ah, it's a journey across the entire continent. a variety of calls. so we're on this, so we'll be talking to the mover shake is visionaries. and because when body the meaning of modern africa is that d. w. mm hm . 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 iran for human rights violations, namely the violent crack down on people taking part in the uprising. well, 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. or some iranians are traveling to neighboring turkey for a taster. freedom in the city of van, many rules of the miller regime. don't apply. women don't have to wear head scarves . people can dance and clubs and drink alcohol, r as use if he is an iranian 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. oh, almost every evening. it's the same scene and a night club in the eastern turkish city of vaughan. iranians sing the song,

barajas, 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. go ahead. no, 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 leon, if you decide about suvoda, they can move more freely here. only mister wil, you can tell they feel safe on you. i need to do. somebody can walk the streets without fear that something will happen. just re skim fell out of the window to tell you your, your love on the city of von an 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 on 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 not doing okay to get her medicine has become very expensive in iran. so we buy it here with one of because 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 at 40 economies are cut costly, that we don't have any big companies or factories here, copays it. so that's why this border trade is something of a lifeline for us. but voltage in it with 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. you dont diarrhea show my the co op lu, whatever they're not allowed to do at home to drink alcohol and other indulgences, which they do it here will sector. and that bothers many of the locals in gallup

loanable day, trula. but others and vaughan 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 be, and now the men here are used to at home called another 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. but he added that on sunday to what i'm the i would really love to settle down in turkey. i love it here and can't wait to come back any more. he unfastened myself about the game today to show what he was going on, k r. 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 looking at a few alcoholic drinks are also part of the fun. of course i forgot her yet. 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 and 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 in 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 houses. i g. at so much better here. did you change them at the end of the modem? that a j j. my son, i get regular meal and i warned he'll go lulu barrack austin at. 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 debacle. was cynthia, each company on the age of indian la familia, such are the children here, were raised in the lower income families in there and weren't provided the care they needed. shakara warrant, chest thumb had been victims of violence or abuse, salenti m. i was away for a minute and our job is to protect them, say and steer them down the right path. se, camshaft ha, up you leave the director is used to getting by on a shoestring budget, but the war and neighboring ukraine has made things much worse. a large share of their budget is now going to energy costs. and kind of a general full assuming that jelic got been we've been using electric heaters and the children's friends with resemble i to show would elect charla ma nan. and here in the laundry room, we washed their clothes. 31 this on the machine. and they asked for that high,

no i cheers, but electricity prices have shut up so much since the summer on bottom of what though crashed it up. it's a lie. now again, we already have a deficit equivalent to 2 months of our budget out of dental, and i thought a little annoying. good. arlington, alas ish. it's a similar situation across the country. more the most pro european administration is a thorn in 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. lever, guess, froze 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. all. ah, in time all our the energy crisis is a threat molded was existence. that's one reason why the president of the european commission rushed to the moldova capital key. she now to promise aid to the country. after all, moldova is now an e. u. candidate. winter is just around the warner and it can be long and cold and lay over. people here are already spending over half their income just on energy. newcomers, new. all that i'm. we've already received a gas pump in the last you jack morgan, it'll allow, it seems way too high,

but it keep it as cold. i look, i did the, i took out a bank loan and bought wood this month and all of my income is going towards bills and the loan management could still do. 2 things are hard everywhere will survive for them, but i'd hoped it would be easier for them 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 about momentum like when is them got right now expenses have about wi fi, angela, that he still dis, only pots with me, j. j approach. we're really doing everything we possibly can. and if that link us soon get him go support to we don't want the children to be forced to live in the cold. and cookies murphy, it 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 publish them. we can only hope that we find solutions to get the high prices under control this year. another for now though, help seems a long way in coming. well, international donors have pledged millions and additional aid formal dover 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, bon 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 to robert or robbie 20th to me. that's just a trashy image or i wouldn't think, oh, breast it. you know, i want to go touch some feed us. yeah. for me it's just about advertisement for something that just means very little to me too much for steve. sex doesn't hold the same attraction for leonard as it does for others. he realized that during puberty when suddenly everybody was talking about it, but he couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. even so he gave it a try. said with me, hurt that you're shopping. i've just never understood what so great or special about it is on those lines or this is muff bounty. i can do it and it didn't gross

me out, get it, but i just don't care for it. and i'd rather not do it now to guide me for 60 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, i'm day when i really loved the person, i'd be intimate with them and enjoy it over. but that just never happened to off on her earth. come hartnett sack says never meant anything to martin either, not even as a tin. he didn't understand his feelings, so he looked for other explanations. i tried to market off the conflict,

what i thought maybe i was gay because if i, i did the girls on seeing them that i must be attracted to guys young me. so 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 realized 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 comstock for congress, each physician naked us. 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 within, those answers on. so it doesn't bother me at all. if i know that person is already involved with somebody else, because wellness for lunch,

but i'd sooner but see you for martin, it was different. even if the element of sexual attraction was missing, he'd always longed for a steady relationship. he met his future wife on a sail boat 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. one 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, the home. so i didn't 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. not to move in then since a monk abusing me, even if it had been somebody who wasn't a sexual, i would have had to ask them to go without sex. and i don't want that miss on this . we don't miss it. so it's not a sacrifice oxy, it's what i prefer. i'm. 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 hosking to leave when i get 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 experience. they're a sexuality very differently. but they all have one thing in common. they don't want any one telling them what intimacy really means. it's a place where only americans have walks 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? well, space travelers are flocking to the canary island of lands or ot day. no high tech simulators are needed. the volcanic landscape offers the astronauts a taste. what's to come lance out ot 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 of future destination. the team includes german astronaut alexander guest hurdle. he's a promising candidate for these missions and tongue of late, like by 20 degrees in their training. they're trying to find a specific type of rock rocks that tell stories. if one that was opened up, if he lies cash wrist, they 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 down slice alan of this when, if he has them for this for live long. but 1st, it's off to the moon. most likely in 3 to 4 years.

to ground 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 in work class often is she school because the moon is basically an open history book. and yadda, yadda has rocks that are 3 point. 8000000000 years old. and like on earth is 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. i forgot had leave you my office this week . they've been practicing what to look for after a moon landings. but every time you see that all, yes, actually here, it's very nice because you see by madison and la only then they radio, the scientists moon to earth. is this a good spot to take? rock samples have made a decision whether we're we have that boy here,

let us know. otherwise we will bring the lead out of the greater it. 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 this long. can you hear me like 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 i down the you by the ends up on earth. we're used to having satellite receivers and communication everywhere is nice, but on the moon we have none of that has so sustained. we have to bring our own navigation and communication system, the sensors that may need to be tested media, ideally the entire system, this esteem of i ma, jessica. 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 holsters, this could tell us something about the risk of a media, right. hating us and mitchell, it's a fun. statler glycerol funds, hampton. we know what could happen us is we don't know exactly what the probability is here and how important it is to prepare ourselves is this year when 2nd we study this on the moon, we can better protect early morning fortune home done the air, the basics of con alexander guest has already spent about a year and 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 morning. unfortunately, one 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 as a lot to do not but we're getting ready off. and as i still skipped a few to tune up did brighten the stuff for 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 other worldly, but this time it's in denmark, artist here, anderson store in the capital. copenhagen is a gem 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 a 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 made of a in law. originally he'd plan to become a pastry maker, but then decided he could express his own creativity better through flowers, vases, 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. and from, from, for a 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 tia 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 is 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 ard so special gets in permanence.

a magical place if you are 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. ah, ah ah, with

who is the end of the pandemic in site? we show what it could look like. return in the normal. and we visit those who are finding it difficult. a success

in, ah, you know, we're weekly, coven 19, especially in 10 minutes on d. w. and we're interested in the global economy. our portfolio, d, w, business b on. here's a closer look out the project, our mission to analyze the flight for market dominance. good, a step with d. w. business beyond a a i'm

here with my cheese man said can i get the country? i came up with an increasing number of women in latin america. i'm guessing fed up. i need to stop my doing and depressing that fighting against the sexism, violence, and full access to abortion, pressure from the street has already proven successful. the opposition is on the rise. heads up with mad she's not stop november 25th on d w with

ah ah, ah ah, this is dw, live from upper left. russia stands accused of crimes against humanity and trying to freeze ukraine into submission. president to lensky urges the united nations to condemn what he calls moscow's energy terror brush has latest missiles strikes, knockout heating, power, and water.