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army is struggling to fend off rushes offensive as their enemies seizes more territory in the east. after weeks of fierce fighting curtains, troops have advanced deeper into the dawn bass. a craning 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. includes 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 bombing left, right. and above, everywhere with 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, 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? and i, 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 will do that. whatever job at the legion gives me, i'll do it. i'm a lawyer. i. busy listed off what's going on with them?

targeted cap han 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. upon tells me he works as a paramedic. he seems to have plenty of friends. 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. among the some 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 was okay. i don't

think i was going to period. this is a complete are you are. 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 live, she depicts on social media is 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 get it. on her social media account poses with weapons. she tells me she has no qualms about using her gun, but if it's a job, it's what you have to do. so it's 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 cap on flights of crack. how in 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 up in a military shop. he still needs a bullet professor since he isn't sure whether the army provides one. you have well, the armor? no. i know there is a body armor. you have 55 pond 11. 0 no, no. he decides to go without 40 today or maybe. oh, but isn't that suicide missions? 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 assigning it, but they're going to call me by chance upon meets another man who also wants to join the battle. to me, he makes it dubious, impression kilo kilo

de la kilo, i look a little earlier demand doesn't want to be filmed, but claims he fought in iraq and afghanistan, working for 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 1847, which is used in ukraine. 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, but i might use in ukraine, oriental 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, defend democracy and freedom according to the late, and they are paid to equivalent of ukrainian soldiers of their rank written communications, trade re of tactical for their contract. last, until the voice over, you de spokesperson tells me that people who want to join have to pass several tests in ukraine. 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 problems were not ready. the russian government sees the international fight at the mercenaries, which could result in worse treatment if they are captured abroad. re i ask an expert for his take on it because they are not married. it's not a company, it's not a commercial a t t which is sending both fight affair. there's quite a difference. and as long as they are integrated into the forces of the

host country, if they are not mercenary with, did i try and come on and talk to 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, but 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 for looking 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, i hope i will meet them after death on wednesday. that's our fuse. did use demand next for them. it's from ukraine. just 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? jo? peace in the world, and peace and agree. because we can stop before our cell.

we need some help from most people are going the opposite direction. does he really think he can change anything? no. 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 some of them. but are you on the come you 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 at the 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 used to anything including bombing, when do you think will you be back home? i will be back when this was over when there's no more need for me here than i had 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 had held me, he's 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 you have you thought about leaving, she is getting on those whichever 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 us out. 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 is 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 outdoor lendozy reservoir, 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 pack all the a longer, it's a painful site. the receiving waters have laid bare all that remains from his childhood village. normally park

o v along the would now be getting wet feet. this was once a vast reservoir, but has been drawing out and now his old village. once submerged, has re emerged. a 3rd abbey. but okay. that that was my grandmother's house. yet i spent my childhood here that with my parents. my cousins, uncles and aunts him, but he, him, this was our house. it stood everything. bill that i got and worth this was the spanish village of i said either located near the portuguese border along with the entire valley. it was flooded. when the alt allan docile reservoir was created. for 30 years, the village had been submerged. the old fountain is still running if there been them. yeah, boy let go. no, no, no figure. in particular to get those again i am 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 go. yeah, get their book it up well summer so it doesn't matter in for like i with that going will give you a bulky it m baron only important our mortality. 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 loving climate change is to blame with. and that means we are simply our settlement. we humans, costless, and we just keep going as before. auto linda, so damn, was completed in 1992. at the time it was deemed a great feat of engineering, portugal built at right by the border. it's still one of the country's largest hydro power plants eat in

a. so martinez remembers 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 of one who causes me to pick any they were compensated, delineated jelly. they received a lot of money, even for shanties and chicken cape, long to run out, allowed them to build big houses afterwards. as eloise home with the head of cathedrals, paco's parents used the money to build a new home higher up to day puck lives there alone. all that survived of his old village are a few momentos photos and his 50 year old home videos on the water heater. i read you loud. mm. bordering mean fancier. will anybody give me back my child to tell me? now, rooney of the path she hung out her own or about the fruit trees we still from. if you pick it up in 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 the driver, breadth of our is a real attraction. middle of the lady, other than them or rather get it pulled up. we in the restaurant industry can't complain 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 with amazon and still is the letter was when a but on the thought of, well, we presented with, well, you see his young research he turned and made a special detour to see what's left of the reservoir. the danish tourists is both fascinated and shocked by the sight. i never really took it into consideration

or try the way there can be, especially because even in france and spin, i've noticed a lot of areas where they don't want any form of fire like neither like going through a cigarette but out or nothing. because i guess everything will catch fire cause it's so dry. the dry conditions mean the fires like this one are common as, as drought before they're pretty much you story analyzed our history and our roots experiences the notice i don't have a 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 will ever again. so mergers ruin for such a long time. he plans to keep coming here searching for traces of the past now to italy, where a st artist is helping to make life more palatable for residents and visitors. geno 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 races, graffiti o verona, the picture, perfect city. renaissance palaces, the arena, and juliet's balcony from william shakespeare's play. the city's romance appeals to tourists. but this is wassa, verona swastikas sprayed on to walls, fascist tags, and messages of height everywhere else swastikas got painted over immediately,

but not in verona. some of them here, palos be nazi, decided to take on the job himself. he's also known by his professional name cheapo . recently there was ticket was sprayed on to this picture of mine. so im going to turn it into a public that's become a signature g, bolton's racist graffiti into pictures of italian speciality. citizen there. okay. you fascist. no, i'm the one doing this since i'd already painted over fascist symbols here. but they came back to say this is their territory on site. so what i'm doing is technically illegal angle as so in theory, i risk years of prison each time i do it, the rental 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 seems to support t bozer rattle the graffiti. i see my doctor covered them with pumpkin muffins. in muffins,

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. he pains 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 in it. they also went to my parents house and threatened commercially ms. any dorian, this hasn't deterred the artist from his mission. even if the police have failed to arrest his attackers. okay, isn't that i didn't want to get fight? so why are all the threats i receive ignored?

totally mean, that's a question. i've often asked myself. every citizen ought to say no to these messages of hating for me. i'm nothing special. i guess everyone should take a stance. it's outrageous that i'm painting over the swastikas instead of the municipal government, or nearly bardack and saliva. what ensues is a game of cat mouse between cbo and the neo fascist taggers political bottling the lower council. let me gladly turn to fight them with their weapons. so you have to use your own and confronting them with the power of beauty disorient tamara, because that's one area where they always lose that and the same for chivas as swastikas. a common here for a reason. even off the muscle, lini, verona remained a stronghold of the neo fascist for right. or, and alma, likewise the ac hours at the lower in here. 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, but that's why this culture of hate found fertile soil. here book was the voc obama pain book cheaper has a notebook where he keeps a record of the swastikas and hateful tags. and of his paintings, he keeps record of his murals on ah, she most passion for food extends to the kitchen. his pictures of pastor pizza and other specialities have won him lots of fans. and the day in the event that the only many people have approached me to tell me they only realised the extent of the problem. after seeing my graffiti as wasik, they were so used to seeing swastikas and hate speech. and both for she fascist, feels ridiculed to be covered over with cheese, suck in all appointments. it shows them that they're not being taken seriously or seen as dangerous your neck on that they're not being respected or you monkey they

respect. thought she bull street is to one day have no more work, because then verona 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. bye. for now. with ah ah, with

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