read that part i wouldn't. we try to respond with out without getting sex so the risk the response here is vaccines do not cause autism that misinformation has been thoroughly were purely debunked but if i'm a parent how do i know it's been working out yet where this other guy's giving me all these we have these doctors these studies we have had other posts where we would you know link to vaccine safety information another thing we would run into is commenters repeatedly posting the same thing over and over and over on every single you know they go back for the last 2 weeks and post the same comment over and over and over it can very easily overwhelm. the misinformation that we're seeing on social media is not just about the vaccine it's about measles itself it is explicitly contagious if you have measles and you're with a bunch of folks who are susceptible for example not immunized 9 out of 10 of them

will get infected airborne it can stay in the environment for a while the early symptoms are running nose cough conjunctive virus which is pinkeye red red eye in fever after a few days you develop a rash on this starts on the head and goes down to the rest of the body it's not a benign disease before we had measles vaccination the united states we had 400 or 500 deaths every year for measles in the united states. are we so focused on was that 153 people there have missiles yeah right right last year because it's so so with so little pieces of him put him out and stressed or. or like there's a so many other infection why are we just going to need for their what if the immunocompromised aren't even that deadly for them they would be worried about the comical we're not saying that vaccines are. the only cause of autism we've got

a lot of toxins that are impacting our children that are genetically or otherwise susceptible to something how do you sort through the deaths of formation out there to figure out what is it for me as a mother i'd say a lot of it was just my get into a sort of they're in for the other right. the defense of vaccines in this country false just to a handful of academic scientists and pediatricians and were totally outgunned by this incredible media juggernaut that's become the anti vaccine movement dr hotez is a vaccine researcher pediatrician an infectious disease specialist he's also the parent of a child with autism which led him to write the book back seems to not cause rachel's autism to counter the myth that vaccines cause autism we have now 99 genes that have been linked to autism all the drama of the early fetal brain to go in but the

full clinical expressions often not manifest until 1203 years of age but you see that takes time to explain it's not a quick sound bite and it's very important to get that information passed because one of the vaccine lobby does is they keep moving the goalposts right 1st they said it was the measles mumps rubella vaccine in the scientific community responded with large studies and understands children showing there's no link between the m.m.r. vaccine and autism so we've been doing now is playing this kind of look very global of whack a mole game where you know going down another one pops up so do you still believe that autism can be caused by the m.m.r. shot yes i do don't big tree a former daytime t.v. producer is one of the leading voices of the anti vaccine movement. she hosts a weekly internet show that focuses just on this issue. again in 2016 he produced a documentary called faxed it was directed by and heavily features andrew wakefield

the c.b.c. had known all along to cease and desist wakefield was the main author of a fraudulent study linking the m.m.r. vaccine to autism good morning good afternoon good evening wherever you won't the study has since been widely debunked and wakefield was stripped of his medical license. but not before sparking an anti-tax movement online. amazon pulled backs off of his video streaming platform after pressure from doctors groups public health advocates and at least one member of congress but here's the problem they're going to try and make it so that i can't tell you about it on facebook this is what is what number show is this 105105 right now talks about vaccines big tree often brings up something called pears it's a program run by the u.s. government anyone can report any adverse reaction after being vaccinated yet when we go to the various databases this is vaccine adverse events reporting system this

is the only system that we have in america where you report vaccine injury so in 2018 alone the various reports had over 50000 reported back injuries over 400 reported back seeing deaths in the united states alone in one year alone the numbers the way you're using them though it's explicitly warns against using them that way yeah you're saying that there were 412 deaths last i don't want to say is there 412 reported deaths i've never said there were 412 superbus some of those is a death on various you know one was a drowning one was from closely being one was a preexisting heart condition the there's no doubt because a death was reported and fears there's no way to show causation to that scene but in watching years. i watch your show and you will come away thinking 400 people died from vaccines last year and then i can start to see ok where they get the number and then i go to the source of the 4 says don't use the number that way but

in 2016 big tree founded the informed consent action network. a nonprofit dedicated to vesta gating fact seems in this most recent tax filings i can took in contributions of nearly one in a half $1000000.00 so you're a journalist yes but you're c.e.o. of a company that has a position on the only issue that i think you're actually journalist on right now is that a conflict of of interest what one can't be a journalist and be c.e.o. of a company that like has a side on an issue our side of the issue is the informed consent action network we seek to eradicate manmade disease in so the in the the nonprofit so you better get all you can use journalism but you can't do you can't be but. i don't even be honest with you. i'm simply finding the information as i find it. victory has been

touring the country giving speeches to cheering crowds of vaccine opponents like this one in austin texas in march. he stirred controversy after wore a yellow star similar to what nazis forced used to wear during world war 2 to compare new york county's ban on vaccinated children in public spaces to nazi treatment of jews. not the pharmaceutical industry my god. this becomes a very well organized very powerful very dangerous anti science movement in the united states yeah i believe it is a move that i think is probably one of the fastest growing movements in the world. the movement is finding a foothold in texas where activists are trying to loosen vaccine laws. we've taken those social media warriors we're taking those i think with keyboard warriors that are in there and we've gotten into the capitol and we've trained them and we've

gotten them in front of their legislators in 2015 jackie sleep well founded texans for vaccine choice a political action committee focused on opposing required facts seems. she says they lobby state legislators here weekly and their success has become a model for other states every single day our phone rings with people in other states wanting to know how we organized how we became so effective and i don't know if there's any secret other than you just show up when you learn the ropes when you get it down not content with just lobbying for now putting up candidates for elections who are opposed to required vaccinations even though texas already has some of the most lenient action nation laws in the country from a public health perspective though we've interviewed a lot of state public officials their job is to prevent breakouts not wait for a break up to happen but there's a fine line where they say ok you can still make your choice for your child they just can't be a part of this and my child or any of the other children who could potentially be

opting out of vaccines that doesn't necessarily mean they have a disease they can't share. they formed their pack they started showing up at the capitol and after that legislative session we realized that the one voice that was missing that was really important was the voice of the regular everyday person to be sue founded a group called immunize texas in a rare case where parents have come together to politically organized in support of vaccines to address what she says is an alarming tropp and immunization rates across the state most common story for someone that supports vaccines i bags and my kid and nothing happened and it's not that compelling but it's important and people have had enough i think now that we're seeing things like measles come back we're seeing woman cough moms on the rise people are starting to wake up and say you know what enough is enough. it's gone too far the situation is crazy and we need to we need to rein it back in like many people we met during the reporting of this story

soon became aware of this issue soon after having our 1st child i went into facebook groups i tried to join you know various moms groups and that's when i started to realize that there are people who choose not to vaccinate living in our communities and at that time back in 2012 the sentiment was that you weren't supposed to judge them i look at the mothers and i don't want to invalidate their anxiety about their child who i feel very i feel a lot of empathy for them and their fear of x. it has and i understand i mean if you don't have a training in biology or medicine and you see some of the stuff on facebook or the internet it sounds scary and if especially are dealing with a diagnosis that maybe doesn't have treatment or a cure or even really unknown cause i can understand why you're looking for an answer and if everyone's tired it's vaccines after a while it sounds true for me it's really the activists that are the problem they

take facts they twist them they don't they don't show the whole story they. sometimes just tell blatant lies. texas has i think some of the lowest vaccination rates there are some cases the music is in texas but it's not really there are not connecting the dots and to full blown outbreaks what's happening is it's only a matter of time the situation we have in texas is 3 daughter we have the texas department of health we have 60000. kids not getting their vaccines the state of texas and those are the ones we know about these are highly vulnerable communities now and we should be very recently said to be. at the game in just a moment. if that happens children like 4 year old giuliana crepes who lives outside of houston. risk. it's very much life or death issue if she contract did chicken pox if she contract of measles and she contracted the flu and if she

contracted months those are all life threatening disease the surgery. right after she was born giuliana had a heart transplant. and since then she's been on medication deflector immunocompromised. that means she can't receive live virus fact seems like in the more rotavirus. she looks like she's a normal child but she's not we already had 2 hospital stays this year and it's just barely. and one of them is from a vaccine preventable disease that she's not able to be vaccinated against most brutal violence. how she voted i have no idea i have no idea we were i mean she could have gotten it from the grocery store or she could have gotten it from the part i mean i try to keep her away from certain things but i can't she can't live in a bubble not why we live close to our hospitals i had to rush her down to the hospital

a week ago a week ago today i was in my car driving fast so i could to get emergency center and she was in a trauma shock or a. little thing yes we're going to go that are very. cool. you. giuliana will become public school next year and recuse nervous about the other children she'll be exposed to want to daily basis the same school that my son goes to and i have to make sure that i know that school is at least 95 percent vaccinated are all she can go to school there have you been able to get the vaccination numbers for that school not recently now you know what do you say to the mom who's going to be in the kindergarten class or who chooses to not that silly i just feel really sorry for their child in case they get a disease that's really painful or harmful where they can't breathe i would tell her about my experience with giuliana being in i.c.u. and how terrible it was and how she was on a breathing tube and how i would never hope for that for her child and. try to see

if they might look at the research and change their mind. to brace. my heart that i even have to do this to protect my daughter life is hard enough for us and most of the parents that i know that have healthy children it's stressful and hard enough that we shouldn't have to worry about any kind of public health issue living in the united states. the earth is a tipping point scientists are telling us right now that we have just 12 years as the world's leaders fail to agree on a solution. to taking matters into their own. which coming up. with trying to succeed it's like the something kills people and it kills people now it's. both sides with the people's doors on al-jazeera.

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al-jazeera world needs to upgrade people. who are out on the identity of the persons close to the. stake in lebanon. on al-jazeera. an emphatic win for indian prime minister narendra modi's b j p party in the world's biggest election. hello i'm a star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up accusations that donald

trump may use a legal loophole to bypass congress and sell arms to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. . the u.s. adds to charges against wiki leaks founder julian assange. and dire warnings about this year's hurricane season in the united states as scientists say the storms are getting more powerful. modi's b.j. party has been reelected with a massive landslide win in the parliamentary election india's lower house the lok sabha has 543 seats and at the coalition led by moody's party the b. j.p. looks set to win as many as 350 seats that's almost as many as they did 5 years ago the main opposition party the congress is way behind their coalition is expected to win only about 82 seats so hell raman reports from new delhi.

he is on course to win a 2nd term as prime minister of india he arrived at his governing b.g.p. headquarters late talk thursday evening jubilant by what his party had achieved. today we have witnessed citizens from every nook and corner of the country filling this beggar's hand i banged my head for india's 1300000000 citizens. but celebrations at b j p headquarters began early in the day and vote counting wasn't even over yet the votes of hundreds of millions of indians were tallied and candidates and their agents are focusing on the district centers and each constituency. the election commission says the turnout was the largest in indian election history more than 600000000 people voted out of the 900000000 who are eligible to take part in the 6 week election the issues a clear for some. people have voted for nationalism for the good of the country and

for development work done by trust. is the only person who can fight. corruption this is the reason only. as a prime minister. this election has been one of the most divisive in recent years i think the security. that people's imagination was fixed on and then you start feeding them constantly. so it seems that in the post independence india the 1st time for the 1st time security issue has become such a big issue in india the opposition have congratulated modi many. during the campaign i said the people will decide who will rule the country and they have made a decision so firstly let me congratulate prime minister murty i must also thank my party workers for putting up a tough fight a battle is of ideology and vision and the people seem to have chosen to be j.p.

. for now it's a moment of the j.p. supporters to say. hello ron and joins us now from the capital new delhi so it's been more than 24 hours since the counting started where there's all of that stand now. yes on the stars here well to a very blustery and windy new delhi. the force 9 gale as it felt like it started on thursday night and that wave was often described as the modi wave in 2014 continues in 2019 here in the capital of course where we stand as the vote count continues 295 seats not confirmed by the election commission 400 modi's b j p party less than a dozen still to be counted in constituencies across india and of course once the celebrations and the hard work of making sure that this party can continue to govern and implement its policies are very important professor surety capello is

from the university of cambridge enjoys being now it's been good to have you with us on our mouths there looking at what's being going on let's talk about the economy it's been a huge issue in the election campaign certainly driven by the opposition parties what does the new modi government really have to focus on in 2019 i think the economy's a huge challenge given the rate of unemployment as well as what has been termed sharp this growth in india but i would think if you heard the speech yesterday a victory speech yesterday it was very little indication given on the economy it was a 45 minute speech where the focus was entirely on the political end of what india was going to look like rather than on the economy so i think they're tough challenges especially at the macro economic level on on things like joblessness on things like unemployment but also in terms of as it were bringing in technology which i think the government is very keen on using data to deliver deliver deliver

as it was services i think. huge challenges but i don't think that morty has given us any clear indicator of how he is going to resolve those problems one of the issues that was told to me as we went around the country especially from young people was that we're going to graduate we need jobs 15 to 20000000 new voters were added to the electoral roll in the largest ever election that india has seen their aspirations are very important in this next 5 years absolutely and so was the case even in 2014 he has consistently voted very very highly if not unanimously but the 1st time which is 1000 you know the under 25 and it's it's interesting i think it's something that we need to think about why modi was not punished for for his poor economy. given that he his 1st bank in $24.00 team was actually development and growth for order so it is interesting that there is a way in which there are to munch more economic change reform aspiration rich more

he speaks to but he doesn't seem to pay for his failures on that in terms of policy and the economy he certainly trying to attract foreign investment into india but at a time globally where we're seeing the u.s. talk about its own needs china talking about what it wants obviously global trade arguments happening how india fits into all of that when we have such a large population absolutely and of course the indian corporate world which is supported big business in in in india has supported modi with. the very very big global conglomerates have supported him consistently both in 2014 and 19 today have been pushing for reform of opening to the market to kind of as a quid more. in land acquisition and as well as in labor laws and yet there is the other kind of protectionist demand which in a way also is domestic as to it's not simply

a global. and i think it will be interesting which way more the falls on it and i think one of the things that economists have been talking about is that actually india is likely to fall into a middle income trap things like places like brazil south africa which will not be able to fulfill ringback its potential for hi good to see what happens a lot of issues will be discussing through the day we tend to hear what the prime minister is saying in terms of what we're expecting today mr modi will of course be gathering his elected parliamentarians at some stage during the day joke about how they move forward but they're not going to do it not until the election commission officially announces the results and announces that the p.g.p. has won the 17th general election here in india so how raman across that election for us from new delhi thank you so well u.s. president on trans says he's meeting pentagon officials to discuss tensions with iran the u.s. has already sent extra warships and fighter jets to the region over the past few

weeks saying it's facing unspecified threat from tehran the acting defense secretary downplayed the possibility of war with iran but strongly defended the military buildup in the gulf. we want to. discover this so. i think those are fair comments you know our job is to turns this is not about we have a mission that is freedom of navigation. counterterrorism. security of israel jordan. and now there are reports the trumpet ministration is planning to bypass a congressional ban on weapons sales to saudi arabia there is concern that u.s. secretary of state's mike pompei and other senior aides one to the president to be able to act without the approval of congress the proposal emerged when democrat senator chris murphy criticized it on twitter i am hearing that trump may use an

obscure loophole in the arms control act and as a major new sale of bombs to saudi arabia the ones they drop in yemen in a way that will prevent congress from objecting could happen this week alan fisher has more from washington d.c. . well normally under u.s. law congress is given 30 days notice before any foreign arms sales and then they can see you or nay another appears that donald trump is going to subvert the process by using a loophole in the law and declaring the sales to saudi arabia a national emergency in this he's being pushed by secretary of state might pompey or in that case the sails will go ahead no matter what and all donald trump has to do is provide congress with a letter of explanation of why he's the clear the specific seal a national emergency no there's going to be opposition to this if there is a gap between donald trump and republicans on capitol hill it certainly comes over

the issue of sodium arabia you'll remember that earlier this year a bipartisan move in both the house of representatives and the senate to limit american support for the saudi led war in yemen was passed and was only defeated when donald trump issued a very rare veto the republican senators like lindsey graham big supporter of donald trump who says he doesn't want to see any arms sales to saudi arabia until the address the issue of crime prince mohammed bin salman who he says is responsible not just for the war in yemen but also for the mark of journalist jamal khashoggi there are republican senators like marco rubio who says he wants to see any details before he would be comfortable with selling weapons to saudi arabia and there certainly are many many democrats in both the house and the senate who are very very anxious at the u.s. getting involved in arms sales to saudi arabia no this is happened before but

you've got to go back to the 1980 s. when a president declared a national emergency to force through arms sales in this way the president then was ronald reagan the issue was the perceived threat of iran and the weapons sales while that was to saudi arabia. in libya warplanes have bombed the offices of the breakaway faction of one of the country's 2 competing governments no one was hurt in the attack the building is used by members of the brook based house of representatives who moved to tripoli soon after the war khalifa haftar began his attack on the libyan capital in april country remains divided in the. 2011 x. the probably based government of national accord. the dutch foreign minister is calling for an international tribunal to be established.