other polling station polling officials from taking polling material to the different stations where votes were supposed to have been cast. in the been an electron bonders commission to elections. elections in a blue. counties. catalonia as president says he won't call a snap election until spain central government agrees to certain conditions. wisdom or says he hasn't received enough guarantees from madrid that it won't impose direct rule on the autonomous region if a new election is held thousands of protesters have gathered outside the catalan government headquarters to show their support for tomorrow he says up to the catholic parliament to move forward with a mandate to split from spain. the iraqi prime minister says his government won't accept anything but the cancellation of the kurds secession bit about he is in terror arm for talks with the iranian leaders both countries have large kurdish

populations and oppose any talk of separation iraqi forces have lost an assault to recapture. from i saw the towns on iraq's western border with syria among the armed groups last strongholds in the country. and those were his headlines here on al jazeera more from me in about twenty five minutes time risking it all guinea is coming next stay with us.

fall many in the west african country of guinea life can be quite a struggle. a quarter of the country is covered in forest and the government has

neglected roads and basic services. constant delays paralyze the nation's economy. and yet guinea is a rich country rich in gold and diamonds. but most canadians never see the benefit. of monkey. he's up there today pierre on his assistant bus transport medicines in record time from the capital conakry to kiss a do go on the other side of the country so we're going to know. guinea is still plagued by serious diseases like polio defeat area and rabies the pharmacy's primary concern is delivering the vaccines to where they're needed before the climate spoils them. with no refrigerated truck or ice box packed his

vaccines in a box with just enough ice for the trip to give me. focus on the bottom and. the next challenge is getting the vaccines to a porter at the bus step of a downpour has caused huge traffic jams. common bus routes we did see some of the super bowl. guineas capital of conakry is at a standstill. the taxis stuck in traffic for hours. vendors and beggars try to make the most of the situation.

going on there it was a little things are going to get. your nose out of your butts and hear them to not understand who he was he could tell me something about the likelihood of young boys . after six hours in traffic the taxi finally reaches the bus stop or. follow with careful instructions the pharmacist hands the vaccines to the owner of the bush taxi a bus. it was going to go for the fun with under the money ok talk to friends of the possible just about. one hundred people to look at the president to decide on what is next in the fragile vaccines are placed under the front seat. under now come over so that you know they're very good at what you do when you. i wasn't going to let.

them and. gainey has no railway on planes or prohibitively expensive taxis are the most common form of transport. but drivers take advantage by overcharging clients. this passenger tries to travel on credit with her baby. to not get anything done for one minute that was done then you're going to get yes i'm worried about me and how. the driver feels sorry for her and a deal is struck but another passenger is more of a problem he's hurt his hand and wants a window seat. where you can see the most in the back to her mother's mussing. the man in the baseball cap has reserved the seat. in what

was this was enough by the sensitive moment you think it was because you're willing to give us that knows it was from. the lucy let's hear one certainty is only a part a part of me is not going to be a good man than today. will finally nine passengers two babies and two drivers a crammed into the taxi. a bastard takes pride in his car which is twenty two years old. i was told it was never. going to be to me if i'm going to fix this up because something come to me at the moment of the will. the passengers with the vaccine has finally leave the capital. the ice meant to preserve the vaccines has now been melting for eight hours if the driver doesn't make it to do go in sixteen hours the

vaccines will be useless and might as well be thrown away. the six hundred ninety kilometer road to kiss the dugu is strewn with potholes few drivers respect the rules of the road accidents are frequent. even before leaving the capital the drivers patience is tested. the two drivers constantly swap over. the boot is not exactly comfortable. two more hours a wasted in traffic. the deadline for the vaccine looms. the drivers decide to drive through the night. since the start of the journey there's been

a strong smell of petrol in the car still no one seems concerned. jim is you lance. but oh yeah we did it sounds simple and fun to me something. on. the petrol fumes might keep the evil spirits away but highway robbers a real threat. yet you seem a little bit sorry to envy you live here in france i think this. young member of military rock because you thank you so much for me. do you feel you got to come so i was here for you you got to follow this guy think that if you do go about it. the stop is a welcome relief to the cramped passages their bodies aig and their stomachs are empty.

you know. what i'm going to give them and howling you will hear what we're going to get right is known. as a precaution they wait until daylight before setting off again. by the early morning the vaccines have been on the road for twenty two hours. even so sharif proceeds with caution. that that might make you come on the idea if you met bob bob he wasn't. that you know. good judgment at these times is critical. the

gamble seems to have paid off after twenty four hours the taxi arrives in kiss a do good. but luck is against them. the pharmacy is closed the ice has melted and the vaccines urgently need to be refrigerated. someone. was up with you know. none of them got no no i've got a device you get one foot out. the pharmacist is on his way but one passenger is tired of waiting. for their physical. we know what it might mean that you couldn't make them out like yeah man i've got them where i know them because i didn't know that the. little bit on.

the pharmacist arrives an hour later he quickly refrigerate the vaccines relief all around ok. most villages and some towns in guinea lack the most basic services. kissa dugu and its two hundred thousand inhabitants get only a few hours of electricity a week. the main hospital has an emergency unit that's reserved for pregnant women ok. mary i'm a nurse dashes off to the hospitals only ambulance the vehicle was donated by unicef thirteen years ago without the means to maintain it it's a miracle it's still running i'm. due to the high price of petrol it can only be used once

a day. can bring us up and after that. process do show that our friend gets it you know man don't profit so that's going back. to. their home this little. number that they have on there the outcomes that it's not. nurses waste a lot of time tracking down patients in the bush there are no signs indicating the names of roads all villages. were going to you know call them if you have no idea where martin luther what about. you know look after you know whatever you know i don't know a little known about. two hours later and they still haven't located the pregnant woman. or the parking lot of her that's not going.

to make things worse the old ambulance breaks down. most of my time up until now. to shut. down when i'm not. ok. no no no. i she waits for makeshift repairs mariyam bumps into the pregnant woman's father in law worried he'd set out on foot looking for help we're going to. recess someday and. after four days of agony both mother and baby are in serious

danger. of medical center throat your. nose up at. the top. and there have been. three hours after leaving the hospital mariam can finally attend to the patient. the baby is poorly position and the eighteen year old girl is in urgent need of a says area. and. in rural villages grandmother scientists midwives assisting women with childbirth.

talk to that. person to have the books know. that what. the problem. bought them on the husband tries to comfort her as best he can there's no stretcher and she lies on the top landing on a film about how i don't think. the book we're going to talk about. this is the last one on the you know oh my now. i'm. i'm. i'm not i'm not saying. that's not the man i was about you know how big. the hospital has no running water and the operating room has only one set of

surgical clamps but there isn't any statistics a month is soon asleep. this is airy and goes well but the baby isn't breathing. without the aid of respiratory machines the nurses do their best to save the baby but. now freddy said you. see if your son's birth just for now but. in fact we have a good one for you but. for my last. don't know nancy because i mean the money. four days of contractions have paralyzed the mother's legs the hospital has no suitable medicines.

your best examples if i must in the end for. the world but it was a word or do you know. what we're doing. down the road because you can go down. without free public health care many families here are unable to cover basic medical needs the hospital pharmacy sells medicines for a tenth the price of the private sector but even these prices can be an affordable . answer to answer was that it was. worse in guinea five dollars can change a life. maybe it's the camera or genuine sympathy but in the end of the pharmacist pays for the medicine himself. there's enough to treat his wife for

a week. any longer and it'll be up to the husband to come up with more money. according to unicef fifteen thousand three hundred babies and three thousand eight hundred women die in childbirth each year in guinea. getting medicines to where they needed is a real problem. these medicines are on their way to a dispensary in the middle of the jungle. this won't be the first risky journey has taken. the. right and if you want every one of them i don't think you know yeah we're going to be able to do the. round up.

for you sometimes but for me to come. to the money and somebody was going. to do much himself or his wife it would be so we're going to get a hit. right here. on. me to be. on the mule track is actually a regional road make an excuse to do go and forty five kilometers away.

by the time you're not. going out of a. you know. that's each ball the rhythm of the spades receives and it's always the same team. is encouraged.

and like his truck stops its engine lacks power and what could be that wasn't about it but then the boredom of the eligible. sydney minute bradish i get was we got up you know bethel i've gone to phone the bill up as i was out on prime time into work a defining moment when i pulled off it when i don't know what i mean. in guinea everything has multiple uses. all of what i said duty on the bus. in the community that's and that's. something i would like. to make.

by nightfall they've been driving for ten hours. from. my. the nurse at the dispensary collects the packages of meds and. he's been expecting them for three months on the books is a quite small. he hopes they'll be enough to replenish his stuff. if. you will say it is your baby. give it you don't be going to the un another sample of the.

among the medicine benjamin has received of vaccines against measles diptheria tetanus and polio he'll start vaccinating children first thing in the morning as he has no means of conserving the precious vaccines. electricity. if. free will so far hasn't it. gotten into. the will of. this two year old

is too weak to be vaccinated. designed to deliver. some. that's in my. family. gave. me. in guinea one in ten children dies before reaching the age of five.

scarcely ever visit these remote villages. then jim in tries to fill the void he's only a nurse but an experienced one skilled nurses like him are invaluable. the village is always grateful. subzero temperatures extreme altitudes. this is where the hard part because of the extraordinary journey. to touch it you start braved

ordinary joy. with too high up there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasure. risking it all. of this time on al-jazeera. oh is it allison when they're on line me what in hurricane winds full almost like thirty six hours these are the things that has to address or if you join us on sat i'm a member of the complex one but we struck up a relationship this is a dialogue tweet us with hostile a.j.

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