this is bbc america, and now live from london, "bbc world news." >> hello. i'm david eads with "bbc world news." our top stories. a case of ebola in new york city. a doctor who had recently returned from west africa tests positive for the virus. at the same time, mali has revealed its first case of the disease. day two of the eu leaders meeting in brussels where a row is sparked after several states are told they need to pay more money. it's a controversial decision, but uefa awards serbia a win over albania in last week's aborted euro 2016

qualification match with albania. we follow health workers trying to administer the polio vaccine in pakistan, as the country records the highest number of cases in nearly 15 years. hello. thanks very much for joining us. a doctor in new york is the first to be diagnosed with the doctor. dr. craig spencer had returned from guinea. he's been placed in isolation at bellevue hospital after that pretty dramatic rush. the authorities held a late night press conference to assure the public there was no cause for alarm. >> i know it's a frightening situation. i know when you watch it on the news and it was about dallas, it was frightening. that it's here in new york, it's

more frightening. new york is a dense place. a lot of people on top of each other. but the more facts you know, the less frightening the situation is. >> that may be the case in new york, but you know, the main focus of the ebola outbreak is still very much in west africa, where more than 8,400 people are now known to have died since march. mali's confirmed its first case. a 2-year-old girl contracted the virus. she recently arrived in mali from visiting neighbors in guinea. i mean relatives, of course. it's putting an enormous strain on health services on the region. the liberian capital of monrovia has been forced to turn away suspected ebola patients. our correspondent gabriel gatehouse witnessed the difficulties firsthand. you may find some of his report distressing. >> reporter: the site of an

balance means only one thing. almost 50 new cases of ebola are reported every day here in a city of one million people. balance workers are on the front lines. maureen and her crew have been called in to collect a woman who's been taken sick. it's extremely dangerous work. the balance team are taking as many precautions as they can. they're getting into these white suits, plastic aprons, hoods up, goggles, and facemasks. when they go into these homes, the woman in there, we understand, is unconscious and it's when people are in that state that they are most contagious. her terrified neighbors isolated her inside her home for days before calling in the ambulance. >> excuse me, there's a tear.

>> reporter: any physical contact with the patient's bodily fluids could be a death sentence. obsessive attention to detail could save your life. maureen allows us to fit a small camera to her head before she goes in. the scene she's about to witness is one of horror. but for her, it's a scene that's become an everyday reality. she enters the cramped home. on the floor lies what appears to be an elderly woman. the patient herself is now the biggest danger, and incubator riddled with the virus. she needs to be isolated fast. the neighbors say the patient has been ill for weeks and that she's only 38 years old. one woman tells us she's the patient's house mate. are you still going to live in that same house now? >> yes. >> reporter: you're living in the same house? >> yes. >> reporter: she is scared, she

says. she'll clean the ace, but she has nowhere else to go. and this is how it spreads. in cramped neighborhoods where poverty and lack of sanitation fuel the outbreak. gabriel gatehouse, bbc news in monrovia. european union leaders gathering in brussels have agreed a major climate change deal with a commitment to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030, that's based on 1990 levels. the eu wanted to agree on targets ahead of a summit in paris next year. they've done that, and it's hoped at that summit, a global deal can be reached. joining me now is the climate action commissioner connie hedegard. thanks for joining us. the ultimate target is an 80% reduction by 2050, so i suppose you have to ask, is this ambitious enough? >> yeah, that is exactly ambitious enough, because if you

want to go to 80% reduction by 2050, you can say if you have 40% by 2030 and each decade thereafter take another 20% as we are doing now between 2020 and 2030, then you will get to exactly 80%. we could go even further. there will be some technological development and things like that. but 40% through domestic effort in europe, that is the trajectory to getting to where we need to get by 2050. >> the amount of renewable energy that will need to be brought in to the eu equation, 27%. okay, that's going to work for countries like spain and portugal. but across the board? >> yeah, that is not a small thing, of course. and it is at least 27%. we just think in the commission, now the 28 heads of states have agreed with us that it is not enough just to think for the short term when it comes to

climate. just by doing shale gas or something like that, that could be good for the short term, but for 2050, we need to address efficiency and renewables much more. >> what do you mean by short term, then? because we're here in the uk, and there's a sort of a need to depend on possibly fracking as one of the ways to deal with our energy problems. that's a long-term view, isn't it? >> yeah, you can do that. that is good if it replaces coal, if it replaces oil. but if you want to go to an 80% reduction as minimum by 2050, then you need other solutions as well. europe needs to invest more in renewables. europe needs to address much more efficiency. there's still a lot of low-hanging fruits out there so that we could also become more energy independent. we will not have to spend as much money importing fossil fuels from, for instance, russia. so that is why it's important

that these targets are part of the deal done last night. >> i think it's clear this has been a battle and a half to get this deal and clearly there are some countries prepared to go a bit further. other countries like poland, which really don't want to have to swallow such a big cut at the moment, they're driven by coal. but poland's prime minister says this is not going to cost us a bean. we're not going to pay anything for this. so who are going to pay? >> you know, everybody has to be able to go home today and tell their constituencies that this was a good deal for them. the bottom line is, every european citizen, every sector, every business, every municipality, every state, they will have to make changes from what they're doing today. they will have to make changes tomorrow and the years to come. all of us will have to be part of it, but it's clear that, for instance, to help poland to change their energy systems,

they need solidarity from other countries. a number of other well-off states will have to help. if i should say one country that will have to finance a lot here, it's actually germany that will pay sort of the biggest part of that bill. >> they'll love to hear that. germans always having to put their hands in their pockets, it seems. ahead of paris next year, how confident are you that you have set a benchmark for other major blocks to match? i mean, it's not too ambitious for them? >> i think that the signal we have sent from europe today will be listened and studied very carefully in washington and beijing. i know the attorney general said by adopting this, they sent quite a new bar for what others will have to do. so i really hope that they are listening in washington now, because first quarter of next year, they have said they will come forward with what they intend to do and we have now

shown a very good example, an ambitious example, but we need others to follow, so the push and the pressure is very much on the u.s., and after them, china from now on. >> connie hedegaard, climate action commissioner. thank you very much. although they've ban busy bunch in brussels, one surprising development that's come out of the course of the leaders summit are some of the new bills which countries are being told they've got to cough up for the european union. this emerged after a recalculation of all the countries' gross national income from 1995 and they've now taken into account one or two hidden elements. for example, prostitution, illegal drugs. they're being put into the equation. the countries whose economies performed better than expected are the ones who will have to pay a bit more. others will get a rebate. 2.1 billion euros that it's going to have to pay to the eu.

the netherlands is being asked for another 642 million euros. as for italy, it has to pay $430 million. among those who are going to get a bit back, san francisco with a rebate of a billion euros. $1.3 billion. and germany, which is going to get 780 million euros back, or $984 million. denmark as well, 320 million euros, that's $406 million. so very much a game of winners and losers. but quite a complicated game as well. unfortunately, our econom fortunately, andrew walker is with me now. those getting money back, basically being told your economy is pretty desperate. and those having to pay in are being told they're in better shape than they thought they were. >> better shape than the original figures suggested they were, yes, that's right. but there are some -- if you're

looking at it in terms of current perceptions of the particular economy, some of them are pretty strange. greece is being asked for a bit of extra money. so is ireland. having gone through a profound economic crisis. >> is that because growth was so negative that any growth as a percentage -- >> that's part of the story with ireland's recovery. but really, this question of ireland making a fairly small additional contribution to the budget is on the basis of the systematic reevaluation of the way the irish economy has been performing over nearly 20 years now. so it does produce in terms of current performance what looked like some strange results, but it's very much a technical thing driven by some changes that have been going on. at the international level, the way in which economic performance is recorded. and it is slowly filtering through into the budget

decisions made by the european union. and it's had some pretty dramatic political consequences. >> absolutely. whenever any country's been told it's got to pay more into the eu, that's bad at the moment. particularly into the uk, we get that. we don't have much time. but with cyprus, for example. the revised figures of gdp suggest that its debt to gdp ratio is much better than it looked before. it could actually get it out of the bailout noose, in a way. >> it will undoubtedly help. an improved debt to gdp ratio is certainly one of the things that international investors look at to decide whether they are prepared to start lending money to cyprus again, and better figures go into calculating that ratio. it still looks strange that cyprus is having to stick in a little bit of extra money into the european budget. worth emphasizing the commission insists this is pretty much a

net zero sum game. winners balance losers. >> andrew, thank you very much indeed. we're going to move on to football now, at least football news, because in the last hour, uefa's disciplinary committee has declared serbia were the winners of last week's abandoned euro 2016 qualification match with albania. and yet at the same time, they've docked them three points in their qualifying group. the match in belgrade had to be stopped after home fans invaded the pitch and attacked albania players. that was after an albanian flag had been dropped into the stadium by a drone. here's more about what this ruling actually means. >> i guess the way you look at it is uefa has split this right down the middle, not blaming either the serbians or the albanians for the riots and brawls that was caused in that game in belgrade. so three-point win for serbia

takes them away with the game, but also they've docked them three points. so nullified that result. the alternative as well is they've been punished two next games behind closed doors. both teams, albania and serbia, have been punished with 100,000 euro fines. that's the equivalent of about $126,000. as you say, surreal scenes, that drone flying into the stadium. you can see it there, a player trying to pull it down. the albanian players confronted the serbian player then, a fight broke out. the players were confronted by fans with chairs, pelted with rocks and lighters. they ran into the tunnel and were basically not going to come out again. they abandoned the match because they feared for their safety. >> not pretty pictures. very briefly, any response from serbia or albania? >> albania at the home, we've been told they say it's a travesty because they felt that

their players were put in mortal danger by the incident. we're not to hear from the serbian faa yet, but we'll keep you updated as we have that. >> of course we will. do stay with us. coming up in a moment, we're going to show you the dramatic footage which the police have released showing the gunman running towards canada's parliament building moments after he had shot and killed a soldier. stay with us for that.

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back in 2001 to bring together inventors and business people and spark new ideas and money making products. on display will be some incredible new inventions from 3-d woven fabric to a cuddly toy that takes your temperature. even a transparent toaster. they're all competing for the world invention awards and the winner gets to take away a solid gold cup. we'll have more on "gmt" coming up. aaron, i've got to go. david, you're on. bye. extensive video footage is being shown of the canadian gunman who shot at a soldier and headed into parliament before he himself was killed. michael zehaf-bibeau, a jihadist convert who they said was acting alone and who had planned to travel to syria. from ottawa, samira hussain has

this. >> reporter: they came all day long, laying flowers and taking a moment to grieve for the life that was lost and a country that is forever changed. some came alone. others with children. >> i wanted my daughter to realize, you know, a man died trying to save us. this is unacceptable. he risked his life, he gave us his life to make sure nobody else could get hurt. it's amazing. >> reporter: as people continue to gather here to mourn, others are asking questions about security. how was it possible for a gunman to shoot and kill a soldier here, and then storm the halls of canada's parliament building just next door? >> the circle indicates the car as it approaches. >> reporter: canadian police have released more details about wednesday's attack, including cctv footage which shows gunman michael zehaf-bibeau driving at speed to parliament hill, rushing out of a car with a rifle over his shoulder. the day after his penetrated the

halls of canadian democracy, this is what remains. bullet holes through windows and walls. and police continue to search for evidence on their hands and knees. despite his criminal record, zehaf-bibeau was not identified as a security threat. >> we were aware that he had applied recently for a passport and we were contacted to conduct background checks. we did not possess information at that time that would reveal any national security related criminality. his criminal records indicated infractions related to drugs, violence, and other criminal activities. >> reporter: the attack has left some physical damage inside the parliament building. those will soon be fixed. it's the scars on the outside that will take much longer to heal. now to pakistan, where the number of cases of polio has

topped 200 for the first time in nearly 15 years. pakistan is the only country where the virus is spreading fast. showing up in sewage samples all over karachi, for example. eight out of ten cases of polio in the world now come from pakistan. most of them in tribal areas. it's where the taliban imposed a ban on the vaccine back in 2012. that was in response to u.s. drone attacks. shamar khalil has this report. >> reporter: policemen have arrived here at this polio center and they're here to escort health workers to go into the neighborhood and administer the vaccine. there are about ten of them and they're going to go out with these polio workers. the reason why they need so much security is because there have been a number of attacks on health workers here where we are in karachi, but also across the country, especially in the tribal areas. these women are risking their lives being on the street like

this. but their work could not be more crucial. this 26-year-old has had the disease since he was 3 and now works with polio teams on the ground. he says he doesn't want children to suffer the way he did. many people here see the vaccine as a western conspiracy to sterilize their children, and refuse to give it to them. there's been a heated argument that's gone on now for at least 20 minutes between this gentleman. he's trying to convince him to allow the health worker in to administer the vaccine on his children, and this gentleman completely refuses, says there's no need for it, i don't see the point to it and he's been saying no for a while now. this is just one example of why it's so hard for people like abrar and his team to administer polio vaccinations, people that are still suspicious of this

vaccination. karachi is one of the biggest polio hubs in the world. hundreds of thousands of people in the city live in squalored conditions. this open sewer, for example, is an ideal environment for contracting the virus. the latest tally of polio victims has pushed country to an embarrassing record. the highest in 15 years. >> karachi is a city of close to 19 or 20 million people. it has an enormous migration rate from the northern tribal areas, and this is the community whose children have not been vaccinated for over two and a half years. it's a huge challenge. other countries have not had to battle radicalization, taliban, and heavily armed outfits. >> reporter: it's rush hour in karachi's biggest railway station, and when people travel across the country, so does polio. health workers try to get on as many trains as they can.

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i'm david eades with "bbc world news." our top stories, a case of ebola in new york city. a doctor who had recently returned from west africa tests positive for the virus. at the same time, mali has revealed its first case of the disease. day two of the eu leaders meeting in brussels, where a row has been sparked after several member states are told they need to pay more money. it's a controversial decision, but uefa have declared serbia the winners in last week's aborted euro 2016

qualification match with albania. also, we explore the voodoo culture of america's deep south. hello, thanks for joining us. a doctor in new york has become the first person in the city to be diagnosed with ebola. dr. craig spencer had returned from guinea where he had been treating ebola patients, a pretty dramatic move into isolation at the city's bellevue hospital, where authorities held a late night news conference to assure the public there was no cause for alarm. >> i know it's a frightening situation. i know when you watch it on the news and it was about dallas it was frightening. that it's here in new york, it's more frightening.

new york was a dense place. a lot of people on top of each other. but the more facts you know, the less frightening the situation is. >> that's the situation in new york. but of course, the main focus of the ebola outbreak remains very much in west africa. more than 4,800 people are now known to have died since march. mali has confirmed its first case. officials say a 2-year-old girl contracted the virus. she recently arrived with relatives from neighboring guinea. it's all putting a huge strain on health services in the region. the liberian capital, monrovia, for example, has been forced to turn away suspected ebola patients. we hope to be speaking to our correspondent in acra in ghana a little bit later in the program. extensive video footage has been shown of the canadian gunman who shot dead a soldier and then headed to parliament in ottawa before he himself was

killed. police used the pictures to show just how quickly they were in pursuit of michael zehaf-bibeau, a jihadist convert who they said was acting alone, and who had planned to travel to syria. from ottawa, samira hussain reports. >> reporter: they came all day long, laying flowers and taking a moment to grieve for the life that was lost and a country that is forever changed. some came alone. others with children. >> i wanted my daughter to realize, you know, a man died trying to save us. this is unacceptable. and he risked his life. he gave us his life to make sure nobody else could get hurt. like, that's just amazing. >> reporter: as people continue to gather here to mourn, others are asking questions about security. how was it possible for a gunman to shoot and kill a soldier here and then storm the halls of canada's parliament building just next door? >> the circle indicates the car

as it approaches. >> reporter: canadian police have released more details about wednesday's attack, including cctv footage, this shows gunman michael zehaf-bibeau driving at speed to parliament hill, rushing out of a car with a rifle over his shoulder. the day after he penetrated the halls of canadian democracy, this is what remains. bullet holes through windows and walls. and police continue to search for evidence on their hands and knees. despite his criminal record, zehaf-bibeau was not identified as a security threat. >> we were aware that he had applied recently for a passport and we were contacted to conduct background checks. the rcmp did not possess information at that time that would reveal any further related criminality. his criminal records indicate infractions related to drugs, violence, and other criminal activities. >> reporter: the attack has left

some physical damage inside the parliament building. those will soon be fixed. it's the scars on the outside that will take much longer to heal. samira hussain, bbc news, ottawa. in the past few weeks, there have been three exchanges of fire between the north and south korean military. near the cease-fire line which separates them. but bullets aren't the only things flying over the border. a group of south koreans regularly launch balloons to carry propaganda messages into the north. that's something pyongyang takes a very dim view of. the next balloon launch is planned for saturday. will it go ahead? steve evans reports. >> reporter: in a democracy, it might seem harmless. activists in a car park in south korea sending balloons into the air with propaganda leaflets. but north korea sees the insulting messages as highly provocative. this one depicts a fact kim jong

un. the slogan says he's turned aid into rockets, not food. this defector organizing the launch says three million people have died of starvation in the north. he says the country is now a living hell. the balloon launches wear military star uniforms. they say they were conscripted into the north korea my before defecting. at the launch, there was a counterdemonstration by those who say that provoking the north is dangerous. >> north koreans are two miles away from this spot, so they can open fire with machine guns or shelling. it may start a nuclear war. >> reporter: there is a debate here in the south about whether this kind of event actually changes anybody's mind in the

north. it is certainly about prop begun da here, about sending a signal, about, if you like, irritating the regime in the north. >> reporter: some in the south say the balloons are too provocative in the dangerous situation and some say they are provocative, but send them anyway. >> balloons should continue. exactly because the north korean site is so annoyed. it's quite important not to give in to north korean political demands. because one concession will make another concession unavoidable. >> reporter: here in north korea, there is an appetite for goods from outside, like these chocolate biscuits, a prized southern delicacy called choco pies, eaten here by northern factory workers. the be loons from the south deliver them, as well as

propaganda leaflets. it's this glimpse and taste of life outside north korea which north korean leaders may fear most. steven evans, bbc news, seoul. i want to bring you some news in the football world now, as uefa's disciplinary committee has given serbia a walkover after last week's aborted qualification match with albania. at the same time, they have docked them three points in their qualifying group. the match in belgrade had to be stopped after home fans invaded the pitch, and even attacked albania players when an albanian flag was flown into the stadium by a drone. the bbc's sport reporter nick marshall mccormack is in our "sportscenter." can you just explain the sanctions and who they hit most, really? >> a 3-0 win to serbia was basically awarded because it was ruled that albania forfeited the game by going into the tunnel after the brawl.

but serbia has also been docked three points for apparently not controlling the situation inside the stadium in belgrade. so that effectively nullifies their earlier win. albania has been fined 100,000 euros along with serbian f.a. as well. and serbia has been ordered to play their next two euro qualifiers behind closed doors. you can see the scenes there on the pitch. they got pretty ugly. and albanian players were accusing the serbian fans of throwing lighters and rocks at them. chairs. they ran into the tunnel, wouldn't come back out to play. they said they feared for their life. the albanian f.a. has just brought some comments in. i can read them to you now. some reaction i promised you earlier. they say it's a travesty. the president of the f.a. says they're disillusioned. he doesn't understand what precedent this may set.

i do not know if there is a greater scandal than this. that's the albanian f.a. the serbian f.a. say it will meet in an emergency session later on friday to decide whether they're happy with the punishment or not. >> so everyone's happy. not. nick, thanks very much indeed. i want to bring you back to our main story, and that is the ebola crisis. and let's just focus on west africa for the moment. anne is in ghana. can we just focus on the situation in mali now, a 2-year-old girl contracting the virus. do we know how she got it? >> reporter: we understand that she lost her mother a few weeks ago to ebola. her samples transported more than 600 kilometers from the

west. the country, for testing. that's when it returned a positive test that was announced by the government on thursday evening. some people are trying to stop shaking hands, trying to, you know, wash their hands frequently. the government has been giving basic information to their people about basic hygiene. but the reality is it has now hit home, and i challenge you to try this today, not to shake anyone's hand. it isn't easy. >> that is an interesting challenge there. obviously huge worries for mali in particular at the moment. anne soy in accra. do stay with us here on "bbc world news." still to come on the program, eight months now after kiev's so-called independence square erupted in violence, our correspondent returns as ukraine

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you're watching "bbc world news" with me, david eades. new york city reports its first case of ebola, while mali becomes the sixth african country to become affected. day two of the european union summit, as anger builds after a number of countries are ordered to pay up to billions of dollars more in the eu budget. ukraine is holding parliamentary elections this weekend. sunday's poll will be the first election since last year's street protest drove viktor yanukovych, the president, from office. it comes against the backdrop of the ongoing conflict in the east, of course. and all week, our correspondent steve rosenberg has been reporting from right across the country. for his final report, he is in

the capital kiev to see how months of protests have affected who is running for parliament. >> reporter: this is independence square in the center of kiev. eight months ago, more than 100 people were killed in and around here. there's a very simple memorial to the victims on this wall with their photographs, flowers, candles and ukrainian flags. and since then, thousands more people have been killed in the east of the country, in the war there. these deaths really hang over ukraine and have a direct impact on the election here. for example, among the candidates running for parliament are several military figures, including some of the leaders of ukraine's volunteer battalions. here in kiev, one of those battalions is holding a special ceremony. some of their soldiers are packing up their things and

heading off to fight in eastern ukraine. now, it's a controversial organization. it's seen as far right. ultra nationalist. and some of its members have been accused of being neonazis and the symbols they use look very much like symbols used by the nazis. this is not the political mainstream here, but what the war in the east has done is to give the far right in ukraine a new prominence and a new confidence. and now the commander the running for parliament. >> reporter: among the farewells, there are far right

salutes. by no means, not all the men can be considered ultra nationalists. here's another of the riders. y evgeni has this warning for the politicians in kiev. >> reporter: here outside the ukrainian parliament building, there's a long line of police, very heavy security for what is the final parliament session ahead of this weekend's election. and i think what the security reflects is a nervousness, an edginess really. there's been so much turmoil in

this country over the last few months, and no one here really knows when that is going to end. steve rosenberg, bbc news, kiev. a man wielding a hatchet has charged a group of new york city police officers as they were posing for a photograph. this was on thursday. surveillance video shows him running with the axe just moments before the attack itself. two officer were injured. one of them critically before the assailant was shot dead. the man said to have extremist islamist leanings. the mayor of new york spoke about the ordeal the officers went through. >> i was very impressed by not only their bravery in the face of something absolutely unexpected, but the way that the proofficers responded to this incident and were able to immediately stop the situation and deal with the perpetrators. britain has been told it has to pay 2.1 billion euros more in a contribution to the european

union, that's something like $2.7 billion. the netherlands and italy have also been handed substantial new bills to pay and it's all because their economies have been performing better than expected in recent years. the figures have emerged after a recalculation of every country's gross national income since 1995. san francisco and germany, they've actually been told they're going to get rebates. we're joined now by ben wright, who is in brussels. needless to say, with all the feelings about the european union at the moment, not least in the uk, it's not going down a storm here, but what's the rationale behind this? >> definitely is not going down well. the uk government saying this is completely unacceptable. they've called for and agreed to discuss all of this. david cameron is not only the

one furious. italy have got a big bill from brussels. to have greece. there are several who are going to be stung for extra payments. and what seems to have happened is the european commission do an annual revision of the contributions that member states make. and for the first time in britain's case, they've looked at the so-called black economy, things like prostitution, drugs, parts of the uk financial services sector that weren't before included in a country's national income, and it is recalculated based on those components what they should have paid going back to 1995 and have come up with this new figure. about $2.7 billion. it's out of the blue. it wasn't on the council agenda here. it dead nated here. puts david cameron in a very difficult position. he's furious. they're not going to sort it out here, but they will try and find some way through this in the next few days.

the timing is really rotten for him as he tries to sort of head off strong anti-eu sentiment in the uk at the moment. >> i suppose he'll have a few allies in this fight. >> yeah, he will. on many counts, david cameron is a very lonely voice, trying to come up with a way of cushing eu migration. he doesn't seem to have anybody else sharing his view that the idea of the free movement of people needs to be looked at. but i think there is a feeling in certain countries that this is very unfair. however, what we haven't heard so far today is a response from the european commission itself to explain and justify what it's asking to do. i'm sure it will say they had agreement for this mechanism by all eu member states. in previous years, the uk was among those countries getting a rebate back. this year it's being asked to pay more in. but all we've had so far is

sound and fury and anger from uk politicians across the political spectrum who say this is unacceptable. >> ben, thanks very much indeed. ben wright at the european council there. in the cajun and creole communities in america's deep south, a rich heritage of voodoo culture still exists. it's a vibrant and empowering religion with deep roots in american history and continues to weave its spell in the mcdonamodern day. matt takes a closer look at its magic. >> all of this artwork is spiritual in nature. the worst pr of any religion on the face of the earth. before i became a priestess, i had the same knee jerk thoughts. i felt it was a religion that helped people survive slavery. the very belief that there was an invisible world of great

power and that you could have access to it. >> voodoo is a product of the colonial moment. so when these various populations arrived, some from africa and into a community with french people, there had to be some kind of joining of belief that resulted into voodoo. >> you're going to find alligators. removed 60 tons the first year. starting to find a lot of little bottles with notes in them. >> those were picked up out at the vermilion river to clean the river. they're clearly bottle spells.

>> i realize it's some kind of voodoo. >> someone had a ritual. scraps of paper were placed in there. after they had been written on, they would write the names of individuals in trying to control the outcome of an event. >> your power about witchcraft is no more. your black magic has no power on me. >> there was probably something like 60 different bottles that we looked at. >> you want to find out why voodoo could continue in a place like louisiana, louisiana has the most per capita, the most

people in jail of any place. some of those bottle spells, you have the names of all the people on the jury. in these cases, poor people that can't afford the best lawyer. they need to somehow prevail in the case, or else they'll go to jail. and so they go to a practitioner who can do this kind of magic. it's a kind of a magic. china has launched an experimental spacecraft to fly around the moon and back to earth. it's in preparation for the country's first unmanned trip to the lunar surface. it's an eight-day program, it's just begun and this is very much a test run for that 2017 mission. the plan then is to have a chinese spaceship land on the moon, pick up samples and come back to earth, which would make china only the third country

after the u.s. and russia to have carried out such a mission. sold at auction for just under a million dollars in new york. complete with intact motherboard, an original keyboard and monitor, it was bought by the henry ford museum. the working computer is in outstanding condition. now i bring this right to 21st century. some social media news of a regal kind from here in the uk. the queen has sent her first tweet. it was sent via the british monarchy account and it coincides with her trip to london's science museum. in it, she says it is a pleasure to open the information age exhibition today at the @sciencemuseum and i hope people will enjoy visiting. followed up by a picture of the

queen, and the hash tag #thequeentweets. that's been retweeted nearly 300 times. she may be hoping for better than that in tweets to come. i'm sure she'll get it as well. and that brings us to the end of the news here on "bbc world news." thanks for watching. (receptionist) gunderman group. gunderman group is growing. getting in a groove. growth is gratifying. goal is to grow. gotta get greater growth. i just talked to ups. they got expert advise, special discounts,

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