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Hello. Today we're on the US-Mexico border, where there's a growing tug of war over water.

In Ireland, the country confronts the dark secrets of its recent past with the exhumation of a mass gravesite.

In Ukraine, the worlds of computer gaming and

modern warfare collide as the country's drone war evolves. In New York, we visit a guesthouse

for Chinese asylum seekers living in fear of the immigration authorities. And finally, with

bookings made, itineraries planned,

holiday season is underway.

We hear why it's a particularly stressful time for one correspondent.

But first, Ukraine got a boost this week

when President Trump announced he would allow his European NATO partners

to buy American-made military equipment to pass on to Ukraine.

It followed a period of mounting uncertainty over America's willingness to continue supporting Kiev,

though in the meantime the Ukrainian army has continued to find innovative ways to stretch its limited resources.

Our diplomatic correspondent, Paul Adams, has been in Kiev, where he learned of a sobering new

reward scheme designed to motivate Ukraine's exhausted soldiers.

And this, the minister said, pointing to a set of detailed charts on his laptop,

is where we kill Russians. Not perhaps what you might expect to hear from a government minister

on camera in the midst of an interview. But this is Kiev three and a half years after Russia's

full-scale invasion, a city where you spend sleepless nights, listening to Russian

drones, the deep staccato of Ukraine's air defences and the occasional deafening explosion.

A city where reminders of Moscow's malevolent intent have, in recent months, become more frequent

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