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zhanna bezpiatchuk, bbc news, kyiv.collapsed tunnel since sunday morning. our reporter andrew clarance has more from the rescue site. down that tunnel around 200 to 210 metres inside is a wall of debris. it is around a0 to 50 metres thick and behind that are trapped a0 men. officials say the men are fine, they communicating quality of oxygen, food and water but on the ground friends and family of the workers trapped in there are very anxious. attempts to rescue the workers were temporarily suspended on friday. our reporter meghan owen has more on. the collapsed tunnel is located in northern indian state. it's around a.5 km in length. it was constructed to help improve links between pilgrimage sites. on sunday following a landside part of the tunnel collapsed, trapping around a0 workers. it's proving really difficult to help them out. environmentalists have criticised the construction of the tunnel in a particularly fragile in ecology for that whaen told a hindu magazine that when you are aligning a tunnel and close to t
zhanna bezpiatchuk, bbc news, kyiv.collapsed tunnel since sunday morning. our reporter andrew clarance has more from the rescue site. down that tunnel around 200 to 210 metres inside is a wall of debris. it is around a0 to 50 metres thick and behind that are trapped a0 men. officials say the men are fine, they communicating quality of oxygen, food and water but on the ground friends and family of the workers trapped in there are very anxious. attempts to rescue the workers were temporarily...
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zhanna bezpiatchuk, bbc news, kyiv. remember this?nd left seven dead across the uk, including three in scotland. now a month on, scottish councils are saying they need urgent financial help to cope with the effects of climate change. 0ur scotland editorjames cook has been back to see how people are coping in some of the worst affected areas. it's been a tough autumn in aberdeenshire and angus. storm babet left three people dead, hundreds of homes flooded, and here in brechin a clear up operation that is not over yet. so, on the day of the floods this was really high, graeme. yes, very high. hard to believe, but it was way above our heads. in fact, it reached above the park towards the building. graeme dailly is head of infrastructure at angus council. is this a bit of a wake—up call? i think this is a bit of a wake—up call. i think this has really, really punched us straight in the face and said to us, climate change is real, and this is what it looks like here at home in scotland. the town does have flood defences but they were breac
zhanna bezpiatchuk, bbc news, kyiv. remember this?nd left seven dead across the uk, including three in scotland. now a month on, scottish councils are saying they need urgent financial help to cope with the effects of climate change. 0ur scotland editorjames cook has been back to see how people are coping in some of the worst affected areas. it's been a tough autumn in aberdeenshire and angus. storm babet left three people dead, hundreds of homes flooded, and here in brechin a clear up...
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zhanna bezpiatchuk, bbc news, kyiv. april. the us, uk and norway have condemned escalating violence and human rights abuses in the country. more than 6 million people are now displaced in sudan and the norwegian refugee council says hunger levels are soaring. humanitarian talks are taking place this weekend in cairo led by sudanese civil society. previous peace talks have failed. earlier, i spoke to will carter, the sudan country director for the norwegian refugee council. he addressed the complicated situation on the ground i mean, there are two pictures. one is an overwhelmingly desperate one. we've had a capital city that's been been air strikes pillaged. there's been abuses, urban warfare. now, almost over six million people have recently been displaced and are living in, you know, abandoned schools, public buildings, really cramped into collective shelters. and there's been such little aid mobilised or reaching them that in the last few weeks there's been some massive disease outbreaks and some really unsanitary co
zhanna bezpiatchuk, bbc news, kyiv. april. the us, uk and norway have condemned escalating violence and human rights abuses in the country. more than 6 million people are now displaced in sudan and the norwegian refugee council says hunger levels are soaring. humanitarian talks are taking place this weekend in cairo led by sudanese civil society. previous peace talks have failed. earlier, i spoke to will carter, the sudan country director for the norwegian refugee council. he addressed the...
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zhanna bezpiatchuk, bbc news, kyiv.ntial candiate they trust to lead them out of the country's worst economic crsis in the past two decades. the bbc�*s katy watson has more. evita still looms large in argentina, the countries most famous politician and the original champion is missed by many. especially in these days of economic hardship. as argentina prepares a new president the two remaining candidates are promising the world when it comes to improving a country on its knees. but here in one of buenos aires poorest neighbourhood it's hard to muster enthusiasm in what feels like endless broken promises. in the shadow of the cities port the people of this island struggle daily. she runs a shop saying soaring inflation means paying for the basics is impossible. money becomes worthless quickly and people here are tired for change. quickly and people here are tired for change-— quickly and people here are tired forchanae. �* ,, �* ., , for change. translation: i actually have a little note _ for change. translation: i actu
zhanna bezpiatchuk, bbc news, kyiv.ntial candiate they trust to lead them out of the country's worst economic crsis in the past two decades. the bbc�*s katy watson has more. evita still looms large in argentina, the countries most famous politician and the original champion is missed by many. especially in these days of economic hardship. as argentina prepares a new president the two remaining candidates are promising the world when it comes to improving a country on its knees. but here in...
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zhanna bezpiatchuk has more on how some men are managing to escape with the help of corrupt officialswithout a military exemption, crossing the border illegally is the most popular way of escaping the draft. some get caught, but for much of this war, dozens of men have managed to flee this way every day. using freedom of information requests, bbc eye has established that the most common route out is over ukraine's border with moldova. in a refugee centre in moldova, we meet eric, a musician who is hoping to go to the us to be reunited with his family. he's arrived from ukraine on foot. translation: ijust looked at the map. i i heard rumors about where to go, took risk and it worked out. eric says he has a serious health condition but wasn't granted a medical exemption, commonly known as a white ticket. translation: i tried to process the documents for six months, l but no—one allowed me to do it. my patience ran out and i decided to leave this way. we heard that some men are paying substantial bribes to obtain a white ticket. to find out more, we ask the localjournalists to pretend to
zhanna bezpiatchuk has more on how some men are managing to escape with the help of corrupt officialswithout a military exemption, crossing the border illegally is the most popular way of escaping the draft. some get caught, but for much of this war, dozens of men have managed to flee this way every day. using freedom of information requests, bbc eye has established that the most common route out is over ukraine's border with moldova. in a refugee centre in moldova, we meet eric, a musician who...