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Max Pearson introduces stories from Ukraine, Ireland, Bolivia and the USA. Kill Russian soldiers, win points - a sobering new scheme for Ukrainians soldiers rewards units with new battlefield equipment, when they successfully eliminate enemy troops. Paul Adams meets the government minister behind the scheme, and hears what Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline think of it. In Ireland, the excavation of the bodies of hundreds of babies and young children got underway this week at an unmarked mass grave in Tuam. Chris Page discovers the decision to exhume the remains has not been entirely well received by locals, as Ireland continues to confront the secrets of its church-run institutions. Bolivia was once seen as an economic miracle, thanks to its huge natural gas reserves. But the energy exports on which the country once thrived have fallen sharply in recent years, pushing many people into poverty. Carolyn Lamboley reveals how the country’s economic woes are now affecting people from all walks of life. And finally, we’re in the Zion National Park in Utah where Stephen Moss tells the story of the conservation campaign that helped bring the Californian Condor back from the brink of extinction. Ukrainian anti-aircraft FPV drone operators work from shelter in Ukraine (Photo by Maks Muravsky/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)