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with global ideas, we will show you how climate change and environmental conservation is taking shape around the world and how we can make a difference. knowledge grows through sharing. download it now, feel free. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is focus on europe. nice to have you with us today. it's been more than 10 weeks since russia invaded ukraine, though poor and may have expected a blitzkrieg. his army is advancing slower than many anticipated meeting. a fierce resistance from ukrainian forces and volunteers from abroad are signing up to fight
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putin's army up to 20000 of foreign men and women are estimated to have joined keeps units. among them, people like cap on young, south american who feels compelled to defend ukraine. he's joined by like minded people from across the world, some of whom have never even held a gun before. others have experience in the trenches. the international volunteers are aware of the savagery that awaits them some more than others. our reporter accompanied cap on, on his journey to the front lines. ah, it's been a lot of bombing left, right. and above, everywhere. and i know i'm going there for a good reason. and if i don't see my family, my friends and the people i love here on this earth again, i have faith that i will meet them after death,
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one that i was in ukraine. it's not just ukrainians who are fighting. thousands of people from abroad have joined battle, who are j. and why are they doing it with a law? if i'm needed to help my comrades at the front line, i'll go there. if i'm needed to take care of civilians, i'll do that. whatever job the legion gives me, i'll do it. i'm a lawyer. busy i lost it, i was gonna on the stem cap han, as he calls himself, is from latin america for security reasons, we don't as close his exact location. he's preparing to leave his home upon tells me he works. as a paramedic, he seems to have plenty of friends. over all his life seems pretty normal to me.
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in our 1st online encounter upon doesn't reveal his identity yet. he wants to join the army as a combat medic. and the lump sum of the us, i saw these terrible images of how they attacked civilian zones with missiles, people dying in their apartments and attacks against humanitarian corridors. i saw so many terrible images of suffering civilians including children, and it broke my heart to see them. and as a paramedic, i have the skills to help them. i know i have something to offer located here and i was going to period. this is a complete i. yeah. to 19 year old tells me he still lives with his parents. he says his father even offered him money to stay. but a few days later, it's time to leave his friends, throw
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a farewell party. lou sandra from norway has already joined the ukrainian army. they refer me to half the life she depicts on social media. it's not for the faint of heart with she used to be a fisher then served as a representative for her ethnic group to sammy people to tells me that after that she trained as a combat medic. now she says she's on the front lines or 1st of all, at the moral obligation. this is home based in europe. we owe them. oh, if you can help dish it on her social media account poses with weapons.
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she tells me she has no qualms about using her gun, but is what it says job is what you have to do. so is the one who fires 1st. that's how it goes. we're not the attackers. we other defenders. we are not the one trusting any borders they kept on flights. of krakow and poland, close to ukrainian border temperatures in eastern europe just have stepped to near freezing a climate the upon has never experienced before i joined him for the next leg of his journey. the 1st stop a military shopping. he still needs a bullet professor since he isn't sure whether the army provides one. you have? well the armor? no, but i know there is a body armor. you know? 55 pont,
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11 modal. he decides to go without 40. today or maybe, but isn't that suicide missions? i don't, i don't think of it. it would be good to have one. but even with the vest, the bullets come through. so the only thing i can do is hope to come back in one piece of refining is, but they're going to call me by chance upon meets another man who also wants to join the battle. to me, he makes a dubious impression hello. phillip de la kilo hello, kayla. you oh, demand doesn't want to be filled, but claims he fought in iraq and afghanistan, working for a private military contractor. upon has no combat experience. so he decides to train on
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a shooting range. he's now joined by a man from columbia who goes by title dimmitt on line in a group of spanish speaking volunteers. they also test an acre $47.00, which is used in ukraine. the training at a shooting range is intended for civilians and it's supposed to be just for fun. it's just a 2nd time that coupon has ever held a gun that tells me oh, after half an hour he's done. the leopard, but it doesn't prepare me for war as such, but at least i know how to handle a weapon correctly, but i might use in ukraine who are then o'connor for people like upon the international legion is their main port of coal in ukraine. on instagram, at advertises itself as an adventurous,
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heroic group of comm rights. it was founded just days after the war started and its belief to have around $20000.00 members loved. come here to fight, fight the roches that fed democracy and freedom according to the leads, and they are paid equivalent of ukrainian soldiers of their rank. sometimes less than 500 euro samantha de contract lasts until the boys over you de spokesperson tells me that people who want to join have to pass several tests in ukraine when as a rule, there is send to some of the hot spots on the front line and taking care in some very that's a delicate offensive and defensive operation. you can you prove that you don't use them as cannon fodder? well, i think it's very difficult for anyone to prove anything. and this war,
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what i can say is that we can give old public gen private assurances that no one in the army is interested in sending people to the problems were not ready. the russian government sees the international fight as mercenaries which could result in worse treatment if they are captured. great, i ask an expert for his take on it. they are not mercenaries. it's not a company. it's not a commercial entity which is sending both fido fair. there is quite a difference and as long as they are integrated into the forces of the host country, they are not most americans with i time upon and tattle on their way to the board and the international late and officially only accepts people with light combat experienced but they give it
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a try anyway. time for the last voice messages with i want you to know that everything's okay. i love you. i'll send you a message when i can this brother on my bed, you'll go there after death. i think god will judge us for what we did in life, whether it was good or bad for okay, seamless mile brook is in was in. i mean our family, my shave gives me hope and it keeps me safe. i know that i'm going there for a good reason. and if i don't see my family and my friends and the people i love here on this earth again,
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i hope i will meet them after death comply with the man who sits next to them is from ukraine. that if they're still in ukraine, he's going to the board to get his mother and bring her to safety. his brother and cousin are at the front. he tells me. so what does he think of the foreign fighters? a piece in the world and piece in ukraine because we cannot stop this war ourselves. media to film to the wireless from most people are going the opposite direction. more than 5000000 ukrainians have left a country so far. does he really think he can change anything? oh god is
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a good nor saw. i'm not rambo. nothing special but each grain of sand help. and if i just saved the life of a few fighters or people who need me, i'll have made a difference. all of profiles going as, as it them, that are young they want to join deletes in the next day or my journey with them and here. but they promised to stay in touch with sandra, who's been at the front for quite some time, is still there and determined to stay a human brain if it's wired to just um get used to whatever situation you have to get used to. ah, and i know that sounds weird, but ah, you can get used to anything including bombing, when do you think will you be back home?
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i will be back when this was over when there is no more need for me here. then i will go come on, seems to have a bit of a roller coaster ride. the international legion at 1st rejects him and several others. but 10 days later he tells me delete and suddenly did accept him. he writes, i'm happy and sent me a picture of the body armor he was given. besides paramedic tasks, he tells me he is not also receiving regular combat training to be able to defend himself. in a few days, he could be sent to the front. we agreed and for security reasons, this will be our last interview was done and they will train me for combat with real ammunition everything as if i was a real fighter that's been done and have you thought about leaving. she is getting
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a lot of work on those which are the you do think about it when you hear detonations when you're close to exploding grenades when you hear sirens and are in the cold for hours wearing just a sweater for you. so you do start to think and i'm going to get the and if you have your few of the more changes and i gotta change to i can be yes. i realized it's even worse than what you see on the news. everything is worse because your, the main target that i get, it's quite ugly. with the 10 days later i received news again. the situation has become too intent. upon decided to leave the international legion. he now is in safety. i before the war, ukraine was
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a major exporter of grains and was known as europe's bread basket. but many of its fields are now barren. grain shortages are feared in europe and beyond. take italy, for example, the country has long relied on imports. farmers in sicily now say they have the capacity to grow more weight, but it's not that simple. their fields are in high demand for another issue caused by the war. alternatives to russian das utilize the area in and around japan. e in western sicily is rich with wind and sun, and that is why there's a gold rush in the air architect antinini. masada says it's an el dorado for renewables. tea in the city, you know, different. everyone's lining up these key on the french. german was americans, not just italians, loans older than, than hawaii, e let international companies want to invest in the production of electricity generated by our wind little sign once there's only
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a bell. when the wind turbines attorney business is booming for the sicilian, because he broke his licenses for the land for wind and solar parks, including fields where grain once grew, salvatore st. angelo still farms his land. here in east in sicily, his family has been growing. wait for generations, he wouldn't dream of sacrificing his land for a soul, a park, or wind farm. clement availability on it. that would be tragic in the end of a naturally grown product to gemini. glad they were gonna tell us. but right next to his field, the road is already marked electricity, pylons will soon be built here for a solar pock further down in the plane. and i brought it down to mer is on site. but he actually wanted to stop the project. like when i wrote up of donald de la, difficult thought lake on studying. all the investors are exploiting the farmers
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financial difficulties in the city when they receive relatively little money for their crops handy. but a lot of money for their land. all you get, i mean, who would say no to that the low cost lean g, but it would be the end of the tradition and identity of farming here, a lot of a lot of rain theda. even the italian state is encouraging farmers to profit from the opportunity. but for salvatore, his grain is his life with their own grand. now this is all natural, untreated durham, wheat. shank and can tell by the fine flowery powder that sticks to it. j. o n. a family back in west and cecily antony, no, masada. andy sanchez, epi are looking for land. they study mass to determine the right location for photovoltaic plants. this time they need at least 60 heck days of pasture or arable land sale did renew it warner. elnora and orange is
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o r 3 only tuning is the terrain is good and there are no legal restrictions or the purchase price can be $25000.00 euros per hectare. i get pushed out a little. ah, of indian gay miller, you're a dental for the owners. got a really great deal. no, cuz you own the massage does use a drone to inspect the sight of the future solar park. they checked the soil for erosion, which would hinder construction here. otherwise the pot could soon be producing renewables. comparable diarrhea. ha, what right. that he of indian grandma, you can get a 100000 euros for sewing for hector's of land. but a farm remix was $3000.00 euros a year for hector, a best cultivating graeme. and he loved them euros. i live out there. let's base that. when the radio and i saw mold, so how many years of work does it take to make as much money as i can get from a straight away love? we love you, the little bit us will be the renewables instead of farming. many sicilians fear the war in ukraine could quickly change the island if the russian gas needed for
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energy production were to stop flowing. but that creates a conflict of interest. since italy can't import anything from the bread baskets of ukraine and russia, any more italians need to grow more weight themselves. because without grain, there's no bread pastor on what been solid. okay. shall be on this on your the can't be acceptable there to cover our future energy. nance, we start carrying the greenfields of sicily into rows of windmills and solar panels . and yet i'm just facing the landscape gentlemen. is not doing very doyle mares and farmers are demanding fair pay for cultivating grain. and they say solar power could just be as well produced using rooftop panels without sacrificing fertile farm land. we want to live or the one the mountain you know met sada, doesn't understand a concern. so he wants renewables from sicily at any price fin lavario,
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diesel to the credit union. you have to provide the capacity now because we're running out of russian gas van in india. narrative only have clean energy. you just have to harness it was with that in power or bread, renewables, or farm. then the war in ukraine is forcing people in sicily to make tough choices to go. with a war ride on its doorstep, poland has opened its doors for ukrainians, playing the conflict. the country has taken in some 2500000 refugees. more than any other in europe, the population of the capital, warsaw has increased by 300000 since the war broke out and agnostic as though be sharks. life has changed completely since she is hosting 8 ukrainians in her home. and with war stars, housing, the scarcity, ethnic nash as tight budget. she isn't sure just how much longer she can cope. a
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small gesture of thanks. one of the many, agnes scott, sylvia shag, has experienced since she took ukrainian refugees into her home in poland. 12 people now live in a space normally meant for a family of 4, says stalked at his upset establishment. normally we extend this table at christmas . now it's pulled out all the way over time. it's like, it's always christmas. but at least this way we have room for every like more or less expensive hotels number 9, and then we'll ship matt remish demon when war broke out in neighboring ukraine. agnes sca offered to help with his my washer south and broccoli, or that was, i wanted to make this room available and 3 people watching for. but then in the middle of the night, not a dr. arrived with 8 people because the children were coughing and the women started crying because they didn't want to be split up chairs deal. so i gave in
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and said he has a fax machine. now give gary along with adobe as the war continues, that act of kindness has become a permanent solution of families exhausted, which has never worked, i guess not to go to mazda. so now i haven't known what it's like to come home to peace and quiet. not my life, and perhaps we know that to start getting back to know much about that or that the over at that you'd, miller, her sister and a friend arrived from western ukraine with 5 children. they feel helpless and very uncomfortable about it. i just always tell you now this is their life when their family legally they used to being together all suddenly having 8 more people around is very hard thought. said those are actually army doesn't, didn't i'm even ashamed that and yes guy and her husband pay for all of our expenses, christopher, they buy everything on the food and everything we and the children need. grandma are glass ready talk set to help the families that take in the refugees. the polish
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government plans to make monthly payments of around $250.00 euros for each person they accommodate. but so far, ag nashika has not received anything you'd mealer tries to earn a little something as a cleaning lady, but can't afford a place of her own ago. and i have shortly thought that even if i only had myself to support i to be very tough for me though, when the task of many ukrainian refugees are in similarly dire straits, they came to warsaw as national stadium to register their thankful for the warm welcome but worry about their future dishes you, i don't know what to do. he said, unfortunately there is no work to be had he had years of suffering. poland has taken in lots of refugees, setting slopes down and keeps them warm, the yag, but they are just no apartments and no jobs live up what i want either to stay in poland and just get a job or go to germany and find work there. you can't just sit around all the time
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. they're doing nothing. people here give us their last cent. yesterday, for instance, a woman donated over a $1000.00 to our lodgings. they help a lot with everything. okay. we're living here at their expenses. we should look rough owl to marla has also been busy helping ever since the war broke out. he lets 20 ukrainian women and 40 children live at his hostel in warsaw for free. but he also hopes for assistance from the state. oh mama, she have enough strength and resources for 2 more weeks. amish were financing us from our own private means because we haven't received any financial help on your we used to rent out room so, but we're not taking any money from the refugees. la la hopes is open with summer on the way many hotel owners are faced with a dilemma. let the refugees stay on or take in pain guests given the expenses the polish state is facing. warsaw is hoping for more financial
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aid from the e. u. z o neuropathy, skills to, for european union's decision to provide funding for refugees involves large sums of money, but it's still just a drop in the bucket that goes, but it's very little from the polish government point of view. it would be important to set up a fund to administer such it on behalf of the use and covered the needs of reco, jeez, was pro but civil quotes. although she'd be glad to see at least a little money soon. agnes scott, severe shack doesn't regret helping refugees. what is the most important is that they don't have bombs raining down on them, or we don't need luxury. but with so many people here, as i must say, more aid is needed. this is a bit much, but it's definitely been worth it. i think his about that the go stick on it seems most polls still feel the same way and like they're ukrainian guests. they hope the
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war won't last much longer. well nascar's neighbors have now taken in at 3 of the refugees. they say a good neighbor is a priceless treasure that are from us this week at focus on europe. thank you for watching and bye for now.
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