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independence this week. but it comes at a price many ukrainians are spending the day on the front lines. the thing is that there are weeds at the bottom of the trenches. that's how long the frontline has been here. you have so forsaken. that's his battlefield name. this has meant months of living in and under the earth. this is where they sleep, eat and wait for something to happen. ukraine's national poet taught us should jenko, which is all with them. yet when they shell us, we all come down here to people have to stay outside to monitor the situation. the others hide in here i am will it's mostly been an artillery will being shell shelling back, waiting for the next round. 2 sides target each other from a distance trying to damage

a position enough to then storm. and i think we're just gay, not the heart of the front is in danger of a tank attack. but believe me, if they commodore will meet them adequately. but what else is they shut the cloth right now is the ukrainians were attacking when they launched a counter offensive weeks ago and have taken a few dozen settlements. and the advance is low jordan recipient. we liberate the settlement that we can when we do, we don't move into the village, but we make sure the russians are gone. we don't go in, in order not to risk our soldiers live. that is important. when the command thinks that we have enough weapons and how soldiers will happily move forward. so if you throw the super duty period as we travel to another position scorched, we can't get information on how many modern western weapons they have. at this

section at the front, we are constantly told it is not enough to move on more boldly. because a break from the shelling lunch in the trenches, civil and the soldiers have been living here too. for many months. village is no decent strikes. artillery dumped has been high miles of rocket launchers disrupt the russians. deliberately things from the pony strikes, li to less shelling from their side for a certain period of time. but the russians also adjust their logistics. they learn the lessons from al highmark and far ranging artillery. what's native, unfortunately, the war is not just a permanent turn in our favor. it's a process and it keeps changing it. so here in the trenches at their own front, it's about patients. moving forward carefully. i'm keeping focus cameron's wheel

ah, many doctors have floods since the taliban seized power in afghanistan, forcing severely injured patients to seek treatment abroad as their only chance for recovery. the people here are all hoping to get medical help in germany. hundreds of parents have come to the african capital hobble with the seriously ill children. so did 11 year old up to lend his father. both a do. hands were torn off and a bumper tech angela, but he's almost blind in his left eye. the 8 organization, freedom of internet soon i will bring him to germany for further treat malala not to let em. i visited other hospitals, but i didn't cover. that's why i am here because i need help with my hands so that so glad that delish william was claudia kevin miller,

an employee of freedom stuff. internet santa has been flying to afghanistan for years. she and her team have to make life and death decisions in the which one of the many children are brought a german money for further trade. and i wish as a shot at seeing the shots, it's quite hard to say you can come with us. so you can come with us next time without knowing, especially with the bone informations, if the children will still be alive in 6 months after like to know, love it. at this time more children showed up than ever before. $2200.00 families and total. the situation in afghanistan is disastrous, the economy has collapsed. many people are starving. doctors have left the country . and so have many 8 organizations. he kinda called them insufficiently. meanwhile, the children are coming to us again without bandages. plus, they can get pain killers. we have seen severely injured children. he will be treated in an intensive care unit in germany, land without painkillers, without bandages warners just lying at home. abandon smith. i'm fact. so how was

a legal, a few months later and germany, we meet abdul at the 8 organization's compound. he lives here with other seriously injure children from crisis and war regents around the world without parents an emergency community for as long as operations and rehabilitation take to day abdul has to have his wounds checked out soon the doctors one to operate on his forearm. so the he can use it like a pin sir. one thing and i'm not as ha it's i'm not scared of the operation. i'm happy though operating on me. i'm not scared at all. that's. that's it. until then i'm bruce venza. spare time with his new friends, they help him through the pain and form of a home sickness. a good a smart yet know when he will be in home. he's already looking forward to showing his family. let me do, den. ah,

french, a mom, muhammad z. ahead is openly gay, risky, considering that 2 thirds of french muslims still firmly reject homosexuality. a law mom ludovic, mohammed's ahead, is praying for tolerance and he's happy to do so with a woman. that in itself is already pretty unusual. but the real surprise is that the muslim scholar is openly homosexual and fighting for gays to be accepted in islam or they receive up with effect this can't go on shit, hold others too much violence, pressure and degradation. go off it on making people pretend we don't exist. sometimes there's even physical violence in our families and communities. big long off. i mean on a come, no tier, after studying, to become in a mom back in his native country of algeria is our head fled here to mar, say,

in southern france. in his new home he came out as homosexual and founded and his lama institute. these days he also officiated gay weddings i've flown cur massey that hello george, me a thank you for coming her disability dish. and a very honored to take part in the ceremony. as it ceremony, it's about acceptance and standing one's ground on it officially. same sex marriages are not allowed in islam. boy was refer, congratulations, book 30. that's why sammy mom's in france have threatens i head and pitted muslims against him. is right if i'm a prison. so people are very angry without knowing me. it's crazy that people can hate you. i want to see you did without even knowing you. bought it saw follow chronic. according to one survey, over 2 thirds of muslims in france have prejudices against homosexuals.

that the you will muslim is we don't have that kind of thing. need be me, we behave with decency i i she nor dish earlier fed to death her she had to for us to be homosexual. and do such things. no more is a terrible sinned sang and that is why and muslims don't do that. he fakers emmy do mind if it myself, but the head wants to belong to the muslim community. he's already gone on 5 pilgrimages to the holy muslim city of mce. he wants to show that homosexuals can be good muslims. he had with, despite political unrest that continues to ravage su dan's capital. khartoum, german car fans are still finding ways to have fun.

by day fatima city works in a pharmacy, but after work she devotes herself to her favorite hobby. the volkswagen beetle with what do i like most about the fullest i can be to. it's the quality there last for ever and there are so easy to maintain. i do most of the repays myself and now that i have my own beetle, i've fallen even more in love with this car as to how they also just are beautiful inside and out. i love them mighty muslim to have any she's not the only volkswagen fan in sedans, capital khartoum, to day beetle collectors, gather in the city, along with other fans of german carmakers from the mercedes club.

club, ben sudan has more than 7000 members. old book, me to mercedes music. my love to close. my case is closed. it's actually a lifestyle. after graduation i joined mercedes benz trula, germany shellman. i'm a cop mechanic and my love for pain saw when i was kid. i only love classic one. i got to know this, lisa site, the new community, and i learned a lot about from those sir, new friends of mine because of this one. we kind of say the club is also about learning from each other. how to fix these cars. and when no one knows what to do, this is the place to go in cartoon, they call this mercedes street. if you're mercedes, car has a problem. this is where you get it fixed. it's one workshop after another here. and you can hunt for spare parts in huge warehouses and shops.

fatty mohammed has been repairing mercedes cars for 50 years, ever since he was 10. a cousin taught him how to do it. and that's also a north. i love challenge and i love that. that's why i chose mercedes lessons. michael felt a little more, not everyone can fix them. they could be quite difficult. the beetle belonging to fatima city is also temperamental. economy of the traffic in khartoum is really bad in front of both spike and beatles. there is another problem they done had the radiator, which is why the engine hover a sheet to all the time that it doesn't matter. but city says she still wouldn't want to drive any other car. oh

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