woman: after a brutal decade-long conflict, sierra leone has the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world. [musicic plays] [dr. tagie gbawru-mansaray] i'm a medical doctor housed here at t the princess christian maternity hospital.. narrator: one in five children die before their first birthday and one in eight women die during pregnancy. narrator: the one referral hospital in the capital of freetown services a population of over 400,000 people. ibraham thorlie: good afternoon. narrator: though the hospital is severely understaffed, it is not the only reason so many people are dying. [ibraham thorlrlie] narrator: and often, those patients who come too late are very close to death. [ibrbraham thorlie] narrator: rathther than wawatchg their patients die, many doctors and d nurses likike reba pay for the e worst cases fromom their owown small salariries. narrator: : victor is one of the few lucky y survivors s in a ple where so many die. however, the government has just launchehed a program providing free healtlth care for pregnant women and childldn under five. [ibrbraham

cases were concentrated in guinea, sierra leone, liberia, and it was discovered in west africa in 1976. it was discovered and in laboratories were called to help. imagine a world where the deadliest pathogens are kept. that's where dr. uzaki thrives. that's what these labs are working with, deadly pathogens, where dr. sharif yuzaki thrives. he has been solving the mystery of pathogens for decades. at the cdc headquarters, his lab is busy. under these microscopes are some viruses you and i have likely never heard of and would never want to. given that you don't know what exactly it is that you are going to see under the microscope, how do you know to protect yourself? how can you be 100 sure that what you are dealing with could make you sick? >> >> that's a good question. with pathology, we fix our tissues in the chemical that kills all or most infections. so we feel comfortable dealing with it. i think the problem or one you start worrying is when you are taking those tissues as a pathologist, an autopsy or you are collecting specimens. that's when you have to worry about having the pr

it killed 11,000 people after an in break in sierra leone 2013. the world health organization stepped up its efforts to prevent ebola frfrom spreading again. julia kim explains. julia: final test results confirm that a vaccine for the of bolo virus gives 100% protection. people, we hadd zero cases of ebola. you have a vaccine that haha shown good. outbreak sweptst across severeral west african countries. .bout 11,000 people died under fire for slow reactions, the world health organization accelerated a vaccine. the final trial showed that after 10 days, subjects who had been vaccinated did not develop the virus. the vaccine has proved so effective that the study was stopped midway so everyone exposed in guinea could be immunized. the u.s. pharmaceutical company is expecting to seek regulatory approval in the u.s. and europe next year. other vaccines are in the works to target a second strain of ebola. ththe virus appeared in 1976. the nature of the outbreak had tendered attempts to find a successful vaccine. it champagne all around and spain were

cases were concentrated in sierra leone and lie breberiali. the disease was first found in western africa. imagine a workplace where the deadliest pathogens are kept. this is where one doctor thrives, a disease detective in every sense of the phrase. from anthrax to ebola and now zika, he's been solving the mysteries of pathogens for decades. >> reporter: at the cdc headquarters in atlanta, dr. sharif zaki's lab is busy. under these microscopes are some viruses you and i would likely never have heard of, and wouldn't want to. given that you don't know what exactly it is you're going to see under the microscope, how do you know to protect yourself, how can you be 100% sure that what you're dealing with isn't something that could make you sick? >> that's a good question. fortunately with pathology, we're interested in a chemical that kills most if not all infections. we feel comfortable dealing with it. when you start worrying is when you're taking those tissues, that's when you have to worry about having the proper protection. the universal pro

more recently, crimes of mass rape were prosecuted by tribunals following atrocities in sierra leoneand in the democratic republic of congo. but prosper believes even today, the global community could be more responsive in conflicts like south sudan. >> i think we've lost a bit of our footing, and i actually think that what happened is once the permanent international criminal court was created, people looked at that as, ¡oh, we've arrived.' and the politicians around the world said, ¡we've done our job, there's this court, we need now focus on these issues.' it creates this gap, a gap of inaction. so i think the international community needs to wake up, governments need to wake up, and realize that their responsibility continues. >> reporter: a responsibility that international reporting keeps in the spotlight. >> because the men and women of the press corps who covered what happened in bosnia and also rwanda and covered the sexual violence and wrote about it and put it on television and kept it in the public eye, that created interest on the part of the public, who then wrote lette

"i have a friend in gambia, or west gambia east africa its near sierra leone, the children there are very very poor, they only have pencils for school, but their number one sport is soccer." own. "i know many people here in the united states their kids need things but there, those kids have nothing so we can make a difference." but then he had another idea. so i was going to go door to door and what i first did was i called the milwaukee wave and a gentleman named just said meet us at 37th and wisconsin and we will see what we can do." "he just called us and we were very happy to do that since we had gear that we could do that with." and this is what larry sayles and the wave did. 36 balls and a couple of bags of jerseys. "i thought anything that we can do and we had a sets of a old practice gear and we had some soccer balls that we had left over from our summer camp and i said what a better way to do it then to get it to those kids that love the game and could really use these things for their spirit and for the love of would take him weeks of work to accomplish, was finished in jus

"i have a friend in gambia, or west gambia east africa its near sierra leone, the children there are very very poor, they only have pencils for school, but their number one sport is soccer." so tim thought about collecting some soccer equipment on his own. "i know many people here in the united states their kids need have nothing so we can make a difference." but then he had another idea. so i was going to go door to door and what i first did was i called the milwaukee wave and a gentleman named larry and his assistant bruce just said meet us at 37th and wisconsin and we will see what we can do." "he just called us and we were very happy to do that since we had gear that we could do that with." and this is what larry sayles and the wave did. 36 balls and a couple of bags of jerseys. "i thought anything that we can do and we had a sets of a old practice gear and we had some soccer balls that we had left over from our summer camp do it then to get it to those kids that love the game and could really use these things for their spirit and for the love of the game." so what tim thought wo

carolina an electoral integrity score of 58 out of 100 points -- similar to the scores of cuba, sierra leone and indonesia. , speaking on democracy now!, the head of north carolina's chapter of the naacp, reverend william barber, says republicans are fighting to prevent black and brown voters from claiming power. >> i believe all of the pushback we are seeing, the voter suppression, the redistricting, it's because the extremists see the possibility of a third reconstruction. they know if we register 30% of the african-american voter, unregistered voter in the south, and we added that white and progressive whites and latinos, you will have changed the south. amy: in syracuse, new york, four people were arrested outside the hancock air national guard base on friday at a nonviolent protest agaiainst the e u.s. dre assassination program. demonstrators marked the christmas holiday by dressing as biblical figures and erecting a 20-foot-long nativity scene at the gates of the air base, which is home to the 174th attack wing of the national guard's reaper drone program. the pop legend and gay icon g

erp gave north carolina a score of 58 out of 100 points -- similar to the scores of cuba, sierra leoneand indonesia. for more we're going to durham, north carolina, where we're joined by andrew reynolds professor of political science , at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. his new article for "the news & observer," is headlined, "north carolina is no longer classified as a democracy." reynolds has consulted in over 25 nations on issues of democratic design since 1991. his latest book "the arab , spring: pathways of repression and reform." reynolds is the director of the university of north carolina's lgbtq representation and rights research initiative. welcome to democracy now! why do you say north carolina is no longer a functioning democracy? >> i think if you look at north carolina's alleged world process and you look at some of the more recent activities of the legislature in suppressing access to the polls, taking some executive power back to the legislature after republicans the the governorship in last elections, and also to systematic way in which redistricting an

you can see from sierra leone over to angola. we have what are roughly the estimated numbers of captives taken from africa for the slave trade for roughly the 15th through the 19th centuries. this case has a number of different artifacts. madeistol is a portuguese firearm. roughly from the 18th century. -- a typicalpical type of firearms that slave ship crew members would carry during their voyages across the atlantic. shells are bought up today as decorative objects but they were used as currency in some west african societies during this time period. the shackles below are the type of shackles that would be worn by children mostly and they have rattles inside of them. enslaversrity for the so they can know and be able to locate people who are in waived. call theion is what we slave economy. our objective is to talk about slavery in the americas, not solely as a part of labor but slavery in the americas in terms of the economic impact on world society. in the exhibit, we refer to "king cotton" because of the importance it held i

alongside authoritarian states and pseudo democrats like cuba, indonesia and sierra leone. >> then whatr capture as highway showdown between vehicle and moose on the loose. >> don't let it run into us. oh my god. >> i love. this the montana family excited, yet, obviously scared, making sure not to get too close as they drive alongside the wild animal. the mother saying they drive down that highway often but this is the first time they have seen a moose. can you imagine? >> pretty cool. >> what would you do? >> i see deer all the time. >> they are dangerous animals, compared to a deer they are dangerous. >> that was a big one, that was a huge moose. >> they generally are huge. when you see a group of them. >> i'm not a moose expert but i do know they are large. >> group of moose together called meeses. [. [ buzzemeeses. meeses. [ buzzer ] >> kids are going to be telling their parents. >> no, that's not accurate. from terror to hacking. president trump faces a series of crisis. how will this play out in 2017. >> boycotting mr. trump's inauguration based on so-called principles. why didn't