trash. maher is about to both twins but both babies are breached meaning the and the wrong position should have to be taken for their inspection. and now works quickly and out comes the 1st baby. born or shortly by the 2nd but both babies on breathing. one as it is a little bit. minutes pass and the baby still breathing properly. gives me. more grab it was.

very hard to watch on doing. some. while and jackie concentrate on mom the rest of the team work on resuscitate in the babies want to warble the wall of the lab and the wall wagging why don't you let me join in and say mommy the long and laying. off finally the 1st baby's doesn't leaving. and after fixing the problem with the oxygen the 2nd baby starts to cry.

it's just going to be intensely mo trying to resuscitate them with absolutely nothing these kids don't even have incubated as there was. no statement for us to it's all for the team to try and resuscitate them so that this couldn't be a to watch and then do nothing. to think that this will mean other kids who don't make it you know if you day and it's just really i just i caught. the monthly sort of.

conditions introduction hospital make an extremely challenging piece to want but that only adds weight to the incredible job at hand and the team. emergency everybody kind of take action if your professionalism not a bit of a malady you work in a hospital everybody have put their hands on to save the life of our pricing and so we have to wait to get a economy kids again are starting and the last government report liberia had only 117 practicing doctors just defeated health care system has been supported by the us like. a teacher one of the risks of surgery to help hundreds of mothers facing difficult and possibly left threatening births. what's nice is pigmentosa is the term given to a group of degenerative eye diseases that affects up to one in 3000 people and with

no cure currently available it can result in a slow and complete loss of vision i'm dr john abdomen and amsterdam the netherlands to see how an incredible new implant is giving people who are completely blind the chance to see again. fred van run it's one of 70 people around the world who are being fitted with the august 2 retinal prosthesis system a device that is giving back some sight to people suffering from certain types of blindness in the past i have seen i played football on the field kind of thing i can walk i can only advise or call it was not in one time but fairing fairly slowly by the time you were 34 you could not see yes i don't know. your wife tanya have you ever seen her face yes. when i was 34 and she was 29 i'm not 58 years old in my mind she is still 29 years old

i give you that i thought you were played out how do you feel being only the 3rd person in the country to have this. this this. is the surgeon who will be operating on fred it's exciting technology that is basically a little microchip we implant in the eye and blind people that are affected by everything like this because those are things to do. see back light in the healthy i photo receptors in the retina converts light into electro chemical impulses that are sent through the optic nerve and into the brain condition such as retinitis pigmentosa can stop the photoreceptors from working properly. the argus 2 bypasses these damaged photoreceptors using a miniature video camera that sits on the patient's glasses this camera sense

wireless signals via a video processing unit to an implant which has been surgically placed on the damaged retina the implant then emits small pulses of electricity which travel along the optic nerve to the brain which learns to interpret these pulses as visual patterns when you begin patients do not understand what they're saying it's not official vision so they have to out with paper at the bottom of the light we send them because it's not the vision we have but what were your school. during the surgery dr moreau will pin the electrode to the back of the eye which in turn will be attached to an aerial that will wrap around the eye rehab real it's being anchored to help find a white it's just being anchored here on the attendance of the market it won't be

seen when you look at the behind behind. the complexity of the operation means the surgery can take up to 4 long hours. so if the firing the white they are being. which is making right. through that got him to him. coming up the moment of truth where mark has gone off. that fact that drove. straight through. because now you're. almost done are you happy with it yes. the same storm that. but it is another patient with what tonight is pigmentosa who had the device implanted 4 months ago. i love those little room i'm fine thank you love

job and just to be nice to me as you walk in here. that's exactly what i was 11 when i got diagnosed. and when i was 15. and again on the bicycle anymore. and when i was 18 and 19 in 2 years i lost 80 percent of my official feels it's only been 4 months since it's been 4 months takes a lot of time and you know i've got 3 filter and the 1st one to. 6. and that's 4 when the pressure i went to school and when it's a cloudy weather and i use this one and i've got 12 with extra rest and when it's too cloudy i use this one i'm sure that you could get infrared heat seeking just a touch of that but. it's a lot of preparation just in improving when i do this yeah i see this you can see

that there's a life lesson and wow when i go there is yeah i can see i can see and can you see well can you see exactly i see light and dark so i don't see how many you know so you can actually tell there are stripes that i know that they're oh yeah i see their stripes well you know when you go stand over here. and it's gets there it's going to march and that's better. you're not show gentle know if i could see your discount above me like you know where's your head when i do this and then you know about it i see i was saying exactly that i think it is a good thing now if now you're standing in the right in the right light so i can scan you and you can scan makes i actually. i now see something moving when. when when they walking i see something moving so i guess so yeah and i see you a little i mean big nice big so you can tell the difference in people in that sense

yeah yeah. even in the 4 months he's had the device it's great to hear the difference it's made to urines life for my orientation it's a little bit better i feel safer and i'm more confident now. that. 2 weeks after the surgery fred has recovered enough to have the device turned on for the 1st time jessica nice to meet you you excited about today. yes a little bit complex with you yes what do you hope to achieve this afternoon i hope . that i see your face ok. so you are as well you are well good looking. well you are fear of closeness with the camera ok i'm recording it transfer me. to the cable through to feed you and if you sense it back to the call. i think it would be a video processing unit or something else yes. you know to turn off.

all. right. just. let's turn to. your. room. i think i. could not show you what i she had to coax for its brain has to learn to process this. image which is in that will take time so you just try to live and you will see and hear on the screen there's an approximation of what the camera just said i'm going to move around friends. i see myself on the computer.

he sees the peaks but the still has a lot of this paperwork the one that needs my brain so i thought. you know it's been asleep for a while it's time to wake up. a huge part of the process for fred is to practice with a device so that his brain can learn to understand the signals it's receiving 4 months after it was 1st switched on i'm excited to see how he's getting on and i think i've prayed. for months exactly almost yes and it has a bit you want you want to know what but happened all the time. when we were going home at home i saw the 3. of them with really ultimately less questions although i don't rush out and at home and when we put on the light in our house also ready i see all the lights. that fell. well amazing and on the set today she was sitting at the dinner table and i was sitting

here and that's all. it was and i didn't feel a moment to do a great yeah yes technique you know. a lot of times you do one step back and doing the steps forward. you really feel he'd love site ok find out what your have just turned your head you know you have to lift the cap a friend of 1st beginning at the beginning you're benefiting and ok yeah there's a clear point it could go to. the center that's my. ok there is something you could do and you could pinpoint is there it is but if you see now in the last 2 times you prove that a really set improved so extremely so the sky's the limit very good.

how can you don't just not straight don't follow the law yeah that's think it appeared me critical chris parameters and answer them for you just seen a pyramid a few months ago you saw things i speak to measure and take that. fred's brain will continue to learn to process the signals so there's no knowing how much insight will improve and at the same time scientists are developing the technology and software involved for people who have been living in darkness for so long the potential impact of this is enormous.

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of justice by past and present members of the trump white house. more than 20 countries signed a letter to the u.n. condemning what said to be china's mass the tension off weaker muslims. hello it's been a day of dispute between iran and the united kingdom involving 2 or all tankers in different parts of the world police in the u.k. territory of gibraltar say they've arrested the captain and chief officer of the iranian tanker that was seized by british marines last. week and this comes amid conflicting stories over what happened to another oil tanker in the strait of hormuz late on wednesday iranian boats are being accused of trying to obstruct the british vessel in one of the world's busiest waterways iran's revolutionary guards deny any such incidents took place on had earlier threatened to retaliate after its

tanker was seized in gibraltar well the u.k. says it wants to lower tensions with iran but at the same time it's raised the security threat level on british ships operating near iranian waters to its highest level we have rather just a little while ago the u.s. central military command put out a statement stressing the need to protect shipping lanes it says threats to international freedom of navigation require an international solution world economy depends on the free flow of commerce and it is incumbent on all nations to protect and preserve this linchpin of global prosperity we have a team of reporters on this story for you. will join us in a moment from to run we begin with rory chalons who'll tell us what the view is from london and what british authorities are saying about these rising tensions in the strait of hormuz. well the british government has tried

to defuse the tensions with iran over this incident basically saying they want to bring the level of. escalation down. but at the same time they are raising the security level for british shipping in the gulf around iranian waters to its highest level level 3 they are saying that this does not mean that every british flag ship in the region is going to be escorted by naval ships i don't think they have the resources at the moment to do so on any given day there are about 15 to 30 large british vessels in the area with about $1.00 to $3.00 of them going through the straits of hormuz every day so that's a lot of shipping going through the british navy at the moment is under equipped in the area to provide each and every one of those with a proper escort but these ships are going to be at their highest level of security

that means that there are restrictions put in place and bought cation disembarkation how the ships move around that sort of thing and that that security level will be at its highest for the duration of the time to the british feel that there is an imminent threat we can now from jeremy hunt so use the british foreign secretary speaking before the british decided to raise the security level but he was talking about the incident in the gulf where we're very concerned this is a very serious escalation of the situation and you know we are proud that they're all navy was there to protect the heritage but we are monitoring the situation very closely we don't want to escalate tensions we want tensions to come down. so the british are in a tricky position here because they are trying to occupy

a common middle ground between the united states which of course been escalating tensions with iran in recent weeks and months and its partners in the european union who want to keep things at a low level and try as much they can to save the nuclear deal with iran so of course as tensions rise in the gulf that may that makes saving that nuclear deal ever harder in the british trying to keep their alliance with the united states as healthy as possible and also protects this nuclear deal which is hanging by a knife edge all right chalons thank you let's bring in zain boss robbie he's joining us from tehran and saying just about an hour ago we heard the police in the u.k. territory of gibraltar say they've arrested the captain and chief officer of that iranian tanker that was seized by the u.k. last week how is this incidence going down in iran.

well during the events that you just spoke about these latest lines of about the arrests of the senior officers of the grace one the iranian oil tanker really the events that have played out in the last 24 hours and the events that have been playing out over the last few weeks and months illustrate the fact that the relations between iran on one side and the u.s. and the u.k. on the other are really in a valley and they haven't hit bottom yet now iranian officials have yet to react officially to these latest arrests of the captain the chief officer of the grace won but what we're likely to see here from to her on is the same strong language the same anger that leaders voiced when the u.k. royal marines last week seized control of this oil tanker now iranian officials at the time including the president himself recently in a cabinet meeting just yesterday said that this was akin to piracy that this was something that violated international law and iran's government has accused at the

highest levels the u.k. for making international waterways more in secure so really a ratcheting up of tension and with these latest arrests are likely to only lead to more of the same the grace one when it was seized with carrying an estimated $2000000.00 barrels of crude oil that iran was looking to take to market iran denies that it was headed to syria iran says it doesn't recognize e.u. sanctions against syria because they are not internationally or un ratified sanctions and wants the control of this vessel back in the heart of the matter is iran's desire to continue to sell its oil to continue to try to hold up its economy that's been burdened by u.s. sanctions for so long and any reaction from iran to the u.s. is call for an international coalition to patrol the area. and in the we're really seeing a lot of competing narratives when it comes to that iran of course denying flatly

that there was any incident today involving iranian vessels and any sort of foreign vessel we of course. heard from the islamic revolutionary guard corps earlier today saying that there in the last 24 hours they bear no such encounter the foreign minister said as much and really what we're seeing here is competing narratives and in so far as the united states trying to paint iran with this brush of iran being a threat to international waterways iran being the problem in terms of shipping lanes in the strait of hormuz you know again this is another competing narrative iranian officials that we've spoken to about this in the past have told us that iran has been responsible and a caretaker of the strait of hormuz of those international shipping lanes in its territorial waterways since before the united states was a country many of the iranian government officials we've spoken to hark back to the time of the persian empire when they fought a war in the 1500s with the portuguese navy and they say ever since then it's been

an international fact that iran is in control and is the guardian of the strait of hormuz and as such it is not just there to protect its own territorial waters but also those shipping lanes on the ships that pass through having said that in recent weeks and months of iran's government has said that if it is not allowed to sell its oil busy through that waterway if it's not allowed to mitigate u.s. sanctions unilateral u.s. sanctions that will put pressure on that strait of hormuz while many will be seeing the events of the last 24 hours as that threat playing out iranian officials continue to deny that anything like that happened all right says i must thank you. well governments and media organizations are proposing the creation of a global fund to support journalists in danger zones the projects were made at the global media freedom conference being held in london this week canada and the u.k. are co-hosting the event and hope other countries will contribute to the funds 99

media workers were killed in 2018 charlie on has more from iran that. at the close of this summit on media freedom we've seen some concrete promises emerge one the creation of a global media defense fund that will support journalists in their legal battles and also give them training in personal safety in the promise of a formation of coalition of governments that can put diplomatic pressure on countries that try to suppress media freedom and act as a type of rapid response unit we've also seen the creation of an international task force that will advise countries on how to rise up the ranks of that world press freedom index and that will be reviewed by the un each year one journalist who i spoke to who could definitely benefit from some of these new mechanisms is maria ressa she is the co-founder of rappler investigative online news platform in the philippines and she's been investigating the human rights violations and murders authorized by president detest take. his government was blocking the work she does

. in about 14 months we've had 11 cases at least 11 cases and investigations filed against me in rappler i've been arrested. twice in about 5 weeks i've had to post bail 8 times in 3 months in order to be able to travel i have to pay at least $60000.00 in bail and bond it's primitive i feel like my rights have been violated and i will fight this another outcome of this conference has been the signing of a declaration defending freedom of expression signed by a number of the nation states who attended but all governments on the face of it support press freedom it's even enshrined in the constitution. of north korea the problem is enforcing that right and human rights cleaning he's heading up a panel that is looking at strengthening the protection of journalists legally said that it is judges who must comply with that in the us 90 percent of crimes against

this go on punished and when the summit meets again next year will be hoping to see those numbers brought down drastically at least 4 people have been killed in a car bombing in the libyan city of benghazi that happened during the funeral of a former military commander dozens of people were injured. france has passed a controversial tax bill against large tech firms which the u.s. says unfairly targets american companies the tax is the 1st from a major economy to be imposed on companies like google apple facebook and amazon it affects any digital company with revenue for at least $844000000.00 of which at least $28000000.00 is earned in france u.s. president donald trump has ordered an investigation into.