Germany and Poland are among the most important members of the pro-Ukraine Western Alliance. But there's a growing degree of ambivalence, or even hostility in Poland towards Germany. The trade between them is worth more than $150 billion a year; they have really close family ties.
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are striking, and doctors are overworked—leading to hundreds of excess deaths each week. We visit the front line: a stretched GP’s surgery in Wales. We ask why Germany and Poland love to hate each other. And what America’s army is doing to slim down its overweight recruits.
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