listening post we have often examined the ways in which the news media have grown into essential components of political debates take the u.k. for example where jeremy corbett leads the biggest political party in terms of membership in western europe his supporters say the corporate media primarily in the print sector are out to smear him plain and simple since his left wing policies are a threat to the establishment that they represent it's a contention his critics reject outright amidst all the mudslinging corben has willingly waded into the fray with some proposals that should he ever come to power would change the rules of the media game in britain the listening posts flow phillips now on the debate around jeremy corben his ideas for altering publicly owned broadcasting siphoning money from some tech giants and directing it to the b.b.c. and curbing the power of media conglomerates. they shouted hours in the soft end but why do you think you can trump. a lot of the i

disagree and why and why the evidence british politicians are rarely given an easy ride by the media and that's for good reason but for jeremy cobain the right has been particularly rough so your future is labor leader is absolutely intact you know considered for a moment whether you as leader damaging crisis b.b.c. is reporting for you. in twenty fifteen koeppen this elected leader of britain's opposition party the labor party and in the three years since much of the british news coverage has often ridiculed caricature demonized him and his policies. his thing about the media representations of misrepresentations of jeremy corbyn is that they're not particularly consistent so one minute he is a dangerous terrorist sympathizer on the other hand he's portrayed as enough. sure

as a pacifist you know vegetarian leafy you know ever heard before. whether a result of negative coverage or not corban has long held ideas about the media how to rethink how to restructure it our media in many cases is failing now this isn't just the view of someone who has had shall we say interesting relationship with the media particularly over the last three years. a few months back when was invited to speak at one of the british media's key industry events the edinburgh television festival and he used that platform to launch his vision for the future of journalism on the national public broadcaster the b.b.c. had a few ideas on how it's funded and how it should be governed currently the broadcasters board members are appointed in part by the government and the rest selected by b.b.c. senior management wants to make this more democratic he said that the public his

taxes pay for the broadcaster as well as b.b.c. employees should be the ones who choose the board. he has this view that the politicised the b.b.c. it would be a good idea to have some form of elected officials at the top of the organization is one of those things the. theory that if you create a system whereby some sort of non-executive board of elected the next step to having elections is. because of a plaything for political parties so. seems to me that actually holding elections to determine who has a say in how operates is the very thing that would make it highly politicized. and when it comes to diversity called for full transparency about who works at the broadcaster not just in terms of ethnicity but in terms of class too. so here's the thing. about england only seven percent of u.k.

schoolchildren go to private schools and yet if you have this private school background you want more likely to get top jobs in the media look at the grand fell tragedy that happened in twenty seventeen residents of grunfeld have been trying to reach out to media saying look we are all being left in unsafe accommodation and we're worried that it's going to take tragedy a fatal tragedy to get people to listen these are the people who are shocked our of news rooms and they're also the same people who might be plugged into our stories into communities that more privileged people just can't reach that's a grave failing of the media establishment. corbin's rise to prominence comes as a surprise to many but is a peer a left leaning socialist politics and yes to century resonates when it comes to current debates on the rise of unregulated tech giants the public realm doesn't

have to sit back and watch as a few mega tech corporations hoovered up digital rights assets and ultimately our money the u.k. media its broadcasters honest newspapers a suffering as big tech sucks the life and money out of them so like many others coburn is calling for them to be reined in taxed more but he's gone further he says the proceeds from that tax should fund public broadcasting as well as cash strapped investigative journalism and local media. the suggestion that tech giants and so-called platform monopolies should make a financial contribution to subsidize news in the public interest is actually not a top radical. there's been a long standing precedent in media policymaking that. there are some

aspects of of the media that are not profitable that are not even necessarily commercially viable but are absolutely essential. to the public interest. reinforcing. democracy the british media is dominated by a handful of powerful conglomerates just three companies control seventy one percent of the national newspaper market top of that list is report murdoch's news u.k. housed in the building right behind me news u.k. owns the sun britain's biggest selling paper as well as the sun on sunday the times and the sunday times it also used to own the news of the world but that paper was shut down after revelations that journalists there had been hacking the phone of murdered schoolgirl million dollars. that scandal led to a two part leveson inquiry the first part called for a state backed press regulator that all newspapers would have to sign up to face

the consequences the conservative government rejected it. the second part would have got at the relationship between newspapers and the police in march of this year the government abandoned. wants to recall leveson to hold the media to account for past crimes and to push the future regulation. of the media ownership in particular is strong ground for korban of the labor types in. the broader time called the making on capsule it but i think it also plays to the notion that there has been a closeness between the conservative party in particular and the media barons which suggest because it is something very much to push against given that he sees himself the very most amount of people jeremy corbett or you would like to see. that push back has become an increase. sisyphean task for calling his speech

came at the height of a story that had been hitting the headlines this week in group count accusations of anti semitism within the labor party often targeting the leader himself scott saved action which is. just. this month a study produced by the media reform coalition took a close look at some two hundred fifty articles and broadcast news clips covering the anti semitism story more than ninety of them were found to be either misleading or inaccurate. what we have seen across the national press and largely acted in broadcasters is something that i think is truly a student and that's not so much in the kind of critical stalls that they've taken towards corporate policy platforms that he represents but just in what we know from research with that we've produced there's been

a systematic subversion of basic journalistic news for. when jeremy corbyn ran to become labour's leader he took at the biggest party membership surge in british history media across the country hadn't seen him coming they discounted dismissed him. and three years in the media are still grappling with how to deal with him and the revival of the socialist politics that he has inspired a politics which for korban must involve a radical overhaul a structural reform of the media itself. back to saudi arabia and the story the coverage of saudi issues in the u.s. news media the kid gloves with which the kingdom has been treated for so long seems to have shifted the reportedly premeditated murder of a journalist lured to a consulate under false pretenses has had that effect however some of the voices that constantly defended saudi arabia and were in the thrall of the new crown

prince's alleged reforms are still out there notorious case in point thomas friedman of the new york times he was interviewed on c.n.n. this past week where he defended his previous columns out came the amateur media critics in the comments section and they dismantled the friedmans lamentable track record of getting it wrong on the middle east better than we ever could believe it to them and we'll see you next time there at the listening. he will you to be quick to call him and brand him the reform to take us through what was going through your mind on what you saw in him that embedded today. so let me start from the beginning for me christiane one of the reasons i want to be on your show is i thought it was in time to. and for me the story personally starts with nine eleven.

and some people said you know what tom it's all of it's all it's all fake because look what he's doing in yemen look when he's you know people that he was arresting here and my attitude was maybe there's clearly a downside here there's clearly an upside and i thought it was worth investing a little hope in the upside if we could herb the downside. new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective. eighty percent of the visually impaired could be cured without access to treatment. where there is

a will there is a way. strongly. covering over seventy seven countries. how many of these patients receive every right to pakistan. provides to free treatment for one million patients. revisited because iraq. you want you all just their arms and haul these are all top news stories u.s. defense secretary james mattis has called on the warring parties in yemen to meet within thirty days speaking at the u.s. institute of peace said all sides need to do more to prevent the deaths of innocent people we've got to replace combat with compromised and we are working as we speak with mr martin griffin the u.n.

special envoy met with my shell shocked a pompei i was talking to him frequently as we tried to amass a few international ship for we just met. in the nama dialogue and this was brought up forcefully not just by my shell but by others as well that each time to stop this the united nations as a saudi arabia to reveal the whereabouts of the journalist body un human rights experts all calling for an independent international investigation into the saudi consulate in istanbul four weeks ago. the main problem for us globally in the world is impunity and in the case of casualty we need first to establish. and to do a fact finding mission to make sure that we understand what harry happened and that we made i say we special operators a concrete proposal to the government of saudi arabia they do invite us

a group of five reporters to do investigation on what happened and then to present to the global community it does will be deep the findings of all investigation that is a book report all those before has a pakistan's top court has overturned the conviction of a christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy the mother of four had been on death row since two thousand and ten on charges of insulting islam bibi is the first woman in pakistan to be sentenced to death under its strict blasphemy laws the landmark case incited deadly violence in the country and as a trying to international attention and condemnation. at least seven people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack near gunderson's largest prison in the capital kabul the interior ministry says five others were injured after a prison staff vehicle was targeted there have been similar attacks in other parts of the country over the past two weeks as parliamentary elections were held and senior indonesian officials believe they may have found fuselage from the lion

a plane that crashed on monday shortly after takeoff from jakarta international airport the reuters news agency is reporting that a ping sound has been heard from the jet's emergency locator beacon on the seabed off the jarvis sea divers will now search the coordinates as they look to recover the aircraft boxes so they can establish what caused the crash that killed one hundred eighty nine people. will be the will we are focusing on that particular location to make sure that what we suspected under the water is part of the plane and together with the head of the search and rescue agency in the commander of the first fleet we're going to see the location for ourselves and hopefully it's the main body of the plane that we've been looking for the u.s. president donald trump has visited the scene of a shooting attack at a synagogue and pittsburgh where eleven people were killed but his visit has been met with protests and jewish community leaders have written an open letter calling on trying to denounce white nationalism pittsburgh bill perdue tows also as the

president to delay any visit until the dead were buried meanwhile trump has intensified his hardline stance on immigration ahead of midterm elections he says he wants to end birthright citizenship donald trump made the comments to an american news channel the fourteenth amendment of the us constitution guarantees citizenship to virtually all children born in the u.s. trump says his change can be implemented through an executive order. indian prime minister narendra modi is speaking at a lavish dedication ceremony for the world's largest statue the one hundred eighty two metre monument in good drop state almost independence hero. by patel it cost more than four hundred million dollars to build locals say construction of the statue of unity destroyed today by river and a demanding compensation they say the money could have been better spent on schools or hospitals those are the headlines here or there more news in half an hour we

continue with lifelines to stay with us. there are those who dream of the possibilities of the world free of the ancient diseases that keep millions in poverty. and for those who strive to make that dream a reality their quest is on the brink of a. no

i think they're going on memory because i think we are very close we have come down from many many cases to just british. yeah the thing that i take also small is that people going to have to suffer. for the individual who is suffering he said tragedy for the family he said you. know that. from. that.

you. know whatever you know of anyone. you know. that. in the ancient texts it is known as the little dragon. the guinea worm has tortured millions with its crippling pain since human history began. there is no vaccine and no cure but by twenty said team thanks to a massive international intervention there were only one hundred twenty six cases left in the world a dramatic reduction of ninety nine point nine percent of guinea worm is on a final though difficult countdown to zero. today all but

a few of the remaining cases are found in a very remote region of south sudan. to stand out in the war as the only country where do almost all the cases you have in the war it is a biting it is a huge response for that. we know where the problem. we know what need to be done it doesn't want to bring. it back and there's no. doubt. that. that is a very good. mccoy's samuel ubi is the national director of south sudan's guinea worm eradication program he directs teams of health workers and volunteers across the country to identify contain and treat people with the disease or

sorted it towards yeah this one is already out in the zone and still a process going to go. anywhere is a water borne parasite when nella both drank water in which they were guinea worm larvae a year ago a worm started to grow inside her body it has taken a whole year for the worm to start emerging through a blister in her leg. it's an excruciatingly painful process creating a powerful image for her to mess the blister in water where she to seek relief in a communal drinking pond the cycle of infection would start all over again. yes. we create an environment and go to get one today and this is so as you do that the volunteer tried in a very careful way to roll out the wall there's

a question or two must this site avoid the woman margins is next to the knee and that's why people have two hundred two the extra care because the bit to the warm infection going to shoe and that's how many people get complications that can have lifelong effect deformities excellent. and continue to drip what on that. i missing something would come. in. try different direction ok. you see. if you can do disagree politically you would of allowed the warmth in this most of it's at that point we just have to suck without anything that can be of risk of contemplating what the sauces but then one day as you do this also you encourage the extraction want. then using and

what the one i think you can you do must think you can actually continue to pull out. and you may end up pulling out the one in one piece she's now saying the pain is mostly in. the can even be said. that they get it that you can. only be good at this. i feel ok and i think i want to go to that's. washed down. to those who suffer from it guinea worm is an obscure disease that has remained largely off the radar but in a different part of the world it has captured the obsessive interest of another scientist. this is

a horrible beast that has this lifecycle where asked to cause excruciating pain that's diabolical i'm a curator in the division of invertebrates here at the american museum of natural history in new york city guinea worm is one of those parasites that fascinated me is a graduate student. i've never seen it alive i've never seen it in the wild and it's been with humanity for thousands of years. and there are some very interesting questions that need to be answered why is this need a really long parasite painless for up to a year living inside somebody's leg or arm or other tissue and then only when it needs to only when the parasite means to finish the cycle and get back back into the water and release its larvae only then is it create this excruciating blister. in one thousand nine hundred eighty six when little was known about anyone even in

countries where it was president the disease was brought to the attention of former us president jimmy carter. this was a terrible vacuum in the health care for literally hundreds of millions of people so we decided that we would take it on as a project not knowing the extent of it not knowing where it was not knowing where it how to address the problem. when his philanthropic organization set out to measure the extent of the disease it found three and a half million cases occurring every year amongst the world's most remote and neglected people guinea worm was found in pakistan india and yemen but it was in a belt across sub-saharan africa that had had the greatest impact.

because guinea when is water born having safe drinking water is essential to eradicating it. so. the process of getting what that flu really will behold is a long process it is possible but it is a long process the most difficult but we can do something much easier and we can protect ourself a good one. and the thirst step to providing protection is to let people see for themselves what swims in the water they drink. is a numerous and they have the typical dickie movement as a pseudo seems to be all you really good on goes on a lot of them look at them or not they are not admit. that are you refusing to do this was is just because all those what i've least there how did it people don fisher do what i didn't did i did bring the whole thing is

a disorder and you'll go look at me and what i need to know when you're. good and soul forms are very different than what i might be. there in your in my that with the why of it if you think the whole is in this because they have said this like that and so what he does what he's bringing them to good use of that is exactly what they would find out if he didn't use for them and he just. read with a membrane. stretched across one and was the inspiration for the pipes an idea that came from the to ignore mads of north africa would be news ing it for you. and a norwegian government made us nine million of these pipe filters were set to pipe filters into a saucer that. pipe filters were ideal for no magic people but longer lasting cloth was needed for filling buckets and jerry cans. president

approach to manufacture of parachutes for money what he got was more than what he had bargained for. when. they gave us six million square meters. verifying filter cloth and that was a basis on which we went into the villages and taught them what cause a disease and told them if they would strain every drink of water through that filter cloth so that they could get rid of. filtering drinking water to remove guinea when carrying water fleas became a mainstay of the eradication program. over three decades guinea worm was eliminated in village by village and country by country. ninety

area and ghana which had recorded the highest number of cases in the world completed elimination by twenty eleven yeah yeah. yeah. it's quite possible that two years from now i won't be able to get one of these worms in fact with any luck that'll be the case so this is one of the last opportunities that anyone will add that i will certainly have in order to get one of these parasites live and to preserve it in a way that can be done it. but. the extinction of any species should give us some cause for concern but quite frankly when it comes to the scourges of humanity i'm all for it but i think we should study them while we get.

south sudan is the world's youngest country born out of decades of conflict with its northern neighbor. this was followed by intent all strife which still threatens the work of the guinea worm program. dr monks and has joined mccoy in south sudan it will take two days of hard driving under god from the capital to reach magos only two hundred and thirty kilometers away. my country is pretty vast you just saw five period in the city of under development and i didn't exist i was made so i do this with i'm one of the whitest creatures in the world.

but in class tried to make spirited difficult to get to the mall at the videos which happen to be the most and i'm especially in the rainy season when access is stored difficult to address and that you have to step up your definitions. the reason we're going in the rainy season is because of the life cycle of water fleas come out and when there's water. the water is central to the life cycle. beyond the collapsed bridges and washed out roads nies models it is no. coincidence that anyone has made its last stand in this inaccessible and isolated part of the world.

this is a fairly. the most neglected the don't have access to any services right he had no schools or not has granted it's not like most. didn't have a voice event to advocate for services and begin on program because the entry point for them to have a connection or a means of communicating with people made decisions i'm not going to get on program look at us all as advocates for those coming to as a voice for these communities. this is where it's going to end this is the place right here where it's going to and these are the people who are going to solve this problem once and for all just like

the nigerian saw that in nigeria in the gandhian solved it in ghana and it takes the people in the community to do it and to see how we have a community of people coming together to interrupt a parasite life cycle and solve it without vaccines without drugs is just fascinating and really uplifting to see humanity be able to accomplish this across such a huge geography and huge cultural diversity. when it is about the cause of the disease must be universal across endemic areas. people have lived with guinea worm for thousands of years and i understand it's good with a certain thing to listen to your government but those who know how to guard anyone you know those who know how. you don't know about over the other live in a long long long. time. but. you don't believe that that is associated to whether and if the link transmission to any

source of water it is a very sketchy sort of link so at the bottom line is to ensure that the communities that i don't understand that link between an infected person and now and certainly the songs you know what i don't. remember. tara brand has spent six years under mccoy's leadership working for the guinea women eradication program in some of south sudan's remotest regions. does she know how does she know how she got to get me when i ask or does she know where guinea worm comes from. that is not new to india a lot. so i want to ask her how did they get a worm get and qusay. you don't. want to you know so so she does not know how guinea worm gets into the water the

a teacher community this is a problem from water invariably they have always seen it year in year out time immemorial so sometimes the a teacher general. there is always some people are going to suffer can they show us how to use their filter could be a lot about now you know women did oh i think. it's through meticulous attention to every single detail that villagers are brought around to protecting themselves and each other from infection. she needs to first read this with the clean. not that we want to. look at the duty i think we distributed this one last week so. he's ok because it was worth it but took it and.

was. in this endgame with guinea when confining people in a camp away from any water source is proving to be effective in mongols. what happens here is that if somebody presents with a blister in their community they're brought here and then they're treated until the worm emerges and so we know that this particular strategy works if you just get people to number one filter the water they drink number two don't go back to water when they've got a warm coming out you've now broken the cycle in two different places and you don't have a circle you have to have circles it's not complete. we know that if they're here being treated they're not going to into water because we're providing water for washing and things. we will keep them until they're lambs in march maybe they go in and have multiple worms and so we have to keep them here until all of

this whims have emerged have been removed and into all of their wounds hill. there are seven confirmed and fifteen suspect cases of guinea worm at the containment center. one confirmed case is nine year olds. were arrived here by himself more than two weeks ago and. she's never been kept away from her family before. everyone is trying to make her feel comfortable but you just can't take away the pain that she has gone through and is going to continue to go through until those warm is removed. that alone is just heartbreaking. this unbelievable pain has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years if not a million years across an enormous landscape with children and adults and mothers and brothers and sons and it's all about pain is just

unbelievably tragic. now comes when has already taken weeks team and. it could take a month or even longer to remove it completely. each day as it is drawn centimeter by painful centimeter it is wrapped around a lot of cool as for millennia the worms will wander around a stick so i wasn't prepared for the fact that it really took this amount of time day after day painfully extracting a very long one from behind her knee. we had nurses in case containment center managers who are trained to treat all the cases and all of the suspects. we provide three meals a day. if the mother is a suspect or a case then she is allowed to go to the case content center with the children. we

have sheets and bed mats they try to make it nice for them so that they'll want to stay there. if. i. am. wrong and. cattle are critical to survival here but the season i need to find fresh grazing complicates the work of the program. they moved to get at the cattle i mean they're going to end up transmission i didn't think that someone their stocks. mccoy receives news that a cattle raid by one plant on another to the north of marcos has left one hundred

twenty casualties getting over to get something to being a good a very good buy if it is possible for any person to up their guns. it is not. as where the population go on to become so difficult for the. people around. us. we don't know anything about a way. to respond. eighty percent of the visually impaired could be cured without access to treatment. where there was a will there is a way. strong

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of slave ownership you know like my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave people and america's debt to black people today some over source even scared to speak out because it's a product of. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt. hello there were caught in the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. defense secretary has strongly backed calls for a cease fire in yemen saying it's time to replace combat with compromise masses' says the u.n. special envoys yemen will hold talks with the saudi coalition and the rebels in sweden in november it's actually a statement pompei or has also spoken saying it's time for peace the united nations

is asking that in stash experts be a part of the investigation of saudi jenna's jamal khashoggi murder the un's human rights chief says there must be full access to evidence and witnesses meanwhile the u.s. defense secretary of defense has reiterated that president trump wants answers about murder james mattis also says saudi arabia has promised the u.s. that a full investigation will be conducted into the death of. pakistan's top court has overturned the conviction of a christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy the mother of four has been on death row since two thousand and ten on charges of insulting islam bibi is the first woman in pakistan to be sentenced to death under a strict pass from the laws a landmark case has incited deadly violence in the country at least six people have been killed in this suicide bomb attack near afghanistan's largest prison in the capital kabul interior ministry says five others were injured after

a prison staff ical was targeted there been similar attacks in other parts of the country over the past two weeks as parliamentary elections were held u.s. president donald trump visited the scene of a shooting attack on a synagogue in pittsburgh where eleven people were killed but there been protests against the visit with calls for trump to denounce white nationalism.

the the. the south sudan is on a countdown to ending guinea with a disease which causes excruciating pain as a metre long one emerges from an affected person. but a war and a population constantly on the move threaten to wipe out recent gains. there is a way fairly is not an option is because it actually takes the whole effort down to a square one. and is like climbing up a very steep hill and just at that point if you slip you you come down running to

the bottom and crashing down to the bottom that is not what anyone in this program wanted to see happening at this moment in the whole world we have one hundred twenty six places and we know every person on earth that now has a guinea worm i don't want to die and i want to build i'm going at the height of the program in two thousand and nine it took a network of twenty six thousand technical advisors and volunteers to monitor every case in everything lage and cattle camp across south sudan. tara brunt helps mccoy maintain and on me a fun n.t. is you're all one big team so even though they're from these communities that you're working and with them they are there for the same reason that you're there and you're all feeling the same pressure because you're trying to eradicate this disease. it's a question of how are you. currently i'm originally cordon it or supervising other

technical advisers so i'm there to help make sure things are going well and there are areas around. we've come with supplies so we will work with here today to go through some households with cases. for people who work voluntary. it has to be someone that the community trust someone that they know would do a good job. but i think a lot of applicants apply not realizing the amount of work that is actually involved so this year this is a copy of the contract. the volunteers are not receiving a salary they're just working for the benefit of the community. we know it does we don't just go and do a lot on his first year and one two years whelps ourselves fully interrupted transmission on villagers we always try to missions we keep them stand ok this is this we will fill with we try to build up the t.

was so that no matter where they go that they still are asking questions trying to see if people know anyone with guinea worm and if they see someone limping immediately we'll ask that person why are you limping do you have any swelling so you're constantly asking these questions so that you don't miss this something happening. vigilant fun intel has spotted limping into marco's from a cattle camp and brought him to the containment center. not crying is reluctant to stay here even though one is emerging from his forte. he answers evasiveness when asked about the rivers and pond he has crossed on his journey. where. you are no one would let on that i'm going to.

go would mean. in there at all government. was. very worried because this is the first case from a village where we least expect cases to appear. secondly the case was not detected before it warming much our own i got on when a weary. when you were really a month ago or the end of world war two. a man a guy named there with all of the. what. are you mad at you know me you mad and i. obey. when i get out. there you know on want to be i don't know we on i mean you know we you can you a no com insists he must leave the camp to buy

a goat to make a sacrifice but if he contaminated water source he will put others in danger. his family are said to live in a village near where he was found mccoy needs to talk to them. we want it because he has not been very cooperative to provide drugs information and we fear that it might contaminate the water source and that's why we need real down the investigation here that will enable us to make an informed guess where he probably got infected ok. sure. a lot of what the team does is detection work and i believe the last few areas where we're having a problem is due to the mobility of the people because you may find someone with guinea worm today and overnight he has left to go to

a cattle camp. what is the connection between. the two this is the god of love. and the calm of this year and you know we get to these two ladies walk moderated by people these feelings and. those well we'll get it. sometimes you really need to get the information from different people to see the gaps and try to determine what makes sense. to me no not you. know. after hours of discussion it tends to the women are not from the comms family at all in fact they don't even know who he is. so it's back to square one for the team but mccoy betrays no sign of frustration. one thing that i could have a direct influence on my life. is that i realised that working with this community. i didn't have

a reason to complain we're going to have nothing. and so it's really hard for me to be able to be content that we deliver that house because. many many out there who doesn't have any. guinea worm is a disease of poverty that keeps people in poverty. more than fifty percent of the cases are men female and in these communities here women are really did great we are. they turned their gardens all there and if any one of them began immobilize your growth you know this is going to lose that. short window of the cultivation season and that will have to shear it like in the summer . and then maybe the other thing that i need to

know is whether according to him it would rain starts early this year or last year in stuff's much mccoy now has to identify every single pond where people with guinea when this year may have drunk contaminated water the year before it seems an impossible task but technical advisor james number has been painstakingly recording crucial data over the course of the day well with when and where looking at the game it seems like these villages here somehow have connection with that location where we had the object last year between march and i will be one of the only way to find out is to start walking. down a mile long running along the wing. so what the other people had going on last funding us in the area got a lot of that. sort is what is all that they're using so i'd listen we

know. it and. the people from. from voters farms are using this cream because there's intreated tall order stricter to do people who are far more understanding or can know when to determine. what the sauce is that might be used on the plate and right those coming from the other side when every detail in the landscape can be read as a narrative. if what are the next in this depression may not have people use it because it is along a path but this one is right and i want to bounce his understanding is these waters is strictly used those were coming up going by piecing together local information tries to home in on every possible contamination point excellent so what was this i want to be able to you know. i mean you are. so

when you drink it's filled with water so if this one feels so do you sometimes drink from it is no wasn't going to leave is nearby were done before but we did this depressions can be a real problem so it's good that you are picking up the possible sources of what transmission especially when deafened up with water so you are doing a very good job because at least you are making sure that you don't limit u.s. surveillance activities on a debility level. but. it's not just last year's ponds that are a problem it's the location of the recent contaminations that must be edge into the identify. when we're able to detect where the patient was when there were merged and then we go to that area and make sure everyone has their filters in that case the patient has entered the water with

daniel and because we don't want any surprises. for you. one. because this. this. she had her comical. so it's good that she's been using it but there's a really large hole in that so basically all of the water in here could be contaminated so i've asked thirty is this filter which is which is good in which. case you could just take this one here so she doesn't have to touch more from the well. we try to emphasize every time before they use their filter to hold it up to the sun and check for holes but this hole is really big and anytime we find filters with holes we destroy them and we don't we don't

give them back. and so. yeah. but i don't know you know. i don't know what i look. at all you have to do is change human behavior now that doesn't make it easy but it makes it definable and then it's just a matter of creating the will and finding the right culturally sensitive ways to encourage people to change behavior about filtering water about what to do if you have the symptoms for example not go into the water and to bring a lot of peer pressure really to bear because it is as we know peer pressure can be a powerful thing and using peer pressure is really community pressure. ok.

now do you want to get. what did you say. i mean i think the word went over to the waters over here. we all have to move away from the i don't want to know what are you. going to want to. i mean i don't want that one. i want to go. well. ok. i'll try one more time. but you know. now move away. my mother.

was not far enough ok. it's been calculated that since one thousand nine hundred eighty six the year the guinea worm eradication program began eighty million cases have been affected. you get a situation where you find small kids going up to goats and then you see that guy wearing it by for. this is. if you actually give you a consolation even at a point when you're exhausted and you're thirsty and if you satisfaction of the sacrifice that people have made. when you have. frequent i think that oh we used to.