a young investigative journalist probing corruption in high places. marion cuts now the businessman accused of ordering the crime is facing trial and what all thora he's hope will be a demonstration of justice being done many slovaks there remain deeply disillusioned well by coincidence the brother of the accused even coach now runs a small cafe close to the courthouse where the trial is taking place and as we find out now the brothers represent 2 sides of a slovakian society that is profoundly divided. a gloomy day in slovakia. as gloomy as the country's political climate says even questioner which he believes is partly his brother's fault. as me it's ok but i don't want to talk about that all has already been said. even as brother is marion koch now a prominent businessman whose actions have had a profound impact on the country the papers are full of stories about him even no longer talks to his brother and he's tired of talking about him. marian stands accused of having ordered the killing of journalist. a murder that sent shock waves throughout the country. and people this was not a disagreement between different mafia groups this was an attack on honest upright people. talk and not young people. and that makes an attack on families on all of us. let me talk be one. of. the brothers have little in common even runs a small confectionery his brother was power hungry and has long been thought to have ties to organized crime. was close to one covering the news and marion found out the journalist was investigating him the courts now have to determine whether mario ordered the assassination. the businessman had ties to numerous individuals involved in corruption including high ranking judicial and government figures. the killing of coots york and his fiance sparked mass protests several politicians judges and public prosecutors were forced to resign the subsequent revelations about marion koch no deeply shocked his brother even who is now taking a public stand against corruption i think it's all the bashing courageous citizens like even touched are standing up for their rights help makes the vast cast a more just and fair country. but with less than a month to go before the slovak parliamentary elections the country remains deeply divided. the governing social democrats are accused of complicity in marian kushner's dubious deals and are expected to suffer significant losses even kushner hopes the country's liberal pro european parties will receive the majority of votes but their fragmented something that frustrates him. well the situation ahead of the elections is confusing it seems so blocky as parties don't want to work together. there are hopes the country liberal party is in form a coalition but that hasn't happened. i think that's a mistake. a coalition could have pushed for change but now that every party is just doing its own thing. i could because the side. even question or worries the country's far right extremist people's party could benefit from this situation. they've been railing against the country's roman minority the e.u. and european liberal values polls indicate they could benefit from the population's disillusionment with the political class some party supporters refer to far right leader. as their fear of well their marches echo nazi esthetics. for some voters it's hard to feel hopeful. so with the general atmosphere is bleak the weather is really god and so is the mood. yes. even coach news says his brother is partly to blame. there had been some political in judicial reform since the murder of journalist 2 years ago but much work still lies ahead says even caution. those up us. in our efforts will go on that. there is still much to do. is just democracy is not a given and not eternal. democracy is a state which we have to value and actively preserve that about. even hopes to see his brother sentenced as he feels marion's action strengthened the far right and damaged democracy in slovakia it's a country at a crossroads which will choose its path at the upcoming parliamentary elections. now france is still the country of choice for many people hoping to enjoy the fighters cooking all old cuisine and this fierce competition for the coveted stars awarded by the legendary michel our restaurant guide one star means excellence to extraordinary and free well world class but what of a celebrity chef is stripped of all of his 3 stars will that happen from our very raw one of the most highly rated flamboyance an outspoken chefs in france and he says that he's no longer willing to bear out of michelin's judgment. many go as an idyllic spot in the french alps but at the restaurant menus on the tensions are simmering. much better the man with the black hat is a local hero and a michelin starred chef but in 2019 his restaurant lost one of its 3 coveted missional stars the world. the last of the star plunged him into a deep crisis he learned the art of cooking from his father and reached the upper echelons of his profession or better my father would have cried to be now and it was i was depressed for 8 months but i'm better now that i saw. her mark that cooking is about more than just food it's almost a religion. making dishes like this one from eggs laid by his own hens and served with herb sauce piped into every shell has a very special meaning for him. you know i've always said that cooking is something spiritual you thought the ingredients come from the earth and reach for the sky we respect them food is spiritual a protector of life. and because cooking is almost wholly for him the loss of his star had especially hard the mission specter who visited his restaurant anonymously claimed that served him as sweet lay made from english cheddar cheese. well. you said the souffle was made from french cheeses publish all and before and that saffron had accounted for its yellow color. just because the cheese was ghetto they thought it was cheddar after that they confuse the cocky son jack with monkfish liver which proves they know nothing of the bad so all the more. they have to reveal the criteria it uses when rating restaurants for its famous guide attention just as returns to the world of french cuisine but missions lawyer sees things differently. that totally contradicts all of the principles of freedom of opinion critical freedom and freedom of expression so if you don't want to be subjected to criticism then you shouldn't be submitting your works to the public. for writers as well as top chefs. but for his fans is still a star are no star only he could pull off a 12 course menu called the woodland symphony beautiful canadian and is willing to pay the price to eat it he came to france to train in the kitchen of another top chef better known as a. buzz saw took his own life back in 2003 because he feared the loss of one of his 3 michelin stars. says stars don't really say much about a chef's actual abilities so he saved for months to be able to afford one of mark $400.00 euro menus. and its followers i had to choose between eating here and sleeping in a hotel so i'm sleeping in my car. level it's ok not to call accountable here just those cuisine you come from the corner experienced as believe with more. mask that feels that his fans are supporting him he sees himself as a spokes person for those who've suffered criticism from restaurant guides now the restaurant of his deceased close friend poor book hughes has also lost one of its michelin stars. on proven really they show something military and say this man did everything for france for after his death big killed him again by taking away his 3 star small bits of death knell to a trance and french cuisine school. there are those like journalist emanuel have been who are convinced that misha has a motive for taking away stars he says it's a trick the restaurant guide is using to boost a sinking sales at the chef's expense. it's bad but they took away part of his 3rd star because bookies was a star himself politically and after his death it was even easier to do that was pretty currently on issue part such as a lot of ruckus we now mark is fighting for his restaurants to be excluded from the michelin guide he wants no part of it. through the middle bit so we asked a 1000 people a 1000 guests why they came here they came from upper ross a regional cuisine not a single one said that they came because of the mission on guide no one cares about that in the office. cannot things the mission and guides days are numbered and that francis shops will be better off without it. well for the time the mark vera has lost his legal battle but the star war goes on and he's appealing against the judgment. now a chilling story from switzerland a story in which thousands of people adults and children were shot away from society in what the heartless bureaucrats chose to call administrative care but why were they shot away well valves or emmitsburg or and many others were judged to be living outside the norms of society the school system continued up until $981.00 and reports now show that survivors are still suffering under the abuse they were subjected to. the swiss authorities took him away from his mother put him in a home and locked him away. at age 6 about her him as beggar was placed in foster care with a parish couple who abused him. on their recent pulled my ears and by hair a lot and beat me he would lock me in the basement or in the broom closet because. they see. them as beggar is still traumatized by his experiences to this day he struggles to set foot in a church. the 64 year old set up a small museum in the basement of the community center of his village a fair outdoor which makes 10 people how this was state condemned him. around 60000 people in switzerland were submitted to so-called administrative care by the can tunnel authorities because they were judged to be socially different the practice continued until 981 people including his mother were put in prisons like this one emma spare her was born here in 1957. move because my name i suspect that my mother was administratively cared for because she was expecting and illegitimate child. and that's what they did at the time. they put such mothers away they didn't fit into swiss society. well that's right. people deemed as being work shy drinkers or of having loose morals were taken to prison without trial to foster families or to a psychiatric ward there they were to be reeducated. by a system that had stripped them of their rights and excluded them from society. historians like or scam and confirmed that these people were not criminals gammon conducted research for the swiss government as part of an independent commission of inquiry. by even for in the case of those receiving administrative care it was usually not a matter of criminal offenses but simply a way of life that did not conform to social norms and. stories like voter emmas voters have cast a shadow over swiss history there around $650.00 prisons and other institutions in switzerland in which children and young adults were imprisoned exploited and in many cases severely mistreated. or was locked up for hours on end at his foster parents house he was forced to clean and work in the garden and fields he didn't accompany us to the house as he suffered a panic attack when he tried to visit a few years ago. for of a coroner's the hut was so strange i hid in a bush like an animal i really felt that this was the end. when he was 11 the parish couple took him to the psychiatric clinic in mr ling and there the boys plight worsened near the it illegally constance the hospital director tested psychiatric medication on him in the 1960 s. and seventy's. before and i know is that i felt a lot of noisier. just generally bad and lousy and every now and again i'd also have something like a seizure fall because of. the boy does not seem to tolerate tougher until well and we believe that the unpleasant symptoms he is showing are side effects of this medication. it makes my skin crawl. and i asked myself why they did that. imma spare is fighting to have what happened to him and others forced into administrate of care publicly recognised he's received 25000 francs from a swiss fund but the canton of 2 ago which is jointly responsible stated that there will be no compensation. this statement acknowledged the drug trials but said that due to a lack of further studies the extent of the damage can't be determined. larger emmas bigger fines these stalling tactics unbearable tens of thousands of people have been disenfranchised by the swiss state he said and their suffering must not be forgotten. where jimmy of my hope is that something like this never happens again though and also that this whole dark chapter of switzerland's past goes into the history books as writes. truly cruel bureaucracy is the absolutely worst kind well when it comes to tracking crime suspects fingerprints have traditionally been an important tool now though many governments wanting to keep an eye on or even spy on their citizens are turning to facial recognition that works and the russian capital moscow is building one of the largest such systems in the world advocates say it will help to create what they call a safe city but alyona pop over and other rights activists see it as a grave threat to people's privacy. security technology trade fair and moscow where the current trend is facial recognition. many russian and chinese manufacturers have standards. to recognise me. and gatekeeper the camera captures people's faces and a system apps their features only those who are recognized are allowed in. this salesman has a body count on his jacket with which he is recording trade for visitors without their permission in the event of a crime the police could compare the footage to their databases. such as here when a thief stole the painting from moscow's touch up gallery in broad daylight police quickly identified him using pay shreiking mission and tracked him down over 3000 crimes were solved in russia last year using facial recognition technology. but the lawyer and activist are you on up is not convinced she's fighting against facial recognition but you know it's possible to find out the damien are here their exact location. of a square and the time precisely to the 2nd but even. what we know for certain is that facial recognition was used to arrest activists from the moscow protests last year that yes it was a good guy it's like in china it's where only people who are against the government are arrested. you know what i did was i mean all of these these security videos were used by the authorities for facial recognition. with the news that they show her protesting with a poster outside the russian parliament. tell them if you pursue us without a court order and without our consent then stop you have no right. to which is why you are not in court. we're allowed to film in the courtroom only before and after the 3 hour trial as the verdict is. in red we can't from the judge but you can hear her voice. and it's you know give us now when it's in to do with the case is dismissed. yeah right you're muslim but it wasn't there so i'm not at all disappointed on the contrary where you were the trial encouraged me to keep on fighting that. everyone has admitted to gathering data the other side was nervous and got angry that i'm on your neutral i knew little guy if someone gets that upset they have something to hide the whole cheese graters of it was not ok is that the book is going to buy. i don't know people have a has appealed the verdict and she's not alone with her concerns journalists undertake a gonski wanted to find out whether the data gathered by russian police is facial recognition technology is safe so we searched for it on the dark net. i was able to buy access to the city's facial recognition system and found a hitlist using my face which was. many people on the 80 page list look very much like him even if there wasn't a direct match with his face. some of the photos were taken from home security cameras in germany this would lead to public outrage but not in russia. but assured security is good it's very important everybody's currently worried about their safety i mean so it is doesn't it bother you that the city knows everything about the night your thoughts everyone knows everything anyway because even without these cameras just through the internet. i basing it on the emotions local to me that it was in the data could be misused and that makes me uncomfortable if somebody wanted to beat me up they could find out when i come home and who i need it not because i want that you know because of the more more. in moscow however only few are worried for most it seems security is more important than personal privacy. now the italian city of venice ranks as one of the most beautiful in the world and it's famous for its gondoliers who with great grace and dexterity pilot visitors around the city's legendary canals on their flat bottomed gone go but now some of those gondoliers have been laying aside their boating hats and stripey tops and donning instead scuba helmets and wet suits so what are they up to. the nation gondoliers take pride in showing visitors around their city. but now they've also taken to cleaning up the city's many canals. the sake of the venice has 276 canals taken together they are some 30 kilometers long that we are trying to select those that have been frequently used by transport vessels over the past years. and years. and the volunteer gondolier divers have gathered in the early morning when there are still few boats about. the welfare of all. they're not put off by the water's frigid temperature. but. within minutes one of them returns to the surface he's found something. the last time they did this the divers retrieved a staggering 80 kilograms of refuse from the murky waters. then as has a serious garbage problem in part because the city attracts so many tourists. but the city council and the gondoliers agree that the visitors alone aren't to blame for the refuse filled canals. shivani do still of the venice city council greatly appreciate the gondoliers help in cleaning up the waterways. we maybe find kottaras it's funny really venice is a city without cars where cars on to loud to drive. but we seem to have the most discarded car tires in the world. i don't think were thoroughly unmovable. the city's cleanup operation is sending a powerful signal to locals and tourists alike it wants everyone to get involved. but cleaning the canals can be tricky. as some objects have sharp edges or are extremely heavy. some of the city's waterways are up to 5 meters deep plenty of room to dump refuse. but the volunteers also know that sometimes objects like air conditioning units laundry carts or sinks fall into the canals from prince port ships by mistake. that said many locals have also had a listen a fair attitude to refuse disposal. that for years folks acted irresponsibly exactly including the nation's before they just open the window and toss things into the water luckily it's no longer that way. the gondoliers came up with the idea of collecting trash while on a diving holiday in a shipwreck stefano and his friends discovered 70 year old rubber boots and were shocked at how well preserved they were they realized this meant the waters of venice must be full of garbage to effect they're hoping to change. we shall die. it's not work for us because we do it willingly but yesterday wasn't such a great day because visibility was so bad on the canal bed we could only see 8 to 10 centimeters so it was hard to find objects to be especially when the canal bag gets churned up she was still we retrieved almost 500 kilos of stuff washing machine which. stefano vo is already looking forward to the next clean up dive especially since the nations are also cleaning up their act. but for now he's in his gondola waiting to show visitors his beautiful hometown of venice. i love the story about the car tires car tires in venice can you believe it and that's all from focus on europe this time around thanks so much for joining us and if you'd like to see any of our reports again just go to our home page on t w dot com or visit our facebook page t w stories and do come back next week until and by by. the. made in germany. in 30 minutes on t w. to create a strong opinions a clear position on the sofa international perspectives of donald trump takes credit for the greek american comeback speaking in a very room where congress held hearings to impeach him and she declared america's union stronger than ever as election season starts its see i'm stuck with folks to find out onto the floor to a. points with the beefed up the next pontiff w. . in the fight of climate change the frequency of us what's to come to explain the cut for the future the fuel economy for to make a city 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