to carry out orders or a seed to his requests. in other words trump try but no one would help roll that revelation triggered the start of impeachment proceedings against the u.s. president what we do not know that is a matter for the u.s. congress and robert mueller where he was not present today to answer any questions but his boss attorney general william barr he was taken was i believe it to his description in the report the special counsel s own articulation of of why he did not want to make a determination as to whether or not there was an obstruction of fence but i will say that when we met with him deputy attorney general rosenstein and i met with him along with ed o callahan who is the principal associate deputy on march fifth we specifically asked him he made it clear that he had not made the determination that there was a crime robert not for me the justice department if only at this moment when he came to testified to congress are there changes in the earth personally testify there s a lot of public interest in the absence of special counsel members of the state was he in flight training on why he s not here this is what i perceive your top. to for he did for me as the new general he is required under the regulation to prove to provide me with a confidential report i m here to discuss my response to that report and my decision entirely discretionary to make it public that was the u.s. attorney general william bar there clear that the report was for him today we ve got team coverage tonight of the most report and what it means for the truck presidency and why it matters to the world joining me here in the studio was tyson parker a u.s. politics analyst with the aspen institute who also served in the u.s. state department under president obama and from washington i m happy to welcome the night callie simpson a former trial lawyer who served in the george w. bush administration and is now with the heritage foundation and also in washing. our very own helena humphrey joins me from our bureau helena has been on this story all day forced to all of you welcome helen i m going to start with you and then go around to everyone what does the mobile report mean for the trump presidency now compared to what it meant yesterday for and today the battle lines have been redrawn and this is certainly shelf in the resolve all of the democrats i think it means that they have more meat essentially to dig into and boy they are certainly digging into it we ve just heard from up pelosi and schumer in a joint statement and they have said ok looking at this it s quite clear to see that the attorney general william boz definition of obstruction of justice set out by the special counsel robot mother all two different things we ve also heard from the chairman of the house judiciary committee jerry nadler and he says ok it s very interesting that robot mother decided not to make a prosecutorial decision not because he is unable to do so this is a mound with a wealth of experience in this matter because he believes that he has set out a roadmap for congress to deal with this now as quoted jerry not on this before and i will quote him again something which is impeachable may not be a crime something which is a crime may not be impeachable i do not think this is case closed by any stretch it goes to what do you say about the meaning of the report today i think the attorney general. that he s going to let the report speak for itself i know that the democrats were very upset that he went out and did a press conference before the release to them of their reporting to the public but the report does it for itself an attorney general made that quite clear and i don t agree that mr barr the attorney general who s been the attorney general once before has a different definition of obstruction of justice than muller does remember their friends they both work in the justice department at the highest levels so i and report lays out the various theories of obstruction of justice and as you said in your lead up could not conclude that he did it but it cannot exonerate him. because there s the report changed anything yeah i think so i mean it is centrally put a stamp of. what s the highest credibility on a two year investigation which both sides of the aisle have said has been conducted with the utmost integrity mitch mcconnell came out and said that he has the highest trust and faith in robert mueller and laid out ten counts of what the assessors judged to be essentially evidence of obstruction of justice i mean the evidence definitely of intent is there i mean we have essentially all the dots connected and that the breaking of those dots happened at the level of staff it didn t happen with the president himself if the president was able to execute his will this this investigation would have been as obstructed the most reported clearly states that the u.s. president speaking of which what you said tyson tried to interfere with the investigation members times it was not successful because the people that he needed to carry out his wishes refused to do so. i want you to take a listen to what barr said today. the report recounts ten episodes involving the president and discusses potential legal theories for connecting those activities to the elements of an obstruction offense after carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report and in consultation with the office of legal counsel and other department lawyers the deputy attorney general and i concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed and obstruction of justice offense so that is what the attorney general said today is if you take that further do we find a green light somewhere for impeachment proceedings helen. i think there are many arguments in this and a lot of it looks that a president trumps trajectory going from a presidential candidate to president himself when we talk about obstruction of justice and bob woodward s book for example fear sets the president out at times as a candidate bumbling through making requests and people around him saying essentially no we cannot do that that would be illegal and then other points what we re seeing today in the report accusations for example at least reports about the firings for example all of the f.b.i. director james comey in relation to this report then seeking to see taken out of this report as well out of his investigation so it s manifold and it evolves over time but if we take pastas pro-drug what we can certainly say is that these kinds of investigations haven t ended well for presidential presidents in the past if you take a look at watergate for example nixon resigning if you take a look at the ken starr report and then the impeachment of bill clinton but bill clinton was called test lawndale it seemed that nothing would stick now are we seeing a new chapter something s a fine all convention with trump i think that is the question as well. you used to be a trial lawyer if you had someone that had tried ten times to obstruct justice and it didn t work but you know they tried to in times that you had had that documented you would give them the benefit of the dealt with. i would look at all the facts and circumstances of what that individual did in that case and make an independent judgment of whether they had the requisite mens rea that is the the mental intent to obstruct justice under that either state or federal statute where i was prosecuted and i ve done it at the state and federal level here my reading of the report is that there are a number of instances ten found where the president took actions like talking to one of his campaign advisors talking to his white house counsel talking to the then attorney general jeff sessions asking him to an recuse himself and a number of other actions where the people just simply refused to do what he asked them to do and the question is not a legal one now because now we re past the attorney general himself decided to go forward with criminal charges it s a political question does nancy pelosi and her buys or is think as a political matter that there was a high crime and misdemeanor that was done by the president and given the cumulative evidence that they re going to say constitute obstruction decided to march for down the impeachment road understanding that even if the house impeaches him it has to go to the senate for the trials but doesn t what we learned today the does that increase the likelihood i mean it s certainly going to increase the pressure on palosi to go forward with. these or not is a misdemeanor i mean these are serious serious accusations and they re documented i mean this in them over four. why if you re asking for me i do think that the pressure on the speaker of the house is the third in line to be the president our country will be immense especially from the left whether or not she decides to live by her own standard that she laid out a while ago and that is she s not going to commence impeachment proceedings unless she has some buy in from republicans in the house to do so because she doesn t want to be seen as a solely partisan matter remains to be seen but as people start absorbing this report and actually read from beginning to end and i suspect the number is a very small number of people who actually read it from beginning to end time will tell whether they make the political judgment that it s better to commence impeachment proceedings or just continue politically to beat the president and his administration over the head with facts from the moeller report well i do have to say that it is we were talking about this earlier ties it s well written it s almost it s almost like a novel and the fact that you do have lots of rejected areas it makes for fast reading ties and what about nancy pelosi the three democrats are in a conundrum now aren t they well i think there are a number of known unknowns to use so it s phrase i mean you know i think that she s done a pretty good job at marshalling her caucus and marshalling the opinion of her base to support any action that she finds would lead to the outcome that they see as most just within the law and if that seems to be the at the avenue of impeachment i think that that s the avenue that they will pursue if it s the avenue of further investigation to see if there are grounds for impeachment i think that s something they will pursue and i think that that will happen rather quickly because as was talked about in bars press conference you know he will be going up to the to the hill to testify he has allowed for robert mueller to go to the hill to testify as well there are disagreements between the two which he admitted during the press conference today so those are going to have to be explored a little further and then there are elements of the investigation that have likely been farmed out to other law enforcement agencies. other other elements of the justice system including the state of new york and the southern district i mean there s excellent points i just i wonder though when you take all of this out to middle america you re going to find a lot of. passion about this when you re in the the u.s. and you know we re hearing from all of the democratic presidential candidates they re saying that when they go they ve been to iowa they ve been to new hampshire already that people are not talking about the middle of report they re talking about health care i mean does that diminish the power of this report to push. me towards impeachment. right absolutely and that is where nancy pelosi and the democrats are going to be very careful i mean how they make this decision they re going to have to be pretty sure that they re going to have a good case for impeachment pietschmann should they want to push forward with proceedings or not front because if they try and they say oh people in the rest of the country are going to either say that you know trump was vindicated this was a witch hunt or that the democrats spent too much time corps top in the to ing and fro ing off the report when significant issues to them whether it s wages health care child care degree new deal environmental policy whatever it may be on the left which has voters concerned is not tackled in the run up to the twenty twenty alexion so really there s going to be some soul searching now i think in the democratic party with how they move forward now that they ve got this report in their hands there s other briefly yeah it s a bit lee i think we all agree that this is going to be a referendum on trump the election in two thousand and twelve i mean essentially it will be twenty twenty just me the impeachment is going to take place on the election day and the removal from office if that is to happen is going to take place i don t know your ration day so case of maybe the peach but the proceeding is not needed. let s take a listen to what the house judiciary chairman said today about the attorney general to go to call take a listen to what he said first to his or attorney general barr it appears to have shown an unsettling willingness to undermine his own department in order to protect president. barres words and actions suggest he is being disingenuous and misleading in saying the president is clear of wrongdoing. kohli in february you wrote that when you bar is the right man for the job of a.g. and you quoted him where he said nothing or he had written nothing could be more destructive of our system of government or for the department of justice then toleration of political interference with the of course of the law is bar is he compromised because of this report in the way he s handled it not at all i respectfully disagree with chairman ladder i think attorney general barr has nothing to prove you ve been the attorney general once before and served with distinction he followed the law the law that the congress passed in a previous president passed assigns to the attorney general the sole discretion to decide whether to release the report and how much of it to release nobody else if they wanted to change the law they could have changed it and the law does not prohibit the attorney general from laying out in a press conference a very brief overview of the process he used as transparent as he could be about it so i disrespect or disagree with chairman now there and i think attorney general barr has conducted himself with the utmost aplomb and i also think that when he testifies in may and he said he d be more than happy to testify in april but the congress has put off his testimony till may that he ll prove once again that he s been the right man for the job yeah he also said today that he would have no problem with robert mueller testifying as well let s talk about the u.s. president for a moment a day mr trump he reacted to the report with this tweet we want to pull this up and show the viewers there we go no collusion no obstruction for the haters in the radical left democrats game over he likes the game of thrones image there. i go back to you dr told reporters today that he s a happy man is he reading the same report that that we all have tonight. i have no idea what he s reading but i do know that with respect to a comment your guest other guests my colleague made earlier you know when when when candidates. make their rounds around the country they re going to be listening to people and if the moeller report in the conclusion that there was no underlying crime no collusion sinks in and people are worried about paychecks then school education and health care and all the rest of it that may crowd to the back burner this issue on most people s plates and the democrats are savvy just like republicans are running for office and they re going to realize that the tea leaves are such that they probably should not commence impeachment proceedings do you think people are. i mean are that the derby jaded but in a way. and i mean it if they re worried about being unemployed then the pavior in the values of the president really don t matter well it s a worry and honestly for voters for most voters in the middle the country wherever voters are it permeates all issues so if you re worried about something like health care or education and that s a primary issue which was the primary issue for many voters in the midterm elections that led to the democratic victories you know your your trust in government is very important and if you can t if you have the suspicion or the inclination that the president has obstructed justice and on in many instances then that s going to lead you to have a distrust in government which is going to make things more difficult but to the extent that you want to rid that dark clout that exists over the presidency and over the faith in government for these public institutions then that might be feed into a narrative that leads to people to take that to the ballot box. you are in washington you report for us you know we speak to the world we hear time and time again that the perception of the u.s. president is not a good one regardless of politics this report. people are going to are going to read about it or read it and they re going to come away with no collusion but the u.s. president if he could have gotten away with it he would have obstructed justice what does that do them for the standing of the office of the presidency in the world there s something that always stands out to me part when i tell it across the country is that many people will say i don t necessarily support the president but i stand behind him because he is the president of the united states and a president has these reframes of no collusion no obstruction and people who don t have the luxury of time to read through this report do you claim to those kinds of soundbites so i think what we might see in the election is that people move away from this mother reported to a certain extent this could be a d.c. luxury problem that we can dive into it despite the fact as tyson points out and justice and you know a presidential office being set of course affects every layer of government we should look at that you know it s a good point and unfortunately we re out of time. from the heritage foundation. in washington to both of you thank you and tyson parker here at the big table with you from the aspen institute as always tyson we appreciate your insights thank you. well the presidency it represents one of the american journalism communities darkest moments that is just one of the conclusions in reporters without borders latest press freedom index really take you over here to this side of the studio and show you what that index is all the bell the us is not alone however and not every country has seen risks for reporters increase the indexes based on the rate of violence against the media be it by the state or others access to information and of course legal restrictions start at the bottom of the index first eritrea north korea and turkmenistan well they re at the bottom of the table and here s a look at all the countries where reporters without borders describe the situation as very serious at the top of the index the northern european countries of norway finland and sweden but the picture it s not good everywhere in europe european union member hungary dropped fourteen places eighty seven w. called up with a hunger in journalist who left hungary because of the situation they are now lives here in germany. barely nine hundred kilometers separate berlin in budapest but for journalist dora dish areas of work the two cities are worlds apart since viktor orban became prime minister nine years ago hungary s media landscape has changed radically had happened here i got her desk when i was a child i always heard that hungry was one of the most liberal countries in what was the eastern bloc and i grew up with this idea that is depressing that specifically this democracy in hungary is slowly being deconstructed and that press freedom is being restricted. during the experience first hand how new regulations turn the broadcaster where she worked into state controlled media critical colleagues were fired she herself quit and went to germany in twenty twelve. bad news from back home two hundred journalists including doris former colleague were recently laid off and here t.v. station once critical of the hungary and government he reports that the broadcaster was taken over by a media foundation headed by a manager loyal to the government. as it can a lengthy a spec t.v. there are no long term opportunities for quality journalism in hungary. dora works at a nonprofit organization in berlin with its own news portal and last is an agency that produces content focused on eastern europe she says you can find critical reports written in hungary and about corruption for example but they are mainly online yes get here propaganda and there s a lot of propaganda in hungary the governing parties rhetoric has taken over it s only present the same militaristic choice of words the same formulations the same phrases that government speakers use. journalists who do not cooperate are denounced as traitors dora is afraid that the hatred and agitation could turn into real violence against journalists that has yet to happen in hungary . well the day is almost done the conversation continues online you ll find us on twitter either at u.w. news or you can follow me at brant goff t.v. don t forget to use the hash tag the day. and remember whatever happens between now and tomorrow is another day we ll see the. first to. enter the conflict zone confronting the powerful folks and most of those are treaty organization they chose as just crowded seventieth birthday but it wasn t a happy one my guest this week here is nato headquarters is rose got so mux feel good musicians deputy secretary general kofi now acknowledge the great so far as serious splits in its unity cost. what s the connection between biome and the european union the no guild motto correspondent and the baker can stretch this back in line with the rules set by the e.u. . stamping recipes for success strategy that make a difference. baking bread on d.w. . you know that seventy seven percent. are younger than sixty. cuts me and me. and you know what it s time all voices. all the seventy seven percent. of. the seventy seven percent this weekend on d w. some kind of a nuclear bomb could be a useful thing but not look at. what s a way out in my view where you have to find different forms. which you with some situation would just. give you a much shorter lifetime after a few hundred. fifty fifty years to sort of course the christian question does not require a connection with. you cannot build it. i think this is something that scientists should to develop science scientists should explain to describe and that society should. this is g.w. newsline from berlin tonight reading the report the much anticipated results of the investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen us presidential election they ve been made public and they deliver a mixed verdict clearing the truck campaign of colluding with moscow but not of the legally obstructing the investigation the president claims he s been vindicated the
there s probably no place in any where and when things are going to be such a great success. the renaissance. starts april twenty second. hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe thanks for joining us now and again there are events and images so extraordinary that the entire world is seemingly moved the fire at the historic notre down cathedral in paris was such an event onlookers watched in shock as the flames ravaged their way from the rooftop to this fire the firefighters could only extinguish the flames the next morning. isn t just any church it s the heart and soul of the french capital and though parts of it have been destroyed the structure of the iconic building has been preserved and french president emanuel mccaughan has vowed to rebuild the church within just five years for parisian and those who love the city the fire was a reminder of just how beloved new to down is. live it was an incredible sight more and more people gathered in front of notre dame cathedral which was burning before their very eyes they sang and prayed together parishioners and tourists from around the world. the fire had already been raging for three hours the iconic twin bell towers were in danger of collapsing many here were hoping for a miracle like josie and early christians from lebannon. they had to go if there is water on either side. but it s on fire and they can t put it out. even in france with all of its modern technology they can t put it out you were praying to god said. also this you might if men can t do it maybe the good lord will help us. so that. it s not just not true donna from paris it s not your damn of all humanity even the muslims next to us started singing with us when they saw he was singing in arabic. much of notre dame s roof had collapsed the fate of its invaluable artworks and relics was still unclear a best it was somewhat difficult for me this is the symbol of paris i m in love with paris and its art and culture that this could happen to such a powerful symbol i can t believe. people hoped and prayed firefighters could put out the fire there never been one like this at notre dame many of the beams in the churches wooden frame were almost a thousand years old. put them through. my heart my soul. was i m a parisian born in paris to me it s our most important building. everyone cried tonight i stood beside muslims jews blacks whites this united everyone it touches our soul and breaks our hearts. some people stayed all night. then in the early hours of the morning the fire department announced that the blaze was under control though the damage is huge many of the most important artworks were rescued . who long work for the roman catholic archdiocese of paris is relieved and impressed by how many people of all religions to together. last night the grand the rabbi of france cited the old testament that s common to both christians and jews. the prophet isaiah said he my house will be called a house of prayer all peoples. and that s what not represents for christians of course but for all men of good faith whether they be jews or muslims or otherwise. even nonbelievers. some say it s a miracle notre dame is still standing. still i believe in resurrection. will rise again due to the extraordinary solidarity of those mobilizing to rebuild it before going to give up the sale i think we re capable of doing it maybe differently but we have to do it in this world no matter what the cost it will be huge but that doesn t matter it must be done and when you know you re from. notre dame and paris are experiencing an outpouring of solidarity people around the globe want to help restore the treasure cathedral to its former glory and help is on the way through an outpouring of generosity hundreds of millions of euros from individuals and companies have already been pledged to rebuild. these people are demonstrating for a liberal and cosmopolitan spain for a tolerant society well the current socialist government supports these values but with elections coming up in spain they are facing a serious challenge from the far right a populist loss party are gaining momentum after their surprise victory in regional elections they are unapologetic about the country s former a dictatorship during which tens of thousands were murdered many others were imprisoned and tortured well the effects of franco s forty year reign of terror still have a profound impact on the victims and their relatives today. it was the most terrible experience of his life billy merrow was just nineteen when he was thrown into this prison in madrid. today it s hard to imagine the horrors that took place here during the fascist regime of francisco franco to force mayor to speak the police staged his execution. and. when they point to pistol and press the trigger with no bullet for this and that split second two things can happen you can just stand there speechless like i did or you fall apart. or so that. the young communist did not reveal any names his time in prison in the early one nine hundred seventy s. helped spur his decision to enter politics where he eventually served as m.e.p. for the united left bloc mayor fears that right wing populist are gaining support in twenty eighteen the far right box party took a leaven percent of the vote and to lucy as regional election now the country is heading into a general election. if it does it would have better i feel safe today but i m very worried because a political force like box is yearning for a time in which we lived under a dictatorship of. the far right the box party wants to unseat the socialists the crowd of voc supporters have come to this bullfighting away enough for a rally many have written the slogan spain for the spanish on their flags they want to ban abortion and same sex marriage and they glorify the years under the dictatorship. grayle if we would the franco years weren t so bad there was a good side. of our border ok it was a dictatorship but a homeless one. just them yet we just had a crowd of spain s history thanks to franco spain made progress and became what it is today. for franco s victims and their families sentiments lie. these are a slap in the face for nine years they ve been demonstrating every thursday in the center of madrid. they re calling for truth justice and retribution they say the dead should be exempt from mass graves and given a proper burial and their murderers and torturers brought to justice for the people here the rise of the far right is a shock. to brighten their lot and they want to recant ques a recount quest can you believe it this is a disgrace to spain. that s why we re here demonstrating against fascism not for ourselves we re old they re not but for our children our grandchildren. the crimes of the dictatorship have been swept under the carpet agrees nicholas sanchez. under franco he became a forced labor he fled spain and only returned after franco s death he wrote a book about his life spain s younger generation he believes has learned far too little about the horrors of the dictatorship that s why many are now joining the far right. haven t properly grappled with our own history we re going to a lot of we had an entire series of very conservative governments. made sure that schoolchildren never learned about what actually happened in this country. they d undenied that we had a dictatorship. spain s history has divided the country far right box leader santiago rejects the notion that any form of reckoning or redress is necessary to come to terms with franco s nearly forty year dictatorship but you only look are you going to apologize for our history we should acknowledge its glory it s a darker side and all the best out of it and take pride in it that you know you re really mayor. is dismayed and angry at the spanish left which he says failed to counter the rise of the far right he hopes the radical right won t have a strong showing in the general election and become kingmakers in a new conservative government as they did in and. say we re not allowed not to that was one of the most terrible nights of my life. in this war that after so many years of struggle and sacrifice of this of after so many disappeared so many who were forced to flee from credit so many who were tortured that this would be a step backwards it would be like starting over again at zero the third of. billy mayer says he won t give up he ll continue to fight for a just and lightened and modern spain. many girls the world over dream of becoming famous and reality casting shows can offer a fast track to fame and fortune eleven year old tango from russia dreams of making it big as a singer but first she has to win over the tough judges to make it through to the finals with millions of russians tuning in the competition can be brutal especially for children but from chinese for eventual city of to there the draw of the big stage in moscow is worth the risk. to make it big you ve got to stop small. a rehearsal room in severe a provincial russian city eight weeks before the show. act just eleven years old lead singer tom your goal is one of russia s youngest rocks it. has to move in with my band mates are quite a bit older but if i were to play with kids my own age or even we could never achieve this quality level we re tame. johnny has been chasing her dream of talent show success but she is she d applied for goalless russia s version of the voice once before but didn t make it past the first round since then she s been rehearsing every day in her hometown to the city lies on the boat and on the rail line between moscow and st peters but. tommy is having private singing lessons with her voice teacher musharraf s. time he has an unusually strong will to sing rock you must have an inner motivation time he has that and a natural presence which you don t need for the thread if you. just four weeks to go till the show tanya has to go to moscow to rehearse with the orchestra for russian television channel one but the on phone bill has little experience with hard rock so can it work. and is there any way usually play this song twice as fast. as his wish i listened and thought. why. finally the day of the show has come and tommy is hoping that a slower version of the song will strike the right chord with the jury he did. it but the other will be ready to go on at twenty two eleven. with that though millions of people all across russia are waiting to hear who the jury will send to the final round russia s been in a talent show frenzy for years now. young performers sing their versions of songs by big stars. at last tommy a girl keenness on with her own interpretation of never grunge and smells like teen spirit. the juries made up of three famous russian singers. they sit with their backs to the contestants judging solely on what they hear if nobody s turned their chair around by the songs and the singers out of the running . meet babied see. mike you and i get to see him. and that s just how he goes for tonya none of the jury members turned around the eleven year old aspiring the singer from to via has to fight not to break down in tears. that was the request can i say she s just not right for this format or rather channel one s not yet ready for tanya s music. now they ll be hearing from me. no happy ending for tommy or other youngsters are waiting backstage hundreds while thousands sit at home in front of their t.v. s watching. the. weeks ago we shared with you the story of how a young man from iraq who had camped out on the french coast of cali with no roof over his head he was left to sleep under a bridge in the middle of winter and not told us his goal was to cross the english channel over to the u.k. before border controls were reintroduced for braves it he repeatedly risked his life trying to cross the freezing waters on an inflatable dinny or correspondences and adore hegar has kept in contact with hammer and brings us this update. february twenty fifth twenty nineteen hama from iraq squeezed into a refrigerator truck with other refugees trying to cross the english channel from county to britain without permission. they were all risking their lives. hour after nine hours without knowing what was happening around them the truck was in britain fear melted away only now did hama dare to take videos on his cell phone that come together some long. ago you cannot describe the feeling it s unbelievable as it s happens because something when to not expect something and you wanted to happen when it s happened it s you cannot. explain it. the asylum authority sent homage to liverpool it was his first time on british soil after at least sixty attempted crossings in over ten thousand euros paid to people smugglers. after all he s been through his room in the refugee shelter here feels like paradise welcome this is my home this is my bit. in here is better warm safe no objection of the police no in trooping or anything else. hama says that in iraq he was roughed up by the kurdish secret service and threatened with murder his dream was to get to britain he imagined english gardens stately homes and best of all an open liberal society. but the reality of britain is very different. time is afraid to walk the streets at night in this neighborhood some locals are less than welcoming and far from cosmopolitan. when you walk. you know walking. near to them close to them. they look at you by some way that you are not belong to this side you have a different one night friend of me. how my don t. walk around and the midnight. in the night because lots of people in here are drunk they say they want to make a problem so it s for your safety. and he gets homesick especially times like this. someone has placed roses in a tribute to their mother on a lamp post that reminds hama of his own family. i left my. country i didn t tell him you didn t tell him. i was i was in greece. i was in greece my brothers. and i didn t speak with tail i guess it s. just arriving to italy i. see i speak with a on she. she she writes lots. how much doesn t know when he ll see his mother and siblings again he can t leave britain until his asylum status has been decided. he tries to communicate with people wherever he can americans knew him here so what do you think you need if you bring revenue to the economy that will soon be a problem for. some some kind of people maybe they do that not every everyone s going to have a different opinion on that he said i don t see a problem thanks thanks i said thanks a lot but right thanks ali. on his way to britain how often acted as an interpreter for other refugees in an effort to be of service here to he offered his services to the red cross fortunately for him and the red cross his language skills are needed. meanings he said because this ronnie and i are. that s fantastic for us to to to have an interactive with us providing supposed with those skills yet it s just one of the many many ways of integrating and becoming part of new movement to and we recognize that recklessness on cities have a lot of positive contributions to. hama has applied for asylum now he s waiting for the interview that will help determine his future. it s my dream come true that s what i think so maybe i m right maybe i m wrong. i will fight just like i thought to come here i will fight to stay here. he s made a start. hummel wants to study nursing at a university and start a new life step by step. in security and freedom. tackling food waste is becoming increasingly important as we seek to make our world more sustainable the european union has committed to reduce fuel waste by fifty percent by the year twenty thirty and in the czech republic the government has already acted by introducing a new law that declares war on food waste it s an initiative welcomed by people like stanislav said elect but critics say it s crossing the line. once a week stanislav said he like opens up his garage for the needy he distributes groceries mostly to pensioners and single mothers today he has pizzas that have almost reached their sell by date supermarkets are no longer allowed to throw these products away they are legally obliged to give them to charity organizations marta franco about is happy she can no invite her grandchildren to dinner muddy it out i get a small pension of about three hundred dollars and when i have to buy call and pay the electric bill it s hard to. climb out of a comes here every week at age thirty she s on disability because of heart trouble receiving the equivalent of one hundred sixty euros a month but groceries cost about the same in the czech republic as they do in germany she comes away with three pizzas and a pair of ridge she says these will last five days. this is did you know at first i was ashamed because this was someone i didn t know and i ve never done anything like this asking a stranger for food even if i know he gives it to others then you first. need told me i can come here every thursday at a certain time. so i do. this difference to john cherry picks up the food items daily from supermarkets in and around prague the discounters are now required by law to give him merchandise about to reach its best before date this staff member of a prague food bank wholeheartedly supports the idea. it s terrible when you see how many people have nothing to eat and then the stores just toss all these products in the dumpster or you. just horrible. new boxes of yogurt fruit and chocolate stacked up in the proud food bank about ten tons of groceries are distributed each day to around twenty two thousand people in need hardly anything is thrown away people either pick it up directly or it goes to homeless shelters and soup kitchens. the new law means we have much more food at our disposal and a greater variety get more perishable goods including fruit and vegetables. the discount supermarket say the law is a mistake. the regulations are quite strict sometimes it s not easy to determine which fruit we re still allowed to pass on and which we need to throw away after all the charities have to document that the perishable goods will be used quickly. a complaint was filed at the constitutional court by some czech senators they said the last smacked of communism and that other potential beneficiaries were losing out. we lodged a complaint because the state was deciding who the supermarket should give food to . for example some discounters have been donating such products to zoos that have any sort of well now they re not allowed to do so despite the quantities available being enough for everyone that it will dock is all because our it was brought in as our column is the most general stanislav so deal like disagrees there s not enough to go around he says food prices are so high that even ordinary pensioners rely on food banks the state isn t providing enough support but. the problem is that there are many people like me who say my pension is enough i don t need to work i can volunteer. i don t earn anything from what i do here i go with. what stanislav really like is a freezer the law may have made more food available for distribution but the czech republic is by no means a paradise for those in need plenty of food for thought well that s all for this edition of focus on europe feel free to get in touch about this week s topic on twitter you can also find more stories on our website. thanks for watching and. the food. is going to. be. going. into the conflict zone confronting the powerful. the most of those are treaty organization nato has just started seventieth birthday but it wasn t a happy one my guess this week period nato headquarters is rose got so much luck feel good musicians deputy secretary general cool she now acknowledged the great so far as serious splits in its unity conflicts so few minutes on the phone. hold. her first day at school in the jungle. her first coming 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