in the 16th century, men's being a captain and setting sail to discover a route, a race linked to military interest, race linked to political and military proceed. but also linked to my financial venture full of hardships. my jillions journey around start january 19th. ah, this is focus on europe. i'm lar, bubble 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 within the u. r. at their highest since 2015 in northern italy, francesco you bought, he's 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 root squat on thursday. 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 some of spend 3 months in this room on a little mid thought that when it starts getting cold, warm as if these barracks were built for 200 though on of other. cuz typically, cars at the remarks is on the why 18 year old a mare and his friends have been here for several weeks. a mayor tells 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 with all disorders,

and he keeps getting pushed back to turkey and 14 times from greece and 5 times from bulgaria, thores de lydia. they leave the hide out and head to piazza del alberta freedom square. it was their 1st point of arrival for hussein and heir thought to one monster, one side of the odd 34 months voicemail yet is i've come to the other than i did. if you're going to go, i didn't, did i give you a new ford and sentra? yeah, really just for i will. and i'll walk. and since up 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 danbury association, provide them with clothes information on their rights and a hot meal. and i'm like when we order 15 to 40 roast chickens every day,

depending on the situation that get even to one another. so we feed between 30 and 40 people a day, and i think sometimes is when under 20 think 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 and the obvious, i think many of them have applied for a silo many and have a right to accommodation. it isn't present, but they still don't get it. don't think so, i don't even it also, the mayor dismisses these accusations. he says he's done a lot in his 16 years an 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 brother,

carry out him. that if i create accommodation for x number of refugee rockwell, then more and more will com. 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 preferred separate door, the prefecture should open the empty military barracks and make room for these unfortunate soul. see the gambles, though in place there is good music affecting 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 patio, ne, from the organization i see us tells us aladdin's pocket. he'll all method we're very close this the lenient border law. colusid, that's why the reception center. so over crowded tilden de la la, normally people arrive and just stay a short time, the civil then they're distributed to another part of italy for the integration process. little child. right? 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 so much love, respect, village in our 20 beds are nowhere near enough. when you think of the hundreds of people we see every day i was sitting up 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, another 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 continued 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, or lake county choke is working hard to keep his intensive care, unit operational, and to provide medical care to his patients. his main task to shield the fragile premies and newborns in his ward from the violence unfolding around him. you in a toll just left corner took his 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. hearing some student, unlike adults,

babies aren't able to regulate their body temperatures blur they don't have the body fat and are too immature on the new skin with. so if the power were to go out, we can ventilate the em fence manually for a while. so i live in yesterday too, but in the end they wouldn't make it so long, long there was a year for billboard tours, notify hospitals do have safeguards in 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, medical, fema. it's like the end of the world in the movie. armageddon making the winter feels endless. some things are a bit better now because the electricians have repaired a lot. we hope this horrible situation will come to an end. most of week nathan's appointment. 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 there, probably or 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 this patient is lucky and gets his filling the d before a young soldier arrived the toothache. and then the power went out. the yellow chick all night, but we sat there waiting. what they said when he was patient because he knew he needed treatment. he was heading to the front in a week. jason, we tried to help him as best we could. he was over there. st. mark's management. who has she? tina has been a dentist for years. she takes a situation and straight. yes. in that i would thing is to get them if there is no power here. we just don't come. we sit and we stay home with our families and we just don't want my husband and i live on. the 16th floor is 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, it took 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. these people here have to make, do the government to set up fusions of heat attempts across the country, which they call invincibility stations. it's a pleased to catch their breath with hot tea, warmth, and electricity to charge their phones back in the new needle intensive care unit or left chronic chak is tending to his tiny patients. it's his life's work. you

have them in the mama were you could, i could have gone to germany a while ago. i've got relatives there at old studio, have been there for more than 35 years and my family is with them. it's a ballpark 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 foolish or neat. you is determined to stay right now. he's gathering donations to buy portable incubators to take infant down into the shelter when russian bombs rein down all his resolve and dedication to his patients is indeed remarkable to love and to be love. 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 got to 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. i hello, verify, check. yes and a gotta is of roger from together. we run the life on wheels channel for google. we want to find a tolerance against people with disabilities. if it is not. so if it was a flash, giant void, take and a 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, or simply,

addison are fits in it, but i try not to dwell on it. and i'm still trying to achieve my goals. federal 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 get from scratch. 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. which is 61 a genie was, it's all part of our life a is. this is for so trans flush, a garage, a fit on us ever people often ask us, so how does it work? how do you have sex? i always say one of them, you'll have to try it for yourselves and then you'll see there are no set rules clear. muslim stud all know is up posting openly about their lives together. also means talking about sex. i got android tech met 5 years ago and had been married

for a few weeks. humor goes a long way and breaking down taboos to one of the rules of, of crystal. i'm really glad toys like this exists lucky. it doesn't newest way around as well as i do, but you can't have everything either. skirmishing off one day they hope to have a more accessible apartment and children a shared life together. like any other family. you know to them what to do with relics of the path that have out live there have some can be torn down, but others like this. i conic british power plant in london are simply to grand to be destroyed. barry reminisces with his son about the good old days when he used to work here as a young electrician. well, the power plant used to service buckingham palace and the houses of parliament. it was even immortalized in hitchcock film, but the battery power station was decommissioned in 1983 and fell into ruins. now

the spark has been rekindled 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. though 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 who fell nervous. yes, it does. oh ha calling. oh there's. i'm believable for this is bringing back 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 hauling warning roy. i mean, cuz what i should, i was yeah, sort of, you should get burned cuz i was taught you packed sort of scenes. but inside money used to be absolutely fine, and it was on traceable original money laundering from the past, i should haul is exploring the other side of the old home. this is where a few remnants of the former architecture have been preserved. why expect is that? it's really all of the vastness of the space is gone. that's going to 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 just with me this was, this was home 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 was really was amazing. the control room where barry works with 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 notion pain bar paul used to sneak in here back when the power station was a ruin 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 kept it very bitterly. so 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 sense of sided, i think, not just for bankruptcy, but for london as a whole per box where i was anywhere along the river times there is a rich area, you know, and it wasn't gonna be done before a battery and, and i am now and i've eaten betsy now,

but pulses that are some of the sites to it doesn't be great. i guess the everyone gets noticed. crazy adventures who break in, you know, and it's a really beautiful things to be able to see. and it's a very magnetic building. so i'm glad it's been say to people can come and see it, but there's a slight feeling of loss of something else that's gone as well. ah, the faster see power station near last, some of his friends are wedged 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 devise society. but in this paris suburb muslim and jewish worshippers

are embracing their differences. the multi faith district of bushy san george has launched a project aimed at promoting dialogue in 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 jack, they're all connected by their collaboration on an unusual project. this year with was i could you. i'm delighted to welcome you today through the and that you come here a lot of good movies, all abuses as christians, jews, and buddhists are worshiping together. nothing out of the ordinary for busy seasons, george, which is plenty 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. said don't, don't you who's ago? this is my this inner faith day shows us. there's another way of living together in this world that's becoming more and more chaotic. we want to go to lucy saint george's, a typical french suburb, 30 kilometers to the east of paris. half of it's $30000.00 residents have a migration background. that's nothing unusual here. but the esplanade diff, 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 the neighbors on the same street bowl m. m m m m. oh, mia di 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 me are 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 azazel to lisa me. my neighbors here have become friends. importantly, it doesn't matter what their religionists. we live as brothers and sisters to ours, 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 is president of the local jewish community. or i'm very happy to welcome you in our little synagogue in aggregate senior young,

the lawyer. he shows the visitors the most holy artifact in the synagogue. the taurus scroll. much of what is recounted in the torah finds echoes in their own religions on that too, from india squeal have similar themes. the same rules me. for example, autrand, thou shalt not kill cigar, that's in the koran, the gospels and the tora. it's an all religions if you don't think it would work for missy. sadly, charlie, the president of the local islamic community agrees. he had a special role to play here after the devastating islamist attacks in 2015 conjugated museum in 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. more 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. demean garza says 2015. the extremist parties like le pans was on the mall national ex i've been getting 10 percent less votes here than in neighboring cities. oh, for the books, aldermore, cur. dolly vill of the or 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. fagley chow. he has collected donations for the project, including from muslims, a google toys as shown to clothe. of course i asked code for permission because of cross 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, it really touched me. america and the whole thing ended like this. really, that's friendship. something truly special to fix on 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, ah ah

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