hello, and welcome to "gmt" on "bbc world news." our top stories. new twists in the battle to stop the spread of ebola. the west african state of mali confirms its first case. a 2-year-old girl. and a new york city doctor just back from guinea tests positive, too, prompting the city's mayor to tell the public not to panic. the gunman who attacked the canadian parliament acted alone. investigators in ottawa find no

evidence of link to international jihadi extremists. and we dig deep into the spirit life of america's deep south, where voodoo refuses to die. and of course, aaron is here with all the business. and today, aaron, i think you're armed and dangerous. >> and i'm talking about these little babies, stephen, bananas. did you know these are the hottest selling item in supermarkets in many parts of the world? and today shareholders of the u.s. giant chiquita are preparing to vote on a merger with fife. the largest banana supplier on the globe. a warm welcome to "gmt." it's midday here in london, 7:00 a.m. in washington, and 11:00 in the morning in the capital of mali, where the first case of ebola has been confirmed.

a 2-year-old girl who arrived from guinea. the world health organization is now sending a team of experts to mali. it is the sixth west african country to be affected by ebola. more than 4,800 people have died, mainly in guinea, liberia, and sierra leone, and more cases are being seen outside africa, too. a doctor who returned to the u.s. from west africa has now tested positive for ebola. dr. craig spencer. he treated ebola patients while working in guinea. and in the liberian capital monrovia, doctors have been forced to turn away suspected ebola patients. our correspondent gabriel gatehouse witnessed the difficulties firsthand, and you may find some of his report distressing. >> reporter: this is the epicenter of the outbreak. in a city of a million, almost 50 new cases are reported every

day. liberia's tiny band of health care workers are throwing everything they have at ebola. this is maureen. she's a mother of four. she's collected hundreds of highly contagious patients since the start of the outbreak. she and her crew have been called in to collect a woman who's been take p sick. it's extreme dangerous work. the balance team are taking as many precautions as they can. they're getting into these white suits, aprons up, facemasks. the woman in there, we understand, is unconscious and it's when people are in that state that they're most contagious. excuse me, there's a tear in your suit. any physical contact with the patient's bodily fluids could be a death sentence. obsessive attention to detail

can save your life. maureen allows us to fit a small camera to her head before she goes in. the scene she's gout 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. an incue baiincubator riddled w virus. she needs to be isolated fast. the ambulance crew painstakingly remove their overalls and decontaminate themselves. she's very sick, she says, but this is by no means the worst case she's seen. the neighbors say the patient is only 38 years old.

one woman tells us she's her house mate. are you still going to live in that same house now? >> yes. >> she is scared, she says. she'll clean the place, but she has nowhere else to go. and this is how the virus spreads. in cramped neighborhoods where a lack of sanitation and health care facilities fuel the outbreak. liberia's health care workers are big on courage, but very low on resources. if you're sick with anything other than ebola, you're in big trouble, too. monrovia's main public hospital is barely functioning. >> we have a unit here. >> reporter: dr. billy johnson is the chief medical officer. he's fighting what appears to be a losing battle to keep liberia's health care system alive. most of the wards are closed altogether. the few that aren't are operating with a skeleton staff. outside in the car park, we meet

the family that's desperately seeking help for their elderly father. he's diabetic, but he's also exhibiting symptoms consistent with ebola. throughout the country, patients are being turned away from hospitals. >> we are going to all the hospitals. they die in the car. you know? yeah. >> reporter: they leave, with the health care system at breaking point, they need to somehow get their father tested for ebola. for doctors, this is a terrible dilemma. >> our training is hands-on. you want to touch the patient, you want to feel patient, you want to be close by the patient. now we cannot do that. >> reporter: medical staff are the most exposed to the ebola virus, but doctor. johnson, one of the most senior health officials in the country, says that their understandable precautions come at a cost. there must be many people dying from other diseases that could potentially be treated, but

aren't because of this emergency. >> well, that's true. people with, for instance, stroke. hypertensive. diabetic patients. those even with malaria and typhoid. we're sure there are a whole bunch of people dying from those diseases that are treatable. >> reporter: they drive to a clinic run by the international medical charity msf. men in masks and overalls help him out of the car. nsf will test the father for ebola. if he's positive, he could very quickly end up like the woman we saw being stretchered into the balance earlier, and his sons and daughter could face the same fate. >> gabriel gatehouse with that report from liberia. the impact of ebola being felt in west africa in particular. but the disease is also now

having repercussions across the world. we reported at the beginning of this program that a young doctor in new york city now has contracted ebola. to get the latest, we can join michelle fleury in new york city. what do we know about the doctor and what is happening to him right now? >> reporter: new york city has its first case of ebola. dr. craig spencer was rushed here to bellevue hospital. it is one of eight hospitals that has been designated by the state as special centers to deal with cases of ebola, and now it's being put to the test. emergency workers had been practicing for months their protocols, when dr. spencer recognized that he had a fever, suspected he had symptoms of ebola. he called it in. he stayed in his apartment and waited until emergency services took him safely here. at this point, he's in an isolated unit, specially set aside. this is a unit that has its own lab. it is completely separate to the rest of the hospital. completely separate areas.

he didn't go through the emergency services. we heard from health officials obviously a great deal of concern, because new york is such a densely populated city, so health officials and the mayor of new york and the governor sought to reassure new yorkers that there was no public safety issue that health measures were in place this this was a disease that's really hard to pass along. and at the moment, other things we know is that dr. craig spencer did come into contact with three other people, that two of them we know are in isolation at home. they've been self-quarantined. one person is also in this hospital, expected to be dr. spencer's girlfriend. another one we believe is a taxi. because he did take a taxi to go out bowling one evening. >> just very briefly, mayor de blasio did tell new yorkers to stay calm, not in any way to panic. do you get the sense that new yorkers have taken this news in their stride?

>> it's still pretty early here. the rush hour is just about to get under way in new york city. that in some ways will be the first test. we know he was on the subway taking the l line, the one subway. so certainly i think people will be concerned. that's why health officials made such an effort to try and reassure people, look, this disease is very hard to catch. it's not as simple of touching the subway pole of someone who's been affected. that is the message that's been repeated and repeated. as we heard from the health commissioner, she said the chances were virtually nil of catching it in the subway. >> all right, michelle. thank you very much indeed for that update. we bring you all the developments on the ebola crisis as they come in here at "bbc world news." in other news, european union leaders have agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030. the deal is aimed at countering climate change and setting an example for the rest of the

world. ahead of a major international climate summit next year. the pack came despite strong opposition from poland and other east european nations who argued the pace of change was too fast. tunisian security forces have stormed the capital to end the standoff with militants. at least six people, five of them women, were killed in the raid on the outskirts. it's reported one of the gunmen was among those killed. security forces have surrounded the house since thursday. stay with us here on "bbc world news." still to come, dramatic footage has been released showing a gunman running towards canada's parliament building, just homes after he had shot and killed a soldier. [ male announcer ] some come here

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a political storm is brewing inside the european union, after

the european commission issued a demand for extra payment from some member states. britain is the biggest loser in this recalculation of eu contributions. it's now facing a demand from brussels for an extra $2.7 billion. the netherlands too faces a big biel. $800 million or so. in contrast, france is set to get back $1.3 billion, while germany will get 985 million back. let's get more on this with john redwood, a conservative member of parliament, a very voluable euro skeptic. this is simply the eu commission playing by the rules, isn't it? this is the way it's supposed to work if your economy grows faster than expected, then you have to pay a bit more in terms of eu contributions. >> no, i don't agree with it at all. the rule in a democracy is that you need the consent of the people to the taxes they pay. and you don't go back over pas

years. and what we see is the european union trying to get britain to impose taxes for past years which they'd signed off before as a different level. there's no way that the united kingdom parliament should now vote to impose higher taxes on the british people to meet this back dated demand that many of us don't accept. >> i come back to the point that rules are rules, and the british government has signed up to these rules. that's what the eu commission is saying. >> well, i don't think we have. this is about definitions of income, and it's about ascribing income to the country that was in the gray and black economy, so by definition, it was income that we didn't tax at the time because it may not have existed and the officials did not know about it. so it then would be quite ridiculous to say you should have raised more tax then to send to brussels, and so why don't you raise more tax now to send to brussels. >> it's worth remembering britain isn't the only country facing a new bill. the netherlands is even bizarrely greece, which performed terribly economically

recently. but the point i suppose is politics comes into play in britain perhaps more than any other in the country. you are obviously a very leading member of the euro skeptic group within your own conservative party. is your message to david cameron that in no circumstances should he cooperate with this, and that he absolutely must not pay this money to brussels? >> my advice is don't pay this money. of course he should sit down and talk to them because every opportunity to talk might produce something in britain's interest. this very clearly isn't in britain's interest. we have no need to sign the check. and we don't have the money to sign the check, which they're demanding by way of a bill. and the european union is also giving britain clear instructions that we need to get our budget deficit done, that the state needs to borrow less. well, they can't have it both ways. how on earth can we get our borrowing down and get our state expenditure under control if they send us a bill for another whopping 1.7 billion pounds. >> sticking with the politics

for a moment, this is a gift to the uk independence party, isn't it? that is the party that want us to take britain out of the european union. their leader described the eu commission as a vampire feasting on the blood of the british people. so it may well be that ukip is the party to benefit from it. >> who knows who's going to benefit from it. what is very clear is the european union proposed a very unpopular proposal with the british people. i as a conservative speak out against it. but what matters is what a conservative-led government does about it. and my advice to our prime minister david cameron is to be very firm on this and not pay the bill and we may find that we're popular as a result. >> john redwood, we shall follow this story. thank you very much for joining us on "gmt." more details are emerging of the man who shot dead a canadian soldier and attacked ottawa's parliament building on wednesday. the country's foreign minister

told the bbc there is no evidence so far to link michael zehaf-bibeau with islamic state or the killing of another soldier, which happened earlier in the week in quebec. this cctv footage shows the shooter pulling up outside the parliament. it's been released by police. they believe that bibeau, a radicalized muslim convert, acted alone, and people on the street here are seen running away from him as he gets out of the car, he carries the gun, and heads toward the parliament building. comments have revealed that he had a history of drug use, petty crime, and mental health issues. so there you go. that was the video that has been released. for the latest, let's go to samira hussain, who's in ottawa. i just gave a broad brush view of what the authorities have been saying. what detail can you put on it?

>> reporter: the canadian police held an hour-long news conference in which they gave as much detail as they could and it was pretty wide ranging in terms of what they knew about zehaf-bibeau. we heard that he was 32 years old. that he was actually living in a homeless shelter not too far from where i'm standing. and many people are asking the question, well how was it possible for someone who had no fixed address to actually go and purchase a gun, or become in possession of a gun? so that's one question that police are still asking. but he became on the radar of authorities when he tried to get a canadian passport. it seems that he wanted to travel to libya or possibly syria. but other than that, this gentleman was never on the radar of canadian authorities. in the press conference, we heard from police who said that he wasn't one of the 90 or so

people that they have revoked their passports. >> one can only imagine the heartache that the parents are going through, because they've issued an apology. they are clearly feeling desperate for the family of the soldier who was killed. but in terms of what they knew of their son's activities, have we learned any more about that? >> reporter: no, and it's pretty telling from the statement from the parents about how little contact they had with their son. in fact, in the statement, the mother said, well, i saw my son last week for lunch, but previous to that, hadn't seen him in over five years. so that just really shows that not many people had contact with him. you know, the statement was pretty powerful from the parents in terms of expressing grief for

the canadian soldier that died, and also expressing the fact that, you know, any tears they may be shedding are not for their son, but for the people that have been affected by their son's actions. >> samira, thank you so much for joining us from ottawa here on "gmt." in the cajun and creole communities of louisiana in america's deep south, a rich heritage of voodoo culture still exists. practitioners say voodoo is a vibrant and empowering religion with deep roots in american history. the bbc's pop-up bureau, as you may know, is traveling around the u.s. covering local stories which resonate with people around the world. and this month, they're in baton rouge, and matt zanziko has been exploring the past and the present of american voodoo. >> all of this artwork is spiritual in nature.

voodoo probably has the worst pr of any religion on the face of the earth. i know for myself, before i became a priestess, i had the same knee jerk thoughts. i think that 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. started cleaning up the vermilion river. we removed 60 tons of floating debris the first year. we were starting to find a lot of little bottles with notes in

them. those bottles were picked up out of the vermilion river to clean the river. they're clearly bottle spells. >> right then and there, i realized this is some kind of voodoo or hoodoo. >> 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. >> you can see this part scratched out. this part's written backwards. some of the lines might say your power by 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 a 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. >> some beautiful images there. now, we're going to bring you some social media news. the news you've all been waiting for. and it comes with a royal stamp

of approval. the queen no less has sent her first tweet. it was sent via the british monarchy account. it coincides with the queen's trip to the london science museum. in it, she says, and i am quoting -- there you go. you can see it. "it's a pleasure to open the information age exhibition today at the science museum. i hope people will enjoy visiting. elizabeth r. the last tweet was sent personally by the queen from her official twitter account @britishmonarchy followed by the hash tag #thequeentweets. you can follow now, if you want to. there's a picture of the queen tweeting. start tweeting her back. the science museum has also responded saying it's not something you see every day. well, that's certainly true. so there you go. everybody now knows she is fully, fully wired and on social

media. before we go, just a quick reminder of our top story. that is mali in west africa has its first confirmed case of ebola and there is also a young american doctor in new york city who has tested positive for the virus. that's it from this half-hour, but do stay with us here on "bbc world news."

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welcome to "gmt" on "bbc world news." in this half-hour, the global impact of the ebola emergency hits home. mali confirms its first case as a 2-year-old girl is taken to hospital. and in new york city, a doctor just back from guinea also tests positive for the virus, prompting the mayor to tell new yorkers to stay calm. brazil is at a political crossroads, as voters prepare to choose a new president this weekend. will they stick with the status quo or embrace the promise of

change? aaron is here with all the business. i think the focus right now, aaron, is on innovation. >> absolutely, stephen. watch this. from 3-d woven fabric, to a temperature taking teddy bear, all new inventions on display at the british invention show where inventors, business and investment come together. so yes, stay with us, because guess what, i've got inventors and inventions right here in the studio. a very warm welcome back to "gmt." and let's get more now on our top story. mali has become the sixth west african country to be hit by ebola. a 2-year-old girl has the disease. thousands of kilometers away, new york's mayor has called for calm following the city's first

confirmed case of ebola. craig spencer, a young doctor just returned to new york from guinea, is now in a hospital specially designed to treat patients with the virus. now, the u.s. center for disease control and msf are two health organizations fighting ebola on the front line in west africa. but are they always in agreement over how to deal with it? well, here to discuss that question is a health economist at the center for global development. he joins me from washington, d.c. seems to me there is an interesting distinction to be made here in terms of the people who are fighting ebola, between sort of the doctors on the ground, msf that is largely made up of doctors and health care workers. and then you've got public health officials, that probably would be the sorts of people in the cdc. do you think they have different perspectives? >> well, i do think that the minister of health for liberia,

for example, has to have a different perspective than the doctors who are working under the minister of health, and the same thing is true to a larger degree even between msf, who is a group of heroes, including, by the way, craig spencer, whom you mentioned earlier. these people are heroes treating people on the ground. their concern quite properly is with the patients and trying to do the best they can for these patients. if i were an ebola patient in liberia or any of the other affected countries, i would want msf helping me. but if i'm minister of health of liberia or guinea or sierra leone, i think i would turn to the cdc or public health experts to understand how to control this desperately serious epidemic. >> right. but in the end, which perspective is winning out, do you think? you're suggesting to me, i believe, that from a macro public health perspective, you sometimes have to accept that

some individual people and maybe even some health care workers cannot be saved or cannot be protected as you might like because you have to take a bigger, wider view. >> well, you know, the problem with our battle against ebola is our efforts to build treatment units, those climb linearly. we add one unit, we add another unit. but the epidemic is geometric. it's taking off like that. and we've got to change that. we've got to reduce the reproductive rate from 1.7 or even higher, which it is now, down to something like 1.2 or hopefully even .9 or .8. and the way to do that is to use everything at our disposal. not only as good a treatment as we can put out there, which is what medecins sans frontieres are trying to do, but we've got to get the communities involved

and have the communities have protective gear. have them be able to treat the patients, whom they don't manage to get into the treatment units. >> you've also done some work on what you believe will be the costs over the next year or two, to west africa of the ebola crisis. and the figures are pretty stunning. i mean, you're talking about over $30 billion. how do you get to a figure like that? >> so, i was working with a team of more than a dozen world bank economists. and it was a multi-step procedure. it was a fascinating process to go through. because we started with information from the ground. cement sales. and unemployment. and the shutdown of factories on the ground. we started from that to see what was happening in liberia. but then we scaled that to all other countries where there might be an outbreakle and we said, what's the probability of an outbreak in other countries? for example, mali was one of the countries that was included in our model. we had a probability for an

impact in each of those countries, and then we scaled the impact that they would have depending on two things. first, the number of cases that they might have. and second, we allowed the impact to be diluted if the economy was larger. so for a country like the united states with an enormous gdp, enormous health care capacity, even though we had a quite, you know, measurable impact probability, which turns out to have been correct, we now have cases in dallas and new york, that impact is absorbed by this very healthy american economy. but in mali, that's not going to be the case. if that country's epidemic gets out of control, they're going to have serious economic problems exactly like the ones that we estimated for liberia, sierra leone, and guinea. >> indeed. well, mead, that's a pretty bleak way to end the interview, but we thank you for your insights here on "gmt" today. thanks for joining me. >> thank you. now, brazil's presidential

runoff vote on sunday is simply too close to call. the remaining two candidates, dilma rousseff, of course, the incumbent, and neves, have been crisscrossing the country for wavering voters. the home state of both candidates has been a pivotal place in brazil's historical development. >> reporter: it's the tightest election brazil has seen for years. the incumbent president dilma rousseff campaigning nonstop in working class areas where her support is strongest. there can be no going back, she says, urging voters not to abandon the gains of the last decade. nowhere is the presidential race tighter than in this city and the state where brazil was

dumped out of the world cup by germany. the political contest will be much closer than that painful 7-1 defeat. >> we have a divided country now. and one claims to be a more social policy oriented, which is dilma. the other party claims to be a more efficient management oriented. >> the state is a mirror image of wider brazil. in the poorer interior, donna christina is among the 40 million brazilians who have been lifted out of poverty thanks to the government's welfare programs. she has no intention of changing her vote. >> translator: before we had governments that only gave us the scraps, the leftovers. today we know what our rights are regarding education and health.

we know what we're entitled to. >> reporter: throughout brazil's modern history, this state has been hugely significant. its mineral wealth helping to drive economic booms. it also happens to be the home state of both candidates in this presidential runoff. iron ore sales earn billions for brazil, but rousseff is accused of mismanaging the resources. critics say her interventionist qualities have driven the economy into recession. the only person capable of rescuing brazil say his supporters is neves. he's hailed as a business friendly reformer who won't abandon social policies. >> he's the best manager in brazil and he will lead brazil back to its predisposition.

>> reporter: so close is the race here on home territory that rival supporters face off across the street in the state capital. brazil is split. north, south. working class, middle class. continuity versus change. every vote will count. of course you can follow the results as they come in over the weekend from brazil here on "bbc world news." now, it is time for the business. normally aaron's over there. but he's sort of way over there, which frankly is more proof that aaron is going bananas. >> ha ha. how long did it take you to think of that? talking bananas. props galore. i've also got foldable bike helmets. we'll talk about that shortly. hello there. let's start with bananas. chiquita shareholders are preparing to vote on a proposed

merge we are ireland's fife that would create the world's largest banana supplier. in a last-minute bid to stop the deals, the brazilian companies came in, raised their takeover offer for chiquita i believe to just over some $680 million. let's get more, because i want to know how this is going to end. mike knowles is editor of euro fruit, a publication for everything. let's start with this, because i'm wondering -- you know, earlier this year, we kind of thought this was a chiquita fife done deal. and then those naughty brazil n brazilians came in. >> the brazilians have steadily upped their own bidding for this. even yesterday at the 11th hour, they upped the bid to $14.50. so they clearly really want chiquita as a company. we're waiting now on a shareholder meeting, which is due to start at 2:00 p.m. our time today. that's over in charlotte, in the

u.s. and it's very, very hard to see which way it will go. i think the slight favorite in terms of the outcome is the merger with fife. it offers chiquita quite a lot in terms of cost saving. >> does that mean that chiquita shareholders are quite possibly getting a good deal then? >> i think -- well, it depends. it really depends. chiquita, the way i see it, chiquita is -- you know, if you're buying a house or if you have a house that you want to sell, it's a house that's seen better days and you've got really two options. you can opt to extend it and add the fife extension on the side and hope that in the long term the value goes up. or indeed you can just say i'm not going to do the work myself, i'm going to sell it and cash in in the short term. so a good deal in the short term, a good deal in the long term. who knows, i'm afraid. >> a great analogy. if the deal goes through -- sort

of a two-part question. i'm wondering what it means, if you will, for the market share of banana production. and i've got another question. do the chinese eat bananas? because there's a heck of a market. >> they do indeed eat bananas and they eat quite a few. they're eating more and more of them. if anything, east asia is the part of the world where growth in the banana market is the highest. to go back to the first part of your question, in terms of market share, it's perhaps a little known fact that the market share of these multi-nationals has been falling over the last ten, 12 years. so, in fact, chiquita in 2002 had about a 20% market share and now has about 13%. fifes in the meantime as been increasing steadily. they could be looking at 20% share, 22% share if they merge together. that would help them to go to the second part of your question. that would help them perhaps break into a new market like asia, where neither of them are really that active, but they're both looking and both testing

the market already. >> okay. mike, great stuff. we appreciate it. we'll talk to you when the deal's done, if it's done. >> indeed. >> mike knowles. yeah, yeah, there's a reason i'm wearing it. look at this. collapsible bike -- not collapsible. foldable. the british invention show, it takes place here in london this friday. on display will be some incredible inventions, from 3-d woven fabric to a cuddly teddy toy that will actually take 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. joining us, we're going to have some fun here. jeff wolf, chairman of the british inventors society, and martin, an inventor. we'll talk about your invention shortly. welcome to the program. jeff, let me start with this. i kind of like this idea. because under one roof, you've got the inventors with their ideas. and you bring in business, and

investors. investment. that's got to be key. >> of course, investment's key. to produce an invention takes a long, long time. and one's got to get patents in place. that takes money. a lot of legal fees. patent fees. one's got to get production fees, design fees, development fees, all sorts of things and these take a lot of money. unlike opening a shop where you're going to get money or a restaurant where you'll get money within a few weeks. when you're doing an invention, it can take years of outflow before there's any inflow. >> martin, i'm holding up your limit baby. marksman. what has this cost you and how have you funded it? >> well, it's close to 60,000 at the moment. >> 60,000 british pounds? >> yes. >> or $100,000-plus. >> and timeframe? >> five years. five years since i've started the patent process.

>> you've done this off the back of a mortgage, right? you've remortgaged your house. >> yeah, i had a flexible mortgage and i've used that flexibility to help me with that. >> and you have to go through a patent process and that can take years? >> a couple of years. which has been granted europe and we got other patents pending, yeah. >> you must have a passion, you must have a solid belief in this product. so okay, this is -- can you sort of come here and hold this. let's say that's a wall, you want to put up a shell. you get the shelf and it comes with the pre-drilled holes. so you put it on the shelf. and the idea is you have to mark the hole. i'm just going to stand up. so what you've invented s you put it up, you get your device. you go like that. and look! there it is. there's the mark.

and that's $100,000. does that dedication, those number of years, that must put inventors off. >> of course it does. the dedication becomes desperation before you know it, because you start thinking, wow, this is great, i've had a good idea, i'm going to make a lot of money, i'm going to improve the world. within a few years, that sort of day at a time, it's tougher and tougher and tougher, and guys like martin spend literally -- and me, actually, spend years of stress and strain in the hope that they're going to hit it. in the hope that it's going to work. but there's a lot -- i think an inventor has to be a jack of all trades and a master of quite a lot of them too because you've got to learn a lot of stuff about design and production and shipment and delivery. >> you're british inventor of the year last year. you're two times british inventor. that's one of them. >> actually, it's not, no. i've only invented this -- it's been chairman of the judging panel. so i've not been able to enter this for any awards.

i've won awards overseas. >> do we see some of these products -- do some of these end up on shelves all around the world? >> of course. that's the point. i haven't spent years working on this, so it's going to end up in some museum or the back of my garage. i'm hoping that this will be taking on by most of the world's major helmet distributors. and the same for martin, of course. he's hoping this is going to be -- >> your kids are hoping this is beginning to be in every shop, right? >> my kids are fed up looking at it and me talking about it. >> they won't be when the dutch starts rolling in. and i hope for you. unfortunately, we've got to wrap it up. great stuff. good luck with the show there. thanks so much for joining us. there you go. don't forget. lots going on. follow me on twitter, tweet me, i'll tweet you right back. you can got me @bbcaaron.

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go to ziprecruiter.com/offer300. welcome back to "gmt." i'm stephen sackur. the top stories this hour. new york city reports its first case of ebola. while mali becomes the sixth african country to become affected. the european commission has sparked a row by ordering britain and several other states to pay billions of dollars more into the eu budget. a parliamentary election is

taking place in ukraine this weekend. of course, against the backdrop of continued conflict in the east of the country. our correspondent steve rosenberg has been reporting from across ukraine all week, and for his final report, he's in the capital kiev to see how months of protests have affected this race for parliamentary seats. >> 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, and 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, 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, ashov is a controversial organization. it's seen as far right. ultra nationalist. and some of its members have been accused of being neo-nazis, and the kind of symbols they use 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 ashov commander is running for parliament.

>> reporter: among the farewells, there are far right salutes. here's another of the riders and riders. he 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 this security reflects is a nervousness, an edginess really. there's been so much turmoil in this country over last few months, and no one here really knows when that is going to end. steve rosenberg, bbc news, kiev. now, before we go, look at this. it isn't every day that a creepy crawly steals the limelight in an interview, but that is what happened here on bbc news earlier today. this is -- let's have a look. this is the senior member of the opposition labour party in the uk, but he's not alone. as you can see, there is a special guest, a spider who dropped into the shot on the camera lens. now, it's not clear who was more scared, ed or the spider. ed didn't show any sign of emotion. he carried on talking, and the

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