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oh, ready knows to take time about hackers, paralyzed entire societies, computers that out with and governments that go crazy for your data. we explain how these technologies work, how they can go in for that's how they can also go terribly. watch it now. you to a with hello and welcome to focus on europe. it is nice to have you here today. so it is autumn or
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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,
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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 from mono, 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 to that's working against nature. not with a not yet on amazon in a single operator with
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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 in downtown stock home 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?
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we previously haven't managed that conflicts and in an optimal way. and there have been situations where we have not advanced to the possibilities for the full full 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 felt. he's hoping it'll stay that way. thought manuel, but up in may. of course we're hoping for an improvement in the new direction. when picked up, is this complete on eric brown's mom? i came up here to see us nearly neo, if i'd be honest,
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it's happening 30 years too late. aly thing. most of the old growth forests have already disappeared. mark, can i tell you that quote, in 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 have a decrease the volumes that we take out if we want to have lichens in place if we wanted create corridors, create shelter and protection for reindeer 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,
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keep watch on their own or colleagues from greenpeace, and seen 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 now 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
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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 hell thought sooner but about 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, i pluck him up. i 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 in full size. he says he was beaten by greek police. it despite the violence and danger, many syrians are trying to reach western europe these days. many say they no longer
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feel safe and turkey were. authorities have reportedly started deporting refugees back to syria. they're prepared to risk their lives. there's no space left at this morgan alexandro bali says greek coroner pablo's pub ladies. one with a corpse without a name. just a number. make another one. 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 were blow up with 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,
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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 across 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. what, okay, when i go to germany, learn german, finished my engineering studies, and mary loudon a call once
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a little mohammed and his friends are not exceptions. the greek border police say there's been an increase in illegal entries. so 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 were through bulgaria. hill is the one i pulled it off. would you 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 the season. his daily work brought in my own kit. it has not been like it, 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 has an accident,
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there's usually more than one victim. he neglected it lower, but they didn't quite up will 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 live or south roku. these are human beings sort of just like every one else. 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. man, up what, not. when i live motorcycling, rob wilson was just going to go to work. but he knows that the death set 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
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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 us for the ukrainian volunteer. it's a welcome distraction from the daily chaos where the ongoing war is ever present either doesn't meet 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. always of what we'll do. but this time shells started raining down on us
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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 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 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,
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manual get out the back yard movie and then when you see things like mine, then for the for you that 35 after normal, whether you get a manicure is or a little part of my old life before the war that i want to hold on to when i have my nails done, i feel a bit more normal. he's not good. my, it's not a mile not. this was so overwhelming that the little things like fingernails seem all the more important before the war eva was in the system film director. but from 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, touching what she called. the nail studio was like a girls club. when we meet up here and we ask each other,
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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 to her, where he's from feet is the work here a way to forget the war. quicken williams? yes. sometimes it with you zone out of reality for a moment and come back a bit later. was it a hair salon 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 will be this quote to look. will you do when i go to the front and done by us? i have to be attractive because they see the boys. we don't let ourselves go congress with us for the night. more is war. i 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. so there's only one way to look like a woman with a manicure,
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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 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 eve, our lives, 2 lives, one at the nail salon,
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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 am headed to the front in a month optics. and that in you pointed that sort of music. 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 either is devoting herself evermore to the war effort. but she's determined to keep up her perfect manicured 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
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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. oh, 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
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bacteria were definitely not the 1st one to room, but i would say we are 10 were in the 1st to grow from but only based on organic ways that come from a mostly seated pardon moment or only focusing on cussing growth, but the idea from from to that one day we might have a huge diversity of a 5th grade using different prima with what makes it feasible. as victoria 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 where they're 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
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packaging or even lampshades. it's an idea with a lot of potential. and the european commission agreed perma funky was awarded a 2000000 year grant to help scale up its production for the market. if you are shopping up a mushroom like this gross thousands of times faster than a tree on the normal day, that's a huge advantage to get. with addition, our crop takes ridiculously little time compared to industrial petrochemical or natural production. or the child for now perma fungus. known for a high quality mushrooms, especially for again food stores. the crop is lovingly trim daily by hand. many tasks have deliberately not been automated. with a view at creating more jobs. that once natal jumped on his cargo bike to deliver the last of the mushrooms to the stores, he's more than ready to emerge from the sellers into the daylight. ah.
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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 whiskey tours was gone. growth 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 bavarian on a whisky pilgrimage with a priest leading the way it's been, i'm a church rebel. as if debbie is the pastor, the church need food written. if he didn't exist, you'd have to invent him as an he is a man of faith and brains progress to the church id. hello,
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hello. can you hear me now? oh, wonderful. wow. we're ready to head out. here it is. all right, you're welcome to the promised land of scotland lum. hung along with the sight, seeing both don coulter and his group are touring local distilleries one after the next whiskey says the bavarian priest is holy water with oliver sticks 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 mystical, all the group approaches the tasting with a kind of sobers, scientific curiosity. some don't taste at all, just sniff nosing. and monday, looking through these windows, you gaze directly at the heavens. huh. ah,
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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 distant sufficient. so can i came to realize that my church unfortunately has a culture of silence. good food is 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,
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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 ha ha ah, christine left the church more than 30 years ago. even though she still felt close to her faith think i told us 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 wolfgang. i know it's different from rosie, still sneaking us both gong volt as the approach to religion may be unusual, but it works. next stop is the borders distillery. there's
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a tour here to maybe cross that you want to get punch. why smell? barber? it's or you know, so feel free to come out one by one. have a nice all chuck of it. with the bus driver is waiting outside. he's already driven many, 2 or 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 it's like so. yeah, yeah, i mean this is no chance obama on the boss which are quite appeal boat vote, gun vote. does whiskey pilgrimage is not only about spirit. it's about spirituality
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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, [000:00:00;00]
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