amid a significant rise in delta variant cases in the city and the wider us. staying in the united states, the cdc has warned of high infection rates in states with low vaccination levels. it identified four states, nevada, arkansas, missouri and florida, as those with the highest transmission florida itself now accounts for a quarter of new infection in the whole fo the us. fresh reports of ethnic cleansing in tigray in northern ethiopia as tigrayan forces extend their control over the region. more fighting is expected in the west, an area close to west, an area close more fighting is expected in the west, an area close to the border and we are our africa correspondent has this report. three teenaged boys
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the idea of ethiopia is gone. the summer storm season is beginning, adding to the anxieties here. we cannot sleep at night, just thinking what is going to happen to the kids? what am i going to do the next day? what am i going to feed them? when i see them, i feel sorry for them. and so, thousands of lives remain suspended, communities torn apart. as an tigray s war lurches on. the singer amy winehouse was just 27 when she died. she d struggled with addiction to alcohol and drugs. this month marks the 10th anniversary of her death and now, in a new bbc documentary, her parents janis and mitch want to show a different side of their daughter. they ve been speaking to our music reporter, mark savage. what am i scared of? myself.
for home for tigray. it sounds like a lament for ethiopia, t0o, a nation at risk of unravelling. you get a real sense here that this conflict is far from over. locals have suffered so much in the past few months through famine and conflict that they are now talking about a clean break, full independence from ethiopia, a nation they see as cruel and crumbling. if that means they have to keep fighting for it, then so be it. another young man thrashes his way across the river border out of tigray. better to drown, he says, than to stay behind and be killed by the militias. the refugee doctor doubt if ethiopia can survive all this intact. i don t want to be in the same category with these people that have raped my sisters, that had killed my brothers and sisters and have
for ethiopia, two, a nation at risk of unravelling. you get a real sense here that this conflict is far from over. locals have suffered so much in the past few months through famine and conflict that they are now talking about a clean break, full independence from ethiopia, a nation they see as cruel and crumbling. if that means they have to keep fighting for it, then so be it. another young man thrashes his way across the river border out of tigray. better to drown, he says, than to stay behind and be killed by the militias. the refugee doctor doubt if ethiopia can survive all this intact. i don t want to be in the same category with these people that have raped my sisters, that had killed my brothers and sisters and have destroyed my places. so the idea.