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[00:08:16] The ball with which the famous Argentine footballer Diego Armando Maradona
[00:08:19] scored a goal with the so-called Hand of God against England in
[00:08:23] the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup,
[00:08:26] will be at an auction which will be held from August
[00:08:29] 21st to 23rd by the American auction
[00:08:33] house Heritage Auctions, it is expected to fetch a selling
[00:08:37] price of 10 million dollars. The starting price for
[00:08:40] the ball with which Maradona scored the first goal in the match that
[00:08:44] ended with Argentina winning 2:1
[00:08:47] will be 2.5 million dollars, the auction house
[00:08:51] Heritage confirmed the authenticity of the ball with a letter they
[00:08:55] received from the match referee Tunisian Ali Benasser
[00:08:58] in 2023, confirming that
[00:09:02] he kept the only ball used during the match, which was
[00:09:06] in his possession for more than 30 years, the ball also
[00:09:09] bears the signatures of his assistants. Of that
[00:09:12] duel. Four years ago, a jersey worn by Maradona
[00:09:16] in the match against England in 1986 was sold at auction for
[00:09:20] 9.3 million dollars.
[00:09:51] Politics is not just a struggle for power, but a story about people and
[00:09:54] their everyday choices, choices
[00:09:57] that shape our society, even when they are not on the ballot
[00:10:00] paper, because changes only begin when we accept
[00:10:04] the responsibility that all this concerns us. That's
[00:10:07] why we seek answers persistently and without
[00:10:10] compromise towards the truth. I. I am Maja Štrbac, you are watching
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[00:10:33] Worrying crisis at Volkswagen, slavery
[00:10:37] in Europe, problems of Roma in Greece.
[00:10:50] Good day to you. Germany has been in crisis for a long time. The symbol of that
[00:10:54] crisis is the former symbol of success and strength,
[00:10:57] Volkswagen. The news coming from this German automotive
[00:11:01] giant is one after another getting worse. The last one
[00:11:05] arrived before the summer holidays. There is talk of abolishing around one hundred
[00:11:09] thousand jobs and even a possible closure of four
[00:11:12] production locations. Among them is one of
[00:11:15] Volkswagen's most modern production facilities, the one in
[00:11:19] the East German city of Zwickau. The closure
[00:11:22] of the factory would threaten the entire region. Therefore, the local
[00:11:25] residents and authorities announce a determined fight against Volkswagen's
[00:11:29] plans.
[00:11:33] They are angry, disappointed, desperate. Volkswagen
[00:11:36] employees in Zwickau, Saxony, learned from the newspapers that
[00:11:40] their factory is on a list of four Volkswagen
[00:11:44] locations that this car manufacturer could
[00:11:47] close. It's like a world
[00:11:50] collapsing.
[00:11:53] One thinks a lot, one. Has anger in the belly, because one gives
[00:11:56] their best here every day, it's an
[00:11:59] emotional chaos that is simply indescribable.
[00:12:01] The closure of the factory would be a disaster for
[00:12:05] numerous supplier companies and for the entire Zwickau
[00:12:08] region. The entire region depends on it, we have
[00:12:12] suppliers here, we are talking about easily several thousand jobs
[00:12:16] and also the small baker or butcher, the trade, everything depends
[00:12:20] on it, if people simply don't earn money
[00:12:22] anymore.
[00:12:25] Reinhold knows that well. In his bakery, most of the work is during
[00:12:28] shift changes at the factory. Reinhold
[00:12:31] runs a small bakery with his wife for the third
[00:12:34] generation. Many customers he serves work at
[00:12:38] Volkswagen. When the night shift at the factory was abolished,
[00:12:41] sales fell, and the bakery had to lay off two of its 15
[00:12:45] employees.
[00:12:49] Uncertainty, so no one knows where the journey is going. Yes, so I also think
[00:12:52] about the family, I think about the employees who then
[00:12:56] built something here, who of course also pay off
[00:12:59] their houses, and so on, the crisis at
[00:13:03] Volkswagen is all they talk about even in the narrow streets of the historic
[00:13:07] center of Zwickau, after all almost every family has someone
[00:13:11] the factory.
[00:13:19] She started working for VW last
[00:13:22] year, as a mixer.
[00:13:33] You notice consumer behavior, people who are afraid for their jobs might not go shopping
[00:13:37] as much anymore, they don't go to restaurants anymore, because they simply save
[00:13:41] their money, we also notice that in the construction sector, when people no
[00:13:44] longer invest in residential properties or perhaps also in the commercial sector.
[00:13:48] And that's what they want to fight for here, says the deputy
[00:13:51] mayor. For every job. And that's if
[00:13:55] Volkswagen actually implements its
[00:13:57] plans. The scenario looks
[00:14:01] like this: there is a shortage of labor in the market, which
[00:14:04] leads to a search for workers mostly abroad. On
[00:14:08] one side are intermediaries who are looking for workers for their own
[00:14:11] benefit, on the other are those who want a job. Intermediaries then
[00:14:15] find a job, help with obtaining visas and you happily
[00:14:19] think that all you need to do is diligently
[00:14:22] do your job. However.
[00:14:25] The moment you invoke your contractual rights,
[00:14:29] harassment, threats, abuse
[00:14:32] from those who helped you begin. Those who gather
[00:14:36] the strength to oppose it pay a high price.
[00:14:39] Some paid with their lives, as in this example from
[00:14:43] Italian fields. These
[00:14:45] terrible images shocked Italy. In June, four
[00:14:49] foreign agricultural workers burned at a gas station.
[00:14:53] They were locked in a vehicle and had no chance of survival.
[00:15:07] and often what they find is this, this cruelty, this
[00:15:07] cruelty.
[00:15:11] workers were allegedly killed by criminal intermediaries because they protested
[00:15:14] against the conditions they worked in. that event drew attention to
[00:15:18] the exploitation of agricultural workers and the networks behind it.
[00:15:22] We are
[00:15:24] in southern Italy on the Ionian coast between Calabria
[00:15:28] and the Basilicata region. Strawberries, peaches, apricots, melons
[00:15:31] and kiwi are grown in a new fertile area and exported throughout
[00:15:35] Europe. Four agricultural workers also worked
[00:15:38] here. The agreement was that they would be paid 45 euros
[00:15:42] per day for eight hours of work. They received their last
[00:15:45] payment in April. We meet Gervasio Mungolo,
[00:15:48] a farmer and founder of an association that aims to raise
[00:15:52] awareness about the exploitation of workers. With him, we
[00:15:55] return to the place where the four men
[00:15:57] died.
[00:16:01] What agriculture is like in Italy, in Europe, it makes no
[00:16:05] difference if they are Pakistanis, Afghans, Bangladeshis,
[00:16:08] Africans, this is what we see
[00:16:11] every year in our countryside, there is
[00:16:14] very little desire to reason about the
[00:16:17] true causes of these
[00:16:20] tragedies.
[00:16:23] that at least 200,000 people in Italy alone work in discriminatory and
[00:16:27] slave-like conditions like the four victims from
[00:16:29] Amendolara.
[00:16:33] But the problem starts with resettlement. Many seasonal
[00:16:35] agricultural workers come and... in detail with a valid visa, to work for
[00:16:39] companies that then turn out to either not exist or
[00:16:43] disappear.
[00:16:45] And so they often become prisoners of intermediaries in finding
[00:16:49] work.
[00:16:51] Union members Federica Pietramala and Alessandro Dicalo
[00:16:55] try to free workers from such employment relationships. Like this
[00:16:58] group of Nepalese agricultural workers who worked in the same
[00:17:01] environment as the four men killed from
[00:17:04] Amendolara, for the same criminal post.
[00:17:09] they have reported, so now they have also been included in a
[00:17:13] protection and assistance
[00:17:16] project, both regarding their residence permit
[00:17:20] and regarding housing. Never
[00:17:24] again slavery, this sentence now stands at the gas station in
[00:17:27] Amendolara,
[00:17:30] the place where four people were burned
[00:17:33] alive.
[00:17:39] Poverty, lack of education, living in special
[00:17:43] violence, isolation, and thus non-integration into society and
[00:17:46] culture. That is what marks the lives of Roma in
[00:17:49] Greece. But how to solve this problem? The Greek authorities
[00:17:53] hope that a greater police presence could contribute
[00:17:56] to greater safety in Roma settlements and thus improve the situation
[00:18:00] there. But the Roma see this as
[00:18:03] a sign of distrust and racism.
[00:18:07] Zefiri is a Roma settlement in northern Athens, more than
[00:18:11] 10,000 people live there, it is characterized by high
[00:18:14] unemployment, low levels of education, and a high
[00:18:18] crime rate. Some people call Roma
[00:18:21] settlements ghettos, claiming that
[00:18:24] it is not safe to go there alone, especially at night. The police
[00:18:27] want to improve safety by introducing patrols that operate 24
[00:18:31] hours
[00:18:32] a day.
[00:18:45] The police try to be highly visible, using large vehicles
[00:18:48] that no one else in this area drives, uniforms and weapons are visible. According to police
[00:18:52] data from 2024,
[00:18:55] Roma are involved in a greater number of criminal acts than other
[00:18:58] residents. According to these data, they are responsible for
[00:19:02] 58% of burglaries and thefts in
[00:19:04] Athens. According to official statistics. "In
[00:19:08] Greece, just under 120,000 Roma live,
[00:19:11] but the actual number could be significantly higher. As
[00:19:14] a marginalized minority, they are generally not sufficiently integrated
[00:19:18] into Greek culture and society.
[00:19:22] Most residents do not want to be filmed. Many people in
[00:19:25] Zefiri oppose filming their houses.
[00:19:28] Stigmatization is obvious. Many Greeks believe that if a Roma
[00:19:32] lives in a nice house, not in a shack, it must mean that
[00:19:36] he is a criminal." "One older woman is willing to
[00:19:39] talk, she doesn't want her face to be seen on camera, but
[00:19:43] allows us to film the interior of her home, she has a clear
[00:19:46] opinion on the new regular police
[00:19:49] patrols.
[00:19:53] Who is
[00:19:53] to blame?
[00:19:59] And our palace, they have a bond with us.
[00:20:06] The problem is the lack of education and opportunities, says
[00:20:09] the president of the National Federation of Roma, Eftimiu
[00:20:13] Dimitriu. He is disappointed with how little has
[00:20:16] been achieved, despite the connections he has with Roma
[00:20:19] communities and with Greek
[00:20:21] politicians.
[00:20:24] The goal is to recruit Greek Roma into
[00:20:27] all services, into decision-making centers, to have
[00:20:30] Greek
[00:20:32] Roma within the various services, so that they can
[00:20:36] smooth things out. and serve the people, and we do not want
[00:20:40] crime, nor theft,
[00:20:43] nor fraud, nor drugs.
[00:20:46] Originally, there was even an idea to recruit members of the Roma community
[00:20:50] for police patrols as a step towards
[00:20:53] integration, but it has not yet been realized, and the police are
[00:20:57] still focused on Roma
[00:20:58] settlements.
[00:21:01] Meanwhile, a police patrol is on its evening rounds of
[00:21:04] the settlement, even the police officers themselves were surprised by the picture
[00:21:08] of life in Roma
[00:21:09] settlements.
[00:21:16] We suffered a cultural shock, we didn't know what we were seeing, the conditions were terrible.
[00:21:20] But the police officer says that some residents are starting to develop
[00:21:24] trust in this, predominantly young police
[00:21:27] unit. Who among us, in the age
[00:21:31] of artificial intelligence, will keep their job? The answer to
[00:21:34] this question is not even dared to be given by the best experts in this
[00:21:38] field. And while on one side numerous professions
[00:21:42] are threatened, in craft occupations there are still not
[00:21:45] enough workers. In Germany, for years
[00:21:48] they have been unsuccessfully trying to make such
[00:21:51] occupations more attractive to young people. Here is an example
[00:21:54] of how it is still possible.
[00:21:57] Marlon spends a year gaining practical craft
[00:22:01] experience. Today, this twenty-year-old is installing
[00:22:04] an electrical line for a new charging station for
[00:22:07] bus batteries. This is part of the voluntary craft year program at
[00:22:11] Electro Brightling. Young people are given the opportunity to try out
[00:22:14] various professional occupations. During the year, they will
[00:22:17] go through four areas of IT.
[00:22:51] is a voluntary craft year, says electrical engineer Jonas Gentner, he is
[00:22:55] Marlon's mentor during three months of work in the field
[00:22:58] of energy and construction
[00:23:00] technology.
[00:23:06] other working conditions and yes, you talk more, you, you
[00:23:10] do more together and then it always works better, of course, if you can
[00:23:14] teach them more and if you know that you can trust them, you can also give them more
[00:23:17] responsibility and let them do more too.
[00:23:21] The possibility of trying out different crafts without the obligation
[00:23:24] to immediately start a three-year vocational training attracts
[00:23:28] many young people. The attractive earnings of 2.0 euros
[00:23:31] per month for a year of practical experience.
[00:23:35] Instructor Christoph Kolz says that it is money well spent,
[00:23:38] because when participants once start full
[00:23:42] vocational training, they almost never
[00:23:44] leave it.
[00:23:50] find someone who also wants to do the job, who feels called
[00:23:54] to craftsmanship, who is passionate about craftsmanship. has,
[00:23:57] this one-year program was launched by
[00:24:02] the director of the company fight
[00:24:06] in 2021.
[00:24:14] but also a high dropout rate among
[00:24:17] academics, and there is simply a need for something where
[00:24:21] you can offer people a perspective, where they can try themselves out
[00:24:24] to gain experience, to
[00:24:27] also, yes, for themselves to find out whether craftsmanship,
[00:24:31] if academia is not for them, whether craftsmanship is an
[00:24:34] option for them. Marlon Ritter now knows what
[00:24:38] profession suits him, after completing the one-year
[00:24:42] program, he will train as an electrical engineer for
[00:24:45] energy and construction
[00:24:47] technology.
[00:24:51] This was a brief overview of events in Europe which is
[00:24:54] facing numerous challenges, about them, but also
[00:24:57] many other topics, you can find more information on our
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[00:26:00] It might sound like science fiction. but in the Swiss Alps it may
[00:26:04] soon become reality. in the
[00:26:07] Gothard massive, researchers at the University of Zurich
[00:26:10] hope to trigger a small earthquake. If it
[00:26:13] works, it could reveal more about how earthquakes
[00:26:16] start and whether they can be
[00:26:18] predicted.
[00:26:23] All this and more groundbreaking stories on DW's science
[00:26:26] show. Welcome to Tomorrow
[00:26:28] Today.
[00:26:35] The big moment is just days away. Researchers at
[00:26:38] ETHH Zuric University are hoping to do something that's never been
[00:26:42] done in quite this way before, deliberately triggering a small
[00:26:46] earthquake.
[00:26:49] But first, there's still plenty of work to
[00:26:51] do.
[00:26:53] A narrow road leads two and a half kilometers deep into the Gottat
[00:26:57] Masif. The Bedreto tunnel underneath the mountain
[00:27:01] range is more than 50. years old and no longer in
[00:27:04] use, and now it's a perfect natural
[00:27:06] laboratory, here the team hopes to make ancient fault
[00:27:10] deep inside the rock slip ever so
[00:27:12] slightly. we're here because of this fault
[00:27:16] zone, you can see the boundary here clearly, a thin
[00:27:19] line. in the middle, there's this very briddle
[00:27:22] material called fault gouch.
[00:27:26] that's evidence that the rock is slipped along this line
[00:27:29] before. this is where we're hoping to trigger.
[00:28:03] If we understand the underlying physics better, perhaps one day we'll be able to make
[00:28:07] better forecasts.
[00:28:10] Men, Andren Maya and his 70 member team have been planning and
[00:28:13] building this experiment for 5 years. They've installed
[00:28:17] more than 200 sensors inside the mountain, hoping to capture
[00:28:21] every moment of the earthquake as it
[00:28:23] unfolds.
[00:28:26] Here's how they plan to trigger it. The fault has
[00:28:29] slipped naturally before, producing tiny earthquake.
[00:28:37] To reach it, the team has excavated new tunnel branching
[00:28:40] off from the Bagetta lab.
[00:28:44] From here, they'll pump water through three bore holes directly
[00:28:48] into the fault.
[00:28:51] As water pressure increases, the rock begins to shift. The
[00:28:55] existing stresses in the rock are released, triggering micro
[00:28:59] earthquake.
[00:29:02] Using six high pressure pumps, they'll inject around
[00:29:06] 2,0 cubic meters of water into the bore holes to bring the
[00:29:09] fault to the point where it slips.
[00:29:13] The pump system operates at pressures approaching 200 bar,
[00:29:17] demanding test for the equipment and a potential
[00:29:20] hazard for anyone inside the
[00:29:21] tunnel.
[00:29:25] These are the anchoring systems. They're
[00:29:27] secured with chains and anchor pins in case the pressure becomes too
[00:29:31] high and part of the pipe work.
[00:30:18] the test will
[00:30:19] begin
[00:30:23] one last systems check at the badretto lab 100 km
[00:30:27] away.
[00:30:31] it's been a... busy night and morning, but everything looks good and we're ready to
[00:30:35] go, the researchers are
[00:30:39] optimistic, the pumps are ready and the safety systems are in
[00:30:43] place,
[00:30:46] so this is button is to manually stop the
[00:30:49] pump, so we can press this button, once we have it pressed
[00:30:52] for about eight seconds, the pumps in the tunnel will stop
[00:30:55] automatically, and this is safety procedure that will allow
[00:30:59] to have a bit more control.