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Jan 27 7 tweets 3 min read
Kyiv feels like a city caught in a moment in time, suspended between humdrum normality and the threat of looming conflict.

There are thousands of Russian troops just a few hours' drive north of here, but life goes on as it has for seven years of war
Among the pickled vegetables on her stall in a cold and draughty Soviet-era market building, Sky’s @DominicWaghorn met Tatiana.

President Volodymyr Zelenzky had addressed the nation urging his people not to panic. Tatiana seemed unimpressed
"We are all worried because everyone wants peace. We have kids and grandchildren so we don't want war to happen. We won't panic until the Russian tanks arrive in Kyiv," she told @DominicWaghorn
Roman Nabozhniak fought in the last war with Russia. In peacetime, he's become a baker.

He told @DominicWaghorn he's stopped listening to the politicians, instead, preparing with his reserve unit for if Russia invades
The citizens of Kyiv are taking the latest twists and turns in the diplomatic crisis over Ukraine in their stride.

But Arseniy Yatsenyuk, former prime minister and now the opposition leader, is worried the west is not sending a strong enough message to Vladimir Putin
He told @DominicWaghorn that Ukraine needs a lot more than anti-tank missiles.

"What we need out of the west? We need the shipment of lethal defensive weapons," he said
Germany promised to join the effort to send help to Ukraine on Wednesday. Five thousand German helmets are on their way.

"What next?" asked the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko in jest. "Pillows?"

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Jan 26
Sky News’ @AlexCrawfordSky is in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan, where she’s met families who’ve sold their kidneys and even their children so they can eat.

The country’s economy has virtually collapsed – and the people are reverting to extreme measures to survive
One mother and father have both sold their kidneys.

They say all they have left now is to sell one of their eight children. The 25-year-old mother says: ‘My three-year-old son died of hunger. I can’t see them all lose their lives…at least this way, someone else will feed them'
There’s a lucrative kidney trade in this area with the region’s proximity to Iran, and many of the buyers are from across the border.

Poverty has driven more Afghans onto the operating tables to try to wipe out debts and provide food for their families

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Jan 23
"They pointed their guns at all of us."

Under the Taliban, most women in Afghanistan - except health workers and some government employees - are barred from work, and millions have had their education halted. But some are rebelling.

Read @AlexCrawfordSky's eyewitness report 👇
These girls are some of the rebels taking on the Taliban in Afghanistan - and all because they want to continue their art classes.

Watch the report from @AlexCrawfordSky 👇
A Taliban spokesman told @AlexCrawfordSky that his government had a "lot of respect for women" and does "not threaten women ever".

Abdul Qahar Balkhi also said the international community has a "moral obligation" to recognise the Taliban government.
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Dec 21, 2021
Sky News analysis has found that areas with high levels of deprivation suffered the most from austerity.

For the most deprived 10% of local authorities, spending power per person fell by almost two-fifths between 2010 and 2021, twice as much as it did for the least deprived 10%.
So, why has this happened? Largely because of changes to the way govt funds councils, which ties budgets closely to the wealth of the area.

Needs-based grants rely far more on council tax and retained business rates levied on residential and commercial properties in their area.
This has disproportionately affected poorer areas because they have lower property values.

One council that has suffered from this is Thanet, an area on the coast of Kent. It now gets only 5% of the government grant revenue it received in 2013.
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Dec 20, 2021
Most urban areas in the UK have been badly affected by the economic hit from COVID-19, but not received money from the government's new Levelling Up Fund, according to new research.

Sky News has been looking at the data 📈

news.sky.com/story/levellin…
Sky News analysis found that only 15% of the new funding went to the 25% of areas most affected by the pandemic.
@UoNEconomic’s Prof John Gathergood says this is because the government based its decisions on old data even though the pandemic has "substantially changed the picture."

"If money isn't going into the right areas... there won't be levelling up in the right way across the UK.”
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Dec 19, 2021
The government has committed £4.8bn to level up the left-behind parts of the UK – but how effective will it be?
Sky News data analysis has found that while most money went to areas with high levels of need, many top-priority areas have not yet received funding
But, it’s also critical that the right types of projects are funded.

Regeneration and town centre projects make up over half the successful bids.

@_CELUP's Professor Graeme Atherton says it’s important that these projects are balanced against investment in skills and training
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Dec 17, 2021
Lib Dem candidate Helen Morgan overturned a huge Tory majority to triumph in the North Shropshire by-election in a shock result.

Here’s the latest news from this morning, as the prime minister is warned he is 'on last strike' 👇
Watch the moment the Liberal Democrats won the North Shropshire by-election.

Helen Morgan polled 17,957 votes, while the Tory candidate Neil Shastri-Hurst was second on 12,032
'Boris Johnson, the party is over'

"Tonight, the people of North Shropshire have spoken on behalf of the British people," says new Lib Dem MP Helen Morgan as she marks her historic North Shropshire win
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