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Today, a day of national mourning is held in Nepal after a plane crashed into the

city river last Sunday. In Iraq, shoppers savor the delights of Iranian produce, porcelain

tiles, beauty products and even mushrooms, but diplomatic relations are somewhat frostier

in the Kurdistan region. We meet fishermen in Norway's Arctic region. Could a recent

defection by a Russian fighter across the border affect Norway's access to fish stocks,

and we're in Arizona, where burgeoning towns and cities have them monopoly on groundwater

in the state. We hear what local ranchers have to say.

Last Ukraine, which has been shaken by dual tragedies this week, a Russian missile attack

on an apartment block in the city of Dinipro left 45 killed, including six children. The

site of a woman crouching in her blown-out apartment, overlooking a chasm below where

a building once stood, brought home the sadness of such attacks. There'd been no time to

take shelter. And in recent days the death of Ukraine's interior minister in a helicopter

crash, along with 13 other people, left Ukraine's president, both grief-stricken, as well as

navigating a severe blow to the nation's morale. The UK government has this week announced

it sending challenger two tanks for the first time, with others in Europe also contemplating

similar moves. Andrew Harding was at the front line of eastern Donbass, where the fierce,

seemingly interminable groundwater continues.

Low grey clouds and a piercing wind, powdered snow skating over the road ahead, as we drive

for one day, two days, three days east, all the way across Ukraine. In places where the

vast, stubble fields give way to frozen lakes and rivers, tiny black dots appear, like

ornate figures, in the 16th century Dutch landscape painting. Their fishermen crouched

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