i tech, as our documentary series vendors, with the founders, empowering their continent through digital innovation, transforming work and living conditions in their country, and inspiring the world with their ideas. belly africa started february 13 on the w with 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, inflation. under president edwin's government, the price of food has skyrocketed. meanwhile, energy prices have risen in tandem as have the cost 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 taya on the mediterranean coast is not only a beautiful city to vacation, but a refuge from the consequences of russia's war against ukraine. but the rising real estate prices mean that locals in antalya like lucy, yashira and norman tasha 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 antalya is real. estate market is 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, yasha and nare mean touches struggling a total. the cities, in some cases, real estate prices are off by a to 900 percent up on my shock. even santos evans 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 thought i could all of her we all yasser and touch. take 3 the group on social media called rent victims. they are visiting a pensioner who has been served noticed by his landlord. he can't afford his rent after a fivefold increase. alicia lewis ivy is out of this house with

a customer. we haven't got a flat, we'll now go to a foreigner of europe. they have more money to spend in a month than we do in a year make models. when i did that 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 without together least 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 based me that i found the apartments that were put on the market for a 5000 lire, us or about 250 euros, could suddenly be rented to foreigners for 3 times the price. when neighbors caught on to this problem, they began demanding the same rents cautioned like bombay evidence, caution one bush every year. the rent activists are feeling increasingly frustrated,

not to be duties that anyone who comes here should be allowed to live as they please. that's absolutely fine. it's when it's at the expense of our children, our future that it becomes a problem. requires the cities orthodox parish serves as a meeting place for many russians. several of the men here came in case russia introduce 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 and antalya even for russians. gotcha. so a low down low, especially in the 1st weeks. it's hard to find an apartment or even a job of business is showing 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 my business. i'm a little signal. thought 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. ah, so i thought only 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. i need to give up in the living room. but in mussa 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. so i'd love you in the past. foreigners used to come here on vacation. well they book one or 2 week package holidays on the level that they

didn't buy houses and settle here to love a list of law, my windshield. oh, my didn't different percentage of foreign tenants or homeowners in a district exceeds 20 percent. the real estate market is close to foreigners. welcome to capital 3 district sir. and until you already have such a ban in place since last july, again that in the did law nick about lead buffalo, can you at least help affected citizens like me to find an apartment? well, i am going from. pardon? 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 whence in antalya may soon force residents like massage are to leave their hometown i having financial worries of a struggle all too many romanians know as well. the country is one of the poorest

in the u. and in rural regions, even a visit to the doctor constrain a monthly budget to the breaking point in the village of hotel harley. 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 and the romanian capital, bucharest, via 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 aid organization caravan aku made each or doctor as 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 then law combine

yeah. as part of the campaign, 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 examined over 75 patients? one of the 1st in for a checkup is lenti. it's here as a lucky. the 72 year old has lived alone since her husband died in august. no doctor was there to help him. come when you caught it. he passed very quickly. well, he had a thrombosis in his left leg,

which went untreated. he la woman that then his heart failed and he died on the spot till what mean len teacher of as a la has only $200.00 euros a month, which leaves no money for health insurance or private doctors. little they grow on their farms and in their gardens. misha, 11 rusty annu 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 have than to the doctor since the birth of my last child to them. i haven't even had a check up since then with the fact that she can get a free check up to day is nothing short of a miracle for miss ala. it will be the 1st cancer screening she's ever had. elizabeth, she no, but they're not good. if you go to bucharest, you need to have the money for a screening. they don't do it for free. they're like they did for us here. the mob . whoever had the idea to come to us and who totally well, it was

a great one of any sheila, with that, lorenzo dowdell organized the visit from the medical care of and 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 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. there are cities without sorry, villages, without her family doctor, as we call the thought g b. there are areas where there's only one for maybe 23000 or 4000 serve people. and i also wake up to investigations like an ultrasound. people do often have to travel more than 3040 kilometers today, nurse v 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 and can't bill migrate that most of them have never had a breast cancer screening before here and didn't even know that they should have looked younger. if i take all day long patients 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, the via amount of dollars 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 a day like no other i've had towards the now my and i hope to repeat this experience because it also helps me to become more aware of things. no fighter dick . so margaret bishop m in

a been fernand 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. that'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 mula 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 manage to overcome them. it's 7 am on a regular school and work day and it is making her daughter meal is lunch. suddenly, where's the egg? by the same. often rush by the sink, so i found it from a phone number. this is, it's funny having to blind people at home is you 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 yeah, i can do this up, the computer to school in a special program. tells them what's on the screen when you send me la. yeah, max check that you've got everything in your pencil case and stuff and i will i don't want to take your stick that good thanks. i would have needed that later. what do you need to day a folder? got it. we don't handle case, got it. shampoo pencil powder, whatever you call it. yes. got it. once english and does miller also help outs when mom and dad can find something i'm sure at at 1st they have to look and

if they can't find it then i help math head. viola milanni dont have to do that as miller 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 offer. and if she doesn't want to, then she doesn't have to master things he had on before the family leaves the house and it takes the time to place a 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 get mike intimate with our example. my child was running around outside with tomato sauce on her t shirt. this is why the people would very quickly assume that it's dirty because her poor mom couldn't see it. da, so i've become a bit of a perfectionist. i am going to prefer to check things 5 time, see, but because people look at us and to see how we look at what we do,

what if we get across the road safely? as a matter of physics, everybody calls the com. yeah. well, mila is at school, can do, makes lunch. he works as a ma, sir. he went blind, almost 15 years ago, after a retinal detachment. and bo, hannah 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 younger, and i know ferguson focused in ha, just give me knob as a look at married, 3 years later that meal arrived along with a few worries were to gather my phone numbers. start with a some i let it i think it's a huge challenge for all parents, whether cited of lines or with any kind of impairment was now thought on. and when

people, instead of saying, oh congratulations you having a baby. how wonderful of say. oh, have you thought it through opt? how will that work? cannot thanking me, get him that's quite unsettling as much from felons. a shout in the afternoon. 100 and miller take a walk with guy dog duyka. the family lives in central berlin, orange. that's or not as you go up to the corner and wait for me there. michelle. boring watchman. bye bye. as usual. see soon. this guy. by and from on the go decade. oh, freaking life. thus, it always nerve wracking to let her rush off like that, about what it wouldn't work without trust to try stuff. i know she's very careful on roads, and so far we haven't had any problem. second, seattle's 5th near me and pushed mila is increasingly aware of how people react to her family. and she knows what she wants from them. that's why 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, and a says hers is just a normal family. for her daughter's sake. she'd like to see more acceptance and fewer preconceptions. oh, it's kathy darby, conclude sher, it's irritating for her that people stare at us whenever we go out as a family, we're always the focus of attention with, i'm full course, sometimes i think it's good. we don't see it to fit up to see if it of my daily like people to regarded as just something very normal than that. and after all, there have always been blind parents at fountain. 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 if and i'd really like that to change the adventure bethesda and for us. and that might chinese dissidence, who managed to flee to europe,

think that they are safe, at least this was what when jim, 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. that 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 a posted content online questioning the government's 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. the 2nd this is the protest. i'll put as the also for another tennis didn't. ah, because the, the chinese government, her in kyla or as the a lot of chinese didn't. and the prosecutors in mind. how's 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. whilst 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 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 learn more. life was the, the keep would to suzie our 3rd to me a harassing me either this. listen, the people follow me or mich problem to me or just microphone go, ask the army over. it is police loser. the conduct your allegories. i will go to your house. it's running, make me little bit crazy. laura hath works for safeguard defenders. a human rights angio, which released a report in 2022 claiming chinese authorities 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. well, we found where accounts by chinese us or it is saying that these stations are being run to provide services such as renewal of 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, or 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 ok with that. this was clear, not the case. so we taught them to close them a as a b, which the which i have done, and currently investigating the exact specifics of the matter wagons. if the

stations are still active and one's authorities in the netherlands to do more, they show the africa. busy police search the overseas police station this year, the fu, the criminal, i mean to tell you over to the police. i hope the kind of report to the chinese and this is a beautiful pay already may call fake reports to touch, but you say i want the europe and commission says while it condemns all foreign interference on the territory of his member stays, it won't launch. and e u wide action. this is a matter of national security and sovereignty of the you 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 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 of am. 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 tele 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 in these dances or something that unites us. there's real passion in these steps. it's a muslim, had us lucy, 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 live in the diaspora in russia when i was growing up there, man, studying russian culture, reading russian literature. 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, not viola. every one is welcome, young and old experienced and new dancers, the course instructor stresses the importance of this. and it's free,

of course. oh, hello. literally didn't just, it's about restoring your people's identity. how we see ourselves, especially as armenians. we have lost a lot of her culture throughout the years. no soviet union, for example, we were forced to be communist. so rather than armenians, georgians or russians, nanette, i believe 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. does. hi, charlotte. it's such a shame we're always at war. by does i wish we just both side stairs in ours so that we could stop this hates because hate doesn't lead anywhere. it's a mix. 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

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