to join us for an exciting exploration of everything in between moses video and audio production by d w. i hope that you will tune in the hello and welcome to this week's focus on europe. great to have you with us. millions of people in turkey will forever remember the catastrophe that happened last year and event that changed their lives forever. in the early hours of february, 6th, a heavy earthquake devastated the southern part of the country. hundreds of thousands of houses and buildings were damaged or destroyed, but many people buried under the rubble more than 50000 lost their lives in the

disaster. turkeys president, richard, paved or the one was quick to promise financial help and new housing for those affected by the disaster. his opponents criticized him for using the tragedy for his benefits and his re election campaign. now, one year later, our reporter visited the city of attack. yeah. located in one of the regions where the quick hit there. she met the people who are still living. i'm in the ruins. fighting for moments of peace to the toxicity of unpack. yeah, one's home to hundreds of thousands of people. looks like a field of ruins. an empty last, a year after it was batted by powerful earthquakes. excavators are still busy removing debris. many neighborhoods virtually deserted, uninhabitable on the outskirts of they are destroyed. hometown indian national

tries to create a sense of normality for his daughter having like so many here in the quick soon they lived in a container shelves and now the 3 re metro books funded by the government, which covens, mom says i and her baby brother ali baba with my son valet. but be careful. i'd be cute, special ed somebody. it feels crime tier 6 year old kathy, this is hardly any room to place. and the families struggling with other problems. so may i be here by then? there are many water outages. sometimes i wake my child up at 2 in the morning to wash or because that's when we have water. you put, the city's infrastructure is broken, the authorities can't get a grip on it. every thing has become so complicated without b stu, mazda, and you know, the value of both teachers. they used to have a house, they tell us regular income's plans for the future. the family felt safe and secure,

but all that suddenly changed a year ago, in the early hours of february, 6 salt off the high till color. well it was very dark everywhere. i looked around and the walls were cracking the live. things were falling from everywhere. take that i thought i was having a nightmare. it wasn't just a nightmare with a 7.8 magnitude quake followed by another massive tremor. only hours later, the coast unprecedented devastation to south eastern taki. some $300000.00 buildings collapsed or with less than use of the cross 11 provinces. rescue teams arrived late. more than 50000 people were killed. according to official figures, explorer explain show the construction and the next enforcement of safety codes for

the scales. the disaster high off and the stuff i will cut out cool. i never felt so scared in my life. i tried to protect my daughter. that is so nothing would happen to her mother. she kept telling her mom, it's okay. understood, and it's going to be okay. daddy will save us lots mobile and he's with us is don't cry. lama palmer. the yearly to hundreds of thousands in the afflicted region are holding out in huge container cities or other temporary shelters. defying winter temperatures and drain, waiting for the cities to recover. shortly after the quakes president ridge of tongue of ad one made bold promises, he said holmes, the disaster zone would be revealed within just one year. how much it was a goal and the 1st phase is to complete $319000.00 homes and village houses within a year and $100.00 for to their owners. i dusty mistakes with reconstruction is progressing much smooth and promised at this building site. and then talk yes,

most of our offline and his team, a racing to get the 1st few 1000 departments ready by february. he attempts to explain the delays. sean india, to consider the biggest problem right now with the rain. it's been raining very heavily in the region, but we're working non stop. i do. we want to make sure earthquakes or virus can move in as soon as possible. the sort of it also started until kansas city struggling to get back on its feet. many shop owners and now selling from containers, mobile phones, closing suite for the economy here is on its knees. most of the former customers arrive as it will displace in sales. how does this saturday to help you, 6 year old, to, to come in with a b as in tool? my office as a quakes can take, so to have saved for today. ok, you follow me? 345 mazda tire society

schools. the some of the little by the reno's here have the find the disaster teachers much more news with the children growing. some she herself lost relatives and friends and the rocker to to most of the children didn't smile it. they were constantly distracted. quote, they were so scared that they didn't want to leave their families, but slowly we help them overcome their for years. we did it with our we did it with love. we did it by working together is and we just want them to have a bit of their old lives bag. digital is and to dance lessons or helping the parents to mississippi. the more like it was like a break for us to get you and then we can finally took a deep breath and forget all our troubles for a moment. they didn't beat. it's

a good feeling, it's not special. yours dancing, having fun. and so getting the nightmare of quakes for convenience, the other children. these are the happiest moments a little time out from the strange life in the ruined city. they are the kings and queens of the same wales, while they are coming in the ocean. the mediterranean can also boast a substantial population of these impressive mammals. suddenly their existence is being threatened not only by human activities on the water. there are also more incoming threats from land. so be not idle. the has made of her mission to protect worlds and to raise awareness about the dangers they are facing in their natural habitat. it's an early set off from the port of san remo.

sabina, idaho, the is leading the expedition of the italian french coast to the palazzo sanctuary . home to over 2000 whales. there under threat shipping traffic has become a deadly danger for the wells time and again, there are serious accidents such a big case. there have been cases where the bow of the ship has collided with a fin, well or sperm whales. some of those at the home. don't even notice. take this photo, a cargo ship wound up in a harbor like this sole. and nobody noticed that the the crew spotted something sabina and her assistant, mario suspect it's dolphins. they try to get closer.

they're coming up there. the there are around 15 dolphins. they're curious and soon take off on deck. it's all logged in. the data will go on to universities, the ship sales further out away from the coast to where the whales should be found at the university upon to professor sandra. i'm not savvy, or is trying to understand the threat suppose to wells from a different angle. when a well wash is up dead in italy, she goes to investigate much audio. is the forensic scientist amongst well, researchers. today he's examining to dolphins. both have died. young. they were found on the beach off the coast of venice. and they would give me, i mean,

some of the calls that we found things in recent years that we have not seen before . the spread of viruses, material pathogens from the mainland. considering where they should be instead concerns is a great deal. i was looking for an extreme flooding like an amelia romano last summer. wash as passages from fertilized fields into the sea. these land based pathogens are a great threat to the immune systems, a marine mammals mario just 1 o'clock. i saw something i think i saw something, a brass at a breach. if sabina has spotted us in, well, it will have to surface again to breathe after about 10 minutes. once at that, how long has it been?

9 minutes there it is. it is a fin. well, almost 20 meters long. even though it's a wonderful feeling, i've never seen a wheel before. it's wonderful to connect with an animal that's so much bigger than you up front of the store. so fin a scar, possibly from a fishing line or a ship's propeller. the creature appears. otherwise, healthy kids, even after hundreds of times, it's always the same great rush of feelings at the start of course. but then the researcher and me comes through. i know i have to collect data stuff back at the port of san remo. sabina, idle indeed wants to evaluate all the new data as soon as possible to share with

researchers at the university upon to us. then she'll set off again to protect the whales of the mediterranean. it's almost 2 years since russell launched its full scale invasion of ukraine. european countries, including friends, have since then imposed heavy sanctions on russia. the war is also affecting a russian cemetery and the parisian suburb of sands. and if you have the bomb, russia has stopped paying for the great sides yet. there are people like jump. yeah, hold a month. and then i will lensky who are determined to preserve this piece of russian cultural heritage. oh is quite your concern to you and if you have did one old graves, melancholy air be unavailable. lensky is one of few regular visitors here. 73 years

old. she's a defendant of russian aristocrats who fled to the west in 1917 to escape the communists. she visits her parents great every couple of weeks. well, the people who are buried here are part of our country's history, digital materials and just like any other fields like ours mobile landscape grandparents land by a turkey and hungry. her parents, surgeon irene, came to paris in the 1930s coach. so q and a just, this is our family. i was kind of the time you were a risk of crowds. i'm a member of the 34th generation. the berlin schools have been around since at least the 10th century. we always held important state positions and were part of the aristocracy. this jacqueline, they're not the only note where the people buried here. john pier lamont is an expert on the cemeteries history, silver vocal for to come on. i'll show you the gray if you made up know of the belong to you. super who killed influential preacher. grigori rescued him. he was

married to the niece of sar nicholas the 2nd to do, or many members of russia's former leads, found their final resting place. as here, you're the only one on the well known figures, such as tar kosky, the famous film anchor high ranking military painters and writers were laid here to clean. and so $150000.00 russians emigrated to france around that time, that ever since russia's invasion of ukraine, the cemetery has gone even quieter. russian torres often used to come here and when there were no more defendants to do it, russia pay to maintain the graves. this has been suspended. a french association maintains around $600.00 graves. when we get, we have a lot of responsibility with as it's piece, the cemetery is no longer a spiritual place. second grave should be a place of prayer. of all the prominent figures. however, one grave attract particular attention around the this is the ration

in a spectacular move. sophia ballet dancer, including jago for rudolph new reyes defected to the west. in 1961. the zip code was in dun, get them 1st like to search for a long time. i used to spot an elderly lady sneaking around his grave. oh, they said done my prayers. then i found out that she slept on at nights and told me to sort, i don't know. that's unbelievable. who do you think she loves them about a wardrobe assistant, the old cemetery of santa john. if you ended, why? with so many stories to tell, and a rich history just a few months have passed since the military in missouri by john began it's offensive against people of our mean and defend living in the region of not going to car buff. although estimate armenians had been living there for decades,

as thereby john re establish control over the embattled territory reporter travel to the region which has been completely deserted. to find out about plans to fill it with new life on the winding road to now gore no car above to travel here we need special permits from the government of us or by shown ready for inspection at check points like these foreign camera crews are not permitted to move freely here and as a by johnny chaperone drives the head. but it's plain to see. 30 years of war have left a mark, mines and munitions still litter the ground. nearby, the old as erie armenian front lines to day job years. so my dog and his team are looking for unexploded minds, a life threatening task. now me, yes,

we have seen several die soldiers done with a military personnel to the facility. and even the way to the toilet must be carefully marked we as clearly the minds. so armenians as a by johnny's were a sofa. and when we area we are currently clearing was contaminated by our enemy modem instead of the number of my left side of the screen as of now, these areas are infested with minds as a matter my last you come on me, let me, let me, let's just let us do after so that's when our chaperone interrupt. she takes issue with summit of wording, and then we don't say enemies. we say separatists armenians are not our enemies. we don't see them as enemies. smoke. any sugar says the mound zip up to a letter from the mines were laid by armenian separatist forces incarnate by some of them. most of the flooding in a little of them. uh well that makes the wonder,

are we going to get honest opinions here, or just with the as a by, you know, any government wants us to hear we are back on the road now door. no cover above is located on us or by johnny territory. but it was historically inhabited mainly by armenians. in the 1990s, armenia took military control, and many other series had to flee. now the tide is turned up by john, rich from oil and gas, put the brake away, republic under seas before recapturing it, leading to the displacement of 100000 armenians. places turned into ghost towns. there are some we can't even visit along side all of that construction sites

as a by zone is building apartments for a series like is my username. i know if she takes us into his new home where he re settled with his family a few weeks ago. and we'll go from uh, this is the kitchen, the dining room in the kitchen. 3 rooms, bathroom balcony, gifted to the family by the government, as compensation. they say both originally from here, that had to flee in the ninety's. but why would they so keen to return upon the locked into the inbox who we lived in public housing? we didn't have a real home that we always said them one day. we would return both. i've lived as refugees in childhood. do they ever think about the recent armenian refugees? i'm not sure. why should i think about them any? think about my country, my fatherland. law,

this sulaiman off isn't exactly empathetic. besides the apartment, she was incidentally also provided with work as a truck driver. courtesy of the government. talking to neighbors of cam gives us a different picture though. yes, the apartments are great, says one, but there are hardly any jobs. critical voices are few and far between and as i advise you on, especially when it comes to now going to cover the. but they do exist. we conducted this interview without our chaperone our interview. we speaks out online against the war policy and asked to remain anonymous. his posts saw him interrogated by secret service on several occasions, even receiving beatings, his r, and he fixed the next time will bring you and your family, and then we'll torture them the 5 ton. they also told me how will rape your mother federal body since the war as

a by zone and armenia have moved cautiously towards normalizing relations. talks of prisoner exchanges and a peace treaty are in the air. but the mistrust is still possible. as is the fear of renewed violence and now we'll take you to lot to the in the western part of the country lies the bell galler parish. and this place offers the perfect conditions for one of luxury as the most popular winter activities. here you can already see the equipments needed to prepare for something that is meant to be good for your health. but a viewer be warned. this is not for the faint of heart. if northern europe's day like beauty ever gets to a deal like for you, break a hole in the ice and take a dip. ice bathing is lucky, a signature, winter sport. oh, lots really nice. that's what it just makes us happy. i think i'm say,

we really what exactly makes this ice cold escapade so special? we took a trip to bol: gullah in western lafayette to visit 33 year old center today, mana, for 3 years now. she's been beating outdoors once a week. whether temperatures are above or like now below freezing. first the whole needs to be cleared at minus 10 degrees celsius, it freezes over fast. then it's time to hop into the cold water. today 84 year old grandmother australia is here for adept. she's a true veteran. the extreme experience can last up to 10 minutes the how is the cold even bearable? like so? yeah, yeah. so in the 1st step into the cold water, you get a shock. you have

a hard time breathing. so your 1st task is to get your breathing under control to concentrate. breathe deeply in and out and make sure your breathing becomes regular english and feel like being married. the past time might said southern european jewels chattering, but here up north, it's a tradition. it said the vikings practice. i speeding over a 1000 years ago. now a days, thousands of not beings go swimming outside in winter, including in the delegate the river in the capital rica. the ice here is dick and ships of it could really hurt and it's white men from the polar bears association spend hours preparing the swimming spot for fans of extreme temperatures, mostly to actually fill out this. this is typically lafayette because we lot fans are used to rough winters, and that's why we aren't thought squared if the cold, via doctors and cold water isn't anything unusual to us moves no,

and the cost of it. we go bathing in the cold and it feels great it though, but the best value to us. but even stig, ice bathing is meant to be beneficial for your health. when you jump into cold water, the body's vessels contracts. when you get out, they expand again, increasing blood flow, which then boost the immune system. i. swimmers reportedly get colds less often than people who take hot showers a little warm water at the end doesn't do any harm though, but seem to drain, mano says you must learn ice bathing, and someone has to inspire you to do it right in stock of sale i started as a child and i used to listen to my grandmas passion it stories on how great it was, how much energy a gave you and what a nice feeling of freedom you get from going bathing in the winter or so it's kind of magic and it's like ost online, the skin especially when she gets to warm up in front of the fire. her husband has

started their children, emilia, rudolph, and rain as don't go bathing in the winter. instead, they walk barefoot through the snow. the families loved for the cold keeps them strong, especially now in these troubled times. that's common, i say wrong is and we're teaching our children to enjoy life and the here and now every day. so as were teaching them to seize all opportunities in life and not be afraid of anything. so it is especially not the frozen lake where these cold russian through z is going to have plenty of fun. as long as the ice stays thick enough, i'm getting good. loves just watching them. oh, that's it. before today's edition of focus on europe, remember, you can always find out stories and reports on social media moves. so thank you so

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