center and more refugees are being turned away at the force families playing bomb attacks in syria. and these critical thinking this way not against administrative people fleeing extreme around a 100 people has sunk in the gmc world. more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. we asked why, because no one should have to flee. to make up your own mind. d. w for mines. ah . hello and welcome to focus on europe. it's good to have you about 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 hope to do that do despite war analogy, 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 vice. the city center is garden lights and in fact, so are the shopping districts but fewer and fewer people who can afford to shop here. according to london statistics, more than a quarter of people in the city are living in body. 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 is 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 need. the line in front of the

community kitchen gets longer every day. poverty is growing in london. it's a situation that keeps tars 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 rob pensions are coming to run an increasing number of people that normally wouldn't come to places like 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 ruth and is a single parent. she works half days in a department store almost every week she comes here to get food for herself for 2

young sons and her mother eat. so it'd be very difficult, especially nowadays the day inflation and the prices of growing not globs so much. no, very difficult vetted if that didn't know how could manage very cooper also comes here almost every week and loads up anything that's left over. he shares it with others that don't need all of that. i just go around to give it to other people. i can't make it who can come here. so most of it are getting way towards con, works with supermarket send suppliers, they donate food that can no longer be sold. it's distributed quickly, right? part of his commitment to 0 waste, 0 hunger. we fact the people that come and use our service because the during the, the service, if you don't take the food that we off up, it's going to end 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. that's easier said than done turning on the heat is a luxury these days. and it's been off for a couple days. i'm just to just bad room where for the next pay per day or the next bit of cash i can find to to put it on symbol electric. i'll turn lights off on a night. if an on the house, it's in darkness, ah, 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. choices,

we have to make no choices to get sacrificed. you know, my kids will have bags, chips, i might have a little bit, you know, it's just rationing loss. 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. they 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 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 that they come to. you have to hope for the mayor has promised to back the project i think causes inspirational, lynn, community, food bank, all literally make it a massive differences sometimes between life and death. affordable 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 realities we do know 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. just one in for 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, fish stocks 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 plies the waters near the island of soda?

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 work as a team, bowling in the nets. and money a thing, there 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 but the catch today was less than hoped for coastal fisher's or not netting in the big money in norway. anyone who wants to caching 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 one holland as a single parent. when she comes back from being at sea, she has a household and her 2 children to tend to. she lives with them on her parents. farm money is tight, but for her children, she's a role model. little i prefer love what they can see. i don't think i could stand it long in a big city. i'm in them in law. i belong out here. go on the coast guard

on her brit sailor insta bird. 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 one don't get a colleague is pregnant or has to care for small children or less than a temporary replacement. a man or a woman will be paid to work on the colleagues. fishing ground at year or under jobs are big trawlers can also be attractive for young women at austin for good now by law. after you've spent a month on board, you get a month off. i'm on a free. boyland 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. oh yeah, 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 until she was 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. noah rejects is 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 war and russian. marseilles have left many towns and cities influence 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 respite. still many training sessions and matches are interrupted by shelling and fear is never far away. but good segue, bob 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 in eop in

a suburb of keith, the private soccer academy rinsed the field from a school. before the war, several coaches and assistance worked here. now sergey has to go it alone. and that's not all that's changed. for montela durable had been the 1st off, the number of children has dropped compared to before the war. the judges come under the 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 get the physical to dawn. 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. this again, door marker. the kids are just sitting at home is that daring of 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 in 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 dash one american of what was almost inconceivable for us a year ago is now commonplace, non financial interests. our infrastructure has been destroyed. and in the cities where there was fighting football pitches are gone, to the marvel, the equity local motif keeps stadium has so far remained 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 say me, said cyril, not 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 on which i'm sure we've heard more than a 100 alicia mosquito nozzle novel. 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 wait room club president alexander jaeger of has made a phone call. this game to has been cancelled and will be rescheduled. yes, with don mercier nichoela, however much russia tries to scare us with missiles. are these attacks robert of

those, we will continue to play football and volleyball, and go to work little boy. back to training and ear pin survey has to finish with the youngsters on time to day. the power has gone out and the whole city including at his home where his 7 year old son is doing his homework by flashlight ma'am. then the devoted fan wants to watch a match on his phone if need be. oh boy in the radio and before the war, the be my friends and i used to meet somewhere to watch games for alice. this at work. it's more fine 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 do with this situation as that us. the grace that i see

then at least a moment of relief. after hours, the power suddenly comes on. the television is working. sir, gave her the yoke, turns off the flashlight to save its batteries. for the next power cut. the christmas holiday season is also a big season for me, but let us god's parcels and packages all circling the globe. but if you're mailing something to some man on the french island of la, though, no, it might take a while to arrive, that for it has all the seas 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, your law, is bringing the mail for his weekly route. a letter ill as the mails in the van.

come and get a letter yesterday. you lord knows what so feel 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 castro coded to carry it on to walking the route with my father was a big part of my childhood back then the mail carrier had other responsibilities to become. yes. all we brought the residents, their money from the bank here in the valley, jehovah or deposited here for them afterwards. and if someone had to fill out a document, we had it for them. good yank. often we read out letter. thank as hardly any went up there. could read was a bhaskar is off today. it's differently the children are now growing up and learn to read and write in the valley theatrical form. after an hour's drive the road ends civilly 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 his cook sir, but to let go. like every monday sylvia spends the night in the hall still that paulina whoa has been running for 30 years now. 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 more. uh huh. she's the 5th generation of her family in this mountainous region of lucky union. the area was settled in the 19th century ball lawyer. my ancestors took refuge here when they escaped. slavery, by your mind, you're freed up quite a hostage of the people fled from the coast and hid in the mountains. if you business keep wrong, they lived from what they were able to grow steam. v. cwa 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. avira. my thought national park is 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, its becoming more of a problem for le le 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, silvan beg, remembers how it was before? pardon. when i visited your life was hard. and once again, family, many people had nothing to eat and planted corner like a girl thought and everybody offered to rid of it. around 1980, i opened the 1st hostile and restaurant to that. i opened other hostels without tourist. we will 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 is 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. i see you it's a good life said sickly, mailed the mail carrier of money, but now if you enjoy window sports, the swiss alps offer you a great experience. but often these breaths, taking slopes one be ski, we're be without the help off snow gannons inlaw elevations, especially resorts are dependent on artificial snow that damages the environment, and gobblers up gigawatts of electricity all at a time. and the energy crisis means europe is feeling the chair and the young, proud region of switzerland. the results are 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 nif is good that i am the person you should be making artificial snow requires 6 to 8 people working around the clock of your prom. well, sam will be sleeping roth duty funneled to robin, but the other $3.00 to $4.00 will be out on the slope. fear work, he met on 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 slow power for your own. a

cheaper in the past without gps, it was, wasn't possibly in april to t it we often produced more snow that piled up in one area or another evening. even though it wasn't needed the entire season. it's gone vehicle now and produce 30 percent less artificial snow carefully. she had shaelyn there are 320 snow canons in switzerland's young, foul 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, $1.00 and $4.00 jobs relies on winter tourism and industry experts say vacationers are more demanding. nowadays it's inc. i thought as you get guest declared there to be snow. busy 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 towns here are brimming with guests who want to go skiing into bad an investment on the wrong after she are the ones that 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 she duties will say it's no tourism will have to focus on high altitude regions, for instance, 1500 or 2000 meters up and more of the system. lower lying regions will become economically viable. eventually, miss merritt and the young frau regent lies high in the alps. so for now, at least it will continue to delight winter sports enthusiasts. read

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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