spacing goes up to 1000 liters of low. so in a day, forest fires evaporating large amounts of moist tune in to get the onset and learn more about the heavy and visible over the next flows through the sky. start september 20th on dw, the very one welcome to focus on europe this week with me live show. it's come paying season in poland and the ruling national conservative party could lose its majority . so part of its strategy to attract, voters has been to spread fear about refugees. the ones they have targeting of

those trying to across the border from bella roost into poland and therefore into you territory. despite beefed up security, the number of the legal border crossings is on the rise. the wall runs along the border between the polish region of port laskey and bella roofs, but the records use are not what worries residents like maria, patricia huff, scott. she's more concerned about the divisive tone of the election campaign, the steering up of nationalism and xena phobia. all this cooled her and her business, she says and give her home country poland, a bad reputation. it may look a bit like the end of the world, but it's only the border of the european union. this is put lots here. poland on the border with fellers. there is not much here apart from forest fields and a few houses. and that's exactly why maria put you just got moved to 6 years ago.

she built a holiday house for people looking for some peace and quiet. but this year business has been pretty slow if you want me want a kid. i spoke to some friends who told me that they wanted to ride their bikes here, but they don't want to meet soldiers around every corner and it's asking them where they're going and twice. i can understand that templates. so yeah, that you don't count. yeah, that was on them, but still publish on this for the area between poland and bella. ruth has been under particular observation since rushes invasion. a modern fence has been built and soldiers are on control. they are looking for human smugglers and people who have cross the border into poland illegally. poland has accused bell over is of august writing and migration influx into the you via poland, to the stabilize the region. there is some 10000 soldiers stationed to you because of the legal migration and the presence of the russian bog, the most and regrouping billers was leaving. there is no doubt that the bell of rouge and regime is cooperating with the kremlin. and the attacks on the pole this

border are intended to destabilize our country, but i'm convinced that this action will not succeed due to the polish military and the strengthen border here you. so the region has been changed by military presence and defense, which is either 180 kilometers long. it's for the better says go from a stand as well need to bitch who lives just for kilometers away. it's much calmer now. they used to be only barbed wire, the people are able to cross quickly and trust exit. now they have to cut defense of dig under it. so it's safer for us not the face of moment, but he says nothing ever happened to him. most people close to the board, i have seen migrants trying to get to the european union now, but i didn't dare open the window because they were shouting and crying, and there were little children in my life. maria, put to tell,

scott does not share the fee is new to him with that goes that goes on. yeah, we don't feel threatened here. neither by refugees nor by the wagner group or the individual. i have the impression people are still can fear to reach a certain political goal, but those are but his budget staff here, but there's nothing over that's pointed to the ruling law and justice party has focused its election campaign on security with it's logan secure. a few to for the police people, and it has been pointed, one threat, biased emigration, illegal immigration, large numbers of people are coming here, not to work, but to benefit from social welfare, and also to undermine our security. but those are some are doing in an organized way, but much is a challenge. others simply because it is their disposition. but those have been the best bits as funded by the constant warnings about legal migration and high profile appearances of politicians with military representatives. not good for local

tourism, the level of drone, it says there's been a 70 to 80 percent drop in reservations at his hotel and the restaurant is often empty. the board so it's not only an election campaign, it's a long term campaign just to make people constantly afraid to go ship to make them afraid so that the government can give them security, which is done with all the good time for the law and justice party has also decided to hold a referendum on election day and ask about is what they think about the use asylum policy or tanya of the promotional video and the phrasing of the questions a most suggestive, then serious get us. are you in favor of thousands of illegal migrants from the middle east and africa having to be taken in by the use co wasted mechanisms? what's on them? says bureaucrats. here, what i'll face will be say no to illegal immigration. that's marie. i purchase you of scott is trying not to be discouraged by the political mood. she does not want

to give up her business in which he has invested so much money and passion. she thinks that people should not be scared of coming up here. it would be good for them to come in to support local businesses and people like us, but also to see for themselves what's really going on here. what it looks like i've clicked on you so much. so i appreciate that no problem to jay, and she hopes that some normality will return to port alexia after the election on october 15th february 24th, 2022. it's a date that will be forever edged in the memories of ukrainians because that is the day the rest and full scale invasion of the country began. but this state is also special for if need, because it's birth date. so what is life like for a child who is only experienced her country, a tour, a reporter visited of nica and her family and the suburbs of key of to find out of

the ethnic spends her days like any 20 month old girl. going to the park and feeding the pigeons. but this little girl is growing up in ukraine. she was born on february 24th 2022. the day of rushes full scale invasion. she's never known a single day of peace. click the home when the air rate alarm goes off, so she senses it immediately. now if we're outside, when the alarm sounds, i get anxious little. i don't panic, but i get anxious. and she senses that one. yes, when clings to me really tightly and what gets quiet, let's say of let's be like that from the start. when we brought her home from the hospital, we were in the car for a long time. she didn't even cry. and but there are children who get nervous and demand attention when they sense anxiety,

which we need to provide to sleep sealants and whatnot. and it's got you the family lives in a suburb of kids. i need to alison drove. it was already in the hospital being prepared for us this area. and when russia invaded to get you an article most we heard explosions. and at 1st we didn't understand what it was. just about 5 or 10 minutes later, a doctor and a nurse came in. they said russia was attacking us and we had to pack our things and move to the basement for most of us, it's listed in the system on the she had her c section the same day and was moved to the basement, which had been converted to an emergency bunker so i've nico spent the 1st 7 days of her life underground. as fighting just outside key of intensified

the family, found shelter with relatives in the countryside. not until the russian troops withdrew from around kid, did they return home? we were there, but our hearts were here. so we decided to come back there. we recovered from the constant air raid sirens and caught up on our sleep. since then, the neighborhood has come back to life. a cafe is and businesses have reopened and more and more neighbors are returning. now, it almost looks like it did before the russian invasion on the move on the

but the young families daily lives are still overshadowed by the war. they found an apartment on the ground floor where they feel safer for alexander alexander of works for a company essential to the war effort. he can't reveal anything more. you got to come to the in the i've been waiting for this child talk to somebody a little bit too. we'd had a miscarriage before this the end we most of the baby in the 3rd month falling on. so we were already pretty anxious. looks at the cables, so just put that but then it los mika was here, and a goal was on. but we'll hang on for more when when the alarm goes off of nick and her parents take shelter in the store room. and they do what they can to

make life for their daughter as light and airy as possible. i the in the you physical, national borders have all that's, this appeared at least for those people who hold the rights type of passports in place to, for young along the french, italian border for example. both countries are working together to create one come an attractive tourist region, but just a few kilometers away at the points where migrants wants to cross over from italy to friends. the border is protected like a few others within the you. it's a paradox of the open yet close border, which leaves thousands of migrants in limbo. the

french should be ashamed in human, you know, the best deal around the mail. a brace roy. yeah. in se friends, which is visit is outside his communities to his office or the best of the town of over 2000 overlooks the mediterranean sea in the border region between france and italy. initiative. i'm looking for the brochures, maps, and travel guide for our culture. you project so i don't know who she was ever, you know, co trust stance for the southern alps, code to 0 region this you are paying union projects subsidizes across the board of cooperation between french and attending municipalities, dismantling the board as yet further. and i will never remember,

we rely on close connections with the beach closes, disappeared from the european union's internal borders. know if possible, it's a check here anymore or so it seems. but in the you, the situation and how is drive south of the mediterranean is only allowed in exceptional cases for use fronts has been guiding its border between vend tamilia in italy and montague, on the code to 0, to the french board of police. a working at an internal european union border crossing some time ago. the board of posts was even expanded with a container with friends can detain illegal migrants for 24 hours, the refugees and migrants mainly from african countries. the reason most rates have been tamilia by the mediterranean and southern italy.

it's in the human mind and really in the human the french don't want them know, but he does send them back to the board or not people like us, but people who have fled their countries and comes here, people staying in place and bring them up to people homeless people have been on the streets, have been tamilia for years now. many of them young people, they keep hoping to find a way through the border. you want to i want to vote for you to try to call the police, drive them out of the city center. the tell you and government in run has refused to provide state support to the people here and blames fronts for the misery many. and then tamilia agree that off around shot to the ranch should be a shame. yeah, normally just, it's not unfair. it's not right that we had times have to take in all these masses

groups. of course, thomas via 30 is closed the only reception sent to 3 years ago during the carpet pandemic for fear of infection. it was never reopened. only the catholic carriage this charity hans, that food for 2 hours in the morning. in the early evening volunteers cook for the homeless. one of them is building contract. filippo lombardo is a good or a to help for a yeah. let me because i mean off on average 100 to 150 more comes event tamilia every day saw a fostering comfortable home through ventimiglia is a stuff on the way. despite the guided buddha, migrants managed to cross into france again and again. the royal river flows into the mediterranean here in the southern alps. the river draws tourists and summer hike is, as does the french town of bryce, who boy yeah. since 2014,

the european union has subsidized the border region with more than 200000000 euros for tourism joined nature conservation and cross border cooperation among mounts and communities. the when i say to the t o, we've created tours, brochures, information plaques and this website which highlights the different communities throughout the royal environment. non, you know, territory and the various monuments do the whole. yeah. in the mean then yeah, one such monument embrace atanya and twin town of border go send. i'm not so commemorates of a 300 jewish people from all over europe, who were deported from here to outfits. battalions, french, germans, dutch most had fled the nazis 1st to the south of france, and then to the mountains on the tele, inside. and they ended up in prison t. in a concentration camp. the companion exhibition is designed to inspire reflection,

be owns the deportations. this panel is titled the desperate escaped through the mountains. many of the locals he had hidden slain jews, exhibition direct, uh, good or bad. so bianco draws a power low to the present day genetic. i mean, think is she doing care when, when can i started? when i've been waiting for get what we should have learned from history, we bought a set of values upon which our europe was founded. it's like when the mind that is our humanity when we are confronted with issues of migration, find all i think that's a different kind of too much for that. let me get a feeling on thursday, filippo lombardo cook's dinner for the migrants in the parking lot. invent amelia p, his wife donna and the friends have been helping once a week for over half a year. the volunteers exchanged the latest information via text messages right now, many from eritrea, somalia,

and especially sedan, are in the city of the assistance of silver light enough enough to allow with all these wars on around the world now to the families who can afford to take their children and go upon the particularly fairly don't think they say traffic is uh, already waiting for the refugees at the vend tamilia train station. the volunteer a coax, tried to one, the migrants about the criminals, on the way that a but the off and they've already heard from lamp and do that. you will arrive here and when do they know their surnames and whether they have money when it does shock, it save me that all the traffic is only need one. try to get the migrants across the board or using a part of the main road to front that everyone in vent tamilia knows about. the route is easily reached but dangerous. it leads straight across the highway. before setting out, they leave behind. they lost belongings,

hoping that if they caught the french border patrol wouldn't find anything to prove that they had just come for me to leave. now to volunteers have spent 3 hours cooking with the migrants, counting the shopping and preparation time limit because it's very spicy and you nice and hot. when did you feel like that salting and spicy time is fleeting. down in the parking lot in town, the volunteers are getting ready to provide meals. the various help is depend on one another. i always say as people, we are already born into problems. and i'm a migrant to say, and it's holly and it's still a micro upon me on my mouth to pump the my mother left calabria and southern italy in 1956 and came here in law.

she taught me that if 3 people can eat at one table, 5 or 6 can to launch can seize dinner, is provided every week, day at 7 pm. we tried to strike up a conversation, but hardly any of the migrants are willing to speak on camera. mainly for see everything to put it the you still applies the rule that refugees and migrants who enter have to remain in the country where they 1st arrived. so many here get very cautious when asked if they headed for front. it doesn't have to pay attention to trans. okay. definitely if i you get that for me additional and then you also consider it as the way we didn't say that we're here for you maybe getting something,

but because of this acute base computer get that fees expensive and the key this of the best way usually the tele, no authority is grant the migraines, the suspension of deportation and mounting to permission to remain in italy temporarily commanded terry and reasons current a little way to allow them to travel to other e u countries that makes this the headboard of the migrants. but the volunteers themselves, they're not prepared to accept to that follow at all of the problem is not europe the so like it's been europeans who cannot comprehend that it's better to give these people something to get by on key than to 100 up with the ones who steal the drop occurs to lucky. they're the ones who caused strife. the migraines have a right to come here. door. lots of the funding goes to help breaking down the borders into french italian outs exhibition. direct of roberto bianco in folks

human rights and the lessons and legacy of the 20th centuries boys and mass expulsions. they put a question about a saw on it. the phones at one time when people saw a stranger here. they opened the doors to their homes to help and hide and protect them, but by the phone in, from a lot of their, their example. these people showed how we could restore some kind of balance after such a complicated history. because a room is going around among the migrants. invent amelia, about local people somewhere up in the mountains, you know, all the secret roots and sometimes show travelers the way. ready ready we live in an age where more and more people or the books online or read digital copies, but surprisingly in the okay, the number of independent bookstores has increased and the british capital london. so i'm creative minds got together and opened a bookstore on a boat. it's

a popular destination for book rooms and a virus sensation on social media. hi, i'm petty screech. one of the 3 signed as a wood on the wall to the london book budge, which is a book shop. on the 19 twenty's dutch budge popped in kings cross in the middle of london. and in the middle of construction sites and office buildings, patty screech and his partner came up with the idea to provide a refuge to book worms on the water in 2011. but the problem at 1st was that the barge had to move its position every 2 weeks. we were doing it on wasting totally for love for the 1st sort of 7 years. should we have cigarettes or coffee? we can't afford both today sort of story. i mean, well, the fact truthfully announced that we're gonna have to close and all the people who are being forced to follow us on social media because we were constantly on the move. i suddenly came out of the woodwork and in effect,

save this. they did so by helping word on the water get a permanent, 1st with the living room. look, the bookshop gets good, pressed on social media platforms, and did the analog world to search different like, you can have those anywhere i guess, but i've never seen one of the part the most feasible. yeah. in the spirit in the music and come when you go on to the bar chip, walk most of it because it's the river flow. it's just really nice and detailing because once there was a leak and some of the books were damaged, but otherwise, business is good. and actually, better now than ever expect at least a joke. so you know, people come and hold up a book, photographs themselves with a neat show and then put it down and walk away. but that's not what happens actually. and people come not only to buy books, but to attend performances and concert on a very special charge in london. the

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