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d x monk once church reforms we begin in ukraine where frontline troops are suffering both physically and mentally as special clinic near keith is doing what it can to heal the trauma. rifleman alexi, chef jenko worked and construction before the russian invasion. within weeks he was on the front lines in the east under constant massive artillery fire. he says he would fall to the ground for cover take out his phone. and amid the deafening blast swipe to a photo of danya, his 7 year old boy back in the capital. but none as there was though, is quite loose of what was going to school. i looked at my fun before going to bed and understood that if the russian soldiers were not stopped where i was there they could reach key of again was little buddha. what is the what i thought of my boy and asked myself, will some one else raise my son? is it paul? as well as yo minimal? one of them to love looks he didn't want to go into details,

but we'll say he suffered a concussion and had a nervous breakdown. he is one of a 150 patients of the rehabilitation center, whose location we were asked to keep secret, so it wouldn't be targeted with her. so some supper from post traumatic stress, a psychological problem, and others from traumatic brain injuries damage which can be caused by the blast, ways of explosions, symptoms for both include suicidal thoughts, depression, insomnia, the anger articles a door slam or firecracker can trigger the terrifying feeling you are under fire again. alexey is here for 3 weeks of psychotherapy group discussions, walks and massagers, another i think that helps them if, well, the beliefs that we are here yet when were you standing behind them? as soon as there are people who respect them immensely, won't, you won't say what it is. maxime is in explosives expert and has been fighting since 2014 on russia. annex crimea, and parts of the east. he likes looking at the murals at the center, to lift his morale,

that he suffers from combat related stress. this would have told him here was working with psychologist, helps along to show it. if a person has whole, which has arms and legs, it does not mean that everything is normal with the pershing. so put up his psyche is to stir roles. little shy of successmaker. maxime says he is burdened by many memories. like when his men moved into a town just occupied by the russians who had shot people attached explosives to their bodies and buried them. we were logged in a bag. we found a total of 5 buried bodies, the 3 that were booby trapped. there's just no fitted emissary to starsky. maxime says his men call him every day. they want to come back. he says he knows it will be hard to return. but that he must about 500 ukrainian soldiers a day are being wounded in the fight against russia. particularly severe cases are

now being taken abroad for treatment. for example, too often, even when jenko got out alive, she was but you warned it defending key if against russian troops muslim was distal from melissa melissa. we discovered them in a forest. now we immediately began fighting a lot though we were lucky that day because our unit left the battle with only 2 wounded. his muffled me and another lad had wobbled on. so yeah, a boy is sheldon florence who jenko received 2 bullet wounds and the shrapnel wound to his legs. he's one of the 1st ukrainian soldiers to be treated in germany, says the russian attack began alone no final the medical care the patient received and ukraine was excellent, but he needed further operations. so of course, to do that, we needed a large team and the appropriate infrastructure,

which is practically nonexistent in ukraine at the moment. i know who has been given 6 soldiers i being treated at the louisa hospital in austin. maxim cut of ankle was shot at by a russian tongue. kinda don bus at piece of shrapnel, hit him in the arm. oh yeah, me. oh mina, my median nerve is damaged virginia. should i am still. i can move my hand in this direction, but not in the other. and i can't feel anything and these 2 fingers, even if there is peace in germany, the doctors in a hand are familiar with war injuries. he fall, which did align or we had a lot of experience treating patients from iraq many years ago. lampton glenna. so in principle, this is nothing new for us. garza duffer, spoons of quincy periods, nist noises, but it's not just doctor's helping the wound day. oh, ukrainians. who live in our hands stopped by to day to wish even

a happy birthday. she just turned 37. that brief and welcome moment of destruction from the war. so far, about 300 people from ukraine have been flown to germany for treatment, including civilians and soldiers. the soldiers in our hands were brought there by a dutch and g o. every bump organized their evacuation. oh, because there are soldiers, then all the fishing allowed to leave the country, so we have to get military permission to bring them out of the country. and doug, doug, all full of important that we could promise that the soldiers would want they were healed under. okay, that they would come back to your crime even who jenko knows one thing for sure. he wants to return and continue fighting. and like what i hello session a year of cousin parker, a wound does not exempt you lots from continuing to defend your homeland. oh for that is true. perpetual as i have thought, much of chateau,

you're sure if my condition allows me this thought i will keep fighting one of those all with menu doug, ollie proposal, what were you up at the above for those away? what events birthday wish is victory over d aggressors attacking his country? ah, italy is experiencing the worst drought in decades. one of the hardest hit regions is the po valley. climate change is an existential threat, especially for rice farmers a marina full of stranded boats. fields of drooping sunflowers and everywhere fountains with no running water, scorching temperatures of up to 40 degrees have been plaguing northern italy for weeks now and threatening some people's very existence. like the regions, rice farmers is to plant that one of these plants are completely dead. they won't

produce anything, there will be no crop here. so on f 115 tons of harvest lost in this plot alone. the farmer simply couldn't provide enough water. stefano grip is the head of the code it at the pavia association, which represents farmers in the region. italy, so called golden rice triangle makes up half of europe's entire rice production. the industry, which is highly dependent on water, is now facing a financial and environmental catastrophe. and she might to our knowledge, nothing like this has ever happened in the last 70 years that made according to the data available. a drought like this has never occurred that never. my northern italy depends on the poll river. it's 650 kilometers, spanned the country from west to east. it is a source of life for all around it, but water levels have been dropping continuously over the last few years. areas are

now competing for the remaining water. a state of emergency has been declared in many reaches, but are mortal. reducing leaks is another big topic initially. did it both for drinking water and agricultural purposes, any dope with abby this yet, the system efficiency is currently around 50 percent. jealousy, tainted at equal medium, ether or nancy went up, pertain to farmers like stiff on or can it be also know they will have to change this season. they have already lost 30 percent of their harvest, erotic. and with what i mentioned, we hope we get back to a climate which allows for rise production and we've otherwise we'll have to switch to other crops and adapt to a different type of water management area yesterday. there's just not enough water for every ones with which end to perform. for now all they can do is keep the pumps running and hope for falling temperatures. and above all for rain. ah,

they are trans lesbian, gay, or by and work for the catholic church. more than $120.00 of them have come out in germany to demand a fundamental change in the churches mindset to night. it's going to be a vegetable stir, fry, how stuff on different back in his husband, walter marcella castillo, are cooking, it's everyday life. but for the former priest, it still feels special with the good am already hungry. stefan married his argentinian husband 6 years ago. ah, the fly far north or sometimes i still say wow, it's just astonishing here i'm here now. well, i'm with walter and together we cooked together of 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 an 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 christopher, he want to be a priest who hides part of his identity to ted or is this part allowed to exist? i india that it's really as 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, will know honestly the scriptures. not all along still hob 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 girl, the girl at the stuff on her since set up regular plain meetings for persecuted gay people. i big, deep dusty co please allow christian churches to accept the same sex partners as

part of your beautiful creation from fruitful on name on you. the answer not to each of these services, how to change things, mentor, they take place or people talk about the land, see it happening on tier about it goes fossil. so hopefully it's will have a ripple effect. so because it's, it will be some diocese are reacting, they say a person's love, life is private and cannot be used as grounds for dismissal from church employment . escape michigan or it's not going faster. notion is not comprehensive enough law, but it's happening. what's going in the right direction in the other 3, that is my impression and i talk to people ha. 1 stephanie and his husband in chile relax dinner with friends. he stands by his decision to come out and has never regretted it on your mother in law.

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