of people are not getting food and that is true of the town here where people are trapped and caroline malone. >> this is where some hungry women and children get food and butter, the world food program set up operations on what used to be a diamond and gold trading center. but there is not enough for everyone. local health workers say children are dying every few days from malnutrition. >> translator: i go to see and select the children who suffer from malnutrition particularly severe malnutrition and we find many of them, more than 2-300 but we don't have the products we need to treat the most severe malnutrition. >> reporter: diamond mining, used to provide for christians and muslims here before the fighting between them started and now around 14,000 muslims live surrounded by christian fighters and many people are without enough food and the few supplies that get in are unaffordable. >> translator: everything is blocked. nothing comes in. it's very expensive to buy food and no amount of food that comes in is very expensive and reached a critical stage and seems like we live in the present

here is caroline malone with more. >> one of the world's most deadly infectious diseases is spreading across urban and west africa. the movement across guinea makes it serious, more serious than anything doctors without borders dealt with. > we are facing an epidemic as never seen, especially by the destruction of the cases in the area. >> symptoms include vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding. it's a dangerous strain in guinea. >> translation: we are facing the most aggressive strain of ebola. a strain that kills more than nine out of 10 people. >> doctors without borders sent more than 40 tonnes of equipment, 60 fieldworkers, including doctors, nurses, enny deemiologist, and water expert to guinea. there's no vaccines or medicines. all doctors can do is try to boost the immune system of patients. it's crucial to stop the virus spreading further. senegal closed their border. liberia confirmed victims, and sierra leone has a number of suspected cases too. >> dell, the c.b.c. is sending two scientists, they expect to be on the ground for a month, perhaps two. it depends how much they can ge

caroline malone, al jazeera. the united nations warned south sudan is on the verge of africa's worst famine since the mid 1980s. more than 3 and a half million people or nearly a third of the population are facing starvation. anna cabell has more on why it's so hard to get food? >> this is south sudan's green belt in the southwest. down here, the land is fertile. they have a saying here, a hungry man is an angry man. during more than 20 years, the ability to farm was lost by the people of south sudan. but gradually with the assistance of ngos, people have been relearning agricultural skills and harvests were up more than 20% last year on the five-year average. here on the border, there is no shortage of food. elsewhere in the country, there are people suffering from severe, acute malnutrition. people on the brink of starvation. >> south sudan doesn't yet produce enough food to feet the entire population. even if it could, the real problem is getting the food to the people who need it. in this vast country, there

caroline malone has the latest. it's a massive rescue operation to save hundreds of people from the sea off the south korean coast. more than 450 people were on the overnight ferry, travelling to jeju islands. 60 vessels were involved. 80 helicopters were used. 34 vessels from the coast guard and 25 from the navy were killed. survivors felt the jolt on the ship around breakfast time. the ferry began to tilt and sink. many were students. parents are travelling to the area by bus. they'll have an anxious wait. >> translation: i felt like my heart stopped. i can't describe the feeling in words. i was too shocked. i can't think about it. >> there are fears that some remained unaccounted for. 95% of the ship is submerged under water. it's not known why it sank. >> okay. we can go live to al jazeera's harry fawcett, on his way from seoul to the scene. we see you are in transit. from where you are, what is the latest. the numbers have been changing radically from hour to hour. >> they have, and we have been speaking to the

caroline malone has the latest. >> it's a massive rescue operation to try to save hundreds from the sea of south korea's south coast. 470 passengers were on the ferry. around 60 vessels are involved in the emergency mission. >> translation: 18 helicopters were used for the rescue, with a firefighting team, coast guard, navy and police. 34 vessels from the coast guard and 25 from the navy were used. >> survivors felt a jolt from the ship around breakfast time. the ferry began to tilt and sink. many on board were students, on a trip from high school to the capital seoul. >> parents are travelling to the area by bus. they'll have an anxious wait to find out if their child is among those rescued or not. >> translation: i felt like my heart stopped. i can't describe the feeling in words. i was too shocked. i can't talk about it. >> there are fears some of the people who remained may be trapped in the ferry. 95% of the ship is submerged under water. it's not known why it sank. >> all right, we can go live to our correspondent harry fawcett, on his way from seoul, the capital, to the scene of

it caroline malone, al jazeera. a new museum just opened in hong kong commemorating the 1989 tiananmen square massacre. while it gives a rare look into a very important bit of history, some say they are just ready to move on. al jazeera's dibi dibia goplin reports >> reporter: the document 25 years ago, the museum is declared open. >> it's designed as a maze and takes the visitor through the events leading up to the june 4th crackdown in which stud tents were killed. 75 square meters, it's one of the smallest museums around but organizers expect it to have a big impact. we are targeting the younger generation born after the june 4th massacre so they can come and experience what we have experienced at that time, the shock, the despair and, also, the hope at that time brought about by the movement >> the group behind the mudzem is made up of lawmakers and pro-democracy activists. they formed in 1989 to help fund the students democracy movement >> interactive images, they hope to educate mainland tourists. there were 4

caroline malone, al jazeera. >> five soldiers belonging to n.a.t.o. have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern afghanistan. it happened in kandahar provin province. it's understood that the helicopter came down because of a technical fault. the crash is still being investigated. >>> fighters belonging to the iraqi state in an explosion that killed 70 people in baghdad. there is a rally for the movement, ahead of parliamentary elections the movement is accused of carrying out several sectarian attacks across the country. hundreds of members are fighting along side government forces in syria. >>> security is the big issue for iraqis going to the polls in parliament election this is we week. we have reports now from baghdad. >> cameras are rarely allowed no this. the government understands that it faces security problems. >> preventing iraqis to exercise their democratic right to vote. we believe the stakes are high but we feel we have a concrete plan to help guarantee security. >> check points such as this dot the city. you can find them in the

caroline malone, al jazeera. we are learning the identities of two of the victims in a deadly shooting in an afghan hospital two days ago. john gavelrana healthcare clinic at kabul university and the other victim was his father. they were visiting a pediatrician who was also killed in that attack. police say the gunman was a security guard. >>> the top .2 contenders for afghanistan's president are set to face another round of voting. early results showed none of the candidates won a majority which means there will be a run-off. the next election is set for june. first, abdullah abdullah wants an investigation into alleged fraud. stefanie dekker has this. >> we are satisfied with it, with the result >> reporter: there isn't a new president just yet. but he will be chosen from one of two men. former for en minister abdullah abdullah had 44.9% of the vote just missing out on the 50% needed to win outright. he will face a run-off with a former world bank economist who came in second with 31.5% of the ballot. but not

more from caroline malone. . >> reporter: flash floods turned people's lives upside down in remote parts of north and west afghanistan. thousands of homes were hit across four provinces. >> translation: results of heavily rain and floods - people have suffered from destruction. >> people are beginning to pick up the pieces after the floods. they say they urgently need help. >> translation: our shops and houses have been destroyed because of the floods. so far we have not received aid from the government. >> the afghan military rescued people from the worst-affected province. the regional police chief found many bodies and expect to find more. >> translation: people took the dead bodies to the hospital. they were handed over to the families. around seven villages in my area were destroyed by flooding. >> it's the start of spring, usually a wet season, not to the extent seen in recent days. the disaster relief committee says more than 5,000 people have been displaced and medicine and drinking water are running out. >> fighters belonging to baba al-yaman say they are behind a series of expl

caroline malone, al jazeera. >>> one of francois hollande's top aides quit with another blow to the french president. back to lauren taylor for the details on that. lauren. >> reporter: yes. he stepped down over allegations of a past conflict of interest with a pharmaceutical company. he was both a political sad visors and cheech chief of his communication team. he's under heavy pressure after disastrous results in last month's municipal elections. latest opinion poll put the president's approval rating at just 18%. he's been visited a factory in central france trying to shore up support. they say the new prime minister is asserting his authority as president hollande deals with his laidest scandal. >> translator: it's -- >> reporter: a very serious case because it's the first circle. last time it was a minister, but this time it's an adviser, a personal adviser of the president. so we're in the inner circle of the power. this man worked for, as you said, a pharmaceutical company while he was at the head of the medical administration in france, which is absolutely unthinkable. it's a serio

in the people are threatened by a situation effecting much of central african republic and i'm caroline malone >> staying with africa the nigerian military retracted a statement which it claimed to free school girl whose have been abducted, 100 students were kidnapped from a school earlier this week this a northeastern state there and we go live to the correspondent there and a lot of confusion about the fate of these girls. >> reporter: well, that is right. this confusion seems to be coming from the nigerian military. on wednesday they issued a statement saying 129 girls had been kidnapped and they freed 121 of them and they have crossed check the number with the principal of the school who had confirmed that 121 girls had been released from captivity but within hours of the military statement the school principal and family came out to say this was not true to dismiss those and say the girls were still missing. all of this is being exacerbated by the fact that even with these claims from the authorities about a rescue, no video evidence, no photographic evidence has been presented to anybody