as we take on the world, we're all about the stories that matter to you with we are, your is actually on fire made for mines. ah, 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 line, 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 amazon in a single operator. with a tree harvester can clear as much timber as 2 dozen lumberjacks used to be able to

in the same time. the machine's 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 groups 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 in downtown, stockholm, to the highest levels. the former director had to go, we talked to the new c o eric bronze mom, who says the company is open to a new approach. we favey actually 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 food for the reindeer herders to, to practice their profession. back to the forest that belong to stay a school around 4000 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 felt. he's hoping it'll stay that way. thought man one hope, but often in may. of course we're hoping for an improvement in the new direction. when picked up is what the sub lean on. eric brown's mom came up here to see us. nearly 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 love cohort. and lat, lens, winter food is scarce, especially now that the climate trend erratic with periods of relative warmth, alternating with arctic cold. the winter forage only grows in these woodland pastures. the herds, gray is on the lichen and plants beneath the snow. we sort of has to 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 reindeer old during the whole year. this has of course an impact piece has returned to this forest for now, but do not cut science had been taken down through the trees, had to get by without protection. no. well, they asked go, go, keep watch on their own or colleagues from greenpeace,

and seem to sort of have enough trust at the moment that they left the area and focus on other issues. and i think that's a good song. environmentalist and lumber companies have long been at odds. not fair 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 here saw to little bit about it was dangerous to leave, but it would have been even more dangerous. if turkey 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 hope 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 who despite the violence and danger many syrians are trying to reach western europe these days. many say they no longer feel safe in 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. bully says greek coroner pablo's pub ladies. one what a corpse without a name. just a number. remember how many nameless bodies have been brought to him in recent weeks from the f rose river, which forms the greek turkish border. people who die 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 at all. we used to have about 50 bodies a year, but now we've had 60 in the 1st 9 months of this year, warbling 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 to cross by turkish border guards after being ordered to remove their clothes. mohammed is relieved to have made it to greece safely or to morrow he plans to cross the border to north macedonia and continue on what's called the balkan route. uh huh. okay. when i go to germany, learned german finished my engineering studies, and mary loudon a call once

a little mohammed and his friends are not exceptions. the greek border police say there's been an increase in a legal entries for though there have been no large groups. but i feel the apple they, it's become harder to cross the ever osi legally. if i go and so many are taking a longer d, 2 or 3 bulgaria, unless you make the smugglers have also changed their tactics. i'm awfully number coming. every people are brought over in ones and twos and small cars, even on motorbike sleep here, but it's a better thinking of diesel to new roots and new risks as pablo's probably the season. his daily work, broken won't give elton, like most of the victims drown in the river or die of hypothermia. but there are also more and more traffic accidents. if a smuggler's car as an accident, there's usually more than one victim in that global did the little white up. what

are english said? yes. pub ladies tries to identify the bodies on the basis of jewelry and dna samples. desperate relatives contact him every day. lip, or some of these are human being just like everyone else. i'm not interested in where they came from, what they believed in or their politics and they deserve respect. and that's why i try to do everything i can to identify them and to return them to their family as up what and when i was also going to get them. but he knows that the death said this border region of europe are unlikely to end anytime 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 both for the ukrainian volunteer. it's a welcome distraction from the daily chaos where the ongoing war is ever present either doesn't need her helmet and keith like she does at the front and don bass. she and ano spent 10 hours in the car on the way back to keith. it's a chance to catch their breath. they work as 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 come aboard the progress of buffalo. but this time shells started raining down on us near buck 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 as 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. yes, but i have gained weight and cut my hair. when i come back from don bus, i don't look that great job. but of course, as a woman, i want to be attractive. like before, the war chima, so i love, i make an effort to look nice um for the manual. get out the back it vivian when

you see things like mine, then for the, for you that guarantees but one of their normal goodbye the get a manicure. is there a little part of my old life before the war that i want to hold on to the chip or stumble? when i have my nails done, i feel a bit more normal. snobbish my as 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 for now she's making the rounds between the front line and keith. a few days later and ya and eli are paying a visit to a completely different world, a nail studio move back 31. she called to begin the nail studio as like a girls club. when we meet up here and we ask each other, what's going on and talk with the manicurist. it's

a distraction from day to day life. it's a magical world to wear. his feet is the work here a way to forget the war. quicken one in vance, sometimes in return with you zone out of reality for a moment and come back a bit later, a bit with her. so daughter in russian, the word g of vodka. couldn't 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 war of over. yes, quoth luke, will you do when i go to the front and don bus, i have to be attractive fellow because they see the boys. we, we don't let ourselves go. god, the foolish for the night war is war. fish and women are still women. now 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 and 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 it. all he law 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. ah,

so how does either handle life in 2 different worlds? i am i can't not at all. i'm currently taking class is an emergency medicine and i'm headed to the front in a month if you wanted this it is me said. so why does she want to go? it's the only way i can cope. many men have died at the front and i want to help them eat hot is devoting herself evermore to the war effort. but she's determined to keep up. ha ha, thick man killed 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 that the situation is just as dramatic. with our world suffocating, under the plastic waste, young belgians are looking at biodegradable alternatives that might actually work as a substitute. and they've found one,

a kind of exotic but sustainable way to create some truly ecological packaging. all you need to do is grow it out of mushrooms ah, deep in the bowels of brussels, in the sellers of toilet taxi. at one time, this was a major centre of trade in industry to day another form of commerce and life thrives in this 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. 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. i certainly from,

but i would say we're can, we're in the 1st from but on the based on organic ways that come from a mostly city pardon moment or only focusing on cutting growth. but the idea from or from to that one day, we might have a huge diversity of, of using different prima with what makes it feasible. the daughter, 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 up a mushroom like this, gross thousands of times faster than a tree sounding almost that often. that's a huge advantage box. no repetition or crop takes ridiculously little time compared to industrial petrochemical or natural production. or the chart 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's 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 the very ends 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, me that 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,

you're welcome to the promised land of scotland long with along with sightseeing both gong colton. his group are touring local distilleries one after the next whiskey says that the very and priest is holy water with our logistics this on my 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, and at the same time exercise in moderation. the message, 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 welcome landscape is a source of solace for both gung ho to 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. inger because that was the only way to get to the bottom of things and move in the right direction and wasting a barn. instead, they just wanted to brush it under the rug and cover it up. logan. hi, mr. das mont. as for pushing master hotel, 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 in catullus at 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

punched by smell farther back? it's really nice. so feel free to come out. one by one. have a nice old chunk of it. with the bus driver is waiting outside, he's already driven many 2 groups. but the whiskey pilgrims are a favorite he 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 if they're just knocking them back. so. excellent. so yeah, yeah, i mean this that there's no chance stovall more in the boss which i'm quite happy about both done. what does whisky pilgrimage is not only about spirits, 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 but 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. with ah, with

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