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Starting this weekend, 49 saplings grown from the downed tree are being planted across Britain.

The locations have been chosen for their resonance.

The site of the 1980s women's peace camp at Greenham Common, a Northern Irish border town that's become a symbol of hope, and the scene of a century-old mining disaster.

The delicately symmetrical original in its setting between two hills will never be replaced.

But Britain's preservation charity, the National Trust, hopes these Trees of Hope, as they're called, will allow the sycamore gap tree to have a positive, inspirational afterlife.

For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.

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The Nine Nation Ipsos survey found only 26% of Britons are satisfied with how their democracy is working, and more than half say the situation has worsened in the past five years.

Three out of four said they fear for the next five years, and only one in five believe their government's doing a good job protecting democracy.

Overall satisfaction with democracy remains low in all nine nations surveyed, including the U.S., with one exception, Sweden.

Yet in all the countries surveyed, only tiny minorities, 1 to 5 percent, said democracy is not worth keeping.

For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.

Investigators say this group manipulated contracts at Enerhoatom, which is Ukraine's state nuclear energy company, and they got kickbacks laundering roughly $100 million.

The scandal has forced the resignation of two ministers in Zelensky's government so far, but Zelensky has not been implicated in this probe, and he is calling for the prosecution of those accused of committing crimes.

The Nine Nation Ipsos survey found only 26% of Britons are satisfied with how their democracy is working, and more than half say the situation has worsened in the past five years.

Three out of four said they fear for the next five years, and only one in five believe their government's doing a good job protecting democracy.

Overall satisfaction with democracy remains low in all nine nations surveyed, including the U.S., with one exception, Sweden.

Yet in all the countries surveyed, only tiny minorities, 1 to 5 percent, said democracy is not worth keeping.

For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.