those are big changes and must start with small steps global warming two years tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world like to use that protect the climate used green energy solutions and reforestation. to create interactive content teaching the next generation about environmental protection and we're determined to build something here for the next generation global ideals the multimedia environment series on t w. this sea of azoff lies between russia and ukraine and is shared by both nations however russia is increasingly imposing its sovereignty over the waters ukrainian fishermen are afraid. our sisters but at the close the russian side of the border control or check everyone remarkable or the fisherman out there have to face all

these russian security forces on their own what i mean this is give you know. hardly any ships currently coming to ukrainian ports the economy is suffering at the hands of russian domination. civilian self-defense forces are training for a worst case scenario many of them fear an attack on the as of region. which we have to be prepared for a new wave of aggression from russia it's just a matter of time. the fishing boat vieira's sets out from a port on the ukrainian side which has become somewhat of a rarity businesses not be good for vladimir chair or possibly the owner of the fishing company. this is just what we're now sailing along the canal to the port of

bradley on sick or out of it or practically empty no freight ships inside. which is in the. vicinity of as of borders russia and ukraine a treaty states that both countries have equal usage rights yet since the kurdish bridge opened linking russia to the annex crimean peninsula russia has been treating the sea as its own softened water as russia decides who is committed to sail on the sea and who is not. sort of us our ship is here the russian ship is in front of us. and one of their coast guards. want to take over the from the russian border control officers check everyone asking each ship for its name the size of their crew their nationality we. really want to see how busy they are that the people are working they're getting on with their business. the leader of. the ukrainians feel

intimidated. it's one fifty one this is vera hello. is that correct yes we're staying here. the fishing zone lies far beyond the ukrainian ballet and the russians have controlled blood to be a chair party knows it's dangerous to have journalists on board his boat but he has another problem russia and ukraine have not yet agreed on common annual fishing quotas so the ukrainian authorities have banned all fishing activity while the russians continue to let their fishermen carry on glad to mia can't understand why he's not willing to cast his nets with the cameras running. one of. the ukrainian side could confiscate our fish which makes no sense. but the

russian side could cause problems to revive the crites will stay empty today in recent weeks bloody mia has been out fishing but he takes a risk when every douse. model of project frequently by the russians they inspect all their fishing permits and licenses they don't cause any trouble as long as everything is in order but bizarrely is the ukrainian saying that not everything is very hard. due to the on regulated fishing quota key have obviously wants to avoid any escalation on the c. of s. all of this means they are hurting their own fishermen in december blood in me a was not committed to go out to sea at all causing human loss of almost eighty thousand euros in january his catch was confiscated by the fishing authorities. the first time it took over the entire catch the second time they only wanted half of it which we managed to prevent for is the logic in that.

uncertain times on the ukrainian as off the coast which borders on the progress separatist area in the least half a million people live in the port city of mario paul just a few kilometers from the war in eastern ukraine the city is surrounded by checkpoints. maria pretty bailo is afraid that the hostilities will go on for a long time she's preparing the population for the worst as an activist and officer she acts as a link between the army and civilians maria is traveling close to the front line to get a picture of the situation this area was previously occupied by russians but ukrainians were able to win back. over there from the peak of that hill. they shoot at us. it's a raw. post an elevated position. if you say that area is currently occupied

territory. people are trying to build up something again here but the fields were mind back then you know that there is always shooting here even at civilian buildings. the people who live here are not necessarily political or super patriotic but but they do realize exactly where the shooting is coming from. the front line is only two kilometers away from. this war has already claimed the lives of more than ten thousand new craniums. watch them all of the young man fell in the war here he was born in one thousand nine hundred six but we can definitely expect a new wave of aggression from russia it's only a question of time. we have to be prepared more here since the spring of twenty eighteen. and ukrainian sovereignty is clearly also being threatened from the sea

of azoff we could say it is already occupied that's why we need decisive action now in the world this is not stopped it won't only be ukraine which suffers. back to mary opal a twenty minute drive. from western ukraine her first language is ukrainian. almost half the population of mario bull is russian and russian is spoken on a daily basis there was serious clashes here after the end accession of crimea in twenty fourteen. the town hall was in flames when opponents of the new power in kiev tried to win the upper hand in the city but they failed maria is convinced that russia was behind this attack. today this is where people. gathered who had been brought in by bus from russia

they demonstrated here and occupied the town hall. stay aboard ship but actually they set fire to car tires in the street. and chanting out slogans like not always the get over here putin sort this place out there. they were trying to imitate a crimea scenario. in the hopes of seizing this region just as quickly as crimea then claiming it as russian. it would dilute. the war has dramatic economic consequences for the city the port of mario paul estimates its losses since the outbreak of the war at two hundred million euros key cargo handling from the donbass region has declined when the russians build the crimean bridge it prevented large cargo ships from reaching the sea of hours of russian instituted controls cause long delays and at the end of november the russians attacked ukrainian

vessels for the shipping companies the journey is too expensive and too dangerous. the tugboats and not bringing cargo vessels with them today. exaggerate because we feel like these two boats they sail out but they bring nothing back there's nothing behind them we work just like them we have strength of potential possibility but we can't use any of it that's our problem because something outside of our control is preventing us. the twins are human and roman moment of now only work a four day week at the port for two thirds of their regular pay. for the oil it's more than an economic blockade on the whole region is being suffocated. with all of the differences left on the ukrainian controlled territory depend on our port in the. state owned companies get support from kiev so far they have

not been mass redundancies the twins in their colleagues are highly skilled dock workers but often all there is for them to do is clean work. this is a well paid work elite work that. the neighboring shipyard is experiencing tough times too with little actual work to do so geishas teet cohen his colleagues passed the time playing dominoes. unlike the poor this privately owned firm does not receive state support. night games we're hoping that power will change hands in the next elections when are the thing that being said. at the moment we spend most of our time sitting at home and our pay is been cut. the conflicts should

stop then everything will get easier. larry. this shipyard has lost most of its income because sixty percent of the orders came from russia the longstanding company was successful joining the time and dissolve the soviet union and the new republic of ukraine so guys grandfather also worked at the shipyard. but otherwise i feel torn russia is close to my heart and ukraine is my home i wish they were brothers again as they used to be with you but i should be friendship again between russia and ukraine i can't be split into. every ball. but it's bring it over here. at the moment there's only one ship in the dark but there's still some work for sergei and his colleagues. you

know the most political i think our manager is trying his best to do something here but in this situation everything depends on the government against. the shipyard workers are worried about losing their jobs it's getting hard at the director all of the to reassure them. that the money if nothing else but you should only have eleven months until i retire what will the shipyard exist for that long it will it will can you guarantee that i'm really afraid of losing my job. one isn't actually coming and. if you're in a week we've still got twenty days of work to do with the ship. it's obvious we still have to change forty six wells which will be mean there's nothing else to do there will be more tomorrow morning we used to have two or three ships here we have three docks now there's just one work for as long as you can your cost and show

both your joy of the you don't feel i'm really pessimistic i mean you know. you know how things will go on here before parliament doesn't know what it's doing then things will soon look really great and. what if there's another escalation of hostilities that the kurds bridge what they're there for it'll be war you would have no stability people are fleeing ukraine would be the thing you really think i work on of the guard the great north you if i would like to go abroad to but i belong here and i don't want to leave my family in the city i'm too old for that. was that as you put the quote this into a chinese pound to drag on the president is really super poroshenko said he would end the war within two or three weeks but he's been working on it now for five years. religious guy can really talk but he's like a politician if he gets into parliament the others will have to look out. he's a really good worker to. the fishing boat vieira has come into the

port this morning the crew brought in five and a half tons of saw danes. it's a good day for the arno flooded me a check up of ski. cause for how was it today unloading at the poor little were there any problems or issues in the additional to the loss of the people from the fishing authorities were there again you could they want anything from you know no problem with you not like last time when you went because they show your document banning us from fishing to the no nothing they just watched how we had loaded the fish this is. good for you didn't touch anything just because i showed them our permits and that was all sort of there. but yeah it was a different story with catches a video taken by the fishing authorities claim that vladimir was poaching for him

the video is proof that he wanted to protect his catch from the fishing. without paying a bribe. please do you think. well if you analyze what this video shows it confirms that these law protectors only turned up to put a system in place for ships where they're going to extract bribes and bonuses in the broward in. just three years. i'm explaining to them here that it won't work with me. was not as the eco aggressive that's what i'm fighting against now so yeah they do it. but he was. glad to meet his company processes the fish it catches but its future is

tenuous. the working hours of his staff have already been cut to three days a week. doing so how's it going my know things could be better but what can you do . of course it's hard to make ends meet with such low wages but we understand and hope things will pick up in ukraine with the work situation and life in general. latta mia has had to sell two of his three ships he was committed to keep part of his catch this year but the fishing authorities still reported him for poaching. a new deal of i don't think it's right to take that fish away from us with one camera but in the current situation it's impossible for us to defend our rights it's just human feel that means it already had to lay off our stuff you know of would you go for it for us here when there's been a what is that for if you. let me a chair

a pos is now facing legal action. on the outskirts of mario paul this is the home of shipyard workers so again. the front line of the separatist area is not far away in twenty four seeing the war reach these residential blocks. it will crush you all of a sudden there were explosions and i took my wife and daughter into the corridor and covered them up on the ground as the explosions were going off the window pane shattered and black smoke filled the apartment we couldn't see anything when it stank. things had calmed down we looked outside and everything was in flames. people were screaming and there were dead and injured people lying on the street. no home no to the ears of a number of. the family is trying to lead a normal life so gaye's wife reno works for the city's tax authorities his daughter

victoria is studying law in odessa and is currently home for the holidays. i think i'll probably stay in a desa yes i think that's what i want to do with it. she only wants to return when there is peace if this doesn't happen soon so gay is not ruling out the worst case . russia would probably annex the whole of ukraine it's a lot stronger than us. there could even be a world war if other countries got involved that would be a catastrophe for. the other end of. the village. this is where the dock workers. live since their working hours have been cut they have been focusing more on their wine business. is in your water the real work starts in a month's time. that's only buying the grapes. at the moment the grapes are resting

it's like they're hibernating. some of the. grapes assault to bolster the household finances the twins also grow their own vegetables. or whatever but our wages are just enough to pay for the electricity water and gas the price of gas alone has gone up twelve times more than it was five years ago. the increase in gas prices is a direct result of the conflict with russia things were different five years ago as the grenades were flying sunday asked his father to build a bunker. i mean if they want might it it was you know you were the first to light the candle back then to. the mrs he did even as my wife was five months pregnant back then and my son was six when he came to us with this idea and said don't be afraid i know how to keep you safe. you could hear gunfire just

two kilometers away. not greater as i had the idea of bringing candles and matches and everything necessary so we could live here. at first my wife and i were shocked that he wanted to prepare everything so we could stay here in safety in case the bombs came. and i did so then i reinforced the ceiling with metal good as. we put in new beams and poured concrete over them. is a little silly because no. one and now we can store good wine here. at. the north. our chairman is trying to create a good life for his family which has ukrainian and russian roots he wants the

children to have a normal upbringing without fear. built most of the things in his home himself and never wants to be forced to leave it. yes but. still the parents have prepared for the worst case. well what. if world works out again here it is my responsibility to drive the children to a safe place. my husband will stay here in the house when i was not and make sure it doesn't get looted just yet most recent you're just going with not one single human life should be sacrificed for political ambitions and quarrels. the two related nations have based their hands in blood so they should forgive one another and another stand that they have to find a compromise and nothing good can arise if there isn't a dialogue he said she i tell my children learn to talk to people learn to argue

your position without using weapons you know. so far there's been little chance for dialogue the ceasefire governed by the treaty of minsk is repeatedly broken. clock glory to ukraine glory to our heroes in the evening maria visits and in the headquarters of the organization new mary opal she's the coordinator here and wants to talk about the training of the civilian self-defense forces the next day. along with supporting the army knew mary opal is dedicated to fighting progress and propaganda . the population was totally disoriented and twenty fourteen. they had been fed russian propaganda for years. russia or since the the

russians. most of them want to restore the russian empire they still have this imperial thinking the whole world is russia this is a russian city we should govern it. was a living trying to change our way of thinking for centuries but supported you in some cases it worked. for instance even i speak russian. but also. at nine o'clock the next morning the volunteers lined up for a roll call at a military compound need to say. she is. very. very matter. for their training the group goes to the nearby beach men from all backgrounds to hear from the doctor to this simple worker . from new mario paul takes part two he's

a programmer in the local steelworks. the men practice armed warfare under the instruction of a training officer. group. so hang on one man covers and the other one the other we decide who's number one and who is number two to just now i'm not afraid if we have to then we'll fight as patriots we have to lead the way when it comes. back to. the second largest port city on the ukrainian azoff coast eighty kilometers away from mario paul. fishing company owner vladimir cherub is on his way to court the court proceedings against him begin today he's accused of poaching. with the support of his lawyer latimeria wants the court to grant him permission to fish understood the on regulated fishing quotas between kiev and moscow have created

a legal vacuum bludgeon me is fighting so that he and his staff do not have to be penalized for it. mr mishra what about the paperwork with what you need anything else of interest. because. we've got everything from the most important thing is that we have fear regional permits. are the most important thing is that there here is a solution. the court hearing is due to start at eight. she. vladimir is called into the judge's office but just for a few minutes the hearing is postponed neither the fishing authorities nor the public prosecutor were invited see wouldn't. today i did not get a court decision which would have made it clear whether i'm right or they are

that's the worst thing there's uncertainty. so i'm deeply disappointed but if the way this country is governed i see absolutely no future and no prospect for you at this. on the ukrainian as off the coast thousands of people's livelihoods depend on fishing these men have not been out to sea since early december the fishermen are all to quentin sense of law to me as. a news just like before none of us have been able to see so there is no ban but there isn't a permit either. yes a. lot of course it's a slap in the face. russian fishermen are still out working. but we're not allowed to i mean it was a little bit by now but we need clear rules this uncertainty has us living in constant tension this is our life now it's. property and.

some of the easiest thing is to open it up look inside clean everything and then it might work again but you see you do it so well something the temperature changed over three months and it's been down it has an effect on it. so that's right it's not good for the engine not to be running yes just standing idle for three months is no good. and these are the effects of our ban on going out to sea. look there out there. yes there are always two to three russian ships patrolling. the fact that they have weapons on board is also one settling for us it was the way it was avoided in most. but yes that's why we didn't drop anchor we just wanted to get home fast they were pretty close to the shore six or seven kilometers

they were warships and i got to believe this rule. russia is definitely in the wrong occupying the coast. but on the other hand there is no feeling of confidence if there is no order. to nucleate if our government maintains order then hats off to them and also if someone else has to maintain the order here then sorry here that would be what kind of weak government do we have us with i think it was probably. a few cream doesn't allow fish from ukraine under the ukrainian market then i'll take my fish to russia change my flag and apply for political asylum but he's just. a nice to have a new and we still have hope. but i don't know how much longer it will last.

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