zero. hello there i'm laura kyle this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. faces a tough challenge to elect a president with increased powers. russia intensifies as strikes in southern syria as the government continues its offensive to capture rebel held areas. donald trump's middle east advisor says the u.s. will soon announce its peace plan even if the palestinians are not on board i'm joined again with all your well companies including.

and nailbiter the german fans and critics bending champions keep that sentiment hopes alive at the last minute. so take his presence as expected to vote soon and high stakes elections that will complete the country's transition to a new executive presidential system. seeking reelection for a new five year term of vastly increased powers under the new system and is really at party is hoping to retain its majority in parliament his main rival has wooed voters with an unexpectedly engaging campaign. and these all the other prominent contenders for turkey's expanded presidential role we have action from the nationalist party she's promised to reestablish a parliamentary system and. and the state of emergency. is the candidate for the

prove kurdish h d p party he's campaigned from jail where he's being held on terrorism charges well we have correspondents covering this vote across turkey sit him cause he is live for us in istanbul will also have mama deval in the kurdish stronghold of back in the south eastern part of the country but first let's cross over to bertha smith he's in the capital ankara for us so when this is a real watershed moment for turkey and for the first time in many years not assured a win. i think this is a lot tighter than heard one thought it was going to be when he first called this election two months ago laura then he was almost perhaps a short of relatively easy victory but since then the opposition has formed an alliance and with that alliance they hope in parliament they can rob the ruling out part of his parliamentary majority the main opposition the republican people's

party has come up with a credible contender a contender and really give no one a run for his money and has drawn very large crowds to his rallies across the country the sort of crowds of early one previously only was able to draw so that's made the the polling suggests that this is going to be a lot tighter significantly as well the economy has taken a hit in those last two months the lira has lost twenty percent of its value since the beginning of the year and there's high unemployment amongst the youth in the electorate turbulent economic times ahead so with all of those the opposition is hoping that at the very least they can rob that part of its parliamentary majority and maybe also stop president getting more than fifty percent of the vote this time around and that would force a second round runoff probably against laura ok bernard per moment many thanks for joining us there from over now she's in istanbul and suddenly somebody we had expected to see him voting there in the past hour what might be the delay.

well fully this time present our don is a bit late in voting normally every year as a tradition he comes to the school behind us and he rolls between eleven to twelve am but today despite the crowd that waiting outside for him people stumble citizens who want to show their support to him. we haven't seen president are dying yet his advisers tell us that he's about to come and it's time this is going to be a very interesting and challenging election for president are done not because only a presidential and parliamentarian election is being underway today but also our dog when you look at the. close call the referendum in two thousand and seventeen are done lost some support in a stumble and he ran the city for around four years before as

a mayor stumbled metropolitan city mayor he has the party grounds here but is stumble is going to be a battlefield for both the republican party and add ons ruling ak party as the business world the capital is also here and the latest financial. chaos or let's say financial crisis has affected the businessman a lot in istanbul so our don is going to be very challenged today and after he rolled syria in the school right behind us he's expected to stay in his house in istanbul and after the election results are announced he is expected to fly back to the capital ankara to evaluate the results ok sentiment for the moment very much for joining us there from istanbul is going to view now from deborah care that's the kurdish heartland with mohamed vow and a lot of the kurdish vote is

a significant one hair but not because will be choosing a pro kurdish people she said this also is a key battleground area. yes this is a restive and it's a hot spot in the selection for most of the one he has been campaigning here earlier this month trying to win the hearts and minds of as many kurds as you could but we know the story it's a long history between the kurds and the turkish governments and that story is going on in two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen there were clashes and fighting between government troops and opponents of the government troops the government accused those opponents of links with the p k k the. stand workers party accused by the government of being a terrorist organization so that imminent so the impact of that long history is felt here in the streets yesterday was talking to people and they were telling us on the other hand out also you know the head of the h d p party is in jail since

two thousand and sixteen and to them that's not fair he has to be released he should have been released before this vote to be able to campaign and to talk to you elect of the kurds as you may shouldn't they their vote is the size of his election because they have a if they get a majority if they get like more than more than ten percent of the votes like in two thousand and fifteen in the first round of the election two thousand and fifteen they got lost thirteen seats in the parliament if they do that again today they can they can deny the ak party majority in the parliament and us very decisive also in the presidential election if there is a second round they can they can tilt the balance in favor of anyone who is opposed of once all their vote is very very crucial and they are considered kingmakers in this election ok i mean slate is that from david hare thanks very much of it. attend some other news now in the united states has reportedly told syrian rebels

not to expect military support in southern syria near jordan and the israeli occupied golan heights and to deescalate. and zone was established there last year which includes parts of the provinces and connect trump rebels there and now facing a syrian government offensive answer and activists report at least twenty five russian air strikes hit eastern parts of daraa overnight our reports. this is the first time government forces have used battle bombs in the year. helicopters struck several villages in what appears to be a major advance to take over the city but this violates a truce that was brokered by russia and the united states in africa to bring an eye and to the seven year war the rebels who are losing ground remain defiant.

we don't recognize assad's authority he has destroyed our cities and killed our people he destroyed syria to stay in power we will never recognize him and we reject the presence of the reigning and afghan militias it's only syrians who should decide the future of the country. the syrian army is massing troops in the area the opposition says thousands of shiite militias are also moving in dar was the focal point of the syrian uprising in two thousand and eleven but in recent years the rebels have been retreating they now control one neighborhood in the city and a few areas on the border with jordan this is a show of force by the free syrian army. for years the f.s.a. was trained and armed by the u.s. europe and gulf countries but that support has diminished over the last. anti

forcers are largely outgunned and outnumbered. yes president donald trump son in law and senior advisor says the administration will soon present its peace plan for israel and palestine and he said this will happen with all without input from palestinian president mahmoud abbas he made the comments in an interview with palestinian newspaper al could string his trip to israel because she was quoted as saying that he doubts about us as capable of making a deal but added that he's still willing to work with them. communications with the trump administration after recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel all of the details of the so-called deal of the century haven't been released says was the most from the leaks so far the palestinians would initially control gaza and less than half of the occupied west bank and a palestinian capital would be created from villages surrounding jerusalem israelis

would retain security control over the jordan valley and have total control of palestinian travel between west bank and gaza well the corridor will be created between palestinian territory and jerusalem's holy sites it appears palaces would have to surrender the principle of the right of return for palestinian refugees expelled during the creation of israel and the future of illegal israeli settlements in the final border between palestine and israel would be decided at a later date or force it joins us now from west jerusalem sorry no detail about the content of this plan but some pretty clear indications there about the direction the u.s. intends to take. yes this was an interesting interview from that point of view two things really stood out in terms of its content one was the way that question was pushing the economic line talking about people palestinians looking for realistic solutions that they might embrace and

specifically saying that they would be less invested in their leaders talking points than seeing how a deal would give them and the future generations new opportunities more and better paying jobs and better prospects the other thing that stood out was the way that he's trying really it seems to bypass the leadership of manhood of our city its entirety saying it will first of all getting the interview to this palestinian newspaper trying directly to appeal to people in their homes and not through the filter of the palestinian leadership and also talking about how palestinians would actually be fine with a deal potentially and that might be what's the palestinian leadership is scared about not sure that abbas had the ability to take the leap in terms of making compromises towards a peaceful solution but i think what also is very interesting here is what is being left out i mean there's no talk in this about settlements about occupation about

trump's extremely controversial declaration about it jerusalem being israel's capital the move of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem the right of return of palestinian refugees to their historic homes and the idea that these are just simply talking points of the palestinian leadership seems to miss the point that for many palestinians these are very dearly held core principles as well and so have we seen the powers in egypt respond. well i think for the palestinian leadership it is seen very much as adopting an israeli perspective that something that they have accused the united states under donald trump of doing since the beginning of this administration and the idea that it would be an economic led program is something that they say is been a principal in a policy a verb by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for some time the palestinian presidential spokesman said that the united states was creating false

facts and falsifying history as far as the plans for gaza went to talking about increasing the connectivity of blaming palestinians bad leadership for holding gazan people hostage and really trying to come up with some sort of humanitarian package that he so that there was a project aimed at splitting the palestinian homeland to prevent the establishment of a palestinian state the secretary of the p.l.o. and longtime lead negotiator sagarika went further saying that the united states was trying to overthrow the p.a. dealership in the west bank and use gaza as a way of trying to sow division and and undermine the prospects of a palestinian state so it does seem that there is no real prospect of the palestinians signing up or really or doing anything other than rejecting this plan even before it's been put out there and for all that the administration under don't

trump and that jarred cushion of this interview talks about trying to appeal directly to the palestinian people rather than the current leadership well there's no real mechanism for them to talk to anyone else but the current palestinian leadership and they've made it very clear that they don't like what they've heard so far ok many thanks that update there from west jerusalem. plenty more still ahead here on the news hour including a new political alliance in iraq but can it really bring stability to a fractious country. snakebites kill more than one hundred thousand people a year we look at why this is especially a problem in nigeria. ah. could this be the happiest t.v. in the world cup joe tell you how senegal could dance their way to the knockout stages later. zimbabwe's president has shrugged off a grenade explosion close to him at

a campaign rally on saturday. i was not hurt but several others were included in the vice president. says the attack won't affect next month's presidential election the first time since longtime leader robert mugabe was ousted last november. this is. james. was above wins for further attacks as our correspondent how much us are reports from neighboring south africa right now on social media people talking about how safe is it to attend these rallies what if there's another attack so people are concerned about that of course they're also asking who could have been behind this could it be a specific individual is it a group of people all these attacks lakita increase as we head up to those

elections so far the campaign has been relatively peaceful so people are quite surprised as actually happened they also surprised how this individual managed to get so close to the president and throw that grenade so a lot of uncertainty right now but again the president telling the keep calm the security officials have things under control people much as prepare for these elections which he is will happen at the end of july. she for gender as an assistant professor who specializes in zimbabwe or somebody in politics at amherst college in the united states she says this kind of attack on a leader is highly unusual in somebody's play this is definitely the best time to be in and of bait and tackle on the life of the president in the one on a long and early on people were confused because of and you know i'm sure again just showing how new the used to those in my win situation here really is speculations that are lying around social media and that we present

a challenge or investigation but i think these are long line are possibilities all of the equipment acts as a. base of what we have to think about the internal issues and ins and the idea that whatever disagreement was be between the different factions and it ended in november into the it's year that we have some elements that are still disgruntled we might go with that absence in very recently since and so that's you know that's something to think about is basically because of how close that happened to the president this wouldn't be and i didn't any citizen who doesn't know a lot of a this is a breach of nations around the president so that's something to think about but these also opportunist political app and especially in a situation where you just had a cool we have a lot of people that may just be taking advantage of the situation and mike wants

to see the election i do destructive. and a grenade attack in ethiopia has narrowly missed the prime minister the explosion killed two people and injured more than one hundred others several people have been arrested in connection with that attack including the deputy police chief of alice ababa. the reports. this was the moment the grenade exploded close to where prime minister abby asked might was sitting. for a few moments there was confusion before members of the security forces came onto the stage and led abby atma to safety. witnesses say they saw the man who targeted the prime minister as the prime minister was just concluded his speech and that moment there was a grenade. but i think the guy was just trying to stroll the stage. beside him just took him. just went off and on sunday it was

a bloody end to a day that has started with so much optimism hundreds of thousands of ethiopians had gathered in the capital addis ababa mescal square to support the new prime minister since taking office in april the forty two year old has announced a series of reforms including the release of tens of thousands of prisoners the opening of state owned companies to private investment and to propose peace deal with eritrea in an address to the nation after the attack abby said that those trying to divide ethiopia would not succeed in your my fellow why not but that i'm not certain groups planned and coordinated to destroy this large gathering to kill innocent people and to spill blood on our streets they have tried very hard but their entire plot has failed the questions are being raised about whether the security operation for such a large rally was adequate some of the officers have been saying that this is an

attempt on the life of the prime minister and the definitely. supporting the rally was agreed to most ration that there is a solid support for the reformist by the prime minister but at the same time the the great attack have revealed that the reforms are still fragile prime minister abbey says he is determined to bring change to ethiopia but this attack highlights the lengths some will go to try and stop him victoria gate and be al-jazeera. iraq's prime minister heard all about he and cleric. and training into a political alliance which they say cut across sectarian and ethnic divisions. in the largest number of seats in the disputed election in may about his victory alliance was third both leaders say they're open to other parties joining them. we have notes across sectarian cross ethnic alliance to speed up forming the next

government a strong new government that serves the interests and aspirations of the iraqi people are you seeing. how the we are key to form this coalition and call upon all other political parties to join us also we call for a high level meeting with all of the political blocs to rid the country of its current crisis syed ali is a senior advisor at the international institute for democracy and electoral assistance need joins us now on skype from the tunis in capsule good to have you with us how surprising is this alliance between these old rivals. it's not particularly surprising because because of the parliamentary makeup in iraq today. to be a combination of alliances and coalitions and you want to be able to or. to form a government because a. big part of this was. into a very large. it's probably inevitable that there will be your mind says between.

three or four largest. the league of the future but so it's not it's the leaders are pros ok but looked at us had already announced an alliance with the pro wrongly . unmarry who'd come in second so does this alter that. no not really because there isn't much substance to these alliances between speech marks anyway i'm all they all they're declaring each other when you perform you know lines in order to participate in the future or the government but they're not merging there and agreed to any particular program whether this aligns with the previous one written one substance yet all it's really just establishing is that these parties and coalitions or going to work together with a view to forming a government would also establish that isn't this something we could have predicted a long time ago is that there won't be much substance and future government because the of the because of the nature of the political alliances the fact that no particular alliance or party dominates the future government or the or the or the

future parliament there won't be any green and if you know any of these coalitions as to how they detail government programs so iraqis paying much attention to any of this i think the iraqis are paying attention i mean their futures at stake but i don't think a lot of iraqis are optimistic you know because because of the things i've just described already we can tell from the trajectory or for the way in which things are developed since two thousand and five is that increasing numbers of iraqis are boycotting elections and boycotting the political process altogether and the mean challenge now though is first to reinvigorate democratic traditions here are just going to be a major challenge. and second hold no ordinary iraqis and that's going to be a tall order at this stage ok. we'll leave it that is breaking up just slightly so i will leave it that many thanks for joining us tonight from tunis. now women and saudi arabia officially allowed to drive for the first time. this video is from

just hours ago when the ban was lifted at midnight local time from saudi women is simulators to take lessons and dance of the north change this is expected to boost the economy with a rise in car sales but several outspoken supporters of women's rights were arrested just weeks before the ban was lifted some of them are still in jail. like a high as one of the most popular tourist spots in southwest china attracts up to forty million visitors every year his popularity has only cost is down four businesses have been asked to shop shop as part of an attempt to save the two hundred fifty square kilometer lake as a jam brown reports that's also upturned the livelihoods of people living in the ancient city of dolly china is rich in tradition and this is a relatively new one posing for a wedding photos before the big day and the high lake in you know province is

a popular backdrop it's one of china's biggest freshwater lakes and one of its most beautiful. almost forty million people visited in two thousand and sixteen. now that rapid growth in tourism. is taking its toll on these once pristine waters last april the government told the owners of almost two thousand hotels and restaurants near the ancient town of darlie that they'd have to close for a year the order had followed a visit by president xi jinping urged action to save the normally these narrow streets which are such a feature of the old village of dali would be teeming with visitors but since april two thousand and seventy this place has been like a ghost town and the owners of these businesses simply have no idea when they'll be able to open again. a sign of desperation rent contract expiring.

which is going to break into that bias there we can see the arrival at this istanbul polling center of the president of egypt tire and he has arrived to cast his ballot just a little later than he normally arrives we were hearing from our correspondents and presumably that he is expected generally to turn up to cost about a new on election day now it's an hour and a half past that but he's still turning up to crowns his supporters who are waiting patiently there to greet him upon his arrival he's taking his time to go into that election polling station today there's of course a crucial presidential and parliamentary election that turkey is holding today fifty six million people voting inside the country three million people living outside of the country already cast their ballots. this is

a snap poll that he's called for from two thousand and nineteen and it's designed to increase his powers as present in an unprecedented way if he indeed wins this votes he does face a serious challenge from the leader of the opposition party herman. he needs to get more than fifty percent to win the vote today if he doesn't he will go into a runoff in the first week of july and he is expected to be facing off against a home in jail. plenty to talk about very interesting day let's cross over to there be a siren he's an assistant professor at it in houghton university joins us from istanbul so what chances do you think today that this vote is going to go to a runoff and if it does go to that runoff the president advantage going to win it.

or actually the all deserve i personally would like the is the it's a bit of course card because all the on needs or anyone actually is fifty percent plus one vote but. you may win the elections now with fifty one percent and he may lose the first round with forty nine so that i mean all the experts have this opinion so if it goes to the second round which will be the first because july again in both cases there is one significant element that we should underline one obviously he wants to win elections and become president but of course equally important is that he wants to have the majority in the parliament saw dust where actually the real challenge will come to him

absolutely i was going to ask about that of course because two crucial dates taking place today the presidential one and a parliamentary one if he wins the presidency but doesn't win that majority with his ak party in parliament how is parliament likely to challenge his rule. well actually if we have let's see h.b. having or any other party in this case or your party having the majority or more than all of their coalition having more than what mr gone with the parliament it will be very difficult for him to have executive powers because in a way it is always on the line for the presidential elections so it's not going to give him the power he desired saw that's why it is very very crucial and that's why you have all these parties merging their power all the all the ideology called

differences. talk us through the changes that actually wants to make for tackling these unprecedented powers that he's already been able to give the presidential position what's he going to do with that power. well that's actually the measure the question now turkey in no way puts it on a list always highlights that in nineteen eighties nineties suffered a lot through these coalitions because there's always money fellated the law nothing was forced to fix it or but the single government party party or a k.t. . party formed since two thousand and two people can see really drastic major changes for the positive way and that's why they keep voting for him

but now actually did last year the turks voted for an away constitutional change changing the system so everything is really new it is presidential election but a lot of people are like i don't know much details about what kind of a presidential system we will have a turkish way so that is in a way frightening people but also it's a look at mr that all supporters this is something very good one person having such executive powers will contribute positively to turkey's further development because you know turkey is now really initiating this megaproject they're not like a big project you have the stumble canal you have third very big airports actually almost finishing and will be opening in october so these are like a multi-billion dollar projects the tunnels under the bosphorus so reaching bridges

don't bridge all of the boss photos etc so these are old mega projects and party all of the out of the on say that this will boost turkey's power i'm going to carry turkey to in there was twenty twenty three which is the will be celebrating one hundred anniversary all the stuff the shipment of turkey turkish republic so. good to contribute positively use. them but always use the dog who have done little raises concerns and questions for others we can just see present reach up type around picking up his ballot papers there and that will polling station taking his time posing for photographs his family their wife and children behind him now going into the booth the cast his vote who are saying these two votes today the presidential vote and the parliamentary vote very bus son

he's there in istanbul was it chose to vote in favor in two thousand and five and fifteen in the last election but interestingly rejected the referendum that gave the presidential position these these new powers so how do you think the city is going to go today. well city of what i see in the early in the morning i was where i supposed to vote but because of the call i can so i'm going to go in the afternoon. and also on the social media what i follow is that there's enormous numbers of participation which is really good because we have young and vibrant voters maybe some most of them first time or second time voters so i can see that the participation two election in a very high and excited mood is very important because it's going to be almost certain to define the outcome and the results so we don't know the outcome

obviously the expectations are very high but i think washington we should know that this is people also they're not only voting for mr out of the army or any other person they support this is the system because defame coop attempt fifteen july really tremendous had tremendous effect on turkish citizens that particular day and night was horrible horrific as you know it on the fifty people got killed and thousands injured and since then we have these emergency law in place and opposition promising to lift them but actually the government sees it absolutely necessary to tackle these terror organization called fetter because they say they're behind that very particular moment where they want to overthrow the government so all these in mind people when they vote and addition always in the last couple of months the economy became a very. concerned because the dollar went up and

a lot of things food prices went up and other very important issue of who ever comes to this position needs to really solve and tackle a very difficult one the major challenge is the kurdish question and other question as we have all the room. for the health million syrian. refugees in turkey apparently according to the statistics turkey at the moment in the walled harboring hardest number of refugees so these are all problems to you know like on the agenda one to morrow whoever comes will have to deal with them and not to forget of course is the syrian border which we have it on eight hundred fifty kilometers beyond it in. fighting against isis hundreds and thousands of

weapons distributed to you why the so we don't know what's going to happen whether it's going to constitute a serious national threat. turkey's safety and security saw a lot of. problems and or headlines will need special attention indeed they will be best than many thanks for joining us there from istanbul where we just been saying the president up type cost saying his ballots well you can read more about this high stakes election in turkey on our website that's al-jazeera dot com and there's a section specially dedicated to our extensive coverage. no rescue ship with more than two hundred refugees and migrants aboard remains in limbo in the mediterranean after italy and malta refused at permission to dock the german vessel lifeline picked up the refugees migrants between libya and the italian island of lampedusa on thursday as new government has banned migrant rescue

ships from docking its ports and called on malta to take the boat in but multi says it's not responsible. there are two hundred thirty four people on board of the libyan coast fortunately we don't have any pressing medical condition so the situation is duty right now for babies and mothers are all she readily will it appears will politics is being carried out on the back of these refugees rescuing people in danger is not a crime shouldn't gaited going law and returning them to libya is a good you need a refugee convention. spain's coast guard has rescued nearly eight hundred refugees and migrants trying to cross the mediterranean sea from north africa they were in a fleet of around twenty five small boat sailing between the moroccan and spanish coasts leaders are having an emergency meeting on sunday to discuss tensions about migration policy. the french president says he supports financial sanctions on

members refusing to accept refugees and migrants with proven asylum status and spain's new prime minister in paris that's the first official trip abroad by petra sanchez since taking office three weeks ago that a butler has more from paris. well the main message from these two leaders in paris was that the european union simply has to have a coordinated strategy when it comes to migration it has to be united now the french president emanuel markhor praised the new socialist prime minister pedro scientists from spain saying that he had showed a gesture of solidarity when he decided to open up their doors in spain to the aquarius migrants and refugees those who were rescued by that charity ship or blocked by italy macross said it was indeed an important gesture but the migration cannot be solved in that way on a case to case basis what is needed is a much wider plan now both pedro sanchez and tomorrow michael will be at

a mini migration summit in brussels on sunday and this meeting in paris is really an opportunity for these two leaders to get snow each other's the first time they met and also discuss some of the strategies which may be talked about at the summit on sunday later in the week at the main summit there is no doubt they are on the same page that they believe new solutions must be found they also both pro e.u. young dynamic leaders who really want more e.u. integration and what that means for them is that they must be solutions found to the migration crisis because they see the divisions that it is causing and they worry that that could threaten the future of the european union the future of the bloc in fact in model mark or even said that we could see a wave of populism and nationalism unless something is done snakebites kill more than one hundred thousand people every year in the world health organization says reducing the number of fatalities as a global health care many victims are in nigeria where as ahmed had just reports

doctors are struggling to save lives. this man was bitten by a snake three days ago but he's only now arriving at hospital for treatment two hundred kilometers away. a medical crisis is unfolding in nigeria why distances between medical facilities can prove the difference between life and death and medicines are either too expensive for many who are in short supply before the doctor here can finish attending to the patient his call to another victim who's just been brought in we had a severe admissions daily now. and as time goes on and so we're entering the rainy season properly we'll be having more because people are. under fire and also because of sleeping i'll say thousands of people are bitten by sneaks in nigeria every year but health experts can't be sure exactly how many died because

of poor access in rural areas this is the only hospital treating victims of snakebites in a region of more than thirteen million nigerians doctors and nurses here are struggling to cope with the rising number of patients doctors say many cases arrive year late sometimes too late and patients die or end up with permanent disability it took our people when nearly five days to get help to leave our love i never gone through unbelievable suffering to get here it's just that i didn't day at some points at least a decade copied by police are responsible for eighty percent of the cases in this hospital. i'd also fun to going to cost one hundred fifty dollars but there are some dubious antivenom is being offered on the market and they can help of course death rather than prevent it. so many people out there in the bush or india or

earlier where there's no access road or and and when they go there are so many. countries and they have enough circulating in the area but a growing population there is a need for more land to grow food and that has set humans and dangerous reptiles on a collision course more snakes in their natural habitat are being disturbed as more crops are planted the rising number of snake bite cases has prompted the regional government to build an extension to the hospital in an effort to meet the increased demand for treatment. a few months ago the country was hit by a shortage of i just need venom drugs it's reported two hundred fifty people died in just three weeks with a crop planting season only now getting in the way hospitals are bracing for another surge in the number of state by the victims in need of urgent help i meant to grease al-jazeera. geria david williams is the chairman of the world health

organization specialists make bite grief and he joins us now via skype from amsterdam good to have you with us they had there in that report on time thing they had eight patients a day just in that area i mean it's a huge problem so why is this well the w.h.o. cause a neglected disease. unfortunately my thoughts one of those noninfectious these that just hasn't been priority was the many many years they've been a number of attempts to write it all but until now it's been largely unsuccessful. in the last two years but it does bring a lot of big increase in interest in this area. with the returning to the middle of the protocol. and we hope that's going to pursue paid action that will solve some of our problems ok i mean i think the nature of this problem i suppose is that they do happen in rural areas far away from medical facilities and what can you do about that can you get the antivenom as alice into the community. so yes it really is

a matter of making sure that everyone is going to access to the treatment in sub-saharan africa in particular there are chronically shortages of pick treatments to smite body inventing and w.i. cho is working to address that on looking at the current products evaluating them very robustly so that we can make informed decisions on which products are the most appropriate but which part of africa and can recommend by the government and all the perfume about it to see that they put and what should people do and what should people not to if they get besson by a snake well really important thing is to seek medical attention as quickly as possible one of the major problems in sub-saharan africa is that as many as seventy percent of people seek traditional healing myth that is food and this prolongs the time it takes for them to get to hospital and get properly treated and as

a result those hospitality right in a very high right of disability that involves everything from amputation of limbs to saka logical told off to. your mind. ok david williams many thanks for joining us there from amsterdam. so i had hair on al-jazeera hametz the chechen award or tell me why the egyptian football star has found himself at the heart of controversy again. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories but it was a truck going out on a boy told through the eyes of the world's journalists images matter a lot and. join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most perfect third is someone from

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a story worth hearing. and cover those that are often ignored we don't weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent that's why i joined al-jazeera . well. when we. don't know how to find that it's not possible for me to defend it that's it's just one of those things that you feel this is yes yes i believe in this i'm so i'm not

but i'm an independent on a mission for america. it's about the idea that you have a strong will missed. it's about it's about the believing in your dreams it's about them. as a filmmaker i would want my audience to support that when men begin first as a unit i would definitely want my audience to be a jumble with it and say yes this is what i want and. i have tried to be very honest with the film the story isn't mine yes i. repaired off from my sister was a childhood incident she was the one who planted chocolate all of them so i have put an element of my childhood out but i suppose in my influences that i've had. the little incidents that used to take place in my own backyard i have to try a little bit of everything to stay honest to the whole thing but still take the whole event from my point of view. i'm trying to create that language where this

kid is a shy kid and it doesn't speak to that is how i ended up not giving him more. than a word of the need to be i wanted him to express through the i just didn't want to shout and scream and cry just assure that his discipline i wondered something which is very subtle that he expresses but it's very an expression is a shy kid although he doesn't speak he would still stand for what is being said what is believed. the nation gives you a lot of difficulty because you know the rules but when it when it comes down the flipping those pages and understanding animation or everything goes for cost at least my first five line drawings following for that off because i didn't know what they were like i did and they were not working on though there was this one man that i started to like and i said yes i'm going to go it's really ok.

i can't tell you the number of problems that i i phased. to bang my head was i would not have been on a mission right when again making baghdad on that made my mind was always walking in one particular direction because i have been born and brought up but those are the images that have come across all the bank so i know what i sat good with all i ever knew my exposure maybe a school at least that i ended up doing the same bank owns all that by. mixing what along with digital it gives you more freedom then it kind of gave me the opportunity late going forward about the don't long on a digital will and then lose these not totally their shows and all luck and knowledge of them and that i'm good then image their lives with will be appealing.

if i have to visualize my kitchen. i don't visualize a dark blue because those are the on those that i haven't been in no make that when i see it i see that there could have been a better shot then i could have taken a shot sort of an establishment. you know the follow on building the nomination i just wanted to call it what i what my mind makes me think like the immediate damage that comes to my mind is when i will go away. from this one phone because of the kind of film and those and also tell you about the soul of this guy and i i just wanted to follow the story i just wanted to before i make. stuff as if it doesn't have structure i don't mean it's ok and i'm fine with that that will.

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