The Most Dangerous Job in th World?
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 30 October 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Correspondents'despatches: Gabriel Gatehouse with the medical team who have collected hundreds of Ebola patients from their homes in the Liberian capital, Monrovia; Andrew Hosken on the extraordinary efforts made by the people of Baghdad to clear up amidst a new wave of bombings; once a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the city of Trieste now has an independence movement which believes the place would be better off severing its ties to Rome - Tara Isabella Burton's been there to listen to their argument; how can a herd of cows indicate the economic health of a nation? It's a question Damien McGuinness has been addressing in the German capital, Berlin; and three-solid-meals-a-day man James Jeffrey's been getting to know about the extreme fasting traditions of Ethiopia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, today the Ambulance Woman in Liberia with one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. |
| 0:18.1 | The one shopping street that's thriving as a new wave of bombings hits Baghdad. The Italian city they call the cold |
| 0:25.4 | weather Jerusalem, why it's determined to break away from Rome. And our man who goes |
| 0:30.8 | weak at the knees if he misses breakfast on the extreme fasting |
| 0:34.9 | traditions of Ethiopia. Could the rate of new Ebola infections actually be slowing |
| 0:41.5 | now in Liberia one of the worst hit countries in West Africa. |
| 0:45.9 | There was cautious optimism from the World Health Organization yesterday, but its spokesman |
| 0:50.4 | insisted it would be wrong to believe the virus was now under |
| 0:53.8 | control. It said the outbreak had now claimed the lives of nearly 5,000 people in |
| 0:59.3 | Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Earlier this week the disaster's emergency committee in a televised appeal here said it was |
| 1:07.2 | threatening to become a health disaster. |
| 1:09.9 | It was killing people, ripping apart health services and devastating communities. |
| 1:15.0 | Gabriel Gatehouse is just back from Liberia. |
| 1:18.0 | Lourine wincesces as she walks over. She's in pain. |
| 1:22.0 | We're in the yard in front of her house. It's at the end of a quiet |
| 1:26.2 | sandy lane of bungalows and suburban houses, the sound of children playing basketball, drift |
| 1:32.1 | from a nearby playground. |
| 1:34.0 | Lourine needs this refuge of calm in her downtime |
| 1:38.0 | because her job is one of the most dangerous and distressing in the world. |
| 1:42.0 | As part of a three-person ambulance call, dangerous and distressing in the world. |
| 1:43.2 | As part of a three-person ambulance crew, Lorraine travels round Monrovia, picking up Ebola patients |
| 1:49.2 | and bringing them to special clinics for treatment. |
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