watching it for a lot of money. i can't help but wonder if anybody's thinking about the future of this country really is at risk. the global voice of crisis unveiled jobs march 21st on the w. the hello and welcome to this week, focus on europe with the live show. thanks for joining us today. we'll begin today's program and europe's youngest country comfortable. it was born after years of conflict in the region, and while the economy is growing steadily, the country still relies on foreign aid for many development projects. so it's came as quite a shock to affinity that will shape the when the us government announced that it is essentially shutting down. it's for an agency usa,

i deem it is with american support, that they were now dr. and human rights activist was able to provide critical care to her patients in the capital, a piece, tina, and l square. there are many people who rely on therapy to shield from the atrocities they suffered during a conflict that ravaged the people decades ago. a free me isn't his real name. we've changed it to protect his identity. he was 19 years old when to serve you and policeman rate 10. that was more than 25 years ago during the call civil war between ethnic albanian striving for autonomy. a nationalist serves the trauma, he says, has been eating out to him ever since i kept putting off going to the doctor. so it's like my trauma got so bad that i couldn't even walk properly, which was so it'd be the re, she has been helping him. she's

a doctor and founder of the eat organization, k r c t. the introduce a woman and her 30 employees look after torture survivors over 1300 to date. sure, most of them are women who survive sexual abuse for organizations. work is funded from abroad with a fish coming from us the ip until recently. shortly after sweeping into the white house for a 2nd term, donald trump proves us the id funding is a huge problem for bushy t feeling missed at 1st, it was an incredible shock and you can't really put it into words. the last we learned of the decision on a weekend been to me that forced us to suspend parts of our work for an initial period of 3 months on what time y k r c t is still providing psychological support for women, like susanna. also not her real name. she was read and abused multiple times during the war. it took her years to find the courage to seek help from k r c t.

but even today, she says 26 years later, she still wakes up every night at 1 20 am. the exact time when she was 1st rate from a home from new nutrition. the smallest thing can send us into a downward spiral on deaker normal medical treatment, psychological support, and financial aid, or cut off that will spell out disaster for us. when they are from, from that on from it all. the people who come here couldn't afford this kind of psychological care themselves, health insurance and costs, if it was limited and health care can be expensive. like a free mean, many men were also raped during the war uncomfortable. but to this day, he's the only one willing to talk in front of the camera in comfortable which is still very conservative. victims of sexual violence face deep rooted stigmata. i had a lot of problems because i kept it all in. and i was introverted,

short tempered, i don't know how to describe it. it was pretty bad. i don't know how i raised my children. being able to speak about it k r c t helps address the widespread stigmatization of victims. and that's just one example of how the suspension of usc id is affecting costs of one of your reps peruse countries. it was until now also one of the largest recipients of us aid and the western bulk ins over $500000000.00 in the last 5 years. no cost if it was government is doing what it can to limit the damage by diplomatic means. image of up to interstate of us caught up and then you can go on you on the soft today. of course, you know, there's now and you go from and to the us with its own political priorities. um, especially on how to spend tax payers money. and so what i can call hopefully i'm gonna complex up. of course it for me to come up. this doesn't change the strong relationship between our 2 countries. model bank which extends to many areas. and

then he goes, pits it off, there's 3, and some poor show despite repeated requests for an interview with the american embassy, we receive no response. so read the receipt to you is not surprised or trust in the us as being deeply shaken. things used to be different because the young, this is a photo of me, was the 1st lady, maloney, a trumpet to me, is that some of it call the department to see somebody coming in for 0 set to cut off. that was in march 2018. seen that when the us state department selected 10 women from around the world to present them with an award for their courage and strength and body to, to work on the band with quantifier was one of them missing a tune of function we can do me is my doesn't own knuckle cartoon cartoon at the time. donald trump was the sitting president as of the, from president jeff to us. ruth, she was recently nominated for this year's nobel peace prize by a swedish member of parliament to see me

as far removed from all of this for him. as for so many others, it's literally a matter of survival. without therapy. i couldn't live a minutes longer. not a single minutes smell. like all of us, a widow therapy, we'd go crazy. we can't do without it. the cost of his treatment consumes over half of his pension. a free me certainly can't afford a psychologist. want no. he doesn't know. he can only hope the, it's a phenomenon that we're witnessing across europe. many young people are voting for right wing and fluoride parties to understand why we met e b i. t young politician from the netherlands. she invited us to

a networking event for like minded people in the town of long, and there's a similar trend in italy where some young voters say they occur in hard drive. and popular government is not going far enough to protect what they consider to be italy's identity and the culture they are young and the vote for rights. more and more young people in europe are turning to right wing and nationalist parties. what's behind the shift to the rights we are involved since 2020 to be totally has been governed by a right wing nationalist coalition. philipo, however, considered a stem to sell the history student as a member of a neo fascist, used organization. i remember that to the fact that generated and interests about politics was the 1st section of the time. yeah, so i'm 20 on the 2016 because i remember that for the

people says this, i'm a talk about that. these fact uh, has a negative surprise. so this is generated my 1st thing to us, the most the most people takes us to a district whose construction was commissions, by the time being dictated to benito, mussolini in the early 1913 so that everything was fab. them to me foretells us pointing to the architecture. as an example. he says utility has to become a strong nation again, that immigration must be stopped and the power of the leads must be broken. for me, it don't exist anymore, right? unless you have the, the police to one side and the single police to other side the especially to defend our already them to the global war, the something very difficult preserving their own identity. that's what virginia view the eclipse and its priorities as well. the 21 year old likes to speak about

strong women and to be cruel, they played during the fascist era. we didn't know it takes us into the headquarters of for some of the neo fascist party. they are getting ready here for a protest. march that his plan and the next day you enter for to know that i joined force and will probably between 20202021. after the street protests over the anti cobit measures to own in, you know, when the strong popular resistance against the restrictions was silenced and not the person move, i was the only movement that raised its head and stared to engage in genuine social protest. i felt when i found it in trouble shot it. we are surprised to virginia has no problem taking to the streets along with well known right wing x for me is that she seems committed to fashion an ideology that's defined as all to a nationalist and anti liberal elizabeth. we meet up with professor cloud tournament and we know use research and also are of numerous studies on the topic

portal. nonsense. it's dining co, little historical awareness. sometimes people have, you know, it is in from these, this young people don't feel right when, because they think i have problems. my generation has big problems just getting over to and we kind of going into the economy. the job market is confusing. digitalization is rolling over as we feel we have lost control of our as due to cause it happens to go on up. it's this mix of issues and they need an answer for that team. how do this commission is when tough football can deal? not. but what are the answers offered by the right wing extreme is proving so popular. we attend a dinner party on the wrong and in the netherlands, it's hosted by you all the to the daughter of crew this evening. grandsons arrived twinkies organization. young voters help the right wing populous cam with the most recent parliamentary elections, and then never really lost the country. we re like our history, our identity,

and we like the people here. and we want to go here and it's, it's now becoming less and less. you don't know where your neighbors are anymore. people really talk to each other. most of the people who are members of a party called for him for democracy, they are against the you and the euro. they claim that that's identity must be protected from as long as ation has also invited quite wing populist from other parts of europe. that'd be amazing. hire, i'm senator from spain. striking with how much content to dinner. guest speak about immigrants. the young quite when populist are calling for an ethnically homogeneous society. they reject diversity email the distance fully behind it, even though her parents are courteously together. so they have to integrate to a 100 percent. she tells him promotes her beliefs on social media including

conspiracy theories. ringback it was through social media that she connected with bite wings. ideology even says when we meet for coffee and i'm still i think it's because social media, i'd be more or less afraid of. think what they think because they see a donor people social media are willing to talk about stuff or show stuff or do sports and it's okay to be a man. it's okay to be wides. nowadays, social media plays a crucial role in the political discourse. says close world on the use research from germany heading that the fact that by doing parties upfront and there is, there's tricks that you'll make another tune. the young generation is definitely political and they are guided by their needs and interests. some thoughts i to a high extent young people are present online and communicate this way and this is almost as important to them as the content itself. you know,

and that's why political parties have to have a digital presence degree type, positive side, going digital and offering concrete solutions. we have learned doing our trip across europe. that is, tablets. parties have to take seriously whole young people feel to get them excited to get involved can fashion bring hope to award to a certain country? absolutely. say, mary, i really look and natasha come and scott, they are designers from ukraine. and their inspiration comes from traditional local ad tire, and to be ongoing war. but do entrepreneurs have made quite a name for themselves in the country as well as beyond ukraine's borders? they firmly believe that the clothes they manufacture not only tell a story and to help create jobs, but can also increase morale among those non fighting at the front line. ukrainian made sanction has become a symbol of resistance. as designers to fight

a war the, the creation celebrate life. despite all the pain and offered glimmering of lights and times of despair. of the training and fashion designers, natasha and maria are convinced that session can inspire hope. they combine traditional crossman shift with modern designs. this much now back to the roots were the ones to speak about ukrainian, but in the threatened way into a, you know, as of ways it's going to be understandable for modern people, for a young generation to showcase houses for this. can, you know, be a part of your lifestyle? and it's what we are labeled is a success story. traditional attire for ukraine in farm hands inspired an entire world and felt collection research how to recreate this and recreate it's something

you. it's also resembles, you know, as you want on boys jago looks, etc, but it is all i was before in new brand new and culture as well. but so we would create this is in to, in, in the brain and kind of way. and it's also one of the sellers, so people buy it another great success for the designer. joe, was when a leading actress and the netflix series many empowers or pajamas from the collection. and thereby help the label make its breakthrough in the international fashion, saying that it definitely works as a, you know, brand of a growth of brand awareness. and so we bring in an international markets as well, cuz i remember the times when we started this data and or even a 15 years ago, and no one wanted to coordinate and design and designers. it wasn't a fashion, it wasn't a cold, but the times have changed. despite all the grief and pain around them,

ukrainian women wants to dress well and enjoying life. don, are part of us go, says use to buy mostly for and fashion. it was viewed as something valuable, but since 2022, she started appreciating everything ukraine, which more the 1st of the when i browse the shops, i always end up buying ukrainian sessions. and then when i no longer buy mass, produce goods and all my friends, including many foreigners, are always impressed to they always asked me, where did you find that we put that to socialism screen. so there's no attacks that the class not up to him. it's maybe women who keep the business running the ukrainian economy along with its thousands of jobs depends on the fashion industry . but it to face the serious challenges. power outages and supply bottlenecks to name the most common. we've become stronger, although the war has been going on for 3 years now. and so when they, we always find solutions. despite the difficulties we face the style, we're trying to become more resilient the even though we faced greater difficulties,

commercial guy, mostly it was to it was almost impossible to find trey and stuff at 1st. that was nice. is that with many ukrainian women have returned from abroad, says natasha by symbolism and that so they created new jobs that are now even expanding for should not be. i'm used to having just 13 people for working here and they call in all the this production stuff. it's like more experimental. so then they have a lot of supply these ukrainians are finding joy and to find the war as best they can. whether that's by creating trendy apparel or showing it off the runway norway is one of the world leading oil producers. that's things to people like him beyond a caps that he used to be an oil worker, a job that helped boost his country's economy, but which also took a huge toll on his physical and mental health. beyond it and his former colleagues

worked on an oil rig in the north sea, off the south western city of tap on him, and now they are demanding compensation from the government. in this oil platform is a model in a museum down a cap. start of norway worked on one like it for 20 years. he doesn't have many good memories at that time. of the 1980s, when he and his co workers were happy, truly exposed to toxic substances. i worked on the crane to to the next. they are exhaust fumes from the turbine engines with glass rights and our faces. you'll find them in a tough sometimes. we'd have to come back down after just a few minutes knocking stock. can we believe himself? buick assets are working on the tanks. that was really bad. they have many of us even through up to the longest speed by age 44 cups. so it was unable to work diagnosed with mental disability. now a pensioner,

he can barely remember things quickly overwhelmed even by visitors in his own home vehicle. but i'm always getting busy and i think can they just leave on can should be going to at least see the time. not doing well. that's a little can get very empty. social is for fiano, former oil rake workers like cups that are called pioneers of norway's oil age. southerners oil museum pays tribute to them. in the 19 seventy's and eighty's, they were hired by the state to extract as much oil and gas from the north sea as they could as quickly as possible. but when workers like cups that started asking for compensation for the damage they'd suffered while working there, please fell on deaf ears down on move the whole time. so cold experts were making us feel like we were just pretending on the so it was pretty nasty and now i see that good. well, and not until late 2024 did the majority of norway's parliament vote to compensate

the former oil workers who had been affected by their unsafe working conditions. even so, the government was reluctant, wary of the prospect of a deluge of law suitable since no apologies were forthcoming to the if you still get the money orders from and most of it, i wish to express my things to these people. they were you in shootings, but as prime minister i can only offer an apology in certain cases. some would have to see if i don't wish to do that here either today or no. the opposition accused past governments of prioritizing oil revenues over the health of the oil workers for see the start of our oil age in the 19 seventies and 18. so the government worried that such occurrences might endanger the oil production of the thing. it's good, like a new lesson to make sure we could continue to drill and extract oil. beautiful folks that they didn't want to even get to such thing as a bore lot to lou and discuss them. an issue with the stuff gets worked like enormous and me all the sitting in the north sea. divers did receive compensation

for their occupational impairments, but only after all is good for them. and up let's and, and his colleague world began had suit the norwegian government, in strasburg, syrup and core of human rights. in oil production, the 2 pioneer divers worked as deep as 500 meters below the surface. and then in 2016, the court ruled the incorrect pressure tables for decompression. procedures were to blame for the brain damage they sustained during that time on the over about so many. so i wanted to retrain as an ambulance driver, but when the time came for me to take the test, i shouldn't, i'd forgotten everything. tell me anything to help coordinate to speak on the phone . but then the doctors told me my cognitive deficit to get worse over the years. so both of us at the black some the never in fact clearly has to do with a diving to hit the team. that was all, it was somebody above write down a cop 7 other former oil. rick workers are still waiting to receive compensation

for the damage they've suffered to their health. hundreds of died in the meantime. the survivors say they don't have much time left or ahead. doors should be by suffer from a still processing that does some, it won't end. well, it's a ball that my bones keep getting softer. fee of $8.00. when will i be able to boy, and wish you it's time something happened before. even more of us are gone. yeah, no feel and hopefully have the fund to florida. man, we won't get her health back either way. had some, some do or all those years lost all of the top, or even if the decades of legal wrangling come to an end for piano cop stopped, and others the painful after effects up their work in the north sea will not as long as they live if you have a cat allergy like i do, you may have to be careful when visiting is symbol,

the city is famous for its streets cab so famous in fact, but many consider it the cat's capital of the world. here the fuel lines are unseen astray, but as communal pets and many are known to roam freely in shops and coffee phase. well, some might consider them a new sense. other is like all the to do, i'll go the extra mile to make sure they are cared for. in fact, it's thanks to always the many even have a chance of surviving in the bustling city. as much as the red street cars on tex him square and the sparkling bus for his caps are a large part of the assembles time. they're everywhere in cafe is in front of shops, even on laptops. and the people love their street cats. they build tiny homes for them and take good care of them. so to the nearly 70 year old alley, he's been carrying for some 100 caps for over 30 years now. then some other get it because i can't imagine is stumbled without cons,

getting it. because they gave it to cops, pigeons and dogs are indispensable for the city because they're living proof that people are not alone. does he do over night alley works as an electrician on construction sites by day he's back with a caps because i don't sleep any more than 2 or 3 hours. i think once the cuts are fed unhappy, then i am happy and most of them you will whenever i'm here under climbing around on me, that was, i always feel better in the shelter. he built himself all the give sick animals, special care, you know, he's the voting most of his attention to these kids and they lost their mother ali feed some 5 times a day. the electrician has gained quite a reputation among his human neighbors. many take photos within and leave donations . you'll so shy, they're open, evelyn's lives nearby and calls lead the angel with the cats have a very strong bones with the cat sail most holy like the cows in india. just on the

stumble, we take care of the cots because the true owners of the city gets excited. in autumn and times, most of the houses were wooden, and the cats were needed to help keep the rats and mice it be these days the cookies are not as busy. people see the more as cuddly, little friends than us hunters. ali sees the more as his children. i see myself as the father and with a good 100 children. papa ali has lots to do and even if they can't tell him, i'm sure he knows that his cats are very grateful to have such a caring father. well, that report from if the bull brings us to the end of today's show, thanks for being with us. don't forget to follow us on social media. so you don't miss any of our reporting about the people and politics of europe. my name is let's show by and see next time

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