a, as we take on the world. i do all this. we're all about the stories that matter to you. whatever it takes time policeman follow with. we are here is actually on fire made for mines with hello and welcome to focus on europe. it is nice to have you here today. so it is autumn or fall here in germany. but after the warmest, october ever documented,

it doesn't really feel like it. record temperatures have been causing huge tracts of land to burn. and while most people are in agreement that carbon emissions should be curved. it's a very different story getting countries to agree on just how to phase out coal, oil and gas. climate talks on exactly this issue are currently underway at the summit in egypt. at the end of the day though, each country is called upon to play. it's part like sweden, the home of climate activist. great, a tune burg, close to milan, jo. well above the arctic circle, the forest landscape is being scalped at an enormous scale. and that's obviously a problem for the climate, but it's a more immediate disaster for the animals living in those areas like the reindeer, who sources of food have vanished. but with the help of climate activists on a lien, a low house, those animals do have a voice one who doesn't shy away from standing up to the powerful timber lobby.

at 1st glance, you might think sweden is one big forest. over 2 thirds of the country is covered in woodlands, but the farther north you go, the more bare patches turn up. the old growth forest starts thinning out. in many places, the countryside has been stripped, bare like here across the border for manya, finland over 150 kilometers above the arctic circle. this is reportedly the work of swedish lumber companies. greenpeace has put signs on the tree, saying, do not cut. clear. cutting means everything is cut down and taken away when they plant new trees and 30 or 40 years later, they cut them too. that's working against nature. not with a capital manama, not one amazon in a single operator with

a tree harvester and clear as much timber as 2 dozen lumberjacks used to be able to in the same time. the machines enormous tires leave behind, packed soil and deep ruts in the ground. it's no surprise that it takes many years for anything to go back here. a huge tract of land was slated for felling. here to the forest belonged to stay. a school sweden state on lumber company. but environmentalists group such as greenpeace, as well as reindeer herders had something to say about it. they placed the trees under their protection and patrolled and demonstrated for months. the quiet protest shook the company's majestic headquarters and downtown stockholm, to the highest levels. the former director had to go, we talked to the new c o eric bronze. huh. who says the company is open to a new approach? we previously haven't managed that conflicts and in an optimal way. and there have

been situations where we have not advanced of the possibilities for the, for the, for the reindeer herders to, to practice their profession. back to the forest that belong to survey a school around $4000.00 reindeer. currently, rome, the area around mon, you, they find in a forage in the summer. in autumn, the semi domesticated animals like to graze on mushrooms. we met with the chairman of the local reindeer cooperative hans hulma. does he trust the latest promise is made by the lumber company? for now, he says no trees are being felled. he's hoping it'll stay that way. thought man manuel butter up into me. of course we're hoping for an improvement in the new direction. when picked up is what this company on eric bronze my came up here to see us new, newly neo. if i'd be honest,

it's happening 30 years too late. aly thing. most of the old growth forests have already disappeared. martinez, they have caught in lot lens winter food is scarce, especially now that the climates turned erratic with periods of relative warmth, alternating with arctic cold. the winter forage only grows and these woodland pastures the herds. gray is on the lichen and plants beneath the snow. we sort of have a decrease the volumes that we take out if we want to have lichens in place. if we want to create corridors, create shelter and protection for arraigned years old during the whole year this, this has of course, an impact piece has returned to this forest. for now, the do not cut signs had been taken down. so the trees had to get by without protection. now it will say as go go, keep watch on their own or colleagues. from greenpeace,

i seem to sort of have enough trust at the moment that they left the area and focus on order issues. and i think that's a good time. environmentalist and lumber companies have long been at odds. not for your school has pledged to harvest 20 percent fewer trees in the coming years. an agreement that many here hope will bear fruit. back in 2015, hundreds of thousands of syrians entered the e. u through the balkan wrote, with many of them making their way toward germany. today, europe's border fences have been reinforced and they are much more tightly controlled. and yet thousands of syrians like mohammed here are attempting to cross them once again. mohammed had been living in turkey for years, but now he says he can't stay there any longer because the threat of deportation is just too high. instead, he's traveling from turkey to greece and further north on

a journey that is not without risk. mohammed a 21 year old syrian student from aleppo left turkey as fast as he could. now he's near the border between greece and north macedonia. he says it took almost 20 attempts to get to greece while he had thought sooner but above. he was dangerous to leave, but it would have been even more dangerous. if turkey had put me in a refugee camp and sent me back to syria, ohio blacken mo, i'd die from the cold rain and snow. he and about 2 dozen other syrians hoped that they will be safe from the police here in the forest. this man shows his scars of full size. he says he was beaten by greek police despite the violence and danger many syrians are trying to reach western europe these days. many say they no longer feel safe and turkey,

where authorities have reportedly started deporting refugees back to syria. they're prepared to risk their lives. there is no space left at this morgan alexandro billy says greek coroner pablo's pub ladies. one with a corpse without a name. just a number for many nameless bodies have been brought to him in recent weeks from the f rose river, which forms the greek turkish border. people who died trying to reach greece and the european union. but hopefully of law obviously that i've been working at this institute for 20 years, but it's never been this bad. and well, we used to have about 50 bodies a year. but now we've had 60, in the 1st 9 months of this year. morally,

the danger has increased since 2015 when huge numbers of refugees tried to reach the european union. greece has tightened controls and erected a high fence in some sections of the 200 kilometer border. it's reported that greek border officers have sent many migrants and refugees back greece denies these reports of push backs. it blames turkey. in mid october, 92 young men, mainly from syria, were discovered naked on the greek side of the border. the men said that they'd been forced across by turkish border guards after being ordered to remove their clothes. mohammed is relieved to have made it agrees safely. to morrow he plans to cross the border to north macedonia and continue on what's called the balkan route . huckabee when i go to germany, learn german finished my engineering studies,

and mary lot in a co wants a little mohammed and his friends are not exceptions. the greek border police say there's been an increase in illegal entries, though there have been no large groups validated the apple they, it's become harder to cross the ever osi legally. and so many are taking a longer d to her through bulgaria. little is like, the smugglers have also changed their tactic. i'm, i'm pulling them economy. people are brought over in ones and twos and small cars, even on motorbike sleep. but if they can go to new roots and new risks as pablo's probably these season, his daily work brought them. i wanted to give out, like most of the victims drown in the river or die of hypothermia magnet. but there are also more and more traffic accidents. if a smuggler's car has an accident, there's usually more than one victim. he nickel,

if we get lower but that the little bite up will on implement it. yes, lovely. these tries to identify the bodies on the basis of jewelry and dna samples . desperate relatives contact him every day to lip or south roku. these are human beings sort of just like every one else is. here's what i'm not interested in where they came from. what they believed in or their politics, and they deserve our respect, and that's why i try to do everything i can to identify them and to return them to their families may up what not. when i live motorcycling rob wilson with that and get the workbook. but he knows that the deaths at this border region of europe are unlikely to end any time soon to live in ukraine. right now is to live in fear whether you're a soldier or a civilian or something in between. and regardless of whether you're in the areas under occupation or well away from them, anything that offers a sense of normalcy,

however small can make a big difference, like colorful, polished fingernails, for example. war may be war, but women are still women, iris for the ukrainian volunteer. it's a welcome distraction from the daily chaos where the ongoing war is ever present. it doesn't need helmerson keith like she does at the front and don't bounce she and then when i was in the car on the way back to keith, it's a chance to catch the breath. they worked, his volunteers, bringing whatever civilians in the military near the front might need infrared cameras, medicine, bullet proof vests. both of them are taking big risks by helping the soldiers but this time show started raining down on the bus moot. there was

a convoy of military vehicles ahead of us. they got attacked with mortars and we were a 150 meters away. but we made it. we will hear. the conversation is lively on the drive. one moment the topic as the war, a moment later, cosmetics another surprise. both of the volunteers have elegant manicures. since the war broke out, i thought i'd better look good because you never know when a missile might hit you looking good is a big deal for me. i spend a lot of time behind the wheel and i really look different. all the normal people have lost weight during the war, but i've gained weight and cut my hair. when i come back from don bus, i don't look that great yet. but of course, as a woman, i want to be attractive, like before the war of them. so i love,

i make an effort to look nice for the manual, get out the back yard movie. man. when you see things like mine, then for the for you, they're dirty. like they're normal. goodbye, manic. you're. is there a little part of my old life before the war that i want to hold on to the moment when i have my nails done, i feel a bit more normal. snobbish my. it's not a mile long. this was so overwhelming that the little things like fingernails seemed all the more important before the war, eva was an assistant film director. but from now she's making the rounds between the front line and keith. a few days later, anna and eli are paying a visit to a completely different world, a nail studio back there from what she called. the nails studio is like a girls club where we meet up here and we ask each other what's going on and talk

with the man a curious good. it's a distraction from day to day life. it's a magical world. her. my history feet is the work here a way to forget the war with him on him last. sometimes it with you zone out of reality for a moment and come back a bit later. was it a hair? so don't in russian, the word g, a voucher can mean girl, but also a woman of any age, a lady in other words, and ideally a do you watch, girl should always be well groomed in peace, time or wall of over. yes, quoth luke, will you do when i go to the front and danverse i have to be attractive because they see the boys. we. we don't let ourselves go. participants for the night. more is war. fish and women are still women. when we arrive and they see us, they want us to look good for you. we don't wear civilian clothes, but military outfits will. so there's only one way to look like a woman with

a manicure, make up, and a hair cut off. the finishing touch on her nails is attribute to ukraine, and then she's done it, they head off together. the manicurist, ina is also coming along with her at the crash arctic subway station. and it's the central stopping keith, in the safest place in the city to be of a bomb falls because it's so deep, every one is safe here. and so every one survives with the conflict. it's my 1st time attending a concert like this and the subway that on. i think it's going to be a very emotional experience with all either got tickets will this concert in the middle of the day down in the subway. it's an attempt to pretend life is normal and a welcome moment of distraction, either lives, 2 lives, one at the nail salon, and one at the front. so,

how does isla handle life in 2 different worlds? i am, if i can't, not at all. i'm currently taking classes in emergency medicine and i'm headed to the front in a month optics, and that in you pointed that sort of music. so why does she want to go head? it's the only way i can cope. many men have died at the front and i want to help them either is devoting herself evermore to the war effort. but she's determined to keep up her perfect manner, q by the year 2030, which is not that far away anymore. there will probably be more plastic in our oceans than there are fish. that's what experts predict and on land. the situation is just as dramatic. with our world suffocating, under the plastic waves, young belgians are looking at biodegradable alternatives that might actually work

as a substitute. and they've found one kind of exotic but sustainable way to create some truly ecological packaging. all you need to do is grow it out of mushrooms deep in the bowels of brussels, in the sellers of tourney taxi. at one time was a major centre of trade and industry today, another form of commerce and life thrives and miss labyrinth of passages here on an area of 1000 square meters. oyster mushrooms are grown on a base of organic coffee grounds within a few weeks. the mushrooms burst out of the plastic bags they were planted in. it may have the look and feel of something out of a horror movie. but the cultivation is clean and free of parasitic insects and

bacteria. we're definitely not the 1st one to grow. i so much room, but i would say we're 10, we're in the 1st room, but on the base on organic ways that come from a mostly city pardon moment or only focusing on cutting growth. but the idea is that one day we might have a huge diversity of, of using different prima with what makes it feasible for my explains is that mushrooms can grow in just about anything. all the basic components, hey, mushroom spores and coffee grounds are mixed together in a rotating drum. whether also pasteurized to eliminate harmful microbes, they also put the use substrate from the bags to good use. it's cleaned again and seated with spores of a different mushroom. these grow to become insulation panels or

packaging, or even lampshades. it's an idea with a lot of potential. and the european commission agreed perma funky was awarded a to 1000000 euro grants to help scale up its production for the european market. if you are shopping all of up a mushroom like this, gross thousands of times faster than a tree sounding almost that often. that's a huge advantage. canoga tradition or crop takes ridiculously little time compared to industrial petrochemical or natural production or the job for now perma phung. is known for its high quality mushrooms, especially for again food stores the crop as lovingly trimmed daily by hand. many tasks have deliberately not been automated with a view at creating more jobs. but once natal jumps on his cargo bike to deliver the last of the mushrooms of the stores, he is more than ready to emerge from the sellers into the daylight.

if a priest mentioned a drink with spiritual qualities, you don't usually think of whiskey, but that is exactly what a group of catholics from germany had in mind as they embarked on a pilgrimage to scotland. the priest is quite popular amongst parishioners. partially because of the whisky tours. wolfgang rota has been leading for some years now. but also because he's not afraid to break the mold. ah, this seems like good fun. a group of arians on a whisky pilgrimage with a priest leading the way. it's been, i'm a church rebel as a step. he is the pastor. the church neither thought rinse. if he didn't exist, you'd have to invent him as an he's a man of faith and brains progress to the church. he hello, hello. can you hear me now?

oh, wonderful. wow, we're ready to head out here. all right, welcome to the promised land of scotland. long with, along with sightseeing, both don colton. his group are touring local distilleries, one after the next whiskey says the bavarian priest is holy water with oliver sticks this am i the the most important thing is mindfulness. i void and we don't just go down the alcohol name. we perceive what is offered to us with all our senses and involved. this is, this isn't a wild drinking spree miss sundown. it's an exercise. and mindfulness come in at the same time exercise in moderation. the may siegel or the group approaches the tasting with a kind of sobers, scientific curiosity. some don't taste at all, just sniff nosing mother looking through these windows, you gaze directly at the heavens. ah ah!

the rugged landscape is a source of solace for both don quota a place he fled to in his thoughts at a time of deep crisis. a bishop tried to rape him in 2004. he remained silent for years out of shame. ah, when he finally broke his silence, nobody believed him. ah, thus most dish insufficient. so can i came to realize that my church unfortunately has a culture of silence. quickbooks, why there were things that desperately needed to be spoken about gina, because that was the only way to get to the bottom of things and move in the right direction in which to gabon it. instead, they just wanted to brush it under the rug and cover it up. logan. hi, mr. das mont. as for pushing mazda auto wrote a book about his story,

d at used bishop sued him, but lost in both a lower court and on appeal. by breaking with taboos, the priest who holds his service every day of the trip has also succeeded in bringing people back into the folds of the church called tones. ha ah christine left the church more than 30 years ago. even though she still felt close to her faith, think i told us that so i was raised catholic and i still feel connected to the catholic church, but it's too confining for me to hear a lot of what they preach is foreign to me. so i left the church with valve gung. i know it's different, different rosie? still sneaking as wolfgang holt, as the approach to religion may be unusual, but it works. next, stop is the borders distillery. there's

a tour here to have your cross. are you going to get punch? quite slow, farther back. it's really nice, so feel free to come up, one by one. have a nice old chunk of it. with the bus driver is waiting outside. he's already driven many to our groups, but the whiskey pilgrims are a favorite. we don't seem to get very drunk. they seem to be interested in how the whiskey is me than weird. it's common psalms stuff like that. so it's not as up so just nor can them back. so a slang. so yeah, yeah, i mean, this is, there's no chance, silva on the boss, which i'm quite happy about. both gunboat does whisky pilgrimage is not only about spirit. it's about spirituality too. it's a bland,

that's one. have many fans, and there's already a date for the next tour. that will definitely get more people to go to church. i bet. well, cheers for me here at focus on europe and on behalf of the rest of the team here. thank you for joining us this week, and until next time. good bye for now. ah ah, with

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