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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 caisson 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 his son. 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. yoko let one of them were 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. they use entire artillery batteries and spray the area like their grandfather's dead 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. maurice of, of 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 obedient along with russian military hallway in the city, with that markings, we suddenly began seeing equipments 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 even lee and boy and we didn't want to go through that . i didn't really care for finance, 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 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, william, for whenever they took people away from, their relatives would search for them desperately. some came back, the others didn't. with atlantic popping im gifted 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. they 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 hessen. nobody paid attention to us. but now we wouldn't dare to go to the city center. monday. 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 when you come can you 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, what that means, there is no permanent turn in the tide of the war to our favor. it just evolves in your head. so from ukraine has succeeded in retaking 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. asking android, 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 olga stress, neck 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 to my family. so for me, it's more easy because it's a beautiful place. and 2 beautiful people and very kind people in carina, the town is called carino, which means love or affection and 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 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 we have got he also terinio is a welcoming town and of course the ukrainians are welcome and respected. here he vehicles, he got abo, javier colorado. montague from cardi toss, has been helping, however, he can for months and he knows all the newcomers. but we haven't spoken him a quarter see, 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 robinson carino has less than $4000.00 residents. many of them are elderly and the towns population had been shrinking as from when give him the hint. owing the young people arriving our rejuvenation for us to

get some idea that a body we are getting more people of working age be with an awful and that rejuvenates the town when if it, when i'm on a demo, it was thrown resilient. i mean, august rel 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 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. 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 cancel pro 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 filing. sonata 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 that admittance feelings? because i see a lot of people who lie but, and saw fred, my children,

when her ex husband stayed behind. and her mother is still in odessa to. they talked to each other several times a day once thing and nobody and say, okay, a normal. you can say that i'm said, i'm miss. i called or oh no. i'm glad and you to see you people in zone to sundays. so. oh, more seeing snow is not formal because youngest tendon is this 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 old. i think we have no chance

to survive is all the details. i don't want to like it and this is the thought i could say. we need young people who want to kick start the local economy, come in and fill up the schools that 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. tensions are now rising again. and it's 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, i to silent any comments i was privileged because we are so connected to our land. 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 liz cummins, as the deputy to the assembly co weird 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 are 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 we're going to ship with that as high. 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 wasn't island very much. that part of c, u. k. the most additional, the hamiltons bowden silva, band members think like lucy, but many also sense 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 a 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 were 11 people were killed. experts like flooring hots 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's no longer a layer of winter snow on taz at sea. so 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, this blockage multiple offerings will often if you some glitch with which moves wherever you look, there's water dripping, flowing, and babbling. 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 before too often. so i often show the photos to my son. he's 8

and my daughters 6 hold. i doubt they'll be able to see many glacier that show same clem was for sawdust machine in the shocking how fast it's going, but he could wind. in the 1990s, the glaciers were receding ago, but it was more or less stable. that is more. it's now it's drastic out of control, the justice 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 log about of them in turn, the other direction. keep going. i don't worry about anybody that valentina is taking boating lessons that he this time she's practicing how to more it was about getting them with the film again from the gas boat is responsive because of its flat, whole 90 s have been and go there. not a valentine announced to decide when to speed up or slow down coming 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 he thought they have a motor made it all quite intimidating. at 1st, n voting is very male dominated one to must. the pandemic is waning and tourists are back in venice. it's narrow alleys and canals are teaming with visitors. anyone 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, we realized that women and mothers with baby carriages were left behind quite often genie when we weren't able to board the vap at at, oh, it is. there weren't that many water buses in operation. when that your, i immediately realized why so many women to can calling us right after we set up the website journals this since we abnormal public on the coast, keep coming back with the body and it's at the elephant. adam marta's idea soon became an amateur sport association based out of venice warf via monitor italian 4

girls at full throttle view. took them seriously at 1st. but marta and her partner . louisa were undeterred, teaching women the theory and practice of boating 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 mulligan said can when the fight ad. so the 1st thing we do is say yes and straight away cause i'm even simpler. it's the same when a woman, once a hair cut, jessica nealus, 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 be done. marta 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 onto 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 paranoid. look up ahead of 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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