a effects of climate change, i mean failed to plug wired before a station in the rain forest continue, carbon dioxide emissions have risen again. young people all over the world are committed to climate protection. what impact will because change doesn't happen on its own. make up your room, mind w. 4 minds with hello and welcome to focus on europe. it's good to have you with us. christmas is around the corner for those will celebrate. it's time for you to spend time with

their families. enjoy holiday means together and exchange gifts. here in europe, people hoped to do that to despite war. and now the crisis and inflation beautifully decorated christmas trees and christmas markets have been setting the mode across europe for the last few weeks. and london is especially known for its festive by the city center is garden lights. and in fact saw other shopping districts but fewer and fewer people who can afford to shop out. according to london statistics, more than a quarter of people in the city are living in poverty. families are particularly affect it. high inflation, soaring gas prices, an overpriced food, are driving many into destitution. some families have to make the difficult choice between food and heating. does con, it's trying to help those who can no longer held themselves, and the more he helps, the more he realizes how many people are actually in neat. the line in front of the

community kitchen gets longer every day. poverty is growing in london. it's a situation that keeps towards con busy. he knows that without him and his privately run food bank, many londoners would go hungry. that's knowing people that are in we're actively both husband and wife. they are coming to access all services. and these people will normally associate, got pensions are coming through on an increasing number of people that normally wouldn't come to places i this every week times con, provides food for 15000 londoners. the community kitchen volunteers give out $600.00 kilos of food per week at for distribution sites in north london. they're busier than ever. dana ruzen is a single parent. she works half days in the department store. almost every week she

comes here to get food for herself for 2 young sons and her mother. it'd be very difficult, especially nowadays today inflation and the prices. oh, growing up go up so much know very difficult to read it. if i didn't know how could manage very cooper also comes here almost every week and loads up. she anything that's left over. he shares it with others that don't need all of that. i just go around to give you all the people can make it. you can come here, so most of it are giving away time con, works with supermarket cent suppliers. they donate food that can no longer be sold . it's distributed quickly, right? part of his commitment to 0 waste, 0 hunger, re fax, the people that come and use our service because the doing of the service. if they don't take the food that we off up, it's going to the palazzo and it's gonna damage the environment. the gap between rich and poor is particularly wide in the u. k. compared to other affluent

countries. now rising inflation and high energy costs are driving more and more people into poverty. especially families with children. the town of hartley pool in northern england is no exception. daniel burnside lives here with his children. the self employed painter wants to make sure coban as me always have enough to eat now, but that's easier said than done turning on the heat is a luxury these days. am it's been off for a couple of days of the subtler to just bag rib on the way for the next paid pay day. all the next bit of cash out and find to to put it on the same with electric out. i'll turn lights off on a night of on, on the house. it's been diagnosed with inflation at over 10 percent. daniel burnside has to scrimp and save wherever he can. sometimes he has to go without

a hot meal. does choices. we have to make no choices in to get sacrificed. you know, my kids will have bags, chips, i might have a little bit. you know, it's just rationing a lot. back in london times con has also opened a cafe that serves inexpensive hot meals. it's run by volunteers, rose and simona come just about every day. we both have mental health problems. the meal that they share together here is often the only time they leave the house 8. so if a special is a safe environment, so all the staff a so friendly. and if you had a bad day, you would always find someone's face and they come to support if you're a to now in another place. you can't afford a can't afford to do that. so here it's affordable and it's got everything i need stay as long as you want to stay times con has invited london's mayor to gain

support for his next venture training people who are out of work. so they can find jobs in the food and restaurant industry to come to you. i hope we will convert the mayor has promised to back the project. think causes, inspirational billing, community food bank. i'll literally make it a massive difference, sometimes between life and death, to multiple families across our city. and it, sir, source of embarrassment to me that one of the richest countries in the world, one of the richest cities in world needs acidity. so like this, but the reality is we do no food insecurity is on the rise across the country. so, 0, one and 4 children every single day in the u. k. is missing a meal. tough $1.00 and $4.00 children that are missing a meal every single day. doctors rather y'all out right now and what the future looks like. i don't know. tuscan has never been content to wait

for others to take action. not even the government. and this winter, he's determined to help as many people as possible from the u. k. let's go farther north. denali fishing has been a major industry there for centuries and a proud tradition. but in the last few years, 1st stalks have declined and the business has become less lucrative and attractive for fishes here. most of whom are men. but one woman hasn't led that stop her anger mighty harland is passionate about a profession. it's a tough job that not many women have taken up so far. the norwegian government is trying to change that by making the job more family friendly. the idea is to encourage more women to take up fishing as a courier following in the week of ingo, muddy, who flies the waters near the island off. so tra inger

mari hoyle and enjoys being out on her boat and choppy waters every day. rain or shine, she heads out into the fjords of western norway. she and her father worked as a team pulling in the nets and money a finger marie and her father. that's how fishers around here think of us. it's taken for granted. it's strange that this could be a big deal in other places. okay, blah. inger marie hoya and as part of a minority, at the end of 2021, norway had nearly 10000 professional fishers. but only $400.00 were women. highlands care understand that? and because i like being outdoors and doing physical work today. gov. fisher and natural resources usa, then fishing is the norwegian tradition of this kid. he and i want to keep that

tradition going of all the the catch today was less than hoped for coastal fisher's or not netting in the big money in norway. anyone who wants to cashing quick goes into fish farming? that's why canoe magna hoyle and as glad as daughter has never shied away from hard work and tough conditions. oh, even as a child, she was interested in fishing and, and today it's no longer an issue. it's a good thing that women are no longer responsible just for cooking. i'm wondering holland as a single parent. when she comes back from being at sea, she has a household and her 2 children to attend to. she lives with them on her parents. farm money is tight, but for children she's a role model. little i prefer love what they can see. i don't think i could

stand it along in a big city. i'm in the amendment law. i belong out here. go on the coast guard on her brit sailor insta, above the norwegian fisherman's association is proud that hoyle and is no longer an exception to day more and more young women are getting on board, even as men are starting to leave the industry, norway, as government as providing increasing support for young women who want to become fishers with born under don't, it's a colleague is pregnant or has to care for small children or like in a temporary replacement, a man or a woman will be paid to work on the colleagues fishing ground ag year or under jobs are big trawlers can also be attractive for young women at off there for good not by law. after you've spent a month on board, you get a month off. i'm on a free portland is driving her catch to a collection point. one of her colleagues

is there. the conversation revolves around boat engines and storm proofing. women fishers are starting to become more commonplace in norway a we have a few of them around here these days, many long and my own daughters have already been going out on the boat for 10 years . and i don't law of me. but not every male colleague is as welcoming like once a few years ago when she stepped in to help out on a fishing trawler off the north coast of norway. honda, there was a guy there who made it very clear that he didn't want women on the boat or on the docks. i can call he treated me as if i didn't exist, rejects his death, but inger marie hoyle and stayed on course. she's been out fishing on the fjords since she was 14 and wants to encourage other women to follow her example.

it's hard work, but it's also a really special way to live in a way of life that starting to appeal to more and more women in norway in ukraine. life has lived among the rubber, the ward and russian. marseilles have left many towns and cities in ruins and that includes many football fields, but ukrainians are not letting their spirits when football has long been a popular sport there and these days it's an especially welcome to spite still many training sessions and matches are interrupted by shelling and fear is never far away, but gold, saggy pav luke isn't giving up. when he calls his plans to the field, the youngsters are determined to give it. beryl. sergey puff yield kids off to the football pitch. 3 times a week,

he trains youngsters between age 8 and 12 here and eop in a suburb of keith. the private soccer academy runs the field from a school before the war, several coaches and assistants worked here. now sergey has to go it alone. and that's not all that's changed from until adorable. had to do 1st off, the number of children has dropped compared to before the war to get your commander . no, william, i just like a lot of the kids who were in our academy before. and i was like, are now somewhere in euros or in other countries or picked up those i called donna, i only half of the young players are still here. after russian troops withdrew from ear pin in the summer. parents asked sergey to start training again if if the door marked him, the kids are just sitting at home, is that daring at their smartphones? and they see nothing but war and bombing on tv,

though i know ear pin was squarely in the was own. the football stadium almost completely destroyed is only one reminder of the spring spears battles missile craters in the grass, bullet holes everywhere. an air pin was not alone. e gord psionic is one of ukraine's best known sports journalists. the war he says, also deprived the country of football veteran americanism philip is what was almost inconceivable for us a year ago is now commonplace, non financial interest. our infrastructure has been destroyed and in the cities where there was fighting football pitches are gone to the marvel then equity local motif keeps stadium, it has so far, remainder unscathed the men's team is warming up before an important game. the club is currently in the ukranian amateur league and hoping to move up. but no one here

expects the season to go smoothly. desert, same as it should, not be just just last month. we've had around 20 air raid sirens during training or game is the same as the rest, but he ought so. and since the start of the war him would mum, which i'm sure we've heard more than a 100. alicia mosquito nozzle lol. particularly as if on cue a few minutes before a kick off. there's another air raid siren all part of every day life in ukraine. the players go to the basement where they've set up their weight room club president alexander jaeger of has made a phone call. this game to has been cancelled and will be rescheduled yet with the marcia nichoela. however much russia tries to scare us with missiles are these

attacks robert doors. we will continue to play football and volleyball, and go to work a little boy back to training and ear pin. sergei has to finish with the youngsters on time to day. the power has gone out in the whole city, including at his home, where his 7 year old son is doing his homework by flashlight man. then the devoted man wants to watch a match on his phone if need be. oh, boy, in the radio and before the war, the my friends and i used to meet somewhere to watch games or alice this at work. it's more fun. you there with a stick in a cafe with a glass of beer them. it's much more fun because it feels completely different. security issues isna, now we have to make due with this situation as that us the grace authority

then at least a moment of relief. after hours, the power suddenly comes on. the television is working. sergey paddock turns off the flashlight to save its batteries for the next power cut the christmas holiday season is also a big season for meal. but let us guards parcels and packages all circling the globe. but if you're mailing something to some man on the french island of law, do you know it might take a while to what i bet for it is overseas in the indian ocean and is not easy to reach several mile walks as a mail carrier there. and to deliver letters and parcels to remote villages, he often travels for days on foot. ah, it's monday morning in the mail van stops in front of safely in my yos house. his father, yo law is bringing the mail for his weekly route

a. what are you as to the mails and the van? come and get it. all right, your visitor, you long nose with sophia has ahead of him. he sometimes did the root himself, and tis the little took over 10 years ago. you long always enjoyed bringing his son along. i knew he was 9. the 1st time he came along to teenage gashodi depended on walking the route with my father was a big part of my childhood that then the mail carrier had other responsibilities to the equal mass. all we brought the residents, their money from the bank here in the valley, the whole p r or deposited here for them afterwards. and if someone had to fill out a document, we had it for them with junk. often we read out letter. thank has hardly anyone up there could read it. bhaskar is off today. it's differently the children are now growing up and learn to read and write in the valley theater. upon after an hour's drive the road ends,

city hills sets out on foot along the mountain paths of ma fought. the entire route will take 2 days it's quite an effort to deliver mail to just a half dozen mailboxes. the village of my law has about 30 or so houses have issue with the la body. see there's no name on the mail box, falkland that you have to know every one here and really live. okay. already i don't know in the city, there's name plates and house numbers. i went to law yoke in this keep so settled with a leg like every monday sylvia spends the night in the hall still that paulina la has been running for 30 years now i love to visit my law. he comes every week and as part of the family, he's like

a son to me. those work on morale ha! she's the 5th generation of her family in this mountainous region of laughing. you know, the area was settled in the 19th century ball lawyer. my ancestors took refuge here when they escaped slavery. my, your room on your feet are caught grading a hostage of the people fled from the coast and hid in the mountains. if you business keep rod, they lived from what they were able to grow. sting vicola the next day sylvia has about 4 hours of walking ahead of him. but he enjoys it too. well for spaghetti. yeah, we just switch off completely. well yeah, this, if i did go ahead and get away from city lively yet. mm. i view my thought national park as the protected unesco world, cultural heritage site residence, pay an annual fee to the french national forest office which manages the mountain

reserve. the agency maintains the trails and takes care of the trash, which is picked up once a month by helicopter. but as tourism increases, it's becoming more of a problem with le let port, the people come from all over and just leave their garbage lying around 2 years back. but we'll drown and garbage one day. well, but people in my thoughts don't want the visitors to stop coming. they bring money into the village. sylvan, beg, remembers how it was before. pardon. when i visited you, life was hard. and once again family, many people had nothing to eat and planted cornered. like if all thought and remarried, no, for the root of the round, 1980 i opened the 1st hostile and restaurant to that i opened other hospitals without tourist. we would still be living in misery than to love him. is your voice . c, clean does more than just deliver the mail. he collects it too and brings it down

to the valley. his job as a mail carrier means a lot to him. some of these are new things. the people here are like friendlies, and the job is part of me. if i stopped doing it that it would leave a real hole in my life equal i see you. it's a good life said sickly, mailed the mail carrier of mac, but now if you enjoy window sports, the swiss outs offer you a great experience. but often these breaths, taking slopes one be ski will be without the help of snow cannons inlaw elevations, especially resorts are dependent on artificial snow that damages the environment, and gobblers up gigawatts of electricity, all at a time when the energy crisis means europe is feeling the chair and the young, proud region of switzerland. the results i determined not to cut the switch

a picture perfect ski slope o switzerland's young pow ski region boasts more than 2000 kilometers of ski slopes and plenty of snow cannons to make snow when mother nature doesn't deliver. 2 thirds of the snow here is artificial snow, as it's called in the industry by people like peter neff. hey good. but i am the person you should be making artificial snow. require 6 to 8 people working round the clock, the order prom. well, sam will be sleeping roth duty funneled. robin, but the other 3 to 4 will be out on the soviet work him, but i'm back a modified and it's a high tech endeavor. the snow groomers are equipped with a special gps system to measure the snow cover on the slope, our flag for your own

a cheap air in the past without gps. it was, wasn't pasa, lanton april garcia. we often produced more snow that piled up in one area or another evening, even though it wasn't needed the entire season yet can me ago. now we can produce 30 percent less artificial snow impersonation. had shaelyn. there are 320 snow canons in switzerland's young fowl region. they're connected by an underground system of water pipes. it was a major investment that cost over $38000000.00 euros. the water comes from reservoirs and the electricity from hydro power. it's a huge undertaking, but it pays off for the industry in the swiss alps. one and 4 jobs relies on winter tourism and industry experts say vacationers are more demanding nowadays. i think i saw that the gift guest declared there to be snow. did they expect all the slopes to be open for skiing and that men are closed due to lack of snow

sufficient? wilson during the holiday season, the resort town sierra brimming with guests who want to go skiing into bad an investment on the wrong after she are the ones nathan again, these days about 53 percent of ski slopes in switzerland rely on artificial snow. and that number's growing. environmentalists say the high energy in water use isn't sustainable. climate scientists retro cannot, he expects global warming will make snow. canon's obsolete. he believes that it won't take long until half of all. swift ski slopes will be too warm for even artificial snow to make much of a difference. the sheet duties was who it's no tourism will have to focus on high altitude regions, ford and 1500 or 2000 meters up and more of the system. lower lying regions will become economically viable, eventually mis maristane the young frown region lies high in the alps. so for now, at least it will continue to delight,

winter sports enthusiasts. ribs, or without snow, looks like at least they say they can continue to have fun. that's it for today on behalf of our entire team. i wish you all a wonderful holiday season and happy new year. bye for now. and see you next time. ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah, ah, with

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