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by saying that i am really thankful this studio here is air conditioned because outside the sweltering heat wave continues across europe. people are suffering from the heat with countries continually reporting record high temperatures. and while fires are igniting not just in southern europe, but in central european countries, and even in the typically cooler northern parts, heat, waves, and drought each, a consequence of human induced climate change are becoming bigger problems every year. some of the consequences of climate change have almost biblical proportions like on the italian island of sardinia, where the province surrounding or a tele has been plagued by locusts since 2019 rising temperatures have pushed up locust numbers and come summer huge swarms, wreak havoc on wild life, including on farmers, crops, months of hard work can be wiped out in a matter of hours and the question is, can these insects be stopped? ah,

a baron landscape. and the last stragglers of a recent locust swarm, the insects left a trail of devastation in their wake. also won farmer anthony hello, browse pastures ah, closer much there is nothing left. look at the soil and wonder they devoured everything. what look, look here? see how many locus there are? well, like one to cover the shuttle. the slurry tank is full of locusts. anton hello, had to move his 800 goats to the surrounding countryside as there was nothing left for them to graze on here. the insect even ate the hay for the winter, which will mean higher costs on a job that's already hardly profitable craft. but normally it's impossible to calculate. the damage is the constant o'clock. we've had locust invasion since 2019 recover, but it's never been as bad as this year. so like was to live in

a request on north brookfield, an estimated 50000 hector's of land in sardinia have been effected. the epicenter of the plague is the tier. so river valley, so multiple is only the 5th, but this whole area has been ravaged by the locust oscillate. the gallow figure the sponge element they. they moved along the river with a flood plains below this mountain range. oh, for ideal conditions for local seal ali a south dock was that got they like it? like the little mardina gavin owen fabio worked for the regional agriculture agency . part of their job is to try to gain control over the past. really kick with thought here this female is laying her eggs. the kids are femina, but she digs a whole. clear said outside of an all clear then and go the eggs we met they leeward for every female deposits up to 30 eggs 3 times each season. will take chocolate shut off them. these are the pods they laid their eggs in africa 3 next

to each other. quote, the internal dish inside that the eggs of the locus, antony aline. their life cycle last from april to july. hello, mr. lulu? they lay eggs. 3 times and then they die, that bone of but that evolved if we more you, locusts will even eat other dead locusts, fabio says proper ploughing of the land is an important tool for combating invasions that it would have an effect, but it may ploughing is important in order to get the eggs out of the ground and on to the surface, they because only their can, they be eaten by their natural predators, burns, pigs wild boys or other on the force from earlier today which had a break any mileage. so ne woody arturo cocoa from the university of sorry, research is locusts. he explains multiple factors contribute to locust investigations which began on sardinia in 2019 secret man. they come into climate change plays a big role you mall because we now have long, dry periods eatable receive. on top of that sunday morning,

moorland has been abandoned tonya garden. it's no longer been cultivated or managed to luck will give us your name. the very thought mm. the use of chemicals is only effective against young locusts. plus there are large areas where pesticides cannot be used anyway because there devoted to organic farming researchers are therefore relying on natural predators. first and foremost, this beetle malebranche, very obvious that bother about then also a boat that we must do whatever it takes to protect and propagate the locus natural predators sooner and they're le had that. but i thought you, any way we could control vis. infestation would red linkedin seat that request the existing face. that's your garvey, no one fabio collect the beatles as they are currently the most successful weapon for preventing future locust plagues. that bon eli woven. arlene, this is a delay. its eggs in the hole where the locusts have their eggs late in the beat love i eat the locusts eggs. they were tried to capture as many beetles as possible

in places where they're not needed that rural and used a lot where we lead their health out. only over magole, tennis channel, or tennis channel, the main and 2021 sardine as regional government made a plan to bath. the locust plagues. this includes an app for reporting swarms, organic pesticides, and farmers being required to plow their land. even now, you know, and fabio are working hard so that next summer their native island will be spared from the insect. in many european countries and the us are supplying ukraine with tanks, rocket launchers, and rifles to resist the rushes invasion, and humanitarian aid is also being sent to ukraine ins. one thing they're lacking though, are some very specific kinds of cars, all train automobiles, like su, views, and pickups. these vehicles are mainly needed near battle lines to bring food or ammunition,

or to evacuate the wounded. ja checks you go. bater is bringing such vehicles to ukraine. the initiative is funded by donations and for him and his friends, the more cars, the better. ah, erie corpus is inspecting the actual suspension here in warsaw. he's helping to get this old korean off rhoda and shake the vehicle will soon be heading to ukraine. let's check the suspension. it's not sitting right like this, but the used car was purchased with donations. the men overhauled it for free. it's to be handed over to ukraine's armed forces at no charge. that's enough. we're looking for off road vehicles that could be put to use at the front. but for example, to transport the wounded image on a daily they should have all wheel drive solutions. puzzles, well known polish journalist and author,

yet se coogel barbara came up with the idea for this initiative. since the invasion began, he has been in the ukraine several times and eventually started collecting donations . where performance virginia with the good i'm a reporter and the job is my life. look at the i and since i'll be going over there, quite often i wanted the ukrainians to get something out of it. but that, that was also i launched this fundraising initiative and was able to buy for vehicles including that one total. and he learned what was needed most during her trips visual talkie, we are filling the major powers and tanks and artillery. but they don't have enough every day vehicles and they really need them. yeah, my own, i realize there's no point in sending good new cars because they'll have a short lifespan in ukraine. central cooper, which i bring these cars to the troops of the 24th mechanized brigade and the dunbar. jo, dr. google, i have friends fighting there. has they received a beautiful new car from the u. k. that only survived for 2 days. one gotcha. or the south pink with some awkward, novel dangling of crude was from godaddy. evelyn,

not zuka. a native ukrainian is packing donations from a canadian age organization to be brought along very, very expensive and coin badly needed because suitable for anybody, for the soldiers or for the general population. and we've thrown a couple of a toys for kids. just, you know, they're, they're going through a war. and so just a couple of things with the box had a little bit of space. so we put it in. and then here is a drawing that one of the children in canada had gone for ukraine. so we'll be passing on a couple of these for 84 year old father and other relatives are still and key if it's a source of constant worry and very saddened and it's bewildering to me that in the 21st century we have something like this going on he was also urgently needed in ukraine. the country is suffering fuel shortages. so yeah. second, evelyn will be taking supplies both for themselves and as a donation. jackie co emma is

up here from the 1st time i went to ukraine. there were only 2 filling stations along the entire road from of even cheaper. but that's about 900 kilometers. even one would only let you buy 20 leaders of the other 10 and even for that, ukrainians had to stand in line for 24 hours a little stretch. so you had to stay in line around the clock just to get 10 leaders of fuel, digital to flavor. everything's ready to go. fuel reserves, donations of medical supplies, and to vehicles and ins. okay, so far we'll see 290000 kilometers on the vehicle with both the a. it's a 5 hour drive to the ukrainian border and a few more hours to levine, a long journey for the old car and it's passengers. the next day they've almost reached their destination. got sick,

hands over the remaining fuel reserves and the vehicle on a parking lot on the outskirts of town. we can't say exactly where for security reasons, even for the tally will help make sure the vehicles reach the forces on the front line. nissan altima hotel motion boys, they have as many vehicles as they can get. the ball will pick up trucks. it all will light off, roaders will be on all will many buses are all great options because they can get through grass with mud and other surfaces really well really just, i have great respect for the poles and all the other europeans who are helping us scar the bomb higher together will win amazon. well, next week we got to say cool varden plans to bring another 2 vehicles, crane or a country fighting to defend its independence. since the beginning of the russian invasion around one 3rd of the ukrainian population has had to flee

millions have found shelter abroad, and among them are sasha and her 17 year old daughter ana, who were staying with a host family in berlin. now on paper they're safe, but how safe to actually feel when you're starting a new life in a foreign country and facing all of the challenges that that brings? how do you deal with making a fresh start? while many of those you care about remain in a war torn country, a reporter accompanied sasha and honor as they took their 1st steps in the german capital. with rushes, violent invasion of crane has forced millions of people to flee their homes. and sasha, now refugees in germany, which increase the hearts are still in ukraine to super. in when the vizier got the my friends state enchanter, he, i think my classmates would but them were supreme. i, i can't bear the thought that they did not have the chance to escape what i, even though they wanted to what britain,

it's terrifying to bring it's hard because i can't help some extension from which in anna was finishing up high school. such a work to the call center. the war completely changed their lives when businesses and actually they bombed us from day wandering a deal. so the very 1st week we moved to my mother's house and his dad didn't notice when we were in the basement the whole time. a porcelain was valued as lead shot. the bombing started timothy. after a while, we could tell what kind of shell had fallen just by the sound. those 1st days we knew a lot of people who died in the street away from civilians. ordinary people, our neighbor, prophesied in ashley hock. but after the 3rd attempt,

another sasha managed to escape. they now live with a host family, berlin, o. jones or fibbs and susan's. it's gone as we humans are social being with if someone falls down next to you, you feel empathy and help them out. and it's only natural for descriptions on sasha have signed up for a german class. me the courses offered by the church for free. i think it is a sub. and do you have children e i 2 children. well, i the name of your wife, your husband on morton is who i am single with . oh, okay. thank you very much. no issue out of the with though we are good and we want to started your money. i play

it so little boy a. that's why we couldn't answer it added yo, my meal variable, which is not just the current situation that weighs on them. they are also still grieving the death of anna's father. he died fighting separatists in 2017 as well over so as i stand here, i think of my husband ranch and he died very early in the school. we found our piece with it's a bit was a dog wizard. but all those painful feelings are back again i mostly it's all so silent and che shannon and sasha want to say thanks to their hosts. so they are cooking a typical ukrainian dish. that also brings up memories of their own lives are. and

i want to see my good and eat, grinned grandma, as is the 4th. because if the, the most beautiful thing in the world. yeah. and her, me, my friend and talk about, oh, how's a feeling? and arizona is fine or maybe some think it's terrible. and just took musical overall, they have gotten used to their new life and they get along well with their host family through the government and it feels like we're having dinner with our own family. we're already entirely comfortable without german family. it's like being home got dormer to berlin is also growing on them. la couldn't yet most of this and there lots of different are new plans in the

making. i want to to come back to crane to see my family members. but i think about leaving in german for my life in the future because like his country and you've done both, i'm too old to completely overturn my former life to live. and my relatives are in ukraine. all is my house to. i want emma to decide for herself whether she wants to stay in germany or return to ukraine. you leave, but i want to go home sunday so that when the war is over, i will definitely do that. that's in at this deal. but as to when that might be for now, mother and daughter have no idea. daughter, good deal ludovic. muhammad z ahead is a scholar of islam, a mosque founder, and he's openly gay. he was reported to be the 1st french muslim to be sibling

married to another man. and while many would argue that was his right, there are those who say islam and homosexuality are not compatible, even in mar, say in the south of france, whereas i had lives. he has allies in his fight against prejudices. but the path he's chosen is long and risky. law was on law. mom ludovic, mohammed's ahead is praying for tolerance and he's happy to do so with a woman that in itself is already pretty unusual. but the real surprise is that the muslim scholar is openly homosexual. and fighting for gays to be accepted in islam or the risk if up with effect, this can't go on it for you. there's too much violence, pressure and degradation in your mouth. it when they get people, pretend we don't exist. sometimes there's even physical violence in our families and community healthy off. i mean on a come, no tier, after studying to become an,

a mom, back in his native country of algeria saw, had fled here to mar, say, in southern france. in his new home he came out as homosexual and founded and his lama institute these days. he also officiated gay weddings. i've flown cur massey, that hello dal d a. thank you for coming her dissertation. i'm very honored to take part in the ceremony. yes, it's at a money. it's about acceptance and standing one's ground on it officially. same sex marriages are not allowed in islam. ball, but who fe? congratulations. book. thank. that's why sammy mom's in france have threatens i head and pitted muslims against him. as i did come up with a so liberal or very angry without knowing me, it's crazy that people can hate you. i want to see you dead without even knowing you. bought it, thought father kenneth. according to one survey,

over 2 thirds of muslims in france have prejudices against homosexuals. that the will muslims, we don't have that kind of thing. need be me. we behave with decency i i, she no dish earlier fed to death her almost. she had to for us to be homosexual and do such things. and mom is a terrible sin sang and that's why muslims don't do that. he fe kuth, emmy, do mind if it myself, but i had wants to belong to the muslim community. he's already gone on 5 pilgrimages to the holy muslim city of mca, he wants to show that homosexuals can be good muslims. he said it hasn't. what was important to me and those to be physically present and show to be exist under part of the community. please call her back to let them know

that we have the same practices and that for no less human or spiritual, just because we're of, as they put it different for the on the whole. the a mom is calling for open discussion about our new reformed islam with more tolerance towards minorities. he moderates talks on social media, and today's gases are a catholic clergyman and so lima, one a few women who are a moms. okay, culture, he sure enough that you get them. so asia, farts is sure that you, well, better that way that says we have created man, we have created well and we are created something in between. so lima values her brother in faith and says he is breaking new ground. what linda vic is doing is he is creating an institution. he's institutionalizing and new, modern i am inclusive islam and this is new. there is nobody offering those

tools because i had also wants to protect those who are in danger because of their sexual orientation like this group of homosexual refugees. some have had their lives threatened back in their home countries and their fellow believers here don't always show them tolerance either. oh wow. what is time to sound the alarm for toner and out of the a mom has been supporting this artistic worked for years here. the group is putting on a dance performance oh, for comp, often it makes me happy to see how much good at those to participants. and it's interesting for the audience too, because some struggle to understand these identities had a pano, though just

a reality was to audience discovers here through our to day. that's a wonderful thing to go to the classroom to think. as i said, amicable in order to win over more people for his cause, ludovic, mohammed's had wants to share this with others. he's determined to keep at it despite the risks we want to sure there are moments when you're afraid of her, but not really. and that's not going to hold us back to pass. i can choose either. there are unfortunately only a few wild rivers left here in europe, the v o. so in l. benuya is one of the last that still flows untamed and free. it's a unique ecosystem that has remained largely undisturbed by human influences. and it's now been decided that it should stay that way. the government in toronto wants to turn the viola and all of its tributaries into europe's 1st wild river. national park. that's music to the ears of nature, lovers,

and environmentalists. although they don't quite trust the government's plans video. so river and its tributaries are a rarity in europe, as they are still largely wild. biologist aussie nika has been fighting to keep it that way for 12 years. and to keep the river safe from hydro electric plants construction had already started at the size of 3000 dams that are being projected in the balkans. so 90 percent of these dams are the so called small scale hydros. actually, they are bringing almost nothing to their energy grid, but at the same time they are having the huge ecological footprint albanian power grew to supplied almost entirely by hydro electric plants. but they can't meet demand to keep the vio, san tat. environmentalists have been calling for a national park for years. it's actually our last chance to steal contained the free flowing river. not for the albin and a lot, but it's on

a european context. finally, in early june, the albanian government promised to establish a national park northcutt's. no new power plants are to be built on the vio something, but we can't speak of a national park where there will be only plants and animals far there will be economic development for people as well. the music on a me, bernie osi champion, say across is famine. people local residence, question the projects, integrity ackman. bizarre ne offers rafting tours for backpackers. for years he's been campaigning to legally protect the vo, so for gentle tourism in the region and no dams, eyes, god, damn albania, we, we have not all the coffee dance thought the believe worth of the government. see, because what the government now say they can change it. essentially the views as future depends on whether it's protection as a national park has signed into law. and on that those in power let this river stay

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