ah, discover the world around you. subscribe to the w documentary on youtube. with hello and welcome to focus on europe and we begin in russia where each may people marks the end of the 2nd world war in europe. now, festivities highlight the countries role as a great liberator from nazi germany. but now russia itself is pushing ahead with a brutal onslaught against its neighbor ukraine. heavy fighting continues, especially in the east of the country. russian forces have stepped up that

relentless attack on hockey, leaving ukraine. second city, devastated many smaller settlements across the east of the country, are also in ruins. and it's impossible to count the civilian casualties. well noble life, joy, happiness and laughter are, it seems a thing of the past. so it's bitterly ironic that europe's largest circus circus kroner for munich is currently hosting a number of performers from ukraine, including 30 artists who fled from the war. and when they step into the spotlight, they're a dazzling skills and laughter. but when the lights come back up, there's fear and uncertainty about what the future holds for the artists themselves and their families. ah, the bingo truth is taking the stage by storm with their acrobatic and dance numbers,

the performers make audiences go wild and music circus, crooning victoria village coast troop is from ukraine, where war is raging. but sometimes being in the spotlight helps take her mind of her worries, who move for a little while. yes, cuz i know i'm completely concentrated on what i'm doing in the movements choreography and music audience. it was hard at 1st. wow. mm. the performers were on tour when russia attacked ukraine in the middle of the night. nothing's been the scene since . now. i didn't want them ross of them. mm hm. i looked at my phone in the morning and had millions of missed calls and text. their bombing us wall has broken out different it same i missed calls from my whole family. i worry, it could go on for a long time for years. and i'm scared,

i won't see my family any time soon. victoria says the images from ukraine or devastating. her family lives into nipped new food, new about 200 kilometers from hart. it matter you pool. it's a region where the russian army now has the upper hand. victoria's parents and both her grandmothers live in unoccupied city. they don't want to be identified and photos as a fear of the russian soldiers. mr. gussie, at 15 victoria left home to attend to circus school in cuba. he spent most of her time on tour with the bingo troop. ever since. the young acrobat sir, like a 2nd family 25 year old victoria is the eldest, the others affectionately call her mom. i love when she's not on stage victoria's in constant phone contact with her own mom . she says she's never been as homesick as she is. now. you must. i feel

bad in li. everything's fine for me and i'm safe. but my family isn't precise. victoria's true, the 10 member circus band is also from ukraine. solidarity is important to this international and salma. since war broke out, so close, krona has opened his doors here in munich to relatives and former performers. 13 arrivals from the war zone are living here and they're welcome to stay as long as they need to free of charge. because we have that as i'm from helping each other out as a natural part of circus life. so you always help god, especially on tour. there are sometimes emergency situations through like right now . oh, come i live, we're one big family that's. that's just the way a circus works. oh,

munich is proving to be a refuge from many thanks in part to the circus. anna, a clover has recently returned to circus corona. she worked as a dancer here for 7 years before heading to the eastern ukrainian city of hockey. but a few weeks ago she and her 8 year old son timothy, had to flee the circus even arranged to pick her up at the polish border on us purple sylvia. madame eatable, our lights, water and eating, went out in khaki. it was really cold when the plains came with their bones, but that was the turning point for me because i knew i had to get my child out of their gretisca. then there's umbrella, the city blanca joe was he didn't do them. the truth is warming up for a performance. they're pushing on 2 separate shoes today. concentration is key. everyone makes a point of not talking about the war before going on stage. because victoria and her fellow performers fear for their country. iowa.

but she wanted a newbie to problem, you know, i used to have big plans in life. i always like to plan ahead. but now all i want is for the war to end and to see my family. i want to see keep i my favorite people . i want them all to be alive and okay. that's the only plan i have now. that of them will you think it will happen? see? yeah, yeah, i want to believe it. well. yeah. would you like me? victoria isn't about to let fear. slow her down. after all, the show must go on now in a very different no to be go to the dry and often baron landscapes of western spain and portugal, where not too long ago,

whole villages were wiped off the map when they were submerged below reservoirs. now, however, low water levels have enabled onlookers like parker via longer to see those same villages literally re emerging as the waters recede. the 71 year old can hardly believe his eyes. normally pock of year longer would now be getting wet feet. this was once a vast reservoir but has been drawing out and now his old village, once submerged, has re emerged. after that a party that was my grandmother's house, yet i spent my childhood here with my parents. my cousins, uncles, and aunts, emmy, barry, this was our house. it took everything to like of them were to this was the spanish village of us at 8 or located near the portuguese border. along with the

entire valley. it was flooded when the alta lin dose a reservoir was created for 30 years, the village had been submerged. the old fountain is still running if they've been them. yeah, boy, laguna, i don't, i think it in, but fish let you get back yet. i mean, i remember my grandmother and a girl coming here to fetch water a little me down. the girl splash water on her for fun. and she did the same pokey . they kept going until both were soaking wet. go yet their bucket out well summer, so damn a matter import copy. second, we'll get the people get it m baron on import. thou mccarthy. it's do pains the 71 year old that he had to leave his village, but he's also concerned by how much water levels have fallen if after night i was always a loss of water in the region. you still do. but now climate change is having a strong impact, roving climate change is to blame, would be and that means we are to believe our children. we humans, costless. and we just keep going as before all to linda, so damn,

was completed in 1992 at the time it was deemed a great feat of engineering. portugal built at right by the border. it's still one of the country's largest hydro power plants. eating. so martini remembers, when the dam was built, she's from portugal and understands the feelings of her spanish neighbors who had their properties flooded. but she says they have no reason to complain. but that, oh, well, we'll go from there. we'll to book it in. they were compensated, yelling, 8 as jelly. they received a lot of money, even for sandy's and chicken cape long. the rain allowed them to build big houses afterwards. rather roy's home with united cathedrals, paco's parents used the money to build a new home higher up to day poco lived there alone. all that survived of his old

village are a few momentos photos and his 50 year old home videos i'm getting on the water heater. i read you let me know they were rimming fancier. will anybody give me back my child to tell me? now, rooney on the path she hung out her own or rather than the fruit trees we still from . if you could pick it up in these memories of childhood foolishness are etched on my memory. if you take them away, what does that make me? nobody thought about those things you have got more. i've already the reappearance of oceleto has had a big effect in the community. earlier. javier silva runs a bar and restaurant and lobos for you. he says the dr. breadth of our is a real attraction. middle of the lady other than them or rather get it pulled up. we in the restaurant industry can't complain that i'm sure it brings back memories for the people i once lived in the village. olivia number like what has been great

for business number and still is the letter was when about on a lot of well we brazil. well, you see has yet research the town and made a special detour to see what's left or the reservoir. the dean is tourists is both fascinated and shocked by the sight. i never really took it into consideration how old dry the way they can be, especially because even in france and spain, i've noticed a lot of areas where they don't want any form of fire like, not even gone through a cigarette, but out or nothing. because i guess everything will catch fire cause it's so dry. the dry conditions mean fires like this one are common, as is drought. before they're pretty much he thought he had lost our history in our roots experiences the notice out of the sierra this is what i would have been better not to be compensated. you know, you could have stayed, and the village would have been full of life like before. he danced the reservoir

will ever again, some mergers, village for such a long time. he plans to keep coming here, searching for traces of the past. now homosexuality isn't exactly banned in turkey, but homophobia is wide spread. a members of the l g. b t q, community get little protection from discrimination. not surprisingly, given that the countries religious authorities view homosexuality as degenerate. some gay men enter into marriages of convenience with women to hide the truth. and in a new film, mustafa tells of the pain of having a long term partner who's married to someone else appropriately. it's called, this is not me. most of our lives and tyler bosher, a poor neighborhood of his temple. he moved here from antalya years ago. he was

attracted by the anonymity and the fact that many minorities live here in v in trans people. i limited because you that most of us as his family news, he's gay, but they ignore the fact. he says he can live freely entirely basha kim's and he doesn't or any, but he an explanation as well. so david bamboo lean deal, his neighbor also accepts them for who years mustafah moved to istanbul to be with his boyfriend method. but for both men, the relationship has involved a life of deceit and frustration. muscogee i, lately it shall be, took an estimate, grew up in a very authoritarian family and the guy was forced into an arranged marriage with a woman. he didn't love and out of jason. so savage, it, it was to make sure there would be offspring, lily, capitan's, widow. what about magnets? wife is in her, the de larry. his wife has no idea,

and so she doesn't show any particular feelings, though. i've met, she's a close person. she can't open herself to her environmental to a film about mr. fan, magnet premier to the east m bull film festival. meet by directors, goshen and catcher. it triggered a controversial to beat about a taboo topic, and turkey one is about gay men who marry women for the sake of appearances from the outside. they appear to lead what society considers a normal life in the phil mr. fan magnet are very open about their relationship unless i'm using goodness it says amazon omission oldest is to put it on shemelle mustafah 15 years ago. wow. yes. that's a long time ago. nobody close to me knows the truth. only mustafah mustafah is my

real family guidance. though istanbul remains a liberal city by turkish standards, society is becoming increasingly conservative and religious. lucifer news, many gay men who don't dare leave their wives, they fear being de soon by their families and even violence. is that that old company is that, that a family and society forced men to live hidden lives and to keep their homosexuality secret. they fear reactions. serious consequences is stumble has a lively l. g. b, teach you seen, including numerous, probably about $5000.00 racks and polish waters for jessie peralta. and we only know about 20 percent of the area of sea floor that belongs to poland on us population. cosca with 80 percent of the sea floor unexplored,

thousands of shipwrecks could be releasing toxic chemicals. most of the racks are from world war 2. 1 of the most toxic racks was discovered by benedict hats. the still got it was once an upscale passenger, steam ship before being reap us into a hospital ship in hitler's navy. it sank in 1943 after being struck by american forces. stuck you wish to blackie it on your ships and shipwrecks deteriorate? no, he is struck to the structure breaks apart to cheryl spun. this sona image shows the still got ship wreck and how it's turned into a field of debris on the sea floor. but the really frightening thing is while benedict hatch found surrounding the ship. mm hm. mm,

the researchers took samples of the sea floor. i'm brought them back up to the surface this dredging equipment is dripping with a black, sticky substance. oil from the state got shipwrecked. the oil is heavier than water, preventing it from floating to the surface. in said, it's been seeping into the ground for decades. rule out for good reason, on the verge of an ecological disaster. the team found over 400000 square meters of the sea floor to be contaminated with fuel. that's the equivalent of about 40 soccer bitches. that 80 year old fuel shows up on the surface as a trail of oil. it's just a question of time before it washes up on beaches. says to live on la, i've spent many years of my life there. as often gone for walked on the beach with

my wife to go. and when our granddaughter comes to visit, we like to take her to the beach plaza. it would be an irreplaceable loss. we couldn't go there any more from it. normally, tickets are usually the shipwreck explorer and his crew can't recover the toxic war debris. it's not clear who's even responsible for such a task which would cost millions most of the ships sunk in polish territorial waters. would german ah, other countries along the baltic sea like finland, sweden and germany have retrieved individual racks from the own territorial waters . but poland hasn't benedict hatch says does the lack of know how and so far? no one has taken the initiative so does the lingo just as a bad joke locally to people say you don't have to fry. this is from here in oil. any more info on because they already contain oil or latoya. so croton jobs,

most people only see water when they look out to see benedict hat has made it his mission to show what lies beneath the surface. now when the ball gets rolling, people get really excited. i'm talking of course about soccer. well, one place where they're very passionate about the great game is italy just a year ago that passion led to the creation of an italian national team made up of nods. mama mia said some, but the venture got the blessing of. you know, oh sister emilia gets the game underway. this is italy's national team of nuns. it's sisters against sisters football in the name of the lord.

god, i love football because it strengthens the community. mexico got see we're all from different orders. but here we're united as a team actually made so. and we have one mission or g. i'm your sister, amelia and regina against you. 3. okay. sister amelia has been part of the sister's football club for about a year. there are 18 nuns on the team age between 27 and 52. they train every sunday outside rome, but not every one has permission to play football no score. alquon is why they care center that out. unfortunately, there are some orders where the mother superiors have not been shown delight by the holy spirit to sandra some still think it's a sin to wear shorts or to play with a ball to cry. they don't think nuns should show their legs packed or a lassoed. i don't for 5 a that

a le gamble. but the sisters know they had the blessing of pope francis by playing football is simply following his appeal to not be old maids, but to engage in society. oh sister amelia lives in a convent close to the balcony, along with 12 others from her order lady. their mother superior supports their love of the beautiful game he had to have with us to see more kanto. i've played a lot of football in my life. i was a primary school teacher for 31 years. a green light played a lot with school children and the young people in the parish. i thought you, i can never resist. when i see a football quandary, dupont nor nam quoted is so what is he still intentionally kid? i don't catch for her part sister. amelia was not always catholic, but she always loved football. she even played center forward for

a top tier romanian team. she also had a fiance and preferred the stadium to church than one day a friend took her to mass. i seen her de la nun gave me her hand as it raised, lesaine joey acquiesced as fizzy joy and her smile touched me so much funny that i suddenly felt a calling inside me. and then for the next, she joined the comment at the age of 20, but she never stop playing football. for the nuns playing, and milan feels almost like a miracle there hoping that the god of football will be on their side for their 3rd match. their coach has complete faith in them. this is the i love it is. this is just plain so much enthusiasm. bennett, they have such a passion for fulfill rolo most were professional players on them, but south emilio to clean it. they found someone to give me a fresh opportunity, please. so and i say that i think it's opened up a whole new world for them to

a. this is a bad at the moon. that's certainly the case for sister anica who was a rising star in italy's top division until her calling. i quit my athletic career and said, lord, i'll come to you. but one day i want to play football again. that was 10 years ago . now i'm finally playing again. they're facing a team of former top 2 players from mun saw. there'll be no special treatment for the nuns. we want to win will play hard. after a quick prayer, it's time for kick off. with the opposition is too strong. with some loss possessions and failing to convert their gold chances, not even divine intervention can save them from losing $15.00 to $1.00. they take the result in stride for them. it's a joy to take part. great stuff. now it's time to blow the way so long. focus on

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