hood this week on world stories, helping severely injured children in afghanistan and openly gay mom and france. we begin in ukraine, which is celebrating 30 years of independence this week. but it comes at a price many ukrainians are spending the day on the front lines. being that there are a 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 chem cook, which is all with them. yeah. 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 we're it's mostly beam in 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 multiple address. jessica, not a lot of the front is in danger of a tank attack, but believe me, if they can, little will meet them adequately. but we'll just finish out the cloth right now is the ukrainians were attacking. they launched a counter offensive weeks ago. and i've taken a few dozen settlements. 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 for you, sir. other super 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 and move on the more boldly. my because a break from the shelling lunch in the trenches civil when the soldiers have been living here too for many months village is no strikes. artillery dumps has been high. miles of rocket launches, disrupt the russians. did the propose

a potential apparently these strikes lead 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 hi mars and far ranging artillery a political. what can we put later on? fortunately, the war is not just a permanent turn in our favor, but it's a process and it keeps changing it. so here in the trenches at the address on front, it's about patients moving forward carefully and keeping focused around, we'll, 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 a seriously ill children. so did 11 year old up to lend his father. both of do

hands were torn off and a bumper tech angela, but he is almost blind in his left eye. the 8 organization, freedom of information. i will bring him to germany for further treatment. lou. oh, to lana. i visited other hospitals, but i didn't cover. that's why i'm here because i need help with my hands to that. so. glad that delish william was claudia pamela, an employee of freedom stuff international, 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 to germany for further treatment. i wish as a sean, it's in the heart. it's quite hard to say he can come with us, so you can come with us next time without knowing that. and especially with the bone informations, if the children will still be alive in 6 months, have like to know, la la, 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 can now call them in session with meanwhile, the children are coming to us again without bandages. plus, they can't get painkillers. we have seen severely injured children who would be treated in an intensive care unit in germany, landed without painkillers, without bandages warners just lying at home. abandon smith. i'm fact. so how was a legal, a few months later 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 they're operating on me. i'm not scared at all. that's, that's it. until then, i'm too expensive, spare time with his new friends. they help him from the pain and foremost from home sickness. abroad a smart yet know when he will be in her home. he's already looking forward to showing his family left the key d n. 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, muhammad z ahead is praying for tolerance, low, 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 his

long or there is to publish effect this can't go on with it, hold your, there's too much violence, pressure and degradation in your mouth. it when making people pretend we don't exist. sometimes there's even physical violence in her families and community healthy long off. i mean on a come, no tier, after studying, to become an, a mom back in his native country of algeria, as our head fled here to mar, say, in southern france. in his new home he came out as homosexual and founded in islamic institute. these days he also officiate gay weddings i've flown cur massey that hello to audrey her. thank you for coming her dissertation. i'm 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. ball was you for congratulations,

book i that's why sammy mom's in france have threatens i head and pitted muslims against him. as i did come up with a cerebral are very angry without knowing me. it's crazy that people can hate you. i want to see you dead without even knowing you. bought it for follow chronic. according to one survey, over 2 thirds of muslims in france have prejudices against homosexuals. that the will muslim is we don't have that kind of thing. the, the me, we behave with decency i, i, she, nor dish earlier fed to death. her almost, she had to for us to be homosexual and do such things. my mom is a terrible sind sang and that is why muslims don't do that. you fake roof, emmy, do mind if it myself,

but i had wants to belong to the muslim community. he's already gone on 5 pilgrimages to the holy muslim city of mca, he wants to show that homosexuals can be good muslims. he had with despite political unrest that continues to ravage to 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 volkswagen beetle? it's the quality there last for ever and there are so easy to maintain. i do most of the repairs myself and now that i have my own beetle,

i've fallen even more in love with this car is there also just her beautiful inside and out. i love them. awesome. to have any. she's not the only volkswagen fan in sedans. capitol cartoon 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. would welcome to mercedes music. my love to close my case is closed. it's actually a lifestyle dr. aggregation, i joined mercedes benz pruitt, germany chillman. i'm a cop mechanic and my love for pain saw when i was kid. 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 can 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 khartoum. 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. thought he mohammed has been repairing mercedes cars for 50 years. ever since he was 10. a cousin taught him how to do it was i love challenge and that's why i chose mercedes. not everyone can fix them. they can be quite difficult. the beetle belonging to fatima city is also temperamental traffic and cartoon is really bad. and for the both,

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