tv Focus on Europe Deutsche Welle July 8, 2022 4:30am-5:01am CEST
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oh, ready knows that come with hackers, paralyzing the tire societies, computers and governments that go crazy for your data. we explain how these technologies work, how they can go with how they can also go terribly. watch it now. new to a with this is focus on europe. labriola. it's nice to have you with us. ukraine's army is
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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 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. 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.
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ah, it's been a lot of bombing left, right, and above, everywhere you have a good one. 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 with ukraine . it's not just ukrainians who are fighting thousands of people from abroad have joined battle who are day and why are they doing it? and i go, 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. whatever job of the legion gives me what i'll do it. i'm a lawyer. a targeted cap on,
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as he calls himself, is from latin america for security reasons, we don't disclose his exact location. he is 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 and the muscle of yours, 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,
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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 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
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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 poses with 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 krakow and poland close to ukrainian border temperatures in eastern europe just have stepped to near freezing a climate that upon has never experienced before. i joined him for the next leg of
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his journey. the 1st stop, 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. i know there is a body armor. you know, 5, if i pond 11 modal he decides to go without 40 or maybe but isn't that suicide mission? 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 is, 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,
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kill kill of de la kilo hello, killed 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 colombia who goes by title dimmitt online in a group of spanish speaking volunteers. they also test and achy, 47, 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 that tells me oh,
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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, defend democracy and freedom according to the late, and they are paid equivalent of ukrainian soldiers of their rank written communication, trade, rift, tactical for their 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
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care in some very that's a delicate offensive and defensive operation. you can you prove that you don't use them 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 old public gen private assurances that no one in the army is interested in sending people to the front who are 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 fight fair. there is quite a difference. and as long as they are integrated into the forces of the
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host country, if they are not mercenary with i turned upon and talked or on their way to the border, the internationally to officially only accept people with like combat experience. but they give it a try anyway, who's time for the last voice messages on the book, when we got here, i want you to know that everything's okay. i love you. i'll send you a message when i can for that i might say after death, i think god will judge us for what we did in life, whether it was good or bad and follow and look at him again. i mean my
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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. did with the man who next for them is from ukraine. that 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 agree. because we cannot stop before
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our cell 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 i, you know, 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. oh, sandra, who's been at the front for quite some time, is still there and determined to stay. the human brain is,
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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's no more need for me here. then i will go ah, 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 could tell me he is 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,
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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 and have you thought about leaving, she gives up 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 the eunice out. you have your few of the more changes, and i gotta say, yes, i realized 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
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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 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 or the a longer it's a painful site. the receiving waters have laid bare all that remains from his childhood village. normally park of
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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. after that, a barbie, 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's already been built glenworth 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 alt allan docile reservoir was created. for 30 years, the village had been submerged. the old fountain is still running. it's vivian lamb . yeah, boy let go. no, no figure yet. but this let you get those ikea am i remember my grandmother and a girl coming here to fetch water a little he made up the girl splash water on her for fun and she did the same. they
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kept going until both were soaking wet heat though yet their bucket last summer. so down the matter improv. it's icon. we'll give you a bulky m baron on an important arm. we'll 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 with, and that means we are to play 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
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eating so martina 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 are what, oh, who causes me to book it in they were compensated, yelling. 8 is really they received a lot of money even for sandy's and chicken cape, long to run out, allowed them to build big houses afterwards. rather roy's home with the hate of 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 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 get bigger than these memories of childhood foolishness are etched on my memory for
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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. well, yes, 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 it's been great for business with them. and still is the letter was when obama thought of well we but if you're not with well, you see his young research the town and made a special detour to see what's left of the reservoir. the dean is tourist is both fascinated and shocked by the sight. i never really took it into consideration
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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 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 they're pretty much you story analyzed 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. you dance the reservoir, whatever. again, some mergers 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,
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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 bo is using his art to combat right wing extremism in verona, an inch city that's littered with races, 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 wassa, verona, swastikas sprayed on to walls, fascist tags, and messages of height everywhere else swastikas got painted over immediately,
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but not in verona. ah, here palos be nazi, decided to take on the job himself. he's also known why his professional name cheapo 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. sir, 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 on site. so what i'm doing is technically illegal, engler. so in theory, i risk years of prison each time i do it legally, delia, 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 gravel that the graffiti the same. i don't the covered them with pumpkin
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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 at summit 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 move him is any doorway. this hasn't deterred the artist from his mission. even if the police have failed to arrest his attackers,
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i gave him the lid. and once i get fired, so why are all the threats i receive ignored? totally mean, that's the question i've often asked myself. because every citizen ought to say no to these messages of hayton. i mean 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 of cat mouse between cheapo and the neo fascist taxes. for medical bottling the lower council, the vehicle model can 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 around the same for she will say swastikas a common here for a reason, even after mussolini verona remained the stronghold of the neo fascist for right. or an amar likewise the ac hours at the lower in year it's normal to own mussolini
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. 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 demarco beaumont but fame book cheaper has a notebook where he keeps a record of the swastikas night fil tags. and of his paintings, he keeps record of his murals on a map. ah, she was 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 kazi, as wasik, they were so used to seeing swastikas and hate speech and battle for she's a 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
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dangerous. your neck on that they're not being respected. who are you monkey? they respect, thought she bull street is to one day, have no more work, because then bruno 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, with
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