a gender gap in space exploration. germany's 1st female astronaut has been waiting for years to get her turn of private initiatives. just pushing to make it happen. me personally, it's just a dream i've always had. i've always wanted to see the us for destiny for space. starts more change on d w. ah ah, hello and welcome to focus on europe. i'm glad to have you about a lot has been said about russia and ukraine and the last year. but what about countries that share their border with ukraine model? well, for instance,

moscow is allegedly funding demonstrations organized by flor russian groups in the republican, moldova, while the protesters are demanding the removal of pro european president maya sunday. 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 and 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 images with the nitty off trans mystery up. the couple says the 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

republicans, 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, girls, i mean, do 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. water is 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. 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, but 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 moldova airspace. many times. that's one reason the war fuel. so close oh, on one of the main shopping boulevards, in moldova, capital key, she now they're singing about love and dreaming of a better life or even just a little prosperity. busy 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 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 dillard plugins of we can't even make plans for tomorrow or the day after we're thinking about this evening. if we'll still be alive or have to flee, or the mobilization might began lamps that was 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 rajan, 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 asunder. 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 russian trans in history, a region we passed through to check points going into po ravia and to coming out of the village lies east of the river. but still a moldova territory in a securities own, alexey and his wife had lived here all their lives in the early 19 ninety's fighters from break away 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 mall law. they've settled into a routine here for 30 years now. the separately govern, johnson is true, lies just a stone's throw away. it's financially supported by russia, but officially recognized by know you and nation. the population is around $375000.00 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. 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 my society will be spared that kind of faint. but i'm really worried that it could happen 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 he talk of her number of asylum seekers. borgata no other country in the european union has taken an as many refugees as the republic of cyprus, the situation seems to be getting out of control for the small island country. doris polly garble walks as an aide walker. he shows us a refugee camp near the capital nichols here and all crowded side. but people living in good bastrop ambitions. there is some 1000 asylum seekers living here for the human rights activists, doris pully, carpool. the pu nara camp and southern cypress as 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. this is a place that actually is turned into a comp that this out of control is not manageable, is expensive and it doesn't serve the idea that it was set up if you will. naturally asylum seekers who arrive here are only supposed to 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. now 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. polycarp, who speaks to a syrian who is willing to talk about the conditions in the camp anonymously, limited natal, couldn't the children won't eat the food here. they're not used to it on the toilets, and the washrooms are indescribably dirty. one of the woman's ones to beth listened to come, the fiddle. my wife almost doesn't dare go in there. among the 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 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 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 on a scale. 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 freedom. richie and bunker 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 me, call south 5th in the 1st weeks or to norah, i slept on the streets. fuck a lot, i don't have a work permit on my part. but i do now get state support of 214 euros fella. not enough to live on hockey doors. polycarp, who says that the separate government is trying to deter other asylum seekers from coming you are like i why do we are and 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 examine them. back in pu, nara, he meets 2 very young somali ins outside the camps fences where one says he's 14 and wants to 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 on to one of these pretty little how this ball from the hustle and bustle of big cities, would you? well, despite of it delayed beauty, no one wants to live in the spanish village off pay. now soft rabbit about hole mare, lucy on nicola, has decided to save haulage. and for this,

she has managed to bring together all the residents for a very unique photo. shoot these spaniards band all the concluding squash pharma, 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, nude available. gifford, america, i just had to take part wasn't working for they told me there weren't enough people . why? 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. lesson

to lover than you were just depicted in a bad light bill. come of you see them on the front row. we'd like to be viewed in the way people in the laundry communities are your we pay our taxes to the left. but here in our little hamlet of our own, we feel sort of left behind we though. oh girl is will you will, our photographers, david can 2 and one cor, camille has had a little trouble convincing the locals to take part ah, with a political thing. i'm would so the villages things function via word of mouth, the noise go more, go people see their neighbors doing it and how well they come across are about. so they spur one another on see you see any money on of how the 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 pen yachts after i d. a buckle was youngest inhabitants. she commends her neighbors courage. generally what i fancy not on british video, deborah, there or it is only a kind of liberation, nothing. i'd get with the spelling stereotypes to mars a bit of a 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 were familiar with what are feeling if, 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 mined 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 barely give out gustavo unemployed. there are so many other riches here than that. scotty almost like our. we have a culture the

a culture that we want to show. sally, been all wine cellar on your day. a pine tree that must be older than everyone here put together from bogo. and we simply want to show that way more than what surrounds us city gorski, what they're going to get the new holiday. oh, good. so petro sunshine is, was also happy to pose 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. with 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 wheel. oh, but when we had a guitar and accordion and people danced, love ordeal a he away line b o handrail sanchez doesn't know if the photo project will revitalized the village,

but he says it sure was fun. yeah, go right through the moodle a 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 holland. it's calendar on now known well beyond spain's board as to the delight of squash grow, a handful perez, who has discovered an unknown sight of himself with it. 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 f one 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 would 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? not a homes 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 paying job. today they've been called out to an apartment chair. quit once over

shows, it's going to be a big job. it puts heater that is i wanted to show you this here along the door frames lower edge on 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 at 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, dance we have the heating on the not. yes. okay. yeah, and this window here is nothing more than an opening in the concrete international, but 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. yeah. exist. although i realized that many things here weren't 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. they feared no. we actually call them 4 times to complain about the problems. someone to combine a lot, for example, they never took care of the insulation classy. 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 that belongs to our clients, or people who receive benefits or they're financially dependent on the state in

other ways in 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 vision, days and days, aiden, that we hear that over and over what states and book and for how indecent 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 recalling we lacked tools and materials support instead of once a month. we've got to order new materials once a week now. but that shows very clearly how great the need is among the people in our target group by dyson, benson in days lawful of them. this target group often has very little confidence in the authorities. but all the more in italy, projects like the fixed brigade, 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 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 expand. 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 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 swiss francs from the bank club, hobbin ali. but i don't want help, otherwise it wouldn't have happened with 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 of the mileage, it's the best. oh, not overrun with people, and you can let the kids jump around last son. i see it's long but nice biddy. so

it's not so crowdy and it's very familiar. i hope they could kill up, but it's very difficult. i 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 from his visits, looking back. it was a dream for me. in the winter, we drove up here almost every weekend and when 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 don't law school. dennis wants to preserve the place he loved so much as a child. even if climate change means less while 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, 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 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 and nick,

chuck so basically it's like it was 50 years ago, but damage is angry. the v for victor young. except for the snow, there'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, with

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