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moldova, for instance, moscow is allegedly funding demonstrations organized by fraud, russian groups in the republican, moldova, while the protesters are demanding the removal of pro european president my asunder 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. it with a nitty off trans mystery up. the couple says they fear a mass of conflict brewing up with russia. wild organs are scared for their future, especially in areas where they share their border with ukraine. reaching this village and winter was a bit of an adventure and his love char 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. here, good to you. i was milking the cow for a moment. i thought it was a plain look. it flew in very low, and then it all came down. not very far from here. go over there on the island war 3. the 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 person. yeah,

we'll do it 1st. so i thought it was a janice, give me that makes so much knowing it though. look you really and then came an explosion of stuff. i thought this is it. this is the end of the world via the river forms the border between motto, van ukraine. russia has already directly violated moldova airspace. 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 ch in your opinion, union member, but we don't have european wages. and so we're trying to get my somehow privacy im 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 the village plugins off, we can even make plans for tomorrow or the day after that we were thinking about this evening if will still be alive or have to flee, or the mobilization might began lamps 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 with john is pro western. he made security his top priority. indications of

targeted efforts at increasing russian influence had been growing and key. she now for months the most recent information came from president. my a son do. she revealed that according to secret service reports, russia was planning a coo. moscow immediately denied the report. the situation has been tense for years even more so now that 1500 russian soldiers had been deployed moldova, pro, rush, and trans industry, a region we pass through to check points going into po ravia and to coming out of the village lies east of the river. but still, i'm older than territory in a security zone. alexei 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 no. michelle. yes, we've seen more than enough here. but what will be will be all transistor is trans

mystery out to the separate the villages here belong to moldova, and demco mall law. they've settled into a routine here for 30 years now. the separately govern trends in history lies just a stone's throw away. it's financially supported by russia, but officially recognized by know you a nation, the population is around 375000 back in the capitol kishi. now the contrast could hardly be greater weekends or party time. a former miss hall is now a night club. but under the surface the fear is ever present, yet there is nothing if the will came to moldova, it would be disastrous for us, just like it is for the ukrainians. i hope our society will be spared that kind of fate. but i'm really worried that it could happen. images when you're presenting 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 ali garble walks as an aide walker. he shows us a refugee camp near the capital 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 hoping 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 has band this is a place that actually is turned into a comp that this out of control is not manageable. it's expensive and it doesn't serve the idea that it was set up. he will naturally 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. oh people, they are isolated, they cannot stud, already working in thinking over their integration in the society. they just wait, they off day 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. well, the woman's ones to best listen to come the film. my wife almost doesn't dare go in there was a mom come middle of the republic of cyprus, registered 20000 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 having place is a month ago 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 separate 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 and 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 saline 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. what the result of 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 bunker arrived in southern cypress via the turkish occupied north. now he is stuck on the island and it could take years for him to get asylum. don't wanna be michel sophie thick in the 1st weeks or 2 nora. i slept on the streets fuck a lot. i don't have a work permit wilma people, 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 like a white one that we are and one of the worst countries when it comes to giving festival prediction 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 examine 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 hair done when 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 more into 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 or famous off rabbit, about ho mayor lucy on nicholas has decided to save her will aj. and for this,

she has managed to bring together all the residents for a very unique photo. shoot. these spaniards bad, all including squash fama, one hope. perez here the 68 year old re annette because the pose, he struck last summer when he and most of his fellow villages agreed to be photographed new available go for the work i just had to take part when i'm looking for they told me there weren't enough people, why? because we have so few residents. i had no other choice. lucy? 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 eastern 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 into a lover than yeah, we just depicted in a bad light bill comedy. see them on the front, but we'd like to be viewed in the way people in the laundry communities are your look, 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, it will, you will, our photographers, david can tow and one hawk i'm here has had little trouble convincing the locals to take part with a bullet within. i'm would so the villages things function via word of mouth, the noise go more, go what people see their neighbors doing it and how well they come across it so much. so they spur one another on the you see any money on of how that 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 csa friday. a buckle was youngest inhabitants. she commends her neighbors coverage generally what i fancy not on, but if video divorce they are or it is only a kind of liberation, nothing. i'll get with the spelling of stereotypes to was a bit of a how he's on pictures of baffled bodies animal there of ordinary people. here folks can show themselves as they are. unlike many of the new photos we're familiar with will are feeling if, if i let myself be photographed too awful and the picture is great. but if you're lucy and her fellow residents, also hope to send another message with their photos since the 19 sixty's, sand and marble have been mined in this area, that's turned the once said, dylan landscape surrounding the hamlet into quarries that are a source of noise dust and dirt i had readily give. ask estelle an empty scare. a

so many other riches here than that. see, they almost are god. we have a culture that we want to show. sally, been all the wine cellar on your day. the pine trees must be older than everyone here put together it from bow girl that we simply want to show that way more than what surrounds asi. got k one, go get the new 100. 0, good. so petro sanchez was also happy to pay for the calendar at 100 years old. and he, he's the pin up for december, even though he's not totally mean penya sandy, about whose oldest resident suddenly remembers the days when the hamlet was full of life. another little boy, although being all he looked so are 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 dance love ordeal. he he away line b. o had dre. sanchez doesn't know if the photo project will revitalized the

village. but he says it sure was fun. yeah, go right through the window of buddha window. oh everyone who knows me is surprised that i dared to do it a thing of blue. oh, but i'm up for doing different things like this. some paris penya. it's half a day about holland. it's calendar on now known well beyond the spain's borders to the delight of squash, grow, a handful perez, who's discovered an unknown sight of himself with his mom. i no longer have any inhibitions, though. i'd never done anything like this before, but i'm on board for next time. in the hamlet, they were ready 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 with 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're 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 answered am number 111, right. what have you run over? now reagan's come rain, snow, or storm. we have to pack up our tools and get on our bikes. we ride out to the customers in any kind of weather. after all, they're counting on us, not a console. francis is the foreman and a 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. i quit once over shows, it's going to be a big job. it puts heater that is, i want to show you this here along the door frames lower edge on the you can clearly see a blue stripe. hilda, that means a draft is coming through content complement a for full, said the thing as well here. feel it. if you hold your hand here you can feel the draft. yeah, no, and, and a really good not. that is not here. it's 16 degrees celsius and down here, only 5 degrees available, leaky windows are all too frequent to out of 3 apartments in the netherlands are badly insulated itself. here the doors 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, das we have the heating on the not yes. okay, yeah. and this window here is nothing more than an opening in the concrete stop as they just stop the windows in with no potty and we have to redo everything he'd

another. what african 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 via visual that i realized that many things here weren't ideal, but often i guess didn't know how to change it. and i asked the housing association, but they not really any help pineapple. they feared no. we actually called them 4 times to complain about the problems. someone did combine allotted, 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 also clean the sand, belong. our clients are people who receive benefits or they're financially

dependent on the state in other ways on the receiving it come, okay, 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 on the sunday sunday sir aiden, that we hear that over and over what states and what can that for how endangered, or who about 750000 dutch people are estimated to be having trouble covering their energy costs. many of them turn to francis and his co workers, and now 6 teams are working simultaneously in amsterdam, alone, pavement requirement. we lack 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 and in days, lot of them. this target group often has very little confidence in the authorities . but all the more in italy, projects like the 6th grade, 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 winters ought in europe. sutherland alone offers more than 300 skita thoughts, but they are having a tough time due to high energy prices and climate change. anton cabrera was never a fan of these huge resorts. 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 has to come by in the swiss alps these days. just 20 kilometers of ski runs to channel lifts and no plans to expound. that's how anton calibre likes it for over half a century. he's run the small family own ski resort son heinsohn bag in the goes on

. at h 92, he still hits the slaves himself. i go to qualify. i'm not good. 3 ascii like i did 50 years ago. every day anton calibre enjoys 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 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 in the resort has simple slopes and a hill for sledging that makes it a favourite with families in particular, many of the guests, some reckless or the marly, it's the best of all, 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. i know this 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. swan round from his visits, 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 it does it. he's clearly the boss up here lies 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 this fall less snow in winter than he says, you always need to come up with something new and be creative. just zisha, nist. i'm for him moment is yes, it's certainly not easy right now. this year has been extremely difficult for many

mom for lunch. we couldn't ski her at the start of the season, so that was a problem. but at least we had the sledding hill, making sure 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 lounges ski resort, struggle to find ways to cope with climate change and become more sustainable. he's happy with his approach of 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 chuck so basically it's like it was 50 years ago,

but damages i agree. the v for victor yang except for the snow, there's no longer enough still and, and 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, with

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