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has declared the end of all peace talks with the un recognized government says the scots political agreement which aimed to bring about a national unity government is to be abolished fighting continues near the capital tripoli where a mother and her son were killed by a rocket attack by have to us forces the british government says the risk of a 2nd spike in infections means the lock down that will continue prime minister bars johnson issued the warning as he returned to work following his own fight against the infection which saw him spend time in intensive care and nigeria's president says coronavirus downs and cities including lagos under bridges will be relaxed from may 4th but all non-essential travel between states is to be banned facemasks have been made compulsory in lagos while those are the headlines next stop it's one i want to east stay with us here on al-jazeera. throughout history humankind has come together in our darkest moments this is
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a moment for pretty much the opposite where retreat from the world could actually save every generation has its moment this one is ours. it's a fact treat that. as a day 6 days in which to work here is fast and furious but it's not because all machines that they've building it's bodies one chris said it could be him at a time. this says he is the red cross' old defeated center in afghanistan has been a lifeline for people with disabilities victims of a strike this accidents and congenital illness but no matter how many limbs they make the patients keep coming. one on one east meets the
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remarkable people risking their lives to help the disabled in war torn afghanistan . sunday morning in the afghan capital kabul. it's the start of the working week. and the busiest day at the red cross is both a puting and physical rehabilitation center. hundreds of patients have come for treatment some have traveled for days risking landmines and taliban checkpoints to get to. the other the inside physiotherapist karim. is doing her best to calm the newest patient ok they know because they go to cut
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off that. 6 year old you surf hasn't walked for months ever since he was injured in the houston run car crash they all the by him i now go made most. other they all the behavior. they are telling them why not go. by all of them using. his grandmother says he's already been through several painful surgeries he's now terrified of doctors know all about her cargo whatever. the bitch got in either the one other boss my mother and others that the couple had an alaska. because i never look below higher cause i doubt he's a ducky. you know that. it's kareem is job to help you save from new york again but it won't be easy. i was going to him out
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there that are already there was i'm other than are we are these are mother these i want his legs are a mangled mess but she's more worried about the scars she can't see the child is very sad because. the other child is they walk and they and i. but he's all the setting on the wheelchair. things maybe you know i walk. home. despite his injuries yousif is very lucky outside we meet his 16 year old isra who'd lost his leg in the same accident. he knew so for waiting for a bus home from the market when a speeding car plowed into them when he can only know i was in an open or dock with the driver tried to break but the car started flipping us over what you saw of was hit and went flying into the ditch i'm awkward to all of them marches on doesn't
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look good. i was pulled below the car and my leg went under the wheel steering yonder with the car going down the clara. pushed the logical question when i tried to pull it i saw blood pouring out it was everywhere all over my clothes i started screaming my leg humping my leg. is translate was completely separate but his worst fee is what feeds you so if i use a board i want to keep you so forcing the children's hospital from it he went into a coma for 6 days the exam there was only a 5 percent chance he'd survive it. are you i was crying a lot for you son out or no i thought he was gonna. my family started to bring me pictures of you every day to prove that he was still alive. ever
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since there is trial hasn't taken his eyes off his nephew. use of small souls are so weak that he's going to need leg braces to help him stand that are the same people get. to see the finale got your cheek. they'll be among those on the ballot. recount band over and over and over to walk back to. the recovery is going to be even tougher he needs a whole new press that he call a. brother moment the older brother or her brother the doesn't have the ability. or. oh how about a mom out on her chauffeur because i don't want women or measurement about to come
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out of. my father god to give him a walker what about a van we're going to be around us very fast right. now where you surf and it's rather head higher but the work for these technicians is just beginning. over the next few days they will painstakingly mold the new leg braces and christie says for the boys devices that will change their lives. in the sushi years that this program has been operating in afghanistan they have made nearly 200. 3000 artificial limbs and treated almost 180000 disabled patients. will be on our must see the only place they can get help is here at this red cross center. i haven't seen another place that provides this kind of
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free service. nobody knows how life changing this work is better than karimov. boy my daughter there made that claim i've had this leg for about 20 years i've never asked for a new one because i'm used to that. a patient surprised when you tell them that you have a prosthetic leg what him up why when my legs are covered and nobody notices anything when i show them my leg that totally surprised by that they don't believe that was an artificial leg that they can walk normally after them if i met them but then i show them i tell them see my leg is artificial but i still come here and work out how they. first came to the red cross as a 13 year old patient at the time kabul was engulfed in a deadly civil war she was shot in the leg 4 times while walking home from her
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grandmother's house as a 1000000 i come out on by that's when i regained consciousness my leg felt very light i tried to feel it but i realized it had been cut off the sugar will be here and that's when a woman becomes disabled she becomes invisible people think she can't do anything while at work it was hard for me to accept this situation. i couldn't accept that i could have killed myself on the whole she would. instead the red cross offered to train her as a physiotherapist when she finished high school that was almost 25 years ago since then she has helped thousands of patients just like. them because i'm disabled myself i understand their situation and i mean whatever they're going through i've already been through it. really how.
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do you. make them. the center has a policy of hiring people with some kind of disability just like their patients some of the staff have been crippled by in the says like polio many like career of victims of the country's relentless war. for as long as i can remember that has been fighting in afghanistan and it will never end. the day by day the number of our patients is growing it's because of the war landmines suicide attacks. 'd are not. even by afghanistan's grim standard the situation here is becoming increasingly deadly
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a record number of civilians were killed and injured in 2018 in attacks by the taliban isis and pro-government forces some of the most brutal violence has accrued right here in kabul. we've seen incidents like rockets and bombs on. we've seen a lot of these horrible incidents it's been hard but we've gotten used to it. through good old the taliban has allowed great cross to stay open. a month after they took power the taliban came to our center they visit at the male and female. they were satisfied with our work and we carried on with our problems. but in afghanistan nothing is guaranteed. days into our visit we
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hear about a disturbing development the taliban have just announced their spring offensive against the afghan government and the military so what this means is that we're likely to see a lot more attacks but they're also saying here that the red cross will no longer be protected this is a really serious problem for the star and the patients at the center. it's not long before the news spreads are going to be more interesting for you to remember even when the senate isn't. in the women's department crema is also briefing they get you michel almost and i was going to. give them freedom sometimes on anything but the. closer they don't think that the divine. or among. you guys worried at all about your safety i mean someone you don't even understand
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maybe in your life that a mom of the. husband that he might just call quickly that it was. one of the shots that. one of the staff he is same on faced i'm struggling to understand why the taliban would ban the work of a humanitarian organization especially one that helps disabled afghans. it's too risky for us to ask the taliban in person so we called a spokesman you recently revoke the security guarantees for the red cross why did the taliban decide to do that. says the red cross has failed to deliver the medicine and services it had promised the red cross says they can't respond because they're still negotiating with the taliban. what we do know is that the organization supports clinics across
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afghanistan in areas where it's difficult to access any of the health care most of the people that work at the red cross and certainly all of the patients are afghans including members of the taliban and your families are you saying your own people by taking this step i mean i don't. mean me but. talk when you. go. but just weeks after this fight the taliban did attack an american aid organization in kabul killing at least 5 people all of them afghans. back at the red cross there's no sign of things flowing down the need is simply too great afghanistan has one of the highest rates of disability in the world in
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2018 a record 12000 people sought help from the several rehabilitation centers across the country. people like isra and use if you can't afford private treatment. you know 5. 100 you went to. the office you know. it's a big day for the boys they're about to try on the new devices for the 1st time. they're pretty excited and they're not the only ones. and this little boy has just been given his new leg and he could hardly wait to users.
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it's not long before the technician arrives with prosthetic. to be. connected to the man and the another there. even now he can't help but to ease his nephew's getting the family i want. but it's not all fun and games physiotherapists should be rock wall that this is just the food stamp. term of your. john i initiate kilmore hand in him nearly as much as a kid nell brought afghanistan we couldn't be sure of been taught but on him brought us down into serbia on it's not only the rehabilitation of a missing limb we have to support him psychologically we have to change his mind. just accept it has to be ready for the future. has treated thousands of
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patients like is struck he tells him the secret to his recovery is his mind why he should work beautifully could knock her off and i mean to me to me for making as much of a robot because they don't mama's quite accustomed. to her point out on what sort of wonderful medical money you make out of the beginning i am a shackle quantum a ploy tourist by humans would miss corke more pointed at this meeting is in the given that this make. this one i'm with the 1st pallone make it the middle to pull only the middle of the pit the hottest one is in the hospital for lack of any 24 cuts in that this is his mo tooth it's a choice that sugar love faced himself he's ago when he was just 17 he stepped on a land mine my group was born to my face was born i left my leg. there
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was nothing to say if there was no flash to show on their blood i lost my my hope ali thought i was not very violent to be alive anymore because i was seeing very dark my future very dark he says the only thing that saved team was this job and the chance to help patients like is all that you make me quite yet couldn't push me one at. are fighting it but. when i came to the prophecy for a job completed my life change. i can be a man i come out of my normal life i can be a normal person. and it gives me a hope that i completely forget different or does it all completely even the my family sometimes they forget him a visit which i'm happy of crap because they should not come see them as a visible people they should. see the table. this resilience is what he's trying
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to pass on to instruct the flaca got a poison pill for your. past. but trying to motivate a traumatized 6 year old is another matter of fact i'm for them i'm a bit. after not using his legs for 6 months yusuf is struggling to stand that alone or. 'd kareem is patient yourself as no by the gram. man. at the bottom. but no masha what use of says she keeps pushing him. he has to use his legs to make them strong again.
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ok that you. know off. i suppose the force of the by sizable mobility. it's been a tough 1st day. getting used to this new reality isn't easy especially for. just a few months ago he was a confident teenager and a champion wrestler. but then his father died of cancer and a month later he lost his leg in the accident but. our life has changed a lot. we've become poor we've lost the head of our family. i used to go out with my friend in the moment i was the strongest amongst them. now i'm the weakest moments of life for them it makes me feel so bad he was one of the
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rugby. cricket i think about what i'll do in the future will i be a burden will i work as a laborer pushing a wheelbarrow. i can't even push a wheelbarrow. instead of worrying about school or his next wrestling match it's run now worries about his family. i want to work to feed my family all of them and i don't want to baghdad anyone for help to have the son it's very difficult one i'm fed up with my life. is straw doesn't talk to his family about any of this instead he focuses on helping yourself. with me i want to feel during halftime get out of hand i got to be hard to call you know to match i got from one of those be really going to have the money
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almost to get public you know wants a really good person. is strong has brought his nephews and nieces to the park is a trees it's a welcome distraction for everyone is of good value about yusef has changed a lot most of what he used to play with all the kids but he thought anymore he's become quiet and he cries a lot. he asks me why can't i walk why can't you take me out. well you can learn. and do very moderately. he would want to go one on one. with the little. yousif is still young so his chances of a full recovery a good but says his own future is going to be very different to wash he'd imagine.
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the other day visit guy came up and sent us to learn are you a cripple. but want to as long commute initial i can get my old life back but you'll all started your life. i'll continue my education and get a job that's a. day off today i watch as truck come to the orthopedic center and practice house for war. it's a slow painful process she's gonna get her name that i have seen or doesn't hold when it doesn't mean just looking yes to make very sure it's there but what went on in western now we've learned about now for every report about you noticed. alberto cairo is the italian physiotherapist who has run the center for 30 years he and should work hand in hand to make sure days on the right path. resemble the length of it with him. but no matter how difficult it
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is there are others here who are much worse off than is struck. he says seeing big progress and spies here to work harder. next door you surf is also struggling with never. let us out and. yes look i want my grandfather. but after almost a week of practice both the boys are getting strong. and faster. given wrigley. gimmickry you know if you. find the day has come when they can take the new prosthetic and leg braces home possible use of their most. hot arming ever they get the one i could have to.
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buy the x. out. yourself and was maybe some of that machine. that we see. there's any hole boy your dog and i gave us the one of. these how we do the money well that's what they said. that was with the most ringback. but it was a good one. is also getting some parting advice from me that is when they get the. you know the. boy i didn't want to look at more. wants to join the center's wheelchair basketball team and apply for the red cross' education program it's not only the mark of slowly working with i feel that i am helping the people is like me i hope this cleared for 5
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people. at least one of them the life to be. like that in the future so that is why they stayed longer with atheists here and i live my life which are. across town istra and use of family is waiting for them everyone is curious about the prosthesis. or he lost. me. or. you surf is also thrilled with his prices although not for the reason you'd imagine. he was one of the lads. who. want to see these cousins play and tease each other you'd never guess how much they've been through. poverty pain and the death of
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