Fighting Ebola in DR Congo

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🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In parts of the country health workers rely on armoured vehicles and a military escort in order to deliver much-needed vaccines. Olivia Acland reports from Beni where this kind of fieldwork was briefly suspended following a rebel attack in the city. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world. “Russia is a superpower” was the message Moscow wanted to convey when it deployed around a third of the country’s entire armed forces to a training exercise in Siberia. But “Russia is a country of contrasts” was that message that Steve Rosenberg returned with. Chris Bockman shares the story of the ‘Swiss Maternity’ in South West France – a once abandoned chateau where hundreds of Jewish and Roma women gave birth in secret in the 1940s. Shahzeb Jilani asks how far Pakistan is prepared to go to defeat the monsters it once helped create, after a coordinated attack on schools in the north of the country. And, fifty years after it was first unveiled to the public, Mark Jordan reveals how the jumbo jet very nearly didn’t get off the ground.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:05.0	Hello. Today we have tanks say the Russians lots of them.
0:09.0	Troops, vast numbers, a third of them on a huge training exercise in Siberia.
0:15.0	Our correspondent was there trying to figure out what it tells us about today's Russia.
0:21.0	We're in Pakistan learning about a battle to ensure girls go to school, and in
0:26.5	southwest France we visit a grand chateau which became a maternity ward for women fleeing
0:32.3	Franco- Spain. and that's the story of the Jumbo jet's first
0:36.7	flight and how it very nearly didn't get off the ground.
0:42.4	The Democratic Republic of Congo has many problems and is at present facing an outbreak of Ebola,
0:49.0	with more than 130 cases identified and around hundred people dead.
0:54.0	One of its latest victims was recorded close to Uganda,
0:58.0	prompting fears it could spread across the border.
1:01.0	Over the weekend, health workers in Congo had to suspend their work in and around Benny
1:06.0	after a group of machete and gun-toting rebels
1:10.0	attacked the city.
1:11.0	The same group was also blamed for the kidnap of 17 people and the death of another in a nearby
1:17.0	village.
1:18.8	Health workers have now resumed their field work, but as Olivia Ackland knows from her recent trip there, the
1:24.9	situation is far from secure. To get to Benny, a scrubby town in the east of the
1:30.7	Democratic Republic of Congo, it's safest to take a small plane.
1:34.9	The roads that lead there are infested with rebel militia.
1:39.2	The plane lands on a tarmac strip in the middle of a grassy opening which is dotted with UN helicopters.
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