the meeting of the federation special counsel in paris on saturday morning. just reminded of the top story that we're following for you here on day w. security forces in thailand have stormed a shopping center a suspected gunman is hold off all day not shooting police say at least 20 people are dead and several more wounded in a rampage the shooter a soldier opened far as people at a shopping center in the city caught us. on how to help frame a wild news out the top of the hour i think that. they were systematically robbed by the nazis. and after the war there were no signs of compensation. for collectors i've got to end else sold mine. today researchers are searching for the missing works of art. process for the

descendants looted art. stores for if you are intent on t.w. . every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word published in the group. rico is in germany to learn german why not with him it's simple online on your mobile and free shop d w z e learning course nikos free german for me to see. why people in the spot of the world can't get the surgery that you get to new york in london you know for. dr sun duke who is mission is to help the blind seen no matter how poor they are the nepali i doctor has developed a method for treating cataracts inexpensively and effectively to date he has

restored eyesight to over 100000 patients and. doctors who eat and his team make the rounds of naipaul's of rural areas they operate on local people who've developed cataracts. our mission is to deliver high quality sustainable i care. especially for those on to march to. baghdad. that's really been a sense of mission. working for. more than 3 tickets . out. i have

a feeling team has got the solution. to come back to affordable blame this perfectly. and he backs up that claim with thousands of cases dr who each run several hospitals in kathmandu and other nepali cities where patients of little means can get treatment the kicker is that only a few years after opening these hospitals are already paying for themselves. we have a chorus of people who have money to pay full under you cool don't have much money be subsidized and thereby we can bring in some patients. cannot afford to be free of cost. dr overweight has the lenses required for the operation made right in his hospital he even exports them at 1st he ruffled some feathers in the industry the going price for a lens was around $200.00 u.s. dollars dr who each brought it down to $3.00. these lenses

are intended for patients in the polls southern region ordinarily very few people in the area would have access to medical care. cataracts have left glassy how do you john functionally blind in both eyes she can only distinguish light and dark and is dependent on help from her relatives. good tonight i don't want to anything at all i just sit around sometimes i look after my grandchildren what can i do absolutely nothing. her son r.j. is the family's sole provider the thing that. i'd be very happy if my mother were able to see again. then. so she'd be able to go everywhere on her own me and i by. now along with hundreds of

patients good lassie is waiting for her operation which will be free of charge. doctor who eats motivation for treating people like a lassie was not born of idealism he came from a poor family in a tiny remote village in the himalayas in his youth it hadn't occurred to him to take up medicine until one particular decisive experience. one of my closest meinolf. person to me was my younger sister and c and i used to live on the income on 2 on one i was going to school. to develop to a close as we're back in probably late sixty's were to go to the doctor and doctor said his wrist into the prime of life and medication sinister half 2nd line of meditation and you know he didn't have money and access to the 2nd

line up so the doctor said done the best you could do is to go home and. i had a little conversation with her and she said brother for you how about capacity or potential. to do something in life and please do not forget you can do something in life she said and you know maybe this is going to last and we're going to meet. not long after that dr sister died. while dr drew it is still on his way to the south of naipaul's his team starts making preparations over the next few days they'll be operating on nearly 1000 patients the base for their mobile surgical unit this time is the being a buddhist pilgrimage site with its dozens of temples. oh i've.

got it. in there like you will know our colleagues are saying they can give us the big generator for the lights permanently. i don't know if the time meditation center provided the space this time the surgery marathon is being funded with money from thailand. the conditions are almost luxurious in comparison with many places they've worked such as nepal's most on the region on the border with tibet. we have to. get here on a small country not currently have. been to the street alter planes from there we have to walk the horseback for 4 days to reach. some travel across. passes 60000 feet to get there. we need you to hang on. a solution to get into the are you so you spend distracting turn up with meals on the seating. improvise something big it's wooden

bits with nails or things like that. the next morning the 4 surgeons have arrived and the operations can begin hundreds of cataract patients come hoping they'll be able to see again. i think the morning it will come to be have a flash like. doctors only looks over the patient's. colossi is here too waiting for her operation. the doctor prepares for his 1st surgery. at the. we're going to do probably about 250 patients today. i place 250

patients are getting screened. this is until one of the 40 is. the surgeons all share the operating theater working side by side. now it's glossies turn doctor to eat himself will operate on both of her eyes one after the other. he's very precise and extremely quick on average he only takes 5 to 7 minutes per eye. doctor to wait removes the clouded lens he developed this technique himself in the 1980 s. . in whiskey country in the street take about 45 minutes to one hour for surgery.

and you no longer use lot of disposables and very expensive. a new method was required for the nepali villagers. so i was virtually sleeping between dreaming. about the surgical technique nearly after 5 years of you know a lot of horrible reach him down to starvation surgical technique that was fairly simple and i still get very good results through cost could be done through a lot of patients doctorates method has been applied in countries like indonesia and even north korea now doctors come from all around the world to learn from him this time he and his team enjoy support from time doctors and volunteers doctor to pong is so run our own pond and doctor now a porn deshaun a city to have learned from him. i get to take me when i see. the new operating technique which doesn't use stitches or ultrasound i was impressed and since then

i've been using this method on my patients in time and i feel i bought. them for me in my case somebody told me about an operating method that took less than 10 minutes at 1st i couldn't believe it but then when i saw a doctor early to it i was amazed and i wanted to learn it from him but i'm buying . an artificial lens adapted to get lost his vision is implanted in her eye. and she's made it through the procedure. like. now everybody can rest up for the next day.

the next morning the 253 patients who've had their operations come for their follow up exam it's the moment of truth for good lassie she'll find out if she can see again. if. i. haven't done to get there it is for the moment please keep your eyes closed the physical. the big moment has come. now you can open your eyes and look over here. can you see d.c. any good but you have to yes yes i'm one of the. look over here. it turns out to be so you're right yes very well how many thing is that my holding up 5 and now 2 and now. 5 ok i wanted so much to be able to see again i wanted to look at my doctor now i can see

everything. no matter of my being up. to. one last checkup glasses operation went smoothly with no complications. i didn't feel great not only for the fact of being able to see but if they can make a difference in their family's heart. you know subsistence family like ours must join family agricultural family on the family members are fine to go there very closely and one member is disturbed the pool rhythm of the family is disturbed and those that you can only go for show you the social press or so this member will look back and revitalize the rhythm of the comedy.

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