according to sierra leone's healthy ministry, 39% drop of treatment for malaria.ccording to a recent report from the world health organization, and unicef, the mdg target of combating malaria was achieved globally, malaria deaths dropped by 60% how much in subsaharan eask tha africa ts not case. sierra leone has so many challenges it just can't catch up. >> at large it is not functioning well enough. sierra leone has one of the highest maternal more tallities imortalities inthe world. >> reducing infant mortality, 26,000 die here every year. meanwhile in crew bay, the red dross is raising awareness, after massive flooding due to an overwhelming rainy season. >> open defecation, again it's a huge risk for cholera and other water-borne diseases. >> as the cousin tries opick up the pieces from ebola, there is a lot left to be done before the health system is properly functioning. nina deevries al jazeera, sierra leone. >> up next, the pope's visit to the city of brotherly love. >> grac inkas. >> that was pope francis hosting a gathering at philadelphia independence h

-- the failure of the world health organization and sierra leone government. he said the horrible scene at the hospital will stick with him for years. >> we had a shortage of body bags or personal protective equipment. we had bodies outside in the rain. >> reporter: who director stressed the importance of ken ama. . >> there is no question that the slowness of the response, the delay in the response, the disorganization of the response on the part of the world health organization had dyer consequences in terms of lives loss. >> reporter: two months ago a panel criticized the response to the epidemic. to date no one has lost their job. who assistant director concedes mistakes were made but insists they weren't responsible for the growth. >> drivers the epidemic are not a bad who representative or a loudy treatment center. -- lousy treatment center. the drivers are the population behaviors. >> reporter: the outbreak has yet to be neutralized and many who helped are now stigmatized by their exposure to ebola. a memorial, a tribute and a reminder of what went wron

. >> well, coming up on this bulletin, how sierra leone is using music and dance to prevent the spread of ebola. and a controversial union, how politics are getting in the way in myanmar. >> as the global refugee crisis intensifies... >> they have travelled for weeks, sometimes months. >> and the e.u. struggles to cope... >> we don't know, they stop us here. >> what's being done while lives hang in the balance? >> we need help now. >> good to have you with us. these are the top stories on al jazeera. hungary and slovenia have criticized croatia for redirecting refugees to their countries. european leaders have failed to agree on an unified policy to deal with the refugee crisis. >>> polls for the greek electi elections. >>> former prime minister alexis tsipras hopes that th greeks will give him another chance to lead the country. >>> in burkina faso, there have been talks between the ente military coup and the interim president. >> pope francis has arrived in havana. >> i call on political figures to continue along this path and develop all its potential as part of the role they're sup

we have this report from sierra leone. officials say communication is key to stopping the spread. >> reporter: with the beat of a drum, local performers make their way into the village. they are here to entertain. it comes with a strong message. if you are sick, call for help. 4,000 people have died from ebola in sierra leone, and the locals say when he realized how bad thinks were, he wanted to produce comedy to good use. he joined these performers. >> i do this for my people. the people in this country. i'm not going to sit and do nothing. i'm here to educate my people. >> other messages, such as avoiding body contact are part of the act. the virus is spread through contact with bodily fluids of an infected person. >> 30 people have been trained to perform in villages across the district, and it seems to be making an impact. >> the northern district was a hot spot for ebola, with 1500 cases to date. that is one of the highest number of cases in the country. there has not been one in over a month. u.n.i.c.e.f. initiates t

al jazeera, sierra leone. >>> tunnels used to smu smuggle basic going. marga ortigas reports. >> reporter: watching powerlessly, the egyptian military says it is building fish farms along the buffer zone. this will put an end to a network of cross-border tunnels. egyptians began flooding the tunnels late friday. it is the last thing she needs. she has already lost two homes in gaza's long history of conflict. with her husband and daughter now ill, she says she just can't lose another one. >> translator: i'm very much scared. i already listen to shooting day or night. now i live in fear of flooding. it can happen any time. that's why i'm tense and scared, we can't sleep like other people. >> the tunnels were used to smuggle goods into a blockaded gaza. and also illegal trade in guns and people. a trade residents want stopped. 1200 such nonetheless this area and this is just one of them behind me. the people that live in raffa fear that continued flooding could destabilize the ground and cause landslides but also fear it would contaminate the water source.

. >> the body of a woman who died in sierra leone tested positively for ebola. it's a set back. sierra leone announced in august the last confirmed patient with a virus had been discharged from hospital. 28,000 have been affected. more than a third died from ebola >>> in kenya five suspects are due in court for a second time in connection with the attack in the north-east. the men were charged in june for the april 2nd attack in which gunmen targeted students. 158 were killed. >> al-shabab fighters overran an african community base. local residents say al-shabab claims to have killed scores of troops. a similar raid on a base in june killed dozens of troops in the same province. >> royingy forces have retaken the desert area west of i.s.i.l. >> troops chased out the fighters. the air force carried out strikes before the ground operation, it was part of a wider operation to recapture the largest province, anbar. >> paris is introducing tough measures to control the city's worsening air pollution. from tuesday large trucks registered before 2001 will be banned from the center of t

. >>> the body of a woman who die in sierra leone tested positive for the ebola virus. it's a setback for efforts to end the epidemic. sierra leone announced last week that the last patient with the virus had been discharged from hospital, more than 28,000 people have been infected with ebola. with more than a third of them having died. >>> paris is introducing tough new measures to control the city's worsening air pollution. large trucks registered before 2001 will be banned from the center of the city. we have more. >> reporter: many of these are about to be banned from the center of paris. they are too old and too polluting. drivers will be fined $40 each time they are caught and they are not happy. >> translator: it's going to affect us, three-quarters don't have new trucks. we end up paying. >> reporter: but paris has a problem. they like to drive. especially cheap to run diesel engines. back in march the city briefly had the worst air quality in the world. critics say this is more about the city of paris trying to avoid huge fine being imposed by the european unio

performance, sierra leone comes up with creative ways to educate people about ebola. cuba's complicated relationship with catholicism comes under the spotlight as pope francis touches down in havana. >> farm workers striking in mexico... >> all that tension is about what's happening right now. >> unlivable wages... >> you can work very hard and you will remain poor. >> what's the cost of harvesting america's food? >> do you see how it will be hard to get by on their salary? >> yeah >> fault lines, al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> today they will be arrested... >> ground breaking... they're firing canisters of gas at us... emmy award winning investigative series... fault lines invisible hands only on al jazeera america >> as the global refugee crisis intensifies... >> they have travelled for weeks, sometimes months. >> and the e.u. struggles to cope... >> we don't know, they stop us here. >> what's being done while lives hang in the balance? >> we need help now. >>> hello again. good to have you with us, top stories on al jazeera. greeks are voting to elect a ne

sierra leone, others. dirk hammershall, the second secretary-general of the united nations said an organization not created to bring us heaven but save us from hell. and as said, we have not had world war iii. >> he was right. those that think the u.n. is a failure is wrong. the distinction that must be drown between an absolute conflict like failure and the opposition of an organization less than satisfactorily. i would be the first to say that that is the case for the u.n. today. for the reasons you mentioned. you mustn't invade anyone, settle disputes by peaceful means, aggression is illegitimate, unacceptable and states must cooperate to solve problems like the syrian problem. what happens is a failure to carry out correctly and faithfully the mandate of the organization. the charter, which is perfectly sound, what a decent world needs. the problem is those charged with carrying out the mandate have been doing it imperfectly. >> the boss of u.n. - part of the problem is no country wants the u.n. to be

we can stop the spread of ebola. 4,000 have died from ebola in sierra leone. one local said when he realized how bad things were, he wanted to put his comedy skills to good use. >> i do this for my people, the people in this country. i'm a comedian. i'm not going to sit and do nothing. i'm helping to educate my people. >> there are messages such as avoiding body contact as part of the act. the virus is in contact with bodily fluids of an infected person. >> 30 people have been trained and is having an impact. >> with almost 1500 cases to date, that's one of the highest number in the country. there hasn't been one in over a month. unicef that initiated the concept of the performances, which also helped reduce stress in local communities. >> bringing people together, seeing the message come in the form of a performance, they laugh, you know, that is part of trauma healing. >> healing that's helping people who live here. she lost 18 family members to the virus. >> i believe the message is getting through to people. i really hope it will continue. >> especially as

[indiscernible] [speaking foreign language] -- from sierra leone. [indiscernible] god blesspaul ii: you. [indiscernible] >> from hawaii. the former ambassador of italy to the united nations. from the u.s. mission. pope john paul ii: thank you. general inrsecretary the case of women. >> your holiness. pope john paul ii: [indiscernible] >> the representative of zombie is to the united nations. from the human population fund. -- the u.n. population fund. the secretary-general for -- [indiscernible] the seÑora. >> [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] the undersecretary for unicef. and his wife. -- from indonesia, your holiness. and the representative of indonesia to the united nations. the ambassador from peru. from peru. mr. and mrs. egg get from unicef. >> abc news. >> from abc news. mrs. barbara walters from abc news. >> barbara walters. >> the most famous person for the news around the world. >> [indiscernible] barbara: [laughter] i was hoping that you might -- [indiscernible] have a wonderful stay while you are here. thank you. >> the undersecretary

great work has been done by the people of sierra leÓn, we have good armed forces and is something thewhole country can be proud of. this is exactly the use of our budget while doing it with more reinforce and moral conscious and for those who wonder uses of troops, get them out and look at sierra leÓn. [shouting] >> u.k. vital strategic to the economy, will prime minister meet with me, steel work union community so we can look at more positive when supporting our industry and protect it in which way european governments do. everyone is concerned, obviously we taken and provided 13 million pounds in support of high energy uses and also by setting infrastructure plan, we getting a sense of demand in the months and years to come. the best sort of meeting we can have in order to make sure we do everything we can to keep steel -- [shouting] >> this government commitment spent 2% to protect nationals and economic future by giving armed forces and financial support they need to protect our nation security. [shouting] >> we have had to make difficult decisions in the spending review and we wi

. >> reporter: the body of a woman who died in sierra leone tested positive for ebola and the positive setback to end the epidemic and sierra leone announced last week the last confirmed patient with the patient had been discharged from hospital. more than 28,000 people have been infected with ebola with more than a third of them having died. human rights including the freedom of expression are under attack in gambia and international amnesty says it's getting worse after the government refused to address recommendations put forth by the u.n. in march and we have the latest in northern sinagal. >> reporter: a song gambia radios won't put on air. and yet it's going viral, spreading online throughout the country. the lyrics talk about the lack of freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and rampant corruption. >> my people being quiet and not able to speak out against police brutality and not speaking out against corruption and not being able to speak out against people going missing for no reason and not being able to speak out about the level of hardship as an rapper i believe i'm the vo

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it is really remarkable what they have done, great work done by the people of sierra leone, and i think written was able to take on the task because we have good armed forces that are properly funded, and having an aid budget of .7% of our gnp, and for people who sometimes wonder what are the uses of british troops, i would say get a map out and look at sierra leone. redcari steelworks in are facing serious, imminent challenges. strategic is of vital importance the british economy. dcar?me and my friend at re the gentleman is quitevolunteers, or members of britain's braved armed forces. right to raise this, and everyone is concerned about the redcar.ks in obviously, we have taken the action of voting with others in europe against chinese dumping. we of also provided 30 million of support and respect to the high energy users. redcar. we are giving steel produces a sense of the demand and our country in the months and years to come, and i will certainly consult with my friend, the secretary of state for business, innovation, and skills about the best sort of meeting we can have in order t

great work has been done by the people of sierra leÓn, we have good armed forces and is something thewhole country can be proud of. this is exactly the use of our budget while doing it with more reinforce and moral conscious and for those who wonder uses of troops, get them out and look at sierra leÓn. [shouting] >> u.k. vital strategic to the economy, will prime minister meet with me, steel work union community so we can look at more positive when supporting our industry and protect it in which way european governments do. everyone is concerned, obviously we taken and provided 13 million pounds in support of high energy uses and also by setting infrastructure plan, we getting a sense of demand in the months and years to come. the best sort of meeting we can have in order to make sure we do everything we can to keep steel -- [shouting] >> this government commitment spent 2% to protect nationals and economic future by giving armed forces and financial support they need to protect our nation security. [shouting] >> we have had to make difficult decisions in the spending review and we wi

. >> the body of a woman who died in sierra leone tested positive for the ebola virus. they announced just last week that the last confirmed patient with the virus had been discharged from hospital. more than 28,000 people have been infected with ebola and more than a third of them have died. amnesty international says the human rights situation in gambia is deteriorating. there's a clamp-down on freedom of expression. we have the story from senegal. >> reporter: it's a song radios won't put on air. and yet it's going viral, spreading on-line throughout the country. the lyrics denounce the freedom of speech, rampant corruption. >> after seeing my people be quiet and not being able to speak out against police brutality, not being able to speak out against corruption, people going missing for no reason, not being able to speak out about the level of hardship in this country, i believe in the voice of the people. being the voice of the people i have this responsibility which is on me to speak out against what's going on. >> reporter: behind these lyrics is ace. after being

the gentlemen from sierra leone saying we are one. i also want to point out. you hear that energy. you hear them screaming? a lot of the people since before 6:00 this morning, come out here and hear pope francis. >> 12 hours. jesuit high. >> they're here with a group called for francis, people from high schools all over the countries. >> we can suddenly feel it. he just left here. he's on his way to ben franklin parkway. now, shawnette, you are there. i'm sure you're feeling the energy build there. >> yes, it's so hard to hear you because of all the noise. i'll tell you what. the energy here is just great. the best way i can describe the feeling here now is just anxious as everyone awaits the pope's arrival this evening. take a look behind me. we're on logan circle here on the parkway, the jumbo trons when the pope was speaking, everybody turned their attention toward the jumbo tron, as soon as rested up, everybody rushed. say hello. various to secure their spot, hoping that the pope will come this way around logan circle and they will get a glimpse of him. speaking of getting a gl

. >> in these profits we can spend the upside on patients who sierra leone need a new drug in my opinion. >> reporter: both leading democratic contenders are proposing federal rules regulating how prescription drugs are priced and marketed, but, scott, apparently bowing to all the outrage, late today shkreli, said he would be open to lower the drug price. >> pelley: don, thanks very much. how do american catholics feel about their pope? we ask them when we come back. hey mcmellin' you gellin'? i'm gellin' and zinfandellin'. and so is my new bride, helen mcmellin' i'm so happy my eyes are wellin' dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles are so soft they make your feet feel outrageously comfortable. i'm gellin you're so not gellin' dr. scholl's there's a bazillion waysto top your kids' rice krispies. what's yours? a dash of fruit in their favorite color. a bunch of pineapple 'cause hey - it's summer! a smidgen of honey in the shape of a flower. a handful of almonds for strong superpowers. bananas and berries 'cause the letter b rocks. a little bit of yogurt? sure! why not? colorful marshmallows

. >>> the woman who died in sierra leone tested positive for ebola and it's a setback for efforts topen epidemic and they said last week the person with the last virus have been discharged from the hospital and more than a third of them having died. argentina sending back thousands of stolen artifacts worth millions of dollars to their rightful owners. the pieces were recovered during an investigation by interpoll and released from sites in peru and ecuador and al jazeera has more from buenos aires. >> reporter: thousands of artifacts being sent back to their country of origin. there are around 4500 of them. they come from ecuador and recently recovered in buenos aires after a ten-year investigation. >> translator: the investigation started when a u.s. professor was called to the airport with one of the pieces. i went to some of the raids and in some cases we found entire book shelves filled with archeological pieces. >> reporter: among the pieces there are glasses, statutes and other elements traditionally used for religious festivities in peru and ecuador. >> translator: this is fr

high-profile british military involvement in subsaharan africa since tony blared intervened if sierra leone. but this time according to the prime minister david cameron, british soldiers who go to south sudan and somalia will have a strictly noncombat role. speaking in new york prime minister david cameron said these interventions were in the u.k.'s national interests. >> we have always supported u.n. peacekeeping missions. they are vital to try to stabilize and help some of these countries. it's right that we play a port in training. it's we will benefit if somalia has a future free of ex-stream i. we will benefit if south sudan can have a successful country and not drive people across med strain vinnie. >> reporter: this is the thursday final they have been involved in the fight al-shabab. it was likely to have broad political support in the you can, but that could change if british soldiers were somehow to get involved in the fighting or if they became the target of any attacks. >>> the president of the south african continent left the u.n. after violence in her country. the violence is

he and others are traveling from western african countries, including sierra leone examine liberia.northeast to the border between guinea and mallee, tracking across the is era desert and north to libya where they hope to safely cross the mediterranean and land in euro europe. there are open borders in the european union there is a similar block in africa. it's called the western community of african states. since 1975. 15 countries have been part of a borderless region where people can move freely. the goal is to increase economic cooperation. it's made it easier for people determined to build a life in europe. >> tracey: when we receive people passing through, they have the national cards and their pass poured, they say they want to go mali. can can we know that if they want to go mali or spain or further on. >> reporter: even so the border police check for proper documentation, those that don't have it face deportation. despite the open borders in this region, amnesty international says people are also facing the same kind of racism and zeno phobia refugees are complaining about

fall in their ambush 67 he and others are traveling from western african countries, including sierra leone beer yeah, moving northeast to the border between begin i and d mali. across the sahara desert and north to libya where they hope to cross the mediterranean and land in europe. just as there are open borders among members of the european union, there is a similar kind of block in west africa. it's called the economic community of west african states. since 1975. 15 countries have been part of a borderless region where people can move fre freely. the goal is to increase economic cooperation. but it's also made it easier for people determined to build a life in europe. >> translator: when we received people passing through, they had the national cars and passports, they say we want to go to mali. how can we know whether they want to go to mali or spain or surroundings further on. >> reporter: even so border police check for proper documentation, those who don't have it face deportation. despite the open borders in this region, amnesty international says people are also facing the same k

[indiscernible] madam of sierra leone. representative of hawaii. former ambassador of italy to the united nations. mission.from the u.s. general forretary women in social development. the representative of gambia to the united nations. a member of the u.n. population fund. assistant secretary-general for [indiscernible] the undersecretary for unicef wife.d nations, and his permanent representative of indonesia to the united nations. permanent representative of peru. peru. members from unicef. abc news. walters from abc famous person for the news around the world, ms. barbara walters. [inaudible] undersecretary general for special political affairs. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] u.s.e pope's visit to the desk sees ben live coverage from washington, d.c., today beginning at 3:45 on c-span. we live with the president and mrs. obama to meet the pontiff at andrews. the welcoming ceremony of t

. >> one never talks about the successes, namibia is, where mozambique is today, where sierra leone or liberia, of course they are in crisis but much better today than -- >> anyway we do hear about the bad news and of course the horrible tragedies of srebrenica and rwanda. in general, are the peace keeping forces an important plus, positive in the world? >> you know i don't think that every peace keeping mission will be a success for the simple reason that they can help. but those who make peace are those who made war. you can't make peace for them. so they can give an additional push but at the end of the day it depends on the people of the country. when i look at peace keeping overall i think it has made the difference between life and death for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. those successes are well worth failures even though failures are always tragic and a shame. >> pleasure to have you with us, good to have your perspective especially for the one who led all these forces for many years. >> thank you. >> u.n. general assembly, estonia explains why the world sh

algeria in firm control in group j., the reigning champs still goalless against sierra leone. >> one man having retired from international football is now playing in the m.l.s., scoring a hat trick for montreal impact as they beat chicago fire on saturday. the former chelsea and ivory coast striker put host montreal ahead. the crucial equalizer for the match. plant industrial winning a 4-3. >> shane watson announced he is retiring. he sustained a calf injury saturday. watson played his last test in the first ashes contest against england. australia went on to lose the series 3-2. >> the rugby world cup starts in just under two weeks with australia winning their final game, beating the u.s.a. in chicago. first half was pretty close, with the wallabies arresting a number of key players. they only led by four at half time, but two time world champions tour put the u.s. after the break, cruising to a 47-10 win. there's much more sport on our website. check out aljazeera.com/sport. >> all the day's other top stories on the website, as well. thanks for watching the al jazeera news hour. mo

where they have been involved militarily in the british case, in sierra leone on tony blair some 15 yearsr in the french case or eastern congo they have remained very aton mouse taking orders directly from london or paris and here as far as we can tell they will be coming under the umbrella of international peace keeping missions so i think that is significant. >> all right, thanks for that, barnabie phillips and talking of uk david cameron will be speaking at the u.n. in just over four hours from now and we will of course bring that live for you and in afghanistan heavy fighting in kunduz city and an early morning raid and eight police are said to have been killed and over 50 people wounded and we are joined live from the capitol kabul and have things calmed down in kunduz at this point? >> well, as we have been talking to officials and residents, gunfire can be heard and reports telling us the taliban have taken control of building and local peace council office and currently clashes are ongoing near the city's only hospital and they are trying to prevent injured people from getting med

. >> thank you, niklas hart live in ouagadougo >>> sierra leone has more than 1,500 people placed under quarantine to prevent the spread of ebola. the country began a 42 day countdown to being ebola free, but two recent deaths have been a set back, we have this report. >> reporter: with the beat of a drum, the local performers make their way into this village. they are hugely entertaining and come with a strong message. if you are sick or know someone that is, call for help. it can stop the spread of ebola. 4,000 died from ebola. he joined these performers. when he realized how bad things were, he wanted to put his comedy skills to use. so he joined as a performer. >> i do this for my people. the people in this country. i'm not going to sit and do nothing. i'm here to educate my people. >> other messages, such as avoiding body contact are part of the act. the virus is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids of an infected person. 30 people have been trained to perform in villages across the district, and it seems to be making an impact. the northern district was a hot spot for

will still screen passengers from guinea and sierra leone. >>> a woman says a drone fell right on top of her house, she was talking to a friend when she saw this flying object. she says it landed near the top of the fire escape. i was up in the sky, we've seen the drone like up there and then when i came back around the corner, i heard it crash. >> the owner of the drone did call police and admitted what had happened, no one was hurt in the incident. >>> now to the papal visit pope francis departed from rome beginning his 10 day trip to cuba and the u.s. you may not get to see the pope in person, but other ways to be engaged one relies on your sense of humor. mark morgan explained. >>> jokewiththepope.org, to test out your humor and click a funny story, you can support -- it was the brainchild of andrew small. whey not donate a joke? it is an off-beat way of getting what's going on around the world. >>> submitted a story when he was archbishop in milwaukee and met with pope john paul ii. >> the archdiocese is growing, getting bigger and bigger and looked at me and said so is its archb

excellencys, as we ponder in liberia and sierra leone three countries worse hit by the deadly ebola virus disease we bear witness to the foundation creed of the united nations, that we can always find it within our humanity to respond even to unknown enemies to our collective progress, accordingly we remain grateful to all of you for the out pouring of support and assistance as we face down the deadly disease, the greatest modern threat to global public health. we thank secretary-general ban ki-moon who in partnership with our countries and support from the african development bank, the african union, the european union, the world bank, hosted the international conference on ebola recovery to focus attention on and seek support for our post ebola recovery program. undoubtedly the ebola surge leaves indelible marks of grief, sorrow and unimaginable affliction and causes us to celebrate heart-warming days of extraordinary courage and leadership across governments and communities as well as eccnatural regional and international responses. we are now proceeding with the implementation of our

there are people from el salvador, mexico, mexico, sierra leone, congo, texas, philadelphia, of coursei'm going to talk to you very briefly. you're a lifelong episcopalian but have come to see the pope, why? >> i think he's a breath of fresh air, his policies on the environment, he's just speaking to areas that have not been spoken to in the church before. i think it's incredibly important. >> turn around and go crazy. >> how excited are you? >> very excited, very excited. >> 17 years old, from kentucky, you are here, why is this pope so attractive to you? >> because he is very awesome. he's a great example for all of us to follow and because he's changed a lot of stuff and made it easy for us to understand. it's amazing, it's awesome. >> hearts are racing here at fifth and market street. let's go back over here, i'll leave you with that shot. you can just see the pope now reaching out, saying hello to people. very, very exciting time here. back to you. >> miguel, incredible to see and to be among the people there, as we just saw the pope stop in his, what else, jeep wrangler pope mobi

. >> you were talking, i spoke to a gentleman in washington from sierra leone raised muslim and marriedry single member of his family, this one is catholic, and convening on facebook to say thumbs up to this pope around the world. so he's creating this virtual community and opening up the dialogue and people don't normally talk about these things. >> what a day. what a day. >> it looks like he hasn't been given much leeway to go over and greet people. >> i can tell you security is being very tight here even as before he was coming out, looking up at the windows, looking up at the surrounding buildings, there was a moment where there was a window open and security was telling somebody in the building to close the window. so they are being very concerned about this not just street level activity but anything in the surrounding buildings because really, as you're driving down fifth avenue, you're in a canyon of concrete and glass buildings on either side. >> to get through security, you have to get here early afternoon. >> one window doesn't close, his car window. he insists on having it o

[indiscernible] [speaking foreign language] -- from sierra leone. [indiscernible] pope john paul ii: god bless you. [indiscernible] >> from hawaii. the former ambassador of italy to the united nations. from the u.s. mission. pope john paul ii: thank you. >> the undersecretary general in the case of women. >> your holiness. pope john paul ii: [indiscernible] >> the representative of gambia to the united nations. from the human population fund. the secretary-general for -- [indiscernible] the seÑora. >> [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] the undersecretary for unicef. and his wife. -- from indonesia, your holiness. and the representative of indonesia to the united nations. the ambassador from peru. from peru. mr. and mrs. egget from unicef. >> abc news. >> from abc news. mrs. barbara walters from abc news. >> barbara walters. >> the most famous person for the news around the world. >> [indiscernible] barbara: [laughter] i was hoping that you might -- [indiscernible] have a wonderful stay while you are here. thank you. >> the undersecretary general for

> the associated press says avoidable obstacles jurntd mined a quick and effective response in sierra leone. the investigation found that bureaucratic infighting, expired disinfectant disinfectant. >>> students in seattle no longer have to worry about their schools being shut down by a vibe. on sunday, teachers approved a new contract. they were on the picket lines for a week demanding higher wages and fighting longer workdays they've been scheduled for. now thairl get a 9.5% raise over the course of three years. the students got back to class last thursday when the tentative contract was announced. >>> all right. 6:20. still ahead, why a peanut company executive could face life in prison. >>> plus, a view that's simply out of this world. this is images from the first >>> welcome back. it is 60 degrees out there. it's 6:24 this morning. weather and traffic momentarily. first, we'd like to show you the view of a lifetime. it is billions of miles away. nasa creating this virtual flyover of the dwarf planet pluto. scientists made it by kind of piecing together a lot of the detailed images. the

meet the soldiers and the medics who did such remarkable work tackling the appellate crisis in sierra leone. well done all of them. [applause] there is no contradiction between working for peace across the world and doing what is necessary to keep us safe. today we face distant threats from the cold war time which ended dirty years ago. that's why i have asked our shadow defense secretary to lead a debate to review how we best deliver that detection for the people of britain but there is one thing i want to make my own position on absolute clear and i believe i have a mandate for my election on it. i don't believe the 100 billion pounds spent on the generation of nuclear weapons is the right way forward. [applause] i believe that our country, believe that our country should honor our obligations to the nonproliferation treaty and make progress towards international disarmament but in developing that for our policy we must make sure that all the jobs and skills of everyone in every aspect of the defense ministry are fully protected and fully used so we gain from this. to me that is very impo

in addition to the dispatching a disaster response team to sierra leone to help fight ebola late last year, korea announced it would contribute $100 million over the next five years to support capacity building in developing countries at the second high level meeting of global health curt agenda held in seoul three weeks ago. in addition, the republic of korea plans to pursue project to support developing countries worth $200 million over the next five years under the better life for girls initiative. [applause] fellow delegates, even as we achieved ratchpid industrialization, korea has also been exerting great energy to ensure the coexistence of men and nature. our designation of april 5 as arbor day and the promotion of forestation led to a 20 fold increase in the number of trees per hectar over the past 50 years. since 1972, the designated green belt zone to curb development in the suburbs. thereby achieving harmony between the environment and development. now we are channeling our environmental advocacy to joining the international communities' response to climate change. dealing

we talked to people who have come as far aware as sierra leone.4:30 today. workers testing that video wall that serves as a backdrop. we've seen a water scene candles and then this very pretty shot you see right now and the stage hands have just uncovered the holy father's chair if you can see it there. the mercury is really rising on francis fever right now. the energy here on eakins oval is palpable. you can definitely feel the francis effect and it is joyful indeed. live on eakins oval, i'm nydia han channel6 "action news." back to you guys. >> all right, nydia thank you. nydia has had a long day. she was up very, very early so we thank you for her reports. >>> live to "action news" reporter chad pradelli also standing by. we'll go to chad later. let's go to reporter nora muchanic instead who is also i believe on the parkway covering the various -- the multitudes of people who are coming in for this world meeting of families and she's been talking with some of them as well. nora, are you there? good good afternoon to you. >> reporter: we're clo

education slipped and people forgot how to manage the disease, that's when we had the big outbreak in sierra leoneppening in poor nations to poor people afflicted by this. we know that there are certain ethics issues that have been raised with vaccine trials about who's going to be getting shots first. >> right. >> and also, about the financial data that goes into all of this, art. how do you weigh the need, though, to prepare for another possible outbreak versus those issues? is the will there to get it done? >> i think -- i think the will is there to get it done but we have to switch, change the world health organization. it doesn't have a rapid response capability. that epidemic got going too big in africa before the worlds really got on the billion and made a response. we can't have that happen with future outbreaks. testing vaccines, tricky. i'm on the ethics committee. we said you can try them and generally we have to go through a long review process. it is worth going quickly. got to get them out there fast in the middle of an epidemic. we have to remember, too, that epidemic can be over he

the new take on iconic movie scene that gave us nightmares and ariana grande does her best sierra leone. carson. >> we'll start with a good scare, one of the most frightening scenes in history, a classic from alfred hitchcock "psycho," janet lee's character getting an uncouple surprise in the shower and nowjaimy lee curtis is striking a new pose for the tv show "scream queens" and that's pretty cool right there. next, helen mirren and the comments raising some eyebrows this morning. the dane was talking about gender equality and some form of pdas and she said it annoys me when i see a men with an arm slung around their girlfriend's shoulders. it's like ownership. when you're young you want the guy to take you by the hand and look after you but i see girls being leaned on and i want to say, tell him to get his blank arm off your shoulder. >> wow. >> guys doing this kind of thing. >> and i think it's more when they do this. >> i think that's a show of endearment and love. >> i think hand holding is better though. cool. >> and we love when they do this on "the tonight show," a game called

i also spoke with somebody from pakistan, somebody from sierra leone. to pass along information. the security checkpoint at broad and chestnut has reached capacity. they wanted that information passed along. >> important to know. >> well, the weather couldn't be any better for today. sunny out there. it was cool. best of all, it was dry. >> we have a look at the forecast for the rest of the evening. >> we're going to stay dry even as we go through the evening, so this is all great news. we didn't want it to be too hot. obviously, we didn't want rain around, but we'll keep the clouds if man the forecast. but it is breezy outside. here's a look at the satellite picture. we definitely have the clouds around. this has also helped to keep temperatures cool today, but we don't have is the rain. that's just been to our south all day long. we expect this to stay to our south as we go through tomorrow. for the parade and the festival of families later on this evening, by 7:00 p.m. we're looking at temperatures in the mid 60s. still mostly cloudy, mostly breez br