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we begin in ukraine where the army has retaken many territories in the car. key 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 helps women give birth at times. surgeon viewed, he couldn't yourself was the only doctor left as is you and was under heavy fire. he was in charge of everything. this is upstairs. patient still arrive and medical staff have reclaimed some of the less damaged rooms. but the coming months are worrying. linda zamora, good. 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, and that in the zone, but we've started to buy electric heaters, gross ton,

normally food, 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 more the 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. yet the head doctor shows us what is left off his office provided for your finance on the book in the morning, there is simply no excuse for this other, it looks like they want to destroy the civilian population. there is never been military personnel at the poly clinic. only civilians know what maybe we just provided medical treatment to normal people in need of all those movies on the home or workers not saving them room down them. hewing at one of the few 80 ends in the town that still works. those normal people see their home being destroyed or wrong 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, what's of my village? i to time had a very nice medical center, but it doesn't work any more quickly. 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 into a tech loot 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. it could become a matter of life or death. ah, since seizing power in 2021,

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 to 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 a go on a mother you can as arabic, ever mil doctor. i say some of us will get you we,

she got the order. her ward rounds are busy. the hospital deals with up to 2500 birth a month. many, many of the women have difficult deliveries due to man attrition and anemia. as nazareth can indicate, again, the team performs up to 40, says the area and sections each day. well, her better. don't remember name, how does he get it? does your them? a lot of people are jobless 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 cells up the shortest on the 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 of gunnison was never stable and never peaceful though. lots sushi do 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, them? yes, once done any, i got, i'm an african and i got my education from the blot of this nation's people, including my mac. i want to shove my people had called on la. 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 e m. as old. you have a her 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 jamica does that make is one hope comment where the mar, about with follow her modest korea, lady up to the taliban. they weighty site. how many women doctors they want and where to go? can i get? no, i went over to finish montague michel tow a meeting and, and with the m via 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. oh god. oh. okay. i use our ne, doing plans to treat respiratory diseases law, but there aren't so many around an alley 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. it was a coven. 19 infection would make it even worse. ok, so of course we're worried into good 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. argentina's 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. their 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 the really that's missing for the family because they're so different. so interesting, so, so 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 rea

formosa a lagoon with designated protected zones for short and 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 c horses in lagoon. ah few see 4 years ago they were estimating around one of the 50000 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 music method again on my protect his own, starts close to where we are now and stretches all the way back. farrah, who forced to professional fishermen are not the problem. always pick the ones

we're fishing illegally, or we'll use dragnet to sort of march the same horses with our last good, or you're buying your google the through the mud. george, the biologist is looking for small shrimps for his c 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 in the lagoon and by the looks of it, the sea horses are warming up to the new material. sources go there, love it 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 made a natural be thought out of one of the official one. it's a glimmer of hope for a species that keeps captivating imagination of humans,

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