turned over to a gang who killed them and burned their bodies dozens of people have been arrested and better including a 73 year old woman who became a central figure in the protest movement after scuffling with police last month the deal was circulated on social media of the arrest of nina back in skya it was dragged into a van by masked riot police hundreds rallied in the capital mins going to protest dollars a rehearsal for the presidential inauguration of opposition leader sat on a chicken off sky as she and her supporters say she won last month's disputed election alexander lukashenko was sworn in for a 6th term on wednesday after winning an election that the opposition says was raped that's it for myself and the team here in london rewind is coming up next introducing us to a pioneering eye doctor in nepal. keeping law and order is a primary function of any state. on protecting the people became

police brutality a domestic incident became a global law. in a country torn apart by racial inequality. can americans find a leader to unite. all of the key issues of the us elections. on al-jazeera. and on welcome again to rewind and there's a chronic here on rewind we're going back to some of al-jazeera is most powerful documentaries and finding out how the story has moved on since today we rewind into

a film about a remarkable doctor on a mission to cure blindness millions of people around the world suffer from blindness that makes difficult lives harder than ever it in many cases they condition could be easily cured most cases of cataract blindness occur in the developing world and often they go untreated simply because of poor access to medical facilities but in some of the most remote parts of naipaul one of the world's poorest countries and i can revolution is on the way thanks to a doctor locally known as the go out of sight so effective as his technique that doctors from around the world come to naipaul to train with him from the 101 east series back in 2014 he is yahoo mail hands moving and beautiful film the gift of sight. the himalayas remote and wild.

the pose mountains are renowned for their picturesque beauty. for the many people living in the shadows of its peaks this stunning splendid can't be seeing. 'd is a 70 year old grandmother living in the foothills of nepal's himalayan mountains. is 4000 feet above sea level with a view many would pay to see. ringback her 4 years ago her world faded to black. it started as if something poked me in the right eye and then it moved on to the

left and say as a. mother. on long will is blind in both eyes and lives her days immobilized by darkness and fear. her husband ring genies both her eyes and her feet. still her world is confined to the walls of this house. that. i used to plow the fields cuts grass and do a lot of work. now i can't even fetch water my husband has to do that. but a solution is within sight. as a form of blindness that is curable cataract blindness. across the country an estimated 150000 police struggle to see most a blind from catching rugs a clouding of the key

a lens of the. dignity. but one doctor has made it his mission to help them see again. i've come to the to ganga institute of ophthalmology to meet the man locals call the god of sight. thanks son to kuwait is a world renowned expert in cataract surgery the 59 year old nepalese eye doctor has helped more than 100000 people to see. his one dozens of awards and he's one of the world's leading up from ologists the doctor away still tries to give each of his patients some time even for basic eye tests. the center in katmandu is not only a hospital but also

a state of the factory. each year 350000 lenses outward used here for cataract patients and sold across the world. in the u.s. because $100.00 to many crack to just one lens here the costs only $3.00 to sell them for about $3.00 to go plus you know making the. idea is to make money. make. health impact make that millions of people who did the surgery if you believe them in a moment will come within the package should be having told my gaffer here. dr weight is not only producing cheap lenses he's also changing the lives of the country's poorest by providing free surgeries all over nepal.

today he's preparing to take his clinic out on the road. dr await has invited me to join him and his daughter on this trip. we begin with a day's drive deep into the mountain. next morning a journey it's tough. it's a steep climb but this is familiar terrain for a doctor oh wait. he grew up in similar foothills in a remote village in east in nepal where he learned what it means to lose somebody to illness when he was a teenager his sister died of tuberculosis you know it was very mental in my life because she passed away in fun to me. and also i felt certain amount of an emptiness inside who know. a medical conditions like this can take away dear ones

from you so soon so i really felt that maybe this is a profession that i should take up. this will be the 1st i camp ever held in this region. the risk of getting a cataract rises in such high altitudes with prolonged exposure to ultraviolet rays . this combined with poor nutrition and lack of basic medical care may catch wrecks the leading cause of preventable blindness in the developing world. after an 8 hour trek we arrive in the village of bondi. most of the people here assured that it's an ethnic group made. famous for climbing everest doctora wait staff arrived to head of us and have already begun setting up. the team is rushing to

transform this unfinished building into a makeshift hospital it's all hands on deck to turn this room into a surgical state or everything is going to be sterilize the walls and floors scrubbed down in preparation for surgery tomorrow. some patients are still making their way to the camp. for. the surgery could change her life. and without that i'm extremely happy that the i camp is here in my village i really hope that the operation works and they'll be grateful for that. getting his wife to the i can is a challenge for e.g. he's too weak to carry his wife so his brother has come along to help. in the now sterilized operating theater dr await is getting ready for

a long day he aims to complete at least 50 surgeries doctors in the west do only 121518 busy day. i join him as he explains the small incision surgery technique he pioneered. a middle cut on the front surface of immense which is like a ball exe to the front shelf. know what i'm doing next means isolating the nucleus richest the. nuclear from the bike and take it out in one go like that incredible. what you're left now is the back shell of the beautiful intact. with the clouded dumb. lens now removed dr away to carefully slides in an artificial one and this technique requires no stitches. and this is the concept of just the smallest some surgery become self

sealing. the surgery is over in less than 7 minutes and in less than 24 hours the patient will see again dr await spent years creating and perfecting the stitch for a surgical technique today his method is widely practiced around the world by doctors who travel to nepal to train under him many come from developing countries like indonesia meanwhile ethiopia and even north korea. not all of them speak with english so a doctor a wait patiently guides them with hand actions. dr joyce clough dane is an eye doctor from a remote island in indonesia a recent medical graduate she's here for a month long training program with doctoral weight. so we'll be able to do pieces

independently now. for nearly perfecting the technique so we need to do about another 2000 before succumbing to besides and. every year dr await and he's tame train about 50 foreign eye doctors. for them learning and a doctor a weight is a lifelong dream. the with. the ghost doctor it is an amazing i don't know a good man who wants to share his knowledge with other eye doctors regardless of which country you come from. for dr joyce it's a steep learning curve. in indonesia i would operate on 2 to 3 patients a day where 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. not only going to. these cataracts are. going to mature but the help of a mature and. and about to burst out if she left her for longer would it be possible to operate them is a really good chance those are not going to. cause 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. i had to no one seems as anxious as. they are that other. men did the talk of the day you know. if they do go a little more mum. number their stuff if you look at their eyes are. true i would have thought i would i had

a look at that moment i was in the middle not so much of that. yeah but i'm like yeah. yeah there's some of that i like. if you. actually did say that. my dog is on it. i don't believe there was a well we do there's no i don't know he says well you know we've got. to get out of the last time. you know you're going to go so they're going to want to that might get my attention that. you know you and i you know this so they 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. and a beautiful or today getting away from a deep sleep you know let itself say so. none of these villages here thought they'd ever see again. it's a new beginning. i'm not liking this. 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's 17000 islands are even more challenging it's why having a local eye surgeon is crucial. in these as 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 to dr awaits for most 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 the pregnant 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 head with a. 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. i have 5 can you say maybe one meter to see. you are long gone. yeah. it's a number and i feel happy and proud when my patients regain their eyesight after operations about her have. c c as this size lonely key is the patients 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 free. they not

only restoring sight to the world's poorest they were 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 rose again he's now working to develop community our hospitals to take the prevention of cataract the. i miss down to a local level. 5 is on my face seems completely full and sharp who lives in bomb in the foothills of the hey mom yes. she's now in her mid seventy's and established in lebanon i was on treacherous roads for an eye test at the pentagon the hospital in come on to the

back. of your bed and let enjoy your good about america. and you gonna be. my hero of the month and i. know it's hard you got my so called the no no gun got my tough love him. on the town boss on i'm going to a down by the sword like most of it i can see him he had the confidence and i've why it's because he was so good to me too that time you know and now is he sort of free larry isn't made fun and ok i know i could go to the united. i live by but want to talk so. that you can see that donovan also and this with a kid with the answer you know full well on the order of the other dancer. i was also done that again let's.

take you live to the united nations general assembly where the bella russian foreign minister vladimir mark a is addressing the 75th session of the general assembly let's listen in. and a virus pandemic flu pandemic affects us all and what is more it is a problem that will be with us into the near future at the very least still leading experts and analysts are actively underscoring its global ramifications and its impact on global politics and the economy according to many assessments we are dealing with a paradigm shift and tectonic changes perhaps we are only time will tell and of unfortunately the pandemic has clearly shown that the international community that we talk about so much was at the peak of the crisis essentially unable to meet the hopes placed upon it. clearly the prevailing thinking was that this is a challenge best addressed individually practically everyone batten down the

hatches closed their borders to them and cut off contact with the outside world. in response to this challenge which didn't choose what we saw to be a dubious we didn't shut down we did not isolate ourselves we needed he wondered what then was the point of promoting globalization and openness over recent decades of the ones. from the outside we believed and continue to believe in the success of collective evidence what we believed in and continue to believe in the potential of international community unfortunately some countries chose to use the method of accusing others of acting wrongdoing in the fight against the pandemic. this was for the simple reason that the international community did not draw up a common approach to the problem probably then lies not so much in the pun demick as elsewhere. but this in the situation before us specific national context have become a determining factor in the fight against coronavirus william bell every chose to

forge own power this was based on 2 factors how to keep the country running in the best possible way primarily for its economy and ensuring api people are best protected from the arab approach as a situation better bruce has shown has proven its worth and the spread of coronas around the world today is further confirmation of this there are a lot of evaluations and conclusions still to be made but we can already say with certainty that the covert outbreak has on the one hand shed light on the acute need for a stronger state and on the other hand has clearly shown how interconnected the world is no country alone can make real progress in solving problems that are global in scale if other countries remain sidelined or left out so through our joint efforts we must transform this crisis into not a tuna team to improve the situation around the world we need to learn to work together. the pandemic has temporarily shifted focus away from of the global

problems problems and conflicts including security problems which regrettably are not falling in number in this anniversary year for the un and the 7 and 75 years after the end of the 2nd world war the republic of belarus as one of the founders of the un is calling for particular responsibility to be demonstrated by member states 1st and foremost by the members of the security council for the functioning of our organization and the fulfillment of its role in this connection i wish to recall one of the leading figures in the u.n. reform a sector general and nobel peace laureate sadak how much old this year marks 115 years since his birth. he is believed to have been the one who inspired and tiredly adam tirelessly advocated for preventive diplomacy that hamish old who died carrying out his mission to find a solution to a grave crisis believed that only mutually respectful dialogue can and almost

negotiations between parties to a given conflict at its early stages can prevent a conflagration this is something that is lacking in today's world we have forgotten what dialogue is and if we manage to remember then we have surely forgotten how to use it i must mention that for several years now better views have been actively calling for every new broad dialogue on international security in order to solve disagreements in intergovernmental relations based dialogue could put back on track the building of a just and effective multilateral global order. with this in mind bella bruce is supporting and promoting pragmatic initiatives at the u.s. focused on maximizing the organizations potential in terms of maintaining international peace and security. this year we will once again table of the general assembly on the 1st committee with broad sponsorship from like mine it's.