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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  February 15, 2023 8:30am-9:01am CET

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ah ah ah ah ah. it's a hot summer's day in the german city of dresden. a huge bun fair offers, lots of fun for kids. 7 year old alyssa from keith has come with her mother. but
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the 2 of them are not here on a fun holiday. they're refugees who led a brutal war in which they both almost died in the war raging back home in ukraine as far away and yet always there in their thoughts in their memories, in their emotions. oh for studio here by you when i think about ukraine than i remember how my daddy was shot like a place to contact and i'm afraid he had your luck with does orders jack, good day you and even here, if we try fast, i remember my last car drive with my daddy. here we go really fast, so the tank wouldn't hit us here in my shut it hit us anyway in there for
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15. ah, alyssa and her mother now live in a small town near dresden. they don't know how long they'll be here, a return to their old life, and keith is not possible. everything is gone at the start of the war. they fled keith as did many people and went to the surrounding countryside. what they didn't know is that this area would become more dangerous than the city center. 32 o mark, come on march. 3rd, we were near keith. he hurting. we had actually decided that day to drive back home sim, you whom we left with 2 cars to keep my husband and daughter were in the 1st car. i was following him. the 2nd year after driving for about 7 minutes, we came under fire. we drove faster, but then on the shitoria highway,
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we were shot out from the forest and actually threw netscape with her husband and daughter's car was hit and came to a halt. she initially hurried on in fear for her life, but then turned around and came back to you. so i stopped in front of the tank and the whistles looked on. cough i got out of the car slowly with my hands raised. assume they put you out of the tank aim bits candidate me. yesterday i when i moved to the right the can and moved. right. if i move to the left, it followed. and yet i was holding up my hands, the whole time of the olive, and begging them, don't shoot, don't shoot, but i will keep with you any stay like mystery light. ah! for the slogan, eventually, a russian soldier beckoned me to come closer, fell about the ones cuz he told me to kneel down. so i knelt gardenia when he asked
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me where the ukrainian forces were. i said, i didn't know, are you going to ch empty? said the you, he asked me why i was there and where i was going on cuz i said i was going home with you and asked him to please let me pass when you marched on. then he got really angry and started shouting at me. he kept asking me where the ukrainian soldiers were, and suddenly i saw him reach for his machine gun. i jumped up and started to run your bike. he fired his gun and hit me from behind in my shoulder. and i fell to the ground up all jo, fall she dragged herself to the edge of the road and just lay on the ground. what happened next? she only knows from her 7, her old daughter. ah, we knew the 2 of them were somewhere far away from me. i didn't know what had happened to them. almost a pot of gold were later my daughter told me that they had come under heavy fire in
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early the car started admitting smoke and your smoke was so bad they could no longer breathe, been feeling the bull. although my husband was badly wounded, he managed to open the window for her. he moved with his last strength and on both she not on you. i'd greatly york machine, alyssa managed to climb out the window. she then hid in the forest in a trench abandoned by the russian soldiers. there she was bound by a member of ukraine's civilian defense force. he took her straight to hospital. she'd been shot in the shoulder, but was able to say what had happened. and thanks to her information, her badly wounded mother was also found. a number of bullets had shattered parts of her right side. before fleeing to germany, both mother and daughter had to undergo emergency surgery. the little girl remembers everything. yeah, and yet i was in hospital and my cuddly toy was with me is worse,
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but he's a dog and is called mop sick. w. welcome stag yang. you see the doctors wanted to stick a needle in me and knew you had heard so much a scream to finding it. so could he just get through. so i probably scared all the children in the hospital. why i need this job at the new boy. and literally the doctor said it wouldn't hurt, but it did me elk low. they also promised to bring much sick back to me. oh, let's say 10 last and only a goose clock. i need not sick was just as injured as i was. we both had bullet wounds of you and then my senior and my other toys all burned up in the car in only masika still with me in the house where i now live down the dilemma. the story of alyssa from keith is one of many, one of thousands and award that is also a war against ukraine's children. how will they cope with the trauma they are
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experiencing? how will they process death and destruction? the loss of their homeland, the knowledge that they'll never see certain family members and friends again. how present is the war for them? and what scars does it leave behind dr. you the golub, who originates from russia herself, heads up a clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy at dress tens university hospital. she says, experiencing war and violence at a young age affects a child for life. even with the conditioned, the younger the children are in the one, the few ideas they have about the world. and you pushed in that concept of the well develops over time and he's women. and so you can imagine the earlier, they suffer the trauma, the deeper and goes to falcons, it guy, nan,
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and then the force of the children have no prior concept of the world tis, then they will perceive it as a very dangerous and unsafe place on tones hidden wood far, oh mine, i will think my own life is very unsafe and my fate is uncertain. m cost us money, then men kind of as children have had no dramatic experiences, they feel their invincible and somehow untouchable past and cost. but the sign as, as cut and impact bas yep. and how they think nothing can happen to them. and then suddenly everything changes as a disease. suddenly the world is not safe, it's not even for a 2nd. and the world is not fair. the world is evil. biggest loser? ah, since the russian invasion on february 24th last year, many children in ukraine have seen their world turn into
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a nightmare from one day to the next. many have lost almost everything that they've loved and knew that gave them a sense of safety and well being a monitor hundreds of children have suffered injuries as a result of the russian invasion and occupation. they've experienced rocket attacks and artillery fire which is the unit oh, it's used and received of, you know, point gillian several 100 children are missing and well over 400 have been killed. those are the verified
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deaths. experts believe the true figure could be much higher. and each one is linked with immeasurable suffering. ah, towns, homes, and streets might get rebuilt once the war is over. but children cannot be brought back from the dead. ah ah, around $5000000.00 of ukraine's children fled their homes last year. the united nations has never registered so many child refugees in such a short time. yeah, i sent on law. the numbers are unbelievable. funds are 2 thirds of ukraine's
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children have had to leave their homes to the philosophy. many a fled abroad. others are internally displaced. this law, the number is so large, it's hard to comprehend. and the children are of course traumatized by what they've experienced so many of suffered terrible violence or witnessed violence for calmness. and even if they managed to flee before their homes were attacked on order, since they've still been ripped out of their normal surroundings, lean calling from before it. yet, how is the undergrad from robinson? they've lost family members and friends and just their normal lives in their follow . they've had to lead their toys behind to law on. i'm fucking were children. those are very traumatic experiences. lesson missile on. so kinda in the set from alta shall fall in the towns of boucher, a pin, and borrowed younger have become synonymous with war crimes. months after the atrocities were committed, these communities have become monuments to unimaginable suffering. very few of the
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people who fled here have returned a few children play amongst the ruins. the war in its consequences had become part of their everyday lives. 6 year old natasha already knows what war is. the buffalo when something explodes, that's war. that godaddy that but when i ukrainians are angry at the russians for destroying our homes and bombing us. that's war. but then i'm afraid when they start shooting, why isn't a docile bah, i live in levine. by contrast in western ukraine, life appears to continue almost as normal. at times you could be forgiven for thinking the war is far away. the city has a normal population of 700000,
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but it's taken in 200000 refugees, including many children. some have come without their parents. an orphanage run by the private charity fund. brittany has taken in hundreds of them allow we whole of his, i'll never forget the 16 year old girl, dear chunky flat, all on her own from the city of so me for i need to come. her parents were in one place. she was in another home east of a novel after she came from a difficult family year study unless his grandma, she's been 4 or 5 days on the run all on her own heading to levine on buses and trains. eyes is the ship fighter pay and we're not corolla on the way she had to take cover an air raid shelters because of rocket attacks. and everything else that was going on. a diety of distortion, wallace, a summer miss, that sola eco, when she came to leave to our center, we took her in the alley. i'm a visual up in the rational and once here that then all she wanted to do was help the other children. christina casala, greenish shuttle boy children damaged
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by war, something ukraine is now facing on a grand scale. no one knows how many have lost their parents, nor what their future holds. finding parents to adopt the children or act as legal guardians is almost impossible in wartime. providing reassurance and hope to these newly orphan children is equally difficult. one is knowledge of lawyers. they knew they had to go to school or not they. they had goals that they wanted to achieve. but though they wanted to go to university, they had dreams that excellent. now they just have one dream was over a more they said that all this would end over that they would be able to go back home and get back. all that they've lost. sure. took no younger more to him or or be i can't promise them that approach. but i tried to restore their confidence. i use their faith in the future and bring back some positive emotions for them. but i guess for the moment that the more sure yet sure,
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we tried to create some good times for them. what was the work because of children experienced no sense of joy or fun, long term that they can get stuck. they can develop regressive or destructive behavior. patterns that are then hard to get out of the thing, the more in that that can lead to psychosomatic illnesses than even suicide, which is what there could be all kinds of post traumatic stress disorders. it said that there was a mortgage with that, but they said that this border crossing between ukraine in romania has become known as the bridge of toys. the initiative was started by local people on the romanian side. children leaving ukraine are encouraged to pick out a toy to accompany them on their journey. a small consolation for all they have lost. where will their journey take them? and will they ever be able to return and see their father's uncles and friends?
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the 7 year old alyssa also had to make the journey from ukraine. her life has changed completely. her favorite pastime now is playing with odda, her host families, dog. on the surface, she seems like a completely normal confident, happy child that has survived the war unscathed. i don't know which and i have a very strong child and another child might have stayed in the car crying and not hidden in the forest. she's brave and strong and i was lost. she saved herself and even organized health for me. smoke. my husband could have lost consciousness and not been able to open the window near the creature she could have stayed in the car . it doesn't bear thinking about him. ah, for a long time,
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alyssa didn't know what had happened to her father. you don't have it. he may have. at 1st, eliza couldn't stay asleep. she'd wake up in the night crying and asking for her daddy. she wanted to know why he wasn't with us. she wanted to go to him and have a cuddle, too. when we went to school, she'd keep looking back to see if any one was following us. no, i thought you could please. stay on. nathan, if you'd have for a whole months, i couldn't tell her. i just couldn't bring myself to do it over you. eliza kept asking, why isn't daddy coming to germany for treatment as well? nagondo, that's us. yeah. why don't we call him just to y'all? i think she knew something was wrong. hughes,
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i was afraid to talk about him to you, but she insisted i call him when you so i was forced to tell her that her daddy was dead and wouldn't be coming back. she cried aloud. walk ah ah, post traumatic stress disorder or p t. s d can manifest itself in various ways in young children, some fall behind in their development and can no longer do certain things that they could do before. some, withdrawing to themselves. there may be acute phases and then long periods where everything seems normal again. alyssa had been in this i came
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to me a few months ago and i think who didn't at that point she was having a lot of difficulty sleeping there, flesh, clapham, quantity, kinda small. her mother told me that alyssa couldn't be on her own, couldn't she would cling to her mother and had separation anxiety when templates and she basically had a constant need to talk about what she'd experienced, etc. and it would come out gradually as it said, can she talk a bit and then withdraw her as she couldn't stay in her room on her own diet. and so she was displaying symptoms of anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder. and good last talks, joseph coleman. fortunately uli golub speaks fluent russian, which is enough to communicate with alyssa. she grew up in russia and moved to germany 20 years ago. this is she opted for a short term therapy using
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a cuddly toy puppy. it's based on a method developed by israeli psychologists for treating trauma and children. the idea is that children can transfer their emotions to the puppy and find it much easier to talk about a toy like mob sick, for example, alyssa's toy dog that was with her in the car when she was shot at. because if i shall tell me alissa how i'm up 2nd puppy sleeping at the moment to speculate, you know, they're most saying, well, they even snore like a happy really. they snore, lucy, and do they dream to what kind of dreams are they good or bad? or she to pursue like oh boy, sometimes they have bad dreams, but mostly good old school. when they have a bad dream, they bark loudly to the whole night or snore, it really badly. thank you. oh, good, a viagra, stim sleeves, and most of the bad dreams about a new boy,
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while they're afraid he is pulling that they'll be shot at. it would require you, snape, don't. so they bark really loudly love. pick you up like a beach dorsey mc they dream of being shot at yes and is as casual as that remarks i can poppy also cry more than that. yes, of course. i'll bet you morning. what makes them cry when they remember their old life? they start to cry and run around the apartment. he appears to in his will today remember that people shot them to lead oppressed and what else, alyssa? they always remember li for me that there was shot at the van. they died 07. and then they was shot at and died. anybody have a very afraid question? yes,
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i don't you by you and when they're really afraid to do their hearts them loudly. greek and they shake all over and can't stop shaking at least as good. alyssa, what helps them when they're afraid? what can we do? i need to be comforted and given a cuddle as well. then they're not afraid of me because you can you show me how you cuddle them because ah, it's designed like a game. but in the game, alyssa is learning that she can talk about the things that are bothering her, that there's someone who will listen. someone who cares and can help. and most important of all, that she's not alone with the feelings that she's carrying. it aims to give back a sense of normality that's very important for children like alyssa those are
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fun by things by no means all the children from ukraine will need therapy on guns. what can really support them as having structure, days and a regular routine going to school, you were busy taking part and clubs. being with family emilia, and i think for loss of children, the most important thing is to create a normal every day routine, mild and i'll talk to had switched pin. yes. but some of these children will start to display symptoms over time, right? in torment, saying between and a small number we'll need professional help on his newly he for brow. germany has taken in more than a 1000000 refugees from ukraine. among them 350000 children. statistics suggest 40 percent. those children will suffer from post traumatic stress disorder and then 10 percent will require treatment. that means $20000.00 children could be
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admitted to clinics in germany. something the country's health system isn't prepared for assist. so even before the war broke out, we had very few resources for child and adolescent psychiatry creek and in the kingdom dupes, he cared 300 some disorders where children and young people are waiting up to 8 months for a 1st appointment breakin and young. lincoln, would you pretend to be so act one that we have very few resources that will have to stretch to treat even more children. i'm kinda who as her nor me kinda to behind in. but we want to help them, which didn't it. and i'll, so the question we're asking is answer and how can we manage if we soon get a significantly increased number of patients seeking help? commonly adam ah,
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alyssa is now going to a german elementary school. it's almost as if nothing ever happened. as though it was the most normal thing in the world as yet, she doesn't fully understand what her teacher and fellow students are saying. and she still remembers every day what her life was like before the war. not a minute, alyssa had had good and happy life in ukraine enclave. she was in a dance club. she went for english lessons and had holidays at the c side. soon, everything was good. she often asked me why the russians came into our country. why they invaded our land upon. oh, it's often thought that happy children are the key to a happier world in the future. alyssa is lucky to be alive. now she says she
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loves reading fairy tales like the story of the ugly duckling bye hans christian andersen, which is also well known in ukraine. ah, and why fairy tales? because they always have a happy ending. i know a fairy tale about a great duckling tool. there was once a swan with 4 chicks, they were still in their eggs. one egg happened to roll away and land in the nest of a duck. she did him sadly. it was a duck's nest and not from a swan. and when the takes hatched, they were all yellow except one which was gray. the yellow chicks wouldn't play with the green one. i thought even the mummy ducked and want to have anything to do with him. because he was gray, they're big agent said that so one night he ran far away. deep into the forest, one visual one. then i saw a hunter behind the bushes and head you. he ran on and saw white swans flying in
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the sky. he really wanted to become a swan to you and then he saw his reflection and the water. yeah. you, you do still and he'd become a 12. and then he flew to warmer countries and made friends with other spawns the end. mm mm ah ah ah ah
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