stand at a distance. >> they have taken to the streets on tuesday morning at the start of another polio vaccination campaign. but the gunmen were ready and soon struck. the police gathering evidence at the site for what was the latest in a series of attacks on polio workers has left 18 dead in less than one year. >> the newborn baby is recovering after being found trapped in a sewage pipe. the operation was filmed and contained distressing images. firefighters were called after cries were heard coming from a toilet. a section of the pipe was cut away at the baby was finally free. he was not seriously injured and is recovering in hospital. it is not known how he ended up there. governments around the world are making a push towards more great energy but environmentalists are trying to block one such plant in britain. instead of burning coal, they will also burn wood for power that has been shipped across the ocean from right here in america. the environment analyst explains this controversial transatlantic trade. >> forests in the southeast u.s. they are among the most productive in the

it is next in line after polio. we need to approach diseases individually, where we have specially selected diseases that are amenable to a concentrated attack, to bring them to eradication. there's no substitute for that. the cost/benefit of getting rid of a disease is very high, often infinite, depending on how far you want to calculate it out. the issue of disease eradication is a very interesting one. the only example that we currently have is smallpox, where we know that the only reservoir in nature for smallpox was humans. and so, if you could break the chain of transmission in humans-- and it wasn't a latent infection in humans, and so it caused an acute disease, and then it disappeared-- if you could break the chain of transmission in humans, you could eradicate the disease. there hasn't been a case of smallpox that's occurred anywhere in the world since 1977, and so we're now more than 20 years out, and so i think we have a fair degree of confidence that we have eradicated the disease in nature. the only kn

data show that pakistan is one of just three countries in the world where polio is still endemic. >>> and violence is continuing to cause mayhem in thailand's volatile southern region. more than a dozen people have been killed in bomb and gun attacks in the past five days alone. the thai government and muslim insurgents are set for a third round of peace talks next month. while the continuing violence is creating doubt about how effective negotiations can be in ending almost a decade of conflict. it is reported that two army personnel were shot dead on tuesday morning in an ambush in the predominantly muslim province of patani. on monday a blast at a school killed two security gart in the same province, and a roadside bomb killed one border patrol officer the same day. separatists are seeking autonomy in the three southernmost provinces of thailand. nine years of violence in the buddhist majority country have killed more than 5,000 people. the thai government held its first official peace negotiations in march with a representative of insurgent group brn. one of the main agendas of th

the world health organization has suspended its polio vaccination campaign in pakistan's northwest the city of peshawar itself the one health worker was killed and another left critically ill after they were shot vaccination people the taliban has long opposed the un backed anti polio drive in pakistan calling it a western plot to sterilize muslims are based on is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic. and across the border in afghanistan's restive province of kandahar seven policemen have been murdered by former colleagues two officers had defected to the taliban months ago but have recently rejoined the government force excepted back but as their fellow officers fell asleep the two opened fire and killed the group taliban attacks on afghan and nato forces a common with the insurgent campaign to win back power over the unstable country. but is the crews are struggling to contain a fast moving wildfire in southern california the flames broke out of monday afternoon of quickly spread to over seven square kilometers of land with winds of up to thirty two kilometers per

our round up of other world news and the world health organisation has suspended its polio vaccination campaign in pakistan's northwestern city of peshawar after a want to health worker was killed and another left critically ill after they were shot while vaccinating people the taliban has long opposed the un backed anti polio drive in pakistan calling it a western plot to sterilize muslims there's been a series of deadly assault of medical teams across the country and pakistan is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic. emergency crews are struggling to contain a fast moving wildfire in southern california flames broke out monday afternoon and have quickly spread to over four hundred hectares of land with winds of up to thirty two kilometers per hour thousands of people have been evacuated from the area including dozens of residents whose homes are under threat by the blaze. it's almost time for the next scheduled crew swap at the international space station in a few hours so yes rocket will blast off from baikonur kazakstan taking with it an international team or now

only three countries where polio remains and demi. well it's almost time for the next crew swap at the international space station in a few hours a soyuz rocket will blast off from baikonur in kazakhstan taking with it an international team who are now making their final preparations. is there. we're not that far off from the russian soyuz of blasting a traditional three man crew up to the i assess it to be led by the russian commander a few of the your chieftain backed up by the american astronaut karen nyberg a second time to the i assess but new come a look up part of a ton of the european space agency his first time to the opening space but he's got at least two spacewalks to do one to try and repair a camera on japan's keep more general but also to try and repair the i assess for the hopeful soon arrival of russians and the multi-purpose laboratory module as well now a karen nyberg the american astronaut a second time to the i assess to spend six months so away from her husband and a little three year old boy as well but not to w

that led the world health organization to suspend its polio drive in the area.a second polio worker was seriously wounded in the attack in a village on the outskirts of peshawar in northwestern pakistan. there was no claim of responsibility, but taliban militants have accused polio workers of spying for the u.s. a c.s.x. cargo train derailed outside baltimore, maryland, this afternoon and touched off a thunderous explosion. the blast shook buildings half a mile away, sparked fires and sent up a heavy plume of smoke. residents reported a strong smell of chemicals, and fire officials urged people within a 20-block radius to leave. there wano immediate report of later the fire chief said the smoke and fumes were not toxic. there was no word on the cause of the wreck n.. in economic news, two private reports painted a brighter picture of the recovery. one found home prices in march jumped by the most since 2006. the other reported consumer confidence is the highest since early 2008. wall street rallied on the news. the dow jones industrial average gained 106 points

. >> the world health organization has suspended its polio vaccination program in northwest pakistan. it comes after gunmen attacked a vaccination team near peshawar, killing one. militants have repeatedly attacked polio workers, claiming the program is a cover for foreign espionage. >> south korea has taken two of its nuclear reactors offline. substandard parts that could fail in an emergency were discovered in the cooling system. it is likely to take about four months to fix the problem, and the government is warning of an unprecedented power crisis in the meantime. >> a volcano on the chile- argentina border is showing signs of an imminent eruption. at the orders have declared a red alert and ordered the evacuation of the surrounding area. 3000 people are being moved to safety. >> back here in germany, europe's biggest selling newspaper has announced it will introduce a pay wall. build germany's most popular daily, wants readers to pay for exclusive content. >> the tabloid post publisher says it will include but is like a soccer, videos, and celebrity news. the paper plans to start

. >> the world health organization has suspended its polio vaccination program in northwest pakistan. it comes after gunmen attacked a vaccination team near peshawar, killing one. militants have repeatedly attacked polio workers, claiming the program is a cover for foreign espionage. >> south korea has taken two of its nuclear reactors offline. substandard parts that could fail in an emergency were discovered in the cooling system. it is likely to take about four months to fix the problem, and the government is warning of an unprecedented power crisis in the meantime. >> a volcano on the chile- argentina border is showing signs of an imminent eruption. at the orders have declared a red alert and ordered the evacuation of the surrounding area. 3000 people are being moved to safety. >> back here in germany, europe's biggest selling newspaper has announced it will introduce a pay wall. build germany's most popular daily, wants readers to pay for exclusive content. >> the tabloid post publisher says it will include but is like a soccer, videos, and celebrity news. the paper plans to start

polio eradication. with the partners, we will get that one done and we can focus on malaria, tuberculosis, get the death rate down from the 7 million even down to 3 million over the next 15 years. neil: john hudson senior, and i think warren buffett has said their goal is to die broke. they want to give it all away. i wonder with your three children, have you told them that is your goal? if they're looking at a huge inheritance, it and come in? >> we have talked to the kids about the vast majority of the wealth is going to the foundation. all of his money spent within 10 years after his death, the money will be in foundations, but even there after, our foundation and his children's foundations. our foundation is set up so -@after melinda and i are gone, our foundation will spend the money within 20 years. our kids are excited about the foundation work. they will get a great college education and some support, so they are very, very lucky. neil: do any of them have to worry? >> not at all. if you get to

>> their relationshi several different phase that he did have polio and that was disabling in som sfloopts they kept in touch. >> absolutely. >> that's a strong -- >> that's a friendship. >> at least a friendship. bearing in mind this was an era when one could not easily have relionshi especially in politics. everything had to be kept subterranean there is a lot of hidde history. wasn't at his side and the time of his death? >> i have no reason to doubt she loved him sin skerly. i have no reason to doubt that at all but i do think they were two people who were driven to be in together because of their political commitment >> they each cheated on each other? >> yes. >> did any other president of first ladies cheat on each other >> really. >> absolutely. i mean with the johnson presidency, lin don johnson quite openly flaunted his mistresses where did he do that? >> beginning back -- >> where >> in text andas washington d.c. >> i thought it was an outlying about 65 miles from washington. wasn't that true >> some of their weekend get relationship that went o right under her nose their same so

mother saying my child has polio and i have to carry my child around.were inspired by your efforts to struggle against polio. .hey were very poignant letters they get in that sense of people paying attention to the besident and that he may able to make a difference. host: anthony here in dc on the line for democrats. caller: good morning. i have always felt that president obama is relatively young in national politics, not like some of his congressional leaders who have been around for the last 25 or 35 years. i always thought he had a decent brian with people like williams and steve cross. what is your view on that? guest: that is an interesting point. you brought up brian williams and steve croft. they are not white house correspondents. he tends to be okasan on network anchors, commentators, the poker run the sunday shows but not the frontline white house reporters -- people who run the white house reporters. and giving interviews, he tends to be choosing the bigger name people particularly on television. i do not think he has given an interview to t

mother saying my child has polio and i have to carry my child around.we were inspired by your efforts to struggle against polio. they were very poignant letters. they give him that sense of people paying attention to the president and that he may be able to make a difference. host: anthony here in d.c. on the line for democrats. caller: good morning. i have always felt that president obama is relatively young in national politics, not like some of his congressional leaders who have been around for the last 25 or 35 years. i always thought he had a decent rapport with people like brian williams and steve croft. what is your view on that? guest: that is an interesting point. you brought up brian williams and steve croft. they are not white house correspondents. he tends to be focusing on network anchors, commentators, the people who run the sunday shows, but not frontline white house reporters. and giving interviews, he tends to be choosing the bigger name people particularly on television. i do not think he has given an interview to "the new york times"

mother saying my child has polio and i have to carry my child around.by your efforts to struggle against polio. they were very poignant letters. they get in that sense of people paying attention to the president and that he may be able to make a difference. host: anthony here in dc on the line for democrats. caller: good morning. i have always felt that president obama is relatively young in national politics, not like some of his congressional leaders who have been around for the last 25 or 35 years. i always thought he had a decent report with people like brian williams and steve croft. what is your view on that? guest: that is an interesting point. you brought up brian williams and steve croft. they are not white house correspondents. he tends to be okasan on network anchors, commentators, the people who run the frontline white house reporters. and giving interviews, he tends to be choosing the bigger name people particularly on television. i do not think he has given an interview to the "new york times" correspondent in years. is he communicating wi

interest rates last or earlier i talked to michael pentode president and founder of the pen dope or polio strategies and author of the book the coming collapse in the bond market i asked him about the fed's near zero interest rate policy and he explained why he thinks the bond market is going to collapse. i wrote. book about it and when i wrote the book i said to myself should i really be writing a book about the coming bar market collapse when it seems to be self-evident it should be pedestrian common knowledge but it seems like everywhere i go people have become less and less attuned to bubbles i told everybody the nasdaq was in a bubble in one thousand nine hundred nine i sold all my stocks in march march of two thousand and i wrote a very extensive commentary about the housing bubble in two thousand and five i was vilified and vilified and excoriated everywhere i went and now today i wrote a book about something which should be prima foxey evidence that the us debt market is the biggest bubble in american history and yet no one believes me it is the most overpriced over own oversuppli

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once again, we must end polio now. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one inute. >> thank you, mr. speaker, i rise today to give thanks to the first person who came to work for me when i came to congress five years ago, legislative director megan bell. she's leaving our office, going on to bigger and better things but she's been a tireless public servant for the people of southeast louisiana and provided great leadership to our nation. mr. scalise: she's been a huge help to me on so many issue, when the deepwater horizon disaster happened three years ago, she was right there helping not only to get people back to work but also to help draft and lead through the legislative process the restore act which provided incredible support to the people become home. she also provided great help to constituents on a friday afternoon when we got a call from a

polio was almost gone in the world. is one of the last places where it survives. and as one commentator pointed days, peoplehese are going to look at this child has say, you did it to us. you can guess what is going to happen then. testimonymissed the of this young activist and freelance journalist, last wednesday, we played it in full. you can watch and also read the transcript. i wanted to ask you to follow up on the opening point around the killing and closing of the americans. and verses people anywhere? >> his point is exactly right. we should be honest about it, take a look of the new york times the next day, and there was a headline which had something like the west celebrates the death of the radical cleric. then, concerns over the fact that he was an american. the but of a problem if we go around killing americans. that is pretty scandalous. when doesn't matter if they are americans or where they are, there are people. the concept of people free of these state terror has been expanded over the years. and it should be expanded to include people. i should s

i just did a profile on "60 minutes" with bill, the fact that he thinks he had eradicate polio is biggern any software he sold a gazillions. >> people giving all their time and money and effort to do good things. at that point you're like money is the modern day report card, but once you've got that age let's go on. >> rose: there is this. what can they learn from you? >> i think every generation has its own rallies points, you can't retrofit, and what people are doing now is retrofit. the base. young people have been marketed to since they were newborns. they have developed into the most sophisticate detector of all time. if something is created in a board room, if something is creating by sensors, they'll say that will be cool. we'll goa skateboarding and that will sell the thing. that will not work. the people who shoot it have to be young, the language has to-- that's sounds very simple because no one is giving a kid a million dollars and saying, "go make something for he. no one, who has ever made anything before. it goes against everyone stort of status quo way of make things we ha

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it was range from polio to heatstroke, but it was it was now outbreak that was found through researchandoned stagnant water in swimming pools and other locations that were breeding mosquitoes. this led to a rather large west nile outbreak. indeed, the reason why it was discovered was something called the california encephalitis project where a group of public laboratories that work in concert with the cdc and ironically after helping control the outbreak, they were closed due to budget cuts. >> i want to turn to the issue of drug abuse. a recent film by vice has renewed attention to the drug crisis in greece, particularly the use of the new drug called sisa. the mainhe head of anti-drug center in greece. >> >> the head of the main anti- drug center in greece. david stuckler, talk about that and also related illness relate it to hear. >> this is a devastating situation we are seeing with the drug crisis escalating at a time when drug prevention are being cut. with gaping holes, people are becoming desperate, turning to the means of self harm. andave seen drug use infected needles sprea

this would be a national epidemic, i mean, if this were meningitis, if this were polio. i mean, could you imagine the reaction of the society? >> and the industry said over 50 years ago that this was an insoluble problem, it was a problem of, caused by slums, it was a problem caused by who they called uneducable parents. and so that they washed their hands of the problem and they have still washed their hands of the problem. parents have played, excuse me, paid the cost of lead poisoning. landlords have even paid the cost of lead poisoning. the government has paid the cost of lead poisoning. the industry has not paid to get that lead off the walls so future generations of children can be protected. >> what your critics say is, look, it's like gasoline in cars. we didn't intend harmful effects to come from a product that was fueling america's economy. we found out later and we're trying to cut back on emissions. this applies as well to lead and other toxins in our environment. nobody intended it, it proved to be a consequence of, as even you say in here, the enormous amou

. >> rose: starting with polio? >> bill: get it done by 2018. >> rose: tuberculosis?take probably six or seven years. >> rose: malaria? >> bill: malaria's the one that the tools are being invented now-- 15 and perhaps even 20 years, but start to really shrink that map. >> rose: these are the people gates wants to help. they are what he calls "the bottom two billion," a third of the world's population that struggles on less than $2 a day. they are poor, hungry, lack electricity and clean water. gates' most urgent goal: help the millions of children under five who die every year, one every 20 seconds, from preventable diseases. no one alive that i know of has said, "my goal is to eradicate a disease and then another disease and then another disease." this is somebody that dreams high. >> bill: yeah, because i... i'm excited about that. and... and it's... it's doable. >> rose: today, gates spends most of his time here at the bill and melinda gates foundation in seattle. he runs it with his father, bill, sr., and his wife, melinda, whom he credits with being a driving for

that's due to gains in health care, so you've seen things like eat rad indication of smallpox, polioted. amazing health care interventions in malaria. and seen the growth of parts of latin america, you've seen amazing economic boom. the remaining 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty are basically living in sub-sarahan africa. >> we've got to let you go. and the show unfortunately there's a time clock that we're running up against, but hugh, the goal of ending poverty around the world, some people think it's doable. >> it is doable. it's going to happen within our lifetime. >> that's highly and awesomely optimistic. thank you for all the work you're doing. >> the project is live below the line. hugh evans from the global poverty project. thanks to our panelists. that's all for now, see you back here tomorrow at noon when i'm joined by sam stein, josh green, nia malika henderson and ben smith. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. we've all had those moments. when you lost the thing you can't believe you lost. when what you just bought, just broke. or when you have a little troubl

economists projected polio would cost $100 billion a year. in the face of this challenge, medical research produced a solution to this devastating disease and polio is being eradicated worldwide. we confront difficult spending choices. i believe we must prioritize our commitment to nih. without adequate and support for medical research, trainees will be driven from medical fields or into the arms of our global competitors. last year, china's government pledged to increase basic research investment by 26% and will contribute more than $300 billion to biotechnology over the next five years. in the last five years, in the last five years, china's we risk losing a generation of scientists and stopping our nations global competitors. this is not a time to waver on america's commitment to nih and the health of all americans. mr. chairman, i look forward to working with you on these priorities. >> thank you. we welcome dr. francis collins. the 16th director of the national institute of health. his leadership of the genome project, was the director f

your focus with the gates foundation is vaccines, polio -- we talked a little about it behind-the-scenes. when you look at the domestic debate on health care and what you are seeing a broad in your travels, -- a broad -- abroad in your travels, what stands out to you? there seem to be legitimate solutions on the table. >> health care, there are big differences between rich countries, middle income countries, and low income countries. low income countries, which is where our foundation focuses most of the efforts, that, the key missing thing is to have great primary health care where a mother before birth is counseled, first 30 days, the infant gets care and vaccinations get delivered. hiv drugs, tb drugs, malaria drugs get out. there is actually very good rogress on that. with budget deficits in the u.s. nd europe and japan, the traditional donors, there is a reflection on whether the aid budgets will even stay flat. countries have been cutting those. that really hurts low income countries. middle income countries like china, they have got a lot of injustice because of what is not covere

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