he's director of health at the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies. don't take out a bag of thanks for talking to do it. vella contact tracing was seen as a cave fact kept to contain the virus earlier in the year. many countries did a good job of expanding their capacity as we just saw there in turkey. but now numbers are on the rise again, is contact tracing, just not working. contact tracing remains the key to stop the always needs to be looked at with testing in isolation and part what happens when the numbers are going up so fast and indicators are so large that the system is simply not functioning well anymore. that doesn't mean they're going to treat single testing is not important, is that we need to bring down the numbers and then step up even for their own test contact tracing and testing capacity in the countries. what do you say then to those who claim that measures like contact tracing are hurting the foundations of democracy? i totally disagree. i think tracing the ease that used key to stop the epidemic, of course, needs to be done in th

he's the director of health and care at the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies. start a couple bianco in many places. numbers are on the rise. again. even those who did a good job of tracing is it working? well, the answer is that the context racing when when kept will the waves that rise the lation and current time works in needs to be work. the problem is when the numbers are rising so fast that the systems is not functioning well. so what is the response to that is strengthening the ability to contact tracing, strengthen the number of people doing contact tracing. now to flatten the curve and more importantly afterwards to ensure that outbreaks are immediately, it includes that's the road towards the end. all of these fundamental. what do you say to those who claim that measures like contact, contact tracing, are hurting the foundations of democracy. but i respectfully disagree with that statement, but i do realize that i want to trace the needs to be done in a respectful way when it comes to sensitive data and information that are asked during the winter tre

the turkish red crescent has sent tents beds and food to the region but depend and the need for social distancing could at yet another challenge to the state's aster see now because so little al-jazeera is mere western turkey. freezing breaking news now 7 current and former pro-democracy politicians in hong kong have been arrested doesn't appear to be related to the national security nor beijing imposed on the city earlier this year to find out what it is about let's go to algiers devika palm who's on the phone in hong kong didier what more can you tell us. no i understand that these charges are still coming in but i understand the charges that relate to events. which took place during a legislative 5 thing. but the council is very clearly divided between those who support democracy and those who support more. than ok i had a rough in the 2 camps particularly the fact that the house committee wanted to remove the chairman democracy and move with the made against that it was complete chaos of 'd the council at the time pictures would be across the cherry 'd tree 5 people throwing things

but also a lot of other local organizations, such as the sudanese red crescent, trying to assist us best as we can. and it is urgent. and we are trying to ensure that we get our relief materials positioned there in such a way that we can actually further take care and manage this crisis. and what are the immediate needs, axel and immediate needs are. i mean, food is always the need and many of the people are actually coming without anything . soap, they don't have any means of actually has the wiring so we have to take care of them. luckily, the local community there has helped out quite a lot, but there is a lot more which needs to be done. as was earlier indicated, there is also a need for water. water needs to be purified. we have a river there, but it needs to be purified. and we are asking our prayers are, were there specialists such as unicef, to actually help us out, that there are so many, many children amongst this, about 50 percent disgusted, meant to be children. so they have special needs which we need to take care of. so it is intrinsic poll everything which aid situation of

the turkish red crescent has sent tents beds and food to the region but depend and the need for social distancing could at yet another challenge to the state's aster so now because so little al-jazeera is mere western turkey still ahead on al-jazeera aspiring to be a genuine democracy algeria is government promises to overhaul a decades old political system and offers the people a say. i mean you accuse azerbaijan of using an illegal weapon me a civilian area in their own daily conflicts. hi there we've got some rather wet weather on the cards for to pad as we go into the early part of next week for the time being it's lost 5 and dry clear skies the last of the ridge of high pressure keeping things settled at the most of sunday this wetter weather will come through the korean peninsula south korea easing across the sea of japan sliding its way over towards the pad it will be rather heavy at times to western and southern parts of japan before eventually it's over the mountains and on towards the eastern side of holland schafer the south we've got a couple of systems to watch out for thi

turkey's red crescent team says it has a critical life—saving window.t rescuers could still hear voices beneath mounds of concrete, and that miracles could happen. 38 people are known to have died. more than 100 have been pulled out alive. a greek orthodox priest has suffered life—threatening gunshot wounds while closing his church in the french city of lyon. police have arrested a suspect. president macron has deployed an extra 4,000 soldiers to protect public sites, including places of worship. this is bbc news. the headlines: boris johnson confirms a four—week national lockdown in england to try to halt the rising number of coronavirus cases. from thursday, non—essential shops will close, and bars and restaurants will shut. as the last weekend of campaigning hots up, donald trump and joe biden make a last bid for votes in swing states that could be key to winning the white house. super typhoon goni has made landfall in the philippines with sustained winds of 225 kilometres an hour. parts of the main island of luzon are expected to be hit in the comin

buildings having collapsed they are outside in the surrounding parks around here the minister ality red crescent have built tents so that people can stay during the day and spend over night when we speak to the people they say at night it is getting a call that she lives in this fight that it is very very they people are saying that they are spending the nights in the cars and spending the days in the park when there are many children of course who are left outside right now even the coffee shops around here are open and for free service $724.00 just one for instance one of the coffee shops just right next to me is open for the civilians who who come to their homes they're spending the night over there the local administrations are providing food for them yes there are not many of them in there are air around 17 buildings that have collapsed some of the buildings 2 don't even have any cracks on their walls but when you speak to people they say that they're afraid to go in their buildings this fire at their construction a safe so since aftershocks still continue there is still fear here ok thank

bianco, he's the director of health and chair at the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies. dr. in many places numbers are on the rise. again, even those who did a good job of tracing is it working? well, the answer is that the context racing when when kept all the rage, that the trooper isolation and quarantine works in needs to be work. the problem is when the numbers are rising so fast that the systems is not functioning well. so what is the response to that east? strengthening the ability to contact tracing, strengthen the number of people doing contact tracing. now to flatten the curve and more importantly afterwards to ensure that outbreaks are immediately detected includes that's the road towards the end of all of these and him. what do you say to those who claim that measures like contact, contact tracing, are hurting the foundations of democracy? well, i.e. respected. these are we that statement, but i do realize that content tracing needs to be done in a respectful way when it comes to sensitive data and information that are passed during the winter, tra