the mediterranean, its waters connect people of many cultures. must enter far dual career drift along the exploring modern lifestyles and mediterranean. whereas history left its traces, meeting regal, hearing their dreams. ah, i determined journey this week on the w. two's . hello and welcome to focus on europe. it 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 the 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 mc alive and here on the beach. 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 the more visiting officer in terms of numbers. our artillery can't measure up to the russians, but we top 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 for them. 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 bodies 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. mommy. oh, meeting alone with russian military hallway in the city with that 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 for, doesn't emily ample and we didn't want to go through that. check the movie jefferson. yes. but the fighting isn't the only thing that prompted her to flee her hometown. nova ca kafka has become a virtual ghost town. she hardly ever ventured out doors 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, william, fuck whenever they took people away from, their relatives would search for them desperately. some came back, the others didn't, with the chance it popping him yet. every day,

more refugees arrive 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 number. 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, no. there were tanks back home. yeah, there aren't any here on campus. it's quiet at the front lunch time 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. larosa potentially affect is that for a time after the attack, the bombardment comes down here. but then the russians adapt their logistics you over to so they learn the lessons, are western rocket launchers and artillery, teach them political. what can we put in?

unfortunately, one of that means there's no permanent turn in the tide 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 have no idea how much longer they'll have to remain here. by the total for what it's going to carry out of fast, aggressive and active counter offensive. we'd need many more weapons from our partners, especially artillery, from without artillery. we put soldiers can't do all that much when it's problems. getting into it. all they can do is wait and remain on god. the next attack is only a question of time. when you're august, melnik is one of more than 6000000 people from ukraine who have fled 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 augustine melnik of her home region along the black sea. she and her family and about a 100 others bled here to northern spain, to escape the war in ukraine. 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 when 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 a huge place, but at it's a chance to see everybody, to say hello and boss. 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 go to your ssl. terinio is a welcoming town and of course the ukrainians are welcome and respected here in full. she got other javier colorado montego from cardi toss has been helping, however, he can for months and he knows all the newcomers. napoleon was going to put him in florida. i mean, we could get to know each other a bit better if they spoke our language better idea. 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 fast. michael more robison, carino has less than 4000 residents, many of them are elderly and the towns population had been shrinking as when give him the hint holding the young people arriving ira rejuvenation for us to

get some idea that a body we are getting more people of working age do with it awful. and that rejuvenates the town when, if it, when i'm on a demo, it was through interstate. i mean all gastro, 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 and really said there are a lot of advantages because there are people very kind to often people who would like to start a business here. so it, sir, it's not this feels like ma do. ethan tell the seat and target 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. today 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. i move around the difference here. there's a big difference between refugees and migrants for gaming and migrants leave their country because they want to own they want to cancel parochial. they plan things and decide where to live. get yet and send you a yes. plenty fee. game. vincent on the kid a, b, b refugees. don't have that luxury response. or if we had those, they just head off without anything, a filing sonata bogus drill. 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 that admittance meetings? because i've seen a lot of people who lie but, and saw fred,

my children. wow. when her ex husband stayed behind, and her mother is still in odessa to. they talked to each other several times a day to explain to nobody and say, okay, a normal you can say that i'm said, i'm missed. i called or oh no, i'm glad that and to see you people and so to sundays. so, oh, more seeing snow not formal, because young tendencies this day can do. 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 fixed up has now become a meeting point for young and old. i think we only have no chance

to survive resolve this help us. we just come in, i don't one luggage and, and that song, that is it, that i can beat up in that woman. and we need young people who want to kick start the local economy. come in regarding and fill up the schools with them being a godaddy on is the deal. beverly i gave orders of everyone has given it their best and that honest the name of our town to get a new number of 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 odessa 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 its young people who are feeling the impact. oh mart. the songs are well rehearsed, the hamiltons bone silver band is ready to go on the march. ah, 18 year old lucy being am 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 nationalists. 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 honest like you wouldn't go to them places because of the past because of the shabbos people around here. are very angry. 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 to buy a re 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 bracket. 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 place, 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 strong hold 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 cross the border routinely. they all have relatives in the republic of ireland. myra on this, i wouldn't really count myself as british because we are so connected to aren't. 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 iraq emerged from the northern ireland assembly election and may as the strongest party live cubans as the 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 portion. 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. kim ins, shin 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 that's something that we all have have common ground on. and for those people that do fear that their prospect of constitution, she and i will be there and them, there's not that the fear be part of the discussion that as high, we're going to ship at that 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, i hope and my future,

my life that i never say i united ireland. i hope that i, i live to the day. we're still wasn't island very much the part of see you the most additional. the hamilton's bowden silver band members think like lucy, but many also sent that the winds are changing. maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but some days to the 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,

we're 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 pot foreigner, austria 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 a glacier in the austrian alps. would be put on a dozen in a very hot year. the gay patch fanta can recede by more than 100 meters we have on the artisans. this 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 are in the area where there is no longer a layer of winter snow on taz. it's you said the melting here is due to the warm temperatures and the sunlight of these past few days. in combination with this dark dirt for the moment is brokerage, multiple offerings will often if you some ritual to smooth 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 is 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 before to offline. so i often show the photos to my son. he's 8

and my daughter's 6 hold. i doubt they'll be able to see many glacier that show same clem was this and for sold us one machine in the shocking how fast it's going, but you could wind. in the 1990s, the glaciers were receding right ago, but it was more or less stable. that is more, it's now it's drastic out of control. the rosters ah, quite 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 can 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 canino, 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, log of out of them in turn, the other direction. keep going. i don't worry about anybody that valentina is taking boating lessons. this time she's practicing how to more it was about getting them with the film again from the yes, boat is responsive because of its flat, whole 90 s have been and go there. now valentine announced to decide when to speed up or slow down them in up with them and how to maneuver down to the millimeter wall. the c name limit that he valentino recently returned to venice after 10 years abroad. she loves the city and its architecture. residents are permitted to

apply the cities canals and small boats of medical. that's why valentina decided to take lessons if they have a motor made it all quite intimidating at 1st and voting is very male dominated, one to mask. the pandemic is waning and tourists are back in venice. it's narrow alleys and canals are teaming 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. 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 little at the liberal visa. okay, realised that women and mothers with baby carriages were left behind quite often. genie when weren't able to board them up at, at, oh, it is. there weren't that many water buses, an operational letter that we all, i immediately realized. why so many women to can calling us right after we set up the website journals this, since we are mammal, public on the coast, keep coming back with the pads you know on is that the that if an item marta's idea 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 on the festival there funded by donations, coaching and membership fees. marta and louisa. make sure that any woman who calls gets kwik helping pizza, lima culligan said come with the fight ads. the 1st thing we do is say yes and straight away because i'm even simpler. it's the same when a woman wants a hair cut. jessica lila's or it might sound silly, but it needs to happen soon. equity. jordan, ok one moment and i can wait for 2 weeks. my, it's a desire for change, the system and it needs to be addressed quickly. i'm, you mean together? am i called this will become a martyr, hopes her lessons will also help keep the local residence 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 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 that, i hope this project keeps growing, evolve both should connect all places and worlds in the city as they did in the past, the log with one of them. i'm finally look up ahead. gondolas tag sees that already 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

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