part of eastern congo is one of the most destabilized. regions of the world they've had almost continuous violence for practically twenty years and you might say well what does violence and conflict have to do with disease well what happens is that collapses the whole health system infrastructure so when you want to be concerned about safe aerials which are a big problem during all outbreaks or contacting potentially infected individuals this presents a really tough problem for health workers work area the good news is that we have a vaccine that was we didn't have a vaccine on hand but the twenty fourteen outbreak in west africa so we have a very effective and relatively safe vaccine available now. so that's the good news and so far more than thirty thousand doses of vaccine that been deployed but the problem is working in such an unstable area you have there assure the safety of the health of the vaccinators and you have to be able to trace potential contacts and get them back and they did so in theory this should be a non-problem we sh

follow to negotiate but their failed so the congress our fears grow in the democratic republic of congo over the country's worst outbreak of ebola good days housefull year after this short break. seems. to be. yet to shape out just days after. it gets. to trail. once by themselves while the party. just of the common ground. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. nor middle of the room. welcome back the netflix streaming service may find itself one hundred fifty million dollars out of pocket oh due to a satan worshipping cult nothing supernatural here though just your regular copyright dispute. we have asked netflix for comment it says the litigation process is currently underway and couldn't talk further on the matter. now the un is warning of the rising death toll from an ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo the disease which causes internal bleeding and spreads rapidly has already taken two hundred lives in a matter of months and officials say it's the worst outbreak in the country's history according to the health ministry a va

shot of cool and landline is school violence in a number of regions in the democratic republic of congo it is that i did almost a billion dollars in revenue for rebels and criminal groups the country's politics has been a violent mess for over twenty years now adays a new a bowl outbreak is making things worse for locals in only a few months it took the lives of almost two hundred people the health ministry says they've never had to deal with outbreaks of that scale and with armed thugs running the show in parts of the republic doctors are losing confidence in their own efforts i do think this is one of the challenges we'll have to see whether we're able to contain control and the car now break within the current security situation after all even the brave us doctors don't want to risk their lives when they're under a constant threat of being taken out at times it's just physically impossible to reach the affected areas on a harmed if we just look at the figures. this belgian research center even stepped on the tremendous effort to map mining sites as well as our presence and in their m

when is warning of the rising death toll from an ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo the disease which causes internal bleeding and spreads rapidly has already taken two hundred lives in a matter of months officials say it's the worst outbreak in the country's history according to the health ministry a vaccination program has so far an ocular to over twenty five thousand people since the outbreak started in august doctors say more lives could be saved if medical teams didn't face direct threats to their lives from armed groups active in the region r.t. easier to train code now looks at how the mineral rich country is coping with the disease amid lile and instability. their new cell phone a necklace you just bought and a bowl of you might have forgotten the name of that deadly disease but there could be a connection between the three i'll explain in a sec this is the democratic republic of congo in the heart of africa that's where you find a lot of the pricey resources that the high tech and jewelry industries are after but who's in control of all that the legal it's the a

hello i'm a star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the democratic republic of congo as ebola outbreak becomes the second largest on record. reggae music is declared a global cultural treasure. pressure is building one u.s. president on trumpet after his former lawyer admitted lying to congress michael cohen says he made the false statements last year during an investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election out of there as reports from washington d.c. . mobbed by reporters michael cohen said nothing leaving the court but inside a guilty plea he lied to congress now admitting that he was trying to arrange a real estate deal in moscow during the time it was clear donald trump would be the republican candidate the cohen was in fact going to travel to russia to work on the deal and that now president trump knew about it all things cohen had previously denied bruce fein worked in the justice department and he says this is a big deal so this is a time where we have a criminal information that identifies the president himself seco

the above outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is now the second largest on record behind twenty four teens epidemic that killed thousands in west africa congo has health ministry announced there have been almost four hundred thirty cases since or best. a member of china's weak a minority has addressed the u.s. congress detailing the torture and abuse she says she experienced in a government in town and camp medical tests and cried as a translator described how she was interrogated for days without sleep a civil rights suit has been filed in a u.s. court against vacation rental company b. and b. over its decision to ban listings from illegal settlements and the occupied west bank those are the headlines the news continues here off to al-jazeera wild. you know. who we. are not. but if you. wish with. bin. she who could. wish we had had to sneeze we. were in just small why. reaction. and i really miss him to sever a new home for that year going over lesh fish when helo saw him gave a t. our little corner killing your b.g. a mission over job growth mission. i know i'm a little cowar

joining forces in the congo opposition alliance is the term and to shake up the presidential election. it's a black friday at amazon why workers at the online retailers say they've had enough . hello again welcome back or here in vietnam we do expect to see a land fall with our next typhoon that's typhoon usagi making its way towards vietnam expected to bring some very very heavy rain over the next few days anyway we do expect to see anywhere from two hundred to maybe three hundred plus. millimeters of rain over the next seventy two hours there's a storm right now and here's the forecast as we make our way towards sunday you can see very heavy winds but we do expect once the storm makes landfall it will decrease in intensity but that doesn't rule out the amount of rain we do expect to see of the next few days as we go towards monday the storm is going to continue to weaken but we do expect to see heavy rain showers across laos as well as into cambodia well here across much of australia we did see one major storm system make its way off the east coast that is leaving a lot of the area

essential nearly two thirds of the cobalt produced won't wide comes from the democratic republic of congo it's mined in shops like this one remark that others would just get sick of. the work is really very dangerous there are accidents almost every day on the site since. it is electro mobility not as clean as we all think it is. the. transport planners are pinning their hopes on electric cars they're still fairly rare but that's set to change soon. mobility researcher stephanie cutter is convinced of that. good enough and we assume that starting in the mid twenty twenty years we can expect at least fifteen percent of new vehicles registered to be electric vats would be fifteen to twenty million a newly registered electric vehicles in twenty twenty five yards one difference one says you know it's. millions of electric cars powered by rechargeable batteries weighing hundreds of kilograms they contain rare minerals manganese graphite cobalt and lithium each battery contains from twenty to thirty kilos of lithium carbonate . here deep underground lies the lithium that german car makers depen

to support mr to security is the president of congo. katherine so he has more now on felix she said the new presidential candidates. after his father eighty and she said katie died in february last year felix she sick a d. to go over the reins of the largest opposition party the union for democracy and social progress. his father had come second in the twenty eleven presidential election and the young like to see katie hopes to copy two lies on that legacy and popularity himself and his father then favoring the same flack street cop. but unlike the older she said katie who had decades of experience both in government and the opposition his son was until recently not in the thick of congress politics he lived in belgium for many years as a political newcomer some have criticized his lack of experience there twenty one presidential candidates for the past and to bits is a man diary president joseph kabila successor it will be a single round contest opposition leaders and civil society groups have raised concern about an electronic voting

this is the tenth ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo but this one is also to the west and the wilds fast in a conflict zone. since twenty fourteen about two thousand people have been killed in northeast india in fighting between armed groups and now since august a record more than two hundred people there have died from the. demick in north kivu wanted to reprivatize has surpassed that of the first epidemic in d. or c. as history which occurred in one thousand nine hundred ninety six in buku in the province of a quarter to go with the health ministry says medical teams in the area are attacked on average three to four times a week an unprecedented level of violence compared with previous outbreaks to medical agents with the congolese army was shot dead three weeks ago. fifteen people were killed and a dozen children abducted in subsequent attacks around the town if any the world health organization says it's become the outbreak epicenter because of what it calls a toxic mix of violence and community mistrust the outbreak is not under control and it's been. so large a n

this war needs to end these people need a better future the outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is now the second largest on record by twenty four teens epidemic that killed thousands in west africa the world health organization delivered the assessment of the congo's health but history announced that they have been almost four hundred thirty cases since the start of august it's spreading in the country's northeast where attacks by rebel groups are making it difficult for health workers to contain the disease dozens of people have been left stranded after flash flooding in the turkish resort town of bodrum heavy rains saw cars swept away and businesses and homes flooded many people were stuck in waist deep water as emergency teams worked to bring them to safety is the headline as the news continues on al jazeera after witness next. coach economy but i was on a hitch is that i'm not sure that i can hack it and that there's and. must lend a can money going on but i was ten and i went down the. street and get the first step make them and let me have a hug. but i'm going there at th

authorities in the democratic republic of congo say more than three hundred people have been killed by the ebola outbreak now sweeping the country congo has suffered ten evil epidemics since the virus was discovered there forty years ago the health ministry says the current outbreak is the worst so far. authorities in the u.s. state of florida have ordered a recount in the race is first senate and governor florida state law triggers a machine recount if the difference in a race is within half a percent democrat candidates trail republicans in both ballots. now in eastern ukraine russian backed separatists are set to hold elections in two self-proclaimed republics later today is an apparent bid to cement their split from the rest of the country this self-styled donetsk and luhansk people's republic known collectively as the region have been outside of kiev control since twenty fourteen the elections have been strongly condemned by key of and the european union. for donbass region with a russian heart proclaimed these election posters the acting leader of the donetsk people's republic de

for the democratic republic of congo is facing its worst outbreak of ebola the world health organization says it could last at least another six months for the w h o's emergencies a spokesman raise concerns that some cases have been misdiagnosed as malaria because early symptoms are almost identical despite this treatment centers during. the one of the lucky ones they have survived the deadly virus and are free to return home because. many others here may never leave. this treatment center was set up by a french medical charity that has a number of isolation tents to treat the most serious cases. ebola is highly contagious. this footage was filmed by a camera attached to a doctor's protective helmet he is seeing a young woman who has just been admitted i'm pregnant. you are pregnant. how many months. five months five months ok we will find out how to help you. this little girl's mother died of ebola now she is ill herself. those suspected of having the disease instantly become outcasts. don't get crazy we have prison us i can't move we have to stay here people fear us at home and when yo

the point is that congo except for diamonds nigeria except for oil all these countries in kenya except for cut flowers they're not producing manufactured goods they're producing raw commodities which are then get into the hands of corrupt leaders. now i'm not playing down the bad conditions of people in bangladesh what i'm saying at least they are part of the world market at least we know about what they're doing because our firms are producing there at least they are producing things it's wrong to point a finger. at bangladesh we should be pointing the finger at a congo nigeria and ghana eritrea because these people have. to us in relation to these or yemen these people have nothing and we're taking the the wrong attitude and by the way bangladesh exports to europe without any there's no tariffs zero tariff they can export this is one reason why it's so cheap i think there's something to be said for you know squaring these differences here in the sense that you know alan i completely agree with you the fact that there is demand for bangladeshi laborers is what allows many of these poo

and the democratic republic of congo facing the world's second largest outbreak of a bull. pressure is building on the u.s. president donald trump after his former lawyer admitted lying to congress michael cohen says he made false statements during last year's investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election trump is accusing cohen of lying to get a reduced sentence is political hay and reports from washington. mobbed by reporters michael cohen said nothing leaving the court but inside a guilty plea he lied. to congress now admitting that he was trying to arrange a real estate deal in moscow during the time it was clear donald trump would be the republican candidate the cohen was in fact going to travel to russia to work on the deal and that now president trump knew about it all things cohen had previously denied bruce fein worked in the justice department and he says this is a big deal so this is a time where we have a criminal information that identifies the president himself secondly it also indicates that president trump or the

say more than three hundred people have been killed by the a bowl outbreak now sweeping the country congo has suffered ten ebola epidemics since the virus was discovered there forty years ago the health ministry says the current outbreak is the worst so far and in the u.s. state of florida authorities have ordered a recount in the races for senate and governor the florida state law triggers a machine recount if the difference in a race is within half of a percent democratic candidates trail republicans in both ballots. a wildfire in northern california has now left at least twenty three people dead according to state authorities more than thirty people are reported missing in what is being called the most destructive blaze and california's history separate fires in the southern part of the state are also raging forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in addition to containing the flames firefighters now have the grim task of recovering the remains of those who were unable to escape. this smoldering remains of a town ten to ash thousands of buildings in paradise northern c

to security and committee have vowed to run congo differently and to finally bring peace but to do that they must heal divisions within the opposition and when the vote need go to month to make that happen me down the hall and al jazeera. right harry of the who haven't is a professor at georgetown university here in cass and he's the author of why comrades go to war liberation politics and the outbreak of africa's deadliest conflict harry says it's now a three way race basically in the d.l.c. we have could be manned shadowy and now we have two separate opposition forces does that necessarily weaken the opposition not necessarily i mean this new ticket the security witold ticket is i think sufficiently strong and very importantly brings together both eastern congo and western congo is just this great historical divide that exists within the country together because rich is a key should be able to deliver can shasta and two very important regions in the west and of course it'll come marries a man from the east as great popular appeal there and so the ability of the opposition of this part

just for the congo does in the.rest of the hockey thank you very much for your time the next the taste on this we really appreciated that as jacques behati live in washington d.c. thank you any time thank you. still ahead on the news al. will demand and protection of minority whip and afghanistan comes the target of a suicide attack. donald trump says the nuclear threat from north korea is either bought a new satellite images suggest otherwise and as for the new york red bulls one step closer to one in north america's top a full time zone for the first shot. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. how are the rains just leaving china and by the east indoors you see those on his way out it's not the end of it i'm afraid you'd think it might be but it's not there's more rain being formalised tuesday's more or less a day off in the far south west or north vietnam when the onshore breeze is light to bring some showers traits and sons tolls and then the spread of rain develo

are only hurting efforts to help. >> it is the biggest outbreak in the democratic republic of the congo. around 300 cases of ebola have been confirmed and the northeast of the country since august. there been over 200 deaths. -- there have been over 200 deaths. >> my thoughts and my prayers goes to the hundreds of families grieving. the hundreds of orphans in enough and the families that haveve been wiped d out. >> armed groupups are hindering aid efforts. says health m minister response teams have faced kidnappings and having their equipment destroyed. the area affected around the city, -- uganda has begun vaccinating some of its health workers. the world health organization says there is not yet a global emergency. lessons have been learned from previous ebola epidemics on the continent. including the devastating outbreak in west africa from 2013 to 2016. 25,000 people have already been inoculated. some with a new vaccine. breakthroughbeen a in the case of the sabotaged fruit and australia. -- fruit in australia. there were cases of selling needles and pins found hidden in fresh straw

and come may have vowed to run congo differently and to finally bring peace but to do that they must heal divisions within the opposition and when the vote need go to a month to make that happen may down the hall and al jazeera palestinians living in lebanon are appealing to saudi arabia to resume issuing visas so they can make a pilgrimage to mecca the kingdom stop giving them to refugee document holders effectively barring almost one hundred seventy thousand palestinians that are harder reports. travel agencies offer special packages for the has and of the most important pilgrimage for muslims but for some time now they haven't been able to serve all clients saudi arabia is no longer granting visas to palestinian refugees in lebanon who hold travel documents that means that more than one hundred and seventy thousand refugees among them. are affected by the new restrictions. housing is a religious duty for all muslims it's among the five pillars of islam we asked saudi arabia to reverse its position. officials in the palestinian authority embassy in beirut have been seeking answers

ordinary but in neighboring uganda a walk like this could be dangerous and it could be risky of the congo cam sometimes be done in kenya or tanzania but in somalia a goal could never go out chris like this not even in daylight. we can't talk about. quite a few we've go to. mission in the main aim for genocide against tutsi because before nine hundred ninety four genocide against this country has been corrupted our is the. sort of discrimination. discrimination. discrimination ethnic discrimination even discrimination based on sex so women stuff out there ought. not. in two thousand and nine grow under introduced stop centers. anyone can report violence and get help the recurrently forty four centers like this across the country. and while gender equality body has been introduced into the rwanda one place remains very different to the countries. that were to. come or. are they were. victim book and just quietly come or who are who are. these may just look like ordinary notebooks but since these call centers were introduced the number of reported wife beatings or wonder has fallen by thirty

the more serious it is because economies well to opposition leaders in the democratic republic of congo have withdrawn from a deal to unite under one candidate in next month's presidential election on monday six opposition figures backed martin fire the as their candidates in the long delayed polls president joseph kabila is finally standing down after being in power for eighteen years he's chosen emmanuel shuddery as his successor. new voters because i believe that we must respect the rule of the democratic game we are democrat we want to establish democracy and we must begin by leading by example and we will do it we will support martine he is now our common candidate we must support him. the united nations is warning that mass expulsions from angola goalie's refugees could trigger a humanitarian crisis last month alone hundreds of thousands of people from the democratic republic of congo were forced to leave following an order targeting what the angola government calls irregular migrants as more forced to flee once again this is the border between angola and the democratic republic o

a peat -- represent lick of the congo deserve deserve a peaceful -- republic of the congo deserve a peaceful nation. i urge support of this bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. smith: i am prepared, mr. speaker, to yield back. the speaker pro tempore: is the gentleman prepared to close? mr. engel: i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for the remainder of his time. mr. engel: ok. i again want to thank mr. smith and ms. bass and, again, it's in the national interest of the united states to support a peaceful political transition and accountable governance in the d.r.c. with elections scheduled for next month. this bill comes at a critical time. i urge all members to join me in supporting this important legislation. i thank mr. smith, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york yields back. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for the remainder of his time. mr. smith: i thank my f

is the president of congo so exactly who is felix or katherine sawyer has more in him. after his father. died in february last year felix she said cady to go over the reins of the largest opposition party the union for democracy and social progress. his father had come second in the twenty eleven presidential election and the young like to see katie hopes to capitalizing on that legacy and popularity himself and his father then favoring the same flack street cop. but unlike the old that she said katie who had decades of experience both in government and the opposition his son was until recently not in the thick of congress politics he lived in belgium for many as well as a political newcomer some have criticized his lack of experience there twenty one presidential candidates for the past and to bit is a man diary president joseph kabila successor it will be a single round contest opposition leaders and civil society groups have raised concern about an electronic voting system to be used for the first time in the country and the inclusion of some ten thousand voters who

threat for aid workers trying to contain the worst people outbreak in the democratic republic of congo's history. hello again it's good to have you back we are watching what is happening over here towards the philippines very carefully because we have a tropical system in the making it's making its way towards the philippines there is the area of low pressure right there right now a tropical depression but we do think it is going to be strengthening as it makes its way towards mindanao over the next few days most likely as a tropical storm now this is the max we think of a tent city the storm will get to but it is still going to be bringing plenty of rain across much of the area so locally flooding is something that we cannot rule out as we go towards wednesday the system continues to make its way towards the west entering back into the south china sea and once it does we can be watching this very carefully as it tracks towards the west because it could be making its way towards vietnam and involve very close track to the previous system the other brought very heavy flooding across much

the democratic republic of congo's health ministry has resumed efforts to contain an outbreak of ebola in the northeast all operations including vaccinations have been briefly suspended after health workers were attacked in the city of beni the country is facing his worst ever outbreak of ebola up next it's up front i'll have more news for you here. in thirty minutes see them. on counting the cost the brings it endgame there's a complicated draft deal on the table we'll break it down and tell you what it means for people living in the u.k. and the e.u. plus why saudi arabia wants to slam the brakes on oil production. counting the cost on al-jazeera. today on up front is it time to log off from an increasingly scandal plagued facebook last iconic tech pioneer jaron lanier and is the crown prince of saudi arabia really going to execute the country's most famous cleric. i made the house and we've all heard about the saudi crown prince is alleged involvement in the murder of a saudi journalist but what about the clerics and activists he's rounded up at home i'll speak to the son of impriso