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on greece s peloponnese peninsula fires overnight forced many villages to evacuate as crews from britain, france, israel and the ukraine, joined the efforts to try to tackle the flames. our europe correspondent bethany bell sent this report from peloponnese. chainsaw whirs. cutting away anything that can burn. these british firefighters have come to greece to help stop the catastrophic wildfires. as you can see behind us, just trying to open this road and help with the fallen tree, just to get access to the community and the houses up here. olive groves have gone up in flames. what matters now is to stop new blazes from spreading, so the team is making fire breaks between the burnt areas and the trees which survived. the fire swept through here last night and some of the trees are still smouldering. the team is trying to draw a line in the sand between the green

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