Our consumerism is causing a radical depletion of. 425. Percent. Or has it. Forests and money. Tragic reality behind the exploits. Starts july 24th. Hello bond ya know and welcome to a very Special Edition of Focus On Europe coming to you from the heart of the italian capital row and it was here back in 1957 that history was quite literally
made with the signing of the Treaty Of Rome that would lead the way to the creation of the European Union as we know it today alongside thats another dream came true the dream of Freedom Of Movement for all of europe citizens so we joined one young man for a very schuberts to see how that freedom of Movement Works today. This summer Friedrich Schubert is exploring europe from west to east by train. Hes already covered over 2500 kilometers. In the country from paris france i travelled to italy so this is my 3rd country. His next stop is below new a University City in central italy. The us given no 27000 free for weeks into rail train tickets to europ
years here but with less and less success. he says a while ago his wife and his 2 children left him. since then he s been living at the edge of the city in this makeshift hut good decent i ve got my kids with their grandparents while they re waiting for their dad to come back but i m not coming back. every evening petrik or goes to bed early he ll have to wake up at 430 if he wants any chance of getting work tomorrow. god what a curse it life this is. but peter is not alone in his plight yulian montoya from italy s construction union knows of many others just like him originally from romania he says many of his countrymen come to italy hoping for fast cash but the one they came because they were promised the land of milk and honey here but they found something entirely different. pay to go was also looking for
a while ago his wife and his 2 children left him. since then he s been living at the edge of the city in this makeshift hut could be that i ve got my kids with their grandparents what they re waiting for their dad to come back but i m not coming back. every evening picture cocos to bed early he ll have to wake up at 430 if he wants any chance of getting work tomorrow. god what a curse it life this is. but painter guy is not alone in his plight yulian montoya from italy s construction union knows of many others just like him originally from romania he says many of his countrymen come to italy hoping for a fast catch up but the one they came because they were promised the land of milk and honey here but they found something entirely different to what. patrick oh was also looking for a better life when he set out from romania to italy many years ago. this is where
refugees here in lebanon, we can tell you it doesn t get much worse than this. we were up in a border town near the syrian border and the population has doubled and saw extended families living in makeshift hut, little more than cardboard boxes and sanitation was bad. the majority of the folks we were seeing were children. they were affected very badly by this. they re not going to school. they re trying to be happy. the government here overwhelmed. not supplying aid. not supplying services and the proper amounts and the numbers are soaring. just in the past week some 13,000 new refugees have come in here since the tensions have heightened with the threat of the strike. what about that u.s. military strike? what are people thinking? some of the refugees are so shell-shocked they didn t want to say anything. some are opposing it saying they ve seen too much combat and don t want to see any more fighting and some said it was right to strike against bashar
outright confusion. these are live pictures near moammar gadhafi s compound. there have been heavy battles raging around this building. carloads of people have been streaming out of the libyan capital. we want to bring in retired general james spider marks. if you could, tell us about what you are watching, what you are seeing. what do you make of the pictures? with the low level flying that is taking place, bombing gadhafi s compound? suzanne, what you see is obviously a representation of chaos and confusion on the ground. the fact that civilians are fleeing, coming out of tripoli should not be surprising. the rebels are about to force gadhafi s complete departure in some way. that may take hours, that may take days. we still could be a week or so away. but that type of confusion, of what happens next gets folks very, very nervous. they ve got the opportunity now to get out of town, and you re going to see them get out of town and let this thing settle out. i think you l