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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. but target for russian attacks was he operated on the injured down here and he helped women give birth at times. surgeon viewed, he couldn't. yes of 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 weary. open. linda zamora, good, good. we've got to survive the winter period. now monument, 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 with known to do it

. at least an easy on the attacks are already weeks old. it's a different story and could pianist around for, to kill homage us north. several people who were hurt by artillery fire. the morning we've visited. this is where they would normally go, and the take ruined the local police clinic just a few days before the injured have to leave town. the head doctor shows us what is left off his officemate, provide for your for someone who can there more than there is simply no excuse for this or they, 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. some of the homo workers, lots of in them, wrote 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. cotton 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, 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 own anymore. little children. dr. sinclair says he's looking for a place to set up a temporary clinic. but he says the russians didn't just damage the building viet blue. the key for a tour 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 so, so on the grounds, russian destruction of civilian infrastructure fields increasingly like a strategy. while the people living here, the other front could become a matter of life or death. since seizing power in 2021. but 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. now, what enhancing the meat duck tamela lie facie. she's a rare exception in afghanistan. why the taliban forced most working women from that jobs? doctor fight you see got a promotion. she's now a director of the country's biggest maternity clinic and cobble with female and neo natal health is one area where the fundamentalists rulers understand they need women should on a more than one stone as america, 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 one another. you gonna as arabic, ever many doctor, i say some of them literally, she goes,

you ordered her ward rounds are busy. the hospital deals with up to 2500 birth a month. may many, many of the women have difficult deliveries due to man attrition. antinini drama as not that it can indicate the team performs up to 40 syrian sections each day for her versus that 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 lamba problem shows up. did you notice that melanie m many babies here are born prematurely? more than 20 new born have died in 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. 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. 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 thought any. i got, i am an african. and i got my education from the blood of this nation's people, including 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 like your boss, hooker, 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 jamaica because i think is one called comment. where the marva with follow her mother's career with the up to the taliban. they weighty site. how many women dock to stay once and where i go can i can tell i will go to finish. montague michelle. no meeting in with angela. 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 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 ne doing plans to treat respiratory diseases. ha! 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 . what a coven 19 infection would make it was in worse hug. so of course, we're worried into a little bit in recent years, multinational corporations have occupied vast areas of indigenous lands to produce pulse 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. 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 the really that's missing for the family because they're so different. so interesting. so this is seth 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 sea horses in lagoon. ah few see 4 years ago they were estimating around 150000 quite a bit. the place. one problem is the fishing community through we can say sal lives on an island and 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, on my protect his own, starts close to where we are now, and stretches all the way back. farrah humphries, 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, you go them up. 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 the 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. theories of go there, love it in an artificial thing. it's good for the story and then becomes natural because all other animals are colonized this of the visual fructose and made. and that's why we thought out of one of the official one, it's a glimmer of hope for a species that keeps captivating imagination of humans, but is now threatened by their very actions almost everywhere in the world. not

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