of a horrible tragedy, ah, arab terrorists, armed with sub machine guns, went to the headquarters of the really team and immediately killed one man. and that is really the last one was on the night. our worst fears realized tonight. they're all gone. how i witnesses experienced the terrible events and this the world should not forget, ah, the long shadows, the 1970 to massacre. start september 3rd on d. w. the news . hello and welcome to focus on europe is good to have you with us today. the warn ukraine has been going on for about half a year now, and the russian attacks are not letting up. artillery continues to rain down in

eastern and southern ukraine with russia's president putin maintaining his goal of taking the don bass region. ukraine, meanwhile, is publicly documenting what it says are war crimes against that citizens. all while ramping up its counter offensive. ukrainian soldiers by the hundreds of thousands, are fighting fiercely against the russian invaders, and their resilience have surprised many. but with rushes military might. they have lost significant ground. ever since heavy weapons began arriving from western allies, though the ukrainian army has counter attacked, including in the south what their initial gains in the occupied cares and region have shown is that this war will be a long and bitter one. ukrainian forces have dug in deep here in the steps of southern ukraine between nikolai of an ass on and they have russian forces in their sites. since the ukrainian government launched its counter

offensive, the viking as he calls himself and his comrades have ramped up the pressure on the russian positions. one of them were visiting officer in terms of numbers. our artillery can't measure up to the russians, but we topped them in accuracy and speed would resume, but they use entire artillery batteries and spray the area like their grandfather's did and the 2nd world war we moved 2 or 3 pieces into position from shoot in a targeted way and then pull back and position their objective is to take back yes. on a city currently under russian occupation. anastasio. maurice of our fled from the here on area just recently. now. she's in odessa aid organizations have collected, donated clothing for the refugees. there are some 150000 of them in the port city anastasio held out under the occupation for months till the ever present fear

became too much for her. ah, me only going along with russian military hallway and the city with zet markings. we suddenly began seeing equipment with a v symbol on the ha, that's when we realized that troops were being re deployed here from other places and things like that. there would be a huge baton before, doesn't emily ample and we didn't want to go through that. check the movie, give them. yes. you but the fighting isn't the only thing that prompted her to flee her hometown nova cow hoffa has become a virtual ghost town. she hardly ever ventured outdoors. singing come with when you see russian troops, you look down. oh, gun. yeah. if you make eye contact, they say that you're looking like, you know something. and then they might take you willing, fucked whenever they took people away from their relatives would search for them desperately. some came back, the others didn't, with the chance of popping him yet. every day more refugees arrived in odessa from

the occupied areas. the journey is a dangerous one, but not only because of the fighting, the russian checkpoints let very few vehicles through it. even so volunteers haven't given up trying to get people out. we met with one of them, but we can't show her face. there are far more troops than before. it feels like there's a checkpoint under every tree and there are more snipers in the buildings. we used to be able to move freely around harrison. nobody paid attention to us. but now we wouldn't dare to go to the city center one that is, as it happened, anastasio fled just in time. shortly afterwards, her apartment was hit. neighbors sent her photos of it. what are you for now?

she and her children are trying to settle back into a semblance of normalcy. but even a door slamming can bring back memories or tanks or shooting. there are no tanks here. no, no, there were tanks back home. there aren't any here on campus. it's quiet at the front lunchtime, in the trenches, in recent weeks the ukrainians have been targeting the russian supply lines. they've been able to destroy several russian ammunition depos liberal votes of him . surely effect is that for a time after the attack, the bombardment comes down here. but then the russians adapt their logistics you over to was they learn the lessons, are western rocket launchers and artillery, teach them political. what didn't we put? unfortunately, one of that means there's no permanent turn in the time of the war to our favor,

so it just evolves in your head. so from ukraine has succeeded in re taking a few villages, but the offensive is slow going. the viking and his comrades had no idea how much longer they'll have to remain here by the total or will it come to carry out a fast, aggressive, an active counter offensive. we'd need many more weapons from our partners, especially artillery from a boy without artillery. we foot soldiers can't do all that much when the springs asking adroit. all they can do is wait and remain on god. the next attack is only a question of time. renewed august rel, nick is one of more than 6000000 people from ukraine who have fled to their homeland and who been registered as refugees in a number of european countries. august journey took her to the region of galicia in the very northwest part of spain. the coast there on the atlantic is rugged and the

weather is sometimes rough, but auger feels at home there, and that has a lot to do with the see the locals and one very welcoming little town. odessa feels a bit like home. the atlantic reminds august's melnik of her home region along the black sea. she and her family and about a 100. others fled here to northern spain to escape the war in ukraine to my family . so for me it's more easy because it's beautiful place and 2 beautiful people and very kind people in carina. the town is called carino, which means love or affection in spanish. and that's just what olga and her fellow refugees experience here at the traditional sardine festival. they're already part of the community after just a few months. it's not huge plays, but at it's a chance to see everybody to seek law and basil. how are you?

the people of carino and galicia made it easy for them to settle down and start new lives. i think we accept every one here. you've got to hear terinio is a welcoming town and of course the ukrainians are welcome and respected here. if you will see that other, javier colorado manteca from cardi toss has been helping, however, he can for months. and he knows all the newcomers. napoleon spoken before to say, i mean, we could get to know each other a bit better if they spoke our language better at the info. but that's just a question of time. is uncle much and the kids are great. they really absorb everything and learn the language super father, michael. more obviously, carino has less than $4000.00 residents. many of them are elderly and the towns population had been shrinking as well and give him the hand holding the young people arriving ira rejuvenation for us to get

a media data by we are getting more people of working age be with it awful. and that rejuvenates the town when if it were nominated, it was through interstate. i mean august drill, nick and her colleagues feel they have a bright professional future here in ukraine. they worked for a platform selling spare car parts. they were in carino on business when the war broke out, they wanted to expand their operations to spain. legally said there are a lot of advantages because there are people very kind to other people who would like to start business here. so it's there, it's not this. spain is like mod to ethan tell the seats and 1000 huge cities we can just came for an a want here and to take money from the market and go away. we would like to build very huge business here to day they're visiting their new office spaces for the 1st time. it's a welcome distraction from the war back at home and their fear for their loved ones

. their ukrainian colleague, magdalena spa can relate. she's been living in carina for many years, and she's put dozens of people in touch with locals. yeah, i move around the difference here. there's a big difference between refugees and migrants. for gaming, grant migrants leave their country because they want to own, they want to come to brought fuel, they plan things and decide where to live get, get in such a splendid weekend. dancing on the kitty b. refugees. don't have that luxury or if we had those, they just had off without anything. a felon scenario focused rel, nick returned to ukraine after the war broke out. she had to fetch her children. 16 year old gorday and 9 year old agata at the border to romania to bring them to safety. was met admittance feelings because i see a lot of people in july. but i'm saw fred, my children,

when her ex husband stayed behind. and her mother is still in odessa to they talk to each other several times a day long and nobody say, okay, a normal. you can say that i'm set, i'm miss. i called or i'm now i'm glad and you to see you people and zoned and then these. so oh, more seeing snow is not formal because you understand it's dakin wow. after escaping the war, the newcomers want to get back to work. their digital business is helping create jobs in the spanish town, plus the cafe they pick. stuff has now become a meeting point for young and all the time. i think we have no chance

to survive results. i don't want to like it and this is he thought i could be open. we need young people who want to kick start the local economy and fill up the schools that gave everyone has given it their best and that honest, the name of our town ticket number some young ukrainians want to remain in carino after the war. others would like to return home at some point even so spain's little lo desa will have a place in their hearts. what will become of the country that these young, northern irish livin, these guys here are protestants and they believe that northern ireland belongs to great britain. many of their classmates though, are catholic irish and they would prefer a re unification of northern ireland with the republic of ireland. it's a decades old conflict fought bitterly by the older generation. yet in the border

town of cross mclinn pensions are now rising again. and it's young people who are feeling the impact. oh, quick mark. the songs are well rehearsed, the hamiltons bone silver band is ready to go on the march. ah 18 year old lucy bingham grew up here in a protestant family. all the band members of protestants and by tradition they see themselves is british. but in this particular area, there in the minority the towns, people all around are mostly catholic and irish nationalist. and ever since breakfast that tensions happen rising again. you know, there's a very much division in the community. you know, we are surrounded here by there is national areas and it's like,

you wouldn't go to them places because of the past because of the shabbos people around here are very, i'm gray. we're just heading back to that place that dark place and obviously we, we don't want to go back at times. protestants here have felt discriminated against at one point. her own family was a target of irie assassins. lucy says, now she feels as if they have to put that guard up all over again. she certain she wants to stay in the united kingdom, but we have got out of brack that it's. yeah, it's very much hand for a united ireland, which is against what every union, a swanson. we don't want that lucy's home in northern ireland lights just a few kilometers from the border to the republic of ireland. but she hardly ever goes there. cross mc land as a catholic town, a form, a stronghold of the i r a right next to the big former army base is the youth

center. the catholic youth here to find their identities very differently. they crossed the border routinely. they all have relatives in the republic of ireland, myra on it to so i wouldn't let me count myself as british because we are so connected to orland and we live in northern and we're still ireland. so i russia, i feel like, even though northern ireland is part of the united kingdom, i just faded because it's just our own island. you just feel irish. all at once unification with e. u. member republic of ireland is on the table. according to surveys. the irish nationalist chin fein once the political arm of the i re, emerged from the northern ireland assembly election and may as the strongest party live cubans as a deputy to the assembly, colbert and bragg that has shown people that there are huge benefits at looking at an all island economy and an online and approach and,

and that's something that's grown without any worse person. and it's, it's common naturally, uncertainly we will be doing all we can to facilitate that. but the violence of the past still haunts the present day. memorials to fighters killed on both sides, a well maintained lives. cummins, sion fain insists that it's changed. it has long been committed to achieving its goal of a united ireland using only peaceful means. every one of us want to live in a society that is peaceful and that is prosperous and not something that we all have have common ground on. and for those people that do fear that the prospect of constitutional change, i will be there and them, there's not that the fear be part of the discussion that has high regard to ship without us, hey, we address those fears, but it's going to take some very tactful and persuasive diplomacy and lots of patients to bring loyalists protestants like lucy, on board or i hope and my future in my life that i never say i united ireland. i

hope that i, i live to the day. we're still was norland very much. that's part of the u. k. the most difficult. the hamiltons bowden silva, band members think like lucy. but many also send that the winds are changing. maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but some day soon. and in london. meanwhile, the shock is great. that for the very 1st time, the political tides in northern ireland appear to have turned with the party that's not in favor of the country remaining in great britain winning. the majority of votes to the national assembly in belfast, the time of the glaciers appears to be running out the ice and europe's alps is melting faster and faster. and climate change in global warming are causing glaciers to collapse. and in some cases, dramatically. like here in july on the mom, a lot of in northern italy where 11 people were killed. experts like florian hoss

fear that large parts of the alps could be completely ice free. and in just a few decades undergoing drastic changes. like those seen at the porch foreigner, austria is 2nd largest glacier. ah, the helicopter's landing spot used to be a glacier a 100 years ago, were accompanying a team of geographers to the gape hatch found like leisha in the austrian alps. let me put you on a dozen in a very hot year. the gay patch fanta can recede by more than 100 meters, the bomb. the artisans is the fastest melting glacier in the alps. julian hoss and his team come here every year. the data they've collected documents, the pace of climate change. here on the glacier, the impact of global warming is clear to see and hear the.

this is smith's lawson. this is meld water from the glacier media. we're in the area where there is no longer a layer of winter snow on taz. it's use of the melting here is due to the warm temperatures and the sunlight of these past few days. in combination with this dark dirt. from the moment this bumpkins moves from friend who often have his own glitch with his moods. wherever you look, there's water dripping, flowing and burbling. this is what the death of a glacier looks like. the gape hatch, fanta is receding by more than a 100 meters. each year global glacier melting as causing sea levels to rise and destabilizing the climate even more. for their research, the geographers are collecting photos, taken by local residence, dating back to the 19th century. they show how climate change has been devouring this landscape. like the photos offline, so i often show the photos to my son. he's 8 and my daughter is 6. i doubt they'll

be able to see many glacier that show same clem. was this for sawdust? one machine in the shocking how fast it's going to spend in the 1990 s. the glaciers were receding right ago, but it was more or less stable. lucas, more it's now it's drastic out of control. the other by 2015, there will be no left. even if we do everything possible to protect the climate, the glacier will keep melting for another 30 years. ah well, one city in italy could also be hit hard by climate change and rising sea levels. that's the lagoon city of venice. it is criss crossed by many picturesque canals which are once again bustling with activity. but if you look closely, you'll notice that the gondolas and water taxes are captained by men. and so are the boats captain by private citizens. that might soon change, though,

thanks to this woman who's making waves martina camino. she's doing everything she can to get more women to take the helm. ah, this view is only to be had from a boat, but to experience it. you need to know how to pilot one to learn about of them in turn, the other direction. keep going. don't worry about that. but he, mother, he valentina, is taking boating lessons that he, this time she's practicing how to more it was about getting him with counselors. guess boat is responsive because of it's flat whole not yes, i've been and go there. now, valentine announced to decide when to speed up or slow down coming up with them in how to maneuver down to the millimeter wall. their feet name limit that he valentine a recently returned to venice after 10 years abroad. she loves the city and its architecture. i think that the residents are permitted to apply the cities canals and small boats. if medical,

that's why valentina decided to take lessons he thought they have a motor made it all, quite intimidating at 1st and voting is very male dominated, more muscular. the pandemic is waning and tourists are back in venice. it's narrow alleys and canals are teeming with visitors. any one piloting a boat on canal grande's needs strong nerves until now. that's mostly been men. that's why marta canino founded an organization to help bring women on board. the idea came to her in 2020, at the height of the pandemic. the city was almost empty. emptier than even the oldest residence had ever seen before. ah marta and her young son were stuck at home. people could only go out for essentially. the bustling city had come

to a near standstill and water bus services were limited. ah, marta was lucky. she has her own boat, which she learned how to pilot as a young girl. during the pandemic, she took her son out on the water. she started a facebook group to help other women enjoy that same freedom. and one throughout the liberal visa. okay. he realized that women and mothers with baby carriages were left behind quite often unique when weren't able to board the up at, at, oh, it is, there weren't that many water buses in operation. when that jo, i immediately realized why so many women began calling us right after we set up the website journals, this employee abnormal public on the coast. keep coming back with the body. and it's at the lily for an item marked as ideas soon became an amateur sport association based set of venice warf via monitor italian for girls at full throttle

. few took them seriously at 1st. but marta and her partner louisa, were undeterred, teaching women the theory and practice of voting when they're funded by donations, coaching and membership fees. marta and louisa make sure that any woman who calls gets kwik helping pizza, the ma culligan said can modify that. so the 1st thing we do is say yes and straight away because i'm even simpler. it's the same when a woman, once a haircut. jessica nealus, it might sound silly, but it needs to happen soon. equity jordan knock one moment on. i can wait for 2 weeks, right? it's a desire for change it to him and it needs to be addressed quickly. i'm, you mean together? am i called this will be done more to hopes her lessons will also help keep local residents in the city rather than move away. piloting a boat on the canals is one of their last remaining privileges. it offers a sense of freedom and independence in a city that marta says has become a wasteland. for a long time, residence,

the throngs of tourists and the shops and businesses that cater to them have little value. to day cecelia is heading out on to the canal grande's for the 1st time. it's the city's most scenic, but also busiest waterway, tourists, boats, water buses, and water taxis, her back and soon more women will be joining them. let me ask that and thank you with i hope this project keeps growing. evolved though, as should connect all places and worlds in the city as they did in the past. log with one of them. i'm paranoid. look up ahead, gondolas, tax season, pepper, etc. the reality bridge. 100000 eyes are on you. it's going brilliantly. not on marta and her students won't give up this new found freedom on the water any time soon. sometimes you just have to go full throttle to

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