the philippines korea and indonesia are also affected the world organization for animal health is warning of a global crisis currently import supplies are low in china and officials are worried about the latest outbreak in indonesia where the government is tracking developments closely pigs are being dumped into the bigger river in north. authorities have already recovered more than $100.00 dead hawgs. there are many pig carcasses floating into our region invidia river and sea on back lake our job is to clean and move these carcasses on to lend and bury them we are coordinating closely with the police and army in our region to stay alert for people who might try and dispose of carcasses in our area. over $4000.00 pigs have died since swine flu finally reached indonesia a quarter of the global pig population has already perished the world organization for animal health is alarmed. or fit only for a month we are really facing a threat that is global. so we must not only focus on countries that are affected because they are a potential source for spreading the disease to countries that today

compounds and set fire to the town hall violence has forced the world health organization to pull almost a 3rd of its staff from benny in the middle of an ebola outbreak but that warns that the instability will most certainly lead to an increase in ebola cases alexy o'brien has more. around 18000 u.n. peacekeepers are in the democratic republic of congo to protect civilians from attacks by rebel fighters. but some civilians went on the attack themselves at a u.n. compound in north kivu province on monday accusing peacekeepers of failing to fulfill their mandate un support. but we never see the place. where what we were done we don't want them just their young. peacekeepers guarded what's left of their base in the eastern city of benny while a 2nd compound nearby became tuesday's target we've come here today to see if these u.n. people are still here we will bring us again and more places specifically the movie base. it was too dangerous to film near the movie base as an angry mob confronted u.n. forces and congolese troops. go as it's known is the biggest peacekeeping mission in the worl

city's a is as bad as smoking 50 cigarettes a day and that's not just in the capital the world health organization says 13 other indian cities are mung the world's 15 most polluted reports now from new delhi. this brown haze has enveloped new delhi anything above 400 on the city's quality index is considered very severe it. has does have people it is bad every winter but this is the 1st time the government has declared a public health emergency. this to shut 3 says he doesn't like. that it's necessary. the reason i'm wearing a mask has increased pollution i don't have any illness but i cough. in the last 4 or 5 days my nose is watering my eyes are burning. children and the elderly are especially at risk says she suffers a heart condition and the pollution has forced her to go to hospital. i have a cold a cough and my chest hurts since pollution increased everything hurts now. doctors say because of the toxic small they have treated 5 times the usual number of patients over the past few days some people living in india's national capital say it's become a gas chamber the state government is alterna

city is a is as bad as smoking 50 cigarettes a day and that's not just in the capital the world health organization says 13 other indian cities are mung the world's 15 most polluted unshod who are reports now from new delhi. this. new delhi. 400 on the city's index is considered very severe. and. people it is bad every winter but this is the 1st time the government has declared a public health emergency. 3 says he doesn't like. that it's necessary. the reason i'm wearing a mask has increased pollution. in the last 4 or 5 days my nose is water and my eyes are burning. children. says she suffers a condition the pollution has to go to hospital. i have a cold a cough my chest hurts since pollution increased everything hurts now doctors say because of the toxic small they have treated. patients over the past few days some people living in india's national capital say it's become a gas chamber the state. between those registrations. and even. behind me is the iconic. president it's a tall building but today. the government has taken the step of the number of goals on the street that should reduce. but as

christian lindemann is the world health organization spokesman he told al jazeera that this is the 1st time the organization has had to evacuate. so it's a very dangerous situation right now while the unrest are not targeted against it will the response though it's a pure anger against the security situation it heavily impacts our response on the ground you have to see hundreds of staff daily going out to look for patients took contact the contacts of these patients to vaccinate or immunize people. sister community was safe burials and most of these operations are not. not being able to be carried out right now so out of $120.00 staff we normally have in around binny we had till now temporary relocate proud to a 3rd of it in $49.00 staff to continue their operations from from goma. that is the 1st time we ever had to do this so this shows as severe as you have the situation at the same time 71 of our staff so good 2 thirds actually stay on the ground and will try to continue even in these circumstances the best they can the operations on a daily basis in a much smaller scale and that i

world outrage forced the organization -- world health organization to pull one third of its staff doctors struggling to contain ebola. they warned the instability will almost certainly learn -- lead to an increase in ebola. >> protest against the peacekeeping mission have broken out in another city. the situation is still extremely tense. protesters banged a vehicle and an office. angry young men were on the street all morning. to awere trying to get military base that is very close to the airport. hubs also a major logistics . there is a lot of concern about what is going to happen wednesday, because there will be a burial of one protester who was killed saturday. he was very popular and one of the organizers of the protest was shot dead by a police thecer who was killed on same day by an angry mob. there is concern that his burial will escalate the tension. they are going to march around the city with his body in tribute. here, there were protests this morning. protesters were trying to get to another base. it is important to note that the authorized amonday joint military offensive --

in the world trade organization also has less authority than in the past. it was created in 1000. in 94 to regulate global commerce and at least in principle to create prosperity for everyone its rules were approved by 164 member states. bringing everybody here to chat about what it is we can do in a way which is amicable. in so far as trade can be discussed amicably these days these kinds of process seeds are what the deputy who was created to do. the w t o has been widely criticised because its policies have failed to benefit all of its member states. and the us under trump has mostly ignored it. from this day. it's going to be only. first. as the internet's an optimal international trade agreements are difficult to work out because each country is pursuing its own interests its trade policy and smushed on that can include restricting imports and increasing exports spawn much to. the w t o west created to establish fair trade policies that applied around the world but those policies can't be vetoed by any member state. many countries have lost patience with the situation and hav

kartik going to sin in new delhi i mean it's not just about vehicle emissions is a demand the world health organization says 3000000000 people that's 40 percent of the world's population still don't have access to clean cooking fields and technologies and that's of course the main source of household pollution. absolutely i mean that's that's a great point that you make and i think there's been a bunch of studies that have basically said that 30 percent of all ambient particulate matter pollution that comes out is actually coming from those burning biomass and that is you need something we can escape from but this gunman had done a fantastic job in india with the prison and he would you allow your journal where they've basically gone ahead and given a free lp you connection for the people who can't afford it below the poverty line and for others you know i don't have any subsidized aid so sort of enticing them to war from the use of bio mass in cooking and moving to l.p.g. which is liquid petroleum gas which is blocking then given to houses and diamonds that people need to sort of start seeing the valu

the world health organization is warning that 4 out of 5 of the world's teenagers are not getting enough exercise lack of physical activity has been linked to a range of debilitating health conditions including obesity depression and heart disease so experts are warning that young people need to get up get out and get moving. and hour a day of a kickabout or any other physical activity that's the standard recommendation for adolescents it doesn't sound like much but the world health organization says most school age boys and girls do not reach this mark and it's affecting their physical and mental wellbeing the finding is not unique to a particular region globally goals were found to be less active with 85 percent of them failing to meet the recommendation compared with 78 percent of boys a lot of the physical activity promotion is more tailored towards boys so. just to do maybe also provide a solution to that. it would be really important when countries or communities or schools plain for solutions to involve adolescent girls children are increasingly indoors mostly seated and staring a

principles and washington word for further progress in their trade talks but a ruling by the world trade organization could sour the mood among negotiators also coming up demonstrators in chile want widespread reform meanwhile many business owners just hope they can keep their doors open and baked not fried a chinese entrepreneur pushes to insects as the healthy snack of the future will be . text. i'm chris cuomo welcome to the program 1st though saudi arabia's state oil giant aramco is going public crown prince mohammed bin solomon has given the green light for an close much anticipated initial public offering its according to news into the sea waters you know it's meant had been expected last month but was reportedly delayed to allow the kingdom to secure purchased promises from institutional investors details of the planned i.p.o. are still scares the formal announcement is expected later this week. the world's 2 top economies seem to be edging closer to a trade deal on friday both the u.s. and chinese negotiators acknowledged meaningful progress in their talks had been made china even spoke of a

is expected to die as a result of an epidemic of african swine fever that's according to the world organization for health's the epidemic has been spreading for over a year now. china where prices are soaring. pork is a staple in chinese diets but for many chinese it's becoming a luxury the price has at times tripled within the past year so that you are eating less pork now i've definitely been affected by that now we eat it once a week before we were eating it 2 or 3 times a week the only way he says you know. that was. behind the soaring prices is an outbreak of african swine fever the virus is harmless to humans but it's decimated china's livestock herds some $200000000.00 pigs have already been killed due to the disease about 40 percent of all stocks and to diminish stark means rising prices but it's not just consumers who are suffering. and you heard the price of pork has increased and definitely there are less people buying it and eating it honestly speaking we don't want the prices to be high we sell more when the price is low or if the cost is high the profits will be low. restaurants a

beijing and washington report for the progress in their trade talks but they ruling by the world trade organization could sour the mood among negotiators also coming off that when strangers in chile want to widespread reform meanwhile many business owners just told they can keep their doors open and maybe not friday thai entrepreneur pushes the insects as the healthiest. anneka of the future tense you have back. i'm chris cuomo welcome to the program 1st though saudi arabia has stayed all giant aramco is going public crown prince mohammed bin solemn has been giving as given the green light for aramco is long awaited initial public offering that's according to news agency reuters the announcement had been expected last month but was reportedly delayed to allow the kingdom to secure purchase promises from institutional investors details of the planned i.p.o. are still scares the formal announcement is expected later this week and. now the world's 2 top economies seem to be edging closer to a long anticipated trade deal on friday both the u.s. and chinese negotiators acknowledged meaningful progress i

flu finally reached indonesia a quarter of the global pig population has already perished the world organization for animal health is alarmed. or fit only for a month we are really facing a threat that is global. so we must not only focus on countries that are affected because they are a potential source for spreading the disease to countries that today are still not harmed and i hope. for quite a while. remind them of swine flu has had its biggest impact on china though every 2nd pig on the planet lives there this year alone $200000000.00 animals will die or be called prices have exploded and demand can only be met by imports some from europe. and now there are fears that the academic could spread further and faster. this week marks 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall it paved the way towards german reunification and transformed the fate of many towns on both sides of the. one was in the west germany like many places near the in a german border it suffered years of economic neglects while the country was divided but many businesses in the town have embraced the opportunities offered by r

the world health organization recommends a maximum level of 25.n central delhi, just near the main business district, and with the iconic india gate behind me. but as you can see, it is barely visible, with a thick blanket of smog around it. it is daytime, but hardly any sunlight is able to percolate the thick layer of smog that shrouds the city. the government says it is doing what it can. it has banned construction activities and plans to limit the number of vehicles on delhi's roads. but the main reason for the toxic air here is the burning of crop stubble by farmers in neighbouring states of haryana and punjab, and there seems to be no respite from that. in november last year, i was really ill. i wasn't wearing a mask and it was so polluted last year also, and i got really, really bad lungs. my doctor suggested me to wear a mask every day. translation: i didn't realise how bad it will get. do we really want our kids to grow in such an environment? no—one really cares. no—one wants to improve the situation. several studies say that the pollutio

dr maria neira is the world health organization's department of public health and environment directortold us earlier how she sees the situation in delhi. we have been very concerned in the world health organization regarding this issue of air pollution all over the world. but it's true that the situation in new delhi, in india, is deteriorating, and we are really very much concerned, because this is having a terrible impact on people's health. as you know, the public health emergency status has been declared, because the situation is really — the levels of air pollution are reaching really impossible numbers, and this is having an incredible impact on people's health. india and delhi authorities have taken some measures now to reduce immediately or try and reduce these levels of air pollution, on an acute situation, but more structural measures to reduce this air pollution needs to be put in place in the medium and long term, and not only in acute situations. in the us, as the democratic presidential candidates race continues to gather steam towards 2020, the former texas congressman

seattle 20 years ago this week, tens of thousands of activists shut down the world trade organization. democracy now! was in the streets of seattle in 1999. with in are looking back at this historic protest against global capitalism. we will speak to two of the leading critics of the wto vandana shiva and lori wallach who appeared together on democracy now! 20 years ago in seattle. >> the wto constraints every country government about literally the level of food safety it can provide its public. >> the secrecy through which the wto was born and the fact that most parliaments had no idea what is the content of this treaty u until months after it d been ratified and signed. amy: plus, we look at the 20th anniversary of the birth of the indymedia move which grew out of the seattle wto protest. to find her own way to get our message out. we hope the information that has been presented you by the alalternative media is one that you will learn. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on capitol hill, the hous

organization. imagine that. we'll take that up with gordon chang who is joining us here tonight. gordon, to see what china is suggesting. the worldintellectual property organization. they want to lead it, and they are the leading they have of intellectual property in the world. every chinese national is required to spy if requested. now you will have one as the head of the world organization. it makes no sense. when you look at all this. when chinese nationals headed multi lateral organizations like interpol, always a disaster occurs. >> do you really think there is a chance in the world that even the u.n. would be dumb enough to elect a chinese national to the intellectual property organization? >> i don't think that will occur because the united states and other countries are putting their weight behind the candidate from singapore. but it shows boldness that defies anything. >> singapore is one of the major sources of counterfeit goods that are exported into the united states. it gets complicated. it's getting simplified. the president has signed the shopping congress human rights and democracy act. and it is now law. he ackno

the world health organization says that $371000000000.00 or $58.00 a person per year is all or all it will cost to get health care to lower a middle income countries what kind of care does that provide and is is that even feasible is anyone willing to pay to pick up the cost. well there's 2 things the 1st thing is to get this whole thing in perspective you quoted. well we're in a global economy of 80 plus trillion dollars so when we talk of 3 or $400000000000.00 it sounds like a lot but it's actually only a fraction of one of those 1000000000 other one of those trillion numbers so it's actually as a percent of the global g.d.p. it's a fraction of what the sat the 2nd thing is that the push to create universal health care coverage and the numbers you talked about capita that's for a very sort of basic package and one of the things that that's been going on the last 5 or 10 years is has been measures to try to actually make it that many cultures can afford that package one of the things that perhaps 10 years or so ago we realized that it was important to get right is that you know there

that's the world health organization mohammed reports now from the yemeni capital. it's more than 3 years since and as international airport passengers for a commercial flight it's holes have been largely empty sounds the runway was damaged by saudia strikes and 2015 the national airline forced to stop flying there the following year as airspace was closed by the war but this hour the u.e.a. little says it can't be up and to allow patients needing medical treatment to be flown out. of other mothers and some are international airport was not closed by a un international resolution but was forcibly unlawfully banned by the saudi led coalition we've been calling for the reopening of the airport from the beginning every time we were safe promises from the un but nothing has changed. international organizations say the lengthy closure of sun has airport has made a dire humanitarian situation even worse human rights activists say some international airport should have never been closed in the 1st place it is the only way to enter or leave yemen by air for nearly 70 percen

over but for many patients there is now hope that they can get abroad and get treatment world health organization will now be coordinating this with the government of yemen and i hope that this medical air bridge will start imminently but of course the whole medical system needs to be rebuilt half of the hospitals and clinics and so on are inoperable at the moment. rescue teams in albania argentinian to dig through rubble searching for people feared trapped in buildings brought down by tuesday's powerful earthquake the 6.4 magnitude tremor struck the capital tehran and cities in the western north killing at least $26.00 and injuring more than $600.00 people the quake is the 2nd to hit the region in 2 months john surat plus is that one of the worst hit cities to rush. the situation here at the good us football stadium is that the entire area outside the grass of the playing field itself is covered mouth with housing families who've been staying overnight and you can see to my left there are some individual terms of. emilie's but there are also some much larger tents which are housing several famil

health organization how does that relationship work. well it's really the world health organization but also unicef. and several. n.g.o.s who are in lead on the medical side and. will now be coordinating this with the government of yemen and i hope that this medical air bridge will start you know imminently but of course the whole medical system needs to be rebuilt half of hospitals and clinics and so on are inoperable at the moment and of course while they're out of action people still needed to get medical treatment from your knowledge and experience how difficult was it to get patients out of the country and how did that actually happened. many people then just died waiting for an opportunity to fly out from the. airport. try to go you know 15 hours by road through roadblocks and crossing lines to the southern port of aden to get out would not have the resources to do that and then they just silently died from cancer or heart disease or liver disease kidney problems that could have been treated. hopefully this can be a turning point really it is a positive mov

that's antibiotic resistant bacteria despite this the danger is higher than ever as the world health organizations world antibiotic awareness week begins is a look at the threat superbugs posed to global health and development. before the mid 20th century contracting a bacterial infection could easily kill you the age of antibiotics was ushered in by alexander fleming who discovered penicillin back in the late 1920 s. and was later awarded the nobel prize for his work antibiotics at the scene for a paradigm shift in medicine they've saved countless lives but bacteria evolve and a few of them always survive the encounter with the medicine pathogens eventually acquire resistance 1st to one then to more and more antibiotics then they multiply and pass it on they can even share their resistance with other microbes some multi resistant super bugs are no impervious to practically entire arsenal of antibiotics at our disposal and research and antibiotics hasn't advance nearly as much as an other fields of medical research big pharma is interest in them evaporated around 20 new major classes of anti-micro

continues our program about the world health organization but i will be back with the news hour 2100 g.m.t. in about 30 minutes time. centuries it was the remoteness of brazil's indigenous communities the protected them from the rapacious outside world now it's what shields those who are encroaching on protected indigenous territory starting fires and threatening the residents of the county pool and i had the 1st contact with the outside walls in 1978 young. cat she got to king her native language translated for us into portuguese remembers it well she says they brought diseases that decimated the community but that he economically and we had a lot of land and we lived peacefully relived with fear that are very few of us the invaders are coming closer it's difficult at 1st to gauge why a place so remote so tranquil should not so so much to the rest of the walls indigenous people who live here always realize this but now is the smoke those the skies and the ashes pollute the river the rest of the world is beginning to realize it too. long and the filmmaker and i have a daughter and it

private cars next week air quality levels are 9 times above the level recommended by the world health organization google is taking an expensive step into the health and fitness tracker market by buying fitbit for just over $2000000000.00 the company was one of the 1st to sell wearable tech but it's been hit by fierce competition it's insisted it will maintain its privacy protection after the sale and will never sell personal health data from its devices google stake over is expected to be completed next year pending approval from regulators. and mexico is marking the day of the date and i mean all festival in which families welcome back the souls of the parted mourners in mexico city have been visiting a local cemetery with november 1st dedicated to the souls of children the day of the dead dates back hundreds of years to an as stake festival in owner of the queen of the underworld the festival continues on saturday. you can find that much more on that and everything else that we have been covering on our website the address sunscreens right now al-jazeera dot com. now reminder of the top stories

the world health organization's warning that four out of five of the world's teenagers are not getting enough exercise. lack of physical activity has been linked to a range of debilitating health conditions like obesity, depression, and heart disease, so experts are warning young people need to get up, get out, and get moving. >> an hour a day of a kick about or any other p physical activity -- thahat is the standard recommendation for adolescence. it does not sound like much, but the world health organization says more school-age boys and girls do not reach this mark, and it is affecting their physical and mental well-being. the finding is not unique to a particular region. globally, girls are found to be less active with 85% of them failing to meet the recommendation compared to 78% of boys. >> a lot of the physical activity promotion is more tailored towards boys, so just to maybe also provide a solution to that, it would be really important when countries or communities oror schools plan fr solutions to involve adolescent girls. >> children are increasingly indoors, mostly seated a

the world health organization has approved the world's first—ever vaccine against ebola.g outbreak in the democratic republic of congo, which has so far claimed more than 2,100 lives. it comes as health authorities in the country get ready to roll out a second experimental vaccine as part of a major clinical trial. our global health correspondent tulip mazumdar reports. for more than a0 years, ebola has been one of the world's most deadly and terrifying diseases. medics have relied on very basic tools like quarantining victims and keeping them well—hydrated to help save lives. but today, for the first time, there is an internationally approved vaccine that provides almost 100% protection against ebola. developed by the american pharmaceutical company merck, it has already been given to around a quarter of a million people in the drc. now though, it can be stockpiled by governments and rolled out to countries most at risk of outbreaks. it's wonderful news. i mean, finally, after a0 years we have some tools that can prevent people from becoming infected. professor peter pio

they are loosely borrowed from the world health organization but specific to san francisco. at the time the world health created it they didn't have the emergency domain. that is a big part of the work that san francisco departments are doing. that is to best meet our needs. in a nutshell, when you agree to be an age and disability friendly city you agree to losely these four ideas. a baseline assessment, spending a year determining where the san francisco assets and gaps are with regard to aging in san francisco. so that as well as where the partners, key advocates and based on the assessment we developed an action plan and in this report that outlines the plan. the task force had no shortage of ideas. we came up with two 20 actions -- 220 actions in three years. we had a process of prioritizing that and including smart goals and partnerships and looking at how to bring that number to a manageable this first year. we have 24 recommendations which is three for each domain we are currently working on. implementation. we will -- this lasts three years. january 2020 will be the