it's a history of slender, of hatred and violence, or even 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards jews is still pervasive. history that you semitism this week on d. w. ah, this is focus on europe. i'm lar, barella, thanks for your company. it was a catastrophe of epic proportions, the flooding that ripped through western germany last summer. no one saw it coming until it was too late. rivers including the r, burst their banks, and destroyed virtually everything in their path. dozens of villages were inundated

homes and possessions washed away in an instant. more than a 130 people died along the our river. will the sheer amount of rainfall took residence by surprise. experts say the extreme weather event was caused by climate change, and it seems like a combination of the topography and city planning has made the region more vulnerable to rising waters. much of the landscape in the our valley is still a scarred, those living in the community of should have a lot of work ahead of them. residents there are yearning for normality as they faced an uncertain future. ah, abandoned some summer 2021. a village on the river are a gentle stream that turned into a raging current. landed on. but what do you think? when will this village be rebuilt?

in 10 years, everything will be normal then. yes, we hope so. shoulder was one of the municipalities hardest hit by the flooding. last july, heavy rainfall made the river are swell up to 7 meters high destroying cars. holmes and anything else in its path authorities failed to warn locals in time. a fatal mistake. julia hendricks and her 3 children sheltered on a roof until the water finally subsided as a huge, damned hard northern house. there was a house standing here about hud default as i devoured in the front, had collapsed during the flooding. yeah. i know there were still 10 people inside the oven, todd cessation of my lord to tune. they survived by the skin of their teeth, the torrent tour a hole into your parents house. but after 8 months of repairs,

they were able to move back in. many locals, meanwhile, have been left traumatized by the flood. monoxide announced your water will from day that includes taking a shower. yeah, you hear the water gushing out of the shower head be does muscles design proposals? columbus is open. that reminds you of the sound of surgeon water and the feeling of wetness to fuel. last year's r, valley flood killed at least a 133 people. hundreds went missing, only to be found later, including some of you. william neighbors does reddish open. fidel never forget that boy out the door was forced open by the water masses and a child shouted lufkin ma'am hello ma'am. hello mama, i heard from them and then it was suddenly quiet in the shop. i did not hear from these people for 3 days till next as in, but then i saw them again and for no. okay, there. say nothing bad has happened to them in miss nix, casias ah,

the aftermath of the flooding. mounds of mud and debris. everywhere that year we visited mohammed abdul hamid in his rented hair salon, trying to salvage what he could she been. i've been here for almost 6 years a year. i lost everything on him for months he cut his cline's hair outside. he finally managed to reopen the salon a few days ago. thank god, but there are still a few things missing circle. hello. yes, sure. but it took a long time until you could reopen. at 11 months spent the thought through dusty and i am really glad to see the salon back open and as as we didn't have a daily routine alone and see my client clinton. susanne. oh yeah. that should be honest. logan. my heart is dancing. i'm dunsen mohammed has been fortunate many buildings in the 3 to and still remain damaged and at risk of

collapsing. in some cases, it's unclear who will pay for repairs. few here were insured when disaster struck. government aid hasn't reached every one yet or has proven insufficient. many here are disappointed the expected quicker emergency relief which go on for one of of i think at 1st there were not enough workers was going to love on top of that. i guess it was the same for, you know, you had to get an estimate of the damage or get a company to do as for marketing, those mach than others. be a habit of foreign company. do that, given the flood, wiped out many jobs in the region. mario is a nurse, but his former workplace, a nearby clinic, is still being rebuilt. it's been in court, so willing benefits because of the flood. we will have to see how things go either good. i hope to, we'll reopen this year with us, but we haven't heard anything yet. all the good little cannon falls, such as 5 as a tiny housing settlement. a little further up the valley. there emergency shelters

for 30 local families. they don't afford much space. and many here yearn to soon returned to their own homes. wife loved them all. 2 bedrooms and klein was a small launcher, a kitchen, noon of worn and the living blush. soon mikhail and his family can leave this shelter. after a year of repairs their family home finally is inhabitable though he does not want to keep living there. i stang, as a trundle, i suppose it is a medium or long term. we will leave miss lung twisted. miss madell blabbed valesh misdirect ensemble to not so much to fear. so my letter there is an uneasy feeling . fest of eating is whenever there is heavy rainfall or a storm warning. thus did that does make you a bit nervous ambition. nevertheless. ah, the river our has taken and changed lives forever. even a year after the flooding,

few things here are back to normal. russia has been at war with ukraine for 4 months now. and one of the kremlin 1st targets during the early days of the invasion was hakim, ukraine's 2nd largest city. well, caves forces managed to defend har keith and pushed back the russians. still, the battle is far from over. as putin's troops continue to shell, the city residents are trapped between normal daily life and the fight for survival . another day of work and hockey's and of the day these garbage collectors aren't sure they'll come back home alive again. it's dangerous with all the shelling going on. andre yuri and mikhail are making the rounds in the north of the city. when the war broke outs,

a wave of destruction hit and shells keep raining down. every day is different. would ruin him. a boring leaf. there was a claim with all the laundry room and now which i thought it was an issue to me, but it's like 2 different lives. i don't want to know you can't even remember normal life anymore. so it, it feels like there's only been these past 3 or 4 months early school, but i wanted to feel flying shop, little sometimes barely misses the, yet gone, or the protect vests, death, destruction and tears may be part of day to day life. now that the trio isn't numb to it, was you what she hasn't really hits me when we stop at an apartment and i see the diapers on the balcony on cannibal, and the whole building is destroyed. it's tommy and what lies in the rubble they clear way. there could be dangerous explosives,

the garbage collectors of the silent heroes of the city. they risked their lives to keep things going. because hockey must not give up. with looking into trouble, some one has to do this work like who else is going to hardly we but our every one decides for themselves. i like to help people my room. mm. and the not the only helping hands volunteers offered to help destroy departments more or less livable again, free of charge, the bumps the village. and when the shell start ringing down in your hands are shaking the well, we start cutting crookedly. it's really stressful. level somewhere, throttling. today they've been called over by a retired woman who's windows have been blown out since february. she originally fled, but now wants to return to hockey without a dull but passing that michel hit the building next door and killed a boy in

o. my granddaughter was sleeping at my place to exit in on the window that blew out a little the 72 year old pensioner says it's a real miracle how these young men are repairing her apartment for free now. but they see it as their contribution in war time. yet soggy, still feels guilty slab. unless the mature wilma, i'm providing humanitarian aid the for why, but i keep thinking about my friends fighting in the war zone. it was on the front with him from so had it and how they're spending these down in the trenches when he was sleeping with machine guns in their arm of some of the middle of new the metropolis of hockey has too surreal, parallel worlds. some parts are peaceful and idyllic, while others are being pummeled by shelling. hockey shall almost entirely intuition, hans, when the war began. ah, then in may, the city was liberated with many feel,

kootenai won't stop until he's got his hands on this prestigious prize. maria could barely stand the constant fear of death while going about her day to day life. yeah. and what's the requisition? i keep telling my son that our guys are sleeping in the trenches them the we can sleep soundly and bad toughness both. maria says our guys because she feels ukrainian and started her family here. but she's russian. and the artist has grown apart from her native country. she says, ukraine has become fear and more of beats. while russia has learned towards authoritarianism, solve a maria has applied for ukrainian citizenship and burned her russian passport.

that is safa chill, atkin champs was at the show and it was my way of expressing my disapproval and saying i wanted nothing to do with that country any more could i mean that i no longer see myself as a russian citizens. my drunkenness with you that the war may keep grinding on for some time, it could take generations to heal the hates. and yet hockey beams with the find optimism. these people keep toiling away despite the risks, to keep hockey eve alive and strong. well, the effects of the ukraine war are also being felt by fishermen and italy. the spike in energy prices is making the diesel that fuels their boats unaffordable for some and genoa fishermen rely on a good catch to make ends meet. now some have given up entirely, leaving their vessels ward at the dock. but morrow gambrell is refusing to throw in

the towel just yet. he and his colleagues have come up with a clever business model to help keep them afloat during the crisis. ah fishermen morrow camaro sets off from the port of genoa at 7 in the morning as he's done almost every day for the last 20 years. what's new is that he doesn't know the catch will be big enough to cover his costs with a restaurant. the fish dishes still cost about the same as before because you don't want to put the prices up to other. but our profit is going to just move and our costs continue to rise up. yet we're luck. who we've organized ourselves into a big cooperative love to see how things go. $24.00 fishermen have joined together in the co operative specializing in regional fish and lobsters and each market alongside wholesalers and cheap imported fish. they have laid out 3 kilometers of net which they haul in by hand meter by meter,

which takes hours. but nobody or lou, but again, mangion, we can't use this one is b nissan by sea police. problem guy is a chilly protocol. no luck. jeremy, almost got an awesome no sta good. and finally, the coveted lobsters are called. if you net a lot of them, the day was worth it. will you to over fishing and warming sees though this precious catch is dwindling. little modern man i see has changed. that's clear. i'm yard. we're finding much more plastic in the nance. unfortunately, while the mantle to 5 hours the net is fully holding the results quoted out, i go a fear there are about 7 kilos of a lobster to cd 3565700 you represent. that's all it's worth. that's rough indian after because city with which and are we spent about $2300.00 euros uneasily. her. it was what

a good one. there's our own provisions. and where on the boat, good airfield and the fact of the net it was constant was, will be repaired function when look used able beauty. but i did on that doesn't leave much to live on. they tried to make ends meet with new sales markets. the fishermen run their own restaurant. they also have a stall at the harbor where they sell directly to the customer. mario, the head of the co operative takes care of this. but most of the stand in the small market hall are empty today. for many fishermen, it's no longer worth heading out citizen and they're both in a passionate about fishing. we can't do the job, but you've got to get something out of it. if we don't get help is there won't be any of us here in 5 or 6 years. so she will say, i know to finish the situation is traumatic for all fishermen. since the price of diesel has almost tripled due to the ukraine war. for weeks,

fishermen went on strike and blocked ports with the already low profit margins. the business is hardly worthwhile. any more la stop. the government has forgotten unbundled and sleepy. going out, eating shouts off. i'm going up. i'm going to that that, that it all. no is now, but we must be given the opportunity to work today with all my price. diesel has to go dial law. that's what we one boss, not charity gossip. mario was on strike too, but he doesn't believe in government handouts and has taken matters into his own hands. here in the picturesque bay of book dorothy in genoa, the cooperative bronze restaurant, locals, and tourists loved the old fishing village because it retains much of its original charm in the restaurant. they only selfish they've caught themselves so far. the idea has been a hit and it could be a lifesaver for the fisherman of boca dorothy bay alarm. we came to book

a darcy because we loved the idea of this restaurant. i had the blue fish. it was great with men. oh, it's definitely better to spend money on a regional product than spending the same amount or something imported from abroad . margarita says that she's her little book in it on the left. the next day morrow heads out again. and he hopes to live from fishing for a long time to come. he simply can't imagine doing anything else. it's bloody deadly. and a tradition that's treasured by some bull fighting is still alive and well in spain . the sport was even named a part of the country's cultural heritage in 2013, much to the dismay of animal rights activists. it's a man versus bull and it almost always ends with a dying animal in the arena. well there's yet another aspect to bullfighting that has activists up in arms. people with restricted growth performing as clowns and

acrobats. the men do it voluntarily. they say, so does that make it okay? oh, the rehearsing one last time before the show. yeah. what about o torres? and his fellow clowns want to make the audience laugh and the bull fighting arena of granada. that's what's brought the troop together from across spain. most of them are people with restricted height due to a genetic condition any but again, my father was also short and performed in the arena for years and i always watched them and it's what got me into bullfighting, name at the and then when i've enjoyed since i was a kid, as long as i can remember, there was n k, e little terreros are often an essential elements of any show in spanish bullfighting. they perform with the young bows like these,

but they don't hurt or killed them. oh, the truth is on their way to lunch and in the streets, they turn a lot of heads. but 53 year old jose antonio is as whaler doesn't mind. he's used to, it's what it's just like we've got order contra last year too bad management. but what i'm happy with my body and my cell did believe i don't care if i get a few looks like the other one going to be over again. but having little terreros perform in granada or other spanish cities has become a controversial matter. but when i was little, i would go with my parents when i was sick for a new. and i had a lot of fun made up a movie we bought or that shouldn't be happening anymore. little daily. it doesn't make any sense to put someone in the limelight until their body side and make fun of the loop. i think i think authority, the very thoughtful the show upsets carleen and pointer schusters the meter on 37

centimeters tall herself and promotes a quantity for people with restricted growth. she finds these kinds of shows counterproductive. she wishes they were prohibited, said he, my son plays a little less of you that didn't come all it isn't way ernie. societies for spanish, it just to have it trampled in a shout out of them, but are to have children making an of shorter classmates in be than by avoiding i. i mean, you time for the sound check of the arena and granada for his part. daniel calderon is ever tight. he met the smaller comedians while working as a bull fighter. and now he leads to truth. he doesn't get his critics objections. on the factory though, going up so not it. but i think on michael, maybe until who says you need to be a certain high, what ought to be a comedian night? every one can you what they want? and i know so these guys, unprofessional session, i live at the top of

a p into so accuracy they wanna folk out of nearby rural bullfighter jacob, not that one i gave on. we're not doing this because someone is forcing proficient . i let her go, her professional, i don't know when our to go until the show begins. the bullfighters are getting ready. carlos isn't nervous at all. the portuguese native has performed and many shows already and knows what it means to be humiliated. yet i will go with the only thing i didn't like was being thrown through the air tall men, 2 cars and tossed his around. billy joel was in on that was in thought of. yes it, i believe it was really degrading about bristol, it was a get of the negative either. even that feeling carolina punter has teamed up with susanna novel to fight for the rights of people with a condra plaza mule got any, i don't know. they say comedic bullfighting shows are humiliating. even. that would offer a little kathy, sophia, it gets people thinking that those with to work as a mariani and flat. i think it only got you before. nice. got you. but i think it

apparently it's okay to make fun of this disability, but nobody would find it funny if people in wheelchairs were thrown through the air left i did go to saturday, said bershana since he had last seen the wood, dallas for us hide it in as it doesn't make it as if you do, you really think nice people are suited to bull fighting? no, they are employed because they're unusual bodies make them strain and shampoo comical . it don't want that number to call me feel good, but i and then it's showtime. the group of comedians have become close friends over time. ah, of you go that it will only with we all have seen stand sure because oh, but nobody is taller or smaller than anyone else is. is again, we're like brothers. so that would be helping each other. i love you. if a demo we all have the same were of united with you saw those you well it

and i'd love to keep doing what they do. but carolina and of the activists have already succeeded in funding such shows and other parts of spain. no val, cuisine or new cuisine is a french movement that was pioneered by this man. public hughes. he tore up the rural book and modernized fine dining. the cruise was crowned chef of the century and went on to teach many notable shafts before his death. in 2018, his legacy lives on a cooking school that bears his name. it's year hundreds of students learn the techniques of their idol. and leon sparkling clean glasses. napkins perfectly rolled. is alina studying, to become a hotel manager. the focus institute is her dream job. forever to get her right

aesthetic loan plate must be like a finger width from the edge of the table along the act to say the chair and aligned with the glass. meanwhile, in the kitchen, the ovens are heating up. students from all over the world come here to learn about what was seen at the school funded by paul goose to day it's a 5 course menu mohammed from a roku is in his 3rd and final year. the work at the stove is willing, the pressure great, but mohammed loves the challenge. was over yet. there is a clear hierarchy that we have the respect to you. we know who's boss issued is, are just like an kestrel conductor with their position. so only with was it all happens in the kitchen, so the bus sets the temp ok. the written with an example. in this case, the bosses florian ponson, studies on it are we sure he is responsible for ensuring that the restaurant slash

cooking school retains as michelin star is with us. but the students have to become and focused so that they get all the instructions. it requires a lot of concentration, which itself requires rigor and discipline. the moment of truth, the main course, squall, icky pigeon, and across the caching us all under the watchful eye of paul lucas. since you got closer to the polluted, excellent, well done, bravo, bravo. so basically when she's in a french country heritage allows us to shine with world oberholtz's. and that is just like this. our values rejects of desert to such a bill. situation high priest for the students as the 2 dream bringing good cuisine to the world is olean. with a hotel in india mohammed with a restaurant to morocco and i dream of tasting their

creations. well, that brings us to the end of this edition of focus on europe. thanks so much for watching. bye for now. ah ah ah, with

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