Measles outbreaks around the world as parents debate the need for Vaccination HealthOfficials Say it is critical challenge to hurt. That you have people who. Arent able to turn their. Infect others. As well an opposition leader. Back in the country defying a threat by president Nicolas Maduro to arrest him for breaking a travel ban after a heros welcome at the airport the countrys self declared entering president addressed supporters in the capital caracas thousands have taken to the streets in response to his call for violence across the nation to increase the pressure on president to step down. We are stronger lets carry on in the streets mobilized he declared had then went on to tell the crowds this. Yes words that i did i was able to enter venezuela thanks to you and your mobilization in all of venezuela we feel today and we have made a decisive step forward towards a conquest of our freedom this small victory today the south american tour this conquest everywhere else because if you venezuelan people and its a reason to celebrate and to honor our victims and our former. Lets get more on this from manuel us over venezuelan political analyst and welcome to d w so quite why dont back in the in the country should he expect a knock on the door. Not a surprise to. Come back today to bet as well as is a big plan and a huge challenge for the opposition maybe to try to step down by duras dictatorship ok but his back is madeira going to go and going to arrest him i dont know by not sure of this is really. I think the possibility its not too big and may be. We could see in the next days Barry Strange political situation with two president in the same country so why would choose not to arrest him. Be. The big soup or the. Dog. May more than the fifty democratic contract around the war and. Bury important political phenomenon at the moment in business well. I checked a. Few minutes ago the sorbets and he has more than seventy percent of support in the barents so landscapes is more than is never had so why though is the big political phenomenon right now so what then is my duros plan this is just to sit and wait for something to happen to stay so long as possible until were asked if we dont know the. So is there any indication the president during is feeling the pressure from. I think the best. Show that this situation is that way though hes free minutes. He could flit to colonia and i around this is turning around latin america and now today again in caracas this is where is. Proof. That madurese in safe enough is lets look at the wider picture theres been lots of speculation that the United States might turn its warm welcome for one quite over into military support is there any sign of that actually happening no we dont have any. Just from donald trump on the ministration but we dont have any real science about that and the indication from one about what he would feel about a military intervention from the United States he said every possibilities are on the table and. Theres political situation we could say every possibilities are possible. Its all there so its on the table but it doesnt necessarily say that he welcomes it because its one thing to to wrest power from a dictator is quite another thing to to remove that dictator and have a foreign country come in and effectively occupy this survey says thirty minutes well a brief third and interation for an International Coalition that theyre reading from and they were. Ok so given that the trumpet ministrations dislike of expensive foreign engagements what might there be in of venezuela an adventure if you like that might make it worth their while. Because it is right now exist the biggest challenge of western or it is for and this is a very big and great possibility to return to recover democracy a culture of like me in israel or do you think its not a long sought is. Given that this is a president who has. Announced that he effectively wants to withdraw from International Engagement what would be in it for him what would be in it for the United States that he would commit troops and money to a military incursion into venezuela what would the United States get out of that maybe because the import of your graphic on a geopolitical location of venezuela been a good bit as well a sect contrie in the continent not only because oil just because its a big contrie in the middle of latin america with a long demographic of drive the asian thats was broken from chavez and this is at the moment maybe the horror in the continent and not only the u. S. Not only donor trauma also european continent are engaged in this challenge to recover democracy may as well and i think this is the possibility to do to keep a new future to do good to get the freedom to venezuelan people that thats move at the moment the trouble ministration to engage this this movement to to step down under a dictatorship and say well we will watch and wait with another man well silver farah thank you so much for joining us here you dont have to. This is doubly news and still to come. Carnival celebrations reach their peak in cities around the world well take you to rio where this years festivities are taking place amid political change in brazil the growing influence of evangelicals in latin americas Biggest Country is even being felt on the beach. Now to a disease which is seeing a global resurgence of measles the World Health Organization says the number of cases doubled last year to almost two hundred thirty thousand and thats just reported cases the actual number is believed to exceed two million more than a third of cases were reported in europe with the biggest outbreak in ukraine there they have seen more than twenty thousand cases in the first two months of this year alone and eight people have died the conflict in Eastern Ukraine has contributed to the spike as well as a low vaccination rate of just a forty two percent theres also an epidemic in the african nation of madagascar which also has a low vaccination rate or the nine hundred people have died there since september another country suffering as the philippines where more than two hundred people most of them children have died a death of public Health Officials say could have been prevented if say effective vaccines have been used but there and elsewhere a mistrust of vaccines is growing the government has responded by launching a major immunization drive. Tents have been erected to deal with the overflow inside the sickening weight worried parents watching on the philippines has been crypt outbreak. Early in rubeus two month old baby caught the highly infectious virus before he was old enough to be vaccinated. My baby had a lot of rashness i thought it was because he was getting antibiotics for his cough and cold but it turned out to be measles i know its already painful to see your baby sick even more so when you heard that so many of died because of measles i dont want that to happen to my baby but i am certain. There have been more than eight thousand cases of measles in the philippines since the start of the year the Health Department has declared a Measles Outbreak and says that it is now struggling to contain it. Does this really need to do. The bitties because the challenge is to obtain the herd immunity herd immunity means that you have enough people or box of a third so that those that are able to transmit their missiles vitals and in fact others. Any musician rates in the philippines have been dropping in the last few years a recent scare involving a dengue vaccine caused immunization rates to plummet even further. All these are. The songs. We have a Vaccine Coverage in the. It even what about the forty percent. Efforts to tip the scales havent been fast enough sharmeen such shed been immunized but picked up the virus at a Health Center for a prenatal checkup measles can be extremely dangerous for pregnant women. Im scared about what will happen to my baby but im trying to be strong. You know listen. My doctor said the condition shouldnt affect the baby because im at thirty two weeks already. But im scared. To let go. Of it local authorities are working with the red cross to increase hospital beds for those affected and immunize as many people as possible to try and contain the outbreak. Mothers like angela are not taking any more chances. But the news about kids dying from the dengue fever vaccination scared me so i was scared to have my children vaccinated. But now i know its for their own safety. Immunization rates are steadily rising again Health Authorities hope that the continued confidence in vaccines will help them this Measles Outbreak. Misinformation about vaccines is dangerous and its also incredibly easy to find online d. W. Children crying can tell us more welcome than i was social media fuelling relation messages well we know nowadays a lot of people go to social media to get their news websites like facebook the problem is theyre often directed to pages where theres a lot of information in the case of the Anti Vaccine Movement far removed from any kind of scientific fact now to show you how this is even a little experiment we want to see to imagine that you are a parents and youre concerned about the possible risks if there are any of vaccinating your child so you type in the word vaccination risk here in the facebook search and then youll see your immediately confronted by links to articles blaming vaccines or kinds of other problems is a common one that vaccines cause autism simply not true several scientific studies of dispelled that mess but it wont go away and if we keep score and we come to this place in the National VaccineInformation Center sounds impressive its got two hundred fourteen thousand likes even got that tick which many will think is some kind of mark of approval but this is an organization that promotes vaccine propaganda under the guise of medical authorities like this unsubstantiated claim that vaccines ought to d. N. A. Another one here saying unvaccinated children quite pose no danger now again scientifically follow. But this stuff is being said in this case that nearly eight hundred times now this movement is very media savvy pretending to have science on its side its well funded and if youre that parent and youre already on shore how do you distinguish between whats reliable and whats not and this is the stuff thats out there a lot of these groups are closed you have to be approved to be a member so the misinformation spreads in this echo chamber out of it which is more concerning simply the fact that people believe this is not so the fact that people go to facebook to find out something as important as this so it does sound like social Media Companies themselves are part of the problem by allowing this to just spread yeah thats right they they talk a good game saying they want to stop misinformation that can lead to what facebook calls quote real world but in the case of the Anti Vaccine Movement on facebook a lot of the content doesnt specifically violate the companys guidelines now we know you cheated because in particular has come under pressure to change its algorithm so the videos promoting conspiracy theories of propaganda recommended only uses pay theres the videos on the right hand side but its worth remembering that facebook for example still gets money from ads run by and see vaccine groups recently announced they were millau that but the the problem the worry for Health Organizations is that vaccinations around the thing called had immunity a certain percentage of the population being vaccinated to protect everyone if that the centuries just slips even a little bit in the risk of an outbreak as a lot greats of the World Health Organization calls it vaccine has it and see it listed as one of its Biggest Health risks the Top Ten Health risks for this year so thats why this information is so dangerous and why social Media Companies of being asked to act and so this misinformation on social media is influences people about whether or not to vaccinate yes sure of course it does and i think thats a problem but the extent to which it does that is something we dont actually know we know it currently. Its because the social Media Companies making that Data Available to research is that we cant say how far that goes we should also point out there are provaccine groups of course on facebook but these are often far outnumbered by the anti vaccine ones and social media is just one part of the puzzle of course theres lots of websites out there as well dedicated to the x e n c Vaccine Movement so cracking down on social media alone werent necessarily solve the problem Jonathan Krohn thank you. Pope francis has it out of the vatican is to open up its archives on the Catholic Church as controversial World War Two era leader francis said the files regarding pope pius the twelfth would be made available to researchers next year past became pope in one hundred thirty nine and has been criticized for staying silent about the plight of jews during the holocaust he died in nine hundred fifty eight or rather wait the usual seventy years after popes death before opening his archives the vatican appears to be responding to pressure to declassify the documents while Holocaust Survivors are still alive. Because reported extensively on religious affairs for the welcome john what did pope pius the twelve do or failed to do during the war that was so controversial. Well i think the situation is that most historians today agree that probably the twelve knew about the full extent of the genocide against the jews or nots to germany even before the ants the question of course is why then didnt he condemn it more strongly its not that he was silent he wasnt in fact criticize the genocide and racism in general but he didnt specifically criticize nazi germany by name and he didnt name what was actually happening in places like our streets and. Although he probably knew about it the reason was probably that he was wanting to preserve the official neutrality of the vatican on the one hand and he was also worried about reprisals against catholics in. Europe remember there were some reasons. Catholic priests for example ridicule concentration. So lets just pick up on that point because in twenty fourteen pope francis described pius as a great defender of jurors and said that we need to say his role in the context of the time was it better for him not to speak so the voters would not be killed or for him to speak explain to us how the pope speaking out would cause more jews to be killed. Well his predecessor as the elevons resident six oclock in one thousand thirty x. Called brenda zog its the only in cyclical take a letter written in german not written in latin it was a gross pacifically to the German Church and it expressed in very forceful language his concern about the rise of nazi and her that in fact led to. A tremendous anti vatican atmosphere in germany and put the pressure of simply put pressure on the church now in the during the reign of pius the twelves the dutch vision is trying to do exactly the same thing when the nazi occupied it started running out jews the dutch bishops very courageously issued a pastoral letter condemning it in the strongest terms but it didnt say the single jewish like what the nazis did was simply intensifying what they were doing and they started going after jews who converted to to christianity who up until that point had been sent. Now twenty vatican archivist sav been organizing these files for thirteen years already what are they likely to going to to contain and the people believe that they will be a complete and active. Well. Theres a two yes two important questions what i liked is you can take i did some research for a documentary on iris of twenty some years ago and i talked to the john mattick and. Peter gunn for the german jazz years who was responsible for the case examining whether i was the twelfth was in fact a saint or not and so are they going to was absolutely convinced the wire was a sin and he had of course access to the vatican archives and he took me a little distance a few years ago but there was nothing in the archives that possibly could incriminate. The trust what i think it will do there and this is the thing that will interest historians is it will establish definitely. A document with document documentary evidence whether the highest the twelfth knew full extent of the genocide now thats the thats an interesting point and its an important point. He probably did as i said earlier because he was being informed by a network of bishops and parish priests right across after five europe now so this is in information was probably not the allies and in fact we know the vatican was secretly despite its official neutrality passing on information to the american so that will be an interesting fact for job erica thanks so much for joining us thank you. For thousands of dancers from brazil as elite schools are taking part in the world famous Rio De Janeiro carnival fourteen of the top schools operating along the main procession route into featuring as many as four thousand performers and elaborate flowers as the first carnival since the actual last year of writing president diab also are they came to power on a wave of support from conservative and evangelical groups. Members of one of rears evangelical churches praying ahead of carnival. 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