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Thursday January 30th welcome to cnn1
the best 10 minutes in news quick
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the point lots of news on Deck so let's
get to it we start today in the
Democratic Republic of Congo where the
largest city of the country's mineral
Rich Eastern region
has fallen into the control of Rebel
groups the rebel Coalition including the
M23 armed group has made territorial
gains in recent weeks across large areas
of Eastern DRC where rare minerals
needed to make phones and computers are
mined government troops backed by
neighboring countries and un or United
Nations intervention forces have
struggled to maintain control more than
a dozen foreign peacekeepers as well as
the military govern governor of North
kevu Province have been killed trying to
fend off the Rebels the congales
government has not yet confirmed the
rebels takeover of GMA but did
acknowledge their presence there the
fighting has taken a large human toll
Aid agencies say that hospitals are
overwhelmed and the world food program
has paused food assistance protests in
the capital kinasa have become violent
and the Red Cross is warning it could
lead to the spread of viruses like Ebola
if Laboratories with samples aren't
protected the escalating unrest is
worsening a long running humanitarian
crisis in the region take a look
civilians hurry towards GMA with
everything they can carry on their backs
the fighting between the M23 Rebel group
and the army of the Democratic Republic
of Congo hot on their heels as panicked
residents flee outlying areas to seek
shelter the UN says the encroaching
violence has already displaced some 400
100,000 people in the region since the
beginning of the year and there are
fears as the clashes continue there'll
be many more for decades the eastern
part of the DRC has been infiltrated by
militias and armed groups many stemming
from rwanda's 1994 genocide and
lingering hostilities between Hutu and
tootsi
groups Aid agencies say many people in
this area have been displaced before by
ongoing conflicts and with the pitched
fighting uprooting them once again the
humanitarian crisis in the DRC can only
get worse for those surrounded by
fighting with no place left to go over
the weekend the DRC cut diplomatic ties
and recalled its diplomatic staff with
neighboring Rwanda accusing it of
helping the rebels un experts believe
that an estimated 3,000 Rwandan soldiers
work alongside M23 fighters in eastern
DRC the roots of this long running
conflict date back centuries to European
colonization which pitted ethnic groups
against each other seeding generations
of ethnic tensions political rivalries
and fighting for control of valuable
natural resources all of these factors
are still top of mind for eastern
African leaders convening an emergency
meeting to find solutions to the crisis
CNN's Salma abdulaziz explains how the
world's need for smartphones may be
fueling the ongoing conflict in the
region this is how your phone could be
fueled ing a conflict in central
Africa a rebel group called M23 claims
it is now in control of GMA a city in
the eastern part of the Democratic
Republic of Congo now for weeks the
militia has been advancing on the city
thousands of panicked families have been
forced to flee the fighting and at least
a dozen un peacekeepers and foreign
soldiers are dead and today in the
capital kinasa fires were set around
Western embassies including the American
one by protesters angry at what they see
as intervention in Africa's Affairs so
why is all this happening well M23 is a
militia accused of mass atrocities and
it is backed and funded by neighboring
Rwanda that's according to the United
Nations although Rwanda denies this so
why is Rwanda involved again the answer
May lie in your phone the Eastern DRC
where gome located is rich in Precious
Minerals used to build Electronics one
of those minerals is Colton and last
year alone Rwanda imported at least 150
metric tons of it by facilitating
illegal mining through the M23 rebels in
the DRC again that's according to the
United Nations now Rwanda denies these
accusations but rights groups fear that
M23 will expand its criminal Enterprise
into what some have called blood phones
putting the lives of millions caught in
the chaos at
risk pac's hot shot in the art World a
list of facts about a work of art is
known as impression iconography
Providence or
appropriation your answer is Providence
which can include facts like the artist
name date of creation medium to help
establish the work's value authenticity
and cultural
significance here's an art fact that
might not be so surprising one of the
most iconic paintings in the world the
Mona is the most visited work of art in
the world and now it's getting its very
own space within the Lou Museum in Paris
French president Emanuel macron
announced the upgrade for Leonardo da
Vinci's Masterpiece this week as part of
a major renovation for the French Museum
the updates come not a moment too soon
the last big renovation of the Lou in
the 1980s was designed to welcome 4
million visitors a year well last year
the Lou clocked in 8.7 million visitors
the majority coming from countries
outside of France who traveled far and
wide many fixed on seeing Mona Lisa's
subtle smile the Mona Lisa has long been
shown behind protective glass in the
Museum's largest room which is usually
overcrowded with long lines of visitors
often blocking other notable paintings
in that room its new dedicated room will
be accessible with a special ticket to
help ease the crowds it is that time of
year known to many as germ season when
colds and flu just love to run rampant
and many of us have already notice maybe
the sounds of Stuffy noses and sneezing
all around us well today we're going to
take a look at why our bodies produce
all that nasty and annoying mucus and
snot it turns out our bodies are
actually trying to help us when we're
sick CNN's Meg Terrell explains with a
little TMI what our immune systems are
actually up to when we're sick and if
you're wondering if this report is going
to be completely disgusting don't worry
it's
notnot got a stuffy nose here's what's
going on up there it's not just an
annoying thing your body does when
you're sick all that's snot is actually
a sign your immune system is working if
you want to hear something really gross
I mean we produce one to two quarts of
mucus a day and usually we just swallow
it and we never know it super
gross but Dr Stephanie James who studies
how cells respond to viruses points out
mucus is always there part of our immune
system trapping Invaders like viruses
and bacteria and then we swallow it
where the enzymes in our stomach
basically can destroy it and we can get
rid of it but when one of those Invaders
starts to cause an infection in and
around our nose our cells there release
these chemical Messengers what they're
trying to do also is recruit immune
cells to the site of this infection and
that can cause things called goblet
cells to release even more mucus plus
they also tell the blood vessels up
there to become leaky so some of the
watery secretions that are actually in
our blood vessels can then get into that
nasal cavity they also become swollen
all of that can make you feel like you
have a stuffy
nose oh and by the way the color of your
snot well if it's yellow or green that
may be because of a buildup of immune
cells and other things to fight an
infection but scientists say the color
can't tell you whether it's a virus or
bacteria that's making you sick and
while all of this is annoying just
remember the next time you're reaching
for the tissues you're also seeing your
immune system at work and that's
everyday science
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today's store getting a 10 out of 10 is
a genuinely expensive pair of pants did
you know the birth date of blue jeans is
widely accepted to be way back in the
year 1873 when Davis and Levi Strauss
patented the term well an historic pair
of jeans dating back to around that time
fetched a whopping dollar amount at
auction in New Mexico redefining what it
means to splurge on a pantastic PA of
denim our Jeremy Roth unzips the details
on what made this pair so special a pair
of Dusty Levi's jeans made headlines
when they they nabbed 76 Grand at
auction the jeans were reportedly found
in an old minine shaft in New Mexico and
are believed to be from the 1880s the
very old school Duds sparked a bidding
war as soon as the listing went live but
in the end it was a pair of vintage
clothing dealers from San Francisco that
nabbed The Grubby Gold Rush Garb for a
cool 76
Grand all right we have a shout out
today for a place rich with granite and
marble quarrying history py Vermont py
High School you rock thank you for
making us part of your day and to all of
my friends at Jackson Middle School in
Champlain Minnesota my goodness Mrs bran
Micah Damon Greta Johnny and Josh you
get a 10 out of 10 for this is going in
my office Mrs Beagler also I want to
wish you a happy retirement after 44
years of teaching rise up see you right
back here tomorrow on CNN 10 I'm Coy
wire have an awesome one