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of dischord is the title and it says above the macedonian solution has blown up the political world that is an accurate description i would say both of the nature of the acrimony in this chamber the last three days and of public feeling only with death and john will continue to monitor events with you in athens of course we'll have more on this story shortly because we'll be getting reaction from the other country involved in the deal or not is macedonia so do stay with us here on al-jazeera. welcome back we look at weather conditions across southeastern parts of asia juries looking fine across southern there's a low we've got some heavy showers affecting west papua there sarong having a wet day but borneo is looking pretty much in the clear and that certainly reflects in the forecast in these twenty four hours cushing should be fine sunshine
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there and highs of thirty three the bulk of the rain though seems to be across the through the mill a pincher and across into cambodia and southern parts of vietnam system heavy rain is likely here and that's expected to continue during the following twenty four hours so other states then philippines just a scattering of showers again borneo not looking too bad a few showers so for java and carter looking at highs of thirty four down into a stray here where we've got an area of low pressure across southeastern areas meanwhile out towards the west we've got a frontal system which is pushing in this cold front is likely pretty active when it pushes in towards perth during the course of the next twenty four hours to some heavy rain likely that crosses southeastern areas that southerly winds railton some pretty low temperatures as twelve as a high in melbourne right into thirteen on choose there but still the risk of showers that frontal system continues to push across parts of south australia reaching perhaps late in the day pretty unsettled across the north island of new zealand.
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the diagnosis he has been sick for around six months now the challenge ahead there in one of these ninety six could be a new cure or a basis of a new shore for colors our new illness or disability al-jazeera examines preemie treatments so this is the explosive yes it's basically a wearable robot like iraq revisited on al-jazeera.
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welcome back you're watching i was there i was the whole robin or bind of our top stories the refugee ship aquarius has pulled into the spanish port of the lead a week after italy and walter turned away it's the second of three boats carrying hundreds of people who are seeking asylum the third and final ship is set to arrive in the coming hours. also a historic deal has been signed along the greek macedonia border under the parliamentary agreement the government and school accepts to change the country's name to the republic of north bassett only that will differentiate it from a greek province which also has the same name macedonia they've been in dispute over this for almost thirty years. celebrations of a temporary peace between the afghan government and the taliban have been cut short by a car bombing at least twenty six people died at a gathering of taliban and afghan security officials in the eastern province of lanka hard i still says it's responsible to have a glass house more from kabul. a joyful site the taliban the afghan military
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together celebrating. and the conflicts first ceasefire these taliban fighters came to the capital from wardak province afghan soldiers search them at the gates to the city there is a real sense of brotherhood the fighting set aside for now a time to revel in peace the opposite on top of it just a little here i woke up this morning and learned the taliban could go to the city without harm why how it is bursting with happiness because of this ceasefire. but they must not tell the seller said we are so happy because today is a celebration we gathered here happily with our brothers who have been unhappy for so long. as word of the gathering spread the crowds will afghanistan think this might be a turning point a moment in history. that we hope for a peaceful and stable afghanistan we must be proud of this peaceful vibrant and we hope it will last forever. the scene to repeat it in many provinces around
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afghanistan opponents coming together in a show of afghan solidarity raising hopes this is something that could last there were delayed but at pool. he walked in the that because of the significant signs of peace in afghanistan and seeing the strong desire of afghans for peace i am announcing the extension of the ceasefire by afghan security and defense forces get them the tribute. the peace was shattered by an iso suicide bomber in eastern afghanistan killing and wounding those who had come to reconcile a reminder it's more than just the taliban fighting here taliban fighters say there can be no peace in afghanistan until foreign forces leave the country the afghan president continues to try to bring the taliban to the negotiating table announcing the release of dozens of taliban prisoners and saying the government is willing to talk to the taliban any time anywhere jennifer glass al jazeera.
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the driver of a taxi which planted into world cup football fans in moscow says he fell asleep after spending twenty hours behind the wheel in a video released by police the twenty eight year old man apologized he says his foot accidentally hit the accelerator pedal at least eight people were injured in the incident as red square a shootout and house fire in iraq u.s. capitol have killed at least eight people shattering a short lived truce between president daniel ortega and the protesters who want him gone among those killed in managua six members of one family including two told le's pull his will. police a managua say a group of hooded men through a fire bomb into this house. a family of six killed in the fire including two children medics failed to resuscitate. my two cousins survived one was burned and the other was hit she fell onto the balcony she was thrown and glass
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toward my body my hands my head as we got out of here he got out by for his. neighbors assisted firefighters and dousing the blaze while helping survivors escape from the balcony they say police surrounded the house and burned it after the owner refused to let them place a sniper on the roof to guard a nearby checkpoint. the owners had nothing to do with this they were christian people in the policeman if the porch they wanted to burn the house and they managed to burn it police say they will investigate the cause of the fire. protests began two months ago after a decision by president daniel ortega to cut pensions ortega's critics say the former revolutionary leader is running a corrupt government protesters want him to step down and the government to implement democratic reforms the opposition really won't be happy with anything less than a premature departure from the presidency of ortega human rights groups say at
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least one hundred seventy mostly young people have been killed since mid april and confrontations between heavily armed soldiers and demonstrators armed with rocks and slingshots. protesters are calling on ortega's government to end the violence which the president blames on foreign agitators and drug cartels the latest violence flared hours after troops have been signed between the government and civic groups right now there's no external institution no internal. real leadership that can bring about a change here who doubts one nickname in the president has yet to respond to demands by the catholic church for early elections ortega's third term as head of one of the poorest countries in the americas is set to end in two thousand and twenty one the violence meanwhile has splintered the country between loyalists and protesters slowing down tourism investments and grinding the country's economy to
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a halt culture durgin on al-jazeera. the us president has used his weekly address to blame rival democratic party politicians they don't closing loopholes that allow gang members into the country donald trump says the democrats are protecting immigrant criminals connected to violent groups. like him it's the team his administration has adopted a zero tolerance policy for immigrants crossing the border illegally and it's facing particular criticism for some three hundred children from parents as they detained had to construct his ball from washington d.c. facing mounting criticism over his new policy of separating children from their parents who are caught crossing the border illegally president donald trump sought to offer another justification for his so-called zero tolerance policy saturday the president says this policy which aims to criminally prosecute every adult caught
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crossing the border without authorization is a deterrence for keeping central american gay members out of the united states just weeks ago and illegal m.-s. thirteen gang member was arrested for allegedly murdering a man and burning his body the gang member reportedly edgard our country through declaring loopholes for unaccompanied minors the democrats allow those loopholes to be there they could change him so easily but they don't want to do that for strictly political reasons democrats say the immigration system needs to be fixed but taking children away from their parents is not part of the answer the trouble ministration separated nearly two thousand children from their parents in the first six weeks of the zero tolerance policy that kids are being held in privately run detention centers like this one in
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california this is video shot and released by the government reporters were allowed to briefly tour the facility but were banned from taking pictures or speaking with the children. voting will begin later in colombia for a runoff presidential election the choice is between conservative even and his left wing rival gustavo petro. to tackle inequality but some fear the former could turn colombia into another venezuela and the galahad reports of bogota. petro has captured the imagination of colombia's young voters his stance on tackling inequality reducing reliance on carbon fuels and ending the status quo of right wing politics appeals to a new generation either. it's sort of all got to get it's time to end two hundred years of the same families governing us this is the chance for free citizenship and equality for all your goodness i think is the only candidate that has
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a long term vision for our country when it comes to fighting climate change and creating a modern liberal democracy no stranger to politics gustavo petro is a former member of the nineteen rebel group four years ago he became the mayor of bog atop one of the most powerful political positions in the country his tenure was marred by controversy critics say autocratic style was abrasive a supporter of the historic peace accords with the far rebels this intellect of the left has emerged as a real contender. whatever happens gustavo petro has the distinction of being the most successful leftist candidate in this country's history he does however face some stiff opposition particularly from those in the business community say a petro presidency could lead to economic ruin. oh when we meet mario hernandez at his factory in bogota he's enthusiastically handing out caps emblazoned with the name of petros opponent even ducking and mendez is one of the biggest manufacturers
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in colombia like many in the business community he's concerned that petros policies are antibusiness. i don't know what he hears against the productive class he wants to tikal and found to be gone as in the give a small plot of land to farmers that's not how you run the country you care to generate employment doxies and consumption. to winnow through needs the support of undecided voters like artist gabrielle or sanchez she's leaning towards the fifty eight year old and tells us she's feeling pressure to decide i've seen it and this social media. so people all the time say if you vote for. people like this. and a lot of hate. for decades colombia's fought against leftist guerrillas now one is a leading presidential candidate with a chance of shaping this country's future and again look at al-jazeera colombia.
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australia a lot to be moving its embassy in israel to jerusalem despite a push to do so when some of its conservative coalition government the youth arm of the senior party called for the government to follow the u.s. president's lead and relocate to tel aviv from tel aviv pardon me they voted forty three to thirty one in favor of the move but the foreign ministers rejecting the idea last month the u.s. opened its embassy in jerusalem which it now recognizes as israel's capital. actress and u.n. h.c.r. special envoy julie visually has visited the iraqi city of mosul to be terribly is left destitute after the defeat of i saw the our group was pushed out almost a year ago though it occupied most of the three years to get into a stronghold of the so-called caliphate one hundred thousand residents fled during the fighting which destroyed most of the city's infrastructure this is the worst devastation i've seen in all my years that you need to see are these people have lost everything and the trauma and the loss that they have suffered is
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unparalleled they're here on their own with very little support next to nothing and they're rebuilding themselves with their bare hands they're moving the rubble with their bare hands and their bodies in this rubble that stay here and you can smell the bodies and some of them have family members that are here and there are unable to move them egypt has increased fuel prices by as much as fifty percent as part of all stereotype measures as well as the rai's and the cost of petrol and cooking gas people will also pay higher taxes says it's the third time the government's increased fuel prices since twenty fifteen egypt is trying to reduce its debts that attract foreign investment young children barely at school a job being paid a dollar a day to make cigarettes in bangladesh that's according to human rights groups to be the urging the government to do more to enforce child labor laws but they admit
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that's difficult as the children families rely on the body the child structure has more this is a cigarette manufacturing factory in bangladesh but there are few if any machines working. here is secretly filmed these pictures the reason the factory owner refused to spur a mission to film is because of the children working here. the bangladesh government says it's doing all it can to crack down on child labor but there is little evidence of that in this factory. some of the children making these cheap cigarettes non-locally is beauty's look barely ten years old. but the money they earn helps their families survive many children work at home making the paper choose which is sent to the factory to be filled with tobacco they get around forty cents for every three thousand chooks the average wage is around a dollar
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a day fifteen year old mo some of the sheets a cartoon works with her younger brothers and sisters making babies four days a week but unlike many others in the industry she also goes to school you guys go to a bar we work to help our family this is how we survive my parents taught me this line of work at a very young age i don't like doing it you have to sit in the same position and work long hours we don't even make that much money. according to the bangladesh label the minimum legal age for employment is fourteen united nations children's agency unicef says in forsman is difficult because of where most of the children work in small factories workshops from home. will act. this should be a different chess of jobs for these people other than the tobacco industry they are at least two million people working nationwide in this sector this should be alternative employment opportunities provided by government for all these work as
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then we ourselves have been willing to shut down this sector. funded issues finance minister has repeatedly called for the beauty factories about one hundred twenty of them to be closed down. a recent study by the human rights organization praga focused on nine factories it found around fifteen thousand of the twenty one thousand workers with children some as young as four years old. stratford al-jazeera and you can follow all the stories that we're covering here by logging on to our website at al-jazeera dot com. you're watching i was there i was the whole robin these are all top news stories the refugee ship aquarius has pulled into the spanish port of the land sea a week after it's only a multi-talented away it's the second of three boats carrying hundreds of people
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who were seeking asylum the migrants were stranded at sea for more than a week also a historic deal has been signed along the grease macedonia border under they preliminary agreement to the government in scorpio except to change the country's name to the republic of north of macedonia that will differentiate it from a greek province also called macedonia this has been at the center of a twenty seven year dispute between the two countries yes paul says most e-mail after our aim is to make sure that this song of joy and happiness will be sung for centuries to come by many generations in both languages in your country in our country from our people to your people and that will be a song celebrating peace for turnitin success prosperity and good neighborly relations between our two peoples after all the previous generations have had enough of moaning now it's high time we once again celebrate birth a new beginning it's time we celebrate the birth of our shared future it's time we sing joyful songs in the balkans. that shine your toes in at by signing the final
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agreement for the settlement of the name dispute and for a strategic partnership between our two countries indeed we have moved mountains at times when many voiced their doubts we have proven that yes it can be done it is possible today we are putting an end to a dispute we are putting an end to a years long difference that has risen a wall that has burdened the friendly relationships between neighbors. the driver of a taxi which played into a crowd of world cup football fans in moscow says he fell asleep after spending twenty hours at the wheel in a video released by police the twenty eight year old from coca stand apologized he said his foot accidentally hit the accelerator pedal at least eight people were injured in the incident near moscow's red square afghan government cease fire with the taliban has been extended despite a suicide bombing that killed at least thirty six people and a temporary truce was in place in the eastern province of nangarhar when the attack
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happened i saw has claimed responsibility those were the news headlines the cure resisted is next.
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top us think of this story it's it's. wow. so this is the explosive yes it's basically a wearable robot. research and development from new medicines is costly and time consuming and almost always profit driven so where disease affects only the poor but market is neglected meaning no new medicines. is one such neglected tropical disease it's the world's second largest processor killer off to malaria killing forty thousand people every year but has had no new drugs developed for decades. i'm dr dobson when i mean ethiopia to explore how big pharma are being mobilized in an unprecedented global initiative to find and fast track a cure for. colors are also known as visceral leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease transmitted through the bite of infected sand flies. when they
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feed on humans parasites infect the body and are internalized by microfiche is immune cells designed to protect us from infections. here the parasites multiply and destroy the last infecting other five pacific cells the parasites that move through the lymphatic and vascular systems infiltrating the bone marrow liver and spleen. symptoms include fever weight loss enlargement of the liver and spleen anemia and the weakened immune system. the disease affects millions across ninety eight countries. lol and rural if you're just north of the equator here due to the hot climate an agricultural lifestyle colors are is endemic . ethiopia learned has more than four and a half thousand patients every year many of them male migrant farm workers working
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long hours in the field. with them it's a three to four hour drive to the nearest treatment center but for those are unable to pay for transport it's a long walk. fortunately their destination is the center for the treatment of color. for the last ten years going to university hospital has been conducting successful clinical trials involving the combination of two all drugs sodium stupid lucan eight or s.s.g. and para myself. in twenty ten the world health organization officially adopted this combination as the new first line therapy for callous in east africa it's the first movement in half a century and dr aramis deros has been leading the way. our previous regimen was so
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depressed we're going to commit four set a few days with a combination we're able to shorten the regiment to seventeen days that's good yes indeed and if you can see was more cement factors and so managed to kill ninety five percent of patients where is the new combination is that much better than before well in terms of if it is more or less similar. but in terms of. hospital hospitals base it tends or spittle base to seventeen that's the biggest tournament. just two drug combination therapy is safe and has almost half the hospital stay of the earlier treatment. that's a crucial reduction for both patients eager to return to work and the health sector struggling to accommodate everyone currently all twenty six beds here are full. fledged everything is love it must be nice to meet if you're welcomed this is it yes leishmaniasis research treatment. because.
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after the heavy demands of this year's high season the hospital has run out of power in my city and despite the new w.h.o. guidelines is forced to return to the full thirty day regimen of painful and toxic s.s.g. injections. so this is one of four words. he fills the very heart fever how long have you had fever. because you know better but. gosh he has been sick for around six months now right. to have pain in your stomach that are learning. them but who was first suspected of having malaria due to the similarity in early symptoms. but after not responding to treatment he was referred to another clinic
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which finally diagnosed colors are. now six months after he first fell ill he's in good hands but if it was left any longer he might not have been so lucky. patients who live in a very remote place is not able to find out. and subsequently when the really weak and. then they go. and now that you're here in hospital. not working how does that affect your earnings as clinician return can exchange it's also that there are tons of. mistakes and being in. debt and sanitation can lead to a. number who is likely to normalize within a week still like all colors are patients due to the dangers of s.s.g.
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kill require around the clock monitoring and toxicity testing for the entire thirty one days of treatment. the new combination therapy is an improvement but until these toxic drugs are replaced entirely by new safer and more if acacias ones it's still not good enough. as a neglected tropical disease. is desperately in need of a new research and development boost. a few thousand miles away help is at hand through a new global initiative. we're here in geneva not far in fighting the un and the world health organization but over here we're going to meet the n.t.i. the drugs the neglected diseases initiative. d n d i r the nonprofit organization behind the s.s. g.p.m. development. founded in two thousand and three with the help of medicines of front
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nobel prize money they've been rallying commercial pharmaceutical companies around the world to share their resources. already they've gained access to a limited selection of big pharma drug libraries and now have a portfolio of fifteen promising new drugs in various stages of trial for several neglected diseases but now it's a particularly important time for them to see charlie mowbray head of drug discovery is the architect of the all new n t d drug discovery booster a project is. and to access and speed up new therapies for color well it's a great time to visit is an email on just about the center for the world's leading pharmaceutical companies ok so after america ace high qaeda quickly you can see here there's a chemical structure or some information here of different ways of depicting the structure or its activity against the parasite also it happens to kill t. crusie that causation i guess so this compound will kill the parasites that cause
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disease and leishmaniasis really we will have screened one hundred thousand compounds maybe to from this one they really precious the parasites are really difficult to kill the properties of this is still quite a long way away from what we need for something or long from really become an oral meds from swallow and it'll kill the parasite so we would normally have to start making compounds my hand one at a time really slow really expensive but the companies that have been working in drug discovery for fifty or hundred years already have big collections hundreds of thousands or even millions of compounds and they're going to have some good look a bit like this one this is drug discovery. d.n.d. i is essentially on the hunt for a look alike to this compound one that may have even better properties for the purposes of a new drug for colors are. but they can't do it alone that's where the brewster comes in each participating pharmaceutical company has effectively opened their entire back catalogue and what's more they'll lead the search themselves if you
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persuaded these companies and it's in their interests to do. what i think was many many motivations but one of the things i like i'm a scientist i used to work for francois pharmaceutical company the people on the other side of this project and no different from me they're really excited about working on a disease like this because we can all see the appalling need here most people want to help and i hope some other companies are going to join this project quite soon so we really want this to be a global console to really name and shame the ones i have inside. where we're working hard with some other companies. it takes a long time in discussions like this we hope some of the companies will join us here and so you're going to click send well i'm just about to do that so so yeah we can send it. and i'll be off the office as in in the u.k. in japan at the end of the drugs will be made available at no cost or low cost to the patients that need them so an exciting time fingers crossed.
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for pharmaceutical giants have so far signed the booster contract which means d n d i now gain unlimited access to millions of compounds one of the companies astra zeneca is in the u.k. the other three are in japan shinobi. and days i have received charlie's e-mail with the seat. we're looking for the man or some of the mail from d.m.g. i i believe is in here and so she hi hello it's nice to meet you let me have that so you look at structure of molecules on computer models as well as in real life clinically assure us in your family what you do for us that sort of look out there and i think if this is going vessels we speak to measure our structure. the first all these compounds that see the compounds and imagine this is the seed that came from the n.d.i. the n.d.i. seed is seventeen parts carbon four parts nitrogen fifteen parts hydrogen and one
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part chlorine connected into this unique shape. this combination and shape closely fits and binds to a vulnerable spot on the leash mania parasites interfering with their mechanics by so far unknown mechanisms but the fit could be better it's like fitting a key to a lock by intelligent trial and error one point zero is a shop for food fight this is simple ok this is not a sin but you don't have to be a chemist to say that this doesn't look like that so. i would such a compound based on chemicals. and i took jack. straw screaming into ronnie oh yes it just really quick round yes. ninety four percent and you can see two rings three rings triangles and the next one is eighty five percent and so on so forth that didn't even take two seconds.
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after a successful scan for compounds with a similar chemical makeup today in the eyes see the team conduct a second scan for shape and behavioral similarities. really fast in this system we can search the compound which are the same in our property is. not a structure itself not just so actually it's an additional layer of screening for similarities so these compounds. actually exist in your library in this building of course we're going to see them. of course thank you very much as i have in fact found ninety six matching compounds that d.n.d. i have requested to see. him manages the archive with many many. automated stories in there. this lark has three hundred eighty four miniature like . wow that's so small this troop contained.
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inside of you know how many you hold in the. store it's ten million ten million. wow and i can see a barcode on the bottom here is that unique. armed with the codes on that sushi and because we're short list kim is quick to retrieve the ninety six compounds as selected by d n d r this alternated storage system houses ten samples of every drug compound on a database. kept at minus twenty degrees celsius so even here is ok wrong side. shows over it so i know. one of these ninety six could be a new cure or a basis of a new cure for colors we're really right here can i can we hold what sure this one. wow. is
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a very small amount so it is very hard to find a little i don't care monastery this is a mazing literally this is one of the ninety six. just out of curiosity this is this is a compound this was a drug that was being researched and it's here in storage was it being researched for example this was produced in project to barrel cancer agent really the product itself. because they couldn't find a compound has enough. expecting to why does the company keep them in storage if it doesn't go anywhere we thought it to have another possibility to cure. and now we can now we can see maybe this new. maybe it's a new class of drug and it was originally intended to be
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a cancer drug i think that's incredible. the samples are now part for delivery and will head to a korean lab where they'll go through rounds of testing against infected cells. the most successful of them will become a new seed and the process will begin all over again further refining the candidate compounds. and off they go to career. within a year d.n.d. i expect to identify the first truly promising new drug candidates. that's a very welcome prospect for dr will continue the clinical trial until we did. which is a bit. some tablets would be better to bring more because you can't isn't
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it if you get. a fix that you can easily treated this kind of patients in the field where they are found in very resource limited. just remarkable about abs with poor hands of us and he said so the best would be to have. the right to put it colored. for now although he's doing much better demba who will have to put up with that t.v.'s long hospital stay and the daily s.s.g. . so plenty more painful injections. for going to the board. with d.n.d. eyes drug offering a glimmer of hope for the fight against. their aim is to use this method of working for all of the neglected diseases giving new purpose to all those compounds previously locked away in volts.
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despite developments in medicine and technology the only mobility option available for the millions of people with some form of promises remains as it did centuries ago a wheelchair and the limitations a will chairs are not just with regard to ability on numerous medical and psychological issues associated with that. and i'm here in san francisco america to find out about an exciting new development for people with chronic. respond to meet our ashes a young gentleman who had a spinal cord injury quite recently and has been found ever since thanks for letting me come to your house. wow that is some of you got the whole day yeah right underneath. so i. ask you about your accident it was you know i was hanging out of friends and we were locked out of his apartment he
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lived on the third floor and figured i'd climb up to his balcony and get in and save the day as i was getting up i fell so i fell for about ten meters landed on my . back as i kind of came to the hospital i noticed as i was lying there that i couldn't move my legs something was pretty seriously wrong i broke my c five and c six vertebrae how do you cope we such a dramatic. impact on your life i just don't see any other option but to cope. i don't want to say embrace what happened but really accept what happened and kind of move forward. spinal cord injury is. incredibly devastating injury it affects everything from physical strength and everything to when you need to go use the restroom and not being able to look at people i level constantly have to look up there's so many benefits to being able to stand up and
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walk aside from just the mobility aspect of it so to be able to potentially experience that and feel those benefits i think is just incredibly exciting. exit wound exe is an organization that is at the forefront of technological advancements which are allowing people like rush the opportunity to walk again. very impressive office thank you we're really lucky to have and it's very cool lord ford factory really yeah. so this is the suit yes it's basically a wearable robot it takes a person and it can provide torte to their joints where they maybe can't so when i stand i provide torque on my knees so i don't like this but then sue provides that and you provide everything else so your weight doesn't actually go through this so your weight goes through you naturally so there's the obvious benefit of allowing
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that person to be able to stand up and walk but there are the clinical benefits that will wear of the suit things like your area tract infection. movement complications and then things like pressure sores all of those we think we can substantiate that walking getting up and walking is just going to help. so this one here is fresh off our assembly line how's it controlled it looks at various sensors all around the city and when you when you position yourself correctly with your shoulders basically center go over your lead foot it knows you want to take another step because it looks kind of unnatural it's suddenly just standing like this turns out people only really do that when they're going to take another step so then it takes another step so how is it used to clinical practice at the moment so right now it's designed for use in a rehab center with
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a physical therapist the dream of course is that eventually you get those home units and there's a new replacement for him or the wheelchair time during their day. all rush arrives with his parents to use the exit seat and to walk for the first time since his accident i've been doing refer. to it's just. you need. to attach to this so yeah that's one of their safety margin you know. this is a good look though it's good. it would suggest. three years. but i have a fairly interesting. very interesting. it's
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the first that is always the right. one. you used to go. about it just once the walkman. just doesn't like this whole sitting thing in your room mr gonzalez. so what do you think. i'm really excited to see in gift position because i had ceased to be very active in running biking there psyche everything. i think given that side books should be defined i think jim. i think any head that comes from technology would be good off the hall for now are gets to control the x. so you suit him so that there's four different buttons that would trigger the first
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time any one of the buttons would do the same. lead on the right this is easier. because you are more in control yeah it's kind of like i just have to figure out where to go. already the psychological benefits are clear for our it's not normal to be used creating your head up all the time. feels like you're. part of society a part of your communication and conversations again. you know the future is going to get really exciting just in the bio nick space in general i think you're going to be able to see someone come into an airplane and in an exoskeleton and sit down and an economy seat and you're going to see grandma at the mall and she's going to show off her hip new x. so pants you know she's going to be able to take a walk with her grandkids that she couldn't take it's not far that's what's really
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exciting is it's really not science fiction anymore. i would like to see this technology go to a point where it replaces a wheelchair if not all the time the much time. eighty percent of the visually impaired could be cured without access to treatment . and where there is a will there is a way of training state of the all tossed metal covering over seventy seven countries probably every these patients on the scene survey every road and in pakistan. provides free treatment for over one million patients and yet the cure revisited which is iraq. the nativist news as it breaks this is
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rescued refugees finally dock in spain after being turned away by italy and malta. smiles and signatures greece and macedonia agree on a name change after a twenty seven year dispy. too young for school but old enough to make cigarettes a special report on the child workers in bangladesh and i'm peter stem a little bit of a sports including the defending champions germany open a world cup account later against mexico in moscow better more later this news hour . now the refugee ship aquarius has arrived at the spanish pulled a valencia a week after being turned away from both italy and malta now this is the second of three boats carrying hundreds of migrants and refugees who are seeking asylum now
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the third and final ship is due to arrive within the coming hour now the migrants were stranded in the mediterranean sea for more than a week before space agreed to take them in. migration always be with us as it has been with us forever and it has to be managed and it is not necessarily shouldn't us to not miss would be seen as a problem you know and a crisis not to be solved it's about working all along the continuum from the countries of origin through the points of transit to the countries of destination it is about making it legal it is about making it you know protected so that people do not fall prey to traffickers and smugglers so it's about you know a human situation that needs to be managed you know human way. we can go live now to that dulcie valencia speak to a correspondent called penn hall and so the aquarists is now docked and the people
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now are presumably being processed. they are being processed martinez and it is the red hold vessel which is the aquarius that's operated by the charity s.o.s. maybe and that really is the symbol of this current crisis this is the vessel that has been in the middle of this political wrangling for more than a week leaving six hundred twenty nine migrants floating around the around the mediterranean looking for a safe haven but i want to bring in the land from s.o.s. militarily and find out a little bit more about what's going on so much children right now on the aquarius you've got the most vulnerable migrants and refugees on board there what is the procedure right now yes we have women children and families saw the procedure is of course not to split the family medical cases first and the people who need very a lot of attention first and there are also many people victims of torture victims
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of treatment may be victims of rape and they require special attention and this is were those operations take a lot of time also because we need to flag every single person because this is very important to us it's every inch of this person is a human being with a story a specific story and they really need to have the opportunity as well to tell the story in order to get the proper protection here in europe now i'm sure they're overjoyed about arriving on dry land but at the same time they likely to be stressed and frightened arriving in a new country having to give explanations to the or forty's yeah that's what strikes me every time during disembarkation i've done many many disembarkation and it's a very tough moment also for us rescuers because we can see. when the ship isn't touring the paul they're very happy they are singing praying but they're also
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looking at all rays and was really scared i was going to be. me in this land i don't know they don't know this place i don't know anybody in this place but they have this trust they really believe that they are safe and they know they are safe and we know also that they are safe and that's the most important thing for us that finally they reach a place of safety because those people most of them but the vast majority of them they have been through a horrible situation in libya they call libya the libyan her they all tell us about horrific stories of extortion being detained in detention centers for weeks months being used as slaves sex slaves as well for women and can you imagine you know then afterwards going through this journey now they have been for more than eight days at sea because when they have been rescued last saturday there were already at sea for hours they had been pushed out to sea by the
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smugglers a few hours ago so can you imagine the situation of this people they really don't know where they are and they have seen the costs of mud that they have seen the course of sicily. and finally the coast of spain and they know they can't touch land and they know they are safe and this is down to the good news good news for a few but there are thousands more people with these came from too and you can't be there because you've had to sell fifteen hundred kilometers to a port that is very far away from your area of operations how is the political wrangling affecting military and his operations right now yeah indeed this people this six hundred done twenty nine people are very lucky because there have been rescued by humanitarian organization all the italian coast guards or. vessels and they don't have they haven't been intercepted by the libyan coast guard and sent
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back back to libya as this is now happening even more often so. these people you know in this tragedy are very lucky indeed the fact that we had to do this journey six days see this very long trip to spain and useless trip to spain because. then there were all the solutions. european authorities they could guarantee a port of safety in another place sometime after agree on you know how to dispatch the refugees in different countries but no we had to do this journey in the meantime we couldn't be in the area and during that time. on monday nine hundred people have been rescued by guards and then disembarked in new delhi and then the day after there was a shipwreck and the u.s. navy rescued only forty one survivors of the shipwreck usually on the rubber boats there are like one hundred twenty one hundred forty people so what does it mean it
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means that at least maybe hundreds of people have died and we will never know all of this now there are all the human need to re an organization at sea but not enough saw what we really want to plead for we want i think with risk to fleet in the mediterranean and we are pleading for this since the beginning of our mission twenty eight months ago we haven't been heard until now and i think it's really now the time that europe here at this school thank you very much mathilde and i think martine when you hear the mixture there of the humanitarian tragedy going on and the scale of the political wrangling it really is leaving a lot of relief organizations wondering just what can they do not to solve the situation but just to manage the flow of people to help human beings in need all right karl thank you very much indeed well let's just take a look at the pull out valencia called where we are awaiting within the next hour
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the third and final ship carrying the remainder of those six hundred thirty migrant saw refugees because earlier in the day and italian coast guard ship had arrived with some of the refugees and migrants on board then as you know the. paris is just docked and we are as i say expecting the third and final ship to arrive within the hour and of course we'll let you know as and when it does let's move on now because an historic deal to change the name of macedonia has been signed very close to the greek border under the agreement the government in scope will change the country's name to the republic of north macedonia that will distinguish it from the province in northern greece the name has been at the center of a twenty seven year dispute between the two countries the accord will now go to both parliament for final approval. yes because most e-mail after our aim is to
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make sure that this song of joy and happiness will be sung for centuries to come by many generations in both languages in your country in our country from our people to your people and that will be a song celebrating peace for turnitin success prosperity and good neighborly relations between our two peoples after all the previous generations have had enough of moaning now it's high time we once again celebrate birth a new beginning its time we celebrate the birth of our shared future it's time we sing joyful songs in the balkans. that a ship i know they're not gonna shine your toes him out by signing the final agreement for the settlement of the name dispute and for a strategic partnership between our two countries indeed we have moved mountains at times when many voiced their doubts we have proven that yes it can be done it is possible today we are putting an end to a dispute we are putting an end to a years long difference that has risen a wall that has burdened the friendly relations between neighbors. well our correspondents are covering this story from athens and from the greek macedonia
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border in a moment we'll speak to john psaropoulos who's in the greek capital first day let's go to sonia who is there at lake which is where the signing ceremony took place and alexis tsipras talking of joyful songs being sung in the balkans it sounds pretty confident that this is a deal that is going to hold and is going to be finally agreed to. well there's a lot riding on this marty both men came they sign your agreement they made very warm gestures to each other spoke a lot about cooperation and unity that was just before they sailed off on to the macedonian side of this lake for another for a working lunch presumably to thrash out more about what lies ahead for these two leaders and the thing is they still both have an awful lot of opposition to contend
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with in the country both countries there is they're facing particularly from hardliners quite a lot of criticism that either side had had backed down had betrayed the cause but they address these issues certainly in their speeches for example of prime minister but us stated that he would be opening up new border posts between macedonia and greece as well quite an important issue there as well and he spoke of winners and losers in the region as well how important it was actually for there to be cooperation here in order for there to be more perspiring in the region those words also were echoed by the macedonian prime minister ziad as well he also directly addressed opposes of the deal saying example like you are absolutely entitled to have your opinion he said but this really is important to engage and to move
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away from the past and to not look back at it but really there was a very much a strong call for.

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