the outgoing president tells the bbc the delay is due to ebola.the day that people were supposed to vote, you don't have this epidemic spreading like wildfire. a huge hunt is launched in austria after five monks are attacked during a robbery at a vienna church. and as rescuers race to save 15 miners trapped in india, we report on the deadly conditions in the country's illegal mines. hello. welcome to bbc news. the us senate and house of representatives have adjourned without taking steps to resolve a damaging shutdown of parts of the government, which is now in its sixth day. both chambers convened for only a few minutes. this was the scene in the senate. in my capacity as a senator from kansas, there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. the senate stands adjourned until 10am on monday, december 31. at the heart of the disagreement is the $5 bllion that president trump wants added to the federal budget to pay for a wall along the us border with mexico. here's our washington corre

these issues, ebola and security have been there for quite a while. but the idea was that ebola is an epidemic which we have been managing to control two months after it was declared. this time around it has taken much longer than that. and as we speak right now it is still spreading. so we had to content with those two major issues and the choice is to save as many life as possible. with all that has happened, do you still have faith in the electoral commission to deliver a free and fair election? the electoral commission is an independent commission. an independent electoral commission. and we still have faith in the commission and come the end of this year, the elections will be organised. but with 1.2 million voters being delayed in those areas just mentioned, how will you declare a new president some places get to vote? the law has catered for such issues. the electoral commission, as far as i am concerned, they have been doing everything according to the book. and i do not think that there will be any major issues in as far as the one point some

the outgoing president tells the bbc the delay is because of an ebola outbreak.n the day that people were supposed to vote we do not want this academic spreading like wildfire. —— epidemic. as rescuers race to save 15 miners trapped in north east india, we report on the deadly conditions in the country's illegal mines. hello and welcome to bbc news. the us senate and house of representatives have adjourned without taking steps to resolve a damaging shutdown of parts of the government which is now into its sixth day. both chambers convened for only a few minutes. this is what was said in thursday's session in the senate. in my capacity as a senator from kansas if there is no further business before the senate i ask that it stand adjourned. the senate stands adjourned until 10am on monday, december 31. at the heart of the disagreement is the $5 billion which donald trump wants to be added to the federal budget, to pay for a wall along the us border with mexico. mr trump has been tweeting his displeasure with his political opponents. he sent this a few hours ago — ‘

through communication and sensitization the masses have really understood about ebola.was really incredible to se a child showing us how to dohi properly w in this area, even the number of cases have been reduced. >> reporte that good news helps convince families ebola isn't necessarily a death sentence. kasereka mulanda talks to his wife, who's infected, through plastic. >> ( translated ): when we look into each other's eyes through the cubicle and, smiling, she asks how the family is and how the children are... i reply that they're all good and that the children are waiting for her i feel that we are together again and she is confident that she will return home very soon. >> reporter: the smallest patient just did return home. benedicte began treatment at six days old after her mother died. but doctors say she is now fully recovered. they call her, "the young miracle."t r the vast majority here, that optimism is tempered. the world health organization warns this outbreak won't be contained for at leastix months, and that it will get worse, before it geter. and for mor

that is where suspected ebola wacase for results. the health ministry says 21 people fled from the transit center. the angry mob was demonstrating there today following the decision by the electoo l commissipostpone the vote in the city and in three other locations across the country. reporter: attention -- the teion is high in the streets in goma where masses of people deme out on the streets to protest against neys of elections. this morning, people who came in the streets barricaded it with stones for two blocks and expressed their anger and frustration. most voters i talked to hear said they were upset and they see it as a tactic by the current regime to cling onto power. so far, no casualties. arhowever, w still monitoring the situation and seeing how it goes. lucy: let's hear from the outgoing president of the demoatic republic of congo, joseph kabila. he took power in 2001 after the assassination of his father. he has twice been elected president, in 2006 and 2011, but electis to replace him to be held in 2016 were delayed unt

you have to ebola epidemic, which is spreading.ectoral commission and indeed, the intention yes, they have been there for quite a long time, but the idea was that ebola is an epidemic, which will manage or we have been managing to control two months after it was declared. this time around, it has taken much longer than that, and as we speak right now, it is still spreading. we have to contend with those two major issues, and of course, the choice is to save as many lives as possible. with all that has happened, do have faith in the electoral commission to deliver a free and fair action? the electoral commission is an independent electoral commission. and we still have faith in the commission, and come into the share, meaning the 30th, elections will be reorganised. but with 1.2 million voters being delayed in those areas which is mentioned, how can you declare a new president with some places that have not voted? do not worry. the law has been created for such issues. so the electoral commission has as far as i am concerned, been d

not cast their votes until march the country's electoral commission says that's due to the severe ebola outbreak and rebel fighting that's plagued the area more than one million of forty . a million registered voters could be affected by the delay protesters however see the decision as more to do with politics than safety but look up because they need to get us another president who will govern this country and if that doesn't happen we shall create chaos starting from today until a solution is found if it calls for us to die then so be it. will not go far the president he's so angry at is joseph kabila in power since two thousand and one and now stepping aside the ebola affected region getting its vote postponed is a stronghold for opposition to could be the and his preferred candidate emmanuel rama zani should dari should dari faces twenty one opposition candidates martin for you though is one of the leading contenders. to. what. could be less electoral favor it is also the target of european union sanctions he and more than a dozen other congolese officials stand accused by the e.u.

this is benedicte, and atjust five weeks old, she is the youngest ever survivor of ebola.toms days later, and despite a very slim chance of survival, she has made a full recovery and is now home with her father. translation: i really did not want to lose her. she is my hope. ebola is a very contagious and deadly infection, causing severe fever, vomiting, diarrhoea and internal and external bleeding. hazmat suits and isolation wards are crucial to containing it. it kills 50% of the people it affects, and shot to the headlines in 2014 after an out—of—control outbreak in west africa killed thousands of people over two years. but ebola is still affecting the region — this year the drc has suffered the world‘s second worst outbreak. according to the health ministry, there have been over 500 cases. the world health organization says the situation is concerning, and there is still a very high risk of the outbreak spreading further. english premier league football club chelsea have condemned fans who were heard singing anti—semitic songs during their europa league match against th

let's talk about the ebola crisis.w the second biggest on recorded. this is what remained of the house and trying of a traditional healer who had become the conduit through which you bullet spread. the the peace and quiet was disrupted, they came here for treatment. what followed, unfolded in front of the eyes. yellow, pain, high fever, so for this, she also died. and in they sympathised with the family. most of the families, weekender altogether and contacted and it was a bolan. this moment became the first case of ebola, she went on to lose several members of her family to the virus. when you have the ebola virus, or you experience severe headache. diarrhoea, weakness and bleeding will stop i still marvel at howl survived after i received that discharge certificate at the treatment centre. i had no hopes of pulling through. by that victoria was perhaps lucky, thousands of others died, among them the health ca re others died, among them the health care workers who treated her. the authorities are trying to keep caregi

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little spray together for those in the democratic republic of congo who suffer from violence and ebola. oh. dear group you seem great i hope everyone is committed to maintaining a peaceful climate that allows for regular and peaceful conduct of the elections. polls were shuttled to close two hours ago but many are still open as people white to cast their ballots there were also reports of glitches at some polling stations but for the most part voters were simply happy to finally have this day. they waited for two years to cost their vote what's difference when a few more hours in the pouring rain make. after eighteen years of the same man in charge photos in kinshasa waited eagerly for their chance to select a new president. they have a choice between three main candidates two from the opposition and a former interior minister favored by outgoing president joseph kabila. but he believes he's going to i feel liberated and happy he completed my civic duty to deal with and have just voted in a historic election for north would be of a few stories. historic indeed the democratic republic o

the elections until march next year this is part of a region where health work is a dealing with an ebola epidemic that has killed many that's a reason given for delaying the election as well as security problems. but protest as here we'll hear none of that they say they must exercise their rights with the rest of the country so some burned sections of an ebola transit center where those suspected of having the disease are held. to not talk and also not benny who gamble retired voters and cranium but tembo gave this government the last election they've been killed by rebels and kept quiet they brought us a bowler and we did not say anything now we can't keep quiet any will how. most of us assume that the but i was the government not concerned about the situation in beni we were told to go is here we accepted this but today they told us we could not vote because of ebola even though they themselves said the sickness was the creasing a few friends said that there was no more ball in the region but why stop us from voting. benny and with him when the east and the west in town or you know a s

to suspend polling in some areas until march could be has blamed that on an outbreak of the deadly ebola virus that opposition groups say the move is politically motivated. makeshift barricades burned in protest a bad omen for sunday's already contentious presidential election in a country that hasn't held a peaceful one since independence from belgium in one nine hundred sixty now residents in and around benny a city in north eastern democratic republic of the congo may not cast their votes until march the country's electoral commission says that's due to the severe ebola outbreak and rebel fighting that's plagued the area more than one million of forty million registered voters could be affected by the delay protesters however see the decision has more to do with politics than safety bottled up with just that they need to get us another president who will govern this country and if that doesn't happen we shall create chaos starting from today until a solution is found if it calls for us to die then so be it. or not go fuck the president he's so angry at is joseph kabila in power since

that worker just returned from e of the worst ebola outbreaks ever.cials say that doctor is not sick, nor is the doctor showing any symptoms. the doctor is in isolation just as a precaution. nebraska, by the way, has one of the few containment facilities in the u.s. >>> and in new hampshire a family's deaf dog has turned out to be a life saver. a fire broke out over the weekend in the middle of the night and quickly ripped through their farmhouse. the two people inside were asleep, and there were no smoke detectors, but their dog knew something was up and woke them up. they managed to get out safely before the entire home was engulfed in flames. >> that was amazing. that dog saved their lives. without the working smoke detectors and without that dog, it's unlikely that they would have made it out of the building. everybody should havedetectors,e hard wired smoke detectors or battery operated. it's always the best scenario. football. the indianapolis colts wrapped up the final nfl playoff spot by beating the titans last night. >> the guys at espn have

of ebola in africa. successfully. the earlier studies showed 100% protection of this nonfetal-derived vaccine. the use of organoids as my colleague indicated has also been used to determine the mechanism of the action of zika virus on developing brains that resulted in that micro cephaly we saw. mr. chairman, there are many other points we could make, but in summary, i want to say that again, there is no scientific necessity for continued use of fetal tissue. it presents no advantage to medical research. instead, we have modern advanced science that can be deployed more successfully and give better answers, taxpayer funds should be redirected to the numerous modern productive scientific alternatives. thank you. >> thank you, dr. prentice. dr. temple, you're recognized. >> thank you. chairman, ranking members, thank you for the opportunity to testify at this hearing on the value of fetal tissue research. i am scientific director of the neuro stem cell institute and here today on behalf of the internationa

american may have been exposed to ebola working i africa. man arrested for shooting and killing aspiring social worker in d.c. appears in court. >>> breaking right now, americab who may haned expo ebo ebola in africa is being monitored. providing aid in republic of the congo. should they develop symptoms will be admitted to hospital. doctors say the person is not sick or contagious. >>> back at home, suspect d.c. police say it responsible for shooting that killed a m 22-year-ol sitting inside his car is being held without bond. appeared in court first time today and was charged with first degree murder.er in oct a stray bullet struck and killed aspiring social worker. in court his attorney said he was trying to defend himself while he fired the weapon. the judge was not buying it. back in court next month. >>> warehouse goes up in flames in prince george's county, firefighters needed help to get it under control. it under control. >>> mother nature divering oelne it under control. >>> mother nature divering oelne ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> tonight

that's because of the ebola crisis and because of concerns over terrorism.nd then there is rampant violence to speak of. our eleni jocose has this report. >> reporter: firing tear gas and live rounds into the air. security forces try to disperse protesters. these are the scenes of recent violence ahead of a long overdue presidential election in the democratic republic of congo. supposed to bring the first democratic transfer of power to a country that's been waiting more than two years to choose a new leader. outgoing president was scheduled to step down back in 2016 after holding office since 2001. but the vote was repeat lid postponed, sparking deadly protests. earlier this month, a massive fire at an election commission warehouse destroyed thousands of voting machines which delayed the vote once again. then, this week the commission postponed the vote in three opposition strongholds, siting the ebola outbreak and terror threats. more than a million voters won't be able to cast their ballots on sunday. opposition says it's all a pretext to take away their

they say they must exercise their rights their rest of the country so some burned sections of an ebola trying to center suspected of having the disease are held for. the natural kind of so not then we damn well we're tired of voters and brainy and but tembo gave this government the last election we've been killed by rebels and kept quiet they brought us a bowler and we did not say anything now we can't keep quiet any will. most of us assume that the but why is the government not concerned about the situation in beni we were told to go is here we accepted this but today they told us we could not vote because of ebola even though they themselves said the sickness was the creasing a few friends said that there was no more ball in the region but why stop us from voting. benny and with the family in the east in the western town of you may be a strongholds of one of the country's main presidential candidates. and have about one point two million voters he's quite a number of says in a country where the winner takes it all on the fast round every vote counts and he's calling for a nationwide

the cities in eastern congo will not vote because of the ebola outbreak and because of the presence of armed groups wreaking havoc in the region, especially the adf. peoplewestern congo, will not be voting on the 30th of december because of ethnic violence that killed more than 100 people last week. the final results of the presidential election will not be announced on the 15th of january, but these three cities there votes means will not be taken into account. the electoral commission just announced this decision. we will have to wait a couple of hours to see if the opposition reacts. if the opposition accepts this partial delay. who neverdge hesitates to give their opinion about the political situation. here --inally, the move mood in paris -- louvre of paris is perhaps the world's mosost famous museum. numbers for both have bounced back and the louvre is on track to have a record-breaking 10 million visitors in 2018. those numbers were helped by a refurbishment project at the museum. only 29% of attendees in 2017 were french. in a bid to attract a local and more -- a younger and mo

he has blamed the outbreak of the deadly ebola virus.ut opposition groups say the move is politically motivated. reporter: makeshift barriricades burn and protest.. a bad omen for sunday's already contentious presidential election in a country that has not held a peaceful one since independence from belgium in 1960. residence -- residents may not cast their vote until march. the electoral commission says that is due to the ebola outbreak and rebel fighting. more than one million of 40 million voters could be affected by the delay. >> they need to get us another president who will govern this country, and that that does not happen, we should create chaos starting from today until a solution is found. if it calls for us to die, then so be it. reporter: the president he is so angry at his joseph h kabila, ad power since 2 2001 and ww stepng asiside. the region getting its vote postponed as a stronghold for opposition to kabila and its candidates, [no audio] shadary. >> we want an election. reporter: kabila's electoral favorite is also the t

two locations in the east of the country bear me a brew tembo the authorities say have because of ebola and then you may be in the west because of violence but the problem is going to be that these are not for sperm to march they are opposition strongholds and we don't know how they're going to tally these votes with the final result especially sense of the moment the plan is to announce a president a new president in the democratic republic of congo on the eighteenth of january two thousand and ninety one of the opposition leaders is saying he'll probably still go ahead and contest the elections several of us are saying that they're thinking about what to do and a number of others are saying that they'll pull out i mean there are twenty one candidates for the presidency in the democratic republic of congo so getting a unified platform is going to be pretty difficult if that couple of favorite favorite candidates so many out of the twenty one have no chance at all. not support think that the former interior minister mr dari who is the mr can be so the incumbents choice may well still wi

a group of protesters a group of people attacked a transit an ebola transit. town now this is a center where people suspected of having held as they wait for that losses so we're told that this group of people attacked the barn part of it and some of the people who are already there who are suspected of having. have actually escaped so the situation there still very precarious independent of the areas where . action has been postponed people have all tried to stay home we're told it's a ghost town shops are open no one is transacting business people have yet to come to work some of them in protest others because they just fear coming out they did come out to the street to protest right after this announcement yesterday but they what you spotted by police now in goma the capital. in the congo police also the spa sed protesters who took to the streets saying that they do not want they want the electoral commission career in this position and overnight protests in beni are saying that they are going there are regrouping their restructure jazzing they're going to

the election until march next year this is part of a region where health work is a dealing with an ebolaepidemic that has killed many that's a reason given for delaying the election as well as security problems. but protest is here with that they say they must exercise their rights with the rest of the country so some burned sections of an ebola transit center where those suspected of having the disease are held for. me demba we are tired voters and brainy and what temple gave this government the last election was being killed by rebels and kept quiet they brought us a bowler and we did not say anything now we can't keep quiet any will. most of us assume that. was the government not concerned about the situation in burnie we were told to go is here we accepted this but today they told us we could not vote because of ebola even though they themselves said the sickness was the creasing beni and with tamil in the east in the western town of a strongholds of one of the country's main presidential candidates. and have about one point two million voters he's quite. in a country where the winne

the outgoing president, joseph kabila, told the bbc the ebola outbreak is one of the reasons for the delay. he said there wouldn't be any major issues with the more than 1 million voters whose participation will be delayed until later. austrian police say that five monks were attacked during a church robbery in a suburb of vienna. the assailants reportedly entered the catholic church with a gun. the monks were beaten and tied up. now on bbc news, a special programme looking back at 2018 — and it's a year in which britain's farmers have faced unusual weather and tough conditions. our correspondent danny savage takes a look at a challenging 12 months for the countryside in review 2018: the rural year. it was the year which had a summer to remember, long hot days basking in glorious sunshine. long before that came a few weeks of unusually severe winter weather. some remote rural communities had to be supplied by airdrops. but the pressure on farmers was immense, animal feed was in short supply for much of the year because of the extremes of the british climate. and those extremes had al

the outgoing president, joseph kabila, told the bbc the ebola outbreak is one of the reasons for the delay. he said there wouldn't be any major issues with the more than one million voters whose participation will be delayed until later. austrian police say that five monks were attacked during a church robbery in a suburb of vienna. the assailants reportedly entered the catholic church with a gun. the monks were beaten and tied up. the suspects fled the scene, after demanding cash and valuables. now on bbc news — victoria derbyshire looks back on some of the memorable moments from her programme in 2018 — including tracking dementia patients to see how the disease has affected their lives, and an interview with the mother of a nine—year—old boy, who she says killed himself after being bullied for being gay. hello, welcome to our programme. over the next half an hour will bring you some of the most exclusive interviews and original stories that we've broadcast over the last year. we start with a tv first, a live programme from a pupil referral unit in north london. we were there in feb

the outgoing president tells the bbc the delay is due to ebola.ge hunt is launched in austria after five monks are attacked during a robbery at a vienna church and as rescuers race to save 15 miners trapped in india,

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the outgoing president, joseph kabila, told the bbc the ebola outbreak is one of the reasons for the delay. he said there wouldn't be any major issues with the more than 1 million voters whose participation will be delayed until later. austrian police say that five monks were attacked during a church robbery in a suburb of vienna. the assailants reportedly entered the catholic church with a gun. the monks were beaten and tied up. the suspects fled the scene, after demanding cash and valuables. in iceland, three british tourists, including a child, have died after their vehicle crashed, while crossing a bridge. four other passengers were critically hurt in the accident. two of them are children aged seven and nine. our correspondent ben ando reports. the two families were in a toyota land cruiser, which crashed through railings and fell around 20 feet onto a dry riverbed below. first on the scene were the police and a local tour guide, who did all he could to help. i tried to talk a little bit to the driver to calm him down. he was trapped inside the car. i was trying to tell him to s

the country will have to wait until march to cast their ballots because of terrorism fears and the ebolaumanitarian corridor supposed to open saturday in yemen has not. rebels were supposed to hand over control of the port city to allow convoys to bring supplies. there are reports in the region that the rebels did not comply. >>> just a few days, democrats take control of the u.s. house of representatives. it will be their first chance armed with subpoena powers to demand answers from the trump administration on a range of troubling issues. our randi kaye takes a look now at one area where they could start the trump family business empire. >> reporter: is the trump organization mixed up? money laundering? that's what some members of congress want to find out. deutsche bank has a history of illegally laundering russian money and a relationship with the trump organization. >> they paid hundreds of millions of dollars in fines to the state of new york because they were laundering russian money. and this apparently was the one bank that was willing to do business with the trump organization.

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ministers from uganda and neighboring democratic republic of congo have met to discuss the latest ebola outbreak health workers in uganda are being vaccinated after concerns were raised that the disease could spread an outbreak of ebola in various parts of the d.r. sea has killed at least two hundred sixty eight people since scientists. heads of state from the five countries in western africa are meeting international donors in mauritania it's an attempt to raise billions of dollars for a region that has seen years of violence nicholas hoch reports from the chart the fight against the insurgency this one house starts here. a un funded to radicalization program in a suburb of new york shot. these teenagers will not be attending the g. five the whole conference and so as an exercise they play out the meeting. president mccall from france sets the agenda the west will give two billion dollars to its former colonies if africans stop coming to europe. the judge a leader agrees always happy to send its troops to war as long as friends keeps them in power. money stays silent on the insurgency