when and how the media will deal with it. how can we stay focused on what is important? shaking to morrow now. exploring opportunities for media professionals in times of crisis. google media for june 2020 to get your ticket. now. stay up to date. don't miss our highlights, the d w program on line d, w dot com, highlights with hello everyone and welcome to focus on europe. it's nice to have you here with me. there will be a really special party here in europe pretty soon, and it will be taking place in the united kingdom. that's because queen elizabeth

the 2nd will soon be celebrating 70 years on the throne. to put that into perspective, back when the queen was coordinated world war 2, had just ended 7 years earlier. and europe was still very much divided since then. she's been the undisputed symbol of great britain accompanying the union through all sorts of political changes. always dutifully and always in style. now, people throughout the u. k. are gearing up for celebrations in her honor, especially of course, in and around the royal buckingham palace in london. but what is it exactly about the queen that thou celebrate the most? for most brutes, it's either the queen's unwavering work ethic that has earned their respect or it's her passion for 4 legged animals, especially her dogs. the corgis, for most britons, the queen is simply a part of life. she has always been there and has always been the queen

elizabeth the 2nd has represented her people for 7 decades now. which means this is her platinum jubilee. she monarchs, contempt at there's a determination about had said to put on the smile on the work clothes, go out and do what she's got to do that she's maintained relations around the world, which i don't think there's any other person in the hall wells that has done so well at that most britton's adored the queen. but the veneration felt for her at this women's institute in south london is something special. the women's institute is an organization that has long been dedicated to giving women a voice just like our mother and grandmother. the queen is a member here under the example, must be all for tough to go open. baked beans such if he didn't like they'd been till some thinking it's hell feel. she's there lots of jobs that she probably didn't want to do,

but i'm but she does it. she smiles one and g georgina sarah and april meet regularly to do handicrafts in honor of the queen there, knitting the monarch's favorite breed of dog. the cordy for her jubilee and i want to work with me with unsafe slides associate the queen more with horses than colgate, but nonetheless, i'm quite happy to nick. very bad. corgis mind. they don't look really like coke is, but i've done my best. the queen is certain to love the idea animals, especially real life ones, make the queen happy. she can be observed cheering enthusiastically at horse races or chilling out with her dogs, which even had as a child there everywhere in the royal residences. even during

state visits, i knew april has always been an o of the queen. she started collecting pictures of the monarch when she was in primary school. she even met the queen once. when elizabeth the 2nd was inaugurating a building where her mother worked. even though my mom was just to cleaner, she stopped and spent them. she didn't just walk by and smile or anything. it was just she at. she stopped and spoke from his house and yeah, my mom was well impressed at that day with swiss star chef anton mosey man has met elizabeth the 2nd many times. he's one of her favorite shifts. sometimes after a banquet, she is even had time for a chat, allowing him a peak behind her, politely reserved for sat there. he thought, is he gonna gonzalez does. she's really something else and private. all she laughs and takes joy in life and then you can really talk to her, sir, say,

couldn't that back then in buckingham palace, but she, her majesty was there and i was with my wife leaking. i mean, if there were 3 of us it dixie and we had a wonderful 20 minute conversation moon, the bottom to halter the chef can also confirm that the queen is a hard worker. someone who is disciplined and tireless. incidence buckhead guide to start spawn, kept if there's a banquet called then she always comes herself to see everything is just right. very, very much a perfectionist esteem. he dancin, i give you a remote symbolic figure for most britain's yet nevertheless omnipresent for more than 70 years. the queen's just been and it's, it's a safety when all our lives change all the time. you've got to be a, the $72.00 have not known her the assembly as the mummy cries, ah,

the ladies of the women's institute are now distributing the corgi as they knitted in loving honor of the queen to provide personal charms and express owner for her majesty throughout the realm to eastern europe now where russia's war against ukraine is entering one of its most active phases. yet, russian attacks are concentrated primarily in the east and south of the country with some heavy fighting. also occurring near the major city of harkey and the neighboring village of moldova, among the people holding out in those places are natasha vladimir and the metro. at the moment, the ukrainian army controls the areas where they live. but they are now very, very cautiously trying to return to something like normalcy. ah, another russian missile could strike at any moment. thousands of hit this region in

the past days and weeks were on a rude easter far. keith, with ukrainian forces not far away from the front vines. the ukrainian soldiers are showing us the territorial gains each meet in recent days and the advances they're making against the russians. a video posted on social media shows the destruction of a state of the art russian battle tank. the soldiers proudly display the burned out, wreckage. loaded with the guys found out that a convoy was on the road thought they were back there. then they ran out with rocket launchers and finished it off me with a few kilometers further on the villagers of my load of up of long been worried their food supplies would run out. but now the 1st provisions, if seen in weeks have arrived. milk, rice, and flour. at the little store sales clerk natasha tries to make sure everybody gets their fair share. nearly every one is hungry. since the war started, my ladiva has been on the frontlines and often cut off from the outside world.

natasha's glad the fighting is over for now. what i would ali, we also need to work while the fighting was going on, but not full time. we opened up for 2 or 3 hours. people came into their shopping and then once the line was gone, we had to close. the fighter jets were flying overhead and we ran home quickly. i was so scared. oh, but the ha thraso. before the war, around 600, people lived here about half or thought to have fled, but nobody knows exactly how many russian forces are still not far away. every one here is afraid, they'll return. they were scared. so were sleeping in the cellar. the russians used melinda thought to launch dealing missile attacks against ukraine, 2nd biggest city hockey for 77 days. the village was surrounded by thundering,

artillery gunfire and death. for some time, a load of i was stuck in no man's land between the lanes. the russians appeared in late march to position their artillery closer to hockey. the villagers are no longer able to move freely. we meet the 70 secure latino. he's been stranded here since the war broke out. the route harkey was too dangerous. yes, really. was really serious falsity. only the ones able to drive to hack have to pick up supplies, could find out what was going on. this is the back of beyond. people call this the neutral zone. it's not on one side nor the other inside nature. so far we've barely had anything to eat. you can go to court. let's see mia heads over to the villages, woman. well, my lord of her hasn't had running water for several weeks now. he has to walk about a kilometer every day to fetch it. at the well,

he meets others estate behind their animosity towards the russians is growing. ya yahoo do sir, not only do i want him driven out a pull, i want them to be destroyed. you shall god to preserve and protect our soldiers, though do so so. but our convoy stopped once more on the way back to hockey runes and wreckage. as far as the i can see, the military spokesman wanted to tell us what happened here. just a few days earlier, delagarza legal in the convoy vehicles carrying civilians set out from here. they will sit on it a little. they were being evacuated. you still on barber on the hill as they were approaching this intersection, a tank open to fire on them. void in motion. they were shooting at these cars from over there at the civilian sort of multiple people were killed for thumping on

washing. but if i give shirley luna, the whole region has been hit hard leaving hundreds of deaths to mourn. but the russians have been pushed back from the city of hockey. for now they failed to take you crean, 2nd largest city. it's been under heavy siege ever since the war began. for weeks, the russians bombarded hockey's day and night endangering the lays of tens of thousands of people. the ukrainian military has been reporting successes from its counter offensive retaking village after village. and people in the region can breathe easily for now. but nobody dues, for how long rumors are flying, that russian troops sipping regrouping, preparing for a renewed assault on the city even so there are signs that people are getting on with their lives before the war. demitra was a web designer. now he and other volunteers on the far keep together initiative or

pitching into clean up, rebuild and restore a little bit of normality. his wife and daughter are in west ukraine in relative safety. does he intend to bring them back anytime soon? yes, no. for now, i told him to wait a while longer. of course they wanted to come back, but it's better if we wait and see how events shape up and then decide how to move on from there. hundreds of thousands of fled from harkey like the other volunteers. demitra is anxious for his family to return home soon. they're all hooping their forces will prevail, that the russians won't launch another attack and that they can eventually stop feeling for their lives. and for that to happen, europe needs to support ukraine even more. that is what raphael glickman, a french member of european parliament, has been tirelessly saying. glickman is something of a european lobbyist for

a wounded ukraine. and he's making a case for a european embargo that has been well politically charged. cutting off energy supplies from russia to the e. u. rafael glickman, french member of the european parliament as a clear agenda wherever he speaks, he's one of ukraine's most vocal advocates looks man, is calling for the you to stand behind ukraine and against russia. 100 percent russian president putin cannot be allowed to when he says about it, i won't take part in this war directly for the lease we can do is to stop financing . vladimir putins death machinery. lag on this is the eas. great feeling a yeah. even after the war began billions of euro's report into that war machine. and we can't seem to reach a consensus and how to stop that financing. it gets lots of support and social media. hundreds of thousands are following him. his speeches to the european

parliament get thousands of lakes. grandma, i think, how could we tolerate our ministers and heads of government working for the interests of russia? china is she walked with in an interview with deutsch avella. he emphasized how important it is to realize that to aid for ukraine is about europe's own future. in, you know, every time we act as though it's just about a single issue and a ukrainian question, a george and question, a serious question. no, it's a european question. them at the moment we don't accept the par relationship that is imposed on elected where the adversary level before. that's well understood or done. but if we do accept it, we've submitted to it nikki, these days looks man, has been lobbying tirelessly for ukraine's cause his dedication may have to do with his biography. he's lived in both ukraine and georgia, but he grew up in a multicultural neighbourhood and paris. his father was philosopher andre glickman, one of the 1st western figures to stand up for dissidence. caught up in the soviet

system. yvonne, my parents were always asking me to give up my bedroom to strangers, who didn't even speak french anymore. i hated having to give up my bed to people. i didn't even know the writer, but then i got used to sitting down to dinner with people who had a very dramatic personal stories. eventually, obama, it completely opened up the world to me. well, the whole world sitting at our table, yet, it was an incredible opportunity of her, where the e u parliamentarian has been ratcheting up the pressure on companies that are still doing business with russia, including total, the french oil and gas giant, a stop to importing russian oil, which continues to buy russian gas is oh wow, what we're seeing today with multi nationals like total for example would, is that political authority, me set a limit, but this private power then decides it doesn't agree with that limit that it's private interests. take priority with other total must be force of russia with an

total must be obliged to lee political authority. you were pretty criticism. directed at economic interests is not always well received in france. the government is ignore inducement, while total keeps quiet and hasn't responded to her request for an interview. sylvie mac tilly says glocks man's demands are too idealistic. searching pleasant disposition follows the spirit of the times. he let all of civil societies expect their companies to take responsibility for their actions. papers that would be a wonderful and generally positive development found these act. but let's be honest . i think if we put a stop to all trade with a moral regimes, we'd have to stop globalization immediately. mclamore yet is su grossman has even been accused of latin ukrainian president zalinski weaponized him in the battle

against putin gleaming, fluffy. lemme or i think in the past 80 years i do, the rationale for starting a war has never been less clear. and the total absence of any justification for this invasion has ever been clever. it has never been so obvious that the ukrainian government has done nothing to provoke russia who move back over to life . so, raphael guzman has no intention of toning down his stance until the war and ukraine is over. if russia's war against ukraine is ultimately decided, militarily, it will likely happen in connection with further deliveries of weapons to ukraine. and if those deliveries include tanks like the one right here than europe, governments will probably not have to argue very much about whether they should or shouldn't deliver them. that's because these tanks are mostly made of error.

they're like bouncy, castles, if you know those. and yet these inflatable weapons from the checked town of duction are actually effective in warfare. they will never fire a single shot, but they will hopefully attract a lot of attention in return in american made in the 60 battle tank growling over fields in the czech republic. from the drone footage, it's not easy to tell that this armored vehicle is mostly hot air, propelled by a regular car hidden underneath. but this is no prank. it's a product made by a local arms manufacturer with a difference. it takes less than an hour to build, not by assembling the parts, but by inflating them. and when it's done,

it looked surprisingly real to enemy recognizance, at least from a distance. laska, derby volcano, it's important in modern warfare that the decoy weapons can't be distinguished optically from the real one hobby not constructor. mr. broader what the company currently supplies needle armies. right now, there's high demand for soviet type equipment. although it's all very top secret, it's likely these inflatable tanks are heading to ukraine to fool the russian army . the company can produce 15 handmade tanks a month before the uniform in the review of the coin. but these are the various parts of a tank little bit here at automotive, after sewing them together according to the blueprint. so a lot of all you have to do is inflate it and then it looks like a real vehicle versus a little bit of it's not only tanks that are manufactured here, but

a whole arsenal of large scale military hardware. for instance, the as a 8 gecko surface to air missile system inflated in just 10 minutes. the price tag is $25000.00 euros. the manufacturer says built in heating coils can even for modern thermal cameras and radar systems below the getting put a value, some of the pilot carrying at an air strike as was retained to lose just we often hear pilot c. i wasn't sure if it was a decoy or real equipment, and that's the goal we want to achieve. but what do we want to confuse the enemy little but that's what gives us a strategic advantage. we'll reorder yolanda love ruling. the enemy is an each old battlefield tactic vehicle for him. it was successfully employed by american troops during world war 2 time or truck could be inflated ah, armor bull,

the german era inch little bernoulli technique is used to create fake positions to deceive the opponent on a rail tie, the german van mocked was led astray a few times by this troop of over 1000 soldiers known as the ghost army. according to former lieutenant general holland carter, the modern german boon as fair, also had a stock of inflatable decoys. to day these could be used to conceal arms shipments to ukraine. the miracle gaiden vessels, his grade in the ability to bring western equipment into ukraine, is after all, quite limited millennium. and we could possibly use rows are trained travesia in that regard. the idea of working with decoys dummies both to protect your own equipment and to make sure the delivery gets the ukraine. not certainly makes a lot of sense. it opened o'connor will come, he gloves his info. although such tactics might seem like nothing but hot air. to

the uninitiated lea experts are convinced who knows, maybe the term air force will soon take on a whole new meaning. here in germany a being openly homosexual or marrying your same sex partner that has been normal for quite a while. now it is literally no problem. but for stuff on deven boss who lives here in germany, it is. and that's because he was a member of a religious order in the catholic church, a church that not only rejects homosexuality, but whose employees who do come out should expect to lose their jobs. in some diocese, things are slowly changing, but catholics like stuff on here in germany are still struggling to reconcile their sexuality with their faith, but also with their profession. oh my god. to night it's going to be a vegetable stir, fry. now. steph. and even back in his husband, walter marcella castillo,

are cooking. it's everyday life. but for the former priest, it still feels special. looks good. i'm already hungry. stephan married his argentinian husband 6 years ago. yeah. oh, the fun fun. also. sometimes i still say, wow, it's just astonishing here. i'm here now. well, i'm with walter and together we cook together. friends come over lou. sometimes it still feels unreal, but then i feel so much gratitude to see that it's like this boy does so. so if stefan was a brother and a catholic religious order for over 25 years, he preached and taught in a church that rejects homosexuality. even though he knew he was gay. then his grandfather died and stuff on felt it was time to make a crucial decision versus the war hope there. arden's priest though you want to be a priest who hides part of his identity. tit or is this part allowed to exist?

i india. that is really, is part of you, does i something that can be talked about? i thought of something you can live with into stuff with without a guilty conscience and without fear or no wonderfully discovery isn't ladonna alex to hobb stefan decided to take a stand against fear coming out meant he had to give up his life in the religious order the nick berg had got her at ha, stefan has since set up regular prayer meetings for persecuted gay people, i make deep dusty co please allow christian churches to accept the same sex partners as part of your beautiful creation comes fruitful on name and ye the i'm so knocked on each of these services helps change things mental they take place. so people talk about the line to see it happening. horn hear about it does fossil. so hopefully it's will have a ripple effect as the so because it's, it will be that pastor and stephens community is supportive. they both believe that

the church must change. oh, amends ish baked, been, i guess there's no change. sure. sure. reagan with things are just hushed up or kicked out in the root up in japanese that's, that's something i'm no longer prepared to do the british done. oh, then i would start to look for people who were willing to live with the consequences. ones along with me on, oh, leave. some diocese are reacting. they say a person's love, life is private and cannot be used as grounds for dismissal from church employment . as great missionary going or it's not going faster, notion is not comprehensive enough law, but it's happening. what's going in the right direction in dealers? that's my impression and i talk people ha. 1 it stephanie in his husband, intially relaxed in her with friends. he stands by his decision to come out and has

never regretted it. madam wow. and that is it from us for this week. thank you for watching and as always, you can watch the entire episode online at any time at dw dot com on behalf of everyone here at dw, focus on your team, good by end until ah ah, ah, with

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