visiting her today for the final months of the pregnancy natalia has to live close to the clinic in kharkiv. normally she lives with her children and her partner dimitra in a town some fifty kilometers away. this is own attalia makes money there is virtually no work to be had here dimitri overturns the equivalent of about two hundred euros is the rich that of course we aim to give our own children a good start in life. it's not easy to find work here and to support a family. that we made this decision and so our children will be better off. because sure through a little trick you. tell your hopes to pay for her children's education and to become self-employed she's not the first surrogate mother in her time an acquaintance told her she could make a living by helping other couples to have children but many questions remain some practical but also psychological. it's interesting the baby here is russian the whole time inside my belly but then becomes a german child. would. tell you has to say goodbye to her own family for now. while will say hello to grandma for me couples from all over the w

couples from all over the world come to this clinic on the outskirts of kharkiv among them the german couple whose baby daughter netanyahu scary they wouldn't talk on camera fearing they would be recognized at home. another woman from germany did talk to us we'll call her ana she's in her early forty's and has unsuccessfully tried to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization six times she and her husband refused to consider adopting a surrogate mother for a donor egg cell was the only option left in germany that's illegal sees this as hypocritical in germany surrogacy is prohibited even though many well known and wealthy people do so and then the youth welfare office treats you like the worst criminals ever. these cases are lucrative for the clinic in hockey the doctor in charge explains that a surrogate pregnancy with a donor egg brings in at least thirty thousand euros sometimes twice that amount it depends on the specific needs and wishes of the parents ukraine hosts a few hundred surrogate pregnancies each year he says with demand growing customers are coming from as far away as

portrays invalid's children and the dispossessed in his home city kharkiv after the collapse of the soviet union. whether of nakedness or need the images are brutally direct often hard to look at the kind of takes a different view. with a new thought if they do. it's more compassion. maybe even a sign of respect for the problems human suffering. for help people get into this situation by pure bad luck or. you could say this misfortune is preprogrammed a lot because these people are no scientists or scholars and then you know you're on the air and your idea of. the collapse of the soviet union push the lowest reaches of society even lower but me her love captures his subjects pride. they look into his lens with confidence in spite of the misfortunes they've suffered. furthermore at their you would you go where or where boy from these are people who have been pushed by life. they live their lives about a mile and there's no real connection between this life and ignore. i'm a life. i myself was part of their connection with normal life it was more i think kenya thought a minute. before sleep