the world health organization has raised concerns about the worsening violence in eastern democratic republic of congo says the fighting in the area has limited its efforts to reduce the bowl outbreak for health workers were killed and several others injured just last week at and so has the full story now from goma. the visit by the director general of the world health organization to go ma was brief but necessary . health workers responding to an outbreak in parts of the region why attack last week by my my rebels in an area where people are still being infected by the disease for died and in this hospital the chief visits those who are injured even one. case could spark a fire so the same thing no actually with a major one of the major security incidents like this one our concern is even more so it may take us longer than you know it would have taken with the progress that we had only seen you have a clue he had the agencies a bomb coordinator shows us what they're dealing with the red sports you see are the focus points. it's in mining villages in about 70 kilometers from betty tow

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for a mass outbreak of the missiles weapons the carrying out of merchant sea vaccinations the world health organization convinced by this to confront a worldwide surge in the measles cases with children bearing the brunt of the suffer. a math anyhow and thanks for joining us the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi says that she's ready to draft articles of impeachment against president donald trump the announcement marks the culmination of a month long inquiry into whether trump abused his office in his dealings with you cry he is alleged to have held up military idea of an exchange for an investigation into his rival democratic presidential candidate joe biden. nancy pelosi was clear about the way forward with impeachment she said the president's abuse of power with clear and required action is heartbreaking but the president gave us no choice so we're not going to say what we would we would honor our oath of office but but what he's the one who's dividing the country on this we are honoring the constitution of the united states. has asked the house judiciary committ

the visit by the director general of the world health organization to go was brief but necessary. health workers responding to an outbreak in parts of the region why attack last week by my my rebels in an area where people are still being infected by the disease for died in this hospital that chief visits those who were injured even one. case could spark a fire so the same thing now actually with a major one of the major security incidents like this one concern is even more so it may take longer. you know it would have taken with the progress that we had. here the agencies upon emergency core data shows us what they're dealing with the red sports you see are the focus points. it's in mining villages in about 70 kilometers from baby town where most of the new cases have been detected yet it's one of the most unsafe areas and where the health workers were recently killed plans are bricks important to stop or. on this very difficult to access because of the forest around the mining areas making sure that they have full access to back up to the villages among those important plans are

into a walk down as it carries up emergency mass vaccinations against measles is part of what the world health organization says is a collective failure to confront the world wide surge in measles cases with children bearing the brunt of the suffering. and french public sector workers stage one of the biggest national strikes in decades the protests against proposed pension reforms calls once for a disruption to transport networks today and schools and hospitals some of them have turned by a lens will have the latest from paris and will take you to the village in turkey was a language all its own. but the villagers old style help twitter is under threat as young leaves. leave for the cities so you know scott has added what you're hearing right now list for church. tradition. golf it's good to have you with these speaker of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi says she is ready to draft articles of impeachment against the u.s. president that amounts meant marks the culmination of months of inquiries into whether the president abused his office in his dealings with ukraine now he's all

immunization in the community so before the outbreak right around 30 percent according to the world health organization it needs to be around 90 percent to prevent diseases like measles spreading so with so few people immunized. left some more vulnerable to an outbreak of measles which sadly is what it's seeing right now and there was overheard a reference or in the report this i'm t. vox on the internet what sort of role playing a big one and that's according to unicef so the pacific islands boss for unicef is someone called children yet he said that content found on social media is is feeding into the outbreak and it's content that's coming from wealthy overseas nations like australia and the us countries that have largest stablished anti-vaccination groups that are sending their information to developed countries like. one of the most prominent anti vaccination campaign is in some 0 is someone called edwin thomas east he's got no medical training he's a businessman but he posts medical advice to thousands of followers he claims that vaccines a highly toxic and can have court serious lon

the world health organization says it's an outrage.uch of france brought to a standstill by one of the biggest public sector strikes for years. two more tropical storms are heading towards east africa, already hundreds have been killed in landslides have had to leave their homes. president trump has hit back at democrats in the house of representatives, who have announced articles of impeachment against him. mr trump said they were "crazy" and that he would win a trial in the senate, which is republican—controlled. he urged his opponents to move quickly so the country could, as he put it, get back to business. the leading democrat, nancy pelosi, said her party had been left with no choice but to act after weeks of hearings in washington. nick bryant has the latest. on capitol hill today, the battle lines started being marked out for an epic political fight. a process likely now to lead to the trial of donald trump, a constitutional spectacle seen only twice before in america's turbulent history. the democratic house speaker, nancy pelo

and that's the real focus is on a measles outbreak in samoa the world health organization warns the problem is far bigger than most people realize. and journalism sure longa say they're confronting intimidation from the new government. will become just the 4th u.s. president to face formal and pietschmann charges speaker nancy pelosi says he abused his power by withholding military aid to pressure ukraine into investigating democratic rival joe biden a votes expected in the next couple of weeks setting up a fight in the senate on whether to remove trump from office castro reports in washington d.c. . it's official sadly that with confidence and humility with allegiance to our founders and heart full of love for america today i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. donald trump will become the 4th president in u.s. history to face formal impeachment charges that could remove him from office the facts are uncontested the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security by withholding military aid and crucial ov

of all these cases democratic republic of congo liberia madagascar somalia and ukraine and the world health organization says that as of last month there's been a 3 fold increase in the number of cases in 2019 in comparison to last year when medical teams going door to door in summer as they raced to vaccinate as many people as possible against measles residents have stay off the streets during the 2 day campaign and put a red flag outside the house if they are not vaccinated fewer than one in 3 people and some of that had the correct immunization before the outbreak started. well jessica washington joins us now from the central coordination had courses for the crisis in the capital apia just take us through what's happening today and efforts of course to try and contain the disease. marian that's right i'm speaking to you from the headquarters where the emergency response to this measles outbreak is being coordinated and the team here are compiling the numbers from day one of that mass vaccination drive so far we've heard that count is that at least 16000 and those numbers are still coming

it is part of what the world health organization says is a collective failure to confront a worldwide surge in measles cases with children bearing the brunt of the suffering. french public-sector workers stage one of the biggest national strikes in decades in protest against pension reforms. calls for widespread disruption to transport networks, schools and hospitals. some have turned violent. we go to paris for the latest. i'm brent goff. our viewers on pbs in the united states and around the world, welcome. tonight, the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives says she is ready to draft articles of impeachment against the president. the announcement marks the culmination of months of inquiries into whether president trump abused his office in his dealings with ukraine. he is accused of having used military aid for kiev as a weapon in exchange for investigation into joe biden. speaker pelosi says trump's actions strike at the heart of the u.s. constitution. >> the president is engaged in abuse of power, undermining national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections

the world health organization recognises air pollution as one of the causes.rters of a million people living in this community and many of them are struggling to breathe because of the air quality. there is a team of african scientists who have come up with ways of measuring the air quality here, and they think that it is a step forward in finding a solution to this problem. these low—cost air pollution sensors are easy to install. they detect and record the amount of dangerous small particles in the air. that data is then transmitted to a website where it can be accessed by anyone for free. our data is accurate, which means anyone in any city across any african country will be able to use it, deploy it, and get real—time local data for their neighbourhoods, that they can use to petition governments to solve problems that they face around air pollution. that is what the community living next to this asphalt factory did after they started having breathing problems. they installed sensors in their homes. 0ur campaign got the attention of the media and the govern

the world health organization describes the figures as an outrage, most of those who died were children powers have claimed that iran is developing nuclear—ca pable missiles, in violation of a un security council resolution. the uk, france and germany say iran has tested a variant of the shahab—3 missile, which could deliver a nuclear weapon. iran has denied this, foreign ministerjavad zarif calling the charge a desperate falsehood. thousands of firefighters are battling about 100 bushfires in the australian state of new south wales, the most severe on the outskirts of sydney. australia's largest city has been blanketed by thick smoke all week. officials say hospital admissions, due to smoke inhalation, have risen at least 10%. the oil—giant saudi aramco will be worth $1.7 trillion when it makes its stock market debut next week. it's less than the $2 trillion the saudi government wanted to raise, but the share sale will make it the world's most valuable company. the flotation looks to be part of a plan to modernise the saudi economy. one of the world's biggest cases of cyber—theft has b

the capital are largely deserted as mobile medical teams go door to door vaccinating people the world health organization says the outbreak is part of what it calls a global collective failure to protect populations against missiles. now no necessary buying clothes for her son to be buried in. he's one of more than 60 children who has died in the measles epidemic sweeping samoa. with cases like as mounting the government has declared a state of emergency vaccinations have been made compulsory in a country where only around a 3rd of the population was immunized against measles. 90 percent need to be vaccinated for adequate protection one reason for the rapid spread of the preventable disease misinformation by anti-vaccination groups we. anybody. are going to be. for people who come from an. that's. the problem maybe should we have been handicapped by driving a car as. we have so many and that she. had for. many of. you. the government's patience has run ice it starts a 2 day shutdown of businesses and most government offices and advise samoans to stay indoors. officials have asked residents w

africa has a fake drug problem according to the world health organization the continent accounts for 42 percent of global consumption of substandard and fake madsen's the results a deadly 250000 children die every year from malaria or pneumonia due to fake drugs flooding the market kenya is one of the countries affected correspondent that melanie quoted about has been investigated it's been a year since below 18 month old son passed away memories of a baby boy are still vivid so are the nightmares of losing him when he got sick blood took a son to a local chemist for help he was given an injection his skin color changed soon after in a public hospital he died in his mother's arms. but. one of the doctors pulled me aside and said your child has been injected with fake drugs fake drugs. they did blood tests which revealed that the drug they used was fake. into the system. this is the piece. says she is just one of many here in the slum of mathematics who have been affected by counterfeit medicines a friend millicent is convinced her son was also treated with fake medicine as she calls

that is according to the world health organization. while the world health organization.irst round of testing were shocking, the sample size was small. the team are still waiting on the results of the second round. on the other side of indonesia's biggest island, there is a village on the outskirts of ja ka rta a village on the outskirts of jakarta and on the middle of a fightback against unwarranted plastic waste. plastic is still being burned here but things were much worsejust a being burned here but things were much worse just a few months ago. the fumes have had a shocking impact on the people living in the local neighbourhood. at one point, traders were burning plastic nearby throughout the night. this lady's daughter is three. she has had a bad cough, seizures and trouble breathing. —— this man's daughter is three. the situation got tense. after discussions between local leaders and plastic traders, the biggest open of burning plastic stops. there is evidence that a change in government policy is having an impact. they started stopping containers of waste from ente

the world health organization recognises air pollution as one of the causes. should be. there are nearly 750,000 people living in this community, and many of them are struggling to breathe because of the air quality. there is a team of african scientists who have come up with ways of measuring the air quality here, and they think that it is a step forward in finding a solution to this problem. these low—cost air pollution sensors are easy to install. they detect and record the amount of dangerous small particles in the air. that data is then transmitted to a website, where it can be accessed by anyone for free. our data is accurate, which means anyone in any city across any african country will be able to use it, deploy it, and get real—time local data for their neighbourhoods, that they can use to petition governments to solve problems that they face around air pollution. that is what the community living next to this asphalt factory did after they started having breathing problems. they installed sensors in their homes. our campaign got the attention of the

the world health organization says nearly 10 million people were infected last year by a disease whichtional airline says it is trialling edible coffee cups in a bid to reduce the amount of waste on board its planes. the cups are made from vanilla —flavoured biscotti and are apparently leak—proof. that's all. stay with bbc world news. more on our web site bbc.co.uk/news and the news app.

it is also doing well i think to start to generate a communication campaign and unicef and the world health organization have prepared a communication tool kit which is going out to the whole region in fact to educate audiences about the risks of missiles and also the importance of that to nations so their communication campaign is actually targeting travelers the general public and also health workers so things differently moving we need to get more supplies into the country to try to stem this outbreak as much as possible and we wish you all the best with that james nichols there from unicef astray speaking to us from sydney thanks james now history is foreign minister says china's treatment of a detained a stray in chinese writer is unacceptable pro-democracy advocate young john has been held in beijing since january suspected of spying marie spain says yan's being interrogated daily while shackled and is pushing for him to be freed patrick period as a straight here is amnesty international's china reception he's pushing for more international pressure on beijing. for spying the spur not

but the world health organization says efforts to eliminate measles globally have slowed back as the death toll in some most outbreak continues to rise 60 people have died since the epidemic started in mid october 50 of those are children under the age of 4 up to now some are low immunization rates of just over 30 percent emergency measures including making immunizations compulsory and closing schools but the crisis shows no major sign of slowing down 171 new cases have been recorded in the last 24 hours and that brings the number of cases in this outbreak to more than 4000 in the population of 200000 people jessica washington is our correspondent and joins us from the capital appear and of course jessica you've seen the immunization process of what the government is trying to do in terms of trying to limit the expo. of german measles to the public at large what's your general impression of the way that they're coping with this crisis. also hell it seems to be that they've changed strategies as the scale of this crisis has become more apparent when this outbreak 1st began in mid octo

the world health organization says the fight against malaria is stalling even though it's still making more than $200000000.00 people sick every year around $400000.00 of those who get infected die mostly children in africa on average one child dies from malaria every 2 minutes that's all the way it shows latest report also shows 11000000 pregnant women had malaria in sub-saharan africa last year affecting the help of almost 900000 new born babies the report goes on to say that while progress has been made money is short so donor countries and governments need to do more of this lenore is the team leader of the surveillance unit for the world health organizations global malaria program he says data can be used efficiently to target those at risk of contracting malaria quite clearly we need to improve how we invest the existing resources to allow us to achieve bigger impact on the double issue and the global partnership is working with the countries to improve the 'd efficiencies all of the heart of this is a better use of data to effectively target populations at risk or the other hand

well just say hagan is a medical officer of the world health organisation regional office for the western pacific he says vaccines are the safest and most effective way to tackle the current measles outbreak. the truth is that vaccines are some of the safest interventions that we have access to measles vaccine alone has prevented over 21000000 deaths since 2000 people were under vaccinated are people who live in. situations where they don't have access to that they live in conflict areas they may be part of marginalized populations that don't have the same access to services . and so those and so the fact that these pockets of people who are not immune has been growing over time in some populations leads to this sort of a tinderbox situation and once the disease introduced its place resume rapidly still to come in this half hour. the scenes in mall ties protesters demanding the prime minister's immediate resignation over the murder of a journalist stop politicians from leaving argument. and the new target of colombian protests venezuelan migrants say that they're facing the senate phobics

the head of the world health organization has expressed outrage as new figures show a big increase in the number of deaths caused by measles the viral disease killed 140000 people in 2800 compared to $120000.00 the previous year the report says children under the age of 5 make up most of the deaths w.h.o. director says the numbers point to a collective failure and says vaccinations are showing signs of stagnation worldwide mistrust of authorities and the spread of misinformation or partially to blame we are on a trajectory that is going in absolutely the wrong direction that we are backsliding very significantly and the additional point here is that we're really. influence that some of these situations are very influenced by the public perception of vaccines we've had vaccine voices since the time of vaccines in the 1700s that's that's not new what's new in the past 510 years is the megaphone that they have and the tools that these anti vaccine voices which really are fringe groups it's actually quite a small number of people and groups who are spreading both misson spread large sprea

the world health organization says the fight against malaria is stalling even though it's still making more than $200000000.00 people sick every year about $400000.00 of those who get infected die mostly children in africa on average one child dies from malaria every 2 minutes the world health organization as latest report also shows 11000000 pregnant women had malaria in sub-saharan africa last year affecting the health of almost 900000 newborn babies the report goes on to say well progress has been made money is short so donor countries and governments need to do more joining us on the news are nor is the surveillance team leader for the world health organization global malaria program and lead author of that world malaria report 2019 he's in geneva nor welcome to the news hour so the fight has stalled but has it stabilized. we hope that we would be able to make progress going forward on what the analysis shows that over the last. 3 years the change in the trend in malaria cases and fossil related deaths has somewhat the stimulus. despite happy progress since 2000 when the global inv

the suffering this multimillion dollar business courses and what can be done to stop it now the world health organization africa accounts for 42 percent of the global consumption of. fake medicines their results. 250000 drug related that are report. every year children are dying every year from malaria or pneumonia due to fake drugs flooding the market cartels free on developing countries with little or no regulatory oversight like in kenya where our correspondent. has been investigating it's been a year since below 18 month old son passed away memories of her baby boy are still vivid so are the nightmares of losing him when he got sick the law took a son to a local chemist for help he was given an injection his skin color changed soon after in a public hospital he died in his mother's arms. one of the doctors pulled me aside and said your child has been injected with fake drugs fake drugs. they did blood tests which revealed that the drug was fake. into this is. also interesting. says she is just one of many here in the slum of mathematics who have been affected by counterfeit medicine her

fight is able to come up to the village and still kill people and also can 3 me understand the world health organization has its director general in that area what are they trying to achieve. well that area is also where health workers are struggling to contain an airball outbreak that started about just a little. and i hear in the house and basically what's been happening is that health workers even before this crisis they have been under a lot of attack people some rebel groups especially called my my has been attacking them and just at the beginning of the fear for a boiler responders were killed in areas where people are still getting infected by a boiler so the director general of the world health organization dr ted draws a useless is there basically to talk to the people to boost the morale of the staff members w.h.o. has. killed down an operation has evacuated some more good stuff members as well as other humanitarian organizations have also evacuated some of their nonessential staff members so the w.h.o. director has said that this security situation goes on and check this going to

now the head of the world health organization has expressed outrage as new figures show a huge increase in the number of deaths caused by measles the viral disease killed 140000 people in 2800 compared 212-0000 in the previous year the report says children under the age of 5 make up most of the deaths w.h.o. director says the numbers point to a collective failure and says vaccinations are showing signs of stagnation worldwide mistrust of authorities and the spread of misinformation a partially to blame. we are on a trajectory that is going in absolutely the wrong direction that we are backsliding very significantly and the additional point here is that we're really. influence that some of these situations are very influenced by the public perception of vaccines we've had vaccine voices since the time of vaccines in the 1700s that's that's not new what's new in the past 510 years is the megaphone that they have and the tools that these anti vaccine voices which really are fringe groups it's actually quite a small number of people and groups who are spreading both miss and spread large an

living life in partial or total darkness according to the world health organization approximately 253000000 people globally a vision impaired or a tight line. today on techno some of the latest innovations making it easier to help people the sight problems navigate a complex well if you want to get there just slightly different. and even enjoy art again through a gentle touch i think there are so many people that i met there were. ruwi crucial to this and later as populations age and impairments become the prevalent a new study to determine what technology is needed in the future to ensure that people can live independently at home thanks and happy we really need to figure out ways to better help people as they age as they develop various chronic conditions and do it in a way that optimizes their quality of life the scientific into the crystal ball of aging this is the text i assure.

and as the world focuses on a measles outbreak in some of the world health organization warns the problem is far bigger than most people understand. donald trump will become just the 4th u.s. president to face formal impeachment charges house speaker nancy pelosi says he abused his power by withholding military aid to pressure ukraine into investigating democratic rival joe biden a vote is expected in the next couple of weeks setting up a fight in the senate on whether to remove trump from office highly joe castro reports now from washington. it's official sadly that with confidence and humility with allegiance to our founders and heart full of love for america today i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. donald trump will become the 4th president in u.s. history to face formal impeachment charges that could remove him from office the facts are uncontested the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security by withholding military aid and crucial oval office meeting in exchange for an announcement of an i

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after the tsunami sri lankan psychiatry's formed a network with the help of the world health organization today elementary school teachers are being taught how to recognize signs of trauma in children but talking about the effects of trauma is still to do. the country has installed an early warning system for tsunamis the fear of another giant wave has never gone away nor has the memory of the victims of 2004. people across the middle east in asia have been witnessing a rare solar eclipse what's known as an annular eclipse provided spectacular views to people from saudi arabia to india and singapore they had to wear special also they can look straight at the sun without endangering their eyesight. a ring of fire in the sky seen by lucky viewers along a narrow path of visibility in saudi arabia sun chasers from around the world started preparing in darkness i'm a glimpse it's my 11 eclipse and that's because of the. 2 see is that they knew little eclipse didn't see me and my family will live in london come to saudi arabia especially to see this event because it's very rare you know we're m

after the tsunami sri lankan psychiatrist formed a network with the help of the world health organization today elementary school teachers are being taught how to recognize signs of trauma in children but talking about the effects of trauma is still to do. what the country has installed an early warning system for tsunamis the fear of another giant wave has never gone away nor has the memory of the victims of 2004. all right here's a round up now of some of the other stories making news around the world. turkish presence rich attire burdwan says he intends to send troops to libya and chris says the internationally recognized government in tripoli has requested the measure to help stabilize the country while libya has been torn by a civil war since 2014 and has no effective central government. russian police have raided the offices of kremlin critic alexina vali and moscow has anti corruption foundation publishes exposes on state corruption but now authorities are investigating it his colleague ruslan. shove a day in office seen here in the middle with a volley has just been sent for milit