Thousands of people were on the move fleeing conflict and economic hardship. For many germany was their preferred destination and initially they were welcomed with open arms with chancellor Angela Merkel famously proclaiming her mantra this isnt us its happened we need manage it so 1st there was euphoria but then came the harsh reality. Now the Largest Group of refugees making the perilous journey to germany and other European Countries were syrians desperate to get away from the murderous civil war in their country they included the superman family who we met up with 5 years ago as they headed for berlin and the question is now how are they fared since then. Oh its just after 6 am but the silly mans day has already begun we brush your teeth and. You know yet. Most of us with a man and his wife a beer are getting their 4 children ready for school and daycare a good thoughts on what. Ok to fight. This is a month into germany 5 years ago after fleeing the war in syria the parents came with their sons jude and rom and daughter llama their youngest child sam was born in germany and theyd imagined life here would be easier after 4 years and countless moves they finally have their own flat. In my house we gradually our situation is improving and we feel more and more comfortable. But i still cant see that this is my new world. Who im growing more accustomed to life here. And now understand the country better be a one man hijacks on the ground on the way to school in berlins chandel district give me your hand sammy were going to cross the street. Llama likes going to school. Because im doing better in math and slowly its become my favorite subject of. Dealing with this school and daycare is a full time job for mustafa and be here they help their children day and night integrate into their new environment around the world. Was. That requires great fortitude after all theyve been through. Back in 2015 mustafa solomon was in turkey preparing his children for the perilous journey across the mediterranean in a rubber dinghy weeks later the family reached germany via the balkan route their odyssey was captured in a documentary. I mean. The war and their flight from it inflicted wounds that have yet to heal most of us with a man was injured by a bomb hes lived in fear ever since and is now undergoing therapy. For them is just a name on all these come with me. I. Have a seat. Today your appointment is with me as your regular doctor is on holiday is that ok if this is ok no problem. Mustafas mother died in syria 2 weeks ago is haunted by the fact he couldnt be there with her. She was very ill. And then she was taken to hospital. I tried to speak with her but she could no longer talk and didnt recognise me anymore and that. My daughter from u. S. C. Hes very close to his family in syria is father died when mustafa was just 14 so as the eldest child he assumed responsibility early on when his mother raised 9 children on her own. And she must have been a strong woman. A very strong woman very strong. This is her sounds to me to flee from here and you have experienced a lot of terrible things and borne a lot of pain. But i think youre doing well now to sound good looking to the future and concentrating on yourself and your children into small pieces. You can be proud of yourself something. Mostafa is still having a hard time finding his place in germany many of the syrians he knows here have jobs or started their own businesses like i have met now now who runs the branch of a restaurant. But it takes time to develop something called our restaurant is now very well known and has a good reputation ask anyone and theyll tell you wow the police is great and its going well so yes its known for its good food cleanliness and good service. 500 im a little. Mustafa hopes to find work soon too but he needs to improve his german 1st his children found it easier to learn the language and berlin is now their home i want. You to leave. Jude wants to become an engineer in berlin but also help to reconstruct the familys house in syria less volatile fun time it was hit by a missile. So i want to help repair it. But have to carry on the way you want to love me. I love you. I love you all. Well theres no doubt about it the summer of 2015 brought huge changes to germany and the rest of your hundreds of thousands of desperate people were heading for a prosperous Northern Europe and that it turned prompted a growing number of countries to try and curb the migrant flow by building border fence what was called the southern balkan route also for instance pass through croatia and slovenia and slovenia joined the countries putting up those barriers and as we find out now it was a decision that has continued to poison relations between the 2 neighbors. The 1st grapes are almost ripe so the harvest can begin. It seems like its going to be a good year for martin page of a church. He has about 5 hectares of vineyards in the whites conny all a region on the border between slovenia and croatia. Both a 3rd of the line in croatia this area is on the socalled balkan route used by migrants the slovenian authorities are planning to build a further border fence here. I hope that it wont happen but to be a lot of it would go straight through my vineyards in japan all they talked about it. Is since the borders exacts here. It would be really quite difficult to build. Just a few kilometers away a fence has already been built along the river called. Slovenia has already closed off over 200 kilometers a 3rd of the border with croatia is sealed. Police patrol the fence several times daily as a deterrent. I meant but he is also to warn people coming into our country illegally that the areas where they are trying to do it are dangerous as well as a need. However refugees continue to arrive but not as many as 5 years ago at the height of the refugee crisis this year there have been about 1000 illegal crossings in this area. The police use Surveillance Drones day and night to track down illegal activity. The police say but the majority of refugees are held by human smugglers either course of the Illegal Migrants or from afghanistan morocco tunisia algeria bangladesh and pakistan their pockets. In metz leka a small town on the border locals are divided about the border fence. Is that its all here and there arent so many its a kind of protection. These that doesnt keep refugees are likely. To go to syria they are its good that its there in one way but its also not because of tourism is the view that they go by they are caught by the mothers martin linda church who runs a camping site a few kilometers up river says tourism is suffering. He and his wife and brain organize canoe trips on the river culpa. But now the view along much of the route is spoiled by the fence. He says they sometimes have to wait for hours before the police open a gate for them we thought meter which will continue and of course its not like it was its a problem this shouldnt be a fence here in this landscape the square deal or too is hard if were talking about tourism squared barbwire like in a concentration camp or everyone who calls asked about the fence and the migrants cocoa beach area of brush where the sheets or cries me get on. The cult of valley used to be unspoiled area very popular with holiday makers. They came to go hiking cycling and canoeing a place where you could relax these days its not quite the same. Dont you know its not normal to build a fence like this in such a Natural Environment its mad theres something wrong you can orbit in this untouched landscape is it that will rescue youre a good you know dr dietz that was. Another border in europe. The 1st of its kind in this region the government says that the fence is only temporary but that is something nobody in the cult of valley really believes. Now since the beginning of the war in Eastern Ukraine between Government Forces and russian backed separatists in 2014 detainees have been subjected to systematic torture some of the abuses allegedly taken place in a secret prison in the eastern city of donetsk cold. And the ukrainian journalist stanislav say if is among those who suffered terribly in that building so just let me warn you that many details of his story are profoundly disturbing. Street of the illuminated way number 3 this is the address of your lets see a burning bush isolation. Once insulation material was produced here this is the beginning of the war in 2014 pro russian separatists allegedly detain and torture people here. Neither the red cross nor any other International Aid organizations have regular access only testimonies from former prisoners remain. And then as they go out there will be heard if there is a lets see it was drug and the issue of you went through all the cells of both male and female cells. You beat up everyone and he beat me up to have so little can go muslim like for 2 years journalist and his life as i have reported undercover from separatist territory for the ukrainian media until 2017 when his cover was blown and he ended up in easily at sea a system of them gives you the procedure is the same for everyone a cell or if a metal table and that they remove peoples clothes then tie them tightly to the table with it he says tape which and then the electrodes are applied usually one wires attached to the genitals a 2nd electrode can be inserted into the anus because this is the cruelest part we all hear the screams but what they could even tell from the scream was where the wires were placed over the air theres no convinced that his fame and a campaign by his supporters saved him from an even worse fate but he was well aware of what was happening in the prison the suffering of his fellow inmates left its mark. The guards didnt hear that he would be able to tell the world about it later one testimony shocked even experienced witnesses of the conflict. And of the right doctor is always present during torture and also takes part in it either he had ministers in objection of circulation stops my supplies smelling salts if the president has lost consciousness a doctor is not only present he also pretty. Dissipates in the torture other than that says stanislav as the doctor was never seen it was only the cell mates who took care of the sick and exhausted torture victims as i have remembers his fellow prisoner lady matthew sink who in particular. Well you know my she was valerie was beaten up before i was with him because they dragged him out into the corridor and. We heard him scream thats how you scream after electric shocks issue because you dont confuse them easily then they brought him back to the sun or. Broken his ribs and you think you could later sits for stand with them off so i was an exception they let him lie and the point is youre in a day. Just like. I saw it was transferred from the school last year to an official Remand Prison in autumn 21000. 00 after more than 2 years shortly afterwards he was found guilty of extremism and espionage for ukraine he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Then a few weeks later just before new years eve he was freed as part of a Prisoner Exchange between the Ukrainian Government and the separatists. Allegations are supported by those of other prisoners the un has also reported the systematic use of beatings electric shocks Sexual Violence and said that there was a continuum of torture and abuse in the detention facility. The socalled human rights officer of the pro russian separatists in donetsk refused to comment on the allegations he did not answer our questions. The fact that the. G. C. A. Wont provide regular access to prisons to the i. C. R. C. Or to the un or its other you know authority of institutions means that the onus is on them the burden is on them to prove that these allegations are false when they dont provide access means that they have something to hide. Before the coronavirus pandemic tens of thousands of people used to cross between the government and separatist controlled areas at the your check point. Today this is a close as valerie met you she was wiped out can get to him. Then and you saw it last i live in hope. That this conflict will soon be over and everything will be like before me of the 4 more that ill get my husband back and my son will be able to hug his father. But it will never be like before so consciously avoid. Rematches shank who was kidnapped in the separatist controlled area in july 2017 his wife says that he had never made any bones about his prove your korean stance it to her mum is to find out what has happened to him. Also i was appalled as i was immediately taken to the easel last year but he was in such a bad state that the other prisoners thought that he would die but then the abuse started but ive been told that the prisoners were forced to sing the separatist him at gunpoint or beat each other out if i dropped all the. News that her husband is no longer in its will last year detention facility is reportedly still in bad health but the separatists refused to release or exchange them for another prisoner she thinks only foreign pressure would help but this has not been forthcoming. As you know this is the 21st century in europe is just watching on silently but there is no reaction European International organizations arent doing anything to close these torture chambers or schools or communities. How is that possible its terrible because you still talk. And its important to point out that Rights Groups say there have been similarly shocking abuses on both sides to this better conflict. Now on a very different note london has long had one of the most profit hungry real estate markets in the world but the corona pandemic has changed all that persuading many londoners to skip the commute avoid downtown and work from home so can you believe it swathes of prime office space a standing empty. Many people can only dream of working in an Office Building like this. James brincat is one of the lucky ones. His company trains Bank Employees in this line of work having an office in a prestigious building is seen as an important start of simple. But since the coronavirus pandemic thats not so important to him anymore. As time went by everybody started to really enjoy themselves productivity was just as good and we continue to flourish so everybody was very comfortable at 7 for us to to move out of london permanently. That saves them a lot of money so much that at the end of the month you can register 15 percent more profit working without an office is a totally new business model. And one thats here to stay provided his 50 employees can cope take on your ocarroll who is no sitting at her dining table like most of the staff she lives outside of london now bring cats only sees her during video conferences. On your car and will save some 550. 00 euros a month on train tickets. You no longer needs to travel into london to work. I definitely like the lack of commute. She still sees her colleagues every day just not in person so thats one disadvantage. The best approach is to have the majority of the time working from home but then have. The option to go into the office maybe once a week maybe twice a week pending if people need need to go in an office its also important to keep the kind of social interactions to boost morale some are heralding a real estate revolution one thats being especially felt by people who are earning money with real estate at the shard londons tallest building. Agency is trying to rent office space this modern office costs 15000. 00 euros a month. I dont think its a crisis so i think theres a correction in the market a slight reduction in the amount of space required but the key point is what but space is useful its no longer going to be about rows or upon row of best people processing email because we know we know we can do that are in effect if they so actually its about using the office space to bring people together to collaborate to educate them whether thats formally or informally but a radical change in peoples working lives is evident 9. Center businesses in london have now given up their offices entirely change is exciting and it gives people more opportunity to have a better Work Life Balance weve been talking about that long enough that we still have people coming in an hour on the tube into the center of london by not oclock in the evening leaving at 5 oclock with the other half 1000000 people who come in and out of the square while thats not Work Life Balance this is giving us an opportunity of really addressing that i think its tremendous the elliott is trying to book this trend stressing the benefits of having an office he says that offer something working from home country place. Spaces that really invigorating Staff Support their staff in their wellbeing and in their creativity so spaces like this are the very highest end of quality still many businesses are taking a different tack and calling the very valuable officers into question. Changes definitely in the air in londons working world. Now strange things happen as high altitudes heads get dizzy in the shadow of the legendary mats a whole mountain that lies between switzerland and italy in the alps one country gets bigger another receives they take away your pastor and offer you something called rusty instead what is going on well its a border dispute with a commentary dimension and the only thing that certain is that this man lucho cracow is close to dispair. Its all about rocks rubble and ice and a mountain rescue. The true true cool runs the refugio good to achieve you know its located in italy up until now anyway because Climate Change has shifted the National Border in favor of the swiss and as a result swiss italian relations have turned frosty up here in the mountains. So congolese with 38. 00 according to this whistle the border runs right through here this would be the very small italian particle is on this side would be the swiss part with our guests the cash register. Bar the border has moved. Cannot believe it inmates easy for the mountain refuge was clearly built on italian soil. It was common sense tells you that it has not moved neither has the mater Horn Mountain its a passion why a way of life i pity those who want to harness. This from the swiss office of topography carried out the new survey the borders have shifted because the glass years have melted. He shows as exactly where the new border runs from here it runs to the next point over there from here it goes on to the next point over there. The old border ran right in front of trickles doorstep for generations it has always run along the glass here but now not much remains of the glass here. The borders are constantly changing not only here. The border between switzerland and italy runs for several 100 kilometers across snow and ice. Is Little Switzerland getting bigger and bigger then follow ups in this case with the line clearly 1150 meters but this was done all along the border which means that switzerland sometimes won and sometimes lost and that balances things out. And if not landis was. The swiss one rocks boulders and ice in exchange for part of the marriage along. I think lead normal procedure between italy and switzerland. When it comes to true cause mountain refuge the italians insist the old border remain this isnt a discussion about bare rocks. Who is also fighting for his little piece of italy in the mountains and that it works because we have traditional italian cuisine was to talons like that which is also a very in which appreciated by foreigners there is no expression of the swiss there are enough we are more we surpassed our carbon aura and italian express a. Little bit fairy good to want. 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