welcome to take talk about checkers, paralyzing tire systems, computers, summer, and government. they go crazy for your data. we explain how these technologies work, how they can confer, how they can also go terribly, watch it now on you to choose . this is focus on europe. i'm liable, 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 spiked compared to a year ago and applications within the e u. r. at their highest since 2015 in northern italy, francesco cher, bought his hometown of tree as 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 a some of spent 3 months in this room on a low mid thought that when it started getting cold, warm as 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 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 towards de la lydia. they leave the hide out in head to piazza del alberta, freedom square. it was their 1st point of arrival for hussein and air thought to one month to month. so to be on the 4 months voicemail yet is i've got to hear that i i have if you're going to go, i didn't. did i give you in, in florida? so far? yeah. really just for i will and i'll walk in 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 she bought you and the volunteers from the lena dampier 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 along with us. 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'd 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. it isn't present again, but they still don't get it on it. so i don't even at all, 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. i'm not. if i create accommodation for x number of refugee, ron and corbin, more and more will county. 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, shall i make room for these unfortunate souls. see the gambles, though in place, that is to be 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 patio ne, from the organization i see us tells us a lot in the pocket. he'll all method, we're very close this. the lenient border law. colusid. that's why the reception center so overcrowded. hilda 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 more love, respectfully, in our 20 beds are nowhere near enough when you think of the hundreds of people we see every day i was setting up is all waiting for a place in the reception center guy that he 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 is on you. but for our marin, his friends and other cold triest 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 or lake county choke 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. the view natalia just left corner took his arriving for work at the children's hospital and 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 bearing. since 3rd, in the 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 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, 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, 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 more. why do we hope this horrible situation will come to an end most of week night thumbs. the point should 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 more power is the least of our worries. you should. people are dying in this war. if the power goes out, we just wait 2 or 3 hours each, sir. as long as everyone's safe will manage this patient is lucky and gets his filling. the day before a young soldier arrived the 2 thick. and then the power went out. the yellow chick only 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 later and we tried to help him as best we could. he was over there, some of some english read. oh, how shootin has been a dentist for years? she takes a situation and straight. yes in there, i'm wanting to get them. if there is no power here, we just don't come. we sit and we stay home with our families. we did said on my husband and i live on the 16th floor. living on the 16th floor is

a problem because no power means no elevator. august husband alexandra has a heart condition and can't take the stairs. this winter has been hard on them. even cooking can be difficult unless it took them to leave. i was just when there's power, we cook everything straight away. the starter. the main dish dessert usually. when the power's 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 thousands 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 neonatal intensive care unit or left granite you is tending to his tiny patients. it's his life's work. you're the

memorable year. i could have gone to germany a while ago. i've got relatives there. still you have been there for more than 35 years. my family is with them since they left after about 6 weeks under russian occupation near keith. but i won't leave your whistler. i can't, who would take care of these babies who need all the help we can give them for, for, for all a 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. who has 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 acknowledgment 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. chasing aloe vera check. yoga and a gutter isn't for you for and together we run the life on wheels channel for google. we want to find a tolerance against people with disabilities in for the rest of us. rush, giant, void tech and i got our newly weds. the relationship may not always be easy, but they make it work. voice has to send muscular dystrophy and incurable disease that leads to progressive muscle weakness. he's been in a wheelchair since he was 9 years old. i ha, my disease is progressing,

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android jack met 5 years ago and had been married for a few weeks. humor goes a long way and breaking down taboos don't rows of, of castles. 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. do anything them? what to do with relics of the past that have out live there have some can be torn down, but others like this i conic 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. 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 ruin. now

the spark has been rekindled on the river thames. as the colossus caters to a new set of customers. the it was a temple of the industrial age and one of london's most famous landmarks, the mattress, the 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 landmarks. but now it's reopened, and visitors are flocking. they are to rediscover. the iconic building pole for example, used to climb into the ruins secretly at night. so i'm hoping the faces will retain some of their grand you're in size, but also a little bit to know why that some of the commercial aspects of taking some of the

magic away in the power station was it's resurrection to international investors who have made it 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. i'm nervous. yeah. i'm believable pay this is brittany, very memory back then. barry tells us on the electricity was generated with cold and steam white, 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 there was packs of bank notes and always philly, incinerator. berries says that explains why some of his coworkers suddenly appeared

in very expensive suits on their days. all right, i mean, cuz what they should do was, yeah, sort of it used to get done because they were taught you packed. yeah, so let me see, but inside money used to be absolutely fine. and it was, i'm trying to original money laundering from the past i ship whole 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 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 which are wrong with somebody that was this was hung 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 wasn't writing 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 skies. 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 now

a champagne bar. whole usa sneak in here back when the power station was ruined and took photos of what he found. the whole bar. if you ignore that, this is almost exactly the same, really pretty cool and the very beautifully so 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 barry is almost unrecognizable until he finds a pump. 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 thames. there is a rich area, you know, and it wasn't gonna be done before a, in a battery and,

and i am now and i've eaten betsy. now. the poll says there are some other sites to, it was really great. i guess the everyone gets noticed. 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 of something else that's gone as well. ah, the pastor 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 a 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 faith has been used as a tool to divide society. but in this paris suburb muslim and jewish worshippers

are embracing their differences. the multi faith is jacob lucy. so 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 faith to worship. and their doors are open to everyone. dominique phone cane is preparing for a church service. he's a catholic priest into the soul. george. the guests include clod, vin, deece, and bernard jack. they're all connected by their collaboration on an unusual project. the silver was like a yield. i'm delighted to welcome you to day through and that you come here a lot of good movies. all abuses are christians, jews, and buddhists are worshiping together. nothing out of the ordinary for proceed son george. and we're just going to say, i find it moving that they come to the church league. it shows the bonds of their

friendship. don't come. so got so little. it's like the whole world is coming together. and you're the only visit owners of this in our 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 the 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 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, city schools, it's also unique opportunity was a we can be true neighbors on the same street as well. paula, m m m m m. 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. it was dental to leave them. my neighbors here if become friends. importantly, it doesn't matter what their religionist. we live as brothers and sisters where i was like one big family when only on funding. our next stop is the synagogue a temporary set up in a container. come in clothing, dish as president of the local jewish community. liquor hall, i'm very happy to welcome you in our little synagogue in aggregate senior yo yo yo

. 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 that to flamin disc, we all have similar themes, the same rules me. for example, autrand. thou shalt not kill signal that's in the qur'an, the gospels, and the tora isn't 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. come here to 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 more ethical. 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 blue season shows, it is open to all them and that openness has shaped their political climate. here, boss walker saw the peaceful coexistence of all religions here. this has an impact on the community. he did meet garza since 2015. the extremist parties like le pans was on them all. national ext. i've been getting 10 percent less boots here than in neighboring cities. oh, for the books, aldermore cur. dolly view 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. flatly show, he has collected donations for the project, including from muslims. if you're from the little google toys as shown to clue, of course i asked code for permission cuz you 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, it really touched me. america and the whole thing ended like this more, really, that's friendship. something truly special for the big home. 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, with

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