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what secrets lie behind being discovered new adventures in 360 degrees and explore fascinating world heritage sites d w world heritage. 360. now the hello and welcome to focus on europe is wonderful to have you with that. the weather in europe is becoming increasingly extreme. this some of you, but most heat waves, droughts on forest fires and some reasons why others and build heavy rains and floods. the bulk of the country of silvia is dropping with the consequences of the worst not to the disaster. in decades. dot into rain has triggered serial floods
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and my flight calling mazda of the rivers to break the bank. thousands of people who have been forced to evacuate from the homes following the was floods in the country's history. major roads and red lines have been forced to close on several villages have been completely cut off from the rest of the world. the slow waiting prime minister has stated that 2 tubs of the country is effected by flash floods, and to prevent such devices in the future. more damage would it be needed like the one in louisiana benedict adults. nick resides in the beautiful healy reason with respect to risk, but also disaster pro of the homes swelled up by rivers crossings, crushed by walter slipping in carpenter benedict's petite snick. doesn't know when or how he will ever work again after flash floods, hit 2 thirds of his country. so it is in this with the little saw what i saw.
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the water broke down the story rose and floated the entire workshop. all of my carpentry machinery was inside that i'm all of it's destroyed now. so what's the way it is? i mean, we spent 30 years of our lives in building this in 2 hours. it was all gone. stays on dirt, debris and sludge coach. the comforts of tone of turn and i could, will, she can benedict's takes those inside his family home. there's no running water, no power. the fluid water came all the way up to here. it was everywhere. now we have the firefighters. they're doing a really amazing job. others are also pitching in neighbors drain mode by the bucket load fall soldiers, big homes, and we took the rubble, but it's,
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it's horrifying how powerful nature can be and we're happy we can do all gc. that's all that matters. and all we can do the force of nature is on to display here. thoughts far from the flood zone front lines. the force of civilian solidarity is on show to on are away in valencia. the red cross has been inundated with donations, working, loves, and cleaning laws. we managed to go quite a lot of them as well for the tools. we got a lot of uh, rooms and shovels, even though they are bought out at the stores, people, they're all from all over sylvania to drop them off here and keep coming during food, both with walters toes and other essentials. almost everybody's got somebody affected
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either in friends or family, so yeah, we're a small country. so the evidence that helps, and i think we're going to get through this further sites in louisiana. hydraulic engineers are thinking about the bigger picture, their models accurately predicted where flooding would occur, but not the intensity. no climate change is shifting expectations. we cannot go have a thinking, it will not happen again. it will happen again again from one from a ballistic point of view. and we have to be ready for it. that means building more sludge defenses like this one and we'd be on a it was construct to to after a deluge in 2010 and helped keep catastrophe out of the neighborhood. this time runs pretty much. bonaventure is confident to more infrastructure will be put in place. the disaster has focused minds, but he says some communities may have to relocate from the riskiest regions for
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good. this is one of the really difficult components moving for weight. it's under estimated solve much pain. can that induce the people which have to move away thoughts they will have to move away by can choose now residents are still really so the news president has come to offer them messages of support for the civilian government is now doing everything it can with the help of nato and you to be in union. i can assure you that no one is going to be left behind. no one is going to stay without a place to live in sleep. but it will take on, on, on, on, on the day that i have currently not months to rebuild. but the years to rebuild benedict says he can't. and they are to think about the future. one where floods may become more frequent. now we'll manage somehow
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for no, he'll keep on cleaning up, seeking some hope among the mountains of mont in spain. but the appraisals have been so high that even spaniards are struggling to cool. however, the situation could also be done into something, add one pages, span names to honda solar energy and in order to facilitate this photo, as i've plans have already being installed in the most sunlight, regions of the country. right on the doorsteps of the blonde is angus federal, which will not only find the situation irritating, but is also concerned about potential changes to the landscape of and the lucio in southern spain. that's a conflict that many people in this part of the country having to face on says a tooth that she lives in one of spain's funniest regions with his wife and horses
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. but he is concerned because that same son has attracted industry. just have a nice a huge solar park has recently been built next to his estate or think for monday, the mother just threw up at the city to the country side of that so that i know they are building the solar rate is around as big industrialism as right next to warehouse and kind of seem to get them and more are planned. spain wants to produce green energy from its abundance, sunshine. that's good for the climate, but threatens and his plans. he wants to started writing therapy center here in 15 to get out of a need. it has to be a nice place for people to spend the day. but i believe i said, but if people don't want to comb, we'd love to give up on our project. so throw a couple of months out, i'd have to push it to the
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for others. the solar cells represent economic growth. after tourism collapse, during the cover 10 demik mayor jose diaz is happy for every sent invested. available doesn't think it's on his own info and but many of lost their jobs and these hard time these are but uh you can go to port out of me, call it all what i will now through these building projects. some of the been able to get back into the job market is he going to offer? now olive groves are being clear cut to make way for solar plants. some farmers have sees the opportunity to lease or sell their land to the energy companies. nikolai of done has signed over some of his land because water is increasingly scarce and expensive. irrigation no longer pays off. scenario one. well, let's say that nothing grows here. what was your s l o you product here? so we're trying to get at least something out loud. romanian woke up with more
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than 200 spanish citizens. initiatives are sounding the alarm and fighting the solar fields, the lease below neo and others, fear that spain will become europe's power supplier. and if the input go there and the what the government, but some people's expense. look at my supplements, may i ask who i'm next door that's going to send them with the yes, there's nothing else. yeah. can you spell that last blog decided on his color on those huge solar fields are built here with all their environmental and social impact. but as an apple it will mainly provide economic growth and jobs elsewhere and it's not here. you have on this time, that's not fair and we'll talk, hold on. yeah, no, the spain is being colonized and exploring the study, told us there are other ways, like 50 kilometers away and mostly tough. the village has built a photo voltaic plants, top they're small theater to produce their own electricity. the mayor francisco garcia proudly explains the creation of an energy community backed by an
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e u regional development fund. totally luca and stuff like that itself in a bucket. that's everything we produce here. it stays in the community in the, in the uh, we don't want to sell our energy to the big company as soon as the see nothing on official. i want affordable climate, friendly electricity for all our citizen us. for my guess. yeah, so give that all those sorts of what to get no sale, you'll get the plan currently powers $21.00. households with businesses and restaurants expected to come on board. the the but luis polonius says spain is focusing too much on large scale projects. the state is given solar cell companies, free rain, instead of ensuring that they build on derelict industrial sites. to avoid any spell out of $10000.00 the same capacity can be achieved without destroying the environment. but there's no planted. but if you've got the solar
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arrays where trees one stood horse lover and showed a tear of it still cannot understand it. nobody said a kid by the side of why they can't destroy the environment and the name of environmental protection made. it makes no sense. no, i, i like, you know, you know that, i mean, i phone sienna so on the ramp and growth of the solar fields defeats its purpose. he hopes that future projects will be more environmentally friendly, such as a nearby i mostly done so that green electricity is really green fence. the cost of living prices on inflation have hit great britain. the gap between the rich and the poor has become even more pronounced by the accident upper class, enjoy their lives. millions can hardly are for the most basic necessities guy sing . watson is a millionaire, and is willing to wall entirely pay more taxes to
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a those a need. however, accomplishing this is not as easy as it may seem. nowhere else in western europe does the inequality between rich and per cape as widely as a to is in the united kingdom. as may be seen, even an idyllic devon, on the border to cornwall, dicing watson numbers among the upper 10000. a fact, it is not a precinct to talk after a brief career as a corporate consultants in london, a new york city, you know, experiments which growing organic vegetables on his parents farm sing. watson went back to the land when he realized that money can't buy happiness. now he's earning more as any effort drunk of. with over a 100 employees river for gun x is one of the united kingdom's biggest organic farms. over the past few years, he signed 100 percent ownership over to his workers. that's
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a relatively low price. now he only stays on the road of mentor and that's probably going to waste. wanted to use the business to shake the wells and i wanted to shake the world and then way in that was more like, well, but i want it to live in, which is one that's not dominated by inequality and greed to growing poverty all around under the current government is doing nothing to help. as ever more people are overtaken by inflation and raising interest rates. he himself will be happy to pay for more in taxes to change that in his office, he shows as an open letter. he's written in collaboration with 40 order millionaires to purchase prime minister risky soon. i a is a rights is the taxes and multi millionaires were raised by only one percent. it would lead to an annually increased revenue equivalent to about 60000000 euros
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house a 1000000 as u. k. invited to join us in quoting for a federal tax system on the 19th to pay. i'm strange that he did find in fact, the prime minister and his party are staunchly opposed to more taxes in general and especially any kind of wealth tax. this will soon extends back when he was finance minister. thank you mister speaker. mississippi could no, i don't believe now is the time whether be the time for a wealth tax now is the time to recognize the challenge we face. the disposition does not mean that the tories are only a party of the wealthy. as one of their lawmakers explains what money is mobile today? so if we send the wrong signals, then money will slip down to this country. when actually we want the money to be slipping into this country, investing in the real economy, not just into property, but into businesses to create jobs, back in this farm, guys, seeing what's in these conclusions. so this is absolute rubbish. they may, i mean,
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peyton leave that just isn't quite true. i mean, just look at what times over the last 10 years. how can people keep saying that the poor are getting for the rich are getting richer? that is no trickle down. there's a trickle out, you know, actually all sorts of things. i just panel believe that we hear the argument, you know, again and again, what does this just actually lead? no factual basis to guarantee well over 2000000 persons depends on food banks. to survive. this bank receives fruits and vegetables donations regularly from watson's farm. it's distributed to over a 1000000 meals in the past 18 months. and more more. it's ordinary families who need help to be able to feed the children. the packages are distributed to people. the city has identified as a need, such as leo on his partner mos. she lost her job after undergoing an operation. then she had trouble of feeding her 4 children before they discovered the food bank,
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they often ate only once a day. it's not just me, i have friends with children, all in the same position. my brother is in the same position. he lost his job and he had a mortgage as well. and, you know, now he has to sell his house. he's losing tens of thousands. so he's gonna end up in a lot of debt. and it's still hard. you know, it's still hard because we still get the food. so there is not moment, but i feel this month. i feel good because of the have to us getting more food. but that have to anyway. and it hurts, you know, it's like it's pride or what have a lot that a good dignity you just feel like the great indignity. and so now he's scraped spine hopes, nobody notices. maybe things will start looking up. he tells us, but people like guy sing, watson, we're better informed. don't talk much hope the will,
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any time soon. the government continues to insist that everything's coming up roses . in a long term, the very foundations of british democracy may be endangered. they all can seriously wrong to the extent that i really worry about the, the breaking of the social contract, then the, and the loss of people's investment in. so someone to, you know, which in the end results in violence and revolution, you know, which is really not something the other thing anyone wants to see. but i always feel like coming closer he sees no shortage of ideas for how to tackle these problems. but what good are they, if the political will just isn't there been a undoubtedly stands out as the most free load italian city. along to this. however, the area has become so crowded that people often have to squeeze through the narrow streets, undeniably making life challenging for the local population. in fact,
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the old city center has very few residents left, and those will still live there on please to see the cities john being diminished. giovanni leo need once fewer to us in a city and just actively advocating for it. but it was proving to be a very difficult task with the got to load up. okay, let's split up this way today and for you do the model even if you all know, do you do the geo do net t reality? do they all you and you do that section by pon to delay? probably i am able to join your point. then here, then with the would be the call to could you kindly get up here, you're not allowed to sit here. thank you for today. i take it out to the municipal public order officers asked exhausted guest not to sit on the steps they didn't. thank you. i'm sorry so generally to, to stick it in stride. but sometimes on hot days they get annoyed. i wanted to talk
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to these got them. i didn't, i don't have to be god, but tour sitting around are the least the venice has problems. over 7000000 visitors squeeze their way through the 500 hector old town every year. and that's too many. so giovanni la own a has a plan to save the special charm of venice. he's a native venetian and part of a network of active us any take this stop in front of a special display accounts, the number of hotel beds in venice. is that nearly 50000 in the same number of people still living in the old city? for now, one people may see that a home were demanding and limits under number of tourist beds if you need it typically. so sometimes the limit has to be appropriate relative to the number of bits for locals. so that'd be done today. so put a stick it, they get the fitness has always been a popular tourist destination and venetians were okay with that. as long as the assess theory or districts were alive and the economy diverse,
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but things changed a few years back. nowadays, apartments are intended almost exclusively for tourist, as a woman living across the street chimes and that she's the last venetian in our building. her neighbors moved to the mainland long ago, where the price per square meters just half as much the featured have been any nation so struggling to maintain their community assured way of life. and that with that being said, what can be done? the city plans introduce admission fees to keep visitors down, but the project was stopped. instead, they've intensified video surveillance so that the public order officers can redirect into crowds of tourists. finally, to keep people from moving away, the city is aiding local families with their rent. the tourism officer also told us about another project. so you know,
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tell me what i've done and also not to that we're considering having a reserve of the city the shouldn't be too that you all to risk services would have to be reserved in advance staffing or we're in the process of building the necessary digital infrastructure commodity, good boy, i confess to to doubt it. will vince end up a huge open air museum requiring an admission ticket. giovanni believes tourist will keep pouring in, even if individual squares have to be reserved in the future. and instead of swarming st. mark's square, though unpaid, the few remaining quiet are neighborhoods telling me that they are my and now we're living in a reservation to some of the cities getting even fuller. and i think that these measures aren't helping regular tourism, and that is the 1st and foremost we need to put down and hotel. that's the policy like because it's long island back to the public order officers. the tour seemed to be happy to comply with requests to clear up tax and standards. they seem to understand the problem. venice is just too beautiful for its own good.
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a. dancing is a beautiful thing to do. you can dance to expose happiness. i love. you can dance fall so slow, you can dance alone or with friends. but to scan you down, slide is fitting its possible version down. so either smoking shimano has fine, you know, this unique done phone protocol, younger for you roubles around breaking boundaries. quite literally, the sweeping posted on the floor, which speed and style distance is anything but true. it's cold. so i clicked on one partner on one on wheels like long time instructors, easy, smooth fishing on a perfect example of what i think the best. this is why i love psych lou dance unites people that there's no longer a barrier between the person who's in
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a wheelchair and the person who is then i can so good that for a few moments. the cyclic dance allows me to forget my disability because it says here, a move on a belgium, the east is printing her. students for a special performance, very carefully crafted the choreography and perfecting the pace of the class. thoughts for these dancers, the class is about to much more than learning moves. well, there's the music, the friendship, and the exchange. i come down sweet out my partner and she come dance without me. so we can remove one. it's like i'm a bird flying to the assess the chair makes me fly to was these days ease ease of busy working mother about as a child in rolanda, she contractures polio and was left unable to walk. then war broke out and
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descended into genocide. many or for family members died. east survived thanks to a narrow escape. when her children's hospital was evacuated by belgium peacekeepers . it was id the the hospital staff told us to hide under the covers and not move on . so they, they, they called us to, it was just that we were so scared. when up at the office, we heard people saying they were escaping their escape. english f, english as they were planning to come and tell us he says this cause this cause that is any new to it. she then grew up with the belgian host family stuff. and he said this as i was completely lost when i 1st arrived in belgium. i didn't even know how to say hello, nancy. not one single word, a friend who yeah, well, campbell, the eighty's won't forget the dark chapters of her past. she's determined to keep
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moving forward. that's why she funded her own done school 12 years ago here in belgium to bring change in other people's lives. and she says, because the show must go on at the local community center audience members are writing for the performance. it's an age of a local charity and isa is partner is helping organizers set top not for the 1st time. he's feeling proud of these. so, and those are both hits within her. there's something about it to that brings people towards the the brings people to get from the back stage. performers are gearing up in the green room and do you, this is putting the finishing touches on her cost you. but her mission here is only just beginning 0 destiny, but i want to break barriers and show that whether or not you have a disability, you can flourish and enjoy that love at ease. nobody the tv stokes, by taking center stage to help others spread to their re to
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