tv Focus on Europe Deutsche Welle March 9, 2023 10:30pm-11:01pm CET
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digital innovation, o transformer, and living conditions in their country, and inspiring with africa, watching a documentary ah, this is focus on europe. i'm labriola, 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 q, 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
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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 to real 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
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never been scared, but l has totally. she gets scared if i so much as take her hand. my elf. oh yes, we had her for state here at the cause on cathedral. she reached for my hand and right away 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, judaism, 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. go home casanya due to catherine,
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but at noon 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. you gave a sermon tying the war and l g b, t q, or pride marches together. shanay was pca, and then them by censorship, lead nippy. yet here in the dumbass, they reject the so called values that are offered to day by those who claim world power. he that boy 5th mila yell. if those who want to join that world have to pass a test, gape to hold a gay parade at acheed, yet that jumped up little girl. this is about something far more than just politics
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. 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. l can go to victoria doesn't have to remain anonymous anymore. by the time this report airs, she'll be long gone forever. she says young from the last one, 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, it's good. the same year i had a violent father and i used to think it was the same for every one. buick. when he got the deal, he didn't beat me every day in review. and where else could i go filling? it looks great because that's also how it is with the state. mean, lot, the level of violence is rising and that affects people. it will take a long time to change that. yes sir. moscow's soccer of center for
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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 immune from the past. the young that they need an eternal enemy, one for the masses. it will, it will almost sexual c, l, g b t people yet 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 in just a few hours because of the
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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 plains the u. k. only allows pets in the cargo, hold with them for the they don't want to subject their cat to that ordeal. mom, the taxi picked them up in the dead of night was just all caught. 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 the delta tonight. saucen is 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 with the number of half a 1000000 or more. no one knows exactly how many l works and the i
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t sector. victoria is a writer and photographer. neither of them wants 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 jago slab are living in limbo, there plans for t it i rushes 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, the don units, front line, and heading closer. just 15 kilometers from russian forces. well within range of
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their artillery, until column bees 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 gar. 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 start she'll quite yet, mira, we all want police are do living with these explosions. it's so loud him, you know, you don't know where they're coming from. you but you might where the land and you keep good up and 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 john and people need to understand who doesn't the sooner the better of him was st. image i'll go far waste. anton has set up
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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 whole year without any stop or we, we don't have any rotations. we don't have any location, sir. actually the only the only chance to get dressed for a month or a do is to get wounded, which is full. 2 days before rushes full scan 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,
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what choice do i have actually to give my son leave under slavery or fractions? well, i'm not saying that they will sit and slave him, but i understand that he will live in different country and i won't, 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
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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 look if. sure. sure, sir. little bit porridge, would a shoe bought coma whenever i am in the park these days? yes. look, 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. she bought you. you don't wonder what this is, how timothy and gero sloughed? we're living just a few days before the water 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 home. it's some online classes at college. but he with your cable, they just renewed their war time isn't live english and it's just existing a yankee snowing. it said boucher rascal ship. it's hard to live
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a normal life. but to think about to morrow in the future here. 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 were these sandwiches, meters and timothy struggling to understand the loss of his grandmother minear. but the lily is cuz i wish it showed us that my grandmother was hit by a car one evening. she died in the hospital 5 days later than you for madeline. i was told that because there was no electricity for street lights in the evening. the driver couldn't see her, it's very short. they even have a bunch of were g o. jan. we'll walk back to france. anton 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,
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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, it's an icy 7 o'clock in the morning and goro. and the harbor here on the po, daughter is draped in a thick fog providers. pies, auntie, that doesn't make setting out any easier body. i know you tried to navigate by
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orienting yourself to certain landmarks, but on mornings like this. when the fog, which we call cali, go, is so thick done. it makes navigating difficult, super very difficult. his father fish the adriatic before him but a day, but his harvest clams bungalow. where and how much they can that changes every day, placido a diva mandel was in the evening. 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 it to lot audio and how much we can bring ashore it, these are the critical thing, 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
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. that is finally reaches as a sign zone is not deep, but it is cold. looney gl model pascal that suited money. it's the only way to warm up your hands when they're cold. i knew among. busy omega come all the clam. fishing is more like farming the sea better than traditional fishing. the girdle fissures, 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 noise we did. yama come into the night,
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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 can be lamentably bad. we also see the effect of climate change when we find fish demolish and crap species that we've never seen here before. it shows that are the b value, jeanetta gift, lima, 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 got a bonnie 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 argument tell 20 more rules can be mildly as they grow mollusks for michelle in that capture c o. 2, charlotte, oak, 2, and if i harvest tequila, clams were the c o. 2 emitted for their commercial use is much less than the c o 2
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captured by the clamshell as they grow, said he already spec. gotcha. and what that's the surprising thing, or should that have been good enough? don't 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. but us and the other fishers launched another climate from the project. farming oysters from the mediterranean, using the tides. ah mika rose assuming dalia. we're the only oyster producers in it allow the other shook. now it's low tide area, 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? who took a slightly like waste and oh, okay. oh, well, it was good to know what to do. very nice lucian and krista, y, pull, fondle me,
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lead me there from 2020 shod to me, living with the fishers call their oysters golden goro, and sell them to chopped shafts all over italy. but above all, bodice loves one thing about his work. leave it on his to so 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, ah, preserving this world and ensuring its future providers. and the phishers 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
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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 pubs and a hardware store. however, it's been in business for nearly 150 years after that the child was found here 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 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. that's
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a whole don't 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. i 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 shareholder 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 u. 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 loss of european funding is going to be a blow,
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but we will have to no sick of the funding post within the community. and throughout 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 no or just have a little chat about well and the yes, yes, if we got, if you look at a stock day, so i love just looking around a little, you know, 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 done it for the community now. in newport, more than 500 people now own shares and are helping to preserve hazards. the heart
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of their community. west wales, which is predominantly rural, is seen, young people leave in droves. shops are closing everywhere. chris thomas is the member of the community development, charity active in the region. and 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. for 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, and plastic and leather, and yet tissue back to childhood. here,
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when 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. so 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 and hazards have become a source of hope in a region that has seen its problems compounded by breaks it, locals, help their community initiative will benefit not just themselves, 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
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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, fain, a tenant shows as his apartment, the hateful or the biggest change was taken the facade completely and putting on a new one. they said 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. allison took altered before
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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 out. 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 on the i still drop power from the grid banner 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 for eric hook, fane says his energy bill has been cut in half even though prices have gone up in
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evaporating large amounts of moisture tune in to get the answer. learn more about this phenomenon to find out a heavy, invisible river that flows through the sky starts march 23rd on d w. m. and how many portion of lunch us heard out in the world? climate change very often stores. this is my plan, the way from just one week. how much work can really get we still have time to go. i'm going all with . just listen. this is the sound of time passing as forest. the size of 25 football fields lost every minute adding to greenhouse gases. but what is the sound of
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a tree not for the sounded by a diverse tourism community development, reliable food and water. the united nations development program is listening and working with communities to protect forests for the future we want. if you're hearing what we're hearing, find out more. ah, this is detail you news and these are our top stories. a palestinian gunmen has open fire on a crowded street in central tel aviv wounding 3 people before being killed by israeli police. the militant palestinian group. hamas has claimed the shooter a 23 year old from the west bank as its member. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called it a terror attack in a major you turn georgia's government is dropping.
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