many in 60 minutes on d w, the words people have to say that's why we listen to every weekend on d, w the, the hello and welcome to this special edition of focus on era. we're bringing you some of our favorite stories of the year from the people who inspired us and even perhaps change our view of the world. women in afghanistan hardly have any rights and are practically excluded from society. for them,

life has become increasingly difficult. since the heartland islamist, it's highly bon took back over the country in 2021. many are trying to escape. zora is one of those who already managed together with her entire music school. she slipped into exile. now she lives in northern porterville, in the city of braga, where she continues to make music something the strictly forbidden. in her native country. the home sick from afghanistan, played by an orchestra whose members were driven from their homeland. the young musicians are seeking a future in europe the breakfast time in braga, in northern portugal, cousins or, and for rita, had been living here with their uncle, since they split up down to stand and 2021. for the 14 year olds,

it's important to stand up to the taliban spin on music. even from here in far away a portable thing i think is a lot of crime. it's like i think language and the feeling is they tell them things with music. i think it's very important to play music. i would that's why the person that's who's very lucky that others gale that they've got assessed and i can be the voice of a gun gills. despite their freedom in portugal, they both miss whom on the way to wear her so they sing a song in their native language, presto. and the music steam. other students are tuning up. it's a major rehearsal for their upcoming european concert tour. portuguese conductor, 2 of them, what are the sofa is impressed by his students? let's go to bar 63 percent. that is started audit all the daughter. oh, okay. the rails for the

flight to go to music school in the country. it's very different for us here. so i'm learning from them to respect to music more for them. it's a true at the freedom how liberal whereas we take music for granted himself. the director of the music school was on holiday in australia. when the taliban seized power from there, he arranged for his students to flee to portugal. there was no future for the school under the taliban regime is what i'm asking for money by the me that this is why did the banding music? i said there's nothing against music in the so it's fee of the music can send very important messages to fall, fuck quoted out of 5 dentist and music and a cease the people of afghanistan with a nation that uprising against that thought about the weight of the public, if music did with their own seen. yes. which prize bombing we as tele, been representative to comment on this. but our interview requests,

when i'm in search after the rehearsal, zora shows us pictures of afghanistan. oh, this is the place. so i missed this. no, ever my family. and sometimes i cries at night, no one knows. no. i don't like life to access my code. he said, yes. that's a lot for a 14 year old to shoulder a little later 0 his mother calls. she's still in the ask and capital kabul. hello, time. um hello ma'am. how are you today? good. how are you? there was mother speaks of daily life in afghanistan. we're now even 5 year old

girls are ordered to cover themselves completely. and we were afraid that everything's going to get even strict was now find due to still making music then we'll have to leave the country quickly. zoo in for read a vividly, remember the day they slid a dentist in their uncles to him, that all and his cellphone the all the other music students last are the last ones. we were a big effect in the past. i only had some videos of our the choir ended tv shows . yes, yes. yes. the orchestra has performed adventures in several european countries,

such as here at the prestigious victoria hall in geneva, switzerland the duplex sunset. the test is a practice that come with zation from out of the country which is false in that science. it's also about this celebration of the victory of the asking people that this dates would be good. and that's the message you can here. and them using the for an italian taylor dressing, the highest authority of the catholic church is undoubtedly a profound honor. pope francis, along with numerous other church dignitaries, choose us to work with designer and multi talented filippo sort of to natalie. from though the designer is gay, adorned with to, to was an extremely trendy. and even though he doesn't necessarily fit the

conventional image of the vatican, he managers to hold the crucial position in creating the vestments with the catholic church. the st. peter's basilica, filippo search and natalie makes clothing for some of the most important religious figures in the world. his stone chest tables and head gear for bishops are in high demand throughout the vatican, with orders coming in from cardinals, bishops, and even popes. pacific pacific us the are even on the go to is a made by the office for the trogie cool celebrations of the supreme punches. united. when an order arrives, i start to work on the design yamma. then i make a few suggestions to the people. stuff of it before they make that choice slideshow photographs, you delete those stories in rome, right on the border of the vatican city. it's not a fashion boutique,

so mass garments are not fashion, he says, but rather garments for eternity. los theater, the tree of life style is inspired by the early days at the church, but it is uh inquiry to when it was the symbol that counts as a temp job and not so much the ornamentation symbol in on the corner see, or just creations are produced in santa condra, lo, not far from rimini. searching natalie usually uses silk or rolls his teams and embellishes the pieces with religious embroidery. all by hand is what sets this work. a part is this my new attention to detail 1st about the flux to see data view. we are working on the final details of a chest, people for an important customer color they came in. this central part is originally employed at the mazda c complaint, and we also want to maintain the entire edge in the same style. quad chain through

the label has made around 20 garments for po frances. and more than 50 for the late po benedict, the 16th, including this miter and the one benedict war lying and stated st. peter's basilica. see that the problem is to see a lot of students in the gospel and you probably been a dig style was based on the origins of the church on tradition already better. so doesn't put you like francis. the style is not much different. yeah, it means it's a little simpler and little like that, and perhaps a little less bold than put benedicts was for them to leave. those spins up to a 1000 hours of work on some of his roads. prices go from $1.00 to $7000.00 euro is searching. natalie offers a range of different products to which aren't intended for cardinals,

right next door. his other store sells. cologne's with names like 2 s paid throughs, cyber 6 or cruising area intended for rose gate community. the catholic customers next door don't seem to mind. like you said, the church should be welcoming like they shouldn't shy away from anything. and be open to all aspects of our society to face everything without fear. because that is also a part of the christian message. to his faith and sexual orientation or not. in contradiction. on the contrary, kind of john caravaggio, michelangelo lee, and other davinci, and many other artists have shown us that the creation of beauty over comes old. so the church does not pass judgment. it's a bus that we belong to, the kids on it and so, and his pursuit of beauty and fine art, filippo has found

a way to reaffirm his face. let me now introduce you to an ancient tradition from the patriarchal villages of albania, one that most europeans have also not heard of, fits about women, turn it into men, which might sound like engender change. but for women like justine agree, shot, it's actually the only possible way to become the head of the family. something that women in patriarchal and conservative will of being yeah. otherwise not entitled to. these women are called brandish us or sworn virgin's wizard at most. probably the last of them in lit pusher and the mouth of northern, i'll be full, but the phone gold rush, it's hardwell, but i'm a woman but i'm not strong like a manual quote and i'm like, so what you bought, i did when i was younger by next month, and i still do it today, ever quote you, i'm done, meredith,

as i buy it with us. justina is one of, i'll be a so called sworn versions. what bernisha since the middle ages ancient customary law, as soon as the commune of allowed women to live as men with the same rights and duties, often as a last resort to ensure a family survival. as the only man were able to inherit. i can afford, well, well my one, my father got sick and dying it and i, we just totally didn't. then i would help my mother raised the children. justina took a vow of chastity and was then considered a man. she became known as many the new head of the family. yes, there are plenty of women who are unmarried, but no definitions of 270 shows were put on the good old traditions, mine like manliness and hospitality. and you devote yourself exclusively to your family or stores with them sort of fun. you'll probably talk either and devoted.

she is justina has provided for her brothers and sisters for many years now. they are so thankful and fully accept or as head of the family because that's the question using mind the respective and has a negative influence intervention that yours or she is what people on disputed. oh, sorry, a tnf family too. and for me, even now, i'm 47 years old. i david contradict each of them you can find the 2nd part he's only known as do need to the outside world. she and her family user female name. the role of furniture has nothing to do with sexual orientation. it's a purely social function. as a bonus, yet a woman takes on the role of a man. and that's it says, you say good please. albini is capital to run. it is far from the reality of the

last pernicious people even knew what the british is anymore. but the other simple, yes, of course. the women who are as strong as men at home hostage in the way women know that the shows are resourceful. well, they have shown what they are capable of, even during the war to go the new you can do me to the name of the foreigners and then back in the mountains justina, she was a photo of the valley. also, bernisha valley was a soldier, then a policeman. they met just before least death. lucky. so i'm gonna get time. is there anything to have come? she was my friend. we was in last by the nations. almost her whole family has moved abroad. there's simply too little work here. justina is all the happier that her sisters from italy and the usa of come for a surprise visit for a few care free days with the family before she's

left alone. once again, still, you know, would never leave for more than as long as like the place of extraordinary beauty created like god, himself, if it can go with this is where i was born, put in. i'm so happy here. new to this place up live. so able, who lived in 70 the community and could been better off in use. dina news with her, a centuries old tradition will die to you, but there's no way around it. she says, what matters is that her family lives on medicine and meet circuits in from germany. she has parkinson's disease and incurable and your logical visit order. many people who receive this diagnosis, withdrawal and become lonely soaker has done the opposite and has even ventured into something new table tennis to. she's so good. she now plays in tournaments

when she's at the table sofa. almost guess she has parkinson's. the ping pong parkinson meet up in florida in the west of germany. every week, 10 players with the disease meet here to file i. it's a ritual and deliberation from the daily parkinson's drugs where you're constantly reminded that you have difficulty moving. you entered this completely new world where everything else around you fades away. i know they could, can, has had parkinson's disease for 10 years. with parkinson's, the brain can no longer control the body's movements while the body becomes slower . stiffer and un, involuntary tremor sets in there's no known cure, but exercise can help and taking doping mean is crucial. that's a messenger substance for signals between the nerve cells in the brain. parkinson's

patients produced too little of it. my name is i take my domain every 2 hours and that's very important because otherwise my energy runs out a car can't run without fuel and i can't do anything without opening music, akin to volunteers for ping pong parkinson. she coordinates a huge network of training groups all around germany. now it's a lot of work more and more people are joining, including in for that. oh, i know. so i put a teen is here for the 2nd time ping pong. parkinson was a tip from his neurologist. i think that's what it's all about. that you don't think about the tremors anymore. sometimes i still shake even playing just now. but after the 2nd or 3rd game, it's gone, z is convinced at table, tennis can slow down the progression of parkinson's. but it hasn't been

scientifically recognized yet that the game can help with the brain. physician almost to spend bases and time. you're constantly deciding how to receive the ball, how to play it back, and where you want it to land. there's so many processes going on in the brain. lots of tiny thought processes. and i think that's good training because it keeps the brain in constant motion. the extension living with her weekly physio therapy appointment is all about balance and posture. all this movement is very important for parkinson's patients. they need several units of movement a week to keep the body stimulated. and to delay the physical degeneration as long as possible. like to move to the hospital even after 10 years with the disease is constantly having to adapt to her parkinson's. small

movements or difficult. this is coming for being a lot like a pilot in the plane where the plane is constantly drifting down or it may be up again. and i keep having to regain balance and keep the plane on course cekada to has. and he said to god parkinson's at 46 unusually early for her, the diagnosis came out of the blue you have done caught them on so early on i had moments of sheer panic. i would think about the stairs in our house that i wouldn't be able to climb and that we have to prepare those with the kind of panic attacks. i had one of those bonds, was your panic i talking to become there cuz husband stuff usually keeps as calm when it comes to parkinson's. sake has been married to him for nearly 30 years. they have 2 grown up children. i explained good friends of the door below was everyone as limitations as they get older, sighed see what you stuck out on 10 years older than her. and i'm noticing that i

can do less here and there young damaged you. of course, there might be a wheelchair at some point on, but it might be me who needs a wheelchair. you never know. first, let's say who ends up pushing who this is always kind of go, my wife pushing me, let me get your pets in now. but 1st, it's back to the ping pong table for zeta. this time at the tournament in vice versa . all the way in the midst of germany. it's a good place at every competition. that's quite nice. it shows me time and again that despite the disease, anything is possible and you can achieve top performances. of course everything has to be just right and sometimes parking since gets in the way. but you have to learn to live with that. not get frustrated and keep going. in spite of it, a lot of the players bring their families along to the tournaments here in the sports,

all it's all about community. let me just kind of contest. i didn't have this disease, i wouldn't have experienced all of this, this sense of community and all these vehicles of these are real every day heroes. they can deal with their fate and still be happy. they're all role models for me from ping pong parkinson has given to get and many others here, a new lease on life, a way to win the small bottles in the war against an incurable disease. it's a mystery that has captivated the generations. the legend of the lock in this same oscar for decades, people have set out to prove its existence to no avail. still, the thrill of spotting the creature draw smaller than $1500000.00 tourists of the scottish highlands every year. they fall from the least step, mfc is real, but you won't find him on the group expedition, searching fluid. they prefers to go for it. a low confidence that his method will

bring him face to face with the elusive creature. welcome to the high end. let's cut the greatest mystery darkness the lies below its depths is a question that's grips generations and jewels, millions to a dock mackie voltage in search of a monster group. they've holton seen. many nancy hunches come guy. he spends every moment he can come here by the water's edge, while his own private sanctuary away from the crowds. dave believes there's a creature out the creature he hopes one day to discover close to the scott to somewhere out as well as it has vain. hopefully, she's still, or he's still here, you know, and those mornings where the mist is just hovering above the wall to you know, just come on, just poke you read ok. let's come out and let's see. it was

a passion to nature that says port dave to the law. now it is 6 days. he says he's addicted. spell bound by his majesty. hook to him, the endless promise of mystery still to be discovered. just makes me has on the back of my stomach. oh yeah. yeah. it's amazing. yeah. it's a little bit the ways of days secluded corner. nancy's label sensation is boned, a mess of tourism industry with a major new months to hunt this summer during the wealth attention to scotland. once again the drones get them up to us. okay. own it. ok guys. at those eclipse with so not in sound technology. trolled was, isn't the biggest surface go to hunt in safety in on this with hundreds of volunteers to the low you know,

12 miles by train. so she's here and we're gonna find rebecca and her 2 sons traveled all the way from wales to tennessee fantasy into reality. we came because it's been rufus's dream for the last 2 years to come to the nest and to try to find the monster. and i, so i've got to do this for him. i will not get another chance in his childhood. so 11 and a half hours on a train. and we're here with it as another search process. but the mystery still on so but as magic to the stories that are in the recent months to comp dumping magic that makes even the most hardened cynics scale of these waters. a one to 2 and for such organized alum kenner, preserving this legend for the next generation,

is even more important than finding the monster itself. i don't want this to go away. i've loved this most of the environment since i've been a we boy, i will be cold. so for sure that always only feeling it for themselves to downright . i'm feeling it for myself. i love this place. i'm really happy to just play a really small part and this is important legacy, and i think that's worth protecting. so across the water, dave setting off once again, one then and his quiet and welcoming prospects. he hates for a creature who routine nations, the crowds. when all those people have gone, i'm still going to be and i can go out and paddle to mount content on my own and just you never know dave, this last move in just a moment. right. wow, but if he finds one along the way, well, wouldn't that really be something and this brings us to the end of this

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