. >>> liberia's are minister lewis brown, meeting with your. what is what was agreed at that meeting to try the combat the ebola spread in liberia? >> well, a number of things quite frankly. one of them is that we have to continue to train and retrain health care workers in proper safety procedures, we're pleased with the lowering rate of incidents among health care workers. and we also have to continue to work with spreading the ebola treatment centers around the country. that is a difficult task. it is a little bit more difficult than just opening a public health facility. it is a bit more challenging. we continue to ask for support to be able to meet the increasing demand on the ebola treatment unit by people who are now coming forward as they contract this disease. at the same time, the president has ordered a roll back of the curfew back two hours, across the country, because of the level of support we're getting from communities that are themselves increasingly engaged in owning up to this fight. as well as lifting the quarantine on an in

let's get more now on the ebola outbreak in west africa and we will speak to lewis brown, the informationand is live via skype from the capitol monrovia and we will start briefly if we can and bring us up to date on the official position of just how bad the ebola virus is in your country and whether or not you are in control of it. >> well, i can only borrow from the president and thank you for having me and in her words the situation is grave and we indicated previously it will get worse before it gets better, but we are encouraged by the level of work we are beginning to see in communities, communities are increasingly taking ownership of this fight. they have built or rebuilt themselves into teams where it would have been previously difficult for us to identify who may be seeking communities and community leaders have rallied around the communities and presenting people in record numbers who are demanding entry. >> okay, okay, so you're saying it's a community-based fight. some reports suggest that liberia with a population of just over four million people has only 50 doctors, if that

. >> sadly, we lost lewis brown, the information minister. but we got what we needed. in sierra leone, radical steps have been taken. people have been ordered to stay indoors for 72 hours, starting on friday. and meanwhile, burial teams are working for as little as $100 a month to dispose of victim's bodies. joining us from eastern sierra leone. >> a burial team is being called to an isolated village. a 16-year-old boy here has died. he was never tested but there are fears that he had ebola. if so, he's the first to die in the village. and people are afraid. chlorine is afraid to disinfect the house, and inside, the boy's body is wrapped up and sealed. >> so when the family, [ unintelligible ]. >> traditionally, close family members wash and dress the body. but those who died of ebola are specially contagious, and the burial practices are blamed for the spread of the disease. >> we can build treatment centers forever, and it's still not enough. it will be continually passed from person to person, so we have to do more than just treatment. we have to stop the transmissi

brown had to say about that. >> in the last two days, john lewis has come out and said the prices will be higher in scotland. the oil companies have said investment will be lower in scotland. we have had the oil experts say yesterday they were exaggerating the oil revenues in scotland. i say you can try to dismiss some of the warnings some of the time but you cannot dismiss all of the warnings all of the time. >> that was gordon brown making his case for a no vote. pakistani authorities are moving to protect two major cities from floodwaters. explosives are to be used to divert the swollen rivers as authorities seek desperately to help the 1.8 million people now affected by the rising waters. floods and landslides from heavy monsoon rains have now claimed more than 450 lives in pakistan and in india with hospitals struggling to cope with the disaster. colors of light eliminated -- i lluminated new york's skyline on the anniversary of the september 11 attack. as is the case every year, two beams of light pierced the air be creating the image of the twin towers that used to stand in lower manhattan. president