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olga was a military chef. now she's a striker for kyiv. the only mixed team on the pitch. my hands, arms and back are all getting strong. - she'd left her baby with her mother and signed up. i wanted to protect. my family and didn't want a full—scale war. he was a professional footballer when he volunteered to fight.
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because they'd been ambushed and we had to get them. then i heard that ukraine was launching amputee football teams. and with football, i returned to normal life. and more tournaments. of thousands of amputees. a tiny caribbean island has been home to the indigenous guna community for over 100 years.
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an exodus — one of the first relocations of an entire like in practice." bbc mundo�*s agustina latourrette has this report. since the 19th century. here they found refuge after escaping from spanish i have lived on the island for almost 20 years. it is quite sad to leave a place where one has but we had to move because of overcrowding as the island was already too small for the number of
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to a neighbourhood on the mainland, an exodus that has been described as one of the first relocations in the new site for everyone. the relocation plan began more than ten years ago when there were fewer inhabitants. some families were separated. there is no noise. the houses are closed. abandoned. however, the new settlement sometimes loses electricity, which cuts the water supply.
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the same thing happens if they have a health problem. there is no medical centre. of this displacement. i come here to wash clothes. everything is done by hand. i do everything with water. i wash. i cook. but the guna people who moved here make efforts continue my tradition. my culture is for her to learn to speak guna well. and she has potential. she has good grades. some hope then in a very uncertain future.
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an extraordinary they're concerned the government has agreed to remove tariffs on non—folding e—bikes. more about the changes. it is non—folding e—bikes from china that have been subjected the latest 7 means they are announcement means they are scrapped. the body for reviewin . responsible for reviewing the uk, the trade tariffs in the uk, the trade revenues authorities said that removing the border taxes on byyremoving the border taxes on chinese imports, cheaper chinese imports, it could consumers £200 on could save consumers £200 on the products. of course, this has gone down well with uk companies, they say it is a kick in the teeth for uk industry and it will impact smaller companies, but the government are their ceenmentae defeesjiee their ~~ w , ~~ ~ saying it coer�*mer�*tae eeteheihe their ~~ w , ~~ ~ saying it is decision saying it is the uk industry and
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protecting the uk industry and thatis protecting the uk industry and that is important, which is why they have taken the decision to protecting uk folding continue protecting uk folding e—bikes in the uk lower ejbiiges in the uk and lower for consumers. eve ryo ne everyone took upf covid—i9, everyone took up cycling and e—bikes on the rise, but in the latter years, those plummeted. a these sales have plummeteda . ~ —~ of these eetes have blummetefja . ,, ,,, of e—bike these sales have plummeteda . ~ —~ of e—bike have lot of e—bike companies have gone bust because of that. a of companies lot of bike companies are 1 e: i: in the lot of bike companies are w z, in the uk, struggling already in the uk, think that this decision many think that this decision will add to that. i have been to one company, mike speaking te enecempenyfifi�*iike who is speaking ta anesampanyfifi�*iike who is the director has a balanced in -roach bit more of a balancedappreash could mean. bit more of a balancedappmach w- the changes to company welcomes the changes to the regulations from the ee — if 7 7 " twp—fully 5= 2; bikes more and ”dbl to dffdbuo. audience. there are wider'audiencefl�*heteate _ hm- wideraudience. there are benefits to significant benefits to electric in terms electric bites in terms of
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== = 2 they are all positive. factors. they are all positive. we do — factors. they are all positive. we do have concerns to how the policies — we do have concerns to how the policies i be _ we do have concerns to how the policies be implemented policies will be implemented and how they will ensure the products— and how they will ensure the products are compliant. unfortunately, there been unfortunately, there had been product — unfortunately, there had been product in use that are non—compliant,~that -- the non—compliant,~that ga mare the kilometres hour are not really or are not really electric - and _ or are not really electric - and our— or are not really electric and our twist and bikes and our twist and throttle bikes. if it enables electric— throttle bikes. if it enables electric bikes to come into the we are positive country, we are positive towards _ towards that. that was mike reiss - that _ reiss saying that obviously this is good for health, consumers saving but consumers saving £200, but there is concern over what their cheaper imports from china might mean in of china might mean in terms of regulations and whether they those that meet those regulations that other uk bikes do. a lot of companies to work whatthenew ' what the new announcement means for them. and thanks to owen means for them. and thanks to - owen there. _ whale song is more similar to human language
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than previously thought, according to a new study. researchers looked at how human babies discover words and applied the technique to the song of humpback whales, structure. professor simon kirby, from edinburgh university, first time, one of the key defining features of language what we saw was this fingerprint that we see in all human languages coming out in the whale song. this technique to have a google
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translate for whales, but so in some ways, whale song is actually a bit like music. but we don't use music to say messages like what's for dinner? it turns out generation, so what's next for birdsong, and our prediction is that we should see the same thing there, too. million dollars at auction in new york. short of its estimate. sale would go to establish
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a scholarship in support hello. for most of the uk, the weather's just this part of blaenau gwent is over 300m above sea level. up on our radar picture. something quite different though, is happening to the weather in the highlands, where we've got barely a cloud in the sky. or 2 for the east coast. of rain and drizzle nothing particularly heavy. and that's making it feel particularly chilly with temperatures today
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for most about 4 to 6 celsius. now, overnight, ourweak area of low pressure continues and drizzle continuing. here where we'll see a really sharp frost develop. in the coldest areas. otherwise it's a cloudy start to the day once again, breaks further west, perhaps a few in northern ireland as well. eight degrees celsius. of high pressure across to our east, continuing to feed in these chilly easterly winds.
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