i didn't hear the answer to almost everything were documentary series with clever around breaking questions. can we go and after life? i how can we every 140 to answer to almost everything. starts january 15 on d w. ah . ah, this is focus on europe. i'm laura baba, lola, happy new year and a warm welcome to the show. hope for a new beginning. it's a dream that's prompting migrants to seek a better life here in europe. despite the freezing temperatures,

the number of asylum seekers arriving here has spikes compared to a year ago and applications with in the u. r. at their highest since 2015 in northern italy, francesco to bodies, home town of triest, has become a popular spot for asylum seekers. he's on hand to receive them providing information and a hot meal. often there 1st, in weeks, many of the migrants have just completed an arduous journey on foot, often crossing borders illegally. they flee along the so called western bough can route, which typically begins and turkey and leads through northern italy. that's where they often receive a less than warm welcome. the hopes of many migrants and asylum seekers are crushed as they are left to fend for themselves on the street. it's cold behind the railway station and tree asked in the ruins of an ancient granary ismael shows

a group of young men where they can sleep. ismael is originally from pakistan and has lived and worked in the port city for years. but he has never seen so many people arriving in italy through the balkan route squad, ontario, and wanted to so they're almost 50 people staying here at the moment funded some want to continue the journey northward. sly them, others of applied for asylum in italy. they're here because there's no room at the arrival center aqua with a some of what in 3 months in this room gentlemen thought that when it started getting cold, warm as if these barracks were built for 200 though another cuz typically cuz it, the remark is on the why 18 year old a mer and his friends have been here for several weeks. a meritus ismael, that they left pakistan more than 3 years ago. they crossed through iran and ended up in turkey. it took them several tries to manage the illegal border crossing into europe. quick hold the shoulders and he keeps getting pushed back to turkey and 14

times from greece and 5 times from bulgaria. noise to the lydia. when they leave to hide out in head to piazza dela, liberty, freedom square, it was their 1st point of arrival for hussein and air thought to one month to month out of the odd for the 4 months voicemail yet is. i've come to here that i, i and if you're going to go, i didn't, did i give you a new board of cetera. yeah. really just for i will and i'll walk. and since i'm in 2021, about 4000 migrants and refugees arrived in the port city. in 2022, around 5000, came in october and november alone, francesco ciabatta and the volunteers from the linea dampier association. provide them with clothes, information on their rights and a hot meal. and i'm like when we order 15 to 40 rose chickens every day,

depending on the situation that get even along on that. so we feed between 30 and 40 people a day, and i think sometimes is one under 20 because they saw the record was in the summer 174 people on one day. francesco says the state in the city authorities are providing little by way of support. they're on their meds. ok. we've been coming here to help out every day for 3 and a half years. lucky. she study a few ordinary citizens. alibaba. one. the authorities are indifferent, even though it's their duty to find the refugees a place to stay in the obviously many of them have applied for a silent meeting and have a right to accommodation. but then again, but they still don't get it on it. so i don't even at awesome, the mayor dismisses these accusations. he says he's done a lot in his 16 years and office. but he rejected a plan to create housing for 80 people saying that it wasn't the city's responsibility. in italy, only a few politicians are willing to speak out on behalf of refugees. say by the okay.

i don't know if i create accommodation for x number of refugee id, ron and corbin more and more will con emma? that's the problem, uncle bit things. and i'll remind you that it's not our responsibility on it, but if it is the pre fate separate door, the prefecture should oakland, the empty military barracks, and make room for these unfortunate soul. see the gambles, though in place there is the music of happy. the lucky ones find refuge in this former scout home. but it is already hopelessly overcrowded. not even the unheeded tense of the initial reception center provide enough space for all asylum seekers. as davida patrone from the organization, i see us tells us aladdin the pocket. he'll all method, we're very close this the lenient border closet. that's why the reception center, so over crowd at hulu de la lam. normally people arrive in just a short time. the civil then they're distributed to another part of italy for the integration process. little child, but it's not working now. there isn't enough space. david works not far from the

piazza. del alberta. refugees can warm up in this day center. on the upper floor, there are some places to see to get the shower. joe and we, we, we fight to find something like change yourself when people feel from a new law, respect, village in our 20 beds are nowhere near enough. when you think of the hundreds of people we see every day we're setting up is all waiting for a place in the reception center. nobody got. i'm here with boston all 35, but at least we can offer the most vulnerable a safe place to stay for the night. obviously, if you will, none of us on you. but for our marin, his friends and other cold tree as to night awaits amidst the rubbish and the cardboard boxes. well, ukrainians are also contending with a cold and bitter winter as war rages across the country. russian attacks on critical infrastructure continue through christmas and the new year heat and

electricity in ukraine are sporadic, making daily life a struggle. this includes places far from the front lines, like in the capital keys. hospitals here are also feeling the impact of war. will a connie chuck is working hard to keep his intensive care unit operational and to provide medical care to his patient, his main task to shield the fragile premies and newborns in his ward from the violence unfolding around him. new natal logistical left corner chak is arriving for work at a children's hospital in keith. he's always a bit worried because the power keeps going out. he and his team care for premature babies and newborns with serious complications. in this intensive care unit, most infants need ventilators to breathe and other technology that requires electricity. bill from student, unlike adults,

babies aren't able to regulate their body temperatures, you blur they don't have the body fat and are too immature on the new skin with. so if the power where to go out, we can ventilate the infants manually for a while. i live in yesterday too, but in the end, they wouldn't make it so long. there with their gear for billboard tours. net hospitals do have safeguards and case the power was act. but this cable leads to the diesel generators. he obtained himself. the russian invasion has put the entire hospital staff in crisis mood, fema, it's like she end of the world in the movie armageddon. thank you for the winter. feels endless. some things are a bit better now because the electricians have repaired a lot. i do. we hope this horrible situation will come to an end, but most of weekly items appointed a few kilometers away. this dentist office is near the city center here too. they

have to deal with frequent and often unannounced power outages. 3 of them are in here. probably more power is the least of our worries you should use for people are dying in this war. if the power goes out, we just wait 2 or 3 hours each, sir. as long as everyone safe will manage shore, this patient is lucky and gets his filling the d before a young soldier arrived the toothache. and then the power went out. said yellow chick ali night, but we sat there waiting what they said when he was patient because he knew he needed treatment back. he was heading to the front in a week. jason, we tried to help him as best we could. he was over there, some minor shred. oh ha, shootin has been a dentist for years. she takes a situation and straight. yes. in that i'm wanting to get them. if there's no power here, we just don't come. we sit and we stay home with our families and we just have them . my husband and i live on the 16th floor as a living on the 16th floor is

a problem because no power means no elevator. all this husband alexandra, has a heart condition and can't take the stairs. this winter has been hard on them. even cooking can be difficult for. this is the one to leave. i was just when there's power, we cook everything straight away. the starter, the main dish dessert usually when the power is out. but i have to cook. i can usually do it at night. at night there's almost always powerful from 11 or 12 at night to about 3 in the morning. they see people here have to make do the government to set up thousands of heat attempts across the country, which they call invincibility stations. it's a pleased to catch their breath with hot t warmth and electricity to charge their phones back in the new natal intensive care unit or left granite you is tending to his tiny patients. it's his life's work. you have them in the moon. what were your food?

i could have gone to germany a while ago. i've got relatives there. still you have been there for more than 35 years in my family as with family lebeau at suburban for they left after about 6 weeks under russian occupation near keith. but i won't leave no whistler. i can't see who would take care of these babies who need all the help. we can give them birth for, for bullish select. corny tooth is determined to stay right now. he's gathering donations to buy portable incubators to take infants don't into the shelter when russian bombs written down or his resolve and dedication to his patients is indeed remarkable to love and to be loved. that's what life is all about. and in the decade since, that romantic ballad was written, our collective acknowledgement of love and its possibilities has become

increasingly more open and inclusive. that's also true for this young couple in poland, void tech and a gotta who are newly weds with no ordinary love story. they've been documenting their everyday life on the instagram channel life on wheels with openness and breaking with stereotypes surrounding love. church, hello, very very chick young and a gotta it doesn't, roger for and together we run the life on wheels channel for good. we want to fine tolerance against people with disabilities for the rest of it was rush jerry boy take and i got our newly weds. the relationship may not always be easy but they make it work. voice like has to send muscular dystrophy and incurable disease that leads to progressive muscle. weakness has been in a wheelchair since it was 9 years old. i ha, my disease is progressing. assembly and associates in it,

but i try not to dwell on it. and i'm still trying to achieve my goals that i want to fulfill my dreams and to be in this relationship with an astonishing woman. all the couple. once the you social media to raise awareness about muscular dystrophy. and to show it life and love looks like in a relationship where one partner has a disability and the other doesn't you fast process now it's not being disabled doesn't mean that we can't share a relationship based on a quality or the sex and love have no place in our lives, just 6 lawrence new us. it's all part of our life, say is with us for so tranquil, sugar vision, pit on us over. people often ask us, so how does it work? how do you have sex? i always say morgan, you'll have to try it for yourselves. and then you'll see there are no set rules. your muslim fell all know who's us of posting openly about their lives together. also means talking about sex. i gotta avoid tech met 5 years ago and i've been

married for a few weeks. humor goes a long way and breaking down taboos. donna rosell, i'm really glad toys like this exists so lucky. it doesn't new as we around as well as i do. but you can't have everything on the schedule machine off one day they hope to have a more accessible apartment and children a shared life together. like any other family. i don't like them. what to do with relics at the past that have outlived their hate ape. some can be torn down, but others like this iconic british power plant in london, are simply too grand to be destroyed. barry reminisces with his son about the good old days when he used to work here as a young electrician. while the power plant used to serve as buckingham palace and the houses of parliament, it was even immortalized in hitchcock film. but the batter see power station was

decommissioned in 1983 and fell into ruin. now the spark has been re kindled on the river thames as the colossus caters to a new set of customers. ah, it was a temple of the industrial age. and one of london's most famous landmarks, the batter see power station. but after the last generator was shut down in the early 19 eighties, the former power station fell into disrepair. for decades, londoners feared for their landmark but now it's reopened and visitors are flocking . they are to rediscover the iconic building pole for example, used to claim into the ruins secretly at night. thou hoping the spaces will have retained some of their grand urine size. both a little bit deny bit worried that some of the commercial aspects who have taken some of the magic away the power station who's it's resurrection to international

investors who have meet at the heart of a new luxury development for the 1st time in 43 years barry has also come back to the plant. he's brought his son with him. as a young man. he worked here as an electrician. that a movie? yeah. those. oh ha. calling. oh there's. i'm believable for this is bringing by older memory. i got back then barry tells us on the phone, electricity was generated with cold and steam. roy, the smoke and steam that rose from the chimneys contributed to london's famous fog . all sorts of other things that needed to be disposed of for also burned here like expired bank notes. and those packs of bank notes didn't always fully insinuate. barry says that explains why some of his co workers suddenly appeared in very

expensive suits on their days. all i wanted roy, i mean, cuz what i should do was, yeah, sort of you should get back because i taught you packed sort of scenes. but inside money used to be absolutely fine. and it was, i'm trying to original money laundering from the past i shit. hole is exploring the other side of the all whole. this is where a few remnants of the former architecture have been preserved. why expect, is it sad really? all of the vastness of the space is don't disconnect. close it up with shops and that could be just any shopping center anywhere today the battery power station is a temple to money consumption and luxury for battery. that takes some, getting used to somebody this was, this was home, you know, such before it was a family, it really was

a family. well that building up there that place up there and control them. yeah. when you think about us, 250 megawatts of power in your control, you was controlling a sizable propulsion of west london. the power at your fingertips. yeah. and that just tells you something really interesting, just amazing. it really was really was amazing. the control room where barry worked was the heart of the power station. these days, hostile furious private events and is off limits to regular visitors. yeah, in a while m said the, getting the control room might be able to get smuggled into some strife. the vast control room was built entirely in the art deco style of the 1930 s a center of power from a time when industrial buildings still had a touch of the secret to them. meanwhile, paul has found another relic from back then

a smaller control center. this narrow shamperdeen bar hole used to sneak in here back when the power station was ruined and took photos of what he found. well, the whole bar, if you ignore that, this is almost exactly the same, really pretty cool, and the very be good. the former cathedral of red brick, a temple of the industrial revolution has been brought into the 21st century. the surrounding neighborhood is also being transformed for berry is almost unrecognizable until he finds a pope. he still remembers one. there is a society, i think, not just for bankruptcy, but for london as a whole per box where i was born anywhere along the river thames. there is a rich area, you know, and it wasn't gonna be done before. a battery and, and i am now i've eaten back. now. the poll says there are some other sites to. it

wasn't really great. i guess the everyone gets not just crazy adventures. who break in, you know, and it's a really beautiful thing to be able to see, and it's a very magnetic building. so i'm glad it's been said to people can come and see it, but there's a slight feeling of loss, something else that's gone as well. ah, the faster see power station may have lost some of its brand, your wedge between luxury residential complexes. but the old icon is still standing and in london ravaged by wealth. that's something worth celebrating. a prayer for peace at a sanctuary in france. the area around the capital, paris is a melting pot of religions, and at times of faith has been used as a tool to divide society. but in this paris suburb of muslim and jewish worshippers

are embracing their differences, the multi faith district of lucy, san george has launched a project aimed at promoting dialogue and tolerance. * called the esplanade of religions. it's creating spaces for people of many different faiths, to worship, and their doors are open to every one. dominique fontaine is preparing for church service. he's the catholic priest in brazil. george. the guests include clerk, vin dish, and bernard, jacques. they're all connected by their collaboration on an unusual project. pittsville ford was a career. i'm delighted to welcome you today through and that you come here a lot of good movies, all of his other christians, jews, and buddhists, are worshiping together. nothing out of the ordinary for both seasons. george. we're just trying to say i find it moving that they come to the church. it shows the bonds of their friendship. no. come. so guy,

so little. it's like the whole world is coming together. and you don't, you who's the owner of this inner faith day shows us. there's another way of living together in this world that's becoming more and more chaotic. because lucy, st. george is a typical french suburb, 30 kilometers to the east of paris. half of its 30000 residents have a migration background. that's nothing unusual here. but the esplanade, if elysium or esplanade of religions is a special place, one of a kind in europe. each of the major world religions has its own house of worship, here in shawls. it's also unique opportunity of whether we can be true neighbors on the same street bowler ma'am, ma'am? oh mia dar has invited every one to the buddhist temple for tea. they've been holding these meetings for 10 years with all religions at one table

together they work. talk and celebrate the most important religious holidays. and like all houses of worship in france, their only funding is through donations for mia dar shows the visitors around the temple. it was one of the 1st buildings along the esplanade of religions. and it's also one of the biggest buddhist centers outside of asia. mia, dar, came to france herself, as a refugee from vietnam leave was dental to leave them. my neighbors here have become friends, but it doesn't matter what their religion us. we live as brothers and sisters where i was like one big family, went on it on sunday. our next stop is the synagogue a temporary set up in a container. come in clothing, dish as president of the local jewish community. oh, i'm very happy to welcome you in our little synagogue synagogue senior young lawyer

. he shows the visitors the most holy artifact in the synagogue the tora scroll. much of what is recounted in the torah finds echoes in their own religions on i to from india. we all have similar themes, the same rules. for example, autrand. dow shalt not kill signal that's in the qur'an, the gospels. and the torah is an all religions. if you don't really work from his family, charlie, the president of the local islamic community agrees he had a special role to play here after the devastating islamist attacks in 2015. come yet miss. i mean morphy, luna, and all my friends did me the honor of asking me to speak. after all, it was about muslims, and we were suddenly in the spotlight law category. i publicly commend the attacks categorically and made an appeal for us to live together in harmony to mos on the mosque is one of the most popular places of worship in boise saint george,

magnificent and simple at the same time, like all other religious buildings and lucy, saint george, it is open to all of them and that openness has shaped the political climate here. boss walker saw the peaceful coexistence of all religions here. this has an impact on the community. he demila garza says 2015 the extremes. parties like le pans was on the mall national ext, i've been getting 10 percent less votes here than in neighboring cities. i, for the books onto more cur, dolly video of the whole not the esplanade of religions is not yet complete. a hindu temple is still in planning, and a new synagogue will be built right next to the mosque family show. he has collected donations for the project, including from muslims. if you're from the google to little to clue, of course i asked code for permission group for us and he said yes. right? so i went ahead with it is possible. okay, good. yeah. you know who the most,

you know, of course it comes up. it really touched me mirror and the whole thing ended like this. all really, that's friendship. something truly special for the big song. an example to build on as we embark on a new year. thanks so much for joining us today. we hope you enjoyed our program, bye for now. ah . ah. ah, ah, with

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