a miss with discover the world around you. ah, subscribe to w documentary on youtube. ah, ah, ah, 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 spirits, 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. ah, 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 that 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. she's maintained relations around the world, which i don't think there's any other person in the whole world 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 her mother and grandmother. the queen is a member here under the example, must be all for tough to go open baked beans and she, she didn't like baked beans till something keen. health feel. she's there lots of jobs that she probably didn't want to do, but and that 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 corgi for her jubilee on what you were with me on 2 slides associate the queen more with horses than colgate, but nonetheless, i'm quite happy to nick. very bad cog is mind. hook, 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 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 a cleaner, she stopped and spent them. she didn't just walk by in smile or anything. it was just she actually stopped and spoke from his house and he and my mom was well impressed with 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's even had time for a chat, allowing him a peak behind her, politely, reserved for sad that he thought is he count gonzales as 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 quit the back then in buckingham palace that she,

her majesty was there, and i was with my wife seeking. mean if there were 3 of us, if dixie, and we had a wonderful 20 minute conversation moon, the bottled, the health. the chef can also confirm that the queen is a hard worker. someone who is disciplined and tireless. incidence blanket guide to start spawn, kept if there's a banquet, the home and she always comes herself to see everything is just right. very, very much a perfectionist esteem. he dancing, i'm yeah, with a remote symbolic figure for most prisons. yet nevertheless, on the present for more than 70 years. the queen's just been and it's, it's a safety when all our lives change all of the time. you've got to be a, the 72 have not known her the assembly as the mom. it 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 harkins 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 lines. the ukrainian soldiers are showing us the territorial gains a 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. they were back there and then they ran out with rocket launchers and finished it off me with a few kilometers further on the villagers of my load of, of long been worried their food supplies would run out. but now with the 1st provisions, if seen and weeks of 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 front lines and often cut off from the outside world.

natasha's glad the fighting is over for now. what i wrote dolly, we also went to work while the fighting was going on, but not full time because 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 flying overhead and he ran home quickly. i was so scared. oh, but the ha russell 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 hears afraid, they'll return. they were scared, so we're sleeping in the cellar. the russians used moldova to launch daily missile attacks against ukraine, 2nd biggest city, hockey for 77 days. the village was surrounded by thundering, artillery gunfire,

and death. for some time, oliver was stuck in no man's land between the lines, 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 foot senior. he's been stranded here since the war broke out. the route harkey was too dangerous. he is really was really a shoot. his foster 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 side. yeah. 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 ladiva 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 who steep behind their animosity towards the russians is growing yahoo to, 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. those who so so both are convoy stopped once more on the way back to her rooms 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 jiggling the convoy vehicles carrying civilians set out from here. there was a gun at the thought they were being evacuated. the salon bull bull on the hill as they were approaching this intersection, a tank open to fire on them. boy in motion they were shooting at these cars from over there. at the civilian center, multiple people were killed a thunder machine. but if i gipsy luna,

the whole region has been hit hard leaving hundreds of deaths to mourn. but the russians had been pushed back from the city of hockey. for now they failed to take you crean 2nd largest city is 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 from the far keep together initiative or pitching in to 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 any time soon? yes. no. for now, i told him to wait a while longer. of course they want 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. the metro 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 fearing 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, has a clear gender wherever he speaks, these 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 a bucket. i won't take part in this war directly. for the lease we can do is to stop financing vladimir putin's 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 on working for the interests of russia or china? is she walked in with that? 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, again, a ukrainian question, a george and question, a serious question. no, it's a european question. and linda, the moment we don't accept the power relationship that is imposed on a like where the adversary level before. that's well understood or done. but if we do accept it all we've submitted to in 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. the val my parents were always asking me to give up my bedroom to strangers. he 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 has stopped importing russian oil but continues to buy russian gas is called wowza over seen to day with multi nationals like total for example. it 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 rather total must be forced out of russia. total

must be obliged to be political authority or british 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 gluck muns, demons are too idealistic searching was his disposition follows the spirit of the times. he left all civil societies expect their companies to take responsibility for their actions. that would be a wonderful and generally positive development. fail director. 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. glenwood is su. grossman has even been accused of latin ukrainian president zalinski weaponized him in the battle

against putin gleaming, fluffy. remo. yeah, i think in the past 80 years i do the ration all for starting a war has never been less clear. good luck to 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, in the back hulu dealers. so, raphael guzman has no intention of toning down a 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 tech town of duction are actually affective in warfare. they will never fire a single shot, but they will hopefully attract a lot of attention in return in american made in 60 battle tank, rolling 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, the live alkie gets importance in modern warfare that the decoy weapons can't be distinguished optically from the real one and doggie knock on the dr. 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 beautiful vinegar review of the coin. but these are the various parts of a tank. hilton automotive, after sewing them together according to the blueprint voltages, a lot of all you have to do is inflate it and then it looks like a real vehicle versus a little above it's not only tanks that are manufactured here, but

a whole arsenal of large scale military hardware, for instance, the s 88 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 somewhat pilot carrying at an air strike as list we're trying to lose chassis, 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 over yodel, donati 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 in flight. ah armor for the german era inflatable equipment is

used to create fake positions to deceive the opponent on a rail tie. the german van marked 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 boot is fair, also had a stock of inflatable decoys to day these could be used to conceal arms shipments to ukraine. the mercury kaiden vestiges, get it in the ability to bring western equipment into ukraine is after all, quite limited millennium. and we could possibly use roads or train tracks via in that regard. the idea of working with decoys dummies both to protect your own equipment and to make sure the delivery gets to ukraine. lot certainly makes a lot of sense. it opened up kind i'll come, a club was, isn't full. although such tactics might seem like nothing but hot air. to the

uninitiated, the experts are convinced. who knows? maybe the term air force will soon take on a whole new meaning. here in germany 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 stephanie, different back in his husband, walter marcella castillo, are cooking,

it's everyday life. but for the former priest it's still feel special. looks good. i'm already hungry. stephan married his argentinian husband 6 years ago. yeah. it was like 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. sometimes it still feels them real, 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 steph, and felt it was time to make a crucial decision. mister store holds their audience, please does law. do you want to be a priest who hides part of his identity? ted, or is this part allowed to exist?

i india that it really is part of you. does i something that can be talked about? i thought that's something you can live with into stuff with without a guilty conscience and without fear or no wonderfully describe his unload all nancy 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 next the girl the because her the stephan has since set up regular prayer meetings for persecuted gay people high. they keep dusty co please allow christian churches to accept is the same sex partners as part of your beautiful creation. comes from full on name and ye. the answer knocked to each of these services helps change things mentor. they take place. so people talk about the line to see it happening on here about it so, so, so, so hopefully it will have a ripple effect. that's also because it's, it will be the pastor and stuff and community is supportive. they both believed

that the church must change. oh, the bins ish baked, then i'm for. if there's no change, should reagan with things are just hushed up or kicked out in the root? i've been shopping. 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 o leave, and some diocese are reacting. they say a person's love, life is private and cannot be used as grounds for dismissal from church, employment of great michigan or it's not going faster. notion is not comprehensive enough at law, but it's happening. what's going in the right direction in the other 3, that is my impression and i'd talk looking ha. 1 stephanie and his husband intially relax dinner with friends. he stands by his decision to come out and has never regretted it. morgan. wow. and that is it from us for this week.

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