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multitasking steve, the modern mess, because if we do too much, we did it all wrong. we messed things up, risking brain damage. so let's stop this self sabotage, humans and multitasking watch. now on youtube, v. w documentary, the hello and welcome to this week, focus on europe with me. so now i'm danny. more than a 100000 people slept from then i go on a car 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 a neighboring armenia from many,
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it is most probably an escape without thought or to victoria gave her again, also found refused, and armenia. just glad that you say for now and once to make a new stall 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 isn't navarre no parrot back. she's certain that she will never be able to do to the apples 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 lean 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 victoria thinks about all she's lost, she makes flat bread filled with metals. inquiry under, it's a typical dish and they're going to car back it stairs. memories and comforts are
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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 it may not go you. so we had to leave everything behind . we had just the clothes on our backs and nothing else. on 6 of us took a little car together. spring got a little better 90 procreate make and we'd pack just 2 blankets to cover ourselves at night and quote, the zone to color in company most of the should it does this as or 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 region has been under as every control. the armenians were forced to recognize
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the sovereignty of us or by john over the land. and now tens of thousands of people from the car back like the morgan family must start over from scratch in armenia, the 5 of them are sharing this patio and 2 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 multiple. but as good lady, but slow, i mean 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. most government every day go in the morning and evening because the richard armenia has taken on the refugees. many don't have anything less than need government support. the european union and international 8 organizations had been sending aid,
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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. especially regarding banks and office because most of the refugees have debts on the go on a current buck only had armenian banks. and oh, my gosh. and they are owed around half a $1000000000.00. now like on bunker, you know, my god to support suck. mom dodge to a man like dozens of refugee families that go against flat from the corner, kara back and arrived in the village of our lives, with almost nothing there about 45 kilometers from the armenian capital of uta vance. 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,
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including victoria of oregon for grand daughter was killed in a rock extract. it is a cook. i'm not supposed to meet with the kids were waiting for the taxi so they can be taken to the underground shelter. go on, it was 7, 10 in the morning you'll find a rocket flew right at us, i think and think of the my 2 daughters and lower injuries are supposed to be leveled with this port or so. you see, it hits my grandson on the head, arm and legs steep, soft, be doubled, and he was fighting a lot made in the war was a major turning point for the armenians, because their key strategic satellite, russia provided less and less support. there may still have been russian peacekeepers station in the going to kind of back to protect the armenian population. the shootings were coming along is every armenian border. and even now when i was or by john, a technical, you know, kind of back. moscow didn't intervene to help facilitate the machine open if lynette was
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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 fuel 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 the, i don't have any plans by just a dream of love to. i'd like to return to nicole know, cut her back one day to visit my little daughters 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 it mean for me not going to kind of back will always be a war torn region of when you beauty, 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 of us on this, matthew dodge and that god will victoria
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good board. can her 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 the some of the revo still works in the south of battle . great. a few years ago since then, more and more people in the neighboring village i've read and i 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
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what is in our lungs, die on the nation flow too much. this is on the land 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. and we saw that look over there, see how much smoke the rooms, the what used to be home to more than 5000 people a decade ago is now increasing the dotted with empty homes. young
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people in particular are turning their backs on the village in search of federal page. all that steel 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 since 2016, it's a chinese state owned enterprise. was allegedly changed here since china to over it's difficult to speak to locals here on camera. they are afraid they tell us
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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 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 is matter of cancer rates have quadrupled here during the past decade. environmental activists like, can you call that christie to want the plans to be cleaned up and are demanding filters against pollution? he's the head of a watch dog. he's miserable. so nichol,
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i 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 plan 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 this lesson on. it was funny 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 a need. 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,
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including nicholas say that change is difficult in par due to the serbian state, allegedly not being willing to enforce environmental stand people who work in the steel plan are concerned about losing their job. yeah, the 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 in what because the plan has been there for generations, a, getting it out, see one of the, but on the other hand, that same factory kills them, probably poisoned them every day. they'll probably think through it's lucky done. other environmental organizations share these assessments. but for many who lived here, this metter over steel plant seems the only option in an already impoverished part of serbia. is that part of the having a job is more important than the environment and when they go to the rest of the
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deals manually, i am personally more concerned that people do not lose their jobs. and the solution isn't affecting us that symbols of subs 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 unanswered. we want to try again. cameras are not welcome. we manage to film none the less 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.
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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 bundle beach in back rates for us. in 2021, he gathered death samples from the steel planned for the national ecology association and n g o. he founded to identify environmental problems and make them popular any of your search. his findings able to say what we do. i've said, god arsenic all academy. i'm a chrome, lad, mercury, nickel. those, these things should not be present in the air at all. so when they say that they are toxic materials, heavy metals that cause cancer and they shouldn't be there. monday. hopefully my
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city is probably something that was in it. he says those who put prostate before house or the people should be sanction, may be peace calling on the serbian government. and what's the, uh, the thought the, these are the good ideas, but that about the state should act within 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. that's why and where incidents happen and how to protect themselves. dusta into then think we did this. i was told that we need adequate filters who think they must work people and keep working or they caught me in new cobra is but i was going through that that i them back in that i do not. but i got a 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 taking
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a tool and 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 property that is my only wish to tell me is right. yeah. who grandchildren rarely come. it's not safe to touch anything here or play upsides drug in a sense, a life increasingly constrained to be spent inside her 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 culture. but check it
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is in then economy cries is inflation. is that over 60 percent and going out in the evening is becoming more and more expensive. stopping people from enjoying night life. the people of turkey are also becoming increasingly conservative every year on the baseline make government. this makes it difficult for goods to make a living from dancing on the belly. dancing is goos. primary source of income every evening. the belly 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,
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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 liter and 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 do to tell them that they've band bellied and seen on television, which are that are everything's getting more and more conservative. jessica, sooner than family, the landlords no longer want to rent to me because they earned my money as ability to answer all the people that they say. why should i rent to someone like that? after dancing through the night and appearing and 5 bars good can relax a bit when she gets home with a colleague, she looks back to
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a time when turkey was more liberal and business was better, fairly dancing. she says, was it one time a respected profession? already on 10000 down the line is that 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 and seen these attitudes have an impact on us all the end of december leaves not just this dancers size, we're going to put all the women in turkey cousins on that issue. the country is becoming more conservative with each year that passes, and 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 somebody. we usually check out
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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 fit the entertainment sector, particularly the heart of 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 them. my customs get more expensive every month. armstrong, reco, storage. i. the issue that i'm interested in from the cornerstones and the taylor tells me that the, 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 so the only thing left
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for good to do is wait for better times in the entertainment sector. for more recognition and above all, for better pay the to lets see those chains and winter brings forth and call the days, especially if you live in northern europe. julio, which lives on the coast of northern sweden, is close to the arctic circle. here the winter is all very dark, cold and lonely to come by 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 a visit test. when you're not fit now goes out. he makes sure to stay warm by putting 2 coats on. originally from munich,
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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 in the, at the moment. so 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 and it's mostly cloudy. we've never really gets very bright to. you can almost go to bed for the ones that off 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,
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indeed, the people often walk by one another without creating each other. according to a recent survey, $1.00 and $4.00 people in sweden feels lonely, closed as each. so a campaign has been launched to encourage people to just say, hey, hello to each other. host that kosky and eva brit chunk has came up with the idea. and with good reason doesn't the things are forthcoming for there's research that shows that creating people has a positive effect on wellbeing and health. what does he have since we felt that we had to do something? that's the, that's the thing. so we really are 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
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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 the toilet . so people's habits are hard to change. obama sometimes habits have to be broken, just like the ice and the baltic. that 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 cold to the old in order to order. this almost makes more fun together. it makes them look more social way or the association already has 500 members. most of them come on the weekend,
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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 ups up, 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 of system 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. and that well for this additional full
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