in the woods and in the lap. now, more than ever, the world needs w h on making the healthy a world for you. for everyone. ah, hello i mariam timothy and london, our main story this our us president joe biden has been holding a telephone call with his ukrainian counterpart. miss lensky show supports of the build up of russian military along its border. moscow mass, tens of thousands of troops, new ukraine, but the noise is preparing any sort of invasion might and held a similar call with the russian president vladimir putin earlier in the week. and warned of severe economic sanctions. in the case of an attack, russia says it's ukraine, that's failing to engage in

a peace process. and it's accused kiev of moving heavy artillery towards the front line where government forces a fighting pro russian set purchase in the east. by gifts, from now with the support of nato countries, ukraine is being pumped full of weapons and cave is building up its contingent on the line of contact and don't bet the number of these 5 violations which have happened since it was signed in july 2020 is coming close 290000. the special monitoring mission to ukraine has registered the redeployment of heavy weapons, including high caliber tillery and vehicles to the east of the country with all the white house is saying that by wanted to convey the u. s. supported ukraine. sovereignty kimberly, how could bring this is more on that now. the message that the us president was to send to the united states is committed to transit atlantic security. even as we know, the latimer putin is still deliberating over whether or not an invasion of ukraine

is something that russia might do. there is, of course, the us intelligence that reports under massing of troops along the shared border with ukraine. and we know from the national security advisor jake sullivan, that the message the united states has tried to send is essentially one that the u . s. believe that this can be resolved through the mix process. it also believes that there really needs to be an urgent effort and half way towards a ceasefire. well, at the same time, also working towards what the united states season refers to as confidence, building measures or rushers combat the crisis to the most dangerous moment of the cold war. charles stratford has been on ukraine's east in front line. well, according to the o. c, the organization for security and cooperation in europe, the monitors see spar violations. i mean they saying that they're all violations committee on both sides everyday to give you an example of situation report,

they put out december the 7th couple of days ago. they said they were $200.00 c suave violations just in that day, including 60 explosions. now, we have been moving up and down the contact line, which is around about 400 or just over 400 kilometers long. and certainly we haven't seen any obvious signs of ukrainian troop movements, but the russians are saying that the ukrainians are moving heavy weapons into position where the situation remains calm. butts tend to certainly in the areas outside the contact zone. now the u. s. envoy for iran is saying washington is ready to meet with toronto, writes nuclear activity. well, power have been shuttling between the 2 talks in vienna and it sounds during the 2015 nuclear tail. but robert mauling told al jazeera that direct discussions on the best solution to such a complicated issue. we are prepared to meet with them face to face. we think it's far superior to indirect negotiations when we're dealing with something this

complex. with so much more so much mistrust with so much potential for misunderstanding. so we've said we'll meet at any time in any place. they're the ones who are not prepared to do it for their own reasons. we think it's a mistake. and one of the story, the world health organizations vaccine advisory panel, the same people with underlying health issues are compromised. immune systems should get a booster dose of the crone of ours vaccine. but at the same time, there's concern about how it could affect people who is still not fully vaccinated . more than half of all people in the wall of now received at least one dose. but that falls to just over 6 in every 100 people in low income countries. many countries are expanding their roll out of 3rd shots due to concerns over the new on the con variant on the virus. and is there a corresponding is next i'm looks at how architecture affects our lives. i have one of these few afterwards.

ah ah i ours isn't up and a number of people living in towns now exceeds those living outside. when this milestone was reached in 2009 few people noticed across the globe, cities are growing upwards and outwards at unprecedented speed. fundamentally changing the way we live and what this could be

a golden age of architecture or time of unrestrained commercial speculation. how our wells will look for generations to come is being decided daily and te, few of us are engaging with the debate in this supercharged world of instant communication, instant message, and instagram. we're too busy looking down. it's time for us to look up. ah, i spent over 12 years living in hotel rooms and is quite literally a suitcase. you and your tooth brush says also time for reflection. all of the jobs i've done. oh,

visiting huge mega cities. ah, when you're in a city like that, you're surrounded by architecture for the minute you open your hotel when done, check out the view and you come into the room to the moment you wake up in the morning and walk out on the street, see the customer my day job involved working with journalists who have had to come to grips with lots of new technology. so i kind of act as a human interface between this highly technical equipment and walk somebody trying to achieve creatively. i kind of came to the phase where i said to myself, you know what, richard is time that you re invest some of your own creativity and got something out of being in all these amazing places. i was always interested

in composition and perspective. and i suppose that came out of studying on to college and then came across some time. that's what i dunno. what, let's try doing time lapse is a beautiful combination still, photography and filmmaking. time love shows the world in a state of alter reality with see how the world around you behaves and the way you cannot see the naked eye. time lapse is like magic. i

i ah, of all the places i've worked in recent years. nowhere has changed more rapidly than katara capital a century ago, 12000 people this year. the population is now over a 1000000, fueled by the oil and gas reserves. ah, if you look carefully these bills, you will see that few are occupied with spike armies of foreign workers, labor, day and night to build more critics dismissed these newly minted gulf capital, as instance cities. ah, the inference being that they are mere facades, a reflection of national wealth and pride in portrait on the west vanity projects

for wealthy patrons, and overpaid foreign architect in a country where nationals makeup just 15 percent of the population. these prejudices often reinforced for expense like me, by the fact that you seldom if ever meet to locals. it took a friend of mine from london to introduce me to fatma a young katara architect who offered to show me the less visible side of tow house current development boom, wanting have noticed harris versus village. so what's the purpose of building all these buildings without anybody to be visited immediately? different vision, building a brand image for the city, but it's also another patient for this population growth that we already see taking place. do you think people misunderstand what's going on in the gulf right now?

definitely, it's very apparent that all they see is the sort of the sort of the crust of, of the city cross of the society. the misunderstanding is not entirely surprising. when i look at the cities, i find the hall to see beyond the tower. oh. things might not contain the do, buys mega structures. they do truly i. nevertheless, as we are meant to, ah, it to me skyscrapers made little sense in the gulf. economic justification is based solely on the price of land. and there is no shortage. is that here? amazing. i think maybe we'll historically, people have lived in one or 2 story houses and judging by how m to the towers are showing little information to change is like you. ringback

know as mac in the heart of the old town gives a sense of on how look like before the discovery of oil and gas. now it too is marked for redevelopment. we select somebody who then works with selected katasha architect. they came up to basically come up with proposal for the area for all these neighborhoods have long since been abandoned by the original owners in favor of a less congested sub becoming home today. how's migrant worker? how many years you are a year, i wasn't being signed up for 2 years. i know 40 for the 1st part of a group trying to documented before there's none of it left in a city less than a 100 years old. is it always obvious what should be preserved?

oh my goodness, wow. why is this in for me? this is one of the houses that i like to refer to as an endangered house. i think we're starting to lose big portions of the older parts of the city because of the plan development because of the fund urban regeneration project. and this is an example of a chance to rescue some of these building. do you remember this kind of architecture and these buildings as a small child last year here? my great grandmother's house was very similar to this one. it was a courtyard house with rooms around the courtyards the, the way that you design now architect here and can fire tend to be very, very nice in this tells you about these different architectural elements that you find more about. the ornamentation, but i think there's much more to learn from a house like this, for example, the proportions of the one or the sort of colonies around the courtyard in order to

get enough shape. things like that that we should extract as less than that we can use despite the improvement in doha circumstances, since the discovery of oil and gas, some things remain unchanged. the hot weather can make this an inhospitable environment. in climate change is only like you to make it more modern buildings cannot afford to ignore this project like michelle. this upcoming right now does so many architectural lessons that we can learn here, which we can call contemporary, which are not really looked for additional. however, they do respond to the context very, very well. i really respect the fact that it architect did not find the need to have another fully plays elevation. therefore, the building requires i have the same time the elevation together with the poetry

that's engraved on it, gives the character to the area to do you think there's a common story that the region is trying to tell to the rest of the world with the resources that it got it hands on right now. they're trying to develop a solid basis to their system. what's being built, today's not just for me or for my younger brothers assistance, but it's for future generations to come with the sheriff's, $900.00 homes, offices and shops aimed to recreate the close knit communities of the 1930 s at a cost of $5.00 and a half $1000000000.00. it's a substantial gamble on lowering people back from the suburbs or something the towers have failed to doing ah,

the popularity of doha has recently rebuilt. soup shows that there is a strong sense of nostalgia to the old town. i spend so much time here looking through my lens and buildings that it's easy to forget that this is all about people to town, perhaps because it's a nation built on immigration, understands clearly the competition for human resources, a competition not only with his fellow wealthy gulf states or the wider world. ah, that all precedents with to attract people, the competing city states, aubrey masons, italy use their wealth to glorify thy cities with painting and culture.

to be successful, we sometimes have to 1st appear to be sent out by depicts the human form remains controversial in this part of the world. the beautiful buildings suffer. no such drawback. i guess, seen from this perspective, thomas ambition is not to create an instance city, but an eternal one. 0, mood. london is on the face of it just such a metropolis. it became the 1st truly international city of the modern age, more than 2 centuries ago. oh, but today it too is being radically redrawn by the global economy

neighborhoods that were once the home of british elite are today 2nd homes for the international super rich. creating a central call which increasingly feels to me like a ghost town. at the same time, london is seeing record growth. it's population jumping more than 800000 in 2013 the highest increase since world war 2 residential property market also rose 20 percent in the 1st 6 months of 20. 14, driven to a large degree by foreign money across the city, new buildings are rising fundamentally re shaping the skyline. these changes have not been without controversy, but from a time lapse photographers perspective, it is exhilarating. i

spent 6 long weeks in this hotel in 2012 for the summer olympics. and i say long weeks because to wake up every morning to a bowling. i'd been aching to photograph as for all that time, but knowing that working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, i simply wouldn't have the energy old inclination to can she after work? and i made a mission in the back of my mind that one day i'd be back from hang. i was told to that was being this huge,

huge building for me that she sits in point me. the shod became europe's tallest building. as a photographer, to capture something new, something that's the wells biggest to wells, tallest, the walls best is always part of the stories. well, the category own skyscraper has drawn a mixed reaction from the press. one commentator described it in graphic terms as having slashed the face of london forever. not because the defense pressure, sensibilities to have a foreign own building dominating the skyline. that because of a perception that it changes the character of london astral poll kmiec is down on london bridge, suggests

a sharp division in people's attitudes. what do you think about the shawn chart? i don't know is a bit bit of an eyesore, to be honest with you only one of the best building you know how to play with the according to the local council, only 11 residence wrote in 2 objects to the show i looking out over london from the 72nd floor viewing platform. it's hard to believe it was so few. the only meaningful intervention was by english heritage, the body task with preserving the countries historic science. ah, ah,

jack, to the effect this new landmark would have been an old one. and paul's cathedral a $60000000.00 inquiry decided in the shots favor and it went ahead enthusiastically supported by london's man. for me, what makes this all the more significant? isn't it said the vanguard of 236 tall buildings, said to transform london over the next decade. and there has been almost no public debate about this radical reshaping of the city. new london architecture, an organization who sponsors read like a who's who of the building industry has put together an exhibition, detailing exactly how london will love if all the proposed building go ahead. what

opposition has been to these types of buildings will have been comments, for instance, from some people that we don't want something i do by on the 10 on the course is very different. we have a lot of historic building and we need to insert you to buildings into that historic environment. sure, supposed to taylor is planning in the future. i think using some polls as guideline is a pretty good way of stopping buildings in particular historic areas. but i think we've also got to look at places where not just where we can't build to building places where we can, because london is growing huge the at the moment with 8300000 people in by 2050. we're going to be more like 13000000 say we've got a lot more housing, a lot more places to work more retail, also things like that we, we need to do to meet that grave. and part of that is to build toll abilities, great dead ovens and. ready ah,

last time london skyline was very radically redrawn during the cities bombing invalid ball to saint paul's famously survived as a symbol of national resistance. ringback it's icon twice. i belt on the ashes of a great fire of 1660 sakes, which bind a fad of a city to the ground. its architect, sir christopher wren, who knew a thing or 2 about building and longevity. right. architecture has its political use, established the nation, joyce, people and commerce, and makes the people love the native country. architecture aims at eternity. ah, great cities need great buildings like to define themselves. i

suppose was the project skyscraper, old, but name i have a 100 meters and perched on top of that k tell. it was the tallest building in the capital until 1962 the sixty's london was essentially a low rise city. 6 stories was in practice, the limits for both victorian fleming and the amount of tenants decline before the invention of the elevator. so london spread out. i tell you the $1000.00 square foot plummeted. urban sprawl is no longer according to the developers, the only way is the piano. the shot

architect has described his building as a vertical $50.00, with ken apartments, costing up to $18000000.00 each. its on like you to solve london's housing shortly . this is m i c, which you know from movies to referral is part of a golden generation of british architecture. we've had a profound impact on the cities of the modern world. the will population is rising and rising in a phenomenal rate. and most those will be overnights. so place making through cities and being proud of your city and making recognizable architecture, i think is happening all over the world. and i lost that he does lead to mistakes and, and to inappropriate tall buildings. there's a lot to be sent for the toll building, the tall buildings of new york, create the busy pavement, the busy sidewalks. it's not just told building,

so it's density. and that's why you get such great shops, great sidewalks, great restaurants. do you believe societies are defined by the buildings around us? well, it's churchill is great curve told me that we build our buildings. now we make our building than our buildings make. how's it is can be organic by nature. should they be organic? i believe inevitably change in, ah, in city form and in architectural direction is essentially organic of off the sad cities, all the gracious work of art and their anonymous in a way that i am made collectively, which is extraordinarily i can see the argument for saying are building shapers, but i am unsure that we shape our buildings. it seems to me that money is now doing that. london needs to expand,

but skyscrapers, and not the only alternative. they raise issues like no other buildings. they shape our cities both visibly, and structurally, i think londoners have little idea of how much these buildings will affect them. less perhaps the reason i'm finding more questions than answers if you want to know about skyscrapers. this one obvious destination by happy coincidence, a time lapse paradise. ready um huh . the corona virus pandemic has altered modern society as governments have grappled with soaring cases, contact, tracing, and huge data collections are causing concern amongst civil rights activists. people in power investigates the ever increasing powers of governments and

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