the environment is not responsible. make up your own mind. dw, made for mines. the hello and a will welcome to focus on europe. it's great to have you with us. this february, march the 2nd anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine. on the 24th of february 2022 russian president, pushing ordered his army to cross the crane in border. but what russia thought to be a quick victory has become the deadliest will on europeans soil since world war 2.

as the outcome of the war remains highly uncertain, intense fighting of the south east of ukraine has become a daily reality. along the front line near a city such as back moved in a disco, ukrainian army units have built deep dugouts to protect themselves from attacks except when they're out far as russian targets are reported. visited. frontline soldiers adapting to their 2nd winter to ask how much longer they can keep going and how much electronic welfare has changed the battlefield. it's still dark. as we had towards of div the city is russia's number one target on the ukrainian front lines were joining and a leak ukrainian drone team. restaurants on a monitors. we have intelligence that the russians are planning to send in 250 infantry soldiers today to attack our positions, the substance of what we must stop their attacks with cameron, as he drove into some sort of a stable. if we send our infantry into something we'd lose on

a loss of people's lives on fish to thanks to technology, we can prevent this and it was a piece of plastic carrying ammunition. we couldn't do our job. most of the spring i am for snow and ice as far as the horizon. kamikaze, drones like these costs just $1000.00 to make it cheaper and available. unlike ordinary artillery shows. thanks to the many drones constantly in this guys. nothing is invisible on the battlefield. anymore with forth again, no one took these toy drones seriously, including ukraine's military leadership. this has changed. soldiers on both sides have learned to fear them. they just put the as for services. unfortunately it isn't. the landscape is covered in bodies. the russians advance over their own dead, and sometimes they even pretend to be dead before them. so we find them anyway. they seem to be more scared of their own commander's been of us with the wireless.

i mean, really certainly there's 2 of them lying on the left hand side, slow down, don't rush, look at the middle of the screen or no, no, no, that's on the target. and what we need is those to look that over there. we need one of you to take over or so the, it's a clear hit to russian soldiers called out in the open, realizing the danger they pretend to be dead. but it doesn't tell me some, i think, you know, really this war has proven that all the old ideas and strategies for finding a war don't work anymore. mentally. the, let's get you on the bus. the world is watching us and realizing what to still work on it to the most. so let me look like, what do you mean? what do you need a bunch of show most just put 2 of them. but this war isn't all just about high tech, with temperatures fluctuating around the freezing point, the recent rain has turned to the road here into ice rinks of our jeep is just one of many stuck on the way side and even the best winter tires make

little difference this ukrainian artillery unit has dug in nearby. smoot, what would eli must make of it? soldiers ask us laughing. as one of many mice emerges from behind with a musk star link internet terminals. and an age of satellite connectivity here on the front lines. they're still waiting for an innovation to properly to feed rodents. given enough time, the mice level, everything from sleeping soldiers, fingers to computer cables or something. a little bit skeptical to the cats. we brought down here, all right. and off, they were too scared of the rent, and sometimes a weasel comes by and helps us out with them. i don't really money into my house. so harmless, at least it's some kind of distraction was i don't know what if it's useful with russian drones ever present to this guys. this unit essentially lives in this dug out, unless they're out firing a targets. they spend their time here in their self made bunker

to, to see more. yeah, it's a new course. everyone is scared. but most people find a way to get used to those who don't aren't forced to stay here, but transferred to other units. so there's no criticism of those who left some of the men we meet here used to serve in the infantry, just a few 100 meters from russian positions. and they chose to come here to the relative safety of an artillery position. the frustration with those avoiding deployment entirely is stronger. so do you know my new points sitting around at home and senior sit around telling yourself i wasn't born to find the new one? is that correct? everyone is going to have to fight sooner or later. there's no point in the hiding from the army, shows you learned on the job. and if you don't learn more before when for giving your mistakes, i'm, we will, after 2 years of war,

many here say the hardest thing isn't even the fear of the board and it's the uncertainty and the distance every day down here, these men watch their children growing up without them, thanks to their smartphones and satellite internet. when people are just available in the foyer, he's enjoying this. sometimes i'll call my doctor and ask our high schools doing some more time on the ad. you'll see it saturday or sunday. don't hear you lose track of time and no one can say how many more days their country will ask them to send down here. but no one can say one of the ukrainian refugees will be able to return to the home linden piece over a 1000000 of them have found refuge in germany among them or natalia, marcia, and cindy. we met the women 2 years ago after they had arrived in bill, in each of them determined to lead

a life safe from war. we reached out to them once again to find out if their dreams and plans have come to warn histories in these women and to their homeland you creed to leo, click on link, who loves to learn new things, telling the time in german for instance. she's here at the social center for refugees, the chief find it herself. it's called who tennessee on. good mission, like her most people here come from ukraine is more refugees on learning german in a playful way is just one of the goals. demand is enormous. really gets to a hub and what is that? and now that we've found it, our guten mitsy own. our goal in berlin is to build an integration system for other migrants and refugees. and boeing says to integrate ceiling systems

since because a very important mission for me. yes, this is the victor gave me some since may 2022. that's the la copa link, who had just arrived from ukraine. really quickly made friends through a project run by the protestant church was still concerned about her relatives back home and that's his name, and my family is very important to me. i want us to be together, but i don't know if we can go back or when my own appear to more than we get to know. so you're talking about 2 years later things have changed. no, not to lia wants to stay in berlin with her doctor baldwin tutoring for the refugees. as for admission. she's already been to visit her family new, creating a few times and she's extremely concerned about developments there. that you just test the situation. it's frustrating. i know we've got no idea when this will end the end. it's very, very difficult. the should be to get ordinary on the site. bringing with fashion on

the inside, mash that use a tool of a studio. after a long search, she was able to move in here in the autumn of 2023 and she's happy now. of the i have the 5 months, i have equipment. and now i almost almost the finished doors torch course. so in 2 weeks, i will have an expense in may 2022, her sewing machine was still firing away in an empty portland bakery. in key, masha was a well connected fixture of the fashion circles. with several employees, he grabbed from one day to the next. she had to give it all up and stocked again. for him. yeah, he might so funny my system, my work is basically my life, the set of options, but i definitely want to keep going for sure. for both sides, that's why i'm trying to look at what so how it's just that i because i can't do

anything. if i turn in the back is up. yeah, it takes all of my strength away showing you what i see was a bit of her plans came together. i know with other designers, she's showing her fashion in berlin. her goal is to be able to live from her work since fleeting ukraine. she has returned only once to bring her elderly cats to germany. of the way it was so very hard experience for me to see my friends. they have to stay, they have no choice. i feel guilty because i have better life. i can choose and i hear in safe, it's hard to look in their eyes see me. every other con is looking for work again. she is a top class business education and managed various companies in ukraine before the war but things in berlin are only progressing slowly.

i work in technology star top uh its uh, barely start out for the cool one, but unfortunately every starts up have they own challenges and problems and sometimes something can go wrong. cassini is 1st portion of coal 2 years ago was a cocktail bar, kathy, ukraine, an ad hoc meeting place for refugees. at the time she was confident you would soon find a job for me to make something through friend p, find a space and a shared flat for herself. and her 16 year old son, he's successful at school here. returning to keep is out of the question for now the main goal is to earn money. if you don't have a job, it's

a really bad thing and it can work with my hands. so i can go to the factory, i can back and i can do anything. i don't, i don't scare about to do any kind of job 3 women, 3 stories, one of you to choose their own destinies, despite the war. and you create to, over the past decade, spain's countryside has lost much of its population regions like zamora, i have seen villages die out with elderly residents remaining. and the young ones seem to get better life in cities. what is left is known as last by any of oxy or empty spain. this comes as a huge challenge for parish priests to and yet, so he is one of very few clergyman in the whole region. and he has to attend to more than 40 churches all over the area. tell me a jo in his handful of keys are on their way to one of the 43 churches. he serves

the parish priest them at least stay in the spanish province of similar i drive 50000 kilometers a year. gotcha. i mean, as far as a necessity for recreation to the is is how do you see this is one of the villages in his parish, 40 residents a graveyard and a church, a photographer wants to take some interior shots. the tail schedule is full and he has no time to stare. he moved to at least stay at 29 years ago from the provincial capital of tamora by choice. you could open that up. what has it been? any people wants to be? i think the rural areas are less important is or who died after a few years here. someone asked me when i would be promoted when i would finally be sent to the city in the literally didn't understand that i came here because i wanted to be sure to for them. we want to get back to that. but then yeah, can you spell out or give us that i can tell,

gets the church key to an elderly couples that the photographer can take his pictures, seniors like them, keep the village of the lives of many young people move away. that is it almost everything used to be more humane. right now we're alone and need help with is the, the villages are empty now to so tales. mission goes far beyond the religious is what was that this appeal degree? a challenge as it must restore dignity and quality of life regardless of each of the independent. we also need to few young people that they can have a future here on the country side, getting and portal so, but it really wasn't paying $30.00. 15 kilometers away. 54 year old father yet to meet with some young catholics. they come together from the nearby villages to pray and discuss problems. they loved the region, but many move away and not just for training and education. if that's the tower in

the moral emigrating, i think that there are so few of us and young people want to be with people our own age guy a 10 days or so is the place. that's why we're here. these thing you can count on me, k o tries to boost their self esteem with activities like this one says, i want the people to feel more reachable for me that understand that living in the countryside is worthwhile though, because how do you? yes, i feel move away. i'm only thing the distance and to learn a little, but maybe they'll come back. when do you go to this village or another one of the seats going up? you know what i said i'll go in, but the reality is the jobs and prospects are few details, opportunities for he would not keep up the struggle maybe as everything is taken out the door. so you have to be idealistic, not mine. people, after all, are the reason for the dwindling numbers here that my,

that after the problems that come with them to the people have the power to fix the problem yourself. comparable kind of what assume i know is that will consume one of whether it's, i mean, quarter case at least the roads are good and the internet works. meetings are being held online. like the one with the citizens initiative working for a functioning health care system for many of the state runs centers are closed. they want to change that. so the same as me because that's the soonest that i, if the doctors here know clinics could reopen or from 30th. because that would entice more people to special here. that seems like. but above all, those who stayed would have propaganda. again, this could be nothing, they have a right to doctors. i mean individual, the evening j o is celebrating mass and marty on is on his own. he simply can't

manage the services of all 43 churches, but he is assisted by other priests. and the people here will not give up so easily as we have to give them a for the most. we may not have enough firewood eyes, but we keep the embers alive to spread hope and then you'll see on if there's no one left click the last one to turn the light to do it as long as someone still lives here. and you know, we need at least a glimmer and get him because he mounted in the shop of desperate outside positive details. the city priest who came to the country wants to stay. he's going against the trend. and many here hope more will follow his example. no way has committed itself to become climate neutral in 25 years. focusing on carbon capture technology to achieve physical, the cement, factory and brave. it will be among the 1st to store it c o 2 thousands of meters under the c to prevented from shielding global warming test x new starter and her

colleagues are employing the new technology, steering attention from other european countries. this could also bring a lot of business to no way of these 3 specialists in previous southern norway are helping make their cement plant claimant neutral. they've installed a filter unit next to their cement, to narrow. they have to learn how to contain the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. welcome to the all of them. we used, amy, chemicals, water pressure, in very high temperatures. the hot everything has to come together to the cement industry is a key contributor to c, o. 2 emissions burning lighting student kills releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide. the 3 big plant is trying something new. if it works, it could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by $400000.00 tons a year. project director to are going to start explains

homes because this is the actual c o 2 separation process is fairly straightforward that we call it up for that. it takes place in the absorber it back there. there we remove the c o 2 at a low temperature using an ammonia solution with all of this chemical is able to absorb c o $22.00, good, that's available. first, the emissions are cooled in special containers. the in another chemical was added and the mixtures rekey to distribute the c o 2. it can then be liquefied, under high pressure is a complex process that requires a lot of energy. the specialist type of solution for that to the most of the energy for the separation process comes from the segments. can we use the residual heat? so we can divert what would otherwise escape through the chimney and use it for

this process. they've been working on building the separation unit for 3 years now . it's been financed by the norwegian states. the a space was filing for an entrance storage facility in the spectacular fjords along norway's west coast 12 giant holding tanks for the liquefied greenhouse gas being completed. we talked to span over and then now they said that the project director expects the time to hold liquefied c o 2. not only from the region submitted files and then also from the doctors and danish facility as opposed to those we brought by ship as, as the point site, the location offers in the ideal hub. threatening in down here, we're building a tunnel for our pipeline, 270 meters below ground. uh, once i retire in the pipeline then runs north along the sea,

but it okay. well that's it. and then west into the north sea. the pipeline will extend over 100 kilometers to see the liquefied c o 2 will then be deposited at the depth of 2600 meters. the plan is to inject some 1500000 tons of it to get to the sea floor annually sped over to assures us that this is a safe way to store it and shows as a rock central. as chris said, as you can see down here, the space between these wrong middle of the system, the by the same token, the sandstone and the sea bed. you have some bases all through it. do you need the who and this is where we'll store the c o. 2 over, died above the sandstone as a 75 meter thick layer of shale together. this makes for an excellent, permanent depository problem on that as long as norway has already gained expedients with injecting. see you too far,

right in the north sea for some 25 years norwegian companies have been extracting natural gas from this, like no gas fuel pumping. the carbon dioxide produced right back into an underground reservoir. nor we use prime minister us gosh, to seems confident that his country will be able to help you reach at some dishes claimant protection goals. we have enough space. basically for most of europe, c o 2 for many decades to come. so what we are working on now is to have value chain from industries in europe, that can transport c o 2 1st by ship them perhaps then by pipeline. and then we can pump it down and we want to make this commercially viable for industry. and this is about to happen. i believe. the 3 big some and plan team understand the c. u 2 they collect will be a drop in the bucket, claim it twice, but it's their hope that many other plans will follow suit. theme to begin

collecting c o 2 and storing it deep beneath the ocean floor. by the end of this year. did you have a look at your garbage this morning? maybe a bit of waste could as being re processed. that's what designer side doing in milan, in the fashion, the trouble is garbage is increasingly used to create governments. sustainable materials such as waste could be the basis for your next fancy jacket or even a stylish lamp, cloth, or furniture. saving the environment has never looked so good. a horn meadow with an espresso and fresh orange juice. he say the class, the detailing and breakfast, produces piles of waste that either winds up in the garbage or in milan being dried by the people behind crill design. they turn food waste into elegant lamps, bows and clocks in alternative to using plastic and their chic designer objects.

the very much can we use materials that don't create pollution? i mean, so as not to make the situation whereas that's what you want it, but we're gradually repairing the damage. humans have a car is done on foster orange, peel and used coffee powder is made into a brand new there. material strings of which are then fed into a 3 d printer to build low. but let's say, let's say that again, high end until the end design, the attention to materials is one dimensional input stuff. it's always been that we can do so. so it's a natural evolution to be focusing on sustainable materials. it's not a fast growing trend profit. we won't be building the materials out of each or will be growing them monday for they look at a shadow. mauricio montague, in his company most who have developed this textiles. it looks and feels like real leather. it's made for mushrooms or more precisely my celia, which usually grows underground. we literally grow

materials and products that thanks to a negative cold ration with my drug of assistance, which are nothing does the nature as we are. therefore, what we do is to work with nature for nature and as nature from the bundled networks that looks like most of material is produced, that by the end can be a natural alternative to foam or leather. from high end sound proofing panels to mushroom leather, even too expensive hotel tour all without animals or chemicals. sustainable and trendy design in italy. and this brings us to the end of this week's edition of focus on you. i hope you enjoy the show. you can also look up all our reports on dw use, which side, thanks for watching and see you next time the

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this is dw, use life from berlin, israel storms, the last big hospitals still functioning in gaza. the army says it has credible evidence that hamas held hostages inside the complex. also coming of a reversal in senegal, the country's top election officers as overturn the president's decision to put off elections, which sparked deadly protests and concerns about what was considered westoff because of the boston of democracy. and the greek parliament makes the country the 1st orthodox christian nation to legalize the same sex marriage to the, to the delight of l. g b t q plus advocates.