the basic services. kissa do go and it's two hundred thousand inhabitants get only a few hours of electricity a week. the main hospital has an emergency unit that's reserved for pregnant women who can't. get it yet miriam a nurse dashes off to the hospital's only ambulance the vehicle was donated by unicef thirteen years ago without the means to maintain it it's a miracle it's still running i'm. due to the high price of petrol it can only be used once a day. can bring us up and down the track. process do shout to the front girls that you know met their own profit so that's going to baffle them up and run.

the. numbers that they're what they're the outcomes that it out now the. nurses waste a lot of time tracking down patients in the bush there are no signs indicating the names of roads all villages. going to you know call them if you haven't got a ride or wherever you go oh my. god oh look i'm sure you know about everything that comes out of. a little town about. two hours later and they still haven't located the pregnant woman. come into the house for the profit out of her that was not going. to make things worse the old ambulance breaks down. was the man i want to go now. but did anybody. to ships

out of court of course pentagon will not. be thought of. oh no madonna no worry about how much money. i got for her. oh. no this is not a thought. i she waits for makeshift repairs mariyam bumps into the pregnant woman's father in law worried he'd set out on foot looking for help we're going to . be medicare. medicaid. services some day and i'm not. after four days of agony both mother and baby are in serious danger probably nothing but a kind of medical center pro-choice. doesn't that just. popped up. there but given. that.

three hours after leaving the hospital mariyam can finally attend to the patient. the baby is poorly position and the eighteen year old girl is in urgent need of us his area. and. less in the. rural villages grandmothers i was midwives assisting women with childbirth. from their. first at the box help or get out of. the back up that was about not get the fuck up what was that. but that my husband tries to comfort her as best he can there's no. and she lies on the

telephone out of the rubble about an open market. for the book we're going to talk about the got a lot of this it. that one of the you know oh now. i'm. not. i'm not saying i was not thanks to somebody who got the picked up. the hospital has no running water in the operating room has only one set of surgical clamps but there isn't any statistics a month is soon asleep. this is airy and goes well but the baby isn't breathing. without the aid of respiratory machines the nurses do their best to save

the baby but what i. know for this if you. see fans of the school that. in fact it may have been given for the movie for my first film. no less interested me now my. full days of contractions have paralyzed the mother's legs the hospital has no suitable medicines. but the famously inspired must in the end for. the world do better but she won't go word. for word of what we're doing. a little. young child. without free public health

care many families here are unable to cover basic medical needs the hospital pharmacy sells medicines for a tenth the price of the private sector but even these prices can be on affordable . terms so i don't know if i was there so i put in guinea five dollars can change a life. maybe it's the camera or genuine sympathy but in the end the pharmacist pays for the medicine himself so there's enough to treat his wife for a week. any longer and it'll be up to the husband to come up with more money than i according to unicef fifteen thousand three hundred babies and three thousand eight hundred women die in childbirth each year in guinea.

getting medicines to where they're needed is a real problem. these medicines are on their way to a dispensary in the middle of the jungle. this won't be the first risky journey has taken. to get it was going to the right and if you want to ever hear what. you know yeah be good it will come. from the. producer and the food company. but you are going to somebody or you.

if you do mondays over is what you want to be so we're going to get a hit. right here. on. maybe. the mule track is actually a regional road it connects kissa dugu and forty five kilometers away. oh you know what i'm here for that my apologies go i don't know what about going

back up until a few days maybe even. at each ball the rhythm of the spades receives and it's always the same she. is encouraged. by like his truck stops its engine lacks power and it will get a good woman about it but somebody's going to ship will. she be minutes. but i feel no bathroom for a bond to fall. in the build up as i go these are the more important i meant to

work a defining moment when i pulled off what it when i read it what i meant. in guinea everything has multiple uses. to put. what i said on their bus. in the community that said that's. something i would like. to make. by nightfall they've been driving for ten hours. or that. one of.

the nurses at the dispensary collects the packages of meds and. he's been expecting them for three months in the books is a quite small. he hopes they'll be enough to replenish his stock. will say it is your baby to give yet you don't belong to the on another but sample of live. among the medicine benjamin has received of vaccines against measles diptheria tetanus and polio. he'll start vaccinating children first thing in the morning as he has no means of conserving the precious vaccine. that. he did.

so. this two year old is too weak to be vaccinated. that's in my.

family mad. i mean. there's. in guinea one in ten children dies before reaching the age of five. scarcely ever visit these remote villages. benjamin tries to fill the void he's only a nurse but an experienced one. skilled nurses like him are

invaluable. to a. lot of villages always grateful to. god i'm not. going to. thank.

it's the cheapest rail service in the deal congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber the remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who weren't able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the route. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. it's all too familiar. innocent

lives ended in an instant. then groove. on the debates around firearms but for survivors and families of the four then reality often changes forever. faultlines investigates the long lasting trauma inflicted on communities the aftermath mass shootings in america on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. fellow from doha the one i'm come out santamaria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera. a palestinian mother and her baby

a killed in israeli airstrikes on gaza after dozens of rockets fired into southern israel from the strip also in the news the brother of algeria the ousted president is arrested but will it appease the protests. and strikes and shelling killed twenty two civilians in twenty four hours syria's government intensifies its attacks on the rebel held northwest. saw firsthand the misery the duros created with the russians and cubans and once again mixed messages from the united states after donald trump downplayed russia's involvement in venezuela. but everyone is ready warplanes have hit targets in the gaza strip after palestinian fighters fired dozens of rockets into southern israel injuring two israelis. four palestinians have now been killed in the strikes on gaza including

a pregnant mother and her fourteen month old baby turkey's government says a strike has a building housing turkish state media. agency a flare up comes despite her shaky truce which was brokered by egypt and the united nations last month we will start with this report from ari forsett in wester ism. barely a month since the last military escalation waves of israeli warplanes again struck gaza the israeli military said it hit dozens of targets linked to hamas and other factions. throughout the day israeli commanders said scores of rockets were fired from the strip into israel several evading the iron dome anti missile interceptors and striking israeli residential areas around gaza's fringes we already knew that. there was. to react and out there the fight within the terrorist. killed yesterday for where we knew found three and we're

hoping to palestinian demonstrators were killed and fifty one wounded by israeli snipers during border protests on friday which also saw two israeli soldiers shot and injured an israeli strike then killed to hamas fighters their deaths and a subsequent israeli drone strike preceded saturday's barrels of rocket fire out of gaza this is far from the first time in recent months that israel and hamas are found themselves in the midst of a dangerous escalation the last one in early april was ended by u.n. and egyptian mediation and reportedly undertakings given by israel just days ahead of its general election to ease the restrictions on gaza it did extend the fishing zone out to fifteen nautical miles from the coast but other reported concessions such as allowing increased payments from qatar to hamas of forty million dollars a month have yet to happen to have mass and other palestinian resistance to go believe that this is the right timing to put more pressure on netanyahu and his way to government to make israel abide by the previous understanding's the timing is

very sensitive israel is approaching its. seventh if there's any independence day and also there univision festivities in a video released on saturday the al kids brigades the military wing of the islamic jihad threaten. to expand its range of rocket fire to haifa in the north ben-gurion airport near tel aviv and israel's an acknowledged nuclear reactor in the south. in recent months attacks from both sides of followed a pattern of casualties have been kept to a minimum avoiding a full scale conflict. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has plenty of reasons to stick to that script before this month's independence day celebrations and the euro vision song contest in tel aviv. but both sides also know they can't rule out the risk of a further escalation towards a wider war how we force it out west jerusalem with us now more in rabbani who is

the coeditor of an online magazine specializing in the contemporary middle east he's on skype from amman jordan i appreciate as well and it is very early in the morning this i thank you for joining us do you agree with what harry was referring to in that report and what one of the guests were referred to that this can be perhaps kept to a minimum casualties and destruction because all of other events going on following a pattern in fact of the last sort of events where a cease fire or a truce comes pretty quickly. yes very much agree i mean the media context of the most recent escalation is that as part of the cease fire discussions the israelis had apparently committed not to use live ammunition and confronting march of return demonstrations this past friday and of course they did they killed one protester and wounded dozens of others including journalists and medics and this is

in the broader context as your report pointed out of israel not implementing a number of commitments it had made about easing the blockade which is now in its thirteenth year and has been been deemed to be illegal under international law and i do think that the pasadena organizations in gaza because of these upcoming events in israel feel that this gives them an opportunity to exercise leverage on israel to finally agree to the egyptian pulls for a long term truce with substantial easing of the blockade but on the other side of the equation. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu may find it difficult to get to those folks because he's also in the midst of coalition negotiations with extreme right wing parties we will of course oppose any type of

a compromise so that more of the same basically we go through this pass in this repetitive pass and as i said before there are strikes there are countless strikes there is a truce egypt is involved. i mean something's got to give at some points and i said yes i wonder i start to wonder about you know more outside involvement united states state of the century jared cushion or all the sort of thing do we have to look ahead to that. well i don't think the sorcerer's apprentice they're at cross interference. you know making any meaningful contribution here look at the fundamental issue is first and foremost illegal thirteen year lock aid on the gaza strip in the broader context of an occupation that is rapidly proceeding towards an extension of the absence of palestinian self-determination but in this immediate context israel has repeatedly tried to water down the

implementation of any informal or more formal formal agreements which have to be nothing more than a truce in exchange for a truce and for the palestinians of course achiness is meaningless unless it also includes very substantial relief of the blockade and increased flow of goods and services into the gaza strip so my sister what i suspect is that israel will find a way to restore quiet for the coming period because a lot of these events the independence day and the euro has untrustable and so on much as it did before the recent elections when netanyahu was very keen to have acquired in the gaza strip but once we get past that i think the likelihood of a major is really a soul is on the gaza strip during the summer increases especially. hard to believe eurovision could have been so important in all of this not minor vonnie thank you so much for us i don't appreciate it thank you. to other news in the youngest

brother of algeria's ousted president has been arrested. had been algeria's different since his brother suffered a stroke and twenty thirteen to have put of leave his former intelligence chiefs have also been taken into custody weeks of protests forced the ailing longtime president to resign last month after he attempted to run for a fifth term the demonstrations that have continued protesters want the entire board to flee to regime dismantles and inside is preventing prevented from holding more top jobs so i'm a have a kid out this from couple university we spoke to million he says protesters are still seeking that genuine change but that said so one more day want you know to go through a very democracy transition. of the like two three names like doctor looked at him but he we. want to get to the transitional period but for the time being. who seem dead he said eminent of.

which if you are as wide as you know we are going to know where and so far what the politician says how about chief it is only. nation if not more and the people need more it's not having a president and he was almost out you know he was. eighty two years old he was very sick they want you know it really change. to syria where government forces and their russian allies have pounded the rebel held northwest of the country with more airstrikes so these twenty two people have died after an escalation of violence in adelaide and how much provinces despite an eight month old truce it was the last rebel held province in syria and the borders turkey russia and turkey negotiated a cease fire in september which so far has a very sort of full government offensive but it leaves mostly how by the highest. yes formally known as the nasr friends who are not

a part of that deescalation agreement the province is home to more than three million civilians around half of whom were displaced and moved there after the government took aleppo and glue to and other areas from the rebels more now with enter ship help. volunteers worked throughout the day to check for signs of life in buildings bombed by the syrian regime and its russian ally and he said you see a lot of there's an intense campaign on residential areas there are helicopters on this village twice thank god the losses are only material because the village has been targeted before and everyone has evacuated. the white helmet say more than twenty civilians have been killed and dozens more wounded in airstrikes and shelling since friday morning. the u.n. says schools markets and displacement camps have been struck in recent days and barrel bombings have returned with the frequency. not seen in more than

a year italy province and surrounding areas were declared a deescalation zone last year under an agreement reached between russia and turkey intended to avert a major offensive on the rebel held area that agreement appears to be under threat activists say syrian and russian government forces launched more than eighty strikes on saturday two hundred fifty thousand people have already been displaced in the late. this wave of violence if there is a real offensive if there's a real attack and really i mean an attack that is aimed at that penetrating. residential or that. the central parts of it leapt like lips town itself among others then we going to have an enormous crisis and then we're talking about two hundred thousand but up to a million of people who probably will be on the rules right now.