this is due to every news live from berlin the world health organization sounds of warning on the rapid spread of the current virus in africa in cameroon political wrangling tampa's the fight against the outbreak the government has ruled the opposition's relief if it's illegal we need but just what defying the bad. and criminal charges in the optics the biggest oil spill more than 20000 tons of fuel leaked into waterways near the world's most northern the city. compares this image to the exxon valdez disaster 3 decades ago in alaska.

hello i'm christine window welcome to the program we begin with the fight against the corona virus in africa the organization say's a doubling in confirmed cases to 200000 shows how quickly the pandemic is spreading across the continent and in the central african country of cameroon the battle against over $1000.00 is being have put it by political infighting ofter a disputed election the government has banned the opposition's if it's just stopped the virus but they are determined to press ahead w.'s blaze a all myth some of the aid work is defying the bad and cameron's biggest city. these volunteers income ruined i get you really just because it made you provision keats. they are not fish mice and i call b.s.

hans and entices to market in bois the country's largest city. come to roost opposition leader come to critter doogan as ition to hook up the spread of the current virus. people are happy to get the equipment but authorities see otherwise . the government sees these organisation is it off i guess is the rocks these species it wasn't just it is this past sunday august and it's time i come for a security forces. series or started a program to a month ago i least a dozen people hugging the rest it across the country. despite the risk we want is reach out to disadvantaged communities almost every day. 300000 keats have been donated in over 15 community so far. because they come up to on

a senior member of the team says they are not backing down. we have work records in your despite all the obvious and we are continuing that what is that report some of them i doubt that's the point you'll see i was i was 13 we have been your mind off of this your retarded boy up a bit i'm not going back to the law i don't want you know what i'm awoke because the need is enormous and we need to do our best so there is no way to stop it. congress interior minister who bondo ghana's isham was not billable on our request for an interview. didn't you know bios is roughly spread in the country when more than 6500 cases fis must win. in april. 2 positions continue to distribute hygiene kits to people who can't afford them. no he said i am so happy i have spent much from my little savings to buy hand sanitizer and i don't even have enough money to buy food but i had to struggle to

get the gel or did i don't. the government has cracked down on 2 bank accounts useful for a reason no the opposition has to hide its high do so plunks from the police. i'm now joined by dr mary stephen who's working as a technical officer at the w.h.o. regional office in called good evening to you have the why do you think they have that the pandemic is exeter raising in africa is the continent ready. yes so we as. you do on the continent want to situation if you look at look at the different countries it varies from country to country the pandemic is driven by 10 countries over 80 percent of these cases. from 10 countries india continents so we

still have some through countries that are reporting less than a 100 kids is more we haven't seen the peak yet be continent and countries continue to enhance the preparedness and readiness capacities to respond to what they share an increasing number of cases so we are seeing countries establishing community hospitals trying to build capacity or enhance capacity at the low eyelids of the health system because given the peculiarity of assistance in africa most of the capacity as you find them at the national border because of this what a shot of increasing number of cases they are beginning to decentralize to buca placidity to be able to detect to test to isolate treat and also contact where is the people that might have been exposed to positive call we include the implementation of preventive measures among the members of the community saw the

issue of hand washing rest 3 to educate me one. when we tried to step away from august just to see about the search after that but i do want to ask you this we are still talking about africa being the least effective region in the world what is the explanation behind this. yes africa is the least affected. region in terms of pierce's in terms of deaths so the beginning of the outbreak. called that is the continent that had the importation of kids lasts so we started having. 1000 kids and need fear every where in reported post all continents of the world so before i didn't know there were already countries were already implementing

screening and some of them where quarantine trouble us for now quite a number of countries my marriage to detect imported guess is the end of some of them where people at the point of entry somewhere. people that aren't in mind there to quarantine and do everything to limit. the forecast period of these. communities so in terms of the deaths we also have. a young couple relation and. violence of beauty's that's one tree roots tool one's chances of dying so these are some of the factors that affect what to do and the number of deaths very interesting and thank you for that insight that struck him a steven from the congo brazzaville thank you. now a brief look at some of the stories making headlines the death toll from the

sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of to his year has risen to almost 50 of the authorities recovered more bodies the bush sits out at the weekend aiming to reach it to you but capsized near the city of specs 53 people of old have been on board. u.s. president donald trump has authorized sanctions against international criminal court stop investigating possible u.s. will crimes in afghanistan secretary of state might compare will be able to block assets of course employees and stop them in trying the u.s. impale called it a kangaroo court record. germany's chancellor angela merkel has whored chinese premier league pitching to secure equal treatment for german and other foreign companies operating in china with germany taking over the e.u. presidency in july and the also discussed how to stimulate post corona trade amid growing tensions between beijing and washington. the mayor of the walls most northern the city has been charged with criminal negligence over a massive oil spill in siberia tens of thousands of tons of diesel fuel leaks into

local waterways around no risk investigators say the may have failed to react quickly enough environmentalist saw comparing the spillage to the exxon valdez disaster in alaska in 1989. heading out into a sea of decent oil it's obvious that the water here is utterly polluted. cleanup crews have been working for days here in siberia their top priorities are to catch the oil slick with barriers and to pump as much as possible out of the water. but nobody thinks it will be easy. to do it is foolish to say or think that nothing will perish and they want to have and will go away without a trace of our workers saw him dead donkey to day i myself saw a dead muskrat if

a bird lands on a few of the muskrat swims in fuel it is definitively condemned to death. more than 20000 tons of fuel oil spilled from a power plant here in the city of nauruans the facility is said to have been poorly maintained. the water in neighboring lakes was affected. they didn't have to get this for days after the spill authorities did nothing until russian president vladimir putin got involved. but he's absolutely but you know why did government is . only find out about this 2 days after the fact or to deny we're going to learn about emergency situations from social networks the rest of you have a problem or something that. got got things going hundreds of cleanup workers were sent to the region managers at the power plant were arrested and an investigation was launched against the mayor of the city of no risk who did us

a little in your stunnel the investigation found that the mayor being aware of the amount of fuel spilled from the tank did not take proper measures to respond to the emergency and to deal with its consequences. the mayor is looking at a possible 6 months in prison but the environmental damage is expected to be around for years. i'm now joined from us by alexei commission coffee city trough the extractive industry program at the wall wildlife fund rush good evening to you how serious is the situation do we know the true scale of the damage. nor we can say the final installation of the damaged. wall almost feel it is quite be it were never the same or oil spilled in a russian article in the last 20 years by the used to it was built in the reworked respond those gold before it entered into the lake saw as amman jordan

that your spiel still in that we were to start. work on claims that those 3 were for about 40 kilometers it's almost goes on the lake is not in better condition as it could be. we've been told it will take years to clean up the mess but what lasting impact on the environment can we expect from this. this is this will fuel so. we think that the fuel that will not be cleaned up in our current one or 2 weeks one joris of it just a rock or a because it's life you bought where it talks or companies your own small portion will dissolve in them or in that in the water this is. commons like benzene and that's the most dangerous issue that was. going to last for 4 months or even years . mr bishop of what shit all for eighty's in russia do to prevent something like

this from happening again. i think this is let's definitely issue 2 or make rational regulation more stronger because this was another example when. our safety measures was this spiel and also i think we now radiate too far into a store stuff so 3 stories during this year for us. not to use call and oil as energy. for energy supply in the russian arctic but maybe see short ellens it as a temporary breeze fewer and less will be the ocean side just asked in the future all right that is alex a commission coffee's head of the program for the business environment responsibility at walt wildlife fund russia thank you so much their own home.

and finally video of what's thought to be the world's largest green turtle colony tens of thousands of turtles have been filmed nesting on an island near the great barrier reef for the 1st time researchers are using drones to count the green totals on grain island that's the world's biggest economy off the endangered species and they've discovered that they've been underestimating members i get this more than 50 percent at a reminder of our top story russia has opened a criminal case against the mayor of the arctic city of darkness over his handling of the major fields full response teams say it will take years to clean up. you're watching news from berlin remember you can keep updated on these stories and more on our web site e.w. dot com on instagram and i'm sure that we're at news i'm christine one got myself

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