you. know. this is deja vu news live from berlin the world health organization sounds the alarm over declining vaccination rates officials meeting at a global vaccination summit say the growing anti vacs movement is putting children's lives at risk for me one family devastated by a musicals outbreak also coming up after the storm a homicide are reeling from hurricane dorian devastated communities are lying on each shipments of those shipments still haven't reached some isolated areas.

where it's good to have you with us the world health organization is sounding the alarm over the following vaccination right worldwide experts at a global vaccination summit in brussels on thursday said children's lives are being put at risk in danger and danger by outbreaks of preventable diseases like measles more than 360000 cases of the disease have been reported since january the highest in over a decade. not too long ago laughter filled this fisherman's family home in madagascar but now the family is trying to cope with their grief. they lost 3 children in january due to a measles infection they couldn't afford to vaccinate them. and it

was all goes we'll but we didn't expect that they might die if they didn't get vaccinated that the fact that they were not vaccinated would kill them. madagascar is struggling to contain its worst outbreak of measles in decades amid a desperate shortage of vaccines the highly contagious illness increases susceptibility to other diseases and can cause blindness brain swelling and death so far over 1200 people have died in the epidemic most of them children. and madagascar is not alone worldwide many countries are reporting an unprecedented rise of measles many of these cases could have been easily prevented with vaccination but like madagascar are some countries simply don't have access to the vaccines they need. and in high income countries where they are available some people opt to not vaccinate themselves and their children.

they wrongly believe that vaccines are harmful. there are absolutely families communities people who are subject to misinformation they have the wrong information about not only the disease severity and the risks of disease they don't understand the truth of the matter but they also have misinformation about the effectiveness of vaccines and the safety effect since and we do see misinformation as an increasing threat. the so-called anti vax movement fears that vaccines are unsafe ineffective and produce serious side effects saying that they can even cause autism scientists say there is no evidence for any of that. yet the misinformation is gaining momentum on social media now health professionals and governments are looking for solutions including making vaccinations mandatory and

imposing fines on parents who refuse in madagascar are over 7000000 children have been vaccinated in an emergency response parents here are happy that vaccinations are available again many know what losing a child to measles feels like and hope they never have to endure such grief ever again. earlier we spoke with laetitia charmaine response from her of public health at the university of. south africa she was in brussels attending the global vaccination summit and we asked her how worried we should be about the falling back to nation rates there are declines but they are also success stories so in many countries we've actually seen an increase in vaccination rates the reasons vary widely so in low and middle income countries and you've given

a very balanced perspective on both the situation in madagascar which is would fall into a category of low income countries the reasons for declining vaccination are brakes of measles a very different compared to high income countries so for example you've pointed out in the in says they too weak health systems inability lack of vaccines and resource constraints inability often of parents to get the children to a health facility for vaccination and then of course in high income countries including germany we've seen that the small proportion of parents were on his attend and in some cases refused to give vaccination to the children so it's always important to actually look at the context and to be very specific about the into being because it's not a case of one size fits all authorities in the bahamas

now say $1300.00 people are unaccounted for in the wake of hurricane dorian down from the previous estimate of $2500.00 official say the larger figure probably included people who are staying at shelters but 50 people are confirmed dead the storm devastated the bahamas at the beginning of september. it is breathtaking in its brutality. hurricane dorian has transformed this cow to be in part of the east into a war zone. and left communities here clinging on to life shipments like this from the u.s. army are desperately needed. from the bottom of. efforts to rebuild the bahamas are slowly underway the government says operations have moved from rescue to recovery and restoration but as horrible

and vicious as dorian was. the bravery and resilience of the 1000000000 people is even more powerful. more than a week after dorian ripped through these islands search teams like they're so looking for victims not survivors we recognize the extent of the devastation we're not going to speculate what the numbers. will be we understand people are concerned and so are we but that is the count as we get the official count. to the public it teams are yet to reach cutoff communities like this one and. these haitian migrant workers rely on the aid brought by journalist with a borrowed phone this man is able to reach his wife and baby who were evacuated. the emotional toll here is exhausting for those who started with little and lost

a toll. and now bring you some of the other stories making news around the world severe rain and flash floods have battered southeastern spain forecasters are predicting the most rainfall in a century will be of l.n. theory isn't reagent be torrential rain caused a major river to burst its banks and in the neighboring cust the elements every an elderly couple died after floodwaters flipped over their car. italy's new government says it has reached a deal with you countries to resettle migrants currently waiting aboard a french charity ship and italian waters the ocean viking ship is carrying 80000 people who were rescued off the libyan coast of the speak the previous government in italy close to the country supports to vessels carrying migrants. in the u.s. the leading democratic presidential candidates are facing off in the 3rd televised debate for a vice president joe biden and progressive senators bernie sanders and elizabeth

warren are among the front runners and are appearing for the 1st time on stage together hours before the debate kicked off in houston u.s. president tom from gave his predictions on how they would do i think you know look they all have their weaknesses and this drags i think that they're very different he certainly have a lot of different voices up there but i would look to me like it would be lizabeth warren 1 and that looks like joe maybe will be able to get their baby not i don't know. certainly bernie is there he's done but 3 but i think that it has just 0 for the lead the 3 of a but if you remember a few you forget my republican primaries but i was in the lead at the very beginning and stayed there it's you know if you know maybe make a really major mistake. he should be able to make it i would imagine biden would be able to make it if he doesn't make it a major mistake. and we'll have full coverage of the democratic debate coming up

later on. moving on to zimbabwe where relatives of the former leader robert mugabe have snubbed a plan to have him buried at a national monument mugabe was overthrown in a coup 2 years ago and replaced by a former ally and the squabbling over the location from a governess funeral has even thrown into doubt the date of his burial currently he is due to be laid to rest on saturday. robert mugabe's body being carried into harare's rafah stadium to lie in state his black clad widow grace without her late husband side for his final journey several people were injured where mona's broke through the police called and around his coffin. thousands are come to pay their last respects here in harare many hot emotional words of tribute. everest intended with the scanty at home. and deeply touched.

death has affected me and you thoughts of the kind of i don't even know how to express it such and such and that i can use curtains was exceptional. and he he provided us with shelter and learned my lengthy sentence with a big fool. i would thing that i. see. this is where the government of president and listen man in congo i once mugabe had burrowed zimbabwe's national heroes acre for many it would be a fitting resting place for the former colonial era guerrilla fighter. we wanted the old man to go to heroes acre where his other comrades are since he was our real founding father. so this is what we want for him to go to heroes acre. but analysts say there is still deeper. between grace mugabe and emerson the man

who 1st tried to sideline her and then seized power from a husband in 2017 the mugabe family has accused the government of trying to strong arm them into a state burial. the family is the one that makes that decision. is the government work that the family wants to do. so there is no fewer between us and. the mugabe's insist that the former president will be laid to rest in a private family ceremony even in death robert mugabe is proving as divisive a thinker as he ever was in life. well when you're proud of what you've achieved in life sometimes you just want to shout it from the rooftops well that's precisely what some homeowners are doing in india's punjab state here's some more on their crowning glory. they're larger than life a bit bizarre and

a little showy in this village in the indian state of punjab there are all kinds of statues including a tank a boat a kangaroo and there are many many airplanes but it seems the bigger they are the better. talk sing owns the largest he rented out as a party venue he's loved planes ever since he migrated to england at the age of 16 . then he worked in a factory to earn enough money to build a villa back in punjab. weepin jobbies a famous for working hard. no matter where in the world we happened to be we're always successful and we like to show it everyone here admires me for my success. those who still live here anyhow. but there aren't too many left almost every rooftop statue represents a story of migration their owners left to look for

a better life elsewhere and europe and the usa or for example many here dream of traveling hence the local love of their planes most people living in punjab are followers of the sikh religion even in the sikh temples there are plenty of model planes the faithful here pray for safety while travelling for family members already overseas but what's the point of all these statues when no one's around anymore to see them talk sings wife would rather be with their grandchildren and england. my. husband has always done what he wanted to. have always just followed his wishes. we come out here for a month or so twice a year. when the children and i say let's just stay in england he just doesn't listen in a few days time send talk sing will board a real airplane and head back to birmingham his rooftop party plane will be empty

again but remain a symbol of his financial success and of a life lived on 2 continents. you're watching the news live from berlin take you to cape town south africa. at the world economic forum and my ash waiter thanks so much for joining us. and i'm getting the brand new. device topics that affect us all. climate change return and. check out.