world go to school. ah, we ask why? because education makes the world more just i make up your own mind. d. w, made for mines. ah, 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. 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 caused troops 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, i am completely concentrated on what i'm doing in the movements choreography and music audience. it was hard adverse. 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 at the museum, i looked at my phone in the morning and had millions of missed calls and text. their bombing us. wall has broken out from my miss schools for 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 in deep new who'd know 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. this is ashley. at 15 victoria let whom to attend to circus school and keith. 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 is the eldest, the others affectionately call her mom. i love when she's not on stage victoria's constant phone contact with her own mom.

she says she's never been as homesick as she is now. not i feel bad in the everything's fine for me, i'm say. but my family isn't precise. victoria's true? the 10 member sir, his band is also from ukraine. solidarity is important to this international and psalm. since war broke out. so close corona 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 dozens, i'm for helping each other out of the natural part of circus life. so you always help god, especially on tour. there are sometimes emergency situations through like right now . oh hm. i like we're one big family that's. 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 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 mother 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 there. could teacher sca none of them, bella, vista, bianca? was he just the troop 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 keith. 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 think it will happen soon? 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. ha! 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 pack o 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 drawing out and now his old village, once 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 in this was our house. it took everything, but like i said, we're to this was the spanish village of us at either 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. if they've in them. yeah, well, i go, no, i don't. i think it in thought is that you get basic yet. i my, 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 book. they kept going until both were soaking wet. go yet their bucket out well summer. so it doesn't matter in, for lack of a 2nd will give you a bulky it m baron on an 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 is faster than i thought it was always a loss of water in the region. you still do that now climate change is having a strong impact. loving climate change is to blame, would give and that means we are to believe 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 at right by the border. it's still one of the country's largest hydro power plants eat in a. 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 i had a little girl who causes me to beginning they were compensated delegated jelly. they received a lot of money, even for sandy's and chicken cape long, the wine allowed them to build big houses afterwards. as eloise home with the head of cathedral 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 are what i read. you let me know they were rimming funky. will anybody give me back my child to tell me? now, rooney on the path she hung out her own. not a lot of in the fruit trees we still from. if you pick it up, you know, these memories of childhood foolishness are etched on my memory for you. 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 and lobos for you. he says the driver, breadth of our is a real attraction. lost 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 shall be in them. like what has been great for

business and still is the letter was when obama thought them, well, we both are not. well. you see gus young reassured the plan and made a special detour to see what's left or 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 there 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 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. he had noticed that 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 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, more staffer tells of the pain of having a long term partner who's married to some one else appropriately. it's called, this is not me. most of our lives and tyler basher, a poor neighbourhood 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, his gay, but the 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 lately, 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 sundown mckesson. so savage, it, it was to make sure there would be offspring, lily capitan's fiddler was about magnets. wife is in her, the de larry,

his wife has no idea. and so she doesn't show any particular feelings like math mit . she's a close person. she can't open herself to her environmental to a film about mr. fan, magnet premier, to the stumble, 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 film, mr. fan magnet are very weapon about their relationship. unless i'm using goodness in some back us again. omission old. this is what it shemelle mustafah. 15 years ago. wow. yes. that's a long time that it is 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 that old company is at the 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 are 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 says that they're hidden lives can cause trauma and psychological problems to the womb with. children are unhappy, wives to them. 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 neck met. 2 is taken steps forward. hello dhl, 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 tilted 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. bennett, a cat on the right and his crew are approaching another shipwreck, an old sunken submarine diversity. they scan it using sona. equipment of the therapy germans are now moving over the rec along the submarines. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, couldn't put wagner go. starsky, stuff in missouri, a chuckle, pinch addition to that. there are probably about $5000.00 racks and polish waters for just to proto 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 wrecks was discovered by benedict hats. the still got it was one's an upscale passenger steam ship 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 struck to the structure breaks apart. dr. 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 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 or on the verge of an ecological disease masters night. digital the team found over 400000 square meters of the sea floor to be contaminated with fuel. that 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, 2 girls. and when our granddaughter comes to visit, we like to take her to the beach plaza. it would be an irreplaceable loss of 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 racks from the own territorial waters . but poland hasn't benedict hatch says there's a lack of know how and sofa no one has taken the initiative. so that's excellent sir. just as a bad joke locally to people. so you don't have to fry this is from here in oil

anymore on because they already contain oil. i latoya so crooked mazata. 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 nuns. mama mia said some, but the venture got the blessing of. you know, oh sister emilia gets the game under way. this is italy's national team of nuns. it sisters against sisters football in the name of the

lord. ah. i love football because it strengthens the community. i think on it i got you were all from different orders, but here the united as a team actually made so. and we had one miss annie, archie, i'm your 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 everyone has permission to play football book on the score alquon as to why they care center that out. unfortunately, there are some orders where the mother superiors have not been shown the light by the holy spirit of sand, blah. some still think it's a sin to wear shorts or to play with

a ball and to cry. they don't think nuns should show their legs packed or a lassoed. i don't for 5 a that a elegant me. 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 vatican, along with 12 others from her order. maybe their mother superior supports their love of the beautiful game. he doesn't have to smoke until 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 quantity do. but normally am quoted is 2 and what is his to look into? to nicky 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 da and none gave me her hand. as it weighs blessing jewelry, i pushed the fizzy joy and her smile touched me so much the feeling 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 there hoping that the god of football will be on their side for their 3rd match up. their coach has complete faith in them. really? his yeah, the movie, this is yeah. the sisters played with so much enthusiasm, benny. they have such a passion for fuko rolo, most professional players and no, but south emilio to clean it. they found someone to give them

a fresh opportunity plate. but so, and i can like, i think it's opened up a whole new world for the e. this is a bad at the moment. that's certainly the case for sister anica who was a rising star and 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 last 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 stuff now it's time to blow the whistle on focus on europe is ty brown for now bye bye. chokes, and all the very best with ah, ah, with

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