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We were at the edge of the city one day in a forest, and we were watching young men, lines of young men, digging trenches with shovels. chopping down trees, frantically trying to create a line of defence around the city. and it's a scene that could have played out, and indeed did play, out in world war one. this could have been the somme, but it was the edge of a european capital in 2022. you can hear lots of shooting tear gas coming in. i've been based in the middle east covering conflicts in iraq, syria, libya for the past ten years. before that, i was in afghanistan. i've covered a lot of c...

A week ago, i was representing my cases in the courtroom, and now it's difficult to grasp but if you don't think about it, and simply do what you have to do it, it actually feels pretty, already, normal. i mean, have you ever held a gun in your hands before? at school, we've trained, to deal with these sort of things, but i have never dealt with it and never even shot a gun or a pistol. there was a real sense at that time that ukraine, and indeed europe, was being dragged back in time. we were at the edge of the city one day in a forest, and we were watching young men, lines of young men, digg...

Frankly, very out of place, sitting behind a lookout post with a rifle. and we went to speak to him, and it turned out that he was a lawyer. a week ago, i was representing my cases in the courtroom, and now it's difficult to grasp but if you don't think about it, and simply do what you have to do it, it actually feels pretty, already, normal. i mean, have you ever held a gun in your hands before? at school, we've trained to deal with these sort of things, but i have never dealt with it and never even shot a gun or a pistol. there was a real sense at that time that ukraine, and indeed europe, w...

Chopping down trees, frantically trying to create a line of defence around the city. and it's a scene that could have played out and, indeed, did play out in world war i. this could have been the somme, but it was the edge of a european capital in 2022. you can hear lots of shooting, tear gas coming in. i've been based in the middle east covering conflicts in iraq, syria, libya for the past ten years. before that, i was in afghanistan. i've covered a lot of catastrophes, a lot of wars. never been to ukraine before. all of that was new, and it was just very different. the raw fear in those earl...

As winds come from the north, your 40 degrees will turn to 33 and you will turn to all snow and it will be heavy and wet. and that is the problem. a foot to a foot and a half especially in the berkshires and green and white mountains, bringing down trees, branching and also making travel nearly impossible in some spots with 45 to 65-mile-per-hour winds. this is a late season storm, but it is not messing around. major impacts across a lot of new england for today. now back out to the west, this is the next atmospheric river, this is not as big as the one that came through saturday and sunday. t...