everything into education for her 10 children. she herself is illiterate like men, older women in turkey. but honestly, embry knows that learning always pays off. focus on europe. next on d, w. ah, what secrets lie behind these walls? discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d. w world heritage. 360. get the app now with hello and 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 will 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 eleger, j. abdullah lim, off remembers how during the cold war it was used in theory at least to scare off enemies of the soviet union. ah, colossal,

quick in dangerous this monstrous vehicle, part shit, part airplane is on a beach by the caspian sea in the republic of douglas done. the chrono plan or screamed lighter was designed for military use, presumably against the west. ah alika g up to gleam off served as flight engineer on test flights for the wing ship or groaned effect vehicle as there generically known colloquially, this one is called the caspian sea monster. what very good to go. i operated the propulsion units from here. it's great machine, just incredible. at the stop, the 1st wing ship was designed in the 1960 s. it was meant to guard russia's coast lanes and fight enemy ships, boasting undetected by radar, thanks to its lu flight. this uses the ground effect aerodynamic interaction with the surface beneath the wings creek, just enough lift 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 mild. oh you good that are hardly words thus donal store. lucky 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? mr. miller, what did susan at the neutral? it wasn't a monster. those but the more so the decoy thought elephant plans to use to a crown or plan to carry passengers. not only because it didn't need long runways or airports policy, yoda roman abdul gleam offs. devoted 14 years 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? do we have various fire fighting protocols and the event of an accident? george in hotel is not just but to be honest, we never once had to use them. he rather get the nic withdrawals. to de the caspian sea monster stands near their bent a 2 hour drive from abdul gleam ubs home. no retired flight engineer is proud to have been the only destiny on the team of soviet researchers. hardly any photos remain from his time of them. after all, it was a top secret soviet military project near will nearly, but thought it was the only non party member they took on your best, but you never said would have gone the other coworkers were communists. williams,

virginia, when the head of her test pilots division found out about tassel court, he was shocked to blow on that. how could a nonparty member have become a crew member? shall get the miss but generally but well, we keep us to tea party membership means nothing. the country eleger g abdul gleam of was so proud of the soviet union is history and the colossal wing ship is destined to serve as an attraction in petri park. a to recite planned on the caspian sea coast, the women who might everything is ruined. good nor you the work of so many designers and engineers neural roughly 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's for scrap news modules by emerald . i hope it will help young people understand what fantastic technology we had and what a great country reward or if there were new naga. and i hope that will help him feel

proud of this country and it's people not oden us, the old coil. and so the caspian sea monster theses are very different mission entities. russia to be your witness to the one time power and greatness or the former soviet union. well 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, 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. it's thing, it's 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 bother that, so talk with no job, me and what a lot, no education, 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 when they experienced hardship early on and learn 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, agility, manosalvas, my grandparents, mean everything to me. i loved them so much and i'm glad we live with them. he's missing a spy 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 have to 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 their quarter. mahala place 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 the required of the prom and 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 gum one evidence of sun. so there are lots of kids here. they and just like their parents, i'm worried that they'll come in contact with drug, other than a 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 launch 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. any one who wants to can join in it's about having fun. but joke as best friends, sylvia says, now there is also more at stake. says leave him. why when my hug 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, wash 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 a tough old life and they often end up in may see ated,

exhausted and down at the slaughter house. no one heart warming exception is carrying books. farm 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. karen look 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 cows who would normally have ended up at the slaughter house after years as agricultural livestock

at home put in learned the animals can spend their toilets years in peace there. hm . yeah mm hm. for but we prepared father for the old folks been in the nursing ward so to speak, the gas tank they are suffering from our throw says was in can no longer keep up with the heard. and he had to 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 cuddle from the donations. maria needs a lot of loving care. she stood in the stable for 12 years. the technical term is tethering. during that time, she produced over 100000 liters of milk. carlon says that is cruel, that the dairy industry often treats animals like machines. she thinks consumers

don't know enough to skip in the field, mary, so many fairy tales picnic, for example, that house always produce mill garcia as mine. can you people know their cows need to give birth version m and in industrial farming. they are artificially inseminated his arm to correct us and then after they give birth, the cat has taken away so that we can drink her milk via mich thing and cohen, 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 a gossip vince on, but very few farmers could manage without you. agricultural subsidies and mine dogs into semi subsidies are also donations made by the state and our moustache. in fact, the taxpayers have to foot the bill gate,

whereas the donations we receive are all made voluntarily because under absolute hybridity every day, the cattle tussle over hay at feeding time. karen onion 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 with the analyst 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 in nissan to dispose of light doesn't, but you're not saying you were evil because you were doing this and that would add us the ability to build it else that we don't go around showing pictures taken at slaughter houses or thus instead, thus we're taking a more humorous approach and thought the policy we're trying to show cadel in

a positive light in vitaly show how beautiful they are, issuances and, and that you can experience funny things when you're around them. and so like now, now my plan, lankton karen feels especially close to allah, the ox, who was part of a wandering circus company as a calf, until the veterinary authorities intervened. all are ended appear instead of the other 2 are now his daughter done without having to perform tricks. no, i'd like you to meet her very interesting and very brave woman. her name is osler,

imre, and she is learning to read and write. and she's doing so of 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 made 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 from the social. i was married at age 15 and had my 1st child at 16. you know it's always been about surviving. me only owned a single cow, you know. now with her granddaughter zane ips 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 weekend will from gentle body boy. and then began. grandma 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 family lives at the east and end of turkey on lake vaughn, 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 chela was rarely at home. he earned his money as a migrant construction worker. their son seemed destined for the same,

but the deeply religious as li, innovative 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 not a young man, but we wanted the children to go to school, even though we had to buy school uniforms and books for them to give you the cheapest yellows. often we didn't even have the money for a basic notebook, so they'll get this. 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. her husband is proud of their children's success. for hockey though, the villagers we talk behind our backs because we sent our daughters to school. so

we never paid any mind to that talk lovato. look, our 5 daughters of all graduated from schools will not over mother. the 4 of them are features other than i'm one, became a nurse, us it without not only to tell us down sheeter as a youth, this on good con, had to help at the construction site like his brothers. today he is 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 the social and economic reality in turkey. and though that's probably why it drew so much attention or scottish of many church see themselves on her confession that many families have gone through much the same things. we did it to me off a day to me let some of them have had an even harder time. popular over 3 decades

ago. wine out of 3 women in turkey were illiterate. today the right has been cut to 6 percent most who can't read and write are older women in rural areas like us, the immigrant. the image is escaped poverty through education, to thank their mother. her sons have built her a modern house, but she still prefers to make her bread in the turban 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. still little costly for a school assembly for the national holiday. my son gurkin, when said to me, please tell the teacher, i'm sick. she william ecstasy of a mother and she didn't want to go because he was ashamed that he didn't have a dress shirt. and you don't forget things like that. one will not chill. sure.

would you let it regularly be? our mother will write a boot, just for she talks is gone through so much and accomplish so much. daniels, ginger hardley were mostly hard times. but what valuable memories had, if they were only about happy days? if asleep, emma, they 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, conducting the traffic flow. this busy hub with all the applause of

a great maestro, tirelessly directing traffic. aah! 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 isn't yesterday, but it's the most important thing is the precision of the movement, elegant, accurate, and decisive. bennett. this is the only way the driver understands my signal. i commit that i will. if i make a mistake or anything can happen, it was jesse 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 piazza is not suitable for everyone here. oh,

so you definitely need a lot of enthusiasm to do this job. love you, donna, it's not just about traffic controls and these are the up either this podium and it's conductance. have even made it into italian film history. programmed in 1000 all in a level. it's yeah. the film was shot here. you got to did you do with us offices in this piazza in our workplace? was a little doctor. it made us famous when y'all as a model as alamo, though bad multi. 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. is a more impressed by a woman, they show more respect. at least they follow my signals closely. elanora

remembers all to well how during the knock down no traffic directions when needed in the otherwise bustling and crowded piazza. innate sia said i withdraw yano. i ran the vito rianna monuments. there were hardly any color solid are complete, i mean everything was empty to silence felt surreal. to vincent. oh, you could even hear the birds singing about it. there is no semblance of that now on the piazza, but the traffic offices, i'm glad to be back. said let sylvia see this. even though you're breathing in fumes on the podium, it's still nice to be up there. at that level, it's a symbol of every day life. i love you, obviously they love this city needs us up there because we are synonymous with life . 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 in metropolis.

well i hope and i trust that i didn't promise you too much. some great people had no stories to day, 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. when trucks ah ah ah ah, ah

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dominant variant while delta is still getting hard. also coming up, ah, south africans pay tribute to nobel peace prize laureate and human rights activists . desmond tutu. ah, hello m terry martin. good to have you with us. searching cove at 19 infections are worrying governments around the globe. many are hastily introducing limits on new year's celebrations in an effort to prevent the spread of the virus official say, the skyrocketing infection rates are being driven by the highly contagious amik. wrong variant, a new national record for france here every 2nd more than 2 people are testing positive for the could on our virus keeping. normal. police patrols have stepped up in response. there was

a bars and restaurants checking people's vaccination passes. and for the still unvaccinated french authorities have a grim message, dilemma patrols who perceive there is really very little chance you can escape at this time, the virus is spreading too fast and unvaccinated people are more likely to get infected or very sick. but like cindy germany to is putting more pressure on the unvaccinated leading to several protests across the country in munich, police initially banned a rally, but protesters came out any way by the thousands saying they're just out for a walk. there is also concern that germany is under reporting cases due to staff shortages during the holiday season. it with her fossil, the under reporting is probably of the order that the actual incidence is currently 2 or 3 times as high as the incidence. we are measuring all, smithson, the u. k is facing a surge in

o my current cases. and that is frustration that rapid test kits aren't available. we speak to mom and there's none in the pharmacy. grandma is not only will got the signs outside the run outside. many people need a negative test to be allowed to work. i'll gather to celebrate the start of a new you is lucas mother developments in the pandemic world wide south african researchers have found a booster shot of johnson and johnson's covered. 19 vaccine is an 84 percent effective at preventing hospitalization. france is batting the consumption of food and drinks in cinemas, theaters, and sports venues, as well as on public transportation. as part of its efforts to stop the spread of the corona virus. and a new york city near city will ring in new years in time square. despite record numbers of covered 19 infections, the event will be scaled back with smaller crowds and visitors will be required to have proof of vaccination. india has introduced restrictions to prevent mass

gatherings in an effort to stave off the spike and cobra 19 infections. most new cases have been reported in urban areas and nighttime curfews have been declared in all major cities, but the country is facing huge challenges in maintaining social distancing lines of commuters waiting for the bus to work in daddy authorities in the capital a keeping buses and trains half empty, that's causing long delays and it's testing people's patients which lopez. thank you. a few people for the kobe 19 guidelines, but some argue with us over. that's it. they bought the boss forcefully and get involved in physical fights. data from that. however, we make sure they understand that the rules are to be followed as the corona virus and omicron cases are increasing. humble from that, the officials are saying the next few days are crucial in slowing the rise. but

it seems the message isn't being heard everywhere has no sign of a night curfew here in go where thousands of people have gathered the new year's celebrations. infections are on the rise here too. but that isn't sporting the party. yes, he is rocking a piece that been that day by day the crowd is also increasing and it is a nice to see without having to down go essays it will revisit its code 19 restrictions after the new year. meanwhile, back and daddy, doctors are demanding that the government allows new medical graduates to finally sit there. exams, qualification of new doctors has been pushed back by the pandemic. now they say there's a shortfall of 45000 frontline stuff just as the country heads into another covey 19 wave sketchup on some other stories making headlines around the world. today. russian president vladimir putin and his u. s. counterpart joe biden are set to discuss tensions over ukraine in a video conference in

a few hours time. washington has warned that the massive russian troop build up near the ukrainian border may signal an invasion while moscow excuses nato of eastward expansion. thousands of taken to the streets of khartoum and other sudanese cities to protest against october's military take over the demonstrators. a brave tear gas and defied orders to disperse, as they called for a transition to free elections. local journalists say the military has cut internet and mobile phone services. police in hong kong have formerly charged to senior editors from the online pro democracy news out that stands news with sedition. they've been identified in court documents as former stand news chief editor joan week when and patrick lamb. the announcement comes a day after authorities rated the offices of stan. there's a jury in the u. s. has pound,

socialite gilling maxwell guilty of helping the late sex offender jeffrey epstein abuse under age girls over a period of years. after 5 days of deliberations. the new york jury found maxwell guilty on 5 counts, including recruiting and grooming epstein, teenage victims. the verdict could see the 60 year old spend the rest of her life in prison, recruiting and grooming teenage victims and trafficking a minor. these are the heavy charges of which british socialite galle maxwell was found guilty by the new york jerry. the road to justice has been far too long, but today justice has been done. no one, no matter how powerful or well connected is above the law. jolaine maxwell is the daughter of british newspaper. baron robert maxwell, in court accuser showed evidence of maxwell's close relationship to late fine and sheer and convicted sex offender,

jeffrey epstein. epstein was jailed in 2019 based on charges of sex trafficking minors, but he committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial. in the current court case of killing maxwell, she was found to have helped epstein systematically procure young girls some as young as 14. the charges against maxwell were brought forward by 4 victims, but many more field. they have been served justice. this is a victory for all of the victims of miss maxwell and abstain. moreover, i think this is a victory for all young children, boys, girls, women, and men who are victims of abusers like best it will give them the needed cush to step forward and to speak their truth and to hopefully get justice like these young girls, how with respect to miss maxwell, that a fence up to 60 year old is being used as

a scapegoat for other people's crimes. i. we firmly believe in gallons. innocence. obviously we are very disappointed with the verdict. we have already started working on the appeal, and we are confident that she will be vindicated everyone the healthy, have a happy new year. how you doing, maxwell now stands to spend the rest of her life in prison. if she receives the maximum possible sentence of 65 years, south africans have been paying their respects to archbishop desmond tutu in a memorial ceremony at saint george's cathedral in k. that's where the anti apartheid icon once delivered sermons against wiped minority rule during service. some of his favorite hymns were performed and his grandson thanked well wishers both at the cathedral and around the world for reaching out to his family. as they grieved their loss. we've been reassured by the outpouring of love and prayers and

support. ready that aboard in from around the world. ready that he will not be out of mind just because he's out of sight. we miss you. we love you. we thank you. the anti part at icon and a what peace prize laureate died last sunday at the age of 90 years, more on t 2 two's lasting impact ah, every day at noon this week, the bells of saint george's cathedral and across south africa have chimed in. remembrance of the former archbishop flowers, a mass for desmond too, too though he wanted no grand display of mourning. his daughter on tom be thanked people around the world for this support. it has been such an

outpouring of love and support and prayers that we, we ah, we don't have enough mom. there are times in the i laughing at shut a story. that times we are crying every. we come to turn the life without dead cape town. city icons are illuminated in the purple of 2 tooth clerical robes . south africa as president added his words to the chorus of tributes because he was the voice of the voice that he was the one person who campaign for justice for people living with a tv for, for the mtv t q i plus community. and for the dejected and the oppressed people, not only in our country footage from 1985 shows to, to calming an angry mob who had been beating and accused apartheid collaborator. he

was one of the strongest voices for peaceful resistance against the system. appraising south africa is black people. we know we know we know we shall all. madame evie, he later travelled the world containing for human rights against homophobia. israel's treatment of palestinians and climate change. one of his last public appearances receiving a cove at 19 vaccine, sending a message of social solidarity right to the end. saturdays funeral will be limited to just $100.00 guests inside the cathedral, but will be followed by countless more outside and around the world. russian president vladimir putin and his belly russian counterpart, alexander lucas shanker, took to the ice for a game hockey game. after a diplomatic talks in saint petersburg, playing for the same team,

hootin wearing number 11 scores, 7 goals. while lucas jenko method 2, the 2 leaders played alongside retired russian, hockey stores. sanker san, also joined in their team, won the game $18.00 to $7.00. a small town in southern france has been lit up in a winter blaze of color and light. the lantern festival near the city of to lose is one of the biggest of its kind outside china and expects to welcome up to 600000 visitors glass filled with colored liquid. 2800 lanterns lit up by eli d's. this park is filled with imaginative illuminations. mm. oh, never is any more we saw the animals in the airplane. and of course the giant panda to nice see of what up says. rich, he vienna,

me. i like the panders and the big tower is very beautiful to get going to katie t then look yard shanta details for j. there are different themes. ira travel loads and chinese art. myo and methyl where you can learn a lot about chinese traditions here. john john, publish and that's great. you ah, there are strong echoes of china here because everything comes from china. every single item originated there and was installed here by chinese craftsman. ah, a french businessman came up with the idea of holding a lantern festival and flung jak. ah! if it's easier than a dempsey, kudos of china's lantern festival is huge. 10 times the size of this one because it's impossible not to love the lanterns and sculptures. their fear. the like creation said,

our festival were assembled on the spot. every festival starts from scratch, everything was tailor made for us. so you're apart from the panned as, of course, because a panda is always a panda bluff. oh, you do. she certainly, but we have a lake we can use to no luck. and we have a pagoda for the emperor, told him, and a boat which travels down the river is a boil for the song ally and the flavor. visitors can even get to the festival on the boat or by other means of transport. blan yaks. lantern festival runs until the end of january. ah, you are watching dw news from berlin businesses next with rob watch for me. terry martin, an old team there at the w. thanks. watch. do

you like it? do you want it? okay, them buckle up, put the pedal to the metal. let's ride read on d w. these places in europe are smashing all the records. step into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of you to record breaking sites on your back. youtube, and now also in book form, ah, ah, 20 years of the euro as the euro is own marks 2 decades since it's radical,

new common currency started filling up wallets, who discussed whether it's been a monetary model of financial flaw. yours 1st home grown battery facility has begun production. we'll look at what sweden's new north vote giga factory means that the continent with energy prices still soaring across the world will look back on a year of power. struggle is also fuel fights. this is day to be a business on robots in berlin. welcome to the program, 19 countries, one currency. and now europe is mocking 20 years of the euro. it's been a rollercoaster, a couple of decades for the single currency. for some, the euro has been a stabilizing factor for the continent. others say it's just driven up prices as we wait to see what the future holds for the euro. let's 1st take a look at the past. a symbol of hope and prosperity for all of europe.

the 6 story high euros culture in front of the european central bank in frankfort. it was germany's way of celebrating the introduction of the euro as legal tender. since then, europeans didn't have to exchange notes and coins when traveling within the eurozone. companies also profited as trade within the currency union sharply increased on the eve of 2022 more than 340000000 people in 19 e. u countries use the common currency every day at its introduction, one euro cost one u. s. dollar and 7 cents since then it has gone up and up in 2008. it reached its old time high of almost one u. s. dollar and 60 cents just before the start of the global financial crisis. there was also the 1st real test for the euro, a single currency for economies as different as greece and germany, a recipe for disaster. the e, you had to agree on

a 1000000000 euro rescue packages to save the weaker countries of southern europe from financial collapse. the crisis, but the euro under unprecedented pressure. speculators tried to caching on the failure of the common currency in 2012. the president of the e. c. b spoke words that would go down in history. papers these c, b is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. and believe me, it will be enough to e. c. b was pushing the envelope and it worked for euro survive the financial crisis to day. a tough new test. the corona pandemic lock downs have placed a heavy burden on the national budgets of the euro countries. in 2020, they took on joint debt for the 1st time ever.

critics of the euro. so this move makes financially ricker countries a burden on those with stronger economies. many others, however, still see the euro is the best opportunity for the european union countries to grow even closer. well, to discuss further 20 years of the euro, let's speak to maria de maps. this is deputy director of the brussels economic think tank brew go. thanks a lot for joining us on detroit business. great. have you on so 2 decades in can we say whether the euro has been a success or not? yes, of course, i think any, you know, has been there has been a big success actually. and way of thinking about this is imagine how countries small countries, but also be countries would have weathered the 2 big crisis that we've seen in the past 20 years. had they been alone? i think that's a very important thing to try and contemplate it with a thought experiment. and then you realize that the scale and the stability that the youth has brought to the continent,

different degrees for different countries has actually managed to keep a europe together and, and actually whether the crisis was much less cost that it would have been otherwise. so yes, it is been and i'll try success as far as i'm concerned. but as he just mentioned, the impact of it has buried between countries. have there been winners and losers for the last 20 years? i think it's important appreciate that not on countries joint or the euro ended the you for the same reasons to the extent that one can have a distinction between the north and the south. and i'm very reluctant to make this type of comparisons because they're never really accurate. but let's say, let's say for the sake of conversation we, we divide the continent in this 2 blocks. the northern countries are a more open country, so they're the ones we're looking for a great markets. so they're real, the prime motivation for the northern part of europe to join the you is to expand their markets both domestically domestically being in europe. but so scale also internationally, globally, and of course the year to provide amply, 2 countries of the north,

kansas in the south and the other hand wanted stability. they wanted a stable currency that is going to ensure that the consumer has got predictability in terms of pepsi. pirate in their pockets, and they got that with the euro. so yeah, to that extent, if you so think about the motivation why every country joined, the you and all of them had something to do to win from the adjustment to the, to the euro. hasn't been easy for all countries that i think is important. countries in the south founded a lot more difficult to adopt, simply because their economies are a lot more inflexible. i but i think even countries in the south, i found the stability of the year to been an upright success. it survived 2 decades, and it's got through various crises. but there is another one on the way as the, or is recovers from the pandemic. how well set is the euro to get through that? i think you'll see that a european architecture, which is absolutely essential for a good a collection. i mean,

for sustaining shocks or sustaining crisis has been going, has been moving in the right direction. compare the reaction, how europe dealt with the financial crisis and of what speed. and to the reaction of the you in the current crisis, the pandemic crisis in 2020. and at what speed, you'll see that both of the unity of europe as well as the speed of reaction, have greatly improved. there is a thing as serialization, appreciation of the fact that a united europe can really, whether the storm so much faster. there are we important discussions in 2022 when it comes to record textural issues. i'm thinking mostly of the fiscal path that can really help increase the resilience of the continent. and i think there is enough understanding that important steps for what need to happen. okay, maria demetrius from brewer. thank you very much for joining us on date of your business. next, it's been labor day milestone for europe. sweden's north volt has officially begun

production at the continents 1st home growing battery cell production line. it's good news for customers like folks bargain, volvo and b, m, w, and the future plans. just 200 kilometers south of the arctic circle this factory. and while, if they all produced its 1st battery cell, this week, the location was chosen because it's near important sights of renewable energy production in northern sweden, including hydro electric power, intended to compete with the u. s. electric car giant, tesla and asian producers of lithium ion batteries. the site is expected to produce enough batteries to power $1000000.00 electric vehicles every year. north vault expects to make its 1st deliveries to commercial customers. in early 2022. the company has already secured $30000000000.00 worth of orders from european carmakers, including germany's b, m. w, and volkswagen and sweden's volvo with which it plants

a 2nd european factory test lays due to launch its 1st factory in europe soon. and asian rivals have significant operations in poland and hungary, but no european firm had opened a major facility until now. russian president vladimir putin is again turning up the pressure on german regulators to approve nord stream to is told a meeting of the government shown on russian stake tv, that the pipeline is now fully primed and ready to solve your it's national at natural gas supply problems and these network regulator that says it won't give the go ahead till no 2 nodes stream to, until it's satisfied the swiss based operating company is complying with german law . a once full approval may not come until the 2nd half of 20. 22 is booty cooker and you put what the rising tension. nathan nod stream to comes at the end of an extraordinary year for the global energy sector. as chelsea delaney reports,

nicole natural gas and crude oil in this year. these fossil fuels have been in short supply, whatever you want to call it, a crisis, a crunch. shortage. what's been unfolding across global energy market this year is impacting all of our lives. in almost every corner of the world, the energy needed to heat our homes or fuel or cars or power. our businesses has become drastically more expensive. it takes a long time for the amount of switch away from fossil fuels in $981.00, oil gas and cool account for 84 percent of total energy demand. last year that there was to 84 percent. the 1st place where we really started to see energy shortages unfold this year was in china. china school supply couldn't keep up with the sharp bounce back in demand from its factory sector. by september, the government ordered some factories closed and told coal mines to increase production with the coal shortage at home. china turn to international natural gas

markets to help keep the lights on and factories running. that huge amount of demand coming from china rippled across global energy markets, including to those here in europe, the competition between china and europe for elegy has been building for years. but this years energy shortage is led to an all out bidding war and europe, husband losing to asia when they get cold and they get them in europe. ready have been less, but then i mean, there's pipeline to play in no way. i'll give you a rush up. they can supply as well, but that's where you have no problem. moment russia has been slow to finish, no gas to the you this year, despite the critical shortage of stocks. some analysts believe the limited deliveries are no quincy stance and accuse moscow of exploiting europe's energy weakness. why? inter nordstrom to the 9500000000 euro natural gas pipeline. russia recently completed constructing to germany. the russians have spent

a fortune under put in developing an entire new natural gas province. what happens in europe then, as part of its climate policy cut back on natural gas consumption? indeed, many politicians do see climate policy, namely a faster move towards renewables as the solution. but building out that infrastructure could take years. so what about right now? for now, the government seemed to have decided the answer is more fossil fuels. china has doubled down on coal while here in the e. u. for many countries have pledged to give a call in the coming decade. idle plants are being put back on line. fossil fuel still power our lives and until that changes, fossil fuels and the countries that produce them will continue to determine how much it costs to keep the lights on. chelsea delaney reporting now 2021 has also been

a year of ups and downs for the world's shipping lanes in the sea of japan. things have taken another bizarre turn as well. dozens of cause have become caked in ice, up to half a me to thick on their way to the russian ports of blood voss doc at their japanese ship expanse high winds. with temperatures of minus 19 celsius waves splashed over the cars, then froze, cracking, wind screams and causing all kinds of other damage in the process was over main. the business steam here in val. and if you want more from us, do add to our website to we dot com slash business. you can also find master on the database and use youtube channel. and of course on facebook at d. w dot business until next time to cat. ah

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