ah ah, this week on world stories in afghanistan, female doctors are urgently needed. see horses in portugal are in danger. we begin in ukraine where the army has retaken many territories in the car. keith region, but its proximity to the front makes its power plants and hospitals. a target for russian attacks. he operated on the injured down here and he helped women give birth at times. surgeon, annuity quit yes of was the only doctor left as is young was under heavy fire. he wasn't charge of everything. this is upstairs, patients still arrive and medical staff have reclaimed some of the less them. it's

drums, but the coming months are weary. coping. lou, we've got to survive the winter period. now. modern, we've got to somehow maintain our medical care at a higher level during that time or more the new way. unfortunately, we cannot rely on the hospitals, centralized heating system anymore into missouri, but we've started to buy electric heaters. ton normally do it. at least an easy on the attacks are already weeks old. it's a different story and coupons around 40 kilometers north. several people were hurt by artillery fire, the morley we've visited. this is where they would normally go and attack ruined the local trolley clinic just a few days before the injured have to leave town. the head doctor shows us what is left office office provided for your for john wooten moore's and there's simply no excuse for this. said i, it looks like they want to destroy the civilian population. there is never been

military personnel at the poly clinic, only civilians, no one. maybe we just provided medical treatment to normal people in need of all this money. so the homo workers not saving them, wrote down them. hewing at one of the few h e m 's in the town that still works. those normal people see their home being destroyed around them and that the temperature draw cushion been recorded partition every day. when you leave your home, you see new devastation. and this was such a flourishing city. once i get no room was my village, i to time had a very nice medical center, but it doesn't work anymore. but sometimes doctors visit us, but we don't have any doctors of our in any more literature, dr. sinclair says he's looking for a place to set up a temporary clinic, but he says the russians didn't just damage that building. india lou, the keeper of the people who work in our medical facility have to come under fire 3

times. now. imagine a 3 time, frankly, people are frightened over so on the rollins, russian destruction of civilian infrastructure fields increasingly like a strategy for the people living here. the other front could become a matter of life or death. since seizing power and 2021. with the taliban have restricted the rights of women and girls in afghanistan. they are not allowed to leave their homes alone, go to school or work. but there are exceptions. no what i'm guessing the meet dr. mal ally facie. she's a rare exception in afghanistan. why the taliban forced most working women from their jobs? doctor fight you see got a promotion. she's now a director of the country's biggest maternity clinic and cobbled female and

neonatal health is one area where the fundamentalist rulers understand they need women should on a more than one stone as not that a gotcha. this is linked to the culture and tradition of afghanistan. when a woman is pregnant, she should go to a female doctor. i don't mckenna, because a female doctor can better examine and treat her than a male doctor. i hope was a lot of me than i get on a mother you gonna as arabic, over 1000000 doctor. i see some of them actually. she got the other. her ward rounds are busy. the hospital deals with up to 2500 birth a month. i mean, many of the women have difficult deliveries you to man attrition and anemia as not that it can be nicky. i guess the team performs up to 40 says area and sections each day. well, her classes don't remember name what that is. he getting old as your them a lot of people i job less on amazon. and when families cannot afford for expecting mothers to eat, could a lot in a tricia's food where they face a lot of problems. i'm will amber problem of shows up the shortest time on them.

many babies here are born prematurely. more than 20 new borns have died. each of the past 4 months. the 1000000000 spent by foreign powers on development failed to create the lasting conditions needed to reduce infant mortality whom i had bought that i am a doctor and i have not left the country for the past 26 years. and in all this time i've gunnison was never stable and never peaceful with our lot. susie with that when she gets home, after a long working day, darkness awaits her the electricity's off a daily experience for many families and cobbled as she sits down for tea with her youngest daughter. we ask her why she doesn't leave afghanistan. emma, than me of once than any i got. i am an afghan. huh. and i got my education from the blot of this nation's people, and clearly my mac. i want to shove, my people had called on long if all of us decide to leave now who will rebuild this

country? because what i care about hookah marva is waiting to take the university entry exam to study medicine. she's clear on why she wants to follow in her mother's footsteps seemed as cold. yeah. but that again, cause our society needs female doctors in every single province. after the recent earthquake, there were no female doctors in the field to help the injured women. not only mayo doctors were there but not a single female, and i want to help the women of my country, jeremy, who does that make us one? hold calmer. where the mara with follow her? modest korea liddy up to the taliban. they weighed. he sighed. how many women ducked as they want and where to find a disconnect? no, i don't have it. so finish montague, michelle, tow a meeting and, and with i had, you know, the ambia of northern argentina, or one of the few indigenous peoples left in the south american country. they have

also been affected by the corona virus pandemic, and are trying to protect themselves from the virus as best they can the, and by an indigenous community of 20 remodeled dose is located in the sparsely populated border region between argentina, brazil, and paraguay. so far, no one here has contracted coven 19, but they're worried. the traditional medicinal plants they rely on to protect themselves are becoming ever harder to find foul cargo van use our nato and plans to treat respiratory diseases. huh. but there aren't so many around canal because so much of the forest here has been filled by loggers. you would go to eat and there have been more and more forest fires the last few months when the forest is burning. we can breathe as well. what a coven 19 infection would make it wasn't worse hug. so of course we're worried. it

wouldn't be there. in recent years, multinational corporations have occupied vast areas of indigenous lands to produce pulp for the paper industry. according to the u. n. the pulp and paper industries are among the world's biggest polluters. supplies of drinking water are now under threat. argentine as government says, it has introduce measures to protect the empire, people in the home yet for a minute. the minute after medical staff and essential workers indigenous communities were one of the 1st groups to be vaccinated. there vaccination rate is 90 to 95 percent. the court blew. despite efforts to get the vaccines to isolated areas, many members of the m by a community did not want to be vaccinated. they prefer to rely on traditional medicinal plants and their knowledge of nature passed down through the generations . the earth has belonged to us for generations,

and we take care of it because we can only live and survive together with nature as a people we were here long before any one else. ah, the community here hopes to protect itself from the corona virus by sticking together and relying on ancient traditions. ah, see horses are some of nature's most fascinating creatures. but in portugal, their population is declining at an alarming rate. due to coastal over fishing, sea horses have captivated the human imagination for thousands of years. and many cultures see them as mythical creatures. one person enthralled by these small animals is biologist george palmer. for the past 15 years,

he had studied them here at the faro marine research station in southern portugal. i got really that's missing for the family because they're so different. so interesting. so this saturday of and they were present so well there i thought that become like a my role model for research. the station is located in ria formosa, a lagoon with designated protected zones for shore to long snout at sea horses. this is an oasis. scientists have discovered more specimens here than anywhere else . but the sea horses are currently under severe threat. as far as i know the 1st the researchers, they estimate the us. i'm more than 1200000 sea horses in lagoon. ah few see 4 years ago there were estimating around one of the 60000 quite a bit. the place. one problem is the fishing community. through we can say sal

lives on an island in the lagoon. he loves the sea horses having grown up around them. he knows the areas where fishing is prohibited, but he also knows that there are those who don't respect the restrictions. audible good method again, my protect its own, starts close to where we are now and stretches all the way back. farrah hope all is professional. fishermen are not the problem i'll go is particular once we're fishing illegally, or we'll use dragnet to sort of march the same horses with alice. good. a. yep. and you'll go all gobbledygook. them up. george. the biologist is looking for small shrimps for his sea horse farm. to him, the issue is more nuanced. see horses becoming cart is understandable. a much graver problem is the destruction of this sensitive animals habitat by the fishing nets themselves. this has led him to search for alternatives and experiment with artificial seaweed. together with his colleagues, he has already covered large patches than the lagoon. and by the looks of it,

the sea horses are warming up to the new material. sources go their love in an artificial thing. it's good for the start and then becomes natural because all other animals are colonized this of the visual fructose and me. and that's why we thought out of 100 official, one. it's a glimmer of hope for a species that keeps captivating the imagination of humans. but is now threatened by their very actions almost everywhere in the world. not only in their oasis in the ria formosa lagoon, we're all set to go beyond the obvious. ah, as we take on the world 8 hours, i do understand we're all about the stories that matter to you.

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