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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 with in the u. r. at their highest since 2015 in northern italy, francesco chair 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 square on thursday wanted to so they're almost 50 people staying here at the moment. funded the get someone to continue the journey northwards. people arriving in italy through the balkan route to quote on this and wanting to so there are almost 50 people staying here at the moment, funded someone to continue the journey northwards. and it starts getting cold, warm as if these barracks were built on whatever for a dawn of other. cuz typically because at the remarks he thumb, la 18 year old, a mare in his pakistan more than 3 years ago. they crossed through iran and ended up in turkey. it took them several with all disorders and he keeps getting push back to turkey and 14 times from greece and 5 times from bulgaria laws to the lydia

freedom square. it was their 1st point of arrival for hussein and air fight to one month to month out of yard 3 for money. did i give you a new board of search for? yeah, really just for i will and i'll walk him since i'm in 2021. about $4000.00 migrants and refugees arrived and november alone, francesco she body and the volunteers from the linea danbury association. provide them with clothes information on their rights and a hot meal to asia along. so we feed between 30 and 40 people a day, another and sometimes is one under 20 because they saw the record was in the summer, 174 people. on one day, francesco says the state and the city authorities are providing little by way of support for an imaginary citizens, alibaba, one, the authorities are indifferent, and even though it's their duty to find the refugees, a place to stay and the others, i think many of them have applied for

a silo many and have a right to accommodation. this 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 in 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 refugees, i don't call then more and more will com. emma? that's the problem on compass things. and i'll remind you of that. it's not our responsibility on it, but if it is the preferred separate door the prefecture, though in place that is to music therapy, the lucky ones find refuge in this former scout home. but it is already hopelessly overcrowded. asylum seekers. as davida patrone from the organization, i see us tells us i love the pokey law method. we're very close this loving and

bordering, arrive, and just stay a short time. then they're distributed to another part of italy for the integration process. taylor, right, it's not working. now. there isn't enough space. we're not far from the piazza. dana liberty refugees can warm up in the day center. on the upper floor, there are some places to to get the shower show. and we, we try to play something like to change yourself when fall still love, respectfully are 20 beds are nowhere near enough. when you think of the hundreds of people we see every day on western all waiting for a place in the reception, the center of the night. if you will, and i'm of is on your but for a marin, his friends and other cold tree us tonight awaits amidst the rubbish and the cardboard box. 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 for olay corney. chuck is working hard to keep his intensive care unit operational and to provide medical care to his patient. his main task, folding around him. the view natalia just left corner took his arriving for work at a children's hospital and keith 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 from students, unlike adults, babies aren't able to regulate their body temperature blur. they don't have the body fat and are 2. we can ventilate the infants manually for a while. so 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 in case the park 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 i'll because the electricians have repaired a lot. why do we hope this horrible situation will come to an end? most of week, nathan's appointed a few frequent and often unannounced power outages. 3 of them are incapable, your power is the least of our worries you should use for our people are dying and as long as everyone safe will manage this patient is lucky and gets his filling the d before a young soldier arrived the too thick and then the power went out said yellow chick ali night, but we sat there waiting this way. he was patient to help him as best we could. him

was over there some of my new shred. oh hush. tina has been a dentist for years. she takes a situation and straight. yes, in that i'm wondering is it said though, my husband and i live on the 16th floor, living on the 16th floor is a problem. because no power means no elevator. 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 star still 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 push nicole invincibility stations. it's a police to catch their breath with hot t warmth and electricity to charge their phones. back in the muni to intensive care unit or left furniture is tending to his tiny patients. it's his life's work. your them i've got relatives there. you have been there for more than

35 years. in me. my family is with family lebeau. at suburban ford. they left after about 6 weeks under russian occupation near keith. but i won't leave your whistler. i can't. who will take fuller cornet you is determined to stay right now. he's gathering donations to buy portable incubators to take infant who 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 dad's 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 new things around channel life on wheels with openness and breaking with stereotypes surrounding love. i hello rentals channel

is with us. 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. 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 stuff in 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 home 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 century with us for photo transfer, sugar just fit on us. ever. people often ask us, so how does it work? how do you have sexy?

i always say, well, you'll have to try it for yourselves and then you'll see there are no set rules. we're not love fellow who is also posting openly about their lives together. also means talking about sex. i gotta go, i tech met 5 years ago and had been married for a few weeks. humor goes a long way and breaking down taboos don't want. it doesn't know his way 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 doing what to do with relics of the path that have out lived there have some can be torn down, but others like this i conic british power plant in learned 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. 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 which reopened and visitors are flocking. they are to rediscover the iconic building pole, for example, used to climb into the ruins, secretly at night. thou hoping the spaces will have retained some of their grand urine size, but also

a little bit the power station owes its resurrection to international investors who have meet at the heart of a new luxury development. and back to the plant. he brought his son with him as a young man. he worked here as an electrician. another yeah those. oh ha calling. oh theres unbelievable for you to just bring you back over to memory. and she got back. 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. barry 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 cuz they were taught you packed. yeah. so it was,

i'm trying to original money laundering from the past i ship whole is exploring the others kind of why i expected side. really. all of the vastness of the space is gone. just going to close it up with the 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 on, you know, such before it was a family. it really was a family. well that building up there that place up there that 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's just so was just something really, it's just, it's just amazing. it really was, every was a mighty the control room were very works was the visitors. yeah. in a while,

am side to get in the control room might be able to get smuggled into some strife. she'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 which is of he found the whole bar if you ignore that, this is almost exactly the same, really pretty cool. and then kept to 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 the pope, he still remembers one. there is a society i think,

so where always po, 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 i've eaten back see now but poll says there are some of the sites to it doesn't be great, i guess the everyone gets to 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 bad magnetic building. so i'm glad it's been say to people can come and see it, but there's a slight the faster see power station may have lost some of its grand, your wage between luxury residential complexes. but the old icon is still standing and in london ravaged by wealth, 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, their differences, the multi faith. this jacob lucy saw george had launched a project aimed at promoting dialogue. intolerance 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, it's preparing for a church service. he's a catholic priest into the san jose. the guests include cloud, vin, dees, and bernard jack to silva does occur yield. i'm delighted to welcome you to day through the and that you come here a lot of good movies, all of his his as the ordinary for the 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. don't come so gossip. little. it's like the whole world is coming together. said you don't even notice this in our faith day shows us . there's another way of living together in this world that's mixing 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 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 to do so. it's also unique opportunity of was a we can be true neighbors on the same street as well. paula m. m. m m m. o. mia di has invited every one to the buddhist temple for tea. they've been holding these meetings for 10 years with all religions that one 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 da neighbors here if

become friends importantly, it doesn't matter what their religionist. we live as brothers and sisters to ours. like one big family on a on a container. come in clothing. dish is president of the local jewish community. luther hor, i'm very happy to welcome you in our little synagogue synagogue, senior young. you know you have to. he shows the visitors the most holy artifact in the synagogue the tora, scroll to flamin disk. we all have similar themes, the same rules me, for example, autrand. thou shalt not kill, see, don't go, that's in the qur'an, the gospels. and the tora isn't all religions. if you don't think it would work for me. c, 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 more for the learners. you know, my friends did me the honor of asking me to speak whitelaw 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 them all 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 impact on the community. demeanor garza says 2015 the extremes. parties like le pans was on the mall national ext. i've been getting 10 percent less votes here. 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. family show, he has collected donations for the project, including from muslims, a little google toys are shown to load. of course i asked code for permission cuz of course, and he said yes. right. so i went ahead with it is possible. okay, good. yeah,

you know who the most you know of lee. that's friendship. something truly special. so 6 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, with

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