to do musicians who lives in the savannah office, austin film about the sounds of power and inspiring story about the volume music under the swastika starts may 25th on dw, the a one. welcome to this week's focus on europe with me live show. thanks for joining us today. the russian strong man is holding on tightly to power, letting me a put in has been sworn in as president to serve another 6 year term. for 10 has ruled russia for 25 years now. the country has since moved away from democracy and the rule of law. there are no free elections was in 2022 under put into russia,

invaded ukraine in an escalating move of the russia ukraine. currently it seems as if nothing can break pretends grip on power, since the mysterious death of his most prominence critic, i'll explain of all me in a russian jail, the opposition has been left without a strong leader. but recently, of all these widow usually on the phone, my eye has vowed to step into her late husband shoes and to continue his legacy. many members of the russian opposition have fled the country. him 19 year old natalia in berlin is among those who have joined the fight against pretends autocratic rule, while in exile. natalia wants to make it clear that she's against lot of mean pollution. the stickers that she distributes around de leon when she's living in exile, could land her in jail if she,

if it goes back to russia. how does it feel to be a russian national traitor? pollution has just been sworn in again as president. is ruled russia for almost 25 years, and it's becoming increasingly authoritarian. that's one of the reasons why natalia left and many of the russians. we want space for usher of on democracy for russia and we want reach us, wants people to leave. and freedom is not be afraid of them to get them jail, natalia, and of the supporters of the late russian or position liter alexei novel name on a mission in the. now i think we have the responsibility to stop. it's before fusion wants to like blow up the cold war. the new great faith of many young russians is nevada and these widowed julia, novelle. now, they started following her up to his unexplained this and assigned between present

kemp the with you you. yeah, thank you for continuing your husband's mission. he gave us hope now it's coming back with you. in berlin and in brussels, novelle now has been campaigning tirelessly for most sanctions to be imposed on russian connotations with loyal to pollution and, and prophecy abroad. no problem, these opposition network has compiled a list of 7000 politicians to target. his widow wants to exhibit economic and political pressure from exile the way just raised one day, very soon the gym and develop the team has launched an awareness rising campaign in

exile. good evening. my name is natalia, i'm from a russian cooling service. do you have some time for me to go because it is pronounced on? if it's correct, go ahead. no, i need to. thank you very much. from natalia calls, people in russia. talk to them about the war in ukraine, it's victims and because we're watching, if there was enough, but we are very tacitly against the russian government, which i knew many of them might never have been confronted with a different opinion with augusta. we wanted to make them sing, and we've been looking at her was 36. it's painstaking and demon knows this too many or afraid to because anyone who criticizes the russian army in the war and ukraine risks going to jail for several. he is what city do you live in? chicago and my color is or just go through that was

a young woman, dougherty. i started talking to her, but then her husband came and said, we're not interested. before that she said she was worried about and medical care and the special operations and the most timing is kind of a huge but also to to and calls this lower progression ukraine, a special operation a although he's no longer alive, the young people are inspired by positions best known rival, alexi, nevada, may or may be why it's your store. one must not give us the only thing necessary for the trying for people. it's for the good people to do nothing. so do not do nothing and certainly they continue to act. it would be great if there were no need to put up the stickers if there were no war and no present. if russia had taken the different paths a long time ago, the whole. but what happened can not be undone. you mean the name

julia nevada. nadia is the new icon of the opposition. many hope that she will be able to unite those who are willing to fight for free russia. but they too will have to take action this year a d, w will honor union of all my uh with the freedom of speech award. a living in a costa town. sounds like a dream for many, for example, and would stumble in britain. it would just wake up and go for a swim before having your 1st cup of tea buds. catherine chapman who lives there knows that the reality is far from it. village. she and fellow residents have to put up with sewage water that's polluting the coast dining moods and slowing down businesses in the small fishing town which still appears to be in a delicacy site, tired, just an hour and

a half east of london. that's why the small beach out to your go for the equivalent of about $70000.00 euros each. there's just one snag. it's sometimes really smells here. whenever it rains heavily, the water company's dump ro effluent into the harbor, which then ends up in the sea. this is a huge problem for locals such as graham west who farms the titans famous oysters. this incredible amount of release has maybe told me vines, and indeed yourself may just stay on the fisherman house with that with me just now . when i'm looking to move he can no longer sell. there's always there's directly because they have to be clean for at least 72 hours. first, he uses an upstream filter to disinfect the sea water and flush it, the fecal residues from the oysters is a massive amount of work. which means more money

coming off these days, it's $5000.00 a week maximum. so he won't survive in the long run. he's, here's the situation is even worse on the beach. these little hats may appear rather innocent. but the show where the hidden pipes are that the privatized water companies used to dump excrement into the sea when the sewage system is overloaded. quite legally. 8 and katherine are members of a local group that wants to change this, the inspect the pipes regularly. they say that what's your company's or what am i supposed to do this and exceptional cases? if it's been raining heavily, then we, we expect a release. but those licenses will, will create to them. they can expect to be able to,

would need to release about 8 times a year, which i mean, that happens within a couple of weeks here. even today, when the weather is fine, there was a smelly problem. liquid dripping out of the pipe. a little way for the previous 56. there was some way to pay those folks that come along with them. but it's not high tide. when things get really messy when sewage discharges will go on notice. but all over england, protest groups are posting duties such as this from which the book and some will charge. occasionally, the companies are fine, but they can deal with this in 2023 alone. there were 400000 official discharges of sewage into rivers and coastal waters of england. i'm this is all happening on an island where many people swim whatever the weather

to like this group of women. who since the pandemic have met regularly on the beach to maintain their physical and mental well being, they see that cold water can help against anxiety and arthritis if i just take the risk, the risk is with the payoff. oh, yeah. well, i didn't put my mouse in it. i know i haven't got sick from his wife and they go to today. the temperature is only 9 degree celsius. the the wilder warming of they talk about their feelings of powerlessness, but also about their sense of resilience. as the water companies have said,

it will take years to repair the pipes. so these women have find ways to adapt these waters on clean and you get a cold light, doesn't just sit there for 20, for a bulk. they can sit and festering causal kinds of long time problems in the cup, and it can keep your car in. so you have to think about everything my customer, my dose is getting married. i have to make sure i don't have a swim because i don't want to do but there are some women in which the goals were not willing to accept the situation. for example, elaine, there's no refusing to pay for her watch her bill. as far as on the fence, i paid them, i'm old enough to pay for $2.00 bills since privatization they go, the company is free and that free we have paid for them to create our water and they have not done it. they have just dump it in the c illegally. so there's too much of a package from open so far she is one of the few to take such a radical step. but she says she's had enough,

especially as the bills are due to go up drastically. i don't ever been able to to go to prison. no, i definitely don't want my belongings taken away, but it's worth it. we can make a difference. we all making a difference. it's not enough, but it's changing. and if we did it, you see what we would do. we would be the the circle of active resistors is still small, a local artist as a right to the concrete monument to them on the beach. but once the anger sits in it sticks, and what these angry people want is for the water companies to be b nationwide. apps usually they type, i think deserve any compensation because they've already have they've already have only dividends that the amount that they're in debt from the enough time to move out to the amount of defense that they have been paid. i think were even implementing money from the most fundamental things about why should not be

since the 19 ninety's private, walter operators of peter over 70000000000 euros to their shareholders. and the country is literally sinking to the month. it will be decades before people can pay the game with a warranty or even if the state were to take over the healing system, it would still be tax peers who would suit most of the bill the and if you're scared of heights, then some parts of our next report might make you feel a bit. i'm easy. we are traveling with the world steepest cable railway and it's taking us all the way up the ups to the swift village of stores. wild torres get to enjoy a breathtaking view. the cable railway has also become

a source of renewable energy, much to the life of hotel manage my sudden noise house, who was fascinated by this green cost saving power source. it's the steepest particular round way in the world, the stool spawn at some thoughts. the incline is as much as a 110 percent from sheets. it brings people up to the store. ski slopes at 1300 mates. it's because of the steep slope because have to break hard. this generates energy, which is now being put to good use. there is so much energy in fact, that it's enough to heat the new hotel next door. the technical term for this kind of energy is recruit, perceive energy. engineer renee cool, explains the principal. in the railways engine room. we think yeah, the gulf or we can see the entire drive train. when the train starts, energy is needed to pull the car up, the steep slope in the middle,

the cars meet. this is the tipping point from then on one car pulls the other. this means that the electric motor, 1st draws power and then release is that halfway up the avenue, the energy that the hotel right next door can use, like with a hot water heater, electricity heats the water launch water tanks in the basement to use to store the thermal energy, the fact that the hotel is located right next to the railroad is ideal for the back be the short distance. that means less heat loss so that the pores in terms of the construction being so close and i was much less straightforward required to connect being the hatch, the now the hot water flows and all the hotels, 100 rooms and in the kitchen, the manager of the hotel must sell more. house is quiet place to have the energy from the finished killer to heat its hotel, especially in times of high energy prices. made on the on the bill. with the stores spun, we have the opportunity to buy electricity at a reduced price. uh,

how no matter the money we spend to go straight back to the store spun with get expedited on the stalls ball and the guns. so it stays here in the community. we have a circular economy, a in a very small space for us. it's a perfect fit and who handles the fairies? both is also down in switzerland, many hotels and restaurants on the mountain stations and have high demands for energy. so the potential for similar projects, this huge, according to engineer vanelle from the sun university of applied sciences and of the sustainable idea could easily be replicated elsewhere. i don't know of the, you know, the know he's nice that from the system is not very complicated, but it does require a good chord nation between cable card technology and building technology. and once this is in place, it is possible to rely some great projects and escape gave. it needs to come on the for the whole year. the offered license by calling stores with the newly built stool slow. and we welcome it's 1st guess. next week,

the manager to show that everyone who's stable that can have a nice hot shower and a clear conscience, even if it's a long one, police probably will show was thanks to the mountain railroad. the idea of looks. after all, there's no way around breaking on the steepest round way in the world. anyone who's ever been to turkey is probably very familiar with this switch trade circus. the lights locally known as low come in does the on tip of close to the border with syria. one of the producers of low come has become quite successful and will show mom is proud of the business she's been able to build. some of is one of many syrians who found a new home and does he on to, after the civil war in syria, forced them to give up everything. a simple do of water sugar and starch garnished with a pistachio. and there you have it. the famous turkish delight or look home. and so

with this look home shop is based in turkey. its owner is syrian and they'll show on the flat the civil war to the turkish border, tired of garcia and to 10 years ago. and then and i have, i learned the basics of low comb production from my grandfather and here i refund to the process. my children will continue this tradition. god willing. today's sharma export her look home all over the world. an unusual success story among the more than 3000000 syrian refugees and turkey, 430000 of them live in jersey on tip alone. that's almost $1.00 and $4.00 of the cities inhabitants. in some areas, syrian businesses dominate the streets. but most syrians here work illegally in factories and construction women and paid employment, or uncommon m a sharma, something of

a role model. her look home business was the 1st female lead refugee startup. in syria. she was a housewife habit and then i come and have i wanted to continue the tradition of local making in turkey. but i realized i needed support when i found this kind of, i was finally able to open my own business from any of the other stuff. michelle husky, that support came from germany. the state run, cuz they'll shut off the internet to another to them. and all right, for g, i said for short, give sharma a micro lose and gas the on to pollute and similar programs of health over $500.00 syrians to become self employed from the bottom line. for we are covering all the legislation fees. second, we all provide me with the complexity of the individuals who are supporting wanting to be just about missing. do we just full so, so for the day of culminating, for instance, almost trauma,

she also provide jump opportunity for her community. so there are many students also working here, but there is also resentment among turkish residents towards the city and refugees . the economic crisis, unemployment, high inflation and rising. rents are all contributing factors while maintaining the members there's, i feel like a refugee in my own city bank and affiliated wherever you look. there are syrians everywhere and then about something that's in the state case, more about them than about us. that's why there's so much discontent and negative sentiment. the government too, is aware of the growing discontent. the burden on the cities administration is substantial. that's why funds from germany are a welcome sight. yeah, it is a party to meet the institution support like to is it? and we are trying to, to create the social cohesion without any problems the,

the resources, the has limited. but the needs a lot that's different for and know shall not living on someone else's dime, was always out of the question that but despite her successful business, she faces substantial obstacles as a refugee here. you know, it's been a while. i can't just go to a business meeting or a trade for and if you thought of it, because we're not allowed to leave the city without the permits. so just to let us know, the bus will be able to go to doris and the 1st we have to get permission from the immigration office of all the videos. unlike many other syrians, and they'll show i'm a never considered fleeing further west. the old time they've got to the end type reminded her of a letter to her hometown, but being so close yet so far weighs heavily on her or so. even if i return to my country,

i probably wouldn't find the same people the same atmosphere as before. i'm afraid every single have changed. a timely return seems i took the question at the moment, but the new beginning in turkey has been successful with a little help from europe. this next star, a blue my mind completely because it shows you just how much technology can bring people together. lee most is a german boy who currently can't physically go to class due to an illness like doing it. this little guy allows, he knows to always stay connected to his fellow students to lessons in class and school life in general. but how exactly does it work? let's find out. hello, latest. good. that you've joined us. we've assigned you to a group already. that gives it ok, let's get started. i will see. thank you. this is lena overall, the his bro bought the device has enabled the 7th grader to participate in lessons

from home while he's sick. he's been doing this for the past 6 months. and i've songs todd last in the beginning when i will participate and it was a real adrenalin rush. i mean cake on this. well, it was scary because i was afraid of seeing something wrong with that one. so it was because it was new for me. i don't live on a because a connection might be bad just as little, so i'm just now it's just become everyday life. one next is biology group which, which proves to be quite the challenge. he controls the camera via truck pad, but the technology doesn't always play alone. disclose internet connection is unstable. the transmission hit and miss. uh yes, let me see. uh if this does not also have to log out again on the the image, bruce, please us. but the split, the old, he topped the ro bought, has been a big help. homeschooling was a little trickier with the office the. and if he didn't enjoy doing his work on

no, did he understand why you'd have to be that way? it's quite different when a teacher can talk to the children directly. when children can do group work together, what are the it's a lot more fun with than just sitting alone in front of a book. i learned from the defect to the house and long some, and lena's had to stay home during the covered 19 pandemic. his avatar was financed by a gym and heart disease charity because going back to school much or exist him to come in, she can walk slowly on level ground, but climbing stairs is difficult investment. and since there's no elevator at school, he has to go really slowly on like goal for another big problem is running. well, i'm looking for simply the stress of having to change the classrooms and climb the stairs done to. that's why the avatar is just great. i don't have the hassle of changing classrooms, they send the stuff, allow me to tom and,

and lead us as friends, even take the road, but to recess every now and then. the avatar is not only supposed to keep children like lena's in the classroom. it's also about keeping him in touch socially. yeah, absolutely. yeah, yeah, i'll send you my address and this for me, i've the, it just feels more like i'm actually there. then if i was on 0, right, new contact at home meeting the, feels much more like actually going to school the screen on the as them mission. that feeling might just become a reality. lenise has medication is working so well in fact that he's right, but may soon be able to be the one to stay home. well that brings us to the end of this week focused on here of thank you so much for watching . remember to follow us on social media, so you don't miss any of us stories from across europe. i'm gonna show by end of

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