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i'm you are a 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 year has spikes compared 2015. in northern italy, francesco to bodies, home town of triest, has become a popular spot for asylum seekers and their 1st in weeks. many of the migrants have just completed an arduous journey on foot, often crossing borders illegally. they flee along this 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're left to find the railway station interest in the ruins of an ancient greenery. 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's never seen so many people

arriving in italy through the balkan root square on t is wanting to saw 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 on a little me thought that what the as a remark 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 little disorders of he keeps getting pushed back to turkey and 14 times from greece and 5 times from bulgaria towards the lydia freedom square. it was their 1st point of arrival for hussein and efforts to one month to month out of the odd 34 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? and sarah. yeah, really just for i will and i'll walk and since i'm in the port city in 2022, around 5000, came in october and november alone, francesco she bought you and the volunteers from the lena dom, but you know like when we order 15 to 40 rose chickens every day, depending on the situation that get even along with that. so we feed between 30 and 40 people a day. and i think sometimes 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. o voc, 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. this person again, but they still don't get it on it. so as 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. say brother, carry out. i'm not. if i create accommodation for x number of refugees, i don't corbin more and more will com. emma? that's the problem uncle bit things and i'll remind you that it's not our responsibility at it. but if it is the prefect slippery 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. asylum seekers as davida patrone 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 over crowd at hilton 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, but it's not working now. there isn't enough space. david works not far from the

piazza del alberta. says to see, to get the shower, joe and we, we, we fight to find something like change yourself. when people feel from a move people we see every day i was sitting up is all waiting for a place in the reception center. got that he got m theory 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, number was on your but for a mayor and his friends and other cold tree s 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 like in the capital keys . hospitals here are also feeling the impact of war or lake county. chuck is

working hard to keep his intensive care unit operate to shield the fragile premies and newborns in his ward from the violence unfolding around him. you and told us both, 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. during since 3rd in the unlike adult swim a chair and the new schemer for him in the steering. so if the power where to go out, we can ventilate the infants manually for a while. i live in yesterday, g a. smith, hospitals do have safeguards and case the power was act. but this cable leads to the diesel generators. he obtained him. when you got seen him up, it's like the end of the world in the movie armageddon. thank you for the winter

feels endless. some things are a bit better, natural ation will come to an end. but most of week my thumbs appointed a few kilometers away. this dentist office is near the city center here too. they have to volunteer properly and power is the least of our worries. michigan for people are dying in this war. if the power goes out, we just wait 2 or 3 hours each, sir. this patient is lucky and gets his filling. the day before a young soldier arrived the toothache. and then the power went out. said yellow chic ali 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 and we tried to help him as best we could. him was over, their stomach smugness with oh ha, shootin 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 is living on the 16th floor. is

a problem because no power means no elevator holders 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 if 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 power who from a year have to make do the government to set up phases of heat attempts across the country, which they call invincibility stations. it's a place to catch their breath. back in the new natal intensive care unit, all that credit you is tending to his tiny patience. it's his life's work. you're 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, but i won't leave no loosely. i can't for them who would take care of these babies

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talking about sex. i gotta enjoy tech met 5 years ago and i've been married friends like them. what to do with relics at the path 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 their 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, but also a little bit deny bit worried that some of the commercial aspects who have taken some of the magic away the power station owes its 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 late. he's brought his son with him. as a young man, he worked here as an electrician in federal noted yet

both ha croyt. oh there's i'm believable for you. just bring you back over to memory. i got back then barry tells us on the phone. hell, tricity 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. ali wanted roy, i mean, cuz what they should do was, yeah, sort of you should get back because i taught you packed sort of scenes, but inside money used to be you know, absolutely fine. i think. so 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. expected exhibit sod, really. all of the vastness of the space is gone. it'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 home, you know, such before it was a family, it really was a family. well that building up there that place out 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 just something really it just, it's just amazing. it really was, every was a mighty the control room where barry worked was the heart of the power station.

these days, host luxurious private events and is off limits to regular visitors. yeah. in a while i am side on getting the control room. my be able to get smuggled into some space. 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, paula found another relic from back then a smaller control center. this now a champagne bar hole used to sneak in here back when the power station was ruined and took photos of what he found. well, there's a whole bar. if you ignore that, this domain is exactly the same, really pretty cool, and the kept it very easy to get 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 sense of sided, i think, not just for bankruptcy, but for, for london is a home for books. so where i was born anywhere along the river table, there is a rich area, you know, and it wasn't going to be done before. and i am now i've eaten that. see now paul says there are some of the sites to it doesn't be great. i guess the everyone gets to it now, not just crazy adventures who break it and 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 said to be able to come and see it. but there's a slight feeling of loss of something else that is gone as well. ah,

the faster see power station may have lost some of its brand, 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 of 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 district boost east on 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 a catholic priest in boozy. so george, the guests include clerk, vin,

diesel, 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 are christians, jews, and buddhists are worshiping together. nothing out of the ordinary for bassy san george. and 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 got a little, it's like the whole world is coming together. and really the only physical uses this inner faith day shows us. there's another way of living together in this world that's becoming more and more chaotic. we don't, we don't lucy, saint. 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 def

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 to do so. it's also unique opportunity of whether we can be true the neighbors on the same street as well. paula: mm hm. mm hm. 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 an sultan with them. my neighbors here have become friends reported. it doesn't matter what their religion us. we live as brothers and sisters where i was like one big family on a, on a, 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. oh, i'm very happy to welcome you in our little synagogue. what's in there? greg? young? the 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 swim disk. we all have similar themes, the same rules me. for example, autrand, thou shalt not kill see gold. that's in the qur'an, the gospels and the tora. it's an all religions if you don't think it would work

for missy. sally, charlie, the president of the local islamic community agrees. he had a special role to play here after the devastating islamist attacks in 2015 conduit misery and morphy lunar if you know, my friends did me, the honor of asking me to speak after all, it was about muslims. and we were suddenly in the spotlight. mark, i think i publicly commend the attacks categorically and made an appeal for us to live together and harmonize to mos on the mosque is one of the most popular places of worship in boost. he saw 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 their political climate. here, boss walker saw the peaceful coexistence of all religions. here it has an impact on the community. he did meet garza since 2015. the extremist parties like le pans was on them all. 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. frankly, show he has collected donations for the project, including from muslims. a google toys are shown to clothe, of course i asked code for permission, good for us. and he said yes. right? so i went ahead with it. is pasco 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. all 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

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