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>> hello. you're watching "gmt" on bbc world news. i'm lucy hockings. people all over the world pay tribute to robyn williams. he was unique, loved by fans of comedy and braced by hollywood elite. he had demons so dark they could have driven him to suicide. >> one only hopes that he's gone to a good place. so -- it's a great loss. it's very sad. a russian aid mission to
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ukraine. nearly 300 trucks are supplied. will will they be able to cross the border? food and water is transported to those stranded on the mountain in northern iraq. many still in desperate need. we'll speak to the community that wants president obama to do more. also on the program, aaron is looking further at russia's western food bank. >> i can tell you this piggy ain't going to the russian market. this piggy is staying home. why? russia has a glut of this stuff on the market. european farmers are warning of tumbling pork prices as a result of russia's tit for tat. welcome to "gmt." for me he will always be the odd little alien from mindy.
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for you, he's been the cross dressing dad from "mrs. doubtfire." the reality is young or old, in new york or new zealand, today you probably remember robyn williams. he was a rare talent able to dance between silly and serious. one of few performers that could make audiences laugh and cry on stage or screen. few could match his energy or determination to get the biggest laugh. many are expressing shock at initial reports he took his own life after a long battle with depression. we report now from los angeles. >> it was this zahny alien that propelled this actor to stardom. he was making himself heard on the big screen.
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>> "good morning vietnam." >> it won him a golden globe and oscar nomination. his versatility and talent eventually an academy award many "goodwill hunting." his comic roles he'll best be remembered for. >> i specialize in education and entertainment of children. >> he was due to start filming a follow up for his famous role in "mrs. doubtfire" next year. he was discovered unconscious and pronounced dead at his home in california. the coroner suspected suicide. he was suffering from drug and alcohol addiction and suffering from depression. >> people are surprised when you say someone that spread such joy had bouts of depression. i understand recently it was severe, so much so he checked himself back into rehab just
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weeks ago. >> grieving fans came to pay tribute at his star on the hollywood walk of fame. >> he was one of the greatest men alive. i'm going to miss him a lot. today the comedy dies. >> robyn williams was one of those rare talents who's work crossed generations from the 1970s to mrs. doubtfire, all characters created on screen and television. he's someone from what we've been hearing twitter and comments around the world will be sorely missed. bbc news hollywood boulevard, los angeles. >> he was saying people from around the world have been paying tribute to robyn williams. president obama said robin was an airman, doctor, genie, nanny, president, professor, everything in between. he arrived in our lives as an
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alien and ended up touching every element of the human spirit. he made us laugh, made us cry. steve martin tweeted, i could not be more stunned by the loss of rob win williams. great talent, acting partner and genuine soul. another says robin williams has died and i am very sad. let's go to alexi via webcast. all tributes pouring in. why do you think he was so special? >> well, he was a great comic really. he was somebody that moved the game on substantially. he was a huge movie star. that's kind of what people -- he managed to make that transition from standup to movie star. not every comedian manages.
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he was just -- his work seen around the world i guess. >> if you watched him doing standup, he was so clever. he seemed to have the jokes stacked up ready to go. >> yeah. of course not easy. that's a first when you watched him perform. you thought he was making it all up on the spot which i suppose is the allusion. he had a massive amount of material can which he stored in his head. he would bring it out in different orders every night. it was never linear. it was a completely fractured act. he appeared to go off in different directions. as a professional, i began to figure out how he did it really. i personally found that very influential myself. >> what was he like, was he a really good guy? >> yeah, he was a nice man which
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is not -- i saw him when i was working in hollywood. nice people are rare in hollywood i think. he was somebody i think who didn't live in la. he came down when he needed to work. he lived in northern california. you could see really why he found the world of hollywood difficult i think. >> what about these reports that he took his own life and that he had the ongoing struggle with depression. does this surprise you at all? >> i knew he was an addict. obviously in the 80s i think he was part of that coke field scene in hollywood i guess. i don't know. i know that he struggled with addiction since. obviously anybody who's an addict, they are by in large depressed. that's why they're medicating themselves. when i knew him -- i haven't
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seen him since the mid-90s. he had found a calmness at least for a while. i first known him in the late 70s. he was very manic. he seemed much calmer ten to 15 years later. he seemed happily married, had children, stuff like that. he was calm then. obviously it's difficult. it's tough. particularly i think hollywood you get massive fame and financial rewards, but also i think it probably eats away at you. >> is there always the pressure to be on and perform everyone whether the taxi driver, on stage, just everyone expecting you to be the fun think robyn williams? >> you don't have to necessarily go along with it. anybody that knows me knows i don't feel the compulsion to be
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mu amusing in real life. he did perform off camera. he could also be quiet when with other comedians or people he felt safe with. he didn't have to dominate then which is quite rare. he could just kick back. he was reflective about entertainment business. he liked my work. i admired his work. we could just talk as one professional to another. >> what was his favorite role for you? was it his standup you liked the best? >> his standup was what really -- for those who saw him in the early 70s and 80s. he was revolutionary, moving the game up. for me what he also did well was sinister. he could access that dark part of himself. in the movie like "one hour photo." a chilling performance.
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this is actually one of his best jobs. sometimes he could default a sense of mentality. something like patch adams is gruesome. something like "one hour photo" or "insomnia" where he accesses the twisted beast in every comedian. brilliant performance. >> thank you for sharing memories and performances with us. lots of people commenting on their favorite role. good will hunting is one of them. people are remembering the life and work of robin williams. pictures and videos on bbc.com/news. let's bring you up to date with other news. a panel of experts from the world health organization has decided that experimental drugs can be used to treat victims of the ebola virus in west africa. more than 1,000 people have been killed in the current outbreak.
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this comes as health officials in spain say a priest sehas die. a border is closed with columbia to stop smuggling of petro and food. thousands have been posted to prevent imports have being sneaked in. food and commodities can be ten times cheaper than the neighbor. the zoo in scotland believe the female panda is pregnant and may give birth at the end of the month. she was artificial wily insemi d insemisated -- inseminated earlier in the year. they can't be sure until she gives birth. the humanitarian convoy d
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dispatched will not be allowed to enter the country. trucks are heading to ukraine after the humanitarian mission was agreed upon. the red cross says it has no information on what the trucks are carrying or where they're going. key details on this steve. the big question is will these trucks be able to cross the border? >> that's right. we know what's left moscow or left russia, 280 trucks packed with humanitarian aid. russians say they put sugar, grain, sleeping bags, electricity generators, water baby food into trucks. there was an orthodox priest to bless it before it was sent off earlier today. it will take between two and
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three days to reach the border with ukraine. as you say, it's unclear what's going to happen then. ukrainian officials have made it clear they are not going to let those trucks over the border. they say that it's not going to happen. they say this is not been certified by the international red cross. they say the aid will have to be transferred to red cross vehicles. a short while ago bbc spoke to russian emergency ministry coordinating the convoy. they said we're not planning to cross the border. yes, indeed all that aid will be transferred to other vehicles. the ministry said it was in discussions with the red cross about how that would be transferred and distributed to people in eastern ukraine. >> are there real concerns not just from kiev but also the french that other things might be on board these trucks? >> in terms of not just amongst
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the french. the european union have warned moscow not to use the humanitarian mission as a corr or pretext to launch a military operation in that part of the country. there's been a lot of concern. moscow dismissed concerns and says all it's interested in is delivering humanitarian aid to people that need it. red cross acknowledges there are thousands of people in eastern ukraine who need aid who don't have enough water, electricity, medical supplies because of the fighting that's been taking place there. >> thanks for the update from moscow. do stay with us on bbc world news. still to come. a second night of rioting in missouri after a black teenager was shot by police in st. louis on saturday. tionary by every standard. and that became our passion. to always build something better, airplanes that fly cleaner and farther on less fuel.
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to iraq now where more humanitarian aid has been dropped to thousands of people who remain stranded on mount sinjar. the refugee from the minority have been without food, water, shelter for days after they were forced to flee advancing militants in the country's north. this comes as president obama welcomes the move by iraq's president to appoint a new prime minister. he said this is a promising step forward. nick childs reports. >> reporter: an iraqi helicopter carrying supplies swoops over mount sinjar. people still desperate pr relief and rescue. it pulls away for fear of being overwhelmed with this young woman clinging terrified in the door way. a new british air drop. britain is sending tornado jets to the region that could be used to support the humanitarian
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operation. the air drops themselves are a major challenge for air crews. >> humanitarian aid is important to take careful consideration of what the situation is like in the air and on the ground. we've got procedures in place to make sure we get this job done safely. >> meanwhile, a key political development in baghdad. this man nominated as iraq's prime minister did designate to take over maliki, wildly blamed for the country's polarized politics. americans welcome the move. >> we are prepared to consider additional political, economic, security options as iraq start as to build a new government and very much calculated to try to help stabilize the security situation, withstand development and strengthen the institutions. >> according to maliki and supporters, the move is illegitimate.
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there could be a damaging standoff. crucially iran a key player, now seems to back the new man. police checks in the capital today as ordinary iraqis digest the political upheavals and what they mean. the reaction of the security forces will be critical. mr. maliki is accused of appointing commanders for loyally to him rather than their ability. one reason the iraqi army collapsed in the face of militants. according to the united states, its air strikes, many from the deck of this aircraft carrier have slowed sunni militants in recent days. the pentagon acknowledges this is only temporary. as iraqi kurdish forces battle the militants on the ground, the key will be whether iraq's political and military leaders perhaps with more u.s. assistance can do enough in time to turn back the militant advances. nick childs, bbc news. i'm going to go to washington now and speak to
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someone living in the united states. thank you for being with us. have you contacted your friends, family, community in northern iraq? what have they been through? >> we have many 24 hour contact with them. we try to contact our families, everyone and help the u.s. government providing information, trying to send aid to them. it's horrible. the situation is really bad. thousands and thousands are dead. even those that fled, they're facing death and starvation. >> you had a meeting in washington with the state department. what kind of reception did you receive? >> people at the state department understand the situation, but the problem is it's still political issue. we were hoping that there would be soldiers on the ground. we do need soldiers on the ground. there's thousands of people who cannot walk to get to where they
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drop aid or evacuate people. there's miles and miles away from people. people at the state department understand the political situation. it's hard. we do need soldiers on the ground. we are hoping that's going to happen. we don't know if that's going to happen. >> you like military intervention not soldiers there to provide humanitarian aid. >> yeah, absolutely. air cover can prevent the isis from attacking certain areas. they cannot evacuate those people. we are estimating 25,000 cannot walk. 25,000 or more need to be evacuated. we need soldiers on the ground. >> it must be difficult for you in america watching your community back home in northern iraq go through this. do you fear for the very existence of the people at the
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moment? >> yeah. it was a genocide attempt. isis was clear about what their intent to do, kill or convert rest to islam. even people up north are still not safe. they're facing threats. so yeah, it's -- we still fear that even people out north, they may get attacked by isis. >> where for those people would be safe now? where do they want to be taken to? >> yeah, that's a good question. we talked to the people at the state department and every single one we met, people at white house said the safest place for now would be up in turkey. people cannot go back and will not go back. we talked to everyone there. everyone says the same thing. impossible for us to go back. they still fear if they stay in
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kurdistan things will change. there's question whether isis inside could stand outside gain power and attack yadizi. safest place for now is turkey. we are hoping he take them to europe, america, wherever. if they couldn't do that for now, we hope they take them to turkey. >> thanks for joining us from washington. there's been a second night of rioting in missouri following the death of an unarmed black teen shot by police in st. louis saturday. police used tear gas, rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. michael brown was shot several times after a struggle in a police car. the fbi is investigating possible zifcivil rights investigations after the killing. >> another night of anger and confrontation in st. louis. demonstrations continued
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throughout monday. protestors gather near buildings damaged in the previous night. as night fell, things accelerated. police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at the crowd after they begun throwing rocks. more than 307 people were arrested. community leaders blame opportunityist for the looting and calling for calm. >> if you want to honor his memory, honor by seeking justice non violently. >> 18-year-old michael brown and his friends had a run in with police saturday afternoon that turned into a struggle. shots were fired. >> they were shell casings recovered. shell casings are matched to one weapon, the officer's weapon. there were more than a few recovered. i cannot say at this time how many times the the subject was
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struck. >> police had confirmed he was unarmed. the fbi are continuing to investigate events. meanwhile his family is calling for justice for what they see as a racially motivated shooting. >> good boy, didn't deserve none of this. none of it. we need justice for our son. >> that's my first born son. anybody that know me know how i felt about my son. i just wish i could have been there to help him. >> brown's family hired the lawyer that represented the family of trayvon martin, the 17-year-old fatality shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer later other quitted of murder charges. incredible pictures from
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bbc world news. i'm lucy hockings. in this half hour, what's it like to live through an israeli bombardment? we'll take you live to gaza to speak to a journalist staying with a palestinian family throughout the conflict. the ethics of treating ebola. who says experimental drugs can can be given to victims in west africa. is it worth the risk? a battle for the world's most popular fruit. i thought it was the peach. >> it's the banana wars.
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it's the fight over the world's oldest banana company. two brazilian firms weigh in with a mighty big bid. we'll look at who will create the best partnership for the world's best banana company. welcome back. in direct talks with negotiators are underway in egypt as a three day truce in gaza appears to be holding. the talks are aimed at finding a long term solution for conflict. both have strong term t temperaturthe. meanwhile the people of gaza are taking the opportunity in the calm to assess the damage from four weeks of bombing. we report now from gaza.
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>> reporter: in gaza harbor, plenty of boats were idle today. only a few would set sail in the ceasefire. 70 relatives depend on the income of this boat. his access is controlled to air, land, sea. he's looking to negotiators in cairo to secure a sea port, a key palestinian demand. >> translator: the people are hungry. the economy has died. this is why hamas is fighting israel to open the sea and the borders. we'll be very unhappy if talks fail. >> back on dry land, no loud speaker for the call to prayer. it was destroyed with the
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mosque. this is what's left of the town. for many now, they have only faith to sustain them. locals say at least 70 were killed in this front line community bordering israel. >> you get a sense of the kind of damage that has been inflicted on gaza. this is one of the worst affect add ar ed areas. it would take years to rebuild. people are desperate for talks with cairo. they don't want did deaths and destruction to be been in vein. we met a woman outside the ruins of her house. four of her children have been blind from birth. she told us the family has been caught between israel and hamas and they need a lasting piece. there have been so many
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negotiations negotiations before she says with no benefits. they give us ceasefire of three days. we don't want that. my children are exhausted being moved from place to place. on egypt's border with gaza, there's still limited movement. palestinians are hoping the talks in cairo will at least change that. they say this would give them one route out of prison. bbc news gaza. >> a freelance journalist had been living with a gazan family since end of july. he joining us now. what's it like for you and the family you've been staying with the past few weeks? >> yeah, we faced a lot of problems lucy. we had to bake our own bread because bread wasn't available anymore in the bakery or of shops. we suffered from lack of electricity. no electricity since the only
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electricity plant was bombed and destroyed. we did not have water from the tap. we had to organize our daily life. we spent a lot of time fixing problems and organizing the things that we need. >> do people there get used to living in fear? >> yeah, yeah. that's right. >> the family that you were staying with, what are their political leanings. do they think hamas rockets going to israel were good or bad thing? >> people, no matter which party they support, they support the resistance. they support the resistance fighters. nearly 100 person of operation support the resistance fighters. they are fine with the fact that the resistance fighters fire rockets towards israel. they clap with their hands when they see a rocket fired to
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israel. they are not against that. >> do they support hamas politically though or do they think fattah and their leadership is the way forward? >> the people and family are more close to fatah. even political on the side of that a, they support resistance of the hamas. no matter which political party they support, everybody supports the political -- the resistance. everybody supports resistance of the hamas no matter if socialist or others. >> there's so much to be done in gaza after the destruction. do people think it's responsibility of palestinian authority to look after them or looking to international community? >> people in gaza are really lost. they do not trust anymore the
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palestinian authority. they really want the support and help by the international community. they want leaders, prime ministers of the western countries condemned blockade and condemn the aggression by gaza. >> you're a young man. the population of course is incredible young in gaza. what do young men do with their time at the moment? >> the young people are really frustrated. they feel they do not have a future, do not have a perspective. they want to go a broad, study a broad in london. they want to work. they want to have a good, peaceful life. there are no such possibilities in gaza under the last eight years of the siege. it's so difficult for the young people have a job and to make --
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>> martin, i hear there's a problem with drug addiction as we well? >> yeah, definitely drug addiction. people are so frustrated and abuse of drugs. it's due to bad situation of the people. they are not a lot of options for the people. not a lot of things to do for the people. that's why they abuse drugs. >> thanks for joining us from gaza and shedding light into what life is like and has been like over the past few weeks with the conflict against israel. for all latest news and what is happening in cairo now, negotiations are underway of course. do go to our website. we've got lots of background for you there and some analysis as well. a background on the history of the conflict too at
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bbc.com/gaza. let's update you on business. aaron is here now. i like what you did with piggies on the market. >> russia rations. you like crackling? >> big fan of crackle. >> let me explain. thanks lucy. hello. europe's pig farmers say they'll suffer from this ban on exports from russia which you remember was imposed last week all in response to western sanctions on russia over ukraine. thousands of tons of this stuff, pork meat, pushed onto world markets. farmers fear it could lead to a slump in pork prices. jeremy howell reports from a pig storm in staffordshire in the middle of england. >> this is one of the trainer farms owned by mid land pig
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producers. every week it breeds and sells 1200 pigs. the problem for company chief executive is that the pig lets are entering an overcrowded market. pig farmers in canada and brazil who have been locked out of russia will this year be trying to sell 150,000 tons of meat onto other markets. europe is a key one. >> we can't switch up in supply to accommodate the capacity coming in. therefore there will be an effect on price as there's a surplus. people will buy it but pay less for it. if you have a 5% extra supply in the market, this could have devastating effect on the price paid across the whole of the european herd. >> this is the second blow european pig farmers have taken recently. 18 months ago, russia banned the import of european produced big
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meat on health grounds. that led to a fall in prices. since christmas, the price that european pig farmers are getting for produce has fallen by a quarter. it could now fall even further. >> what most farmers want is stability in prices. if they don't get it, they stop producing if prices go too low. then price rocket. seeing prices go up and down isn't in the interest of consumers. a longer stable meat market is what we need top. do that, we need stable international trading relationships. >> russia's pig meat ban was meant as a symbolic reply to sanctions posed on it. it sent ripples throughout the world's food markets and become the number one worry for industry in europe. bbc news. >> adorable as babies, so delicious as adults. okay.
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another food group now. a tussle over the world's most popular fruit. two brazilian companies are hopeing to swoop in and buy the banana group which chiquita. rivals have almost completed the merger which we covered extensively in march. let's get to the director of market intelligence. he publishes a magazine dedicated to fruit business. great to have are you with us on the program. i've got to ask you, what is going on here? i thought chiquita and fyffes was done and dusted. >> this is like when you buy a house. start measuring curtains, buying furniture. then someone else comes and says
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i want to buy this too. there's a danger for fiffes. i've been reading and some suggesting maybe chiquita may want this for tax purposes. >> i eat bananas everyday and many do all over the world. fruits and vegetables are good for you, healthy products. it's good to buy into health now days. the second thing is that the company that doesn't have basis in the fresh fruit and vegetable business. it's a juice company. it's looking to diversify. >> the brand itself, chiquita, it's a mighty brand. >> i spoke to a friend and he said it's worth $350 million. there's not that many brands available in the business. there are companies who see
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communities to use a brand like can chiquita and develop sales. >> we're reading investors may well so favor this brazilian bid. i can only imagine that comes down to dollars and cents. >> i think money talks this these things. the crucial thing about this is that they've put on 30% more money on the table. that's quite substantial. i guess they'll have to decide whether to up the bid or respond. i have to say in the business, lots of people say this deal makes an awful lot of sense. everybody is preparing for it. this has come out from left field as the americans say. we'll have to wait and see what happens. friday is the day when the decision will be taken. let's see what happens on friday. >> absolutely. i'll put you on the spot though. let's see what happens. surely the two knew it made perfect sense.
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i'm wondering, will this start a bidding war? will fiffe up the anti? >> i'd be surprised if they didn't. makes a lot of sense for both. to let this go, slip out of your hands would be something they wouldn't want to happen i would guess. >> it's certainly a wait and see. we'll talk to you soon. we appreciate your time. thank you very much. chris joining us there. lots going on. follow me on twitter. @bbc aaron. more business report with me in 45 minutes time. >> your favorite food is banana? >> i like banana. and melons. >> good to know. do stay with us on bbc world news. still to come. the scandal is a promise to build one new toilet every second heading down the drain?
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i'm lucy hockings. the top stories this hour. tributes have been paid to the american actor and comedian robyn williams who has died in a suspected suicide. ukrainian security officials say a humanitarian convoy dispatched to ukraine by russia will not be admit into the country. let's get more now on the ebola outbreak. the world health organization ruled experimental drugs can be used to try to stop the spread. an elderly priest who contracted the disease in liberia has died from the disease.
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he was flown to madrid last week. most deaths have been in guinea, liberia and sierra leone. what exact restrictions has the world health organization put on this? the world health organization say they suggest this because of scale of the outbreak. so many people have died. there are conditions to be met. first is there anyone taking the drug that must have conformed consent. there's freedom to choose whether you take that or not. the other must have data collected about them and shared. if there's other academics, we know that's to treat people. >> is there going to be a demand from west african countries for it? >> imagine there is. liberia has requested from the u.s. government. i imagine other african countries might follow suit. this they know there are risks to this treatment. it's untested in humans really. it might not work.
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because of the scale of the outbreak, the number of people dying, they think people should have the choice. >> is there enough to go around? >> there isn't actually. there's a limited supply. the world health organization has got to consider how to prioritize treatment, who should be given it. >> that's another big one they're going to tackle as well. >> is there any precedence to this? >> this is an unusual situation. the fact they have not been tested in humans before, only in happ animals. it's unlikely this would be used in any other situation. this is one of the first times indeed this has happened. >> is it unfair in a way to look at this industry and look at drugs for being a solution to this when it's a good old fashioned control in ways that's needed? >> the world health organization
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is all about infection control. we know how to treat the virus. if you isolate people who are infected it shouldn't spread. we're in a difficult situation now. one of the reasons is there's mistrust in countries and communities where ebola is? . >> that's the case in northern nigeria right? >> there was an outbreak of a virus and there were deaths and disability in children. many parents felt it was the drug that caused this. this couldn't be be proved, but the drug company did have to pay out. since then there's been a lot of mistrust and the idea not to use a community as a guinea pig. >> so many issues raise add there. thank you. india's government promised to rebuild more than 5 million new toilets in first 100 days in
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office. the lack of toilets means girls and women put themselves at risk everyday. >> a picture of how childhood should be. what this 9-year-old has gone through is beyond imagination. she doesn't have a toilet at home so she has to go outside. one afternoon that led to her being raped. >> i went to this area of bushes. i call it jungle near my home. this man appeared and made he lie down. he said he would kill me if i made any noise. >> her father takes us to the place where she was attacked minutes from their home in a slum. this is where most that live here go to the toilet. the police have now arrested
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someone, but first they refused to investigate. >> translator: the police shouted at me and told me to go away. why don't you ask for money from the accused and settle it that way. they only acted when i threatened to go to media. >> then she had to go through the trauma of seeing her attacker again to identify him. >> translator: the police lined up all these people in the jail wearing the same clothes. he had shaved off his beard but i could still tell it was him. >> about half of all indians have no toilet at home. everyday millions of girls and women risk attack when they venture out to defecate. this is a problem in cities and rural areas.
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