iran the journey to a land full of contradictions. joy and sadness. confidence and down. to our documentary depicts the contrasts of everyday life. and how people cope with. iran bittersweet. start may second. hello and a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and campaigning is now well underway for elections to the european parliament due to take place at

the end of may and one thing is clear in many countries across the continent there are fierce divisions between liberal and centrist parties on the one hand and populist right wing forces on the other and poland is no exception the country is currently ruled by the law and justice party led by got a suave kocinski known in poland as simply peace the party is aggressively conservative nationalist and a largely euro skeptic still opposition voices can be heard and among them the controversial but very influential black metal band be him off with their front man adam dark ski he's come under a lot of pressure for speaking out on issues like free speech and his music is just as uncompromising downscale himself describes it as noisy vulgar and abominable. and in dark skinned his black metal band behemoths are about to

start their warsaw gig. they're playing three shows in poland before their european tour which is bound to stir controversy. and embarrass is an outspoken critic of poland's ruling right wing nationalist a law and justice government which has little regard for the european union. i consider myself a pole polish citizen. to go with your opinion and to me should be equal and. messily against their. political tendencies that's been conquering all our land for like the last two years that it's just driving us to want some kind of isolation it's going. to ask expresses his political sentiments through provocative works of art. it's

a code. like these biblically themed photos which come along with his band's latest album. which works like these draw the ire of many conservative polls today and also the anger of the country's government which is backed by the catholic church. lawmaker dominic cartoon's key of the ruling law and justice party even reported adam d'arcy to the police. he just bridge below our criminal law is very very clear you cannot insult religion every religion you cannot you know her someone's feelings religious feelings and this is what he did these days scenes like these outside poland's parliament aren't uncommon this catholic anti-abortion activists placard reads reproduce. but not all polls think this way at him and he's more liberal minded fans often hang out in hair salons run by the rock musician he owns several in various large polish cities. poses

poland's largely conservative and nationalist establishment through his combination of black metal music and his unique lifestyle but these are trying times that were tough. years early and the political climate is very unfavorable. they're trying to censor my work with the help in the judiciary. well they force me to report to the police. and our concerts are monitored by undercover agents. but on second thought the. finals was. never going to do. they want to check out a for planning any subversive activity i've experienced all about. the interest should be the government. but door skin his band will not let themselves be intimidated luckily they have many supporters in the american heavy metal scene. co avoid meanwhile is glad to be working in hair salon focus each of you not say

there's anger on the streets i've experienced that first hand but nobody means you any harm in this hair salon when you go. later that day preparations are underway for concerts in the polish capital tonight you'll be adopting the stage persona of never go a babylonian deity who fights a hostile foreign land. which is exactly how he feels living in poland today to him poland just being governed by a regime that has no respect for his liberal worldview. would be i was a bit. that he wants to get people to be more open minded and to change their thinking it's true overcome old fashioned beliefs and become more open more and thus is his way of doing this is very controversial to see many in this country can tolerate that kind of a letter we have some regard to our skin his band is the only remaining champions

of liberalism in poland but disagrees with you quite a massive group of people. like free thinking and beverly breaded individuals over here in poland that. stand behind what they do and what they say so it's not like go on. with ever to proffer door to a messiah or whatever but i'm definitely good at just speaking. my freewheel. and then dark skinned his band rock out to the excitement of their open minded fans. well i'd like to shift the focus now to turkey i mean particular take you to the small village of checkbook in the southeast of the country and what's so remarkable about this village is the high number of intersex your people born without typical male or female characteristics one of them is an. identified as

a man but until recently the turkish authorities classified him as a woman what is for sure is that aziz has had plenty of discrimination and his biggest dream is to simply be accepted for who he is. as he says isha is a shepherd and he feels most at ease with his flock up here he owes nobody any explanation about why he was born as a girl and used to be called. a muslim an easy way to connect this room wasn't sometimes i like to be among the people but most often that i just want to be alone when things got to be too much it wasn't a full circle i just want to be left in peace yes and up here is best. aziz lives in the village of check in southeastern turkey one turkish newspaper described the place as cursed because over twenty intersectional zx people born

without a clear biological gender live in this one village one is fifty year old r.c.s. he has no unambiguous x. journal sex organs even as a young child he knew he didn't want to be a girl because you know that one day when i was boxing with a boy he pulled my long hair and threw me to the ground. then i ran home and cut it off i was full of hatred for myself and everyone around the. in this isolated corner of turkey it's customary to marry among relatives and almost everyone in the extremely poor church crook is related that spreads genetic disorders rapidly and such hereditary conditions as intersexuality. this twenty one year old who doesn't wish to reveal his identity is intersexual he's had surgery to make his genitals unambiguously male. usually get it

i had to have three operations j h one cost the equivalent of five hundred euros that's what i had in half a year but now i feel like a complete person eventually i want to marry and have children. but even after surgery very few intersections are able to conceive. and surgery does little to change attitudes among these men from a neighboring village they wouldn't want anyone from their families marrying and intersexual. have themselves turned into men it can be they'll change their minds again some day we wouldn't accept that. as far as i know they can't have any children they're like gays. has never had surgery like many others he didn't have the money he rarely goes to the nearest city. just to see

a doctor at most this time he's going to ask the psychologist to buy you for advice you so has been counseling intersexual children and families for years. how are you doing. to not that well. i'm a person who needs to love and be loved. and when there's no love i'm not. going to do because you're in it in the me name your the take the families who come to me feel overwhelmed should they raise their intersex child as a girl or a boy all three start a war they've raised their child as a boy up to age five playing football and so on. and now all at once he wants to be a girl a tick. in this arch conservative society it matters little that aziz has always felt like a man every time he fell in love he was in for disappointment on the urge again as

a young man i had a relationship with a girl from the village in secret of course when he came out it was a huge scandal my dream was shattered here social mores dictate that she was married to another man. everybody's got them over the net. but as these isn't giving up he intends to buy a cheap smartphone one because he's heard that it's easier to get to know women on the internet. the clerk at the cellphone store shows him how to take selfies that put his best foot forward he needs a photo for his profile. he's a bit more upbeat when he gets home he lives in this little house with his mother and ten other relatives his mother is pleased that many years ago aziz decided he was a man. in our society a man counts for more. than an hour now a girl marries and leaves but the men can provide for the families and inherit you

know the people that. aziz is hoping that he might someday find a woman from outside his village who won't be put off by his past. he records a love song on his new smartphones soon to be uploaded to his internet profile. now spain is a country well known for its colorful traditions food flamenco football bullfighting and much much more besides such as hunting using a spanish breed of greyhounds known as gull goats in this still very popular pursuit the hounds are trained to chase down and kill hares it's brutal stuff and it really is the case of the survival of the fastest the problem is though that the dogs that aren't up to scrunch are often left to fend for themselves or simply kill

the animal rights activists are up in arms. these spanish greyhounds are known as gallegos today they're showing off their hunting talents their keepers have taken them to a field outside of madrid. the hare is startled and bolts the battle begins to go go so i set loose and chase it it speeds of up to seventy kilometers per hour. the goggle that catches and kills the hare wins many here got the taste for this kind of hunting from their fathers and grandfathers. isn't a part of this only it's us aunt it's tradition and passion which we invest a lot of time in these talks a lot of work a money often at the cost of our families without a lot of media. and the hair is dead. is proud of his winning goal go. is two and a half years old a perfect age for hunting older dogs aren't quick enough to win the race to their

prey. this god go is older he was abandoned animal welfare activists found him and are now taking him to a shelter. susana rubio says this is just one of many cases of god goes being abandoned when they're no longer fit for hunting. out their right. as soon as the hunting season begins the number of stray dog goes on the streets or in empty buildings like in this case shoots up massively. or one of the dogs are tried out and if they're no longer fast enough to just cast aside. what they become if. not broken you know if this got done. this shelter is taking care of eighty gallegos at the moment most of them are quite old . davita thor door says the situation is intolerable he campaigns against hunting with goggles and against a breeding that only gives the youngest and fittest

a chance. it's embarrassing how people treat animals in this country. i met people abroad who owned a gull go and they told me it had been abandoned in spain. it's a disgrace that people would do that. hunting hares with dogs is banned almost everywhere in the e.u. but not in spain here the tradition is alive and well in opera home court is proud of that he heads an organization that defends this kind of hunting with greyhounds . that's a lie going around in europe gallegos are treated well in spain. we've just got so many animal rights activists against us. but it's all just a huge misunderstanding. would disagree he's already rescued many gallegos from the streets. he estimates that some fifty

thousand are neglected abandoned or killed each year. the dark side of a herald a tradition and a business. for america a good god go fetch is a pretty some. there's always someone who'll spend a lot of money on it. there are people who do nothing but regard goes to sell them . it's a lucrative but often cruel business jose container has taken many pictures of mistreated gallegos. but it's hard to find the perpetrators. a lot of the dogs throat was slit open to remove the microchip been planted there that way the owner can't be identified he just hung the dog from a tree and that was that. it is a passionate hunter but he can still understand why pictures like these are harming

the image of this much loved tradition he says that he would never do something like that and thinks it's a shame that some god go on earth give hunting a bad name. you know i can only speak for myself children's mother is eleven years old and she'll stay with me till she dies and what i want. can also count on staying with her keeper until she dies. meanwhile the hunt goes on but this time the hair gets away. good for the hair but not for the gulf coast the less success they have the slimmer their own chances of survival. and we're going to russia now which is in the grip of an aids epidemic and one of the biggest problems for people living with h i.v. is the extent to which they're cut off from the rest of society now it's particularly painful for the growing number of children infected with the virus there is no one project in the city of chelyabinsk where young kids some positive

some living playing and low. i'm going together. here at the orphanage the day begins at seven am. everyone knows what to do. they take the same medications in the same dosage mornings and evenings. i appear ill is home to forty boys and girls from four to seventeen years old they're called lucy key and me no seeking the terms for hiv positive and negative children here. with. a kid when we open this home twelve years ago at first they each ivy positive children were kept separate. you know so far as

could be wiped clean the floors had no rugs with the dishes were soaked in disinfectant in the containers that it was very hard to create a tolerant environment for them. to stitch it took six years before all the staff members learn to accept and respect these children. now the purity and mino c.-k. play together. they all have much the same routine they were all growing up without parents in this one of a kind home in the southern russian city of chile up in school. now everyone here knows there's no danger of picking up the virus from the hiv positive children not even if someone should suffer a cut. caregivers are never far from the youngest kids and the older ones know that the virus isn't stable and dies if it comes into contact with. him. full of one of my friends sleeps in the same room with.

hiv positive no one day before i found out and i came in and he said i've got to tell you something i may try positive. i was scared at first but then he told me how it's transmitted and since then everything's been ok i treat him completely normally. one third of the children here were born of hiv positive parents many of whom were also alcohol or drug abusers they lost custody of the children some of the parents don't even know where their children are. at for rel they grow up in a safe environment they learn from the start to approach their hiv infection with confidence unlike many adults. northwood sick of that difficulty he wants our kids went to a summer camp the first evening the children were bathed with like the door opened

to the camp director peeked in as if our children have your ears and two hands another time my coworker asked marina what should i do they've brought us an hiv positive boy i said after the cellar with him lock him up but she was bewildered this and i said what do you think let him play with the others of course. as the day closes at that for now everyone knows just what to do the same medications in the same dosages every evening. everyone here is worried about what will become of the kids once they leave their homes. many of them were born with disabilities because of their mothers alcohol or drug abuse unless they're adopted they will likely be left to fend for themselves for the rest of their lives. now on a very different note europe is running out of fish the reason is overfishing that

has meant in the mediterranean for instance that stocks are being depleted returned alarming rate so former fishermen in the waters around the island of riskier in the gulf of naples are looking for new sources of income and some of them have come up with a business model that exploits the ancient treasures to be found on or even below the seabed. julio lounge rose says people like him can no longer live from fishing so ischia is fishermen now ferry tourists around instead. but this boat is different from the others. the routes fitted it with a glass bottom and now the family office excursions to the sunken roman city of a narea off the coast of ischia it's the younger generation like julio sungai town oh who are developing this new kind of cultural tourism here. it was our idea to live from the sea in a different way than our parents do. you know after all. this

all came about due to our love for our homeland the love we want to give it the respect it deserves that want to create jobs that extend beyond the tourist season and this project is comprised of a whole bunch of ideas and initiatives. that are you know limbo to be abroad as it was the budget. so the local fisherman became amateur archaeologists they banded together to buy diving equipment and technical devices and applied for the necessary permits and they hired an underwater archaeologist who oversees the excavation is to this day. conducting archaeology underwater is a laborious business due to the effects of currents and waves areas that were painstakingly uncovered consume be filled in again. but the fisherman didn't give up and made a discovery is a true archaeological sensation

a port dating from roman times. this is what it might have looks like. they've also found the remains of a villa until such finds were made no one knew the romans had settlements on ischia it was thought they'd avoided the island as it was prone to earthquakes. the fishermen spend all their free time searching for more clues about a ninety and many of the younger ones are now experienced archaeological divers but although the work has become routine for them it's much more than a job that needed something to just you know when i walk in the water and every dive is a moving experience because every time something new can come to light. the new piece of evidence of what was there which helps us to understand the past because as we just saw every day brings a new discovery. this is a live from tourism each year hundreds of thousands of people flock to the islands

to bathe in its hot springs and to visit the famous gusto out of who needs a parent every now and then the super yachts drop anchor here. the mayor says a new branch of tourism is always welcome but he won't commit to offering the young fisherman any financial assistance. or money's tight in all of the municipalities and we have to make do with what we've got but it's a nice initiative that deserves consideration. with the fishermen believed in this research. it's an unusual situation because although we've received all the necessary permits for an archaeological investigation from the relevant authorities it's all being paid for privately. so these professional and amateur archaeologists will continue their exploration without any government

funding judio laro says that at least that way no one can tell them what to do. and that's all for now from focus on europe thanks so much for joining us and if you'd like to see any of our reports again just go to our home page on d w dot com or do visit our facebook page the feel for your stories and to come back next time around until then fly by and show us. the at the old the at.

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