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what, what secrets? why behind these discovered new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. dw world heritage 360 kept now. the . this is focus on europe. i'm larva lola, welcome. romania is ranked among the used worst member states for waste recycling. the vast majority of garbage and recycling material is thrown together before it even arrives at the landfill. this violates the standards of the european union, which has given money to romania for proper waste management. this includes that
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the construction of a modern landfill includes, but i look forward to discover that millions and e u funding has failed to clean up the problem. a romanian landfill site full of unsorted waste financed with money from a european union. this was supposed to be a modern, environmentally friendly waste down to replace the older illegal landfill site near the city of pollution. i forgot that had been an eyesore for decades. the new landfill opened after much delay, but not much seems to have improved. on sorted garbage is still dumped here. nothing is recycled, harmful practice, fencing and legal end to you. we want to find out what went wrong here. in a residential area, we looked at the start of the waste chain. the 1st impression is there are different bins for different waste. okay
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. you guys recycle your way. sometimes sometimes yes was sometimes he doesn't make sense because the same car is taking the garbage. so it's not actually recycling, there's one called the phone to pick everything. and then it happens before our very eyes. the sign on the truck reads today we collect paper, but they also taking everything else from all the bins the use this an isolated case or if it's a stomach we need shown dakota is going to work from the waste industry, is also inactive us and keeps track of what clues just waste collectors aren't doing the
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so what's happening now are different types ways, right? yes, yes. i think they are mixing or or they'll be yes. unplugged romania risk cycles cost 14 percent of its municipal waste compared to the average of 49 percent of the shonda recruiters for a sense. this partly stems from her manias. the system, the moment locked was yes, semis right now recycle some more expensive to collect the mixed waste. they show we're not mistake or there's no incentive to collect them separately. for like a fit bought out with shown dakota chevrolet and 3 other environmental activist. i watched drone
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footage of the new waste plant, the activists are concerned that the site is filling up faster than it should with on sorted waste, which is illegal in the elizabeth thing. this is not a momentary mistake. this is a structure, as you can see from the area that these covered with non treated non sorted garbage . most of them, what do you realize? they don't treat, don't sort just dump it there. it's, it's so obvious. from 2014 to 2020 the you spent 318000000 euro, subsidizing waste management in romania, 40000000 inclusion alone. we want to speak with the people responsible for waste collection here. but neither the waste company nor the romanian ministry of european investments. reply to our inquiry the local
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waste management association does, however, tell us in writing the bill and post penalties if there are deficiencies. the district council here is responsible for implementing the project. we met with the spokes person who says occlusions and doesn't have a waste problem. this homework is blocked, the building leave closed all public non compliant landfills and have put both the new landfill and the integrated waste management center into operation. got the issue that's a definite success with big cloud. yes, the one from the just we observed that and precious the not being recycled and not collected separate includes and this is one of the main guards of european waste management stuff. and that's, so am i you as the jewish county, i'm not concerned about this. probably pigs is the boss. there may be some isolated problems or the climate i tell you as a citizen that it's definitely not
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a systematic problem. when you across each at the time, no one appears willing to acknowledge the waste problem here. so we had to brussels to ask what the u commission, which financed much of remaining as a waste disposal system is doing about this, opened up the whole country. the commission does not manage projects, we do not follow each separate project. we have under equation policy, the previous peers, 1500000 projects on more than 1500000 projects funded by equation policy. and these are all managed by the member states. back in romania, no one seems to feel responsible much to the dismay of each one. so. gotcha. i think this is the hines, the surveillance camera near the landfill to track what is dumped the plants to file a complaint with the european anti fraud office or old off. but he isn't very optimistic as, as long as europe is had be, we'd be the s and they are and they have been and they would be romania. we'll have
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no problem in producing more nicely. we couldn't find out who is to blame for countless inclusion. but maybe that's the root of the problem in the tangle of european projects. everyone wants a piece of the pie, but it seems no one wants to take full responsibility for the waste or from where the money is going. the countdown is on in less than a year. paris will host the summer olympics swimming elite from all over the world will be competing for gold, and several of their races will take place in the sense. but the river that waves through the french capital is not entirely safe. its water quality has historically been poor a century ago. a strict swimming band was implemented in the sun, but the city wants to get the problem under control by 2024 and they are diving into work to meet the deadline. it's still quiet on this and this morning the
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paris river police, which keeps an eye on the river. 247 is out on patrol commander . so female lab hits the brigade for her. the sand is like a town with residents traffic and also rules like the ones that are in the swimming is strictly forbidden. regions aren't allowed on his, on this whole boat. so there are too many dangers in the risk of drowning as long as they expose in it. don't say it is luis good then why? yes. it's been banned for 100 years. but thanks to the olympic games there are in vicious plans to allow swimming and the river again. the largest sports part's ever designed in the heart of the city. it included a 160 meter long floating athletics track. and the amazing facility set up across
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the cities, famous landmarks including the send river via now is looking forward to it. he lives on this end and a causally furnished house boat. he's planning to watch the opening ceremony of the olympic games next year from his deck live and up close from his front row seat. so it's hot come sex of us to see that. so it's going to be my friends will be here to. i'm going to enjoy it together. i put in me with the right of clothes and i'm definitely planning to make the most of the party, you know, the benefits he points to where hundreds of thousands of people will be watching from the river bank. and some of the water sport events will be taking place close by
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done and you're less cool is a physicist who's been working for the city of paris and testing the water quality of the sand for 5 years now looking for bacterial contamination. the big question is whether the river will be clean enough for the games and whether the athletes will be allowed in the water. suppose get safe is added as a pulse. i think it will be doable or with the regular on proper measures to ensure water quality has full stop. like we're not going to put anybody in danger because they're sampling verifies to watch or quantity because i'm not going to get to the bottom of this. we go deep into the balance of paris under the river into the sewers. there are over 1000 kilometers of sewers in the french capital, which collect rain, water, and wastewater when there is heavy rainfall, the sewers, which date back to napoleon,
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the 1st overflow the hold on these, i need the need for years and years for decades. never, there was a storm. the water was diverted directly into the river to dollars without being treated at all. no wonder people aren't allowed to swim in the sense that set to change things to a new state of the art water treatment system currently being built in the city center. but there's still a lot of work to be done in this suburbs, just 200 meters past the parents city limits. there are still many homes that aren't connected to the capitals sewage system. work here has been going on for weeks to install a new pipes for about 35000 households is
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on felipe shows us his new system. the fastest one is obviously it is the so you now all the pipes are connected to the kitchen, the toilets, the bathroom toilet seat. i sent it off and he didn't have to pay a thing because the municipality covered the cost. that's for the olympic games post, because if it's not something to do with it, you're gonna be consuming the, the area wants to show it has a functioning wastewater system. they do, they need that it's high season on the sense here and everywhere preparations for the olympics. are under way kept him dave, but why? and this river boat had been selected for a big mission. his boat will be among the $116.00 vessels to sail on this end at the opening ceremony.
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and he is excited against others. just the going, of course i'm pretty proud of them all. it's a big event, was a massive event for paris and, and then vicious overall for the river scent. all too often death is a taboo subject that many people avoid talking about. again, as celiac is terminal you and only has a few months left to live, but again, it doesn't feel she can speak about it freely and openly with her family. instead, she leaves on this woman martina bu caps. she is a trained end of life companion and she specializes in minimizing the fear surrounding deaf for one moment. so okay, i have to where it says for at least 60 no worries the night you want us to the
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oxygen device. skip some of the key, not celiac snobs, but she's tom and the l with end stage c or a p. d, an incurable lung disease. she has only 20 percent lung capacity and it's decreasing without the supplementary oxygen she can hardly do anything. yeah, as for me is as well for me it's all and stressful because i'm closer phobic and when you have something constantly i'm up against your face as unpleasant does to me like, you know, one's to prepare for her own death, which is why matching up who cuts drops by once a week. she's a volunteer for much. he is an international as an end of life companion also cool to death to love. she's already accompanied more than a dozen people. the conversations easily, he knows fear of dying. do you mind holding uh shows experienced it close on them and talks about it just give which gives me courage. free is this team a new applicant? so physically difficult to but what's difficult is what people making that we can
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be very relaxed about. and we can talk about everything that's not possible with everyone, but we're getting the way it works wonderfully. that's what number one is kind of the 2 of them speak criteria from the about the funeral to look like the 1st voice in. i'd like to be able scattered in the mountains that would be important for me and to see hardy, but not a death party, always party. and then the all my friends should celebrate life and not death. i and that's when i want. that's what movies maxine onto the 9 months training course with the maltese us as an end of life and community that she loved to keep the professional distance school. but with the key not that's not easy. it is. i'm some have such a warm, how do you guys say to fully aware of the situation a little so so positive need she gives me energy i, you know, even though i've no idea where she gets it from, you know. okay. and but it's just lovely. yeah. this is i have perfect backups.
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again, there's a few weeks later, she lives with her husband and an attic slots without a balcony in berlin. it's a huge effort to even guest house if the to her husband helps time. it takes forever for them to make it down to 3 flows. again, i can only work short distance from the trip to the pension funds of the house as a special occasion. she's been married to her husband for 40 years and can rely on him and the 2 children, but she can't talk about her death with them as openly and easily as with want to, you know, yeah, martina is already wasting in the kitchen today. the question is whether it like, you know, will soon be going to a hospital my the you know, i didn't say if i'm still able to choose one or if i'm still together enough to make that choice myself. yeah. wonderful. not to others. go on sunday outings, but i'm saying to check out of hospice. there's times right just 2 months later at
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the beginning of december, the outing takes place. looking us husband, both giving us the ports of the company's heart to the appointment, though he'd prefer to stay at home. but laguna has a mind of her own, and it's open to look through with martina or not mailing. displacing them after several discussions, including with my teeth, the end of length coming on and i decided it would be better if my family worry is directly involved on the laws team. hopefully, i don't think it would be so good for them to say their mother being carried out and beat 1st because even when you more time, it's interesting to see if i missed most i one of the 3 moment slay says the key, not a student's home and she's maxed into the most central living room, my noise, diego, but here's my new neural embed. rent. i've relocated all good mix. it was, and it's in hilla. everything's a bit brighter. a boyfriend layer can also have visitors here and everything's
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wonderful. this wouldn't unplug michelle and her husband's just a push of a button away. this is mine, james. now the husband now works from home so that he can tend to, they've put off the move to the hospice for now. he's helping because he does, i gets all the i've seen that she can still manage quite well at home if you help are going. and i'd rather have her here than being alone all day and only going to visit her and to hit somebody open for them. so i can also accept that i'm no longer treated as the husband to say, but as jane is the service i need, uh yeah, cuz you get pocket money to to know about 2 weeks of doctors visit. just medina dies suddenly as gently as she had wished for. not seen up in cups. where's the policy out for to regina wilson?
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the ration way of looking ahead with the policy to is also like like you know, imagine that out loud. wrestling kind of phone that so we can read it should be and that's exactly how it's turned out on the east. the family feels like he knows last wish they schedule her ashes in the swiss mountains. a single post on social media has the power to change lives. it happened to sasha sion yak, who is born with down syndrome and online post sparked a wave of solidarity and brief new life into the cafe where he works. it's in the bosnian town of to his lot. the cafe is unique. it employs people with disabilities, and they are devoted to their jobs. so when word spread, it was facing closure, the community rallied. his job means everything to sasha show new york.
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he works almost every day at the clubs, me over search for dragon's heart club, cafe and sasha. it has the heart of a fighter. he doesn't give up, even when the going gets tough to manage it so that it makes me so happy. i'm full of joy certainly ma'am. uh, put in. i love working here and i always love it. rolling the i the move the it up . i could work here 24 hours without to break it to the mid up in a few that his colleagues for is consume of that you can't speak, but with definitely 2nd that he even wanted to put a bed in the cafe. so he could spend the night there the 2 of them are fortunate. in bosnia, there are next to no jobs for people with down syndrome. even though many have a vocational school diploma, for instance in gas strong to me. the cafe project is the only one of its kind in
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bosnia, almost as you can see in their faces and the faces of their families. that the cafe is become like a 2nd home for them causes only because let me see what needs to be with the parents say that they've never been happier. so that was one of the project was actually on the brink of failure. people with disabilities still struggle for inclusion in bosnia in the 1st few months. hardly any guests came. the cafe next door was full to the brim. but not so the dragon's heart apart from edema offended jean it's the writer has known such as since childhood. she visits him in the cafe almost every day. one saturday, a few weeks ago she was the only guest. an old man took a photo of her nissan. no, no, i didn't know on there took my picture. we were sitting there chatting and he said
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he was going to post that the club was closing at the end of the month. he said that i said, oh, come on, it doesn't have to come to that. and he said, we can survive this financially. macintosh, a boston, have to have hosting with everything changed. uh is that the solution? this is 1st, the regional media reported on it then it went nationwide. and so suddenly we were full from morning till night. of course, if this would not be the 1st 23 weeks, you couldn't get a table here before the finance advice is on a pro that's leveling on. yes. so it was a miracle they say. since then the cafe has been doing great. the guests pile on the praise. the truth though like coffee. i'm telling you this one is the best cafe is we today tidy, almost pedantic, became a cheese and the service is top glass. something was to go ahead and be so cool me . well, i was quite surprised at 1st. i didn't expect it,
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but it makes no difference. i think they even stares me and the others with a bit more respect in friendliness than you'd see elsewhere. similar projects are set to open in other locations. the dragon's heart cafe is just the beginning. but a promising one. it's a highlight for hikers and this was out one of the world's longest pedestrian suspension bridges with a steep upward pass. it's not for the faint of heart, but those who cross the charles cool and bridge are rewarded with an exhilarating view of the alps. the view below the bridge is also breathtaking, so much so that some hikers are forced to turn back. this is the longest pedestrian suspension bridge and the elves and one of the longest in the world. but you can only reach it on foot. getting there involves a steep climb from the switch village of rhonda through pristine untouched nature.
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most of people can see it takes 2 hours to get to the bridge. let your reward it with an amazing panoramic view item and all of this part of it all the nearly 500 meter low, a bridge spans part of the matter valley. it doesn't cost anything to cross, but you do have to have a head for heights. the slight swaying motion can take a little getting used to. it takes about 10 minutes to cross. at its highest point, the bridge is 85 meters above the boulder strewn ravine. we love it. absolutely. fantastic. yeah, we'll fix one. what's the cloud and the view was spectacular. absolutely gorgeous. and my name's lawrence and it was very so, and if you look down is usually for and you need to do that because of this guy walks you through structure, you can't help but look down and adrenalin rush for some but too much for others.
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some even turn around this festival, it's the 1st time that i've been here. yeah. but because so many people were using it all at once. i got scared by more than shot the pod behind trickle menu. but there is no real reason to be afraid. despite its delicate appearance, the 65 centimeter wide suspension bridge is very sturdy. just a few years ago hikers would walk through the ravine below, but the trail was becoming more and more dangerous. these of ties to visit part over here was always a bit of a problem because there is a rock glacier there as well as permit frost's tools. and often there was rock fall, get you, but in the comments. and so we had to figure out how to make this section sake on these, these all transitional things to the suspension bridge. it's now much easier to hike the rober trail from causation to so much and enjoy spectacular views of switzerland's highest peaks. a well, no chance of getting lost in the woods on that trail. well, that's all from us this week. i focus on your up. thank you so much for watching.
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