Shows. Tens of thousands of rohingyas have fled to neighbouring countries, like india and bangladesh, into an uncertain future. In myanmars northern kachin province another conflict rages on. This one is about natural resources, kachin is home to vast supplies of jade. Reporter a torrent of rubble and scree. Armed with picks and hammers, the workers begin their search. Were in the jade hills of myanmar, in kachin state in the northeast of the country. Sam awng is a teacher. Hes hoping for a find that will make him rich. Did you find anything today . Reporter the miner says he found two stones. Its his lucky day. Men from all over the country flock here to the edges of the jade mines in the himalayan foothills, to dig for that single stone that will make them a fortune. There are even children among the scavangers picking through the trailings from the mines. Its perilous work. Theres at least one death a month. When someone gets buried in a landslide, or killed by rocks. The stones can
Have fled to neighbouring countries, like india and bangladesh, into an uncertain future. In myanmars northern kachin province another conflict rages on. This one is about natural resources, kachin is home to vast supplies of jade. Reporter a torrent of rubble and scree. Armed with picks and hammers, the workers begin their search. Were in the jade hills of myanmar, in kachin state in the northeast of the country. Sam awng is a teacher. Hes hoping for a find that will make him rich. Did you find anything today . Reporter the miner says he found two stones. Its his lucky day. Men from all over the country flock here to the edges of the jade mines in the himalayan foothills, to dig for that single stone that will make them a fortune. There are even children among the scavangers picking through the trailings from the mines. Its perilous work. Theres at least one death a month. When someone gets buried in a landslide, or killed by rocks. The stones can roll down the hillside at high speeds
Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. We have the rain coming down in the metro area and our temperatures are cold, above freezing, so you need to layer up if youre heading out. Need an umbrella. Getting light to moderate rain, this dark green zone, northwest washington into montgomery county, northernin county and moderate rain here just about to come into Fairfax County, into loudoun county, out of Prince William and in southern maryland, too, getting moderate rain. All of this advancing to the north. Heavy rain, this one band of yellow this is just right now near charlottesville on a track to get closer to the metro area later on this afternoon. Ive got new hourbyhour timing on when the heaviest rain will be arriving and when its going for the weekend in just a you few minutes. You thank you, tom. Right now d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is inside trump tower meeting with the president elect. Mark segraves is live. Good morning, mark. Reporter good morning, barbara. Mayor bowser asked
The people in charge of Fukushima Daiichi say damaged to fuel rods could complicate their efforts to decommission the nuclear plant. Emergency medical teams rushed to a corner of thecapita deal with the bloody aftermath of two explosions. The blasts happened near the Iranian Embassy, killing at least 20 people. Its the latest attack thats believed to be a result of the civil war in syria. Lebanon staterun news agency is reporting that along with the dead, the explosions wounded about 100 others. Lebanese media say the blasts happened within minutes of each other and that one of them was caused by a car bomb. The Iranian Embassy is situated in south beirut, which is controlled by Lebanons Shia Muslim Militant Group hezbollah. Iran supports the group, and hezbollah is supporting troops loyal to syrian president Bashar Al Assad who have been fighting against rebel forces. The friction between hezbollah and sunni muslims in lebanon has intensified since hezbollah sent combatants to syria e
Host how long can that take . Guest you know the regulatory system got a lot better about it because you know cancer, people dont live that long and we dont give up these great discoveries. The agency has been very open about we understand we dont have a lot of time here but if you look in the year to two years and the year for us to develop the trials and then another year for the fda to review it and get it really so its not an obnoxious amount of time compared to therapeutic approval. But we do need translational medicine and regulations that allow us to take Research Discovery faster into the clinic for stage iii and stage iv cancers. With stage i and two we can get those treated well and monitor them. Stage iii and four its almost a hail mary at some point where we are trying to do something for that patient. Host is it expensive, the regulatory process . Guest it is expensive but its expensive because the fda and agencies like that around the world, their job is for Patient Safet