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power games on the melting ice. a reporter tracks down the arctics major players and with your unfolded those russian warships and alan guys and i don't have any guns. provo shadow starts december 23rd on d. w. with this week in world stories in somalia, it's historic drought is killing children. in columbia, children need receive cooking classes. we began in ukraine where russians occupied

the city of chance right after the invasion. ukraine recaptured it in mid september, but today it looks like a ghost town. ah, it used to take less than 2 hours to drive from heart give to off chunks. now it takes 5. you have to take small, local roads, and long teach was all the major route and bridges are destroyed, which is 4 kilometers from the border with russia. the town was taken on the 1st day of the war locus. tell us the russians set up a torture chamber in this country. they mostly took young men that very valid says so just ordered him to go there after they caught him outside of the curfew yard. the $11.00 of them i thought they would torture me. well, i came as i was told at 8 am,

but they just made me dig trenches were carry stuff around the door and stacker sandbags had to be there at 8 and would work until 5 was. that's how they made me slave away, miss girl. what's a girl for the fellow manager houghton? the everything looks broken and the russians do so from across the board. the people were still here with soon face a tough winter. the electricity is often out and there's no gas for heating. some humanitarian aid does come, but not often. it's so hard to get there. given these conditions, not everybody is happy, the russians are gone. so usually when they were here we could still live more or less. normally there was work and we were getting humanitarian aid every 10 days. they would also hand out money. now we have nothing's

excuse me, busy. there's not much for sale at the market and not many people, many left for russia with the retreating soldiers. it's an area long considered pro russian. now the ukrainians are in charge again. many are anxious and suspicious. would love to paint us as collaborators says a woman, she won't be on camera. oh, you did the claim. mistrust is every with soldiers in charge of the town worry that locals are included in the rush yet, but not least. we hear about those who sit with one hours long, 2 chairs. they used to tip off the rochelle petroleum. now they come to see us. it didn't say this, or that person was a collaborator, sir, he is only here to have his mother prepare for winter. took his wife and young daughter out of town and will soon join them. but he is determined to return and

hopes the town can get back to normal. ah, the pandemic war in ukraine and inflation. britain has been hit particularly hard by these crises, in part because fix it. people living in poverty suffer the most the kids are, every thing will feel for making sure cockburn and as me never go hungry is daniel burnside, top priority. the 32 year old is a self employed painter, but with high gas prices and inflation over 10 percent. it's not enough to make ends meet. awfully turning on the heating is a luxury these days them. it's been off for

a couple of days of this at the spare grip and wait for the next paid payday or the next bill cash and find to to put it on same with electric. i'll turn lights off on a night of on, on the house. it's in darkness. there are free food banks all over the u. k. like here in north london. but across the country, the lines of needy people are growing younger. i had to read than i reason as a single mother and works part time in a department store. she comes here almost every week. it'd be very difficult, especially nowadays today inflation and the prices are growing. outlander go up so much know very difficult, very def. i didn't know how could manage our f tars carnis in charge of food distribution. he estimates that demand has gone up by 50 percent in the last 6 months. the country, i don't bring

a face to time that is simple to war. people that are in we're actively both husband and wife. they are coming to access all services. and these are people who will normally associate. yeah. older people, single parents, children, poverty hits them all particularly hot. martin godfrey is a doctor in london. some of his patients are overly pale and prone to infection because they don't have enough to eat. he worries, especially about the children and 2020 and in some half abundant, 25 percent of the population is living below the poverty line. something like 12 percent. her children are going to to, to sleep hungry, which seems to be, ah, i'm an, an unforgivable. we're an unthinkable situation. father, dr. food, bank worker. they're all afraid the coming winter is likely to bring more suffering before more people here in britain,

somalia is suffering from its worse drought in 40 years. millions of people faced starvation. according to the un, half a 1000000 children under the age of 5. soon ty ah, these children are fighting for their lives from all over somalia, those most in need get referred to this hospital and the capitol, mogadishu. many die on the way. little amina, abdi waste less than half of what a healthy child her age should for days, she's been in a coma. i mean, i've been now, is summer goofy. are under to a live normally, she was supposed to be 16. good to go with severe good one of the mission. critical condition to the solid shock mouth she is

a better man. okay. a terminal case it only 4 years old. this is the impact of the extreme drought. that's devastating somalia. it's the worst in 40 years. by door is 250 kilometers west of the capital. it is seen as the epicenter, the hunger crisis. the situation in the hospital here is desperate. one and a half year old mariam was admitted a few days ago. she showing typical symptoms of man attrition, diarrhea, vomiting and whooping cough. for her mother and aunt the weight is unbearable. m j raffle. i feel so sad for my sister. i pray to allah that she will recover and also that he will alleviate the drought. i love like most manney's, both where livestock farmers until the drought took everything from them. for rainy

seasons have failed, and they are fears that a 5th will now fail to high food prices due to the war and ukraine. decades long civil war and climate change have created an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. 8 organizations, one millions. on the brink of starvation, the united nations children's fund, unicef says 1000000000 u. s. dollars in aid is needed to avoid the situation getting worse. if we have half a 1000000 children at the severely acutely, my lot was basically means that if don't, if they don't receive assistance, timely, they are just simply gone to that 800000 people have sought refuge in and around by dora. they've doubled the city's population. ah, the corona virus pandemic, and columbia was particularly hard on young people with special needs. so the father of a severely disabled boy decided to do something for them. ruby

fernandez, his life changed with the arrival of his youngest child. he quit his police job and devoted himself to francisco who need to round the clock hare. when the pandemic started, the 2 found themselves cut off from the outside world, but then rubio fernandez, had an idea. he in a 2nd here in my kitchen, in my house, i started offering cooking classes for people with disabilities here. this is where the magical project was born with the cooking adventure we have for children with disabilities. here, after the lockdown was lifted, the therapy kitchen project found a new and larger home in the sensory life center. train therapists and caregivers could now join in let you go to somebody else with the children,

my super motivated. but the kitchen of mr. fernandez was too small for the entire group 0, so the decision was made to move it here project. and we started with the desert project and that worked out beautifully as you're moving into the therapists and caregivers at the center say that therapy kitchen is helping their patients put the lockdown behind them. learning to cook brings them both physical and emotional benefits. won't test them, i think they make lots of progress is p and they get out of there rotate and feel like an outdated part of the community. and often they feel they're not good at anything. and here they can do things for themselves. so no more daisy mora is also benefiting. she's visually impaired and lost her job during the pandemic. her therapist recommended joining the cooking therapy to help lift her spirits. daisy mora uses the classes to learn new recipes and cooking techniques. it also helped

her get back on her feet after the lockdown. what gaskin was ugliness almost for. we don't want to be pitied with us. we just like every one else. we may do things differently, but we're the same for what colors are much human beings with the same rights, but with different ability share this. implement that be for the classes are free of charge for participants. rubia fernandez volunteers here. part of his police pension goes towards buying ingredients. isn't what i mean? somebody else has had your team breach. ok. it's not causing not appear in the the you are still i use it just. so it just came in and i think i've been missing that that up yet, but a lot of my son ended up your k a k kennedy 9, which is that he thought soon, the dishes they prepare are sold at local markets. the income then helps maintain the kitchen for rubia, the therapy kitchen has given him a new vocation. ah,

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