countries, there's a growing move to cut or curtail tobacco production in india backed by the world health organizationr warnings notjust on tobacco packets but also on television. india is the world's second largest tobacco growing country. but as sanjoy majumder reports, the move is being opposed by those who grow tobacco. it isa it is a crop that once made their fortu nes it is a crop that once made their fortunes but india's tobacco farmers are now staring at the potential ruin. as buyers inspect their stock ata ruin. as buyers inspect their stock at a local auction, there is a distinct air of tension. india is one of the world's biggest tobacco producers that is under pressure to cut back. it is the effect of the global antitobacco campaign led by the world health organization and which is being supported in india by the government. this part of southern india is with —— where most of india's tobacco is grown. it is also the part of the country which is really dry. it doesn't get much rainfall and the soil is very, very arid. but the tobacco plant thrives in these conditions and that's why it's gr

the world health organization has issued a stark warning that the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea is a very small very small bug that's rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics. in a study of twenty seven countries the whi found cases in japan france and spain. where the infection was completely untreatable but the agency says most cases occur in poorer countries whl officials said oral sex and fewer people using condoms? was helping the disease to spread. life saving drugs which has revolutionized medical science. and the since the development of penicillin in the nineteen forties gonorrhea like a host of previously devastating infections became little more than an inconvenience for those with access to the new anti biotics. over the years that it's become resistant the drugs available. the options for treating it a running out. that's a very smart organism i smoked mechanisms by whic. mutates comercis tax politics and the evidence is there that is resistant to many dance bosses we currently use. and very soon there won't be any antibiotics available that could be used for th

there are growing demands, backed by the world health organization, to cut back or end altogether tobacco every year and there are warnings on tobacco packets and on tv. india is the world's second largest tobacco growing country. but as sanjoy majumder reports, the move is being opposed by those who grow tobacco. it is a crop that once made theirfortunes, but india's tobacco farmers are now staring at potential ruin. as buyers inspect their stock at a local auction, there is a distinct air of tension. india is one of the world's biggest tobacco producers, but is under pressure to cut back. it is the effect of a global anti—tobacco campaign led by the world health organization, and which is being supported in india by the government. this part of southern india is where most of india's tobacco is grown. it is also part of the country which is really dry. it doesn't get much rainfall and the soil is very, very arid. but the tobacco plant thrives in these conditions and that's why it's grown in such abundance, because for the farmer, the returns are really good. so the farmers see any move

industry has "powerful valid arguments to support its position" and that sheet mentioning the world health organizationdecision that johnson & johnson gets with every shipment of talc? williams says context matters. >> in 2006 the world health organization, as you well know -- said that talc is a possibly cancer causing agent. why would an international group say that if it's not true? >> if you wanna look at the -- the products that are on their list as probable cancer causers, that includes things like -- red meat, eating potato chips -- eating french fries, working the night shift, drinking really hot beverages. >> those things i just mentioned correlate higher than talc with cancer. there's no warning for any of those products. >> what's more, williams says that just because some studies show a correlation between baby powder and ovarian cancer -- that doesn't prove talc causes cancer. >> an overwhelming majority of studies over the past 35 years have found an increase in chance of getting ovarian cancer after using baby powder -- 30% increase on average. why doesn't that concern you? >> the center

the world health organization says as many as 5000 yemenis are being infected every day and that thehe disease will l only spread further as the rarainy seasonon begins. the cholera outbreak comes as more than two years of u.s.-bacacked saudi-led bombingn yemen hahas devastated the country's health, water, and sanitation systems. this is u.n. human rights agency spokesman rupert colville. >> the fighting hugely exacerbating the ability to stop this epidemic of cholera and of disintegration of the health system in yemen as a result of the conflict at the time of cholera is a lethal combination. amy: we will go to o yemen for rere on the cholera epidemic and the u u.s.-backed bombingng camn later in the broadcast. in the united states in texas, at least nine have people died from h heat exposure and asphyxiation after they and 30 others were crammed into the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer as part of their journey to enter the united states from mexico. when the group of migrants were discovered in a walmart parking lot in san antonio, eight men were already dead. one more man died

the world health organization has said the cholera outbreak in yemen is out of control, with over 300usand people affected. the country has been racked by civil war and an intervention by saudi—led forces for the past two years. as a result government health services have collapsed. coming up shortly is newswatch, but now on bbc news, it's time for click. there are sharks all around me! virtual reality. it's action packed. it's immersive... argh! there's a mouse! it's terrifying. argh! it's collaborative... laughter. it's a knockout! ok, you hit me. it's... oh, god. it's frozen. it's... frozen. it's fun, but it's not going to change the world... it wouldn't fit in as much as, say, my phone would. it wouldn't fit in... it's such a shame, it's so annoying. it's annoying. not really what you want to hear when you are talking about vr. especially since the technology has actually been around since the 1960s. this helmet is from the mid—1990s. but it wouldn't be the first bit of amazing looking tech to simply fade into novelty. one of the problems is the media goes mad over it and then eve

in 2012, the world health organization warned that gaza would be uninhabitable by 2020 u.n.ays living conditions in gaza have deteriorated faster than expected and the a area has alady y become u unlivable. thisiss the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for occupied palestinian territory robert piper.r. >> i see this extraordinarily inhuman and unjust process of strangling gradually 2 million civilians in gaza that really pose a threat to nobody. i don't know -- we talk about the deliverability ofof gaza. when you're down to two hours aa day of electricity, which is the case earli t this week, when you have 60% use -- use on a planet rates in a a you really y do hae such little horizon, for me,e, d you probabably, and most people watching, that threshold has been passed quite a long time ago. amy: to talk more about the situation, we go directly to gaza where we're joined by raji sourani, an award wiwinning humn rights lawyer. he is the director of the palestinian center for human rights in gaza. he is on the executive board of the international federation for human rights. he re

according to your report, africa has a lowest number of tobacco deaths among world health organizationons in the 2010. world health organization predicts nearly half the population of congo-brazzaville will smoke by 2025 and smoking rates will increase in 17 other countries. you also look at kenya as a case study. >> in kenya, the supreme court is hearing arguments between the government and tobacco companies. the government wants to pass a set of anti-tobacco regulations. tobacco companies are fighting that. the reason that is important is because especially in developing nations, you have a limited budget in which to fight these kinds of fights in which to get these sorts of regulations enacted. it is a very closely watched case on the continent. other governments are watching it. if, for example, the kenya government fails, it could act as a deterrent for other governments to enact these regulations because they know it will be pricey and potentially it won't pay off, you won't protect their citizens the way it is intended to. the: in other words, regulations we hear in the u.s. tak

narrator: road fatalities are a major priority for the world health organization, and we are halfway the u.n. decade of action for road safety, which was launched in 2011. and one of thee new global sustainable development g goals, sgg number, aims to halve road dedeat and injuries by 2020. hshsi-pei and amy made their own contribution to enforcement and accountability by bringing a civil suit against the driver who knocked allison down. he's now barred from driving for 5 years and hahad to pay compensation. their campaign also helped bring in a new law, which means that drivers in new york now face criminal penalties for killing or injuring a pedestrian on a crosswalk. we know how to make our roads safer, but will change come quickly enough to spare more children like allison and inga, along with their families? [music] nanarrator: coming u up on a fue episode of "21st century"... in india,a, a child is abducted every 8 minutes. most are girls. half are nevever found. [m[music] music [quiet, whispering]

another ominous statistics is from the world health organization. they said the average person dealing with this will live an average of 12-15 months and less than 5% live for another five years. evan koslof, wusa9. >>> president joe biden and senator ted kennedy were often -- were also afflicted with this often deadly cancer. he's gotten through so much difficulty with so much grace and is strong and he will beat this. >>> now, the political impact on capitol hill. senator mccain was one of the leads that mitch mcconnell was counting on to pass the healthcare bill. they could only afford two republicans to defect and still pass the bill. until mccain can return, the margin is now down to one. >>> the lingering russia investigation has president donald trump lashing out at his own attorney general, jeff sessions and fired fbi director james comey. >> we love this job. we love this department and i plan to continue long as that is appropriate. >> reporter: attorney general jeff sessions said he has no plans to resign despite her -- despite reports th

he plays a role that is similar to what the world health organization used to do. many people argue he's more powerful than the world health organization. bill gates does lots of good things in the world but this idea with a billion or savior complex i think helped create a context for donald trump could stand before the american people and say trust me because i'm rich. because we were already as a culture acting as if the ability to make a lot of money in one area bestowed just kind of incident wisdom on this tiny group of billionaires, even if that no experience in health or education, they had tremendous power because of their wealth. so how different is that from trump's pitch to voters of sure, i drive any qualifications come any expense in government but i'm so rich that you can trust me to fix america. >> host: you also talk about setting the stage engines are going back to reagan, for example, ask of it being part of the problem, private is the solution. then you talk about the clinton era and the deregulation of the banks and in the field of president obam

be for each country to produce its own plasma that would be preferable according to the world health organization self-sufficiency is definitely one of the aims that show promotes in terms of the goal that countries are trying to get to the goal is not self-sufficiency soley for self-sufficiency sake it's because systems that are self-sufficient tend to be safer and tend to provide better access but there are many parts of the world that are not self-sufficient and have to depend on outside sources for for blood donation and so for us it's an aim that much of the world needs to work towards but we're not there yet. however much the w.h.o. may state the importance of self-sufficiency the world market isn't following the us is exporting more plasma and soon europe won't be able to do without this cheap raw material. in many parts of the world they've made decisions two in particular in europe and several countries some scandinavian countries france are making decisions to. basically privatized or move into a private management of these types of of donation systems. basile in the dubrovnik in venice

lastly, world health organization, maybe c-span can group.ebody on from that america ranks 39 out of the top 0 countries in the world for healthcare, best systems in the world do not go through wall class.and billionaire number one in the world, france, number two, italy, they have a single-payer health plan like america should have had years ago. want to get involved, call your congresspeople, tell them hr676, medicare for votededicare and medicaid best healthplan in america. works of healthcare, great for people who sell it, ut americans can't afford to buy it. host: thanks for calling. we'll get a few more on before up.rap from "washington post," shaping ealth care bill, senator sidelined trump and now they're paying the price. republicans began working on healthcare legislation, they spectacles,from two unpopular health bill and resident of the united states prematur remature -- senator majority leader mcconnell decided to work up a different bill inside office and let trump on the sideline where he stayed. t might have seemed right move back then, pushing away unpopular presiden

according to the world health organization. data from 77 countries shows the disease has developed a resistance to some antibiotics. gonorrhea infects 70 1 million people every year. if untreated it can cause infertility. >>> after the break a purse sneratchs steals cash and credit cards from classrooms all over montgomery county. >>> the washington nationals apologize for the rain delay debacle last night keeping some fans in the stands until after 1:00 in the morning. >>> and we will have a look at for years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ we deliver super-fast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than fios. we do business where you do business. ♪ ♪ >>> take a good look at the guy here on the monitor. police in montgomery county say he has taken cash and credit cards and purses from 11 school employees in

the world health organization says two—thirds of the global population is now protected by a range ofd increase in ten years. the who says the policies, such as advertising bans and higher tobacco taxes, have saved millions of lives, but warns that smoking is still killing seven million people annually. japan's first mongolian—born oyakata, or sumo master, has taken over one of the most famous sumo stables in japan. the tough training and tradition—bound ways have put off many local youth from the sport, leaving sumo to be dominated by foreign — mainly mongolian — wrestlers. the family of a new zealander who died in a japanese psychiatric hospital have pleaded for the country to improve its patient care. 27—year—old english teacher kelly savage died of a heart attack after being restrained for ten days. his family spoke out to the media describing how he died in a japanese psychiatric hospital after being tied to his bed. his family said he was strapped to the bed by the legs, wrists and waist, although he had calmed down. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes has been following th

scientists are showing that it's actually a much more serious cancer risk than even with of world health organization says when he was michael holstein the business manager for the green bank observatory here in green bay quest for ginia in one nine hundred fifty eight the federal government created the national radio choir the only one like it in the world to protect us against fixed based license transmitters things like radio towers or t.v. towers or radar installations that the broadcast and of course in the fifty's when they were created there wasn't a lot out there but in the last fifteen twenty years you know wireless technology is just simply explode and so the quiet zones also protect against. interference from cell phones so in this area you don't have cell service people don't have a lot of the technologies that exist elsewhere and for their reason people with electromagnetic to vittie have found that green bay it has sort of become a focal point for their their lives. over here and this is my spot this is where i come. to recoup sometimes i can for forty eight hours straight and i when i'

if that is nothing like a lot, consider the rate of infection, what the world health organization considerseverity, is almost 100 times the national average and higher than the rate in india, kenya, and haiti." what is happening now? guest: they are still struggling, and the results you will not know for a couple of years out. they have active cases. what happens here is you typically have small pockets of outbreaks from even in the u.s. areas where there are high numbers of immigrants. but to have a whole neighborhood infected in a town is very rare. iny had a couple of cases 2013, and in 2014, they started to really add up. fromf the patients died it, and the health department realized it they have a big problem on their hands. so they tried to set up testing. any other area, usually when people hear about an outbreak, the panic. they cannot test people fast enough. people get tested to do not need to be tested. in his neighborhood, there was a greater mistrust, many of them did not have primary care doctors that they could count on to talk to about what is going on, and they did not show

let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news: the world health organization has issuedhat the sexually transmitted infection, gonorrhoea, is rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics. in a study of 77 countries, the who found cases injapan, france and spain where the infection was completely untreatable. british counter terrorism police say they believe salman abedi, who carried out the suicide attack in manchester in may, was not part of a larger extremist network. but officers say other people might have been aware of what he was planning, and they want to question his younger brother, who is in custody in libya. the chinese hospital treating imprisoned nobel peace laureate, liu xiaobo, says his condition has worsened. the dissident was diagnosed with late—stage liver cancer in may. he was imprisoned in 2009 on charges of inciting subversion against the state, after he helped to write a petition calling for political reform in china. authorities in mexico say at least 28 inmates have been killed in a prison riot in the coastal city of acapulco. three other people w

. >> reporter: reena, yeah it's the second cholera outbreak in six months, and the world health organizations about 250,000 hoople, half of them children, have been sickened in what is now the world's largest cholera outbreak. 1,500 people have died since april alone. soe disease is spreading through water contaminated with human waste. hunger is also widespread, and the skeletal images of people from the region are painful to s ok at. the united nations says the liuntry is on the brink of famine, and more than 17 million people are desperately in need of food. yemen has been crippled by a two-year civil war, pinning southi rebels against a military alliance of arab states led by u.s.-backed saudi arabia. civilians are often the ones trapped in the middle. the war has made it difficult if iot impossible for aid groups to deliver food and fresh water. the nation's infrastructure, including hospitals, are on the brink of collapse. unicef, which is among several aid groups on the ground, has called for a ceasefire so more can be done, but previous attempts at peace talks or ceasefires have all

the world health organization says more than 330,000 yemenis have been infected with cholera and morethan 1,700 people have died since the epidemic began in april. itn's jane deith has more. >> abdalla made his mother malaja proud. he went to school and always helped collect water but he's gone. taken from her by cholera. >> the day he was taken for treatment, he told me, don't worry mom, i can take care of myself. and tell dad not to worry. when they brought him back, he wasn't talking. and he was still. i covered him. and it was the end. >> reporter: in another country more people would be saved. with fluids and antibiotics delivered quickly. but this is yemen where war has leveled half the health clinics. shia houthi rebels drove the help out. the saudi led coalition is fighting the coalition with air strikes. the u.n. says the warring sides and their proxies are to blame for the col rar epidemic which it's feared will infect more than 600,000 people by the end of the year. it's spreading faster than during the world's biggest outbreak after the haiti earthquake. the support was pu