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be the hardest winter in our history. these words uttered by ukrainian president zalinski were mentor, prepare his fellow ukrainians for what's coming in the next few months ahead. but already now today the situation is dramatic. anyone who still has a roof over their head is searching through the rubble for whatever they can find, especially firewood in cities that were hit hardest by rushes attacks. there are shortages or outages of electricity and heating. the russian army has deliberately destroyed about 40 percent of ukraine's energy supply so far in the east of ukraine along the front line that the situation is particularly difficult. ukrainian troops drove the russian occupiers out of the town of leman and that the surrounding area. but there people are literally sitting on ruins. residential buildings have been destroyed and the supply of water, electricity, and gas has been interrupted. time and time again. locals find themselves caught

between despair and relief. at their regained freedom. the city of lemon was under russian occupation for more than 4 months. in early october, it was finally liberated. the man is an important point on the military supply line . but liberation doesn't mean the end of the struggle for people here. the front has moved only a few kilometers further away. what remains here is devastation. and yet residents are grateful that every day life is possible. again, william, who am ludmilla, can now move freely through the city. well, when i said herb, no which kit sim, he said our granddaughter is 7 months old and we haven't seen her for 4 months blood that her. now our grandson is 5. emily is miley does when it must be of banks to our ukrainian army. we were able to call them the phones are working again, although not so well it do, you know, my grandson shouted into the phone. gramma, i love you very, very much look at how they love her grandmother,

grandchildren. the most precious thing in the middle of that sentence never made sense to me before, but now i feel it twice as we've seen things here. a few streets away. we meet nadisa and her husband followed him. you the to see they had hardly any contact with any one for months. they hardly ever left their home. no additional brother was killed. often the hood lights terrible. i hope our soldiers will stay here now and chase the russians as far away as possible. so they don't ever come back again through luck although they're still struggling. gotcha. leukemia. and that easter are trying to move forward. only one that we're gathering firewood for the winter walk. no one knows if we'll have electricity or heat by then yet, but he will go to our cottage and spend the winter there. ukraine is bracing for

a cold winter. they know that without a functioning energy supply it will get even harder. and not just near the front and in the liberated areas, ah, russia is continuing to target its missile strikes across the entire country from east to west. many attacks of targeted ukraine's power plants and heating infrastructure. the capital keith has also suffered outages. the head of ukraine's electricity operator says these are the most wide ranging attacks and countries infrastructure in history yard the marsh trotter ceased can be scorned. i believe that russian energy engineers, i hoping the russian military to look at that, those people are also criminal square. good, the risky believes his former colleagues gave out the coordinates for attacks. after all, ukraine's power system was still connected to the russian and bella luce grid until just a few hours before the invasion nivea throughout the charity and even the loss of

a quarter of our generation capacity charity. i will put, coordinate the damage to a quarter of our key grid assets did not cause the ukrainian energy system to collapse or malfunction. louis said she, it came shin and put us to where recovering, quickly weigh dosage with good. no, no, my said. but there are few signs of this recovery in young people. i think people, i mean why we have new electricity and new internet alicia tells us we survived with a generator or young pill as a village in the don't ask region right next to lehman. it was also liberated just a few weeks ago. residents have written the message. people live here in chalk on gates and fences, hoping to be spared for what it was all very hard. oh there was a big bang one night. oh yeah, it flew back there, then it burned. really. that's what happened. mama, ideal at the lovely latoya williams,

calling about the family live on their farm with few neighbors. but that was little protection when they suddenly found themselves in the midst of war. he admired the children, still talk about the battles. i knew when the planes flying or did he die there shot down by the artillery like the theat from on the floor. flat that that's the air defense system. oh, i'm good over their house, burned down and back there, a barn full of wood, a motorcycle, and attract channels radio. the trauma will stay with them all their lives. that's nice, the worst thing is the silent. we can't sleep at night any more. the silence is more frightening than the noise we've gotten used to that promo to the constant. just boom, boom, boom, walk, walk, and suddenly silence. i don't know why, but i can't sleep aviana vote, but you know, what frightens natalia. the most is a thought that the russian soldiers might return. if that happens,

she says she would flee with her children. finding out that you or your partner is pregnant is a deeply emotional experience. but what if you can't, or don't want to carry that child to term in most european countries, the decision to have an abortion is up to the women themselves. but things are different in poland. there abortion laws are among the strictest in europe. and that's something that women like you seen of drink hska are fighting against the activists is now facing the prospect of a long prison sentence. but justina isn't fighting alone. you will never walk alone. chad the demonstrators in front of the courthouse in warsaw. they're here to show solidarity with justina voted in sca she faces up to 3 years in prison for helping a woman obtain abortion pills in poland. the medication used for medical abortions

is prohibited. justina vedrine, sca is reviewed by many young women. she and her network are fighting for self determination and against some of the most restrictive abortion laws in europe. that's one them, many enemies in conservative and catholic, poland on this that i didn't think i would be this nervous, but i am. how did you, as i head into court, i don't feel any guilt. i believe what i did was good. you have to help people represent that. i stand here to day to represent the countless people who help each other when they're in a difficult situation. when they need an abortion, my mother is who help their daughters, daughters who help their mothers, friends who help friends. one time justina vedrine sca sent her own medication to a woman in need. now she's standing trial for that. she was moved by the woman's

plight and was reminded of her own abortion. it took place here in her hometown of prison ish. 17 years ago, when she became pregnant, she already had 3 children in the hall and was stuck in a marriage where she felt controlled and oppressed. when that's yet pad yagni, amberin jack toss, it'll be all. i felt that when i did it, when i terminated the pregnancy and freed myself, so when i regained control over my body gets control, i also regained control over my life and the lives of my children. sucks of images amazon. and that's what happened. i thought, i think when i gave the woman my pill so it could do for her what it did for me because you're autonomy a something worth fighting for. i have that biased i in like i like to just found them. um. yeah, the activist is convinced that poland abortion laws are misogynistic, her daughter sylvia is 18 years old and has experienced what it's like to live with to booze. why that kind of content, the cares just if there's no sex education anywhere,

especially in my school where it's never talked about. and we would like once in religion class, we brought up the subject of abortion with our pastor. and he the tradition with them. he didn't even allow us to give her own opinion auction sometime in the old days of a single whenever the topic comes up it it shut down as quickly as possible. my door to begin the warmed entering j. cedric, i have we did the job in poland. abortion is only permitted if the life or health of the pregnant woman is at risk. or if a pregnancy results from rape, justina for drain, hska has founded a support network that advises polish women who cannot or do not want to continue a pregnancy. she provides information about websites where women can order the pills needed for medical abortion on of she has on top of the medication, comes from abroad from other european countries, directly to the actresses provided today. just like other organizations operating

in poland. we never distribute medication or so we only provide information you want to know that i own from 34000 women. so it help from polish women's organizations last year, thousands of polish women travel abroad to obtain an abortion. the activists have organized a rally in the middle of war, so they're offering testimony from polish women who have terminated a pregnancy bombing time. there's no way i don't regret my decision. my only regret is that in poland, this decision has to be made behind the backs of doctors, the government, and my case, even my family book to call i was a young doctor at the time working at the nearest hospital. i was afraid if something went wrong that i would end up there and get into trouble, but i would lose my job and my license to practice. on the one i use. dana between scott holds onto the hope that one day things will change in

poland until then she wants to continue to help women in crisis. another person who's committed to helping others is she most barajas? he's a doctor in turkey. his profession is something he's very passionate about, and yet he quit his job at the hospital because he experienced pretty terrible things there. turkish president, erewhon here at the opening of a large hospital in ankara, likes to boast about his country's health care system. but behind the facade, things look rather different. every morning she moved beryl shabani put on his apron to help his mother in the family restaurant. is an unfamiliar feeling. bad. she's a doctor. and normally he be wearing a crisp white coat. just a few months ago, he was still working shift in the emergency room of a large hospital in eastern turkey from one. then one day, he was attacked by a patient's family and chased through the corridors. surveillance cameras recorded

the assault. before the incident, the patient complained about the care he was receiving at the hospital lodge. i did them, i mean there, but when i told them to please not be rude, he went off to me on last. what i've been missing, i defended myself much, but his wife brought the rest of the family in from outside the cottage. they all started beating on me, bought, pay them wash leather, a traumatic experience that left its mark on him. barrack loves being a doctor. but since the incident, he hasn't been able to go back to work according to one survey, one in 4 employees and the turkish health care sector has experienced physical violence at work. last year, hospital workers across the country had to call security more than 100000 times. at a doctor's union rally by russia tore up his diploma and hospital scrubs and protest in cuba. each moment

a academic training has never been treated with as much contempt as it is today in this country. good an image to set it up a little too. but there are other reasons for the rise and violence against health workers. but i shall come to a meeting of the doctors union on the wall. there's a picture of a colleague who was murdered, not long ago. the rise and violence also has to do with a difficult working conditions, especially in state hospitals and human dignity. when a doctor has to care for up to a 150 patients a day, though, of course, that overstretched. the patient expectations of a functioning health care system can't be met when we're working under those conditions and safer than the he'll give you. the salvage girl to be all the other to do. the solidarity he received from colleagues has been a great support for brush. he's even received a call from finland. a doctor of turkish descent offered him a job in his practice among nabarra,

his learning finish. over on polo huge negligence or mama, i originally only wanted to go abroad to train as a specialist addicted on, but now i've decided to leave the country for good job on me to go get it done. me, richard and he wouldn't be the 1st expert. see an exodus of young well trained doctors is looming. this photo taken in germany shows a meetup of young turkish ex pat doctor's article and i'll check on his way. so if they want to leave, do let them leave out these that, that new i city in every did, i will go our own way with new doctors over there is from our university, said willa. no arms to the ears of mover, worked and under appreciated. doctors, this sounds like mockery, physical assaults, insults, and threats leave their mark, bigler. you know,

they become wary of patient listening make. they re live the events over and over again, and they're even afraid of coming to work. yeah, just the sound of someone talking loudly can make them panic, and she and i was when i get addicted, has it been more shameless, but ash, his also still suffering the effects of the attack. at least the courts of recently started imposing higher sentences for assaults and health care workers. brushes, attackers have been sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison. that's help bearish. feel a bit better. north houston readings, houston is their city. i'm starting to sleep a little better now. with those 1st weeks, i couldn't sleep for more than 2 hours at a time of them will you to been to be so if you saw presumably shameless potash says in light of turkey's healthcare crisis, it should be the politicians who suffer sleepless nights for now. he plans to continue working in the family restaurant until he leaves for finland. the panini

alps at over 3000 meters above sea level. even if this picture fills you with awe at the natural beauty of our planet, you have to remember that global warming caused by us humans is having a devastating effect on remote locations like this one. the sweltering summer of 2022 alone caused a record ice melt and the rhone glacier and switzerland has been affected in a big way. it's massive ice sheets are shrinking every year. an almost helpless attempt to stop the seemingly unstoppable the long glacier is covered with white tops in hopes of slowing down the melting. it hardly snowed at all last winter than summer came only by march. it was already warm. here, the glacier tongue continues to retreat and now a lake is formed beneath it. scientists from e t h zurich university are recording the slow death of the glacier season for his

oma early in the summer, we observe major changes. we suspect that a cave is formed under the glacier at the base also, and that the ice cover has now become very thin. oh, that's why it's sinking. it said, getting give open is on this help. hiding from the sun, warms the eyes from above, while the water wears away at it from below. the research is drew holes for pressure and temperature senses and for cameras, they hope the information will help them understand why the glacier is melting ever more quickly. yet for this ice now that the ice above is getting thinner and thinner, the ice of the glacier is starting to sink down there. the river has sort of broken out on the glaciers roof has collapsed and it's gradually retreating. this big funnel, this crater is slowly subsiding, maybe this summer or no later the next summer, they'll meet hoping there's a gradual retreat where the lake is getting closer and closer and the glacier keeps

receding. intricacies of shit rise. it's like the lawn glacier is shrinking. if global heating continues at this rate, scientists say the glacier will be gone by the end of the century. oh, glaciers in the swiss alps are effected. scientists at 80 hate zurich have calculated that swift glaciers have lost half their volume since 1931. at moore to hutch in calvin, this has been documented for a 146 years from 1876 to the present day. and if nothing changes, this is what it could look like by the end of this century. the melting eyes unveils tragedies from the past light, the crash site of a small aircraft that went down on switzerland's alledged glacier in 1968. it also leads to new tragedies. for example, the glacier collapse in the dolemite mountains of italy on july. the 3rd, a huge block of ice broke loose from the mulatto glacier,

claiming 11 lives. the melting is man made largely caused by global heating, but also by more than 150 years of pollution. the black layer that covers the ice is not just rock dust. the storm clouds into alcove spoke the dark color is also soup particles needed, which then forms a greasy mass that stays on top and has a negative impact on the ice thing. because it's darker, it absorbs more sunlight. that leads to even more heat, which causes the glacier to melt even faster. that means that during a hot, dry summer, the horn river is higher than usual, not lower, at least for now until the glaciers have melted. this would devastate switzerland's water and energy supply. the country generates 60 percent of its electricity from hydro power, the stance on elevator,

it's kind of painful that our politicians aren't sitting up and taking notice. it's high time that we introduce truly effective climate protection measures from the claim of but the broader public also needs to act. ah, we have to put pressure on politician as a fake on this is because he politics alone won't takes it after politics while the politic alana of if the christian. otherwise, these scientists say time will run out to soc global warming. it would be a huge help if passenger planes could fly without a meeting. any c o 2 at all. but it's a pipe dream, right? no, it's the dream of a french inventor. engineer john baptized was a lay, has been relying on the power of the sun and winds to fly thousands of kilometers in his solar glider using only renewable energy. and he's convinced that his technology has an even bigger future ahead.

ah, lives. really it's my dream to travel as far as i want without polluting or planet . and i feel like we're on our way there is just wonderful human jombateeste wisely has been in the air for 5 hours and he's covered 220 kilometers to day. he must be back then. uh there is the last lay is on the 15th leg of his airborne tour to false. he's landing in coyer in the south of the country. the tour is intended to promote his project wings for the planet. well. water flight. the adventurer and engineer quit his job to focus exclusively on his solar powered blighter. his invention draws curious onlookers wherever he goes and

they want to know how it works. with mike later takes off on it soon with this propeller. it may seem small, but it's a meter across in diameter moment. it's powered by batteries and they are charged by the solar cells on the wings. about la or charlotte burleson does have classic dealer was lay, spend 3 years working on the glider and put all his savings into the prototype. i'm chris will make on some coins 4 wheel. i'm impressed. it's very smooth. here he completely integrated the solar cells into the wings. from shanella, she rose, i'm an engineer and a pilot. and i have an idea of how much work went into this. i think it's fantastic . it makes you dream from feel of a dream of climate friendly flight without emitting a single gram of c o 2. it's already haven't able to see it can fly. lot in on the wall i'm. he is preparing for the next leg of the tour with the glove. what's your quote to swears?

rear, either a flight montpelier, to pick some swear oral fly of her florence. the engineer loves nature and technology. he used to work designing underwater robots. once near the south pole, he watched a young albatross in flight before consistently rolled albatrosses and flight are fabulous. some of the inspired me of it. i said i wanted to fly like them one day. you jim give them all go to come. so it's basically this year, no us lay is touring france by air more than 2000 kilometers. it's how he imagines the future of travel or total. i'm currently 7000 feet above moon. so michel, many in the aeronautics industry think he's out of his mind, lost lay is convinced that even jumbo jess will one day fly powered by the sun alone emission free 0 girl boy. of course, it's hard to imagine

a boeing or air bus with solar cells. but modern photovoltaic cells harness just 20 percent of the energy only because in 10 to 20 years or it might be 44 or 60 percent. all this was on possibly because cleans might be traveling out just for 100 kilometers an hour instead of $800.00. but that's enough for domestic flight. walsman law is measure sick. this was a film during take off employee. the once lay demonstrates his intention. conventional gliders need a winch or a motorized plane to start and a lot of energy but was lay makes it up into the air on his own. by my glee, my to the phones is almost over for the ation pioneer is already planning his tour of europe to get even more people on board with the

dream of flying with the power of the sun. well, i would love to fly in one of his airplanes. that was focus on europe for this week . thank you for watching. and if you missed anything or want to share it, you can find the complete broadcast on d, w dot com on behalf of be entire focus on your team, they healthy and until next time, bye for now. with ah,

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