to the. documentary. welcome to focus on europe it's great to have your company today the 2nd coronavirus wave has arrived war and more european countries are reporting record numbers of infections and this has led to fresh car fuels lockdowns and national

states of emergencies the small country of belgium has one of the highest infection rates in europe the government is worried that the pandemic my to get out of control the country also has the highest numbers of death per capita on the continent call that 19 has significantly impacted our day to day lives from contact bands to social distancing to face masks but the virus has also changed lives those who have loved ones who have gotten sick or even died know all too well what this means like the 10 year old lorenzo's he lives in a region in belgium that was among the 1st to be declared a corona hotspots back in march and his story tells more about the horrors of the pandemic than mere facts and figures can't. before corona didn't know loneliness now he does every day here.

i think. it's just not right with the 10 year old misses his grandfather luke they were inseparable grandpa was the best you know pretty happy yeah i was happy lorenzo lived with his grandparents for years and they took him everywhere luke was always the one to pick lorenzo up at school but when his grandfather got coated 19 in march and became the 1st known victim of the virus in their hometown of st truman lorenzo was left confused and angry. i if it wasn't your and. nothing of this would have happened his grandmother janine is still pained to recall how difficult it was to explain to luke wasn't coming home from the hospital

. and i have to say that. he was so. good that while janine had to deal with her own grief her daughter's and her grandsons lorenzo was troubled he'd never gotten to say goodbye these were earth glasses and those are all the names of. people that want to see him again. but then a chance arose for lorenzo to say farewell when his city's mayor decided to create a memorial in a local park around the theme of the flower forget me not. and assess from the beginning i want. from a little child who lost his grandfather of grandmother the mayor asked lorenzo if he would like to speak at the dedication he declined because life they were again i laugh at me why but. i don't know.

why i just think something. that i set that and. that when i said something about my grandpa i was going to cry. well as a model for it would be so. maybe you can do it for grandpa. oh yes i will do it for him so. at the ceremony with his mother nellie beside him lorenzo poured out his heart and touched everyone else's evil dear grandpa i miss you very much i am mad about corona mad about what happened you were dead best and always are going to be the best investment but and. when you were

standing up there and people were listening to what you think they were thinking. he's a brave boy. and no longer he realized and angry boy i was happy did i get it that i that for odell out. was happy. everyone was. ground. and in the spring in this corner of the park where lorenzo throughout his sadness will be filled with little blue flowers each blossom a promise to those who are gone we won't forget you. a brave boy indeed. boris johnson loves political poker when he was sworn in as the british prime minister last year he promised he wouldn't deliver brags that

well he has about 2 months to do that because a deadline is looming the ok and the e.u. have until the end of this year to work out a trade agreement and that means long nights of talks in brussels in london with both sides reluctance to budge on their standpoints i reporter met a sheep farmers who are following the negotiations closely they are uncertain about their future because they export almost all their animals to countries. languish and his father friend. in the 4th generation they have 5000 sheep and he can't in southern england the 2 men are very concerned about especially if britain and the e.u. fail to negotiate a trade deal nearly half of. that we produce is exports aid and most of what we export is exports it into the e.u. . so if any tariffs

a person. tariffs i can now sort of between 40 and 50 percent so if those tariffs are applied. to go into europe that will. destroy a lot of price. it's hard to imagine this landscape without its poppy thanks to them that the ground you to fill. today even languish in sa deciding which lambs are ready for slaughter after the up to 20 minutes will be exploited to frogs. the french like a lamb like this which has a good conformation. they want to. around about 18 to 20 kilos as a carcass. not too much fat just a little fat they are very discerning my like good quality lamb and we. produce good quality lamb which comes off of grass on a clear day it's possible to see right across to the french coast should be i tell you and their. father and son thanks again bricks it from the outset these chic

has still heading to france but both promise one reads that border controls will lead to problematic delays in future. go to the average wall and then they go into a refrigerated truck and normally they killed one day in there in the paris market the next morning and the delays to that will cause big problems. but not all sorts of farmers were against banks it's funny many of the not noted for it because they thought that being in the e.u. entails too much bureaucracy. but frank langrish thinks it will get even worse post by accident i know. there won't be any less as civil servants to like pay so we will still have lots of people i thought the farmers incorrectly blamed europe for the paper when it was actually our own people that created lots of

people. many of the pharmaceutical into the weekend cattle auction they can't foresee a tough time ahead. still most here seem to feel there's new sense complaining when that's going to be done. because it's just going to make the most the situation that it will that legislation is in place and whatever tires we have and get on with it we will be better off in the end but it will be very hot in the interim period all be on a start just starting our coaching on not looking for exhausting it's going to be a long haul to hold we have bricks. at langrish is married to that many families won't be able to survive without subsidies and he's furious about the government's handling of bread. st. it's just disbelief that they can tell so many lies you know that it's you know the hollow they won't be cute at dave everything will be

fine it will be the easiest free trade agreement history. it is just proved it will be so much rubbish and both father and son hope that what ever happens to the country at children will take the family farm into the next generation after all the countryside in kent needs change and. the matzoh horn is one of the most beautiful song it's all be all and one of the national symbols of switzerland the villages surrounding this pick up tracked thousands of tourists each year but now there is trouble in paradise and the permafrost that helps hold together the alps is melting and rocks have began to move these effects of climate change are giving many locals sleepless nights. for nearly 3 decades curch spring has lived in the village of brilliance in the swiss canton of trouble. but for a couple of years now he and nearly 100 residents here have been very worried for

rogers who had 1st we had a certain respect for the situation then we felt a bit insecurity. and now we're just outright afraid. this is dealing landscape is facing to threats the ground in which the village stands is gradually sliding into the valley is now reached a rate of one metre 20 year some houses have been literally torn apart this one was later demolished the village has been slipping for decades but it's never been as bad as this at the same time reince also faces the threat of a massive landslide that could bury it completely that's what worries court spring the most. at the edge of the village a taste of what could be to come. like this one broke off the mountain last summer bring within his cell are going to happen and hurt the crash. you know you just

don't think will there be lots of rocks how many. off the mountain the whole mountain will it hit the house. had lots of houses the playground the old school building. those are your 1st thoughts. the mountain is being monitored to run the clock with radar g.p.s. measurements and drew. if the alarm is raised the residents would only have a few hours to leave the village there would be no way of stopping a major landslide. it happened in 2017 in the village of undo in copeland. and in 2015 in evelyn a chance in the valley. could landslides like these be predicted more accurate. and switzerland's most famous mountain a matter of horn researchers are looking into exactly that question computer

sciences. and the university of inspir is working with colleagues from various swiss universities to listen to the inside of the mountain to see if a landslide is imminent their liberal tree is at an altitude of 3500 metres. and the mountain is extremely steep. for the past 12 years the scientists have been monitoring the stability of the rock because of climate change the permafrost is thawing which is the cement the holds the mountain together the matter horn is starting to crumble. i 1000 crisis and spybot in 200-322-3000 cubic metres of rock fell away here. and that's why the area up there is where it broke away. 3000 cubic meters of debris is the fulfillment of 3 houses. the big in order to predict

events like that were accurately in the future they've installed numerous measuring instruments all of the sensors gauge every movement and vibration the researchers are trying to the crude the vibrations of the rocks and that's why they're listening to the mountain as strange as that may soon. a small black container full of heat. does is on their thighs measure them the methane this is our seismic sensors which can enable us to understand the sound on the language of the mountain. each section of the rock has a particular pattern of vibrations it's possible to make them. this is the sound of the matter here and amplified many times. the sounds can vary. so very bad just like

a glass of water sounds difference when you top depending on how much water as it is the same here. the large volume makes a deep sound. if you only get high pitch sounds the volumes are dealing with a small. here the rock is the glass of water that the crack is small the new section of rope that is vibrating feeley a smaller increase a higher pitch to. if the crackers larger the sound is deeper than the hero. but if we were to observe a marked difference in the seismic measurements for example a sound that's twice as deep. that could be a sign that another landslide is in the offing. soon with a landslide before testes in the face of the mountain. dew that yet but he and his team plan to continue their research. this message is they're also being tried

out in prince. springs planning to live out his retirement here instead he's preparing for a possible that accusation. he wants to be ready when the mountain. is she a typical russian well her outfit certainly has some traditional elements to it but otherwise there's nothing typical about her because she is a russian drag queen loads of performers like her don't have it easy in their country homophobia is widespread among conservative russians and members of the l g b t a q community often face threats or even the verbal and physical attacks but all that is not stopping one drag queen from living out of life in high heels i can see make up and with a lot of sass. thanks . for.

the all. giving everyone was easy 6 say anything like of my other name is miami or miami drag queen i was in miami but a. tax cut. was plenty 7 year old sag a name yes miami the film is that scream monkey a gay child in moscow. it's how he makes his living even if his job clashes with the to do in russia. have a 2nd phrase for face id it doesn't recognize me i did a good job on the make up today. i don't think as a nation that she's that kind of woman hello i think it's my 2nd personality i mean with that i don't think it's an illness and the age they do but it isn't yes get over this guys these attacks. say on stage at the top the track

winfield's competent for you and you see outside the club he's pretty ways prevent different reactions wasn't it i don't want to see that. it just makes me want to vomit. send him to the army not just for one year he ought to serve 3. the one time you could have gotten your head torn off for that. sergei works hard on his act developing the choreography and himself step by step in 2015 he came to moscow from a little village in western russia he felt liberated but only within the safe confines of the club you know just. with my wigs and high heels i don't fit the

image of the russian male. i can't walk down the street as miami it's not because i don't want to become a star but because i'm afraid. afraid for my life and for my face freeze that. there are good reasons to be afraid in russia it's very dangerous for a man to appear in public wearing makeup and women's clothes as seen here in moscow's metro homophobic groups may quickly turn violent and deep bass their victims say gays well aware of the danger and never leave the club in drag even so much as posting about his act on the internet without including an age limit could land him in court on charges of homosexual propaganda in such an environment sag a says it's dangerous to come out as gay even to one's own family. i haven't had any contact with my father for about 10 years ago once i got drunk and

messaged him saying father i'm bisexual i'm not bisexual i'm gay but that's how i put it i thought it be easier for him that we have nothing against girls but i also like boys he's never called me since he's been with my step mother called me from his telephone and said what if you don't you know we raised us. but sag doesn't intend to stay hidden away forever so in his outfits in secret he has dreams of a grand career and he's invested his creativity. and about 11000 euros in fabrics makeup and she views yes i just think me i'd like to be in the media and appearing in movies and shows so people will be scared of us but ones that i'd like to be able to walk the streets of miami and not have people you know things at me like new places in the cemetery i think there's. such things frighten saguenay but

he's not giving miami out he'll carry on as the dazzling drag queen but maybe not in russia taking his dreams of a new life in another country. norway is their opinion country with the largest fishing industry which is no surprise given that more than half of the country's border is along the coast but some areas like the village of heads not been profiting much from the wealth of seafood found in the ocean now there's a new species in the waters of norway to meet the king crab at the price of delicacy that is also called once the crab because it eats everything that crosses its path but the month has become a lifesaver for some norwegian fisherman their courage figure loves the arctic ocean and the german has been living with norway's high north for 12 years he takes tourists to see the sights along the coast near the russian border. he brings up

one of those sites from the bottom of the sea for this tour group. he only set up the traps the day before. the depth of 180 meters. but one day was long enough for him to now haul up dozens of kim crabs a delicacy on around the world if the crabs are also a growing ecological problem. the crustaceans multiply like rabbits job in the water you're good he brought the crops we have creds right ever your. you know to catch we need only from the front of the back 15 centimeters harvesting the king crabs has brought on head of prosperity to norway's economically constrained high north. including for the remote fishing village of bucco nace. in 1809 residents ran an eye for thais and offering their village for sale. young

people were moving away because there was no work now the village has been revived complete with bed and breakfasts and even be strong. and it's all thanks to no matter the king crab. fisherman life ingle a was among the 1st to discover the non-native species off by nice. soviet researchers had released them in the barents sea in the 1950s. but anyway was unaware of that when he found the monster crab and his nets what they. call me a 1st crabs we caught we tend to. we were taken completely by surprise. that if the crabs hadn't turned up again that we would not have it any fish processing in town. nor any fishing boats or at most 2 or 3.

but today we have 15 or 16 or groups. and what the explosive spread of the king crab is a boon to the fishermen but the norwegian environmentalist's and scientists are alarmed. eaters are being spotted father and father south they're expected to reach the coast of scotland soon. a lot of them we found that the crabs are able to adapt to water temperatures of each in degree celsius that means they can survive in the mediterranean. wherever these crabs become established they have devastating effects on the other marine life on the sea bed. some species mussels and starfish have disappeared completely. along with. their own the king crab is also known as the monster crab. it has no natural

enemies and poses a threat to every other living thing on the seabed. so fisheries authorities have made the quotas generous and tourists aren't the only ones glad of that rio how about today we have the right to catch 10 crabs for use or free per person per year . one crab is worth 900 kroner or 19 right in our pocket. multiplied by 10 and you know. you're eating a luxury delicacy for free is what serves as guest after only a short time in the kitchen otherwise behind only in europe's and asia's finest restaurants. norway exports over 2000 tons of can crowd around the world i mean only. one environmental concerns about invasive species continue the tourists savor its spicy meat under the region authorities hope the high fishing

quotas will help keep the crowd population under control the people of northern norway meanwhile hope this lucrative source of income will last a while longer they've already built a monument to the king crowd i wouldn't mind having one of those on live play well that's all for today thanks for watching and going back.

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