The 1200 year old city has reached its breaking point and to make matters worse the disaster in italy could have been prevented a decades old project to build a flood barrier has failed to materialize its over budget overdue and plagued by allegations of corruption residents have long complained that the. For profit tourism has left a mark on the fragile city with 30000000. 00 tourists coming every year well the mayor has blamed the flooding on Climate Change but architect cristiana says the disaster is manmade he fears that it may soon be too late to stop venice from going under. 83 year old venetian Christiana Gaspar eto has experienced numerous floods in his lifetime. But the kind of prolonged flood his hometown is currently enduring is a whole different league. Together with other locals christiana has started protesting on a nearby square against what they call the real reasons of the disaster. This is a manmade catastrophe if we can blame bad weather all strong winds for this. This plant is the result of our own structural interventions over the past decades. Christiana has dedicated his life to the preservation of venice but its a losing battle. This book shop for example got flooded and now everything is ruined. This is christianas the latest construction site when it flooded the water rose to almost half a meter. Now he will have to move the Power Sockets further up the walls in case of a similar disaster which. The architect knows only too well what damage flooding causes to historical bill. Things like this former medieval tower. Yelling the salt water gets into the walls and the salt crystallizes expands in volume and bursts the Building Materials siegel yeah. And thats why we see red powder along break walls off to every fountain the video at all said. The flood has spared nothing the citys iconic st marks square has been inundated for days. Likewise st marks basilica and unesco World Heritage site its precious floor mosaics covered in salt water likewise the crypt which had just been restored at great costs. But some locals are convinced the city could been better prepared for floods like these. Just happy kristen alley a retired urban Development Professor accuses politicians and public administrators of systematically ruining venice by taking wrong decisions. Going forward this is disheartening. For the past 50 years ago nothing has been done to preserve venice this is due to its own ship and there was lots of talk and plenty of money spent and nothing has changed. All his life mr Christopher Lee has called for more research into the nation lagoon a unique ecosystem that for centuries had been able to absorb and cope with floods. But in recent decades this ecosystem has shrunk by a 3rd due to the construction of industrial sites port facilities and artificial islands. Water flowing in from the adriatic sea now builds up in the lagoon and streams into venice much quicker because waterways have been deep into so that the huge crew ships can enter the city. For almost 20 years. As the city has been working on mobile barriers to protect venice almost 7000000000 euros were spent on the project which still hasnt been completed. The city therefore has no functioning flood protection something that makes locals like Christiana Gaspar red oh livid. Rid of the media out of more than 1000000000. 00 euro in bribes were paid to get the project through because it is apparently so misguided that all the off artists who had to approve it had to be paid off it will be when all that he put in the steel door. He says the rise of global sea levels makes flooding increasingly likely. The system of mobile barriers would provide it ever became operational cut off the venetian lagoon from the sea for months but they will be taking them with the barriers in place no more water would flow out of the lagoon 81 municipalities and the Agricultural Sector all pump their waste water into it. Are some of it is chemically contaminated and would collect them. And that would pose a huge environmental problem for the city a grim prospect. So for now volunteers are working hard to protect the citys Historic Sites like here at the church of the kamini because its only a matter of time until the next flood. For many Asylum Seekers in germany is their last hope when deportation is imminent taking refuge in a church or monastery well the parish just see it as their duty to help people like come on from iraq hes been holed up in a bavarian monastery and learns to live freely well Church Asylum is a centuries old tradition in germany but it has no legal basis immigration authorities and many politicians are growing increasingly wary of the practice and are putting pressure on the churches. Herman is ready to help whenever sister geraldine calls for him today its gardening the daily labor at the monastery helps the young iraqi izzy to get his mind off the fear of being deported. According to e. U. Agreements he would have to go back to remain here as thats where he entered the e. U. But he claims to have been abused by the romanian police. I wish i could leave the monastery premises as a free human being without fearing that a police would arrest and deport me immediately to the how man and 5 other refugees were granted Church Asylum in the Dominican Monastery here theyre safe for the time being the nuns provide food shelter and they give german lessons every afternoon. Orange. For the. Previously rejected Asylum Seekers like carmen who sought refuge in a church almost always had a childs for a 2nd hearing but recently the federal authorities rejects nearly all such applications but. Since Church Asylum regulations were tightened last year sister geraldine often doesnt know how long the refugees have to stay to be safe from deportation and sometimes she has to turn down refugees seeking help its an Asylum Seekers came here broken and devastated lying before me crying and i had to say we havent got enough space there are too many i thought oh my god this is hell. I wont be able to carry on. Her engagement is viewed with skepticism by politicians in berlin like thorsten fly who deals with domestic policy Church Asylum will be respected and police force wont be used to get refugees out of Church Asylum but lorna spaces wont be tolerated. As Church Asylum is just an additional right for reviewing cases its completely wrong to think that such requests by parishes are medically approved that would be absolutely unacceptable and contradict the rule of law absolute mist are so popular. This points pressure on sister geraldine shes contacting other parishes that offer Church Asylum there are about 450 in germany. Together they want to resist a new rule which requires refugees to live on Church Grounds for at least 18 months to avoid deportation thats the deadline for deportation to another e. U. Member state. Indeed isnt leave when they receive this letter their deadline has been extended to 18 months most of them fall into a deep hole. That also had people say im leaving im going to another country some fall into a long period of depression d. I think its a shame that in a constitutional democracy we need to grant Church Asylum to so many people at the moment mistakes happen recently a judge told me we judges are infallible in need Church Asylum as it acts as a humanitarian corrective. Harmon has to keep waiting in the monastery but his brother has been granted asylum and can go to school in a neighboring town whenever harmon speaks to his family in iraq hes worried 5 years ago around 7000 women and children were enslaved by the Islamic State in iraq many of his years e. D. Relatives were killed. By my uncle 2 i cant go back to korea iraq. Your sister geraldine wants to stand her ground shes adamant that harmon and the other refugees are staying in the monastery until a solution is found. Maxim is whatever you do to the least of my brothers so you do and to me we always say that we live according to the gospel and this is the Practical Application practice because its no. Harm on isnt christian but he keeps being drawn to the monasteries chapel out of gratitude and admiration hes aware that without the sisters and their strong belief he might not be in germany anymore. Norway is home to one of the most unique Education Systems in europe children only receive marks after the 7th grade and are to students are given free laptops while norway often achieves top results in International Education rankings the government goes to Great Lengths to ensure all children receive a good education no matter where they live and in a place with mountains fiords and islands like on the hell of year archipelago in the far north and getting to school can be a challenge for pupils like erlend also but despite the long commute he always gets to class on time. Life can be pretty isolated here in how they fear north of the Arctic Circle the norwegian mainland is almost an hour away by boat. Boasts just 100. 00 residents a kiosk and a school for 16 children today its Something Special instead of math or music they learn how to be rescued on the high seas. Jacqueline and her brother erlend know this could come in handy but you dont know if youre on a boat and something happens and you need to know what to do my baby think because we live on a neighboring island we take the boat every day but you just get paid for. It 1st its my 1st time im excited. It takes up to an hour for the children to get to school each day they travel on the little ferry without their parents. Even on days like today when the sea is rough and its icy cold outside. Its pretty clear when the waves so big i get scared i dont like atlanta boat a rock speck and force she said after. The journey to school can be perilous also pitcher us. Doing this so we all get to know the equipment will release the mind for off soon and then its your time. Working with a little. These children learn to become independent at an early age so that they can help themselves in case of an emergency here theyre lining up for school but quite literally for life. Almost half an hour later they reach heavy air where their school is located the 1st to 10th graders are usually divided up into groups like today for english class and then on to as im in a class with older kids a year older talk and learn from them. The 16 pupils. Instructed by 4 teachers and the principal you know what. I know its a big expense for the municipality but it pays off young families stay in how adhere rather than move away from school x. As a youth center to our linear misery there arent any other families where we live so doing things with others is lots of fun. A game of tag keeps boredom at bay and norwegian waffles are always a tasty treat. But one would be better to be home schooled and not have to take the ferry every day. No i couldnt do that that would be really done i look around i need to have these people around me. Along with the 3 r. s the pupils also learn social skills and how to have fun with other children. It was. Then erlend in the sister returned home to me that i dont know theyre the only children who live on this island. So after School Animals are their main playmates. This is snowball my rabbit. I love to play with them even though he just bit me he doesnt normally do that. But the children know theyll have to leave the island after 10th grade and finish high school on the mainland where will they go after that. When im grown up i wont live here anymore maybe ill come back to visit but i want to live in the city. But perhaps after a few years of urban life who choose to return like his mother or law she went to live in the city age 16 or return to the island 10 years later. She consciously chose to raise her family on new fare and is thankful for the assistance she and her children receive out of. What they give up for and from the Community Board your board to if it werent for the municipality we couldnt live out here that looked of undef with the skulker because they make it possible to live out here i have to admit so compared to many other places in the world we really cant complain. If you go there from the day one or older children must leave for the mainland is getting closer but wherever they go theyre carefree childhood on you vera will always stay with them. They come at night in tamil flaws and wait until the coast is clear then the high speed ins on the siberian landscape illegal loggers load their trucks with wood destined for the black market its an easy and lucrative target for criminals almost half of russia is covered by forest a treasure many want to preserve like luke off you know she is determined to stop the forestry mafia. The Senior Citizens are volunteers on a mission to save siberia as forests and what it would do we heard what she is doing that even today were conducting a check. About is that huge because residents have reported that at night our Siberian Pines are being cut down in the forests. They leave their car in a secluded spot and continue on fort accompanied by a local the 1st glance the cleared area looks more still residents have found 10 such clearings nearby. Along with a specially made transport route through the forest selling such timber is highly profitable. From what it is the switching booth they worked quickly using big trucks which they loaded them up and got the logs out of the forest fast whats left are these broken pine branches in a. Little ball fall aquino captures everything on video recordings have already been used 3 times as evidence in court the perpetrators are often locals as suspicious chief drives by it has no license plate and the men inside a trust in camouflage. You heard in the one of those are scouts who are seeing whos hanging around in the forest so they might be planning to fell more trees tonight but for. Now the volunteers want to find the right strategy to catch the illegal loggers in the act. Deforested areas are often clearly visible near in the Siberian Tiger most of the illegal timber is sold to china. Sharman yelena beyond i have now has also asked you off alec enough to help many of siberias Indigenous Peoples view the larch as a sacred tree they place the ashes of deceased shamans in holes in large trees. But what you can argue that the loggers have transported precisely these large as with the ashes are deceased sharman to china you may get that theyve left so much garbage behind and felled so many trees thats what theyve done to our forest its natural treasures and our culture is a great sin but what you think you would get if these trees grow very slowly. This one here is about 5 years old. And it takes maybe 120. 00 or 150 years for one like that to grow that tall so. Youre your cattle chain co and lubov our kena collect rubbish wherever they can. The forest is an intense part of siberia its solved. Then they return to the village passing vast fields in the past and this area was covered in tree says the sharman. She has invited the environmental activists to her home for dinner. She describes how the logging is causing local springs to dry up. He springs have given us a long life expectancy. In my village there are many who lived until they were 9294 or even 96 our ancestors used to say anyone who comes here wielding a sword will reap the consequences. Thats why locals together with the help of both forest trying to vests are taking action against illegal logging and pretty soon some of the culprits will be going on trial. Several days later. Is preparing to footage when she hears that apparently the law has got wind that something was up there was an accident. He wouldnt. Today we learned that they tried to transport all the timber out of the forest overnight i knew were as usual running as a couple but the driver loaded up too many logs and his vehicle tipped over killing him. That could even rules. For good. Kenya has now decided to pass footage on to the prosecutors so that the culprits will face justice for illegal logging she says shes looking forward to going back into the forest which gives her energy and strength. Italian astronomer galileo once said you cannot teach a man anything you can only help him find it within himself well galileos discoveries helped us gain a deeper understanding of our universe and continue to inspire other stargazers one hobby astronomer in turkey has dedicated his life to probing our cosmos he is selftaught but hasnt present experts with his insights into our solar system and though his neighbors may scratch their heads at his fascination with outer space abdul qadeer is proud to be the lone star of diyarbakir. When the night sky is clear an unusual precession sends up the highest hill near the town of diyarbakir. They follow abdul qadeer top catch the man with the telescope and. He can show them the night sky as hes the only astronomer around. Today were looking at jupiter he must be somewhere in this direction. God willing well find it. Other people look at space on their computers and dont understand a thing im on the disk i get it. The sign of of his door reads. Catch baker but instead of working in the bakery 55 year old abdul qadeer spends his time in his little backyard house where hes busy with the stars and planets all this despite having been a Primary School only a few years. As a child and stay awake looking at the stars and always ended up asking myself is it possible to see whats behind the moon and. Hes even disproved the great galileo the moons orbit is undulated rather than elliptic. Others had already made this discovery but he couldnt know that the American Space agency nasa sent him a letter nevertheless. He keeps it safe and would like to be in touch with more astronomers around the world. I always came up with the questions myself and then id walk on and string them on my own but nobody ever told me anything. In the summer of 2015 a great drawback the violence between militant kurds and the turkish army escalated. His house was heavily damaged by the army his telescope was reduced to bits and pieces he had nothing left but his fate moved many people a Fundraising Campaign across turkey helped him buy a new telescope. A long time ago abdul qadeer is wife left him and the people in the neighborhood whisper about the man with that star tech he got used to it. Said this let them talk i dont care whether i feel lonely definitely but my attention is fully focused on the things up there because. Even in his old bakery the colleagues dont really know what to do with him he keeps talking about the sky. A. Lot of it after his death perhaps therell be appreciation for what hes done. Now it just seems a bit crazy to us when you almost feel for the image of. The town but when ive built on the hill with his telescope hes rarely on his own there are always curious people who join him and dont think hes crazy or even dangerous. Also said you know what are you looking at with this a policeman recently asked me he suspected that i was spying on potential targets to be bombed. And that all abdul qadeer talk catch wants is to inspire others to take an interest in the sky and perhaps he can get some recognition some time for his never ending curiosity about the planets and stars. For the moon even if you miss your land among the stars thanks for watching focus on europe bye for now. Cut. Cut cut. Cut cut cut cut cut cut. Cut. Cut cut cut cut. Cut cut cut cut cut. Cut cut. Cut cut. Cut cut in. The for. 8 years after the overthrow of the gadhafi regime clip it has descended into almost continual conflict between its rival centers of power my guess this week here in cairo cities are made much take 50 Prime Minister of the Us Backed Government of National Accord closely allied to groups of armed militias which are being credited for serious human rights abuses conflicts so far in 30 minutes on g. W. The 1st 6 oclock deadly 1000000000. 00 Business Nuclear weapons. Such as the us pulled out of the i. M. F. Agreement with russia the world could be facing a new arms race. Mustve missed the ma friend whos going to benefit from moscow for nuclear weapons. Car turned. 61st saw. The mall oh. Yes. They are watching a positive train now in the water the food has stopped the poor in poor countries started valuing education they are demanding good quality education for their children the cooperate more and also realize that if they have to have good quality products and good quality consumers they need to look quality Skilled Workforce im very confident that includes holes in 50 no child or no i going to build a man illiterate that is the funny thing that is the divine right which the nature of the body has given to us and goes on a sledge in the way that i had to look good was trudging over that i had the freedom there against nature of that against dog. The 1st. The book. The book the for. 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