before prices reez. -- rise. >>> on the hunt for ebola - sierra leone begins to search house to house for hidden cases >>> pakistan's prime minister has vowed to end terrorism. after the taliban attack on an army-run school. prayer vigils and funerals have been held as the country marks three days of mourning. at least 142 were killed in the taliban massacre on tuesday - almost all children and students. we have this report. >> reporter: pain and agony. one after another, 130 children have been laid to rest in peshawar. as more succumb to their injuries, strong men struggle to cover their emotions. that man buried a teenage relative. >> from inside, i was not ready to believe. >> reporter: grief is giving way to anger. >> if they can't protect the children. if they can't make the army to stand in front of the schools, there should be no army. there should be no army. there should be no security of any type. they should be like us. >> reporter: the military and political leadership jolted into action. permit removed the ban on death penalty for those convicted of terrorism. the a

the first time. a female health company who had traveled to sierra leone to help battle the disease is being treated in an isolation unit here in glasgow by a specialist team. but she was transferred to the brinley center and was admitted using well-established well practiced protocols. she herself is quite stable. and she's not showing any great clinical concern the moment. >> this year, ebola has ravaged parts of west africa. the system -- the symptoms are diarrhea and vomiting as well as weakness bleeding, and fever. it is spread by contact with bodily fluids, but there is no known cure and it is killing 70% of the people it affects -- it infects. but for those in the u.k., there's no need to panic. >> a risk to other people as a result of this confirmed ebola case is team to be extremely low , given the early stage of diagnosis and the patient was displaying no system of the -- no symptoms of the kind that would lead to the transmission of other people at risk. >> the health care worker led -- left sierra leone yesterday bound for casablanca. she then boarded a flight to heathro

conflict with no electricity, no water, and very political hope. >>> plus sierra leone's president says the country is still open for business this is despite the ebola outbreak. we'll have all the details on that story after the break. >> the government is prepared to carry out mass array... >> if you want free press in the new democracy, let the journalists live. >> on the stream >> csi environment we talk with scientists who helping to pinpoint pollution culprits by creating a way to fingerprint fracking waste water >> the stream only on al jazeera america >> you're watching al jazeera.ap stories. a kenyan plane has come down near the somali town of kesmayo. we're getting reports that the pilot is dead and two of the crew are missing. >>> two car bombs in baghdad, the attacks happened in the mainly shia muslim district of sadr. and russia's president vladimir putin said he will not allow the west to dismantle his country like yugoslavia. his annual state of the nation address came after several people were killed in the chechen city of grosne. >>> north city of ismalea, israeli

jazerra. i am elizabeth in doha. also on on the program. sierra leone imposes a two-week lockdown in a remote region after a surge in ebola infections. >>> fears of an ecological disaster in bangladesh after an oil spill. >>> and north korea accused after a haka tack which laid bare company secrets at a major hollywood studio. ♪ ♪ >>> the head of the cia has defended their techniques. he says they acted within the law and says information from detainees helped track down osama bin laden. patty culhane reports. >> reporter: in unprecedents news conference, a sign of just how much pressure the cia feels. their director invited the media to their head quarters to try to explain the torture that happened at secret prisons like this one. 119 men held. 26 of those were innocent. >> in a limited number of cases agency officers used interrogation techniques that had not been authorized, were abhorrent and rightly should be repute 80ed by all. >> reporter: but because of the 500 plus page report we know what the cia bosses authorized. confinement in a wooden box with insects. one man held l

warned the epidemic is spreading in sierra leone. the country now has the highest number of cases. >> the increase in transmission in western sierra leone is a reflection of the fact that communities there have yet to fully embrace the outbreak and to take action to avoid infection themselves. >> the special envoy said it was a lack of facilities for isolating ebola patients. he said treatment centers should quickly be built. his remarks came one day after the world health organization said sierra leone has the largest number of cases among the hardest hit countries in west africa. sierra leone has nearly 7,800 cases, following by liberia and new guinea. the total is 17,800 cases or suspected cases. the united nations set an interim goal of isolating 70% of patients to prevent the further spread of the disease. liberia and guinea have met that goal. but in sierra leone, about 500 new cases are reported each week. >>> a court has ruled that physical fatigue caused the death of a woman following the march 2011 disaster in northern japan. local government officials had refused a clai

sierra leone. she has a new e-book called "ebola: story of an outbreak." she is symptom-free but since she is still being monitored, we spoke with her by skype from new york. laurie garrett, welcome. so there is some good news today from the w.h.o. about guinea and liberia. how do you size up the situation there, having just come back? >> well with, certainly in liberia, the american presence has made a difference. the staggering capacity of the liberians themselves, the way they have organized, have made a difference and, indeed, that epidemic which was doom and gloom in september has plummeted. now, the danger is to get cocky and think, okay, it's all over, we can all go back to behaving exactly as we did before ebola emerged and, obviously, liberia made that mistake before in april thinking it had this small intrusion from guinea and that a it was over and everybody could go back to business as usual. of course, we know what happened after that. guinea, i have not been in guinea, but i can see that the data we have so far looks promising. that's a country where the president himsel

hit countries. liberia and sierra leone are falling well short of the targets in some areas. the number of deaths from ebola has now reached nearly 7,000. more than 16,000 people have been diagnosed since the outbreak began in march. freetown is one of the worst affected areas in sierra leone to be struck by the disease. our correspondent andrew harding is in the capital and has been speaking to men digging graves to help get their country out of the crisis. >> reporter: the burial team is hard at work here at the municipal graveyard in the center of freetown. they've just brought in eight more bodies. that's just over 20 today. yesterday it was 50. and you get a sense looking around here of the almost industrial scale of this ebola crisis. we've been talking to some of the grave diggers, volunteers. many of whom say they've lost their job, perhaps in the fishing industry at the port because of ebola. they've now come here partly they say to help their country and partly to earn a little bit of cash. this is a dangerous job you're doing. why have you chosen to do it? >> well, it'

sierra leone is still increasing. thankfully it's decreasing in liberia. the work of the u.s. military, the world health organization, the cdc and volunteer groups such as doctors without borders. dr. siegel fills us in. >> we see kids that are suffering from ebola. they just don't feel well. they want to be touched, they want to be hugged. >> nurse marina novak from doctors without borders recently returned from sierra leone. >> when you're wearing the tpe, they reach for you, and because there's always the risk that a child could knock off your goggles or tear through your protective equipment, you're unable to carry them. >> novak is one of thousands of aid workers with the organization. they say one of the biggest challenges is ebola is a moving target. >> the needs are still there, but they're in different forms. >> doctors without borders has admitted more than 6,000 patients and shipped more than 1200 tons of equipment to fight the disease. but they say it is the coordination of services that is crucial. >> it's absolutely essential, in addition to the isolation units,

-shabab. >>> in sierr sierra leone two doctors have died from the virus. it has already killed 1 hup health workers across the country. dominick kane reports. >> every week hundreds of new cases of ebola are reported across sierra leone. health workers are at particular risk. more than 100 are known to have died from the virus across the country since the outbreak began. this week it killed two more doctors. before the outbreak began the country only had around $120 for a population of six million. now an influx of foreign medics has helped to address that shortage. medics like margie lee from scotland. >> we have to look after us before we look after anyone else. it's important to drink and put on and take off equipment properly. it's important to look after you. >> sierra leone's finance minister said that more than 100 cases are reported every day, but that figure could get much worse. >> this is in preparation of the fact that there may be an upsurge. >> reporter: in an effort to prevent that the nigerian government has sent at least 175 volume tires to sierra leone. the first gr

number is rising. in sierra leone, the president insists it's still open to visitors. >> workers at an ebola treatment center get ready to treat their patients. this part of the capitol is a high risk area for the disease. here, each person suffering from ebola is given a special diet. >> every place in what was given the same diet was you have difficulty to swallow, you have patients with sore throat, with very little appetite, so based on the different condition of the patient, each would need a different diet. >> just over 40% of all people diagnosed with ebola in liberia have died from it. the world health organization says the number of new cases here has been stable for several weeks, but in sierra leone, the number is rising. the w.h.o. said transmission remains intense in the capitol, freetown. the president of the world bank gave an upbeat assessment. >> sierra leone must emerge from the ebola epidemic much stronger than it was before the ebola epidemic. we can build infrastructure, train people to be community health workers. there's much we can do in responding to the epi

sierra leone community where help has finally arrived. >>> and we talk to hollywood star idris elba about why he's taken up the fight against ebola and how he's using football to help stop the spread of the virus. jamie's here with all the business, of course, including a look at how britain is trying to lure more chinese visitors. >> yes. to try and get to chinese people to actually come up with their own names for british tourist attractions. stonehen stonehenge -- if i got the words in the right order, means huge stone clusters. pretty fair description, really. >>> a very warm welcome back to "gmt." the human toll taken by ebola in west africa grows heavier by the day. more than 6,100 people have lost their lives. but after months of agonized discussion amongst health experts and a series of big promises from at least some world leaders, international assistance is starting to make a big difference. one month ago, our africa correspondent andrew harding visited a village in sierra leone that was being torn apart by the ebola virus. no help had reached the village, which is several hour

hospital in kerry town in sierra leone was completed, at a cost of £2 million to the british taxpayer. that is a good thing. as of last night, it was looking after five patients. it is run by save the children. would my right honorable friend have a word with the secretary of state for international development and others in the government to make sure that that hospital is made proper use of? >> my friend is absolutely right. it is good that the hospital has been built, and roughly on time, but there is an issue with its operation. and the work we are doing with save the children, and we are working with them intensively to , ensure that it reaches its full capacity and full use. we are building other facilities across sierra leone, and, of course, immunity centers, as well because we need all those , facilities to bring ebola under control. >> pete wishart. >> prime minister, we are living in the early days of a ukip uk in which farage and company pull all the strings in this house. pandering to ukip has been a disaster for the prime minister and for the tory party, as even a cursory look

and nearly 7,600 deaths. in sierra leone, the government banned holiday celebrations. on the radio, christmas concerts were replaced by public health announcements. more now from debora patta. >> reporter: before sierra leone took the drastic step of banning all public activities, it was going to be a bleak holiday for these ebola orphans. deprived of one or often both of their parents, they are cared for by survivors of the disease as the infection rate continues to rise in their country. sierra leone has had over 9,000 cases of ebola, more than three times that of guinea and 1,200 more than liberia. american doctor dan kelly is an infectious disease expert just returned from more than a month working in the west african country. he says the christmas ban is sad but necessary. >> i can only imagine how that would impact a country of people who are used to going home to their villages and spending time with their families. i really hope this is the last christmas in sierra leone that we see the need for a ban. >> reporter: one reason for the high infection rate is that families hav

been heavily involved in liberia, the uk, sierra leone, but their have been a variety a variety of agencies involved that have put resources and. okay. here we go. this is where it started. can i start now? okay. these things happen in may. people were starting to get a little bit concerned. september and october my life changed and turned into an intern in medicine again. you are involved in a very intense situation. here is here is what we are seeing right now with the sierra leone case is essentially overtaking considerably the cases and liberia. i i mentioned the public health responses that were actually involved in keeping these things and the affected countries under control. everything everything really without looking at things like disease specific therapeutics and certainly not a vaccine. and i mentioned the united states getting involved with the construction, the department of defense playing a major role role when the president called in the department of defense and brought and the ability to do the engineering command and control and the setup of ebola treatment bec

sierra leone's ebola cases have been isolated. liberia fared worse with only 23% of its cases isolated. guinea is the only country to meet the target, 99% of cases isolated. sierra leone and liberia have completely missed monday's target for safely burying 70% of their ebola dead. sierra leone just 27% of its burial teams trained and in place. liberia, 26%, guinea, though, has 83% of its teams trained and in place. that gives you an idea of what they are up against. >>> well, let's take a closer look at all of this now. we have been covering the ebola outbreak and in cnn london, what are the reasons, nima, with all of the emphasis on ebola and support from around the world that these countries still are missing these targets? >> reporter: well, i think firstly we should be clear while there's been a lot of conversation about this and a lot of emphasis, the support isn't really at the levels needed to make a dent in this and i think we're seeing that now can the numbers. this is a huge wake-up call for the international community because this deadline was supposed to be the first hurdle

as well as 800 tons of grain. it will make stops in sierra leone and liberia. with supportive partners including unicef and the world food program. according to the latest estimates by the centers for disease control, liberia has the most deaths from ebola nearly 3500. guinea and sierra leone have combined about 4,000. is that brings the death toll to be 7600. the cdc and hospital scrambled to protect the public. robert ray looks back at the spread of ebola in 2014. >> reporter: described as dreadful and merciless ebola a deadly disease with no cure that has infected almost 20,000 people and killed nearly 8,000. >> this morning i am declaring the current outbreak of ebola virus disease a public health emergency of international concern. >> reporter: in march of 2014 west africans in sierra leone guinea and liberia were put on high alert. >> protect yourself. listen to the health care workers. believe it is real, go out and carry the message to wherever you are. >> researchers believe the origin of this outbreak came from an infected fruit bat which some people in west africa s

in sierra leone. she had a brief stop in casablanca in morocco changed planes and flew to london before taking an internal flight to glasgow. her journey finished on sunday evening just before midnight, and it was on monday she developed a fever and took herself to hospital. she's since been placed in isolation and has been transferred to a specialist unit at the royal free hospital here in london. here are more details. >> reporter: arriving in an raf ambulance for specialist treatment. it's here at the royal free hospital in north london that the patient will receive care in a high level isolation unit. earlier at glasgow airport, she had been transferred in a quarantine tent for the flight to raf northholt. everything geared to containing the virus and minimizing the risk to anyone else. this sealed tent is where the health care worker will be treated. nurses and doctors reach through the side so there's no direct contact. staff at the royal free have already successfully treated one case. now they hope to help another volunteer fight the virus. >> our procedures and our proto

organizations. they're stamping it out or it's decreasing dramatically. sierra leone, not yet. it's still abug problem. you put up at the beginning, 7,000 deaths. plus, it's also affecting other diseases like malaria, like heart disease, cancer. pregnant women are not getting taken care of. over here, i think the big problem was we couldn't believe what our public officials were telling us. we saw one case, and the next thing we knew, two more nurses had it, and people naturally, as they always do with emerging diseases, especially infectious ones, said, i could be next. how do i know i won't be next? we went on tv and tried to talk about that, but there was a lot of fear with that. i think what finally calmed the fear is what happened at bellevue hospital where dr. spencer was successfully taken care of, did not spread it to anyone, and since then, we have had no more cases. >> it started, the fear, i think, was a result of the confusion, quite frankly, coming out of the cdc in the beginning and leaders weren't sure to tell the folks as to what we were supposed to do. let alone the actual eme

finance minister tells al jazeera, the armed group can and will be defeated. >>> lockdown in sierra leone amid concerns the ebola virus may be more widespread than expected. ♪ >>> and we'll meet the moldovan musicians hoping new visa rules will rocket them to international status. ♪ >>> we begin in london where air traffic has just been restored after a technical failure lead to air space restrictions. flights had been grounded. but now flights have been resumed. let's go to neve barker who joins us live from london. do you know anymore of the cause of this power outage? >> well, the british air traffic control now say the problem has been fixed. they are pointing the finger at a computer glitch. initially they said a power outage may have been responsible for the suspension of flights across the british capitol. nows out of the city's second largest airport is that flights are able to now land and takeoff. but there could well be severe he days. similar story for the largest airport here in london, and some of the other airports as bell. this is exactly the kind of wobble that air traffic

ebola in sierra leone. earlier this year the royal free hospital successfully treated a british aid worker who had been diagnosed with the virus in sierra leone and then flown home for treatment. the number of ebola cases in the three-worst affected countries has passed. 20,000 more than 7,800 people have died from the virus. sierra leone is the worst-affected country with more than 9,000 cases and 2500 deaths. >>> eyewitness misindication is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions in the united states. tom akerman reports from massachusetts, the state at the forefront of reform. >> reporter: dennis mayor is a happily married father of two, but the 19 years he spent in prison for rapes he did not commit are never far from his mind. nor is the realization that the victims were so mistaken in picking him as their attacker. >> i was trying to reason why it all happened? how could they misidentify me. the first victim said i didn't have a mustache the second said i did. >> reporter: mayor is among 321 men who have been exonerated thanks to scientific testing more than 70% of t

the other nhs workers who are working at the moment in sierra leone alongside colleagues from the department for international development and the foreign office, they are doing a very, very brave job under very challenging circumstances. >> reporter: the nhs has been preparing for this. a handful of cases in the uk were always likely. this morning, news that a second patient in scotland is also being tested for ebola after returning from west africa. and a third is being assessed in hospital in cornwall. hundreds of nhs staff have volunteered to help in sierra leone. many working here at a hospital in kerrytown. the latest figures from the world health organization show more than 20,000 people have been infected with ebola and there have been at least 7,000 deaths. the real figure is likely to be higher. this latest case a reminder that even with the best precautions, wherever people travel viruses do, too. >>> now, let's talk about ms dhoni, an indian cricketing legend. the team's test cricket captain until, well, a few hours ago. he's decided to retire from test cricket. he mad

has so far not been revealed, is a volunteer nurse who had been caring for people in sierra leone. her trip began in freetown with a brief stop in casablanca, then a change of planes, and finally on to glasgow. she's been taken to a hospital in london. let's get more details. >> reporter: arriving in reason raf balance for specialist treatment. it's here in north london that the patient will receive care in a high-level isolation unit. earlier at glasgow airport, she had been transferred in a quarantine tent for the flight to raf northholt, everything geared to containing the virus and minimizing the risk to anyone else. this sealed tent is where the health care worker will be treated. nurses and doctors reach through the side so there's no direct contact. staff have already successfully treated one case. now they hope to help another volunteer fight the virus. >> our procedures and protocols for all the other nhs workers working at the moment in sierra leone alongside colleagues from the department of national development and the foreign office, they are doing a very, very brave job u

-- the virus has claimed the lives of two more doctors in sierra leone. that brings the total to at least nine doctors killed in that country since the outbreak began. the number is significant because, of the three most affected countries, sierra leone has the highest healthcare worker fatality rate. the world health organization reports at least 77% of healthcare workers who contracted ebola in sierra leone have died. across all of west africa, 607 health care workers have been infected, and 341 have died since the outbreak began in march. here in new york, police are bracing for a fourth night of protests since the grand jury announced it would not indict the officer who killed eric garner. most of the protests have been peaceful, but the n.y.p.d. did arrest about 20 people last night for being disorderly and blocking traffic. meantime, more protests are expected following today's funeral for another person killed by police. an officer shot an unarmed black man named akai gurley in a brooklyn housing complex last month. police chief bill bratton says the officer accidentally disc

the hardest hit countries of liberia guinea, and sierra leone. workers are struggling to contain the outbreak and slow infection rates. the virus has dealt a blow to economies. the world bank is forecasting negative growth for the region. catherine explains. >> with the cost of food imports rise, business is slow at this market in monrovia. the price of garlic has increased from $5 to $8 u.s. dollars in 2 months. >> we buy it for $17 and sell it for $17.50. >> because of the price hikes, the ebola outbreak. the virus is crippling the economies of liberia guinea, and sierra leone. 42015 it is predicting negative growth for 2 of the west african nations. pre outbreak liberia had a growth rate of 11%, cut to 3% for 2015. sierra leone's economy group funny percent and is now -- grew 20% and is now expected to contract. the world bank says the three countries look set to lose more than $2 billion in income. the world bank president jimmy yon kim is set to begin a visit to west africa and says the impact will grow more devastating. the organization has pledged $1 billion in financing for t

isolated. liberia has now met those goals but sierra leone has not. >> they're running out of space. will they arrive in quick succession. the western industrial scale. the victims being very fast now before the virus can find a new home. at headquarters, there is a growing belief that the syria own -- sierra leone will avoid. will >> and with so much aid and effort focused, it is getting out of control. the children, they have been sick. we are the first to hear of it. having called the a bowl of hot ebola hotline. somebody perhaps could call for you. we could call for you. that is when the truth comes out. she is desperate. who will look after my children if i go away, she asks? the village leader called the hotline himself. we need to confirm she will be taken to hospital but what if the children are infected as well. there are left in the care of neighbors. the 15-year-old girl died last week suspected of the bola. he shrugs it off. others don't. >> when someone dies, we can't change that. >> and so the graves keep filling here. >> the bodies are among the most infectious part of the

virus. who worked at sierra leone, the same place that successfully treated texas nurse nina pham in october. the first to catch the virus on u.s. soil. >> i feel fortunate and blessed to be standing here today. >> she is still recovering and has yet to return to work? >> it has been, you know, a life-changing experience, and it's made me realize how short life can be. >> ten people in the u.s. have now been treated for ebola. a traction of the thousands dying in africa. the u.n. said it may be months before the outbreak is under control. dashing homes that it would be contained by end of the year. >> we are going to be in this work for quite a lot more months. but i am confident from what i have seen that we are going in the right direction. >> nearly 18,000 have been infected. more than 6,000 have died. as the spread of the virus slows in places like linebiera, it's now raging in neighboring sierra leone. in the past three weeks, gchltd uine uinea they have seen twice as many as the other two countries combined. >> the next challenge and quite frankly, the harder challenge, is gett

%, sierra leone 4%, and guinea 2.5%. tens of thousands of citizens still have the virus. that spring in my next guest, she was in sierra leone as ebola began to grip the nation. she is from the international charity restless development. it was a sense of the impact of ebola on both the people of sierra leone and the economy itself. >> good morning, thank you. impact of the ebola crisis on west africa is huge. as you mentioned, sierra leone of 11 point growth 3% prior to the ebola virus hitting the country earlier this year. it will now experience a retraction of 13%, down to -2% growth forecasted for 2015. so alongside the devastation and the loss of life of so many nationds of lives, a that is already recovering from civil war, i think the economic impact their speaks for itself. >> will the crisis get worse unless efforts are stepped up to turn the tide? say.'s difficult to this epidemic is unprecedented. there is a lot going on in the country. working we can do is be towards the rebuilding of the country while tackling the epidemic itself. >> give us an idea of what restless deve

of west africa, guinea wraps itself around sierra leone and liberia. and also you have the issue that we've never seen before, is in big cities. we now have an outbreak that percolated a bit in the early part of the spring and then started to explode to the point where we now have an extraordinary situation. 17,800 cases. 6,700 deaths, likely a bit of an understatement with waves of epidemic. it looked like liberia was the worst a month ago, got some better control of that now. even though don't claim victory because there may be outbreaks in the rural areas. now we have sierra leone, which there are more cases now in sierra leone last week than there had been in liberia ever. the issue of the arc now is doing this in sierra leone, this in liberia. guinea is kind of like this. that's the way ebola works. it comes in waves. even though we are making progress, we are still in a very critical, serious situation. the thing about ebola just finally is that unlike other diseases, when the trajectory goes down, almost by itself it will disappear. ebola, if there's one case that's out there,

with ebola in the uk has arrived at a london hospital. she traveled sunday from sierra leone to scotland. she was hospitalized the next day. >> under uk protocols, she's been admitted to a special unit. nick rosen joins us live now outside that hospital. if that's anywhere she's going to be that's the place. they've successfully dealt with one ebola patient already. any update on her condition? >> reporter: not so far. what we know from the hospital is she's in the high level isolation unit, a unit set up in 2006 designed for the isolation treatment of people with infectious diseases. william pooley a medical worker who was in west africa caught ebola, was brought back here and successfully treated several months ago. this new patient, a woman, she is the first to be diagnosed with ebola in britain. she had returned from an assignment in sierra leone. she is a nurse with the national health service here in the uk based in scotland. she was volunteering for the save the children fund. she had gone out there to work to help people with ebola late november. she was returning, got b

and nurses have died. there are patients that died sitting in the hospital happening. >> sierra leone is the country that is having the most difficulty. that is the one where most of the problems continue to be. we just need to send more people there. we have spent most of our effort in liberia. we are now beginning to send more people were the u.s., from the c.d.c. into sierra leone so that they can learn the same lessons that were daughter in liberia, and put in place. >> is that because liberia politically for the united states, closer ally, close connections, a long-standing relationship made it easier for us to create the relationship. is that a big part of this? >> exactly. history. we had the relationship with liberia. the british had the relationship with sierra leone, and the french with guinea. and so the three countries divided things up along historical routes. >> 2400 service members in west africa, and coming up in the middle of jan, they'll have to decide what they'll do. the options are to move another part of west africa, or pack up and go home. should u.s. boots stay on

, the press. plenty more to come here on al jazeera including sierra leone's president saying the country is still opening for visitors despite the ebola outbreak. we will have the details on that >> and it has the highest rate of breast cancer in the world. we'll be reporting from india on the government's plan to shine a spotlight on the issue. >> a dirty deal. struck at the heart of government. >> egypt mismanaged its gas industry. >> taking the country to the brink of economic ruin. >> it's obvious that egypt was being ripped off. it's basically saying to the israelis, "look if you want to screw us, here's a tool you can use to screw us". >> al jazeera exposes those who made a fortune betraying an entire nation. >> you don't feel that you owe an explanation to the egyptian people? >> no... no... >> al jazeera investigates. egypt's lost power. december 17th. 10:00 eastern. on aljazeera america. >>> russia's president vladimir putin says he will not allow the west to dismantle his country. his annual state of the nation address came hours after gunmen stormed a billion in chechn

saudi arabia and iran may be involved. >> sierra leone is cancelling christmas celebrations because of the epidemic. more than 1800 people in that country have died in the outbreak. health care was a problem in sierra leone before the outbreak especially for pregnant women who need it most. >> reporter: even before the ebola outbreak, sierra leone was one of the most dangerous places for a woman to give birth. they have the highest infant mortality rate and the weakest health care system. at one point, 120 doctors to treat a country of 6 million people. then, ebola hit. and the meager resources once allocated to sustain basic services were diverted to fight the disease. people wait hours, if not days for on overburdened fleet of ambulances to transport ebola patients. if a patient is lucky enough to get to a treatment center, there aren't enough hospital beds for them let alone those are other diseases. the bare essentials like rubber gloves are running out. the system is buckling under the strain. women are most at risk. >> partly because of their role as healers and carers in the

period, only 40% of sierra leone's ebola cases had been isolated. liberia fared worse with 23% of its cases isolated. guinea is the only country to meet the target with 99% of case withes isolated. sierra leone and liberia have completely missed monday's target for safely burying 70% of their ebola dead. sierra leone has just 27% of its burial teams trained and in place. liberia has only 26%. guinea, though, has 83% of its teams trained and in place. in its latest numbers, the world health organization counts more than 16,000 confirmed or suspected cases of ebola in west africa. almost 7,000 have been fatal. the vast majority of these are in liberia, guinea and sierra leone. w.h.o. officials also confirm six deaths in mali but say the outbreaks in senegal and nigeria are officially over. >>> scientists say the first experimental trial of an ebola vaccine have led to good results. it has so far proven safe for humans. we spoke with the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. skblt proof of the pudding is going to be whether it actually works. that's n

vehicles and 800 tonnes of grain. it will make stops in sierra leone and liberia. the supplies come from the e.u. with the support of partners u.n.i.c.e.f. and the world foods programme. according to latest estimates, liberia has the most deaths from ebola, 3400. guinea and sierra leone has 4,000. 7600 is the number of deaths. it took months before the deadly disease made its way to the u.s. when it did c.d.c. and authorities scrambled to protect the public. we take a look back at ebola 2014. >> reporter: described as dreadful and merciless, ebola. a deadly disease infecting almost 20,000, killing nearly 8,000. >> this morning i'm declaring the current outbreak of ebola a public health emergency of international concern. >> reporter: in march 2014 west africans and sierra leone, guinea and liberia were put on high alert. >> protect yourself. listen to workers. believe it is real. go out and carry the message to wherever you are. >> researchers believe the origin of this outbreak came from an infected fruit bat which some consumed. according to the world health organisation there is no sp

iraq's finance minister says the armed group can and will be defeated. >>> and lockdown in sierra leone amid concerns the ebola virus outbreak may be more widespread than expected. >>> the u.s. secretary of state, john kerry, is warning of a global tragedy unless a deal on climate is reached. international negotiators have been in peru for the past two weeks to try to hammer out a treaty. in that summit will not wrap up on friday as expected, as long-running issues threaten a deal. nick clark joins us from peru east capitol, lima, the summit has been extended. what is the likelihood of all members reaching a consensus? >> reporter: well, they all want consensus of their own, but whether or not they'll get it remains to be seen. it's all about this draft text that is causing all of the problem. they have been working at it all week. it has been hacked down to 7 pages long, and now some are saying it is too small. it all resolves around this aim-old argument about the fact that developed nations want developing nations to shoulder more of the blame, and they disagree. and this is something tha

fawcett, al jazeera seoul. >>> contracting the ebola virus in sierra leone british aid worker had been diagnosed with the virus in sierra leone and then flown home for treatment. the world health organization now says the number of ebola cases in the three worst affected countries, sierra leone, liberia and guinea has passed 20,000. and more than 7800 people have died from the virus. sierra leone remains the worst affected country with more than 9 know cases and 2500 deaths. >>> thousands of nigerians have been forced to leave their homes because of boko haram's violence. led some to seek safety in neighboring countries and many have escaped to niger. >> escaped boko haram fighters in northern nigeria. her husband was murder by the group in jamena but at least her daughtersdaughters survived. >> translator: we ran away on a very narrow road, someone on the motor bike crashed and ran over reply foot. we were afraid boko haram would take away our things. >> set along cape chad, they lurk behind these mangroves where they reportedly hit some of the kidnapped owner nigerian school girls ea

been here for several weeks. but in sierra leone the number of patients are still rising. they gave an upbeat cement of the situation. >> people of sierra leone must emerge from ebola much much stronger. >> the government stressed that the country should not be defined by the ebola experience. >> we are still safe here fighting ebola. the course for us is to isolate ebola and not to isolate the rest of the incident. >> the international efforts to find a cure or treatment is being stepped up. teams across the globe are looking into anti-viral drugs. while others ask how to use the blood of survivors as a potential therapy. >> these treatments will work, but we have to can check if the human body can tolerate them. >> as things stand more than 17,000 people have contracted ebola in this outa break, and the rate of infection is still rising in places. dominick kane, al jazeera. >> another typhoon is thundering towards the philippines. >> meteorologist: that's right. the most powerful storm of the year so far, we do expect it to make landfall sometime through the weekend, one of the gr