discrimination, quarterly or part of everyday life. for many, we ask why? because life is diversity. make up your own mind in d. w. lead for mines. oh, it's listening to the sins when kids have to run through the basement that you can't. yukon billeted from his brain, yukon blooded from the, his memory. so the music in tops is life and the use of lights to help the souls the life. do i leave today again, she is still and i was not that long ago. and it's sheets or society to this day. that would be what this melinda situation. the only thing that can give hope is love,

and i'm on who the war in ukraine grinds on. shocking images are beamed around the world. what impact does war have on people now and in the future? what can offer reassurance when everything's in ruins, answers and questions from a well known russian writer and a young poet from spain. but 1st, we had to hi keith in eastern ukraine where music brings a glimmer of hope. in desperate times. am i the hockey music? fist in the midst of war, russian bombs turned all the planning on its head. now musicians and the audience

gather in a place where people have been seeking refuge, even living for weeks. a subway station, ah, vitaly alexi noch is the festivals artistic director. he lives in germany. so he had to leave the local organisation to others. the amuck invites of it will carry on somehow and us. so i know the festival will be quite different now. absolutely. it's something special for all of us. it's because despite the bombs and will continue to play music in valden hockey, the ukraine 2nd largest city has suffered devastating damage even during the festival. it's come on to missile and artillery fire bite down here. people experience moments of peace and relaxation via kitten or spoke english may originally had more orchestral works in our festival with hundreds of people in the audience mentioned in public, on our but. but at the moment,

we're staging the festival with musicians who stayed behind them when for people who are in relative safety, somewhere in bunkers and in the subway and in warm come on in their albany. and the people of hockey, they are coming to the concerts despite the danger additional performances are planned for is, is this vehicle service which is hard to talk about? and i don't have a program concept in place for the coming weeks. vast morgan for sale. we don't know what's going to happen to morrow or even to day, but won't bombs fall there each night. not reducing the city to ruin it. but we're still trying to do something that is open up with watson, oregon festival. ah, for example, a concert in a maternity hospital in the audience, young mothers, nurses and doctors vitalia. lexi knock takes us along to the trinity

church in bon. he organizes projects here for refugee musicians from ukraine and galleries. together with his friend olga purchased chaos. oh, both come from bella. ruth, where they took to the streets of means to protest against the lucas shenker regime with another agent. now they're stepping in to help people from ukraine. of us are d m woodson and as i to be as far as the emotional side is concerned, there wasn't really time to cry or anything. i can sleep swine or those of you need to react if i get there isn't a time for reflection. it's a time for action on this. if it's i people need help now on my most. yeah, we didn't dwell on it to come gun. if we had, it would have been unbearable through knocked hits and us done very strong on that excuse. since the war began, alexi knock has driven several times to the ukrainian border. it's almost a 1000 kilometers away. more than 10 hours if the wheel, his photo showed that many bus packed with donations. here at the border,

he meets ukrainian refugees, often exhausted and traumatized after days on the road. and brings them to safety. in berlin, shut off within kingdom, gift call. i've also spoken to many children. oh, who vast, innocent questions such as, why aren't we at home diffract come or does this mean? we'll never go back to high success viet sneak mad through. come then another child said on the oh, i know that our house is being bombed right now. owns a house, it's got to run by the children are having to experience these things is it's really terrible. a leaving on this is not a freakish, a forceful valentin sylvester. that is perhaps ukraine's most famous composer of contemporary music. ready he managed to get to berlin from kiev. also. thanks to vitale. alexey knock ah, i see it. us be sir francis. once you reach the border, i picked him up there and his family. a few other people and a cat ins under philomena on knocking palm,

and that was the 1st time i met him shopping just before he got in the van and glance him auto. whether or not fordham auto says, i never would have imagined that a conductor would dozer fleeing war in a many less in i'm in that they then have to drive a 1000 kilometers together. so you might have found missing lou. give us a shot. he was extremely exhausted, but he talked well the here, how can they say he's 84 years old after all, and he still composing at this? ok then there he even did it during the journey. he heard the music in his head short on by the company, and once i brought him to berlin, he played it for us right away. um, thus got there and it was really very moving pads on the service. they say i ruined many other musicians. a still in ukraine from bon alexi knock is in constant contact with his colleagues in hockey. they're the constant

miss subway station provides a brief moment of hope for the children to be an events like this are we of hope. they help us to believe in the best to hope it'll all be overseen and things will be all right. but us good that life goes on because music and art are part of life there. the rays of light that help the soul survive the soon losing organizes plan to stage more concerts until the war comes to an end. ah, in russia to many are risking everything by calling for an end to the war. a growing number of artists and intellectuals are leaving the country in protest among them. russian prima ballerina august me inova. she's just performed in

a benefit gala in naples, along with ukrainian dancers and malay stars like anastasio garcia, one of russia's greatest literary voices is now living in exile too. will lose mila lit sky. our stay in berlin forever. will she never be able to return to moscow? can she start a new life at the age of 79? possibly russia's most important living writer. she left her country in mid march. her oldest son who lives in london, convinced her to let me necessarily feel threatened in others fits though and couldn't entirely understand my son's decision that i agreed. yeah. because i think he might be able to assess or, or the current situation a bit better than i do garcia. and i still remember when i sent my sons to the us, when they were old enough to be drafted into the army only resemble it. i knew i had to act fast for food. that was during the war in afghanistan. a bunch of us

were constantly having walls like that when it's sunny showed us listed him yesterday in a bunch of them. wellington, for 40 years, coorlet sky has been married to sculptor and painter, andre crossman, who also came with her to berlin. she was one of the 1st in russia to speak out publicly against the war in ukraine. it is necessary to stop the war that is flaring off every minute and resist. the propaganda lies fed to us by all media bullets guy has never been sparing in her criticism of russia's leaders and says, she's in good company. through my, among my acquaintances, i'm not even talking of close friends, but my white circle. i've never met a single person who would have agreed to this russian war in ukraine, not one. i should give no grey in any of these days though. those who dare take to

the streets to protest risk being beaten up or arrested. few are as courageous as the writer vladimir sir oakum, whose fiercely criticised the war more elaina co vasqua, who resigned his artistic director of moscow's meyer, whole theatre after the invasion. around the same time, many artists and intellectual signed an open letter of protest. but the letter and names of the signatories were quickly removed from the internet. the risks were just too high. them was on any of the chena. i don't have the feeling that to russian intellectual support, the low, but it's very difficult to hear their voices. o media outlets have been shut down. for example, radio echo of moscow i do and many other channels and platforms have been shut down . there is a voice of protest, but it is very difficult to hear it. ah, born into a jewish family who lived guy, i worked as

a geneticist before starting to write her books have been translated into some 30 languages in short stories and novels. she's depicted the great terror under stalin and the holocaust as well as everyday life in post soviet russia. her protagonists are mainly women. in this recent collection of stories, she writes about their daily struggles and the power of female friendships to receive russia is the country of very strong women everywhere, but in power, of course. but if this war is stopped dead, the more than it will only be the cause of women at the boot. the phenomenon, if it isn't the word, it will mean that those in power don't care. one iota about what women think about all this blue. it's a little more adventure, but we're bold. hewlett sky knows that the impact of this war will be terrible and

poison relations between russia and ukraine for generations to come. but she warns against ostracizing russian artists who have not distance themselves from vladimir putin such as world renowned conductor valero, give and acclaimed opera star on in the trap, co, criticized in the west for saying nothing at 1st. she then became persona non grata in russia when she spoke out against the war. ah, yes it does. look. i believe that every artist, like every person has a right to their opinion, their political one, to as some dinner, an artist should be judged by their work. if it's worth presenting or live and the artist should be worked with, though otherwise, then there is no need to know this number, but a person's political views are their own business is not the ciocca at their religion ill. she says, many russians only discuss politics and private behind closed doors. but that

doesn't mean the majority is pro war. oh, it's a good turn. the wars in us, the words very important that people here and germany understand that opinion in russia is not as unanimous as the government would like to present at my failure. gloria what i see is i've seen when it comes to the war a little now got a large part of the population, including bullshit with ordinary people and educated sectors for, for this and find it abhorrent in him. ah, you got the and it would be willing to go out on to the streets to stop it with us tonight here in berlin. let's go is constantly asked how she views the situation in russia now that similar. so you open which level which but i don't like this role at all that elim food, i would prefer to be a writer for and an observer of lines that susan, if so

a right to function is to observe and to write your yeah, i've never seen myself as an active participant in a process, a skillful, certainly not a political. one of them were, but life is now pulling me into politics and north of again, my will. don't believe me. jaeger, with political. oh, the susan puts me was a learner by it. miller lipsky is certain that she'll be able to write during her self imposed exile home, but she hoped to return to her home in moscow one day when the war is over. but what if your homeland lies in ruins like parts of ukraine, can sanctuaries be recreated for those who need it? most children traumatized by conflict, even before this latest war. a documentary about a children's home in eastern ukraine that had to be evacuated in late february. ah, december chest regions of eastern ukraine,

which have been contested for years now, are only a few kilometers from the lucy shuns children's home. i saw my abbey. a childhood of the youngsters who lived here were fractured. the children's home was their home when they had lost both parents or was their sanctuary from parents who had abused them. 11 year old kaya was given shelter here with his younger siblings. their mother is an alcoholic. ah, you got the name, my little boy, i let them go until i live on. in the documentary, a housemaid of splinters is a portrait of the home and the love and care it provided. people say children are

the future. but what kind of future can there be in a region where peace, all too often gives way to war? ah, the wall that has been going on for months more than 7 years now in this region it's, it's made that the social problems gets out of control with unemployment. and if you don't have the resources to lee just stuck there and then you stop death to seek a little bit of comfort in a drink. and that's what interest me not the tragedy, but actually you know, where is the hope in, you know, in, in the hot circumstances. ringback in late january the films, danish director, simon, the rang wilmont won the world cinema documentary directing award at the sundance film festival. but what is philip cannot tell us? is that 4 weeks after its world premiere, the home no longer existed for its children. it was evacuated on february 24th.

the day vladimir putin sent his troops into ukraine. it was disbelief and shock. i couldn't understand and that he actually decided to in bate or all of ukraine. i was just there, like a week before the invasion happened. the local authorities whole made these, they actually made the decision from the 1st day to dig them out. they were traveling from the east of ukraine in their train in the compartments like which, which originally should be for people in this one compartment. but they were like, 12 of them in one compartment you can imagine how was their reaction. and they said that in the half of the way they were told to sit down on the floor and to turn off all the lights, you know, because they were, ah, they have a fear. i mean them, adults has a fear that their chain could be, ah, shot by a russian army. in some of the children were 1st housed in the vive,

in western ukraine. in mid march. we met as it suffered off there. he's the co founder of the ukranian organization, voices of children. he took us to the temporary lodgings of the children who had been evacuated from the former home. here he's working to get them the counseling many of them need. when the kids listen to the says when kids have to run through the basement that you can't, you can't do it from the his brain. you can do it from the his memory, subway kid tickets, which they, the trauma of the 2014 war are resurfacing in the children of 2022 pictures. some children are suffering from depression, others from so harm, but that there's bag depression. our battery said at that by they cut themselves id as they stopped them, so she fired boy, they break their fingernails. it was directed their ridge inwards at. ringback they are a house of splinters, say the homestead of

a house of broken dreams. ringback shattered hopes shattered faith in the world. fragments that they with the children are now trying to piece back together. 2 ah donna, none, and then you choose the most important thing is for them to feel safe to night them each failure slowly starting to make plans you mentioned they are beginning to feel safer. double and more stable has been viewed of utsa. when the trembling in their hands is easy, i directed old you. meanwhile, all of the children had been brought out of ukraine. in ukraine, deaths are mounting among civilians to lithuanian documentary filmmaker montage vera. its lush was killed at the start of april. his films focused on victims of

russian aggression from chechnya to ukraine. his tribute to the long suffering port, city of money you poor, was screened at berlin's international film festival. he died in mo, you pull in a russian rocket attack. not long before the well known ukrainian documentary filmmaker and photographer mux livin was found dead in a suburban keys. he documented the invasion from the start o wars shaped generations. miss survivors have to live with their losses and memories forever. what helps their descendants is to talk about them or write about them, like spanish poet evita saturday. ah, you're good and amy. luckily i've never experienced war or civil war ways. but i mean, it's the worst thing that can happen to

a country. how terrible that neighbors and friends suddenly become enemies. with the law in is horrendous situation. the only thing that can give hope is love. now we got a virus. austria is a writer. slum poets and feminist, and the new voice of spain's literary scene. her debut novel is about the spanish civil war, which her grandparents lived through. she's one of many artists exploring this repressed trauma from the past. i'm a member of the history of my country. is i horton to me because the civil war was not that long ago and it shapes our society to this day. um and then other, so i mean, my grandmother is still alive, so she suffer greatly. also from the fact that much was repressed, are forgotten savvy,

and made you. i will tell them to guess. will fidela lose that has yet to he'll know, guess, goldman. i dilemma what other duster uses, flashbacks. the tell tale of undying love from the perspective of an elderly woman in days without you door as a teacher in 1930 spain, galas or student both or fervent supporters of democracy on the 2nd spanish republic. the spanish civil war broke out in 1936 after general francisco franco participated in a nationalist qu against a republican government. the nationalists declared victory in 1939 and franko was appointed generally simone. in the book, dora and gilles love helps them resist the frank lists. but in 1940 gail is executed and buried in a mass grave. hundreds of thousands of people were killed and disappeared, and frank of spain, after the dictator's death in 1975 and the transition to democracy,

there was not so much reconciliation a silence. many are still searching for their disappeared relatives today. it's important and it's important to see these old people, i'm you to imagine what they lived through. okay, again, my name's me. arnold. so ma'am, ma'am mazda, really? there are children during that war. and to this day, they've only been met with silence e g s. m. why dental, i'll be honest, they're dying with the pain of never having found the remains of their husbands or father's. it's so sad that he's there, but i saw him out of the on the grandchildren's generation like saw stroke. are looking for a new approach to explore the past throughout the various astra as a celebrated slum poet, thousands attend her performances such as hero, madrid, and she has half a 1000000 followers an instrument with

her performances. are like concerts, get in. i iss austro has made poetry hip again with my looking out the channels that answers my voice. young and i love with the are in the end only poetry can express the feelings so directly to the last woman, thousands of poets and thousands of style, a universe of emotional normalcy. and i am when brought about the gay gay file bell . you can't learn this sentimental education in any school as they love either. you know, they're still there. so now you know, got to know how to recognize your feelings and find an expression for them. and if he got lost in his mom and not have left, so they just put a saddle of them for sa strew. poetry is about exploring her own and collective emotions. her debut novel is about love and times

of war. it looks back on to the future, make one all said, given an old woman, came to a presentation of my book in madrid and thanked me maybe last without house. but as some, as molly said, that thanks to this novel, she had finally found a way of speaking to her grandson about the civil war that she couldn't do before. j. lynn, that i saw the book aroused his curiosity and they could finally talk about it. i was so pleased about that. do you want matthew? don't want the middle finger so many more than this. now the war passed and our souls seemed to age millions of years. we lost friends and the lives we had once had. but not the need to teach our children to yearn for freedom. mm ah. with that was arts 21 for to day. we'll be back next week with more music for the song.

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