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Added on the 17/05/2018 12:00:00 - Copyright : AFP EN
Around one thousand tractors are expected to block the city centre of Poznan in Poland in protest against EU measures to tackle climate change. Polish farmers are blocking roads and staging protests at border checkpoints with Ukraine, in a new wave of protests against farming imports from the neighbouring war-torn country. IMAGES
Beijing residents queue for Covid tests as China faces its worst outbreak since the peak of the first wave in early 2020. The capital city is sealing off whole neighbourhoods where handfuls of cases have been detected, while eastern Shanghai is recording dozens of daily deaths. IMAGES
Ukrainian refugees, arrive and depart from the Polish border city of Przemysl. Volunteers can be seen handing out food and clothing, as well as offering administrative assistance. People sit and wait and rest inside the train station, including parents with their young children. IMAGES
Images show refugees arriving in the south-eastern Polish city of Przemyśl near the Ukrainian border where members of the Polish authorities and volunteers are waiting to greet them. With 756,303 refugees in Poland according to the UNHCR, the country is hosting by far the largest number of refugees fleeing Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion. IMAGES
Beijing, Mar 28 (EFE/EPA).- Beijing residents woke up on Sunday to brown skies again after a second sandstorm from the north hit the capital in less than two weeks.Just 13 days after the worst sandstorm in a decade in the Chinese capital, which left several dead and missing in Mongolia, the city's air quality index meters once again exceeded the maximum limits early Sunday. (Camera: ROMAN PILIPEY).B-ROLL OF THE CITY OF BEIJING, CHINA, BLANKETED BY A SANDSTORM.
Beijing, Mar 15 (EFE/EPA).- Residents in Beijing Monday woke up to a city enveloped by a thick brown smog due to high pollution levels in recent days and a sandstorm from Mongolia.The Beijing Meteorological Service issued a yellow alert for a sandstorm in the morning. (Camera: WU HONG/ROMAN PILIPEY).B-ROLL OF THE CITY OF BEIJING, CHINA, BLANKETED BY A THICK BROWN SMOG DUE TO HIGH POLLUTION LEVELS IN RECENT DAYS AND A SANDSTORM FROM MONGOLIA.