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In a special prgramme Sportsworld’s Andy Richardson went behind the scenes to join the participants in the world’s most northerly marathon and the only race run entirely on water.

Afghan hospitals have experienced a sharp rise in amputations - not because of fighting, but because of the worst winter weather to hit Afghanistan in more than a decade.

Dozens of people have lost limbs to frostbite and the freezing temperatures have killed at least 750 people in the last two months.

Zeina Khodr sent this report from Kabul.

China has doubled the number of troops and paramilitary personnel dealing with its winter relief efforts to more than one million.

The government has appealed for millions of people to cancel their travel plans but as Tony Cheng now reports it’s a request that many have ignored.

(china, winter, weather, aljazeera, jazeera, tony, cheng)