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hello and welcome to focus on europe. we start today's program with a woman who's a fighter and a champion for women's rights set up. how them is a boxer. she currently lives and trains in france. and her dream is to have success on the international stage a dream that is not possible in her home of a ran women have a long been effectively bound from boxing, which is considered especially a modest well since the islamic revolution. more than 40 years ago. women's rights have been strictly curtailed by the regime eventually set up, found herself forced to choose between a risking arrest in iran and leaving her homeland the price for her decision, a life in exile. her prize is a life, lived in freedom. every punch strictly blew for freedom. each

morning. iranian boxers, the daughter them, puts her heart and soul to training here. boy on and western france for whom, for the past 2 years. in iran, she had to hate her passion for boxing. the islamic revolution regards didn't like the sport. she says, it's too revealing. to american a hair, it handsome man. i transformed my home into a gym and train their age was resolved on their level in iran. only 2 lives in one at home in v and another in public in vi shampoo said after parting the competition in france, which he prepared for secretly and ran. an iranian boxing cush remain, arranged the fight and sir death one. 0, it was an incredible achievement. a tv station,

even broadcast images from the match that could be seen in iran, but shortly before her flight home said ask her to warrant had been issued for her rest. she changed her plans and stayed in france. a low popular one in o napa. i love books. so the problem was that i wasn't allowed to bucks in iran. ha ha, that i didn't want to box it secretly. activity, i'm not a thief. so bucks in is just as brought to not to criminal activity mod i left a run for boxing. out of principal paula book says solo classic the coach of the french boxing club. and boy anne took saddam under his wing. he was touched by her story and hoped that she would win titles for his club. ah, i know i see already in the ring, saddam has a fury. few women have lost her path has been tough and years, so she's

a force to be reckoned with. god, there o pile, with the people of boy an supported saddam. she found work in the town hall, an apartment and friends. still, it's not just islamist extremis, frowned on women boxing some older folks in france due to your school. it's not a sport for women. that's all city bob. yeah. it's not a good idea. it's a bit too violent for women of uniform. but many young muslims think it's great that said f boxes. if they don't send that big new us, i will be like that as a role model for us. she gets us more self confidence for our plans. you. i'm happy to see women fight for her rights like that. well, it's incredible. the found clam way and if it's like with soccer, it used to be a boy sport, but now girls play a too good exam times. there isn't any better than the guys fault. go to thought.

then she was of the book said, ask me, enjoy a lot of support for her decision has cost her dearly. she's only seen her family once in the past 2 years. when they met up in turkey. when her mother died, of who was 19 in october, said aph couldn't attend the funeral, and around my marriage, m a. my mother was a crowd of me. the wall, ma'am, but she didn't ended up having enough time to see my hulu live in a wog manual, a new venue, v said asked lives in exxon, is the price she's had to pay to books. more and more people admire and look up to her own instagram, even in a round, but that makes the prospect of returning home all the more unrealistic offered and that he could be taken an enormous risk. let him, even though it's very unclear what repercussions there would be,

a number of people considered agitators have been arrested and we don't know what became of some of them, while others ended up getting whip to pull down. it's quite arbitrary which makes it all the more concerning kit and built of prison. kittle said after cited not to let the iranian regime veto, even as living in exile sometimes pushes her to her limits. nicu jerry was on the phone as soon as i entered the gym. i can breathe easy sir. i'm. it's my home, your dog in the ring. i dont know. but i want to do in life is right here, fell on maggie says easy. no. saddam is fighting to take part in the 2024 olympic games in paris, possibly representing her new home country of france. the camera is one of the largest criminal organizations in europe and the center of its

power is in naples, italy, for decades. it also control the town of castle de punchy bay and like so much else the construction industry, there was also in the hands of the mafia. over the years, countless buildings were erected with a nod from the camera, including the homes of ordinary families. one of those houses belong to fabulous dabilla, but now the authorities say it was illegal and demolished it a bitter reality for fabio and others feared their homes could be next. from above, causality, plain cheap a may look like a normal town. but whenever fabulous dabilla comes to his old neighbourhood, it awakens painful memories. the ruins of demolished houses bring to mind his own fate. whether it's a friend's house or his family's his home, where his parents, siblings, and their 4 children used to live, stood behind this fence. but a few months ago,

excavator is rolled up on orders from the public prosecutor's office. we'll start on september. second, the government destroyed our lives. one of my brother's in his report. children though live in socialize, a hawk. i did a lot on the apartment of his parents in law who died recently hoody by other brothers renting a flat, your doctor. and i'm living with my parents at her grandmother's either be a mccarthy nor their home ended up being torn down because fabulous, fabulous father. had built it without a permit over 20 years prior. the town didn't even have an official urban development plan until 2006. so building permits were rare. each of your more one brother was when we bought this property, did you get, we wouldn't hold. we could build here, boy, then after we started digging our watch, he authority stopped us a job that are a few months. my father talked to the local government at the time, figure better and asked if construction could resume id. you say a report he gave him permission resort, seem to just be sure to finish the house event and move into it was through either

or partially let us build, did you neither tearing it all down again? that can't be right. when i see this, it hears me up and say, cool, what exquisite and they are not alone. the entire district was built from scratch illegally. the streets often don't exist and the official plans, because the commode, i even had control over the town hall for decades until anti mafia activists at a not though natalie became mayor of cause out of the brain g bay in 2014. we study as dice, others, this area was in the hands of a criminal to try to clean for 40 years lie. that was what about the mafia? possibly an old maid, the rule w thought that it will. there were no other law. little did a lot of 3. if someone wanted to build a i was eating of, we couldn't rely on a single legal regulation. we've only, they'd only turn the bulk of the camera dondo and the matthews, he would say built chiming door because the more concrete was poured on the walls

built. the more the maturity to sol default come over the we're pulling the strings east of the whole construction 2nd, charlie, the trigger that remained on the public prosecutor's office has ordered $1300.00 houses to be demolished in causality. but in she pay alone and over $200000.00 throughout company, this incendiary decision could cost thousands of people, their homes. but olga muddy nano and domenico esposito are fighting back with their group gossip. mia or my house lucia more been assigned to this association to protect the loans we built for ourselves and our children and moved pretty much. they've been organizing protests for months and now count over 3000 members among their ranks. oriano doctor thought book where the girl of colon, any one living in a house set to be demolished, to demonstrate with as in front of the parliament in room. not oh, why aren't they tearing down houses built by speculators of the cameras and with

your work that are only every day people's homes are being destroyed like oh, so the government ought to be ashamed of itself or how it's treating us go. i'm not even gonna go over. you got to know, like i said, any she see danny's homes like these must not be demolished. mickey, i'm sure we want the government to sit down madame out and figure out an acceptable solution because the biggest winners will be the come order, who will seek to come to the rescue of residents in need. darla, the spirit of people in such dire straits, a very desperate alonda easy praise. when the camera had been brought them overlap, because it, i hope the situation can lead them to make desperate decisions. ashby, dog and so the mayor has taken the activists side. it would cost his municipality alone, $35000000.00 euros to tear down the illegally constructed homes. and the local government doesn't have that kind of money. the vision of it's other than the

rhythm rhetoric but it, you know, put, instead of demolishing these blotting, this a feeling should be handed over to the governor. okay. let me convert an into social housing a key for me that way we could help any one in the diary english them or do you listen to spirit demolition? cos she bought well, an provide extra revenue from rent for thank you boy. all opening the beat, dollar blending good, you sula me, did without a de la deliveries or say, but it may take a while for the government to put this proposal into action. in the meantime, excavators continue to tear down illegally constructed houses like fabio stubby lace and his neighbors. and not just in casado, the plane she bay. let's talk about sex all to off in the topic of sex. among people with disabilities is still a taboo, and germany is no exception. but people with these disabilities also need love and intimacy, even though that's not always supported by care, homes are their own families. take lashona man and lars novak both have down

syndrome and have been a couple for years. they live in a group home near the german city of hanover, which takes a different approach. that facility believes that everyone should have the chance to find intimacy in a way that suits them at around 230 most afternoon. tickler should have been sent so were you heading over there to pick him up and um then we're gonna come back. yeah. to close on her way to pick up her partner lars novick booth or in their mid fifties and live in a group home for people with intellectual disabilities is operated by the non profit organization. levens hilfa, around $100.00. people live here in sheer departments. some need more help than others. so caregivers are present around the clock, just in case in many such facilities, lars and tickler you wouldn't be able to live as a couple. but here it's just

a part of ordinary life. isn't it? we're engaged with ya for 20 years already. raphael for 20 years. we've been engaged and they've known each other since they were kids. yeah. hello. good. that's right. over by we to her and me did when i think of adam and eve of that they were also a pair rhythm images that all they are a couple with down syndrome relationships like there's are a natural part of everyday life at this facility. the homes managing director, trust the residents to the site for themselves. what kinds of relationships they want or don't want to have. i'm a little always know dimensions. every person wants relationships with me. every one desires, closeness stickler. i think that's part of every human being would be disabled or not even mentioned info. konstantin clues was hit by

a car when he was 10 and has been left disabled ever since. even me now. he's 32 years old order and his often board when he longs for a partner support worker murray helps him look for a girlfriend on a dating portal for people with disabilities. oh, yeah, i flow thick. i want to have 6 of their as well more and doth. does is if yo, who monday human li a penis. penis ha, good, good 10. then to day, i'd like you to talk about the genitals of men and women on manon hall that the sex and love group meets once a month. they discuss sexuality open. a new question is taboo. for instance, how does masturbation work? is one of the most popular groups here. doesn't look at it is what happiness looks like. okay, have you ever seen one 0,

in real life as sama oh yes i have seen one. okay. lackland lars regularly go on holiday together. log and spend the nights together. they are cheer. well wor, there we slept together. oh, bud. you have the 2 of us here. it was good. but we broke the bed. yeah, the bed collapse after yo collapse dot o r z your good. still, it's important that any physical intimacy be consensual and respect. olu, yeoman, every one can sleep where they want to go. as long as the host is in agreement. hi, what's wrong, and for some of it isn't something that we negotiate in the office or a common room or but something. dana go, shade amongst themselves, 400, you and on the no one here has ohio. hm is abena hoof. and how was the lives in the

group home and her partner helmet hammond. i also benefit from this policy. yeah. everything. okay. yes. i think we enjoy their lives together today, but they're visiting the zoom in hanover when she was younger. sabina thought about having children of her own and another, but people repeatedly told her she shouldn't. i, i have a disability, obviously my, my sister said it wouldn't be good up word is i can't read or write can easily. i couldn't teach the child anything. and then i'm a bit sad. yes. miss leah, you can't always choose oh soon. yeah. to accept things as they are or it's also ok without a child. it's even more important for sabina that she has helmet and levens hilfa, helps her fulfill her will for love and intimacy. heavy

are a delicacy made from fish ro, a kilo of it can fetch more than 2000 euros, making female sturgeon's a lucrative catch. but the fish are already threatened by extinction. in some european areas with large sturgeon populations like romania has done new delta fishing and selling wild sturgeon is banned. but the lure of a big payday continues to attract poachers. authorities are casting their nets wide to catch the perpetrators. but just like fishing, their success is sometimes also a matter of luck. godly edmond, you who and his partner are on the lookout for fish poachers. they come across a suspicious jetty, well, hidden in a back water. poachers use places like this to prepare their illegal cash for transport. gabrielle says the danube delta is riddled with thousands of such jetties. most every one here is a fisher and

a potential poacher will been study. this is likely a set up for regular fishermen. they'll come back here after they've been out and hang up their nets. nobody's here. what a good their hunt for poachers is going to get more frustrating before the day is out. this is what thereafter, an illegal hall found during a raid a few weeks before. 22 kilos of caviar. sturgeon eggs stashed away in sports bags, worth some 2 and a half 1000 euros on the black market, per kilo to maximize the take. the poachers catch the big female sturgeon and kill them. the scene of this crime is the danube delta on romanian coast where the river empties into the black sea through a vast network of channels. along with rare plants and birds, the world's largest species of sturgeon is found here. what few remain of them catching them has been prohibited for years about 80 kilometers inland to the west

. sturgeon farms present, an alternative to decimating the last wild sturgeon's in europe. medina. man yeah, new breeds. hundreds of female sturgeon the females can be artificially inseminated . so they produce ro, or caviar, or 18, and my ot i. it's all done. according to strict animal welfare regulations, marcelina shows us female sturgeon, whose eggs are ready for harvest. she earned $230.00 euros per kilo for her caviar, hardly enough to break even after 9 years of farming. she's angered by the unfair competition from poachers. nope, i suppose. i don't think i put it just takes the whole fish. he doesn't pay a thing when he does cost is nets and takes his dudgeon eggs. the caveat was that i got huge over the heads here on behalf of the many years. i've been feeding the fish,

i pay power bills and past anal purchased him. none of that might be livable. back to the police boat in the danube delta. the 2 officers have come across a fishing boat. to the thought of this, gabrielle asked the fisherman if he ever accidentally catches sturgeon and his net . the fisherman is evasive. when gabrielle asks again, the fisherman just shows him his permits and licenses you the chance to live with. the police have nothing on these fishermen. their papers are all in order even so nobody is to be trusted here. the poachers can be very slippery. cellphone videos of recent missions, time and again the police come across a legal nets with mash, so find that even small sturgeon get caught in them. often they die agonizing deaths. gabriella says this rescue effort shows how hard it can be to get them on tangled. this beluga sturgeon, the largest species,

is some 3 meters long and weighs 800 kilos. the police struggle to save it for over an hour with healey, beth, about 2 kilometers away from the sea is found to giga, a fishing port that can only be reached by boat for years. the town lived from caviar exports. since sturgeon fishing was ban, the fishermen have struggled. now they ferry tourists around. no one here wants to talk about poaching. they say there's been no compensation nor aid programs. they still go out fishing, says miguel effie mav, but they don't touch the stir. fishing is as much a part of his life as the rock music playing on his tourist vote. he feels the ban targets the wrong people. no longer college or he really wants to get caught, or those guilty of only minor violations, sonata trump, for example, a grandpa truce unit in the washer was also lowered. if i to the he gets charged is rissa jill, cynthia, or others,

or push fish by the ton based wherever the where she has a particular are never called me a beacon to them back on the delta police boat. the patrol is over and didn't turn up anything suspicious this time. but all too often the professional poachers are too slick for them. gabrielle admits. they warn one another by radio and their boats are generally faster to you as if you are living. of course, i am disappointed all a day we don't achieve or goal is a day last, you see what on some of them will be back, would answer to the poachers who better watch out for us, for sure. on saudi genesis a foot, gabriella says the delta always gives him new strength, and he remembers the old police saying, the poachers may have gotten away 10 times, but next time we'll catch them. well caviar is not among the dishes, you'll find on the menu at nicholas fires. restaurant in the town of chester and

north eastern england, when the british chef turned meagan a few years ago. he and his team made a choice to offer their customers a plan based menu. now the chef is getting the star treatment for his culinary excellence and his sustainable business model. i took the nearly 2000 year old city walls of chester is a very modern epicurean experience. pharma alice leach, delivers fruit and vegetable straight from the field to nicholas bryan dod, resturant, i thought what sets his casino part is. it's exclusively begin. i stopped eating, processed me specialty dairy. i just figured out who something we could transpose. i was the general public as a bit of a unique selling point. rarely. i'm really about the quality of the produce rodman court and things out. his eve. i always kitchen ames to create less, refuse and recycle the rest. all his projects is free of packaging and organic

waste. go straight into the combustor. i then take it back with me and then it goes back onto well on to the bad, basically say with the nice law of produce will be grown in the same composter. tomorrow's alright. so this closed loop system and they're highly sustainable cuisine. nicholas and his team were a wooded one, green michelin star events. a lot. every new business is, is, is a, is a tough 1st years though, but obviously with all those bases in each product, it was so nice to get the recognition for the hardware that we pointed out. it's kind of allowed us to push on to that next level now to try and achieve more hungarian language top to with beluga lentils. mushroom results are with elderberries. and to finish, as she talked a mushroom with apple and co robbie ram alada. i think being is a bit of a bad rap. i'm of so being blonde kind of food, but i think place like the show that it's not just spot it's it can be incredible by come from manchester. normally it's 5 big thing there like much terry bigness.

i'm sorry, quite not that is so fragile. mm. you wish lens dollars a do to be awarded in britain soon getting a green one is a great start that nicholas on his meagan restaurant aiming for a regular mission and start to plenty of food for thought. thank you so much for watching this addition of focus on europe. if you want, you can watch more of our stories on our website at d, w dot com. you can also get in touch with us on twitter and let us know your thoughts. join us again next time, bye for now. mm. with with

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