ah, waterfalls, water particles into the air b, trees and sweating out up to 1000 liters of water in a day. a forest fires, collaborating large amounts of moisture to them to get the answer. learn more about this phenomenon, a heavy, invisible river that flows through the sky starts march 23rd on d w. 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 been banned as gay and queer people faced harsh repression. the l g b t q. community is being forced to retreat into the shadows of life in russia, a so called 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 nighttime

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. well. 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 pomo sexual propaganda had just been expanded since then. it's been forbidden even to speak about homosexuality in a positive light. yet the near the yet, i don't have to go to demonstration. also reach just the way i live is the kind of

activism it 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. go home casanya due to catherine, 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. your gave a sermon tying the war, and l g b, t q, or pride marches together. are shown i was the senior, and then them bases, so she sleep nippy yet here. in the dumbass, they reject the so called values that are oper today by those who claim world power

. he that boy, 5th the light yell if those who want to join that world have to pass a test, ye to hold a gay parade at 18 your that jumped up the little girl. this is about something far more than just politics. i leave you. it's about saving. humanity has come spicy ania. 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 with good 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 when and where else could i go? so when you look at this,

that's also how it is with the state law that the level of violence is rising and that affects people. it will take a long time to change that at the ada. 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 immune from the past. the young, they need an eternal enemy, one for the masses. when it, when homosexuals, 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 especially 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 sanctions. they can't fly on stock 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 allow 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, yes, i know. i have an irrational fear of the border control houghton that delta tuna sauces. 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 at half a 1000000 or more. no one knows exactly how many l works in 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 jago 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

easton, ukrainian, donnie, it's frontline, 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 gar, anton, and his unit out here to defend these people. the last ones still so close the door, russian troops the bracing for the russian offensive. after more than year of fighting, they're hoping that one day it will start she heard yet, mira, we all want police or 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 keith could operate. 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 of him was st. image o 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 whole year without any stop. oh we, we don'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 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, right. what choice do i have actually to give my som 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 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 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 the chance to come before the war. i would have never imagined that a terrier 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. sure sir. a little bit. push what a shoe bought coma 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, she, you know what, this is how timothy and gero slough men are 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 hold. it's some online classes at college, but he with you. okay, would it be just renewed sir? war time isn't living sion i, 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 these sandwiches meters and timothy struggling to understand the loss of his grandmother when year. but the only way a scholarship is that my grandmother was hit by a car one evening. she died in the hospital 5 days later in year from little i was told her because there was no electricity for street lights on the evening. the driver couldn't see her is reesha with the uniform watch of were g o. jan. we'll go 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, anton tells us not to stay with him for long. russian 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 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 try to navigate by orienting yourself to certain landmarks, but on mornings like this. when the fog, which we call calico is so thick that it makes navigating difficult, super very difficult. his father finished the adriatic before him, but to day, but us harvest clams bungler. where and how much they can that changes every day. less 0 level, but at the romando was in the evening, we get a message from the co operatives, a demand 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 in the bees,

are they put 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. $1500.00 men and women worked the boat. a lagoon that is finally reaches his assigned zone is not deep, but it is cold. looney gl model cost a lot. susie bonnie: it's the only way to warm up your hands when they're cold among. busy omega come all the clam. fishing is more like farming the sea bed than traditional fishing. the girdle fissures, harvest almost $14000.00 tons of mollusks. each year 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 about 11 degrees celsius. climate change is also affecting the po, delta noise we did. yama come down 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 gumby, i mean took leave. and we also see the effect of climate change when we find fish demolish and crap species that we've never seen here before. it said that the b value, janetta, 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 the gutter bonding. at the university of florida, professor elena thom bodine has authored a study on the impact of muscles on the climate. it confirms that girl fisher's

arguments could be more was, can be valued as they grow mollusks for michelle in that capture c o. 2, charlotte, oak, 2. and if i harvest tequila plans for 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. gotcha. and what that's the surprising thing will show that i'm good, you know, don't look at this when i was that was i sort of put him in the lagoon. the good old fisher's. now farmer 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 rose assuming natalia. 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 avia yell sold. gwendolen,

when the tide comes in with us, this entire zone will be flooded. awfully a lega? booklet like lincoln? oh okay. oh well, it was good for her very nice loose. and 1st of all i pulled fondle me led me there from 2020 shod to me, living with the fishers called their oysters golden goro, and sell them to chopped 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, lima, a you follow the ebb and flow of the tides and the phases of the moon preschool. and lucy, you are part of this beautiful world, our world, the po, delta ah, preserving this world and ensuring its future providers and the fishers of goro, it's 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 added to it 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 port. the wells town is home to about a 1000 people for pubs and a hardware store have heard it's been in business for nearly 150 years after that the child has found 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. oh, no one wanted to imagine life without their frying pans and kitchen essentially. 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 cost and paying a small amount of shareholders interest. go straight back into the community. a helpful source of funding and hard times. and in post breaks at britain, e. u funds are now sorely missed in rural whales. new ports, football club house, for example, was built with a help of

e u. money. the welsh government estimates breaks. 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, but we will have to know sick of the funding post within the community and to watch government and u. k. government and heathers, 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 in the years. yes, if we got, if we look at the stock day from so i love just looking around a little more. 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. a new port more than 500 people now own shares and are helping to preserve harvard, 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 the member of the community development, charity active in the region. in the cost of, of energy means many small chop law struggling and our closing, we see in the news every day local shop 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 in plastic and leather and yet tissue back to childhood. here 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 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. they said they're all bows in no tracks or for fact 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. now doesn't that look altered little people who often cook 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 dogs may still drop power from the grid. them with haley 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, ah, ah ah,

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