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but we beginning ukraine. there is international concern about the deployment of russian troops on the countries east and border how i residence in the border region handling the threads. this muddy track used to be an international crossing from ukraine to russia for elena and her neighbors with family and friends on both sides. it was a lifeline with diana cup roll cook. i want to check what kind of why are they put up with yes, yes. it sparked why i call you j tucker, says, and they've loved this strip throw to catch people we try to cross with it lowered a few signs, some fencing and some barbed wire off. with that, it might not look like a particularly well defended frontier between 2 countries in conflict. but it's certainly a big change of people in this part of eastern ukraine, though, until a few years ago could drive across the border without as much as showing
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a passport. or to last year to my neighbor has his elderly mother down there on the russian side. it's only 6 kilometers from here. but now he has to do a huge loop and travel 10 times that to pass through the border post. the more you, as in, in the board of fence was 1st built few years ago, helena tells us relatives would come and stand on both sides to talk over the bug wire. it's this closeness, these personal ties that mean that many here aren't ready to believe that armed conflict with russia is even possible for us on the gym. but usually we hear all the scary things on the news. but i just can't imagine it affecting us here. there's no animosity between us, not sure what to measure milligram. that may be the case, but the tanks in the troops are definitely there even if they're still some 200 kilometers from helena's border. village with u. s. defense sauces, warning invasion, could be a reality within months. very atlas, taurus is gulf, don't, we've been expecting a russian innovation since 2014. they are always flexing their muscles. and man,
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i think this is just an attempt to when political concessions probably 20 to 3. but then in a politician or in, in the border town of mill over, there's not much of that shield evidence with russian and ukrainian border guards barely a metro part along the boundary which runs down the middle of the main street. but even here were many locals can see russia from their windows. it's cold and economic worries rather than russian tanks for now. a still weighing most heavily on people's minds law last year. how can we be in danger if the board is right there, we would have seen something already. jo, i've only seen those russian tanks on t b, but we can't see or hear them here. yet, no tensions here. so as negotiations between washington and moscow to resolve these tensions go into overdrive people on the ground in his new crane and seem unwilling to believe that the threat of war is real till they see those russian tanks with their own eyes. ah,
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the only chron variant is causing a surgeon corona, virus infections, especially in south africa, where it was 1st detected. the mayor of johannesburg wants to do everything she can to stop it from spreading farther. to anna's book at night is a party town. there's no social distancing, no masks, no registering of guests at claps. local may, i am. pull pallets is not happy with the situation and is taking part in a police rate the on the come meant of call, the 19 isn't looming for wave of call. then i'll number the we very concerned about compliance, he called and regulation the music is turned off and the club closed for these guests. the party was over long before the midnight curfew, but pellets job is just getting started. she is the 1st black female mia and johannesburg city that was once the dream destination for gold prospectors. but now
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as the city in crisis pallets there wants to stop this trends. but now the pandemic is causing her further concern. she has to prepare the city for a 4th cove at waif. a lot of systems already in place. i have also seen gaps though, that need to be addressed, particularly around making sure that service delivery continues in the covered era . and we need to strengthen performance management particularly well officials are having to work from home. i've heard rumors of people working from home never coming in. and there's no real means of seeing if people are delivering and on what be been applied to do. and so such things need to be a given attention to ensure that the 4th wave does not hit the city as hard as previous once pallets is trying to convince people to get vaccinated. only $1.00 and $4.00 south africans is fully vaccinated,
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although there's enough vaccine available here in the so wait or township the vaccination rate is particularly low. they say that to a nuclear foxley ted, you'll get some diseases like cove with nathan made their physical some of the different room do this. they do with mission, they get sick. the uptake is very low and the research has shown that in terms of cases that are hospitalized that end up with complicated disease, a lot of them are the and vaccinated pilots, a is a single mother and a doctor. and she fears the pandemic will take up much of her time. ah, almost all the residents of to later a city and southwest in brazil, vaccinated against the corona virus. this is despite president wilson, our stance. he long denied the pandemic existence. ah. just
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a few months ago doing the rounds. here was a grueling task for emergency doctor jose. i proceed. oh, so bow. so now all empty these beds were once occupied by critically ill coded 19 patients the corridors. the hospital in the brazilian city of toledo is deserted. emergency beds now in the storage room, it's the result of what might be brazil's most successful vaccination drive up quite a bit, but we used to have 40 into bacon patients here. now we don't have any hot, and it's very rare for us these days, staff to provide that level of intensive care. the cases are also much less severe than before. so we can think more carefully about how best to treat those who are sick and to give them a better prognosis. maybe some i know, but tonight in southwestern, brazil is home to some 143000 people. corona virus was rife here only
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a few months ago. like many other parts of the country. the severe health crisis was followed by one of the fastest and most efficient vaccination drives in brazil . american pharmaceuticals company pies, the recently launched a long term study and laid out over the course of a year. it's observing what happens when everyone in a city is vaccinated against kobe. 19 everyone over the age of 12, including 13 year old anna, will be given the full dose down from a book in another tells this whole class to vaccinated with no bad side effect piano that almost everyone continue to go to school. vaccination isn't compulsory though, just hardly any skeptics here. the city council president is simply relying on
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people's willingness to get vaccinated. it will go via, do you want to got it? i don't the anywhere else in the world has so much expertise. and so many vaccination centers that if we had, you know, faxing before about 100 percent of the population would have been fully vaccinated long ago we have a tradition of vaccination of us enough. so just simple example, we took them toledo is setting a test lab for the rest of the world. in a year or 2, many questions could be answered here. under which conditions do virus variance develop among vaccinated people? and how long does protection last that this to later hospital, there's growing hope the pandemic is finally coming to an end ah, invoice in a new mine has to be built in informal coal mining region. climate actually with a trying to stop its construction. while many residents in the area hope it will
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bring new jobs, the main chats than pit could these soon be back in operation. there's a good chance the could be says the credit. he was a minor for decades and he loves his job. he was responsible for ventilation and all the culprits in white haven, a small town in northern england, including this one. that was the best job i ever had in my life. miners look after themselves on the ground because it's such a dangerous, healthy fish. when i came out of the mines, i didn't find that on the surface call was last produced in 1986. and then from there that was the lush coal mining in cumbria. know that our plans to start mining cool again for steal production. the seabed
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here is a veritable treasure. truth, an estimated 750000000 tons of coal lie under the water. if you want to steal you need call the 1000000 tons of it out there. on the job, why bring it from broad when you got it? many which is still work still use coal. there are new technologies which is hydrogen to power steel, production or recycle all steel. and these are constantly being improved, but they have yet to replace cool. the council has already given the go ahead for a new calorie on this former factory site, but claim activist carol would and her husband robin are campaigning against it. the climate change agenda is just so urgent now. i mean, we are actually seeing the impact of climate disaster and it's not,
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it's not in the future. it's happening now. and we haven't got any wiggle room. we absolutely need to keep this colin ground. this is the position of the new mine over on the marsh on site, and that's up where the light is on the top just over there, over there. but dave credit is my things. yes. take about the new plans, every one and reviving the many tunnels of the past. the this map shows that mining was ones everywhere in the past, colas shit from here. but now there are just a few private boots. the old industries have died out making the region one of the poorest in britain. many lucas hopes the new mine will bring back jobs so that that's what goes on between locals, who hope for return to the old times of high employment. and others who want to move forward to a better, more environmentally friendly future ah,
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