is scarce commodity things just getting dryer and dryer, and we need more and more water. his own were earth dying of thirst. no water at all. then it's like be upon the global struggle for water and nothing can be done. thirst starts august 10th on d, w. with this week on world stories, italy historic drought threatens rice farmers. germany g e x monk, once church reforms we begin in

ukraine where frontline troops are suffering both physically and mentally at special clinic near keith is doing what he can to heal the trauma. rifleman alexi, chef jenko worked and construction before the russian invasion. within weeks he was on the front lines in the east under constant massive artillery fire. he says he would fall to the ground for cover take out his phone. and amid the deafening blast swipe to a photo of danya, his 7 year old boy back in a capital. but none as there was got his political loose up what christian was when i looked at my fun before going to bed and understood that if the russian soldiers were not stopped where i was there, they could reach key again was little buddha. what is the, what i thought of my boy and asked myself, will some one else's raise? my son is a policy policy, a winnable will never love a looks. he didn't want to go into details, but we'll say he suffered a concussion and had a nervous breakdown. he is one of a 150 patients of the rehabilitation center who's location we were asked to keep

secret, so it wouldn't be targeted. some supper from post traumatic stress, a psychological problem, and others from traumatic brain injuries damage which can be caused by the blast. ways of explosions, symptoms for both include suicidal thoughts, depression insomnia, to anger, logic with a door slam or firecracker can trigger the terrifying feeling you are under fire. again. alexey is here for 3 weeks of psychotherapy group discussions, walks and massages another. i think that helps them to of course know the belief that we are here yet than william standing behind them and show that there are people who respect them immensely. won't you won't say what it is. maxime is in explosives expert and has been fighting since 2014, when russia annexed crimea, and parts of the east. he likes looking at the murals at the center to lift his morale, that he suffers from combat related stress. this that are worth of toys on here with working with 5 colleges, it helps to long report. if a person is whole,

who has arms and legs, it does not mean that everything is normal with the person. so put up his psyche is disturbed. little little shy of successmaker. maxime says he is burdened by many memories, like when his men moved into a town just occupied by the russians who had shot people attached explosives to their bodies and buried them. we were lodging, but we found a total of 5 buried bodies, the 3 that were booby trapped. it's just not that her name is sarah stashefsky. maxime says his men call him every day. they want him to come back. he says, he knows it will be hard to return, but that he must awe about 500 ukrainian soldiers a day are being wounded in the fight against russia. particularly severe cases are now being taken abroad for treatment. for example, to often even

when jenko got out alive, she was by you warned it defending key if against russian troops muslim my assistant melissa melissa. we discovered them in a forest. now we immediately began fighting a lot though we were lucky that day because our unit left the battle with only 2 wounded. his muffled me and another lad had wobbled on. so yeah, a boy is sheldon florence who jenko received 2 bullet wounds and the shrapnel wound to his legs. he's one of the 1st ukrainian soldiers to be treated in germany says the russian attack began alone no final to medical care. the patient received and ukraine was excellent, but he needed further operations. so of course, to do that, we needed a large team and the appropriate infrastructure, which is practically nonexistent in ukraine at the moment. i know who i'm speaking given. 6 soldiers are being treated at the louisa hospital in austin. maxim cut of

ankle was shot at by a russian tongue. the don bus at piece of shrapnel hit him in the arm. oh, media and me. oh, media. oh my media nerve is damaged virginia. should i am still, i can move my hand in this direction, but not in the other. and i can't feel anything and these 2 fingers, even if there is peace in germany, the doctors in our hands are familiar with war injuries. he found which did ally know we had a lot of experience treating patients from iraq many years ago. lampton gonna, so in principle, this is nothing new for us. garza duffer, spoons of quincy periods, nist noises, but it's not just doctors helping the wound day. oh, ukrainians. who live in our hands stopped by to day to wish even a happy birthday. she just turned 37. that brief and welcome moment of destruction from the war. so far,

about 300 people from ukraine had been flown to germany for treatment, including civilians and soldiers. the soldiers in our hands were brought there by a dutch and g o. every bump organized their evacuation. oh, because there are soldiers, then all the fishing allowed to leave the country. so we had to get military permission to bring them out of the country and dug. got all full of important that we could promise that the soldiers would once they were healed under. okay, that they would come back to your crime even who jenko knows one thing for sure. he wants to return and continue fighting and like, but i also session a year cousin thought curb a wound does not exempt you glance from continuing to defend your homeland. oh for that is true for the actual as i have thought, much of sure you're sure if my condition allows me this thought i will keep fighting one of those all with many doug, ollie proposal what the were you up at the about it for those away what events

birthday wish is victory over d aggressors attacking his country? ah, italy is experiencing the worst drought in decades. one of the hardest hit regions is the po valley. climate change is an existential threat, especially for rice farmers a marina full of stranded boats. fields of drooping sunflowers and everywhere fountains with no running water, scorching temperatures of up to 40 degrees happened plaguing northern italy for weeks now and threatening some people's very existence. like the regions, rice farmers, is the pantheon of these plants are completely dead. they won't produce anything. there will be no crop here. so on epa. 15 tons of harvest lost in this plot alone.

the farmer simply couldn't provide enough water. stefan a gray pi is the head of the call it at the po via association, which represents farmers in the region. italy so called golden rice triangle makes up half of europe's entire rice production. the industry, which is highly dependent on water, is now facing a financial and environmental catastrophe. and she might to our knowledge, nothing like this has ever happened in the last 70 years, little made, according to the data available. a drought like this has never occurred that never . my northern italy depends on the poll river. it's 650 kilometers, spanned the country from west to east. it is a source of life for all around it, but water levels have been dropping continuously over the last few years. areas are now competing for the remaining water. a state of emergency has been declared in many reaches by mortal reducing leaks is another big topic initially filled

it both for drinking water and agricultural purposes. any dope, abby, this yet the system efficiency is currently around 50 percent. jealousy, tainted at equal medium, ether or nancy went up, pertain to farmers like stiff on or can it be also know they will have to change this season. they have already lost 30 percent of their harvest, erotic. and with what i mentioned, we hope we get back to a climate which allows for rise production. and otherwise we'll have to switch to other crops and adapt to a different type of water management area. yesterday. there's just not enough water for every ones with which end to perform. for now all they can do is keep the pumps running and hope for falling temperatures. and above all for rain. ah, they are trans lesbian, gay, or by and work for the catholic church. more than 120 of them have come out in

germany to demand a fundamental change in the churches mindset to night, it's going to be a vegetable stir, fry, how stuff on different buck in his husband. walter, marcello castillo are cooking. it's everyday life. but for the former priest, it's still feel special. move looks good. i'm already hungry. stefan married, his argentinian husband 6 years ago. oh wow. i was looking for north or sometimes i still say wow, it's just astonishing clear. i'm here now. well, i'm with walter and together we cook together, friends come over there. sometimes it still feels unreal, but then i feel so much gratitude to see that it's like this boy does this or if stefan was a brother and a catholic religious order for over 25 years. he preached an taught in a church that rejects homosexuality. even though he knew he was gay,

then his grandfather died and stuff on felt it was time to make a crucial decision. mister store holds there, arden's please does law, do you want to be a priest who hides part of his identity to ted or is this part allowed to exist? i india that it really is part of you. does i something that can be talked about to thought i thought that something you can live with into stuff with without a guilty conscience and without fear or no wonderfully describe his unload all along. still hob stuff undecided to take a stand against fear coming out meant he had to give up his life in the religious order. the nick berg had got urn at that stuff and has since set up regular prayer meetings for persecuted gay people. i think the dusty co please allow christian churches to accept the same sex partners as part of your beautiful creation. come for full on name on you. the answer

knocked when each of these services how to change things, mentor, they take place. so people talk about them and see it happening, phone, hear about it does fossil. so hopefully it's will have a ripple effect. so because it's it, will you be some diocese are reacting, they say a person's love, life is private and cannot be used as grounds for dismissal from church, employment of great michigan or it's not going faster. notion is not comprehensive enough law, but it's happening. what's going in the right direction in dealers? that is my impression denine talk with people. yeah. 1 it's stephanie and his husband in chile relax dinner with friends. he stands by his decision to come out and has never regretted it on your modem in, wow, ah,

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