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this is deja vu news live from berlin fears of a cholera epidemic in mozambique hundreds of people contract contagious disease following a devastating cycle is vast numbers of displaced people at risk relief workers are warning of a second disaster also coming up. thousands of palestinians marked the anniversary of the weak link as a protest but the event has turned deadly with two palestinians killed and more than one hundred injured in clashes with israeli forces.
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on nick spicer welcome to the program in mozambique the number of cholera cases has risen dramatically from five to nearly three hundred in just two days the world health organization is warning of a second disaster if cholera spreads among survivors of the deadly psych loan that hit two weeks ago the water borne disease causes acute diarrhea and can kill within days if not treated hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes in the cycle that hit mozambique malawi and zimbabwe one of the worst affected areas is the city of they are in the indian ocean. in many settlements such as here in beirut the flooding hasn't completely receded and many people are waiting for help. there's no even though i live with my children. every
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extra day in the mud increases the risk of severe diarrhea or even of cholera outbreaks in rural districts the situation is even worse large areas of land are still under water we visit a small clinic in the village of nine go or what the storm left of it there is only one doctor who treats one hundred fifty patients a day testing them for malaria another looming danger he would be powerless against the cholera outbreak. yes the numbers are increasing we can't do much we hand out chlorine tablets to disinfect the drinking water and we tell people to wash for it before eating it and especially to wash their hands if. anyone with diarrhea is being treated as though they had cholera the world health organization plans to provide nine hundred thousand vaccine doses next week but fear of cholera is not the only concern many locals have lost everything their houses and huts were destroyed as was their harvest. even though it's been more
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than two weeks people are still suffering the after effects of the cycle so far there has been no cholera epidemic nevertheless it will be months before things are back to normal. joining us now. is robert holding he's the incident manager for the emergency response to. the world health organization robert thanks for joining us tell us the number of cases of cholera. has jumped into the hundreds how much more do we have to fear. good afternoon and i think we need to be cautious with the figures we surveyed have come for color on the mystery of how come from the on wednesday what we're seeing is as you say an increase in the number of cases of people treat diarrhea. you know to be honest we expected that that's not so uncommon in the van. and we're trying to move quickly to ensure that one just on the scale of the problem not just in my book beyond
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there but also to stand up a significant storm so that one we can try and minimize the strike that you will keep on diarrhea or color for those that becomes sake that we can get the treatment services to where it's needed. but this is a major public health threat to those people that lost everything as you said in the start of your interview this is one of the most significant threats we face right now and just looking to the weeks and months ahead cycling eat i destroyed big parts of mozambique's water and of the medication infrastructure as we know what can be done to improve safe access to water is next for tickle. oh indeed it is indeed absolutely one of the most critical components charms of ensuring that people don't become sick. and as you said the scale of devastation is significant so you know it's going to take some time a lot is happening and huge amounts of supporters scored in from iran mozambique i
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think it's fair to say that you know the mozambique offer which is a mozambique government. and in a start up and impressive response they quickly called for international sixtus money and it's good to see that the international community has responded quickly riposte lead but of course as your. as your report indicated on the introduction we're still not able to get to some areas now on a daily basis the waters are receding so every day we can get through to places that were previously inaccessible but we don't underestimate the scale of the task ahead of us to ensure that those but of the last everything comes you know we minimize the pressure you come the suffering that me now and your thoughts it's a monumental trust that we have of we have ahead of us ok robert holden of the world health organization thank you for that. tens of thousands of palestinians are
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demonstrating to mark one year since the start of the weekly gaza protest they're being held to demand the right to return to israel and an end to israel's blockade of the gaza strip but today's event billed at the million man march has turned deadly three palestinians have been killed in clashes with israeli forces palestinian red crescent says more than two hundred people have been injured there's also been violence in the city of ramallah in the west bank. and joining us now from jerusalem is de w's tanya kramer ten-year can you tell us about the situation at the border. tens of thousands of palestinians came out protest as spot is to one year anniversary off to protests at the fence and actually on these protests up that week of heightened tensions between. hamas now i'm just stunned that. protests had cold on people to stay further away from the fence as used to stay out of the line
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officer ready sniper fire and you also understand that there have been some understandings although they have not been officially come to. mediation between hamas to calm down the situation and to step back from the nation now having settled the how serious injuries to have been protesters skills and this really army has put out statements saying some of the protesters came close to the fence however most of them stayed away now of course everybody was looking at that so because that comes on the back took off that you know protest over two hundred people have been killed by sniper fire and many more thousands. ten days' time we have the israeli elections how is this going to play out in that context. well i think that's why all eyes today on that
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day off protests because it came after a week off really heightened tensions between israel and hamas it started a week ago when a rocket was nonstop from gaza into central israel it landed in that small village in north of tel aviv in a family home people were injured and prime minister netanyahu wasn't rushing net the time he cut short his visit there was a lot of pressure this is not always respond to rocket fire is hard to tell you to then there was more rockets coming out of gaza but with the help of egypt's mediation there has been there had been a tense calm of the past couple of days and of course now the question was. today and how distant play out there has been a lot of pressure was on prime minister netanyahu are very tough to respond so whatever happens and the situation remains tense and also volatile whatever happens here on the ground and gaza has dominated the election campaign this week at least
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will of course also dominate remaining election and up to the elections happen on nine. ok did you know you tell your kramer in jerusalem thank you for that. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. pope francis has arrived in morocco for a two day trip devoted to interfaith relations can mohammad welcome francis and then it's toward him in a double motorcade through the capital francis is meeting with muslim leaders and migrants and holding a mass with the country's minority catholic population. cities all over the world are switching off the lights on landmark structures for earth hour it's to raise awareness about climate change in sydney the iconic opera house went dark in hong kong dozens of companies turned off the elimination of their high rise building. the rolling stones are postponing a tour of north america while singer mick jagger received medical treatment seventy
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five year old tweeted regrets to his fans and said he would be back on stage as soon as he could spokes person did not elaborate on the singer's condition. australia could become the first country in the world to jail social media executives who fail to quickly remove violent content the new proposal comes amid growing anger over the role facebook played in the christchurch massacre two weeks ago fifty people died in the attack and straightly and citizen broadcast live on the site facebook has admitted it must be more pro proactive. and joining me now to bring us more on that response is a reporter matthew moore matthew mark zuckerberg behind bars is that ever going to happen is this realistic perhaps not mark zuckerberg. i mean hefty fines are on the cards if this passes through the parliament next week and it would essentially make
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a criminal offense for social media companies not to remove extremist violent content quickly and the keyword is quickly because that would come down to the decision of a jury and no this is part of a broad package of measures which mr stone morrison announced this week and paul in doing so he said he used calling on social media companies for allowing their sites to be weaponized no let's just take a listen to what he said i have the technology to do this and i have the opportunity to do it and we're going to insist that i do it and if i don't do it the state with financial penalties imaginable for them and on top of that potential prison terms for executives who are found responsible. how realistic is it legal experts are wrong convention on whether australian authorities crude actually actually die executives from silicon valley or london or balun to show yet to face punishment they're also unconvinced the law executives. consider decision makers in
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these nasty of international companies and obviously hefty fines to talk about fines worth ten percent of revenue being at issued by the government they're on lightly to go unchallenged by these companies. the technicalities aside this is a bar shot across the bow for social media companies so she stood in front of this with spotless and basically saying that he wanted his package of measures to be the blueprint for the g twenty and he said just in the are down the new zealand prime minister and. prime minister had given him a kind of warm reception when he talked about these proposals of them so maybe a sign of things to come you know some heavy hitters on board it would sound like anyway any reaction from facebook i imagine or not clicking the like button on this new. chief executive or chief operating officer sheryl sandberg has left in a letter to a national newspaper in new zealand to the outline of the company's response and
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admitting it we must do more among the measures they're looking at restricting the use of the live broadcast function which all users on facebook can can use. at the moment anyone can use it and what they're looking at is if people have broken the rules to facebook terms and conditions that maybe they would revoke their ability to do a lot of. we'll see whether they can get people just setting up second a cunt's install another measure is enhancing or improving and spending more money on their intelligence that allows them to identify these videos that are on the site and without manpower you just leave it to the computers and you can sift through people find ways to get through that uses a phone we used to get them that's they want to prove their systems for that and the third one is that the end of this week the the included white nationalism white separatism in the the hate speech the dante speech on the site so a series of missions right thanks very much for that insight to these matthew more
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. soccer now and it was a big day in the bonus league on saturday as the title race took another twist dortmund scored two late goals to beat and freiburg draw with biron means dortmund go to the top of the table elsewhere distilled or down the clock braman beat minds nuremberg toppled out friday night hoffenheim trash leverkusen kicking off soon leipzig take on her top on sunday and over host shall and frankfurt face. shifting gears here and it's time to say happy birthday to the cape crusader cartoon an on screen superhero batman turns eighty today he made his debut in detective comics one thousand nine hundred thirty nine since then he moved on to his own t.v. series followed by a decades long career in movie theaters multiple actors have played the dark superhero over the years and even non-human actors have put on the back wings
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