the universe and everything. no, the answer. roman, give it here. the answer to almost everything. a word document 3, series with clever, crazy. around breaking questions. can we go and after life? i, how can we see every 1? 40 to answer to almost everything. starts january 15 on d, w ah ah, ah, hello and welcome to a special edition of focus on europe. we're bringing you some of our favorite stories of the year from the people who inspired us and perhaps even changed our

view of the world. after all, the new year offers us an opportunity to come out life with a new perspective. we begin in italy with bruno fair in a man who has fun for a living. he owns an amusement park with a roller coaster ferris wheel. the works. an entrance is free even during the energy crisis that is forcing other businesses to curtail production or even close . so how does bruno keep the wheels turning at his park in northern italy? well, he doesn't pay for electricity because he doesn't need it. bruno park is powered with good, old fashion, elbow grease. the viola conveyor the hum back caught the wheel of death. there are just a few of the $37.00 attractions at the amusement park. i. p. o. p. italian fall under the puppies. and it was all built by this man for very busy stretch your legs

out in front of you. straigten them out. yes, that's it made otherwise your lamb with your nose on the rubber because in our bones will not only one minute. bruno for in is 85 years old. he built his 1st swing here half a century ago. i hear from ashley bruner, georgia. it's always a joy to come here and see what i've built up in 50 years. so it's a great feeling to be able to say about your own life. and i made all my dreams come true. let me have you. imagine that you're a little be mary shall you or el exactly peter whose dream began with the restaurant in 1969. bruno florine fell in love with this piece of fight. as his wife served wine and sausages under the populace, he started building swings. he taught himself everything, every dilemma very bad. that even a girl i only ever went to elementary school, but i've always understood numbers completed. it comes naturally to me or working

out weights and counter wait for my attractions, maybe. i left here while my you know what with the other horse, i make mistakes at times and have to adjust the rides that are too heavy. or if the slope isn't right, probably name built all vulgar out a lot all. if everything special about peanut for ins, park is that none of the attractions require electricity. they use the laws of physics and the muscle power of visitors. the nearest attraction is the carousel. he has the idea for it. after watching a tv repose about a training facility for nasa astronaut with europe, this carousel is powered by these bicycles operated by visitors. when you peddle the carousel spins, the faster it spins, the more the centrifugal force increases, causing the seat frames to move backwards from the center a ah,

while other amusement parks face closer due to rising electricity costs. boon afrin is forging ahead and planning for the future. ah, or july the energy prices are through the roof proper. so i'm thinking of installing dynamos on every ride to harness the energy from all the equipment moving around. that's my plan, but i really applied on a large scale that idea would foil the strategies of some world leaders, pap, or do you couldn't, wouldn't be very happy at a park like mine. i mean, because of everything looked like this. he could no longer sell gas to italy. your house. yeah. there have been no accidents in the decade long history of his pock buena fearing says nothing escapes him. go on a jo, i sit down young man, middle door, come on horseback. is that you need to sit down because it's dangerous now. hey, he knew you laying,

they don't read the signs really that that's how italians are the morning in germany, signs are law, but here in italy, they're optional. maybe i'll read them. maybe not. that's how it works in italy. why don't you go around? $50000.00 visitors come to the park every year. it's open only on weekends and entry is free. bruno for, in believes it shouldn't matter how much money you have. everyone should have the right to have fun. most visitors buy something to eat and drink in his restaurant, making the business sustainable. even at 85, he still pitching in every way he can. he says the freedom to do what he loves has kept him young. with feather ah, mit ready. it's a beautiful way to live. depending on my mood each day. i decide what to do, isn't that great? my dears, that's the poetry of life given i read that was the last one that he's devoted to

his amusement park. the freedom of choice is something many of us take for granted for others. it's an uphill battle, victoria. he coy isn't letting such challenges stop her from achieving her goals. she's fighting for her dream job as a train driver in ukraine were up until a few years ago. women were banned from working in the profession. but the war and ukraine has seen women taking on roles typically reserved for men. trains have become a lifeline for people in the country, and victoria is playing a crucial role in the war effort. each time she starts work is a moment of validation for victoria coin. she's ukraine's 1st female trained co driver until recently, sexist regulations, band women from the job. it was considered risky to their reproductive health. now

in the war, it really is dangerous. for every one on the train. all of us go more, i level a washcloth. libby hard mentally and physically because you very often hear the air raid siren a ye accused that a war i've even seen when missiles head of a dollar. why should they jak, we try to suppress these emotions and continue our work because it's not just about our lives. are those that are what are the lives of the passengers sitting behind us also depend on us, is that you? what's the ged? it is not what it says, unless, unless been m victoria had to try many times before she could even study for her dream, john. yeah, the all of that, but there was a hard thought when i was applying to many universities and colleges and asking if they could teach me that. well, up there popella to remind everyone said the same thing is sima. yi casala know you're a woman that me, that was it. so we had mobile, i did give

a non one of shannon was ugly youth gazelle at that then. and one school said they did not have the right to refuse me with a view of what time they could not promise that i would ever work in this profession. i didn't get the what is a laugh, only now because i am or should leave boys input novice not abundant. but by the time she graduated, the old soviet iraq ban and women doing suit. jobs had been dropped. victories started as a co driver. a few months before russia invaded in february buffalo to put attention to passengers. our destination is rebekah station on time of departure from keith is 18. 27. william. there is a lot to do. update log books, checked the speed of the train, the signals, the electrical contact line, and speak to passengers. and if something were to happen to the driver, she'd have to take over chiller case. but john, oh, but she misses law at the beginning. men treated me suspiciously because they

didn't believe that we can do the same jobs that they can't hear. chandler douglas levin is lamb of a on the you can get a lot of asian can. and women also didn't think that in our patriarchal society, we could take on such positions. jacqueline, oh, just chat them more. there's a lot that by avenue that keep asada, ukraine's women are becoming more visible everywhere. hannah greet sank when expert on gender study says the necessities of war are changing society. oh, yep. was cut off of like, it's an interconnected process. i did have meaning that women who were on the front line become role models for civilian women in regional, but also those women in the military. they want to see examples of women in civilian professions. they want examples of women in traditionally male professions outside of the military kilometer. what we're stuck, number with school will wound the victim of severe only anna also wants to be part of that process. she graduated in economics,

but 2 years ago decided to join the army as well and is now an active duty. she served in the key fridge and at the start of the war, when the russians try to invade the capital. although they've looked, i set up checkpoints prepared molotov cocktails, helped order medicine, helped elderly people. it was a mixture of both military and civilian task as carrying on. she says she feels it's important for women to serve in the military to break gender cliches. but she says, civilian women who want to volunteer are being turned away, while men are taken on. alexa, if you'll just show up at a conscription office and tell them that you want to serve, no one will take you. if you have no experience, they simply won't believe in you. it's probably part of the skeptical attitude towards women where professionals always, you know, back on to train it. slight. victoria's shift will be at least 12 hours today.

although let them narrow trainings have become a vital form of transport in this war and there's never enough staff nobody he cares whether it's a man or a woman in charge salinger's, it doesn't make any difference at all. it. no singer is the same to me. if it's a man or woman, as long as they can do the job genie august, august, palazzo irritable death. eyebrows are victoria sat. she will still need to push hard to make it from the co driver to driver. that top job is still done by a man, one more sheer. boy, it's been that it hasn't completely changed yet, but we still need a lot more time. ah, yeah. yeah. we need to raise a new generation, a young generation with the idea that women have the same rights as members. it's like it's hillary gay, my advocate. victoria is pushing through the unknown, but she says there is a brighter future for ukrainian women. one day she will become

a trained driver while victoria is building a future in her homeland for sabrina rossi, that's simply not possible. she had to flee her native country of afghanistan, where the taliban enforce shuree a law. public executions have recently resumed and women's rights are dismal. sabrina's life was in danger, simply because soccer is her passion. a quitting was not an option for sabrina or her teammates. so together they headed to britain, the birthplace of the beautiful game in leeds. they finally have a real shot at life on an even playing field. abriya, no, rosie can play soccer again. at last. in afghanistan, she was captain of the junior team, but they were all forced to flee. she's living in northern england now.

there for life was was i think i'm very happy, but i don't have any following that met life. this is no longer possible in her home country. she's too well known there. she co founded the 1st women's soccer team and had art in western afghanistan. a sport forbidden to women. and i think i'm severely i i now i am so happy because it all then neil, i am faith. i can go to football. i can even walk. when the taliban came back to power, somebody on the rosie was forced into hiding. she didn't leave her home for 10 days . the tale, bon consider soccer players like her to be infidels,

and she risked her life to escape. she was scared to death when she handed her papers over to the taliban at the border. taylor that he treated me horribly. he opened the gate, i was out of my bag and pushed me towards the direction i should walk as got it and said there was a knock. go and don't come back because if you do the one they are, a government will kill allah. no lad, mohammed from our boston gun sabrina. no rosy struggle before the taliban came back to power. she was even beaten up. but she'd persevered enough to enjoy success and participated in international tournaments. drawing even more negative attention. magda was battling i thought they tried to kidnap me twice. idea. i asked once they tried to staff me in the battle was other last voice, but someone helped me. well i'm yeah, gonna fight

a mac. so only the tip of the night at my side, but paloma bad cutting my lower abdomen. right? yeah, exactly. paloma talks on soccer player kalita paul knows was abriya and her team have been through. she helped them and their families escape during british thesis for a total of $130.00 people. ah, a visit to the soccer museum in manchester, where they learned how english women too had to fight for their rights. ah, i mean going to the history of english, how women's football and their band and the history of like how the if i bonded it's very much like it's a 100 years ago and it's very similar like hearing dad and also seeing the object. it's very similar to our story, like today's story. the women of afghanistan is bang for playing football just

because they are a woman. ringback ringback ringback sabrina talks on the phone with her mother in law in afghanistan, although she tell somebody that women today are receiving threats just for going to the market on their own. oh, well actually now that the terror catches up with sabrina in england too. she has nightmares about the taliban trying to kill her. love is joe. her team and her love of the sport help her to cope with it. all. i like football love because that all the, i guess the 2 giga but to get a passing shooting and that it's very amazing for me. but then they they get the get the goal. right. you saw the oh god god, i like it that good. yes, i'm with somebody is hoping for a professional career because soccer to her means one thing above all. that

freedom and freedom on the ground to up in the air engineers yawn, but peace knew are the lay feels at home storing through the clouds. and unlike most other pilots, he doesn't need to refuel. his bladder is powered by the sun and wind. the french inventor has flown several thousands of kilometers this year, and he's confident that his technology can one day be used for larger planes. so could the future of air travel be powered by mother nature? take a look. ah, lives really? it's my dream to travel as far as i want without polluting or planet. and i feel like we're on our way there is just wonderful. human jombateeste was lay has been in the air for 5 hours, and he's covered 220 kilometers to day. would. he must be back there. over there is

lost lay is on the 15th leg of his airborne tour to false. he's landing in koya in the south of the country. the tour is intended to promote his project wings for the planet. well. water flight. the adventurer and engineer quit his job to focus exclusively on his solar powered glider. his invention draws curious onlookers wherever he goes, and they want to know how it works. with their mike later takes off on it soon with this propeller. it may seem small, but it's a meter across in diameter. my message is powered by batteries and they are charged by the solar cells on the wings, volleyball, blah, or charlotte valley. then it is, of course we do. it was lay spent 3 years working on the glider and put all his

savings into the prototype. i'm chris will make on some colleagues. well, i'm impressed. it's very smooth. here. he completely integrated the solar cells into the wings. she has in yellow shape. you know, i'm an engineer and a pilot, and i have an idea of how much work went into this. i think it's fantastic. it makes you dream from feel of a dream of climate friendly flight without emitting a single gram of c o 2. it's already had only out to see that he can fly. oh no, no law of he is preparing for the next leg of the tour with a glove for what it's roll. the engineer loves nature and technology. he used to work designing underwater robots. once near the south pole. he watched a young albatross in flight, says legal, the albatrosses in flight are fabulous. some of the inspired me with i said i wanted to fly like them one asia and leave them all go to come. so it's basically this here, last lay is touring france by air. more than 2000 kilometers. it's how he imagines

the future of travel or total. i'm currently 7000 feet above mon, some. michelle said many in the aeronautics industry think he's out of his mind. lost lay is convinced that even jumbo jets will one day fly powered by the sun alone emission free z if girl boy, of course it's hard to imagine a boeing or air bus with solar cells. but modern photovoltaic cells harness just 20 percent of the energy only because it's in 10 to 20 years or it might be 40 or 60 percent. all this was on performance because the cleans might be traveling out just for a 100 kilometers an hour instead of $800.00. but that's enough for domestic flight levels. manon is mississippi, this was a film during take off in koya dawns lay demonstrates his invention conventional gliders need a winch or a motorized plane to start and

a lot of energy but was lay, makes it up into the air on his own. by by my glee, my to the phones is almost over for the aviation pioneer is already planning his tour of europe to get even more people on board with the dream of flying with the power of the sun. approaching life with a glass half full attitude is perhaps on your list of new year's resolutions. but in the finished town of while lanka, optimism is not on the agenda for years now. the population has been shrinking and the town in decline. so these 2 fins, santori and oscar, he decided to do something about it there. embracing the pessimistic spirit for the greater good of their town. ah,

this pub closed long ago and all that's left of this shops inventory are 2 chairs. as you enter town, there's a sign that reads you are entering polanko. there's still time to turn around. ah, polanko is a small dine town in the middle of finland with the remaining population of just $2400.00. most of whom are over 60 young people tend to move away from while long. but these 2 are staying true to their home town, or scottie and san teddy of the local pessimists society. and it's their pessimism that's raised hopes for a new beginning. ah, we are, we have accept the fact that we cannot read why it's not something we, you know,

feel sided while it's, we're trying to find the forming side of it. so didn't come. we can go to ball it lost that who said, who's is that this issue? so be like like this? yeah. why, why, why, why, why are you going to ask why you couldn't smile? you are busy and it's precisely these 2 self professed pessimists who brought some cause for optimism to polanko. the pessimists. cafe does good business tourists buy t shirts and buttons with pessimistic messages in the shop. next door, we go ex extra it together with friends, oscar. he also made self deprecating and ironic music videos about polanko. the 2 pessimists had brought a small town a cult following in finland. no vixen, it's funny. typical finish jamiracle. so my life by that even at variables i'm honored on a lot is a t shirt says you're,

i'm cross to day hello and that's okay. i'm a social security just informed me that my pensions to be raised 3 percent of the law. that's 2 whole more euros a month years ago. like i said, all the facts speak against a bright future. for the town. the population has dropped by over half since the 1980s. and every year it falls a bit more. the town still has its schools, day care centers and a retirement home. the question is, who still wants to live deep in the forests of finland? lake, but it's mayor says nature is precisely what makes poor long cuts so great. the pessimism campaign has only enhanced the popularity of his town. he's convinced that soon the population will start increasing again. now is relieved that more and more people will want to move to areas, withers, pristine nature, lots of room to live latin and we've got plenty of room and they need to be exact. we have one square kilometer personally,

so you don't have to worry about the neighbors that will i watch with 8 than medic viaz and old a retirement home, right? boss, kitty and santa, the actually insist that they're among the happiest people in polanko right now. and in the world, happiness report, that fins have been named the happiest people on earth for the 5th year in a row. i think the pessimism thing fits really well in the people don't expect a lot. so they are happy with less and even read throughly hard like very serious problems. maybe we wouldn't do fun, things like pessimism and put our time and effort to it may be research like do something else. mm. pessimism has become palinkas trademark. but will that preserve it? from its demise, at least its people are giving it a go with a touch of optimism and a good chunk of humor. well,

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