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this is focus on europe. i'm labriola. it's nice to have you with us. ukraine's army is struggling to fend off rushes offensive as their enemy seizes more territory in the east. after weeks of fierce fighting cotton's troops have advanced deeper into the don bass, ukrainian authorities there are urging hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate. and russia president has made clear his goal of capturing the entire region. ukraine is outmanned and outgunned, its troops aren't giving up. that's because they're being joined on the battlefield by fighters from far be on their borders. international volunteers with varying degrees of experience are signing up to give you a military advantage in putin's war cap on is a young south american who feels compelled to fight for ukraine. this, despite having never set foot in the country. well, the reality of war soon sets in for cap on who knows that

a return trip home is not guaranteed. ah, it's been a lot of bobbing left, right. and above. everywhere, there's a good point. 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 with ukraine. it's not just ukrainians who are fighting. thousands of people from abroad have joined battle who all day and why are they doing it? a lot, you know, if i'm needed to help my comrades at the front line, i'll go there and if i'm needed to take care of civilians, i'll do that. whatever job of the legion gives me what i'll do it, i'm

a lawyer and a. busy some targeted cap on, as he calls himself, is from latin america for security reasons, we don't disclose his exact location. he's preparing to leave his home cap on tells me he works. as a paramedic, he seems to have plenty of friends. and over all his life seems pretty normal to me . in our 1st online encounter upon doesn't reveal his identity yet. he wants to join the army as a combat medic. and don and good luck was on the list. 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. again, you don't think i was going to period because they could put are you or 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 a farewell party. ah, sandra from norway has already joined the ukrainian army. they refer me to her to 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 is the moral obligation. this is home based in europe. we owe them. oh, if you can help dish it on her social media account. it tells us was weapons. she tells me she has no qualms about using her gun, but if it's a 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 dated june cap on flight to cracow and poland close to the ukrainian border temperatures in eastern europe just have stepped to near freezing

. a climate took upon has never experienced before. i joined him for the next leg of his journey. the 1st up 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, 11 modal he decides to go without 40 or maybe a la but isn't that suicide mission? i don't, i don't think of it. it would be good to have one, but even with a vest the bullets come through. so the only thing i can do is hope to come back in one piece of refining a sporadic. 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 kilo kilo de la kilo i la k little o demand doesn't want to be filmed, 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 a shooting range. he's now joined by a man from columbia, who goes by title them at online in a group of spanish speaking volunteers. they also test an acre $47.00, which is used in ukraine to training at a shooting range is intended for civilians and is supposed to be just for fun. it's

just a 2nd time that coupon has ever held a gun. it 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, that i might use in ukraine or the know gunner for people like upon the international legion is their main port of coal in ukraine. on instagram, at advertises itself as an adventurous, heroic group of comm rights. it was found it just days after the war started to love. come here to fight, fight the roches, the fed democracy and freedom according to the late and they are paid to equivalent of ukrainian soldiers of their rank written communication, trade re of tactical trade a contract. last, until the voice over 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, what i can say is that we can give all public gen private assurances that no one in the army is interested in sending people to the chrome were not ready. the russian government sees the international fight as mercenaries which could result in worse treatment if they are captured abroad. re i ask an expert for his take on it. they are not married. it's not a company. it's not a commercial a t t which says sending gold fighter fair. there is quite

a difference. and as long as they are integrated into the forces of the host country, if they are not mercenary with i chimed upon and talked or on their way to the border. the internationally to officially only accept people with like combat experiences. but they give it a try anyway, who's time for the last voice messages on the book when, when i got here, i want you to know that everything's okay. i love you. i'll send you a message when i can this further i might say after death, i think god will judge us for what we did in life,

whether it was good or bad. and what model booking was in, i mean my family, my faith 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, and i hope i will meet them after death on wednesday. the news demand next for them is from ukraine. they're still in ukraine. he's going to the border 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?

peace in the world and peace and agree. because we can stop before our cell. we need to sell from most people are going the opposite direction. does he really think he can change anything? no, sorry, i'm not rambo. nothing special, but each grain of sand help. and if i just saved a live of a few fighters or people who need me, i'll have made a difference for them. but our younger come, you know, they want to join deletes and the next day on my journey with them and here. but they promised to stay in touch with sandra, who's been up front for quite some time,

is still there and determined to stay. the human brain is, is wired to just get used to whatever situation you have to get used to. and i know that sounds weird, but you can get you to anything including bombing, when do you think you'd be back home? 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 since me a picture of the body armor he was given besides paramedic tasks, he tells me he is now 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 on the on and have you thought about leaving? she is getting a lot of gives up 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 you're not going to experience yet, get the and if you have your few of the more changes and i gotta say yes, i realize 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. 10 days later,

i received news again to situation has become too intent upon decided to leave the international legion. he now if in safety i parts of southern europe are being scorched as extreme heat waves take hort, temperatures are soaring to record levels, sparking forest fires and drying out rivers. parts of italy have started limiting water use as the landscape turns to dust. it's a similar scene in spain at the alto lendozy reza war on the border with portugal. water levels there have dipped below 15 percent of capacity that has turned the reservoir into a tourist attraction. but for local park all the a longer, it's a painful site. there were stealing waters,

have laid bare all that remains from his childhood village. normally park of year longer would now be getting wet feet. this was once a vast reservoir, but has been drawing out and now his old village, when submerged, has re emerged. a 3rd at a body that was my grandmother's house, yet i spent my childhood here in the area with my parents. my cousins, uncles and aunts him, but him. this was our house. it stood everything. bill that i got and worth this was the spanish village of us at 8 or located near the portuguese border. along with the entire valley, it was flooded when the autoland docile reservoir was created. for 30 years, the village had been submerged. the old fountain is still running. it's vivian lamb, you're more like go no quicker inputted that you get. those are good. i mom, i remember my grandmother and a girl coming here to fetch water

a little eat up the girl splash water on her for fun. and she did the same, they kept going until both were soaking wet heat though yet the bucket last summer . so down the matter in for lack of a 2nd will give you people keep it m baron only import them will heresy. it still pains the 71 year old that he had to leave his village, but he's also concerned by how much water levels have fallen if after night i was always a loss of water. and the reason you still do that now climate change is having a strong impact. roving climate change is to blame with, and that means we are to play our settlement. we humans, costless. and we just keep going as before, all to linda. so damn, was completed in 1992 at the time it was deemed a great feat of engineering. portugal built it right by the border. it's still one

of the country's largest hydro power plants eat in a so martine, you remember when the dam was built, she's from portugal and understands the feelings of her spanish neighbors who had their properties flooded. but she says they have no reason to complain. but that all 4 o 4 causes me to put it in, they were compensated, willing aiders really. they received a lot of money, even for shanties on chicken cape, long to find out, allowed them to build big houses afterwards. rather loyce homer, the native cathedrals, paco's parents used the money to build a new home higher up to day pucker lived there alone. all that survived of his old village are a few momentos photos and his 50 year old home videos i'm getting on the water heater. i mean, they were rimming fancy. will anybody give me back my child to tell me? now, rooney of the path she hung out her own rather than the fruit trees we still from.

if get bigger than these memories of childhood foolishness are etched on my memory for you. if you take them away, what does that make me? nobody thought about those things you'd have caught on, or i've already the reappearance of oceleto has had a big effect in the community. javier silva runs a bar and restaurant in lobos video. he says that right a breadth of our is a real attraction. middle of the lady other than the most rather get it pulled up. we in the restaurant industry can't complain him to that. sure. it brings back memories for the people who once lived in the village shall have, you know, like what is being great for business to be done more and still is the letter was when a but on the thought of, well, we believe in love with, well, you see his young discharge plan and made a special detour to see what's left or the reservoir. the danish tourist is both

fascinated and shocked by the sight. i never really took it into consideration all dry. the weather can be, especially because even in france and spain, i've noticed a lot of areas where they don't want any form of fire like an overnight going through a cigarette, but out or nothing. because i guess everything will catch fire cause it's so dry. the dry conditions mean fires like this one are common as, as drought before therapy to remove your story and lost our history in our roots experiences the notice out of the sierra this is where i would have been better not to be compensated. you know, you could have stayed, and the village would have been full of life like before. he danced the reservoir, whatever. again, some merchants view it for such a long time. he plans to keep coming here. searching for traces of the past. now to italy, where a street artist is helping to make life more palatable for residence and visitors,

chima is the italian word for food, and it's also the artist's name. she bo is known for his culinary delicacies, which can be seen on public spaces in his home town of verona. on the surface, what may only look like, a muffin or a slice of pizza has a deeper meaning. she beau is using his art to combat right wing extremism in verona, an inch city that's littered with racist graffiti. o verona, a picture, perfect city. renaissance palaces, the arena, and juliet's balcony from william shakespeare's play. the cities romans appeals to tourists. but this is also verona, swastikas sprayed on to walls, fascist tags,

and messages of height everywhere else swastikas got painted over immediately, but not in verona. within a year, palos be nazi decided to take on the job himself. he's also known by his professional name cheapo, which really wants to kill, was sprayed on to this picture of mine. saw him going to turn it into a pumpkin muffin. a trick that's become his signature. shibel turns racist graffiti into pictures of italian speciality cekada or a fascist no, i'm the one doing this since i'd already painted over fascist symbols here. but i came back to say this is their territory one side. so what i'm doing is technically illegal. engler, so in theory i risk years of prison each time i do it, we go there until here, but it's never come to that. in fact, he says most police officers seem to approve of his work and passes by also seem to support

t bozer rattle that they graffiti seen. i don't cover them with pumpkin muffins. in muffin yessenia luca, he posts videos of his work on instagram. oh. with nearly 400000 followers, he's become famous around the world. ah, to teach mural pains good. some at great risk of being targeted himself. with these guys showed up in front of my house several times once they put a firework under my car. but luckily there wasn't much damage and they also went to my parents house and threatened to meet with him is any doorway. this hasn't deterred the artist from his mission. even if the police have failed to arrest his

attackers, i gave them the lead. and once i get fired, so why are all the threats i receive ignored will tell. i mean, that's the question. i've often asked myself. every citizen ought to say no to these messages of hateful to me. i'm nothing special. i guess everyone should take a stance. it's outrageous that i am painting over the swastikas instead of the municipal government only bother and saliva. ah, what ensues is a game of cat, a mouse between cbo and the neo fascist taggers political bottling the lower council medical model can to fight them with their weapons. so you have to use your own and confronting them with the power of beauty. disorient them. because that's one area where they always lose around the same for chivas as swastikas, a common here for a reason. even after miscellany, verona remained a stronghold of the neo fascist for right,

or an alma. likewise the ac hours at the lower in year it's normal to own mussolini . boost to pass down from your grandfather or people laugh at racist jokes or joke about uncle hitler and those things aren't funny. but here in verona, people joke about them. but that's why this culture of hate found fertile soil. here book was the lock up of moral paint book. cheaper has a notebook where he keeps a record of the swastikas night filled tags and of his paintings. he keeps record of his murals on a map. ah, she most passion for food extends to the kitchen. his pictures of pastor pizza and other specialities have won him. lots of fans spent the day in the event and the only many people have approached me to tell me they only realized the extent of the problem. after seeing my graffiti as wasik, they were so used to seeing swastikas and hate speech and battle for she fascist feels ridiculed to be covered over with cheese suck in,

nor lapointe. it shows them that they're not being taken seriously or seen as dangerous your neck on that they're not being respected. who are you monkey? they respect though. she bos tree is to one. they have no more work because then burn would have no more symbols of, hey well here's hoping that she will can retire very soon. that's all from as this we get focus on europe. thanks for watching i for now. ah ah ah,

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