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a ah, this week on world stories. in afghanistan, female doctors are urgently needed. see horses in article are in danger.

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, but target for russian attacks. was 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 you and 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 damaged rooms. but the coming months are weary. open. linda zamora, guru, we've got to survive the winter period now. more than what we've got to somehow maintain our medical care at a higher level during that time we're moody new. unfortunately, we cannot rely on the hospitals, centralized heating system anymore, and that in the zone. but we've started to buy electric heaters known to do it,

at least an easier the attacks are already weak sold. it's a different story and coupons around 40 kilometers north. several people who 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 off his office, provided we have had johnwooten 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 know and maybe we just provided medical treatment to normal people in need a well as movie so that will more wiggle. it's not saving them. run them. hewing at one of the few 80 mps 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 watches every day. when you leave your home,

you see new devastation. and this was such a flourishing city. once i get there, no room was my village. i entertain had a very nice medical center, but it doesn't work any more quickly. sometimes doctors visit than you, but we don't have any doctors of our in any more literature. dr. cinco says he's looking for a place to set up a temporary clinic. but he says the russians didn't just damaged that building in the tech lou, the key for the 2 of the people who work in our medical facility have to come under fire 3 times. now. imagine a 3 time, was it? frankly, people are frightened over so on the grounds, russian destruction of civilian infrastructure fields increasingly like a strategy for the people living here near the front. it could become a matter of life or death. ah, since seizing power in 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 it is in the meet dr. mal ally facie, she's a rare exception in afghanistan. why the taliban forced most working women from that jobs? doctor fight you see got to promotion. she's now director of the countries biggest maternity clinic and cobble female and neonatal health is one area where the fundamentalist rulers understand they need women should on a more the of one stone. as miss erica, this is linked to the culture and tradition of afghanistan. when a woman is pregnant, she should go to a female doctor i had on mckenna because a female doctor can better examine and treat her than a male direct. i hope was a little me than a get on a mother. you can as arabic, ever 1000000 doctor, i see some of them actually. she will do. all of 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. antinini, alabama, as not that it can be making. the team performs up to 40 syrian sections each day. we'll hook versus daphne ma'am, by name hunter, as he get it, does your them, a lot of people are jobless. when i meet them and when families cannot afford for expecting mothers to eat good a lot and attrition food? well, they face a lot of problems on lamba problem shows up. did you notice that melanie m 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 lost conditions needed to reduce infant mortality whom i had bought. that i'm 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 though. lot susie with her

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 off gone is done. emma, than me of once done any. i got, i am an african ha. and i got my education from the blot of this nation's people. unclean. be 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 e. m. as old. we 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, jeremy, who that is, i think is one hooker. where the mar about with follow her mothers, korea, liddy. up to the taliban. they wait, he sighed. how many women doctors they want and where just want to go? can i get? no, i don't have a famous montague, michelle toby, and i'm 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 . okay, i use our nato and 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 lagossi. but don't eat and there have been more and more forest fires the last few months. when the forest is burning, we can't breathe as well. one, a, coven, 19 infection would make it even worse. ok, so of course we're worried that 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 them to be made 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 barrow marine research station in southern portugal . ah, i get the really that's miss for these animals 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 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, england. ah few see 4 years ago there were estimating around 150000 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. odd, it would be the method again, my protect its own starts close to where we are now and stretches all the way back farrah. oh, forest, 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 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 there, love it in an artificial thing. it's room for the story and then becomes natural because all other animals are colonized this artificial fructose and made and that's why we thought out of one under the official one. it's a glimmer of hope for a species that keeps captivating the imagination of humans,

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