or liberia. because ebola is up for a top award ceremony, it could take an oscar in a few days time. this is it "body team 12", the tale of the red cross workers collecting dead bodies as the outbreak took hold. it's up for best documentary short at the awards. it is a sight of the oscars without celebrity, this is real life and death, as raw as it comes. >> every day i feared it. that anxiety yity played on my head. i had a small glimmer. it was intense conditions we worked unt. it really is a tribute. >> reporter: "bottied team 12" tells a story of a nurse ostracised by her community because she helped in a place few would dare. there is hope. >> for liberia as a country, there wasn't much, it was a shell of a nation. here the brave liberians were fighting for their nation, families and the rest of us, the whole world. >> reporter: the film won one big award - best documentary short at last year's tribeca film festival. for its makers, it is essential that tails like these are shared. >> it's a

there's hope here too. . >> for liberia, coming from a brutal civil war. there wasn't much to fight for. it's a shell of a nation. a few were fighting for their nation, fighting for their families and the rest of us, the whole world. >> reporter: the film won a big award, best documentary short at the tribeca film festival. for its makers, it is essential that tales like these are shared. >> it's a superhero story about bravery, people that did something at a time of world history when the world was afraid. if we hadn't captured this moment. these people would not be remembered for what they did. >> the epidemic is over. without the people, how much longer would it have taken, and how many more victims could have died. >> what did we do to help liberia >>> i'm antonio mora, thank you for joining us for the latest news any time head to aljazeera.com. ray suarez is next with "inside story". have a great night. ight. >> just a couple of weeks ago, the president spoke to the congress and country about the state of the union. more than one out of six americans

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but there is a link between liberia and l.a.ecause a film about ebola is up among one of the tops. this is it, body team 12, the tail of the red cross workers who collected bead bodies as the outbreak took hold. this is the site of the oscars, this is real life and death as raw as it comes. >> every day i would fear the worst, could i be next? and that played in my head during this production, so i got a small glimmer of what it was like for these teams day in and day out. the level of anxiety they were working under was intense. >> reporter: it tells the story of a nurses and are sized by her community because she went to help in a place where few others would dare. >> reporter: liberia has gone through a brutal civil war not long ago. and to here these brave liberians were fighting for their nation, their families and the rest of us, the whole world. >> reporter: the film has already won best documentary at last year's tribeca film festival. for its makers it is essentially that tails like these are shared. >> it's a super her

bodies of ebola victims in liberia. we'll talk to the producer of the oscar nominatedocumentary after this. >> as the ebola crisis ravaged african in 2014, the red cross dead body management team removed the body to avoid the spread of the disease. an oscar nominated hbo documentary, body team 12 tells their heroic story. we'll learn more from the film's producer in tonight's first person reports. >> my name is brinn musser, i'm the producer of the short documentary body team 12. >> body team 12 is a short documentary that focuses on an incredibly brave aid worker named garmai who is tackling firsthand the ebola crisis in liberia. take the bodies from their families and ceo pate them. it was an effort by the liberian red cross to stop the spread of ebola. there was a lot of resistance to these body teams. in liberia cremation is not part of the culture. you have people who want to bury the bodies, they wash the bodies and this is really terrible for the spread of ebola but as they come to get the body there was a strugg

there is actually a link between liberia and l.a. this year because a film about ee bol ais up for-- ebola is up for an award and could take an oscar in a few days time. this is it, the tale of the red cross workers who collected dead bodies as that outbreak took hold. it is up for best documentary at sunday's awards. this is the side of the oscars without celebrity. this is real life and death as raw as it comes >> every day i feared the worst, could i be next. that played on my head during this production. i got a small glimmer of what it was like for these teams day in and out. the level of anxiety that they were working under was intense. it is really a tribute. >> reporter: it tells the story of a nurse ons tra sighsd by her community because she went to work at a place where few others would dare. >> liberia had gone through a civil war not long ago. it is a shell of a nation. here they were fighting for the nation, fighting for the families and ultimately fighting for the relevant of us, the whole world. >> reporter: the film

believe it or not, there is actually a link between liberia and l.a. this year because ebola or a film about it is up for one of the world's top award ceremose ceremonies and could take an oscar. this is it, body team 12, the tale of the red cross workers who collected dead bodies as that outbreak took hold. it is up for best documentary at sunday's awards. this is the sign of the oscars without celebrities. it is real life and dead as it comes >> every day i feared that i would be next. that played on my head during this production. i got a small glimmer of what it was like for these teams day in and day out. the level of anxiety that they were working under was intense. it is really a tribute >> reporter: body team 12 tells the story of a nurse is ostracised by her community because she went to help in place where few others were dare. there is hope here too. >> liberia as a country going through a civil war not long ago, there wasn't much to fight for. it is a shell of a nation. here these brave people were fighting for their nation, for their famil

guinea, sierra leone, and liberia were hit by what was described as an epidemic.ace, los angeles is a world away from that horror which we saw in 2013 and beyond, but there is a link between liberia and l.a. this year, because ebola or rather a film about it is up at one of the world's top awards ceremonies, and could very well take an oscar in a few day's time. this is it, body team 12. the tail of the red cross workers who collected dead bodies as the outbreak took hold. this is real life. and death. as raw as it comes. >> every day i would fear the worst. would i be next? and that anxiety really played in my head during this production. so i got a small glimmer of what it was like for these teams day in and day out. the level of anxiety they were working under was intense. so it really is a tribute. >> reporter: whoeddy team 12 tells the story of a nurse os raw sized by her dmien because she went to help in a place where few others would dare. but there is hope here too. >> liberia has gone through a brutal civil war not long ago. it is a shell of a nation, and

guinea, sierra leone and liberia was hit by what is described as an epidemic and los angeles is a wardhe horror which we saw in 2013 and beyond but believe it or not there is actually a link between liberia because of a film is on the top of award ceremonies and could very well take an oscar in a few days time. >> translator: this is it, body team 12, the tale of the red cross workers who collected dead bodies as that outbreak took hold and up for best documentary at sunday's award and this is the site of the oscars without celebrity, this is real life and death as raw as it comes. >> everyday i would fear the worst, could i be next and that anxiety played on my head during this production and so i got a small glimmer of what it was like for the teams day in and day out and the level of anxiety is tense and body team 12 is a tribute. >> reporter: it tells the story of a nurse ostricized by her community and went to help in a place where few others dare and there is hope here too. >> liberia as a country had gone through a brutal civil war not long ago and wasn't much to fight for in li

. >> liberia is a country in war. it is a shell of a nation. here these brave people were fighting for their nation, fighting for their families and fighting for the rest of us, the wholole world. >> reporter: the film has already won an award. it is essential that tales like these are shared >> it is a super hero story, about bravery, people did something at a time when the whole world was afraid. if we didn't capture this moment, people wouldn't be remembered >> reporter: the epidemic is over. without these people, the question is how much longer would that have taken and how many more victims could have died. >> reporter: what did we do to help liberia >>> in zimbabwe the government has greenhoused into the school curriculum lessons on playing traditional instruments. this is hoped children learn about their ancient cultures some of which are fading away >> reporter: nine year old recently started playing a traditional african musical instrument, a thumb piano. each key say different note. zimbabwe's government is making these lessons part o

>> what did we do to help liberia? >> zimbabwe's ancient cultures are dying, and so they are trying to teach about it, especially the music. >> nine-year-old megan recently started playing the thumb piano, with a wooden board and keys attached to it. each key is a different note. ♪ it's part of the school curriculum. officials say that many children either don't know or don't want to understand the culture. >> like the other english instruments like guitar, this is from my country, and it has a very beautiful sound. >> some have a resonator to amplify the sound. the bright colors appeal to the children. they have been used for centuries. there are more than 2,000 state run schools in zimbabwe. and they would to have at least 14 of them in each school, but the problem is that not many teachers now how to play them. some african musicians were banned, and in other cases, they were forgotten. he hopes that in time, more people were fall in love with the smoothing sound. >> they identify with them, with the instrument. but

and how many more victims could have died. >> what did we do to help liberia?l jazeera, los angeles. >> cbs has announced it is creating a 24 hour channel for kids. the public t.v. channel is expected to debut later this week. it is what it is going to be called will carry some of the original most popular programs it will also screen live online. thank you for joining us, the news continues next, live from london keep it here. this is al jazeera. hello, this is the news hour. live from london, coming up p president obama present as plan to close the britain camp and transfer inmates to the u.s. >> desperation on the greek side f the border of macedonia blocks access for refugees. >> returning to their destroys houses coming from three days after devastating battle. >>

as the zika threat intensifies, the cdc has declared that the ebola outbreak in liberia, sierra leone, and guinea is over. there will no longer be ebola screening for people coming to the united states from west africa. the extra screenings began back in october of 2014, after a man died from the disease in dallas, liberia. stacey: if you didn't get outside today, you missed out. it was beautiful. kcci's mark tauscheck gets to tell us about it. mark: yeah, it is no wonder so many people were happy that winter took the day off. the state climatologist told me this is the first time we hit 60 degrees in iowa since november 18. everywhere you looked, things that just aren't supposed to happen. >> i don't care about dinner. we're getting out to the park this afternoon. mark: on a friday in february, even the moon didn't want to miss out. and who says iowa's dog days have to be in july? little spike had reason to kick up his 16-year-old heels. >> what do we consider running at 16? [laughter] mark: the wind was a burden. but remember, this warmth has to blow in from somewhere. >> yeah, you'

but there is a link between liberia and l.a. because ebola, or a film about it, is up for a top award ceremony and it could very well take an oscar in a few day's time. >> this is it, body team 12, the tale of the red cross workers who collected dead bodies as that outbreak took hold. it is up for best documentary short at sunday's awards. this is the side of the oscars without celebrities. this is real life--and death. as raw as it comes. >> every day i fear the worst that i would be next. that really played in my head during this production. i had a small glimmer for these teens day in and day out, the level of anxiety they were working under was enormous. >> body team 12 was a nurse ostracized by her community because she went to help in a community where few others dared. there is help here, too. >> liberia underwent civil war. there wasn't much to fight for in library liberia, and to hear about these liberians who were fighting for their nation. >> for its makers it is essential that tales like these are shown. >> they are

but there is a link between liberia and los angeles this year. because ebola or rather a film about it, is at the top of the award ceremonies and it could wake an oscar in a few day's time. >> this is it, the tale of the red cross workers who collected dead bodies as that outbreak took hold. it is up for best documentary short at sunday's awards. this is the site of the oscars without celebrities. this is real life and death as raw as it comes. >> every day i would fear the worse that i would be next. that anxiety played in my head during this production. i got a small glimmer of what it was like for these teams day in and day out. the level of anxiety they were working under was intense. body team 12 is a tribute. >> body team 12 tells the story of a nurse ostracized by her community because she went to a place where few others would dare. but there is hope, too. >> library i can't has gone through a civil war not long ago. there was not much to fight for in liberia. it was a shell an of nation. and yet here there were a few fighting for the fam

believe it or not, there is actually a link between liberia and l.a. this year because ebola, or rather a film about it, is up for one of the world's top award ceremonies and could take an oscar. this is it, body team 12. the tale of the red cross workers who collected dead bodies as that outbreak took out. it is up for best dumenry shorts. this is real life and death as raw as it comes. >> every day i would fear the worst. could i be next. that anxiety played on my head during this production oichlt got a glem your-- i got a glimpse of what they were under. it was intense. it is really a tribute. >> reporter: it tells the story of a nurse ons tra sighsd by her community-- ons tra sighs-- ostracised by her community. >> there wasn't much to fight for. it is a shell of a nation. here these brave people were fighting for the nation, fighting for their families and ultimately fighting for the rest of us, the whole world >> reporter: it has already won one big award last year. it is essential that tales like these are shared. >> it is a super hero story of

just after arriving from liberia. two health care workers who treated the victim in texas also contracted ebola but survived it. >> a terrifying ride to school the high school students watched helplessly as their bus was nearly hit by a speeding train. newscenter 5 has the story. >> a frightening, near miss caught on tape. a school bus filled with students getting past railroad tracks just in time as the train barrels by. >> stops in the middle of the railroad track as the train was coming and she pulled ahead a little bit more. >> that was kind of scary. >> frightened students recording the whole incident postting to social media sites where it caught the eye of administrators. >> oh, my. >> the driver telling the school the students were too loud for the bus to be driven safely. but on thursday, the school releasing a statement saying their investigation into the incident revealed the driver did not follow standard procedures when crossing the railroad track with the train coming in the distance. adding that the dri

number five, because of his prominent support for the colonization, the capital of liberia was named after james monroe. fourth on the list... james madison was princeston's first graduate student. number three... thomas jefferson founded the university of virginia in 18-19 jefferson is the only president to have ever founded an institution of higher learning. number two... john adams used to skip school. he would often spend his time hunting and fishing.and number one on the list... wooden. contrary to popular belief, the country's first president had dentures made of gold, ivory, lead, and animal teeth. 3 3 3 3 here is a look at what you can expect for the next three days. 3 3 3 the tar heels are out to "acc". luke shows us the two reasons why carolina was able to dominate pitt in chapel 3 the north carolina tar heels have gone through some serious adversity over the past couple of weeks. a pair of conference losses and a frightening moment when roy williams collapsed during a game. but the coach is fine, and so too is the team, after a dominating performance sunday against pitt. r

. >> this is an orphanage we sponsor in liberia. >> reporter: they line her office wall. photos of children and she hopes to help. these pictures were taken during one of anderson's many trips to africa and the diamond mining communities there. >> this little one said the whole time, please take me with you. which was heartbreaking. >> reporter: it is these faces anderson says that inspired her to start her own diamond business ten years ago. why we should mine the diamonds anymore because we can create them. >> reporter: they offer diamond buyers an eco-friendlily and conflict free choice. lab. >> what we're doing is sped speeding up the natural process that happens in the earth in a modern environment. they're 100% real diamonds. >> reporter: anderson says her diamonds are 40% less expensive than the earth-mined time. liberia. >> reporter: a portion of the sales goes to the charitable foundation, the greener diamond. the goal of the nonprofit is to stop the unethical harvesting of mining diamonds by building farms in diamond mining communities. >> we're teaching child s

in october of 2014, after a man died from the disease in dallas, just after arriving from liberia. central iowa lost the bid for the new headquarters of a merged dupont pioneer and dow chemical company. instead, the headquarters will be in delaware where dupont is currently located. but, state and local officials say they are excited the global seed and biotech business center will be based in johnston. a dupont pioneer spokesperson tells kcci there are no additional job cuts in iowa tied to the announcement and no , immediate plan to move iowa employees to delaware. >> we expect over time we will see jobs grow in johnston,in -- in johnston, whereas that may not happen in wilmington as the headquarters. in short term you'll see a little shake out as they put merger in place. there may well be some the next three to five years we actually see the jobs increase. alyx: friday morning the iowa economic development authority approved $16 million in incentives for the merged company which will be called dow dupont. that will go toward keeping 500 research jobs in johnston. another open m

being declared free of the a team of neurologists from the n-i-h examined 82 ebola survivors from liberia. most still had symptoms 6 months fater their infection--like headahces, memory loss, depression, and muscle pain. others had tremors and abnormal eye movements and reflexes. the symptoms appear to be related to the ebola virus--but ongoing studies are wowoing to confirm that a single mother whose house was ruined in last fall's floods has a newly renovated home tonight. jennifer gneiser walked into her newly- renovated house in pine glen today. a national disaster recovery organization with local partners called the "rebuild together" initiative came together to fix it up. jennifer says she's been apart from her two teenage sons as crews worked on the house. "i can instill now in my children a sense of giving and that we can move forward as a family with that sense of jennifer's home is one of twelve homes that the "rebuild together" initiative is working to restore in the wake of the flood. showers and a few storms will she says their names. trayvon martin shot to death. dontre hami

flurries cold air and forty mile an hour wind gusts right out of the west at eighteen miles an hour liberia shows us thirty four degrees the course it feels a lot colder than that when he got a big win feels like it's in the 20s pleased to bundle up tonight and tomorrow as these temperatures are not going to go up a whole bunch would drop to twenty eight at ingalls field thirty nine in lexington lynchburg showers are working their way across the mountains is not having any affect at least once a gets into the role of a valley stretching up to eighty one nine the still some significant blowing snow back to the west and you can see it pretty clearly on the doppler radar motion become a stops in west virginia in the mountains of north carolina around boone looking at some light snow accumulations but mainly this low area that's appear is just so windy and the gusty winds were blowing snow and issue for western new york and western pennsylvania a little bit of additional blowing snow in the ski resorts that's always welcome. of course and at average of cooldown which there can have for a couple

nexus in terms of the fight for boko haram because it also borders on mali, it has a board we are liberialy do you have the boko haram threat but the potential of fighters coming in from libya and also of course a.q.i.m., coming in from mali. it is very important who winds there because they are going to have to be on the national security footing. >> the new government is saying it's been successfu success sucn boko haram. but just last week a suicide bomber killed 60 people. where do you make of this claim and where do we stand in nigeria's' fight against the group. >> the new government has done a good job in changing how the nigerian military operates in its fight against boko haram. they have done very well in the last couple of months in terms of search and seizure, but you really have to understand that boko haram, just like all another terrorist groups change constantly and now you see a change from a sim metrical warfare to gorilla like tacticses with the bombings we saw this week and also in the north east and west of the country. what the military has to do is have really long

was formed in 2013 by four well-known recording artists who emigrated to philadelphia from war-torn liberia. >> we decided to put this group together to help our liberian women. >> the chorus creates a community for other liberian immigrants. through song, they >> through song, they are hoping to raise awareness and create dialogue around the issue of domestic violence. >> i was married to a man uhh i was his second wife. he wasn't beating on me but i wasn't getting the total care that i needed. >> philadelphia is home to an estimated 15,000 liberian immigrants. the women's chorus perform the traditional songs and dances from their homeland. >> and then we engage them into our conversation, then we put our message out. which is don't keep silent at all! >> the chorus has partnered with women against abuse to expand their voice. and when they perform, it's their mission to get you on your feet. >> music is actually universal once you feel the beat, you are moved to it. >> well, we hope you've enjoyed the show. >> thank you for watching visions 2016. >> a special thanks to the african america

enough to executive produce, called body team 126789 and it is about a group of health workers in liberiathe ebola epidemic who were responsible for collecting the bodies of the dead and taking them out of communities so that people wouldn't contract the virus by coming in contact with them. so they're heroes because that is how the virus was contained. had these people not risked their lives, it could have spread in a much more dangerous way. >> trevor: it is an insane story. >> it is. >> trevor: because i'm a big fan of watching, well, i that would sound wrong, ebola stories. no, i. >> are you the number one ebola fan. i heard that. >> trevor: i have the website. what is fascinating about the story wasn't just the fact that these people were risking their lives, the fact that it was the story of a woman who was at the forefront car mine, and she was amazing. because all the men were afraid to touch dead bodies. >> yes. >> trevor: and she was the only one who could do it. >> she's a tough cookie. it is an incredible story of a haroine who risked not only her life but faced such a stigma

. >> stephen: it's a team of people working in liberia, right. >> yes. >> stephen: what are they doing? >> it's called body team 12 and they during the ebola epidemic were responsible for collecting the bodies of those who died from the virus. that was essential because the only reason it didn't spread in a much bigger way is because of people like them who were containing the virus which was spread by contact with the dead. it's an incredible story of heroism. >> stephen: these are people who went into what you might call the hot zone. >> yes. >> stephen: where the disease was spreading. >> yes. and they were local members of that community, so they were community health workers -- who is the cameraman? >> david dard, our director? an extraordinary guy. and he was working as an aid worker there and was a film maker and started filming from within. so the access is just kind of incredible because you would never be able to see that just as a filmmaker. >> stephen: is he an american? >> he's an american. >> stephen: he went over and did this. was he one of those people quarantined when

i was in liberia and sierra leone. and in central america. so this represents the move from the emergency relief to a more general question in the book is about end surrounding that which i referred to is warranted or not are justifiable. >> so i thought because in the end that starkest measure of poverty is under, i would write a book about development the effort to reduce or end extreme poverty in her. of many ngos of philanthropy from the bill and melinda gates foundation. but they really believe so extreme end hunger. i laid my temperamental cards on the table thinking about that up close probably not the most optimistic. but i founded very startling it took me seven years to write the book in all kinds of places. but i was at a loss to industry and the optimism family along with more is the great killer of human history with every generation as far as most experts believe whether they agree in the and a comment -- economist the estimate is in every society as a great way of human history as we think of that indefinable terms in every soc

. >> "eclipsed" is about women in liberia during the liberian civil war during the rule of charles taylor. >> right. >> stephen: a very serious subject. it's an all-african american production? not only the cast but, like, also the people mounting the production. that's a very significant thing to do on the great white way. >> right! yes spp splashing a little color on the great white way. the beauty of this is it came together-- five women are the cast and they are all african, actually. one is haitian, and the rest are and then there's an african, swrib bawb wayan playwright and a female director. that's the unusual director. there have been plays in the past with all-women casts and playwrights but not with a director as well so the combination of lisa tommy helming it and myself writing it, that's kind of thing that's really special about it. >> stephen: when this is eventually made into a hollywood movie, what white man would you like to play the lead. >> you. >> stephen: me! it's a deal! >> awesome! awesome "p." >> her new plays "eclipsed" and "familiar" are now playing on and off b

so, i'd like to start introducing an organization from liberia, the women of liberia mass action for peace, which was a group of women both muslim and christian who were organized to end the violence in the second liberian civil war. a great documentary on them called "pray the devil back to hell," for those of you who have the time and access to track that down. they called for peace talks. in fact, they practically forced president charles taylor to sit down with rebel groups. and then led by lima gobowe, a delegation of these women sat in on -- or rather, staged a sit-in at the peace process in acura ghana, the process that would lead to the acra comprehensive peace agreement signed august 18th, 2003. now, the women were not part of any formal delegation. they did not take formal -- or did not formally participate in the peace process. their role in that moment was to enforce the process itself. in fact, at one point, the women lined up around the building to keep the men from the rebel groups from climbing out of a window to escape participating in the process. so, we begin to se