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00:10:34If I hadn't a went for that scan, I may not have been
00:10:37here now. Alfie Thompson feels lucky to be alive. A
00:10:41smoker for 50 years, he was invited for a cancer screening despite
00:10:45showing no symptoms. The scan picked up a small cancerous
00:10:48lump on his lungs. I went for the radio therapy, five
00:10:52and double doses over five days. "And I mean, I've
00:10:56never looked back, and you ring that bell at the end of your treatment
00:11:00and your cancer free, it's just absolutely
00:11:02unbelievable." A new report by Cancer Research
00:11:06UK has shown a deep national divide when it comes to cancer
00:11:09diagnosis. The largest inequalities are rates of smoking
00:11:13related cancers, like lung cancer. Alfie had
00:11:16this message for people hesitant about coming forward. I can honestly say
00:11:20that - when I first went, I was
00:11:24really nervous." And I mean uh after the first scan
00:11:27I would say that anybody who gets a letter to go for
00:11:31a scan, go. In the
00:11:34North East and Cumbria, detecting lung cancer early has become a
00:11:37priority. Since screening began here in 2021,
00:11:41more than 1,300 cases have been discovered, about a tenth of those
00:11:44diagnosed in the national program. Screening vans
00:11:47like this in a car parking biker right where the community can access it is a
00:11:51game changer for people being able to access that opportunity for early
00:11:55diagnosis. I think the locations, the flexibility, the
00:11:58ease of being able to access the screening is really important and maximizes how
00:12:02many people are able to get benefit of the screening program. Cancer
00:12:06Research UK are calling it the cancer inequality gap. People from
00:12:09deprived communities are more likely to
00:12:12disease. Mobile scanners like these are just one
00:12:16part of trying to solve the issue. About
00:12:1895 new cancer cases each day are linked to
00:12:21deprivation, and that number is not just unacceptable,
00:12:25but it's also avoidable and the government can
00:12:28actually get behind some tangible actions like smoking
00:12:31cessation, like screening uptake to really
00:12:34change that picture. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and
00:12:38Social Care said people's background should never determine their life
00:12:41chances, which is why tackling health inequalities is
00:12:45a key priority of its national cancer
00:12:47plan. As part of that effort, it says it's increasing
00:12:51medical training places for cancer specialists in rural and coastal areas,
00:12:55improving transparency on the quality of care in different trusts
00:12:59and funding cancer alliances to try and improve
00:13:02early diagnosis in local communities. Back
00:13:05on Tyneside, people like Janice are answering the call to come for
00:13:09a scan. Please breathe in and
00:13:12hold your breath. What was the process like? Did you get a letter and then
00:13:16just about a letter? Um, which
00:13:19is ideal, which I prefer, and it's handy
00:13:22having the mobile van here. Not far from
00:13:25home, instead of having to travel to the hospital, you come
00:13:29here and it's ideal. It's
00:13:33sometimes the simplest solutions in communities like this that can help
00:13:37make a difference. Shingi Mararike, Sky News,
00:13:40Newcastle.
00:13:49This is one of the best-selling cars in Britain now. You might not have heard of
00:13:53it. You might feel it looks
00:13:55quite familiar. This is a JQ
00:13:587. You might know it by its nickname, the T-Mu
00:14:02Range Rover. Now it's got nothing to do with the Chinese online
00:14:05retailer Timu, or indeed Range Rover, but it
00:14:08is Chinese, it is cheap, and it does look quite
00:14:12a lot like its more expensive British
00:14:15rival. One in five new cars on British roads is
00:14:19Chinese. An explosion of
00:14:22popularity driven by low prices, high spec
00:14:25cars that, unlike in Europe, do not face
00:14:29tariffs. Jaecoo is one of four different brands the state-owned
00:14:32Chery Group has launched in the last two years alone, but its UK boss
00:14:36told me this is no overnight success and dismissed wider
00:14:40security and privacy concerns about Chinese
00:14:43tech. I would not say it's a quick win, right? So because you
00:14:47know, uh, we have prepared for the UK entry for more than 20
00:14:50years. So I think we don't people will think
00:14:54it's easy. It's not easy, because the UK is so mature, so
00:14:57saturated market, so we have prepared for this for a
00:15:01long time. Do people have anything to fear from Chinese
00:15:04vehicles? Thank you for this question. You know, uh, we have
00:15:08been running overseas business for more than 20 years or around
00:15:12about 100 countries. So if a country they have
00:15:15local requirement and compliance, I think Chery
00:15:19as an international company, we will definitely 100%
00:15:22comply with local requirements.
00:15:25Chinese competition is the latest headache for British manufacturers
00:15:28already grappling with rising costs, the
00:15:32shift to electrification, and American tariffs.
00:15:36Last month, Britain's biggest manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover,
00:15:39announced 4,000 job
00:15:42the times, according to the industry body. It's probably the
00:15:46most toughest conditions the European
00:15:49and I include the UK in that sector's ever faced. It is a challenge. I mean the
00:15:53competition is obviously very good for the consumer. It's increased the number of
00:15:56models, the number of brands. It has driven down, helped drive down prices.
00:16:00For manufacturers, the question is, can you compete? Amid the challenges
00:16:04for mass market manufacturers, there is one area, in which the UK
00:16:08still excels, though the customer base is a little
00:16:11narrower. Bentley has been selling cars in Berkeley Square for
00:16:15almost 100 years. Its newest model, the Tourcal, is its
00:16:18first fully electric car. Prices start at
00:16:21175,000
00:16:24pounds, and Sky News was among the first to take a ride. Oh my
00:16:28goodness,
00:16:31smells amazing. It's British made. They make them in Crewe, but not the
00:16:35battery. The battery is... of Korean technology
00:16:38and assembled in Europe. And the bit that really counts for Britishness, according to
00:16:42Bentley, is all the surroundings, the stuff that makes this feel like a
00:16:45luxury armchair, like a gentleman's club if such
00:16:49things still exist. The leather work, the stitching, the
00:16:52detailing. It's German owned and run these days, but the
00:16:55boss says at the top end, brand Britain remains
00:16:58strong. Part of Bentley and part of the product is that
00:17:02it's engineered, designed, and built in the UK.
00:17:06People in the world are looking for a British
00:17:09car. And so it's like a Swiss
00:17:13watch. It comes, it comes with the place where it's built. That
00:17:17proud heritage may help sell
00:17:20car industry is at a crossroads. Thousands of
00:17:23jobs may depend on keeping up with China. Paul
00:17:43Ukraine, trains under attack from Russian drones.
00:17:46Croatia, innovative solutions for a clean
00:18:09targeted by Russian attacks. Recently, Russian drones have increasingly
00:18:13targeted trains, attempting to destroy the railway
00:18:16network in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the war, over 500
00:18:20locomotives have been damaged or destroyed, most
00:18:22this year. Despite the constant danger,
00:18:26Ukraine is trying to maintain normal railway traffic
00:18:29with the help of safety protocols. The DB reporting team
00:18:33investigated on site how this works in
00:18:36practice.
00:18:50A Russian drone has been detected from Kyiv. Halyna Koropko is responsible for the next
00:18:53steps.
00:19:00This is a protocol that comes into effect whenever a
00:19:04Russian drone is spotted within a 100 km radius
00:19:08of the section the train is traveling on.
00:19:11Staff have 10 minutes to stop the train and get passengers to safety.
00:19:15There is a fear that our train could be a target of attack.
00:19:18Russia has significantly intensified attacks on Ukrainian
00:19:22trains this year. Moscow claims that the targets are railway
00:19:25infrastructure and military logistics, but passenger
00:19:28trains are regularly under attack. Most
00:19:31passengers here react calmly. Some
00:19:34check for air raid warnings.
00:20:50But it's hard for us, it's very hard now, many railway workers
00:20:54have already died, drivers, even just recently
00:20:57drivers
00:21:00died, so we are very sad,
00:21:03sorry for the people. We are pushing to
00:21:06Kyiv, only one hour late. Halyna
00:21:09boards the train again and heads into another
00:21:13uncertain
00:21:14night.
00:21:20A paradise for nautical tourists, but that paradise is
00:21:23seriously threatened because yachts use the sea as a septic
00:21:26tank. Luciano Beg is fighting to save the
00:21:30Adriatic with innovations. His Ecocube offers a practical and ecological
00:21:33solution for wastewater disposal from vessels and
00:21:37fresh water supply.
00:21:40Croatia has the largest charter fleet in the world, almost 500
00:21:44yachts are distributed in marinas along the picturesque Adriatic
00:21:48coast. Last year,
00:21:53over 4 million charter nights were recorded, and thousands more private boats should be added to that, but the boom in nautical
00:21:57tourism has its dark side. The Adriatic Sea is seriously
00:22:00polluted by wastewater, and experts know
00:22:04who is one of the culprits.
00:22:06Proportion of wastewater, but
00:22:14also of other waste is, of course, caused by
00:22:17tourism. According to Croatian regulations, vessels
00:22:20are obliged to empty so-called black
00:22:23tanks on land, but this law is dead letter on paper, because
00:22:27almost no Croatian marina offers the possibility for
00:22:30this. Luciano Beg wants to change this. He doesn't
00:22:34believe in prohibitions, but in practical solutions. He offers
00:22:38one: the Ecocube.
00:22:40His invention, a floating container, offers the possibility
00:22:44of disposing of wastewater and solid waste, as well as filling
00:22:48fresh water. It can be placed anywhere, and
00:22:51boats can easily dock next to it. The prototype is already
00:22:55floating in front of Novigrad port in Istria. Skippers easily
00:22:59dock at the pontoon, register through the appropriate
00:23:02application, and connect to the wastewater discharge pipe.
00:23:06Everything else happens automatically. The Ecocube
00:23:09draws energy for its pump from solar
00:23:13cells. I think it's a very good
00:23:16project, because as nauts, we definitely need
00:23:20something to fill water, to unload black tanks,
00:23:24for trash, paper.
00:23:27The container, thanks to its solar power,
00:23:29is energy independent. Fresh water is obtained using a desalination
00:23:33device installed on the pontoon. This is very
00:23:36useful for skippers because they don't have to spend time and fuel to
00:23:40travel to marinas where they can get
00:23:43water. But what makes the Ecocube
00:23:46truly ecological are the
00:23:50materials it's made from. Luciano
00:23:53Beg is a shipbuilder and has been looking for ecological alternatives to
00:23:57plastic for years.
00:23:59A few years ago, I read on the internet
00:24:03that new ecological materials were starting to be developed,
00:24:07among which is flax. So we decided to
00:24:10try how we could make a boat from
00:24:14flax, to make a small contribution to nature conservation,
00:24:18the planet, less use of materials,
00:24:20less pollution. In Beg's shipyard,
00:24:24a large passenger catamaran has already been built, another is
00:24:27under construction, and the Ecocube is mostly made of
00:24:31biodegradable materials. Next year, it should go into
00:24:34serial production.
00:24:37Experts warn that it's high time for this, because
00:24:41tourism in Croatia is destroying its greatest asset.
00:24:45The sea.
00:24:48In many European countries, the streets are full of stray dogs,
00:24:52and it's no different in Bulgaria. Emma and Antony
00:24:55Smith couldn't just turn away from those scenes.
00:24:58After moving from England to Bulgaria,
00:25:01instead of organizing yoga retreats, they dedicated themselves to caring for
00:25:05abandoned animals. Their association has since managed
00:25:08to find homes for over 2,000
00:25:11dogs.
00:25:14Maximo, Zoro, and Bridget, all of them were abandoned and left to
00:25:18fate. Today, Emma and Antony and their shelter
00:25:21"Street Hearts" in the Bulgarian village of Glushka take care of them.
00:25:24Both Britons from Yorkshire initially had completely different
00:25:28plans. Antony first came to Bulgaria
00:25:31in 2004 when he
00:25:35was still working as a diver. Emma joined him five years later.
00:25:50dead dogs and I couldn't find the hotel we were staying at. So I
00:25:53first came in 2009 to
00:25:56see Anthony um and to visit him in the village
00:26:00where he was living. I didn't even know where Bulgaria
00:26:32there for her. There was no, there was nothing there for, so
00:26:36what do we do with Bridget? And I don't believe in taking a dog from one place
00:26:40and then abandoning it in another place. So
00:26:43yeah, we we started keeping some
00:26:46sick dogs here. And I remember getting 17 dogs and
00:26:50panicking and thinking, what am I going to do with these dogs? And that's when
00:26:54we decided to become a shelter. To date, this
00:26:57shelter has rehomed more than 500 dogs, and for
00:27:01another 2,000 or so.
00:27:19The shelter staff regularly visit schools in the
00:27:23region with some of the dogs. They talk to the
00:27:26children about the importance of spaying/neutering animals and taking good
00:27:30care of them. Since then, they have noticed the first
00:27:33changes. "There's a lot more responsible dog owners
00:27:36neutering the dogs. So yeah, I think
00:27:39definitely in our region things are changing. And
00:27:43there'll always be instances where a shelter space is
00:27:47needed if somebody dies. But generally
00:27:49people contact us now, rather than abandoning the
00:27:53dogs. They'll ask us to
00:27:55help." Nobody knows the exact number of stray dogs in Bulgaria,
00:27:59it is estimated to be tens of thousands. Emma and Antony's
00:28:02team hope for a long-term solution to the problem through
00:28:06an education program, state support, and projects like
00:28:09theirs.
00:28:13Ammo, after everything he experienced with Emma and Antony,
00:28:16found security. Here he regained trust,
00:28:20plays, runs, and can simply be