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They should race out to help. a humble force of about 100 people pushed the russians out. more than 170 buildings were damaged. the chars wreckage was left all over town. but the mayor tells the story of one fighter who became an instant legend. a 78-year-old man who was told he was too old to fight. instead, he made a molotov cocktail and threw it at a russian artillery system, blowing it up. we have asked to speak with the man, but were told by city officials that theyre protecting his identit...

Bashtanka is now a frontline refuge for thousands of ukrainians hoping to escape. every day at this church, buses drop off refugees fleeing russian occupied areas just a few miles way. this woman says she left the city of kherson after enduring weeks of bombardment. >> they break into peoples homes every night, drag people out, beat them up. my neighbors were beaten up. thank god theyre still alive. theyre probably doing that to scare people so theyre always in fear. it was horrible there. every...

Workers Revolutionary Party DENOSA members joined a march in Pretoria demanding risk allowance for being exposed to coronavirus ‘EMOTIONALLY, we are not coping. Seeing death at this rate every day is not normal,’ was the view of hospital nurse Mosima Doreen Mabeba – working in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a provincial hospital in Limpopo. She is one of the many health professionals – both in South Africa and in many other heavily-affected countries –...

Mabeba leaves home in her uniform, only to take it off when she arrives at the hospital. Walking into the change room dressed in her uniform and walking out armed in personal protective equipment (PPE) is a constant reminder that things are not normal. "We dont wear our uniform when we go into the Covid ward and ICU. We wear the scrubs provided by the hospital and then we wear the PPE over it," she says. While her working hours have remained officially unchanged - 12 hour shifts, 40 hours per w...

. “Emotionally, we are not coping. Seeing death at this rate every day is not normal,” says Mosima Doreen Mabeba, a nurse working in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a provincial hospital in Limpopo. The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the hospital hard, she says. Of five patients on ventilators she cared for recently in the hospital, only one survived, she says. “There was a lady who was intubated and then she got off the machine, now she’s fine, she’s at home. But unfor...