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of the supply chain process all that much illegal as a starts may said on d, w, the hello and welcome to focus on your rep. it's great to have you with us. russia continues to clamp down on civil liberties in the country. authorities added what they call the l g t. b movement to a list of extremist and terrorist organizations. visitors of a queer bar in the south, west of russia experience 1st time the impact of the new ruling in march of this year. they were subjects to a police rate. the extreme is labeled outlaws l g
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b t q plus activism. gay less getting transgender or queer people living in russia can not receive a lengthy prison sentences. this is not something konstantin celebrates the young man from moscow was opened the gate, but he never deemed himself as an extremist to evade the possible prison term costs since he went into exile escape route, let him from the russian capital to barcelona in spain. he arrived after a long and exhausting journey. a warm welcome with the new progress, pride flag, caustics arrival in barcelona is a big occasion for his friends. that's because caustic does not have a return ticket. easier to stay. i'm exhausted, haven't slept with 2 months earlier. we met 39 year old konstantin or caustic for short. in moscow. constantine spent the last few weeks living in
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constant fear. he says, fearing repercussions for being gay and his home country of russia, the power and all. yeah, i'm afraid of ever think i'm holding a man's hand in the park. i just run to that. we'd already probably be some highway legal is like on the is the what uh that's due to a new law passed in november 2023. it identifies the vaguely defined so called international l g b t movement, which it deems extreme is since november to man holding hands in a par can be prosecuted for so called propaganda of non traditional sexual relations. what that means for constantine is that he no longer feels safe living in russia. this has been the case for many people from the l g b t q plus community for years. but the new law exacerbates their situation. they
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faced arbitrary criminalization. konstantin has been openly gay for years, including at his work place. he works as an i t specialist and a managerial position. soon after the law was passed, konstantin was fired. the reasons for it were bogus. he says, and what was really behind the layoff, with his sexuality at the start of the site was after i was suddenly afraid for my future months. so i no longer knew where i could work up and you know, even how i could grow old and it'll show how to get started initial uh, just a few years ago i was hoping for a promotion successful career. and i would like to have it. so i wanted to save some money to didn't get, but i can no longer sure that someone that will come and block my bank account. uh, keep my apartment and so on this going on. uh, no data for police rates like this one that appear bar in or in berg. i've left a l g b t q plus community. really everyone's face the
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wall. no turning around face the wall. a chip off from a local association alleged that the bar was spreading so called homosexual propaganda. the owner is now face up to 10 years in prison. the community is in shock. yes, there's a lot of. yeah. when i asked myself what ice or vice and presidency, you know what i mean, i'm not alexi and i've only i haven't either, the car is nor the will to fight against the system. i don't want to either. what i want is simply to live freely and brief calmly. the weeks following his dismissal were horrible. konstantin says, he felt persecuted, lived in constant fear, fear that he might unwittingly provide a pretext for his arrest. so he decided to leave russia and go to spain where he has a few friends. ready to tell everyone to take something different, i'm taking my playstation a whole life and just 2 suitcases and another
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life before him. but the fear of persecution stayed with him right up until boarding the airplane. ready was done with that to him, the bush, as soon as i had this feeling that i would get to the airport and something would happen and package control, the monument comfortably or the or they have an issue with my documents, a customs i'll send you some of them the most of all comes when i pass the passport control and my things were being taken off the conveyor belt, i saw a group of police officers gather many young boy. they were looking straight out to get every nod from an officer. seemed a huge danger of sticking to most of the, the konstantin managed to leave the country via turkey and arrived safely in spain . those were a terrible 20 hours. i'm thirsty and i want to have a smoke 1st. he wants to apply 1st. i live in
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spain, his friends will help him settle in and find a job, but he has a whole new reality to get used to the about the past. i 1st have to learn not to be afraid anymore. i taught your all my life but not anymore. konstantin knows that will be difficult. he used to be a successful manager, but now needs to start from scratch. but he's on phased plans to learn spanish and go back to university. returning to russia is out of the question. ready should 6 work be allowed are banned in europe? well, it's a hot button issue. the countries in the european union can't agree on various models of 6 work regulation exist with a germany having opted for a full legalization approach. like in most of the e u countries,
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prostitution is legal here. sweden, on the other hand, supports the last lenient model. buying 6 as a criminal offense, was selling 6 is not. let's take a look at the implications of 6 work in sweden and germany. amber, sunk to power, the neighborhood home to that eva bond, and its red light district. here, sex work is seen as business as usual, especially by man hamburg it goes with the territory long, i guess they make money from it. so you can see much on people one to, to go down books and sunk, probably sex as a tourist attraction that draws people from around the globe. there are even guided tours of the so called sin mile for their lives. if i trip up, since i hardly double this process, so i go to sit down for a beer, it won't be long before someone offers you a room with a dancer. with a 10 2nd officer mocking cock prostitution is legal in germany. the
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goal of the country's liberal legislation, which has been in effect for over 20 years, was to give the women access to services like health care and unemployment insurance. but there have been other consequences to many people from abroad. now travel to germany, to buy sex, including from women who don't sell it, have their own free will like teresa from africa out of fear for her baby under family. she wants to remain anonymous. she was brought to germany by smugglers. teresa tells us she owes these human traffickers, $60000.00 bureaus, and that she's supposed to earn the money on the streets as a prostitute. the talk because of the neutral, they want to have the people going to move
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up the pictures by sit on this planet. it's doing associated to to pressure her to human traffickers even separated her from her baby. not, not the one that's on both sides on the side of the screen, visit the child's pay. this side, not touching me below me in the 5 on the match i was pregnant. sorry about douglas by walter. she fell off then all the while. not, not you said forcing women into sex. work is a punishable offense in germany. but too afraid to turn to the authorities, teresa went underground. instead. there are about 30000 officially registered prostitutes in germany. but the number of illegal sex workers is thought to be 10
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times higher women's rights activist nova eva's says, germany has degenerated into europe's brothel in her eyes, the german model has failed. germany's liberal loves promote a system that exploits and degrades women and turns them into products. and so in a box to cut the and then tie on the given men, the right to buy sex with the woman for 30 years. it goes to 6 call from it on a call for have us sweetens approach to regulating prostitution is a role model. what's known as the nordic model is finding more and more supporters in germany. housing board gotten sweden's west coast, but t is live, is a police officer on his way to an undercover assignment. he's responsible for tracking down sex buyers in his hometown. people buy sex, you know like 247. but we can also say in uh, an increase or a spike during,
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you know, lunch hours. and then just when people get off work, you know, between maybe 4 and 6 in sweden. buying 6 is a legal for live and his colleagues, the sex workers, are simply witnesses, right? only their customers are prosecuted. this is the 1st address on his list. lou, this hoping to bust a customer today. so now it's just a waiting game. some crimes are easier to explain it to you. you've been wrong putting that fights and maybe you hit something everyone can relate to that and understand like buying sex it's uh, it's a shameful problem in swedish capital stock. com, there is no longer any red light district. that's partly due to the mon hicks to them. the swedish police forces senior expert on prostitution. we have to ask ourselves the question, what would the situation look like if it was allowed?
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if it was legal to actually buy 6 and to actually run the problem, then we are most convinced that the situation here would be a tragedy. because we didn't need to be so rich country. there was a lot of money to be be made back in housing, book station in various cars, mathias live and his colleagues lie in wait for the customer. oh, well, as a potential customer, i thought anyone called leaving sex workers place faces a heavy fines based on their income. repeat, offenders can end up in prison. the false department so we're right. the location while his colleagues bring the suspected customer to police headquarters, the woman is questioned as
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a witness. this time the woman is not from abroad. the 50 year old swede was selling sex out of desperation. she is trying to pay off a tax debt for ex husband left behind i tried to earn a bit of cash this way now and then during the day i work at a call center. and then a social worker who has been called to the scene offers the woman help to get out of prostitution. that's also part of the swedish model, but even the buyers can get help in sweden. like from social worker video, hans and she said people aged 18 to 90 approach or to help them stop buying sex and some ask for help because they don't want to start in the 1st place. so defensive on setting it to. there are men who call us and say, apply,
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think i'm on the way to buying sex and i need help so much i have provided and the fact that they're seeking help to stop it before it happens, stop by my. so that's a very positive development, and you have to post a tift since she stopped selling 6. finally, dane has been combating the idea that prostitution should be normalized. for former boyfriend forced her into it with violence. between the age of 17 to 23 are so 645 times a week. a 3 to 8 men every day. she believes the swedish law is an important 1st step, but says stronger enforcement is needed. all the politicians are doing is increasing the punishment from getting a fine to getting like a small prison sentence. um,
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but i don't of the thing the men are afraid of getting calls back and sunk. probably in hamburg, we meet sex work or on dean to review at a photo exhibition about sex work. some of her good friends have let themselves be photographed in anger's her, that in germany, more and more people want to band buying 6 of the scene to start with the not far before the demand is prohibited, the customer structure changes highest. that means those who don't want to break the law might try to make do with buying less exercise or go elsewhere, then you go 6 up with an unable to name or to on this vehicle. and only those who are okay with breaking the law will remain for the diesel keeps weekends, but she's thankful for germany's liberal laws. then when he gets mentioned, can when people get to know me, they see that i like my job and really have fun doing it on the see. so go to the spots on hobble, but then have it then they always say, yes,
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but you're the exception on what about the poor other people who have been traffic . i didn't want to buy it. and i always find it really hard to get across how broad the spectrum of realities is. right. the spectrum is on people. while in germany, even prostitutes disagree over legislation in suite and the majority support the ban on buying sex. but she is live, is back at housing board police headquarters. the alleged client who has been arrested is still awaiting the questionnaire. i don't have any feelings about the what a working. but for them, the ones who by sex, i don't feel very much actually available for the girls who is a put in a place where maybe she doesn't want to be as the suspect continues to deny the accusations. but the dna sample would likely be enough to convict him. i believe tonight when me and my team will go to bed and we'll look us else in the mirror. we think of it,
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we have done the different difference for someone today. then mathias lives ushers . the suspected customer out whether that was his last visit to a sex worker is on certain, even in sweden. do you know the secret to long lasting happiness? ask the fins if you don't fit and rang, says the happiest country in the world, according to the world, happiness report for the 7th time, and there will people's close connection to nature contributions to the reading. se researchers this 5 long cold winter's with little daylight and defense actually learn to be happy. the 7th graders are just coming back from their lunch break. their next lesson isn't math or history, but emotional competence. teacher anika li cleaning says the people's will be working in groups. they'll be learning how to express their feelings using the
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right words. that a yes oh, in an old single source i like the wireless pop area. you off the cooperate the poster and divide into like read the slow at the same mistake, positive emotions on one side and negative ones on the other make off the cell phone and very the same with negative ones. are things that make you unhappy or sad . feel are there are many words for feeling or you all finish schools, teach, teamwork and communication skills. social and emotional skills are part of the curriculum which facial expression matches what's in motion. the lessons are helpful encourages us to speak up when someone is being bullied or something that that can't just be ignored. the sentence helps you correctly react, sadly or emotionally happy said angry. you need to learn
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that. and then the 45 minute lesson is up. the posters are ready and the teacher wants to know who's on the exercise easy. what made it on both with that? okay, well, we're teaching young people that it is okay to have different feelings. at the same time, they're learning that we must treat everyone with respect, even if we have negative feelings. um, let me somewhat better place to learn this than at school. what i mean by that would i called the way people treat each other as one explanation for that seemed finish happiness. the world happiness report finds that fins treat each other more kindly than other nations do the is it fit that your we have a sense of community? it is great that we take care of each other with was nearly midnight that without finished democracy works. is it about a 100 things here were cause you have thought, man,
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who make time to help the poor and unemployed at the how about us? we really have to go through the, on a viet about how i go to finish date, helps and supports people in need. the housing 1st scheme, for example, ensures nobody has to live on the streets or, or the homeless or given apartments like these. with all the central household items provided. they are in the line, they gave us the name we social worker, merriest and men beyond takes great care getting the apartment ready. it's very important that we just don't leave the stuff like this, so they have are paid for it. and that's it. it's made already and they don't have to like you just don't just give the keys, but you know it's home. one farmer homeless man shows us this apartment. unfortunately, flats like these are often messy because some tenants have never had a home with their own before. they've got to learn everything from scratch, including cleaning routines like that. if we cannot reach you to
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finish, very bad. so that's the point. that's our main goal to make a connection with a new tenants to keep the connection with the old tenants. if we don't do that, we will not succeed. hey, corey's local tenant county in. marietta gets a long well, but it took 3 years for her to gain cavities. trust me. about the ocean some the now i sense there are new horizons to new dimensions. my depression was bad. i didn't even perceive colors anymore. now that slowly coming back to the quote i receiving an apartment, but no strings attached and getting support to overcome setbacks saved him, says county. but of course, finland isn't without problems since russia's war in ukraine began. many here have
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become concerned because finland shares a 1300 kilometer border with russia. and the government's plan to stare 2 measures of sparked use to beat even so finland was named the world's happiest country for the 7 successive year. home on shots is from germany and move to finland. 40 years ago. he says another key ingredient for happiness, just guessing outdoors. no matter the weather is my dream, the he finished winter last 6 months and this you can't stay at home all that time . you can't, you have to get out most on clothes, roman exercises 5 times a week, not competitively. that's another key to happiness. according to the world, happiness report in finland, there's less competition and people are not so competitively minded. like in other countries like it's kind of get the hanging in your mind on the say plus up. if
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someone else possesses something that i don't know i just as i don't have to be, that was because i don't like it to you. i mean, it wasn't taken from me. i think that's one of the most profound finish wisdoms can be so we can all learn to be happy, just likes offense. even for modern art lovers and major cities, it's kind of difficult to find the time to visit an exhibition in a secluded small town even more so. but what if they came to you? that's where the level of museum falls in. it's a truck with a load of contemporary art criss crossing mobile phones. and mickey are accessible to those in remote communities like such as could be, or nothing much ever happens here in santa is gonna be a village in the french countryside. there is no shop, no cafe,
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and certainly no museum. that's why this truck is here with its precious cargo. the move for mobile museum travels the country side with works from the company to museum in paris to introduce children 1st and foremost to our can you hear me once i was in the museum, the dinosaurs skeletons are, that i saw a truck like that once with virtual reality, it was really cool. this is the 1st visit to a museum with real art for half the children here. for many, cautiously exploring and describing art works is completely new for you know, maybe that is anger. ringback for others, it might be love. everyone sees different emotions in a 2nd. what is being alive is the theme of the exhibition.
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with the 25 works in the small space, children can playfully discover the world of art. the mobile museum welcomes around $20000.00 children and adults a year free of charge and you did to when i was little, i lived in very rural environments where there were no museums or music. they actually, if i was 18 when i visited my 1st museum in paris, okay. access to museums is not a given. there are social, psychological, and geographic barriers to it. means you got to go see. the mobile museum stays in each place for 2 days. bennett packs up again and rolls off to another village in the middle of the country side the so that brings this week's edition of focus on europe to an end. i hope you enjoyed the show. thanks for watching bye. for the
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. this is the, the we news line from berlin, germany summons the russian ambassador over the arrest of 2 suspected russian spies . germany's interior minister describes the incident as, quote, particularly serious cases of a lead spying activity. the men were reportedly planning sabotaged. attacks in germany with a goal of disrupting aid for ukraine, also coming up at a meeting and brussels annual leaders of breed to new sanctions against iran, targeting pear on missile and drone producers. this comes after last weekend's assault on israel.

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