a little currently more people than ever on the move worldwide in search of a better life. you know, this is a very different journey. and one, a find out about someone story in so my grand reliable news from my grin, wherever they may be. ah, this is focus on europe. i'm larva lola, nice to have you with us. russia has declared war against western values. president

vladimir putin isn't waging this one with tanks. but with laws that target minorities, the l g b t. community in russia lives under the constant threat of violence and discrimination. and there's no protection from the state. the rainbow flag and pride parades have been banned as gay and queer people face harsh repression. the l g b t q. community is being forced to retreat into the shadows of life in russia. the so called the homosexual propaganda law criminalizes. any positive portrayals of gay relationships in sermons, a russian orthodox patriarch, career denounces same sex relationships as an expression of western values that threaten the country. l and victoria are a couple from st. petersburg since the war and ukraine began. the mood and russia has become increasingly homophobic and they felt compelled to act. el

and victoria take one last night time stroll through saint petersburg. their way of saying farewell to one of the world's most beautiful cities. this is where they 1st met, but they've never really kissed in public. in russia, it's too dangerous. i've never been scared, but l has totally. she gets scared if i so much as take her hand. my l. yes, we had her for state here at the cause on cathedral. she reached for my hand and right away i said no. we had already interviewed victoria for a report in october 2022. to protect her, we made sure she couldn't be recognized. the ban on what russia calls, homo sexual propaganda had just been expanded since then. it's been forbidden even to speak about homosexuality in a positive light. yet the neo, the, yet, i don't have to go to demonstration. also reach just the way i live is the kind of

activism, isn't the law amounts to legitimizing. attacks on us so often that nobody will protect us and nobody will penalize the perpetrators and couple it'll be open season on us to go home. casanya due to catherine by that nip when you so back then victoria and el already had plans to move abroad because of the war on ukraine, which they see as a disaster. and the war at home against people like them rushes 2nd front is directed against dissidence or any one who thinks or lives differently . any one who doesn't follow traditional values is made out to be an enemy. just before russia invaded ukraine, patriarch coral, a close ally, a president, putin. your gave a sermon, tying the war, and l g b, t q, or pride marches together, or shanay was be senior. and then them basis and she is lead nippy yet here. in danbury, they reject the so called values that are offered to day by those who claim world

power. he that boy, 5th the la yell if those who want to join that world have to pass a test ye to hold a gay parade, eddie 18. you're that young, that little girl, this is about something far more than just politics. while you get that, it's about saving. humanity has come spicy and yet we meet victoria again and her favorite st. petersburg bookshop. she has an artist's visa for the united kingdom. now she's a photographer. hell can go to victoria doesn't have to remain anonymous anymore. by the time this report, heirs, she'll be long gone forever. she says young when you last, when i now understand that my relationship with my own country is the same as that of a victim of domestic abuse to her family. yeah. with, with the same year i had a violent father, and i used to think it was the same for every one bureau. when he got the deal. he didn't beat me every day in review. and where else could i go there when you book

credit this, that's also how it is with the state. mean, lord, that the level of violence is rising. and that affects people. it will take a long time to change that. yes huh. moscow's soccer of center for the protection of human rights is opening its last exhibition. the memory of the famous soviet dissident andre soccer off has now fallen into official disfavor. some diplomats and a handful of human rights activists are attending older people who have little left to fear and who are all too familiar with the workings of a totalitarian system. when things get tough, it looks around for enemies within even from the past, the young that they need an eternal enemy. one for the masses. when it, when homosexuals, l g, b, t, people get perfectly because they evoke so many negative emotions here in the society. shuttle as an enemy of the masses. algae, beauty, people work even better than we human rights activists that were irrelevant to

people. if you were up to lives packed into 4 suitcases, their flight leaves and just a few hours because of the sanctions. they can't fly on stop to london. they have to catch a plane from belgrade to paris and then a train to london. they can't leave the cat behind and on planes. the u. k. only allows pets in the cargo hold, wasn't for the. they don't want to subject their cat to that ordeal. swamp. the taxi picked them up in the dead of night. asked old card now i've only got one thing in mind catching the plane and hoping to let us out of the country and everything goes well. ah, you have a son, i have an irrational fear of the border control on that delta tuna saucer. now, if for example, they want to see my telephone, it has things on it that are prohibited under our laws. they're 2 of hundreds of

thousands who left their countries since the war began with russian language media in exile, but the number at half a 1000000 or more. no one knows exactly how many l works and the i t sector. victoria is a writer and photographer. neither of them want to go back. russia, they say is unlikely to change for the better in their life time. to be young is to dream and plan for a bright future. but when war breaks out, the world is turned upside down and attention turns towards surviving the presence . this is the reality for many young people in ukraine. timothy and yarrow slab are living in limbo, their plans afforded by russia's invasion. anton column bay is a soldier of fighting for ukraine's future. more than a year ago, he was catapulted into a new reality one far away from his home and his family. we are in

eastern ukrainian dani. it's front line and heading closer. just 15 kilometers from russian forces. well within range of their artillery, anton column bass clear about the danger. if i will get wounded, i'll get killed so i couldn't drive any more. you're just drawn away from the car. anton and his unit are here to defend these people. the last ones still so close, the russian troops the bracing for the russian offensive. after more than year old fighting, they're hoping that one day it will stop she'll quite yet, mira, we all want lisa do living with these explosions. it's so loud meal. you don't know where they're coming from. you, when you might, where the land you could up when it might all be over 2000,

it would be the whole. they should start negotiation. so because spilling blood is a big sin before jarred, and people need to understand who doesn't the sooner the better for him was straight to much. oh, oh, gone far waste. anton has set up a makeshift headquarters in an abandoned home. from here he coordinates his unit and tries to recruit new soldiers for the front. but it's all getting harder will be people just tired. we are fighting almost all year without any stop or we, we didn't have any rotations, we don't have any locations. so actually the only the only chance to get rest for a month or do is to get wounded which is for 2 days before rushes full scale invasion. we met him at home in keith bag. then he was working in veteran affairs, a husband and father to a 2 year old. the 36 year old was worried,

the are, we might call him up if russia are really invaded. so, but even then he was ready to defend ukraine if necessary. right. the rock, what choice do i have actually to give my son leave under slavery or fractions? well, i am not saying that they will enslaved him, but i understand that he will live in different country and i want, if it will happen. so he knows that his father made everything everything. so that won't him. it is costing him dear. he's only seen his family for 3 days since then . like reminds me of why we are fighting for 1st of all. so, but of course it is very emotional. you fully understand that every day actually can be a last day in keith, timothy and yarrow slough are aware of that too. but aged $19.20,

they could also be drafted. even here in the park is dangerous. the feeder of new strikes, present all the time, and everywhere. better do what shall come before the war. i would have never imagined that i carry a 1st aid kit around with me, so fish was but in the past months i carried it around with me all the time. just in case something lands nearby this you? none of it will. okay, sure. so sir, little bit push what a shoe bought go more whenever i'm in the park these days. yes. okay, i look around and find a spot where i could hide. if i hear the sound of drones or rockets or if i see them here, okay. that she bought you, you know what, this is how timothy and generous cloth. we're living just a few days before the water at was safe and ordinary, playing computer games and making plans for a future. yarrow slough was about to move to the czech republic to go to management school. and tim, off he wanted to continue with film school since then their lives have been largely

on hold. it's some online classes at college. but he would you okay, would it be just renewed sir? war time isn't live english and it's just existing i yeah guess knowing it said lucia abbas scholarship. it's hard to live a normal life. but to think about to morrow in the future. yeah. when you know that at any moment, the rocket can hit your house moment 3, but then change everything was the which it though, which for the sandwiches me. and timothy is struggling to understand the loss of his grandmother one year. but the only way is calisha is that my grandmother was hit by a car one evening. she died in the hospital 5 days later than usual metal. i was told her because there was no electricity for street lights in the evening. the driver couldn't see her. it's reassured, the uniform watch of were g o. jan will look back at the front, aren't on talks about the death. he has experience. he won't tell us how many of his comrades are gone. but it is many. he says, my friends, for example,

died for something, so they died for ukraine. so now it's my duty to leave also for them and to be for to fight for new ukraine and to build new ukraine. eskew, anton tells us not to stay with him for long rush and shelling can start at any time. clams are protein rich and full of essential nutrients. but did you know they're also good for fighting climate change? that's thanks to their shells which absorb harmful carbon dioxide. italian fisher rad is pe. sante is undoubtedly pleased that the united nations has agreed on a treaty to protect the world's oceans. mollusks are his livelihood and that of other local fishers who set out each morning into the po, delta to haul their catch from the water. whatever the weather ah is an icy 7 o'clock in the morning

and gordon and the harbor here on the po. delta is draped in a thick fog providers, pies, auntie, that doesn't make setting out any easier body. i know you try to navigate by orienting yourself to certain landmarks, but on mornings like this. when the fog, which we call co legal is so thick, it makes navigating difficult, super very difficult. his father finished the adriatic before him, but to day, but us harvest clams longley. where and how much that can that changes every day, placido level, but at the romando was in the evening when we get a message from the co operative don't mind telling us what zone we can fish when we can set out the needs. and when we have to return to lot audio and how much we can

bring ashore, if the bees are there for a little bit, but they glide for a half an hour through the silent lagoon. then suddenly the quiet ends. the clam fishers appeared from the fog like ghosts 1500 men and women worked to go to lagoon . that is finally reaches as a sign zone is not deep, but it is cold. to luna gl model pascal that senior bonnie: it's the only way to warm up your hands when they're cold, ammonia ammonium ortho, come all the clam. fishing is more like farming the seabed than traditional fishing . the goto, fisher's harvest. almost $14000.00 tons of mollusks each year. well up today we can all harvest 30 kilos, they suck the mollusks out of the sand with a special device. the water is 6 degrees celsius just right for winter. but in

recent years, the temperature has stayed around 11 degrees celsius. climate change is also affecting the po, delta neu. we video mac come to our mental lima. we observed the effects of climate change here when the sea level changes aqua. when the shock a wind blows or during the phases of the moon, the fuzzy lunar video one that i see come yeah mentally. but we also see the effect of climate change when we find fish demolished and crap species that we've never seen here before. it said that the be valving jeanetta, give him a known of it. that's why clam farming is important. he says, to help protect the climate liquid key. the shelves are made of calcium carbonate, gabriella to the car, which is just captured carbon dioxide, lemmy that he, that carbonic at the university of florida. professor elena thom bodine has authored a study on the impact of muscles on the climate. it confirms the girl fisher's

arguments tell you more with can be mildly as they grow mollusks for michelle in that capture c o 2, charlotte, oak, 2, and i'm gonna if i harvest sticky little of clams were the c o. 2 emitted for their commercial use is much less than the c o 2 captured by the clamshell as they grow said he already spec last you had what? that's the surprising thing will show that it will good evening and look at this when i was back was i sort of put in the lagoon. the goto fishers now form it does a mullah species over 10 square kilometers. 7 years ago, vidas and the other fishers launched another climate friendly project. farming, oysters from the mediterranean, using the tides. ah mika brewed assuming dalia. we're the only oyster producers in it'll tune up there shortly. now it's low tide here and these baskets with a young oysters are hanging in the air and the sun or yeah, yeah, sol. gwendolen,

when the tide comes in with this entire zone will be flooded. awfully a lega. hooked up to slightly like winston. oh okay. oh. well it was good to know what to do. very nice. listen. crystal was full fondle me led me there from 2020 shod. to me, the vane miller with the fishers called their oysters golden goro! and sell them to chops, shafts all over italy. but above all, bodice loves one thing about his work. li built on his to so the, it's that sense of freedom. lemme a you follow the ebb and flow of the tides and the phases of the moon, elusive your part of this beautiful world, our world, the po, delta v ah, preserving this world and ensuring its future providers and the fishers of goro is their life's work. life in a village is simple, a corner store a pub and perhaps a clothing shop,

but take one of them away and local life can be disrupted. that's what a community in great britain was faced with. upon hearing, one of their treasured shops was closing at stores. so chris morgan and other villagers decided to run at themselves. their d i. y attitude in wales comes as many in the united kingdom are adjusting to life in the wake of breaks it. oh, it's another ordinary day here in new portal, the welsh town is home to about a 1000 people for pups and a hardware store. however, it's been in business for nearly 150 years after that the child has found here i for her. but then about a year after breck said to came the bad news hazards planned to close its doors. it was a bomb shell. we were all devastated. yes. i mean have odds has been in newport for

many, many, many years and years before i came here, i'm so it's very old traditional business and everyone was really, really, really upset that we would lose it. oh no one wanted to imagine life without their frying pans and kitchen essentials. so new port residence set about raising nearly half a 1000000 pounds and took over the shop themselves. now the employees get help from volunteers. like chris morgan, a retired engineer. we're not for profit organization, the profits go straight back off to costs and paying a small amount of shareholders interest. go straight back into the community. a helpful source of funding in hard times. and in post breaks at britain, e. u funds are now sorely missed in rural whales. new ports football clubhouse, for example, was built with the help of

e money. the welsh government estimates bricks. it will cause a shortfall of over a 1000000000 pounds over 5 years. so some people in the region are seizing the initiative. obviously the law for european funding is going to be a blow, but we will have to no sick of the funding post within the community and to watch government on u. k. government and hazards hardware store, local residents are pitching in to help save the sharp. volunteers help wherever they're needed. sometimes they may keys. i've known one or just have a little chat about well in the years. yes, if we got it. if we look at a stock day, so i love just looking around a little here. was that doing so well, things like that. i mean, you can put that to all sorts of uses, but to, you know, it's, it's, it's just having everything here and just looking rather thinking i could, i could do with one of those. so for me, this is a shopping paradise. the atmosphere was always amazing. and her and i love love

working her and but there's an extra buzz because you feel as though you don't it for the community now in new port more than 500 people now own shares and are helping to preserve harvard's, the heart of their community. west wales, which is predominantly rural, is seen, young people leave in droves. shops are closing everywhere. chris thomas is a member of the community development charity active in the region. in the cost of, of energy means many small shops are struggling and our closing, we see in the news every day, local shops suffering. but by having a community shop, we're working with over 500 shareholders to encourage them to support their shop. ah, were the people of new port seizing the initiative as paid off, they even managed to win over the british government, which is planning to help fund a new cafe here as an added attraction. ah,

it's got that and you can't smell this, but there's a smell of paraffin, an oil in plastic and leather and yeah. tissue back to childhood. yeah. when the, these places used to thrive and this one still does thrive with the community purchase, it feels as though people are taking action in the best way possible am. and everybody supports it said, there aren't any, you know, dissenters though, people who don't agree with with us doing it. you're the people of new port and their community own hazards have become a source of hope in a region that has seen its problems compounded by breaks it, locals, hope their community initiative will benefit not just himself, but also the next generation of new port residence

hitting your home without gas and the worry over soaring energy costs is a luxury many europeans don't have. but in the netherlands, eric o havens energy bills have dropped a significantly. he lives in the dutch city of o track, where residents voted in favor of cutting off natural gas supplies for good. at 1st glance, this might look like a very ordinary building. a 10 story apartment block in one of attracts less upscale neighborhoods. but this building has managed to end its reliance on natural gas. eric hooker, fane. a tenant shows us his apartment. the hateful or the biggest change was taken the facade completely and putting on a new one dais and they're all bows in oh tracks. oh, perfect quarter, the gas lines were due for replacement. so why not do without them altogether? the city asked and paid to refit a whole neighbourhood with completely new facades,

triple glazing, top notch insulation, solar arrays on balconies and the roof and heat pumps. the housing association says that tenants were thrilled, even though some wished they could still cook with gas. agatha and the duke altered little people who often coke with a walk weren't keen on the idea of walker. and i do need to use a gas stove for that order. won't have amazon and because we're practically forcing them to switch away from gas by doing, we provided them with all the information. okay. and gave them all new stove. what's it a guy who she talked to them, i'd a change in the law meant that only 70 percent of residents had to approve the conversion. and so the project was approved. the project engineer says it's cost effective. yeah, month interval in the evenings, especially in winter when it gets dark early on, the solar panels are useless and, and on i still drop power from the grid band with hailey are late, but over a year we supply 20 to 30 kilowatt hours to the grid. i love 1st it,

there's also an app for tenants to monitor their energy use and their savings. eric hook, a fein says his energy bill has been cut in half. even though prices have gone up in the netherlands. penny saved is a penny earned. thanks so much for joining us today. bye for now. ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, with

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