since i have a right here i typically operate on night 10 patients daily. it's late afternoon and both doctors have been operating for more than 5 hours but the crowd outside desperate for their turn isn't easing up. finally it's turn. this counteracts are. not going to mature but the help of a mature and. and about to burst out if she left her for longer would have a possible to operate. it was a really good chance those women going to. was collinson is glaucoma and. would

probably be left with. an absolute blind eye. incredible. after a few minutes the surgery is done. but. the next morning back at the i camp anticipation and anxiety filled the air. people around. me. and on how. i had no one seems as anxious as and you mother. just that those. men didn't do for the day you know. if i do go

a little home on the. number that's up if you're going to us off 1st we would have but we had a look at that i'm going to end up in the middle not so much of the. what i'm. like yeah. yeah some of them i like. if you. actually did say that. my dog is any good i don't believe there was a well we do there's no i don't know she said already that we've got. to get out of the class find your you know you're going to go because of the goodness i want to that might give might it is that. you know your life you know this so you can intervention is one of the few you know where you

will see the patient like this just within 24 hours you know and after 24 hours sees at least 10 years younger than she was yesterday that brings the life brings to life you know the this milestone the author wrote here and i you know in a cycle of psychology and confidence and you see probably has a legacy expressed in the word that in a beautiful or today getting a week from a deep sleep you know let itself say so yes but none of these villages here thought they'd ever see again. it's a new beginning. i'm not liking this it was a salon i was in my life so i feel like i've just come eyes of my mother's womb and everything is so clear i just want to do my work and roam in the fields i haven't

been anywhere in the past few years but once again strength i would like to travel around. it's the end of dr joyce's month long training in nepal she'll be taking what she's learned home to indonesia to the small island of nias wish to serve as the only trained eye doctor. it's a lot of pressure but she remains upbeat. and yes i'm happy to return to me yes apart from see my family i can also help the cataract patients in me as regain their eyesight. a few days later i also head for indonesia. i want to see how dr joyce is doing if doctors are having problems getting into nepal's mountains indonesia has 17000 islands are even more challenging it's why having a local eye surgeon is crucial. in

that it has one of the highest rates cataract blindness in the world with experts estimating between 2 and 3000000 people affected by the disease there's been no official studies done here on this island but it's not just adults who are suffering from correct blindness and we're about to find out why. while altitude is a problem in the pool here is the ultraviolet rays reflecting off the water for a community that spends a lot of time in the ocean many are at high risk of developing cataracts. today dr joyce is conducting the island's 1st cataract surgery camp 2 of dr awaits former students have flown in to help. while cataracts are usually associated with older people we find children among the waiting patients at that

but for cataracts in children there is a possibility to have it from birth or that depression mother suffered from malnutrition or fever contract of chicken pox but usually the cataracts don't fully form until they're about 11 to 17 years old. the siblings are given something to comfort them in preparation for what's to come. it takes about 5 minutes for the anesthesia to take effect and then it's time for surgery. in the theater dr joyce is getting ready to operate on her 1st child patient. of the. 13 year old soul than tell him ban or is afraid of needles and hid the fact that he was blind in one eye

but when he found out there was a free i camp he confessed to his parents that he had trouble saying dr joyce makes the incision but it's not easy to keep a young patient calm. but it's soon over and solon is sent off to recover for dr joyce it's on to the next patient. the hospital that she's working in is extremely basic sanitation is a problem and there's a severe lack of medical equipment we found only one sterilizer. but fortunately with dr awaits technique you don't need much. and 264 operations are completed here in just 2 days. the next morning the patients line up they and dr joyce are about to find out if

the surgeries worked. dr joyce's young patient souls and is now able to see in his right eye it'll take time before sovan fully recovers. my mind numbing but. if i have 5 can he say maybe one made a little. more longer. so now i feel happy and proud when my patients forgave their eyesight after alterations about her head from. 7 7 7 at this size luly key is the patient's begin to sing and dance it's been a successful 1st camp. from nepal to indonesia dr awaits vision is inspiring

a new generation of doctors. with the surgery so simple and for many 3. d. not only restoring sight to the world's poorest there is storing hope. that was the gift of sight the story of an extraordinary man whose work changes lives well we return recently to naipaul to meet dr ross again he's now working to develop community our hospitals to take the prevention of cataract the. imus down to a local level. 5 is on life the scenes completes the foot shark who lives in bombed in the foothills of

the he madea. she's now in her mid seventy's and established in neven hours on treacherous roads for an eye test at the pentagon the hospital in come on to. that that. i did that and that but enjoying it i'm going to get out of the building to go to the. market of a month know. what i'm talking about my so called the no gun got my top. of the temple sauce on i'm going to eat. by the settlers like myself up there i can see the confidence in our voice because he was so timid that time you know and i was his sort of feel areas and make fun and i know i could go to the united. i don't buy but want to talk to. any that money can do that.

and this is a kid with. that again oleksiak of. after you know what i did yeah right it was that you. later that i did. that or that it will hurt i've done what kind of mother. although and site is clearly back she still needs glasses. but if you. add that number now that i'm going to get my saddle up. as well as performing surgeries dr drew it's hospital also manufactures then says in the last 5 years it's nearly doubled its production to around 500000 a year and its hospital has been recognized by the world health organization.

a 5. man to santa dr drew it runs a community i hospital in moscow 100 district. a team of 3 i talk to and support staff runs this hospital screening more than 300 patients every day and performing nearly 5000 surgeries a year most of them cataract surgeries like that of anglo. it's a model that dr who it says is easily jobs for 2 other developing countries with the initial investment of $2000000.00 over 3 years before the hospital becomes fully sustainable. this area is so short you comical situation the the window same as same so. miller to us so we double up a system here keeping in mind that we face these obstacles so such

a system of eye care can very easy be replicated in other countries with similar challenges. and if his plan succeeds thousands more will get the gift of sight just like anger. well that's it from rewind for this week for more from the series there check out the rewind page on al-jazeera dot com i'm elizabeth purana from the hotel thank you for joining us and we'll see you next time. in the next episode of techno the team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big deal closer than unfortunate the smelly business to the complexities of recycling when these different plastics are blended together then the recycling

becomes difficult to impossible and the scientists that office solutions it's very easy for us to have a 100 percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera. al-jazeera where ever you are. going to without more is very much our culture has been very harmful to the economy and the minds of many people challenging traditional attitudes how narrowing the gender gap is helping women in who really come out what escape poverty and focus become we're trying to break these barriers so much she smiles by giving women access to resources meet the women leading the way. women make change on al-jazeera.

this is al-jazeera. i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. of course president imposes

a curfew in the capital and deploys the military across the country as protests and . start his forces continue their offensive in northern syria some european nations stop arm sales to ankara. candidates make their final pitch to voters in mozambique ahead of tuesday's general election plus. our reporting. on a very brutal demonstration of the. low disappearance of the nation's glass. just past 6 pm in ecuador's capital which is in lockdown after the craft after the dig up the government pardon me declared a curfew and order troops on the streets of quito the military has also been told to restrict movement across the country for at least 24 hours earlier demonstrators blocked roads leading to the city's international airport and set fire to

a government building that people have been demonstrating in the city for days now they're angry at no austerity measures that have led to higher fuel prices of course president says his government will restore normalcy as soon as possible. so that's what i think of this so i think that it's so we will restore order throughout ecuador we start with a curfew in quito and i've arranged for the joint command of the armed forces to immediately take the necessary measures and operations is important we will restore order through ecuador ordering the armed forces to apply but in the city of keeping you know he said. citizen the he will get out of this together and may god bless you think i was quite on until president land in bahrain no leave this is the government that is downed that is a nest that is attacking the people that we are not own to look at how we are this is the government of london or a note down with no name or

a. letter off joins us live now from quito so michael what is happening there now are understanding as we said is that the military has been deployed. sorry rachelle things remain very tense the military has now taken control of the streets and public spaces in response to this national curfew announced by ecuador's president let in modesto earlier on saturday. it's quite a chaotic scene we've been actually forced to come back inside there's actually quite a bit of hostility against members of the of the press we know of at least one media station we believe it's radio station that was attacked by demonstrators demonstrators also set fire to a government building earlier on saturday this is one of the main administrative offices of the government we the tensions here in the city we really need to stress have reached a fever pitch at this point there are thousands of people that are still defying the curfew that we have actually began more than 3 hours ago at this point in the

city of quito this is not a curfew that's only for the capital this is a curfew that's being enforced nationwide and as tensions continue to bubble up this is no longer just about economic measures people are upset about the heavy handed response by authorities here in the capital of the country the police have used tear gas they've used rubber bullets they've also used live ammunition as we know that these have been deadly protests we know that there are dozens at the very least dozens of people that have been injured in these clashes between demonstrators and police and by what we're seeing given that that there are still thousands of people that refused to go home that continue to defy this curfew we expect that this violence to to continue into the night richelle metal is there any sense that there is any type of organization to that there's a certain group that played in this like a group that they would go talk to the government what what is what is the organization of this that that all. there was at the beginning rachelle this began

as an indigenous movement with indigenous leaders sort of calling the shots of where people would go calling people from other parts of the country from the amazon from all reaches of the country indigenous demonstrators and that's one of the you the more upsetting things for people given that today's the a lot of assets indigenous peoples day there's a big significance to what this day represents but these dialogues between the government and the indigenous communities it's no longer only about that there were different sectors of society that have now joined in the demonstrations so as the tensions have risen as anger has risen so have the demands of demonstrators this is no longer only about economic policies that people were upset about that indigenous groups are upset about this is now we come to see all sectors of society when people are calling for is the resignation of the president and nothing short of that richelle right merapi of the latest and thank you so the crisis in ecuador is capital is also impacting the rest of the country the nation's biggest copper mine

says it's limiting operations to protect workers $1000000000.00 project and southern ecuador only started operating and july the protests have cost the country's oil industry at least $64000000.00 in lost production while accounts for more than half of the country's export earnings and things are also bad so bad that president emeritus government has been forced to leave the capital and relocate in the coastal city of quiet hill. costo is the editor of the ecuador based economic policy publication and only says seminar he joins us from via skype via skype rather from thank you so much for your time do you think the government. anticipated this type of reaction to the subsidies being taken away which obviously triggered so much more to the anticipated this. i think it didn't think that so many groups will join to the president's thing about the economic part of these products the about indigenous and fuel subsidies is just one

part of it but it has triggered other interests and you have to we have to realize that this is not only about fuel subsidies but it's also about regaining power from the former president and his group they are the ones that through their members that they have and some institutions in ecuador they have used their resources to try to. put more attention to the just sort of situation where needed right now and we also have another another after here which are the drug traffickers will of which also profited from cheap fuels so not right now and the things that we progress is going away from the hands of the indigenous people who right now are trying to to say that they are not guilty about what's happening in the capital so you're saying they're trying to you're saying people are taking advantage is what

you're saying there are lots of rapes that are taking advantage of the real issues that the indigenous people have is that what you're saying. it were the things that the indigenous people had a real proudest they were fierce but they were very violent in their way to the capital they. they took and destroyed if plantations they destroyed milk and factories and when they arrived to keiter they encountered no force because the president left quito to avoid any confrontation so but they stayed in quito for lunch and there was a lot of. violence which were not used neck water which came from abroad this is something that is paid off for from a political movement related to other forces which want to create chaos and they want to so overthrow the government so really this

is more a political thing to what what is the way out of this for lenin merino well the way out is 1st to talk with indigenous people which he already said several times to talk with them and he's doing so but then the 2nd part is to use force with the armed forces is to control all these criminal forces that are traveling through the country and that is perhaps not a get it let me ask you one thing that some of the protesters there are saying that that's actually a reason that they've they're even more upset is because of the way that they have been dealt with. no that's not true the things here is that indigenous people came to this city destroying everything they had and their weight the local population is angry at them. because they were so this they destroyed so much now when they came to the city they didn't realize that

a lot of forces which are not indigenous but there are forces militia they joined to destroy and to make more damage to the city and to. the buildings and all the places in the city so now they are trying to say and they just said to me in my moments ago that did they have no responsibility in all this violence they are they want to. break away out part from all these violence which has gone which has climbed so much and right now the armed forces are trying to control and it will be a real problem right now is that the people the citizens of quito are also trying to combat all these violent forces and i'll also repellent the protesters which i have had a very bad. if in the country right now so that their way out look 1st to talk with indigenous people with the president want to do here really

called up to talk with them ok and then to control all these paid forces or these boundaries of the which are we are leaving right now all right alberto acosta with the ecuador based analysis seminar thank you so much for your insight we appreciate it you're welcome. france and germany have become the latest countries to stop all weapons exports to turkey over the country's offensive kurdish groups and northern syria turkish forces say they have taken control of the center of. the syrian border town but kurdish forces deny that and heard reports on the turkey syria border. they are battling their way into kurdish controlled towns along syria side of the border with turkey it hasn't been an easy fight for several days turkish troops and their allies the opposition syrian national army have pushed into the northeastern corner of syria they now say they are in control of one of 2 main

towns along the 120 kilometer stretch of territory they plan to capture in the 1st phase of the operation they've also advance 30 kilometers deep reaching the highway that connects to west and east syria effectively dividing the territory under the control of the. positions of the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are coming under heavy fire but an incident close to a u.s. outpost along the border has added to tensions between turkey and the united states which said its forces were close to being hit by turkish artillery fire turkey's defense minister has a car denies his troops targeted the position saying they were responding to fire 1000 meters away the new front in syria's war is worsening relations between the nato allies which have long been strained the pentagon was more blunt calling them damaged international pressure is mounting on turkey to stop the advance the united states.