malawi urgently needs s vets. there are only about thirty in the whole country to tend to the needs of more than twenty-five million farm animals. animal diseases are widespread. a berlin-based animal-welfare organisation, welttierschutzgesellschaft, helped establish a veterinarian training programme two years ago. south african robyn mccann, the director here, set up the training program in malawi. >> these veterinarians we are training will be the first group that will graduate from the veterinarian program in malawi. so this is the only program there is in malawi at luana and they will be the first vets to graduate. we have paravets but they're not veterinarians. >> the fieldwork at the farms is complemented by classroom training seminars where the students learn hands-on examination and surgical techniques. >> your must hear that sound, duff duff. one, two, catch my end. >> this ensures that the veterinarians don't end up doing the animals more harm than good. after theoretical practice, it's back outside to p

malawi's striking results are strongly linked to efforts on the ground, house by house, community to community, to give mothers the support they need. "living proof" has this success story from malawawi. man: my naname is laititom chawa and i have six grandchildren. i was born at homeme in 1948. in previous days, pregnant moththers were using unsafe methods.s. some would have e their babies in g grass huts.s. after gigiving birth, they w wod leave babieses on the grground in the cold.d. we didn't know b better. we had a l lot of deaths. one day, hospipital workerss asasked us to o be a partt of the agogo progrgram. we go toto their hououse. we t talk to bototh the mann and ththe woman. we show them pictures and tell them what can happen if theyey give birth at home, at the mototr of the bababy can fall sick or dieie. deaths have decreased, diseases have decreased, and d life has improved. i am very hahappy becaususe if the student fails, you are not a good teacher. i see fruits of whwhat i teachc, and i'm proud that i am a good teacher. narrator: accessss to healthcare isn't the whol

(rooster crows) since 2004, project peanut butter has been treating children in malawi, a country with one of the highest malnutrition rates in the world. (speaking nativeve language) second narrator: as a faculty member at washington university medical school, dr. manary founded project peanut butter to bring the most effective malnutrition therapy to the children who need it most. alefa is 7 months old. she is just entering the critical 6-month-to-two-year-old window where children are most vulnerable to the impact of malnutrition. jason: alefa is, uh, severely malnourished and, um, (unclear), as you can see from the extremely small arms. second narrator: severely malnourished children at this age are at great risk. untreated, more than half will die. pilirani is two years old. severely malnourished kids often swell up with edema, a painful build-up of fluid under the skin. pilirani's swelling is so severe he can barely walk. until recently, the best treatment available for pilirani and alefa was one to two months of hospitalization. but t even n the best rural hospitals, only 25% to

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taken a catholic priest and more than a dozen churchgoers hostage in a set of -- southern city of malawisheded buildings, soldiers, and voiced and wasted flags preferring to the islamic state group. militants also beheaded a local police chief in the city. fighting in the region is ongoing between the army and rebels. ,o bring us the very latest dean is in manila. what is the latest you have for us? : yes, the authorities, including the military, is continuing to secure the area where members of the catholic clergy are reportedly under -- are being held by the terror group or it is a relatively significant group in the country. terrorntinue to conduct operations in the city. this is not in a small city. they have sporadic attacks being held even after now. the military says they have control of the city, but there are some small groups still conducting their operations. people have been reporting that these groups are going around , bearing supposedly the isis flag. we have received reports that thousands of people have started to evacuate the area as early as today because of the fighti

most people want to leave malawi but there is no vehicle available to take them out. >> residents are escaping as fighting intensifies between filipino forces and terrorist groups, which have turned the area into one of their strongholds. authorities say many of the jihadists are foreign fighters, loyal to the islamic state group. >> what's happening now is no longer a rebellion of filipino citizens. it has transferred into an invasion by foreign terrorists who hear the call of the isis to go to the philippines if they find difficulty going to iraq or syria. >> authorities say the islamic state group's goal is to create its ownaliphatete or province.. on tuesday, security forces trying to arrest the man appointed to lead that islamist province. but the raid failed. clashehes erupted between group of gunmen and army troops. militants seized and burned down schools, a college, and a hospital. also taking a priest and church goers hostage. president dutarte has imposed martial law and has vowed to intensify measures to root the gunmen out of the island. >> here in france, there is a prob

ireland under military rule after terrorists went to islamic state clashed with troops in the city of malawiasure will remain a place for 60 days, and the president's cutting short his visit to russia to handle the situation. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. juliette: checking the markets in asia, midsession, as paul mentioned. what we heard from moody's is the aussie dollar drop, winship the mood down. also weakness coming through in chinese stocks. down by about .3%. shanghai stocks or the shanghai composite trading at october lows. it has been as low as september 2016 levels. elsewhere, though, and a lot of brazilians coming through. japan's nikkei index up by .5%. some of the emerging markets looking good as well, although it is worth noting indonesia and jakarta composite index has come off those record highs. , we have seen weakness in the iron ore contract and also reports that the ceo says he believes the iron ore client has to drop even further. toshiba corp. up by 6.5% after reports it may s

has been a major performer in the stock, however, he seems to higher people with the exception of malawi, he promoted the head of u.s. sales and the head of european sales to be b head of global sales. >> but this is an industry out. >> he's an outside coming into a business where he was in a business before where he cut co cost. >> talk k about the heads of sales in the u.s. and europe. they've underperformed. >> he's a visionary from the furniture industry. don't question it. >> he's a cost cutter when literally, the only path to survival is spending more. >> the technologists, they put in charge of the mobile unit, which is ridiculous. >> this is proof a lot of people are talking about this one today! trades on defense stocks, just ahead and we'll do that in our blitz. dow's up 94. back after this. hey, i've got the trend analysis. hey. hi. hi. you guys going to the company picnic this weekend? picnics are delightful. oh, wish we could. but we're stuck here catching up on claims. but we just compared historical claims to coverages. but we have those new audits. my natural language api