it and even he thinks indeed environmental battle in the balkans is heating up with a group of women the term and to stop a network of rivers running dry two thousand seven hundred hydroelectric dams threaten what environment and vital mentalists a is a unique ecosystem in bosnia and herzegovina david schaper reports. the christian river runs through a mountain forest once a rich hunting ground outside serry a vote for the emperor of austria hungary a business cartels plans to build a small hydroelectric plant here though means these waters could soon run dry diverted into concrete pipes to drive. the women of the village of christie are the only thing standing in their way the project would destroy the hopes of reviving jobs and tourism in a national park devastated by the war here in the one nine hundred ninety s. . police who used to clear block a day built to prevent construction crews reaching the site of beating women with battens outrage public opinion. they continue that twenty four hour guard above the river which is a source of drinking water as well as taking the fight to

. turkey deal of twenty fifteen was supposed to cut off the balkans route into europe has it work how many refugees and migrants are still using that particular route to try to make it to europe we often talk about the mediterranean route of course through north africa but what about the balkans wrote yesterday as a sort of mess in brussels of the balkans route is closed but in actual fact that isn't the case when the tukey deal struck thousands of people stranded and since then thousands more people have arrived so about twenty one thousand people have arrived to both this year which about ten thousand a stop there right now that's another estimated seventy eight thousand kids. and these are families traveling often with small children from countries like iran but also primary afghanistan iraq and further afield. and they're trying to reach europe without increasingly subjected to violence at the borders to. many of the refugees that we saw in david's report had hopes as you say to live somewhere else in europe so how do they adapt to to life in the balkans what sort of help do they

wartime sarajevo, i was the head of intelligence for u.s. forces in europe during that balkan ward. the third balkan war of the 20th century. you walk three sarajevo and you could tell it had been a vibrant, active, tolerant, beautiful city. you could kind of scan the horizon and you'd see austrian era government buildings and al see steeples and onion shaped domes and minarets. and now, of course, walking around during the war, you could also look up in the hills that surround sarajevo and see serbian are artillery. it was striking if was walk can around sarajevo ten years after it had hosted the winter olympics and came out in all of its glovery, tolerant, temperature teal, historic place. what struck folks, struck me, as i walked through and met the sayreoff vans, was not that they were so much different from us, but that they weren't, and folks of my brown, a couple of intelligence veterans have already recognized in the group, you all send us mostly to unhappy places. and the observation, the conclusion we draw is that the veneer of civilization, which we enjoy here, is actually qu

the balkans and beyond to remain here and ukraine proper taste of winter this but the south of course all implies we're drawing warms up from the african interiors are still in the middle twenty's quite happily but with masses of clouds throughout jiri morocco and tunisia for the next couple of days. the meeting voice of the business world mostly at expo brings together hundreds of companies and investors from all over the world if you already joined a new market let's meet in jerky let's wind together must get exposed nov twenty first to the twenty fourth at seattle is double for detail information and registration expo dot com capturing a moment in time snapshots of other nine other stories providing a glimpse into someone else's wild. on al-jazeera. when the news breaks and the story in the fight against isis is still continuing in the ambar desert when people need to be heard. and the story needs to be told my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice translate it on al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and life moves on

the balkans by nine hundred thirteen enter in autumn an army officer was stuffing. he would later go on to be the first president of turkey but in one thousand nine hundred fifteen he achieved the kind of victory one minister unwatched pasha had failed to deliver in libya or the balkans and he did it here in a bitter seven months of fighting not just with his own troops but we now know when the vital support of three hundred thousand hours. the battle was going to let them. win ships landed troops here on the twenty fifth of april one thousand nine hundred fifteen only a small unit of autumn and soldiers protected the coast with a rapidly diminishing i mean nation. most of all hope they might hold out until reinforcements arrived. and gave his now famous order which must have stalked. into their hearts. it was here. coming through here the stuff of. lading in the first of the autumn reserves into the battle i am across the turkish soldiers the survivors the battle above the ages retreating up this why and he told them first stop i said the enemy . and if you have made as a why the

said, i blame you for the wars in yugoslavia. what he was referring to was the balkans, having no understanding that these three leaders were actually from the baltics rather than the balkans. and they were flabbergasted. macron has never forgotten this. he told one of the journalists from le monde who was interviewing him for a package on the 100th anniversary, told them the story, and le monde is featured in this morning's newspapers. so it's very -- by the way, he said this is the territory that my wife came from, the balkans. talking to the leaders of the baltic republics, estonia, latvia alithuania. really, most of the europeans have a great deal of difficulty understanding how a person like that could be running the united states and american diplomacy and relations with europe if he doesn't understand that the baltics and the balkans are at the opposite ends of the continent. >> the first ladies going in for their event. you'll remember that back in april the trumps warmly welcomed the macrons to the white house. they now are in paris here. french one of the six languages t

just south of greece snow north of greece on the high ground up through the balkans they have run you between sunday and monday to spread all the way northwards there is cold air now in central europe the temperature best in vienna two degrees obese and snow on the astronauts on the other southern house and as you correctly see east of hungary bucharest at best two degrees so a bit of winter proper now of course is usually an effect for the south the main effect we draw but awards at the recent side of libya but actual fact this cloud is spreading east with eastern mediterranean that would increasingly put the levant at risk of more showers to the west of that lot of cloud of our jiri of tunisia and of course that matter right in morocco and on north coast of algeria and tunisia. welcome back here with our jazeera live from doha peter dhabi in the chair this hour your top stories the u.s. government is expected to give its conclusion on who killed the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in the next two days the cia has reportedly found the saudi crown prince mohammed bin some man was res

balkan who's a cyborg rights activist focusing on social justice in the digital age welcome to you all are let's start with you you've said before that surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia and that companies like facebook google snap chats off factory farms for human beings what did you mean so facebook and google are factory farms for human beings because that is their business model what they do is they farm people they don't farm our meat or our skin but they farm everything else about us that makes us who we are as people they track us to get this information they profile us using algorithms and they create these simulations of us basically these are what these profiles are and they use that to manipulate our behavior so this is a system that i call people farming and this is the business model of mainstream technology today and the system that we're living under is what shannon soup off from harvard business school calls surveillance capitalism and is this a problem and of course it's a problem because it is fundamentally incompatible with human rights and it's funda

some balkanization and there is heated rhetoric coming out on the left as well where we have candidates one here in queens in new york city who's calling herself a democratic socialist and unfortunately that is contributing to some very difficult and upsetting discourse because this activist way the democratic party is supporting for example the b.d.s. movement against israel so is that unsettling as well as populist conversations on the right if. you don't see my country right or wrong. well i was wrong how would you agree with that if you like country is wrong how would i agree with him you know i i feel like we're again the whole point about the balkanization the trying to dial down the rhetoric is there something that i'm for larry is for us to have a little bit more of an ability to i think my thought of having now which we can come to agreement and there's far more that brings us together than there is that divides us in this country and it's unfortunate that we focus on the things that divide us we move closer to elections even if it doesn't motivate our bases because

on once then came the balkan wars and then there came the great and did this change this chance phones the initial act of promising and bringing freedom to not peoples into one of the nineteen in. defeat in the balkans harden the young turks and they tighten their grip on their arab possessions. marking wars of one thousand nine hundred thirteen and catastrophe defeat and finally the action from what had been blocked alkaloids brought about and do not respond to jump in the development and education of turkish nationalists and also they became more and more dictatorial. the young turks had hoped to stay out of the war and ally themselves with britain and france but neither of these two countries would go against russia so they were not an option. besides the ultimate and germany had a history of friendship. vilhelm the second first visited istanbul in eight hundred eighty nine to befriend sultan. nine years later he landed a five on a state visit to the ultimate east. he made a ceremonial entry into jerusalem. and visited the tomb in damascus of salahuddin the famous mediæval m

think as much as our interest is to join the e.u. i think the enlargement to cover balkans is also in the news interest i think first and foremost european union is of this project and it's a successful one because we have for the first time in history your long term peace in europe would you say that but i know you have made it clear haven't they they cannot and will not import bilateral disputes junko deal because said it last year that's pretty clear isn't it because it's clear they're not going to point to a dispute with kosovo it is absolutely clear if you don't settle it there you're not going to get you know that it's normal to me i think that's just natural thing to do i would ask that if i were the e.u. as well so you're not going to settle this any time soon you've admitted that yourself so there's not really no perspective for you joining in the foreseeable future i would one hundred percent disagree with you on that point because firstly the the soonest possible date for us to join the e.u. is twenty twenty five so by twenty twenty five i think there is a possibility that

themselves define european values as the opposite of these terrible nationalist in the balkans and so and particularly they defined the serbs as being their enemy because the serbs were nationalists whereas the french and the europeans are sophisticated europeans have moved on from that and now take on this transnationalism globalism but of course as you say that the people are rejecting that and it is clear that the rossa such a thing has nations and what's very important and we see this of the seat as the poles of the czechs is that they want to retain their national identity they don't want to. somehow lost in some kind of a. tray you know transnational melting pot and so therefore macro who at times seemed as if he understood this has gone back to a kind of this nonsensical idea that well nations are just a thing of the past you know they're the things that cause two world wars and then we have to move on to something called european values which will trans national values will durant of course if you're a. citizen it's not going on now it's nonsensical because these elites don't

out and leave our homes. throughout the balkan region a total of two thousand seven hundred hydroelectric plants are planned or on the construction in bosnia has covina they already supply forty percent of the energy supply environmentalists say that building a hydroelectric dam is similar to cutting down a tropical rain forest and its impact on the local ecology investors maybe getting a quick return on that money but a huge swathe of species in the local habitat a port on a downward escalator to words extinction. ecologists have described it as a tsunami of down building that will profoundly alter the whole region the real motive they say is far from the ideal of clean sustainable energy having some really really one of the most beautiful river. they're going to be destroyed for the. greed. but in ten years time solar power is forecast to be much cheaper than hydroelectric and the pristine forests and rivers of the balkans will probably have gone for ever david chaytor al jazeera sorry you . still ahead for this hour going to have reaction from sri lanka after a rare serie

misery in the northeast, africa, the balkans -- in the middle east, africa, the balkans and east asia. in the jungle she came across an encampment of 1rks500 women and children. refusing to abandon them, her reporting roofed the west and led to their evacuation. her career produced many such stories of courage and persistence, getting the story under the most harrowing circumstance. in the process she suffered a post-traumatic stress syndrome and the loss of an eye but was undetered from going back into harm's way. in 2012, she and her photographer were killed by artillery fire while covering he syrian civil war. marie, we honor you. we respect you. and i guarantee you, to all of us, that the lord is honoring her. and then there was javier valdez cardenas. award-winning mexican journalist a weekly newspaper dedicated to investigating crime, corruption and human rights. he wrote several books on drug trafficking, including his unflattering portrait of even elle chapo. in 2009 -- of even el chapo. after a particularly hard-hitting story he escaped injury when a grenade was thrown into h

the second balkan war and in 1918, they wanted this territory, and the germans would not give it to them, so they got a little bit better. they decided they -- bitter. they decided they was not going to fight any longer. so suddenly, you had a breakthrough with an army of 250,000 now poised and ready to basically march up to the balkans and threatened vienna and berlin. if you actually read these papers, this is what convinced him he could win the war. not necessarily the american intervention all the american intervention made things much harder for him and the -- and in the end may amend the contributing factor of the breakdown of morale of the german troops on the western front, the salonika deployment was what finally broke them. the germans wanted peace and the ottoman wanted peace and the ottomans was quicker to perceive what the macedonian debacle meant that even the germans. the department was witness and he turned to one of his aides and said we had just eaten them. you can kind of guess. we have eaten excrement, and that means they were done. they sue for peace trying to g

are clashing brody's in stare out of the car pacing out in the balkans that snow keep going through ukraine and there are masses route running up through the balkans into most of the alps and up as far north as berlin probably by tuesday the green is rain it's been stormy around both greece turkey and probably italy that's going to continue as well the snow itself will be regenerated i think of the carpathian arms and keep going over the alps and south of the lower ground in germany is just the cold remaining and you know it is now almost all of europe is in single figures as a high temp she's madrid's and it is managing twelve surbiton a change big change to be honest and it's always been inducing the warmth to come out of africa not is very warm honey twenty two or twenty four twenty five in libya significant raise already fallen in morocco and that could be more to come is disappearing from algeria and to near zero notice and this massive cloud is drifting through the eastern mediterranean that's a result of what's still happening around the igi in the black sea will eventually t

of attracting tourists to bulgaria's pristine rivers like here in the balkan range. card and dimitar man and have a small canoe shop here by the car river. now they fear for their future. if the river gets too slow there's no point in cracking anymore. not far away what he dreads has already come true the procope down his held by a shareholding company it's one of forty three power stations in its portfolio and there are more planned that reservoir is filled with muddy water gas bubbles burst at the surface pointing to a decay process below. the corporate speaker claims it's all part of the natural cycle. we inspect the riverbed very closely physically and chemically what we see here is a completely normal seasonal process that would happen with or without us. it's a lame excuse in the eyes of environmental activist demeter kumar not at this moment that this is already a blow to top that we are temperature and place oxygen. cut it down for me not to use that kind of water. and yet they keep laying more concrete. beyond the dams bugg area still has many untouched and wild mountain riv

philip martin all rehearsing with the balkan struck in. the last time they have been on tour was in two thousand and five with the german pop poet who is on. the album calling the band's heartfelt songs have all been rearranged to fit a live orchestra. it's such an incredible thought that we all have to agree on who plays which night when we're so many musicians all performing one song i need. a time to get goosebumps because this group of fifth. class musicians create such a rich sound you wouldn't get that from a quartet old quintet wins the crowd and. composer and singer allan cohen is known for her intelligent lyrics and powerful melodies born to a german doctor and mexican artist she grew up speaking german and spanish in hamburg and started traveling at an early age she even discovered a passion for music on the road. i started writing because i wanted to perform. and i was living in sweden and i went to an open stage event and i remember watching the performances and thinking i want to sing for people to watch. but first she studied environmental engineering at the weimar univers

territories much closer to home and the balkan wars at nine hundred twelve and nine hundred thirteen. so britain france and russia began plotting how to exploit the potential collapse of salt on our block a means empire for their own individual benefit. to turn up to a minute the second will rule the empire from eight hundred seventy six to nine thousand or eight or nine thousand or nine felt that western european powers were playing dirty games. in his mind and in the minds of the advisers around him and many ottoman ops are mere appeal powers were supporting nationalist independence movement within the ottoman empire he thought that the great powers were using religion especially christianity to mobilize those nationalist movement in an effort to undermine the ottoman empire. the sultan's view was not wrong. the european powers so on rest in the arab world after nearly four hundred years of ultimate rule as an opportunity. but there was a stumbling block provincial arab leaders and intellectuals were thinking about gaining independence from the ultimate. but for ordinary arabs the sult

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other parts of the world. next to the park in hotel is the balkan house which has been nicknamed the stasi months now in museum it used to be a surveillance installation for the east german secret police. between nine hundred sixty one and nine hundred eighty nine the whole area was a military zone. the antenna were once used to spy on west german politicians for example. and it goes without saying that the views from the top often test. here's another thing that hans region is well known for it's half timbered houses like here in the city of bendigo holding. the town hall on the market square especially beautiful and it's over five hundred years old. bendigo what is nicknamed the colorful city by the huts understandably so don't you think let's find out why. what's behind these have to break facades. this is the crooked house which used to be a water mill it's the mill stream that caused the foundation wall to crumble and the house to tilt. works by local artists are exhibited inside. the new objectivity artist's college bills fed was born in the region and made a name for himself w