in subsaharan africa 1300 children die every day from the disease. s never been a licensed vaccine. but for almost 20 years a research team based in africa has been working towards one. now their biggest trial of what's known as the r.t.s.s. vaccine involving 15,000 infants across seven countries over five years has delivered its results. >> this shows that this vaccine does have some impact over a four-year period. it reduces malaria and severe attacks of malaria by about 30%. >> is 30% enough in. >> no. we would like it to be 90%. but malaria is such a big problem and if you can reduce that by 30%, that is a huge saving in childhood deaths and serious illness. >> reporter: professor brian greenwood has devoted 50 years to fighting malaria. he's thrilled control measures already in place are working of the latest world health on, malaria report reveals a 47% drop in malaria deaths across the globe in the last decade. in africa the mortal at this rate has decreased by 54% in the same period. >> enter not suggest that go r.t.s.s. should be a replace fo

as long as you have difficulties in the subsaharan africa and the terrible tragedies human rights abuses this flow of human misery of desperation of young people looking to improve their lives in europe will continue. >> barnaby phillips, thank you a report there from sicily. is now in the news hour, we return to yemen an explosion rocked the capital air strikes targeting a scud missile base, used by houthi fighters. massive blasts flattening nearby buildings but also a saudi border guard has been killed, two others wounded by heavy gun and mortar fire from yemen. saudi arabia sis it is stepping up security in areas after receiving threats. killing thousands of houthis the united nations estimates 750 people overall have been killed. take a look at this. footage showing the moment of the explosion in sa florida l sanaa. 46 people believed to have been killed, more than 300 wounded. residents say it's one of the worst things they've seen since the strikes began four weeks ago. >> translator: we were close by and we heard a bang and then after a moment we heard a big explosion. >> translat

if you look back at the 1980s donor countries ours being one of them, especially subsaharan africa, liberia, sierra leone, to cut back on their health systems, a lot of our loans were linked to people cutting back on social sector spending. liberia for example was paying $7 per year on year. and that dropped to $1. the world health organization was recommending people intend 30 to $35. and in the u.s. we were spending $1800 per person. as can you imagine there was a lot of divestment trt health system. >> are you saying it is the fault of the donor countries? >> these countries needed loans and there was a lot of crisis in the world as far as economic crisis of the 1980s. so the loans were contingent on us encouraging them to cut back their health sectors, and they did. and the result of the weak health sectors has been that they have been unable to deliver care. obviously there's fault at the countries also it takes two to tango but i think the donor countries helped not spend a lot on health services, it becomes very difficult to identify whether an outbreak is happening and even more dif

in subsaharan africa 13 children die every day of the disease. research team based in africa have been working towards one. now their biggest trial of what's known as the rtss vaccine involving 15,000 infants across seven countries over five years has delivered its results. >> this shows that this vaccine does have some impact over a four year period. it reduces attacks of malaria and severe attacks by 30%. >> is 30% enough? >> no, we would like it to be 90%. but malaria is such a serious issue, 30% is very good. >> the ratest world health organization report shows 40% rm mortality decreasing. >> we're not suggesting the rtss should be a replacement for some of the other measures such as bed nets. it is a consideration is it worthwhile and cost effective to add this on to the other measures that are already being given. >> the world health organization will decide whether to recommend the vaccine for use by the end of the year. dani isdel, al jazeera. >>> in our global view segment we look at how news outlets across the world are reacting to vari

by 2050 out of 100% of the christians in the world, 38% will be in subsaharan africa. the muslim extremists are trying to capture that. if you don't switch right now, you're allegiance and belief into islam we will cut off your head. ethiopians said we're not going to change and were killed for. >> what we know clearly and the state department knows this clearly the white house knows it clearly is al-shabaab boko haram right now, al qaeda isis they're all connected. they have one common goal. that is complete and total dominance of the religious scene. it's a religious issue. for them, it's an ideology based on their radical islamic view and we have to recognize it if we're going to -- charles: couple days ago, i mentioned we sent troops to stop the spread of ebola and i was attacked on twitter for comparing the two. these are two scurges wiping out mankind why it would be so bad to address this with some of our u.s. might. >> i don't think it's a bad example. always examples and analogies are impersonalable. that's why they're analogies and examples. how much effort a

subsaharan africa continues to perform strongly, but russia is experiencing economic difficulties. brazil is stagnating, at best. and many parts of the middle east are beset by political and economic turmoil. so we should not think of emerging economies as just one single group. each country faces very specific circumstances. some of them easier, some of them more difficult. so what does it imply in terms of policies? with overall growth moderate the global economy continues to face a number of significant challenges. there is, for instance what i have called last year the low low high high risk. and that is low inflation, low growth high unemployment high debt. and that will persist for a number of advanced economies. clearly as a result all policies face and levers must be utilized and it begins with demand support. how is that implemented? well, first of all, continued monetary policy accommodations is needed especially in the euro area and in japan. fiscal policy needs to be calibrated to the strength of the recovery without ever losing sight of debt sustainability. the effecti

and a lot of subsaharan africans from west africa and from the horn of africa as well. the italian police also on hand here though they're going to be combing through the passengers on that vessel to see if they can find any trace of the people traffickers. back to you, michaela. >> such a horrifying scenario. good to see those people reach dry land. thanks so much for that karl. >>> meanwhile, a nightmare at sea of a different sort. a trip to paradise turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew aboard a carnival cruise ship off the coast of australia. thousands of vacationers were caught in a once-in-a-decade storm producing some 30-foot waves at sea. passengers are grateful to be back on land and now recounting that harrowing experience. our senior international correspondent iranevan watson has more on their tale. >> reporter: you're right, one passenger called this a nightmare. can you imagine these 2,000 people forced to basically ride out the storm aboard this cruise ship when the main port in sydney had to close because the storm was just so severe. so these t

africa. >> seems to me that promoting the role of women and social political and economic development and subsaharan african is something we can get behind. it highlights how critical the role of women will be i want my colleague to know i'm very supportive of this. >> i think the point of this is we see economic development through the empowerment of women. we saw great strides being made. we want to make sure they get a fair access to the resource being spent on economic activity. thank you for having this vote. >> any further comment? we'll do this by voice. all those in favor will say aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed will say no. the ayes have it and the amendment is adopted. >> there are some unfortunate exceptions. if my view we have misguided laws limiting americans access to the sugar market. the worst is the tariff rate quota. because of these quotas u.s. sugar prices are consistently higher, often much higher than the world average. just yesterday, as it happens sugar trading in the world market was trading at about 13 cents per pound. sugar trading domestically in the u.s. market traded

africa. >> seems to me that promoting the role of women and social political and economic development and subsaharan african is something we can get behind. it highlights how critical the role of women will be