so much different culture between here and there. so challenging for everything. ah, and so miss this, i think it was worth it for me to come to germany. shove my got my license to work as a swimming instructor. do, sir, now are to children who don't to swim just what's your story? take part. share it on info, migrant, dot net ah ah ah, this is focus on europe. i'm la babel ola. 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 their 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 in 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, yvon, 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, yourself, he is less cautious. he's lived in turkey for

a long time. ah, to be honest, he does silva serve out of it. they can move more freely here. he was only miserable. you can tell they feel safe on you to do so he can walk the streets without fear that something will happen. just ruskin, florida will go 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 bon 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 at 40 economy, 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 bowl to janet 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. you don't know. yeah, show mother called it all clue, whatever they're not allowed to do at home every drink alcohol and other indulgences, which they do it here will sector. and that bothers many of the locals in yellow,

loanable day after lunch. but others in von aren't bothered by this at all, especially women. they're grateful for the iranian women. thomas esther, the coffee in the past. you never saw a woman sitting in a cafe alone, not coffin. but since the iranian women have come, it's become normal stuff. but 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 de jay'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. that came, he said a little while he was gone. okay. or 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 in the disco you're looking at, a few alcoholic drinks are also part of the fun of course macareola's. 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 home. i g. it's so much better here. did you change them again to promote that i, j. j. my soon i get regular meal and warm young girl. lulu fareed carson at i'm at ocean morton. i'm over 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 to

parker, was since i each company, okay, age of indian la familia, such are the children here, were raised in lower income families in there and weren't provided the care they needed shakara. while chaste thumb had been victims of violence or abuse atlanta, i was only a minute and our job is to protect them, say and steer them down the right path. se camshaft ha ha. 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 general val, assuming at jelic i've been, we've been using electric heaters in the children's wells design. lighter showed elected chair alamo. man, and here in the laundry room, we washed their clothes 30 when they're on the machine and they asked for that high

now. i chairs, but electricity prices have shot up so much since the summer bought on the road. oh, claire said up, it's a lie now. we already have a deficit equivalent to 2 months of our budget tot, a pencil will apply to land or line. good old line for the last wish. 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 trans neesha, 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 lever guess rolls her, has her eyes this issue or for stop supplying because of not payment inc m.

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. that's one reason why the president of the european commission rushed to the mold of 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. jack morgan, it'll allow, it seems way too high,

but to keep it as cold. 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. can i get still diggity of things are hard everywhere. well 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 layovers government wants to keep funding the children's home. but they're also worried. remo, ma'am, 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. yes, that room got 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 understood, 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, 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 treasure shopping around the 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 said 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 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 hope to hear shots, and i've just never understood what so great or special about it is on those lines or this is map bound. 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 now to guy. and if assisted you with a kaya grew up in the countryside near below, 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 here her no matter how many times i said i still wasn't enjoying it or had no desire for it. 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 and enjoy it for the but that just never happened to off that on her earth. come hartney 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 mark with occupants like what i thought, maybe i was gay because if i,

i did the girls on seeing them that i must be attracted to guys did youngest. so those are the 2 choices. on the 6th, every one had to be a 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. is comstock for congress, which 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 within, those answers on so it doesn't bother me at all. if i know that person is already involved with somebody else, right, 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. 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, 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. oh,

not of of him then sits in mont, confusing 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 if i'm, if we don't miss it. so it's not a sacrifice fancy. that's what i prefer. come and get me miss on o martin and his wife don't miss regular sacks either. she accepts his a sexuality. but that doesn't mean they aren't close. ah, this is he soon as he husking 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 6 men. we don't need it. i've and we don't miss it. or doff 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 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 non subtlety. i go on 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 rudo. he's a promising candidate for these missions and song of late, like by 20 degrees in their training. they're trying to find a specific type of rock rocks that tell stories of one that was on or before lies kish trista. we want to examine whether there might be other forms of life in outer space. if 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, and they're 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 and then select. i'll then of this one of as am for this one, live on. 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 because 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 life. a gang had lives in 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 is here. it's very nice because you see by rosenblatt 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 proceed out of the crater in. eventually, astronaut alexander guest makes his way to another crater and lose his contact with the trainer team and no longer has the information he needs. everybody can hear me . alex anyway, me longevity, we have a problem. but then alexander guest arrives at his destination about an hour past schedule. this give warned us off the air down to you by the and 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 centralist, i may need to be tested media, ideally the entire system, the system 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 time. seasonally hawk does this good tell us something about the risk of a media, right? hitting earth that's and mature of it's a funds status or go cell phones, hampton. we know what could happen is we don't know exactly what the probability is . the whole and how important it is to prepare ourselves is this year when like if we study this on the moon, we can better protect early morning fortune home done the ed a best i should silicon. 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 experiments. and soon he might be part of an even bigger mission. a lunar landing and establishing a research station on the moon of more than a forest, as one resource stations on the moon like on tarka, are going to be a challenge because we can't bring much with us. it blinks and we have to be sustainable to use the resources there in d,

v i splitting water molecules into breathable air fuels. i was a lot to do not, but we're getting ready source and decided to skipped a few to tune of, of the writing software. 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 gem that in chance it's visitors. anderson arranges flowers that 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 flower shop. and 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. tia anderson has become something of a legend among florists. i escobedo 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 meant 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, 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 for, 1st of all of it 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 for, 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 terran 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

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