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tv   Focus on Europe  Deutsche Welle  December 14, 2023 3:30pm-4:01pm CET

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much can we do simultaneously multitasking these, the modern because if we do too much, we paid it all wrong. we messed things up, risking brain damage. so let's stop this self sabotage, humans and multitasking watch. now on youtube, v. w documentary, the hello and the welcome to focus on europe. it's wonderful to have you with us. scores of refugees continue to attempt to reach you are risking their lives in the winter. the journey to the spanish canary islands is particularly dangerous. nevertheless, the small island of arrow is reporting an unprecedented increase in refugees. moto,
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a young senegalese arrived on this island 3 years ago. but his dream of starting a new life has not yet come to refuge, a work group to see the drum and a husband of his baritone. are familiar with such stories, some of which leave them a motion to lead. great in this port on grand canal aria is of special significance to moto piece from senegal, and like many other west africans, he came here on a small, overcrowded fishing boat. this year, tens of thousands made the perilous journey st. but it was all i was thinking was, i'm going to die. if not today, tomorrow. i sense the danger we were as if i did i go have to imagine the boat went up, that didn't crash down. sometimes it almost broke apart and mobile people were crying
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the most all i could think about was my mother who did i never see her again. so it moto survived the life threatening crossing, but his hopes of traveling to the spanish mainland for a new life have slowly faded. it's been 3 whole years since he arrived in the canaries and motors still can't leave. all the while boats from west africa continued to dock here. around 35000 people made the journey this year over twice as many as last many arrive with injuries. hundreds more die and c of the crossing from west africa to the canary islands is considered one of the most dangerous brutes to europe. finally, get upon throne is confronted with this reality. every day. he's the mayor of albuterol, the smallest of the islands. he's on his way to the cemetery yet another funeral for a migrants who died at sea. miss young lady. good. i'm happy that we can bury them
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here, but get to proceed along side everyone else from our community for k. but i'm sad because we don't have their names. the gravestones are blank home, but if i can, that means that no one will come to look for their husband, their child, their brother, for money is also equal, or for him on motives, mother and brother are still in senegal. he misses that, he'd never risk his life crossing on a boat again. he says, pull that are going to be that you gamble with your life. is this some make it many don't have him with them, which i mean, i've lost so many friends at sea. i tried to warn them, see that they wouldn't listen. it's more important than they're not using take it and the sort of thing. they stories to say that pods their own and her husband know
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all too well will be all probably of the volunteers are making preparations for a new shelter in a former monastery space on the island is running out of him, broke it for the ones that left jelly, make the bed loud. look at my hair, the 1st aid kit on the key in the middle. they made up the key. yes. let's see how many there are 1st of them. then we can decide where to put the babies, women, and children. but as the injured to take the 1st floor and the others the 2nd week, i will have looked at them a whole a good by the fairy to 10. a reef. transporting hundreds of refugees to the larger island. many more are expected. so more to hold up for health and are so many coming. we just can't take care of them. the one boat arrives, you give everyone water and take them to the showers, then and other boats come in 280 people to yeah, they say you must reorganize again. i see where you can find more back. sorry, hold on the sidebar. the one who said last got hard at out and it and does it,
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and we can figure out how many arrived sick or wounded just a few days ago, a man and test that he does care died deputy c b, i think it was not. it's a real blow you ever did tell them, do you wonder if you could have done more? whether you should have checked again that night and you dial to see if that matters for can we meet them, get to know them. and then when i say most, it's difficult. a complete go mode who is considered an economic migrant. he was denied asylum, which means he'll be deported. that's a biased the most on basic refugees from other countries might be here for a month or 2 before being allowed to travel to the main. le. and those are the ones that we have from synagogue, and there's no war. there are no idea. so they told us we have to go back to our country and put this bice,
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the motor who lacks the legal grounds to stay. but he is staying foot working as a taylor an acquaintance. took him in, but the situation makes him unhappy. and you'll see that my family keeps asking me for money to expand a little bit, but year in europe now they say, and i think, but africans, idea of europe has little to do with reality. and it's total if you live here and have paper. so you can have a good life way to sell it. otherwise you have nothing left in, in either case and i left so much behind which of course i had a good job and it's in a go, i'm with the whole, but i lost everything in the model hopes it wasn't all in vain. but so far he says, his dream of a better life in europe has not come true. when it comes to air pollution, bosnia and herzegovina ranks among the worst, any of the country has abundantly lick,
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not coal resources. this cold is also used and the country's largest power plant in tools left. this power plant helps meet a big chunk of the country so that tricity needs and provides thousands of people in the region with 6 your employment. however, residents, like you said, have started to express health concerns. there is an increasing incidence of cancer and respiratory problems similar to population near the power plants. so how toxic is this neighborhood really kina is harvesting the last tomatoes of the season. they're not as tasty anymore as the ones in august. she says, she's 74 years old and lives alone. her house is right next to the biggest coal power plant in bosnia and herzegovina. lord, i'm sorry, i have to grow my own vegetables. liquid good. i can't walk very well and the supermarket is far away. she in the door, but when i harvest something,
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i wash it well 33 times. indeed it i don't think it's dangerous mediaspace, though. she tells me she has 4 chicken and 2 cats that keep her company after her husband died. uh was middle middle. the concern is my husband died as stomach cancer in 2018. so, but i don't know what cost ariel was it. ok, i'm pulling up the play set goodies on one side of getting us house lies the coal power plant. on another side, it's asked disposal site. this is the body ash from the plant is dumped. it's just outside of town, but it feels as far away as the moon. this is what we meet, dennis disco. so he is an environmental activist and has been opposing the power
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plant for years. so if you look at this of this poisonous with wash and on top of the 3 that is full of heavy metals, god knew of sidney lid. it's most healthy. what more? drop it from chunk from please do it and walk your friends, but nothing. this would be as from the plant is comforted with water into the basin. presumably the ash will be left chief of good dentist tells me that according to a study he did together with the scientist from the university up to us not to mixture contains a range of heavy metals to voters toxic and extremely alkaline. he says, so it should not come into contact with underground water. so how,
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how is this space and how is it sealed off? they just billed at them at the end of the valley. and unfortunately, there is nothing ceiling the bottom of this thing. so that's where we have a problem because the way it should have been done, they should have put the liner, some kind of prevention of this water penetrating the underground water, which they didn't do. dennis come see rescue and i need to documented the site. he's afraid that heavy metals will end up in the soil, the ground water, and ultimately the food chain. we want to know that just as tight violate legal standards, according to our legislation, legal. unfortunately, uh, the environmental permits. uh, they're doing everything in accordance with the environmental permits. so the problem we have in this country is that the whole system is actually working to predict the polluters, rather than predict the people in the nature. as we asked the company
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with a ceiling exist, i'm guessing evasive answer, saying they comply with the old regulations. to double check the accusations, we ask the environment ministry to get an insight into the official environment. impact assessment of the site did tell us that it can get ahold of some document but voltage sort of pollution might be one issue at pollution, seems to be the bigger one. besides the power plant, traffic, household teaching and other industries contribute to it. to us live, it's considered one of the most polluted cities in europe, and measures of particularly meta in the air. awesome, and the unhealthy range during our stay. another person who is deeply upset about absolution is use it by kids who lives near the plant. he wants to show his health problems.
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well then i have 4 ruined ribs here. he tells us he has been sick for more than 20 years and suspects the reason is the plant. because i don't have that on it foot, i may have i last part of my long i had cancer, i had tuberculosis able to all because of the plant guaranteed on that. it's all because of the power plant out of the car. i was born here to the deal. when i was a kid, the snow was black in the seventy's. they wouldn't get them. and now the rain is full of dust. settling up. he said shows pictures of his surgery. oh, what of it? by now he has only half of his lung capacity. his that's or is it doesn't want to plan to be closed but 3 months, but it protects and he needs to take an array of medications and only goes outside
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of pollution. level is low, but that stomach go to the doctor is even recommended that i move away if i can move that, but we're too good. at the local hospital, pulmonology specific, the only hostage is treating patients who live in the area. i show her the level of find particular meta often last days in the red area. mm hm. with up to 200. what does it mean for your health, for my health, for everybody's health here? does that is not it does that's much higher than the maximum for that size. that particular comment, the e. uh, basically no amount of this is healthy for human. sway i have as being is a target. so the higher the concentration and the longer the exposure, the more harmful and longer lasting the consequences, siegel and the rest of it was being a. so we had to go to our, to me,
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find particularly meta, also called pm. 2.5 can be to cancer, cardiovascular, diseases, diabetes, and ultimately premature day. i want to know, is it possible to quantify how much harm is close by the power plant and how much the other factors, such as the traffic crossings, all the way to to name and put dr. couldn't remember exact. i cannot give you a percentage source because there is no data unable, isn't it that way i looked on the all day or stand when it comes to the area around the power plant to shave it, air pollution is higher than it is in other parts of the city and economy of issues that are shown on echo aust, telling deal of the mind cannot. the power plant itself is definitely has a negative effect on air quality who's a single not all, but it is also comparable to other sources of pollution. ali assignment on a similar take on party unity. so don't game is what he is a junior or nationally or clean. yet some locals perceived a power plant as the main culprit on the 6th street residents. really nice. we're
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here to talk about the plant, and suddenly everyone wants to have their say to tell us, almost all of them have sick or deceased family members. me small or to we are being poisoned here. my mother died. this neighbor died, his son died. she had surgery and look at ease it situation of the bed on never going to go got another man stops his car to give his take on it. he is in favor of the coal power plant. while he was a heated debate stocks to the unlimited. so and i said, do they can't close the power plant now, that was yellow is region and the people here depend on it, 10 was closing, it would mean the end of mining here, but i knew it then what it would mean job losses. and what would we end up with this guy? poverty got them. yes. and somebody from up there deciding when to open the end to close the pipes, it gets to kind of nowadays a country that exports energy is
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a rich country. they've got a email passing on the, on the but there's so much dust me these though they should use better filters so we can feel better and breathe easier on the water was especially during winter. you can breathe. movers suffocating. i've seen many doctors. they told me it's no surprise knowing where i live. well, we just want to be healthy about from the volume we walk around, like zombies as we cool zone b hold on. both in that and hudson governor has huge cold recess. last year, it exposed to the quote of the energy it produced. the economic benefit to locals, however, here seems limited. according to the company, only $352.00 of the employees from town. management is not willing to give a tv interview. they respond to our questions via email, emphasizing that they comply with all the requirements they send us their admission
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data. but even when asked again, don't specifically clarify emissions of p. m $2.00, find particular meta despite many cancer cases and a small study funded by an and g o, it's difficult to legally prove link between the power plant and people's sickness . i want to get answers from the public health institute of the content, but don't get clarity there either. the. no, honestly, certainly if i have research as needed to assess the impact energy producers have on people's how we, based on, but neither the state nor the canton dedicates enough financial resources for it to me is locked on to include tennessee. we ask for the money, but nobody wants to give it to us because the only study that has been done was by an environmental organization. and they only had a small budget time visitors even. yeah. it seems like officially institutions and
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government bodies are turning a blind eye for shifting to blame. the not is living a slow lice sometimes to surface from, from situs, but she has no anger against the coal power plant. to night i love living here the while. that's what i know. she has made peace with the place where she lives will even good. now my name is at my age you don't have big dreams. civil doctors, if i take the next step to walk up to stand up it's been more than 50 years since a power plant was built here. i lease was wondering how does situations, but look for the next generation. interesting to
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meet the dual adults therapist on a mission to brief life into the lives of the senior citizens residing in their local care. home to l. finds it important that they move beyond the limited confines of chairs and dining rooms and bedrooms. he overseas an old age home and routed them where he noticed how agent movement related illness imposed limitations . watching you will fish items out of his trunk. you'd be hard pressed to guess what he does for a living. is he a clown, an entertainer at children's birthday parties? actually he uses these things to get the laziest couch potatoes up and moving. and when he rolls up, his clients know just why he's their loved resort and by the residents, recognize this walker straight off the thing. when i come here with my things they
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know right away, well very well you else back my stuff. and i, luckily we really get around, i'm a name of the residents of this nursing home, and rotterdam all have limited physical mobility. most could move around more. they just don't want to. sandra is an exception. see pedals this exercise, bike and watches. the ducks landscape passed by. it's good exercise though a bit don't. so you well as building sandra course to play many golf and activities, he really enjoys. other things, you know, the, the bomb physio therapy is used to hear people's lives specifically when they have a muscular skeletal problem, lifetime of a whole. we're just doing preventative medicine days. we work to get folks moving for them, physio is a most of them, would you? but making fitness, compulsory often doesn't work. so i'm responsible for supplying the fun. you didn't have to keep them coming back for more in the colon. bending down,
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concentrating and taking aim. that takes some effort. sandra space isn't just flushed from excitement. yeah, yeah. well it's best to be something yes. i knew well is an exception when it comes to nursing. that's cool. he's very dedicated. just totally present. it's that i look nice to him, it's usually he runs around with this stuff and use it to get people moving for it to try to base. and he's full of ideas. yeah. you, well, it's really great to work with him. oklahoma that's, i'm sorry, i'm with american. one of the more difficult patients is hang. he often lives around in bed for days. thank. hang a groups homeless, oklahoma, just holding so high angles make. i brought you my slingshot. okay. yeah, it's a good way to clean up to think he's in bed and i'm going down to and on when
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hank is lying in bed and i come around or something happens in his brain. but as you have a walker, and he becomes more alert to do not even might have to. and if i stick around, he'll get active off and he'll even get out of bed and help with the cooking or housekeeping. for example, he may met the toys out of going for a bike ride with you. l makes lydia happy. she loves to get out. doors sitting around inside makes her feel blue. the head of nursing services says you wiles, work helps everyone shaker discipline the course and the team benefits too, because we work with these people aligned, we must get them out of that and provide them with a good daily routine. we don't seem to have it. if they're healthier and weigh less, then they'll feel better to asap identity. then they're happier and more receptive
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to nursing care. that's worked out for delta minutes of showing improve the whole work atmosphere and adults contact the industry at the who to take a while. you well as out bike riding his assistant, them get takes over as a human basketball hoop for your sam. cuz daughter tests often joins in boosting the team. spirit. yeah, i thought experiments are, i think everybody wants to play this. i think everyone is still a child at heart intensive and that inner child makes people here forget about their agent ailments. at least for a while. when i think of turkish deserts, delicacies like buck lava and local, immediately come to mind. but it would have never thought of belgian waffles in turkey, came out last as a well known and highly successful level of baker from simple. you haven't just
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mass of his craft about you almost understand self promotion, especially now during the christmas season in this symbol is full of landmarks. but in category on the agent side of the boss for is, there is one site that simply must be seen and tasted, come out, it says waffle shop. the walls exert a magical attraction. tomorrow is convinced they are the best in the city, and the figures speak for themselves. on average, i saw $35000.00 waffles every month with a small mix. the chocolate himself who pub. this is a special type of shop called prey. lean jeanette means it has to contain 30 to 40 percent hayes on that particular miss 1000 chocolate. wherever you look and fresh fruit with lots of chocolate and different sauces on the walls. level beach go, the levels actually come from belgium for good i think. and brussels, they're served with icing,
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sugar and cherries. so now i tried solving that here too, but without success, putting in turkey, you after that, lots of food on them. cool. so i created different sauces and adapt to them. and we, we often ask them all has hit that sweet spot that on. yeah, this is the play now. i'm here every night. i cannot go to school, it looks pretty jump moving, but the combination is quite tasty because that when i see the strawberries, iowa come all came up with all these decorations, the christmas ones too. but what santa claus is doing here? they celebrate new year's eve and turkey, but not christmas come all is flexible about it. will they be is if you want to do business, you come up with something for every occasion. you'll probably do a so the 75 year old is so successful that he has 3 stories and kind of guy alone. he really should have himself cloned, woke up his that's my brother. just joking next year,
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come all wants to achieve something spectacular. a record he wants to make the world's biggest walk, not for a symbol for, for the guinness book of records. that's. that's probably the focus on your thank you for watching. goodbye. the
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