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a barrage of missiles on areas far from the front line and ukraine. fear and uncertainty have now returned to places of relative calm and safety. while the latest attacks hit several civilian targets, russian president vladimir putin says the shelling is retaliation for the explosion on a key bridge, linking russia to the annexed region of crimea. even though it is still unclear who is responsible for that attack, the barrage of strikes destroyed a critical infrastructure across ukraine. water and electricity plants were hit, as well as residential homes for civilians. and the trauma of war is being compounded by worry over the coming months. winter is looming and in ukraine, temperatures often fall below 0 degrees celsius. many people now face the reality of getting through it without heat or hot water. rockets have been

raining down on harkey for months. and the apartment buildings in the eastern district of salty fca have borne the brunt of it. lay on 8 lives on the 1st floor, the impacts of ripped through his apartment, destroying walls, furniture, the refrigerator with his window panes gone. the wind blows right through the flat, lay on it is trying to prepare for the winter woodward woodland motors. i'll figure something out and look around and make things pleasant and comfortable for myself. good afternoon. i might buy a sheet of metal, attach it here and make a hole in it. so i could set up a wood stove on the trim color because you can cook on that and when it gives off heat durgy about it. that would help lay on it be less dependent on electricity. when a russian rocket hit this power plant near harkey, his flat was also affected by the blackout. parts of the power grid and eastern

ukraine were out for hours. there was no electricity or running water and the subway in the city with more than a 1000000 residents stood still. so you these, each grains you hundreds of thousands of ukrainians were sitting in the dark without power out of school. home hospitals, schools, these municipal infrastructure on russian rockets are aiming, straight or targeting that have nothing to do with our armed forces. infrastructure seal, master desktop in president. so lensky hometown of cree bearish, a damn, was severely damaged, several streets blooded, and the drinking water supply to the city of more than 600000 largely stopped working. russian attacks on critical infrastructure and ukraine are on the rise. the government fears the country is facing its toughest winter since gaining independence in 1991. that's partly why so much maintenance work is currently

underway, like here on a sub station and the solo uminski districts of key with the team from a local power. great. as preparing the capitol to whether the cold season they are very aware of potential attacks on the grid, the fuel with lisa tags and keep up. there may be interruptions to the power supply for residents and other consumers. sure. but we're preparing for that kind of scenario that we've put together plans and coordination with the municipal administration and the central energy system. some tournament. if that happens somewhere, we'll do our job. that little ticket with the war has caused the countries energy consumption to plummet. much of the industrial sector has shut down, and millions of people have bled abroad. energy experts say ukraine is currently using 40 percent less than its average electricity and gas consumption. they say

the country is prepared for winter. not it was bad news, but we have enough gas reserves the shuttle and enough coal. yeah, we might even make a profit from selling power. looked at on that if we can make it fine other winter, it wasn't quickly too soon, but only if wrong it's don't hit our infrastructure data collection such as our combined heat and power stations, nuclear scientists or other power atlanta, something that wasn't shown if they get heads, they'll stop working, da, da, da. when it was the widget you shot, this has been more that's part of the reason why the government is urging people to also independently prepare for winter. all of that in the home of lucia is running out of time for house near hosta mil airport was hit half a year ago by a russian projectile. the only reason she and her family survived is because they'd already fled. yeah, for the cello, that 1st i cried a lot alcala. it was really hard for me because she knew bloating to my 14 year old son got up in the morning and said, mom highly, don't cry all over the dumpster. all rebuild your house,

get to the on the pledge as it did look to be hot, the wood to what they are currently staying at their neighbors. but in just 2 weeks, they will have to return to their still unfinished house, which they been rebuilding with the help of volunteers. there is still no heating. no. oh yes ma'am. we need a boiler. they lifted either one that runs on solid fuel or electric little because we don't have any gas and we're not getting it back. i. e. e one, they did, nobody so solid fuel or electric. but they both cost money and cost of, and that's really unrealistic for people who lost that everything's a doza. nidia hadn't had linear lucia is thinking about taking out a loan to protect her family from the cold. the war has stripped ukrainians of security. many households are tied on money, and millions of people are heading into the winter months plagued with uncertainty . italy is on the cusp of

a historic change of government. the country is poised to have its 1st female prime minister once the results are confirmed. and georgia maloney will also be italy's 1st far right leader since world war 2, she is crystal clear about her vision for the country. maloney is a champion for conservative family values and rejects the l g t b q community one that monica and maria belong to a couple lives in sicily and maloney's victory has set off alarm bells for them. they fear the far right leader and her brothers of italy, party will be a threat to their family values, katana city in sicily, her wife maria harris is from barcelona name at 15 years ago and described their meeting as love at 1st sight. shortly afterward, maria gave birth to her son pau with the help of a sperm donation. and 9 months later monica had her daughter mia the same when

ah, and you can taste it now and later. to see why. why have such a big spoon? remember, would you rather liquid off my fingers? now? the election victory of the far right party coalition cast a cloud over the family, monica and maria worry about the future. so molten phone monte order one, those are children are well aware of what's going on and on. and now when they hear the name george maloney, they get scared. i'm not, they asked us what would happen that not only reassured them, they shouldn't worry loudly to that i'm in their children or alarm because of speeches like this one by a georgia maloney, the leader of the far right brothers of italy. pardon me. say no, yet each of the traditional family not bode al, no, no to the l g b, t lobby, ebay, the yes it is sexual identity? no, no, to gender ideology at all. yes. to the culture of my ada,

no. to the culture of death, a strong words which carry all the way to mount etna in cataneo. maria and monica fear hard times lie head for families like theirs, and that the l. g. b t. q. community will face an erosion of civil rights under the new administration. we propose eloquent, don't know how long his sympathetic with george maloney scares me because so far she hasn't shifted her position enough for leaving. so i doubt that she will change them now only because, and this goes beyond a political agenda. it's a precise idea of what society and politics should look like shown. grande, seymour, i fear that minority writes lucy, a make big set. bandy b, bellamy not on say, or something she both women work in academia and they also worry that he aggressive rhetoric will poison the social climate. c stand also one on both of the balls. the danger is that these things become acceptable to that you can insult women or be

openly homophobic without any consequences. a man benefited any an did. during the election campaign, georgia maloney tried to present herself as a moderate politician. but she made it clear that for her a family should only be one thing, would have been rather leaky. as far as the rights law. we're couples are concerned unit. there are already registered civil partnerships, and that is quite sufficient to whom am against adoption rights for gay and lesbian couples. not because i'm homophobic as some say, but simply because children need a mother and a father and a stable relationship, which is what our current legislation already provide. us with moderates, the benita that our goal. yeah, we'll get bit of it on australasia. shamia sucka is a professor at the university of rome. she studies political phenomena and has taken a close look at ga maloney as election campaign and at her political values. quinn . look at melanie, her pain can be summed up with one of her slogan logon as i am

a mother. i am a christian, and i am a woman. actually, this aptly describes her and her parties, political culture will ship. and we believe this will also be her guiding principle when she steps into office at it and kill us at san diego at him. professor soccer says this is also because the heart right party will have less margin to take action in other areas. she said i will now, since they have little room to maneuver in economic and foreign policy, the new government is more likely to emphasize identity ashes. and sadie minorities could be used as pawns to make a political martin. what this means for monica, maria, po and mia is not yet foreseeable. if the situation worsens, the family already has a plan. today, the full bath, upgraded, and young cal provis is headless at all. if conservation gets worse, if we're ready to move to another country for the safety of our children and our children, our top priority for

a lot of there may be willing to leave our home country for their rights and well beings. vasa and get that us video to me. monica's hope is that georgia maloney will not revert to social policies of the past, which discriminated against minorities. as such a shift would significantly change the lives of her family and of many other italians. autumn may be upon us, but the traces of europe sweltering summer still linger. extreme temperatures left a trail of destruction across the continent with harvests withered rivers dried out and forests scorched. but there is a silver lining for some europeans like those in frances champagne region. and quill producers of the sparkling wine are raising a glass to an exceptional year. and wine growers, cedric new se, is looking forward to an excellent champagne vintage

a. here in france, a champagne region, wine makers have waited all year for this moment. this is when they see whether all their efforts this year have paid off, celebrities mold in an employee. this is the product of our year's work. also cope with the great lar, middles, these next few days will decide everything. yeah. will cuz i couldn't sleep allow you nice little said to like move say is a 4th generation wine grower. he's convinced 2022 is an exceptionally good champagne vintage, your bomb police police. there's no wrong. it's fantastic because it's february, look at it. he's an oxygen without the regular like caviar, if possible makes very good champagne. it's a great he, la golden. and this, although the champagne region along with the rest of europe experienced

a heat wave this past summer with record temperatures and drought go talk out. look, these grapes ripened without a drop of rain in 3 months. it's incredible. this is just not quite great finds actually pull water from deep in the soil, thanks to their long roots. when i get a gradual fits of what the routes are a problem for most farmers or not, but the roots of grapevines can grow 8 to 10 meters down. they get water from when it looked in the soil where there are also more nutrients and mineral. you are the more meaningful the over am, off the soil impacts the grapes multiplies. just imagine how they'll taste. you mentioned yellow foam or jessica separately. happy wine growers, though patience is needed. let's go back to the why. in prison, it will take 3 years into the champagne is ready and they can taste it to see if it

really is a great champagne. i'm sure that i've got right now. this is great juice. then the juice turns into wine and only then to champagne. well, it takes time to was on it. the more you this here is here, juice i am looking for. if it has a complex labor with a fresh finish and a yellow fruit outside, the reason it's very nice and excellent harvest after 2 bad ones. the price of champagne, however, won't be falling any time. soon. spoke the submit. any of this year will balance out the past 2 less good year. let me quickly show reduction cost remain the same every year, but last year the harvest couldn't cover the causal. latino cool, i plenty could put. so i'm not sure champagne prices will drop. unfortunately for consumers i knew missile, murder was will forego?

cilenzo said lake must say, will produce over 100000 bottles of champagne from this year's harvest. he sells to buyers around the world. so silver film is 100 percent lonia. great variety, vintage 2017. a vintage that's peaked. this american wine buyers interest is a really cool to see though the beginning of life. it's amazing compared to last year . there there's, it's just night and day. you know that the different. so we're all really excited. we're all related the demand is quite high, i would say in new york, and as but in the world, i think it's becoming more and more more popular with marketing social media. last year, record amount of champagne was sold worldwide. said lake

must say, send 70 percent of his produce abroad. both boys, the 2 pallets are going to the us out. who to luxembourg, we receive america is our most important market after bread said to like, ma, say, wants to stop exporting to russia because of the war in ukraine. even though this would mean a financial setback or go south south, it will actually because you live to sell 5 percent of my products to russia. so round about $5000.00 bottles per year, 2000. but this year, they're not getting any until things have a calm down show. suppose was all today. russia is trying to conquer a part of the world and we could find ourselves at war with them to morrow. do mel players selling them. my champagne is out of the question to new la, multi with dave walker. well, this aside, wine grove, is here hope to sell 325000000 bottles of champagne this year, which would mark

a historic record. shaheen and albania is a growing tourist destination, located on the northern, adriatic coast, and living alongside the visitors are several 100 refugees from afghanistan, while they arrived at a resort after being evacuated from cavil by the united states. but what was supposed to be a brief stop over for jam, she'd act, barry has turned into an agonizing wait job. she'd act barry always loved basketball. back home in afghanistan, he used to coach a women's team professionally. the income comfortably sustained jam sheet and his family. thus good. last of all is my life and was my greatest passion. i had reached a national level. i worked as a coach and coached a women's basketball team, basketball at the hospital, but the taliban band,

women sports jam. she'd managed to flee afghanistan just in time. thanks to assurances from the canadian government. but after a few weeks in katara, he got stuck in albania as canada wouldn't take him in. he's now hoping for a u. s. visa, but check. he knows that he shows us pictures of his family, who he had to leave behind. his twins are just over a year old. now. he hasn't seen them since they were newborns. then his wife calls buffalo me. i'm only am. i am giving a television interview. in brazil, i will talk about my problems. loneliness, the family, the bureaucracy which you wish. you know, if i swear all i do here is weight it. i'm all down with a soft mission. viejo sunday was ash over the past year. every one told me i had been extremely lucky

because i was able to leave my country and reach albania, but in your ios alex from walmart and that we are on route to canada or america venue. but i think i'm the unhappiest of all the unhappy people here who i live a physical home. but boston mass over a year has passed since us forces blue, thousands of afghans out of the country. following the taliban take over. us agencies asked albania, a poor country to take in 2500 refugees. the refugees were brought to a hotel and the resort town of tion. gene. their stay was supposed to be a stop over, but 700 afghans remain here. stock among sunbathing tourists. with each day that passes the united states promised to take the men rings holloway. ah, nita ha, dari and her sister were active and afghanistan's women's movement for years. they can't go back while the taliban is in power. but there isn't a clear way forward for them either. fairly that. sure to let out. audition even

get we were promised that all african refugees would be transferred from albania, to canada, in the condo, or the u. s. you go within 2 to 3 months, la beach, does that of mission, actually that up to date, that hasn't happened, those done got on. it makes us worry. i that generally it's rosie ham dusty. we asked the u. s. embassy and albania, for an interview. but we're told to contact the us state department in washington. but even though we did several times, we didn't get a response. we had for the albanian capital to ronna to interview prime minister eddie rama. albania. after all counted on the us taking in the afghan refugees i understand them, but so time is going. oh and no we don't have the feeling that the u. s. m. of this ration mom is processing them. oh,

we of the feeling that they are here to stay. amy, how they cannot so say for every military and they have to start to do life. how mania, however, is a poor country with high unemployment. those who can leave the afghan refugees are worried that remain stuck in albania. a few months ago they staged their 1st protest and a ha, nita joined them to non christian will hold it on me. been in as you can see, albania as a poor country myself. because we enjoy greater safety here than in afghanistan, but the more that is all, i, me good him that, that as, as refugees, we have no opportunities for education, employment with, or any other kind of development in this country, which is in india as lenin composition is jam sheet has almost stopped carrying. all that matters to him is reuniting with his family. valet teddy us off on a sana, i fled from afghanistan where there is

a war going off. braylon. i'm name miss wendy, who? half of all people there on his own. i have no perspective, no work. he claudio and our poor father lines re but on body. even these circumstances, life is better in albania, love, and i would say shot already, husky, beaudry, boom albano formula. maybe even so jumps she'd still dreams of making a new life in the us together with his family. but with each passing day, his hopes slowly faith. slovenia is a country known for its breathtaking landscapes. among these is the mountain resort, vela cup plenty now is less than an hour's drive from the capital lube liana. but in many ways, it's worlds away from the city. there's no running water or electricity, but there is a parliament one where cows have political influence. in the herd or settlements on the veronica plan, nina, things run

a little differently than down in the valley for generations. they have been hurting towers during the summer months, according to their own rules. a fellow might wish 50 years ago, my husband brought me up here for the 1st time that you and our children are now 50 years old. their children were here themselves. now. could i have been with them? i get up at 5 am, milk the cows cleanup and prep the mount before making the cheese that that's life up here. the farmers are usually down in the valley, but from june to september they had up to the alpine past is when exactly that happens is decided by the herders parliament which meets and this building is that and that's pretty unique, says robert zam leon, who runs a small restaurant, me, him and william, we call it a parliament with as if we were a small country out of here into the loom or siena din, robert and his wife only served produce,

made up in the alpine pastures. this was also decided by the herd as parliament fashion, but of usa says, report each cow, you get one vote. now, you know, we have 6 cows out, so we have 6 boat, so we boat on how to clean the pasture, where to fix the fences where to direct the water and which pads to repair things like that. i as a open novel with rights however come responsibilities. soco can i have a motor sheet in the summer? the herders have still many work. 8 hours of it per cow. do you that but a void, this blocked level? got the genders in this grassroots democracy. the herder with the most cows has the biggest number of votes, but also the most community duties. old customs remain, but the alpine pastor is changing. out of $64.00 huts, only 13 are still inhabited. tourist loved the seclusion. but what about the younger generation? is my boy thump the tourism will be here for a long time, but probably not the herders. yeah,

young people stay in the valley and go to school there. well the hope is that a good community will encourage herders to return again next summer to this unique place in slovenia. well, at least they don't have to worry about energy prices. that's all from this we get focus on europe. thanks so much for watching and bye for now. with

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