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have not worked out as planned. his troops are now on the defensive. ukrainian army is reporting new games in territories in the east and south of the country. and to supply the kremlin with a fresh batch of soldiers to send to the front lines, putin has ordered a quote unquote partial mobilization of forces in russia. this would mean hundreds of thousands of additional soldiers, enough put in hopes to turn the tide of war in his favor. but forcing more russians into military service with some going directly to the front lines is an appalling prospect for many citizens. including mikhail, a young man living in moscow. he does not want to fight against ukraine and he is resisting being drafted as a reservist. he's one of the many people protesting putin's policies in his homeland. and mikhail does not plan to leave the country quietly. ah, no to war these protesters shout,

hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets of moscow to protest hooton's partial mobilization. many have been arrested by authorities and brought to police stations. no longer among them was mia yields about a 29 year old musician and pod, castor. he says he spent 6 hours in custody. the police tried to force him to find a draft notice or to join the army. me as a with me, are you the i put a shoulder walk on the thongs, air, bowling escalate. i was brought to another room. ha, boys, there were several men there had voice to a policeman. base and 2 were in plain closing him. they locked the door from the inside and started telling me i was a nobody on his i part of the clunk. there's not that in a clutch away. put me down rather showed me around and even kicked me. little guy behind dasa. most of his i had to get through that floss, but i didn't the and yell post. i made it out at a station without signing anything like in kirkwood but up our call. now i'll just have to wait and see what happens. as a dash of it in this,

since his detention mchale has been staying with a friend, he hardly goes out in order to avoid the police. he could be called up under the partial mobilization order, because he completed his military service. but he says he's been against the war since the very beginning, yet. newkirk oil open. there's no way that i'll be drafted from or that is, i'd rather be sent to a penal colony. lynch. the war habits of colonial chem, the lying. mike, you rushes military has suffered huge losses in ukraine. moscow is banking on fresh troops. officially, authorities have called up 300000 men with military experience. but critics say the draft is more universal and arbitrary, especially in provincial regions. men without basic training are scared of being drafted. like this warehouse worker. you are disconnect the service, but they're telling us just go are at we don't care whether we ever combine criticizes. you was just cannon fodder. what's difficult is mobilization is to

stuck up on cannon fodder as when with quantity, he says, the quality isn't there. jets, podcast or mchale and moscow says he doesn't want to flee abroad though. even if staying in russia means taking a big risk all days later, the opera are correct of another thing that i feel something like an inner drive. anything else that i with the yahoo? actual, i don't like what's happening here shot and i want to fight back. thaw on stay there. i think there is no hurry as the property. and if nobody stays here in russia and there will be no one to change anything. and the car was thawing thorn. yes, marsden, tell me how you intend to keep taking to the streets, to protest against boot and more even if he and fellow demonstrators could face up to 15 years in prison for doing so. the war against ukraine has also become an economic one,

primarily between russia on the one side and the west on the other. russia has stopped, or at least very severely restricted gas deliveries to europe. and the e u has announced it will block most russian oil imports by the end of 2022. but just off the coast of greece, pinker, owners appear to be shipping higher volumes of russian oil than before. the war began its daybreak off the coast of the peloponnesian peninsula. so doris chandra janos is out with his reporters, united colleagues, a network of investigative journalists. they're heading to the laconia and gulf to document ship to ship or s t s transfers of russian oil out in international water . so we got aboard has united, i guess, and about which is the transfer of oil pushing fuels from one to thank you to another after the russian invasion to ukraine. a theme local

officers have been conducted in this area, which is a golf using online marine traffic tracking. the report has had been logging these s p s transfers in the laconia and gulf for weeks. most of the tankers carrying russian oil arrive via the black sea. the u has closed its ports to russian merchant ships as part of it, sanctions packaged with them. and by the end of the year, it's set to completely banned the import of russian oil. as they approached the tanker, the investigative journalists see signs that a 1st oil transfer is imminent. one tanker is already dropped down those huge balloon like fenders. they prevent the 2 tankers from bumping into each other during the transfer to other tankers are already in the middle of an oil transfer. the one on the right is taking on the russian oil and

belongs to a greek shipping company. according to the journalists, greek ship owners in particular, have been making money off of russian oil, also without disclosing its origins. very said high bulk, see what a gardening visit. the greek ship owners waits a all the local channels stated. somebody saying that the war is bad, that the russian war in ukraine is bother bother. they seem was dennis lee. they a continue, it runs varying eh, dealing with, hey, ross, hon. since she was all over the world, the ship owner say these operations aren't illegal since they take place in international waters. we asked the union of greek ship owners for an interview, but they refused. opposition. politicians don't think the ship owners are doing anything wrong and they say greece can't pursue sanctioned violations outside of it . see borders the you would have to take action off the oil for

a mule. she had snowed going degrees. it's going to hold you to her. so it's the problem to the hands ofa united. so for now, huge quantities of crude oil continue to be transferred between tankers. off the southern tip of the peloponnesian, that makes environmentalist, your goes to dow tacos nervous and not just because this region is a breeding ground for sea turtles will will much the, but it's not at all. we're afraid of a tanker spell and all that would contaminate this whole area with oil connected, the therapy, we live off of tourism nature in history. we don't have any industry or significant agriculture. a still an oil spill would destroy everything we have is much

obtainable. safety for your vacation rental owner also expresses concern about a possible oil spill. and what that would mean for her business, broke up a mouthful of a month after my vacation rentals only just got finished in this past year. and the time when we're struggling with damage going wildfires, what's going on with it has to be or have an oil spill now would be an ecological and financial disaster. he gave me just a bit of reporter. so doors shown through yano says that greek media are largely silent about the ship to ship transfers of russian oil, which is sold on the global market to him. this lack of reporting isn't surprising . this one is control the media in many ways. maybe they have advertisement. maybe they, they have center, so the media, and i think that they're so far in political bedroom, so the media avoided reporting on them. the journalists therefore keep up their

investigation. the transfers continue after nightfall, indirectly pumping money into moscow's war chest. meanwhile over in britain, countless citizens pockets are getting emptier and emptier high inflation and high energy prices are ripping huge holes in many households budgets and more and more people in the u. k. are finding themselves no longer able to pay their gas or electricity bills. many feel abandoned by politicians like natasha and gary waterhouse, who fear the coming winter, lincolnshire in england's midlands. this is the village of morton, where karen natasha waterhouse left cancer surgery left natasha severely disabled. gary quit his job as

a taxi driver to look after her. he shows as their gas and electricity bill, they used to pay the equivalent of $36.00. you're a per month now. it's over $200.00 for the price hikes loom an ottoman winter of michael plans, of which rooms we can hate at the moment. i mean, it might be a case of just where it blaring up and then of say, having blankets around, it's to keep warm the receiver one of payment from the state equivalent to round 1200 euros. but that won't be enough. they have to be frugal with groceries and stick to budget supermarkets plus has gone up astronomically, with shopping smarter. and i'm doing a lot of batch cookin, so we have meals in the freezer for common weeks. inflation and britain has reached a 40 year high at over 10 percent low fat milk, for example, is 34 percent more expensive than it was last year. with energy prices tripling or

quadrupling, hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of so called fuel poverty. to help those need williamsburg running and founded a food bank. so he says to her, even more people coming than during the corona, virus pandemic, from unemployed to employed to self employed, people all are in need of donations. sometimes a food we don't have enough. and we have to send families away with, with no food. and when you see our mom or dad, it shouldn't. you don't have enough food to make dinner or drink shop for sometimes stuff. roland is ill and can no longer work, so he doesn't know how he'll feed his family. it's a big roller coaster and have

a son and the wife and it is very difficult to not to survive. their biggest worry is about the coming winter when they'll have to start heating is very, very fearful because you're just thinking about how you're going to get the money to keep wall. how you going to get the money to buy the food? which why is it gonna go through dog or heating? i think is gonna be very hard for us. yeah. the little guy. yeah. he tried to leave clack. people move the poorest or being hit the hardest by rising costs, but the middle class is affected to over northern england. susanna and dave morgan live near york with her 2 daughters. 3rd, tricity bill has tripled and a liter of fuel cost equivalent of $2.00 euros. the family is having to restrict to spending also when it comes to their kids were quite rural. everything that we want

to do is a distance away. so if they want to go swimming for the swimming lessons, it's through lessons plus the petrol to get there. the couple run an online subscription services for high end coffee. they were, the crisis will hurt their business. and what the cost of in crisis is made. everybody think about what they're spending, so we are look, she item and pass people might look at his in their bank can't sail. i'm not gonna buy that coffee. especially as the cost of coffee has risen all over the world. susanna now sells a 500 grand bag of coffee beans for 19, instead of 17 pounds. let me patella facet to our customers. we also have moved our staff t we are living might cause we understand that they have to pay their fuel, their electricity, their residence. many of the businesses are reluctant to raise wages at this time, sparking labor protests to rep the country to day trade unions and left to in

groups or staging a protest event at a club in london's battersea district. with the motto, enough is enough. they want to fight for fair wages. well, as the movement building people are really angry, the cost of living sitting up in the u. k. and politicians on neither side, both sides of the plaza, doing nothing about it. over $113000.00 britons have already joined the campaign, vowing to stand off to major corporations and lawmakers. they all look up to mich lynch. his rel union has led strikes that brought large parts of britain to a standstill. the working class is by a and we refused to be bull anymore. everyone to be a until recently natasha and gary supported the

conservatives. but the party is deeply disappointed. they're not looking at the individual people who are like at the lower classes, middle classes. they're the ones that come to suffer. the scribbling looks themselves and they're not focusing on the true thing. that's approaches. the people with people like natasha and gary waterhouse and hundreds of thousands of others who have no idea how to get through this winter. the canary island of la palmer is also known as the east le bonita, but the huge volcanic eruption that began one year ago and lasted for 3 whole months has left parts of the beautiful island. a desolate lunar landscape, many lost their houses and their livelihoods. but the islanders loved their home and rather than despair, their confronting the blackened landscape cautiously to rebuild their lives on

a changing island. farmer victor beneath is driving through a cold lava field. he says it pains him to be on this makeshift road. that meant that he would come up. awesome. look. when i see my mother were driving over a banana plantation, i used to own okay, what was it, what else? what have you been? hello, there effect any. i could still see some of it to the right. the that's what's left of a ton of middle lock out with us or what is there a warning signs along the road telling people to keep off the ground as this can be up to 70 degrees celsius. hot it was one year ago that the volcano on the canary island palm began interrupting the lava, burried, $4000.00 buildings, roads, and banana plantations. thousands of families on the palmer and are living from

banana farming. in december, the volcano finally stopped erupting, but many problems remain latino than i'm a little beach. this is our problem. now with them, you mentioned the faculty and none you left on the ground. i didn't get also on the plants. and it took a problem in a year now, and you can see what's still there. if you know, you see the problem, we're going to have all, and now it's fine. i did that one, but we have to prevent the dust from penetrating into the plants using bags at the thought when i will ride next to the plantation. there's another problem. after the eruption experts observed gas escaping from the ground. even now, the area around puerto mouse has to be blocked off the fire department, let us accompany them as they take measurements. our team has to keep a safe distance. you can't come in here. all the readings are too

high. ah, the seo to concentration as high as close to the ground, the firefighters explain this means children are especially at risk. yet the real risk is an outside. but inside buildings, residents are only allowed to enter for 2 to 3 hours to retreat belongings from their homes and businesses, and they need clearing from the fire department. we meet the technical director a few blocks away. the bomb was just, i don't book all it was if you're not $100.00 there for an hour and nothing happened. the senate african but i know health problem isn't on that was as his stomach was told and that someone spent 24 hours there highlighted day and night. no one can guarantee they will be ok. napoleon landis arrazola. this happened some locals referred to deserted puerto. now's as little chernobyl. there are thousands of vacant hotel rooms on the palm as west coast all off limits due to the gas

these hotels might otherwise have had a good season. as a volcanic eruption has attracted a high number of tourists, no. the tours of the volcano region are in high demand, and in the summer of 2022. the palmer actually surpass projected visitor numbers. but i would like to come to see the island on the erupt and brought it to our attention as it went up. it is a very different experience. echo mo, it's like walking on another planet. will know a planet that only trained guides are allowed to take tourists near the volcano as the area is still dangerous. even if no eruption is expected, any time soon. established melodies, who monitors the volcano? and i guess is that a little i get a little bit of dc cell. and if this is diana one up at all, i wanna apologize. one reg factor is the terrains instability is from there in a book. it cooled off quickly, which means that the ground is still in motion did not allow via if and the other gases in the volcanic cone office in cornel. he for not being a me, in

a stable way hoist when they machinist levels can change and suddenly shoot up in that in a moment. oh plus the are the high temperatures, you know, what are we up in with a bit of put us out us like further down on the makeshift road to the lava field. it's been a year since the eruption began, and many problems remain. the steady stream of tourists brings hope to the economy, at least and hope springs eternal as they say. in an unlikely turn of events, hope is also re emerging in a small town. deep in the forest of finland, full lanka is home to fewer than 3000 people and its been dealing with a shrinking population for years. the village seemed doomed, but now these 2 men, santeria and that was scary, have taken that dark outlook and given it a kind of twist. both are self professed pessimists, yet instead of wallowing in that attitude,

they choose to celebrate it. and their town. ah, this pub closed long ago. and all that's left of this shops inventory are 2 chairs. as you enter town, there's a sign that reads you are entering poor lanka. there's still time to turn around. ah, polanko is a small dining town in the middle of finland, with a remaining population of just 2400, most of whom are over 60 young people tend to move away from while long coin. but these 2 are staying true to their home town. or scottie and sand teddy of the local pessimist society. and it's their pessimism that's raised hopes for new beginning. oh we are,

we have accept the fact that we cannot read why, like it's not something we you know, feel sad about is we try to find the funny side of our it soon didn't come. we can joke about people can law and who said, who is this the business you so b like, like dish. yeah. why, why, why, why you gonna, why you couldn't smile, you are a bristles. and it's precisely these 2 self professed pessimists who brought some cause for optimism to polanko. the pessimists. cafe does good business tourists buy t shirts and buttons with pessimistic messages in the shop. next door, we go ex extra it together with friends, oscar. he also made self deprecating and ironic music videos about polanko. the 2 pessimists had brought a small town a cult following in finland. no vixen,

it's funny. typical finish human english, all my life by even at very low time. honored on a lot is a t shirt says you're, i'm cross to de la and that's okay to make it a social security. just informed me that my pensions to be res, 3 percent tequila. that's 2 whole more euro's a month years ago. like i said, yeah, cool. go with the facts. speak against a bright future for the town. the population has dropped by over half since the 1980s. and every year it falls a bit more. the town still has its schools, day care centers and a retirement home. the question is, who still wants to live deep in the forests of finland? lake, but it's mayor says nature is precisely what makes poor long cuts so great. the pessimism campaign has only enhanced the popularity of his town. he's convinced that soon the population will start increasing again. now if it leaves that more and more people will want to move to areas, withers, christine nature,

lots of room to live latin and we've got plenty of room and they need to be exact. we have one square kilometer per personally, so you don't have to worry about the neighbors that will address 8 them, make it to be an old retirement home, la, scotty and santa. they actually insist that they're among the happiest people in polanko right now. and in the world, happiness report, the fins have been named the happiest people on earth for the 5th year in a row. i think the pessimism thing fits really well in the people don't expect a lot, so they are happy with life. and if we truly had like very serious problems, maybe we wouldn't do fun, things like pessimism and put our time and effort to it may be research like do something else. mm. pessimism has become palinkas trademark, but will that preserve it from its demise?

at least its people are giving it a go with a touch of optimism and a good chunk of humor. well, if all else fails, laugh, that's it for me and the team here at focus on europe. if you've missed parts of our show, you can find more information about it on our website. thank you for watching today . take care and until next time. with with

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