a exploring order more styles to ring. where has history left its traces? hearing their dreams ready to this week w ah, this is focus on europe, i'm laura babel ola. welcome to the show. europe is drying up. a new report by the commission says the continent is experiencing its worse drought in 500 years. the extreme heat this summer has left deep scars. in many regions,

germany's longest river is shrinking at an alarming rate. an extreme water shortage on the rhine has hit the environment and the economy hard news channels need to be dredged so that ships can transport goods and people along the river. while the rhine is regarded as germany's most important river, it has inspired a famous authors. composers and philosophers over the ages, but with temperatures getting hotter, the mighty waterway is gradually losing its size and stature. traffic on the depleted water channels has been brought to a stand still in some places along the rhine. our report are met with people whose livelihoods are being affected by the drought. ah, historically low water level, in some places, the rhine is no more than a meter deep things have come to a standstill. in our trip in western germany, operations have been stalled for days. the water is too shallow for the ferry,

which this family business runs. this was a mob on there. the water was one meter, 31. if we cross over our ship won't make it, and we'd be finished muscle, then you're stuck in the sand with the propeller busted from work. a new propeller like that costs 26270000 b. and you just can't go out and buy that in the defect office. now some employees will have to go on vacation. others will have their, our shorthand, and the rest are using to excavators to dig a new, deeper channel. further down the rhine at mannheim, it is clear just how much is at stake. 80 percent of germany's inland shipping passes through the rhine arbor director. the current tells us that many sectors depend on goods delivered by water to the end of that we went over there. you can also see that the police are blocking one of the 2 routes on the bridge by so probably because there's not enough water muffle, which is here. and you can see how these 2 ships now have to watch out passing each other. hi coleman, either. so now these guys really have a hard job,

making sure nothing happens explosive. but the biggest problem, according to the kern can be seen with this freighter ships can no longer be fully loaded. as mobile privacy, amazon currently takes $3.00 to $4.00 times as much cargo space to carry the same amount as at normal water levels off field. some of that leads to shortages. and of course, to increase in costs when that's the big problem will of course, a bullet, but the rind stroud effects the environment most gerardo ogre laughed kat has observed the natural landscape here for over 10 years. and the vegetation is now in serious danger. you via and you're here, we would normally be a meter under water and there's just no more water near all living things here that can't retreat into the water will die. ost says tylic thing, can this mainly affect small animals like crustaceans. but according to conservationists, it is now also dangerous for fish. as the year's sun,

everything is already dead here. you have to imagine such puddles can get to 30 to 35 degrees. these are death, so not only for fish purposes, but for all smaller organisms and alpha, the glands can constantly movies and even worse, tourists are further damaging the flora and fauna many are taking advantage of the drought to walk to the world famous mouse tower. environmentalists say this destroys precious breeding grounds. others call them within lens. so the problem is that people and otherwise inaccessible islands are a disturbance, is the still, i forgot to ruin fish and the ocean. then the bird gets used to with environment us thus, and to face not uses humans walking around often than anyone walking around that would be huge disturbance, seager, stir longs and so it might abandon its nest off that of those angle league of her as we continue our journey, we pass long sandbanks,

idle ships and water that is rarely been this low. almost all fairy services across the rhine have closed. however, martin schnauzer in the small town of india heim is still operating for 130 years and for 5 generations. his family has run a ferry on the rhine, his very can still make it because it is specially designed for extremely shallow water, with the eclipse into foul rupel, or is in the hall, which means that very doesn't have a keel. so we have less draft the local, neutral there still enough clearance, so the water can still fall half a meter. hopefully it won't come to that. hopefully, business is still good for margin. schnauzer ever more commuters than tourist now depend on his very real vital threat. this used to be once every 20 years. now every 2 years, the river can't be crossed in. so we have to help out and demand is increasing y'alls with a loyalty. the ferry still has 50 centimeters to the river bed,

but martin schnauzer doesn't know how long that will last. if it doesn't rain soon, he will probably have to give up to ukraine now, where the suffering and cruelty from the war continue unabated. it has been 6 months since russia invaded the country, and pollutants bombs are landing, and residential areas killing and injuring those who are the most vulnerable hospital patients ukrainian. pavlov, tanya has made it his mission to document these horse. he is determined to hold the kremlin accountable for such atrocities, according to ukrainian data. some 700 health facilities have been struck by russian missiles. far from the front line. ensure niv hospitals are coming under attack. ah. when he was deputy minister of health pablo cove tunic tried to reform the ukrainian health system. and now 3 years later,

he's documenting its destruction. this was once the cardiology center of churney, hugh. but in march, a russian air raid reduced to rubble. that was just one of over a $180.00 attacks on health facilities documented by cob, tonya, and his and geo. i see the systemic best at an open destruction of ralph care as a bottle of civilian livelihood, but it's not only about health care, it's old types of civilian objects. abby systemic on it. targeted a dash cam video recorded the moment. when 8 russian bombs hit this residential area. a witness sent us another video. it shows the devastation just minutes after the impact and the crater right in front of the cardiology center is clear to see. 47 people died in the attack and dozens were injured. one

resident told us about how shells were raining down nonstop on chair and a hue back. then the lots up. they needed escalators, the victims all had to be buried in body bags. wife, witnesses confirm. there were no military facilities or positions of any kind near the hospital this. that's my cup, tanya says the attack was a war crime and that russia must be held accountable. understood was with us, other places which means that a should seek to avoid actively. it's not that they would shall announce at all saudi that was a hospital. no, they should check eva hospital as there. and if it is there, they should. anything possible not to hear that it said obligation, according to geneva conventions, but to ensure justice is served there trying to gather as much evidence as possible

co, tanya and his colleagues have been in the field talking to witnesses and looking for traces of impacts and pieces of ammunition like russia, and they're meticulously documenting the damage. liquor cop, tanya says, they're following international standards. so that courts world wide can use their evidence. we are not legal people. i background, none of us. we are health careful. but you've got some trainings in those protocols and those procedures and, and we're using the software to do our best. and they're hoping for at least a bottle that evidence will go and will win in some case. and his n g o has also documented the case of china. hughes pediatric hospital. we spoke with dr. me colo. you'd kabbage a little book. but before we could ask him any questions, he knew he just started talking about what happened with the book out and about how they were treating all the people injured in an attack on the residential area.

oscar o and how their hospital itself was hit by a bomb. 2 weeks later, malicious of the while. we're trained trauma surgeon school, but we've never experienced these kinds of bleeding wounds. brazil, everyone was screaming adults and children. we put 5 of them on the floor, but they just kept coming with local. it was complete chaos. b i tell you, ship was to part with shells raining down. they had to flee into the basement again . and again, they even did surgery there and did their best to protect the children until the hospital itself was hit. the russian missiles were equipped with cluster munitions, felonies, largely band under and international treaty. and here they impacted the 1st to the 5th floor. but it symbol upward that enough that it was fortunately, it was an air raid siren before the cluster bomb hit. he thought, so he got the kids into the basement to mytell's. i mean, wish otherwise, we would have had 237 fatalities. if they, if he showed us the pieces of shrapnel he collected on site with you,

but it would have taken them hours to remove the dozens of bits of shrapnel from the children's bodies as the question will outcome. moby rose is filled with a door and i have many here it is no need to explain why when it justice or somebody needs to pay for what was done to that, to people like, like nicola, for his patient as we left chimney, hugh again, we passed by another fully destroyed hospital cook, tanya knows it could take years for legal action to be taken in international courts. but in the meantime, he wants to do anything he can to collect evidence. this is the golden jackal native to europe, though, the predators are smaller than wolves. jackals have a unique skill swimming. they can swim several miles in pursuit of prey and they

adapt quickly to new habitats. jackals will also eat almost anything from fruit to livestock. well this is bad news for the shepherds who live on the croatian archipelago of the corn, natty islands, a paradise in the age your attic, see where until recently jackals were unheard of. shackle virginia has been out all morning hoping to find at least a couple of his sheep. they are semi wild and live scattered across the island of peachcare. his plan was to do some cheering today, but all he found was a terrified lamb yolk of lives with his family on the corner. he islands the archipelago is a natural paradise and has been a national park for over 40 years. for centuries, the people here have lived from fishing, sheep, farming, and olives. a fragile ecosystem that is suddenly under threat

jackals have appeared on the island. wolfe like wild dogs flood call regina, which the national part biologist is on their trail. it's a coincidence that he is here to day. just 2 days ago yucca tells him there were a couple of mother's sheep with their lambs at the house. you know, how old are they to we are said lot in 2 weeks and oh, and this one's one, we call it on the one and here there was another one along with this one still at the, at the, also one week. but it's gone. and these 2 are gone to, i found this one this morning was that he was there gonna be room. i did hear ya cup will raise the land himself rather than leave it to the jackals. he earned nothing from the sheep's wool. only lambs could be sold they had set a trap above yakobelli farm. it's an attempt to at least do something. but

so far without success, the trap is empty. and the food chill. nolan and doesn't work for jacqueline. like with the white, i'm a little we'll try again somewhere else in the community. jack av says it's too small. local closure that i thought that molly thought it and she said she couldn't . the girl at the entrance is much too small. listen, good. molly jackals are shy and cunning and masterfully camouflaged by their fur. it's only with video traps that slot go gets to see the animals. but that's tedious . it's hot. the islands to rain is rough. putting cameras in the right place requires as much luck as skill. and then he has to go back every 2 or 3 weeks to replace the batteries and view the pictures local farm or saw or hear williams in 8 comers to find out how many the arts,

what direction they are headed in and the frequency on your chuck how often they show up college coaches towers, hippo jojo loaded here at the only water hole on all the cannady islands. the chances are good, the sheep come to drink, but so do the jackal's. nice, ne, hear me. this is jacqueline eunice and this is the, the sheep sheep and the check. okay. must drink to water. it said that this is now life threatening for the sheep. and sheep are important for keeping the vegetation cropped on the island, especially under the olive trees. they wouldn't grow properly if there were too much undergrowth. we accompany a park administration patrol. they organized regular hans now and have shot a few jackals, but the animals are still propagating across the islands. the rangers are not yet sure why they suspect environmental influences with ms. more than alone. as we are

here in the south side of took our talks, it or that it's really kaba behind as, as the small island davila elder. i got like one at the local but it blew. oh, february book on the we think the jackal swan from to the are talk to fail alba and then here to cannot. he had another boy stress coupon that gun in total. that's about 800 meters blue. and we know from research that chuckles can easily swim to miles of morrison, a chug linear problem in the, the immediate plots. and indeed there is a video taken by locals. a jackal conley swims to the shore. never before had there been jackals on core noddy. now you can find their traces everywhere. more and more pictures of dead sheep are emerging, not all victims of jackals, but most of them for a 3 or 3 years ago before the jackal came out. but we had about $200.00 sheep on each farm on the island, the stag la blog. now there are about 60,

if that are quite hypocrite. the farmer has since spotted a few of his sheep. but as soon as they catch his scent, they take off semi wild, cheap farming has no future. jak of says he wants to change strategy factor mode or it will be in september. we will start afresh, which is good. i'll bring in 10 new sheep this, let's see if that works with not as many as before, i'll be done, but we'll keep them in the barn on the go nego or to koya. so stanley yaga will probably have to get used to living with the jackals. it looks like they have come to stay. the new inhabitants of the islands they came hoping for asylum and away into the european union. last fall at tens of thousands of migrants suddenly gathered at poland. border. suspicion fell on belushi and ruler, alexander lucas shanker. he was accused of sending him there in retaliation for you

. sanctions against his regime? holden's response was swift. the border was a fortified with police and barbed wire. warsaw then went a step further and installed a heavily guarded fence. now, only a few migrants managed to make it across to the other side. maria, shes new, the polish fella russian border. until recently, this was a restricted military's own. he searching the forest for migrants who managed to cross over cause for help keep coming in. he told us how we help the boy from guinea just before our meeting. which aunt and his land were entered from the wire fence, his deep ones were infected and filled with pus. i had to disinfect and treat everything . doris boy, his the 1st time he's been able to search her again because the strip was sealed off for over 9 months. even for helpers like him. living in new york,

did we shoot them if we activists and volunteers weren't on the ground? and most of these people would probably die in the forest because the condition that some of the men and women were in was really hard to describe his diet. the jericho piece that you love the the region is normally known for its wild animals for nature. and for the bee of each a forest. but the area was closed off because poland wanted to stop migrants from crossing the border from bella, ruth, and many from the middle east. now there is a newly built fence by hook it because i think the government is just doing a show for just like that this way. the pence may be a small barrier, but refugees still get through over the top or underneath a little bit. but let's be honest with me. no wall can stop people that laying from death, war, or persecution of mutual loyalty. so the one i mean, we wanted to see the border fence for ourselves at almost 190 kilometers long, 5 meters high as guards and comers. according to the border guards,

significantly fewer migrants are now entering poland. we noticed that were not the only wars visiting the fence for others hair. it is still an unfamiliar a strange sight. the village of been casa was also in the restricted zone. there was a state of emergency here. no one from outside could enter without permission. and i went, seeking to leave, was checked several times. the fence runs right up along these yards. behind it lies bella, luce, and alive putin. we asked if it was right to build a fence. if it wasn't for this fancy, the russians would already be here. this was all set up back then for the ukraine conflict with blue green boys. the same sentiment could be heard that the local village store. here comes on wheels. here too. we are safe now. it's good that the wall was built and we are grateful to those who made it happen. do we? i mix up the phone with you and men cough so like an other villages, military and border guards are still in the move. officially,

the zone was also for protecting security forces and arresting migrant smugglers. but there have also been accusations against poland for sending people back to peluso, violation of international law. the so called push backs are approved by the polish parliament. we drove on more than $180.00 villages were affected by the exclusion zone, including many that are normally dependent on tourism. like christian danay, only a few families live here. many polish tortures. a muslim minority. oh, on saturday morning men and women pray separately. oh, at the mosque, we met you not a bug, none of it. she was relieved that the restricted zone was finally opened with the what you saw, but then you called it was quiet. no one was here,

no one at all. that's why we're happy that there are prayer meetings again till that we can celebrate the feast of sacrifice together in we're happy that things are going back to normal. take them. so banga, erica, she took us to a restaurant just across the street. ah, was traditional torture cuisine and 30 employees. it's a large establishment. the guests are mainly tourists and regulars and not been allowed to come for a long time. did you enjoy it? asks the restaurant manager. excellent. as always, replies the customer. at last the guests here again after recovered locked downs, the exclusion zone nearly drove them into financial room. so janetta mcdonough, rich ahmad sir, nicky. cor: without outside help we won't be able to survive. you that have been to promise. if we get support i'm it. i'll be able to manage it, but if not,

we don't even want to imagine what will happen. but money isn't the only problem. she told us. the exclusion zone has also had an effect on our spirit to help others . she now allows small businesses to set up stands at the restaurant. ready strength is found in the family, she says. the haunting beauty of a building left in ruins. as an eerie silence. broken only by a bird or the wind moving through the trees. mother nature is left to devour the abandon space one branch at a time. these dilapidated buildings, or so called last places fascinate german photographer vent fenmont. his work is getting noticed on line, but some of the attention is unwelcome. then last places are being found by a new generation of content hungry creators. serrano in northern italy is home to the ruins of the east delta for skinny car factory. it's

been deserted since 1990 and bushes. shrubs and trees have been sprouting up between the steel girders. nature is reclaiming its space in record time. bruins like this are a playground for cliff health based photographers spend panama. if a 50, there's a true symbiosis here getting a nice not a conflict, like how we normally try to keep nature check high, cut it back and treatment. i didn't want to retire. nature could unfold freely, wouldn't, and yet it does so with through dialogue and the end dialogue with the building. i'm in fact us and buttress produces very astonishing images voided under the spring type. guns are against astonish buddha. italy is venomous. destination of choice, because hardly anywhere else has as many modern ruins. unlike in germany, many things are just left standing completely abandoned. but even in italy, urban spaces like this one are enticing developers. and the owner told us an art academy with the museum is set to open it stores in the coming years.

acquiesced to be then student housing will probably go up to the not those of it that'll make for a living space where the people can reclaim this property again. so the kristy spot, the, what the plan is to at least keep the green space around the property making for a bit of urban wilderness. but the modern ruins in italy faced another threat through social media and the internet. hidden gems are increasingly being revealed . and vandalized then emma has often visited the villa romantic under bolona. but this time he's in for an unpleasant surprise. or even think, i'm really a pol try. i've been her twice and there wasn't any graffiti at all. that's from on my last visit was 6 years ago, and i know if he knew now that a lot has been destroyed or tagged, it's time for us then am i to change locations because there are still some magical

places left. but he'd rather not say just where this churches lost and found a now a closely guarded secret. that's all from us this week at focus on europe. thanks so much for watching. like, ah, ah ah, ah, with

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