a huge operation by the fraud squad involving phone tapping and undercover surveillance resulted in the ringleaders being jailed and over a million fake hams confiscated. the industry is still reeling from the scandal. alessia. nice to meet you. nice to meet you too. i m meeting alessia cerantola, an italian journalist who brought the story of the biggest food fraud in the country s history to the nation s tv screens. this is what you see on every ham. it is what should be protected. tell me everything. breeders started importing sperm from danish pigs. the sperm and the pigs? both the sperm and the pigs. why the danish pigs? the first is that they produce more piglets and the second reason is that they produce more meat. more meat. so breeders have larger margins of profit. a dop product costs at least twice more than a normal product.
shelter, and treated her like their own daughter. by doing that, the whole family, i am in debted to them forever. and i feel, like you said, the reason i m here alive and i have family, three sons, you know, is because of them. it was my moral obligation to assist them and get them out of the war zone. so maria, who is the woman who saved your grandmother, this is her granddaughter lessia and her great niece alona. you have been in touch with them for decades. i wonder what you were thinking when you saw russia was invading ukraine and just how incredibly worried you were for them. yeah. we were very worried. we couldn t imagine the
we ve been invited to a school building in lviv to see volunteers being given a crash course in handling a gun. lessia, a grandmother, is here with her architect husband, yuri. we need to be prepared. translation: normally, iwouldn t even point a gun at an animal, - but this is now time to learn how to hold weapons and shoot them. as, one by one, the volunteers take their turn, we are interrupted by the awful soundtrack of this war. air raid siren. so you can just hear the air raid siren has gone off, some people are leaving, some people are carrying on. in the basement, those on the gun course mingle with the local children and mums that have decided not to flee ukraine.
shelter. ana and alessia are working to help other women escape alongside a network they say of more than so many people who have ties. the only is how expensive in terms of life and destroyed cities and destroyed objects it s going to be. reporter: alessia now waits for her little baby to arrive. despite her country at war she remains hopeful that she ll return to ukraine soon and introduce her parents to their first grandchild, kyra, a name that fittingly means, strong woman. brin gingrass, cnn, new york.
basement, those on the gun course mingle with the local children and mums that have decided not to flee ukraine. we find a doctor at lviv hospital. she is out there training. her job is to save lives, but she says she is now ready to kill. i d stay here and i d defend under bombing, under different military troops. and a stay underfire. military troops. and a stay under fire. military troops. and a stay under fire. ., ., , under fire. and you are ready to ull under fire. and you are ready to pull the under fire. and you are ready to pull the trigger under fire. and you are ready to pull the trigger on - under fire. and you are ready to pull the trigger on that - under fire. and you are ready| to pull the trigger on that gun if it comes to that? if to pull the trigger on that gun if it comes to that? if it comes to that? if they have no if it comes to that? if they have no choice, if it comes to that? if they have no choice, yes. - if it comes to that? if they | have no choic