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hello. in a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe and in this edition of the show, we look back on some exciting a surprising and moving stories from the past year. above all, we want to revisit some of the people who made a special impression in 2021, such as young roma, women singing against child marriage and for equal rights, and animal rights activist who gives elderly cows a place to chew away their old age. and a mother of 10 who is only now learning to read and bright, and a policeman who literally conducts traffic as if it were a piece of music. but let's begin with a giant sea monster. and to do so, we'll take you on a journey to the caspian sea to a remote area near the city of dare bent. and here we find a huge metal construction that is quite literally beached and her elegant j abdullah lim off for remembers how during the cold war it was used in theory at
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least to scare off enemies of the soviet union. ah, colossal, quick and dangerous. this monstrous vehicle, hardship, part airplane, is on the beach by the caspian sea in the republic of daggers done. detrano plan or screen lighter, was designed for military use, presumably against the west. alika g ugly moth served as flight engineer on test flights for the wing ship or grown effect vehicle as they're generically known. colloquially, this one is called the caspian sea monster. what do we get to that i operate at the propulsion units from here? it's a great machine. just incredible. at the stopper, the 1st wing ship was designed in the 1960s. it was meant to guard rushes, coast lanes and fight enemy ships, posting undetected by radar thanks to its lu flight. this uses the ground effect
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aerodynamic interaction with the surface beneath the wings creek. just enough lit to carry the 380 ton giant a few meters above the water. ah, but it never saw genuine service. 14 years after the caspian sea monsters launch, the soviet union collapsed and test flights were ended. the nuclear though i'm out. oh, you good. those are hardly words thus thorough. northstar, ducky, we were so proud of our country at the time for developing such, let's call them products unlike what any other country in the world hunt? new formula. what did susan at the natural? it wasn't a monster. those are part of the walls of the decoy, the elephant plans to used a crana plan to carry passengers in the room because it didn't need long runways or airports policy or the roman abdul gleam of devoted 14 years
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of his life to the a chronic plan he logged a bit more than 500 hours of flight time, which he says is not much for a professional test pilot. but the flights were anything but easy. something always went wrong. the prototype had only been built for test flights. bri was nick though in june we had various fire fighting protocols and the event of an accident. george in hotel is not just meant to be honest. we never once had to use them. he rather get the nicholas chose to de the caspian sea monster stands near, bent a 2 hour drive from abdul gleam ubs home. no retired flight engineer is proud to be the only dagger stanny on the team of soviet researchers. hardly any photos remain from his time with them. after all, it was a top secret soviet military project near wil, purely, but thought it was the only non party member they took on miss, but in that will,
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she would have gone the other coworkers were communists. williams, virginia, when the head of her test pilots division found out about that. so he was shocked to blow on that. how could a non party member have become a crew members? i'll get the miss but generally, but well, we keep us today. party membership means nothing. the country alika g abdul gleam off was so proud of. the soviet union is history. and the colossal wing ship is destined to serve as an attraction in patriot park. a to recite planned on the caspian sea coast. the river in the mud, everything is ruined. good nor you the work of so many designers and engineers neural awfully were of us, but at least that still standing here. don't watch that. we were rather that i'm with all of the was talk about dismantling it for scrap the news module for emerald . i hope it will help young people understand what fantastic technology we had and
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what a great country rotella they had. there were new naga and i hope that will help him feel proud of this country and it's people not on us the old coil. and so the caspian sea monster theses, a very different mission entities, russia to be your witness to the one time power and greatness of the former soviet union. wow. what a story now on a very different know these young women are currently enjoying a lot of success with their band called pretty loud, including being invited to play in london. but that success hasn't necessarily come easily after all. they come from the roemer people, europe's largest ethnic minority. the group is actually based in serbia, a country where many women and especially roma, women say their voices aren't properly heard. all the members are pretty loud,
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are certainly speaking up and speaking out. oh, i was lucky summons a members of the girl been pretty loud or young, proud and determined to take their futures into their own hands. they sing and rob about education equal rights and the practice of course marriages, they're all too familiar with at all. mom is thing well known that roman lead, very traditional lives, say not to talk with bill other than on at women aren't supposed to work or go to school and all that because they marry would stay at home for their clean and raise the children father. that's a talk with no job, me and what a lot, no education,
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that our daily da so but as a squalor ciocca seeks a different life. she's 19, anna law student. she and her sisters are inseparable live. they experienced hardship early on and learned to support each other. their father lives in germany with his new family and their mother abandoned the girls. so they grew up with their grandparents who gave them the freedom to make their own life choices as it unity. the manosalvas, my grandparents mean everything to me. i love them so much and i'm glad we live with them both. he's missing a typhoid, goodbye and with pretty loud begun and 2014 and serbia. as a social project, it's aim was to give young roma women the same rights and freedoms as roman men
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have. the women sing in 3 languages, romani, serbian, and english. their biggest success so far was their appearance at the women of the world festival in london. i took with me singing in the band has helped the young women build up their confidence and they found role models online . the roma people are europe's largest ethnic minority. their culture is being changed by social media. you know, even so nothing is more important to jessica than family. almost every day she takes her nieces and nephews out for walks. they to our growing up without a mother. this is a poor district a quarter, but she also says she likes it. the community is tightly net and people help one another, a little bit with
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their quarter. mahala plays a big role in this video. it's easy for young people to lose their way here. roma communities tend to live on the fringes of society and are at a big disadvantage. drug use is also rampant. all is the recall of the problem. what i wish for most, for my quarter way out of the finance, or at least what i would change is to get rid of the drugs here. they're all gone. one evidence of sun summer. there are lots of kids here. they and just like their parents, i'm worried that they'll come in contact with the drug audit than it flush and say and ruin their lives. and, and the joke on the phone, you my, the ornish, this voicemail of jessica has done volunteer work for years for the same social project that launched pretty loud. she helps children with their homework to help them succeed. and school the group has there were her so space one floor up there working on a new song. anyone who wants to can join in it's about having fun,
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but joke as best friends, sylvia says, now there is also more at stake. there's even more wilma girls in this quarter look up to us. that's a major responsibility and we have to take it on because we live here together. and we're a major role model that the large responsibility i'm avoiding was that i'm, we are fighting for a quality and against discrimination. nazi and we want the same rights as men novice so much. it's a big challenge and i've got 2 jobs and i'm raising a child at the aqua. that's not easy. but if you really want something than any things possible, watch for someone, look at the flight. i did it. that's the energy that pretty loud passes on to their fans. and who knows, maybe one day they will when you say something very special happening there. now why you wonder, did you know that her care was, can live to the ripe old age of 25. but in farming, as it is largely practice these days, that simply doesn't happen. milk cows lead
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a tough old life and they often end up in may see ated, exhausted and down at the slaughter house. one heart warming exception is carrying books far on the german north coast. here animals, old and frail, can enjoy a place of peace or in fact, share a place of peace. oh, it's early morning down at the farm. oh, read me. time to eat. torn luke is not a farmer, she runs a retirement home for animals. frederick escaped from a livestock trailer. and rosa is from a fattening facility where she languished gravely ill. karen and her partner young goodess mainly tend to cannes who would normally have ended up at the slaughter house after years as agricultural livestock
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at home, foot and land. the animals can spend their toilets years in peace. there has been for the we prepared father for the old folks from the nursing more so to speak. the gap talent there suffering from arthritis says was in can no longer keep up with a herd. had admit to love him. some local farmers think the retirement home for animals is a crazy idea. but the project now has so many supporters that it can take good care of the 38 cattle from the donations. maria needs a lot of love and care. she stood in the stable for 12 years. the technical term is tethering. during that time, she produced over 100000 liters of milk cart and says that this crew that the dairy
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industry often treats animals like machines. she thinks consumers don't know enough is give ins of feel, emit. there are so many fairy tales. for example, that house always produce milk after as mankind, you people know their cows need to give birth 1st in an industrial farming. they are artificially inseminated. his am to correct us and then after they give birth, the cat taken away so that we can drink her milk via mich thing and cone. young goddess had taken over his parents farm 1st he carried out organic farming. but eventually he decided to abandon farming for good. some farmers have criticized his move, saying while they are hard at work, he is out collecting donations. but he disagrees only who are gossiping so on, but very few farmers could manage without you agricultural subsidies and mine dogs . and just to me,
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subsidies are also donations made by the state and are muster. in fact, the taxpayers have to foot the bill gate, whereas the donations we receive are all made voluntarily causing her absence. however, every day the cattle total over, hey, at feeding time, karen anon say the animals can express a wide range of emotions. they formed family units argue and create friendships. ah, there are 20 hector's of pasture, where the analysts can roam freely, carmen and young hope the project can help change people's minds. that unless our i'll say we're not pointing a finger at others, phoenix are going to dispose of i do doesn't, but you're not saying you are evil because you are doing this and that order does he applaud, he could bid it else and that we don't go around showing pictures taken at slaughter houses or does fear instead. thus we're taking
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a more humorous approach. and so the pussy, we are trying to show cattle in a positive light in vitaly show how beautiful they are tunes easy and, and that you can experience funny things when you're around them and like now now my plan, lankin karen feels especially close to allah. the ox, who was part of a wandering circus company as a calf, until the veterinary authorities intervened. allah and it appeared instead of the arbiter. now he is dotted on without having to perform tricks. now i'd like you to meet her very
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interesting and very brave woman. her name is osler, imre, and she is learning to read and write and she's doing so at an age where many others go into retirement. illiteracy is still wide spread among women in her country. that is turkey, as recently as 30 years ago, up to a 3rd of all women were effected as la grew up in poverty near the city of van. and she made a lot of sacrifices to ensure that her children got a good education. now she too wants to make up for mist time. in the course of her life as li, emily has bait more loaves of flatbread than she can count. she had to feed at 10 children. she had no time left over for learning. she never went to school, want to show that i was married at age 15 and had my 1st child at 16 to know it's
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always been about surviving. we only owned a single cow. now with her granddaughter zayna to help. she sits at the living room table every day to learn how to read and write a syllable by syllable word by word the 60 year old is exploring a new world of i'm sick of always asking other people how to get places when i can't read the signs for the buses, this sort of general from gentle volleyball and then began. gramma came to us one day and said, now i want to learn to read, let him can understand. and i said, grandma, you can teach that to yourself. i'll help you. and so we got started, i did have it. the image of family lives at the east end of turkey on lake van, near the border to iran. and one of the country's poorest provinces they're members of the kurdish minority asked me, embrace didn't learn to speak turkish until she was grown. her husband charla was
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rarely at home. he earned his money as a migrant construction worker. the sun seemed destined for the same, but the deeply religious as the image was determined to give their children a better life. if it hasn't been, we couldn't even afford curtains. yonder, this just hated under him. it was another young google, but we wanted the children to go to school even though we had to buy school uniforms and books for them to the didn't did. she was still resolved. often. we didn't even have the money for a basic notebook, doesn't get it. they had to count every single lire, but they managed to put their children through school. 9 of the kids graduated from high school and went on to college. the youngest son is still in high school. now their mother wants to be able to read books too. and the strong mother of van province has been praised in the turkish media for her courage and determination.
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her husband is proud of their children success for her to the villagers. we talk behind our backs because we sent our daughters to school. so we never paid any mind to that talk, love not talk to look our 5 daughters of all graduated from schools will not mother 4 of them are features other than and one became a nurse it out. not all the to tell us down sheeter as a youth this on good can had to help at the construction site like his brothers. today, he's a cardiologist at the van city hospital. he put himself through medical school, working with his father during the vacations, with a single tweet about his mother's thirst for knowledge. he made his family an overnight sensation across turkey. miss was my mother's story reflects a social and economic reality in turkey. and though that's probably why it drew so much attention or scottish of many turk see themselves on her concession. that when many families have gone through much the same things we did in the office,
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they did. some of them of had an even harder time popular over 3 decades ago. one out of 3 women in turkey were illiterate. today the rate has been cut to 6 percent most who can't read and write are older women in rural areas like osley immigrate. the immigrant escaped poverty through education, to thank their mother. her sons have built her a modern house, but she still prefers to bake her bread in the to boone or clay oven in the courtyard. the way she used to in the village the children come to visit their parents as many weekends as they can. they say that from their mother, they learned discipline piety and decency, and pride in their origins. even if that wasn't always easy. what is the electrical hostile before a school assembly for the national holiday? my son gurkin one said to me, please tell the teacher, i'm sick she by amongst se offer on mother on. she didn't want to go because he was
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ashamed that he didn't have a dress shirt. you don't forget things like that. when i toss it, we can get it. tricky that will be our mother will write a book. i haven't yet. she has gone through so much and accomplished so much daniels, twinkle, hotly, were mostly hard times. but what value would memories have it? if they were only about happy days? if asleep, emily had gone to school, she would have liked to have become a judge. now at least she plans to learn another language for that. she says it's not too late. definitely not. and we wish i say all the very best in her studies. now there are those who say that drivers in italy don't always respect the rules of the road and that things can get pretty chaotic. well, just try going to rome central piazza vanessia, and there's little sign of such chaos which might in large measure be down to this mountain, fabio agree low. he's dedicated himself to directing. or perhaps i should say,
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conducting the traffic flow. this busy hub with all the applause of a great maestro. time asleep, directing traffic, blue with white gloves. elegance, and at the concentrated gates. for almost 20 years now, piazza vanessia has been in the workplace. if that be okay, it is and i said, but it's the most important thing is the precision of the movement, elegant, accurate, and decisive banner. this is the only way the driver understands my signal. i commit that i will. if i make a mistake, you know anything can happen, it was, yes, he goes, ah, do you to read works on the piazza drive as have had to do without fabiola conducting scales for almost a year. now the human traffic light is back on his usual podium. romans love that vigilant traffic officer. although the job in the center of the
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piazza is not suitable for every one new york. so you definitely need a lot of enthusiasm to do this job. love you, donna, it's not just about traffic control, so these are the up either this podium and it's conductance. have even made it into italian film history program in 1000, down all in their level. it's, yeah, the film was shot here. you got a did you do with us offices in this piazza in a workplace? was a little doctor. it made us famous when you're all, as i'm with the last element though bad, little to at that time, only men filled the my strange position at the crossroads. but rome has since moved with the times. elia, noah ludovico. she has served here for 3 years. as a woman on the podium, she believes she even has an advantage over her male colleagues for this one on february women. that may be because dr. as a more impressed by a woman, they show more respect. at least they follow my signals closely. and leonor
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remembers all to oh, how during the knocked down no traffic directions when needed in the otherwise bustling am crowded pets of innate sia said i with the yarn all around in the vito rianna monuments to were hardly at because while at our complete every thing was empty to silence, felt surreal. 71. 0, you could even hear the bird singing grandfather, but i think there is no semblance of that now on the piazza. but the traffic offices, i'm glad to be back celestial, but i see this even though you're breathing in fumes on the podium, it's still nice to be up there will do that. i will. it's a symbol of every day life. i love you so that the last you thought this city needs us up there because we are synonymous with life. death. i sit on him on the visa. as the podium rises, a little bit of normality returns as well as the old elegance of the room and
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metropolis. well, i hope and i trust that i didn't promise you too much, some great people though, stories today lots of courage, lots of positive energy. and i do look forward to plenty more in the year to come. so stay safe and to join us on focus on europe in 2022. for now though, bye bye and trucks. ah with ah, with
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