Economy seems to be making some strides towards recovery albeit slowly thats the good news but the bad news much of the country hasnt noticed a third of greeks are at risk of poverty and retirees are feeling it most some are losing their homes because they cannot live on their incomes. Their pensions are meager because theres too little money in the state coffers too many people avoid paying taxes which results in a loss of more than ten billion euros in taxes a year to change that the government has sent out an army of tax inspectors to shake things up by visiting businesses unannounced our reporter all of a zealot one along with two of them. When night falls in athens. To pin a call start their patrol through the amusement district of. The two inspectors are on the lookout for tax daughters. Their suspicions are aroused in this cocktail party. There are no bills on the tables. It looks as if the owner is selling his drinks off the books. Good evening tax fraud inspectors could you please give me a bill for ten cents. Each bill lists how many receipts were issued that day one important clue for the inspectors many guests dont ask for a bill and with twenty four percent the temptation is great to pocket the cash. Now thats not a bill just an order. Just thirty two bills for the entire day. Lets have a closer look around this is the second time the owner of this bar has been caught ill turn up his finest double to five hundred euros but he wont speak to us while the cameras running outside some guests are sympathetic dont have a victim. If we had lower texas or the money was used for welfare texas would not be good but as things are you cannot really have blamed. But after all we need more checks so Business Owners understand they have to get people receipts and pay taxes. The. Next day it is time to pay a visit to an antiques dealer in central athens greek t. V. Crews are already waiting here a new law allows the a thorough. To close down businesses of real offenders and expose them to the media all part of the war on the current ten billion euro so more on declared income every year now antiques dealer. Has been found guilty of several hundred euros undeclared income. Market over here for small Business Owners here in greece is sheer hell some days we sell nothing at all we dont earn a single euro. But we pay high taxes and then there are all the fines its a huge problem but. Her premises are sealed and all her customers know she has dogs paying taxes. This is the best thing that we can do to assure them to be correct and dont buy something that theyre afraid of because the fines are really not so big that i was telling you about but theyre when they close them for forty eight hours or something. So its bad for their business. The ferry takes us to the ceramic island of that. Speaks a number of different languages shes the daughter of an air force pilot and lived in the us in germany there she found that most people abided by the law a good thing she says. Because they were living abroad i saw the countries that have this kind of mentality it really works for everybody. So i got it from my family and i saw that its really working and i really hope sometimes sometime in the near future. Most of the greeks have this kind of mentality because we just need the middle organization more than that i think thats what we need the way we arrive on the island. After a lengthy search the inspectors find a small restaurant most of the tables are occupied but no bills in sight we filmed with a hidden camera. Have issued any receipts today. No we do that later in the afternoon every guest gets one people just ordered and i issued a bill to only when we said we would tax inspectors no no we always keep our guests on receipt if you look at the ones we use yesterday what use are they to me. The owner or protests in vain. That i dont care about small Family Business is my wife my son my daughter all work here we only have one employee to wash the dishes but we can hardly make ends meet the social welfare payments are enormous but what can i do i need to retire one day. Two tax inspectors know that for some of the people who receive a fine it is a harsh blow but when you look at the figures it becomes clear that one in three businesses are guilty of tax evasion the government wants to get the message over. With or no maybe theyre just afraid scared of us. When we are still out there every time then in sometime in the near future they will get your say they will wait for us. And they know we are here so after that maybe the next generation will. Send somebody. Actually things are already changing theres been a drop in texas asian figures but poverty and unemployment still remain widespread in a country with one of the highest tax rates in europe. Although more people are paying their taxes now greeces unemployment and poverty rates remain some of the highest in the eurozone imagine spending your days scrambling around on giant trash heaps searching for scraps of metal to sell just to make ends meet thats life for many people in armenia what was and her husband even though many of these sites have been declared illegal and while the new has given money to help set up environmentally friendly way centers our reporter saw little evidence of improvement. Every day sixty five year old result goes through this illegal rubbish dump near the remaining city of two for things she can sell. Shes used to the stench and the corrosive fluids its the only way she can make a living shes not embarrassed by her work but her husband who works here too is he wont speak to us. Theres no shame in working but its a shame to steal were looking for metal so we can buy bread theres no shame in that. In romania there are thousands just like sabo and her husband who scour rubbish dumps there are over sixty such dumps in the country even though they should no longer exist as they dont meet European Union standards you know she is the regions environmental commissioner for years hes been warning about the effects of uncontrolled landfills that youre going to be living on today that. Some water seeps through this illegal dump. Into a stream. And from there it flows into the river. And we filed criminal charges because of the pollution of the river. But that didnt bring any improvements brussels says threaten to impose a hefty fine on the city if more rubbish is dumped there but visiting the dump reveals fresh truck tracks and rubbish thats been illegally dumped just recently although officially this practice was stopped months ago the security staff deny everything. Come on those old rubbish bags have been lying there for ages trust me i would never lie to you. That. Three years ago the city sealed its old rubbish dump for environmental reasons and opened a new dump according to a use standard which wasnt used for three years supposedly because Waste Disposal companies were competing over the lucrative municipal tender. So nothing changed and thousands of truckloads of rubbish were dumped illegally beside the old rubbish dump. The city of two says its not to blame. The ministries created the laws bureaucracy and contracts. Without knowing the situation on the ground and without asking municipalities what problems they face and what possibilities they have to solve them. This cause the countrys rubbish problem in the first place. The citys residents are fed up with excuses like these theyve started taking matters into their own hands by cleaning the riverbanks. They insist theyre driving this load of rubbish to the new dump many simply cant believe their country is beset by this rubbish problem. Thats just receiving billions in e. U. Funding. For. Thirty years after the end of communism and things should be a lot better. Its great to see Civil Society take action like this. But those involved here are really the kind of people who are to blame for producing this rubbish but. Who are responsible for the illegal waste. Its time the oath or it is finally something. To do it might make two or three year olds by selling the metal shes found on the illegal rubbish dump its supposed to be closed soon and replaced by the new dump. But isnt worried. There are other dumps elsewhere not quite as lunch but thats alright. Several and her husband are worried that rubbish scavengers like themselves will no longer get by. They say romania is full of dumps just like the one here into. More than twenty years ago to richardson left britain and settled in the south of france hes fluent in french and even makes a living producing local wine he has no plans to return to the u. K. Because along with thousands of other brits just like him he feels very much at home there that is until brags that last years vote in britain to leave the e. U. Could turn tims french idol into your bureaucratic nightmare as a british ventnor in Southwestern France it is very important for Tim Richardson to be part of the local community he settled here in a me in the door danya twenty six years ago as an e. U. Citizen hes even been able to be elected to the municipal council. Post frank said hed likely have to give up his seat to make sure that doesnt happen richardson plans to take on french citizenship. I feel at home here i feel more like a resident of the pair he go and then a brit breaks it changes nothing about my will to stay here i wanted. The british love a me and him a loves the british over a thousand of them have taken advantage of that right to move and reside freely within the e. U. And settled him they were attracted by a maze mild climate good food and perhaps by its history the town fathers sided with england during the hundred years war. That. Now works it has once again driven a wedge between the british and the french one reason is that the pound has fallen in value by some fifteen percent against the euro since the referendum thats hit the many british retirees here particularly. Followed we dont have enough money to buy things or eat out at all for the rest will have to wait a year or two longer to buy a new car in what to retirees like paul brown are looking for ways to compensate for this loss of buying power in the future Tim Richardson will likely not be marketing his wines in britain do you the Exchange Rate theyve simply become too expensive for most people there instead he selling his wine locally other british entrepreneurs are making similar plans on how you know. We have no increase in the number of people wanting to leave england while they still can. Look at the state of the pound if it continues to fall and doesnt rally again it might be the time to start looking elsewhere. From a business standpoint being part of europe isnt a bad idea either. In a may a group of british expats meets every thursday for drinks and a bit of rock and roll. Some are so outraged by brecks it that they intend to turn their backs on their homeland for good we were very angry very upset at the time. When it went after the vote you know because weve weve got a twelve years and ill just get crazy because crazy decision that we dont know that you dont really know whats going to happen until this week stay that never go back to when you have it will never and i dont know til i die. Maybe not that. Many here hope and the British Government will change its mind about going through with rex its like Tim Richardson takes a different view. But again you think you cant win every time can you. In a democracy you must accept the results of a vote a little bit. But richardson says that maybe europeans can learn something from this experience and in future finally pull together and acting in concert. The number of britons whove applied for citizenship and other e. U. Countries since the brics referendum has soared by tens of thousands with a more than two hundred fifty percent surge in requests in france alone many citizens in turkey are troubled by the climate of fear and intimidation that has descended on the country since last years failed coup well weve reported on the subsequent crackdown on the legit critics religious minorities are also affected officially president or once conservative government is tolerant towards christians but after having seen dozens of churches and monasteries seized by the authorities the indigenous syria acts one of the worlds oldest Christian Communities fear for its cultural survival. There is a village near the Syrian Border comprising a church and a few houses they use grew up here now he lives in media but the main town in the area but he comes back to visit as often as possible. Only three families remain there part of a christian minority called the syria x. Two arrogant and the other syria this region is holy land the aramaic speaking minority has been living here for over seven hundred years but persecution and political unrest have forced many to leave turkey many intended to come back but now they often find theyve lost all their property. In the good of the land you see here the fields and gardens now has other owners. If a family were to return from abroad now with the intention of putting a house up on their former land it wouldnt be possible. It was mostly kurds from neighboring villages who took possession of the land say the people of cuba and the state took no action to stop them. A relative of the organs is visiting from germany he wanted to come back and build a house but that will remain a dream for now. Where you see the barbed wire all that belongs to my family. But the Land Registry office has entered four to six other people as owners so it doesnt currently belong to us this moment. But its more than just a matter of muslim neighbors taking the land of the eight hundred remaining syria the turkish state has set its sights on the christian minorities cultural legacy according to the regions only syriac attorney. There was a territorial real going to ization three years ago it resulted in all our properties of the churches monasteries symmetries in the states being signed over either to the state or to various town councils. All we have now is permission to use them. There again and two other syriac men head for the neighboring kurdish village where one of the new owners of his property lives. Hes obviously not as well offices christian neighbors. He bids them welcome and invites them in. Then comes to the point of his visit. Considered youve never owned anything in our village so how is it that you suddenly have an entry into some of the land registers youve got to explain that to me. And he also said. The neighbor feels hes being unfairly picked on. But to us he makes excuses. Syriac themselves gave up the land when they left this is not squatting they sold it but if the other joint owners come along ill be happy to take this case to the Land Registry office and have my name taken off it really doesnt belong to me. Its one small victory for air green but the syria acts are still wary authorities politicians and neighbors have broken too many agreements with them. On sunday morning calls the faithful to worship. This former abbey is more than fifteen hundred years old. The people of dare qubit say their prayers and sing in the same language jesus christ once spoke. So now they wonder if they have any future in turkey. We dont know what tomorrow will bring if will be driven out of here or if we can stay and work our land. Nothing is certain but were not going to give up hope. Irgun plans to marry soon and hed like to build a house here in his village of to cuba with sole ownership of his ancestral land. And i stadium a bridge a Railway Station and various residential buildings stand in complete and abandoned across ukraines capital kiev giving it the air of an unfinished City Construction came to a halt years ago after these projects ran out of money digit financial crisis and worsened by the ongoing conflict with russia but groups of adventure seekers are finding ways to bring some life back to its concrete skeletons. This was to be a sports and recreation hole with an ice skating rink in the south of kiev but construction came to a whole years ago investors have fled. The site may be abandoned but its not deserted a group of young people have made their way into the hall. They simply tell the watchman they have a permit no problem their leader oleic knows how to talk to security guards. Or sites like this are often very large and the security guards cant be everywhere at once thats good for us but your sister. There are plenty of choices for outings like this and here experts have estimated the number of abandoned Major Construction sites around ukraines capital at some two hundred one is this unfinished theater academy. Oka balad scares an attorney and city councilor for a centrist party. She realizes just how much of a burden the unfinished building soften here. The skeleton of the planned Academy Stands in her electoral district. And some of these construction sites work stopped in the one nine hundred ninety s. After the soviet union fell upon. The general disaster put an end to other plans and on top of that came the economic crisis. The crisis hit the transportation infrastructure and specially hard a subway station had been planned for the under the academy but it too is just a shell the trains dont stop here. The young men at the ice skating rink are going to do some rope jumping. Theyre here for the adventure not to steal the materials. We want to do and see whats not allowed for britain fruit tastes the sweetest. In the early one nine hundred ninety s. Work began a new bridge over the its been rusting away for years now it would take over three hundred million years to complete money ukraine simply doesnt have some say its becoming kievs new landmark. I see this bridge as a monument to the. City governments mismanagement the construction could have been completed long ago i hope theyll finish it someday then well have the money meant to corruption. The young adventurous are among the few who benefit from the mismanagement the abandoned sites are a pacu a playground. Up and wasteland stands up some strong feelings many privately financed buildings have also been left unfinished they to attract their share of adventurous only Good News Group defend their perilous hobby. Even if they tore the spelling down the land would most likely remain unused its pretty hard to sell a piece of real estate in our city so its better if the stay is a way it is so people who know about a place can enjoy sunsets like this evening. But you know the government here wouldnt. To some its a monument to failed city planning to want this its a recreation spot with a bit of imagination and daring even kievs construction ruins have something to offer. Its a pity that so many sites are unfinished but great that at least a few of them can be used in some way thats it for today thank you for watching see you next time. European stars deliver rousing performance of. Jazz flavored song for good let me my own ears and look around mario biondi has touched the hearts of these facts. 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