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well, for instance, moscow is allegedly funding demonstrations organized by pro ration groups in the republican, moldova, while the protesters are demanding the removal of pro european president maya sandal. many now feel that their country will have to suffer the same fate as ukraine. the republic of montoya is a landlocked country, located between the eel and the west. an ukraine in the east lies the breakaway region off trans nestea. more than 1000 russian soldiers are stationed here. alexei and his wife live in the image vicinity off trans mystery. up, the couple says they fear a mass of conflict brewing up with russia. wild opens are scared for their future, especially in areas where they share their border with ukraine. reaching this village in winter was

a bit of an adventure. and his love cher is perched on the northernmost tip of the republican moldova, just across the border from ukraine. the normally sleepy hamlet suddenly found itself in the world spotlight. last year the war in ukraine arrived at 68 year old august doorstep when wreckage from a russian missile landed nearby. it had been shut down by ukrainian air defenses. he a good 7 to you. i was milking the cow for a moment. i thought it was a plain look. it flew in very now and then it all came down. not very far from here . go over there on the island. what 3 to do. most of the pieces landed here on this tiny island and the nice to river. presumably the russian missile had been aiming for a waterworks on ukrainian territory. actually a girl thought it was really frightening. oh yeah,

they put on that vessel. i thought it was a janice, give me that makes so much knowing it though. look you really and then came an explosion, stuff. i thought this is it. this is the end of the world. the at the the river forms the border between motto, van ukraine. russia has already, directly violated motel was air space many times. that's one reason the war feel so close. oh, on one of the main shopping boulevards, in moldova, capital kishi, now they're singing about love and dreaming of a better life, or even just a little prosperity formed. and the break up of the soviet union will dove as only about $2600000.00 people. the country struggles to

overcome abject poverty and to develop a working economy. those who stay here have to do with galloping inflation and prohibitive energy prices split. last i lawyer, a few chain, your opinion member, but we don't have european wages. and so we're trying to get my somehow privacy and the average monthly wage in moldova is the equivalent of just 530 euros. so people here are living with the fear of financial hardship and war when he was in dillard plugins of we can't even make plans for tomorrow or the day after that we were thinking about this evening. if we'll still be alive or have to flee, or the mobilization might began, lance given the threat of war inflation. and even rumors of a cou, the country is going through some uneasy times. and now the government has stepped down. the new prime minister, former interior minister doting, which on is pro western, he made security his top priority. indications of targeted efforts at increasing

russian influence had been growing and key. she now from months the most recent information came from president my asunder. she revealed that according to secret service reports, russia was planning. a qu, moscow immediately denied the report. the situation has been tense for years even more so now that 1500 russian soldiers have been deployed moldova, pro russian trends in history. a region we pass through to checkpoints, going into po, ravia and to coming out of the village lies east of the river. but still a moldova territory. in a security zone, alexey and his wife have lived here all their lives in the early 19 ninety's fighters from breakaway region trends in history, a waged war here. this is michelle. yes, we've seen more than enough here. but what will be will be through transistor is

trans mystery out there, separate villages here belong to moldova than demco mo, law. they've settled into a routine here for 30 years now. the separately govern. trenton is true, lies just a stone's throw away. it's financially supported by russia, but officially recognized by no un nation. the population is around $375000.00. back in the capital, casey, now the contrast could hardly be greater weekends. our party time, a former mess hall is now a night club. but under the surface the fear is ever present. yes it is nothing if the wall came to moldova, it would be disastrous for us, just like it is for the ukrainians. i hope i society will be spared that kind of fate. but i'm really worried that it could happen earlier just when you present suddenly in the international spotlight, moldova, a small country with big worries,

more than 60 migrants, including 12 children and a baby died after their board sank off southern italy. they were trying to reach europe. people risk their lives every day in quest of a better life in europe. if we talk of her number of asylum seekers, borgata, no other country in the european union has taken in as many refugees as the republic of cyprus. the situation seems to be getting out of control for the small island country doris folly carpal walks as an aide walker. he shows us a refugee camp near the capital and nichols here and all the crowded side. but people living in good bastrop conditions there are some 1000 asylum seekers living here for the human rights activists. doris pully, carpool. the pu, nara camp, and southern cypress is a scandal. the garbage and puddles are the least of it. he's helping to get a better idea of the conditions,

but he doesn't get very far before being sent away. the security guard also says that filming is band. maybe this is a place that actually is turn into a comp that he's out of control is not manageable, is expensive and it doesn't serve the idea that it was set up with the fuel nazareth asylum seekers who arrive here are only supposed be registered before being accommodated elsewhere, however, there is little accommodation elsewhere. so people end up staying here for months. outbreaks of violence are not infrequent. and october 2022, dozens of tens went up in flames. it will, they are isolated. they cannot stud, already working in thinking over their integration into society. they just wait, they off day, you on, they eat, they sleep. in very unhealthy conditions,

especially if it's cold. if it varies rain outside that cam holy carpool speaks to a syrian who is willing to talk about the conditions in the camp. anonymously, limited limited natal, couldn't the children won't eat the food here. they're not used to it out of the toilets and the washrooms are indescribably dirty. flo, the woman's ones to best listen to come the film. my wife almost doesn't dare go in there. a mom come middle of the republic of cyprus, registered $20000.00 applications for asylum in 2022, almost twice as much as the previous year. officially, there are about $70000.00 asylum seekers living in cyprus, which is a lot for such a small country. the government says cyprus cannot cope and it's called on the e. u to help. what we need to have in place is a month to go to relocation scheme, to help the front line member states and beat the necessity to ensure the

effective implementation of the principle of responsibility for the cypriot government. the problem lies in the north eastern parts of the island of cyprus, which are occupied by turkey. this is where it says most refugees are arriving from via the cease fire lines that are only under you and supervision. we decided to travel to the northern part of the island. the eastern mediterranean university in from augusta is one of dozens of universities that fund themselves largely through international students. the numerous private universities here are also an important source of income for the region. but the syrian student, an activist ashcroft saleem confirms that many of those who register here don't want to stay in the turkish occupied region. so they were scammed about the nature of the country because of that already are not counted,

but that is all the same. which is they end up being, for example, with financial issues that have homeless but have just a lonely mental health issues, et cetera. then they decide to become the fiji, richie and banga arrived in southern cypress via the turkish occupied north. now he is stuck on the island and it can take years for him to get asylum. don't wanna be michel sophie thick in the 1st weeks or to nora. i slept on the streets, took a look. i don't have a work permit on what particular but i do now get state support of 214 euros fella . not enough to live on doris polycarp, who says that the separate government is trying to deter other asylum seekers from coming. you are who his legs are. why? yeah, we are on one of the worst countries when it comes to giving festival prediction at to anybody ethics have from those that we don't have a choice not to give them. and i mean the syrians, i right now,

even if counties right now that they're arriving to small numbers in the country, we don't ex, hemming them back in pu nara, he meets 2 very young somali ins outside the camps fences where one says he's 14 and once they go to belgium, where he has an uncle they tell them they don't get any schooling or any other care here, don't do any. there's nothing to do but sit around and sleep. and they've been doing that for 6 months. preparations are at least underway for a better sewage system. cypress is preparing for more refugees. if you are given a choice to move in to one of these pretty little how this ball from the hustle and bustle of big cities, would you? well, despite it's, it delayed beauty. no one wants to live in the spanish village off pay. now soft rabby abo mayor lucy on nicholas has decided to save her village. and for this,

she has managed to bring together all the residents for a very unique for to shoot these spaniards bad, all including squash fama one whole perez here, the 68 year old. and we in that because the pose, he struck last summer when he and most of his fellow villages agreed to be photographed, new, available for the black. i just had to take part wasn't working for they told me there weren't enough people who are because we have so few residents. i had no other choice. similar to yours. finance half my day about hallways home to just 16 people. they bent their bodies to keep their hamlet from dying out. but here in south east in spain, the nude photos have raised eyebrows. they now grace a calendar. maize picture is of antonia pena. she wants to show that folks here.

i'm more progressive and open than many people think less interloper than you were just depicted in a bad light bill campbell, you see them on the front row. we'd like to be viewed in the way people in the larger communities are your. we pay our taxes to the left, but here in our little hamlet, some of our own. we feel sort of left behind. we though. oh girl is will you will, our photographers, david can tow and one hall i'm me has had a little trouble convincing the locals to take part with a political thing i'm with. so the village is things function via word of mouth. the noise go more, go. people see their neighbors doing it and how well they come across. it's about so they spur one another on see you see any money on a $1000.00 us. the idea for the calendar came from lucy and nicholas head of the

residence association. at 30 years of age, she's one of penya. it's after idea backwards youngest inhabitants. she commends her neighbors courage. generally what i fancy not on british 30 of the board there for it is only a kind of liberation. does he not get on with the spelling stereotypes to mars, but on his own pictures of baffled bodies normal there of ordinary people? here folks can show themselves as they are. unlike many of the nude photos were familiar with will are feeling as if i let myself be photographed too awful and the picture is great. but if you knew sierra and her fellow residence, also hope to send another message with their photos since the 19 sixty's, sand and marble have been mind in this area that's turned the once said delete landscape surrounding the hamlet into quarries that are a source of noise dust and dirt. i had readily give out, gustavo,

and basically rest so many other riches here than that city. almost our god. we have a culture that we want to show. sally, been all the wine cellar on your day. a pine tree that must be older than everyone here put together it from bogo, and we simply want to show that way more than what surround sassy. gorky one little kid with the new 100. 0, okay. so pancreas sanchez was also happy to post with the calendar at 100 years old and he, he's the pin up for december even though he's not totally mean penya, santi about whose oldest resident suddenly remembers the days when the hamlet was full of life. another little boy, although being all you know, so we always partied on the weekends. so lately, one week every one came to my place and the next week it was someone else's turn meal over. oh, but when we had a guitar and accordion and people danced, love ordeal. he he away line b. o. hendrick,

sanchez doesn't know if the photo project will revitalized the village, but he says it sure was fun. with the manila buddha was you, everyone who knows me is surprised that i dared to do it. i think of doing a little. oh, but i'm up for doing different things like this some paris penya. it's half a day about whole and it's calendar on now known well beyond spain's board as to the delight of squashed, grow a handful perez, who's discovered an unknown side of himself with it. i no longer have any inhibitions, though. i'd never done anything like this before. but, but i'm on board for next time in the hamlet they were already making plans for next year's calendar with even more residence revealing everything finance half a day. a backhoe has to offer. talk to you. i moving from spain to the netherlands. amsterdam attracts a load of doris in summer,

but in winter the city them. so get quite windy and cold. you can be freezing even when you are indoors. that's because most houses are old and not well insulated. and if you wanted to get that fixed, you would have to pay a hefty amount. however, there are some good samaritans who are insulating the doors and windows. i'm in some cases even the was all free of cost. the brigade hops on its cargo bikes and started working day at 9 am and amsterdam. number 111, right. what have you run over now to a home? come rain, snow or storm. we have to pack up our tools and get on our bikes. we right out to the customers in any kind of weather. after all, they're counting on us, not a console. francis is the foreman and the co founder of the fixed brigade. what

started out as a volunteer project is now a pain job. today they've been called out to an apartment chair a quick once over shows it's going to be a big job. it put data that is i want to show you this here along the door frames lower edge on the you can clearly see a blue stripe fills out. that means a draft is coming through content complement. a full set. the fingers will here feel it. if you hold your hand here, you can feel the draft. yeah, no, and a really good not. that is not here. it's 16 degrees celsius and down here only 5 degrees. leaky windows are all too frequent to out of 3 apartments in the netherlands are badly insulated itself here, the door, so had simply been glued on to the frame handle. a quick and dirty job ever gave. doesn't the cold blowing in here bother you on the go to 3 and yeah, dance we have the heating on the nonce. yes. he, yes. and this window here is nothing more than an opening in the concrete national,

but they just stuff with the windows in with no potty and we have to redo everything he'd another. what of ticket? lisa m a risk as apartment needs a lot of work. the seal along the front door is worn out and hardly any of the lights have energy saving l e. d bulbs. yeah. like visual that i realized that many things here went ideal, but often i just didn't know how to change it. and i asked the housing association, but they not really any help pineapple delay fear. no, we actually call them 4 times to complain about the problems. someone to come minds law, but for example, they never took care of the insulation. lassie. now the fixed brigade is taken care of it instead, but only low income people can get a visit from them. their work is free of charge. the money to pay, the employees comes from e u grants. now the project has inspired companies and other towns on security in the us and to belong to our clients, or people who receive benefits or they're financially dependent on the state. in

other ways, on the other hand, it come okay, i'll hold for some are disabled. others hardly speak a word of dutch reca. if you don't know the language well enough to communicate your problems to the building association. they just brush you off the on dish and asian days, aiden, that we hear that over and over what states and what can do for how endangered all who about 750000 dutch people are estimated to be having trouble covering their energy costs. many of them turned to francis and his co workers, and now 6 teams are working simultaneously in amsterdam, alone, pavement requirement. we lacked tools and materials support instead of once a month. we've gotta order new materials once a week now, but that shows very clearly how great the need is among the people in our target group basements in days, little of them. this target group often has very little confidence in the authorities. but all the more in italy, projects like the fixed. okay,

that says francis the fixed brigade is booked up solid till august. their success is keeping them extremely busy. skiing is by far the most popular winter sport in europe. switzerland alone offers more than 300 skita thoughts, but they are having a tough time due to high energy prices and climate change. anton culbert, her was never a fan of these huge results. he has been running one of the smallest key areas in switzerland for decades. a reason for its popularity is that it is a family run business. having the slopes, almost all to yourself. here there's a sense of freedom that's hard to come by in the swiss alps these days. just 20 kilometers of ski runs to channel lifts and no plans to expand. that's how anton calibre likes it for over half a century. he's run the small family own ski resort son hines,

and bag in the great zone. at h 92, he still hits the slaves himself. i go to qualify. i'm not good at 3. i ski like i did 50 years ago. every day anton calibre enjoyed the stunning view with his grandson. dennis anton's father purchase the ski resort in the late 19 sixty's. his 13 children all pitched in ali, albany, the big bog. every one emptied their bank accounts and put the cash to charlottes. if you're sick, i was a long time there were a few $100000.00 swiss francs from the bank to that club, hobbin ali, but everyone helped otherwise it wouldn't have happened, even though the resort has simple slopes and a hill for sledging. that makes it a favorite with families in particular. many of the guests, some regulus, or the mile is it's the best. oh, not overrun with people. and you can let the kids jump around last sunday. i see

it's long, but nice pretty. so it's not so crowdy and it's very familiar. i hope they could chew up. but it's very difficult to notice at an elevation of 1700 meters as a restaurant and guest rooms. dennis has been in charge of the kitchen for 3 years . he spent much of his childhood up here. swamp, proud for miss roberts, looking back. it was a dream for me. in the winter, we drove up here almost every weekend and went skiing. was one he or she farm. the mountain is still his home, and his grandfather is his rel model as danville does it. he's clearly the boss up here claus. for me. he's the one who says what's what his lawyer dusky. dennis wants to preserve the place he loved so much as a child, even if climate change means less far less snow in winter. so he says, you always need to come up with something new and be creative. does says finished, i'm for him. woman is yes,

it's certainly not easy right now. this year has been extremely difficult for many mom for lunch. we couldn't ski here at the start of the season, so that was a problem. but at least we had the sledding hill. your company shall we made sure it was up and running. so people could use that. in the late 19 ninety's, the family bought a chair left for a symbolic frank from a larger ski resort that no longer needed it. but otherwise, little has changed here. when it all gets a bit too much for the senior manager, he withdraws to what he calls his concert hall. as lounge ascii result, struggle to find ways to cope with climate change and become more sustainable. he's happy with his approach if low key family orientated tourism. ah, you, abby, ga. gov, we always took care of the landscape building only what was necessary. i know huge,

ugly, concrete blocks. me joke. so basically it's like it was 50 years ago. darmesh agra . v v for victor young. except for the snow. that's no longer enough. still until calibre is sure his grandson will think of something. how do you like to spend your ski holidays do let us know? we'll be back next week until then. good bye. and thanks for watching. ah, ah ah, ah, ah ah

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