to come to germany. oh my god, my license to work as a swimming instructor. you do so now i teach children normally don't stick with what's your story in take part, share it on info, migrants dot net. ah 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, blood from the, his memory, the music into life or use of lights to help the sole survivor who i leave today again tonight, dissimilar was not that long ago. and it shapes our society to this day. that would be what in this belinda situation. the only thing that can give hope is love and i'm on

whom 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,

the audience gather in a place where people have been seeking refuge or even living for weeks. a subway station, ah vitaly alexi north is the festivals artistic director. he lives in germany, so he had to leave the local organization to others. the of the a mac invite 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, i will continue to play music in varden hockey. the ukraine 2nd largest city has suffered devastating damage even during the festival. it's come under missile and artillery fire. but down here, people experience moments of peace and relaxation via kitten or strongly may originally had more orchestral works in our festival. with hundreds of people in the audience inch and in public home are but at the moment were 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 one come on in the oven and the people of hockey, the other 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 in each of us, morgan for sale. we don't know what's going to happen to morrow or even today, but what bombs fall there each night. not reducing the city to ruin it. but we're still trying to do something that has opened up with watson american 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 purchase. ah, both come from bella. ruth, where they took to the streets of means to protest against the lucas jenko regime with fever, theatre. luxury of now they're stepping in to help people from ukraine of us 30 and what's an aside to be as far as the emotional side is concerned, there wasn't really time to cry or anything. my gms id survive, or those of you need to react back there. isn't a time for reflection, it's a time for action. honestly it's, i have 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 market octets and us done very strong on it. i was curious 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 at 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, they shut off within kingdom, give call. i've also spoken to many children. oh, who? vast, innocent questions such as, why aren't we at home if i come home, or does this mean we'll never go back to heist us. we it's near to come. then another child said, andre. 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. it's really terrible. a leaving on this is not a victim of wasteful valentine, sylvester is perhaps you kinds most famous composer of contemporary music. he managed to get to berlin from kiev. also. thanks to vitale. alexey knock ah, let us be, sir francis. once he reached the border, i picked him up there and his family, a few other people and a cat ins under femina. on knocking brahmins, 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 get to know a composer fleeing war in a minibus. in item and that they then have to drive a 1000 kilometers together. so you might some found missing lou, give us a shot. he was extremely exhausted, but he hoped well to hear, how can they say he's 84 years old after all. and he's still composing at us. ok then, that he even did it during the journey. i heard the music in his head short on by the company. and once we brought him to berlin, he played it for us right away. um, thus got that one. it was really very moving kids on the square, vaguely sat ruined. many other musicians, a still in ukraine from bon alexi knock is in constant contact with his colleagues in hockey. ah, there the concert in

a subway station provides a brief moment of hope for the children to the events like this are ray of hope. they help us to believe in the best to hope it'll all be overseen and things will be. all right, so it's good that life goes on because music and art are part of life there, the rays of light that help the soul survive. we go the soon losing organizers 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 men of, she's just performed in

a benefit gala in naples, along with ukrainian dancers and ballet stars like anastasio go sky. one of russia's greatest literary voices is now living in exile, too. will lose mila lit sky. our stay in berlin forever. was 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 him necessarily feel threatened in others good thought and couldn't entirely understand my son's decision. but i agreed. yeah . because i think he might be able to assess for 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 america. i knew i had to

classical form that was during the war in afghanistan, but i took, as we're constantly having was like that. when his son, he showed his last him yesterday and i did my lincoln for 40 years collette 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. bullitt sky 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 why to circle. i've never met a single person who would have agreed to this russian war in ukraine, not one that she's give no great 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 who's fiercely criticized 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. the amazon and yet the chena. i don't have the feeling that russian intellectual support the wall. but it's very difficult to hear their voices o media out. legs have been shocked down. for example, radio echo of moscow i do and many other channels and platforms have been shut down . there's a voice of protest, but it's very difficult to hear it. ah, born into a jewish family who lives 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 is 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 in the power of female friendships guleski of russia is the country of very strong women play everywhere, but in power. of course, if this war is stopped dead the more than it will only be the cause of women at the word, the stern overland. 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 said no more adventure, but on board. who lipsky 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 valeri garrity, of 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. yes she does the gluten. 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 was presenting or leave and the artist should be worked with though otherwise, then there is no need to know the name of that a person's political views or their own business is another chill area. if they were listening 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 was, was 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 wall a little now got a large part of the population including brazil, 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 lit sky is constantly asked how she views the situation in russia. now that's similar. so you're pretty much lobo, which, but i don't like this role at all, and that elim food, i would prefer to be a right to form an observer of like that vision. if sewell,

a right to function is to observe and to right. do you. i've never seen myself as an active participant in a process, a skillful, certainly not a political longer come over, but life is now pulling me into politics. north of again, my will. don't believe me. deactivate political a. so someone puts me with a lender buy. it leads me la lipsky is certain that she'll be able to write during her self imposed exile, 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, but had to be evacuated in late february. ah, december test regions of eastern ukraine, which have been contested for years now,

are only a few kilometers from the lucy shuns children's home. i thought you might be a child. hoods 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, i love mine. well, i left the school to live on. yeah. 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 almost more than 7 years now in this region it's, it's made the social problems gets out of control with unemployment. and if you don't have the resources to leave your stock there, and then you start to seek a little bit of comfort in a drink. and that's what interests me, not the tragedy, but actually you know, where is the hope in, in, you know, in, in the hot circumstances. 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 film 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 this. 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 are, which originally should be 4 people in this one compartment. but they were like 12 of them. in one apartment 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. busy well, they have a fear, i mean them, adults had the fear that their chain could be, ah, shot by a russian army in some of the children who are 1st housed in the div in western

ukraine. in mid march, we met us at suffer 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 tip listen for the says when kids have to run to the basement that you can't, you can't do it from his brain. you can do it from the his memory, subway kid each day. the trauma of the 2014 war are resurfacing in the children of 2022 picture rhetoric. some children are suffering from depression, others from self harm, but that there's bad depression. our battery said at that by they cut themselves id as they stabbed them. so she fired boy, they break their fingernails as she was directing their ridge inward. ringback they are a house of splinters. 2 say the homestead of

a house of broken dreams shattered hopes shattered faith in the world. fragments that they with the children are now trying to piece back together. 2 ah, son, none that then you choose, the most important thing is for them to feel safe, that united them each failure slowly starting to make plans, you mentioned that they are beginning to feel safer and more stable as they been easier of utsa when the trembling in their hands as easy as i told you. i. meanwhile, all of the children had been brought out of ukraine. ah, ah, 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 my 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 suburb of keith. he documented the invasion from the start, moore's shaped generations. mister viber is 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 sa saturday. ah, you wouldn't deny me. luckily, i've never experienced you are or civil war. 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 his horrendous situation. the only thing that can give hope is love. now because i 0 saw street is a writer. slum poets and feminist and the new voice had 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 remember long history of my country is i horton to me because the civil war was not that long ago available and it shapes our society to this day am 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, salary and major. i will tell them to guess willfully de la cruz. that has yet to

heal no gas. goldman, i dilemma. what other industrial uses flashbacks to tell a 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 gale's 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 dictators 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 isn't better than then, and it's important to see these old people. i'm you to imagine what they lived through. okay. again, leaves me yeah. now, so ma'am, ma'am mazda, really? there were children during that war and to this day they've only been met with silence e g s m white and dr. young honest, they're dying with the pain of never having found the remains of their husbands or fathers. it's so sad that he is there, but i saw him at us young. the grandchildren's generation like saw stroke, are looking for a new which to explore the past throughout with a vigorous escrow as the celebrated slum poet. thousands attend her performances such as here in madrid, and she has half a 1000000 followers on the instrument with

her performances are like concerts get into and this is austro has made poetry hip again that let me with my move, i left my walking on center that is my most young and i love with the i in the end only poetry can express the feelings so directly to the next woman, thousands of poets, thousands of style, a universe of emotions on them. a few and i am when brought about dick a file that 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 what is more minutes or less so they just put a saddle of them for sauce tra, 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, like one of them had given an old woman. she came to a presentation of my book in madrid and thanked me maybe last without house, but as summer's mom. she 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 that gay lyn that i saw. the book aroused his curiosity and they can finally talk about it. i was so pleased about that you want to within a month on the longer so me, but on this the war path 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. a with ours 21 for today. will be back next week with more music for the

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