its members thank for wasting my white supremacy. what we're talking about here is not only disorganized violence, it's not only terrorism. it's politics. found it over 150 years ago. it's repeatedly died out, but always been resurrected. the ku klux klan starts may 11th on d. w 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, there are a dazzling skills and laughter. the 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 munich circus. crooning victoria village coast troopers from ukraine where war is raging. but sometimes being in the spotlight helps take her mind of her worries. who move for a little ha. yes. i am completely concentrated on what i'm doing in the movements. korea, graphy, music audience. it was part of us. wow. mm hm. 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 amino and i looked at my phone in the morning and had millions of missed calls and text, their bombing us. wall has broken out from say, my miss schools for my whole family, the window. i worry it could go on for

a long time. for yes, 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. she 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 as 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. not i feel bad in li. everything's fine for me and i'm say, but my family isn't precise. victoria's true, the 10 member circus band is also from ukraine. solidarity is important to this international insomnia. 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. that's the ahead. that's as i'm for helping each other out of a natural part of circus life. so you always home either especially on tour. there are sometimes emergency situations through like right now. oh. um i like were one big family. that's just the way a circus works. oh. unique

is proving to be a refuge for 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. will not stop all severe madame eat, you blow our lights, water and eating went out in khaki. it was really cold when the plains came with their bones. that was the turning point for me because i knew i had to get my child out of their creatures sca them of similar beastie to bianca joe was he dental? 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. and she, i mean, but she wanted us to raise and libby did bubble and you know, i used to have big plans in life. i always liked 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. you said as the only plan i have now that of them are you, do you think it will happen? see? yeah, yeah, i want to believe it. well, there had you admitted victoria isn't about to let fear slow her down. after all, the show must go long. her now in a very different note, we go to the dry and austin,

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 pac via longer to see those same villages literally re emerging as the waters recede. the 71 year old can hardly believe his eyes. normally park of year longer would now be getting wet feet. this was once a vast reservoir but has been drying out and now his old village, when submerged, has re emerged. after that a body that was my grandmother's house, yet i spent my childhood here with my parents. my cousins, uncles and aunts emmy, but him, this was our house, it through and everything. but like i said, 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 auto endorse, a reservoir was created. for 30 years, the village had been submerged. the old fountain is still running. it's vivian, let me away, let go. no, i don't. i think it is. but is that a good basic yet? i mean, i remember my grandmother and a girl coming here to fetch water a little eat out the girl splash water on her for fun. and she did the same one pocket. they kept going until both were soaking wet, yet their bucket go out last summer. so it doesn't matter what like i with that going will give you people keep it m baron only important our mortality. it still pains the 71 year old that he had to leave his village. but he's also concerned by how much water levels have fallen. it faster night, there was always a loss of water in the region. you still do that. now climate change is having a strong impact. grovee climate change is to blame would be and that means we are

to blame our settlement. we humans costless, and we just keep going as before. auto linda, so damn, was completed in 1992. at the time it was deemed a great feat of engineering. portugal built it right by the border. it's still one of the country's largest hydro power plants. eat in a sal martinez 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 of one who caused this winter booking they were compensated, delineated jelly. they received a lot of money, even for shanties and chicken gave long to run out, allowed them to build big houses afterwards. as eloise homer, the head of cathedrals, paco's parents used the money to build

a new home higher up to day puck lives there alone. all that survived of his old village are a few momentos photos and his 50 year old home videos on the water heater. i mean the, the boarding function. will anybody give me back my childhood, helena rooney, of the path she hung out her own. not a lot of in the fruit trees we still from it could pick it on these memories of childhood foolishness are etched on my memory. so yeah, if you take them away, what does that make me? nobody thought about those things. you'd have cushion nor have already the reappearance of oceleto has had a big effect in the community. javier sylva runs a bar and restaurant in lou abuse for you. he says the dr. breadth of are is a real attraction of the lady on the dilemma. rather get it pulled up, we in the restaurant industry can't complain that i'm sure it brings back memories

for the people who once lived in the village. olivia now like what has been great for business with them and still is the lead up with one about another. well, we brazil. well, you see just yet do you charge the plan and made a special detour to see what's left of the reservoir? the danish tourist 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 neither night go and throw a cigarette, but out or nothing. because i guess everything will catch fire because it's so dry . the dry conditions mean fires like this one are common as is drought. before they're pretty much you study amongst our history in our roots experiences. he noticed that on 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, the merchant's 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 widespread. 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, more staffer 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 basher,

a poor neighborhood of his stumble. he moved here from antalya years ago. he was attracted by the anonymity and the fact that many minorities live here in key in trans people. i limited because you that must have a says his family news is gay, but they ignore the fact. he says he can live freely entirely basha kim's, and he doesn't owe anybody an explanation as well. so david bamboo lean deal, his neighbor also accepts him for who years muster. farm moved to istanbul to be with his boyfriend method. but for both men, the relationship has involved a life of deceit and frustration. muscogee very lily, it should be took, an estimate, grew up in a very authoritarian family and he 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 fiddle. what about magnets?

wife is in the to the valley. his wife has no idea, and so she doesn't show any particular feelings that 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 and bull film festival, meet by directors, gucia, and catcher. it triggered a controversial debate 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 film, mr. fan magnet are very weapon about their relationship. i don't want to let them use them. again, this is done by some guy or mission old miss was to what it. i'm shemelle mustafah 15 years ago. wow. yes. that's

a long time that nobody close to me knows the truth. only mustafah mustafah is my real family items. 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 disowned by their families and even violence. is that the little tough? isn't that better? family and society forced men to live hidden lives and to keep their homosexuality secret. they fear, reactions, serious consequences. a stumble has a lively l. g. b. teach you seen, including numerous clubs, most of all often comes here with his friends, is a place to feel safe from the hostility of mainstream society.

it took years for producer and director carter gulshan to gain the men's trust in or to make the film. she said that they're hidden lives can cause trauma and psychological problems to whom with children are unhappy, wives too. and they don't know about the husbands parallel life. are they think perhaps that they are being cheated on that but not with other men? then marriages are in crisis, but the wives don't know that they are victims to what a lot of mustafah felt liberated after the films premier and mcmurry 2 is taken steps forward. hello avelaire. a good at the shonda last i heard is that he wants to get a divorce till now. he's always hesitated because of the children he. she old tentacle . most of our hopes that soon there won't be any more barriers to the 2 of them

living together. now during world war 2, the baltic sea in europe's northeast was the backdrop for massive fighting. as a result, the sea bed off the coast of poland is a burial ground. for countless ships, many were carrying large quantities of fuel oil and doesn't toxic materials. and now mariners fear that the wrecks off the coast of poland in good dounia could cause an environmental disaster. benedict cat on the right and here crew are approaching another shipwreck, an old sunken submarine diversity. they scan it using sona equipment of ubs therapy. germans are now moving over the rec, along the submarines. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, couldn't put bud nego. funky stuff in missouri, chuckle, pinch, addition to that. there are probably about $5000.00 racks and polish waters for just 2 peralta. and we only know about 20 percent of the area of seafloor that

belongs to poland. us population cosca with 80 percent of the sea floor, unexplored, thousands of shipwrecks could be releasing toxic chemicals. most of the wrecks are from world war 2. 1 of the most toxic wrecks was discovered by benedict hatch. the still god was once an upscale passenger steamship, before being repurposed into a hospital ship in hitler's navy. it sank in 1943 after being struck by american forces. stuck you. we're sick of lucky little your ships and shipwrecks deteriorate to know is through the the structure breaks apart to cheryl spun. this sona image shows the state 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 with the research as 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 ship rack. 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 reasons or on the verge of an ecological does asked her, i just love 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. crystal devonne la, i've spent many years of my life there as often gone for walks on the beach with my wife, 2 girls. and when her granddaughter comes to visit, we like to take her to the beach, florida. it would be an irreplaceable loss or 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 were german other countries along the baltic sea like finland, sweden and germany have retrieved individual wrecks from their own territorial waters. but poland hasn't benedict hatch says there's a lack of know how and so far, no one has taken the initiative. so that's excellent,

sir. just as a bad joke. typically 2 people say you don't have to fry the system here in oil any more on because they already contain oil. i latoya, so crook, nevada, 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. and so he 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 nuns. mama mia said some, but the venture got the blessing of you know, who o sister emilia? gets the game under way. this is italy's national team of nuns. it

sisters again, sisters, football in the name of the lord. god, i love football because it strengthens the community. i think we're going to get you. we're all from different orders. but here we're united as a team that going made so. and we have one mission, an orgy. amelia sister amelia and regina against g 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, nascar al corneus what a care center that out. unfortunately, there are some orders where the mother superiors have not been shown delight by the

holy spirit to santo. some still think it's a sin to wear shorts or to play with a ball to cry. they don't think none should show their legs or a lie. so i don't know if i have a that a legacy, but the sisters know they had the blessing, a top francis i playing football, the 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 attempted to see more canto. i've played a lot of football in my life. i was a primary school teacher for 31 years green. i played a lot with school children and the young people in the parish. i thought i can never resist when i see a football. when do they do? pardon me? i am quoted as to what it is to look into

a chimney 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 though, and none gave me her hand till as it raised lesaine julia cristo sissy joy. and her smile touched me so much funny that i suddenly felt a cooling 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. they're hoping that the god of football will be on their side for their 3rd match. their coach has complete faith in them. really? his dad is a movie. this is yana sisters. play with so much enthusiasm. bennett. they have such a passion for football, rolo, most professional players i know,

but south in lieu to clean it, they found someone to get a fresh opportunity plate. so unlikely that i think it's opened up a whole new world for them. 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, a former top 2 players from monta. there'll be no special treatment for the nuns. if we want to win, we'll play hard with 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 to one. they take the result in stride for them. it's a joy to take part. great, so now it's time to blow the way so long. focus on europe is time brown for now bye bye. chokes, and all the very best with ah, ah, with

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ah oh, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine says russian forces have the gun storming the as of steel plant. hundreds of civilians are believed to still be trapped inside their hopes. now pinned on a new russian from us for a ceasefire to allow them to leave mario full safely. also coming up how the war in ukraine is leaving more people than ever facing salvation. rising food prices are combining with extreme weather patterns for

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