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new employee week in your in box subscribe. now. i am the guy here in iowa sexual assault survivor stemmed and say the tooth past women in asia are bad. i pc is capable. nothing can stop me. that is, he can go into sports july 6th with hello and welcome to focus on europe. thanks for joining us today. now on the eastern edge of europe, russia as threatening
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a further escalation relating to its war on ukraine, prompted by the actions of e u. member state lithuania. the baltic country has been enforcing e u sanctions refusing transits to banned russian goods headed for the russian exclaim of having brought moscow called it a blockade and has threatened to retaliate cement, steel, construction material, just some of the sanctioned goods. that lithuania is refusing to transport to coming in grad in lithuania. meanwhile, concern is running high about moscow's threats. many, there are words and even higher school students are preparing for the worst case scenario. ah, this morning these lithuanian students aren't heading to class, but into nature their students at a high school in the coastal city of clay, bitter. today's excursion isn't led by teachers,
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but instead lithuanian civil defense is in charge allowed. justina gamino, scotty and her classmates are learning 1st aid there. todd, how to apply military style tourniquets, i'm taking a look at mass sedan. we mean to fasten the tony k quintanilla. he stopped the bleeding her good. glorious. maybe that's the only way we can save lives. in an emergency with him, i will give you everything within your jennifer narcotic. today's survival course has been organized by the lithuanian rifleman union, a paramilitary organization with close ties to the army. though they have to pay for their own equipment and training are not like men like shadow, not what she knew as a ready to help defend the country if needed has very clear were just up there unit needs, fresh recruits, thought maybe these exercises will entice some students to join us and ya,
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marquetto caper, nazareth left the students learn how to shelter from rain and cold. but if you're gonna get entered for shoot and what ground materials will keep them from freezing in winter, your, when they find themselves forced to stay in the forest over night as rifle men and women like live for kayla bare branches are good. and i keep on the coal hate, you know him a time as of the essence in the instructors are much gruffer than ordinary teachers . idea like us by you guys know that might be which foster time is up. i don't think you're not, my tent isn't pitched yet in of yet. you'll need to put in more work again. come on with the 15 year old justina in her classmates are struggling to get the tent up. oh wow. wow. but the exercises are more enjoyable than most school day. this is the great guy that i get his isn't these ideas, the breath as well. but if things vary as we can put the scale to good in. well, i believe it is a fun day for the students. the atmosphere in lithuania, however,
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has changed since russia began attacking ukraine, so shown us what he also told us are ferocious about our fiddle. i made preparations, gives english and the others stashed survival packs and different locations i should annoy if i'm able to get that. we have made plans where to re unites as a family and case were attacked. as a lawyer, there is a threat for more than one side with fear. there is colleen and grand exclaim on one side and about a roof on the other hotel and your to said it. russia is not far away. either. people are worried. the border with russian control coline grad runs through the corona in the goon or the town of nita. these beaches have a history that goes way back. this region once belong to prussia. after a brief period of lithuanian independence, the nazis took over. and then after world war 2, the red army, lithuania has been independence, is 1991. since then, it's had
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a direct border with russian controlled kalynne and grad. avi does cause loss causes a local fishermen. he's been doing this job for almost 50 years. he seen his country change over the years back when there was still a soviet cold cause he could catch fish in the entire lagoon. but these days, he can't go further than this red booey. to go douglas, that you don't. and flora, with emerald and the past, we are allowed to put out our nets over there, helped us draft that. but now the border runs along their seal up that they've cut us off from these fishing grounds. look, he used to be full of fish as gab, without hook today's catch to eels. and a few common runs not much after 3 hours out at sea on the way back of it as passes a lithuanian coast guard vessel. they've been patrolling frequently these past
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weeks, but i'll beat us as an worried about russian publications or even attacks of one place. where would i be scared? we have been friends all these years. i still have many acquaintances over there and colon and rut. as a warrant, ukraine changed anything old here used to be friends, but things turned out differently. i guess there is nothing you can do is i'll get us heads back to land. the students are about to begin their final exercise. margaret was dr. organize it in them. if are gonna palupa, deliver still making a fire, then all participants get a certificate. or if you do not completed all exercises and is eager to learn more oh good that hello guys as well. oh good. i think it's important. it's be prepared. the cry, silly source of what i now know,
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i can put to attention case of an emergency that apc kinetic with brave kemp. saffron, like many, my generation will sign up the military service on face over phenomenon, as lithuania, scrap compulsory military service, but re introduced it in 2015 after russia annex crimea. once these students have finished school, many will probably join the army. for decades, denmark was known for his liberal immigration policies that recent governments have taken a hard line on migrants and asylum seekers. syrians like za, her l re fi are also affected har and her family so that the war in their homeland reaching the safe shore is over the e u. now, so har is facing possible deportation in a break from the rest of europe. danish authorities have decided that their mask as
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region is safe enough for refugees to return, leaving people exit her and her family to wonder what lies ahead. among a syrian refugee feels devastated. her daughter saw her is to be separated from her family in denmark and sent back to damascus, where she doesn't know anyone. i know that on the account 5 carbon miss miller, a young girl that cannot live alone in damascus, and they're capable mcnamee. often it's impossible. what out one machine there are, rapes and kidnapping was for the mcmahon. that if to the it's not safe at all. that if you have less of a deal on is that she just can't go there alone to them. vh relevant to their refi family has been living in auburn ra, southern denmark for 6 years now. they found safety here from the civil war in syria. they a competitive market. when i came to denmark at, i wanted to start a new life with my family here. and i mean for me, we came to this town and,
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and i was happy via my thought i could stay here for ever for healey mchugh until one day a letter from the immigration office arrived saying her residence permit has been revoked. sahara appealed ethernet. this refugee appeals board decision on march 25th 2022 on a complaint by syrian citizen, a hammer mort elvis i at. therefore, as they say, i was rejected as to the 2nd my residence permit wont be renewed today after i had the discloses at my mother and younger brother can stay on the list for this. i'm the only one being expelled by them instead the fic. owsley, have, if you 21 year old sar attends the oven ross, secondary school. she's a good student and has been studying hard for her exams. so her home might have in
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a home. i have lots of friends here. her. hi, i'm learning language is meant and i've got a dream. how i want to be an engineer at 7 van senior. my school is actually my 2nd town then. and then once the danish government declared her home city, damascus, a safe area, everything changed. so her as one of 400 syrians being told to leave denmark, the immigration office did not grant as an interview, migration experts suspect, a policy of deterrence. the syrian refugees having their residence permit withdrawn, is part of branding, denmark as a more restrictive country. when it comes to the asylum and immigration policy, although then mac doesn't actually have a return agreement with syria, meaning that we would draw residents permit, but there are no way of forcibly returning the syrian refugees to syria. and so, so har could be facing confinement in a deportation camp in denmark like this one in ella,
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back 21 year old syrian raheem. a dollar is an activist, and a youth representative on the danish refugee council. she's familiar with cases, likes a hers and wants to help the hillside, and they are kick port. it started at school where i had a friend called iea. i on day she came to me half and said she was very scared at because her residence permit had not been extended own of yet because denmark had declared damascus safe for a turn or so. oh, okay, got her son at w. so we went to the media, they had their mask, that was our only child that we feel at. we go immediately. i know that you can't tell someone who's integrated here that she has to go back to damascus and cakes. in a fluctuated, the city is not safe and i for day or damascus exit. and i as case the public effort finally met with success last year she got permission to stay. since that time, as many as 5 syrians contact raheem a per day, most of the women young man are not expelled because they faced conscription in
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boucher assad's armed forces. in often they are kept by acc fairly. so sometimes if i can't sleep at night because i see such terrible cases and i take them to hans who didn't liked him on ganga fig in male in focusing his political. and when i posted the house case on facebook or a parliamentarian contacted me contacting, who wanted to write about it, gander would obviously on him people who are he might be able to help. so hard memories of her own country are mainly of war. they have, i shall directly divide when i was in syria, now there were battles and bombs i have of i am. so here i feel much safer. i had my family here and this is where i grew up of works so full in my in does b, i'm a part of danish society, me at events some fun. but now it appears that counts for very little in the eyes of danish law. visitors to en, yeah,
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won't find any snack bars or 7 year shops here. they picturesque village in the heart of spain. castiel region is a sleepy place with just around a 100 residence, but renea isn't one of spain's dying villages. in fact, is something of a magnet, much to the delight of booksellers, like victor love as bach, hilaire, who is glad for all the visitors who flocked to the village and has more book shops, the bars and restaurants. old typewriters are his passion and especially the books that were written with them. victor lopez but a year runs and antiquarian bookshop in little, when spain for the 47 year old, this store is a dream come true. it althea, i was guardian browsing. bookstores has always fascinated me of i cannot searching for little treasures yet. see now the fact that i'm no professionally involved
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surrounded by buck saddling is a real gift. any, jo, but i'm a say welcome to go to little a gift that comes with compromises. in rural edwin ya, there is no longer a baker or a butcher. the small medieval village with just a 100 inhabitants both ate bookstores. romania is the village of books. i said, i mean say a lot about ada was cuddly. normally, you would only expect to find a book stores like this in water city city with us when it's on an experimental but or a when you the book village is an experiment exam it it that out of a sack, out of the project that tries to get the book trade out of the big city in order to create a very special cultural and touristic offering. he thought he still gown book all peculiar. 15 years ago, the local council launched the book village project occurred the widespread rural
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exodus. the booksellers only pay $10.00 euros a month and rent like fidel raso and to morrow crespo. why does give me that she's a journalist yet? he's a photographer. the couple has been traveling the world and brought back impressions of iraq war refugee crises in the fall of the berlin wall. from here they now sell books on journalism and travel to customers around the world. establishing a ria bit of either a small book, still in a tiny town, surrounded by fields in this lastly populated spanish countryside, or is niche and he connected to the world via the internet till in world war t small. i work using social networks, feel it now. so i'm not just sitting here waiting for someone to come and physically bible assuming an umbrella limit us he is the head of the project. the we're in the dk valdez only recently took over responsibility for the book village
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. he hopes for fresh momentum, more tourists and more gastronomy in order to finally breathe new life into the community. there monday. see the in his home builder. 8 there costa air. if he visits a village which a girlfriend and struggle to find a coffee, a beer or a bathroom navea, think twice about coming back therapy as us. although even if there were 37 bookstores here, sir on get on getting out there. and they said that he would at he, us in addition to the current 8 stores, there is also a book bindery. rosa de miguel and fernando gutierrez, are commissioned by libraries, archives, and notaries. they sell handmade volumes to tourists as a seasonal site business. they are skeptical whether more tourism will actually make the book village more successful if company go to the more it through most of the one complete go. human tourism is one of those things get ish, andrea,
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the machine often. it's not good to attract too many tourists. in diameter and then nothing if it were visitors doesn't always lead to better service with us yet. nor does that mean we sell more. hidden little the winter gentle tourism in the spanish countryside. a true balancing act. after all, people like victor should not be driven away in control. ladale nay. i found a place where i feel comfortable don't day where i'm surrounded by books, liberals, a village where i can do what i want her equal, or i can work in a relaxed way if of that to privilege these days. i can okay. but no longer an exclusive one would when you has got competition. a 2nd book, village near bar salon of all places where victor comes from. but that doesn't change his plan. victor is here to stay.
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it's a shocking statistic. europe is home to at least 600000 women and girls who are victims of female genital mutilation, or if g and that's according to report by the commission behind this estimate. last a terrible reality is french get to colleges. heather her, tim encounters every day. she works for a hospital in paris that specializes in treating the victims of female genital mutilation. in france like an all of the u. s. g m is illegal and yet the fact the shows little science of abating. going over to the side there, for instance, the place this is is like this a little further or this is the 4th operation this morning for her, the hutton, she specializes in female victims of genital mutilation. they come to the sun, danny women's shelter in a poor neighbourhood of north paris. most of them have had the glittering as
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circumcised as little girls in some experienced pain during intercourse, and others complained that they feel no pleasure. they seek help from gynecologist rather hutton. they suffer both physically and psychologically, from the effects of the traditional ritual mutilation. she says, no talk, adding them all this morning. and the woman came to me and told me how important this operation was for her sense of identity in her. she wanted to feel physically whole again that we didn't need to get back. what was taken from had it with him about how to hutton gives them back what she can, which doctor, doctor at him many affected women from the african community trust. his doctor who immigrated from lebanon, female circumcision is prohibited in france, even so there are on reported cases. but most of the women were circumcised in
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their home countries in africa. soon among them as 26 year old hebrew on with this she fled her country g booty because of the suffering she endured as a small child. oh, they woke me up all. basil i didn't know what was going on. i have they said come here. my mother held on to my hands and led them, and another woman held my feet open for the medicaid. alana thick with alacrity. this other one made several cuts loser for his or her fife is so when she did, i just felt pains it a good around me. i didn't take any medication to ease the pain. young bo boy b. i just suffered ella po, up or suv. ha, women and friends of formed an organization to support some 60000 girls who french
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government figures estimate have been affected, said he won't feel left alone with the shame and the pain. so demanding that parents stop sending girls born in france to the countries of ethnic origin to be circumcised with war. it's insane that after 5000 years, they're still doing it. even though everybody knows it is pointless, that no religion demands it, and it has extremely negative consequences for their health. and how do i agree that it's surreal? when's the mutilation is often done with nothing more than this? it's up to had a hut em to repair what she can of the damage in her operations of the shelter. did that i did with a hope i have to look for the remnant of the glitter is where it has retracted after the circumcision will have me bring it back up and filter it back in place on the body's exterior where it was before it was cut on it,
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so medically the procedure is not that complicated, but culturally it is says hotter hot m, the women's families still regard female circumcision as an act of moral purity. and quite here and you know, there are them her, it was thanks to dr. terms courage that she managed to create a place to deal with an issue that to many is still such a taboo. her theater, her energy was crucial gas. i think her success is equally due to her exceptional courage and determination exception. and he buddhism wanted the operation for herself. she's afraid she'll feel the pain again, which he applied for asylum in france. also to protect her daughter's littleton. one of my children can't experience what i went through to him. never, as he said, i know the road i've travelled and i won't let it happen to them very. but because it was torture. said i thought do some together with her patience gottom hopes to
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bring about a change. oh, inviting to south female circumcision because obviously prevention is better than it's good to have the operation, but better never to have been cut it all away. which many still have a long road to travel. some crowded hutton plans to open more shelters like this, and france that offered the operation and a chance at a better life for the women who have it meet vladimir damage. the corporation has been breaking the law for more than 30 years now. he plans trees in his home city of zagreb, on public land. his grassroots initiative is illegal, say the authorities, but the robin would of zag wrap is and faced his trees will help tackle the high levels of air pollution. and the creation capital so far is planted more than $1000.00 trees and doesn't plan on stopping any time soon.
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vladimir demetrius a tree revolutionary, he plants trees and the parks of zagreb. this is not allowed, but it's his mission. he takes care of them and hopes that others will follow his example. to day he's planting a ginko ho many aqua. yep. when, when we're on the i think they are beautiful, hers of neck. they give a lot of shade israel. i have to water this one every day for the next 10 days. not any that that's very important. shockey that the and i prefer oaks up, but they don't grow well here in zagreb beneath her they needed different soil. horrible spirits, hilda, yet another ami zarbara was actually a green city with many parks from hapsburg times. however, the narrow streets of the old town lac greenery. and you know, there are trees missing here, and you should consider that when planning new buildings better up parade are looking at something. graham is more natural than all of the grayness, the concrete and asphalt, but either the important or people and good for the psyche. then every one would be
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a little less stress, those 250 kilometers of true lines. 100 kilometers of hedges and 15000 flower beds are the responsibility of bizarre graham parks department. however, in view of the increasing heat it's director is calling for even more city trees. dummy said mallet this coin sort of an issue with a little respect dolly and i don't want to come and to an urban planning committee . but on some of the new neighborhoods, you can see that there is too much construction and not enough green space from a volume of his own policy. however, he doesn't quite know whether to be pleased or annoyed when vladimir damage picks up his spade again. cuz we do welcome such initiative, sit on what it needs to be regulated. hallmark better than as yet on vladimir deem each meanwhile, worries about the survival grants, trees, which suffer from the heat in summer and get too little water. oh, i planted most of the trees here there, my frenzy owls when i talked to them,
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and i've given each one of them a name for him if he's already getting the next tree. his greatest wish is for everyone to plant a tree once in their life. because a tree he says, always gives back. well, we could all take a leaf out of his book. that's all for this additional focus on you. thanks for watching and join us again. next week with ah, with
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