blue nar, davinci is mysterious masterpiece. ah, it's perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece in the collection of the louvre and no, it is not the mona lisa. it is the virgin of the rocks, 2 versions, multiple copies, and a hidden drawing. was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful data that perhaps we just don't understand today? search for answers starts july 7th on d, w. hello and welcome to focus on europe. thanks for joining us today. now on the eastern

edge of europe, russia as threatening of 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 transit to band russian goods headed for the russian exclaim of having a route 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 colleen grat. in lithuania, meanwhile, concern is running high about moscow's threats. many there are worried 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, but instead lithuanian civil defense is in charge. 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 till indicate quaint guilty, 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 very sad with your jonathan at godaddy. today's survival course has been organized by the lithuanian rifle, men's union, a paramilitary organization with close ties to the army. though they have to pay for their own equipment and training out of are not like men like shadow. and that's why she knew as a ready to help defend the country. if needed, has very clear orders up there unit needs, fresh recruits, thought maybe these exercises will entice some students to join. had yamagata caper,

nazareth left, the students learn how to shelter from rain and cold. like if you're gonna get entered for shield 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 caleb, where branches are good and i keep the cold hate you about him a time as of the essence in the instructors are much gruffer than ordinary teachers . i get it like us by to get you know, that might be much faster. time is up. you want to go down to my content isn't pitched yet in of yet you need to put in more work. again, we can not. 15 year old justina and her classmates are struggling to get the tent up. oh wow. wow. but the exercises are more enjoyable than most school day. miss degree guy, little dyke. his isn't diesel deborah as well. but if things vary, as we can put the scale to good in seattle, i let the get really good. it's

a fun day for the students. the atmosphere in lithuania, however, has changed since russia began attacking ukraine says out on us what he also told us are ferocious at them are fiddle i made preparations, gives english and the others stashed survival packs, and different locations are still annoy if i'm able to get that we have made plans where to re unites as a family and case were attacked. us my boys, there is a threat for more than one side was there? there is colleen and grad exclaim on one side and about a roof on the other. notice that your to fit in russia is not far away. either. people are worried. the border with russian control coline grad runs for the korean lagoon. you're the town of nita, these beaches of 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

a direct border with russian controlled kalynne and grad. oliver 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 them within 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 of that they've cut us off from these fishing grounds. look, you used to be full of fish, as god was out here. today's catch to eels and a few common runs. not much after 3 hours out at sea on the way back of it us passes a lithuanian coast guard vessel. they've been patrolling frequently these past

weeks, but i'll beat us as an worried about russian provocations 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 colleen and grat as a warrant, ukraine changed anything at all here used to be friends with 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. organise and then we're gonna palupa still making a fire. then our participants get a certificate. or if you do not completed our 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 to cry. silly sources. i now know i can put your 10th in case of an emergency for the 1st week in eddie, quit grave camp saffron, like many, and my generation will sign up the military service on face over phenomenal lithuania, scrapped compulsory military service, but re introduced it in 2015 after russia annex crimea. once these students have finished schooled, many will probably join the army. for decades, denmark was known for its liberal immigration policies that recent governments have taken a hard line on migrants and asylum seekers. syrians like 0, how l re fi are also affected. har and her family set the war in their homeland to reach him. the safe shore is over the e. u. now sa har is facing possible deportation in a break from the rest of europe. danish authorities have decided the damascus

region is safe enough for refugees to return, leaving people like the har and her family to wonder what lies ahead. a mile 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 any one. i can fire cobb and miss miller, a young girl that cannot live alone in damascus. i learned that gets over mac. i mean, it's impossible. what out one machine there are rapes and kidnapping was another one. mind that if to the it's not safe at all, that if cube last of a deal on is that she just can't go there alone to them. a few ashville have been to the 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 are compared to the market. when i came to denmark at, i wanted to start a new life with my family here. i mean, i mean,

we came to this town and, and i was happy via my lot. i could stay here forever for hello, miss lou. until one day, a letter from the immigration office arrived saying her residence permit has been revoked. so her appealed. ethan. i read this refugee abuse board decision on march 25th 2022 on a complaint by syrian citizen to hammer modify a deer for us. they say i was rejected just to visit my residence permit won't be renewed today after i had the bas loaded at me. my mother and younger brother can stay with us. i'm the only one being expelled by them instead of a ghostly, heavy, dear. 21 year old sahara 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

her home. i have lots of friends here. hi, i'm learning languages, men, and i've got a dream. how i want to be an engineer, had several 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 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 was 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,

back 21 year old syrian raheem, or abdullah is an activist and a youth representative on the danish refugee council. she's familiar with cases like sars and wants to help the hinge star that they are kick, pour. 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 it 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, and we feel that 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 cities not safe and i for day or damascus exhibit nice case. the public efforts 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 boucher assad's armed forces. in often a i can buy a 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 like them on gun gifts in mail it in focusing is political. and when i posted the hard case on facebook, i had a parliamentarian contacted me contacting, who wanted to write about it. gander would obviously on his 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 and so full on my in does the, i'm a part of danish society. me, it didn't sound fun. but now it appears that counts for very little in the eyes of danish law. visitors to india won't find any snack bar

resource of a near shops. here. the picturesque village in the heart of spain's 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 than 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 india, spain, for the 47 year old. this store is a dream come true. it unlimited eod and with guardian browsing, bookstores has always fascinated me if i cannot searching for little treasures yet

. see now the fact that i am now professionally involved him surrounded by bookselling is a real gift. any jo, but i'm, he say if i'm not going to go to hell, a gift that comes with compromises. in rural. ooh, ania. there was no longer a baker or a butcher. the small mid, evil village with just a 100 inhabitants both ate bookstores. whew, india is the village of books. nice and i mean say a lot about ada was cuddly. normally, you would only expect to find a book stores like this in water. so just leave it up when it's on an experimental but or a when you the book village is an experiment exam it is 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 exodus. the booksellers only pay $10.00 euros a month and rent like fidel raso and to morrow crespo just 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. is that the galleria bit of either a small book, still in a tiny town, surrounded by fields in this lastly populated spanish countryside, or is mich. and he connected to the world via the internet to healing world diesel . off i work using social networks, feel it now. so i'm not just sitting here waiting for someone to come and physically bible assuming, and i'm about to leave it us. he is the head of the project. the we're in the dk

about this only recently took over responsibility for the book village. he hopes for fresh momentum, more tourists and more gastronomy in order to finally breathe new life into the community, living cbs home, boulder, 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 hand made 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,

the machine often. it's not good to attract too many tourists. in diameter, hint, then nothing. if it were visitors doesn't always lead to better service. nor does that mean we sell more higher than we are they winter gentle tourism in the spanish countryside. a true balancing act. after all, people like victor should not be driven away. and cont, aloe, ladale. ne, i found a place where i feel comfortable don't day where i'm surrounded by books. leave it off a village where i could do what i want her equal, or i can work in a relaxed way if that's a privilege these days. i can okay, but no longer an exclusive one would alaina 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.

is sir shocking statistics. 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 a report by the e. u commission. behind this estimate. last a terrible reality. the french get a colleges heather had 10 encounters every day. she worked for a hospital in paris that specializes intriguing the victims of female genital mutilation. in france like an all of the e u. f g m is illegal, and yet the practice shows little science of abating. ah, going over to the side there for instance. place this is is like this. little further. this is the 4th operation this morning for her to hutton. she specializes in female victims of genital mutilation. they come to the santa ne women's shelter in a poor neighbourhood of north paris. most of them have had the glittering is 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, i mean the more this morning, the woman came to me and told me how important this operation was for her sense of identity. and she wanted to feel physically whole again, to get back what was taken from hardy to him about that her hat and gives them back what she can, which doctor, doctor, art in many affected women from the african community trust. his doctor who immigrated from lebanon, female circumcision is prohibited in france,

even so with our own reported cases. but most of the women were circumcised in their home countries in africa. 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 when 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 mid alana thick with delicately. this other one made several cuts, and neither is a ha fife, is that when she did? i just felt pains it a good over me. i didn't take any medication to ease the pain. young bo boy b. i just suffered ella. a po up. oh, so ah, the women in france have formed an organization to support some 60000 girls who

french government figures estimate have been affected. so he won't feel left alone with the shame and the pain or demanding that parents stop sending girls born in france to the countries of ethnic origin to be circumcised. who are it's insane that after 5000 years, they're still doing it, even though everybody knows it's pointless that no religion demands it and it has extremely negative consequences for their health authority. i agree that it's surreal. cheyenne's, the mutilation is often done with nothing more than this. it's up to had a hut, m to repair what she can of the damage inner operations at the shelter. if you're unable to hope, i have to look for the remnant of the glitter s where it has retracted after the circumcision hub, bring it back up and filter it back in place on the bodies exterior, where it was before it was cut on it. 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. i got here and you know, there are then her. it was thanks to dr. a 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, garza but 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 she applied for asylum, and france also to protect her daughter's littleton, walk to my children, can't experience what i went through to him, never asked me. 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 doctor sam together with her patience. got

a hot m hopes to bring about a change. o, inviting to start 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. but many still have a long road to travel. some crowd hutton plans to open more shelters like this in france that offered the operation and a chance that 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 rep is an faced. his trees will help tackle the high levels of air pollution in the creation capital. so far his planted more than 1000 trees and doesn't plan on stopping any time soon. vladimir

demetrius a tree revolutionary, he planted trees in 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 or many awkward. yep. where you have been with her that i think there are beautiful herds 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. yeah. and i prefer oaks up, but they don't grow well here in zagreb, in iraq, they needed different soil, eatable spirit of it. yet another army zarbara is actually a green city with many parks from hapsburg times. however, the narrow streets of the old town lac greenery. you know, there are trees missing here, and you should consider that when planning new buildings but up parade are looking at something. graham is more natural than all of the grayness,

the concrete and asphalt, but even the important people and good for the psyche. then every one would be a little less stressed. those 250 kilometers of true lines. 100 kilometers of hedges and 15000 flower beds are the responsibility of bizarre graham park's department. however, in view of the increasing heat, it's director as 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 into 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. my father was on an ocean. however, he doesn't quite know whether to be pleased or annoyed when vladimir demon picks up his spade again. because we do welcome such initiative, sit on what it needs to be regulated alberto bit, you're going to 0. no blood mu deem each meanwhile worries about the survival of zagreb 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,

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

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christianity used the figure of the jew as little tesla. it's a history of slender, of hatred and violence. is the bucky small arm then on the jews were considered servants of evil? we simply told you the most atrocious chapter. a 3rd of our people works, terminated $6000000.00 jews, like microbes to be annihilated, even 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards juice is still pervasive. a history of anti semitism starts july 2nd on d, w. mm. mm. ah, this is dw news, and these are our top stories. russia says it has withdrawn its forces from ukraine's snake island in the black sea. the retreat comes after a series of ukrainian attacks.