also our friend who is often here in geneva shock or from an h.p. shock or please. yes we can hear you. our didn't interest us. since. permission my time on. earth. from the bank of the euro and it was who criticised the mutual predict who will hands how do you respond to. it. best but i think the question was about day one and isolating. maybe you could just turn for the technical maybe steve or. take up the issue and working with time on the specific issue of reports there were multiple sources of reports on the 31st of december regarding a cluster of cases of atypical pneumonia and one hand china in fact they emanate it from a press release or a publication on the website it will have health authority. and it was from that publication that many agencies including our own effort to make intelligence from sources. i believe from i don't believe others picked up on us and there was a. flurry of communications between various agencies to to verify that signal was w.h. auden who moved to formally verify that signal to our country office with the government authorities

. >> world health organization officials held a briefing in geneva, such a wind on the -- geneva, switzerland on the coronavirus pandemic. the director general responded to president trump's decision to halt funding to the organization. worldn the nations of the met to form the united nations in 1945, to the first things they discussed was establishing an organization to protect and promote the health of the world's people. the expressed the desire in constitution of the who, that the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition. that creed remains our vision today. america hastates of been a long-standing and generous friend to who. and, we hope it will continue to be so. of theet the decision president of the united states to order a halt in funding to the world health organization. -- with support from the people and government of the united states, the who works to improve the health of many of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people.

just breaking into programming there to go to geneva where the world health organization is holding a briefing on the latest developments of the covert ninety's pandemic let's have a listen treasury's 4 media briefings that will be held by our regional offices so you will get that after the briefing now if you do floor to go to texas. thank you thank you 30 kendo like to join in apologizing for the delay. good morning good afternoon and good evening wherever you are as we enter the forward's month since the start of the 9000 pandemic i'm deeply concerned about the rugby discoloration and global spread of infection. over the past 5 weeks we have witnessed a near exponential grows in the number of new cases reaching almost every country to terry and area the number of days has more than doubled in the past week in the next few days we will reach 1000000 comfort and cases and 50000 because while relatively lower numbers of confirmed cases have been reported from africa and from central and south america we realized that could be at 19 could have serious social economic and political cons

back a short time ago from a spokes person in geneva it says they'll be no u.s. official participation in the event we were informed of the event last week and we look forward to learning more about this initiative as soon as possible so holding e-mail from a spokes person but i don't thing that stops the fact that there is a glaring absence at this event. james obviously as we've covered in the past donald trump very critical of the way that the w.h.o. has been handling certainly the alleys stages of this pandemic and yet we're seeing now that the w.h.o. is getting funding from bill and melinda gates foundation we know that china has said that it is going to ramp up its funding as well are we seeing let me put it this way is it too simplistic to suggest that this is in some way i sidelining of the u.s. with the w.h.o. and its supporters saying right fine we're going to go on our own. i think certainly there are some forces and it's quite complicated the diplomatic dynamics going on both at the world health organization in geneva and here at the u.n. headquarters

our colleague from geneva press .orps john, can you hear us? >> yes, i can hear you. can you hear me? >> yes, please go ahead. >> good afternoon. you just mentioned you are looking at the assessment on the shortfall in funding, looking at your budget. it looks like the shortfall will be around $115 million. can you get the money from fromers to transfer funds other programs up to 5% from earmarked funds? thank you, sir. what i saidpeat again. we will do the assessment and then the announcement officially. >> thank you. thank director general. thank you very much, director general. >> [inaudible] they criticized who for choosing politics over global health. how do you respond to such criticism? thank you. about taiwanon was and isolating taiwan. >> may be will take up the issue of working with taiwan, but there were multiple sources of reports on december 31 regarding a cluster of cases of atypical pneumonia in wuhan, china. they emanated from a press release or publication on the website of the wuhan health authority, and it was from that publication that many agencie

let's just go straight over to geneva on the w.h.o. press conference with the doctor ted ross who will be speaking of course with local audience that's listening to what he has to say. so if you own soon please look for interpretation and switch the channel you want and you are welcome to ask a question in one of those languages if it's more suitable for you also for the 1st time today we have captioning of of the president that's not on zoom that's on a social media platform so for people who have hearing impairment or otherwise would like to have a captioning this is now available i will give the floor to dr tetras for his opening remarks before we go to questions. i think you think you might it thank you 30 good morning good afternoon and good evening. 1st of all we are pleased to have interpretation services available in portuguese today and i would like to welcome all portuguese speaking jordan at least is to join the next will be so healy and hindi and we will continue as doubly sure to invest in multi. because our beauty is our

in developing countries we're going to have more on that story in a moment let me take you live to geneva and a conference by the world health organization which is making an announcement about coronavirus let's listen in. world wide. because we have an increased number of speakers at the launch today the event itself we'll go beyond 90 minutes probably and therefore our next virtual press conference on covered 19 will take place next monday that 27th of april i will give a default immediately to dr tetras who will tell us more about event and introduce guests. your excellences good morning good afternoon and good evening there could be 19 point to make is an unprecedented global crisis that has been met with and president to global response research and development have played a central role since january w. joe has been working with thousands of researchers all over the world to accelerate and track vaccine development from developing models to clinical trial designs and everything in between we have also developed diagnostics that have been used all over the world. and we are coordinat

thank you very much i will go now to our new our colleague based here in geneva from a.f.p. and yes can you hear us he has had a very good to hear you. i want you to have a question to us something that mary is going to go off said before she's she said if i understood when that's. more and more of that because that more and more young i don't even care if she can give us some figures about that and if she hasn't any explanation thank you. so thank you for that question yes indeed we are seeing more and more younger individuals who are experiencing severe disease i should say overall most of the people who are experiencing severe disease and ice in ending up in i.c.u. and needing advanced care are people of older age and are people who have underlying conditions but what we are seeing in some countries is that there are individuals who are in their thirty's who are in their forty's who are in their fifty's who are in i.c.u. and who and who have died we've seen some data from italy we've seen some data from china we've seen some data from a number of countries across europe w

decides the head of policy and research at the internal displacement monitoring center center in geneva you know thank you for joining us we sing a lecture number of internally displaced people what would you say is the biggest driving factor. thank you very much for having us and it's a sad record that we're recording this year with as you said in your report right now over 50000000 people displaced at the end of the year and the main drivers again and again that we are underlying but then the triggers are the conflicts and disasters that we've seen over the last year in those 3 quarters of own huge a placement instances where people are was to see their homes i read any instances of natural disaster and then one that is conflict and you've already mentioned that here the but we also have long going conflicts in syria understand that all when you fight in west africa and countries like turkey now asan mali which is a vent or and we're also the middle of a global pandemic right now what is that meant for internally displaced people. indeed there are very worried because of course intern

david nabarro in geneva, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you very much, stephen. an overview — as a veteran of fighting disease from malaria to cholera to ebola, you've now become the who special envoy on covid—19. are you more worried today than you were a month ago about the way it is spreading around the world? i was always anxious about this, ever since i first heard about it, and i've got increasingly anxious as the pandemic has gone on. you see, we're beginning to get some sense that the outbreak can be controlled in europe and in the us, but that's as a result of very rigorous physical distancing through lockdown. my concern is that the virus hasn't gone away during these lockdowns and that as the lockdowns are released, if we're not fully defended, that the outbreaks will build up again, and i'm really worried about what's happening in poor countries on two accounts. one is that they have really very weak health services compared with advanced countries, and, secondly, that the lockdowns that have had to be introduced in so many countries now are also havi

who officials in geneva said there was no evidence that having had the virus would guarantee immunityforjoining us. hello once again. friday was an absolute sparkler of a day. this was the scene late in the day across mallaig in the western side of scotland. and there was 13 hours of sunshine or so to be had in stornowayjust a wee bit further to the north and west. come a good dealfurther to the south, though, and it really was wet at times thanks to an area of low pressure in biscay throwing these with weather fronts up and across the southern half of the british isles. and it will continue to do that during the course of saturday. there's no great rush to really change things, so a lot of cloud across the greater part of england and wales and some really quite heavy bursts of rain as well. a little bit of organisation about it. there's a band of weather trying to move a little bit further north into the north of england. and then come the afternoon, the remnants of something just pushing those showers over towards wales. all the while, the very far north of england, scotland, northe

in june 1948, the first world health assembly opened in geneva with 53 countries represented. >> thefering of millions of human beings and scores of countries will be alleviated, and many, many thousands of lives will be saved. [applause] >> quarantine regulations were drawn up to curb the spread of communicable diseases, but the root causes of ill health had to be tackled. >> the only enemy worth fighting are ill health, poverty, and ignorance. >> malaria, a fatal disease, was one of the top priorities facing the new organization. in the early 1950's, spectacular successes were achieved through systematic spraying of ddt. in 1955, fearful mosquitoes would develop resistance to this spraying, the world health organization launched a global campaign to eradicate malaria. the dream was not to be. by the late 1960's, it was clear eradication was not possible. controlling malaria was a more realistic approach. smallpox, one out of four people it touched died. the rest were marked for life. millions were affected. in 1958, countries started mass evacuation -- started mass vaccination camp

asia and both north and south america, and even a global scale that encompasses new delhi india and geneva switzerland. the interrogation room room maps a different war, -- the as it's hinge in the history of what's worse, more traditional visualizing of the korean war conflict now by considering the p.o.w. issue we mend up with a map of the war, which looks like this. often considered a marginal and peripheral vision of the war the p.o.w. and these camps would suit enter the spotlight on the global political stage of the. war i'm going to be focusing on two p.o.w. camps, the first one is the un camp number one which held upwards over 170,000 p.o.w.'s. camp number five, under north korean and chinese military control, this was located near the young river. about 3000 p.o.w.'s were in this camp. i will begin the story with the most high-profile p.o.w. issue during the war, which was a kidnapping leader called a mutiny by the u.s. army. i'm going to end my top by examining the most infamous memory from the korean war, something that is ironic given the war status as a forgotten war in the un

june 1948, the first world health assembly opened in geneva with 53 countries represented.llions ofg human beings and scores of countries will be alleviated, and many lives will be saved. [applause] regulations were drawn up to curb the spread of communicable diseases, but the root causes of ill health had to be tackled. fightingly enemy worth are ill health, poverty, and ignorance. disease, was fatal a top priority facing the organization. spectacular 1950's, successes were achieved through the spring of ddt. in 1955, fearful mosquitoes would develop resistance, the who launched a global campaign to eradicate malaria. the dream was not to be. it was clear960's, eradication is not possible. controlling malaria it was a more realistic approach. , one out of four people it touched died. the rest were marked for life. millions were affected. mass58, countries started vaccination campaigns to wipe out the disease worldwide. to vaccinate everyone on earth proved an overwhelming task. 1967, the who launched a new campaign and a different approach, contain the disease. stop the ch

human rights council in geneva once of the un general assembly in new york. condemn china's detention of 1000000 weaker muslims and she drank so it's doable but this time around when it came to saying you know why is beijing locking up journalists who go to investigate what happened you know why are they were fusing to allow any independent inquiry into the origins of the virus the european union allow the chinese censors to tell european leaders what they could say i mean that's ridiculous and i hope we can get you know more courageous that here instead principle on the part of european union leaders than that let's talk a little more about principle can recently. you faced reports that you accepted a big donation from a billionaire businessman from saudi arabia a country not exactly known for its emphasis on human rights this was reportedly on the condition that you would not report on l g b t rights in the region and your own organization as it turns out had earlier documented coercive labor practices at this particular firm. tell us you've returned the gi

zoltan kovacs saying the following while the director of human rights watch gazes at his navel in geneva fretting about authoritarian rot the hungry and people look for a steady hand at the writer to navigate this storm doesn't have a point. i mean contrary i mean that you know that's just the rhetoric he gets and what viktor orban the prime minister of hungary is done is used this coronavirus to create the european union's 1st dictatorship i'm he is the power now to go by decree to sideline parliament and there is no need for another election ever until parliament approves that and his party controls parliament this is a dictatorship pure and simple and so you know let's look how that dictatorship is doing i'm a human rights watch has been in the process of studying how gerry and hospitals and what we found is that while orbán takes the very generous stabilisation funds provided by the european union and uses them to build football stadiums to pay off his cronies i mean quite literally. the hospitals are disaster people need to bring their own toilet paper people are being it was thrown

welcome to the program the w hate show have just been giving of their daily press conference from geneva and talking about the upcoming concert a global concert that will be that many will be participating in from the music world a world that continues james bays our diplomatic editor joins me now from the u.n. of course a lot for the w.h.o. to talk about not just the upcoming events change and also their daily briefing along with the u.n. let's just start with what the w.h.o. had to say about the general pandemic news that we're facing. well all we've really had from the w.h.o. of this briefing that happens 3 times a week is their latest figures 2100000 cases 140000 people dead around the world we know that the numbers that they publish are not going to be the complete numbers we know that many people are not being tested so certainly the number of confirmed cases is just the people who've been tested positive not the actual true number and it may well be that in many parts of the world the number of deaths is not being properly counted so you can always consider those figures to be on

the delegates of north korea and china quickly pointed to the fact that, basically wait, 1949 geneva conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war calls for mandatory repatriation, we need to have more of a discussion here. so it was due to this debate that the interrogation room quickly became the flashpoint of heated international controversy about how to regulate warfare. as the interrogation room came under scrutiny, the nature of the encounter in these spaces became a measure of the respective states' legitimacy in its claims or challenges to ideals of liberal governance. this was what was really stunning for me in my research, that you have this moment in 1952 where different states and different organizations are actually putting forward the argument that their interrogation room was actually going to be the most efficacious in terms of democratic processes. and so i found that very stunning, and that's really how my deeper dive into this material began. my book reveals how the global visions of u.s. secretary of state dean atchison, indian president nehru, north korean pre

all right we're crossing to geneva the w.h.o. holding their friday briefing that is the chief talk to terrorists let's listen in on a personal note i was pleased to see my friend bodies johnson is no longer in intensive care i wish him all the best as they wish the best for everyone who is facing what he faced at the same time we have seen a lot of being acceleration in other countries i want to take a moment to highlight africa where we are seeing the spread of the virus to rural areas we are now seeing plasters of cases and communities spread in more than 16 countries we anticipate how to shoot for already overstretched health systems particularly in rural areas which normally the resources of those in cities as dr marty that regional director for africa say yesterday this means countries need to localize dirty spawn's by urgently strengthening the existing public health and primary health care infrastructure in countries. the recent meeting of the g 20 countries expressed strong support for africa which must be expedited even

we will go now to anyiss our colleague based here in geneva from afp, anyiss can you hear us? reporter: yes, hello, tarek, i can hear you. i wanted to had a question to something that maria kerkhove said before. she said if i understood well that more, and more it appears that more, and more young adults are in the intensive care. if she can give us some figures about that, and if she has any explanation. thank you. dr. maria van kerkhove: so, thank you for that question. yes, indeed. we are seeing more, and more younger individuals who are experiencing severe disease. i should say overall, most of the people who are experiencing severe disease, and ending up in icu, and needing advanced care are people of older age, and are people who have underlying conditions. but what we are seeing in some countries is that there are individuals who are in their thirties who are in their forties who are in their fifties who are in icu, and who have died. we've seen some data from italy, we've seen some data from china, we've seen some data from a number of countries across europe where peo

home rely on while you've been offering to help asshole a the un human rights chief speaking from geneva about the cry of our pandemic that when it doesn't seem right to share the rally response to the outbreak and the size of the risk especially for vulnerable countries and communities when it comes to the economic. fallout well let's now speak to paul brennan who is in surrey england who are battling there also speaking about the need for appropriate and proportionate imagines the measures as well as concerns about cabs on freedom of the media an expression seen the un really wanting to address other dimensions of the pandemic today. yes not just the medical aspects of this pandemic but also what the political response to it and we've seen it here in europe just last week the hung garion prime minister viktor orban right wing big majority in parliament passing emergency legislation which would let a century allows him to rule that country by decree without having to consult parliament at all and he passed his legislation because of his big majority he was able to push it through and th

imogen foulkes is in geneva for us, where the who has its headquarters.fore thinking you are immune? that is absolutely right. i think the who has been murmuring about this for a while but todayissued murmuring about this for a while but today issued this official advice. countries thinking of issuing people with immunity passports or so—called risk—free certificates, really need to think again, because while the current, and there is a wild variety of them, these tests, show a bit of the breadth of the spread of the virus in the population, they are new tests and they are not entirely reliable. sometimes they come up with false negatives. sometimes they show somebody has had a coronavirus but not necessarily this one. the common cold is also a coronavirus. most important of all, and this is really key, there is no evidence so far that having had covid—19 once means you are immune to it forever, or even temporarily, and that means you could get it again. that means you could get it again. that means you can spread it again and that means, and immunity pas

who officials in geneva said there was no evidence that having had the virus would guarantee immunity847 people have died in british hospitals in the past 2a hours. it brings the total number of deaths tojust over 1a,500. the uk government is setting up a new task force to back the development of a vaccine, but it'll be many months before one is available. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week, using tech to stay in touch, to volunteer your time, and to take in some art. hey, welcome back. here we are again. and thank you so much for all the kind comments about last week's programme. they meant a lot to us, mainly they were comments about the cushions and the painting, but i will take it. look who else is back, it's lara — hello mate, how are you, what have you been up to? hello, i have been very busy mastering the art of the zoom dinner party. have you tried it? no i haven't, that sounds very middle—class, i have been down the pub virtually with some friends, but i haven't done a dinner party yet. is this something you dress up for? of course, what else is there to get dres

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end of the day, and even with the guidance of science, public health does not happen in atlanta or geneva, it happens in our communities. it is in our communities that we need to build better public health systems and find ways to engage people in that effort.' do you think we will see more of that in the coming years? guest: we have to see more of that. i don't think it is a choice anymore. , again, brilliant agency in atlanta, but we need to make sure that here in nebraska, then emmett -- minnesota, wherever you are, you need to make sure your state health department is to identifyced cases, quarantine them, make sure your health system is ready, make sure that as businesses open up you have the right corrective measures in place. that is not happening out in atlanta or in washington. within your counties and your cities, they need to do that work. absolutely, this is a time to rethink what public health looks like in america and make sure they have the resources for the always- work that has been necessary even before this pandemic. we would have local foodborne outbreaks within our co

hello to everyone from geneva, and that uh o headquarters. welcome -- who headquarters. welcome to this regular covid-19 briefing. there were more than... thank you. good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. e are delighted to be joined >> thank you, tarik. good morning. good afternoon and good evening. as tarik said we are delighted krytalina, the managing director of the monetarily fund. elcome, my sister. she will say more in a few minutes about the economic impact of the pandemic and what the imf is doing to support countries and the global economy more than one million confirmed cases of covid-19 have been eported to who, including more than 50,000 deaths, but we know that this is much more than a health crisis. we are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic. the restrictions many countries have put into place to protect health are taking a heavy toll on the income individuals and families and economies of communities and nations. we are in a shared struggle to protect those lives and livelihoods. in the short-term, countries

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in geneva. in fact, the spokesman for the department of health and human services did confirm there were some 17 american medical experts working there, 16 of which, so all but one, working for the cdc detailed to the w.h.o. as they have been for years. what the administration through the department of health and human sfervices is disputing tht people said there would be some sort of communication from the w.h.o. they're seeing the leadership of the w.h.o. didn't include americans and the americans there were not reporting with transparency that the trump administration has accused the w.h.o. of not offering. we should note, john, the "washington post" is also reporting there were a number of senior trump-appointed health officials who were consulting with the w.h.o., so that does fly in the face of this notion that the president was pushing that they weren't getting the communication they needed from the w.h.o. and that they were covering up for china. now, dr. deborah birx, who as you know is

>>in geneva, the head of the world health organization fired back at the criticism of body. >>if you don't want many more body bags. then you refrain from politicizing it. >>tedros adhanom given a souls asked about criticism leveled against the by u.s. president donald trump said it is dangerous to get political during the pandemic no need to use called in to score. >>political points. you have many other ways to prove yourselves. this is. not the one to use for politics. it's like playing was fired. >>the day before mister trump criticized the w h o claiming hadn't raise enough alarms about the virus they called it wrong they call it around. >>they really they missed the call. they could have called it months earlier they would have known. they should have known and they probably didn't know so we'll be looking into that very carefully in his remarks on wednesday to direct a general the double pointed out that the organization. >>how to be closely following an issuing advisories about the virus since early january. trump also criticized the w h o for not supporting his trav

is giving its latest update on the global response to the corona virus pandemic let's go live to geneva and less than a lot of questions look at that risk please. thank you thank you tariq good morning good afternoon and good evening as of tomorrow it will be streamlined since i declared a public of the emergency of international concern over the outbreak of norval cauldron of bonuses but today i would like to take a few moments to look back at the period preceeding that announcement to be clear about what the bleacher knew and what we did which could help the country to understand this 3 months on the city 1st of december deadly jer's epidemic intelligence system pick it up or report about a class that of cases of the morning of unknown cause in china the following day. new year's day deadly h i ask china for more information under the international has regulations and activated our incident management support team to coordinate their response across headquarters in our regional in country offices. on the 2nd of january w 2 informed the global outbreak i lived and response network or h

you are sitting in geneva, and i am in london and we have two countries whose health systems are under insignificance when you look at other countries trying to deal with other issues. exactly and the report by world vision was based on 22 countries with the poorest and weakest health systems so if we are having trouble in the uk, us and with the land, can you imagine the trouble they are having for routine health conditions rather than something as big as coronavirus. thank you for joining us, dom davis, the director of health for world vision. —— tom davis. the former england footballer jimmy greaves is in hospital. the news was confirmed by his former club tottenham although it's unclear why the 80—year—old has been admitted. greaves suffered a severe stroke five years ago. an unprecedented truce has broken out in the notorious, gang—infested townships around cape town as rival gang leaders stop their endless turf wars and use their drug delivery networks to bring food to poor households instead. south africa is currently in the middle of a lockdown to try to control the spread of c

sanders allen went their way jumping in there i'm sorry i should jump in we need to move over to geneva to the world health for. the adults tetras is giving his latest. find of the 1st cases w.h.o. activated its incident management support team to coordinate our response at headquarters regional and country level on the fevers of january w.h.o. officially notified all member states of this new outbreak and published disease outbreak news on our website. on the tense of january we issued a comprehensive package of guidance to countries on how to detect test and money potential cases and protect held workers on the same day we come been distracted you can technical advisory group on infectious hazards to review the situation we have been engaging with journalists to since the beginning responding to media inquiries around the clock we convene the emergency committee on the 22nd of january and again a week later after the 1st cases of human to human transmission were reported outside china and declared a public health emergency of international concern our highest level of ireland at the t

stop the virus from spreading let's speak about this with immunologist and he's joining us live from geneva via skype thanks for your time with us on the news hour how promising are these trials. well i believe they're promising because not only do we move forward in the vaccine research at the next door there is speed as you just said that 5 human trials already began and around 80 candid vaccines in the pipeline but we're not starting from scratch we do know how to prepare vaccines against influenza we knew we have been preparing a vaccine against sour sauce these are cousins of the viral agent to feed 19 so i'm fairly optimistic that that research will move fast one of the trials at least the one here in the u.k. is due to last 6 months so in terms of time what's the time scale that we're talking about here and how quickly can a vaccine actually be pushed through because that's what people really want to know of course well developing a vaccine. goes through periods of time that you cannot compress 1st your good the what we call phase one that is seeing whether the vaccine is well tolera

who officials in geneva said there was no evidence that having had the virus would guarantee immunity7 people have died in british hospitals in the past 2a hours. it brings the total number of deaths tojust over 1a,500. the uk government is setting up a new task force to back the development of a vaccine, but it'll be many months before one is available. the demand for help from foodbanks has soared in some areas as a result of the pandemic — with many people suddenly finding they have no income. in west london a hall at the 0lympia exhibition centre has been turned into a food parcelling centre. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. each box in this makeshift production line represents a family in need. the hall today should have been showcasing country houses to wealthy londoners. instead, an army of volunteers are supporting the city's poorest residents. 0lympia has donated the area to the local council, hammersmith and fulham, and the food bank to meet soaring demand. it's quadrupled over the last couple of weeks. so, an average week would be giving out about

who officials in geneva said there was no evidence that having had the virus would guarantee immunity847 people have died in british hospitals in the past 2a hours. it brings the total number of deaths tojust over 1a,500. the uk government is setting up a new task force to back the development of a vaccine, but it'll be many months before one is available. now on bbc news, naomi scherbel—ball meets three syrian teachers rebuilding their lives in germany and hears about the challenges and opportunities they face as they search for a new start. in 2015, as the refugee crisis divided the european union, germany took the controversial decision to open its doors to a million people fleeing conflict and repression. i knew that i was risking my life going to germany, just like i was risking my life staying back home. that's what sort of gave me courage to go through the journey. germany has a shortage of 40,000 teachers. this is the story of three syrian teachers rebuilding their lives in germany, and of the challenges and opportunities they encounter along the way. i spent nights and days t