for his country he received the nobel peace for the 2 best visits china, september 27th on dw, the hello, and welcome to focus on europe with me live, show a prisoner exchange between russia and west. some countries do international attention in august with many people celebrating those relieves from captivity. russian artist and active as such as coaching ankle was part of that historic swap . she was convicted after criticising, put in and his full scale invasion of ukraine. after spending more than 2 years in

jail, she now lives in freedom in germany, while she's still processing that dramatic memories of her and prism. and she's determined to build a new life withheld from those who care for her deeply. free after more than 2 years in a russian prison come to me, my little one. they can hardly believe their luck. on august 1st, after years of waiting, they can finally hug each other again in germany. artist sasha spoke. he lank up from other not they stuck and partner sonya a reunion made possible because of a prisoner swap between russia and 5 western countries is when they brought us to the airport and i 1st saw a clear sky without the prison bars. this was unbelievable to be on at the yet. so everything was based in lights don't flash back to 2023, sasha. sketchy lanka was in shock when a court sentenced here to 7 years in prison for criticizing rushes,

invasion of ukraine. the support of her friends were no help sketchy length or was arrested for replacing price tags and a supermarket with stickers that said stop the war. and coaching is lying to us for supporters shout. it's a disgrace for to is i wanted to do everything in my power to be open unless i knew it wouldn't be able to stop the war that way. but i did it anyhow, he did not for human kind. but for me, for my conscience stories, i couldn't stay silent to judge. it was an obvious show trial meant to discourage russian anti war protesters. the sentence was a scare tactic such as partners. sonya was devastated, but she refused to be intimidated the after the trial such as mother not dish dot in paris and sonya and st. petersburg

fund for her release. we reported on the 2 women as they did. everyone understood that it was on just gosh, even the worst supporters were saying what in years for 5 stickers that go down the zillow, the 1st time i saw her in that cage north, i was so outraged that i couldn't even breathe for sabrina. but i'm sure then you've got the vanya many russians who let their country end up in paris, including the day stuff they've been staging demonstrations to draw attention to the fate of the softer and other political prisoners and russian sedation. i met with you politicians and activists to make sure her daughter wasn't forgot. today we focused on putting political hostages that they kept in touch with sonya and st. petersburg, who stayed to support sasha despite the risks. how are you doing this? it's hard to be in russia because i never feel completely safe,

especially since the new lawn l. g b t. 2 people took effect. that brand sasha, in me, is terrorists and extremists. now, in russia, you can be put in prison for love search. and for positivism as well, sonya did what she could. she got hold of the special foods and medication sasha needed was denied in prison. the the last session, socials rights are not respected. yes, it's a way of putting her under pressure on my last visit. they wouldn't even let me give her drinking water to come in and you called me and i never turned the light off in such a cell and it's always really loud, which is shown bullying. poor care and even torture are common place and many russian prisons. sonya brought food for sasha 3 times a week. she feared that sasha wouldn't survive present.

the thought. we were afraid that if sasha had a heart attack, the prison doctor wouldn't get to her until it was too late. an acquaintance shot this footage surreptitiously. it was a huge risk given the military censorship now enforced in russia. sonya took the risk to share such a story with the world the this here is rice porridge. it cooked quickly the but sonya wasn't allowed to see sasha that day. assertion of a, we're definitely not counting on an early release, which is quite cute. unless the government has toppled the unexpected happens. sasha was allowed to leave russia a dish dot and sonia came to copeland germany to meet her. the only

thing the tools come every minute felt like a year i was so desperate and felt like my head would explode or yes, because i would, i told myself no matter what happened since i had to survive the length i was treated for russian hickman and spies for mother and sonya is persistence insured her name was included on the list of 15. political prisoners is not here without sonia, i wouldn't have survived the prison for if it's what happened to some miracle licensure . just so miracles are possible. who sasha is still struggling to regain her health . she's suffering post traumatic stress disorder nature and are to help her deal with the trauma. now she intends to draw lots of pictures of her oppressive experiences in her home country as a free woman with this question, this was my 1st trying to it shows

a prisoner exchange forces. now i have to re learn to live in freedom. i may have been set free, but the realization that i'm actually a free person hasn't sunk in yet. do you mind if this 14 year college assessed or lived in mine use them? i'm so happy they're letting us stay in germany, and we don't have to go back to russia. but now we're in a free country, and it's so incredible that we can go outside the and i can to saucer without fear . it makes us so happy to go and show it to you on your planning to marry soon. pushing it sanction says that in spite of all the hardships she has no regrets, she'd do it all over again. the, the weather at the pool or at the beach seeing women in bikinis in bathing suits is nothing unusual. but now the fashion industry is catching up with the needs of its diverse customers. and it's catering to muslim women who want to cover up their bodies in montenegro, where about

a 5th of the population is muslim. there's not even a separate a beach that allows women to enjoy some hours in the sun without having to worry about unwanted gazes. however, not everyone is happy about that. a beach in southern montenegro are universal on the is ethnic albanians, a minority group in montenegro. she's muslim and has come here today to test a very special place, a beach area reserved for women wearing his job or head scarf as i dropped the girl . i never before i could experience the fox effect of getting to sun coast and find the lake and do it. it's also good for my house, for my skin, and i think i will get away from today. we're not allowed to accompany her. the fenced off areas, protected from the prying eyes of the outside world. muslim women sunday of here

without sales just indicates the special beach for his job, where it is located on one of the longest, sandy beaches on the traffic coast. the long beach stretches 13 kilometers from the montenegrin town of olds and to be in here and leave nothing to be desired. there's a beach for dogs, one for kite surfers, a new just beach, a woman only beach, and now an area for the job. the women make up so we can relax and then dress and peace here. do you my? there are also women wearing the full lakeville leaving the address here to go alone knows best and i've already received it. i think it's positive. it's good that bill to women can have a space for themselves where they feel free and then observe. they're not disturbing anyone and no one districts that are the need for an estimate that muslim tourists from all over montenegro and some neighboring countries are now coming to the new who job beach entry costs 8 euros,

and the private operator prioritizes comfort and privacy. our unit has finished sunbathing and needs to cool off. she has to get dressed again to swim and done, super keen, like many others here. the new beach behind the fence is very popular. are you not tells us that you can hardly find the free sun that of the really relaxing to they can enjoy the benefits of fun and they feel secure that that is the most important thing, i guess. whoops, and there's a liberal town with a population of about $11500.00 inhabitants. the majority, or ethnic albanians and almost 72 percent are muslim. nonetheless, the headscarf is still a divisive topic here. are doing a can't avoid it either, especially at work. she's a presenter on

a news program. her 1st appearance in a head scarf was memorable to say the least. well, i was talking about the really important open topic about crime here in montenegro and the all the comments were about to mind your job. no deposit, feel free to use the search we were talking about just what's kind of the you are. you are like a m on the your rep in the make up on lives. doesn't fits it with your should just be on like this 0 list. is it those 2 reports from kinda high, almost all the coma and there are a lot of them. and as you can see, where that's kind of the, the recently there have also been incidents of harassment, the ones i dropped the girl who was there with her family as a tourist. and they chose this and beecher energy harden it all thing. and he was so new all that when he saw the revised audio and he said, you have

a lot of videos to go somewhere else. you are not welcome here for you. not one more argument in favor of the new beach exclusively for his job. you women, but not everyone's a fam. from this committee owns a hotel, a few kilometers away. he lived in fryeburg, germany for many years. he's the muslim on paper, but not a practicing one. and he opposes the new beach for covered women. they couldn't buy than yeah, that will make it swim on any normal beat odds and nobody bothers them. oh here, but it was even here in our hotel, they are allowed to swim in the pool on the option. and the self isolation scares us a bit times the for me is most the we don't like stream is when does this, and that's a bad development for us on the head for many of my friends and tories and most of doing irving initially the big them but so far, unlike in germany, there haven't been any extremist incidents or do you hottest attacks and montenegro

we meet our yona again in the city center. she's proud that there is now a beach in her home country of montenegro for women like her go. i adore several from now on. she wants to visit it more often equipped with a new bathing suit. that's the specific way. so are you in a trice on a virginia style that has just come in the shop, the system seems satisfied. i really loved them and the parts here, it fits really well with the leukemia as she doesn't understand why people associated her religion with extremism. ha. nissan doesn't support the ward and the grind grime. yes. and she says, this is when we gave all the rise to a woman to work to drago, to get dressed. the units made her decision and as soon as she has

time she'll be wearing her. newbert keeney on the long, sandy beach and the lights next to her friends in bikinis. until now people of different religions have lived in faith, tear peacefully alongside one another. this may not be the case in other regions, but it's still possible here in montenegro. it's a societal problem that millions of elderly people in germany are facing and still quite a taboo. poverty in old age. those affected by it are often a shame to talk about how they can afford 3 full meals a day. how they can buy birthday presents for their grandchildren. we met 3 seniors who openly told us their personal stories and well the history of how they got into poverty differs. they all share the same desperate struggle of having to make ends meet a brim, unix. inga who doesn't want to give a full name, is on the way to freelance organized by the association of the split meaning ray of

hope. the 67 year old only receives a small pension and the spindle. germany's puppet t loan is most sensible. i am very careful what i buy when i'm food shopping is to kind of generally eat very little. you forget how to eat when you no longer have the money. this isn't the most. taking that one in 5 german pension is linus similar position. the ad risk of poverty in old age. in germany, it is referred to as a relative poverty. in other words, they have less than 60 percent of the efforts german income enough to enjoy your food. it does meet many new people. she'd be happy today to make a new friend, but she is still on the soul, skeptical. ego gotten like a new meet and that's how much and what's that? oh, potatoes and beans,

potato salad and fried potatoes. so we're going to go no feeling too, isn't it? enough, it's thought she would need help from a charitable organization setup for poor pensioners. she worked as a nursery school teacher all her life, but the road exit and changed everything. she got seriously injured through no fault of her own. afterwards, she was unable to walk and eventually fell into poverty. it's been an issue that i didn't fall into it because i didn't work hard enough. i need to do. i fell into it because of a situation that wasn't my fault, meg guns, and that's what changed my entire life working, surviving findings, and can, i don't do anything else, can it? can i get mix under? what to the 800 year pension is just enough to cover her rent in regular bills to buy food. she works as a private child care for families. she badly makes ends meet them. why are you

still living the spam life? no, i don't. and then i tell myself when you think the children need you, that the children need you, that's what keeps me going. otherwise, i think my life would already be over my name, and i want to say this quite openly to the camera. there's no more pleasure in life if you can't take part in it, i'm leaving this time even come to the also has to make do with very little after deducting fixed costs, the pensioner is left with around 300 euro is a month to take his mind off his financial worries, the 72 year old likes to psycho through nights. the more i meditated deluxe and the more because i have peace and quiet here, so i made it to them. when i meditate, i mentally put my financial worries into little bubbles, get them to the window and carries these little bubbles away with a 2 diesel. so i can place and we take all the lives in a small one bedroom,

flat name unit. as far as in the living room, that's all you can afford, but things used to be quite different. only it was a pioneer of digital video transmission and had his own company took arkansas in the good times. i brought home up to $10000.00 german bucks a month since i lived in houses that had 180 square meters of living space. but it was a comfortable life he saw on. but soon, companies abroad started producing the pods cheaper and smaller. the globalized market made him go bankrupt. he lost everything. i'm sure it's justified. it was my mistake as well, like mine for you. i didn't put much to the side if you can, just so i thought i just thoughts were going to enjoy our lives now. and so not even talk if it was a name. if you're self employed in germany, you don't have to pay into the public pension fund for time and schemes of voluntary and private. that's why many people end up like only they pay to the, to or nothing at all into the pension funds and end up an old

h poverty. but he has developed a method to make ends meet with the list. so he's got an envelope for every week. the money inside will have to do thought is does he me to? so beyond i because i organize myself so systematically, mice, i know my limits are subaru control. now, for example, there's only 20 years left. it doesn't have to buy cleaning products this week. put somebody who is the last case. neither self employment, no one accident and for the reason for her money problems. today she lives in poverty because she cared for her father for 11 years that i must says that he was always there for his family. she did everything on does it so you don't forget that to focus and that's why i considered it a given one to be there for my parents to make slips or stay and i never gave it

a 2nd thought on monday. then that's designed, obviously i need to go go, mess up the need to not get the it's not just gisela whose stuff is the consequences of our own selflessness in old age in germany. one in 5 people who calf or relative is at risk of pulling into poverty. so fema cara's, it's even one in full. they use that time for carrying produce the working hours unless and that's what receive a smaller pension that we need. oh, but the small pension you get is not enough to live on later in life when the spring, which ultimately leads to old age property for chairs carpet, but caring for relative saves the health insurance the state and everyone involved a lot of money. it's just so wrong to the not compton said. these people are not financially fit today. the 75 year old lives in a council flat and born in west germany. together with the 2 cats, most loyal companions. she has $600.00 euros to live on after rent,

and bills when diesel that goes grocery shopping, some money problems, become a parent. she doesn't go to the supermarket much because the groceries are often sold and the quantities which she can't afford at the farm shop though she can buy smaller amounts. oh, that's it for you. yep. of the shop. i bought some apples to i knew a small cucumber from which is enough for me for 2 days, and the carrots, you can make salad. and soup, out of that bible in every, every day it helps such overcome the fear of what might happen. should she one day not be able to get up and walk anymore. but sometimes she does have courage. this is good. i don't want to go on anymore. i'm different and i want to tell everyone out there as the germans. oh, we don't have

a good either. please open your eyes or is this i'm the reason i'm speaking so openly is because i can't do it anymore. and i'm not the only one it's. it's been me, see, i'm millions of pensioners feel the same way. so only it also helps to change his loan to make do with little. but instead, he would prefer politicians to distribute domini, spell's, move valley for the party to what i hope for from politics is justice, even 100 justice cards. i want to hear more people. you've worked hard, you've created the foundations for his boss. now you can rest. it's always, all i don't see that you see on the countries the gap between rich and per is actually getting wider and wider and wider the or

sometimes it only takes one person with a great plan and lots of perseverance to save a hole in the stream. when adam cox from the u. k, noticed that more and more british piano manufacturers are forced to give up their businesses because of cheaper competition from abroad. he decided to take matters into his own hands. he runs a company that is said to be the last piano manufacturer in the u. k. located in north yorkshire, england adam and his team want to preserve a british tradition that's been around for more than 2 centuries. this is the last step to creating the perfect piano. the deafening stress test confirms that adam cox's piano makers have done their work properly over the past 3 to 5 months. the no 2 pieces of wood are the same kinds and that's why each one needs to be made individually. winter seats. there's no

move. it's like the difference between a piece of furniture from a carrier and all that where everything is flat that's made by robots. and then something made by a cross person out of real wood by 2012, 4 and companies had bought up all but one of the british workshops and move production overseas, mainly to asia. adam cox seized an opportunity in britain's last piano workshop. the pianos are hand built just like they were 200 years ago. british craftmanship at cox is determined to preserve. these are skills that are part of our culture. and what is culture? culture is probably the most important thing. we have really. our actions in our language make us who we are. each found board is painstakingly sanded each string expertly to each camera, carefully glued

a large scale producers use machines to assemble the instruments and a fraction of the time and that a fraction of the price. but more and more british customers are tiring of mass produced goods. cox order books are full and there is no shortage of new recruits. the final step out of the modern world. i think it's quite a nice break from all of that was it comes, it feels like a nice route to go down. before retiring cox wants to pass on as much knowledge as you can to the next generation. and ensure that traditional british piano building lives on perhaps even in more than a single workshop. well, that's it for today's show. i hope you enjoyed it. remember to stop by our website and to follow us on social media for more in depth stories from across europe. for me and the rest of the team. thank you so much for watching. my name is live, show by and see you next time

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