as he's got issues with a lot say, what crazy. the hello and welcome to this week's focus on europe with me on a home, donnie. more than a 100000 people slept from then i go now kyra, back in place to armenia in september. now ethnic armenians are trying to build a new life for themselves as a buzz on use military force to bring the area under control. the majority of our media and people select to neighboring armenia. for many,

it is most probably an escape without ever to victoria and gab are again also found refused in armenia, she's glad that she has say for now and wants to make a new style the with her family. her new home is now in the small village of alice, but the memory of what was taken from her is very strong. her home is in the garden oak her back. she's certain that she will never be able to read to. samples like these are hanging in her garden to back home and they're going to come back. but victoria devora again can't pick them anymore. since lane from us or by johnny rockets. she's been living with her daughter in law and i need and her grandson honest. vic here in our lives, i mean, yeah. she rents a place to stay from this woman here. when the toya thinks about all she's lost, she makes flat bread filled with metals. inquiry under the typical dish and the

gardener car back it's doors, memories and comforts are a bit less shamika because they're really spicy. so it's a lot of kept her face to victoria. had to leave her home with no advance notice that on monday to pull that we may not go you. so we had to leave everything behind . we had just the clothes on her back. nothing else on 6 of us took a little car together. she got a little better than the poor could make and we'd pack just 2 blankets to cover ourselves at night and quote, the zone to color in company. most of the shit itself is also by john. sudden attack on are going to kind of back cause people to flee on mass. in just a few days over a $100000.00 ethnic, armenians fled from the enclave towards armenia. by lodging cord, or in the mountains, they were afraid of being hunted down because of their years fighting for independence since the war between the neighboring countries. 3 years ago, the regent has been under as every control the armenians were forced to recognize

the sovereignty of officer by john over the land. and now tens of thousands of people from the car back like the board and family must start over from scratch in armenia, the 5 of them are sharing this patio into tiny rooms. the isaac's father has found a job as a taxi driver. his older sister doesn't wish to be filmed. it has to be the most thoughts. but as good lady about slow, i mean, you know, words can't describe what we've been through. the what she bought a room every day is a little and asks when we're going back to some government every day. good in the morning and evening because the richer armenia has taken on the refugees. many you don't have anything less than need government support. the european union and international aid organizations have been sending aid,

but the poor country in the congress. this is overwhelmed. the different, the 2nd level, the arrival of over a 100000 people from the going to car to buck is putting a massive strain on the armenian economy. and especially regarding banks office because most of the refugees have debts on the go on a current buck only had armenian banks and how much and they are owed around half a $1000000000.00. now like a combined guy, you know, my god to split huckman industrial man, like dozens of refugee families, the give organs flat from the corner car, a back in arrived in the village of our lives, with almost nothing there about 45 kilometers from the armenian capital of unit on many are traumatized from having to flee and the war between armenia and azerbaijan . 3 years ago, many soldiers are buried at the cemetery, and yet, yvonne, almost 4000 armenians lost our lives back. then almost every family had a deceased or injured acquaintance. friend or family member to more than back then,

including victoria good war again for grand daughter was killed in a rock extract. it is a cook. i'm not supposed to mean will. the kids were waiting for the taxi so they could be taken to the underground shelter go. we thought it was 7, 10 in the morning. you'll pump a rocket flew right at us at the end of the my 2 daughters in law were injured. are supposed to be leveled with this toner, so you see it hits my grandson on the head, arm and light boots, steep soft, be doubled, and he was fighting a lot made in the war. was a major turning point for the armenians. because a key strategic satellite, russia provided less and less support. there may still have been russian peacekeepers station in the going to power of back to protect the armenian population. the shootings were coming along is every armenian border. and even now, when i was advised on a technical, you know, kind of back, moscow didn't intervene to help accomplish the motion

open reflect was a revelation for us. i'm wondering if we understood we were alone without our allies. it's a tragedy. and it hurts to say, see russia shares responsibility for this tragedy? like many refugees from the gartner car back, the good war against feel in danger. remembering the state, many of the people met over a century ago when genocide took the lives of hundreds of thousands of armenians. no, and you belong, i'm each but i don't have any plans by just a dream of life. so, i'd like to return to nicole and i'll call her back one day to visit my little daughter's grave. i choose them to do, but i don't want my remaining children to live there anymore. but that much that the i don't want to lose them to. i'm uh, so not the, i mean, i mean i go now kind of back will always be a war torn region of when you viewed it, we've lost our trust in both the government and anyone else of we only trust ourselves anymore, making the sepia still good it's not me, i don't know what will become about matthew dodging that god will

victoria good board can or family and there many fellow refugees don't expect to be able to return to the going to car back for now. all they have left or their memories serbia has a particularly close relationship with china, especially when it comes to economy. why serbia is thinking investments, and the far is the chinese are targeting to expand their influence in europe, which is why they to cobra this mother revo still works in the south of battle great. a few years ago since then, more and more people in the neighboring village, i'd rather not have complained about her run those air pollution from the factory. drug on village has lived there for full decades. it's never been this bad, she says, and she says it will stay that way because the still know secures thousands of jobs in a part of serbia that is already very impoverished of

what is in our lungs style. and though gnashing flow too much, this is on the lamp post and what's in our lungs and inside our bodies, nobody knows east by and i'm on the only point to do, you know it's, it's a small village near bell. great. a lot of people die here. their pictures, homeland posts, covered with red stuff, struggling to millage would love to leave for a village. she tells me. but no one wants to buy her house. it too is covered in thick red dust emitted from the steel me a ride across from her home. we saw that i look over there, see how much smoke there is the what used to be home to more than 5000 people a decade ago is now increasing the dotted with empty homes. young

people in particular are turning their backs on the village in search of federal page. all that still meal is one of serbia's oldest industrial facilities, commonly referred to as the pride of serbia. it provides thousands of jobs in the region and has said, various owners from the serbian stage to us owen, back to a serbian plant in 2012 of the since 2016, it's a chinese state owned enterprise. was allegedly changed here since china took over it's difficult to speak to locals here on camera. they are afraid they tell us

this couple to doesn't want to be recognize their children, brooke, for the serbian government, ironically in the health sector. they say, but they want us to fund these photos. they took off what appears to be a gigantic, dirty cloud right above the factory they filter. sometimes we hear the explosions, earplugs against the noise. that's all they can do. they say they're just waiting for people to die even before the chinese. here, there was criticism against a steel plan. according to data from the regional hospital, it's a matter of cancer rates have quadrupled here during the past decade. environmental activists like, can you call that, christine? you want the plans to be cleaned up and are demanding filters against pollution. he's the head of a watch dog. he's miserable. some nickel that goes door to door to find out how

people are affected. do you have an issue with the dust? of course i do and the water is not good. everyone here has a story to share about the plant and nickel that wants to listen and gather as much evidence as possible he sent to you. i admitted the only thing left to go. i've had 2 big tumors and 2 years you must do you have hope that things will get better? i've got the solution on it was fine. if the cool this is of a situation is very concerning. the dentist and eligible, but she's pretty certain that my wife wants us to move away from here, but not only because of her for that, but also for the future of our children as and maybe the more we can, we have 3 children and things aren't getting better able to assist you because we can't, we don't see that changing zone. but it's called in a multiple story on this x to this,

including nicholas say that change is difficult in par due to the serbian state, allegedly not being willing to enforce environmental standard. people who work in the steel plan are concerned about losing their job. the yellow, very key part of this is a paradox here, because for one, you have people who depend on the plan for their livelihoods will talk. and there's also an emotional component then what? because the plan has been there for generations, a, get it out, see one of the but on the other hand, that same factory kills them, probably poisons them every day. they'll probably get through. it's lucky done. all the environmental organizations share these assessments. but for many who lived here, this metter over steel plan seems the only option you know, already impoverished part of serbia that bought it, that having a job is more important than the environment. and when they, with the rest of the deals manually,

i am personally more concerned that people do not lose their job. and the solution isn't affecting us. spectrum was the sub, the chinese and the serbian flag are seen when approaching the steel plant, operated by h. b. i as the chinese investor, we have asked for permission to film inside, but our request was left on and so we want to try again. cameras are not welcome. we manage to film nonetheless too much for those is a bizarre conversation with the public relations representative against the backdrop of a sign promoting environmental policies. so i should go to china and request an interview to talk to someone here in serbia. that's then on the procedure we receive another email address and make another request. but once again, no reaction. our next stop south rate the capital.

we want to find out whether inspections are being carried out by the serbian state . a written request through the health ministry and the environmental ministry remain unanswered our follow ups via phone without any results. instead, we meet milenko vinyl beach in back rates for us. in 2021, he gathered the samples from the still planned for the national ecology association and n g o. he founded to identify environmental problems and make them popular any of us which he's finding similar to what we do. i've said, god arsenic all academy in chrome lab, mercury, nickel, those, these things should not be present in the air. and also in this way that they are toxic materials. heavy metals that cause cancer and they shouldn't be there. on

monday you helped me my thirty's, probably something like what did it he says those who put prostate before house or the people should be sanctioned, met the police calling on the serbian government. it was the adult, the thought, the, these us, there's the idea that about the state should act with the factories under the control of the state. up what's going on. we need transparency, but the citizens will tell them where the problem is. why and where incidents happen and how to protect themselves. das it into then think we through this i was told that we need adequate filters who think they must work to and keep working or they caught the new cobra is, but i was going through that that i that back in that i do not. but i got to milledge sets old her whole on environmental activists who told her they would bring the case to be your court of human rights. she says, everyone here knows what's wrong, but people who oppose inspections. don't want to understand. nobody wants to close the plant, but stop the toxic waste poisoning the village. the struggle is sticking

a tool in her. it's exhausting. she sense the dream is simple. this is gonna be a hot dog and will be honestly, i would love to retire and spend the rest of my life with my grandchildren from the off some of the z. that is my only wish to me tell me is right. yeah. who grandchildren really come, it's not safe to touch anything here or play upsides drug in a sense, a life increasingly constrained to be spent inside for, for her life mostly takes place outside of her home. good is from to okay. and works as a belly dancer, performing through the night and assemble the dawn. so presents a center is old tradition. that is an integral part of turkish call to

a tech it is. and then they call them a cries us inflation. is that over 60 percent? and going out in the evening is becoming more and more expensive. stopping people from enjoying not life. the people of turkey are also becoming increasingly conservative every year under baseline make government. this makes it difficult for goods to make a living from dancing of the belly. dancing is whose primary source of income every evening the ballet dancer performs in bars and restaurants and is done book the art form has been entered. training people on the prosperous for centuries. but cool has noticed it's becoming increasingly difficult for guests to kick back and enjoy the show. these days they really think about exactly how many meals and what drinks and how much they'll order. it was different before on the weekend,

they'd really let loose, but those days are over. traditionally, dances are paid solely by the guests putting money into their outfits this evening . most are giving 100 leering notes. c the equivalent of about 3 years, each girl who prefers we use are stage name knows that many can't afford to give more. but there are other problems to the doing the television that they've band bellied in seen on television, which are the are, everything's getting more and more conservative that you can select and family the landlords no longer want to rent me because they earn my money and the ability to answer all the people that they say, why should i run to someone like that? after dancing through the night and appearing and 5 bars can relax a bit when she gets home with a colleague, she looks back to

a time when turkey was more liberal and business was better. belly dancing. she says, was it one time a respected profession? already on 10000 down the line and that was when i was little, the whole family spent new year's eve in front of the tv fascinated and watched the belly dancers walk over the child. she mental these attitudes have an impact on us all. and the end of the bundle leaves, not just those dancers size, but all the women in turkey, cousins, all that in the country is becoming more conservative with each ear that passes in . at the same time, the economy is slumping, the turkish lyric continues to lose more of its value against the dollar in the euro. and with inflation sitting at an official rate of 62 percent. hardly anyone can afford to go out in the evening anymore. so there are more and more empty tables in the pubs bars and entertainment venue is how many we usually check out

a few places 1st and then pick the cheapest then are used to go out once a week. these days it's once a month to continue, a price increases for alcohol and $50.00 entertainment sector, particularly hard. the prices have led to more and more people making their own alcohol at home is so much on the go needs to start getting ready for the evening shows. she doesn't know how long she'll be able to continue earning a living, dancing. she gets fewer tips and has more expensive course to me up to use the up to the month. my costumes get more expensive every month. armstrong, reco, storage. i the issue, the citizens and the cornerstones and the taylor tells me and it is the dollar stronger commotion. the material in the sequence are more expensive. if i were able, i would buy ahead and just stuck up. but i can't so the only thing left

for good to do is wait for better times in the interest payment sector. for more recognition and above all or better pay the to let's see, those chains and winter brings forth and call the days, especially if you live in northern europe. lillian, which lies on the coast of northern sweden, is close to the arctic circle. here the winters are very dark, cold and lonely to combat this loneliness as of course b. and if i bred 10 quiz have come up with a very special campaign, it is meant to lift the spirits not only of the residents, but also offers a test. when you enough fit and it goes out, he makes sure to stay warm by putting 2 coats on. originally from munich,

the 20 year old move to leo 3 months ago. he wanted to see what life was like in northern sweden. if you still have not for forever, it's too dark for that either. so, but i thought it would be interesting for half a year. he's off to a lecture and today it's minus 12 degrees celsius. units quickly understood that he would have to get used to different amounts of sunlight of the moments. that's why i don't think it's dark at 3 o'clock already. very different from germany. there's much less sun life. it's mostly cloudy. we've never really gets very bright to you can almost go to bed for the ones that off in the food. there's plenty of light in the lecture hall to ensure students remain alert. but it remains cold and miserable outside. the industrial city of lou leo is not known for being the most beautiful. there's a major steel plant here. in the harbor, the ice breakers will soon go out to clear the ice in the baltic sea. well

the people often walk by one another without creating each other. according to a recent survey, one and 4 people in sweden feels lonely. close to each. so a campaign has been launched to encourage people to just say, hey, or hello to each other. host kosky and eva brit chunk. chris came up with the idea and with good reason doesn't the things are forfeiting form. there's research that shows that creating people has a positive effect on wellbeing and helpful. what does he have since we felt that we had to do something that's, that's the, that's the thing. it's something very odd. the 2 are setting a good example in lieu. and it's not only older people who are lonely. kosky says that people between 16 and 29 also often feel alone. she's come to this high

school to talk about the issue with the students and how you doing this is, how do you say hello to your fellow students in the hall? amazon don't get someone goes past, i'll look up the door, but many just carry on with a determined look and speak to them. don't. i don't know this campaign will be enough to change things as they come to a toilet. so people's habits are hard to change and alone. sometimes habits have to be broken just like the ice and the baltic. the ice doesn't scare point us at external, who founded the winter bathing association and do neil and even young ones are braving the coal to all the salma. it's more fun together. it makes them look more social way or the association already has 500 members. most of them come on the weekend,

but there's almost always a place to be found in the sun. nothing is better for fighting loneliness than sweating together and going for a different ice cold water. the outside, it's a good way of meeting people, especially for those who are not alone by choice, relative to the the whole thing really is on here at least here. they can feel better for a while for a couple thing. and for the office, this aspect, the 1st on the there's still some darkness ahead. as the days we'll keep getting shorter until the winter solstice. that's available. so you know, spitting or has found a way of coping with the darkness. he often goes for hikes in the woods with a friend. there are many ways to fight loneliness in northern sweden. an open fire and a friendly hague can go a long way. that's well for this additional

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