he's director of health at the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies. don't take out a bag of thanks for talking to do it. vella contact tracing was seen as a cave fact kept to contain the virus earlier in the year. many countries did a good job of expanding their capacity as we just saw there in turkey. but now numbers are on the rise again, is contact tracing, just not working. contact tracing remains the key to stop the always needs to be looked at with testing in isolation and part what happens when the numbers are going up so fast and indicators are so large that the system is simply not functioning well anymore. that doesn't mean they're going to treat single testing is not important, is that we need to bring down the numbers and then step up even for their own test contact tracing and testing capacity in the countries. what do you say then to those who claim that measures like contact tracing are hurting the foundations of democracy? i totally disagree. i think tracing the ease that used key to stop the epidemic, of course, needs to be done in the

he's the director of health and care at the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies. start a couple bianco in many places. numbers are on the rise. again. even those who did a good job of tracing is it working? well, the answer is that the context racing when when kept will the waves that rise the lation and current time works in needs to be work. the problem is when the numbers are rising so fast that the systems is not functioning well. so what is the response to that is strengthening the ability to contact tracing, strengthen the number of people doing contact tracing. now to flatten the curve and more importantly afterwards to ensure that outbreaks are immediately, it includes that's the road towards the end. all of these fundamental. what do you say to those who claim that measures like contact, contact tracing, are hurting the foundations of democracy. but i respectfully disagree with that statement, but i do realize that i want to trace the needs to be done in a respectful way when it comes to sensitive data and information that are asked during the winter tre

philippine red cross continue to provide shelter support water and reste or the livelihoods of those who lost their economic well being as a result of this crisis in the heads of the international federation of red cross philippines thank you very much indeed for joining us on al-jazeera thank you best to you. the rescue crews in turkey are working to save people trapped in the rubble smear her for earthquake own for the western turkish province on the greek islands of some most triggering a small tsunami at least 53 people have been killed and hundreds more injured well the turkish president richard sipe parents want to arrive on saturday nights he visited the sites of collapsed buildings and spoke to search and rescue workers. in izmir forest some of the tests all continuing surprise just how much progress are the search teams making right now. well as long as there are still people trapped under the rubble with the numbers increasing every hour every day on till the last body or the last survivor is rescued from from the rubble it's still we are in front of preserving apartment one of the very badly damaged building you see behind me still search and rescue operation is on the way they

a couple bianco, he's the director of health and chair at the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies. dr. in many places numbers are on the rise. again, even those who did a good job of tracing is it working? well, the answer is that the context racing when when kept all the rage, that the trooper isolation and quarantine works in needs to be work. the problem is when the numbers are rising so fast that the systems is not functioning well. so what is the response to that east? strengthening the ability to contact tracing, strengthen the number of people doing contact tracing. now to flatten the curve and more importantly afterwards to ensure that outbreaks are immediately detected includes that's the road towards the end of all of these and him. what do you say to those who claim that measures like contact, contact tracing, are hurting the foundations of democracy? well, i.e. respected. these are we that statement, but i do realize that content tracing needs to be done in a respectful way when it comes to sensitive data and information that are passed during th

those who need it most robert kaplan is the head of the philippines office all the international federation of the red cross now he explains the difficulties faced by evacuees and the added challenge of the coronavirus pandemic. they're going to go back to a situation that is dramatically different than the one they left just a day ago or earlier these areas that have been hit head on by the eye of the super typhoon gunny they were not too wealthy communities a lot of them are farmers landless laborers what we call in the philippines fisherfolk there are people who are already considered quite vulnerable and the typhoon will render them in need of a quite severe and dramatic support not just in the immediate days but over the coming weeks and months to help restore livelihoods and to make sure that there are physical social and economic well being is being looked after this is not the 1st typhoon even this month in fact it's the 4th so the people in affected communities are you know are tired they've been facing a lot and the philippines is among the most vulnerable countries in the world to the coronavirus

joining me from manila is robert kaufman, head of the international federation of the red cross in theews. i actually went to cover a typhoon seven years ago, and just understanding the devastation that you're facing now, it's difficult to imagine trying to help people in a time of social distancing and covid. how is it affecting the relief efforts ? how is it affecting the relief efforts? well, it is certainly complicating its, and i think the people are challenged. and if you've been to the philippines before and you've covered it, you know these communities are use to storm after storm, but you know, you mentioned typhoons, but just a storm, but you know, you mentioned typhoons, butjust a week before one hits, another also had the same community as a tropical storm, so people were pretty tired and devastated from three successive typhoons and a pandemic. how are you managing to get food and shelter into the areas? are you managing to airlift a lot of the stuff in? well, thankfully, the red cross is incredibly capable and well—prepared organisation, and the federation of red cross, w

federal government forces are in control. the government says its military operation is over. many others fear the conflict may have only just begun malcolm web al-jazeera. well, the international committee of the red cross has visited one of the many hospitals in mecca, lay across the wells as the african spokeswoman for the group and says around 80 percent of people there are suffering from trauma injuries. the last a good i have from our team and mccully is from this afternoon and the city as of this afternoon was quiet. but obviously this follows a day of fighting around the city yesterday on saturday. our team as well as our partner at the ethiopian red cross, we had been able to move around the city, red cross ambulances have been able to evacuate the injured and transport the dead to a hospital in mccalla a, which our team also visited yesterday and found a really frankly dire picture. this is one of the main referral hospitals in the city. and yesterday afternoon the team as to made it that about 80 percent of the patients in that hospital were suffering from trauma injuries. and the hunter, christophe's is a former, ethiopian minister who served during the t.p.s. government left office shortly b