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the fight against the corona virus pandemic of. weird science stand. what a new findings have researchers made. information and background to. look around up to. code 19 special. monday to friday on d. w. . welcome to global 3000. albania's coralled mountains are absolutely stunning but for many young people there that is not enough. planting trees and not just
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a few but hundreds of thousands of them we meet an environmental activist in russia . and increasing numbers of migrants are willing to attempt the illegal and very risky crossing from frumps to britain. most people who flee their homes do so out of utter desperation war violence human rights abuses hunger and the effects of the climate crisis are often behind displacement every year tens of thousands of people try to reach europe roups often change and new ones are added instead of leaving from libya many now set out from tunisia on a dangerous journey across the mediterranean or from lebanon to e.u. member state cyprus. at the end of 2019 there were around 6600000 refugees in europe but landing on european soil. well marks the
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start of a new odyssey those who want to reach the united kingdom face an illegal and potentially deadly crossing over the channel estimates suggest that so far this year 7000 people have managed it. crossing the english channel in rubber dinghies it's a journey that more migrants are making than ever before the british government is getting tough control of u.k. borders with one of the conservatives biggest breaks it promises but the crossings continue so now the royal air force and navy have been called in. here from sudan is not deterred. the government doesn't want a new pupil of the country but the country is a big it can take anyone. but firmly believes there was no seer has come to cali to organize his crossing the northern french quarter has
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been an unofficial transit come for years infrastructure is poor these are some images of what everyday life looks like here a tent city by the side of the road little electricity and hardly any access to water or food. with. regular police checks anymore. there are no state member solidities for migrants and refugees in a warehouse in cali british and french n.g.o.s are working side by side to provide bare necessities many here feel angered by the british government and its interior minister. i feel really ashamed a lot of the time like this idea for a critic to tell that there's no reason for people to come to the cave because francis a country there it just shows so much ignorance about what it's like for people here. and one there has also. in working in cali for years he's concerned because
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living conditions here are getting worse and worse. state is afraid that a 2nd shadow city could arise here like in 2016 is trying to wear people down as a liberal policy to stop people wanting to stay here. back in 2016 huge non-official camp here was dubbed the jungle some 8000 people mainly unregistered migrants and refugees lived on waste ground close to the ferry port most wanted to get in some were housed in converted shipping containers provided by the french government. the jungle is now gone and the police make sure that another doesn't spring up every 48 hours they conduct a raid regularly confiscating tents on personal belongings a clear message you're not welcome here. every morning.
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comes here to record the evictions to bring attention to human rights violations and the difficulty of the situation. he views the fatigue in his own makeshift office. area of the tsunami copywriting you can see people out by shouting at them or pushing a tantrum later they were kicking out hands with some telling me the other day i believe. it's all a strategy ordered from on high by a government that's been unable to come up with a solution to cally's migrant problem the state seems to not want to have people visible to the rest of. this region teams have been told that you're not allowed to destry in the central time going to sweden another place where no us lives and this is just the general theme of kind of like just trying to move people away from coming up and running any kind of solution or any kind of support just make them invisible to the rest of the population. they want to drive away the migrants and refugees but they can't portable toilets have been set up on traffic roundabouts
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people now congregate in parks in parking lots the only way to escape from this is by crossing the english channel in small boats. is also determined to try. this board like people you people in europe use as a tour and to enjoy yourself in next year but we use our to u.k. so it's like some people use the machines are to switch about around and some people they have more talk so from here to look at about 34 kilometer it takes about 3 hours to the hour and how it people losing it take about an hour to live in the. most boat set off in the early morning keeping the entire area under surveillance is practically impossible to consider our towns like you and we have 45 kilometers to overseeing would disappear that's
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a lot when you consider all the spots on the coastline itself with all its cliffs that makes it difficult to see out on the story of this summer they were search and rescue mission. practically every day the english channel is one of the busiest shipping routes in the world. travel is a motorway i had to be really dangerous driving on the motorway with kickstarter it's same thing here. on the left hundreds try their luck every day they have nothing to lose since last year. a migrant route has sprung up in western europe. that britain and france want to shut down by all means. these devastating images have become the next in our minds wildfire as on an almost apocalyptic scale have become near every day events australia california russia
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brazil opportunities going up in flames whatever the climate change deniers say we have a crisis on our hands. our reporter tatiana 110 health and ted team went to russia where they met a woman who's made it life's work to plant for the future. she's replenishing the forests and nyet mustang. what looks like random bunches of greenery are in fact pine tree saplings thousands of them already for planting marianna explains how it's done it's very simple you place the sapling in the hole then fill that with earth and check the saplings firmly better then. check once more that it can't be pulled out yet. 8000
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saplings are due to be planted today here on the outskirts of moscow marianna munteanu asked for help online and an army of volunteers as responded she regularly invites members of the public to help or. russia's forests of taking quite a beating in recent years huge areas have been devastated by wildfires pests like bark beetles pose a further challenge russia has more forest than any other country trees cover nearly half of this vast land. i've been doing this since 2010 there were terrible wildfires back then throughout the whole of russia i saw a picture of huge wellestablished trees being blown across the fields by the wind they were breaking off like matchsticks marianna montreal studied economics and initially worked in finance but she quit her job to devote all her attention to
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reforestation you can change the world one small step at a time and people will pull together for a good cause. everybody here wants to help people become more aware of nature again and to encourage them to do their bit to protect the environment. i want our planet to be as intact as possible so that we have healthy air to breathe and leave our children and grandchildren an environment in which they can live well our environment is sick and i don't want to inflict further injuries on the natural world. 7 years ago marianna maggio moved to moscow to build up her own environmental organization but she's still not a lover of the city her childhood of the countryside very much shaped to she is.
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i love nature i love the forest as a child i always spend the summers with my grandmother in the village and. the thought that's her house right next to the forest we would go out several times a week picking berries or mushrooms. back in her moscow apartment she's able to relax after all the hard work but she never loses sight of her goal i didn't see a change in my earth and this is my mission in life i want to achieve great things for the benefit of society of the planet and nature of planet blog good afternoon my name is mario tiana and i'm president of the russian climate fund. i was the good. has long since expanded beyond planting trees together with other environmental activists she puts out her own podcast big to get the message out to more people but she's also developed a mobile game app called plant the forest the aim is to promote interest in the
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well being of trees income from the app goes to plant new saplings. and you plenty more on the gamer has to collect points which then allow him to plant trees the idea is to inspire users so that they stop being indifferent towards our trees and so that they want to help with resource station. with nothing. back to the forest on the outskirts of moscow it's time for lunch in the past 10 years. and her helpers have planted more than a 1000000 trees that's the equivalent of around 1300 soccer fields a large number of volunteers of all ages have helped to make it possible last year she was selected by the united nations for the young champion of the earth award right nearby and she shows us some other young trees from her project that have had
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a chance to get established. this tree was planted just 7 years ago and as you can see it's already bigger than me soon and this area should once again be a strong healthy forest hopefully strong enough to withstand all the challenges of the future. many people who live here all say deeply connected to nature these are the core of mountains in eastern albania life here is calm quiet traditional but many young people crave more they're leaving in droves heading to cities and even abroad but is there a way to make them want to. see or lama takes lots of photos the mountains of northeastern albania are so beautiful he works for p p n e
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a the country's largest environmental n.g.o.s he promotes sustainable farming practices for the sake both of nature and local people so they can make a decent living and choose not to leave this is the couric nick must see. that it's 400 kids she has a market garden he grows fruit his operation could inspire others to follow suit especially young people he cultivates berries traditionally people gathered wild ones in the mountains. there are. your llamas says such market gardens could be a fruitful source of income for more families around here. he worked for several years in italy he saved up some money came home and began farming. some of the answers in almost you know he started with erroneous berries 5 years ago before branching out. his venture is proving to be
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a success. was in july his product was certified as organic by an agency in germany. and that's something he's very proud of you know he said there will be yours you'll be a going to be undergoing a part of the film for the sick with the i don't use fertilizer everything is just the same as up in the mountains the bacteria in the soil of the humans they make the plants strong suddenly but. keshi doesn't need to do any marketing customers come to him to buy his produce. he's been experimenting with a number of crops red love apples for example very recent cultivar with red flash resistant to disease property. that has been mia. and goji berries from china they thrive here too. she also sells cuttings to those who want to emulate him. bussy on land i would love to see others
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do precisely that. he collaborates with local foresters veterinarians and agronomists they advise small hold farmers in the mountains for example on how to get a bank loan purchase livestock or set up a market garden. the corrupt correct nick nature park is a lovely place to hike but visitors are few and far between because of the pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions. for people and flocks who live here are pretty much alone. there are many feeder is a shepherd he has a hard time making a living but unlike many of his contemporaries who go abroad he wants to stay. asan lama often comes up here to the mountain pastures to talk to the locals find
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out what problems they face and help work on solutions. they say it's getting harder and harder to find places for their flocks to graze. the. numbers of the seabees decreasing every year and let's say. have taken over the past or the length of the basra area this is the main problem that they are losing. significant part of. it's a vicious circle. i'm aris family spends the summer months up in the mountains they spend the winter down in the village i'm or is mother doesn't need to worry about her son he learnt everything he knows from her. he knows he doesn't lead a comfortable life like people in the city but he also knows that he has a lot more than his family did 100 years ago. of course i would like to have a big car. but you have to make
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a choice. if you love this kind of life up here as i do then you can't go and live in a big city there. still it's tough tending sheep or growing crops here and our aim for the next series that we need to let's say support these activities and these families in order that they can let's say profit from the from this of the view that they are doing this is the main the main think. armory feeders family seem to be content with their lives. they recently built a new house next to their old one things have been improving from one generation to the next. on lama heads off to visit another family. he receives a warm welcome. you know. just on the eldest son works in sweden but he's stuck at home because of a pandemic. or he's the one wearing
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a baseball cap. his mother is sad because he's keen to leave again she can't understand why what's more the youngest son wants to go to sweden to. us in lima says the government has to realize that more and more people will leave unless things improve one issue is the infrastructure the roads in the mountains are poor government he says should give help here's the still on the accord the home record tradition is all well and good but what should we do if we can't sell what we make. the nearest areas 50 kilometers away and there are no government guarantees we get no government support. so it's hard to maintain tradition. on. it's often easier to make money abroad than to continue farming here. the old farm buildings are still standing but the nokia
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family have now built a modern house mainly financed with money in sweden. the area might be beautiful but without jobs or prospects young people will continue to go away far away. there's a similar trend in japan here too it's hard to get young people excited about a life in rural areas most want to live in cities where older life is an in money studying partying it's partly down to demographics japan has one of the oldest populations worldwide and the long life expectancy japanese men have an average of 81.4 years. women more than 87 years. entire areas of the country are aging rapidly and young people are desperate to get away. 2 years ago
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sutter's swept the world's biggest metropolitan area for rural back forces he was fed up with tokyo. he has hills and valleys instead of bright lights and bustling crowds. the prefecture is dubbed the japanese dollar months. satyrs mission is to help develop more cool demographically speaking it's the oldest village in the country 2 thirds of people here are over 65 that's a record to younger people to the village the state has agreed to pay newcomers wages and living expenses for 3 years for that sato has been prepared to help everyone out for example making she saw marcie in the service station on the main thoroughfare there's plenty of opportunity to chat while busy with me so she rolls and potato salad on through we were very open to him and quickly became friends
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with him. and the best thing of all is that he married his girlfriend and have a baby with her here on the net and sutter says he will continue to do his best he helps wherever he can in the kitchen on the till and in the fields the mayor has come to visit he's just point of contact with the state sponsored program for sideshow houses it's quite a balancing act recruiting young people while not ignoring the older generation. at the moment there are 6 or 7 people in the village who are over 100 years old people here live for a really long time regularly examine people trust their physical and mental health we give them cognitive training to help keep them mentally agile that's what i'm busy with at the moment. such as says the old people here are hale and hearty thanks to clean air lots of exercise and healthy food the only thing that he
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doesn't like here is the amount of driving but he realizes there's no way around it . at 1st sounds are used to travel around the village with his wife but she's currently living with her parents for a few months that's customary for new mothers in japan. meanwhile his having to get used to coping alone and being a long distance father to his daughter. you want your school expected. children are desperately needed here. 10000 people used to live in one more call that's shrunk to 1800. people here used to and money from the land but those days are over. the young people left and the elderly stayed. it can get pretty lonely in. the state funded development co-operative has provided satu with a workspace in the village hall he has a desk with
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a stable internet connection his friend and colleague tucker for me or no was born here he's one of the few who returned and is also fighting for the villages survival. a lot. more those are the more you have to respect the people who've always lived here think that's important but the views of newcomers bring a fresh breath of air but they've got other connections and networks of the more that can be useful and were grateful for every single idea. the 1st idea was to build a home for retirees creating jobs and a place where people can be sure that their grandparents are well looked after the 2nd idea a program to enable city kids to get to know the area and get them interested in village life. sato and auto have got plenty to discuss out on the veranda or no has built himself a new home here something that hasn't happened for years and he too has
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a baby the symbol of a good future i want to find it pretty well when we lived in yamagata we never felt that we were working for something from it for the good of a village or anything like that here it's as if everything we do benefits the village how should they put it we feel closer to things here. things are looking up for you just subtle he has one year of taxpayers' money left after that he has to be able to stand on his own 2 feet. a prize winning flower breeder wants to help him mr ito is sato's mental satu is going to take over his business. no but that's their own tiny mind it was a good idea to come here i get up in the morning and say it's going to be sunny today or it's going to rain and just looking at the weather and working makes me happy. the plan to rejuvenate the village is a race against time but you just asked who is the embodiment of hope. in the
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