republic of congo intensifying. not playing by the rules why a tweet by the manager of an american basketball team has sparked a political firestorm in china. our ability to continue to redefine every single day what it is to be canadian what it means to be canadian and canada's prime minister attempts to put scandals behind him as he fights for his political future . techie's defense minister says its forces are ready to begin a military offensive into northern syria the us president has begun withdrawing troops from the region and threatened to destroy turkey's economy if a tax cut is fighters there and as can be how could reports from washington d.c. transactions are drawing criticism from across the political divide. as u.s. troops begin pulling out of positions in northern syria their commander in chief donald trump defended his decision to withdraw now we've captured isis we've done what we've done we had 50 soldiers in the area talking about it and i said we want to bring our soldiers back home it's been a lo

now weeks of violence in eastern democratic republic of congo have left at least 100 people dead and tens of thousands displaced the fighting has been happening in south kivu and military officials have told al-jazeera that more troops have been sent to the affected areas but they're dealing with fighters who are well equipped and organized catherine so i reports. we've come here with whatever little they could solve each of the some just the clothes they're wearing. has been fighting in the area that's in the eastern region of south keevil in democratic republic of congo. thousands of people mainly from the ethnic community have fled from their homes after attacks from a local militia group called by my buffalo are all dead now living rough outside this compound of a un peacekeepers base. we left on food in the village and now we're just a bag of the my my that have done this to us. they took our cows goats and all other belongings we can't go back to the village to collect food and we're sleeping outside in the cold. this is what is left back in the villages have to fighting betwee

still to come here it out there we'll have more on the situation in easton democratic republic of congo as ethnic violence intensifies. the migrants left behind the mexican capital after crossing continents hoping to reach the u.s. . had a picture across much of the middle east of course we have had some heavy rain into southern iran across into pakistan but also into kabul have a look at this picture there's been some very heavy rain showers this man doing his best to really avoid the mist that may work his way from within those rain showers that will be dry as we go through tuesday but there is some rain in the for cause further to the north northern sections of turkey and eventually through wednesday working their way across into areas of georgia quite a bit of cloud across into back by john and still very warm in baghdad with a high the a 41 degrees it's a very quiet picture generally across much of the arabian peninsula we might just once again see more of those rain showers and thunderstorms across the mountains in western areas of yemen but elsewhere it is warm and it is also sti

well weeks of violence in eastern democratic republic of congo have left at least 100 people dead and tens of thousands there displaced the fighting has been happening in south kivu and military officials have told al-jazeera that more troops have been sent to the affected areas that they're dealing with fighters who are well equipped and organized catherine so it reports. you know if camilo with what evan little they could solve each other with some just the clothes they are wearing. has been fighting in the mañana area that's in the eastern region of south kivu in democratic republic of congo. thousands of people mainly from the ethnic community have fled from their homes to attack from a local militia group called by my buffalo are all dead now living rough outside this compound of a u.n. peacekeeping space the letter delivered to the us we left our food in the village and now we're just back if the my my that have done this to us he said there will be. they took our cows goats and all other belongings we can't go back to the village to collect food and we're sleeping outside in t

. ♪ reporter: horrifying escalation of ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo. different militias have terrorized huge numbers of the civilian population. second reporter: the drc's government say the extent of hunger and displacement is being exaggerated. reporter: 13 million people in need of humanitarian aid. crawford: i'm alex crawford in the democratic republic of congo, and this is "hotspots." tonight we're gonna take you behind the scenes of the world's biggest and hardest-hitting stories. we travel to drc to honor the world's forgotten conflicts. man: we've got sense that you were going into o the badlands.

in remote villages in banda region of the democratic republic of congo and. thousands of children are brought against measles. largest outbreak having killed more than 4000 people many of them children this death toll is higher than that. in the east of the country that has killed 2000 since the outbreak began in. one of the most affected provinces many children have died more are critical sick louise my d.d.'s children. for nearly 2 months. my 4 children have measles and 2 of them are too weak to hook i tried to treat them using alternative medicine and i hope that somehow. this children can at least access treatment many others the more remote areas where there are no health centers and security is a problem but. the conditions in some hospitals there are no medicine no money or any kind of medical coming and we have many cases of measles west and what you're seeing here. you don't have to go very far to see children in very poor health this is the main hospital in casa banda children with missiles are treated for free but many are brought in when it's too

democratic republic of congo has slowed down but it's still a global imagines. one of the country that successfully tackled a killer virus library and we're joined here by that country's vice president. the result of the epidemic in liberia a civilian and reporting system was put in place is a regional one. africa. i am eddie micah genia is the starts off another week your welcome to the program. now this map philip in u.c. will remain president of mozambique for the next 5 years after the landslide win he won 73 percent of the vote. his party won just under 3 quarters of the parliamentary seats according to the official results announced on sunday was a week's a position. of the general election a legend widespread cheating intimidation violence and vote rigging claims the ruling party the nice. 2 very different views of the same vote. candidate philippe new u.z. had 4000000 507549 votes. the incumbent and his supporters call the official results a landslide but the opposition sees it as a whitewash the real results painted over something go even within mozambi

the democratic republic of congo is grappling with the world's 2nd largest a bowl the epidemic on record with more than 2000 lives lost and $3000.00 confirmed inspections since the outbreak began in august last year the world health organization says the operate in the congo has slowed but should still be classified as a global emergency the w.h.o. has more than 650 staff on the ground to try and contain the spread of the deadly virus we resisted the love to see if you like a large the locally center gets a call telling them about a 50 year old man who's vomiting and has a fever possible signs of an ebola infection. while a driver is sent out a response team travel to the village to speak to the community. doctors. tells them about the risks and tries to find out who the newly infected man had been in contact with sick if you're sick is it don't don't since they had contact with a relative who is showing symptoms we add them to the list a team will stay and monitor their health for 21 days and as soon as they show symptoms we will implement public health measures seno sounds like you lik

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in the democratic republic of congo how slow down odds are still ignoble imagines. one of them country that successfully toggled a killer virus liberia we're joined here by that country's vice president. the result of the epidemic in liberia a civilians and reporting system was put in place is a regional one across west africa. i am eddie micah jr is a start off another week your welcome to the program. now this map philip in u.c. will remain president of mozambique for the next 5 years after the landslide win he won 73 percent of the vote. his party won just under 3 quarters of the parliamentary seats according to the official results announced on sunday was a bieksa position house call for you rerun of the general election a legend widespread cheating intimidation violence and votes rigging claims the ruling party the nice. 2 very different views of the same boat. candidate philippe new u.z. had 4000000 507549 votes. the incumbent and his supporters call the official results a landslide but the opposition sees it as a whitewash the real results painted over someth

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now weeks of violence in eastern democratic republic of congo have left at least 100 people dead and tens of thousands displaced the fighting has been happening in south kivu and military officials have told al-jazeera that more troops have been set. the affected areas but they're dealing with fighters who are well equipped and organized catherine so i reports for nearly 50 with what evelyn. with some just the clothes they are wearing. has been fighting in the mañana area that's in the eastern region of south kivu in democratic republic of congo. thousands of people mainly from the ethnic community have fled from their homes after attacks from a local militia group called my my. they're now living rough outside this compound of a un peacekeepers base the answer to the last we left our food in the village and now we're just backing of the my mind that have done this to us to see if. they took our cows goats and all other belongings and we can't go back to the village to collect food and we're sleeping outside in the cold. this is what is left back in the villages have to fighting bet

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republic of congo intensifies. and the significant moment in time new zealand marks 250 years since a british ship sailed in but not everyone so welcoming. since the landing of. these it's been nothing but distress. i'm joining us roscoe with the sport as iran prepares to allow female fans into the pool stadiums will sit down exclusively one of the women helping drive change the country. welcome to the news hour turkey says its forces are ready for military action in northern syria its defense ministry says preparations are complete but there is continuing criticism of the operation iran's foreign ministry says the mission will lot and turkey security concerns the u.s. president is facing widespread criticism domestically for pulling troops out of northern syria kurdish fighters in the region say donald trump stabbed them in the back. we've got more from the u.s. shortly but 1st let's cross over to charles stratford in cali in turkey's border with syria and charles a great deal of military movement being reported w

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now weeks of violence in eastern democratic republic of congo have left at least 100 people dead and tens of thousands displaced the fighting has been happening in south kivu and military officials are told are more troops have been sent to the affected areas but they're dealing with fighters who are well equipped and organized catherine soy reports. they've come here with whatever little they could salvage with some just the clothes they're wearing. has been fighting in the mañana area that's in the eastern region of south kivu in democratic republic of congo. thousands of people mainly from the ethnic community have fled from their homes after attacks from a local militia group called my my. they're now living rough outside this compound of the un peacekeepers base on the answer to the way we left our food in the village and now we're just back if the my my that have done this to us. we will be . they took our cows goats and all other belongings and we can't go back to the village to collect food and we're sleeping outside in the cold. this is what is left back in the villages hav

well the democratic republic of congo is grappling with the world's 2nd largest ebola epidemic on record with more than 2000 lives lost and $3000.00 confirmed infections since the outbreak began in august of last year the world health organization says the help break in congo has slowed but should still be classified as a global emergency the w.h.o. has more than 650 staff on the ground to try and contain the spread of the deadly virus for we reason as to the left this year but i would like you know as the local ebola center gets a call telling them about a 50 year old man who's vomiting and has a fever possible signs of an ebola infection. while a driver is sent out a response team travelled through the village to speak to the community. on the mark on these doctors. tells them about the risks and tries to find out who the newly infected man had been in contact with sick if you're sick is it don't don't since they had contact with a relative who is showing symptoms we add them to the list a team will stay and monitor the health for 21 days and as soon as they show the sentence we will i

and fighting we follow a world health organization team at work in the democratic republic of congo for more than 2000 lives have been lost in the latest outbreak of the disease. hello i'm terry margin good to have you with us world leaders have welcomed u.s. president donald trump's announcement that the leader of the so-called islamic state of baghdad he was killed in a raid by u.s. special forces in syria trump said baghdad he blew himself up as u.s. troops stormed his hideout but satisfaction at the death of baghdad he has been tempered with several leaders cautioning that although its leader may be dead islamic state continues to pose a threat. donald trump said american special forces blew open a wall and moved in quickly cornering al baghdadi in a tunnel where he had taken 3 of his children he then supposedly blew himself up along with his children the u.s. says he quickly carried out d.n.a. tests confirmed his identity. the american president said he had been after baghdad he says he took office and explained why the u.s. chose to go in because this is the one that built isis an

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in remote villages in banda region of the democratic republic of congo and. thousands of children are brought against measles. largest outbreak having killed more than 4000 people many of them children this death toll is higher than that. in the east of the country that has killed 2000 since the outbreak began in. one of the most affected provinces many children have died more are critical. louise my d.d.'s children have been unwell for nearly 2 months. my 4 children have me and 2 of them are too weak to hook i try to treat them using alternative medicine i hope that for . this children can actually least access treatment many others even more remote areas where there are no health centers and security is a problem but. the conditions in some hospitals are there are no medicine no money or any kind of medical aid coming in we have many cases of measles less than what you're seeing here. you don't have to go very far to see children in very poor health this is the main hospital in costa banda children with measles are treated for free but many are brought. whe

the world health organization says the boehner epidemic in northeast democratic republic of congo has been confined to a small area but one that's remote and contains rebel groups the number of new bern a case has dropped from nearly 130 in april to 51 in mid september there were 14 new infections last week and the executive director of the world health organization's emergency program says there's still a long way to go before the disease is completely eradicated we have significantly contain the virus you know much smaller geographic area now we have to kill the virus the problem is it's back in areas that are deeply you secure we've got money operations in these areas. of people who live in villages and work in mines most of the time. remaining as government has collapsed at the losing a no confidence vote just weeks ahead of a presidential election a majority of m.p.'s voted in favor of the motion against the prime minister. she was appointed in january 28th becoming the 3rd prime minister in 7 months romania has faced government corruption scandals for several years president kla

republic of congo intensifies. also brazil says 100 tonnes of oil spilled along its northeastern coast has affected dozens of cities. because around the pastoral are female fans and football stadiums will still count down exclusively with one of the women helping drive change in her country. the united states is blacklisting 28 chinese tech firms that develop facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technology the u.s. says the technology is being used to repress china's muslim minority who have bars us for selling technology to those companies without government approval rights groups say china has detained around $1000000.00 we goes and other muslims in what it calls reeducation camps in the west and shane xing region pauline long is the managing director of asia analytics a leading provider of predictive analytics in the greater china region she says there's strong competition in the tech industry between the 2 countries and the u.s. is trying to push china closer to a trade deal. trying. to put pres

republic of congo has slowed down but it's still a global imagines. one of the country that successfully tackled a killer virus.

customs officials singled out gold from mines in the democratic republic of congo and rough diamonds from zimbabwe's over wrong fields the order also targeted goods from brazil malaysia and china was about was government told bloomberg news the accusation of forced labor was simply ignore it for. well it's turning out to be a very slippery deal uganda's ambitious oil project a huge pipeline which will need to be electrically heated and which runs under a lake and has environmentalist's up in arms some of the back is have been pulling out and now the whole thing's up in the air. uganda has an abundance of oil reserves in 2006 it discovered more than 6000000000 barrels of crude since then the country has been hoping to take advantage of massive oil revenue to bolster its economy but development of the needed infrastructure refineries and pipelines has stalled the government has also been mired in disputes with its international partners think lou britain's tolo francisco tall and the china national offshore oil corporation he guinness crude reserves are located beneath lake albert in t

republic of congo has slowed down but it's still a global imagines. one of the country that successfully toggled a killer virus.

customs officials singled out gold from mines in the democratic republic of congo and rough diamonds from zimbabwe's over wrong fields the order also targeted goods from brazil malaysia and china the bomb was government told bloomberg news the accusation of forced labor was simply ignorant for. well it's turning out to be a very slippery deal uganda's ambitious oil project a huge pipeline which will need to be electrically heated and which runs under a lake and has environmentalist's up in arms some of the back is have been pulling out and now the whole thing's up in the air. uganda has an abundance of oil reserves in 2006 it discovered more than 6000000000 barrels of crude since then the country has been hoping to take advantage of massive oil revenue to bolster its economy but development of the needed infrastructure refineries and pipelines has stalled the government has also been mired in disputes with its international partners think lou britain's tolo francisco tall and the china national offshore oil corporation he kinda screwed reserves are located beneath lake albert in the

in the democratic republic of congo has slowed down odds are still ignoble imagines. one can country that successfully tackled a killer virus.

all still ahead on al-jazeera the ongoing struggle in the democratic republic of congo to control the outbreak that's killed more than 4000 people this year. a top advisor to donald trump gives a firsthand account of a controversial phone call between the u.s. and ukrainian presidents. hello that sunshine right is being rather squeeze across more central areas of europe the south in particular the med say more and it's a very cloudy picture the last few hours across much of central europe we've had some fall the mornings as well look at this is actually cologne but this shroud of fog should be clearing as we go through the day certainly a wednesday we have got more sunshine across much of mainland europe is cool though 4 celsius in here just 2 in moscow and the may well be some snow flurries in there as well not a bad day temperature wise in london on wednesday with this in the system waiting in the wings a heads east on thursday the temperature will low but also this rain could actually add to some more localized flooding has been so very wet for a long time meanwhile for the central

sub-saharan africa. 2018 in the democratic republic of congo a newspaper editors that was funny was jailed for publishing articles critical of a bank she was prosecuted under a defamation law dating back to 940 when the d r c was a belgian called in november 2 10165 zambian radio journalists were arrested for allegedly calling a member of the ruling party a useless person they were charged under section 179 of the zambian penal code which dates back to british colonial times and in another former british colony courts one makani a newspaper editor at the sunday standard published a report that the former president was involved in a late night car crash he was charged with sedition i told my lawyer you know what i am going to plead guilty to say he should. because i believe i did that i think and if it's still be it but there was a change of government and the government decided to drop the charges against me but i was very disappointed that the to the charges because they had to go with the only opportunity we had to challenge the constitutionality of this edition so sedition. compa

has spent morore timeme and than any other county besides the democratic republic of congo. annette: here are top business stories free. amazon did not d do as well as t acted and third order results. -- rose year on year to 70 billion dollars. shares dropped on thurursday, wiping 8 -- wiping $80 billion from its stock market value. we work will back out of china after low pickups in the country. china's operatioions are reportedly bleeding cash. 65% are vacant. averted bankruptcy embarking on our turnaround. french company the gaming giant is expecting profits between 20 million and 50 million euros. sharply down from the former tatarget. you can blame expensive melons for the downfall of the japanese trade minister. he resigns a friday after accusations of vioiolating election law. he allegedly gave gifts to his in 2000 seven including expensive melons and crabs. melon can beast that during -- melon can be staggeringly expensive in japan. , two sold forear $24,000. you hope that will be a really nice melon if it will cost that much. annette: that was catherine bennetts wit

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republic of congo are warning of a desperate need of basic necessities for hundreds of thousands of people who fled fighting through water shelter and medicines are in short supply in the 2 re problems aid workers say congolese are dying every day from preventable diseases because of appalling living conditions. to kenya now where the families of passengers killed in the ethiopian airlines disaster 7 months ago finally laid to rest the bodies of 28 victims need a d.n.a. analysis to to formally identify them and so reports from. the remains of. john are carried by her friends into the church the old used to attend in a court the teacher was flying home from canada. in 3 grandchildren when they feel pain airlines jet crashed in march killing all a 157 people on board most of the bodies were banged beyond recognition and it has taken months of d.n.a. analysis to identify the remains. we must hear 1st before anything else even when it comes to compensation. and everything. $32.00 kenyans were on board the boeing 737 max which crashed soon after takeoff from addis ababa boeing admitted a

republic of congo. and in sports showing off at the beach an incredible goal by brazil at the world beach games in qatar. and i mostly care across much of the middle east now we have seen some cat in the last year as and really the last couple of days just to work its way along we want to you scott thunderstorms into the eastern sections of the mediterranean a huge amount of rain there within these storms will be happy the things that are the strong gusty winds at times friday and those dry even through the eastern end of the med and across into turkey then by saturday that is when we could see a few more of these. scott a child even a scout a thunderstorm in the mix a little bit cooler to an anthro 23 is the high temperature 37 celsius across in baghdad and 21 in to kabul now further to the south across you evidence of the temperatures here there have been coming down steadily at the humidity levels still fairly high but even that is improving 35 in doha on friday 33 across in abu dhabi where we might

a deadly ebola outbreak and democratic republic of congo as you have heard the emergency committee has recommended that the current ebola outbreak continues to pose a publican's emergency of international concern i have accepted that advise saw the publicans emergence of of international concern the starters will be maintained for additional stream and this emergency committee will be reconvene within 3 months is to reassess again. this remains. this outbreak remains a complex and dangerous outbreak but u.n. human rights office has called for the release of a prominent blogger a lawyer and a journalist from an egyptian jail several 1000 people have been in custody since protests against president of the feather l.c.c. began a month ago blogger at the father was released in march after serving a 5 year sentence for protesting but was rearrested and september his lawyer was the rest of the same day name on journalists as rub their father was arrested by plain clothed security officer in cairo last weekend and beaten after refusing to unlock her mobile phone now around 4000000 people floc

chervil 2018 in the democratic republic of congo the newspaper editors that was funny. was jailed for publishing articles particle of a bank she was prosecuted under a defamation law dating back to 940 when the d r c was a belgian colony november 2 10165 zambian radio journalists were arrested for allegedly calling a member of the ruling party a useless person they were charged under section 179 of the zambian penal code which dates back to british colonial times and in another former british colony courts one makani a newspaper editor at the sunday standard published a report that the former president was involved in a late night car crash he was charged with sedition i told my lawyer that you know what i am going to plead guilty to save the ship because i believe i did that i think and if it's incidents yes they will be but there was a change of government and they got me excited about the heat but i was very disappointed that they go the tide just because that took away the only opportunity we had the chinese the constitutionality of this edition so sedition. compare

the democratic republic of congo has been confined to a smaller area but one that's remote and occupied by rebel groups the number of new ebola cases dropped from nearly 130 in april to 51 in mid september there were 14 new infections last week but the w.h.o. says there are still a long way to go before the disease can be eradicated. ahead on the. more. details coming up with right after the short break. thank you again time for the sports news here so no thank you very much daryn along the protein typhoon is causing havoc with what should have been a big week candle of international sport in japan already 2 rugby a wool couple of games have been cancelled because of typhoon which is a jew to strike on saturday evening and now the japanese film it has also been affected wayne hale reports from tokyo. it is calm at the moment but the japanese capital tokyo and other parts of the country are bracing for the arrival of typhoon haggis which could be one of the strongest storms to hit japan in decades flights and train services have been canceled and of course this weekend should have been w

except the democratic republic of congo. and the french economy got some good news today according to the country's unemployment agency the rate of joblessness continues to decline. unemployment claims in france fell four tentnths of a percent over the third quarter that's a three month period that ended in september. and simpler is evidently not too frightened by the globabal slowdown hiring on the rise in france now that's music to o the ears of president emmanuel mccall who's promised to bring the unemployment rate is 7% by the end of his term in twenty twenty two. it's fallen a bit since he took office in twenty seventeen. the official job was answering france currently stands at eight point five percent. and is projected to fall to eight point three percent. by the end of the year. finally for me offshore wind power plays for massive worldwidide growth. according to the international energy agency says the sector could expand fifteen times in size. i tracked around a trillion dollars investment by twenty forty. like the

a deadly ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo it's the 2nd largest outbreak in history it's killed more than $2100.00 people well 2 women have just made history in space christina coach and jessica meyer have gone on a space walk together at the international space station it's the 1st time an all female pair have done this the 2 had been set to make the walk in march but not didn't have enough functioning medium sized space suits on board the space station . hello again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour lebanon's prime minister sahadi has called on rival groups and his governments uniting get behind his economic reform plans he addressed the nation amid mass protests that have left at least 2 people dead tensions boiled over when new tax plans for announced. good job. i'm giving our partners in the government a very short deadline 72 hours to give us a solution that can convince us and the people in the streets and our international partners the turkish president president says the offensive in northeast syria will resume within minutes if kurdish rebels don't abid

the world health organization says the ebola epidemic in the northeast of the democratic republic of congo has been confined to a smaller area but one that's remote and occupied by rebel groups the number of new ebola cases dropped from nearly 130 in april to 51 in mid september there were 14 new infections last week in japan's capital food and bottled water being stockpiled as thai food closes in weather forecasters expected to lose of rain and damaging winds in tokyo this weekend and 2 matches at the rugby world cup have been cancelled flights and train services are disrupted as well those are the headlines on al jazeera are trafficking is coming up next. antiquities trafficking is one of the most profitable illegal trades in the world estimated to be worth several $1000000000.00 a year it ranks on after illegal arms and drugs precious objects plundered or discovered in clandestine excavations find their way onto the official market into museums and galleries. the main victims the pillage nations are now demanding the return of their stolen treasures for a long time these demands f

the country the more places like uganda democratic republic of congo become more attractive for families and parents to possibly dot do you feel that adoption should not be allowed to happen from one country to another country without make life a lot simpler for both sets of there's hundreds of thousands millions of children around the world growing up without parents and if we cherry pick one case here and one case there and we make a docu documentary and say you know adoptions what made you say quotes were stuck in the documentary no way to close it didn't it come across as journalism it came across as activism it didn't show the whole story what i was saying earlier before i was cut off is there are going to say she's going around from birth parent to birth parents threatening them telling them they have to rescind you know telling them that what they did was wrong and so none of that was reported on in that so-called documentary i don't think that's an accurate depiction of adoption whatsoever in fact i think adoption is a way that we're able to allow hundreds of thousands of childre

that's all coming up but 1st the democratic republic of congo is grappling with the world's 2nd largest ebola epidemic on record with more than 2000 lives lost and 3000 confirmed infections since the outbreak began in august last year all the world health organization says the outbreak in the congo has slowed but should still be classified as a global emergency the w.h.o. has more than 650 staff on the ground to try and contain the spread of this deadly virus. we resisted the love this year would you like emerge below cleeve alert center gets a call telling them about a 50 year old man who's vomiting and has a fever possible signs of an ebola infection. while a driver a center out response team traveled to the village to speak to the community. doctor. tells them about the risks and tries to find out who the newly infected man had been in contact with sick if you're sick is it don't don't since they had contact with a relative who is showing symptoms we add them to the list a team will stay and monitor the health for 21 days and as soon as they show symptoms we will implement public out

in the democratic republic of congo hundreds of thousands of people who fled fighting in the it cheery province are in desperate need of basic necessities 11000 sees a warning there is an urgent need now for food water shelter and medicines the group says people are dying every day from preventable diseases because of appalling living conditions the situation is becoming worse as the driest season approaches and that pushes up food prices. in manual dambisa is the d c humanitarian program manager at oxfam and he joins us on skype from from goma it's nice to have you with us on the program it is an absolutely horrifying situation that you're facing there the numbers are so high and the conditions are just so appalling take us through what people are facing on a daily basis with issues of disease of overcrowding and the numbers of people who are dying right now. thank you very much for having me and imagine a situation that we are used. in a context where. you have people living in function towers 500 people have to share one to treat our daily and people who come period of immediate par

the world health organization says the abode or epidemic in northeastern democratic republic of congo has now been confined to a smaller area but one that's remote and is occupied by rebel groups the number of new abode cases is dropped from nearly 130 in april to 51 by mid september there were 14 new infections last week but w h a n says there's still a long way to go before the disease will be eradicated them more than a 1000000 people in california are without power that's out of the state cut electricity to try to prevent wildfires the utility company pacific gas and electric announced a deliberate outage to try to avoid a repeat of last year's fires its power cables were blamed for the state's deadliest ever wildfire that left 85 people dead and destroyed thousands of property is its decisions that were not made that have led to this moment in history and the state of california as relates to our major investor on utility it is not conditions this is not from my perspective a climate stain story is much a story about greed and mismanagement over the course of decades over the cou

the world health organization says the ebola epidemic in northeast democratic republic of congo has been confined to a small area bought one that is remote and rife with the rebel groups the number of new about this has dropped from nearly 130 back in april to 51 and that september thought there were 14 new infections last week and the executive director of the world health organizations an urgency programs says there's still a long way to go to completely eradicate the disease. we have significantly contain the virus in a much smaller geographic area now we have to kill the virus the problem is it's back in areas that are deeply insecure we've got mining operations in these areas relax of people who live in villages and work in mines most of the time french president about your mcallen has an else that nearly 14000000000 dollars has been raised for the next 3 years to fight aids tuberculosis and malaria well 3000000 people died of the infectious disease last year mostly in sub-saharan africa nicholas holic has more now from senegal the capital dhaka. living with hiv aids contracted the

elections campaigns targeted people in 8 nations including mozambique democratic republic of congo and libya almost 200 fake accounts were used to reach more than 1000000 followers. the united nations a special envoy to brindisi says that he's concerned the country is at risk of a new wave of atrocities as it approaches an election next year the brewing the government is still refusing to cooperate with the un high commission for human rights and refuses to acknowledge human rights abuses i can has more now from the un headquarters in new york. the council was addressed by the special envoy to burundi michel co-founder who said he remained concerned about the number of human rights violations within that country he said that the majority of victims appeared to be those aligned with opposition parties and said they had been little cooperation with the burundi government in terms of dealing with these violations on the humanitarian front though he said that being a massive improvement only hard as many people within that country are in need of humanitarian assistance as were the previous

were killed in sudan they were hit by crossfire along the border with the democratic republic of congo during clashes between armed groups suspension applies to 5 border points between south sudan uganda and the d.l.c. an ongoing outbreak of ebola in the d.r. sea has killed sons. the police in belgium have found 12 migrants alive in a refrigerated truck in the northern city of and twerp the driver of the vehicle alerted police to the syrian and sudanese men to the immigration offices last week 39 migrants were found dead also in a refrigeration vehicle in britain after crossing over from belgium. boeing's chief executive is facing a 2nd day of questions from american politicians he's testifying to the house transportation and infrastructure committee to the companies 7378 kroft crashed in a period of 6 months killing 346 people the committee has accused boeing of keeping technical issues quiet and putting profits before safety correspondent john hendren is not boeing's international headquarters in chicago it is day 2 of the grilling of dennis loewenberg the chief executive officer of

businessman accused of meddling in the us elections the targets included sudan the democratic republic of congo and libya wildfires in california are spreading through the north and south of the state driven by strong winds hundreds of firefighters are working to put them out in areas that span at least 80 hectares about 3 quarters of a 1000000 people remain without power in an effort to prevent the fires from spreading further. and hundreds of animals are believed to have been killed by bushfires in the eastern australian state of new south wales the largest of the fire spans more than 2000 hectares about 45 homes have been destroyed but there are no reports of injuries and the fires are causing problems for australia's largest city sydney as andrew thomas explains. it's sunny it should be a perfectly clear blue sky like spring day in sydney but you can see the city shrouded in a smoky haze at times on the opera house in the bridge with barely visible through the smoke now this is a smoke that comes from bush fires which are burning quite a few hours north of sydney ordinarily the smo