we are not afraid to capture and delicate african population is growing. and young people clearly have the solution. the do job long. the 77 percent every weekend on the w. the news . hello and welcome to focus on europe. it is good to have you with us. we're more than half a year now into russia's war on ukraine and for president vladimir putin. things 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 line. 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 on greece among them with me here yields about a 29 year old musician and pod, castor. he says, let's spend 6 hours in custody. the police tried to force him to find a draft notice or to join the army in as a with me. hi you yet, but a shoulder to walk along with their bowling asked if i was brought to another room . ha, the boys. there were several men there had toys, 2 were policemen, bait and 2 were in plain clothes in him. they locked the door from the inside and started telling me i was a nobody i knew as i bought a clunk. there's not that in a clue which a boy put me down rather showed me around own and even quickly at elk i'd behind dasa most of his i had to get through that flight. but in the andy, i'll post. i made it out of the station without signing anything. i think our corporate up our call. now i'll just have to wait and see what happens as a dash of it in dash. since his detention mckayla's 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 him or bill is. i'd rather be sent to a penal colony than to the war habits of colonial chem, the lionel. mike, you are russia's 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 diskin, nauseous, livingstone, they're telling us just go, i don't care whether we ever combine criticizes. you was just cannon fodder. mobile is ation stuck up on cannon fodder. and when with quantity here, the quality there podcast me,

k o and moscow says he doesn't want to flee abroad though. even if staying in russia means taking a big risk. yeah. prefer correct of another thing that i feel something like an inter driving style at the actual i don't like what's happening here a shot and i want to find facts thorn. yes, i think there is no hurry as the property. but if nobody stays here in russia, and there will be no one to change anything, think i was going thought marson, tell me how you intend to keep taking to the streets, to protest against hooton's more even if he and fellow demonstrators to 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 grease canker owners appear to be shipping higher volumes of russian oil than before. the war began. it's daybreak off the coast of the peloponnesian peninsula. the doris shone. toyota 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 asked. he has transfers of russian oil out in international water. so we asked about as united, i like being a drug of is the use in a box as the s, which is the transport of oil for some fuels from one. the bank is blown away. i've got a ross, an invisible ukraine, a rough scene of the baked dog at a local is this, the answers have been conducted in this area, which is

a gun using online marine traffic tracking. the report has had been logging these as t s transfers in the laconia and gulf for weeks. most of the tankers carrying russian oil arrive via the black sea. the eu 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 approach the tanker, the investigative journalists see signs that a 1st oil transfer is imminent. one tanker is already dropped down those huge balloon mike 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 st hypoxia, when a gardening receive, the greek ship owners waits a all the local channels stated. somebody saying that the war is bad. that the russian war in, when his bond bought vision was dennis lee, they a, continue it transferring eh, dealing with a 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. if it see borders, the e, you would have to take action off the oil for a mule. she had not going to grace. it's going to hold you to. oh, so it's a 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. well, well, most of that is not at all. we're afraid of a tanker spill and all that would contaminate this whole area was oil. can i get the therapy? we live off of tourism nature in history. we don't have any industry or significant agriculture. a still an oil spill with destroy everything. we have his watch obtainable safety for your vacation rental owner also expresses concern about a possible oil spill. and what that would mean for her business. talk about a mouthful of a month after my vacation rentals only just got finished in this past year. and

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 a bit of reporter. so doors 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 have sarah, 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 noon, 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 years per month. now it's over $200.00 for the price hikes loom and ottoman winter south of michael plans, of which rooms we can hate at the moment. i mean, it might be

a case of just where blaring up and then of say, having blankets around, it's to keep warm, to receive a one off 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 the coming 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 willie mcg 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, but no food on for you see a mom or dad accident. you don't have enough food to make dinner. a drink shop for some tones. stuff. roland is ill and can no longer work, so he doesn't know how he'll feed his family. and 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 ball. how you're going to get the money to buy the food. which wise it can a dow filled dog or heating, i think is gonna be very hard for us. yeah. but with a 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 lived in new york with her 2 daughters. 3rd, tricity bill has tripled, risen all over the world. susanna now sells a 500 crown bag of coffee beans for 19, instead of 17 pounds. let me patella, pass it to our customers. we all have moved our staff, t, v. a living wage 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 labour protests throughout the country. to day trade unions and left when

groups are 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 plan for 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 stripes that brought large parts of britain to a standstill, the working classes. but we know just back is an idea where back as a movement back, is it a that and we refused to be bull any more with everyone to be home

or work a girl. thankfully until recently, natasha and gary supported the conservatives. but to parties deeply disappointed them, 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 monks themselves. and they're not focusing on the true thing. that's approaches the people as country. 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. mm farmer victor benita is driving through a cold lava field. he says it pains him to be on this makeshift road that i don't want to see. my mother was driving over a banana plantation. i used to own what's that? in effect, you can still see some of it. right. that's what's left of a lot of 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 when the canary island palm, i began interrupting the lava, bridge. $4000.00 buildings, roads, and banana plantations. thousands of families on the palmer and living from banana

farming. in december, the volcano finally stopped erupting, but many problems remain. let him know that i'm a little beach. this is our problem now with them you mentioned the faculty learn you left on the ground. i didn't get also on the plants. and it took april the been a year now. and you can see what's still there. if you know, you see the problem, we're going to have all the pay 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 given 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 retrieve belongings from their homes and businesses, and they need clearing from the fire department. we meet the technical director a few blocks away. the i'm was just, i don't book all it was if you're not when you're there for an hour and nothing happened, the senate african but i know health problem isn't on this was as his stomach was a little under a, someone spent 24 hours there highlighted day and night, no one can guarantee they will be ok. napoleon land itaralde out of the 2nd. some locals refer 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 the 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. i would like let's come to see the island on the rocks and brought it to our attention. it. it who not, it is a very different experience. echo mo, it's like walking on another planet. well, no 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 mila pleaded. who monitors the volcano? when i get a little i get a little bit of dc cell. and if this is diana one up at all, and we're going to police one reg factor is the terrains instability here from there in napoleon cooled off quickly. which means that the ground is still in motion. they're not alive yet. if then the are the gases in the volcanic cone

office in the corner? yeah, they're not being emitted in a stable waste. when a machinist levels can change and suddenly shoot up in it in a month, plus the of the high temperatures. you know, what are we up in a much better 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 it's been dealing with a shrinking population for years. the village seemed doomed, but now these 2 men, santeria and those scurry 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 are entering polanko. 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 longer. but these 2 are staying true to their home town. all scotty and sanity, of the local pessimists society and it's their pessimism that's raised hopes for a new beginning. oh we are, we have accept the fact that we cannot read why. ready it is not something we,

you know, seal sided while it's we tried to find the funny side allow it soon didn't come. we can go to ball, it can law that a who said, who says that this is you so be like like dish. yeah. why, why, why, why, why you gonna, why you couldn't smile, you are 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 infant lint. no vixen, it's funny. typical finish you medical for my life by the been

a very low seminar on a lot is a t shirt says you're, i'm cross to de la and that's okay with me. i'm a social security just informed me about my pensions, to be res. 3 percent really? that's 2 whole more euros a month years ago. like i said, yeah, we'll 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? but it's mayor says, nature is precisely what makes polanko so great. on the pessimism campaign has only enhanced the popularity of his town. he's convinced that soon the population will start increasing again. now will relieve that more and more people will want to move to areas, withers, pristine 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 personally, so you don't have to worry about the neighbors stuff, blow ashworth 8 than make it to be an old retirement home. right? boss, kitty and santa. he 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 polanko 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 miss 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. ah ah ah, with

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