the 2nd 50 years after they made history on the surface of the main. it's clear that martha is eager to do it again. but before the american dream of living there can become a reality. monday's test flight will need to be a success. all right, well that's all from us for now. up next world stories with a report on what it's like to be an openly gay mom in france. stay tuned for that. and don't forget, you can always stay up to date on our website, d, w dot com and follow up on our social media platforms on pablo foias for me and the team here in brilliant, thanks for watching. take care. i will see again ah, people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away as of water. families played on the tax in syria.

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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. the thing is 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 jenko, which is all with them. yeah. when they shall us, we all come down here to people have to stay outside to monitor the situation. the others hide in here. i am. well 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 multiple other. jessica, not a lot of the front is in danger of a tank attack, but believe me, if they commodore will meet them adequately, but with them as they shout that both right now is the ukrainians were attacking when they launched a counter offensive weeks ago and have taken a few dozen settlements, the advance is slow recipient, we liberate the settlements 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 traveled 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 the break from the shelling lunch in the trenches, when the soldiers have been living here too for many months village is no decent strikes. artillery dumps has been high miles of rocket launchers disrupt the russians. visible rows of him for the pony. 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 high 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 3 or

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 in a bumper tech angela, but he is almost blind in his left eye. the 8 organization, freedom of internet tonight, will bring him to germany for further treat. malala o. l m. 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 with claudia kevin miller, 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 which one of the many children are brought to germany for further treatment. i wish work as a shell, it's in the hats. 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 lively. that 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. we can now call them in session with meanwhile, the children are coming to us again without bandages. plus, they can get painkillers. we have seen severely injured children who would be

treated in an intensive care unit in germany, land without painkillers, without bandages warners just lying at home, abandon smith. i in fact, so how was illegal 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 was checked out soon the doctors one to operate on his forearm. so the hate 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 pro spends his spare time with his new friends. they help him through the pain and form of home sickness. abroad a smart yet know when he will be in her home. he's already looking forward to

showing his family left with dan. 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 the risks. hipaa was effect. this can't go on it hold, you know, 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 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 to audrey a thank you for coming her disorders. it is a very honored to take part in the ceremony. as it ceremony, it's about acceptance and standing ones ground on it officially. same sex marriages are not allowed in islam. boy was refer, congratulations book that's why sammy mom's in france have threatens i head and pitted muslims against him. is i to follow up with a suit? april 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 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. the, the me, we behave with decency, i, i, she, nor do, shall have fed to death homeless. she had to for us to be homosexual and do such things. and mom is a terrible sind sang, and that is why muslims don't do that. you fake goof, m, you do my, 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 macca. he wants to show that homosexuals can be good muslims, 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 volkswagen beetle? it's the quality the 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 as is to help you know, they're also just her beautiful inside and out. i love them. awesome. 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. oh, 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 is lisa site. the new community and i learned a lot from those sir, new friends of mine. because with 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. then i felt a little north. i love challenge and i love that. that's why i chose mercedes like these multiple but not everyone can fix them. they could be quite difficult. the beetle belonging to fatima city is also temperamental with traffic in khartoum is really bad in front of both spike and beatles. there is another problem they've 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.

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