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inference of my own cardio and. more. if. it's worth. my choice to discard it has given their way toward transports troops. much and i. did have. humans and every other living being on earth is a part of me chuck we all come from each other and go back to return but up past actions have been extracted and of course tom to the planet we called who are the
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fault of actually working in harmony with nature on today's episode we look closely at how we can build and encourage a symbiotic relationship with me about it i will welcome to equal india some of that i. let's begin today is show with forests that are important for the health of the global climate undisputed yet deforestation is a bit of a reality in today's world invest in maharashtra and organization is trying something interesting there incentivizing planting trees so that farmers not only have a steady income but also contribute to the local forests for a region that's extremely program droughts how does this really work let's take a look. at. these women are planting saplings of native trees in western maharashtra. it's
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not just a reforestation project. they're planting the trees on farmland which otherwise stays barren the idea to dawn abandoned land into forests came from the organization farm most for forests if you really think about forests i think you know they're not just sort of you know carbon storage powerhouses right they provide a range of ecosystem benefits you know everything from being governed sequesters to you know providing ground water recharge you know soil conservation you know habitat for biodiversity our markets our systems don't put a financial value yet on such you know the services that these ecological systems provide. that's the market failure that payment for ecosystem strikes to correct. for most of forests is approaching small scale farmers leg. he leased out to
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a cause of his unused land in 2022 the organization they went on to plant 8000 saplings setting the groundwork for growing the try using carbon sequestering forest. as the owner of the land hardly will now be paid quarterly cash transfers of around 100 euros for the next 5 years by far most for forests for ecosystem services that the trees will soon provide. the gun issue the hov lane many runs a small garage business the 23 year old belongs to a family of land holding farmers in western maharashtra but agriculture alone he says has become financially and viable to support his family of 6 and it was imperative that he find a paddling means of livelihood. many people have quit farming they have become industrial laborers and some have
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a started their own businesses because farming is not the same anymore which is why i started my workshop of the get it farmers are now seeking. the rains have become very erratic in the last year if this continues farming in this region will disappear. and this is an issue of land. families for forests has been piloting the payment for ecosystem services o p s approach with 2 objectives in mind to protect existing forests and grow new forest on degraded land within a year of starting operations they began receiving institutional grants from indian n.g.o.s and from donors thus they've already been able to plant $20000.00 native trees as part of a 5 year pilot project for every piece of land they try to plant as many trees as possible. when we finalize
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a piece of land we have to measure its length and bit accurately. this is done using this device is. doing this is very important because the draft of the plantation is made according. to you so we have to do our work very accurately. through g.p.s. tags and satellite images the team closely monitors the health of each tree after planting. and the project also supports women farmers and labor. day they are working on this 3.5 acre plot of land belonging to shindig. she may currently work spot time by the petrol station he hopes of the cash
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transfers from the p s project will help him get back into farming he's convinced that if he benefits from this project more farmers will follow. ramesh in day and danish to have their investment would also benefit the next generation that have been in the forests has planted all the creek the rights to the land. despite the 5 year rental agreement that the organization everything that grows on the land but . the fruits that these trees will bear in the years to come and the timber that they will provide all belong to us. even if the project ends in 5 years fall most of the forest wants to attract more donors in the near future. this will allow forestation in this region to keep progressing and helping local farmers to become less vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
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now working in sync with nature even if some of us might act otherwise brings big rewards they can always fishing industry for example the biggest in europe when they find a new species in their waters king crab which eats everything that crosses that spot and multiplies fast they decided to use the phenomenon to their advantage let's take a look at how this was possible. did loves the arctic ocean the german has been living in norway's high north for 12 years. he takes tourists to see the sights along the coast near the russian border. he brings up one of those sites from the bottom of the sea for this to a group. he only set out the tracks the day before at a depth of 180 meters but one day was long enough for him to pull up dozens of king crabs a delicacy all around the world the crabs are also a growing ecological problem the crest stations multiply like rabbits. job in the
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water you're good he probably grabs you have grabs right over your. harvesting the king crabs has brought an unheard of prosperity to norway's economically constrained time nor including for the remote fishing village of big guy next. in 1989 residents ran an advertisement offering their village for sale. young people were moving away because there was no work. now the village has been revived complete with bed and breakfasts and even a bistro. and it's all thanks to none other than the king crab. fisherman who life in a lair was among the 1st to discover the non-native species of big and nice. suffolk researchers had released them in the barents sea in the 1950 s. . busing alair was unaware of that when he found the monster crab in his nets one
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day. the 1st crabs we caught we tend to. we were taken completely by surprise. really or just the crabs hadn't turned out all that you're right we would not have any fish processing in town. the explosive spread of the invasive crab is a boon to the fisherman but no way to an environmentalist and scientists are loaned the crabs eat almost anything posing a threat to native ecosystems and they being spotted father and father is self evident so we found that the crabs are able to adapt to water temperatures of each in degree celsius that means they can survive in the mediterranean. wherever these crabs become established they have devastating effects on the other marine life on the seabed so. some species mussels and starfish have
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disappeared completely. along with on the there. that's what the king crab also known as the monster crab has no natural enemies fishery authorities have made the quotas generous. in an attempt to keep its population under control but mark. says his guests after only a short time in the kitchen can otherwise be had only in europe's and asia's finest restaurants norway exports over 2000 tonnes of king crab all around the world and many. locals and tourists alike enjoy the crabs flavorful leaves for the norwegian authorities it's a balancing act they want to preserve the crab population that bring so much business to the region while ensuring that the invasive species doesn't spread the people of northern norway hope this lucrative source of income will last a while longer they've already built
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a monument to the king crab. if you move into the cities you're no stranger to the crees point 5 a particular point 5 feast mosques that block the spot tickles from entering our body have been a reality for a long before. but back to the matter it is not a local phenomenon it's a negative environment of influence that exists everywhere on the planet to all cities on sustainable cities we met a group of people in berlin who are working to solve this problem. middle their limit livable is best achieved with the help of people who live here when he's in a new technology to contribute to a better understanding of traffic. i would like to see the city authorities and the general public taking care of the trees.
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this park in berlin is a green oasis and a popular destination for people getting some early morning exercise or a breath of fresh air before work. berlin is not a city plagued by major traffic congestion and its industrial sector is relatively small. but some residents still complain about poor air quality and if built in set up their own sensors to measure particular matter with a view to making the data public. contraptions air pipes are easy enough to make with parts from a local d.i.y. store. has a little infrared gauge inside to measure the tiny particles flying by. it relays that data to a little processor. yes long it wasn't on here we have another sensor that measures the temperature and
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humidity before the days are measured every 2 and a half minutes and sent to the database in stuttgart. on a missile or shipped us on a dock with god. is installing a sensor on the roof of this art center. there are already $260.00 of the devices up and running across the land on apartment balconies at traffic junctions and in back yards. and volunteers his free time to help others build and set up their own sensors. to fund his or yeah. i love the idea of collecting data and making it available to the public there is official data gathering in a couple of locations around berlin but it's very limited. or doesn't former smoker
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i know how dangerous particularly matter can be and i decided to get involved with . the project began a few years ago in chicago where activists created this website prompted by the diesel emissions candle. individuals register their air pipes on the site where their data are constantly updated. the project now includes measurements in $71.00 countries 3 people based in southern germany run the website on a voluntary basis. i spent 2 years in china and i'm very familiar with the pollution in beijing and shanghai. i could see how it affected my own health. i was fairly sporty beforehand but then i had to shorten my role myself to play. berlin based artist. has turned the data into
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a virtual reality installation it's on show here at the city lab a nonprofit foundation for innovation. the installation visualizes what the sensors record because particularly matter cannot be seen by the naked eye. just. him of what these are they could cause this these circles show current conditions in virtual reality and. of course when the shift from a year to another if i go over to the other monitor i can see that same section on a bigger map beason pushed when jets vanished in virtual reality and if i now put on my view your visor it puts me right in the middle of the particularly matter. over at the top up and they've been working on green projects for more than 30 years now and are now building sensors for particulate matter. the aim is to increase public awareness of air pollution.
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and it's with a bit of a typo for you will see people getting involved similarly to wikipedia. being made available to everyone. this innocuous looking sensor has now been replicated hundreds of times by people in berlin the hope is that the data can be used to make information about air pollution public and not just in the german capital. not air pollution has many faces in india but you wouldn't come with only from vehicles. but also from something as basic and ubiquitous as a cooking store for millions of people the daily chore of cooking poses a real danger a sea level. is providing the much needed. here in this cramped kitchen chair the doctor is making a family of 6 she's using
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a traditional cooking stall a junior which blows out clouds of smoke. on the markets of youth with the use of mud still we don't have an alternative look at the markets people left who twitchy loves for generations the business if you don't have the money to buy better fuel. if we did we might be able to use another kind of story and like i guess we. in google india would 77 percent of households still use 5 cheap and easy to access liquid petroleum get . the privilege reserved for the. open fire means. to spend a hot stove breathing in kerosene fumes and smoke from. collecting
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boat is a burden on the environment and a strenuous task for them and. each year almost half a 1000000 people die prematurely from illness attributed to household air pollution in india. traditional stoves are the main source of the problem and of him and young children are the versed affected. stoves are so inefficient that divest up to 90 percent of the energy generated and require up to one 3rd of the family's income for a few then also to sponsible for a quarter of the world's black carbon emissions. a social enterprise has been working to tackle the problem of energy poverty and the role for india has developed an efficient thermal store it uses verd but around
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60 percent less than a traditional stood it is also designed to significantly cut the smoke and docks the commissions that are responsible for health problems. the organization distributes disturb student households in india and elsewhere in the hood at a subsidized rate my lunch out again when they set up but now. that you have had the project for 3 years and vietnam seen its benefits but not possible insult is improving they save a lot of time in the news in this type of life and i love that in the past that and benefit is stacked in even a drop or an a.t.m. and fewer trees are being chopped down. this has a huge positive impact that and more i thought of for the love. of those who lives in the village neighboring shrug that made the switch with the
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help of a community led micro-finance group many like her can't afford even the subsidized cost of 30 euros and need financial help. much it is what there is there was that when we used to need more than 10 kilos of wood now we need only 5 and cooking takes half the time it used to take or is this they had to do like there's a lot of. doctors still struggles with health issues resulting from a smoke inhalation she can't afford to buy one of the news dogs'. orders are covered by ice burn the water continuously the older i get the less i can say i have frequent bouts of cord and cough on my neck and back hard from the piles of food i have to carry there was any. like should
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that some 700000000 people in india continue to rely on solid fuel and traditional cookstove spoking energy poverty remains a major problem. and pollution and the hatred of traffic horrible synonomous in urban societies around the what there are many projects under we tackle this problem and eliminate it from day to day life you need just capital jakarta like all major cities in the world is no stranger to the effects of increasing traffic congestion and the air pollution it gives rise to an expert in the city is experimenting with hydrogen as fuel for an emission free model of transportation. congestion. the major problem faced by big cities around the world including jakarta it's typically caused by the lack of a good public transit system with a growing number of vehicles on the street jakarta's air quality is going from bad
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to worse. energy based on hydrogen is one of the solutions for creating a transportation system with less noise and fewer emissions. professor any alist gianni doing is among the leading experts in this field since 1998 she has been conducting research in alternative energy with hydrogen fuel cells. we did research on producing hydrogen become be obtained from waste or from methanol but the easiest way is to get it from water. and here the end product is again water that we can use the electrolysis method to produce water from water the hydrogen goes into a fuel cell it becomes water again and later electricity this is current energy storage. the 2nd way is to source it from natural gas as is done in the fertilizer industry or thermal power stations because it's cheaper. the 3rd method is to get
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hydrogen from renewable materials. fuel cells work in a similar style to batteries the only difference is that while producing energy fuels continue to work as long as a fuel source is available they can also contain 10 times more energy than a lithium battery. i'm getting so bad about this and they can be used for transportation. as a backup power for machinery. or for energy storage and we still have done lights back in. one application is this motor with a 500 watt passably the fuel cell technology developed by professor any a list yani duly. requires an average of one leader of hydrogen gas to produce one kilowatt hour of energy the production costs however are still far higher than with fossil fuel based energy solutions here at the agency for the assessment
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application of technology any i was doing try to enhance hydrogen production to be more efficient so one of the breakthroughs in the fuel cell field is discovering a new catalyst in electricity producing generators for the future the scientist is thinking of an overall energy concept for the city. my dream is to build a hydrogen city in indonesia it will have a hydrogen based economy. so if we apply it to transportation it will mean an environmentally friendly but that's one thing going on and in people's homes it will have 0 net emissions. that i hope we can do this in indonesia said. the professor will continue her research on creating hydrogen fuel effectively to create transportation that is comfortable and without pollution or emissions the
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more efficient the fuel cell is the more likely it will be possible to use it on a broader scale. if you allow it the benefits that major provides us with are enormous i hope to be in school give you the information and inspiration to work in sync with nature if you haven't already started to do so i'll see you again next week from all of us in between.
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and you yes yes yes we can hear you and how last year's german chancellor will bring your uncle our mascot and you've never heard her before the surprise yourself with what is possible who is magical really what a new start i want to call somebody who talks to people who follows her along the way i admire those and critics alike now as the world's most powerful woman shaping
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. hardly a good seat joining us from michael's last. 26 thing that's like a bunch of the clique because i want to see if germany was for me the last few years have been quite o'brien. i'm going to tell me how much when it comes to be as and of course always look right in the us virgin is perhaps the biggest on the new $100.00 they were freed up to be used by reporters in their accounts but when you think of the giving you realize it's called just another way of living are you ready to be enjoying the right. oh. yes sir fred require. an angle for cutting out the back of.
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me. * this is a nice lie from thursday germany's government pleads for patience as the pandemic tightens its grip the health minister unveils the official timetable for cutting 19 vaccinations but with not enough vaccines to go around. who gets the lifesaving job 1st and who will have to what's coming up. first images of the nigerian school boys kidnapped by islamist militants arriving back at government buildings the abduction leads to public anger and demands for better protection for children and from the world of sport probably faith is based on this comes after the bye and poland
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striker scored a whopping 55 goals last season. on the 3 how broken to the program the german government has laid out its plan to vaccinate millions against 19 i think fiction's and deaths still rising sharply in a single day more than 33000 people have tested positive of $800.00 have died health officials site i plan to begin vaccinations on the same the 27th. germany is gearing up for the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine authours these have defined which groups will be the 1st to receive the job priority will be given to residents of senior care homes people over 80 and medical personnel with a higher risk of exposure those aged between 75 and 79 and exposed medical
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staff such as general practitioners will follow health minister spawn called for patients from those who will have to wait for their dose of the vaccine i call on all of us to do of the situation sensibly when germany states begin vaccinating most likely on december 27th at 1st the supply will be limited and it will be clearly defined who has the priority. therefore i ask all their citizens to be patient i ask you to wait until it's your turn. undervalues and. there is light at the end of the tunnel germany is building numerous vaccination centers across the country ahead of the vaccine rollout but spawn warned it will take one to 2 months before the most at risk groups will be vaccinated it will take time for doses to be widely available that means many measures to contain the pandemic will
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have to stay in place. as we have to realize that it will be quite a while before the vaccine has any effect on the pandemic quite simply because we don't have enough for everyone who wants to be vaccinated therefore we will still need other measures to contain the pandemic. a pandemic that is still in full swing in germany the country recorded the highest number of new daily cases on friday and daily deaths are also at record levels high time for a smooth and fast rule out of the vaccine. well let's bring in political correspondents and it's a critical moment how ready is germany for this. well i think germany's done a lot of preparations anthony of course this vaccine comes at a really critical time for germany because infections have surged in recent weeks and of hit been hitting records in the last few days with over 30000 new cases and
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deaths are also up so this is this is a much needed sort of glimmer of hope christmas time the expectation now is that the europeans medicines agency will approve the biotech phase of vaccine at the beginning of next week it will then be delivered to germany and germany's medicines agency can check the doses to see that they are ok and meet the standards and after that it will be distributed to 400 vaccination centers around the country and vaccinations can start we believe on the 27th of december and there's been a full debate as well about the prioritization with the over a 1000 people in care homes and also care workers getting the vaccine 1st and it's estimated it's going to take a couple of months to give the vaccine to all of that group some of the right is
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the glimmer of hope do we know how long it will take to vaccinate enough people to return to even a semblance of normality. well the government says that in order to get herd immunity in other words to have have enough people vaccinated that we can stop worrying or begin to start worrying about covert 19 that will require 60 to 70 percent of the population to be vaccinated how quickly can that happen rather depends on how much vaccine is available we don't know that at the moment 11000000 doses to start with but much more will be needed to vaccinate germany a country of nearly $90000000.00 people so what the government is saying it'll probably be at least the summer before they can roll out vaccinations to all people in germany so it looks like we can have to wait several months without him
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on the situation in german hospitals is increasingly dire why is the government then allowing a slight easing of rules of a christmas just quickly. well i think it's because of course they made the promises that there would be something like a christmas celebration possible and it's very difficult for politicians of course to tell people they can't have family gatherings at christmas and they wanted those gatherings to happen inside the rules so they've slightly loosened them but there is concern that of course there will be a spike in infections after christmas some young political correspondent thank you very much well meanwhile the u.s. has moved a step closer to a preventing a 2nd covered 19 vaccine after an independent panel of experts endorsed the shot made by pharmaceutical company modern season paves the way for the 58 who approved emergency use of the vaccine the u.s. has already started its mass immunization with a coded vaccine by buying take pfizer the e.u.
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under pressure to follow suit said it would speed up its approval of covenanting vaccines. now let's take a look now at the latest developments in the pandemic and china is planning to vaccinate 50000000 high risk people before the start of its lunar new year at least 4 chinese made vaccines are being tested a study in singapore suggests pregnant women with covenanting did not become more ill than the water population the study also found that babies born to infected mothers have antibodies and officials in australia have declared sydney's northern beaches i coronavirus hot spot 21 beaches have been closed residents of being to stay at home and let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news u.s. president mike pence has been given a vaccination live on television the inoculation was broadcast from the white house with pensive he am to promotes the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine.
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financial markets have opened with some uncertainty as wall street lights for a storm coronavirus economic relief package leaders in congress close to a deal but there are reports that talks could run into next week more than a dozen children have been killed in a bombing in eastern afghanistan the blast happened at a religious gathering in the province no one has claimed responsibility for the attack the area is however controlled by the taliban well in nigeria hundreds of boys are being reunited with their families after a mass kidnapping they were taken a week ago by armed men from their school in the northern state of katsina nigerian security forces rescued the children many of the boys say they suffered abuse during their captivity. it's a sight the world has been waiting for the 344 nigerian school boys free in sight yet they've suffered a terrible ordeal nearly
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a week in captivity some said they were baten and many of them report that was starved as a war school when they he just in one place then they soared jetfighter change like i should and he did someone else they gave us food but it was very little. and it's been around 24 hours since they were delivered from they kidnapped as they spent their 1st night of freedom with soldiers next day to receive medical checks and on the air after the government says can they go home. for. a little. bit freedom for the boys and relief of nigerian authorities the kidnapping was seen by many as a symbol of the government's failure to keep people in the country is no saif the rage will likely now bite at least for now are school new these opportunities.
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to bring. the efforts made right here in tennessee today our product as. if you had. that kind of a need to. believe these are the 344. it's still unclear who took the boys from this classroom but their doctrine has again shown a spotlight on the security situation in northern nigeria where banned it is and threatens lives and livelihoods alike. and by minix live in dusty has won the face of the year award after scoring a whopping 55 competition goals previous winners cristiana rinaldo and lino messi to the prize the paul. a champions league bundesliga and german cup treble it's the 32 year old 1st level award in one defend alyse bronze took the women's prize the
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29 year old won the champions league with me for moving to manchester city. joining me to discuss the awards is our sports reporter max merrill good imax this was a fairly obvious choice rob live in those q was it not well i'd like to say so yeah but we haven't postie is always have messi and ronaldo take the old award when you thought maybe someone else could get a shot i mean as a as a player especially an attacking player it's not really a lot of fun to be in this area with messi and ronaldo at your side and he's had a fantastic season as you mentioned 55 goals in 47 games last season in all competitions and he's continuing the same way now and on top of that winning the travel with by and being the standout player so sorely deserved i think and you know with 32 it's his 1st sort of world wide individual award but better late than never and he doesn't look like a slowing down noted strong german fly the team that men will neuer best keep the
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headlights of these awards of days for the bundesliga well i think they are and the neuer has been counted as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation for a long time and dusky perhaps a player thought was my recognition been and he now has it and so that gives the bundesliga a boost because it improves their standing they have play an elite player in their league that they can talk of and also by and can now you know cement that sort of vital notion of being the best team in the world a little contentious blankets hansie flick was not recognised as a legend and you can club at liverpool got that award your thoughts well by him can't win everything that's probably the lesson we learn but i mean even you can club said he was very surprised he accepted the warden said i thought he was going to win this one last year having won the champions league with liverpool this year then he won the english premier league the 1st league title for lupul in 30 years but what we probably have to look at here is that the jury which consists of play
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as fans coaches and journalists everywhere they were head to head in hungary flick except for the coaches so perhaps you can cop a little bit more popular with his colleagues yes. they couldn't have done done much more what about the women's player the yeah lucy bronze one that thoroughly deserved and great to see a defender recognized as well be it a fullback but middle name is tough and you know that really describes it pretty well at the feet well company 2019 she excelled there for england as can you continue to do that for club level in them because the opening of champions league title back to back to back and now joining much of the city again where she was previously and an amazing player and the women's coach of the arena. said it's great to see defenders recognise they'll be working together very soon she's going to go from being the dutch national team coach to the english national team coach finally a defendant next medal thanks so much oh many of us wrapping up warm to
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fend off chilly winter weather and it's not only we humans who are trying to keep out the cold as it were in the southern chinese city of 19 years and still protect its animal residents off the local temperatures plunged to an all time low to say the creatures are enjoying being warm and naturally there is always one exception this is giant pandas are still living it up in the great outdoors despite the freezing weather. and with reminder of the top stories we're following for you jen the health minister has presented the government's timetable for vaccinating people against not saying. give this will be the top priority with an occupation set to begin on december 26th. many of the more than 300 abducted boys in nigeria have walked into a government complex in the country's noles boys were kidnapped last week by suspected islamic militants. coming up next business
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used with my colleague ben for more news coming at the top of the al and until then you can get all the latest news and information of around the clock on our web site has to be found at home can also follow us on twitter and instagram the handle for social channels he's at news for now i'm anthony out for me and the team here in berlin thanks watch. people knocking for coverage. there are many answers. there are many reasons.

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