as to us. troy we listen to the. reporter every weekend. hello and welcome to this week's focus on europe. adopting a baby is often the last means for childless couples to fulfill their dream of starting a family but waiting lists are long and that's why many europeans decide to adopt children from other countries they want to have a child and to give a home to those whose parents gave them up for adoption out of poverty or hardship

but such adoptions they have the danger of turning the young ones into commodities . authorities in the netherlands have currently suspended all international adoptions even from indonesia the move comes after an official inquiry uncovered adoption abuse like forged birth certificates the report also shows that some children web blogs or even stolen from their birth parents media boy a better man and a man have thoughts to reveal the scandal and the role of the dutch state but it's difficult for the 2 women to live with the truth about their pasts. i think it's important for everybody to know where they come from so that everyone has a basic right to know their roots. it defines your existence. you stand.

up north i always have the feeling miriam and i were not biological sisters that we didn't have the same parents always but it's very strange to have people tell you that your biological sisters when somehow they you know it's not true indonesia september 979 it's adoption day and 2 little girls are being picked up from a children's home by a dutch couple. they're given new names miriam and do it supposedly their sisters but 41 years later a d.n.a. test would prove this was not true. i had done so when you have the information in black and white it really hits you hard because i didn't expect that it really affected me according to the test the 2 are not even distant relatives just as dovid had always suspected for years she poor over her adoption papers desperately

searching for information about her true identity but instead she found forgeries irregularities and lies another. file i see another signator also from her father meant he can see they don't totally don't match at all i showed it to everyone else you can see it yourself and they say but at that dutch looked at it then it is all right even my mother said i showed it to her but she didn't want to live over the years has met many other adoptees in the netherlands most have similar discrepancies in their adoption paperwork among them is lawyer david tell us she helped convince the dutch government to set up a commission to investigate the commission's report has now been published and reveal shocking abuses in cases of international doctrine from brazil colombia

indonesia sri lanka and bangladesh before $998.00 it lists cases of baby farms human trafficking and forged documents they confirms what we are saying for years now and perhaps i also was hoping that they would say well it wasn't so bad but now it's actually a confirmation that it is very bad day every day you know represents a group of out of t.'s who marched with the dutch state farm's their research for their biological parents for now the government has admitted its mistakes turning a blind eye for too long all right if the state did not do what was expected of it . it should have been more active in preventing this abuse. this is the painful truth of the apologies are needed and therefore today on behalf of the cabinet i apologize to those impacted gobbing it the report warns today's adoption system

is still vulnerable to dubious practices and proved so damning it prompted the government to suspend international adoptions d.v.d. years adoptive mother welcomes the decision she trusts that the dutch authorities when she adopted her daughter missing still tumbled or maybe her biological mother is still searching for her we never knew what was going on. excuse me. it makes me really sad to know there might be someone out there still looking for their child there's no place to look it's a terrible thought. but imagine though you take your daughter to daycare and when you come to pick her up they say they've given her away to someone who can take better care of her on the beta for sure to. show.

since the 970 s. around 40000 children have been adopted from abroad in 2 dutch families the investigative report shows how private into media organizations profited from the adoptions and per took in abuse several of these organizations refused our interview requests for those affected this comes as no surprise. in efforts especially in the big periods let's say it is ninety's there were approximately $2500000000.00 a year was turning or over in the country that it does in the street right. are you going to tell me that we could not have. percent of this money to help the families in this country i don't believe so i think we could have held them all to date doritos and miriam are both happily married and have children of their old but the idea that they may have been kidnapped or sold still haunts them their adoptive

parents had to pay several $1000.00 euros in placement fees to make the adoption happen to a region miriam grew up believing that their biological parents were poor sick unable to feed their children they say looking for the truth can be a painful process are you already to know that you won't find them but also your papers are false if you are ready for that then i would say go if you're not ready don't do it because it well it's only painful for you and well we are we are 40 years old and we need any people won't get really or so maybe there are. already death maybe so and if you're happy now you can choose for it to stay happy . or it in miriam have given up their search for their relatives in. tunisia. those fundamental questions about their heritage origins and ancestors may never be

answered but what remains is a common history their life in the netherlands and their promise to always support each other as sisters when we talk about 1000 victims we mainly mean those who have died from the disease or those who have fallen severely ill yet one group often gets forgotten people like sheba who did get infected with the coronavirus then officially recovered but was still experiencing effects even months later experts call this condition long cope now one common symptom is that patients find it difficult to breathe a clinic in the u.k. who is now working with opera singers who are teaching patients how to breathe properly the project has become so successful that it will be rolled out in all clinics across the u.k. . blowing bubbles to come back long.

season is a trained singer and for some of them it's a bit too hard work at the moment but what it does is it just allows your voice a little bit of a chance to unpressed. she's developed special breathing exercises for patients. thanks to susie sheba is once again healthy and can pursue new hope use a year or 2 she contracts to severe case of course at 19 and was put on oxygen 3 months on i remember feeling so fatigued breathless. i mean literally from my bed to the bathroom i would just get breathless her g.p. didn't know how to help her it's a dilemma that many other patients suffering from long who've it are faced with by chance she heard about

a scientific study involving different therapy methods. the but she never dreamed that singer's use the english national opera of all people would be able to help her. i was totally skeptical i was like ok how do you thing i didn't know the science behind it and also my trepidation was that i'm known to sing guard i'm not even a native english speaker so how my going to sing these lyrics and sing in front of people who i don't know but it was such a nonjudgmental environment that everyone was but at least some. time. and they're living is easy to see today her breathing strong enough for a spontaneous i do perform. she trains for this once

a week. on stand to show the height. the sessions focused on better posture relaxation and above all conscious breathing and just hold that for a moment we think a lot about breathing down because if you're over breathing you're taking in lots of air and actually tend not to be expelling the air so just giving people tools to slow things down and get them in the moment is really helpful. here she shoes how to write your name with your. fabulous and that sounds that n g sound allows our vocal folds to just stretch a little bit without the full impact of singing. birds. it's not really that we're teaching people lots of new techniques it's rather trying to strip away things that were coping mechanisms

during a time that was a terribly anxious time and get back to what sort of breath feels like. singing together during the sessions also creates a sense of community. i could have never imagined coming out of that darkness all by myself so it's been a huge support system for me it's like my family now we had i guess you can say a common purpose to get better and more beautiful way to think. out and heal them at the same time the. dream is to perform on a real a pristine to see others. and her dream come true as soon as the condemn it subsides. because then the english national opera teacher very special

production. turkish government is aiming to have the majority of the population vaccinated against the corona virus by june but there is still a long way to go and infection rates have been rising dramatically for weeks reaching remote regions like the village of i attended close to the iranian border is a challenge for health workers it's her dedication that keeps doctors say never growing her goal is to convince people of the benefits of a vaccination and to fight some common misconceptions. it's not often that strangest undertake the ology is journey into the mountains. that's why there was always a little sensation here and now today. for the worse when the medical team

comes from town. to. the little girl. is responsible for corona virus vaccinations in the area people know her now because everything she says that it was more difficult when she 1st came here her home in our people always think on the nose they believe that only men can be docked is women cannot but by now they have gotten used to me and they trust me on the. feast in turkish village of the tin that is located nearly 2000 meters high a few 100 people live here most of them are ethnic kurds. it's been months since any coronavirus cases have been reported in. that's one of the reasons why some residents don't understand the importance of being vaccinated shock. zaineb arab and her team have gotten used to the skepticism and to the climbing they do

before him. every home visit. they are convinced that their mission is important. people in the villages live close together if there is an infection here it will spread very quickly and many don't like coming to the hospitals in nearby towns so we have to come to them. or are. getting his 2nd dose today when the doctors 1st came here a few weeks ago he almost kicked them out. i was afraid at 1st here in the village they set the doctors were coming to kill the old people. i heard the elderly die from the vaccination and that scared us a lot over just what. they need is familiar with these kinds

of reservations that's why she often tells her patients that she and her team have been vaccinated as well as their grandparents. that doesn't convince everyone but it did convince. your knowledge of g.r. i hardly felt anything it didn't hurt at all less painful than a bee sting of your. the ab a family is next on the list the journey there is perilous. moment buster bombs. during my studies i always dreamt of a doctor's position in the east but i never thought that i would climb mountains in the snow and ice to get to people's homes. but that's the way it is in a pandemic everyone has to do their part. on the.

vaccination visits are a lot of fun for the villages children will. be different for not so much for. the 74 year old is next in line his wife has ina talked him into it she has already been vaccinated while her husband is receiving the injection she tells us that she even went to the hospital to get it how much somebody attempts and it did its get us when we heard about the virus on t.v. but thank god nothing bad happened to us we live our lives the same way he did she for the disease we do our jobs eat our animals and take care of our houses question . the doctors administered to more vaccinations that day more isn't really possible under these conditions. but even if it takes time zainab arab is proud of her work. which ensures that the pandemic is under control

at least it is here. in russia some rural areas lack even basic infrastructure that's the case in sawyer a small village in the taiga cut off from the rest of the country it's difficult for locals who gets daily supplies like food or medicine like uli there is the tiger express drive. gives the people of a chance to escape them again lives once in a while. boris petrovitch school is on his way to pick up passengers. he brings life to the tired yeah i do because i feel sorry for the. villages are dying here. his route takes him from the village of new gear to the villages in northern russia

near our hungus. or to be more precise what used to be a village. the narrow couch railway line is 31 kilometers long the train consists of one passenger car and a diesel locomotive in the seemingly endless russia tyga. morris petrovich schoolman whose affectionately known as petrovitch does the round trip twice a week on mondays and fridays. in winter he gets the stove going well before the 1st passengers get on the journey can last between one and 3 hours depending on how much snow there is on the track. and it's not going to be clear i probably have a range and so's in passengers and they didn't get him to do. today he arrives on time it's a in the morning. the

villagers are glad to see him. here all our hope rests on this train if it breaks down we'll be stuck here forever. this train is all we have. otherwise we'd have to walk 40 kilometers only old people live here that. there used to be a lot of life here not just ramshackle buildings during the soviet era so hugo was an important hub for the lumber industry millions of cubic meters of forest were cut down and transported from here or remains is a lot of broken equipment which petrovich used to set up a functioning passenger service. one as reliable and punctual as himself a fact the villagers appreciate. the a train trip through the taiga might sound romantic to some it's not without risk

despite the train driver skills. that sometimes the train tips over less often you know but a couple of years ago when i started it was almost every day once i was here and all of sudden the wheels were facing upwards the 1st the passenger car overturned and then it pulled the look of with it i was just wondering if we were going to derail and then we were saved are a good. one the lumber mill closed most people here lost their jobs some took to the bottle not to be drinking wine you know that you were right snotty and one would be going with. it what else is there to do apart from drink and drive cars you know. petrovitch doesn't drink and drive he always takes a long food prepared by his wife fallon tina. hears the

chan what's taking so long. you'll know there's also picking cucumbers and fruit preserves. the 2 have been together for 40 years living in harmony. he's always full of energy. and he's always on duty hi nina. the phone rings day and night no worries lena and picking brett up tonight. the villagers depend on him many can match in their lives without petrovich nor their death. you could get one called me recently. used to driving the train she said oh yeah if you please don't stop till i'm dead but you are so i said to her are you crazy that you have to move and you can't this is a month later she was dead. so i carried out her last wish i took her to the

cemetery. petrovich plans to carry on driving his train for 10 more years until the last villager has left so i got. that you know that people in france can get very old like really really old a french woman reached 122 years compared to that colette's may seem like a young lady after all she's only 106 years old but that's not stopping her from her passion for music. colette's mons has been playing the piano for over a century she was born into an upper middle class family in 1914 what my mother was a hard woman she was quite masculine and even went hunting for music was my consolation

my tenderness 'd. especially loves the romantic works by robert schumann she began playing the piano at the tender age of 5 it became her life's passion. she studied as a music conservatory in paris where she also learned fitness techniques like yoga that help keep her limber to this day 7 it keeps her body erect less to play things must be very loose here cope with the butt talk here at the back. of the piano when you play you need to sit like this. and not like this. her son for priests helps manage her career. that's you there you are 17 or

18. year this is your diploma from 134 to. move along. what grade did i get it doesn't say then it must just have been so so. whether. we're to put an end to her dream of becoming a professional pianist collette maas worked as a nurse during the german occupation. but after the war she became a piano teacher. it was only decades later that she recorded her 1st album by then she was already over 80. now she has succeeded to her credit. that age is all in your head at least i think so. you must live life with energy that's it. and we wish her much more energy and many more years thanks though i think.

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