A cocktail of chemicals its strong stuff and extremely addictive the result is panic attacks dizziness palpitations and even fatalities where one place hard hit by this epidemic is greeces 2nd largest city thessaloniki we joined a former user there who is determined to understand the root causes of the problem and find a solution but it is not optimistic. As darkness descends on thessaloniki drug dealers swarm into the citys parks. Many of them are young migrants working for greek or albanian drug lords. The substances they sell are becoming cheaper and more dangerous for example the increasingly popular pot pourri also known as synthetic marijuana basically herbs coated with synthetic chemicals. Used to be a drug addict himself today hes a social worker helping junkies get clean hes alarmed by the Substance Abuse in his home town these days and he wants to find out more about the drugs. He meets an old friend who is still part of vessel in the drug scene he tells them about a drug called sister a cheap knock off version of crystal meth. The friend explains the dangers of pot pourri. Is a potent its like heroin and what does it cost just 20. 00 euros a bag ive sworn never to touch that stuff again my mother once found be tripping after taking it and thought id died. Drug consumption in greece has been rising many attribute this to the countrys youth Unemployment Rate of almost 40 percent. There is a way that many drug users have psychological problems and its in them now and then you prove you have them you have to do is just care about a drug being cheap and not about whats actually in its. Curriculum as this wants to learn more about the notorious pot pourri drug. Hes heard its even sold in some shops under the counter. After all its a concoction of substances that are legally available like artificial fragrances. Thats why drug expert fed on color is calling on greek authorities to act. He says the country faces are part of 3 and 6 epidemic it is quite a big deal because people. Want it more and more because of its power its a powerful its a potent substance a potent drug unlike hearing hearing is a downer we are here isnt really a big dog so this makes it also very attractive. The catastrophic effects of pot pourri and fisa are evident on thessaloniki street in some parts of town locals are too scared to leave their homes at night and some shopkeeper say the drug users are harming their business. Or they attack each other with stones clubs and knives was not only people who want to cross the square feel unsafe and threatens years also shopkeepers like goods are in mortal danger. Ive heard about these new cheap drugs but we. All know there are many who consume them in the student neighborhood your computer. Police are going after a dealer here. The countrys new conservative government has clamping down on the drug trade there are now more police controls and the number of arrest has increased but often suspected dealers carry too few drugs on them to warrant a conviction. Tadic has obtained a packet of the notorious pot pourri drug it looks like marijuana but its far more dangerous 10 doses cost about 20 years ago with good better to buy this drug can be produced by anyone with just the basic understanding of chemistry. Will have a major impact and many peoples lives we still dont know enough about the long term effects of this drug and attics. But it seems the drug lords couldnt care less night after night dealers spill out into the streets of thessaloniki. So what is it a farce or a tragedy well one thing is for certain the chaos known as briggs it continues to rock every aspect of life in the United Kingdom its been especially traumatic for the hundreds of thousands of poles who have made the u. K. Their home in recent years now many say they no longer feel welcome and heading back to poland but one man is doing all they can to persuade his fellow nationals to stay away from. Salt crust pork belly on a bed of sauerkraut a polish style dish made with ingredients from the british county of camera chair its the creation of polish chef damien in virginia. I treat britain like my home and i cook my home food in my new home if maybe dont mix you know the up this is what im trying to do i try to create something completely completely new for this environment for these guests. His menu and his restaurant house of feasts reflect damians identity he came to england in 2005 like so many of his compatriots when poland joined the e. U. Hes worked his way up even cooking for royalty like princess them. And prince william. But most of his guests are Eastern European. Some of them dont even speak polish but they come in here they look and additional does doesnt look polish and then they eat the fish as i think this is like my mom cooked so this is what i think makes me smile. House of feasts is located on the outskirts of peterborough in the east of england its many factories and farms many workers from Eastern Europe who are long welcomed here with open arms tens of thousands of poles settled here but since the grex it referendum many feel unwelcome to be allowed to stay p. S. Y. Versions girl lived here for 8 years and shes worried. When a boy at the moment i dont want to have to go back to poland mainly because of my 13 year old son he speaks very little home and it will be so i dont think he has a future there he saw that with interest. Shes brought all of the documents which prove shes lived in the u. K. For more than 5 consecutive years to damiens restaurant outside of Opening Hours a polish social. Worker comes here to help people apply for settled status online opened. A lot of us have not been keeping these documents. You know this whole time because who would know that would actually be required at any point so the anxiety around the settlement scheme comes from comes from not being you know not not being sure whether theyre going to be able to prove that settled state is even if they get it damien didnt get his at 1st either though hes lived in paid taxes in britain for 15 years but he fought back and now has the settled status by hosting free info sessions he hopes to stop more poles from leaving. The numbers in britain fell from 1000000 to under 900000 last year making it harder to find staff in last 2 years is drastic is huge issue and well probably because of breaks because so many friends of mine already left. And they were well settled we have also ships which came here 56 years ago they work for me they left so hes also using the info sessions to recruit staff p. S. Y. Vision schools says thanks but no thanks against all odds damien plans to expand walk out of there are you ask. Hes about 12 trailers to sell his polish style dumplings from cambridge sheer although over the u. K. Now the russian capital moscow is of course a huge city and its facing a huge garbage crisis theres very little recycling and waste sites are quite simply overflowing so they of origins had wanted to transport the problem to a so far unspoiled location more than a 1000 kilometers from moscow as i say that was the plan but in an unusual show of grassroots activism local residents are up in arms saying the proposed garbage tip is an environmental disaster in the making. Moscow with its 20000000. 00 inhabitants is a rich metropolis responsible for a quarter of russias gross domestic product. Russias capital both luxury cars and restaurants catering for all tastes. On the flipside is this garbage a lot of garbage. Most of it still ends up on dumps hardly any garbage is recycled. Therefore local authorities would like to use trains to transport the garbage here 1200 kilometers to the northeast she is a rail station and a tiger by chance hunters found this construction site which came as a shock for local residents like on your check of. The plant but plan 1st they said they were going to cut down 300. 00 hectares of forest now its already up to 3000. 00 which isnt what theyre planning is unbelievable they simply want to destroy russias north which told. Activists worry about the swamp land becoming europes largest dispose of the syllabi they believe toxics could see it 1st into rivers and then into the sea certainly no ecological impact studies was commissioned and construction was never approved. A new chick oliver and other residents have started protesting. They block gas trucks so that the fuel had to be delivered by helicopter. Joy its there were 35 of us at the helicopter landing site when a group of at least 60 security personnel came toward us they started beating us and carrying us away asking. Construction has been suspended but the atmosphere remains tense massacure of the personnel dance the site we recorded to the police months. Takes note on his phone. To night activists monitor the site where that construction might start again. Instead of fighting them who could learn from the. Periods are experienced in garbage separation in the nearby town of earth the citizens themselves constructed a central collection point for recyclables arena packed to survive came up with the idea to separate recyclables into 10 different categories each symbol represents a different material and can be found in the packaging. The initiative or the mother has earned them warts and is inspiring others. To look much about their own what with the realisation that life cant go on as before results from human beings learning and understanding by example. Turned over for the protesters and she. Volunteers come from all over the region some of them have travelled by car for 12 hours. Theyve erected a camp and keep an eye on the site day and night. The governors promised jobs and investments into infrastructure schools and hospitals provided the dump will be constructed the activists want to prevent this at all costs. Just a few meters away the operating company is passing out information a p. R. Employee explains the garbage from moscow safely whether the boxes for them or construction here was just a preliminary examination. Looked at the time i rode the buildings like these trailers and the loading and unloading side of the minimal infrastructure necessary to Start Construction to start examination. Of what. The activists dont believe a word he says they call for further protests and over 20 russian cities. Youre. Welcome though. Gladly pack up and leave as soon as the authorities decide to abandon construction plans for this dumping site until that happens will stay i dont always lie down the. Marina and her husband take on shifts at the activist monitoring site too. They dont want their efforts to be misunderstood as a conflict between cities and rural areas. Were not against moscow citizens in the both they and their bosses need to understand that its time to start separating garbage into give up plastic the activists emphasize that their protest is peaceful but we are repeatedly being told that if needs be they could start blocking rail tracks once garbage arrives from moscow. Now the series of wars that followed the breakup of yugoslavia back in the 1990 s. Were notoriously bitter and bloody and still today militant nationalism plagues the region with accusations and counteraccusations our reporters visitors a small village in the shed been a region of southern croatia where the serb minority has regularly being faced with violence but one local man boris petco says the time has come to begin to look to the future. The people of his job he will never forget the day a group of men attacked boris pet because bar boris his family and friends had been watching a football match when they stormed the bar beating up everyone inside and wrecking havoc. A 16 year old boy from the neighborhood was even hospitalized with a serious head injury. To a local boys on his floor they were told they werent local men. Also spoken of as. They travelled here for more than 100 kilometers. One of the bits missing this was a premeditated attack. Yeah exactly what the last thing. I want the authorities to find out who organized this. And who sent them was well youre going to you know the tone of the world boris has since repair the damage some suspected attackers are now behind bars although the background of the attack has not been cleared up. Boris who belongs to croatia serb minority has been subjected to intense online abuse from right wing croatians they accuse him of being a war criminal an ex Police Officer who tortured croatian prisoners of war. The authorities and media have never refuted dees accusations you know that are true. Nobody has made clear this wasnt me or spectro. Theyve all kept silent. Nobody has explained that i was only 12 years old when the war broke out. The legacy of the yugoslav wars is still evident today croatian county a name she beneath was once occupied by serbs and then retaken by croats many ruin still dot the region today thousands were massacred and fell victim to ethnic cleansing hundreds of thousands were forced to flee the retaking of conine during Operation Storm became a symbol of the croatian victory and is celebrated every year with great pomp and fanfare this year a president called linda grab architecture of h. Said she wished shed fought alongside the croatian troops nationalism is on the rise in croatia attacks on the serb minority are increasing but the regions governor claims the attack was an isolated incident. We say well you know such incidents the situation is peaceful and stable there are no excesses hate crimes or anything like that but. The croatian government sees things differently theyve strongly condemned the attacks and are demanding that local authorities track down the perpetrators. But the problem is much bigger than the authorities want to lead on says journalist vasco radulovich gangs chants nationalist slogans and stones were thrown into windows that night though she says only a fraction of the attacks become known. But. In villages where mainly older serbs live they dont want to talk about it when Something Like that happens or they have justified fears because Something Like the attack could happen anywhere. Vasco radulovich has documented many such cases. Here peoples olive trees were chopped down they live from all of their farmers of course no one asked them how high the damage was and they didnt get any compensation either. But boris is not intimidated he says he gets along with everyone whether service. Apart from the bar he runs a farm and has they play and soon he hopes to turn his bar into a restaurant that will serve meat hes raised himself. We have to look to the future not the past. We want to live work create something thats all about a t. V. Near his house is a commemorative plaque which remembers the 8 serbs killed here almost 15 years ago during Operation Storm they are died on a single day in all for over 60 old people who couldnt or wouldnt plea their killers are still at large here history is long from being forgotten. Now on a very different know the illegal drug trade is a large lucrative and growing market its driven by the fact that more and more people in prosperous countries like germany want to cure bread parents knock down prices and that demand is satisfied mainly by unscrupulous suppliers from Eastern Europe whoever Animal Rights activists stefan klipsch tyson has made it his mission to expose the Illicit Trade which requires some real courage as we find out now. Steffen clip stein and a friend of his are on their way to the next case they want to expose illegal dog smugglers in berlin. They pretend they want to buy this puppy. The smugglers were filmed with a hidden camera. And you can get it for 500 on. This deal is a trap. The Police Take ActionAnimal Welfare worker stefan clips dine here on the left witnesses scenes like this almost every day. Right. Now Animal Rights activists use these methods to work against romanian dog smugglers. Lies. That they want to save the animals. Or to thailand to live years or inflamed by inflammation here inflammation. Dogs perhaps 8 to 10 weeks old he shouldnt be in germany and he shouldnt be sold here if you recall the. Puppies can only be legally exported within the e. U. From the age of 15 weeks. They have to have received all their required vaccinations before hand clips time works to ensure these laws are upheld hes been attacked and injured by smugglers many times. Either a good deal by the one speaking out or doing something against this face has been stalked and intimidated. So much so nobody is doing anything against it because if you do then youll be facing a lot of trouble. Rick and cliff stein looks for dubious ads on the internet he says 8 out of 10 ads on e bay classified are illegal. Most puppies imported illegally come from Eastern Europe especially romania thats where the dog mafia uses another trick they also smuggle stray mongrels as well as pedigree dogs. It sounds strange a 1st or 2nd. Make money with stray dogs because there one can just touch dogs in the street and get them from unemotional cers or given away for free whats on with the goodness of the google books are when theyre sold in germany of course and money is made because people take pity of course because in the court of law its a. Book arrest the romanian capital stray dogs are a big problem here. Battles the smugglers the other end of this criminal network he files Police Reports and tries to get lost changed he also started an Animal Shelter for rescue dogs. This one cost he was dumped by smugglers when marios exposed them today hes part of the household. Photos of stray dogs are also part of the business and shady reports and money is made because people take pity of course because in the court of law its a. Book arrest the romanian capital stray dogs are a big problem here. Battles the smugglers the other end of this criminal network he files Police Reports and tries to get last changed he also started an Animal Shelter for rescue dogs. This one was dumped by smugglers when marios exposed them today hes part of the household. Photos of stray dogs are also part of the business and shady Animal Welfare groups in germany are involved working with their romanian partners together they raise money on the internet mostly through facebook setting off a string of profits. For them they are the sort of start rescue was right we need money for the transport and germans the italians the brits started pay so you raise a few 1000. 00 fellow docs into a van and bring them to a shelter where they look for sponsors again the same people who already gave money donate to gain. Use thats what were talking. Back in berlin steffen clip stein is looking for Political Support he meets with beyond voice that Animal Rights expert of the christian democratic party. The author of im often on my own documenting researching and contacting the police. Because i often feel like the political will to actively climb down and this is lacking. Thats wonderful yes its good of you to have both but this is actually the states job every local council should have an Animal Rights department like. Up to now authorities havent been effectively clamping down on dog smuggling. It infuriates me that this is still possible with selling animals online still has not been banned. 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