men boarded the vessel at the port of call to new on saturday the gulf of guinea from cameroon to liberia is one of the most dangerous maritime regions in the world and abductions have become more frequent. a pro-democracy politician in hong kong has had part of his ear but not by a man wielding a knife the district council was attacked as the man tried to stop him leaving a shopping mall the man's last several other people before he was restrained and beaten by a mob of protesters well earlier riot police stormed several shopping malls in a crackdown on getting government protesters police say they moved in after demonstrators vandalized shops and threw paint. schools are shut fights flights are being canceled at a public emergency has been declared as toxic smog chokes india's capital on the air quality index the result of 500 is described as severe plus the result for new delhi is double that experts say it's like smoking up to 50 cigarettes a day people are complaining of sore eyes and throats with some wearing masks to protect themselves low visibility has also disrupted flights and

men boarded the vessel at the port of call to new on saturday the gulf of guinea from cameroon to liberia is one of the most dangerous maritime regions in the world and abductions have become more frequent. air pollution in and around india's capital new delhi is the worst so far this year experts say breathing the city's air is like smoking up to 50 cigarettes a day a health emergency has been to quit and locals are complaining of sore eyes and throats them brutalize moved from its suffocating and we thought coffin we forded the light showers will make the weather better and the pollution that will improve doesn't feel like it yet in india the mental power from breathing she's pollution is also putting us on the mental pressure it's not winter stefano fog working around we must zone everything public swami is a distinguished senior fellow at observer research foundation he describes the difficulties facing those living in new delhi i was in delhi yesterday and i was you know i walked in the streets and on a daily basis it is. i mean there are health has it's there are opposing people but

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if you look at liberia, for example, the former leader of starling -- former reader of liberia did a lot for her country. but there was a price tag of $6 million a year to keep the peace in that country and to permit some of that development to happen. suggested here by blaise,f the seat -- by if the security operations were authorized other places, we might see different results. the question is whether the world is willing to pay that price tag. are we willing to pay $600 million a year to keep liberians from shooting each other and having a chance at developing institutions that will allow them to have good financial management and actually develop? liselotte: thank you. katie? philip andree constituencies and getting these institutions to reach out in industrial democracies and make them understand why they matter. that's the reason we were able to get in the imf and the world bank, and had the problems that we had getting the league of nations through. when we think about constituencies matter, i'm from ohio. i had to go to hyo and explained to the youngstown united nations them

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norway has done an extraordinary thing and providing the funding for liberia, guyana, brazil, other countries, indonesia to really take on deforestation. that has really been transformative. we are now seeing the real resistance, especially in brazil i would like to encourage norway to think about a different approach. begin to explore the possibility of relationships with some national actors. like different states in brazil as opposed to just dealing with the data national level. some of the other states that have massive importance for rain forests. they are ready and have governors willing and able to engage. i know there are complications, but there should be a way to do that. i also suggest that one way to increase the resources available since this is such a powerful and potent issue today, the health of rain forests is, for the government of norway to make these funds available are crowd forcing. crowd forcing to matt match it so we can double the money. i think we need to think creatively how do we leverage the funds from norway. it has nothing to do with columbia. columbia has reall

men boarded the vessel at the port of call to know on saturday the gulf of guinea from cameroon to liberia is one of the most dangerous maritime regions in the world and abductions have become more frequent. well it's pretty more ahead on the news hour including 4 hood in a bloody knife attack in hong kong including a politician during anti-government protests after several delays shares in saudi aramco to be offered for sale in what could be the world's biggest initial public offering. in sport lewis hamilton celebrates a 6 formula one drivers title and he is here to show you how egypt. the whistleblower who prompted an impeachment probe into the u.s. president has offered to answer questions from the inquiry donald trump has repeatedly called for the under named official to reveal themselves the inquiry is june to begin public hearings this month after several weeks of closed door testimonies trump is accused of threatening to withhold military i see you crying on lists that investigated he's democratic rival joe biden well donald trump says members of the media know who the whistleblowe

norway has done an extraordinary thing in providing the funding for liberia, guy ana, brazil, other countries, indonesia, to really take on deforestation. and that is really important, that has really been transformative. we're now seeing some real resistant especially in brazil so i would like to encourage norway to think about another approach which is to begin to explore the possibility of relationships with sub-national actors. >> yes. >> like different states in brazil, as opposed to just dealing at a national level. >> yes. >> so you can engage amazonas, pera, some of the other states that are very important for rain forest health. but and are ready and have governors that are willing and able to engage. so i know there are complications but there should be a way to be able to do that. i would also like to suggest that one way to increase the number of resources available, since this is such a powerful and potent issue today, the help of forest, rain forests, for climate and for bio diversity, is for the government of norway to actually make these funds available on a crowdsourcing, to

men boarded the vessel with the port of quarter new on saturday the gulf of guinea from cameroon to liberiais one of the most dangerous maritime regions in the world at abductions have become more frequent the pro-democracy politician in hong kong has had part of the ze'ev bitten off by a man wielding a knife the district councillor was attacked by the band as he tried to stop him leaving a shopping mall the man also slashed several other people before he was restrained and beaten by a mob of protesters earlier riot police stormed several shopping malls in a crackdown on anti-government protesters police moved in after protesters vandalized shops and threw paint pakistan's prime minister has refused to heed calls for him to resign as tens of thousands of protesters remain in islamabad demonstrators had given him one card until midnight on sunday to step down over government is illegitimate and propped up by the military the protests are being led by conservative cleric milan a. man who's a long time rival of the prime minister redman has hinted that he may try to force khan to stand down by

towards the ethiopian hollers in those showers extend across west africa all the way across into liberia to sierra leone and beyond that he began because if you see one or 2 showers as well some really heavy downpours so just around the gulf of guinea you can follow the showers they drain out of the tropics down across angola eastern side of south africa or so seeing a fair bit of cloud of the moment some fun to read downpours in place here will see that so wet weather as we go on through monday the showers pack pop as we go on into we're choose day the good you could see some flooding here maybe as much as 100 millimeters of rain to come over the next 3 or 4 days and similar rainfall amounts across the far north of the continent then just around northern parts of algeria some wet weather in place some very heavy rain into cheney's yeah and that rain really ramping up as we go through chews day richelle everton thank you so head on al-jazeera 50 years and counting we'll look at what's been behind the global success of the children show me straight. and donald trump finally finds a sporti

they did a study in sierra leone and we did one in liberia and then ultimately it was shown in the vaccination study in guinea to be effective at preventing infections particularly those who were exposed. that vaccine has now been used in the democratic republic of the congo in over 245,000 doses have been given in the contact ring vaccination approach. it's very clear that if we didn't have that vaccine, we would be in a much worse situation than we found ourselves in a democratic republic of the congo. and as you well know from reports coming out from the cdc, the number of cases. the vaccine has played a major role in being able to prevent the explosion that we saw in west africa. >> thank you for your service to the country. just in closing, vaccines are safe and effective and save lives. so, with the fact -- >> thank you. i am grateful to the chair for holding this hearing. flu shots can play a very important role protecting the public from the flu and reducing its spread. i want to focus my comments on a 90-year-old policy that should have ended decades ago. why do we still have mercury

if you look at liberia, for example, the former leader of darlingwas the world's and did a lot for her country. a lot of people don't know there with ann. force there annual price tag of $6 million a year to keep the peace in that country and to permit some of that development to happen. as i think was suggested here by blaise, if the security council could authorize similar operations in about 10 other places, we might see different results. the question is whether the world is willing to pay that price tag. are we willing to pay $600 million a year to keep liberians from shooting each other and having a chance at developing institutions that will allow them to have good financial management and actually develop? liselotte: thank you. katie? katie: i agree with what you said and because i did work in congress for a stint, one thing that impresses me with the history of multilateral organizations has to do with developing constituencies, and getting these institutions to reach out in industrial democracies and make them understand why they matter. that's the reason we were able to get

and every administration, you have ded holders for almost 29 years from liberia and tps, you know, rightfully so, by the way. i'm not trying to -- but that is their gripe. so, there were times where there were offers to provide permanent status to tps and ded holders but change the statute to make it even more, you know, kind of just make it temporary, right? we mean it's temporary for real this time kind of language. and we've never moved forward with that. i'm not sure that's even possibly now because i think this administration would want a lot more than that. but, you know, it was one of those things where there's a lot of confusion on our side as to what a good deal is and what it isn't. if you were to ask tps holders, a lot of them would say, that's a great deal. do it. you get to protect the people here now and you're potentially making it harder for people in the future to stay but that's a tradeoff worth making. others don't agree. and it splits us. we don't ever coalesce around a particular idea. and so, nothing happens. that's just a real dynamic that i'm just trying to shed some l

we advanced 2-phase 2 in sierra leone, we did one in liberia, and ultimately it was shown in a ring vaccination study in guinea to be effective in preventing infection particularly those who were exposed. that vaccine has been used in the democratic republic of the congo, 245,000 doses have been given in that approach. it is very clear that if in fact we didn't have that vaccine we would be a worse situation than we found ourselves in the democratic republic of the congo. you know from reports coming out of the cdc the number of cases per week and ebola have gone down and down. we are not through with it yet. it is still there but the vaccine has played a role in preventing the explosion we saw in west africa. >> doctor fauci, doctor jernigan, thanks for your service to the community, vaccines are safe and effective and save lives. with. >> i'm grateful to the chair for holding this hearing. flu shots complain important role in protecting the public from the flu and reducing its spread. i want to focus my comments on a 90-year-old policy which should have ended decades ago. why do we still have