bembry and the ministers of health of liberia, sierra leone. as the president of the republic of equatorial guinea. we struggled during his statement of the general debate of the 69th session of the general assembly. i quote him. in fact this session of the general assembly has a great responsibility of finding solutions to the problems of poverty and hunger in the world. violence and armed conflicts, terrorism, piracy, and major pandemics to which ebola as just been added which ravages some african countries. because of its lethal effects and lack of means to combat ebola, the government of the republic of equatorial guinea, on occasion of granting second international prize of -- equatorial guinea in research in life science, has donated $2 million to the world health organization to finance the programs who struggle against this disease, end of quotation. allow me to conclude this brief statement by expressing our entire solidarity with the countries currently affected. appreciation to the countries which are giving the greatest support to c

they said they want medics sent to sierra leone. there are only two clinicians at an ebola clinic that has 40 or 50 patients to respond to and that is about the largest government run treatment center. so they need a lot of these medics to be on the ground but nobody knows when they will come in, and the 160 that are coming this afternoon from cuba should be a big relief. but just a temporary relief. a lot more are needed. >> just briefly, we were just seeing pictures there from dallas, texas. there's a case from liberia that has now been the first in the u.s. what is the procedure for people who are leaving sierra leone and other countries in terms of checking whether they might have the virus, even if they haven't shown any symptoms? >> well, the airport is really equipped. i've been there several times in recent times. i was there last week. it's well-equipped. the body temperature test outside. there's a big camera inside the airport, which every passenger is required to go through, and if the body temperature reads beyond the l

badly affected sierra leone's society.here is growing fear of contamination. schools across the country have enclosed for the last three months. normally on a day like this, thousands of girls should be here learning. no one knows exactly when schools will reopen. worriedand teachers are about the effect on their children's education. >> the impact is immeasurable. two thirds of the workforce are already unemployed, but now, more people are being laid off as businesses close and investors leave the country. hope is not something you see on the faces of people here. bbc news, sierra leone. >> not a lot of hope. as nations are racing to fight this outbreak, and the united states, health officials have reached out to about 18 people who may have had contact with the man in texas who is also being diagnosed with the virus. president obama called the mayor of dallas, texas to make sure he had all the resources he needed to try to keep his people safe. i spoke with the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious

we will speak with owners that is just returned from sierra leone. to the political economy of ebola. who lives, who dies. finally, the politics of women's health care here at home. we will speak with amy hagstrom miller was just reopened her abortion clinic in texas after the supreme court blocked part of an antichoice law that would've required abortion clinics to meet the standards of hospital style surgery centers. problem wasn't a safety with abortion care in the state of texas that these laws were addressing. abortion has been safely provided for over 40 years in the date and small sort of doctors office based settings. morally, while it is and ethically complex for a lot of people, medically, it is quite a simple procedure. >> then katha pollitt on her new book, "pro: reclaiming abortion rights." calls for thinking of abortion as a positive social good. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. concerns about ebola in the united states have grown after the second texas

in sierra leone, 7:00 p.m. in hong kong, and midday here in london, where dramatic new figures on the ebola crisis have been released to coincide with a conference asking for more money to tackle the outbreak. a leading health charity now says that five people are infected with the deadly virus every hour in sierra leone. save the children says more than 760 new cases were reported in the west african country last week. but there are only 300 suitable hospital beds in the country. the most serious outbreak of the virus is taking place -- it is getting worse as well. just look at how the number of deaths has grown exponentially since it began. over 3,000 people have died since march. sierra leone, liberia, and guinea have been most affected, and the first case was diagnosed in the united states on tuesday. we're going to take you live to that conference here in london in a few moments time, but first with the very latest, here's the bbc's john brain. >> reporter: a terrifying disease spreading, says save the chi

i thank you very much. >> i thank the minister of sierra leone. i now give the floor to the distinguished representative of guinea. mr. president, mr. deputy secretary general champ d de cabini, ladies and gentlemen, my for the inc.itiave you have taken to organize this meeting which comes from the will of the international community. to spare no efforts in order to find an urgent response to combatting the ebola virus. mr. president, i would like to thank your excellencies, the ministers of health liberia and sierra leone. as well as mr. anthony bambury, for the firsthand information that they have just provided. through very he had figedifying on the scope and the complexity of the multi-dimensional crisis. the health crisis, and the socioeconomic crisis being faced by the affected countries where the illness is found. of course, the gravity of the situation has been described by panelists leaves no doubt about the vital needs for the international community to undertake urgent action in order to reverse the current trend. as you said, mr. presi

your agency recently opened up a facility for 24 patients in sierra leone. what went wrong in africa for this to spiral the way it has. >> the issue was not contained early on. something spreads as a virus quickly if it is not contaminated and controlled, isolated early on. march was the first case, from guin guinea, spread to sierra leone and quickly. we sent out another warnings are getting out of control in june. and still not enough was done soon enough. so here we are in september and we are looking at all the data that shows if we don't significantly have more action on the ground supporting people, more treatment centers like we have opened and working on opening another ninety bed center by the end of the month to treat more people as well as a need for continuum of care, this thing will continue to escala escalate. >> so it is fair to say that the best thing we can do or the most important thing we can do to help americans is help get it under control in africa. >> we really need to support the efforts happening in west african region, guinea, sierr

but at least these resources are going to sierra leone right now. thank you very much for your time today. >>> and now we want to give you the latest information on the two nurses being treated for ebola in the united states. nina pham arrived at the national institutes of health, she contracted ebola from thomas eric duncan who later died from the disease. >> the nih is one of four specially equipped bio-containment units in the u.s. that is her leaving the plane before she walked to the ambulance. her doctor recorded some video of her just before she left dallas. she was in good spirits. >> thank you for being part of the volunteer team to take care of the first patient. it means a lot. this has been a huge effort by all of you guys. we're really proud of you. all right -- >> by all of you guys. >> now, amber vinson, you see her here, the second dallas nurse who contracted ebola may have shown symptoms of the virus as early as three or four days before previously reported. it is important because that means she could have been contagious when she

and we'll go to sierra leone with a medical system stretched to its limits. i'm lisa fletcher in for antonio mora, welcome to "consider this" those stories and more straight ahead. >> terror, north of the border. a canadian soldier is killed, a gunman brought down. >> michael shot and killed a soldier at the national war memorial. >> we're going to do everything we can, to make sure we're standing side by side. >> a blockbuster report. >> on michael brown's death. >> seemed to support the officer's side of the story. >> if this report holds up warren will not be indicted for michael brown's death. >> orphans only a few days old stigmatized shunned. >> university of north carolina. >> you made the dean's list despite never attending any of the classes. >> as an athlete we weren't there for education. >> not one person should be dying from an unintentional overdose of painkillers prescribed by your doctor. >> are we a healthy people or are we creating an epidemic. >> we begin in ottawa, where a man fatally shot a soldier, then entered the parliament building, c

it's really hard to get to sierra leone right now. it was hard years ago when i was there but it's really hard now. it will get harder as the world shuts down to this part of the world. we need to flood this area with supplies, with people and with our systems and the only way to do that is to keep these channels open. >> there have been a couple of questions about the military response and this is an implied question as well. it's important to understand that what the department of defense is doing is first of all at the request of our civilian agencies so the questions about when we got there and what scale we are operating at relates to what we are being asked to do. we are asked to come and suppo support. we respond and we are responding with all due speed and we do have the joint force command setting up on the ground. we do have some 200 military personnel already in monrovia. we are engaged in this as intensively as we can be but as i said in my remarks this isn't an overnight process and this is going to take some time to get

in sierra leone alone, they have virus samples collected. they're working in harsh conditions and working at the risk of their lives, and i don't believe their lives can be evaluated in figures. >> china has become africa's biggest trading partner, with developing diplomatic ties to match. given those links, many analysts believe that china could be expected to do more, an expectation that will grow in the future. >> we talk a lot about china's military and economic rising, and i think that the next conversation we're going to start having is a rise in china's responsibility. the nations of west africa and asia will increasingly look to china in times of crisis to be a mediator in international conflicts, and it seems as though beijing hasn't quite caught up. >> but it seems to be doing so quickly. and it now has the medical statute to help the world. the demands of help that china is giving, but what everyone seems to agree on is the spread of the disease, from three to last year's bird flu. it has developed effective defenses. a valuable a

cases in sierra leone are rocketing. more than 120 deaths were recorded yesterday alone, making it one of the deadliest ays of this outbreak so far. tonight there's yet another death. his family called us this evening to tell us he has passed away. bbc news, freetown. >> one more victim of this terrifying ebola outbreak and today president obama announced that his administration is working on additional protocols for screening airplane passengers to identify those who might have ebola. for more on the international efforts to stop the spread of this virus, i spoke a short time ago with nancy, the assistant administrator of usaid. she returned from liberia just a few days ago. nancy, we're hearing in that report something like 120 deaths yesterday in sierra leone alone. what is the scale now of this outbreak, and is the window to contain it closing? >> well, this is unprecedented. we have never had an ebola outbreak of this scale. as it's jumped borders and into urban borders, it's really escalated. what we've seen is tha

sierra leone ebola killed 930 people.ea where the latest out break began 778 people have died. and 8 people have died in nigeria. aid agencies in sierra leone say the international community needs to invest far more money and resources into fighting the ebola out break and sierra leone doesn't have enough resources to treat ebola patients, on average there is only one doctor for every 50,000 people. dominick kane reports. >> reporter: this is an ebola treatment center in western free town and cares for people who have tested positive for the disease. those suspected of incubating the virus are placed in a separate ward. those with the full-blown disease are treated in special tents behind steel fences. >> in this moment there are nurse staff inside one tent that they are providing care to one patient and there is always another person outside following the activities that we are doing in the risk area. >> reporter: in this outbreak many of the people treating patients have themselves become infected from accidental contam

and we have the same thing in guinea and in sierra leone.'re definitely increasing in that sense. communities are accepting, you know, the teams more and more. >> this is testing obviously both for the international agencies that want to help, but very testing for the sierra leone government. there have been some critics who have accused the government of failing to get resources to where they're needed, of stockpiling supplies and resources in warehouses that are not getting to where the people desperately need them. what is your view of the competition of the sierra leonean government? >> we're not here to comment on their competency. i think we work well with them, we've been working with the sierra leone government and with all the other actors, like msf in the field from the beginning. it's a huge logistical pipeline. if we only take the logistic part of it, you can imagine, it's thousands of items to have the personal protection equipment. i mean, in our hospital, we're using 150 personal protective equipment today. so imagine every si

i think we need to be supporting more on that i'm worried because sierra leone and liberia have made so many great strides in fighting against childhood diseases. that's going to be out of it now because all the attention is on ebola. liberia and seer sierra leone were one and two in term of gdp expenditures for health care, in the world, number one and two. all of that -- unfortunately they're going to have to start all over. coming out of the civil wars they were in, blood diamond wars. great strides. ebola kills it. the world has to stand by and i'm hoping the world will be patient, put money in, even as the ebola crisis is over we have to help these countries help themselves. >> thank you for giving us a new look at this quest. let's go to howard with more on today's yellow alert. >>> andrea, we're still okay for a few more hours but by late afternoon, evening, that's when things will go downhill weather wise. a little earlier to the west. not a bad sky midday. that 63, seem to be some data issues over the weather service. that's an 11:00 temperature probably in the mid-60s. we h

in sierra leone and liberia combined.n new york state we have 50,000 register the physicians alone. when we call ourselves the greatest country in the world, it means we have systems, staff, supplies to deal with the situation like this. we will. but if i could, so 100-bed facility. services 50,000 people. has a single ambulance. one ambulance that is solely for the transport of pregnant mothers. most folks arrive by foot or motorbike. so, 100-bed facility. short of basic splice. gauze, tape for wounds, no iv therapy available, sutures. they have seven cloth gowns that are sterilized and reused for all aseptic purposes. this is servinging 50,000 people. got no x-rays, no ultrasound. shortage of teaching supplies. ten people dying every month from malaria. we didn't care about that because it's not infectious. >> you say we didn't care about some of this and you've been going to the region. about 4,500 deaths. your video points out it's not a death sentence. three cases out of all those are in the united states. we know it

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cases in sierra leone are rocketing. more than 120 deaths were recorded yesterday alone, making it one of the deadliest days of this outbreak so far. tonight, there's yet another death. francis's family called us this evening to tell us he has passed away. bbc news, freetown. >>> let's bring you now the very latest on the situation in spain. three more people have apparently been hospitalized after a nurse there became the first person to contract ebola outside of west africa. people are asking, though, how did the virus get there in the first place? ebola first arrived on spanish soil on the 7th of august when a missionary father arrived in madrid for treatment after becoming infected in liberia. the 75-year-old died five days later on august 12th. a second missionary arrived in madrid from sierra leone. just three days later, he died. that was on september 21st. and we know that the nurse who has been infected had treated both men, including garcia on the day of his death. five days later on sunday, the nurse was admit

700 bases providing in sierra leone with 750 personnel. united states has sent 280 staff, with over 2000 troops going at the end of the month. cuba is sending 165 medics. but 20 of others don't seem to be offering. >> i think it is time for other countries to look at their responsibilities and resources, and act in a similar way to what britain is doing in sierra leone. other countries now need to step forward with the resources and reaction. a the painful sights of victim unable to walk on their own. this video was filmed by the nsf -- msf at one of their treatment centers in sierra leone. the charity said no one listened to its warnings about the dangers of the outbreak, and now there is a desperate scramble to catch up. reporting.ipman withke a short time ago the president of the american nurses association. what has gonenow wrong in america, in terms of tackling ebola and what happened to health care workers? a we have certainly learned lot in the last couple of weeks. it is really sad there are two workers who have become infected. wh

sierra leone is one of the worst hit countries. the medical infrastructure and resources are stretched so cuba has several hundred 65 doctors and nurses to help fight the virus. >> a much awaited arrival as 62 doctors and 103 nurses touchdown from havana. they have been sent to sierra leone for six months. their mission? to stop the deadly ebola virus from spreading further. >> we have highly qualified persons to help. we think this is very important because what happens here has repercussions in the whole world. the battle is here. we have called on people to join everybody together. >> further teams are set to follow. cuba is already plan to deploy more than 400 medical personnel to the west african countries worst hit by the epidemic. >> we need as much help as possible. this would make a dent in the fight. >> sierra leone is in severe shortage of not just medical staff but also basic resources. the country lacks hundreds of beds and a mere fraction of ebola sufferers are in specialized treatment centers. according to the world

by august, ebola spread to liberia, siberia and sierra leone. according to the centers for disease control and prevention ebola epidemic is the largest in history and sadly the virus has claimed at least 4,000 lives to date. by the end of september, the cdc confirmed the diagnosis of the first travel associated case of ebola in the united states. the situation is rapidly developing into changing and americans are understandably worried. worried that their governments response to the outbreak and in particular, the steps we are taking to control the spread of ebola. with the high fatality rate as much as 70% is's ebola looks of public health around the world. an outbreak in american cities or any major city in the world could be very costly to contain and could have major economic impacts. yesterday's news was a doctor in new york city tested positive for ebola and this is particularly distressing. there is certainly some good news to report on our efforts to contain the outbreak created no new ebola cases have been reported in nigeria in 46 days

they were looking in places like sierra leone and guinea, they were looking at hotel occupancy and cellsf cement, farms that are being abandoned, and they came up with these figures. they are just projected worse case scenario. if that was to happen, if more than a million people were to die in west africa, $33 billion could actually be just the tip of the iceberg. >> matt, thanks so much for joining us. >>> now in china, the pressure to get into the best universities is intense. so much so that many students have started the countdown to the entrance exams over the summer with an intense revision schedule. now the government is worried that schools are turning into exam factories which destroy creativity and undermine the country's ambition to become a more innovative economy. but is that the case? we sent our china editor carrie gracie back to school to find out. >> reporter: it's a year until the university entrance exams, but these 17-year-olds start class at 7:30 a.m. and they're hard at it until 10:30 at night, except today. how often do you play games in class? you don't play any

these men are in charge of burying the bodies of ebola victims in sierra leone. they make about $100 per week, but say they have not been paid their risk allowances recently a situation that has pushed them to go on strike. >> the government promised to pay us by the week, and now they have told us this our second week, no payment. that is why we decided not to come to work today. >> it is a temporary job and there won't be any benefits when the outbreak is over. we need this money. >> because the ebola virus remains active in corpses, those who dispose of the bodies are seen as a threat to the community, especially considering the number of bodies they are in contact with sometimes up to 35 a day. many believe these teams don't have the proper equipment. >> we have over 60 deaths of workers. it is very serious and very discouraging. more has to be done. >> the evil outbreak has killed more than 600 people in sierra leone -- the ebola outbreak has killed more than 600 people in sierra leone. >> now, uhuru kenyatta has become the first sitting head of state to app

support to sierra leone is being increased to sierra leone, liberia and guinea. >> in tanned some with the response, we need to monitor the socioeconomic impacts of the crisis and mitigate the fall out effects that this will have on the society of sierra leone and your economy. we'll be worked hard with the mission under tony's leadership to anticipate and plug the gaps that will be required to support the government in the delivery of the social services and budget support, and working on likelihood support for the people of sierra leone. >> a texan family that lived in an apartment where a liberian man fell ill have been moved to a different home. thomas eric duncan visited from liberia, and was staying with the family. the hazardous team worked through the day to decontaminate the home. >>> a prison in australia is welcoming its first inmates, almostal aboriginals, making up also than a third of the populace, but take up 900 of the 1,000 beds in the new -- population, but take up 900 of the 1,000 beds. andrew thomas explains why. >>> when graham woods killed a man in a fight, his wi

the situation in sierra leone, liberia, and guinea is getting worse, with 70 new cases in sierra leone alone, and the number of ebola cases is likely to increase to between 5 and 10,000 every week by december. almost 4,500 people have died in west africa since the start of the year >>> the world food program sent 60 metric tonnes of aid to liberia and sierra leone - including medical supplies to set up more ebola treatment clinics and food. the outbreak meant many farmers have not been able to attend to crops in the field, and there are concerns that the worst affected count are yous may suffer food -- countries may suffer food shortages and famine >>> safety protocols in u.s. hospitals are questioned after a second nurse attracted ebola in texas. she was allowed to board a flight the day before she was diagnosed. she and others were treating thomas eric duncan who died of ebola. federal health officials are called to the congression to explain what wept wrong on thursday. >> -- what went wrong, on thursday. >> we are making sure something like this is not repeated and we are monitorin

the united kingdom is doing the same thing in freetown, sierra leone. that sends a powerful statement that treatment is available for health care workers that get sick. medical evacuation will be of actual -- be available for health cares who that is indicated. the rest of the world should join the effort and do more with us together. >> thank you very much for coming in. welcome back. he was moreg optimistic about the possibility of containing this outbreak than he was before he went to west africa. the suspected ringleader of the september 2012 raid on a u.s. diplomatic post in the city of benghazi has pleaded not to -- not guilty to all charges. ahmed abu khattalah appeared in court on 17 new charges, some of which may be punishable by death. the lawyer entered the plea on his behalf. u.s. ambassador chris stevens and three others were killed in the attack. reports from northeastern nigeria say at least 20 people have been killed between clashes between soldiers and suspected militants of boko haram despite a truce announced last friday. the cease-fi

and sierra leone needs 1,200. but right now, it only has about one quarter of that. that's concerning, because about there's no room in hospital, people are left to die at home where they can spread the virus. supplies are coming in from the international community, but it's stilled not enough. the w.h.o. has predicted that the number of new cases is likely to increase up to 10,000 a week by december. the world needs to act now or suffer the consequences later. erica woods, aljazeera. >> the w.h.o. has just held a briefing on how the countries can keep the disease from a spreading. >> coordination, and rapid response teams, public awareness, and training on infection prevention and control. healthcare workers are on the front line, we can never say that enough. they need to be protected and well trained. and they need to identify a group of people who have the huge responsibility to take care of the first patient and make sure that the patient is treated correctly. and those taking care are also protected. proper case management, compact tracing, as i told you, we ca

, i went to sierra leone, there's barely a light switch in the place. if you had a magic wand, what would you do to help contain it and eradicate it. >> first the magic wand would be more than 17 of those centers. there needs to be hundreds of those centers. we're sending 50 workers from to the cdc over there but we need a lot more workers to educate. and the people have to be educatab educatable. they have to understand that this thing can be scrolled by modern medicine, but their culture tells them different. here comes the modern medicine man. and that's something that won't go away overnight. >> there's another role to be played a beyond the troops and it is one that we talked about with isis as well, and that is propaganda from the united states. i know that the medicine men in a lot of those places scare their own people. i'm thinking why -- we should be talking to the medicine men and plant little seeds of ideas. >> it's like they did with aids. >> but we know that they can -- for example w fistula problems, and in sierra leone, they have been ab

most deaths have been in guinea, sierra leone and liberia. the charity working in sierra leone said there are currently 80 cases confirmed each day. diagnostic labs are in short supply. many more are going undiagnosed. >> reporter: i'm here at the sierra leone headquarters of the charity. they have been leading the fight against ebola since it first started six months ago. joining me now, christina who heads the mission here. explain how bad things are at the moment and how bad they could now get. >> ebola outbreak is not under control. we are far behind the control of the spreading of the virus. we are extremely concerned of consequence and amounts because everything is very slow. it's not enough in terms of response to provide and stop this outbreak. >> we've heard this week that you've had one of your international staff become infected with ebola. i've seen first hand the precautions you take. we have this nurse being treated in spain. how does that happen? >> unfortunately in ebola, there's no zero risk. we minimize as much as possible.

sierra leone does not have the resources to treat of the ebola patients. on average there is one doctor for every 50,000 people. >> this is an ebola treatment center in western free town. it cares for people who have tested positive for the disease. though suspected of incubating the virus are set within the walls. those with full-blown disease are treated behind steel fences. >> at this moment there is a nurse's staff in one tent where they're providing one patient, and there is always another person outside the activities that we're doing in the risk area. >> in this outbreak many of the people treating patients have themselves become infected from accidental contamination. that's something that the healthcare workers here take very seriously. >> and the treatment center you have to be careful. it's a risky job for the cleaners, the nurses and doctors. it's not easy to do the work inside. you have to take your time and take all the precautions. >> trying to contain the outbreak is especially hard for sierra leone. it is home to 6 million people. 75% of t

this means less food on the plates of many people from sierra leone. be given to those who can farm in areas not badly affected by ebola. unless that is done, the food security issue is set to continue. most of the produce sold in markets like this is sourced locally, but with claims the country's main harvest is now at risk, they can add feeding their families to the list of challenges this unprecedented outbreak has brought. >>> the parents of the burmese men charged with killing two british citizens in thailand say that their sons are being made scapegoats. speaking exclusively to the bbc, the mother of one of the men said that stress from the case had made her suicidal. the bodies of the british tourists were found on a beach on the island last month. our myanmar correspondent jonah fisher reports. >> reporter: a double murder in thailand has broken hearts, both in britain and here in myanmar. i'm showing the families of the two men accused of murdering hannah withridge and david miller footage of their sons taking part in a thai police reconstruct

was treated after landing in newark airport in new jersey, returning from her work in sierra leone, her name is kaci hickox and writes "i sat alone in the isolation tent and thought of many colleagues who will return home to america and face the same ordeal. will they be made to feel like criminals and prisoners?" she added "my blood was taken and tested for ebola. it came back negative." new jersey governor chris christie told the associated press hickox was ill and apologized for her inconvenience. >>> a new york physician being treated for ebola is back home. morgan dixon has been isolated at an east side hospital. she is still quarantined, and spencer is now reportedly entering a more serious phase of his illness. the doctor who was working in beginie received blood plasma from nancy writebol, one of the first two americans diagnosed with ebola. doctors say ebola patients often get worse before they recover. it was spencer's diagnosis last week when he rode the subway, that sparked new quarantine policies in three states. alexandra field is outside bellevue hospital where spence

>> reporter: errol, the 57-year-old nurse was volunteering with the red cross in sierra leone. returned from west africa on the weekend to australia and then went to her home in cairns where she put herself in precautionary isolation. that is the standard procedure for our health workers returning from west africa who have been treating ebola patients. now, her condition is actually quite stable. she has only reported a low grade fever at this stage but as a precaution she has gone directly to cairns emergency hospital where she has been put in isolation. her blood tests have been taken from her. they're being flown to brisbane, a bigger city in the state of queensland where they'll be tested. those results are expected to take around four hours to come through so we are expecting to have a bit more information later tonight or early tomorrow morning australian time but certainly our chief health officer in queens of land stressed there was very little risk of contamination to anybody who may have come into contact with this woman. it's quite common for our health records to pu

i have been in sierra leone many times.dramatic reductions in people going to the market to sell their crops. and people traveling from ore countries to sell food in liberia and sierra leone. we see people who are -- mines that are shutting down as a result of foreign staff being pulled out, and workers being sent home. all of these come together to give us a strong sense of the economic impact. this $32.6 billion really comes about as we see significant spread throughout the region if this doesn't come under control in the next few months. >> when you look at the economies of the countries directly affected right now. these are small economies, generally economies that suffered drastically in the recent past. does a hit like this hurt countries like that more? or small economies more resilient and able to come back better? >> it hits them much more. when you contrast this with sars which hit hong kong, when we hit three of the weakest economies in the entire world, even though there was growth, we're looking at poverty rat

we have the latest and a doctor that just rurned from sierra leone. >>> the head of the secret service steps down - is the security breach over or just beginning. >>> behind the picture - 35,000 walruses converged on a slither of land in alaska. what the image says about their plight and climate change. >>> we begin this hong kong where the call for democracy is growing stronger. it's 11 o'clock thursday morning there now. protestors have given the chief executive of hong kong a deadline to resign, saying they want him out of office by thursday night, or they'll begin to occupy government buildings. scott heidler is amidst the tents and umbrellas in hong kong. what are you seeing this morning where you are? >> what we are seeing is a little bit of a shift. not many protesters have come down to where we are. we are in front of the chief executive's office. the main protest area is down the street a little bit. again, dozens of protesters, it's 11 o'clock in the morning. before we see a peak in numbers of protesters, but dozens have come down here. this is something we haven't seen for a

of course, the vast majority in the west african nations of guinea, sierra leone, and liberia. next few days and weeks, we'll be hearing from a nurse who works in freetown. she's based at the country's main referral hospital, a holding center for a lot of suspected ebola cases. it's where people go if they think they might have the virus. in her first video diary for the bbc, she explains her role. >> i am a medical doctor from the uk working in sierra leone. aye been in the country for three weeks now. i've previously worked in sierra leone before and i'm watching this outbreak unfold from the uk, which is why i wanted to return to see what i would do to help the situation. i'm working as a physician at the isolation unit. and i'm also working here as a technical adviser for the western area command center, which coordinates between all the available treatment units in the western area. the last three weeks have been intense. they've been challenging. and they've been exhausting. conditions on the ground have been quite shocking. we are overwhelmed with cases. the level of hum