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60 years it's the island nation. i'm british welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us it's a threat the philippines thought it had ended when it did but it's back after 19 years for you'll at least 2 children have been found to have contracted the virus it has also been detected in sewerage in manila and a waterway in the south of the country the government has declared an outbreak and efforts are being made to immunize billions of children by some estimates 3 out of 5 children in the philippines and not immunized against a 4 year old boy is a highly contagious disease that spreads through person to person contact and immunization is the only way to prevent it. one of us has been monitoring the

philippines response to the outbreak and joined benaud from manila and estimates for the number of children under the age of at risk at about 11000000 what is being done to reach them. so the philippines after eradicating polio for nearly 2 decades confirmed 2 cases and the health department has classified this as an outbreak to curb this outbreak the health department has launched a new round of vaccination targeting some 6 point $6000000.00 children under the age of 5 this vaccination drive will be in 2 sites one is in metro manila and the other is in selected areas of mindanao which is in southern philippines this is where the 2 sites where the 2 cases of polio were from for i went with the health department workers today and they were doing a sweep of the neighborhoods literally knocking on every door to ask if there were children under the age of 5 in the house and if they could be vaccinated they

visited daycare centers they even set up kiosks at train stations it was a very intensive vaccination campaign to make sure that no child left behind but children all being left behind i know that's appears to be the reality why is that happening why is the philippines vaccination program not being as effective as expected. that's true but actions very unfortunate that a few years ago there was a vaccine scare over the dang the dang good vaccine scare that caused vaccination rates across all diseases and all health department programs to just. parents were terrified of vaccines they refused to have their children vaccinated health care workers told me that when they would do a vaccination right like the ones they did today parents would hide their children they would slam the door in their faces and in one very extreme case a parent chased away health care workers with a knife so they were just very very terrified of vaccines and this caused the

vaccine trust to just plummet. health emergency to hit. the. brick and build these together the lives of more than $1500.00 people what does that say about the philippines is. the philippine health care infrastructure is insufficient and it's got more bad news because for 2020 the health care budget has been slashed by about 10000000000 paso's or the equivalent of about 175000000 euro this is going to affect the manpower that's needed by the health department for monitoring and surveillance programs of for it's like this one with polio and i think we also have a think about how the vaccine scare is continuing to impact the public's perception of vaccines there's been a massive loss of trust in vaccines and in the public health care system now the

budget that would have been used to fund education programs and information campaigns to bring back that trust has now been slashed the health care department definitely had its job cut out for it. from manila thank you very much for that ana . thank you. in just a few words china's leader has conjured a chilling image of how he might deal with those who want to break with the state one of the visiting there over the weekend president xi jinping said this anyone who attempts to split any region from china when the parish with their bodies smashed and bones ground she did not blame anyone specifically but his comments come amid 4 months of empty beaching on christian hong kong over the weekend protesters flash mobs across the city some businesses stations police over

a muscular response and made scores of for. our correspondent phil austin what they thought oh she's comments so you guys are taking part in another protest this evening you all heard president she's come and say the weekends how does that make you feel does it does it worry you that it doesn't we're not the only people it's just the fact that we all listen one. speech was but she still hadn't listened to our voices 5 demand not one last i hopefully the other 4 mediately ok i want to go to my complete scrapping of. these protests is the one that can match the other 4 demands included in bed independent investigations of the police and universal suffrage and how that you would launch by president she's comments i don't worry about what he said because. because he's afraid about people so. you know.

so. we can use only one way we can do so we have to stand out and fight for it yes ok and have the e.u. consent. really bother me because i think. i. session harassment and push through is about kim he led government to give the rights to the policeman and of course been used to he says you're harassed a girl's hand oh boy student protesters and also the pro is pros he is so it really gives us a break here so what you are firing to there is allegations that are doing the rounds here among protesters in hong kong that people have been sexually harassed and police stations after they've been arrest arrested and so when it comes to your

5 to mons having heard what president xi has said how confident are you that the remaining 4 will be met we are very very close because of one demands already been answered the other 4 hopefully with the coming elections the chinese government will know the hong kong people will full o. the people who support the hong kong government with that elections. everybody will be a part of it and hopefully you global or the chinese government will know what our choices is being as heard today the district select just that is taking place next month and how about you you still confident that you'll demands be met because you know. you can see the hong kong people. to enough to super tuesday see people face to. protests here how about you and for me yes i am i'm confident too.

for the protester to achieve this goal but. for now i think many people free of the policeman because soft behavior yes right now for me i am also afraid of the police because when i go out to the street when i see the postman i walk away so it really scared me. and. thousands. in the wake of typhoon fighting rising floodwaters and helping stranded residents which means speed in the philippines. is one of the most powerful typhoon typhoons to hit the country in 6 decades. up to 40 percent of all was recorded in just 2 days. as the rain

winds subside the sheer scale of the disaster is becoming clear. the capital tokyo largely unscathed it caused serious damage to several other regions. record breaking rains caused rivers to burst their banks and triggered landslides. the sheer force of the floods dragged this house into the river. cases so well i pray for the souls of those who lost their lives. and for the well being of everyone affected by the storm you know you don't. search and rescue operations continue countrywide hundreds of thousands of emergency workers have been deployed searching for survivors by boaters. and even

swimming through flood waters to find them. it was a lucky escape for this man stranded on a strip of land in calif sucking rescuers had to wade in to pull him to safety. but for some the only way to beat the rising tide was to go up. one air rescue ended in tragedy on sunday when the woman slid from safety wealth already say she hadn't been sufficiently sick you would ask your mother at the what we sincerely apologize for the accident and stop. as the unprecedented water level slowly recede the focus turns from rescue to recovery. though things have calmed for now in his forecast for thora he's a warning people to stay alert as move flooding and mudslides could be possible.

on some differ just as in hong kong a director of a false starts of old lady liberty atop one of the highest points in the city's activists trudge 4 hours after the summit of law and. rocks to install the structure that is said to represent the best of resilience and determination for a more autonomous hong kong leader with those images that you're next up by. the for. mine.

and. i'm scared that the a more tired and in the end is a me you are not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. are you familiar with this. when the smugglers would lie and say. what's your story ready ready ready. i mean when i was a women especially in victims of violence. take part and send us your story we are

trying always to understand this new culture. you are not a visitor. you want to become a citizen. in for migrants your platform for a while information. china's trade with the u.s. shrunk again in september a protracted trade war is clearly weighing on asia's powerhouse nevertheless spacings says it wants more talks before signing a so-called face one trade deal also coming up it's yet another crucial week for britain and the e.u. deal or no deal that's the question which keeps the british currency volatile. and the last of the nobels the prize for economics goes to 3 economists from india europe and the us for their work on eradicating poverty will have

a closer look at the 3 laureates. walk up to your business asia in berlin good to have you with us china wants further talks to hammer out the details off a phase one trade deal agreed by u.s. and chinese negotiators on friday bloomberg news reports this beijing may send a delegation to finalize a written deal that could be signed by u.s. president trump and chinese president xi jinping at the asia pacific economic cooperation summit next month in chile there are reports china wants trump to also scrap a plan to terrify in december in addition to the hike scheduled for this week. and this comes as a fresh data from china shows just how much the trade war weighs on its economy china's imports and exports fell by more than analysts expected in september official government data showed flagging.