oh, from syria is born in a female body in forced into marriage. great. a skate will be the journey of his life. far from home, ali can finally become good person. he's always wanted to be with i was born in july 22nd on w. ah, this is focus on europe labriola. it's nice to have you with us. ukraine's army is struggling to fend of russia's offensive as their enemies seizes more territory in

the east. after weeks of fierce fighting, couldn't 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 beyond their borders. international volunteers with varying degrees of experience, are signing up to give you a military advantage. improvements 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. the. there's been a lot of bombing left, right,

and above, everywhere. 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 on that island in ukraine. it's not just ukrainians who are fighting talents of people from abroad . have joined battle, who are day and why are they doing it the like, 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. and whatever job the legion gives me, i'll do it in. but. busy but also going to on and i can just tell you what the

seller targeted cap on as he calls himself, if from latin america 10 years for security reasons, we don't close his exact location. he's preparing to leave his home cap on tells me he works as a paramedic who 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 and the muscle. yes, 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 is a good to hear your thing. i was going to period this is incomplete. i yeah. to 19

year old tells me he still lives with his parents. he says his father even offer to money to stay. but a few days later, it's time to leave his friends, throw a farewell party. ah, good 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, 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. this was weapons. she tells me she has no qualms about using her gun, but is what it says job is 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 in the borders dated june cap on flights of cracow and poland close to the ukrainian border temperatures in eastern europe just have tipped 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 proof vest 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 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 assigning it, but they're going to call me by chance upon meets another man who also wants to join the battle with to me, he makes a dubious impression. hello. phillip

de la kilo hello, kayla. you oh, 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 achy $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. 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 no 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 founded 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 equivalent of ukrainian soldiers of their rank written communication, trade ref tactical trade contract. last until the voiceover 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 all taken

care in some very that's a delicate offensive and defensive operation. you can you prove that your dog? he was dumb as can potter. 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 as mercenaries which could result in worse treatment. if they are captured abroad. i ask an expert for his take on it. they are not mercenary. 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 mostly, mary lou's,

did i jump on and talk to on their way to the border, the internationally to officially only accept people with live combat experiences. but they give it a try anyway. ah, it's time for the last voice messages or any of that. 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, and i hope i will meet them after death violence. our good news demand. next for them. it's from ukraine. that your family 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? for the peace in the world and peace in the green. because we can stop this for

our cell phones 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 different percentage of them. but are you on the come you have want to join deletes and the next day on my journey with them and here. but they promised to stay in touch. oh, 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 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, deletes 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 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 that's been done on the on and have you thought about leaving? she is getting a lot of gives up on those whichever that 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 get the units out. you have your few of desemore 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. with the 10 days later i received news again to situation has become too intent. upon

decided to leave the international legion. he now, 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. 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 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 of

year longer would now be getting wet feet. this was once a vast reservoir, but has been drying out and now his old village, once submerged, has re emerged. it 30 but okay. that that was my grandmother's house. yeah, i get i spent my childhood here in the round of 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 us at either 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. if leaving them no more let go, no figure in cottage that you give those akila my. i remember my grandmother and a girl coming here to fetch water a little me down. the girl splash water on her for fun. and she did the same. they

kept going until both were soaking wet. go yet their bucket last summer. so damn a 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 in the region used to do. but now climate change is having a strong impact. grovee climate change is to blame, would do. and that means we are simply our shuttle my, 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 it right by the border. it's still one of the country's largest hydro power plants eat in a. so martini 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 for that one . 0, okay, there's one to pick any, they were compensated, yelling. 8 is really they received a lot of money, even for shanties and chicken cables. i want the right i to allowed them to build big houses afterwards, rather loyce homer. the native cathedral paco's parents used the money to build a new home higher up to day pock lives there alone. all that survived of his old village are a few momentos photos and his 50 year old home videos 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. not a lot of in 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. it's al corta nor 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 that i'm 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 them and still is the letter was when obama 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 tourist is both fascinated and shocked by the sight. i never really took it into consideration hello dry. the weather 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 nova night gone through a cigarette, but out or nothing. because i guess everything will catch fire because it's so dry . the dry conditions mean fires like this one are common as is drought refer directly to the most 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 layer for he danced the reservoir, whatever. again, some merchant ruin 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. pierre apollo's, 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. so i am going to turn it into a pumpkin muffin. a trick that's become a signature g bolton's racist graffiti into pictures of italian speciality. citizen k 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 inside. so that's what i'm doing is technically illegal in english. so in theory, i risk years of prison each time i do it legally interior, 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 gravel that they graffiti the same. i don't cover them with pumpkin muffins

in mapping. yessenia luca, he posts videos of his work on instagram. oh. with nearly 400000 followers, he's become famous around the world. ah, petite merely pains, some at great risk of being targeted himself. i knew 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 mentally me any doorway. 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 fired?

so why are all the threats i receive ignored? totally mean, that's the question. i've often asked myself. every citizen ought to say no to these messages of hayton company. 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 only bother and saliva. ah, what ensues is a game, a cat, a mouse between cbo and the neo fascist taggers political natalie, 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 off the miscellany, verona remained a stronghold of the neo fascist for right. or an al malik was yeah, cars at the lawyer in here. it's normal to own mussolini bush 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, 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 both 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 realized the extent of the problem after seeing my graffiti as vast because they were so used to seeing swastikas and hate speech. but 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 she bull street is to one day have no more work, because then bruno would have no more symbols of hate. 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, with

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were considered servants of evil. we simply told you the most atrocious chapter and within 6 years, a 3rd of our people were exterminated in meeting 6000000 jews. like microbes to be annihilated. even 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards jews is still pervasive. a history of anti semitism this week on d w. o, and this is debbie news. these are our top stories. british prime minister born johnson has agreed to resign following an open revolt against his leadership by fellow conservatives in a statement. he said the time table for choosing a new leader will be announced.