a green revolution on some, absolutely necessary europe revealed the future is being determined. now, our documentary series will show you how people, companies and countries on rethinking everything, making later changes you've reviewed this week on d, w. d. ah, ah, this is focus on europe. i'm labriola, welcome to the show. relations between europe and iran are deteriorating fast as the european union levels, fresh sanctions against to ran for human rights violations,

namely the violent crack down on people taking part in the uprising. while people in cities across europe are showing solidarity with a rounds, protesters with rallies like this one here in london. they are echoing the calls for freedom and equality and demanding a regime change in iran. oh, some iranians are travelling to neighboring turkey for a taste of freedom in the city of fan, many rules of the mala regime. don't apply. women don't have to wear head scarves. people can dance and clubs and drink alcohol. are, as you say, if he is in a rainy and living an exile, who understands their desire for freedom a few days and turkey gives them respite from the troubles at home. but the trip isn't always without risk. ah, almost every evening. it's the same scene and a night club in the eastern turkish city of vaughan. iranians sing the song, barajo, woman, life, freedom at home. it's forbidden. ah,

here they can sing it for all to here. ah, ah, iranian exile, i ross, you sappy. knows the situation in his home country. well, he's a tour guide and eastern turkey and shows iranian tourists around lake vaughan. but his passengers are only marginally interested in the lake. they're really here to have a good time. come on, go ahead. oh, god was not. after all, that's why they came to turkey to do what's forbidden in their home country. i'm not done a job and to get away from the brutal repression of the protests at home. if only for a while. most don't want to speak before the camera. they're afraid of the iranian regime, even when they're outside the country. your safety is less cautious. he's lived in turkey for a long time. ah, to be honest, he does saga suvoda,

but they can move more freely here. only, mitchell, but you can tell they feel safe on you. i need to do some. they can walk the streets without fear that something will happen. history school follow the forgot to tell you your, your love on the city of von and eastern turkey lies about 100 kilometers from the iranian border. iranians don't need a visa to visit turkey. $300000.00 came in the 1st 9 months of this year. i've had 4 people in iran. vaughan is the closest city and what counts as the west . i feel free here. i like it very much. i'm going to sit iranians also like to come to von to shop. because of the sanctions. many goods are more expensive in iran than in turkey. clothing and textiles are not the only

popular items. dalia my daughter in okay to get her medicine has become very expensive in iran. so we buy it here with one of these foreign brands are very good for diseases we haven't, ron, thank you to you don't know how love you. local joslyn wilson. i have, i liked it also benefits. the turkish shop owners says they're struggling under the high inflation. meanwhile, their customers from neighboring iran are helping them stay afloat. 40 economies eclipse glasses of we don't have any leg companies or factors here. go visit. so that's why this border trade is something of a lifeline. for us, but both teacher, it gives them some other local residents, are not quite as enthusiastic about the visitors. conservative muslims complained that the iranians are bringing sinful behavior to the city. it on the yeah, show my the kind of a halter, whatever they're not allowed to do at home, maybe drink alcohol and other indulgences, which they do it here with sector. and that bothers many of the locals in gallup

vulnerable day after lunch. but others in von aren't bothered by this at all, especially women. they're grateful for the iranian women. with the coffee that in the past, you never saw a woman sitting in a cafe alone. i'm not coughing, but since the iranian women have come, it's become normal. so they're showing us how it's done, mother, and now the men here are used to it on continental through almost lung long. but the iranians don't sit in cafes at night. they go to the cities discos, with iranian music, and iranian d j's. the guests feel right at home here buddy, i did do that on sunday the what i'm the i would really love to settle down in turkey. that he, i love it here and can't wait to come back anymore. he and foster myself. it okay. we should a little what he was gonna get out. as you said, he also brings his 2 groups to the iranian discos. he knows that it offers them

a taste of freedom that's missing at home. did i alter talk? yeah, they can really let off steam here, and the disco you're look at a few alcoholic drinks are also part of the fun. of course i forgot are y'all, but even this party only lasts till morning. then it's back to iran, back to the unknown. a short time later, we were told that 2 of the returning tourists were detained and interrogated by iranian police at the border. the war in ukraine is having a big impact on its small neighbor, the republic of moldova, the impoverished nation has taken in hundreds of thousands of ukrainian refugees. the countries residents are now in for a tough winter, and the town of lava is no exception. moldova is dependent on russian gas, but it also wants to join the you and is supportive of its stance against moscow.

but now, less gas is flowing from russia, and that's a major concern for staff at a children's home. a layover who are worried that supplies will be cut off for good . it's still warm in the dining room for now. lunch is being served in the children's home in li over in western moldova. but director catalina plastic, i was worried about the winter. energy and food prices arising and she fears for the children's well being for many here is the 1st place where they feel safe and secure. good gosh, i was in my so good on school. i feel safer here than at home. i g at so much better here. did you change them at the end of the multiply that i j, cheryl, my son. i get regular meal and it's warm. he'll go, lulu that are garcia. i'm in ocean morton. i'm of with, i don't have much at home, but i do hear to it's way different here. i feel like i'm part of the family de

parker, my st. each company for the age of indian their families, such as the children here were raised in lower income families and there and weren't provided the care they needed. shakara wine chest thumb had been victims of violence or abuse salenti m. i was only a minute and our job is to protect them, say and steer them down the right path. se camshaft ha, that you leave the director is used to getting by on a shoestring budget, but the war a neighboring ukraine has made things much worse. a large share of their budget is now going to energy costs and other gentle pull, assuming that jail act got been we've been using electric heaters in the children's rooms with resemble i sure would elect chair alamo man. and here in the laundry room, we washed their clothes 30 when they're on the machine and there's a lot high. no, ha,

ha. but electricity prices have shot up so much since the summer on bottom of what though clear, stood out for it's a lie. now again, we already have a deficit equivalent to 2 months of our budget out of dental with my daughter though line. good orland, pinellas fish. it's a similar situation across the country. more the most pro european administration is a thorn and moscow side. so russia is wielding its most effective weapon, gas. russia controls the breakaway regional trends, nice drea were gas is used to produce electricity. normally this covers 2 thirds of mold of us power needs. demand is high because the entire country uses electric heating even buses are electric. now russia has cut gas exports, claiming that mold of a has failed to make payments. and never ever gets prompts her has her eyes this issue or for stop supplying because of not payment in them.

now since august last heroes and her european government is in office who have paid absolutely, absolutely. oh ah, in, in, in, in time. oh our the energy crisis is a threat to mold of us existence and that's one reason why the president of the european commission rushed to the more dove and capital key. she now to promise aid to the country. after all, moldova is now an e. u. candidate winter is just around the corner and it can be long and cold and lay over. people here already spending over half their income just on energy. again, newcomers, new. oh that, i mean, we've already received a gas stove. the miller steam yak, log in. it'll allow, it seems way too high, but

a key, but it's called, i look, i did the, i broke out a bank loan and bought wood this month. and all of my income is going towards bills and the loan could still diggity of things are hard everywhere. well, survive for some, but i'd hoped it would be easier for him because he may be in the situation is especially dire for the most vulnerable leo was government wants to keep funding the children's home, but they're also worried lamar men to make like one of them got right now, expenses have about wi fi in the law that he still this in the pots with amici job, we're really doing everything we possibly can. and if the inca soon given him good football, we don't want the children to be forced to live in the cold cookies. murphy can take a long time to find foster families for the children. here, catalina plastique wants to make sure they have

a warm place to call home in the meantime, you listed, and we can only hope that we find solutions to get the high prices under control this year. for now, though, hope seems a long way in coming. what international donors have pledged millions in additional aid for mold over at a conference in paris. what is it like to be a sexual? the term is defined as a lack of sexual attraction to others. in germany, it's thought that around one percent of the population identifies as a sexual though experts say it's possible that number is even higher. given that the sexual identity is still not very well known. people like leonard from northern germany want to set the record straight. a sexuality is not a disorder, but a conscious step towards living a self determined life. our reporter met with 3 people who are defining a sexuality on their own terms. menard's lives in

hamburg. along the reaper bond red light district visitors find porn cinemas, lap dances and sex workers. but leonard isn't interested in any of that with a certain pressure shop at robbie. certainly a to me that's just a trashy image or i wouldn't think, oh, breast it. you know, i want to go touch some said us. yeah. for me it's just about advertisement for something that just means very little to me. the mit for steve sex doesn't hold the same attraction for leonard as it does for others. he realised that during puberty, suddenly everybody was talking about it, but he couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. even so he gave it a try. sat with me heard the hear shots, and i've just never understood what so great or special about it is on those lines or this is math bounty. i can do it and it didn't gross me out. did it. but i just

don't care for it. and i'd rather not do it. i had to guy and he for 16 you little a kaya grew up in the countryside near beulah felt as a teen. she just wanted to fit in. although she didn't enjoy sex, she gave in to peer pressure dive you off the ships, hit her, no matter how many times i said i still wasn't enjoying it or had no desire for it . i know i always got the same response with them. and that was some day when i really loved the person, i'd be intimate with them of them and enjoy it. it was awful. but that just never happened off of on her us come hartney sat says never meant anything to martin either. not even as a tin. he didn't understand his feelings. so he looked for other explanations. da, da, mark with ocoee in flight. what i thought maybe i was gay because if i wasn't

attracted to girls unseen them than i must be attracted to guys. young. those are the 2 choices on the 6th, every one had to feel sexual attraction of some kind of not. but after a little while, i realised that wasn't it either. off me, leonard was in his early thirties when he learned about any sexuality. a few years later he came out as a sexual. he now lives without sex, and the inconveniences that came along with it. free from the pressure of romantic relationships, friendships with both men and women are now especially important to him as gunshot for conversation does his nakedness. sometimes i noticed that a person is important to me, but that doesn't mean that i want to be with them constantly or in a relationship with them. so much from it in those answers. i'm so it doesn't bother me at all. i know that person is already involved with somebody else because when it's finished but i'd sooner but see you for martin,

it was different. even if the element of sexual attraction was missing, he'd always law for a steady relationship. he met his future wife on a sailboat when he was in his mid twenties for a long time. they didn't have sex. mentioned it said emma, people always say love and sex belong together. and does this mean they can't be separated as complex? that's a total nonsense escape, so filament. so many people have sex without love, otherwise, brothels would all go out of business homes, lloyd, and i. so why shouldn't love and relationships work without sex? it's not really necessary for a relationship. soon. me a kaya also wanted a relationship. she and marilyn are happy together. they don't have sex. they prefer activities like making costumes together. they met on a dating website, where they both stated they were a sexual and we're looking for an a sexual female partner. oh,

not of of him. then since the monkeys me, even if it had been somebody who wasn't a sexual, i would have had to ask them to go without sex. i don't want that. this one, we don't miss it so it's not a sacrifice. oxygen. that's what i prefer. tom. it gives me bizarre. oh martin and his wife don't miss regular sex either. she accepts his a sexuality. but that doesn't mean they aren't close. ah, this is he sued us, he fuss king louis when i got my wife and i don't have anything against touch. i always say we fall asleep every night in each other's arms. i envy ne auto but never or very, very rarely does it lead to what you'd call sex sexman. we don't need it. i've and we don't miss it. went off his men art martin a kaya. they all experienced their

a sexuality very differently. but they all have one thing in common. they don't want anyone telling them what intimacy really means. it's a place where only americans have walked the last one being 50 years ago. but the moon is about to go international as europeans are preparing for their 1st lunar voyage in a joint mission with nasa. so how to train for the trip of a lifetime while space travelers are flocking to the canary island of lands or what day? no high tech simulators are needed. the volcanic landscape offers the astronauts a taste what's to come nonzero t i go on them over where american and european astronauts are training for their joint lunar mission. the island location was chosen because it resembles the

moon and mars a future destination. the team includes german astronaut alexander guest riddle. he's a promising candidate for these missions and song of late like play 20 degrees in their training. they're trying to find a specific type of rock rocks that tells stories. if one that was opened of iffy lice is trista, we want to examine whether there might be other forms of life in outer space. liam's you relieved some of that life might have survived in the lava caves on mars, where conditions are above 0 degrees celsius and that in there shielded from radiation one milligram. it will be very interesting to take a closer look when we get to mars with us. i may be find out if the universe is teeming with life on, on, done for like a land of this when it is, am for this for live long. but 1st, it's off to the moon, most likely in 3 to 4 years. around the, the astronauts will stay in constant radio contact with scientists on earth.

they'll help them find the right kind of rocks more easily than during the apollo missions some 50 years ago. okay, that's an work class in austin is cuz she school because the moon is basically an open history book. and yadda, yadda has rocks that are 3800000000 years old. unlike on earth. although we have the same history, one foot over the surface of the moon, hasn't been inspected by erosion decides, so it's a place where we can study our own past. if a gang had less, you might as this week they've been practicing what to look for after a moon landings. but every time you see the only yes, excellent year, it's very nice because you see i was in la on then they radio, the scientists moon to earth. is this a good spot to take? rock samples have made a decision. whether we're that boy here, let us know, otherwise we will need out of the greater him. eventually,

astronaut alexander guest makes his way to another crater and lose his contact with a trainer team. and no longer has the information he needs. anybody can hear me alex, any me. longevity, we have a problem. but then alexander guest arrives at his destination about an hour past schedule. we this give one does off the air down to you by the and that's on earth. we're used to having satellite receivers and communication everywhere listening, but on the moon we have none of that has so sustained. we have to bring our own navigation and communication system. the semester may need to be tested media, ideally the entire system, this esteem of i, my testing cut. they continue across the island, searching for the kinds of things they'll also be looking for on their moon mission . my telephone, just to watch disturbance,

mitchell. we're also looking at the impact craters of media rights to see how old they are. if a tile, how they're spaced on times, these are the hawk does. this could tell us something about the risk of a media, right? hitting earth dust and mitchell with funds status or go cell phones, hampton. we know what could happen, asked us. we don't know exactly what the probability is. you and how important it is to prepare ourselves. is this year one sec? if we study this on the moon, we can better protect early morning flash and home done. the ada basics was con. alexander guest has already spent about a year in space. most recently as the commander of the i s s. he's carried out more than $100.00 experiments, and soon he might be part of an even bigger mission. a lunar landing, and establishing a research station on the moon of morn sir, does portion of stuff. so in resource stations on the moon, like on on tarka are going to be a challenge because we can't bring much with us. when can we have to be sustainable? to use the resources there in the v,

i splitting water molecules into breathable air and fuel. i was a lot to do not, but we're getting ready off. and as i still skipped a few to tune up, i did brighten the stuff for the my and that includes this 6 day training course online, so rotate. one thing's for sure. it's no walk in the park now to another place that's otherworldly, but this time it's in denmark, artist tear anderson's store in the capital. copenhagen is a jam that in chance. it's visitors. anderson arranges flowers, but he's no florist. his unique arrangements are more like works of art. anderson is a free spirit who has carved out his old genre in the botanical world. and his curious creations have attracted a cult following, ah, stepping into this clowers shop in copenhagen is almost like stepping into hans christian anderson's fairy tale world. it's the domain of a man who shares with denmark's renown story teller both the love for fantasy and

dream scapes, and her surname tear. anderson has become something of a legend among florists. i is come is what i love most about plants and flowers. that's hard to say, as if it's the totality of their magic as cabinet. they transform a space into a perfect unity, my daughter in law. originally he'd plan to become a pastry maker, but then decided he could express his own creativity, better through flowers, phases and installations. he's been doing just that for over 50 years now. he even designed an entire country estate and sweden, flowers and steel, are his hallmarks. he's also worked for the danish royal family. his husband moans helps him run. the shop is never interested in the market. and what the clients were asking fall festival uttered to do things that he liked and, and then hopefully that he could turn seduce people to buy it. so

i think it's her a very lovely attitude from it. for businessman, the shop a seems more like a studio one that receives international visitors. for instance, from china on busy days, customers have to pay a small admission, so things don't get too crowded. florist teran humphrey came all the way from the united states to work with and learn from tiaa anderson. there's not many people that think like tay am and because that it couldn't really exist anywhere else outside of denmark. i would say there's no guarantee that even top selling items like this vase can insure the shop survival in high priced copenhagen. but perhaps that's part of what makes tia anderson's are so special gets in permanence.

a magical place if you're a lover of flowers and gardens like me. well, that brings us to the end of this week's program. thank you so much for your company today. and don't forget to visit d, w dot com for more stories from focus on europe. bye for now. mm. with ah, with

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