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4 d. ago ‘Cocaine, gold and meat’: how Colombia’s Amazon became big business for crime networks

Armed groups have moved in to the space left by the Farc after the civil war, cutting down rainforest to control land and build thousands of kilometres of smuggling routesHigh above the Colombian Amazon, Rodrigo Botero peers out of a small aircraft as the rainforest canopy unfolds below – an endless sea of green interrupted by stark, widening patches of brown. As director of the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development (FCDS), he has spent years mapping the transformation of this fragile landscape from the air.His team has logged more than 150 overflights, covering 30,000 miles (50,000km) to track deforestation advancing along the roads, illicit crops and the shifting frontiers of human settlement. “We now have the highest road density in the entire Amazon,” says Botero. Continue reading...

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'Russia is creating a broader conflict to meet its war aims of capturing not just Ukrainian land, but its people and their culture too', Alex Sobel, Labour MP and chair of the Ukraine APPG writes

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With the US threatening to support ‘patriotic’ parties here, we need better defences, starting with tough new rules about political donationsThe new threat is so dizzyingly bizarre that Europe, and especially Britain, is slow to believe it. The US declares itself our enemy. Europe emerges as its main adversary in the US national security strategy. Russia is its friend, not us. Everything that looked solid since the second world war is turned upside down; the land of the free becomes the destroyer of democratic values. Appeasement fails.He may ramble, but Donald Trump speaks plainly. He means what he says, and he hates everything European. Except its emerging “patriotic” parties, which he wants to support. His strategy warns of “civilizational erasure”, claiming Europe will soon “become majority non-European” and parroting the racist conspiracy known as the great replacement theory. Describing Europeans as “weak”, “decaying” and “destroying their countries”, with “real stupid” leader...

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3 w. ago BBC bombarded with complaints just minutes into Doctor Who spin

The BBC has been bombarded with complaints just minutes into the Doctor Who spin-off series, The War Between The Land And The Sea.

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3 w. ago Where was The War Between the Land and the Sea filmed? Welsh locations explained

Russell Tovey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jemma Redgrave star in the new Doctor Who spin-off from Russell T Davies - but where was the series filmed?

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The War Between The Land And The Sea: Woke, repetitive and stultifyingly dull, this Doctor Who spin

Help us, Doctor, we need you! This is a distress call to the Tardis - pleading for rescue from the drippiest sci-fi slop ever to dribble out of our screens.

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3 w. ago The War Between the Land and the Sea review – prepare to roll your eyes a lot at this fishy Doctor Who spinoff

Dodgy character names, zero subtlety, a dubious approach to female roles Russell T Davies’s show about fishfolk is entertaining – but feels like a wasted opportunity to make genuinely great TVThe fishmen cometh. Or, to put it another way – The War Between the Land and the Sea, the long-awaited Doctor Who spin-off from Russell T Davies concentrating on the adventures of Unit rather than the double-hearted man from Gallifrey, is finally here.RTD stalwart Russell Tovey stars as Barclay, an everyman figure who soon – two excellent puns incoming – finds himself out of his depth, nay a fish out of water, as he is forced to take the lead in the geopolitical crisis that surrounds him. Barclay is a low-level clerk with Unit who, through the kind of bureaucratic snafu that you may in your salad days have believed was confined to fictional romps aimed largely at children over the festive period until age and experience poured slugs into them, ends up being part of the operation sent to deal wi...

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3 w. ago The War Between the Land and the Sea review – Doctor Who spin

Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw are miscast in BBC and Disney’s last joint Whoniverse offering

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3 w. ago BBC viewers distracted by same issue moments into Doctor Who spin

The War Between The Land And The Sea debuted on Sunday but several watching had the same problem

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3 w. ago The War Between the Land and the Sea and Doctor Who link explained

The War Between the Land and the Sea stars Gavin and Stacey's Russell Tovey but do you need to be a Doctor Who fan to watch the new BBC series?

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3 w. ago The War Between the Land and the Sea cast: Who stars alongside Gavin & Stacey actor?

The War Between the Land and the Sea stars Russell Tovey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jemma Redgrave, Alexander Devrient, Colin McFarlane, Francesca Corney, and Patrick Baladi

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3 w. ago The War Between the Land and the Sea cast list: Who stars in the new BBC drama?

Russell Tovey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jemma Redgrave, Alexander Devrient, Colin McFarlane, Francesca Corney, and Patrick Baladi star in The War Between the Land and the Sea

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3 w. ago Jemma Redgrave steps up to prevent an alien invasion in The War Between the Land and the Sea

A fixture in the Whoniverse for over a decade, the scion of a family acting dynasty takes charge in the Dr Who spin-off series

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3 w. ago Francesca Corney on The War Between the Land and the Sea: 'It's epic'

Francesca Corney on starring in the monumental new Doctor Who spin-off

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3 w. ago The War Between the Land and the Sea start date, cast, Cardiff filming locations and episodes

The War Between the Land and the Sea is the brand new Doctor Who spin-off from Russell T Davies starring Russell Tovey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jemma Redgrave

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3 w. ago The War Between the Land and the Sea start date, cast list, filming locations and episodes

When does The War Between the Land and the Sea start on BBC, who stars alongside Russell Tovey and Jemma Redgrave, how many episodes are there and what is the link to Doctor Who?

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4 w. ago The War Between the Land and the Sea on BBC One review: a thoughtful, Doctor

Are we hitting peak Russell T. Davies?

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4 w. ago The War Between the Land and the Sea on BBC One review: stuffed with po

Are we hitting peak Russell T. Davies?

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