tv Focus on Europe Deutsche Welle February 2, 2023 12:30am-1:01am CET
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they need the video, nevada they have to beg for those songs to sing along to download the code from super munsey often using varied courses into active exercises are available at the w dot com slash dogs on facebook in the learn german for free with d, w the news. hello and welcome to focus on europe. it's great to have you with us. for many people in turkey day to day life has become far too expensive. due largely to the dire economic situation. the country is facing. and soaring,
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inflation under president everyone's government, the price of food has skyrocketed. meanwhile, energy prices have risen in tandem as have the costs of renting an apartment or buying a home or condo. that's especially true in turkey's most popular vacation areas. but here it's mainly russians who are driving prices up. turkey is one of the only countries you can still fly to directly from moscow. and for russians on how you, on the mediterranean coast is not only a beautiful city to vacation and but a refuge from the consequences of russia's war against ukraine. but the rising real estate prices mean that locals in antalya, like mostly ya, sher and their main pasha, may soon no longer be able to afford their homes. antalya on the mediterranean coastline is one of turkey's biggest cities. even in winter, you can spend a day at the beach here. so it's no wonder that an talia's real estate market is
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booming. but the main reason for the weekly price hike is the growing number of russians who've been coming ever since the war and ukraine started looking to buy or rent homes. it's left residence like mussa, yosh are and narrow mean touches struggling with the cities. in some cases, real estate prices are off by a to 900 percent up on my shock. even civil servants can't afford to live here anymore. like i know several who've asked to be transferred because of the high rents. give me my she could, i could all letter the all yasser and touched a created group on social media called rent victims there visiting a pensioner who has been served notice by his landlord. he can't afford his rent after a fivefold increase. alicia lewis ivy is over. how much of a customer we haven't got a flat will now go to a foreigner. they have more money to spend in a month than we do in
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a year and make bottoms. hello, david, got on to so i time for the states to step it usa law. they need to provide social housing so that we low income families also have a place to live with somebody with other going to list a letter or a list of scenarios. they feel the main reason why real estate prices have skyrocketed is the growing number of foreign buyers. most buyers are russian, and there are nearly 60000 russians currently living in antalya, according to real estate agents. this has drastically impacted the market basically that i found the apartments that were put on the market for a $5000.00 lire, us or about $250.00 euros, could suddenly be rented to foreigners for 3 times the price. when neighbors caught on to this problem, they began demanding the same rent, sim, caution, like a bamboo m causing one b chevalier. the rent activists are feeling increasingly frustrated. not to be did is that anyone who comes here should be allowed to live as they please. that's
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absolutely fine. it's when it's at the expense of our children, our future, that it becomes a problem with the cities orthodox parish serves as a meeting place for many russians. several of the men here came in case russia introduced as a draft. the metropolitan bishop tells us, others came to turkey because of the international sanctions against their country . oh davi taught us already came to antalya before the war broke out. for him, the church choir offers a connection to home. oh, he says it has become increasingly difficult to gain a foothold in antalya even for russians, justice, all of them, especially in the 1st weeks, it's hard to find an apartment or even a job of business issues. people ask me for advice all the time. but unfortunately on, i'm not always able to help. i do. you have to own a business or real estate i will about kicking by business. i'm
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a little dental san f is an i t specialist. he like sitting on the turkish riviera, working way on his laptop, but he's aware that although he can afford to rent upwards of 500 euros, many turkish people are being left behind. also, so i thought on them we follow the requirements made by turkish authorities and otherwise let the market guide us. when looking for housing, you can't blame us for the economic and social consequences of that system. let me give up it for medical, but in lieu, say ya, shars eyes, there is blame to go around when it comes to the housing crisis. and some lies with politicians. he wants to confront the head of the inner city district where most russians have settled to which i did love you in the past. foreigners used to come here on vacation, although they book one or 2 week package holidays on the level that they didn't buy houses and settle. here we love the little blue shield. oh,
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my didn't different percentage of foreign tenants or homeowners in a district exceeds 20 percent. the real estate market is close to foreigner, looking to copy a free district, sir in antalya already have such a band in place since last july. again that in libby la nick about the letter buffalo, can you at least help affected citizens like me to find an apartment alejandro home from southern oh, well that's not my job. that's up to the agents. oh, when yosh are picks his daughter up from school, he still doesn't have a new apartment to tell her about. he puts on a brave face, but his despair is growing. the rising lance in antalya may soon force residents like massage are to leave their hometown. i having financial worries as a struggle all too many romanians know as well. the country is one of the poorest in the e u. and in rural regions, even a visit to the doctor constrain
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a monthly budget to the breaking point in the village of hotel. a many people don't have health insurance, and the nearest doctor is so far away that the journey alone is prohibitively expensive. luckily, there are doctors who can help like the ones behind me here. their motto is if the patient can't come to the doctor, then the doctor has to go to the patient free of charge. it's 6 30 am in the romanian capital eucharist visa model. dolly is meeting a friend who will be taking her to the remotest parts of the country. she's training to be a nurse and volunteers for the aide organization. corvana cool, mid each or doctor is caravan. the visa has a long day of work ahead of her for which she won't get paid. but she's committed to helping disadvantage people in her home country as n o combine. yeah. as part of the campaign,
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we're promoting good health by offering screenings to those in need body. o 5. the help of other volunteers such as myself, we can provide a number of complex medical screenings. people just wouldn't have access to otherwise said his name that he got. he wants to put that on to the complex there. this time she's heading to hotel daily, a remote village in southern romania. it's gymnasium is being re purpose has a medical center for the day. by evening, the 3 doctors and 5 nurses sent by the organization. will it examine over 75 patients? one of the 1st in for a checkup is lenti itself as a lot the 72 year old has lived alone since her husband died in august. no doctor was there to help him. when you quite a bit a bit, he passed very quickly. one of the he had a thrombosis in his left leg, which went untreated. he law woman, that then his heart failed and he died on the spot. so would it be?
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lin, teacher, basilica has only $200.00 euros a month, which leaves no money for health insurance or private doctors. it's a situation familiar to many here. places like hotel daily are typical of rural romania. there are hardly any jobs here and incomes are low. many don't have health insurance and get by on the little day grow on their farms and in their gardens. misha, ala about us ian who is one of them. she lives on a farm with her husband, who is ill, and grandma not wanted. you're not the law made you? i never really went to the doctor. i've been with my husband, but i myself haven't been to the doctor since the birth of my last child. i haven't even had a check up since then. what is the fact that she can get a free check up today is nothing short of a miracle for miss ala, it will be the 1st cancer screening. she has ever had eula by sheena, but they're not good. if you go to bucharest, you need to have the money for
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a screening. they don't do it for free. they're like they did for us here. the are whoever had the idea to come to us and who totally well, it was a great one of any sheet on my luck with that. lorenzo dowdell, organize the visit from the medical care event with the help of private donations. the doctors are paid, but their assistance work for free. during the campaign, over 60 doctors and volunteers spend 8 campaign over 60 doctors and volunteers spend 8 weekends working in rural areas. they're always sent to poor villages. in the end, up to 1400 people will have received free examinations and consultations that are cities without the sorry villages, without her family doctor. as we call the ther gp. there are areas where there's only one for maybe $23000.00 or for thousands of people. and i also
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wake up to investigations like an ultrasound. people do often have to travel more than 3040 kilometers to day nursery, that magdalena is assisting gynecologist law. the sub gluco, she is conducting ultrasounds as part of breast cancer screenings and examined 30 patients before noon. how many conflict the youngest was 22, the oldest was 63. thank you so much. i think most of them have never had a breast cancer screening before and didn't even know that they should have switched younger. if i take all day long patience, keep flocking to the center. these older women also make use of the opportunity to see a doctor for free, even though they all feel perfectly fine. this woman is the last patient of the day . after 11 hours, viviana model, dolly is work day, is finally done. dot dedicated. i'm exhausted, but happy to the day didn't just pass. on the contrary, it was exciting
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a day like no other i've had towards, you know, mom and i hope to repeat this experience because it also helps me to become more aware of things, no fighter addicted. so marcia bishop, i mean, have been so non overall, the results were positive to just one patient is thought to have a potentially serious cancer which might have gone undetected were not for the aid organization. as any parent will happily tell you, raising a child can be tough. it's also true for hannah reuter. she's trying to provide her daughter with a well rounded life. but she, herself navigates in the dark, and a writer is blind, and so is her husband. their daughter, mila is the only one in the household who can see. but even if that means a few more obstacles in their day to day lives together, they managed to overcome them. it's 70 m on a regular school and work day. and it is making her daughter mueller's lunch here.
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suddenly where's the egg? by the sink. of them rushed by the sink. oh, i found it ah, from phone number. this is it's funny. having to blind people at home is the always have to make really clear where he left something or the other one will be feeling around for it for ages, running their hands over all the surfaces. sometimes i think how nice that would be to just take a quick look around so i can newness up the computer this morning. a special program tells us what's on the screen. oh yeah, me, law. yeah, max check that you've got everything in your pencil case and stuff and i well, i don't want to take your stick that go up fe. it's i would have needed that later . what do you need to day a folder?
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got it. we don't pencil case. got it, sample pencil pouch or whatever you call it. yes. got it. once english does miller also help outs when mom and dad can find something i very as al 1st they have to look. and if they can't find it, then i held him and his head of your, let me, let me, don't have to do that is mila wasn't here anyway, and that's an important principle for us. she's not our servant. after all, that she's just a child also. and if she doesn't want to, then she doesn't have to master things you had on me before the family leaves the house. and it takes the time to apply some makeup. she learned how at a course for blind people, even if she can see how she looks. hannah feels that making a good impression helps combat prejudice to the mud and so much good mike. intimate with our example. my child was running around outside with tomato sauce on her t shirt. spike. people would very quickly assume that it's dirty because her poor
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mom couldn't see it. da, so i've become a bit of a perfectionist. i know i'd prefer to check things 5 time. see, but because people look at us and to see how we look at what we do, if we get across the road safely, assume button visitor, everybody calls the chrome. while mila is at school, can do mix lunch. he works as a mas sir. he went blind, almost 15 years ago after retinal detachment, kimball piano has been blind since birth. she works in public relations and as a writer, what was their 1st meeting like? oh, so you mind it was a feeling and here comes a woman was a great voice, a feeling. of course i couldn't see her, but i felt she was beautiful. then i told myself, forget it. it'll never work. and i was out of under 99 ferguson ferguson ha, tested to give me the address of the look of married 3 years later than mealer
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arrived along with a few worries. were the gandy my favorite members? you'll start to some i let it. i think it's a huge challenge for all parents, whether cited lined or with any kind of impairment was in the hospital and when people, instead of saying, oh congratulations, you having a baby. how wonderful of say. oh, heavy, thought it through opt, how will that work? canal thinking begin him. that's quite unsettling as much from felons a shout in the afternoon hunter and we'll take a walk with guy dog duyka. the family lives in central berlin. went after not as you go up to the corner and wait for me. there we go. boring, watch then bye bye. as usual. see soon. this guy by and fall and they go decade. oh, freaking light. thus it's always nerve wracking to let her rush off like that. about, well, that it wouldn't work without trust twice that i know she's very careful on roads and so far we haven't had any problems like the other specific needs and torsion.
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mila is increasingly aware of how people react to her family. and she knows what she wants from them. that's why they think they should have more respect. because my mom's also a normal person with her cited are blind. all parents want to be able to stand tall. hannah says hers is just a normal family for her daughter's sake. she'd like to see more acceptance and fewer preconceptions. i. this is debbie from dewitt sher. it's irritating for her that people stared us whenever we go out as a family. we're always the focus of attention with them. i'm sometimes i think it's good. we don't see it hit who to me. i'd really like people to regard it as just something very normal and, but in the, after all, there have always been blind parents at fun. and for us it was always normal, not an issue at all. and he marked, but unfortunately some still don't see it that way. and i'd really like that to
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change the adventures bethesda and for us and that chinese dissidence who managed to flee to europe, think that they are safe, at least this was what, when ging, you believed he moved to the netherlands several years ago after he got in trouble for criticizing china's government, but when jean, you says he still feels threatened by beijing. according to a report, china runs illegal police stations across europe that put pressure on dissidence in the netherlands. this has caused quite a stir. dutch politicians and the hague. have made it clear they want to see such overseas. chinese police stations shut down. winding you is heading to his adversary. the chinese embassy in the hague. the 21 year old fled china in 2019, when he was just 17. he had posted content online questioning the government's
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response to protests in hong kong. now, based in the netherlands, he says his anti government activism in europe has also caused trouble for his family back home. i want to let you explain to me why did under my arrest them or their parents? no 2nd. this is the protest. i apologize. the also for another tennis didn't. ah, because they're the chinese government her in kyla or it's for a lot of chinese didn't. and the prosecutors in whitehouse, our crew that he expects the dutch police to be called as soon as he arrives outside the embassy. ah, for this coming his prediction materializes within just a couple of minutes. i love to please say it's routine for them to ask people what they're doing. if they linger outside foreign embassies based here in the hague wines, chinese passport is invalidated. he says, fake bomb threats are regularly called in to hotels around the world, using his name. on his phone, he shows hundreds of calls,
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which he says he receives most days, threatening him. he claims he was recently followed into this cafe by someone he believed was a government agent for me. although for my girlfriend, the we just want to know more life was the, the keep with those i'll see are 3rd to me, a harassing me either this, listen, the people follow me or mich problem to me or just microphone go asked the i am over his police usually the country are allowed worth. i will go to your health. it's really making me little bit crazy. laura hearth works for safeguard defenders . a human rights angio which released a report in 2022 claiming chinese authorities. we have established over a 100 overseas police stations in $53.00 countries around the world proxy. they also found proof in china's own reporting that over 230000 chinese citizens were persuaded to return to china between april 2021 and july 2022. while we found where
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accounts by chinese us or it is saying that these stations are being run to provide services such as when you will have passports, driver's license, and so on. but also to form a link with the public security bureaus. and crocker rhetoric supports back home to monitor the sentiment and public opinion within the community and to assist in this kind of persuasion to return operations. we reached out to the chinese embassy in the netherlands, but there was no response. the chinese foreign ministry categorically denies the existence of overseas police stations potential for china by it's by international law and respects the sovereignty of all countries. the so called chinese overseas police stations do not exist. the dutch foreign minister tells us they've asked china to shut down the police stations where we have been crystal clear to the chinese about what we have seen. any type of a state activities can only take place if the host country actually is aware and is
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okay with that. this was clear, not the case. so we taught them to close them a as a b, which the, which should have done an currently investigating the exact specifics of the matter why it says the stations are still active. and once thirty's in the netherlands to do more. they show the africa. busy police search the overseas to put his patient this to the of sue the criminal. i mean the tell you over to the police. i hope they can't report to the charges. i'm. this is a beautiful pay already may call free can report to touch, but you say i want the europe commission says while it condemns all foreign interference on the territory of its members, stays, it won't launch an e u wide action. this is a matter of national security and sovereignty of the u. member states. some member states have already launched the investigations and the commission welcomes very much this fact because it is a matter of huge importance to shed light on this worrying phenomenon for wanting
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the harassment. and the fear by the chinese authorities is nothing compared to the worry. he feels not knowing how his actions have affected his family. he is unable to contact them. i tried to call my mother the number you have dialed is not in service. please check the number and dial again. we're at home actually dancing. it brings us together, it connects us, and for these dancers here, it also keeps cultural heritage alive. many armenians love the traditional dances of their country and see them as an important part of their identity. even armenians who live abroad will travel back to their homeland and come together with others in the capital of yerevan for evenings of song, dance and laughter. night has fallen in the armenian capital of yet, yvonne,
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but this little courtyard is buzzing with life inside armenians. from all over the world meet once a month to learn and practice traditional dances. santa has travelled all the way from germany to join. it does fit and in the past years have seen us lose touch with a lot of our culture. and that includes armenians who live here. tenses of these dances or something that unites us. there's real passion in these steps. it's a muslim heather murphy, hand in hand, celebrating togetherness. armenians are a small people, just 3000000 live in the country. more than twice as many live abroad law. i'm an armenian who lived in the diaspora in russia like growing up there, man, studying russian culture, reading russian literature. i'll do it like that. but at some point the question arises. well, this is russian culture and now it's very interesting and diverse. i want to know my own too long story minot, viola, every one is welcome,
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young and old experienced and new dancers, the course instructor stresses the importance of this and it's free. of course, oh, allow lyla ginger. it's about restoring or people's identity. how we see ourselves, especially as romanians. we have lost a lot of her culture throughout the years. no soviet union, for example, we were forced to be communists. so rather than armenians, georgians or russians long. i mean, it was this dance is unique. it is traditionally performed in war time before combat. these cadets are still in training, but others here have 1st hand experience after several wars against azerbaijan. this. hi charlotte, it's such a shame we're always at war. by does i wish we just both side? there's an ard so that we could stop this hates because hate doesn't lead anywhere,
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gets a mixed many here think it's just a matter of time before tensions boil over again. but for to night, this dance school is filled with unity and joy. that is it from us for today on behalf of the whole team here focused on europe. thanks for watching. stay safe and see you next time. bye. ah ah ah, with
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