the remote island of saint hulu. it is a testament to the home of the of the islands waters. one of the many success stories from a bastion of biodiversity into sports may 20th on d, w. i must keep what gives us the strength to fight and not hatred. shouldn't all shut the washer lower. it has changed completely because now if since tear had them and it won't let me go where people go when this war against you can start there that it actually is starts. it started online before the physical at that with

that and what is the destructive force of war? due to human creativity, we made a ukrainian writer in exile and a palestinian syrian musician who played piano among the ruins of damascus. put 1st to a dystopian vision of the future when fiber warfare rings about an internet black out evermore ever faster, ever more complex, ever more vulnerable? with cyber attack this, i bought this medicine, i should say, as he had done moves once of a vase is fell asleep. varden,

it was now created for support in all over companies or processes or all of the corners are happy in all of the critical infrastructures and government services. everything was going on and that it wasn't appeared before that. but we are hooked on this network, wriggling on its fragile strands. what will happen if the strands break o darkness smiles for an? i've come to talk with banish science journalists as their penny, og. why described help a curiously dependent on the internet? we have become in her book, error 4. 04 seas was sleeping. everything is connected to the internet. and that means shots that means hospitals that mean every sort of public administration and government and services. every company, media, of course media companies,

everything is connected. so the longer it last, vic, the grade there or, or, or the more serious air the impact will be and, and we're not prepared for that. ah, ah, yet it would take just one push to topple it, all like a cyber attack. as we, as building the website in this mission league, you will not argue on the website before one can. or maybe i know scientists, you barnum of each site doesn't from cindy, no clinician here, if it was after and cyber undivided must see former eastern bloc countries are frequent targets of suspected russian attacks when this war against you can start there, that it actually is start it started on line before of the physical attacks. every

one was wondering, was gonna happen now, because we know that they had the russians were able to, to, to, to casa black with of the, of the electricity in route to, in ukraine to us as around 15. the internet can also be throttled by governments like early in the year and autocratic kazakstan, where it nipped in the bud oppositional uprisings by shutting down communications ah, and in india, in 20. 19. another problem is that just 5 companies now share 80 percent of internet traffic, making them all powerful. one mistake like with facebook in 20 percent of all users were offline, unreachable for hours and if he laughed annoy, configured, soon saw truth on him. also, given signs wasn't uneven. whatever, we'll allready many examples. it hasn't happened affect global scale,

but it has happen up at the massive scale. so equal happen at the global scale to morrow in 5 years, in 10 years or never. mm. our global village is dependent on the internet. it is our communication lifeline as as their penny aqua describes in her startling book and it is badly protected. more money is needed to ensure cyber security. now country is protected and thus thus huge. but the problem is we have connected everything because it's more efficient and cheap am even the german parliament was attacked. we need at nato of the internet says penny aqua elections have been meddled in us infrastructure. attacked was, it wasn't on our succulent mix up indolence and was ition behind the was the

west needs to act. she says we near the lines of mockers is, and i suggest that the use of the euro believes that i'm, there are these umbrella, although democracy will come. because we also need to oppose to authorities such as china or russia because their model is not our model. we the one censorship. we want free freedom and democracy values, people in the country, ukrainian writer, tanya about yatchuck left 10 years ago are fighting for her weapons or words. but these days she struggles to find the right ones. the island of ou saddam and northern germany, a haven of peace for tenure mother, chuck apiece. she really feels since the war started to the war against her homeland homeland ukraine for the last 10 weeks. she's been tirelessly speaking out against it. her life is in

a state of emergency. he stay off in the flu. i get up in the morning as if i'm rising from the gray. the screen isn't kill this or physically m. as if russian tanks were attacking my body and my login is gone and when i live in an improper, i'm leaving out of my sales case that such as a thrust. and i've been living like this almost 2 months or that's and, and there's no end in sight safer. the war overshadows everything, even though the author has lived for years in vienna, in safety. since the russian invasion tonya mal, your chuck has stopped writing literature in the war, the killing it doesn't allow for stories. she shelled her current writing project indefinitely. oh, i see o toys and also i'm dead html song and fun at the beginning of the war. i didn't yet understand what kind of effect it would have on me. the scans of me self cut as

i them each since i've seen this violence, i'm changed is it looks i can no longer imagine being able to write a poem. i'm unique for, for a novel. and what about or the, i'm a middle man laurie, but she's just been awarded the is it on literature price? the jury auditor for her miracle language and her specific perspective on europe and ukraine. i. she is marie reboot, took place when russia attacked ukraine from all sides. on february, the 24th at 4 am on my heart has been broken. all my colleagues are in the wall or a helping at the front. the words failed, the acclaimed writer. she was comforted by the head of the jury. polish writer

ordered to tortured the nobel prize winner who had nothing but craze for her. she's also this kind of author who is always going down into the ah, feeling he to do into the words, into the sentences and trying to see, worked through literature as, as something which is very complicated. malia chuck's latest novel is about the power of the past called the blue whale of memory. it's about the fragility of ukrainian identity, obedience, and fear. the artist is smiling. here is my main emotion, man, everything that i've done in my life. everything i've said or written has only come to be by overcoming great fear and fun. and i would love to be as career is as many ukrainians at the moment and when were taking up arms and fighting on does if he can ah, published in 2019 the novel charts, the life of historian, an activist,

voucher slave lipinski who in the early 20th century, fought for ukrainian independence and failed. what a booklet sheds light on ukraine's resilience to day england, as during the 1st hours of the war, i thought maybe it's the same again but, but there's a big difference that was immediately apparent the thought saw him, he saw the ukrainians, and no longer victim death these are opposing but fight info for her. ukraine is cast off its historical victim and her own friends are fighting an entire generation is under threat month if they don't. people don't understand that ukraine's entire cultural elite is on the front line leg that publishes the writers . musicians, artists describe elements there in the war. and if they all die went, went and they were there, nobody left them lip. this me, mom. now. what's maria?

chuck doesn't only want to think about how much is at stake. she's holding fast to a last shred of hope. in these m l m, i don't want to live in this misery. that's why i have been myself to think about the future lincoln yet. right now it's important to be in the present to i to act, to speak to ask you to write to cry. and so everything is possible. you see the time is now it, every day of successful defense means the end of the russian empire. but though it did this end of the scene, petnum, so some optimism against the odds in lebanon. the deadly bay route port explosion in 2020 claimed lives and caused blasting socio economic problems. many left the country, artists who remain are determined to salvage its literal identity. the massive explosion in the port nearly delta deathblow to culture in beirut. the

music conservatory was heavily damaged, shrapnel piece, double bases like ara is hardly an instrument, survived unscathed. but the once beautiful. now wounded city is rebelling against the attack on its culture. against the silence. with portraits along the road side, lest the more than 200 dead be forgotten, and with sounds thanks to a donation of 16 pianos. music is now returning to the conservatory. oh, this is so small sign of resistance against the moral decay of the country to this day. those responsible for the explosion in the port had not been brought to justice. political cronyism blocks all investigations to you just replace your shake it. i would say that every scholar, every musician, every politician, should fight in their own way to oppose the theocracy of the last part of which is supported here, by his whole us. if we know to savannah,

our real mission is to defend the cultural identity of lebanon, offend to please others, to preserve lebanon is still feeling the explosions aftershocks in the worst economic crisis in its history. the lebanese pound has lost 90 percent of its value in the last 2 years. inflation and poverty are rampant tens of thousands, a leaving the country among them many artists and academics. the n g o ability wants that lebanon's cultural heritage is in danger. as the best minds turned their backs on the country, that's the night where all the sectors are losing it. they are being it driven out of the company by the financial crisis. and the loss, as i said, the loss will be enormous. and at a baby, we cannot replace it, it will take us years to replace them. not everybody is going, and bay root remains. the liveliest, freest city in the arab world is

a hunger for distraction, pleasure and culture. theaters of packed people make fun of the corrupt to lead and continue to celebrate their freedom. i shall be long suit and move here. so the lot is positive about what's happening is that the atmosphere, the population is changing moment. hello. there is no quality of resistance. of course, we're all heavily affected by the crisis men and what i think new artist emerging from the suffering pad and i saw a d j, and lebanon smith, famous rock singer, would agree that the crisis has acted as a catalyst for art. he chose to return from voluntary exile in paris to the chaos of payment. and this city will forever have life. he can,

you can have all of your to buy and all of your so the radio, but you will never have the soul of the city. you'll never have to sold at the city house and i've been to paris have been to berlin. i've been all over europe. you don't have what we have. there is an urgency, urgency of life here. that dictates the way you live, the way you love the way you do music, the way you do anything. you do it with such an urgency because you do not know if you're going to be a left tomorrow. he compares bay route to a drug habit. it's impossible to kick it's highly addictive. you can go any way with all the board. anywhere. this is another word. the clock in nodded months whose apartments stopped working when the blast happened. but in bay root time never stands

still. in 2014, amid the devastation of the syrian war, i am off mod, found solace in music. iconic images of him playing piano among the ruins of damascus, went around the world. ah, ah ah, sir, i am off mud music brings back memories, memories of his home, which was devastated by the syrian war. and though he now live safely in germany, he is conscious of the fragility of peace. we don't can imagine it's such a time how it will be our life next year with fulton and politic or cry in your bucket. i says, oil, i cry says i'm the oldest i him off my drew up in

a refugee camp for palestinians. and yar moke, near the syrian capital, damascus, he studied music and says he was happy. but then the war began. he began playing piano in the war, torn the streets of syria, and became famous around the world as the pianist and the rebel. oh, so he wanted to convey a message of hope, despite the suffering and pain in the animal. when i was using my piano at his radio because we don't have electricity. we have, we don't have any people to ride down to thought on. looks like this was, this is was at a julia woke, but in 2030, when i asked so called islamic state to control of your mac and burned his piano. he had to flee, leaving his wife and children behind. it was too dangerous for them to take the balkan route towards europe together. but he, i am, i might have written

a book about his experiences, which has been translated into several languages. it was a year before he saw his children again, but because of his fame, the bureaucratic process was faster than it might have been for other refugees. ah, i am might have made a new life for himself and his family. he was also able to bring his parents over to germany. he has huge empathy for others, forced to flee their homes. but he also has some resentment. let's speak about it. if you geno came from brooklyn, it's fantastic. what do we see from poland? how they take all those sort of fiji. they treat him. alyssa, bravo, sister, about this is, was not for the scene of people in hungary where we was a criminal distance from the window where we was passing the street to come to us

to australia. but why some time we are treating that they are or if he's you, we have a water, they have a war. but i saw extremely happy for the people in all korean because they lose everything to stand with euro. his violinist father had his own musical instrument shop, and yar mac he made the instruments himself in also taught his son to play the piano as a young boy, i some says playing with him is an honor. ah, without my father i with ah, ah

ha, i am asked mad is currently recording a cd which will feature different genres. he's looking to the future and wants to leave the trauma of war behind him. ah ah ah, these days he wants to concentrate on playing music and building cultural bridges. he is it from me up on cheese from germany, but they leads us in lot. maybe they spin at dordy me fall so on here on the he had a, b, c, d, and he had of that but i'm out of here. read them all. i speak all new because he don't somebody the lot. i speak with madison and then him when the beat on looks like that and scold fantastic. and this is what every time i discuss about to be free with the music and to free them with music. his hope is that he won't just be

known as the pianist in the rebel, but can share a stage with other musicians from a wide range of backgrounds. ah, long before the war, the internationally renowned ukrainian artist, art young, val keaton, painted stark images of violent explosions, images that are more powerful than ever as his country suffer, sustained rush and shelling at the wheel archibald kitten, one of millions of ukrainians who flit the war this footage was taken on the road by his children. they had to sit in a car for 5 days, often for 16 hours straight as they made their way from ha keith across ukraine. gloomy viola and almost all. and then when we were finally standing on the bridge

to moldova, we heard the warning sirens serrano, jacobo now they were behind his credit. on the ukrainian side, you were ritual or it was very frightening. and i thought, now they're going to get us. now that was only once we cross the border that we could relax a bit lower cartoon style alicia. in the meantime, the family has found a place to stay in an arch julia in germany. village. ethan has 4 young children, meaning he was not required to serve in the army and was allowed to leave ukraine. the trauma of the bomb striking huck even still haunts the family. was 3rd witcher, the windows shuttered my boards. those are to love with the wash of the shaking that i will never forget. i'll am even in the basement soon of we could feel how everything around us was quaking and shaking. it was horrifying whenever you move,

when it was clear, then it's time to get out. that's how it was or stuck. we met our timberly heathen in how he been late 2014 in his studio. back then he was prepared to the aunt, be another in venice, the might on revolution, and the occupation of crimea where his wife is from cape his work, new impetus. the subject of this work is in fullest conformity and heter on a me he has created launch format, oil paintings, a violent explosions, a series called irreversible beauty. ah, that came over to them as a natural phenomenon for an explosion as an instant of radical duty. and a disaster in human hon. you're ordinary in your conduct preoccupied me here. come

ah sir. your ritual with a new have actually experienced this myself. young, sheltered in my body and i see it's horrible. my children sosa, the follow kittens had to leave everything behind when they fled. ha, he, their home parents, pits, an audience art. by the way, her, albeit many of my paintings are stored in collections and museums of, but we latest works are still in my studio wednesday. it's have i'm here. this is what i have left of elmira was a picture of my smartphone. william all smartphone you. aah! cham follow kittens. korea is flourishing. he exhibits in ukraine and around the world. he was painting every day, finding inspiration in the natural world. virtually

with the moment, calais vats moments when the sun goes down to what goes on with colors, korea, these last shimmers is actually the way to settle when you look into bright sunlight starts discovery showing the glimmer. colleen when the after image that it leaves and the i thought it breathed keenly watchman with an awesome all alive in shaneesa. this issue to cash only painting can capture that you push our show because our wishes and colo. marsha, that's what drives me a little to lot to paint job, to paint lights, commodity that helps keep me positive and serene, which are the rays of the sun and how they manage again and again to penetrate dark threatening clouds. there's hope and that la

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