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15 Jul 2020
Brazil has been devastated by coronavirus and the poorest people are being hardest hit – in particular the country’s millions of domestic workers. Our World travels to Sao Paulo to meet them and their employers, and discover how the virus has changed their lives. On @BBCiPlayer
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3 Jul 2020
More than 25 million people go on cruises each year. As coronavirus spread throughout the world, cruise ships suffered devastating outbreaks that resulted in thousands being infected and dozens dying. Our World tells the story of three ships and the passengers on them.
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28 Jun 2020
It is a race against time to exterminate this generation of locusts before they breed another, larger, more voracious generation.
Our World, Kenya's Locust Hunters: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0… via @bbciplayer
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27 Jun 2020
How do you fight millions of locusts? Find out on @bbciplayer this weekend
Our World: Kenya's Locust Hunters
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26 Jun 2020
East Africa has seen the worst invasion of desert locusts for decades and there are warnings of even larger swarms to come. We join Albert the Samburu locust hunter as he struggles to track the pests who have been decimating crops and pastures across his native northern Kenya
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26 Jun 2020
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25 Jun 2020
BBC News - Preventing a plague: Fighting Kenya's locusts bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-afri…
Coming up on Our World : Kenya's Locust Hunters this weekend on @BBCiPlayer @bbcnews and @BBCWorld
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19 Jun 2020
Wuhan was the city where the coronavirus outbreak began, and the first to be locked down. Now the lockdown has been lifted, and it is trying to recover. But just how normal is daily life in Wuhan now – and how are its people adjusting to a new world?
@BBCWorld @BBCiPlayer
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9 Jun 2020
With unprecedented access from the first few hours of the outbreak, Laura Bicker tells the inside story of South Korea's virus hunters. How did they manage to keep the death toll so low, and what can the rest of the world learn from South Korea's story?
On the @BBCiPlayer now
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1 Jun 2020
Our World, New York: Coronavirus Diaries: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0… via @bbciplayer
New York has been the epicentre of America’s coronavirus outbreak. This is the story of doctors and nurses on the frontline – told through their video diaries as the crisis unfolds.
22 May 2020
Spain is one of the countries hardest hit by coronavirus. Our World follows the lives of some of those at the heart of the crisis, among them a nurse who moved away from her children to play her part in the fightback. This weekend on @BBCWorld @BBCNews @BBCiPlayer
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1 May 2020
What is life really like in Venezuela without modern healthcare, stable food supply or reliable electricity. Our World : Sat and Sunday at 930 pm @BBCNews
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BBC Our World retweeted
25 Apr 2020
Deforestation has skyrocketed in Colombia since the peace deal of 2016
That means that rare plant species are at risk but some people are on a mission to save them before they vanish forever
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25 Apr 2020
Colombia: Saving rare species in jungles once protected by war. Watch this amazing @BBCOurWorld with @FrankRGardner on @BBCWorld @BBCNews @BBCiPlayer this weekend bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a…
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21 Mar 2020
How do you survive when daily life gets shut down? #coronavirus #lockdown Our World, Wuhan: Life under Lockdown: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0… via @bbciplayer
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13 Mar 2020
Our World tells the story of life under lockdown in Wuhan. It is a film which takes you from the deserted streets to the homes of those battling the virus. How do you survive when daily life gets shut down? This weekend on @BBCiPlayer @BBCWorld @BBCNews
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19 Jan 2020
A historic peace deal in 2016 in Colombia was meant to reduce the amount of cocaine being produced by offering farmers alternatives to growing coca. But last year its output was the largest since records began. @BBCMBuchanan explains why. @bbcnews now
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19 Jan 2020
After years of schleping around the UK, the BBC let me out! So I went to Colombia to see why it’s producing more #cocaine than ever before. Full story @BBCOurWorld tonight at 9.30 on the BBC News Channel. A wee flavour here bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-5115235…
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