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Ukrainerinnen: Wenn die Flucht im Bordell endet
Was wurde aus den Warnungen vor Menschenhändlern, die die Situation geflüchteter Ukrainerinnen ausnutzen wollen? ZDF frontal hat recherchiert - unter anderem in Bordellen. Als im Frühjahr 2022 Hunderttausende Ukrainerinnen ihre Heimat aufgrund des Kriegs verließen, hatten sie vor allem ein Ziel: sich in Sicherheit zu bringen. Doch schon kurz nach ihrer Ankunft in Deutschland sahen sich viele der Frauen mit einem neuen Sicherheitsproblem konfrontiert.
FrontLine Magazine
Walking through central Kyiv in Spring 2023 – at first glance everything can look pretty normal. There’s tacky art and souvenirs being sold at outdoor markets, cafés are open and busy, hipster neighbourhoods offer local craft beer and live music. But look closer and it becomes clear that this country is very much at war. Integrated with the traffic lights are newly built concrete pillboxes, with firing positions.
Whatever happened to Peter the Armenian cook?
By Christopher Bobyn BBC Scotland's The Nine image captionThe former Victorian police station once housed a restaurant that has grown a culinary cult following Just up the road from the Queen's Edinburgh residence at Holyrood Palace is a shuttered curiosity, a building that once housed a legendary eatery, known to its loyal patrons simply as "The Armenian Restaurant".
Covid in Scotland: An intensive care night shift 10 months on
By Christopher Bobyn BBC Scotland's The Nine image captionAt 5am, staff nurse Natasha Cumming tends to the ventilation tubing of a Covid-19 patient In April, at the peak of the first wave of the Covid pandemic, I was given exclusive access to the intensive care unit at University Hospital Hairmyres in East Kilbride. Those images were among the first in Scotland to show an ICU treating people infected with coronavirus.
Russia, Ukraine panned by European Human Rights Court over 2008, 2014 abuses | DW | 21.01.2021
Europe's human rights court found Russia committed abuses in areas seized from Georgia in 2008, and then Ukraine during the Kyiv "Maidain" protests 6 years Russia's 2008 routing of Georgian troops from South Ossetia and its occupation of Abkhazia, and likewise, Ukraine's "Maidan" protests of 2013-2014, had culminated in "state" abuses, ruled the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in twin rulings.
In pictures: Scotland's last orders Original
At the Oz Bar in Edinburgh, just before 18:00 on Friday, manager Eilidh Robinson rang the last orders bell for the last time in more than two weeks. All pubs and restaurants across the central belt of Scotland are now closed until Sunday 25 October as part of strict new Covid restrictions. As the last drinks were poured, Ms Robinson said she did not agree with the Scottish government's decision despite being an SNP supporter.
'She did not get the anorexia help she needed'
By Hope Webb & Christopher Bobyn BBC Scotland image captionMaddy Wallace went to the University of Edinburgh in 2018 People living with an eating disorder and their families should be offered greater support, according to a aScottish government review of services. The clinicians and psychologists who led the review said that seven of Scotland's health boards had been an 86% increase in referrals for eating disorders over the last year.
Coronavirus: Ambulance crews adapt to new challenges of Covid-19
Cases of Covid-19 may be reducing but in the wake of the pandemic new challenges are emerging for ambulance staff. The Nine was allowed exclusive access, using only still photography, to document the overnight shift of Dunfermline ambulance crews, as they adapt to the consequences of the lockdown. An ambulance crew arrives at its first call of the night. The crew don full PPE even though the patient has chest pains and is not a suspected Covid-19 case.
Coronavirus: Ambulance crews adapt to new challenges of Covid-19
Cases of Covid-19 may be reducing but in the wake of the pandemic new challenges are emerging for ambulance staff. The Nine was allowed exclusive access, using only still photography, to document the overnight shift of Dunfermline ambulance crews, as they adapt to the consequences of the lockdown. An ambulance crew arrives at its first call of the night. The crew don full PPE even though the patient has chest pains and is not a suspected Covid-19 case.
Coronavirus: Intensive care night shift in pictures
Image caption A Covid-19 patient is lifted by in the ICU team, in preparation for a chest X-ray. He was one of five patients requiring extensive 24-hour care throughout the night. Intensive care units are on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic, working to keep the most seriously ill patients alive. Access into these units is extremely restricted, but I was allowed to spend a 12-hour shift with the overnight ICU team at Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride.
Coronavirus: Intensive care night shift in pictures
Image caption A Covid-19 patient is lifted by in the ICU team, in preparation for a chest X-ray. He was one of five patients requiring extensive 24-hour care throughout the night. Intensive care units are on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic, working to keep the most seriously ill patients alive. Access into these units is extremely restricted, but I was allowed to spend a 12-hour shift with the overnight ICU team at Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride.
Africa Live: Man flees Zimbabwe hospital before virus test
Posted at 6:206:20 Will Ross Africa editor, BBC World Service The Sovereign Council in charge of Sudan has condemned an assassination attempt on the country's prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, and in a statement said it would seek international help to investigate the attack. Mr Hamdok's motorcade was targeted with explosives as well as automatic weapons but no-one was hurt in the attack.
Why are Scots guards training Kenyan soldiers?
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe Scots Guards Regiment training Kenyan soldiers Scottish troops are in demand in east Africa to help train soldiers in their fight against the Islamist militant group al-Shabab. The Scots are supporting the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) who have been fighting inside neighbouring Somalia for almost a decade. It is not a conventional war.
Balkanist Presents: A State of War
A State of War follows two Ukrainian marines over the course of one year as they serve, live and fight in the shadow of Shyrokyne, a ruined seaside resort town in Donetsk Oblast. Elena, 23, is a combat medic, one of the few women on the front, and a volunteer who has found purpose and identity through the war. Viktor, 35, was conscripted and served as a frontline commander. Now, retired from the army, he struggles to find work and to come to terms with the death of a young man under his command.
'We had to sacrifice for this': How a mother's quest for children lead her to Ukraine
Inside Ukraine's surrogacy industry where Australians are travelling to have a family Posted December 15, 2018 05:00:12 "Sorry, Nash is cranky right now," apologises Bec Kalpakoff, from Perth, while she calmly tends to a fussy infant in a busy café. She is not flustered by being a first-time mother, but ordering a coffee is proving a frustration — Bec cannot speak the language in the city where her son was born.
If Bones Could Talk: Reassembling the Remains of Srebrenica - Balkanist
Twenty-one years after the mass killing of 8,300 men and boys in Srebrenica, the project to find and ID their remains continues. The warning Srebrenica offers to Europe is ever more poignant as the continent drifts apart amid rising nationalism. The Podrinje Identification Project is the forensic wing of Bosnia’s International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP).
Why are tourists still interested in Europe's wars?
Millions flock to Europe each year, more interested in its World War I and II sites and military past than its rich culture and modern achievements. It's a billon-dollar business, but it has some locals wishing tourists wanted more than the war. On a continent shaped by centuries of conflict, Europe's war sites, monuments and museums dot every country and still inform national politics and identity.
How the Canadian Military Is Changing Its Response to Sexual Assault
Inclusiveness is at the heart of thinking and acting as journalists—and supports the educational mandate of The Walrus. Race, class, generation, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and geography all affect point of view. The Walrus believes that reflecting societal differences in reporting leads to better, more nuanced stories and a better-informed community. Editorial Independence Journalism at The Walrus is produced independently of commercial or political interests.
How to Train a Ukrainian Soldier
In Ukraine’s so-called Anti-Terrorist-Operation (ATO) zone, in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, soldiers are fighting a war of attrition. Along the 250-kilometre front line, regular shelling and firefights feed a war that has killed 10,000, wounded 21,000, and displaced 3 million people.
For the Good of the Country
After a lifetime of being avowedly non-partisan, I joined a political party—the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC). Last month, I completed the membership form and paid my $15: I am now a card-carrying Tory. I live in Hamilton, Ontario, and manage a small civic affairs website. As a child of Irish-Catholic immigrants who experienced discrimination, I favour an open, cosmopolitan immigration policy and a set of Canadian values that celebrate diversity.
Widening ethnic cracks raise fears of new war in Bosnia
The peace delivered to war-torn Bosnia 21 years ago today was deeply flawed. After the ethnically-driven war that lasted four years, left 1000,000 dead and displaced millions, the new country is still divided. And the schisms are erupting again. The town of Mihatovici is unique in Bosnia - it is home almost exclusively to the surviving women of Srebrenica. "Every day I am angry," says 36-year-old Zinahida Masic, a Bosnian-Muslim who was resettled in Mihatovici after the war.
Ukraine launches missile drill near Crimea, prompting anger in Moscow
Ukraine's military on Thursday started a two-day missile drill in the southern Kherson region bordering Crimea, prompting Moscow to criticize the move as a "dangerous precedent." Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Russian daily "Vedomosti" that Russian forces would shoot down missiles if it threatened the country's territory.
With fresh violence in Ukraine, is there hope for a solution?
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein this week announced that fighting in eastern Ukraine prompted a surge in civilian casualties in June and July, marking the highest number since August 2015. The office of the high commissioner documented 69 civilian casualties in June, including 12 dead and 57 injured, "nearly double the figure" of the month before. In July, the toll rose to 73 civilian casualties, including eight dead and 65 injured.
Ukraine′s Savchenko starts hunger strike over inaction on POWs
Ukrainian servicewoman-turned-lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko on Tuesday launched a fresh hunger strike in response to the government's inaction at securing the release of Ukrainian prisoners of war held by Russia and rebels. "I suggested concrete actions to the president of Ukraine - we need to start initiating the handover of people," Savchenko said at a press briefing.
The remains of Yugoslavia
Berlin-based photo journalist Christopher Bobyn recently travelled through the countries that once made up Yugoslavia, before their descent into the wars that began to split them apart 25 years ago. Once united under an enforced socialist banner of brotherhood and unity, the seven nations that emerged from the cascading disintegration now struggle economically and remain divided by ethnic tensions.
EU boosts humanitarian aid to Ukraine | DW | 16.03.2016
Brussels has announced a significant increase in humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, with the EU's crisis management chief saying the aid will target "all vulnerable people affected by the conflict." The European Commission on Wednesday announced that it will provide Ukraine with a new aid package in the amount of 20 million euros ($22.17 million), bringing the EU executive body's contributions to over 63 million euros.
Carbon Copies · thewalrus.ca
On the Vancouver Convention Centre ballroom stage at Globe 2016 Thursday afternoon, the premiers were arranged—intentionally or not—in geographical order. Alberta premier Rachel Notley sat at the audience’s furthest left, Quebec premier Philippe Couillard at their furthest right, with Manitoba premier Greg Selinger and Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne in between. Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec: four of the six provinces that have already put a price on carbon or stated their intention to do so.
Climate’s Prom · thewalrus.ca
At the opening plenary of Globe 2016, a biannual sustainable business conference in Vancouver, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a speech about the vital project of transitioning Canada and the world to a low-carbon economy. He did so, on the face of it, because this is one of those things elected officials do. There is a big confab on a pressing issue high on the public agenda, so elected officials show up to signal support and demonstrate engagement. Routine gig.
Whatever happened to Peter the Armenian cook?
By Christopher Bobyn BBC Scotland's The Nine image captionThe former Victorian police station once housed a restaurant that has grown a culinary cult following Just up the road from the Queen's Edinburgh residence at Holyrood Palace is a shuttered curiosity, a building that once housed a legendary eatery, known to its loyal patrons simply as "The Armenian Restaurant".
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