has been some months since the war and myself as the rush of for parents to face the ukrainian counter offensive. how safety is prudent positions? thank you for inviting me conflict zone. in 60 minutes on d, w or sports scoring, we say they were about never giving up sports flies every weekend on d w. the hello and it will welcome to focus on your up. it's great to have you with us and ukraine, the counter offensive against the russian of your patient is moving forward. slow,

heavy fighting is reported, especially around the city of move in the country, east ukrainian presidents to landscape visited the troops there and late july. the city had been destroyed and captured by russian forces early in may. both sides are kindly suffering heavy casualties in the fight for the move. to absorb the losses, new soldiers must be recruited and trade constantly. somebody even being trained directly behind the front lines. one of the recreating training kansas located near buck moved where the russian resistance is particularly strong. here, company commanders must work to integrate new arrivals into the eunice every day. they are face was extremely dangerous situations, not only for themselves, but also for the new recruits. our photo and his crew experiences firsthand where they attended a training unit. it's the moment the attack subsides

. we have been struck by rest and plus the bones, everybody to cover it wherever possible. as the situation comes down, we try to make our exit we arrived shortly before to fill them a drill for so just joining a reconnaissance petune. most new recruits, some soldiers who have been transferred from other units among the play to his job is providing fire cover for a texas ortiz. and i assume you said something which i a the most active so which is unfortunately good, wounded or killed. they dropped out of the unit. that's why we constantly have to recruit and usa, which is to fill our ranks and preserve compet residence. we constantly have to train those that are available at the moment so that our unit can continue. it's fine. but i don't know what the national board will

this is why there is no official figure. it is clear that the loss is so far have been high just a few moments as for the infantry. so does the learning system and it may change as a wave of william t is joining the army has and more and more conscripts being drafted pressure to resupply the units is high. the mobilized schedule elementary training, and then hastily prepared so that you to 19 gave that's his co sign was quoted in 2 months ago. the conditioning this but of course i don't think we aware trained. there was a reason why regular service of the army usually lost. it's more than 2 months. so more training would be necessary. but we are in a situation where you're locked as broken down. what we need to be for us to replenish that. there is no time. it's just for with, for with, for products for that right. of

storming enemy positions is one of the most dangerous operations in time to go. the word among the troops is that soldiers 1st to talk is the most dangerous sandy. anybody survives more than 3 on home? i have already been at the front somewhere, but just show it within the us. it's terrifying to try to hide among the trees while you are just being so constantly with more to get this. if this gloves met them with the but and so nobody knows how much training they will get before being sent to the front line. the unit is fighting nearby for just over 20 kilometers from this training ground near the tone of the soldiers are constantly

rotating in and out of their positions. some of these instructors i've just been rotated in from the, from some veterans shift to training new recruits because there was so badly wounded in fighting that they could not re to which on the new of course there are differences between mobilized recruits and so which is was the $56.00 oceans and 3 is, it was easy then we did not have to use as much time for the basics. but i still don't think the level of preparedness has drunk to. we have more experience. come on this now. we can prepare the recruits back at the training area where the reconnaissance platoon is being drilled. the company commander is getting used to the challenge training use those instead of experience troops grow. that's as cool

assigned to you as many of his fellow soldiers being wounded or que yeah, no, it's got him back, his name is can put, you know, it's hard to say how many, let's put it that way. of those who started together with me, many are gone. offices die as well as the 2 commanders sergeant's a privates. i don't want to count that much. honestly, that would be on to bear with me was. hi, myself was wounded twice. it's impossible to predict. who is going to be hit when the color chip or camera man was interested in the selling speed to the hospital. we see so which is rushing to have the wounded comrades wounded before they even reach the front

with rushes, invasion of ukraine, the mood and lock the tents. the neighboring country was once a part of the soviet union before declaring independence. but that being culture has always helped the people to preserve their identity. and heritage, especially through song and dance. every 5 years lab meals come together to celebrate in the song and dance festival. this year, left being born orleans and russian born alina, are taking part. it's a difficult time, especially for the russian minority and latvia, but the festival is bring everyone together. the, how does the country express its freedom? unity and independence. deluxe. the young people do it with song and don't. for the last 150 years, this country on the politics senior has held a traditional stone. i'm dumb festival every 5 years.

so there are people who simply can't live without this festival, who wrote the sol as to what you have been searching. i'm crazy about music. it sustains me. it's in my blood at the post the practice of emails from russia and auto minds, from love to coaches in one country. politically. it's an easy pairing, but at this festival it's irrelevant. here they are, all one people the that the full the show turn because the performers need lots of practice twice a week for 5 years. for russian senior on the night you go say about these amenities, pays her way to not be out. in 1998 she took pods and the festival for the 1st time when she was still living in moscow. but on the nose insist to re,

are him not to the moment you get to pick them. and i thought it was important to my mother. and then when i was 7, she took me to the left, the an embassy in moscow once a week before where there was a left in sunday schools, portable on that was the introduction to my life in heritage. what else? when she was my only to new after school years later on the trip to rico to sing with her client. i mean, i'm sending it out with a not the and capital in 2014, the most co native started a new life here today. i mean, that teaches other less theme russian elementary school, the while i li not expresses how not to be an identity through song moms expresses his through dumps of months, p dot gross, see buck. so women, west and not be a. it is his 2nd passion, right? hosted on saying that's ok. you know,

when my sister and i were live law, our parents took us until you apply for dancing lessons back then we had to drive 10 kilometers to rehearse about my dancing. it's been an integral part of my life and never sense of the, but i also style does no matter how much the festival brings people together, rushes war against ukraine has still such a strain of relations between latvians and russians. a small percentage of the russian boon population supports the ocean regime, but many lucky ends don't blame the russian people for the room. so i cannot dividing that obviously the people there or not to blame for the war problem. it could be so, i mean russia is not the profit all. yeah, it's the leadership and we and gosh on the about. the civilians can't influence much at the moment. smelting yourself, if they liked the courage to stand up and say something somebody,

i think we got the members maybe, but for us laughing, it also took years to get this far and retained freedom with a single revolution. yeah. this one guy like and got to come might have said there was just no, i think there are the not to says she doesn't how the resentment towards the russian people for the war, nor is she and different about the face of her old homeland russia looking for that stuff example i've used now, i've always felt sorry for the country off of the country, not the state for about a job. i always liked the people better than the state. i don't because it doesn't let them. when i lived in russia, i was actively involved in the opposite, in protests against the up and you, at some point, i realized it was hopeless. unfortunately, you have changed from nothing changes at the state level. when i understood that it made me want to move even more to the to not to be a west singing and dancing on just hobbies, but the foundation of lot be an identity for one whole week. the song and dance

festival captivates the nation. it's begins with traditional parades through rico's old town and ends with the grand finale concert just before the joint performance on demand on demands get to know each other in person. hello. hello. they sing into the early hours of the next day, a 10 hours celebration of hope, confidence, and supports the animal welfare and the traditions of both valued highly. but when it comes to wailing these values class against each other, many people have no sympathy for hunting and slaughtering these intelligent marine mammals on the pharaoh islands. on the other hand, people see things differently here. the dr. hunting on wells has

a centuries old tradition. that's also the case of the small village of goods for president young boy edison wally is a key part of his life and he's not thinking about giving it up towering above the north atlantic, the federal islands are the very definition of rugged they were formed by volcanic activity some 50000000 years ago. it's people live with and from the sea. still their principal source of food. 18 year old. your who grew up in the fishing village of get the trains all summer in old robots for, for going off to work in a local museum. the museum deals with one of the pharaohs most controversial traditional, the pilot. the way a lot of some older somebody alert. i think this one's so this was the way of life and it's a bit longer than normal fishing my for but it's not very effective. so when the

way as we come up the tour, you just step within it and you would hope for the best the way lansing tradition has a serious history. the land on the islands is scarce and barely fertile. so for many centuries, the inhabitants of the islands had to go out to sea using only simple robots, they drove the mammals into their fjords and slaughter them in the shallow water. the ferry always still hunt this way, only today, the weapons they use have changed. so these are used in the way and it is very simple. it's very, it's way more humane than the nice. i hope that position lives on a couple of dish international animal rights activists hold for the opposite. the members of the sea shepherds society have arrived on the islands to stop the pilot whale hunt. among them is alexa and rebecca bar,

a marine biologist from poland. there i just go on the website. you can find what's happening here. it's just a side something that i personally think shouldn't be happening anymore. they've been doing it for so many years. it is a tradition for them. that's what they've been doing to survive as well. what's the problem and our view is that it's not necessary anymore. goose on necessary suffering. 40 on the most the act of discharge or document on using drones. like one of the maybe worse things is to chase before the actual hunch can take hours, because you can see the way they're swimming now isn't. it isn't castle anymore. so at this point they're, they're, if they're running away, right? they're, they're in, in, in fear. pilot whales are in the dolphin family. they are social and live in groups called pods. the for, i always say golf and populations are not endangered. once

a part of wales is cited by the pharaoh, we use the alarm is sound. the villagers set out in motor boats to drive the mammals into a dead at the entire village stands waiting at the beach, men, women, and children. every one joins them together. they pull the whales online, only knows what hunting licenses are allowed to kill them. then the 6 major long animals are cut up. the hunt is not commercial. the whale meat is distributed free of charge. this is one of our few locally we have potatoes, fish, cheap, import this to this day the pharaoh east consume the whales, meats and blubber. they preserve it, and servants,

on special occasions there who's missing family hits, hooked it up as a kind of a through lunch and everyday meal. here's looks. genesis ok. there are millions of people being killed every day. they kill a few, maybe $500.00 a year or something. i think there are about 500000 pilots. where as far as what stacy is the traditional fairly is hans any more cruel than factory farming and many other countries. the animal rights activists from c shepherd get understand the logic. in this standpoint, those are the ones that had a good life. i think for the most of the he does the society all different people. if they didn't, they were just race to be killed. we don't say that's what they do is either or thing is very wrong. there are mission on the pharaoh islands is likely to go on for quite some time. there are no plans to put it in to the whale and dolphin hunt

. so far this year. some 500 animals have already been killed here. one of germany's most popular tourist destinations is this free forest, not only for, for, and visitors, but also for residents of the nearby capital build. it's a wide ranging wat escape where a visit is left to drift on boats to ideally canals and tiny rivers if there is enough water to place us at risk of crying up soon. the reason, however, is not quite related to climate change. it has more to do with political decisions made and build. they are causing residents. like the maya, a severe headache derek meyer is in his element. water that is here in northern germany's shrivelled, mister myer makes his living renting hotels and a harbor for boats. the area attracts many tourists,

but mister myer knows this brave old is changing the listen business. we can't forget that for the past 1560 years we've been lucky by the whole side too. there were no water shortages. so if anything we had too much of us on those times or over in 2019 water levels receded in this brave old canals and rivers dried up at the time. it was an exception caused by the heat and lack of rain. but experts like ingles arnold warren, this could be the future of the spray volt. them on this. if we don't do anything, the entire system will collapse, is majorly impacting basically if i got to from fighting for the inch clayvon. the reason lies in the brown caufield right next door open. pit mining here involves digging out huge pets and pumping out enormous volumes of ground water. this used to end up industry, but germany is putting an end to brown coal, meaning no more pumping. and no more ground water to feed the spray.

the next one of us to come to once we stop mining call and stop pumping out ground water, we will just have to live with the natural water level. if we don't get much rain in the summer, small rivers could dry up, even though these are talking fine could there's revolved, could end up looking like it did before. coal mining, when the forest sometimes overflowed and sometimes dried up, bringing consequences for tourism and causing other problems. present mistesia, the pessimistic scenario for 25 years from now is that dry summers will see very limited water tourism also. so, and berlin will actually have to ration water in the u. last thoughts when you'll be out in most of the after all, disagree, also flows through berlin and isn't just for boating. 40 percent of the german capitals drinking water comes from the spray. if levels fall significantly,

water could run short. environmental is they're demanding that drastic steps be taken immediately. listening loss, now we must take action in the spray involved to keep the water and the landscape height. we need to protect the thoughts and feel back in canals that were expanded to accommodate the extra water from coal mine eligible of flu systems and that will cost money to work about $3000.00. yeah. but if it does get cost, restoring the canals could spell the end for many spray of of both tours that are popular with tourist display of all of them. that would be terrible. that's what makes the shriveled so great the rivers, the water, and the nature. you know, to the other cities who use tourism revenue, i hope that will work here to the event is now charge the starters that are so we should do that with day to rest here. besides the obvious texas, we should conserve, a spray involves unique character. once a month, so it should come up with a joint solution together with engineers,

landscape architect and environmental this. i know i, the name is yours and it would certainly take a lot of money. all the ideas for saving this result are costly, controversial. one suggestion is to flip the abandon mining pads that would create huge lakes like be caught booster. us say the water could then be diverted into the spray as needed. does he have a i know that the lake surface area spans about 2000 hector as far in the month. and if you keep just on one meters depth and as a reserve along that line, you can store 20000000 cubic meters of water and release. it to full until the display of items heat on in the summer. and we still use quite a lot it up to the museum, but then these lakes would have to look completely different. well, let's see, kind of, of course are also they can't have a vast surface area that leads to more about the racial and the surface area has to be small and the depth very d t side. another idea is to divert water into those free from adjacent rivers like

the older, but the odor is also impacted by water shortages, especially in the summer. not to mention the cost environmental, this demand that the mining company shoulder most of the burden and not the state to our request for comments. the brown coal company, l e, a g responded that they were aware of the expert study. the state of brandon berg said it was too early to initiate specific measures, and the berlin government has yet to assess the situation. but mister myers says the clock is ticking because it's already too late. it'll take another 20 years to implement such a planning. we've known about this for a 100 years and have to get our act together that them doesn't. it doesn't click on the people of this brave old know the days are numbered for the idyllic floor as they call home and change is sure to come. no,

i would like to introduce you to the british musician on the left. what the young woman is a passionate oregon this and plays regularly at the magnificent a royal, albert hall, london's most iconic music venue. but went on a place here. she doesn't she applause a walrus of bravo. it's strange as a musical recordings have reached a wide audience all over the world. hello, i'm a lot put, i'm an organist and i'm sitting here at the moving of the royal elbow for now i spend quite a lot of time filming little videos here to try and bring this amazing instruments to as many people as possible. the 9999 type shake, the concert hall to its foundations and give an elaborate a child like through when playing her instrument from midnight to 6. a in every few weeks trying to do is sort of explore this instrument to my self and

figure out what other people seem to respond well to shannon was 15 when she fell in love with the oregon. traditionally an instrument played by old men with their backs to a church congregation that for 2 years now and has been proving it can be popular on her tick tock journal at anna laugh would oregon. her videos have up to 16000000 likes, the nearly 600000 followers have made and of the world's most famous space behind the oregon. it certainly didn't hurt that musician, but no, bo integrated and a sound into one of his concerts full that i think i was so makes the thing just like cool music. it was the most fun i've ever had on sage. and i think it just made me realize don't take more risk, the

young female in classical seats and fines success with the oregon. the 1st album comes out manada, much like the sound track to interstellar. one of our biggest online hits gets out of this world. well clearly for i know the sky is the level and that's all from this issue of focus on your thank you for watching. take care and bye for now. the the

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