Inland its designed to link the baltic sea in the north with the black sea in the south the idea is to create another global passageway through Eastern Europe and also to give better rules which is a landlocked Country Access to the sea. But environmental activists like constantine chick a lot of are saying the e 40 will impact 11 nature reserves in belarus and lead to the straightening of the pripyat river described as one of europes last wild river. This might look like a casual boat trip but for constantine she colored its a protest for the river gets this is the 3rd year the chairman of the belorussian Environmental Organization has organized canoe tours like this one his goal is to show people here the unspoiled nature along the river and to demonstrate against the 40 waterway which could be built here constantine has been protecting nature and wildlife around him since he was a child. Then asked the company for as the purpose it is like a european version of the amazon river. This place is unique because people can come here and see what rivers used to look like what nature in europe was like once. And if we can preserve these large areas of wild nature we are also helping to keep the ecological balance on the european continent along. The efore the waterway would cut straight through 11 nature reserves and the activists say it could destroy a unique ecosystem the canal is supposed to connect the baltic sea with the black sea its route goes through the socalled police one of the last big wetland areas in europe with rare black alder forests 90 percent of the birds and bellow bruce live here including endangered species some animals nest directly on the untouched banks. This time the canoe route stretches for 35 kilometers mainly along wild sections of the river which would have to be dug out to allow commercial traffic in some of the tributaries even canoes have to go slow on the way the group stops several times in villages on the river. To talk to locals about the planned waterway. Often people in the villages only have limited sources of information can be one of those sources for them so that they dont only get information from state media but also hear a different opinion. And then they can decide for themselves what they want the rivers infrastructure to develop what they want to protect the environment around them and keep it healthy. With us they are. The river has always been the center of life in the villages like so far no one here has heard of the planned 40 waterway but some locals are quick to welcome anything that could give the regions economy a push. The waterway would be good for us boats used to go to ukraine from here as well. There was a lot of traffic on the river. With of course it has a negative effect on the environment and that would be burnt. So there isnt much water here anymore used to be able to fish now the rivers drying off more and more. Let them tell that things will get more civilized there will be more people things will be exciting and we can take a trip all the way to the black sea. The government is still looking for investors for the waterway a final decision on the east 40 project or its construction hasnt been reached which is why the belorussian transport ministry cancelled an interview with us at the last minute but the chairman of the Trans NationalExpert Commission on the eve 40 project highlights the advantages of transporting cargo on the water he says its better for the environment and routes over land or at full capacity already infrastructure. Those not a structure has to be developed in order for the surrounding region to the benefits. Of using the potential of the river for the good of the people. Its the main task of the government is. Day 2 of the canoing campaign for many of the participants its the 1st time on this tour during breakfast and at the campfire constantine can share his concerns about the efore he waterway with them hes convinced that bella ruse should be investing in eco tourism rather than in cargo on the river peak it. Just when you will miss out on some people dont think about leaving these spots untouched by simply leaving them to nature itself. Someone. To just sit down peacefully just like this and simply watch to hear the birds singing or watch things slowly changing the thought of them by your clock so its only. The activist warns that the construction of the canal could dry out the wetlands here just like when the swamps were drained for large scale soviet Agriculture Programs the riverbed would have to be deepened to allow big ships to pass the people at river flows through areas that were contaminated by the chernobyl reactor disaster for constantine thats just another reminder to heed the lessons of the past otherwise the creek it could become another example of an ambitious economic project with catastrophic consequences for the natural world. Now life people sometimes say its a long story and that certainly appears to be true in bowl garia the poorest country in the European Union more and more people there are becoming lottery tickets buying up millions of socalled scratch cards so lets go to the village of turk and shaver oh and i always drive from the capital sofia where we meet some of the local residents who have little hope of escaping grinding poverty and woman called her off who did actually strike lucky. About 50 kilometers east of sofia lies the Tiny Mountain village of she cant at 1st glance it looks like belich a 2nd glance reveals the abject poverty. Only about 300 people live here. If you will go after those who like is hard because our pensions are small now it is a good full what can we do with these little pension because you could. We can travel the most and we cant do anything if youre used to the slaughter. There are hardly any jobs here the only ray of hope many of these people see is the national lottery. The scratch cards with the promise of winnings that would lift them out of poverty all they need is a bit of luck. So you have all watched you argue lazaroff is the village hero in 2018 he won the equivalent of 50000 euros with a single scratch card hes to counterpose only big prize winner so far. The. Look of most little i play because theres nothing else. Theres nothing in a country no laws. The truth lies no lottery is the only real chance if you win youre somebody but its not silly you know its thats all there is to it. So your gay sister paid sells the scratch cards shes an avid player herself. That the bit that i spend the equivalent of 50 euros a month on cards but ive never won more than 75. 00. Was the cards cost from 3 to 10 euros apiece not exactly pocket change in a country where the monthly wage seldom exceeds 300 euros but i some people give up quickly when they dont want anything. Its a scam but in 100 cards you might find one or 2 with 5 euro winnings and thats all they are just scamming people out of their money just as she is for example the new Games Company in sofia. Bulgarians are inundated with their ads promising instant riches whether on the street on the internet or on t. V. As a big winner to got to be a Television Star for a day go for your little very well for fools gold off the trusty portable before. New games is owned by a bulgarian businessman. The director is to meet again if 57 percent of bulgarians play the lottery and in 2017 the company sold 100000000. 00 tickets but none of the revenue goes towards social causes as its mandatory in every other each country even so gahn of sees him self as a philanthropist thats the key of course relax positivity in every sense we can give people positive feelings and help them have fun getting news that it is due in that i really cant understand who anyone can get addicted just from buying a few scratch cards to try their luck. Thats why they call it that. Psychologist plan and dimitrov disagrees he has no doubt that gambling addiction among spog ariens is a problem. The grease the laundry is the stock market of poor desperate people who are just mashed if they had a different Socio Economic status theyd be investing in other things my god the effects almost home from the young people. Ive seen children using their lunch money to buy tickets so late so good it is a. Jackpot winner georg luck didnt last long. He bought a house for his young family but recently he lost his job as an auto mechanic. Now he worries that hell have to sell the house to get by. I was so happy to listen to it it was a great satisfaction because michael i thought of one so much it was such a big deal. I thought it accomplished so much but things didnt work out that way in reality i ran out of money again pretty fast. Pensioner guarisco dimitrov has never won anything at all. But he still spends about half his meager pension on scratchcards. He and his wife dream of visiting their daughter in germany some day for at least a month they cant stop playing now. Because theyre in the good is that the least you could say munich annoyed that wonderful consul in the alps and spend 30 days there and feel like moment people surprised at the trick. Dreams die hard in the village of to catch. Wealth remains scarce in bulgaria but the scratch cards reach even the remotest of places. And zookeeper an eye on bogus areas neighbors georgia and moldova are itll be interesting to see how things go there when those 2 countries introduce scratchcards as they both plan to do now its impossible to really imagine what its like for children to live through war but objects like an old swing might perhaps evoke the trauma that young boys and girls have faced which is why the wall of Childhood Museum in the bosnian capital sarajevo has collected old books and goals for instance as well as personal testimonies from children who can now as other olds still remember the desperate days of the bosnian war in the 1990 s. And minimalize men of h. Is among those who has a story to tell and her memories go back to the day when the war came right up to her front door. Bullet holes and shrapnel the marks left by the war on the building in mena had to flee are still visible. More than 25 years have passed since the tanks suddenly appeared beneath her window. And what i could see in my fathers eyes that something bad was happening. That the national. I mean i was 8 years old about the age of the girl who lives here now when the enemy soldiers came her Parents Center along with their neighbors who fled to croatia the same day. Chuckles when the body and i want them. We waited for night to fall a lot and i packed a few things. I had a backpack and i remember that my teddy bear kept me company on the back where we kids were sitting with full wallets and. What was meant to be a few days away from the fighting turned into years i mean it made it to germany. And although her host family welcomed her with open arms she was homesick she wanted to return to sarajevo even as the war was still raging. But for that she needed her passport in the rush her parents had forgotten to give it to her. The passport she was issued as a replacement it was very different. Thats about some of the hot potato misstated my date of birth. That was all i knew at the time. I didnt have any papers with me when i left syria to a few things were missing from the passport to element that in particular my complete id number did they not dash this is the passport i came home with but. Solving postulate without outlets like with. The war Childhood Museum in sarajevo has collected thousands of pieces including i mean his passport. Every exhibit represents a childs story that the museums founder. Has collected. Originally conceived as a book project its become a prize winning Museum Concept that setting an example for the world. I thought the childrens perspective wasnt getting enough potential for disaster and i wanted to change that theres only i wanted to document the experiences of children whose lives were shaped by what you thought it was about. An essential aspect of the museums work is to educate visitors about peace. More than 5000. 00 children and teenagers come to the museum every year. Some are looking for their own parents stories. Children back then didnt have what we do we didnt have any toys. In the freedom. That were locked up at home with no food or water even on ronnie w. On your body but we put some more dont list my 1st time heading and i see a lot of emotion this lots of sadness but also the happy moments people experience during the war version of the rat to. The exhibitions tell not only stories of war but of survival as well i mean i knew immediately that she wanted to be a part of the project she came across her old passport at home. What a lot to be maybe i had it for myself so i wouldnt give it away but not as a reminder. But when the museum started off i really wanted to be a part of it is the right place to preserve my memories yes to get to the to what i thought models from and. News media is still full of the politicians nationalist rhetoric people seem to be getting tired of it they dont want to see a revival of the conflict between bosnians and serbs. But also suppose i saw. The exhibits and stories come from all over bosnia im happy that reports about the museum in the country have been positive for quite rare for projects about the course about the about them and. I mean those hoping for a Better Future for herself and her family her husband been working in germany for 2 years now soon she and her children will be joining him near hamburg where she had lived as a refugee. Now people across europe are slowly waking up to the fact that we might only avoid a Global Climate catastrophe if we drastically reduce emissions of Carbon Dioxide now that in turn means phasing out coal fired power stations sooner rather than later greece is still heavily dependent on lignite coal for itself actress a generation and in the countrys northern coal mining heartland around the village of a creamy people like apple store liz kelly and it is well tell you that the industry might be dirty but they give people what they want most which is jobs. This is one of the 5 old power plants in the coal mining region of northern greece. 33 year old apple stole a scullion neatest works as a blaster and a local open cast mind that belongs to the state run Electricity Company. His father works there too he operates an excavator and even his grandfather used to work in the mine. Today apostol s. And his colleagues are setting up explosive charges he earns 1200. 00 euros per month not much with 2 kids to feed but hes grateful to be employed because 70 percent of young people here are jobless this is the largest mine in the balkans 4 villages had to be demolished to make way for it including his own. You know what its like if they did this work is very important for us that means we can feed our families that a lot of people are employed here and almost all of them have family us a big. Story its a father of 3 who farms and rears livestock here in the village of a creamy. But the fields that once belonged to his ancestors are now owned by the state Electricity Company. In 2011 they were legally obliged to resettle him. But they refused to pay for the resettlement and the reason was because theres no coal underneath their village the residents feel betrayed. I my fellow gumbo when they take off youll farmers they might as well take up village to 90 percent of people here off almas sure some villages work for the Electricity Company but what about the other 90 percent. After putting back up what you thought it. Was. 8 years ago the Company Bought his fields 440000 euros. This means he now has to lease Agricultural Land so he can grow crops to feed his cows. Skeptical man i mean sometimes i think about giving up but making the 1st difficulty of my age im 54 and have 3 kids. And a lot. Dimitrios coal fired power plant is located right beside me village despina works here shes married to the mine blaster apostol us she makes just 620. 00 euros a month on a fixed Term Contract but hopes to become permanent. If they would survive the company is a lifeline for many people. The entire region depends on coal mining. For generations thousands of families from this area have worked for the company. In 2950 percent of greek electricity was produced using like night but today it makes up less than 30 percent. We depend on coal. And it really worries me to think about what would happen if we stopped using ignite or limit on my. Because of the economic crisis the e. U. Wants greece to privatized parts of its state run Electricity Company. Many countries and investors are now moving away from coal and europe has created financial deterrents. You fines for high emissions have tripled over the past 2 years. Its making the coal and profitable as electricity source. To lift the. Dark clouds of coal dust hang over a creamy. Because this village suffers from this environmental pollution and they fear theyll never be resettled. He says the municipality no longer invests anything in the neglected village and morale here is very low were going to have a lot particularly our water is polluted and old and contaminate. Nobody does anything to improve nobody cares and we keep drinking this water. Out of the ground. You know my. Family have since gained access to fresh Drinking Water they were moved to another village located 25 kilometers from the mine where they work. For them the Mining Industry still remains a blessing. Well everybody has heard of bull fights but what about fights where cows quite literally go head to head with each other well the battle of the queens a staged annually and switzerlands violate cantle draws thousands of spectators but in what is after all a famously peace loving country we join council breeders join clubs or bring in to find out just how he responds when one of his big beasts makes it perfectly clear that shes not up for a scrap. Day thomas big day or rather its her breeders big day. Thats going to switzerland whole weigh in before entering the ring is an impressive 672 kilograms some time a is a helen scout powerful and aggressive. Santanas mother has won prizes at the National Level twice. And she came with 2 if shes in good shape on the day when the. Dog is 40. It also depends on how the competition performs a miracle is one of the favorites and could be a big threat to some time and. She won a prize here last year as a strong line there shes a very good cow shes proved that already at this show and gets. The 1st cows are already fighting. All of their instincts to form a hierarchy no cowards forced to fight but if they choose not to fight 3 times or they lose 3 times their elimination. Fight is a traditional spectacle. That the animal show during the fights are simply amazing. Its great its a fight but the injuries. Around 120 cows are going to fight today finally some tanner is called to the big ring but today she seems to have other plans shes not up for a fight and to make matters worse is the other thing for miracle that wants to fight santana. Was hoping for. To quickly get his cattle to be. Some thomas well being this is top priority but he still deeply disappointed. I wasnt in the mood for fighting. When i brought her over its better to take a. The family stays to watch the final fights anyway. Ive described the show that hurts a little but thats the life of a cattle breeder. The favorite takes the title after all theres no prize money but the new queen is presented with a beautiful bell. And thats all from focus on europe this time around thanks so much for joining us and to come back next week until then bye bye thousands of troops. Cut. Cut cut cut. Cut cut. Cut cut cut. Cut. Cut cut cut. Center of the conflict zone confronting the powerful Music National criminal courts was in new enemy in washington to trumpet ministration is accused of having no legitimacy and says he wants it to my guest this week here in the hague is choosing a couple sujit lose me president spoke of the i. C. C. 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