Since the start of the year, and more than 500 deaths. Health officials say the new strain of mpox may be the most deadly yet. Its transmitted through close contact including Sexual Contact it causes flu like symptoms and skin lesions. Joe inwood reports. It starts with flulike symptoms and ends with this. This is what mpox, which used to be called Monkey Pox can do. Here in the Democratic Republic Of Congo the virus is common but it is spreading. It spread through physical contact all through physical contact all through the air. This five year old has now recovered but it was a terrifying moment for her mother. Translation she had a high fever and then she started to get lesions on her body. She had rashes on her arms, on her abdomen and even on her tongue. Arms, on her abdomen and even on hertongue. I arms, on her abdomen and even on her tongue. I have been told it was a serious illness that could kill her so i took her to the hospital. The hospital. Although it can be sexually the
Were going back to butler and even the people that put it up there were unprepared and did a greatjob, they got it up immediately, fortunately. But i at the ride and the bullet came coming by, hitting my ear, it is very much, i say an act of god, its a miracle that it happened. Some claim Donald Trumps use of the social Media Site that was then called twitter helped him win the White House. But in recent years, his relationship with the site has been a little rocky. It was following the riot at the us Capitol Injanuary 2021 that trump was banned from twitter. At the time, he had nearly 90 Million followers. In response the former president decided to set up his own social Media Company Truth social which launched in february 2022. When Elon Musk bought twitter he reinstated Donald Trump after running an online poll of twitter users. Mr trumps tweets have been relatively few and far between but he did post his mugshot after being indicted in august 2023. The latest post previewed the in
New president and much reaction from around the world. Ismail haniyeh. We have seen it breaking on the live paid. Israel has not issued an official statement on Ismail Haniyehs death but there has been the reaction from politicians such as the heritage member, a member of israels far right. He wrote on x that Ismail Haniyehs death makes the world a better place. That is on the bbc live page. As you can see, some reaction, no official line yet from israel to what has happened, but this is a member of the far right in israeli politics and the Heritage Minister is saying this death makes the world a better place. This is the right way to clean the world from this filth, he says. This is what he has been posting on x. We are getting a lot of reaction from basically both sides to this latest development and dont forget this hasjust been happening as well. We must remind our viewers this is happening hot on the heels of israel announcing they have killed hezbollah s top commander that they s
Now on bbc news, americast. There was blood pourIng everywhere and yet In a certaIn way i felt very safe because i had god on my side. I felt that. So that was Donald Trump with his big and extremely lengthy speech that he has just fInished deliverIng to delegates at the republican national convention. Applause. The amazIng thIng is that prior to the shot, if i had not moved my head at that very last Instant, the assassIn s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark and i would not be here tonight, we would not be together. It is very late on thursday night. So late, its friday mornIng. We are goIng to be runnIng through what Donald Trump had to say, what it all means, whats been happenIng through the week. A lot of those thoughts will also be on our Radio 4 episode this week. It has been the most extraordInary few days In american politics, so we will go through all of the highlights. Welcome to americast. Americast. Americast from bbc news. Hello, itsjustIn In the worldwide headquarter
But russia has denied targeting Civilian Infrastructure insisting the strikes had been aimed at military facilities. Our ukraine Correspondentjames Waterhouse sent us this report. Frantic desperation on a kyiv summer morning. People helping with bare hands at ukraines largest Childrens Hospital. Even for a war hardened city, this was a Missile Strike which broke the gruelling rhythm of russias invasion. Some of the young patients were being treated for cancer, already fighting for their lives. They illustrate how these attacks do not discriminate. Translation we were in the middle of surgery when the windows got shattered, the surgeon quickly covered the baby to save him. I want the world to stop this, these children are innocent. Tatiana had a near miss. Translation we got here five minutes before it all started. Then the search for survivors stops for another missile alert. An underpass acts as a shelter this time. Residential buildings were also hit in kyiv, here bodies were recover