ended glistening place of morning. the mediterranean its waters connect people of many cultures seen it almost far and to far do corinne drift along with exploring modern lifestyles and mediterranean. where has history left its traces leading legal hearing their dreams many to me 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 ukrainian army is on the march, especially the north east of the country. here the r, recapturing places and regents, such as the town of lyman, according to ukrainian military reports against 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 arms 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 you, again, you 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 cool thing i sit in cry while my husband still a slave of inches. when he gets out i wash my face so you have and try to be strong for the day. so you'd be 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 son who lives there, 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 good

is that true? but so she is a pacifist. and auntie militarist has been all his life. yes cousin, she ain't a me. but he told me i have to join the army. the d. she'll have to defend the values i fought for my whole life. says yeah, those max seems parents only found out he'd been taken prisoner from a video shown on russian state media. it showed their son being interrogated in a cellar somewhere. oh, wait, no. it's a book. it was terrible leticia. the 1st thing i felt was pure horror. you know the willis, 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, she 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 zip. with each i'm worried that they put him on trial. if this using all these lies and trump top evidence ships, 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 services 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 is 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 who's great nazis. you may use it to in, in their political, you know, trait maxime parents are determined not to let that happen. so they have filed an emergency appeal with the european court of human rights, hoping it will 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 maxine was doing my stick. you and we really have just one, call them one way that maxime and his comrades be set free in a female. until then you geena and alexander put 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 part of spain to the rugged atlantic coast, where the weather is sometimes well rough. but although 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. my family. so for me it's more easy because it's 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 huge plays, but at it's a chance to see everybody to seek law and boss. 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 yourself terinio is a welcoming town and of course the ukrainians are welcome and respected here a vehicle. she got other. javier colorado manteca from cardi toss has been helping . however, he can for months and he knows all the newcomers. napoleon spoken majority. 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 don't go much and the kids are great. they really absorb everything and learn the language super fast. michael robinson carino has less than $4000.00 residents. many of them are elderly and the towns population had been shrinking. as from when give him the hint owing the young people arriving ira rejuvenation for us to get some idea that a body we are getting more people of working age be with it. oh, and that rejuvenates the town when, if it, when i'm on a demo, it was thrown or thing. 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 really said there are a lot of advantages because there are people very kind to other people who would

like to start business here. so it's there, it's not this. spain is like mod 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 spa 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 gant migrants leave their country because they want to own, they want to also brought fuel. they plan things and decide where to live, get, get in such a splendid weekend, dancing on the get a, b, b, refugees,

don't have that luxury crystal. or if we had those, they just had off without anything. a silent fernanda folk, estriol 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 with her ex husband stayed behind, and her mother is still in odessa to they talk to each other several times a day once thing and nobody say, okay, a normal saying that i'm said, i'm me. i don't or, oh no, i'm glad and to see you people and somebody. so, oh,

more things now is not formal because you understand this 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 orca attacks on sailing. yas and on fishing, as for 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 connie's are not easily shaken yet. but their encounter with the orchestra was terrified. yoga certainly different from goldfish . suddenly i felt a jolt, industrial sort of the boat spun around a 180 degrees and was facing north city of west that i thought that was when my wife spotted the ok model. solomon. so my, the 1st thing i did was radio,

the coast guard for health care directly. 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. dot nick if we're there, 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 have been damaged by orcus. the crew of this boat were able to record the dramatic scenes. orcus also called killer whales, or 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. here's 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 attacks momento there by nico, for at one point i felt panic. obama, the august had been added for 15 minutes away, 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? angle lang, ne, to something has been done to them that's completely destabilized them. e left b. it was as if they don, it's completely crazy. fun. yeah. luck a part of the yeah. 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 later we think that a sailor accidentally injured an ultra custody. and that's why the animals and now attacking the under side of the boats that never happened before they get the vehicle, but get no. got. so cindy, we'll 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 i shot out. 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. raphael martinez says the animals should be monitored with gps transmitters. if nothing is done, he fears one day an orca might be killed likely to be less, i feel, wrote and your life are in danger than you defend yourself. i feel sorry for the orchestra, i mean, 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. the problem of getting it from the couple plan to continue sailing, but one thing they want to avoid at all costs is another encounter with the iberian orchids. meet ludovic,

muhammad zayed. he's a scholar of islam, a mosque founder and openly gay. he was reported to be the 1st french muslim to be civilly 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 marcia, in the south of france, where as i had lives, he has allies in his fight against prejudices, but a path he has chosen as long and risky. all one on 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 with hipaa was effect. this can't go on it for the others, too much violence,

pressure and degradation gone off it on making people pretend we don't exist. sometimes there's even physical violence in our families and communities big off. i mean, on the come new there, after studying to become an, 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 and his lama institute. these days he also officiated gay weddings i've flown cur massey, that hello dal d a. thank you for coming her. she decided she fish. i'm very honored to take part in the ceremony. yes, it's eddie money. it's about acceptance and standing ones ground on it officially. same sex marriages are not allowed in islam. bo was refer, congratulations book i that's why sammy mom's in france have threatens i head and pitted muslims against

him as i, if i'm a person so little, 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, thought father kenneth. according to one survey, over 2 thirds of muslims in france have prejudices against homosexuals. of the human muslims. we don't have that kind of thing. need be me, we behave with decency, i i, she no dish early fed to death her almost. she had to for us to be homosexual. and do such things. m. o is a terrible send sang and that's why and muslims don't do that. he fakers emmys. you 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 mce. he wants to show that homosexuals can be good muslims. i

said it hasn't. what was important to me and those to be physically present and show to be exist under 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 fill. the a mom is calling for open discussion about our 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. okay, culture, the sure enough you get them. so asia, farts is sure that you're well better that we that says we have created where we have created well, and we have created something in between. 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 as 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 at all. well, i think it's time to sound the alarm for toner and the a mom has been supporting this artistic worked for years here. the group is putting on a dance performance oh,

circle. often it makes me happy to see how much good at those to participants. and it's interesting for the audience too, because some struggle to understand these identities either or they're just a reality was to audience discovers here through our to be. that's a wonderful thing to go to the cash off to think as i said, almost level in order to win over more people for his cause, ludovic, mohammed's had wants to share this with others. he's determined to keep at it despite the risks we put back while was there. sure. there are moments when you're afraid of her, but not really. and that's not count 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. the sartorial shock for london taylor james slater demand suddenly dropped.

he feared his custom tailored suit would be replaced by sweaters that now one of london's most famous mans with streets is buzzing again. london, sab hill row, where men's, where meets tradition. james sleeter 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 obviously took a you know, took, took a huge hit report 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. ashley low down a well not the one on the health care. cool. it know they sat back and became lazy and older. lots of takeaways it was nothing else to do. oh, so in other ways, the locked 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. if i put on a blue suit in the morning, it's just one decision, trousers and jacket, come as the policy. and if i pick a jacket out, i have to think about what trousers to put with it, what shoes and socks you cause a lot more thought and a lot more work for your tailor. therefore, it's all to do with a yearning for frieda, says fashioned blogger, i'll expect coverage. and with the hope, the locked 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 suits as

a tool to express themselves. so what we're seeing in london, what we've seen over the last sort of year and a half or so is a big d corporate thing of the suits. the suitors become much is corporate, and much more of a lifestyle garment. it's a different topic colson than you'd normally buy. and so james sleeter needn't worry that his crowd will go out of fashion. yeah, looks, looks really good. yeah, suit is definitely never going to die. there's always an occasion, you know, to why. so whether it be an interview to a wedding, going back to a question about english gentlemen, you can never be overdressed. you can never, it's so much better to be addressed it on the dress. if i turn up to a cocktail policy, the only person wearing a tie, i could just say the tiles. but also there's nothing wrong with being the best just gone the 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 lockdown sartorial elegance, is more fashionable than ever it seems. and as great, you know that there's something stylish, colorful, and comfortable to where for everyone. what ever the ok, she, that's off from us this week at focus and europe, and watch her show on our website anytime again. thank you and bye for now. ah ah, ah, with

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