The journey to the land full of contradictions. Joy and sadness. Confidence. In our documentary depicts the contrasts of everyday life. And people cope with. Iran bittersweet. Starts may second d. Double. Yellow in a very warm welcome indeed to Focus On Europe with me craven and campaigning is now well underway for elections to the European Parliament due to take place at the end of may and one thing is clear in many countries across the continent there are
fierce divisions between liberal and centrist parties on the one hand and populist right wing forces on the other and poland is no exception the country is currently ruled by the law and Justice Party led by get us where kaczynski known in poland as simply peace the party is aggressively conservative nationalist and a largely Euro Skeptic Still Opposition Voices can be heard and among them the controversial but very influential Black Metal Band be him off with their front man Adam Dark Ski Hes Come under a lot of pressure for speaking out on issues like free speech and his music is just as uncompromising downscale himself describes it as noisy vulgar and abominable. And in dark skinned his Black Metal Band behemoths are about to start their warsaw gig. Theyre playing three shows in poland before their european
tour which is bound to stir controversy. And interest is an outspoken critic of polands ruling right wing nationalist a law and justice government which has little regard for the European Union. I consider myself a pole polish citizen as much as i can see the list of european and to me should be equal. And. Messily against their. Political tendencies thats been conquering all our land for like the last two years that its. Just driving us there was some kind of isolation which was going. To ask expresses his political sentiments through provocative works of art. With a code. Like these biblically themed photos which come along with his bands latest album. Works like these draw the ire of many conservative polls today and also the anger of the countrys government which is backed by the Catholic Church lawmaker Dominic Church in ski of the ruling law and Justice Party even reported adam darcy to the police. He just bridge below our criminal law is very very clear insult religion every religion you cannot you know heart someones feelings religious feelings and this is what he did these days scenes like these outside polands parliament arent uncommon this catholic antiabortion activists placard reads reproduce. But not all pulls think this way adam and his more liberal minded fans often hang out in hair salons run by the rock musician he owns several in various large polish cities. Poses polands largely conservative and nationalist establishment through his combination of black
metal music and his unique lifestyle but these are trying times which was. So yesterday and the Political Climate is very unfavorable. Theyre trying to censor my work with what they help if you do if youre shy. Well they force me to report to the police. And our concerts are monitored by undercover agents. But ill second something she told jean the violence was. Never going to get over. They want to check out a for planning any subversive activity or what you might experience all of that. Activity mr spitta beyond that. But door skin his band will not let themselves be intimidated luckily they have many. Borders in the american heavy metal scene. Cold void meanwhile is glad to be working in darcys hair salon locally just you know actually theres anger on the streets ive experienced that first hand but
nobody means you any harm in this hair salon when you go. Later that day preparations are underway for Darkies Concerts in the polish capital tonight youll be adopting the stage persona of near go a babylonian deity who fights a hostile foreign land. Which is exactly how he feels living in poland today to him poland is being governed by a regime that has no respect for his liberal worldview. Would be i was a bit. Of he wants to get people to be more open minded and to change their thinking its true overcome Old Fashioned beliefs and become more open open more and does is his way of doing this is very controversial to see many in this country cantone write that letter we had some regard to our skin his band as the only remaining champions of liberalism in poland but tarski disagrees with you quite
a Massive Group of people who are like free thinking Beverly Breaded individuals over here in poland. Stand behind what they do and what they say so its not like. Whatever to proffer their order a missile or whatever but definitely im good at just speaking. My freewheel. And then dark skinned his band rock out to the excitement of their open minded fans. Well id like to shift the focus now to turkey i mean particular take you to the small village of chad cook in the southeast of the country and whats so remarkable about this village is the high number of intersex yields that these people born without typical male or female characteristics one of them is. Identifies as
a man but until recently the turkish authorities classified him as a woman what is for sure is that aziz says has plenty of discrimination and his biggest dream is to simply be accepted for who he is. As hes issued is a shepherd and he feels most at ease with his flock up here he owes nobody any explanation about why he was born as a girl and used to be called. A muslim an easy way to connect this room wasnt sometimes i like to people but most often the i just want to be alone when things got to be too much it wasnt that full set i just want to be left in peace yes and up here is best. Aziz lives in the village of check in Southeastern Turkey One Turkish newspaper described the place as cursed because over twenty intersexual zx people born without a clear biological gender live in this one village one is
a fifty year old r. C. A. s he has no unambiguous external sex organs even as a young child he knew he didnt want to be a girl but if you know where he is that one day when i was boxing with a boy he pulled my long hair and threw me to the ground then i ran home and cut it off i was full of hatred for myself and everyone around the. In this isolated corner of turkey its customary to marry among relatives and almost everyone in the extremely poor church crook is related that spreads genetic disorders rapidly and such hereditary conditions as intersexuality. This twenty one year old who doesnt wish to reveal his identity is intersexual hes had surgery to make his genitals unambiguously male if. I had to have three operations one cost the equivalent of Five Hundred Euros everything thats what i had in half a year but now i feel like a complete person eventually i want to marry and have children and even that will move anything. But even after surgery very few intersections are able to conceive. And surgery does little to change attitudes among these men from a neighboring village they wouldnt want anyone from their families marrying and intersexual. Of have themselves turned into men be theyll change their minds again some day we wouldnt accept that. As far as i know they cant have any children they like gays. Has never had surgery like many others he didnt have the money he rarely goes to the nearest city. Just to see
a doctor at most this time hes going to ask the psychologist to for advice you so has been counseling intersexual children and families for years. How are you doing. It or not that well. Im a person who needs to love and be loved. And when theres no love. To do because youre in it in the in the attic the families who come to me feel overwhelmed should they raise their intersex child as a girl or a boy also please start a war theyve raised their child as a boy up to age five playing football and so on. And now all at once he wants to be a girl authentic. In this Arch Conservative Society it matters little that aziz has always felt like a man every time he fell in love he was in for a disappointment or that as a young man i had a relationship with
a girl from the village in secret of course when he came out it was a huge scandal my dream was shattered here social mores dictate that she was married off to another man i disagree into everybodys got the love of it. But as easy isnt giving up he intends to buy a cheap smartphone one because hes heard that its easier to get to know women on the internet. The clerk at the cellphone store shows him how to take selfies that put his best foot forward he needs a photo for his profile. He said bit more upbeat when he gets home he lives in this little house with his mother and ten other relatives his mother is pleased that many years ago aziz decided he was a man. In our society a man counts for more. Than a no no a girl marries and leaves but the men can provide for the families and inherit you
know they knew that it would. Aziz is hoping that he might someday find a woman from outside his village who wont be put off by his past. He records a love song on his new smartphones soon to be uploaded to his internet profile. Now spain is a country well known for its Colorful Traditions Food Flamenco Football Bullfighting and much much more besides such as hunting using a Spanish Breed of greyhounds known as gull goats in this still very popular pursuit the hounds are trained to chase down and kill hares its brutal stuff and it really is the case of the survival of the fastest the problem is though that the dogs that arent up to scrunch are often left to fend for themselves or simply kill the Animal Rights activists are up in arms. These spanish
greyhounds are known as gallegos today theyre showing off their Hunting Talents their keepers have taken them to a field outside of madrid. The hare is startled and bolts the battle begins to go go so i set loose and chase it at speeds of up to seventy kilometers per hour. The goggle that catches and kills the hare wins many here got the taste for this kind of hunting from their fathers and grandfathers. And a lot of those who meets us aunt its tradition and passion we invest a lot of time in these talks a lot of work a money often at the cost of our families without a lot of media. And the hair is dead. Novarro is proud of his winning goal go is two and a half years old a perfect age for hunting. Older dogs arent quick enough to win the race to their prey. This god go is older he was abandoned
animal welfare activists found him and are now taking him to a shelter. Susana rubio says this is just one of many cases of gallegos being abandoned when theyre no longer fit for hunting. Out there right after as soon as the Hunting Season begins the number of stray dog goes on the streets or in empty buildings like in this case shoots up massively then one of the dogs are tried out and if theyre no longer fast enough to just cast aside. What theyve become bored if. Not broken you know if this got done. This shelter is taking care of Eighty Gallegos at the moment most of them are quite old. Davita for dog says the situation is intolerable he campaigns against hunting with goggles and against a breeding that only gives the youngest and fittest a chance. Its embarrassing how people treat animals in this country. I met people abroad who owned a gull go and they told me it had been abandoned in spain. Its a disgrace that people would do that. Hunting hares with dogs is banned almost everywhere in the e. U. But not in spain here the tradition is alive and well in Opera Homecourt is proud of that he heads an organization that defends this kind of hunting with greyhounds. Thats a lie going around in Europe Gallegos are treated well and. Weve just got so many Animal Rights activists against us. But its all just a huge misunderstanding but a. Horse a contender would disagree hes already rescued many gallegos from the streets. He estimates that some Fifty Thousand are neglected abandoned or killed each year. The
dark side of a herald a tradition and a business. For america a good go go fetch is a pretty some. Theres always someone wholl spend a lot of money on it. There are people who do nothing but regard goes to sell them then. Its a lucrative but often Cruel Business Jose Contactor has taken many pictures of mistreated gallegos. But its hard to find the perpetrators. Of the dogs throat was slit open to remove the microchip been planted there that way the owner cant be identified he just hung the dog from a tree and that was that. It is a passionate hunter but he can still understand why pictures like these are harming the image of this much loved tradition he says that he would never do something
like that and thinks its a shame that some god go on earth give hunting a bad name. Your relatives i mean i can only speak for myself childrens mother is eleven years old and shell stay with me until she dies and what i will make. Can also count on staying with her keeper until she dies. Meanwhile the hunt goes on but this time the hair gets away. Good for the hair but not for the gulf coast the less success they have the slimmer their own chances of survival. And we go to russia now which is in the grip of an Aids Epidemic and one of the biggest problems for People Living with hiv is the extent to which theyre cut off from the rest of society now its particularly painful for the growing number of children infected with the virus there is no one project in the city of chelyabinsk where young kids some positive some level of living playing under. Going together. Here at the orphanage the day begins at seven am. Everyone knows what to do. They take the same medications in the same Dosage Mornings and evenings. I appear real is home to forty Boys And Girls from four to seventeen years old theyre called plus the key and me no seeking the terms for hiv positive and negative children here. With. A kid when we open this home twelve years ago at first they each i. V. Positive children were kept separate. You go so far as could be wiped clean the
floors had no rugs the dishes were soaked in disinfectant and they containers that it was very hard to create a tolerant environment for them. It took six years before all the Staff Members learn to accept and respect these children. Now the purity and minnows play together. They all have much the same routine they were all growing up without parents in this one of a kind home in the Southern Russian city of chile up in school. Now everyone here knows theres no danger of picking up the virus from the hiv positive children not even if someone should suffer a cut. Caregivers are never far from the youngest kids and the older ones know that the Virus Isnt Stable and dies if it comes into contact with. Hugh. Full of kong one of my friends sleeps in the same room with me of
hiv positive no one day before i found out and i came in and he said ive got to tell you something i may try to be positive. But i was scared at first but then he told me how its transmitted and since then everythings been ok i treat him completely normally. One third of the children here were born of hiv positive parents many of whom are also alcohol or drug abusers they lost custody of the children some of the parents dont even know where they children are. At for rel they grow up in a safe environment they learn from the start to approach their Hiv Infection with confidence unlike many adults. Northwood sick of the disappearing he once our kids went to a summer camp the first evening the children were bathed or the like the door opened to the Camp Director peeked in as if our children had your ears and to have
them all another time my coworker asked marina what should i do theyve brought us an a. T. V. Positive boy i said after the seller went and locked him up but she was bewildered this and i said what do you think let him play with the others of course. As the day closes at that for now everyone knows just what to do the same medications in the same dosages every evening. Everyone here is worried about what will become of the kids once they leave their things. Many of them were born with disabilities because of their mothers alcohol or drug abuse unless theyre adopted they will likely be left to fend for themselves for the rest of their lives. Now on a very different note europe is running out of fish the reason is overfishing that has meant in the mediterranean for instance that stocks are being deployed to
determine alarming rate so form a fisherman in the waters around the island of risk here in the Gulf Of Naples looking for new sources of income and some of them have come up with a Business Model that exploits the ancient treasures to be found on or even below the seabed. Judy orlando says people like him can no longer live from fishing so his Skills Fishermen now ferry tourists around instead. But this boat is different from the others. The rules fitted it with a glass bottle and now the Family Office excursions to the sunken roman city of in our area off the coast of ischia its the Younger Generation like julio sungai ton o. Who are developing this new kind of cultural tourism here. So it was our idea to live from the sea in a different way than our parents do. You know out of all this but there was. This all came about due to our love for our homeland the love we want to give it the respect it deserves that want to create jobs that extend beyond the Tourist Season and this project is comprised of a whole bunch of ideas and initiatives. That all you leave go to the abroad as it was the budget. So the local fisherman became amateur archaeologists they banded together to buy Diving Equipment and technical devices and applied for the necessary permits and they hired an Underwater Archaeologist who oversees the excavations to this day. Conducting archaeology underwater is a Laborious Business Due to the effects of currents and waves areas that were painstakingly uncovered can soon be filled in again. But the fisherman didnt give up and made a discovery is a True Archaeological Sensation Aport dating from roman times. This is what it might have looks like. Theyve also found the remains of the villa until such finds were made no one knew the romans had settlements on ischia it was thought theyd avoided the island as it was prone to earthquakes. The fishermen spend all their free time searching for more clues about him not me and many of the younger ones are now experienced archaeological divers but although the work has become routine for them its much more than a job but medicine if you know what when i walk in the water and every dive is a moving experience because every time something new can come to light what new piece of evidence of what was there which helps us to understand the past because as we just saw every day brings a new discovery. The skin lives from tourism each year hundreds of thousands of people flock to the islands to bathe in its hot springs and visit
the famous gusto out of going easy hand every now and then the super yachts drop anchor here. The mayor says a new branch of tourism is always welcome but he wont commit to offering the young fisherman any financial assistance. Or moneys tight in all of the municipalities and we have to make do with what weve got but its a Nice Initiative that deserves consideration. With the fishermen believed in this research. Its an unusual situation because although weve received all the necessary permits for an archaeological investigation from the relevant authorities its all being paid for privately. So these professional and amateur archaeologists will continue their exploration without any Government Funding judio laro says that at least that way no one can tell them what to do. And thats all for now from Focus On Europe thanks so much for joining us and if youd like to see any of our reports again just go to our home page on d w dot com or do visit our Facebook Page the tell for your stories and to come back next time around until then fly by and show us. The at the old the at. Good. Food. Good. Cause. Center of the conflict zone confronting the powerful my guest this week here in tallinn is martin helm a Deputy Leader of the conservative peoples posse on the stony despite calling for blacks to leave the country few insists fuz not a racist twenty c. Then does the model support by pressing on the feelings that we dont want to be
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