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a morning digested by the allied forces. they were the 1st war criminals to be held accountable for their crimes. our 2 part series right in the dark starts nov 12th on g w. this week on world stories. starting in spain despite coronavirus. planting trees to save forests in russia. but we begin in belgium like almost everywhere else in europe the number of coded 1000 infections in seriously ill patients is rising hospitals are struggling to keep up. this used to

be the recovery room for patients who'd had surgery now it serves as a makeshift intensive care unit for cope with 19 patients on life support hospitals of the belgian province of lea is are no the epicenter of europe's 2nd wave and struggling to keep up we are not about to admit one new patient any more so if a patient comes into emergency room with a 3rd we offer to transfer him to another of. the flemish bought of the engine will be old ford devo tells us his team is not only short of beds but also personnel one in 5 nurses in the region have tested positive for the virus themselves but the pressure is so high that those who don't have symptoms continue to work under strict safety precautions the actual number of infections is likely to be higher than the official figures across town at least as university hospital testing is ongoing. i can't smell or taste any more and i have

a headache. the medics here can conduct 280 tests every day but these tests are strictly for those who have a doctor's prescription family members friends or coworkers who have been in close contact with them but don't show any symptoms cannot get a test for them or as the moment we have so many positive cases the problem is there are far too many contact persons given the huge number of people who have symptoms we'd be unable to test them as well as all the people they've been in contact with at least not with the amount of tests we have currently if we had more tests we probably could back in the covert ward doctor duvall fears the lax handling of the crisis in summer will put him and his colleagues in a very difficult position very soon. when you have only one bet and 10 people asking for the same bets you have to choose between the team that which one you were after and meant no doctor with one to do that's one thing it's like you know

we are not doctors who do that kind of thing we all ducked out to treat patients not good truth which a patient treating in germany has started to take patients from belgian hospitals with infections expected to continue to rise here in the coming weeks medical staff already at their limit who need all the help they can get. to combat the increasing number of corona virus infections in spain unlike the curfew has been put in place but parties are still being held in private apartments even though they're not allowed. every weekend madrid police have been knocking on hundreds of doors to shut down illegal parties my drift allows meetings up to 6 people who are not related but police have broken up parties of more than 200 who are keen as a business student in madrid he only wants to speak briefly and anonymously as he regularly goes to such parties he himself recently helped organize one.

we just rented a place so we could drink and smoke inside just a few visitors even wore masks but that didn't last long honestly young people's biggest fear is having to pay a fine that's why the places need to be well insulated so the neighbors sent the police want to take anything that you know not to get angry. but it's a lot. who are keen and his friends seem unfazed by this that just takes a 3rd of spending has become infected with the coronavirus at private parties 200 illegal parties were broken up in madrid last week alone police chief javier fine and this is especially troubled by the new business model being developed here. bars that are actually supposed to be closed certainly do take money in exchange for letting people in there's a clear economic incentive for it apart from that we have discovered private homes that were charging entrance fees right at the front door this isn't just about

a few friends meeting up psychiatry's diego figueroa is calling for more empathy with a young people even if you support strictly abiding by the hygiene measures experts are starting to acknowledge the consequences of such drastic restrictions on young people socialites. right now we have finding out that young people's mental health problems have increased dramatically as a result of this spring's lockdown and suicide safe increased by 22 percent so far and attempted suicides have even increased by 35 percent on top of that there's been a major increase in the consumption of alcohol and psychoactive drugs. young spaniards are now confronted with new rules all bars in madrid must close at 11 pm starting this week and curfew begins at midnight. even so business student who are keen doesn't want to be forbidden from partying he says he can decide for himself

what risk he's willing to tolerate even if it means partying in private homes until 6 am for the duration of the curfew. the hill brown district of villanous bergen south africa is considered to be a problem area. drugs violence prostitution and garbage plague the streets there. but now the residents want to change it for the better. these volunteers meet up every saturday to clean up their neighborhoods secular my seiko is 35 years old and has been living and who broke for 4 years now. and they can place to the next to it seems like you know it takes no you have the people so you going to the next step to take and this they say i said to this who bro has a problem with rubbish it's everywhere the city's waste collection service cannot cope on its own so the volunteers decided to form their own organisation it's

called ski city the organization has launched a program called adopt a street to help residents feel more connected to their community in the days of apartheid only white people were allowed to live late it became a melting pot with people from various ethnicities and cultural backgrounds but as the population and unemployment grew problems started to emerge became known for violence criminality and prostitution but that reputation is beginning to change actually in parks and people enjoying the district's improved image. they leave the environment so it's it's bringing. beds pride to their own environment no you don't have to just eat something out of a plastic would bring something out of a bottle and throw it on the ground so we started to get there it's change of behavior in the people and the community that lives here and then eventually once

a street on the air or a park is cleared and the crime elements they move out. the killer must seek or says crime particularly robberies needs to be addressed he takes us to the block of flats where you works as a caretaker he says while the situation has improved dramatically in recent years the coronavirus pandemic is threatening to roll back that was improvements that best that they said premise of the increase in clean up because people almost the contacts that finished then i'm talking so know this but just look at them to get their foot in the set of the house they're starting to get left with so they're trying to find some for their actions so i'm saying that they could and that's not good for us i'm going to quit or not put in the finish and then that's it and it would be like if you. must equal wants to do what she can to make the locals a little bit happier next weekend and make the neighborhood a little more pleasant even if you can solve all the areas problems themselves plus

eco and many of those very happy to live in her room and. live at home. droughts and pests are destroying forests in russia. activist marianna munching on a ledge dedicated her life to conservation says there's only one solution planting more trees. what looks like random bunches of greenery are in fact pine tree saplings thousands of them already for planting marianna meone ciano explains how it's done. it's going to be simple you place the sampling in the hole then fill that with earth and check that the saplings firmly betted in. the p.f. . check once more that it can't be pulled out of

a grand style or the. 8000 saplings are due to be planted today here on the outskirts of moscow marianna munteanu asked for help online and an army of volunteers has responded she regularly invites members of the public to help her. russia's forests of taking quite a beating in recent years huge areas have been devastated by wildfires pests like bark beetles pose a further challenge russia has more forest than any other country trees cover nearly half of this vast land. is ya it seems unwise i've been doing this instead well 10 there were terrible wildfires that this throughout the whole of russia but it's you know i saw a picture of huge well established trees being blown across the fields by the wind they were breaking off like matchsticks teach people why didn't they stop marianna studied economics and initially worked in finance but she quit her job to devote

all her attention to reforestation and mining commission very little can change the world one small step at a time some good and people will pull together for a good cause. just sitting it's. 7 years ago marianna munteanu moved to moscow to build up her own environmental organization but she's still not a lover of the city her childhood in the countryside very much shaped to she is. but i love nature i love the forest as a child i always spend the summers with my grandmother in the village at the little dakota that's her house right next to the forest we would go out several times a week picking berries or mushroom. back to the forest on the outskirts of moscow it's time for lunch in the past 10 years marianna and her helpers have planted more than a 1000000 trees that's the equivalent of around 1300 soccer fields

a large number of volunteers of all ages have helped to make it possible. last year she was selected by the united nations for the young champion of the earth award. right nearby she shows us some other young trees from her project that have had a chance to get established. well you. find this situation with a planted just 7 years ago and as you can see it's already bigger than me and i wish him enough soon this area should once again be a strong healthy forest hopefully strong enough to withstand all the challenges of the future. plague . coronavirus.

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