dominick caine reports. >>reporter: workers at an ebola treatment center get ready to treat their patients. this part of the liberian capital is a high risk area for the disease. >> every patient was receiving the same nutritional treatment, the same diet. you have patients that have sore throats and very little appetites. so based on let's say the difference condition of the patient, each one would need a different diet. >>reporter: just over 40% of all the people diagnosed with ebola in liberia have died from it. the number of new cases here has been stable for several weeks but in neighboring sierra leone, the number is still rising. the w.h.o. says transmission of ebola remains intense in the capital. on wednesday, the president of the world bank gave an up beat assessment of the situation. >> sierra must emerge stronger than they were before the ebola epidemic. there's much that we can do to respond. >>reporter: the government here has stressed that the country should not be defined by its ebola experie

now the pershmerga home to end that, dominick cain with al jazeera. >>> activists say they attacked sooilers with chlorine gas and says forces used the gas to repeal an i.s.i.l. assault on the dara base killing at least 68 fighters. security forces in saudi arabia have arrested 135 suspects on terror charges and said 26 are farmers and arrested in various parts of the gulf kingdom and accused of helping groups and harming the stability of saudi arabia. now, to the philippines where typhoon hagpit is pounding with torrential rain and winds 100 kilometers an hour and hundreds of thousands of people have sought emergency sheltered located on higher ground and the pictures from the international space station show the massive scale of the weather system over the philippines and as scott reports some communities are worried about the damage they will discover once the storm has passed. >> reporter: this is edison just three weeks standing next to the radio his family connection to the outside world and news of the typhoon hagpit and edison and mother are here with one thousand people huddled i