indigo listening place of morning. the mediterranean sea its waters connect people of many cultures seen almost far and jaffar abdul karim drift along with exploring modern lifestyles and mediterranean. where has history left its traces leading legal hearing their dreams mediterranean during this week on d. w. ah ah ah hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe. it's good to have you with us. we are more than half a year into rush us war on ukraine now. for russian troops,

it's not working out as planned. they are increasingly on the defensive. the ukranian army is on the march, especially the north east of the country. here the r, recapturing places and regions such as the town of lyman, according to ukrainian military reports, again, have also been made in the south of the country. now, despite these successes, some thousands of ukrainian soldiers have been captured by russian forces. maxime is one of them. he is a prisoner of war who took up our mis when russia invaded his country. his parents have not heard from him for several months. they now live in constant fear for their son and have not been able to get in touch with him for max teams. parent's the days are filled with heart ache and uncertainty. every morning eugenio would give it takes a few minutes. she's holding

a photo of her son maxime. she hasn't had any sign of life from him since he was taken prisoner by the russian military months earlier. she's terrified he's being tortured or that he's no longer alive. you know, so then the court and i sit and cry while my husband still a slave of inches when he gets out i wash my face so yeah, that's and try to be strong for the day. so give me so i only allow myself to cry like that early in the morning. if kenya and alexander would cubic invited us in to hear about their sun life, what they're maxime would cubic volunteered for military service. for years he'd worked as a ukrainian journalist and stood up for refugees and human rights. when russia invaded ukraine, they tell us, maxine decided to fight for his country when unfamiliar

goose doctrine but so she is a pacifist. and auntie militarist has been all his life. yes, cousin, she ain't with me, but he told me i have to join the army d. she'll have to defend the values i fought for my whole life. says those mock seems parents only found out he'd been taken prisoner from a video shown on russian state media. oh it showed their son being interrogated in a cellar somewhere. well wait, said boucher. it was terrible latisha. the 1st thing i felt was pure horror. yet the when i saw my only child and thought this can't be true over the following weeks, social media channels close to the kremlin, labeled maxime, a nazi and ultra nationalist. and even a british spy, over and over again, simply because in 2003, he worked as a producer for the bbc. his parents went to the ukrainian military ukraine,

security service, and aid organizations. but no one could tell them anything. they dishes in the book with gospel, my biggest worry is that they won't treat our son as a p o w at all. but as a criminal m e survey, they have been doing with many others zeppelin speech. i'm worried that they'll put him on trial if this using all these lies and tromped up as evidence shifts. yes. will you freak? according to ukraine, security service over 7000 ukrainians have now been taken as prisoners of war by russian forces. the security service is collecting as much information as possible, but its work is highly confidential. so it turned down our interview requests. however, an attorney representing 50 families of p o w's was prepared to talk to us bloody slot ignore tiff works closely with the security service, trying to bring the p o w 's back home. i see, he thinks russia will be accusing more and more ukrainian soldiers of being nazis

or committing other invented crimes. i think this is, sir, this is don mostly for the political purposes. when you create such an, you know, importance of the person like usa, great nazis, you know, you may use it to, in, in their political, you know, trait maxime is parents are determined not to let that happen. so they have filed an emergency appeal with the european court of human rights, hoping it'll put pressure on russia to allow international organizations access to their son. and i see what you were doing this. so we can find out how maxime of doing my stick. you only really have just one, call them away that maxime in his comrades be set free to see me. until then, you're gania and alexander,

but cubic are trying to remain strong and fight back the panic and fear they feel for their son. august drown, lake is one of more than 7000000 people from ukraine who have fled to their homeland and who have been registered as refugees in a number of european countries. august journey took her to the region of galicia and the very north west heart of spain. to the rugged atlantic coast where the weather is sometimes well, rough, but all there feels at home there, and that has a lot to do with the sea, the locals, and one very welcoming little town. odessa feels a bit like home. the atlantic reminds olga stronach of her home region along the black sea. she and her family and about a 100. others fled here to northern spain to escape the war in ukraine to my family . so for me, it's more easy because it's a beautiful place. and 2 beautiful people and very kind people in carina,

the town is called carino, which means love or affection in spanish. and that's just what olga and her fellow refugees experience here at the traditional sardine festival. they're already part of the community after just a few months. it's not a huge place, but at it's a chance to see everybody to seek law and father. how are you? the people of carino and galicia made it easy for them to settle down and start new lives. i think we accept every one here. you've got to hear. terinio is a welcoming town and of course the ukrainians are welcome and respected here vehicles. you've got other javier colorado montego from cardi toss has been helping, however, he can for months and he knows all the newcomers. napoleon responded to my daughter . say, i mean we could get to know each other

a bit better if they spoke our language better. the info, but that's just a question of time is uncle mark and the kids are great. they really absorb everything and learn the language super fast. my grandma robison, carino has less than $4000.00 residents. many of them are elderly and the towns population had been shrinking. it's from wendy film, the hand holding the young people arriving our rejuvenation for us to get some idea that a body we are getting more people of working age people that awful and that rejuvenates the town when if it were nominated, it was through interstate. i mean all gastro, nick and her colleagues feel they have a bright professional future here in ukraine. they worked for a platform selling spare car parts. they were in carino on business when the war broke out, they wanted to expand their operations to spain. and then he said, there are a lot of advantages because there are people very kind to other people who would

like to start business. he, i saw it, sir. it's not this. spain is like mob to ethan. tell the seat and t as a huge cities we can just came for an a want here and to take money from the market and go away. we would like to build very huge business here. today they're visiting their new office spaces for the 1st time. it's a welcome distraction from the war back at home and their fear for their loved ones . their ukrainian colleague magdalena spock can relate. she's been living in carina for many years. and she's put dozens of people in touch with locals. yeah, i move around the difference here. there's a big difference between refugees and migrants for gaming and migrants leave their country because they want to meet on. they want to come to parochial, they plan things and decide where to live get, get in such a splendid weekend. been syndicated we be refugees,

don't have that luxury. or if we had those, they just had off without anything. a filing. sonata focused rel, nick returned to ukraine after the war broke out. she had to fetch her children. 16 year old gorday and 9 year old agata at the border to romania to bring them to safety. so that is, that is easy because i see a lot of people in july, but i'm so afraid my children are you when her ex husband stayed behind and her mother is still in odessa to they talk to each other several times a day to looks clean and nobody say, okay, a normal, he consented. i'm said, i'm me. i don't or i know i'm glad and to see you people and sounded than these. so, oh,

more things now is not formal because you understand that miss deacons is law. after escaping the war, the newcomers want to get back to work. their digital business is helping create jobs in the spanish town. plus the cafe they fixed up has now become a meeting point for young and old. if you were out at sea, you'd be pretty happy if you'd been lucky enough to spot a dolphin a well, wouldn't you? but imagine if your boat were suddenly attacked by one of those animals by killer whale. that is exactly what is happening off the atlantic coast of spain, where there are more and more reports of war contacts on sailing. yas and on fishing and swore boats. married biologists are faced with a mystery and sailors while they are left wondering how they can stay safe.

delaware, a sailor's worst nightmare rado, a full grown orca rams. a boat off the spanish coast. hm . the animal is strong enough to damage the sailing on or in the worst case to capsize it with. whoa, it's happened to raphael martinez to he's had 30 years experience sailing the seas with his wife. and the couple from countries are not easily shaken yet, but their encounter with the orchestra was terrified. you'll get a different from goldfish. suddenly i felt a jolt, industrial short of the boat spun around a 180 degrees and was facing north city of where i thought that was when my wife spotted the or carrion model. solomons on. the 1st thing i did was radio,

the coast guard for help or get direct because when an animal that massive attacks your boats and you don't know how long it's going to go on what anything could happen. hm. don't need kip with it. bassette fears are growing on spain and portugal, atlantic coast. more than 300 incidents have been recorded in the last 2 years. sailors say that the spanish coast guard is having to launch rescue operations on a daily basis for people whose boats happened damaged by orcus. the crew of this boat were able to record the dramatic scenes. orcus also called killer whales, are predators that can weigh up to 7 tons. these 4 orchids pushed the yacht back and forth like a toy. they seemed especially fixated on the rudder. would you believe i was?

i work at one side of here, the other the marine mammals besieged the boat for about 2 hours. a stretch of scientists prefer to call the events encounters. but raphael martinez and most sailors are calling them a tax. moment though they buy nico for, at one point i felt panic. obama, the orders had been added for 15 minutes for them, and suddenly i see a piece of the rudder floating behind us on the way without a rudder. the boat is impossible to steer. the big question is, why are the orchestra doing this? i go lang ne, to something has been done to them. that's completely destabilized them. he left b. it was as if they'd gone completely crazy on. yeah, look up at of the the port of cornell de la frontera local say the competition for food is making. the orc is aggressive. the marine predators and the phishers are

both hunting for bluth in tune up in the fight over the prey. fishers have injured orcus with harpoons, according to animal rights activists. the fishers have a different theory and some of them may lead out. we think that a sailor accidentally injured in oaxaca video and that's why the animals and now attacking the under side of the boats that never happened before. they get of article but can no got for 30 well, researcher, ezekiel under. you prefers to avoid the word attack. he estimates there are only about 40 iberian orc is left. protecting this endangered species is top priority. whether i'm with it, but again, we feel very difficult to find the cause galoshes. however, the yoke is on telling us fetal a shotgun our, that she gave it about what we can say with a high probability is that it's related to a variety of interactions with humans. should i know we think it's a learned behavior over time thought which is passed on to the rest of the group.

transferred either head. so they that i bought him. most of the sailors take little comfort in such explanations. they say scientists and authorities aren't doing enough to insure the sailors safety rough ella martinez says the animals should be monitored with dps transmitters. if nothing is done, he fears one day an orca might be killed bundled. what could be that i feel boat and your life or endanger than you defend yourself, all of you. i feel sorry for the orchestra, let me. but if it's a question of their life or my life, then i choose mine. but it should never come to that. no, i, we need studies and solutions to the problem, e. bravo, national look here. they get a full that the couple plan to continue sailing. but one thing they want to avoid at all costs is another encounter with the iberian. orcus meets ludovic,

muhammad zion. he's a scholar of islam, a mosque founder and openly gay. he was reported to be the 1st french muslim to be civil marriage to another man. and while many would argue this was his right, there are those who say islam and whole sexuality are not compatible, even in mar, say, in the south of france. whereas i had lives, he has allies in his fight against prejudices, but a path he has chosen as long and risky. all one on long mom, ludovic, muhammad z 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 vis if up with effect, this can't go on it for the others too much violence,

pressure and degradation in your mouth it on again, people pretend we don't exist. sometimes there's even physical violence in our families and community healthy off. i mean, on the come the tier, after studying to become and a mom back in his native country of algeria saw, had 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 audrey a. 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 ones ground on it officially. same sex marriages are not allowed in islam. bo was with a congratulations. bob hook 30. that's why sammy mom's in france have threatens i head and pitted muslims against

him. is i to follow up with him? so people 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 father kenneth, according to one survey, over 2 thirds of muslims in france, have prejudices against homosexuals of the will. muslims, we don't have that kind of thing. need be me. we behave with decency, i i, she, no dish are la fed to death homeless. she and for us to be homosexual and do such things, m. o is a terrible sin sang and that is why and muslims don't do that. he fakers emmys. you my, if, if i sound but i 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 said it

hasn't was important to me. and those to be physically present, been show to be exist and are part of the community. please call her back to let them know that we have the same practices and that for no less human or spiritual, just because we're of, as they put it different for the on the whole. the a mom is calling for open discussion about a new reformed islam with more tolerance towards minorities. he moderates talks on social media and today's gases are a catholic clergyman and so lima, one a few women who are a moms culture the she said that you get them. so asia, farts is sure that you, well, better than me. there says we have created man, we have created well, and we have created something in b 3. so lima values her brother in faith and says he is breaking new ground. what linda vic is doing is he is creating an institution. he's

institutionalizing and new, modern i am inclusive islam and this is new. there is nobody offering those tools because i had also wants to protect those who are in danger because of their sexual orientation like this group of homosexual refugees. some have had their lives threatened back in their home countries and their fellow believers here don't always show them tolerance either. well, i think it's time to sound the alarm for toner and the mom has been supporting this artistic work for years. here. the group is putting on a dance performance oh,

for comp, often it makes me happy to see how much good at those to participants boxes. and it's interesting for the audience too, because some struggle to understand these identities other, hong with just a reality was the audience discovers here throughout the whole. and that's a wonderful thing to go to the cash off to think excessive, amicable. in order to win over more people for his cause, ludovic, mohammed's i had wants to share this with others. he's determined to keep at it despite the risks we want to sure there are moments when you're afraid of her, but not really. and that's not going to hold us back to buy food teams, either the maids to measure suits. the quintessential out said of the well styled english gentleman by during the pandemic working from home became the norm sartorial shock for london. taylor, james sleeter demand suddenly dropped. he feared his custom, tailored suits,

would be replaced by sweat suits that now. one of london's most famous mans with streets is buzzing again. london sackville row where men's wear meats tradition. james slater opened his shop here in 2008. before that he was a banker. now he offers custom tailored suits primarily for the office. and he was doing good business until the pandemic are generally taylor and business always. he took a in a took, took a huge hit reform about 80 percent down in revenue. and since i'm looking it's it's, it's been incredible. and very few people remain the same shape, actually low down even either went on the health care co in or they sat back and became lazy in older. lots of takeaways in there was nothing else to do. oh, so in other ways, the lock downs helped fashion changing physics meant new wardrobes. james slater's

employees have never been busier. after months or even years in lockdown. well, many gentlemen feel like trying something new. something a bit looser and more comfortable. in fact, it on a blue suit in the morning is just one decision trousers jacket, come as the policy. and if i pick a jacket out, i have to think about what trousers to put with what shoes and socks you cause a lot more thought and a lot more work for your tailored eval. it's all to do with a yearning for frieda, says fashion blogger, i'll expect, coverage. and with the hope the lock downs are now a thing of the past in the business suit is having quite a tough time. but that does something. i think something quite exciting. because if men no longer have to wear the suit as a uniform, they can use the suit as a tool to express themselves. so what we're seeing in london,

what we've seen over the last of year and a half or so is a big d corporate thing of the suit. the suit has become much less corporate and much more of a lifestyle. garmin is a different topic awesome than you'd normally buy. and so james slater needn't worry that his crowd will go out of fashion. yeah, looks looks very good. yeah, that suit is definitely never going to die. there's always an occasion you know, to where. so whether it be an interview to a wedding, going back to a question about english gen from this you can never be addressed. you can never, it's so much better to be addressed it on the dress, by turn up to a cocktail policy. the only person wearing a tie, i could just take the time off, but also there's nothing wrong with being the best. just gone room for the english gentleman still aspires to be well dressed. he's simply expanded his repertoire and his range of colors,

lifestyle choices, liberated from locked down sartorial elegance is more fashionable than ever it seems. and as great to know that there is something stylish, colorful, and comfortable to where for everyone, what ever the ok, she, that's all from us this week at focus on europe and watch her show on our website anytime again. thank you and bye for now. mm. with ah, ah, with

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