for ourselves and had concern for those suffering in west africa.ave made great strides in the last 30 years and i meet significant strides. many children now are celebrating their fifth birthday that would not have celebrated that birthday years ago. many children that are healthier from better food. livingre families are above rather than below the poverty line. although we have seen many beides that we should all proud of, there is still a lot of work to do. we have many challenges leading our world today. we are very, very fortunate to meet to have with us today a leader in the administration who is on the front lines of addressing these challenges so that we can have a conversation about combating global health crisis is and promoting health security. it is now my honor to introduce today's keynote speaker, azar was allens sworn in in january of 2018. the agencies are responsible for america's public health, social services, global half -- health practices and policies. this after serving as general counsel and deputy secretary in the 2000's. s

so, it seems he did a lot of work in west africa. he does a lot of work in west africa.to call himself "the godfather of west africa". philip caldwell used to run a secretive offshore trust for frank timis, but he's agreed to talk because he's become concerned about the way mr timis does business. he's a character. he doesn't talk about much apart from himself, but i think he could be quite threatening. there was always a concern, in my mind, that there was a different side to him that you had to be aware of. frank timis has floated two mining companies on the junior stock exchange in london. one was accused of human rights abuses. the other was hit with the exchange's biggest ever fine. regal petroleum had told investors it expected to find oil, even though it knew the oil well was dry. regal issued several statements that essentially lied to investors about the prospects of finding oil. even after the oil well concerned had been capped and plugged and they knew full well that they were not going to get any commercial oil from there, it was still telling investors that

during president obama's administration the 2014ebola outbreak in west africa, the deadliest in history was serious wake-up call about our global preparedness. thanks to hard work on the ground, heroic west africans and huge levels of support from generous americans and other partners eventually the outbreak was brought under control. in after math we recognize that the structure to respond to outbreaks including world health organization needed reforms. and needed to place its primary focus on infectious threat that is can cross borders, we also needed further investments in all countries ability to respond to threats on their own and better biomedical tools to respond to ebola, thankfully trials on experimental treatments were launched at invitation of foreign governments and ministers as outbreak was still raging in west africa. by the time of next major ebola outbreak which lasted several months last summer in north western democratic republic of congo, in part thanks to the work of hhs components including through the president's emergency action plan for aids relief, the drc gover

is the project director for west africa for the crisis group he joins me now from brussels welcome soon. africa so you organization has come out on record saying that the hardest insurgency in mali and the government's military operations against it are exacerbating that into communal violence can you explain that. well it's it's rather simple each side being the g i d e r. my and authorities are trying to use local proxies the jihad he basically trained to get a fruit in central money and started 4 years ago to. recruit among the sunni communities among which they have been you know more successful among other communities for a different kind of reason and one of them being that one of the leaders of the foreign central money is him self freddy on the side i think that the money on the r.b.i. has difficulties fighting the jedi war extremely good at. fighting in the rule countryside so basically they're also looking to call allies the good proxy that's going to help both provide information or you know fight against the jedi fight fighters so basically they're using the community or try

all the lines you see before that, those are all the other outbreaks besides west africa. the insecurity is -- caused a lack of our ability to bring this outbreak to an end. you can see that most of these outbreaks are over in four months. this outbreak if you go back to the time of initial symptoms is now over a year old even though it was recognized in august. i want to emphasize the magnitude of this outbreak is getting to the point that one has to anticipate that we're going to see spread outside of the outbreak area. that's a direct result of the conflict blocking the ability for the public health response to take place. >> that is truly scary. this is in my notes, but after seeing that, will it get to the point where it will just because the host, i guess the folks that carry it will die, will it then decrease or just keep spreading? >> the problem is that in the absence of infected public health response you get a case and then that case leads to multiple other cases. and you can see the curve is changing. it's no longer linear. it's starting to get an arch to it. y

goes in for the long haul the 2nd thing is to really work on the ground our company is meeting in west africa act aka i'm not going to block those and we work very closely with our clients so we don't believe that an investment all european activities in africa should be on a quota have been driven out of europe is fine marvelous and then just waiting for the next flight back to europe and then the 3rd thing is to be the most important thing we have a soft talent and after we have grown out all the company within one i now have 2 years to $100.00 employees and we found if we just invest a bit wonky education we actually have extremely powerful team that can easily compete with any other teams in the world so nation is important because a big change to europe's approach to africa is what what what's needed basically vessel's they director of the european business organization in nigeria south africa is desperate to drum up investments at this weekend's g. 20 summit the economy has just experienced its worst quarterly contraction in g.d.p. in over a decade businesses struggling to stay solvent

during president obama's administration, the 2014 ebola outbreak in west africa, the deadliest ebola outbreak in history was a serious wake-up call about our global preparedness. thanks to groundwork and huge levels of support from generous americans and other part ners, eventually that outbreak was brought under control. in its aftermath, we recognized that the international structure that we had for responding to these outbreaks including the world health organization needed reforms. and needed to place its primary focus on infectious threats that can cross borders. we also needed further investments in all countries ability to respond to these threats on their own, and we needed better biomedical tools to respond to ebola in particular. thankfully trials were launched at the invitation of local governments and health ministers as the outbreak was still raging in west africa. by the time of the next major outbreak which lasted several months last summer, in the northwestern democratic republic of the congo, these efforts had already begun to bear fruit. thanks to the work of hhs co

during that outbreak in 2014 in 2015 in west africa and the key messages are really that we need to go into community we need to talk to community and we need community to really on the response we have seen ones that the community really starts in gauging and following the advice from from the public health authorities we are able to contain the virus are right now in d.r. congo be operating in a very complex environment there is a security instead beauty that prevents on many occasions so far prevented teams to go into communities and to. to vaccinate people to provide treatment to get people out of community into treatment centers and when we are not able to go to community then we seem to think this if you cation of the virus spread in those communities and this is why disabled brick is so different from previous ones because there is this security context that's really holds back the response this time around we have seen something we didn't have in 2014 we know that vaccine is sufficient and has already prevented the number of cases that would have happened otherwise we also have

police to come that's not. 3 years ago pickups like these filled with migrants from across west africa passed this barrier on their journey to europe. today the flow of cars has become in me a trick of the material government has passed a law that has made the transport of such migrants illegal. then you know. why yet because that at us is. not. what the. course of incident but. then we get after. the journey between the share and libya is dangerous. and migrant desk and desert roads have been frequent. the new law will save lives according to the european union who pushed for its introduction. men like madam me who organized the migrants transport had previously risk those lives. today is the largest per capita recipient of e.u. aid including funds to train guards at this checkpoint. under us well over the bonnet of the you know. but the e.u. has a vested interest it wants to stop african migrants from reaching europe and it's been argued that by passing the law has helped europe move its most southern border right into africa. in return for managing migration new share is rewarded by

attending the region the fost of its kind in a very very long time here in nigeria elsewhere in west africa because most don't most of the times only a few leaders will arrive and then the rest will stand in that a percentage so but it looks like the issue of security is paramount on the minds of all the leaders gathered here when we come back and i just need a why libyan will to leave after i had ordered his forces to target turkish ships and interest. gapped in a refugee rescue ship is led away by italian police off the docking as a matter of right mediterranean port. how do you have those 2 training osaka for the g 20 delegates well it's still raining and it will do i think the next 2 days the system that's coming in from the west is not a slowing down it's part of the seasonal system which gives heavy rain in both japan and china so the threat home sure looks fairly wet not necessarily further north or carter looks very dry of cloud in the wrap around showers inventive us talking dancer north korea are going to be death next 2 days it really isn't moving very quickly at all but where it

to share in west africa has long been a staging point for migrants and asylum seekers risking everything to reach libya the mediterranean and then europe now and she trafficking was introduced with the help of the european union are said to be stemming that tide and reducing fatalities in the southern somehow a desert but not everyone is not as giuliana rufus has been fun together. a checkpoint on the outskirts of out of this 7 gateway into the sorrow. of. it is here that business men matter me more sad dispatches vehicles that carry people and goods between egypt and libya. with their mortgages and i think most of us are here when the markets are. at unity and. that is the. that's not. 3 years ago pickups like these filled with migrants from across west africa passed this barrier on their journey to europe. today the flow of cars has become in me a trickle the material government has passed a law that has made the transport of such migrants illegal. jimmy get out. because that's his newness and you know. and you know done with of. course it means that all of you and we get after. the jo

tending the region the foster operates in a very very long time here in nigeria or elsewhere in west africa because most don't most of the times only a few leaders will arrive and then the rest will send in their representatives so but it looks like the issue of security is part of a moment on the minds of all the leaders gathered here. that is ahead interests in a budget thank you for that. taliban fighters are killed at least $26.00 policemen in northern afghanistan the attack on a village in the glen province happened for me hours before the scheduled resumption of talks between taliban and u.s. negotiators here in qatar and hoping to finalize a draft text addressing issues such as a nationwide cease fire and the withdrawal of u.s. forces. 5 children are among 8 people killed in yemen by air strikes led by the saudi u.a.e. coalition warplanes struck a residential area in a controlled area and city of the fighting in southern yemen killed 12 yemeni soldiers and 8. the united nations special representative for children and conflict says the yemeni people are being held hostage by the war n

it is similar to the dose, even more than the dose that was used in west africa. we do need, there is substantial evidence that half a dose is going to be effective. >> where is it manufactured? >> the initial lot was manufactured at west point, in a production plant. that plant was closed. and they have moved the facility to germany. that facility currently is going through what we call validation plots to make sure that it can make the product effectively. and one of the recent locks did not validate, so it's another reason, there are discussions our secretaries had discussions about what can be done to try to look at ways that merck might accelerate. >> how close are we to authorization? >> we are just waiting for the validation of the new plants. the clinical efficacy data and safety data is there. it is just waiting to prove that the plant that is going to make the vaccine is validated to make it in a reliable way. >> i want to switch gears with you dr. redfield, and written testimony, you indicate that in the last calendar year there were 1954 reported cases

he sent the ship to west africa which return would 110 slaves and once unloaded he ordered the captaino burn the vessel and can cover up the crime. these are from the mobile town settled by those slaves. >> they found history. these are strong willed people and that's what came to america. >> reporter: many direct desindants of the slaves still live in west africa town where they gather to hear details of the story. >> and covered up and everything else. but now it's real. >> it's not my story. >> reporter: you get to tell it. >> it's not my story but it's a story that needed to be told. >>> still ahead why an evangelical christian is worshipping at a california mosque. (vo) my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish. but those days are over. now, i take metamucil every day. it naturally traps and removes the waste that weighs me down, so i feel lighter. try metamucil and begin to feel what lighter feels like. introducing new metamucil premium blend. sweetened with stevia and made with all natural flavors and colors. it's a delicious way to get your daily dose of fiber. try it t

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in the first outbreak there was quite a remote part of west africa, where three places coalesced.ore and consequently went unrecognised. the international community really was very slow to respond. lessons have been learned from that, and the problem we are seeing in the drc, the disease was recognised very quickly. it was the lack of security and infrastructure that has allowed the disease to change, and that is what has driven at this time. you have referred to the poor infrastructure, and that being the problem. what can be done?m infrastructure, and that being the problem. what can be done? it is really not a health matter. there would have to be an appetite to have a concerted improvement in the security situation. i believe there are 50 or 60 different militias, which are not organised. they are targeting areas where there has been the death of a doctor already, and it is too dangerous to deliver high—quality healthcare on a large scale. you are a specialist in child healthcare especially. does it affect... healthcare especially. does it affect. . . the healthcare especially

enemy and as an enemy in its fight against nigerian state the international the islamic state in west africa probably a lot of groups actually operate in the other side of border and stood out though they've been known to of made some incursions in southern parts of borno state however it has the i swap allied groups of boko haram are known to have targeted mainly military facilities military personnel and of course some few civilians in the region. so then protest leaders are calling for more rallies as a tense standoff continues with the military to their own investigation into the violent dispersal of their sit in demonstration in khartoum earlier this month more than 120 people were killed in the crackdown their opinion is blame the military for that violence ugandan health officials have started distributing vaccinations to nearly 100 people may have been exposed to a bowler the outbreak started in the democratic republic of congo last year and it's one of the worst in history as spread to uganda earlier this month or much more from and heavy. anyone who may have come in contact with it

west africa. in a budget for us now mikey who is the acting president of the institute of security studies is also the former director of nigeria's state security service good to talk to you mike we'll get into some of the regional issues shortly but. the internal issues happening in some west african countries like mali as we were talking about and it's something we've reported on a lot on this channel it really is important that those get a good airing at the some regional meeting isn't it oh it's very important that this regional meeting is coming up just like you said niger is going. to can do lead to president accommodates measure armed forces. is the chairman of the. subject of group. because of the interest in the peace in peace and security in the united nations or murder is tending to me to. go to see that. we. actually so in destroyed bridge on that commodity is quite disturbing. we would need constructed efforts by the government about musicians to assure that this problem is protrude w

our oceans this was with the conservation organization sea shepherd for 4 weeks off the coast of west africa documenting overfishing and senseless torture. to live off an offshoot from 1st spent many weeks on ships and the work of these activists these biologists these people i followed and was with and worked with they're my heroes. at the beginning of december focused and 2 of his friends planned to cross the atlantic in a row boat to raise awareness for heroes of the sea. the photos he's taken for his project will be used for a book and a video material for a documentary film. the job in normal the spec for the have enormous respect for the ocean because of the unpredictability of what can happen there you can never underestimate the power of the water and the power of the waves there so it's. a life threatening undertaking to show us reality. to australia now and the city of linz not perhaps as well known for its cultural gems as vienna all salzburg but it does have something no other european city has a fest. called oz electronica which combines art with technology and every year explor

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has been an essential leader in mobilizing responses during the west africa ebola crisis when it jumpednto urban areas and started proliferating and going across internationally. he it was the u.s. that mobilized the rest of the world. we play that kind of leadership role. we need to be prepared to continue with that role. whether it's mobilizing other countries and militaries and ensuring that the u.n. system is working at full capacity. we also put critical investment into the development of two vaccines and protecting the health workers on the front lines of the crisis. and we also put enormous amounts of investment into strengthening global health systems. so we saw as ebola jumped into uganda, uganda was able to set up a screening system that caught the cases and most likely will keep it from spreading just like in the 2014 west africa outbreak, as it jumped into lagos in nigeria, which could have been a terrible disaster. they caught it because of the investments that the u.s. had made in screening capacities, tracing capacities, a health system that worked. so it underscores how

it is no mystery that the republic of congo is experiencing this terrible epidemic, as did west africa. these are fragile regions that byve been plagued conflict. i heard the secretary speak the breakdown of trust between the community and government has contributed greatly to their inability to get in and create greater responses. ebola is a pretty wimpy virus at the end of the day. if you don't have contact, you won't catch it. it is the airborne we need to be concerned about. what can and should we do? we really need to think about these fragility issues, the terrible governance that causes these countries to fall into crisis over and over again. our investments in agriculture are stronger, last longer when they are in a system where it will not fall into conflict. i would also note that the u.s. has been an essential leader in mobilizing responses during the west africa ebola crisis, when it jumped into urban areas and started really exponentially proliferating and going across internationally. it was the u.s. that mobilized the rest of the world. we need to be prepared to continue

>> it came from different parts of west africa. they were taken on a ship and captured by the dutch, been captured again off of a ship. when you look at the journey, there were two different points when they were on ships. we know about this from ship records. we also know about the virginia records -- this from the virginia records. we know very little information about them but we have bits and pieces. we know that they arrived and they were not listed as in slaved, they were servants. we know that they came and they were pretty sick when i got off the ship. they lived in virginia. some of them had families and were the first generations of african-americans in this country. host: who were they? guest: there were two or three women and the rest of them were men. they had their own families and they established their own communities in virginia. tore were middle ages, 17 24. host: how did slavery expand from that point? guest: slavery expanded gradually. it was not an institution initially. but as time went on they saw africans we

nigeria is west africa's largest meat consumer taking in $360000.00 tonnes of beef each year a growing population and its growing middle class are almost certain to raise that figure in the years ahead fulani herders are traditionally nigeria's biggest providers of beef yet clashes have sharpened between the tribe the nigerian farmers whose land overlaps with the millennia old grazing routes the question now for nigeria can't regulate and keep the peace between rival groups because the demand for meat is growing. and finally some bad news for nicotine addicts have switched through vaporing san francisco has become the 1st american city to ban the sale of e. cigarettes that is until the long term health effects of clear officials voted to ban both online and still based sales of the vaporizes which have become popular as an alternative to cigarettes or as an aid to stop smoking altogether and francisco is home to june july abse one of the largest producers in the u.s. will be legal challenges no doubt. as to business with it. cut. into the conflict zone with tim sebastian the song east

in west africa the struggle for land on resources has led to deadly confrontations farmers and herders of 14 nigeria and mali dozens of people have died thousands more have been displaced we begin our coverage in mali where a vigil has been held for the victims of the violence al-jazeera nicholas hot has more now from the capital bamako. they've come to this open air slaughter house to escape death. still vivid is the smell of burnt flesh. baria full on the lost his father window doggoned lost his son. they said i'm a light in front of my eyes. going accuse full on these sinful lonnie's blame dugongs each community accusing the other for the killings in attacks on their villages along with no harm done then we can never go home it's not safe anymore. this is what is left of barry's home full only say doggone hunters were behind the attack last sunday hundreds of dawn died in what appears to be retaliatory killings while the international criminal court investigates what may constitute crimes against humanity hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the center of mali turning this me

conakry the capital of guinea in west africa. was born here in 1904 guinea is football crazy football is played everywhere no matter how small the space. a keen observer. pablo's father the 69 year old is a football legend giving as captain of his hometown club high 5 for that cory. he won the african champions league 3 times. he still regularly meets with the heroes of yesteryear the small nation of guinea was a major force in african football during the 1970 s. and. something equivalent to the franz beckenbauer of guinea. senior is always recognised in public everyone knows who he is and his son pablo to . some but i had to look up at the end of the keeping us from beginning. to get on. board. it would last and it's going to go. on what did the muslim. african. despite his hero status senior remains a modest man in pablo's bundesliga career wouldn't have been possible without his father as a role model. for the. last you need. to do that. as a sport that i think he's a very good. man tolo t.m. had to end his career prematurely

that's not. 3 years ago pickups like these filled with migrants from across west africa passed this barrier on their journey to europe. today the flow of cars has become in me a trick of the material government has passed a law that has made the transport of such migrants illegal. jimmy get out. by yet because that's his newness and you know. what are you ok with that many of you let me go after. the journey between egypt and libya is dangerous. and migrant desk and desert roads have been frequent and. the new law will save lives according to the european union who pushed for its introduction. men like madam me who organized the migrants transport had previously risked those lives. today is the largest per capita recipient of e.u. aid including funds to train guards at this checkpoint. and the critical market as well but what about the i don't know the you know. but the e.u. has a vested interest it wants to stop african migrants from reaching europe and it's been argued that by passing the law has helped europe move its most southern border right into africa. in return for managing migrati

to share in west africa has long been a staging point for migrants and asylum seekers risking everything to reach the mediterranean and then europe now and trafficking is introduced with the help of the european union are said to be stemming that tide and produce she fatality in the southern somalia desert but not everyone is not as giuliana rufus has been funny again. a checkpoint on the outskirts of out of this 7 gateway into the sorrow. of. it is here that business men matter me most sad dispatches vehicles that carry people and goods between egypt and libya. with the mortgages and i think most of us are here when the markets are. at unity and. that is the. that's not. 3 years ago pickups like these filled with migrants from across west africa passed this barrier on their journey to europe. today the flow of cars has become in me a trickle the material government has passed a law that has made the transport of such migrants illegal. jimmy get out. by yet because that's his newness and you know. what that ok with. you then we go after. the journey between the share and libya is dangero

i wonder in west africa with the united states pulling out 2000 troops we have stationed there as they march south , what does that signal for the future of security relations and democracy relations and what those look like in the region i think that is part of the challenge of how do we engage africa? if the second point of the strategy of counterterrorism is pulling out what message do we stay and engage with the type of arms that africa needs? and that is recall the republican army that is the army that you present to the people the army outside of the politics there's only about six or seven of them. there again is a tremendous opportunity to find security and stability and to reflect the need of the local population is part of the challenge nobody seems to understand the angle i'm not criticizing them just saying it's such a unique system to deal with the us military more than any other command so when those decisions are made which by the way is the same space as democracy because it is a breakdown of government it is the same coin really so it's very challenging i spent time in