street, tommy, it's very hard. they beat you. they thanks for everything. audio stuff. find out about some on storage, info, migrant, reliable news to migrate. the hello and welcome to focus on europe. my name is live show, great to have you with us in the war against russian president portends troops. ukraine is being pushed more and more into the defensive. particularly the north eastern part of the country is witnessing increased fighting. the settlements in near the city of how to give especially are under attack. thousands of civilians had to be evacuated from the border region and tire buildings have been reduced to

rubble. thousands of soldiers and civilians have lost their lives since the beginning of the war. the exact number is known. now specialized units are coming through the battle fields in search of the bodies of those killed. our reporter met one search team in the region around how to give and witnessed how the men are putting their lives in danger. to give you credit on families a chance to lay their loved ones tourist. a warning that some viewers may find the following. contents disturbing on the boat done, he picks was killed 2 years ago. his mother, victoria still remembers the afternoon when a voice on the phone told her that her son had died in combat fighting for ukraine . since it was all just so strange in such a strange day. i took a few sedatives and in the evening i just fell asleep with broken liver. i lay down

a slip through the 9th floor is room to move. this is the day off. does it's truly awful. oh through you wake up and you don't want to admit it's true for you. think to yourself, i must have drink. it says oh, just a terrible dream. it to more than a year before victoria he picks, was able to bury her son. here in his home town of hockey is an important place for her to be able to grieve. her younger son, yellow slab, was also killed at the front. but his remains of not being fined. let me put you with the foot, but he will still be found tinkling, while a boat dens burial. we tried to keep a plot free next to him to move the spinning. it would be nice if that were both. very th, that's the one that will always so close the forest. 3 hours from har heath close to the front, then below the mir and his team spend their days searching for fallen soldiers. their unit specializes in recovering the dead so that their relatives can pay their

last respects is that the interest job, as a former battlefields are often scattered with minds law, what channels the explosion to see and the russians often leave behind surprises, length and they're even under dead bodies. what day would you be to estimates for the death toilet? well over $100000.00, but the figures cannot be verified. many are still lying somewhere in the fields of eastern ukraine. it doesn't take long before for the mere team, find something this this is what was most of the young's go, she has go shots and then my experience tells me these are not human bones wouldn't go to the pharmacy. i had a lot of chickens, cows, and pigs on their pharmacy, when they fled and they had to leave them behind the bull bull, whoops, go. if you bundle a little further side, closer to the combat. so another team leaves are what they brought back from a search operation. they found 10 corpses in a forest area who is, you know,

they have to identify the bodies, most of which are severely disfigured. i'll put my motor fuel. if one of you who we have a notebook with some phone numbers in it, the for this is probably the contact information for his daughter. so home, this should make it easy to confirm his identity or from birth to even the smallest physical remains can be enough to identify ukrainian soldiers. there matched to a database of d n a samples just for the delay for the month of to be for the month. the part that we found tiny pieces of thing is piece and bone fragments in the face. ease of animals. if there's even insurance to identify a person, we leave noise going on to the new. every soldier should be brought back to the family, uses the boma alexi says that some of the deceased here are probably russians. the

team also tried identifying the bodies to the best of their ability. nothing but why they kill us, but we remain human. every person should be buried with dignity, even after hours of searching below them. here in his team have come across more boons in a remote field based on the location below them, your conclusion. these are also russian bodies. he hopes there remains can be handed over later, during an exchange of fallen soldiers on the bottom. you can be sure what you mean and say, i'm only looking at some point a special unit. it will take care of handing over the bodies of organ victoria. he picks his hoping for such a hand over. her youngest son was probably killed and maria pulled on russian occupied territory. only an exchange of remains would allow her to bury him.

3 of us rush let's if we need to seize any opportunity to exchange the did, you have to go just to give back remains without getting anything and return to the surface. so it's important for every mazda to be able to move on as a grade for what that is. but despite all the efforts of search teams is the largest burial site of ukrainian soldiers is likely not here in the cemetery. but in the vast fields of eastern ukraine, for many older europeans, images of the war in ukraine bring back dramatic memories of world war 2. john roberts, from britain, was just a young man. during that time he fought in the battle of normandy, when allied troops ushered in the beginning of the end of the nazi regime. now 80 years later, john sees peace and freedom threatened by pollutants war. he was your opinions to protect democracy on the continent more fiercely than ever before of june.

6th, 1944 allied troops invaded normandy. it's mark the start of the battle that would determine the course of the 2nd world war and harold, the beginning of the end of national socialism. as a young man in the royal navy, john roberts served on the front line over to the left enable to the right of and shoveled well being bombed a lot about 10 minutes before the landings. uh, 3 or 400 flying fortresses, flew along the beach. they didn't cross the beach, came from north to south. they flew along the beach, dropping $500.00 pound volumes. and from where we were, the whole beach became lit up. it was like fireworks non stop 5 work. the veteran is now 100 years old. back then he was just 20 and by his own account,

a little naive press ours. i shouldn't really say it, but i almost enjoyed the role of not because i enjoyed the was it well, but i would have been up satisfied, missing if the other people of my age had been in it. but i'd not be there, and i being a young man, i wanted to be there forever. the only later when he come to understand the horrors of the war and the scale of the devastation, the appalling losses. uh oh, no to to, to over, to think of. and yet i'll almost getting errors again for john roberts, the images of destruction out of ukraine are painfully similar to those from his youth in the 2nd world war. i think it's terrible that my grandson

could be involved in the wall in 6 or 8 months time. well, i hope not. i mean, i'll have, it wouldn't be a will for 12 or one on to. everybody said this is the war to enroll. was the former soldier is confident that it's the strong cooperation within nato that has saved to europe for more in recent decades, john roberts served in the royal navy for almost 4 decades. he rose the ranks to rear admiral and worked closely with the nato troops. to my mind, nato is the most important thing that we have your appear nations must stick together. at the end of world war 2. i couldn't remember when sent you out to your american speech. i'm saying that the savior of the or in the future will be for it to be together. and that's why i did not bird to leave your up.

i beg you to remain. but you, john roberts says, nato and the you must stand up to rush up just as the allies, one stood together against germany, to avoid repeating what happened in the heart of europe. 80 years ago, the us iceland is becoming more and more of a tourist magnet. people travel there to see the country is unique nature, the gazers, the hot pools and of course, okay, knows. but for your own on a, for, to see guard son who actually lives on the island. active volcanoes can be a serious thread. he knows all to well about the destructive power of these forces of nature. you on lives in the town of green, the vic where a lava has been bubbling for months. this is a glimpse into the depths of the earth. magma at 1000 degrees celsius is rising. up

. icelanders have given this volcanic system, the names are saying he or black men do it as being packs of for months. now the 1st weeks and a lot of us threatening the timing of going to the just a few kilometers away is residents had to flee. one of the 1st sick, our son was born and raised here. we got the chance to return with him to glenda the for a few hours. see, or it's all cracked and crooked. it's a huge gap between the buildings over there. i don't know how it's going to go. i know there about the people that really want to come here again. join wants to show us his house. he had to give the key to the fire department. so we entered through the garage part of

he says he and his family moved in here just 2 years ago. he was sitting in front of the tv with his children. when the big quick came in november. you could field them coming from, you know, below from the ground, you know, just under you and they were just taking you under the heat. so i called my wife and said, hey, there's definitely a change in the craigslist just pack things and leave of the family to only the essentials with a more state with relatives at 1st houses. then came volcanic eruptions and the lava even fluid into the yard of his own, got hit by the law, but this was the neighbor's house burned to the ground. the pieces of rock are still hot. joint explains how his neighbor is receiving a piano from the disaster insurance policy. the money can be used to build

a new home with a lot of stuff before reaching young's house. now he's hoping iceland, government will as promise provide relief by purchasing the property. i just saw, you know, a huge quantum flame and i really taught the, you know, my house was gone in the almost hope that it was gone because then we would have culture northeast. but like many residents of glinda, the youngest still waiting for the government to make an offer on his house with dangers. still lurking in the depth, it's unclear if the time will be habitable again. geologist and a novelist on the adult to you works england. if she and her colleague want to assess the underground damage before getting started the to use safety route to link together we are working in a very dangerous area with a lot of cracks. and there's

a possibility that the ground could cavan. so we need to be extra cautious, and if you see a crack, we walk very carefully over it. take a large step over it just to be exercise. then they get started using this device on wheels. the image rate are pulses into the ground. this way they can measure layer by layer beneath them and discover cavities and fishers. the geologists think it would be too dangerous to live here again there existing the cracks, that's our white to me as we speak, you know, it happens with every movement or a be a quick events that we have here. it will take them many more weeks to record all the damage and the habit might not be done yet. because the volcanic area is still active. cecilia and photographer marco demarco visits the creature regularly. he takes photos and videos for tv

broadcasters all over the world. we join them on one of his, our things we will try to go as close as possible by the safest boss spots. we will not try to do something too dangerous because of that there is no point. yeah. we arrive at the vast lava field, the lava advancing at a snail's pace. so slowly that we cautiously venture a little closer it's always strange, right? you see the snow in the lobby is like the country of. it is unreal, but it's all right in front of you. yeah. it's always like cheating, you know, use it. and then they are it is the volcano hot clumps of lava fly from the creature up into the air? the he said he was of okay, i say other 15 minutes of an hour and then you end up staying like 23 hours more.

you don't even realize that time is flying just it's kind of icing like it's beautiful. then mark who gets to work. he flies through and directly over the creature and captures disputed. the sometimes the northern lights are visible over the volcano. marco has captured incredible time. what's videos like this one? iceland was originally formed by alternators. dozens are still active. further eruptions can occur at any time. the auction i meet you on again. i want to know why he decided to live in such

a dangerous place. it's a very good price to move. even though we have those no natural dangers, the world needs map on the world needs heroes. i think for a bit of both if he gets enough money for his house and wants to move away from going to vic with his family, even though he finds it tough. because his neighbor, the volcano doesn't seem to be coming down any time soon. the will now introduce you to these tiny insects, which are wreaking havoc in italy, the red fire, and is actually native to south america, but complex and slide. these are now eating their way through italian gardens and crop fields, especially the people near syracuse in sicily have to deal with this invasion as more and more of the destructive insects are showing up. getting rid of them is

proving to be quite the challenge. ringback there were only a few millimeters in science, but they, one of the most viewed invasive species of all the red impulse supply and, or southern offices in victo, the invincible ferdinand or cut a rela, it's an economist, and is looking for the in 6th, near syracuse in sicily, can you see it and why i called on the red fire and it was this even the, this means they've already sprayed on this property. and i eat the deeper roots of the plan and that's not even a ton of insects that are beneficial to agriculture. the output gangadeen said they will believe the most of the work for, for the you, the senate is high and let's list of invasive spaces. and in fact,

they will long thoughts and most even exist in europe. but that will change last full when scientist sounded the alarm, the in 6 of being spotted in sicily, so demand or use social media to send out the warning, which low with unaided was the one. that what, what, why was that one of this is a big one? what's the bottom is i would also that we need to take immediate action to prevent it from spreading further. our thing is, is that we can keep the red fire and what was under control. i get back in that what, okay. the brazil china, the us have to spend billions of dollars under still unable to contain them. or just on the default we're spending the damage to agriculture is madison. nobody is going to lock on the ground or say they've done, they're likely to go to the red fire and originally comes from presume when, when it reached sicily is still unclear. i wouldn't advise you on after so far and the invasion has slipped under the radar. and there causes

a major damage in many just one, but it's a number of and deals, grooves, it will harm agriculture, fruit, vegetable production. and if i call the and stripe primarily in places, this would be more sense. for example, in playgrounds or private gardens. after a couple of painful stings and bumps common caruso realized that it wasn't the nature pants that were ruining her rose got the thoughts up here. they are right on to your roses with thousands of of, of the written the literal for me as a lover of roses. this is just awful that it breaks my heart. i care for them with a lot of love is really for me when i see what these ants are doing to my roses,

it's like they're hurting me pretty darn convicted. i still don't know how to get rid of them. i'm not even sure what have you to come up with the louder, cuz we don't. the sicilian regional government also wants to get rid of. it recently appointed for a student, john lucas nieto, a special commission. um, he had a machine shipped in some sod, jameel pump that shoots a 140 degrees thing into the air until it's supposed to help eliminate the uninvited guests. 6 weeks off to the 1st test. the team is back to to see how it worked. well, one was here, but you can't see it anymore. there's one here. it's possible they moved over from there. i don't know what's up. yeah, most or so, but yes, these are also red fire ends as well. but also in the last 5 by boat and a little bit more if i'm a bit more so we didn't use the machine here again. so most of the we've only use it in the 1st 3 and that's over there. yeah, i'm,

i'm good. they were all destroyed as a seasonal. so what we don't know yet is whether the house just moved over here and built in unit same, but as they seem to have done over there, or somewhere that we felt mom completely meant that the main thing is to kill the is a jean, english. they level 72 by them. side, an endo has developed a method to combat the and base events himself. he makes a sawdust with a liquid and poisoned and then adds sugar. when you've been in the, with the roof, you then spread this toys and be to run the until the insects will bring it into the netherlands in the hands of just being born. and the queen, i love it you. they poisoned themselves or die. the magenta of the regional government has promised to intensify the science. but sudden, endo, cuz it really isn't counting on it. he will continue to find the red fire and on his own in our

final report takes us to one of the most. i conic symbols of christianity in europe, then not to them cathedral in paris. it was a huge shock when 5 years ago. the building was devastated by fire. but now there is good news. restoration works are in full swing with many people working tirelessly to bring the majestic church back to its former glory. it's probably the most watched construction site in all of paris right now. every bit of progress is recorded, examined, and discussed. center it's under, it's interesting to follow the development and learn about the technology used to rebuild the cathedral or that category and collect into bodies. sarah is re discovering a part of itself. it's identity, it's re discovering its mothers, so to speak, with american, with you now to see nearly back to all its glory. it's just wonderful. it's

wonderful. on april 15th 2019 the natural them cathedral called fire firefighters were unable to prevent aspire from collapsing. the cause of the fire, it's still a noun, french president macro and sit and fishes go. what do you want to, can we rebuilding not for them even more abusively than before. i want that to happen within 5 years than the one part of the effort to clean and repair the stained glass windows. hundreds of precious people have been working to restore enough for them to its former glory. the reconstruction project has become a matter of national and personal price by installing our windows with closing opponents and the procedural. we've worked towards this for a long time. it may stay like this for centuries. it's very touching the room crosses, inspire, being reconstructed according to the original design president macro, and had briefly considered giving them a more modern look big enough for it. takes it land,

mountains. you can do whatever you want to go by. you sound the voltage across the reopening of the dr. them seemed hard to imagine 5 years ago, but it's no guessing a little closer every day. just let me do this. i had no doubts, was it though? i was one of the crazy people who said it was possible, but even though i didn't expect such a transformation for didn't meet that offers. at least parts of the cathedral should be open to the public again in december. it may not be quite within the deadline sitting by president mccomb, but that's nothing given the grand school natural them history well, that wraps up this week focused on your of i hope you enjoyed the program. remember that we have lots of stories and reports from across europe on our social media. so be sure to follow us there. my name is liz sho, pencil, watching and see you next time the

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