president of the global powered china on these part of a whole system which believes his time has come. he relies on an authoritarian system of total surveillance on economic expansion without scruples and again and again, he provokes and threatens with the military aggression the chinese president believes his way is for superior than that of western democracy. china's president, changing pain starts july 30th on d, w. ah, hello and welcome to focus on europe a europe that is facing huge and unprecedented challenges. one of which is heat.

now while fires are, of course, typically for the season in dry southern parts of the continent, but this time around large areas of central and even northern europe are also bearing the brunt of the conflagration. but meanwhile, farmers in spain, southern region, van de lucille, also bringing their hands in despair. they to need a lot of water if they're going to prevent crops like strawberries, vegetables and salads from going to ruin on their giant plantations. but digging wells to give themselves access to ground water is illegal and also has a negative knock on effects on wetlands like the dani ana daycare reserve. life is about to get harder for this spoon. bill. heron, environmentalists, philippe, when till sauce. and one romero are concerned about the existence of hundreds of thousands of such water birds in the wetlands of don't yana in the south of spain

because water levels are falling. but a lot of the but i see that life up all of a lot of it's a catastrophe full by a diversity anna. yeah. by the way. and this is a protected zone he'll get out without. don yana has been as good as drive for 2 years now. it usually it's a wetland area with no water because it's wasted. and sometimes by breaking the law that i mean, i don't yama national park, a unesco world heritage site, is surrounded by farmers who use ground water to irrigate their strawberry blackberry and raspberry plantations. in the me, a lot of it, he had all of them a little, a lot of the ran parts on phillip his map. so all the plantations that have cropped up in the area since the 1980s without a license yet either via my they mean both of you legally, both while over a 1000 to legal why me. i've been drilled in the middle of the forest without permission. i mean, he's happy and the authorities, when negligence fairfield,

nobody stopped the uncontrolled growth about up on it. but i think with one thing i one wants to show us the illegal wells. he understands the situation of the farmers who've been waiting for years to be connected to an irrigation system in which water is transported to the region from distant rivers. but he thinks it's wrong for them to drill wells if they don't have permission fight where i don't know, a war for water is scarce, resources broken out, it's about who gets more. that's the problem. i think i'm and that, that, that, that, that a problem. we come across a wild fire, a consequence of drought and record breaking heat. there's an illegal well right? if i'm of in law or boss oak, as it was built by circumventing the law without papers off, it will leave him right next to a dry river bed. that is public property edgar. they'll gotcha, boy, there's a lot of them in your bully. go either early, many of these fields were planted with farmers simply turning forest or meadows

into plantations. we wanted to speak to some growers, but no one wanted to speak to us. even those with licenses refused to appear on camera. but manuel salgado spokesman at the dawn, yana farmers association. agree to talk with us? well, lemme lemme, i figured we were just getting a bad reputation of consumers. are led to believe that all fruit has grown illegally. this isn't true. well, when i see the gothic one, i think the conservative people's party in spain has announced an amnesty for illegal cultivation, which is fueling more attention than anything. hyundai, ready? i love you now though you have in these farmers shall be punished and the land shall be cleared. he said probably the opposite is happening while they're being rewarded. there for the after 18 years of illegal farming up they going to get

a permit. but, but i will, if i get called the on the now that the people's party was recently elected to the and to lucy and regional parliament with an absolute majority. one is worried that it will implement what it is promised ill be looking around that an hour alone, but it hardly that's now going to govern here and, and to lucia has promised to legalize everything. hang on you on. that's why the authorities awaiting and not prosecuting those who've broken the law than that that would just create a big fuss because expectations are so high. other be middle. manuel antonio gonzales is a deputy for the people's party in and to lucia. he doesn't understand the criticism and says that his party wants the amnesty to ensure that all plantations are connected in future to an irrigation system was a them of, or have evil. what a low this way will achieve 2 goals. he bought at all. we will be regulating and we will ensure that no more ground water is withdrawn,

us all the and the spanish government finally does it duty and builds irrigation channels. and uh, we put together for one romero. all of this is a power struggle for political and economic interest at the cost of nature. get in for you, get at the end of it. if you end up after they want to grow and grow until the done younger nature reserve disappears completely. we can c h r. i mean, instead of wetlands, there's a dep and desert without you. now, the european commission has intervened and has given spain an ultimatum. there will be big fines if the nature reserve continues to be destroyed and water intensive, agriculture grows. this might be the last chance for this bird. ah, well, one man who knows a thing or 2 about the horrors of war is australian war photographer,

warren richardson. he regularly joined ukrainians up at the front line in the conflict with russia. recently, for instance, he captured some of the fighting in the fiercely embattled southern city of nick upon so why do fighters and why do civilians trust him? will probably because he takes the same kind of risks as they do. oh, oh, oh, the death nose keep bringing out in nico, in southeast, in ukraine. today these people are bidding farewell to the very crust. nicky who died at the front. his son was given the day off to stand by his mother's side during this difficult experience. a lot of people have been morning in nico pole and wove photographer warren richardson takes pictures of them. he's been photographing people morning he for weeks all the nasa media. oh,

we met these trillion at a parking lot by the ne capote train station, morally his while air raid sirens kept blaring where he showed us the course of the nearby front lines. here. there is a nuclear power station here. the russians control this whole entire area, so they're completely in control of fear right now. very difficult to cook and the situation can change it any time. said there were a few moments when the sirens go silent. oh, hello sir. in that situation it's, it's an everyday situation. so for me getting on the trains with the people at a fling, you know, you're around women and children that are completely unaware. ready oh, you know, they don't know what's going to happen next. when warren takes photographs, he most is himself in people's lives. he tells their stories and the horrors

they've experienced, so that their sacrifices are not in vain. but sometimes the reality is too brutal and the images unbearable uncle to like to say, we don't want to publish the pitches quite work, but we can't publish them. so what we're at warren wants to know what this war is doing to the people fighting it. so he sought answers among church goers like from father mercury's ukranian orthodox congregation. the clergyman is steadfast, any support of the ukrainian, so did a renewal and hoops in constant contact with the front, where he's convinced they're fighting for all of europe. he feels his country has been betrayed by their brothers in face on the ground. you will see the russian orthodox church is like a tumor ravaging our nation's body,

washed in many towns. they welcomed the occupiers with bread and salt. when these changes won't, you won't. you under humping priests who wanted to talk their whole congregations into surrendering roubles or painted crosses on the russian tanks. young you're not . is old. we accompanied warren to the russian orthodox clergyman, father nicholas, and we wanted to know where does he stand in this difficult situation? your cook to live? if you're not a religious person, i put all my hope in god's mercies. may he bring his peace easier, but of course, i believe in the defender boy, the ukrainian army unusable. they have a great duty to protect their home. last what that i will not he seems terribly kind hearted, but he was done talking politics. if his church was pursuing its own agenda behind closed doors, we could not find out war and doesn't pass judgment with these images.

his aim is to understand all sides of the conflict, and he would also show the russian side, he says it nico paul, it's little stories that describe the big picture women just as they are, who left their homes in don bus. they're paying the price for the war and waiting and make a po to see what's next for them. or done watching. pigeonholed state thinks that it was very sad back at home so. so we didn't have any water for 70 days and the gas was turned off for the ocean to hello. so license hard there because the bakers can't make bread without gasoline to put it in the whole room all. and so just like catarina here in nickel, many others are waiting for the war to end. why not or not? how should the war and without the winning of course long leave ukraine level ranger warren richardson feels it's the children that suffer most from the war. because they're the ones who have to build their lives among ruins

and on the run in the next generation where they take on bitterness. i don't know when i take on diplomacy, i have no idea. i would really hope that things are set in place for them that allows them to have some sort of understanding that they can live for future as opposed to live in fear. while another employee may pull things, battlefields is the gas war which could leave many people across europe in during a tough winter. so to prevent the russian leader from having the whole continent at his mercy, people in the netherlands have been looking more closely at their own reserves. they're located in the hunting and gas field up in the northeast of the country, which is viewed as the biggest of its kind in europe. but that might sound good, but there are problems. young leakers damaged house is being

strengthened to withstand future earthquakes. it's a complex operation on decent tail, this part of the building is all ready to pay the scum. angie, you can see it here reader. i and rod holds the war bower and the inner part of the building to get own desk boy to shoot to sherman house. another section had to be completely torn down and visit. the house was damaged in the aftermath of a strong earthly huffman. twill euro groningen where gas extraction has triggered tremors for decades. on the other daughter, it was horrible. all. everything was moving. there was a huge noise slim as well. oh, there was one loud bang by bell. i mile. went on to yo. here it's a huge, long grove. it was a beautiful house and when we were happy in it, and we are a rundown mitchell for in the earthquake, almost caused the collapse of the more than 100 year old barn as well. it's roof is

now reinforced by steel beams. i think her miracle kept a record of the earthquakes which began in the region in the night anytime bars the once and great was serious. some registering for the 3 boys under which the scale is been uncle vernon. in the launch i began to record the earth whigs. line is 994 store and i stopped in 2015 and is ram short because there was so many or toys i'm, but the lyla would have gone all the way to the ground, right? beaches in golden. the earthquakes of lead to more than a $160000.00 damages claims to date, which prompted the dutch government to scale by gas production. and take a decision to close down the gas field by next year. but the russian invasion of ukraine and slashing of gas close to europe has thrown those plans into question. the dutch government is now considering tapping the fields, still ample reserves, in case of a gas emergency in winter mach,

he'll mulder is an energy expert at the university of grown. again. he believes it's possible to temporally res, output a groaning and field to get the residents on board as well. so if you look at the failure which could earn from as a could make by selling for years and growing gas and selling the la market research yokes, the only use in the small part of got these revenues to compensate all habitants of original groningen at the expense of bit higher risk for earthquakes because they still exist. so this will be the best, the solution for, for every one. 0, we've got correction wall, but there's also correction ceiling. but residents and groaning and don't trust those promises quick and appropriate compensation has until now been a distant dream. for me, you made a new claim. marianna toley has been petitioning authorities for 6 years to recognize and be for the damage she says was caused by gas extraction and pull down the house if needed. she still waiting for a decision. the damage, meanwhile,

is growing. this is the type of damage that, that we see a lot. and it's the one that it's to show them that really scares me. lot of people are afraid with an next earthquake that the roof will come down and well, the beams, milan on you, the issue was led to heated debate about netherlands, future energy options, local green petition. justin jones says the crisis is an opportunity to ramp up alternative sources and energy efficiency and insists that extending the gaskins life should not be an option. extracting fossil fuels comes at a cost. it comes at a cost to people and it comes at a cost to nature. people think that now the gas tap is being close further that thus this will mean that we have no more earthquakes, even if we close by the deadline that the government has given it itself. we still have a problem here. it was should not prolong the extraction because the consequences

will just go on and on. and on. in young monica's case, it took 10 years to finally get financial compensation to rebuild his home and been a god knows from experience that the earthquakes will continue in the area for some time to come dumpty dish and that is some months where it's quiet, isn't it? then you have a new, ugly lloyd. if you have new damage or you have to register it with the call to tell them, and the whole craziness begins again. it could be either the dot state and the gas . the operator have bid out over the 1000000000 bureau so far affected residents for rebuilding and strengthening homes. none of the residents are looking forward to continuing damage to their homes. but the dutch government may be out of other options. if the gas prices take the tone for the worse in the winter, very interesting. so now we go to denmark, where there are strict provisions over when a child's well being appears to be in danger. when the day each state is obliged to

take action. it's a controversial practice and it is currently being hotly debated, which helps to explain what happened when this young woman, hannah york had her daughter taken away from hannah and her husband. now live here in germany, from where they're fighting for their daughter to be allowed to live with them. once again. hora is still written all over hannah, short's face. it happened 2 years ago. the danish national was on her way to germany with her family. at the danish jack point, police officers blocked their way. it was about her daughter flora of vienna. so miss owen lithium. at 1st, we were detained for over 3 hours without clearly being told what it was all about leaving or the next is with every minute our fear and panic brewed moon. it's hard to describe them in figure that them when it was clear that an 18

month old child was to be taken away from her parents and brought to a foster family by complete strangers. i was just beside myself. all that hannah has laughed of her daughter flora awesome photos. the little girl now lives with a foster family in denmark. the reason offered was that the child's well being was in acute danger. the local authorities and hannah's home town ve bulk claimed that she and her husband came when not taking sufficient care of flora spotlight. we're figmott 1st about some apparently they pitch and hold me after i chose to give my 1st child to a foster family. when i was still very young, cassandra ha, i think at yahoo though. but he is an expert from the youth welfare office, found that flora made unusual movements to the side and grunted a deposit of alona lessening am thanksgiving. we took her to a doctor and he found nothing unusual on the sofa, but the local authority stuck to its assessment and made our lives more and more

difficult. come to nothing we did was good enough esa, so anything but not good. fearing for their youngest daughter, elvira, the family moved to the northern german city of flints, ball kim, as a steady john. hannah is pursuing a correspondence course. still, they fear that if they returned to denmark, elvira could be taken away from them to just 2 hours away in denmark. last, chris johnson is sitting in his garden, making a phone call. after witnessing traumatized danish soldiers having their children taken away. chris johnson became active as a kind of escape helper eventually avoidable geared towards healthcare, baneful skeleton. sometimes i get up to 3 coals per day from people fearing it forced adoption of their children or naval login for kumarelle. i advised them to go abroad loaded. so that dumas of william city because as long as the authority

hasn't made a final decision about the fate of the child, i'll vote it's legal to leave the gala livelihood and more. hannah shorts local authority in denmark was not available for comment. the danish ministry of social affairs wrote to say that they ra, grant the flight of danish families and their children abroad. but the protection of the child comes fast flints, bogs, city, whole notes, with mixed feelings. that more and more danish families are seeking refuge from their social authorities. but all new comers. all welcome. wagner, nicholas agates company, allie, you don't advertise and say, come on over here. every one very of super conditions. oh yeah. i'd rather if someone moves to friends book and we get files that show it's a case we need to follow. then of course, we have to take care of those cases over definite better because we're convinced that it's good for the child to grow up and in their own family. am off with it.

across the border and denmark, youth welfare officers are defending themselves against accusations of hot heartedness. in general, coercive measures are the absolute exception. say the family support officers. many, most of your sale. we're observing that the debate on forced adoptions has led some parents being afraid to seek help from the youth welfare office. we regret this very much. you liked it because you can actually appeal against a decision of the youth welfare office. said him and played it. and if you're not satisfied with the possession of the next instance or easements, i guess, then you can take it to court the daily view. and that's what hannah has done. the trial is scheduled to take place in september, but she has lost all trance in the danish state in france bog. she says they've been given another chance to look for still in

a minute. does he go to meet people who can accept that he is even if i'd have a different opinion that he, we never experienced that at home at the heaviest legal bluebell. hannah and kim are expecting their next child and want to prove that they are good parents. well, no doubt about it staying cool and paris in a heat wave is not easy. a cold bath might be one solution, having enough to drink is good to her, but not of you just create another waste problem and good for them. this summer the parisians have come up with a solution where ecological interested shop owners jumping. stephen se mummer store is at the front of the popular district of monterey in paris. he's particularly interested in sustainability and only buys frames that have been produced ecologically. he didn't think twice when he was approached by

they owe to perry or paris water team. she was equaled on, but super oh, i'm happy to be participating from an ecological point of view at paris, i strand dealer of her cell is true that horace is still quite dirty here from what be she around us the vol. more so it's good to have less waste by filling up bottles of them all to fall the rogue. the city of paris is trying to cope with its waste problem by encouraging people to reuse bottles. since the end of april parisians and tourists alike can fill up on fresh water at a number of stores like this cheese mongers, you've saved them on our goal is clearly linked to the ecological transition and to the fight against climate change. it's a very long term approach, the bottle title, and that's why we want all parisians to mobilize for more sustainable, greener city in here. job. but there is still lots of people who don't know that

there is free water available in stores or not. and i had no idea what to do it, none at all. no, i didn't know little toggle. so when you said it should have been ok for limited communicate, bruce. so set off on my shoulder. most people are aware of the hundreds of outdoor drinking fountains dotted around the city. this one even has sparkling water with atlantic is kicking from the description. it's clearly a good thing here because we've been coming here for a few months. yeah. and it's a real health and it is free water is also part and parcel of the restaurant experience in paris. if you're lucky, it might even have some refreshing maintenance. well, from that whole story from the shake was invented people of paris. not till all this time round on focused on europe. i do hope you've enjoyed the show that we've given you. take

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