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Charles Taylor decimal reports authorities
say more people have been confirmed dead

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while around 600 were injured in the magnitude
6.4 quake that struck the country's

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coastal cities in Duets Albania 2nd largest
city on the Adriatic Sea residents

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stepped in tents and calls and

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a soccer stadium as powerful off the shocks
from the quake continued the quake in

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Albania on Tuesday was followed by

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a smaller one in nearby Southern both India
and another trauma off the coast of the

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island of Crete in Greece and shall stay
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News Iran's foreign minister hosted leaders
of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgency and

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discussed efforts aimed at finding

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a negotiated settlement to the Afghan war
this is the 2nd time Taliban officials

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have traveled to Tehran since their year
long peace negotiations with the United

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States collapsed in early September
President Trump says the u.s.

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Will designate Mexican drug cartels as
terrorist groups the move will enable enable

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a wider scope of u.s. Action on Wednesday
Mexico's president rejected u.s.

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Interventionism Hong Kong Police say they
will enter Polytechnic University on

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Thursday after final searches for any
pro-democracy protesters turned up empty

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Reuters Joe Davies reports

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a near 2 weeks the age of Hong Kong is
Polytechnic University It may be over but

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the cleanup is only just beginning. The
red brick University on Makalu Peninsula

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was turned into

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a battleground in mid November when
protesters barricaded themselves inside. They

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classed with riot police in

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a hail of petrol bombs water cannons and
tear gas. Last week I Love 100 of them

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were arrested some while trying to escape

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a final speaker the compas on Wednesday
appeared to suggest I had gone that's

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Reuters Joe Davies

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a special anti-terrorism tribunals in
Bangladesh has sentenced 7 members of

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a banned Islamist militant group
to death for plotting an attack on

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a restaurant in Dhaka in which 22 people
were killed and 8 person accused of

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involvement in the attack was acquitted
officials in Seoul say South Korea's

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military fired warning
shots Wednesday to repel

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a North Korean merchant ship after it
violated their disputed Western see beyond

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reach This is the 2nd incident in 2 months
when the Boeing 737 Max airliner begins

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flying again federal safety regulators
will have total control over approvals of

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every new jet a piece to
McGuire reports the f.a.a.

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Says federal inspectors will be the only
ones to issue safety certificates for

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a new Boeing 737 Max aircraft the
regulatory administration has been sharply

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criticized for previously ceding authority
to Boeing to Ok the certification under

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supervision by government inspectors some
400 of the airliners remain grounded

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since

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a pair of crashes killed 346 people despite
that Boeing has continued to build the

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planes about 300 now in storage awaiting
a lifting of the grounding and f.a.a.

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Safety certifications f.a.a.

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Administrator Stephen Dixon
has refused to publicly set

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a date for the plane's return to
service to McGuire Washington

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a chemical company says 3 people were injured
in an explosion at his plant in East

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Texas a powerful blast at

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a chemical plume blowing over
neighborhoods kilometers away u.s.

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Stocks are slightly higher in morning
trading I'm Jim bird tell v.o.a.

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News.

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This is border crossing radio's number
one request hour and now your host

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Larry London Hi there welcome to border
crossings here on The Voice of America and

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it is great to be with you once again
all around the world for requests and

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dedications on today's show and we're
going to start off the program with our

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friends in Bangladesh sched
Bongo Radio $95.00 f.m.

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Everybody who gets a request played
pinball Desh gets a v o a t.

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Shirt and you can get yours at the song
Radio studios in Dhaka coming up for our

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1st request this one is

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a song request from her not to
east it is Celine Dion who put out

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a new album this year called Courage and
this one is supreme the film Titanic and

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it's called My Heart Will Go On here silly
me obvious is border crossing it's.

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Mean. Truly use.

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The. It is.

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Us these say it's

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a suit it's the. Most. See.

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Me. On.

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My. Palm.

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Smoltz. To love.

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To leave the bridge. Club to.

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Bowl up.

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Slowly once per 10. Love love.

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Never love comes play when.

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You. Launch. A long sleep.

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Club.

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I am. Lucky. I

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am. Lol.

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On. Love love.

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Love.

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Love love. Love love love.

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Was.

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Was.

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was C C.

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RINGBACK RINGBACK The

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room water crossings taking us back
to 1997 and the Titanic and no

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matter how many times I watch that film the
boat always sinks the boat always sinks

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I was hoping for you know

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a revised version with an edited ending
where the boat doesn't sink would that

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surprise everyone that Celine Dion here on
border crossings for Pernod. And Celine

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recently did an interview she revealed
that she sang that song for her husband as

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he lay dying in his bed and
hospice and she said he asked me

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to sing that song for him and he
was connected via satellite with

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a link up to watch from the hospital room
as she performed that song a Los Vegas

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a stage at the Coliseum and she told the
audience I'm singing this for someone's.

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Paschal tonight and he knows who he is and
so she sang that song and she said that

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he did get to hear it he passed shortly
after that they were married for 21 years

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had 3 children together and Celine interesting
story about Celine Dion she grew up

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in poverty with 14 brothers and
sisters many of whom had to share

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a bed because they had no money they were
very very poor and look at her now she is

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a superstar 1988 she won the Euro Vision
Song Contest at age 20 and married

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Renee shortly there after this is border
crossings with requests and medications

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Here's a request for Mohammad Jai
rule Oh me who wants me to play

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a song by day are 300 and
this is called 0 and no

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border crossings. 9.

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The.

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Book. That was.

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Just. The same.

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It's.

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Just.

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I can't tell you what it is.
But it is my right to. Fight.

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The fight but not fight it is the
real fight come. From this come up

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for. Francophone. Tanks. Thank.

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You. For trying. We. Want to.

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See.

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When you. Would.

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Get the call that.

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No we. Take it with.

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Me when it comes. To Sleep it. Makes.

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Me So. Much.

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Border crossing and that's
the team of m. And m.

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And Rianna and that is

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a request from. Listening
to Bangor Radio $95.00 f.m.

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And Love The Way You Lie Eminem fans
interested to know probably that this year

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marks the 20th anniversary of Slim Shady
and to celebrate he's released some new

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material and also

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a clothing line for the anniversary of
Slim Shady and as far as ring Anna is

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concerned she is promoting the savage x.

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Fenty line of law your a and
clothing and she's just signed

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a couple of celebrities among them nor
Mani is going to be the face of savage

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expense moving forward with an ad campaign
so she got a lot of famous folks. And

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a number of others who are also going to
be modeling her laundering This is border

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crossings I'm Larry London
you're never far from

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we've got Ryan answering the calls today

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And then Facebook dot com slash v.o.a.

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Larry London and I know that we've got

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a lot of listeners on Facebook who checked
in Hama do side to track us with us John

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Sam goodness. Is listening
and it on dadi Karuna com to

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Paul said hi fi Tamara is with us
right now Derek Levy. Danielle said

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I'm

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a long time listener Baquba is listening
to border crossings thank you for tuning

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in we heard from Richard Chan
and Zion King Titus is with us

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Ari said hello that's

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a new name for morale we Jimmy
Och. A little contact junior.

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Is with us Samuel is tuned in to see the
neat Varghese is listening and requested

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a calendar and

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a miss sued Benes mail is listening as well
so hello to everybody who checked in on

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Facebook dot com slash v.o.a.

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Larry London coming up next it's the American
Music Award duet of the year winners

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they are Sean Mendez and
Camilla could be oceans had

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a couple of number ones Camille is had 2
and right now she is getting ready for her

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role as Cinderella in the big film version
of Cinderella that's coming to film

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again I think I believe Oscars and
Hammerstein did the music for that many many

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many years ago but Camilla could be is going
to be Cinderella on screen and that's

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expected out in 2021 her
new album is coming out in

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a few weeks or 2nd album which
is called Romance So she's got

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a lot going on this is

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a song request for Xabi your most stub and
it's called Send your retire here on the

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border crossings.

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To the sun.

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Struggling.

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Struggling.

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Just.

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To make. The tongue.

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Kisses the.

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Struggle.

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The struggle.

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He.

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Told.

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Border crossings and that is a request for

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a French actress singer Her name is Elsa
east snow and that is called sky is blue

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when it's a request here
on border crossings for

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a ripoff beasts who's
listening in Bangladesh to

00:27:01
a border crossings today all with all the
radio listeners who tune in to 95. Point

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2 and our worldwide audience for example
isa com is in Sierra Leone and listening

00:27:12
to border crossings and I heard from

00:27:14
a new listener 1st time writer His name
is Martin Griffin and he's with his

00:27:20
daughter Andrea and he said if you say
hello to Andrea she'll be gobsmacked and I

00:27:25
don't know what that means but but anyway
I hope she's gobsmacked but I hate the

00:27:30
smacking part about it I like the gob part
but hello Andrea or I'm not sure exactly

00:27:36
how to pronounce about Martin Griffin
thank you for checking in Martin is tuned

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into

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a short wave radio on 15.580 megahertz in
Staffordshire which is near Birmingham

00:27:47
in England and listening to us you can
also get us you know in digital stereo if

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you want by going to v.o.a.

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Global English stream on your cell phone
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and quite

00:28:06
a few other apps you can also find us as
well but thank you Martin and Andrea for

00:28:09
listening to border crossings we appreciate
your support and hope you enjoyed that

00:28:13
last song that we played here on our
program I got another song it's

00:28:17
a birthday request this time not Selena
Gomez birthday she had her birthday back in

00:28:23
July but this is Mary Sue ad

00:28:25
a birthday in Guyana and she's
listening to 98 point one f.m.

00:28:29
She wants Selena Gomez and Selena as I
mentioned on the show yesterday got

00:28:34
a tattoo on her thigh and now
she's announced that she's got

00:28:38
a new ad campaign for
Puma coming out you make

00:28:41
a lot of money with Puma and she's endorsed
shampoos and Coach handbags and but

00:28:48
she's designing clothing for Puma these
days her own brand and she's also got

00:28:53
a new album coming out January 10th she's
given the release date January 10th for

00:28:57
the new album so this
song is a beautiful song

00:29:00
a lot of people believe this is inspired
by her relationship with Justin Bieber and

00:29:05
the. Words are are quite pointed if you
listen to the lyrics the song is called

00:29:09
lose you to love me and

00:29:12
a happy birthday Mary thanks for listening
to border crossings here is Selena Gomez

00:29:17
. This is the ultimate form.

00:29:25
Stimulus dollars so fast. And you. Seem.

00:29:32
Cool. Cause it wasn't my.

00:29:43
Last season to start. A little.

00:29:50
God. Knows lose.

00:29:57
Lose lose lose.

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Lose lose.

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Not show some. Days. Like it was easy.

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To feel.

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Does the.

00:31:37
Serfs.

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Requests get occasions giveaways and
celebrity interviews border crossings.

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Want to.

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Thank.

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You.

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Just keep.

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Border crossings and lives and request
from the office don't blow and the

00:35:39
song is truth hurts which you can find on
the now 71 cd we have I guess just one

00:35:46
more to give away today and that's it because
we have Bon Jovi on tomorrow so there

00:35:51
will be no give away actually Bon Jovi
tomorrow and again on Friday tomorrow is our

00:35:56
interview with Bon Jovi and
then on Friday we've got

00:35:59
a music special with all the Bon Jovi music
for you for an hour or so all kinds of

00:36:03
Bon Jovi stuff happening it's

00:36:04
a great cause he's donating proceeds of the
sales of his new song unbroken to help

00:36:10
veterans who are back from the war with
post-traumatic stress disorder he'll talk

00:36:14
about that on the interview
tomorrow and the song appears in

00:36:17
a documentary about veterans and will
appear on Bon Jovi's new album coming out

00:36:22
next year the album and the year are both
called 2020 so we'll talk about that with

00:36:27
Jon Bon Jovi music legend tomorrow right
here on border crossings. Like you

00:36:33
mentioned this far as

00:36:34
a loser is concerned she's going to be at
the Grammys January 26th she's got the

00:36:37
most nominations for her album because I
love to you with 8 nominations so we shall

00:36:43
see how she does I want to say
hello to Danny FESA ha and he code

00:36:49
Tazawa who is in Japan we heard from Seth
Darko and Gordon God Speed who are all

00:36:55
listening to a border crossings and
checked in it Facebook dot com slash v

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o 8 Larry London everyone so well I
like to throw a worldwide premiere of

00:37:04
a brand new song for you and this is

00:37:06
a song that kept saying the American Music
Awards she was surrounded by dancers in

00:37:12
white choir outfits white choir robes and
it got the audience up on their feet got

00:37:18
a great beat to it and she said she wants
to now return the last album recall was

00:37:23
kind of soft kind of sweet she was going
through a very emotional time with

00:37:28
a lawsuit surrounding her producer Luke
Dr Luke and so now she said I want to get

00:37:34
back to the music that made me famous back
in the tick tock days so she has done

00:37:39
just that she's got

00:37:40
a new upbeat songs I want to play it for
you this is the single off of what will

00:37:44
eventually be an album coming out from
Cassia and this is the 1st time on border

00:37:49
crossings the 1st time for the worldwide
audience to hear this song I hope you

00:37:52
enjoy it here's cash and the
song is called Raising Hell.

00:38:38
Did it.

00:38:53
And Elizabeth.

00:39:43
Elizabeth.

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Live.

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Oh Lord. I am.

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Going to be to my liver be. The

00:41:45
love. The I'm in with the love

00:41:52
love. The love.

00:41:59
Give my liver be. The

00:42:05
love. Oh.

00:42:18
The birds the lead who was. The blood

00:42:25
began to. Evolve me to boil I'm reminded.

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Of the live oh that. Was the

00:42:40
Love the Soul I just did the
soul the love to love me.

00:42:48
To be.

00:44:43
Good.

00:46:04
Border crossings feel Collins in the air
tonight request in the air tonight for

00:46:09
Silas in Kuwait 96.9 f.m.

00:46:13
Salam to all of our Kuwaiti friends who are
listening in Kuwait. And the greetings

00:46:18
to you thanks for joining us Phil Collins
has gone through highs and lows and right

00:46:23
now apparently he's at a low he's
on tour but. His failing health

00:46:29
a number of different issues have taken
their toll on him he does his concert while

00:46:33
seeding. Sitting down on stage in a
chair he doesn't stand he walks with

00:46:38
a cane these days he makes his way slowly
out onto the stage very very different

00:46:43
Phil Collins than the Phil Collins I remember
watching some 1020 years ago perform

00:46:49
on stage but these days now he sounds the
same but he sings seated and some of my

00:46:55
friends saw him at

00:46:55
a concert in Detroit and the chair fell
backwards and everybody in the audience

00:47:00
gasped but he got Ok You know everybody
helped him up and he was all right but you

00:47:03
know to watch Phil Collins who is now in
his seventy's fall backwards on stage

00:47:08
during

00:47:08
a concert that's kind of scary thank you
Silas for that request I want to say hello

00:47:12
to Aden Aden a little today checked
in from South Africa d.s. T.v.

00:47:17
Channel 853 So thank you Aiden who's

00:47:20
a new listener of border crossings also
want to say hello to Branca Baso who's

00:47:24
a long time listener to our show in Zambia
thank you for listening and again I want

00:47:30
to remind you that tomorrow at 1500 universal
one of the highlights of my time here

00:47:36
at border crossings we will bring you an
interview that I recorded with Bon Jovi

00:47:42
Jon Bon Jovi himself
he's been an actor he's

00:47:46
a businessman he's got
restaurants he's got

00:47:49
a wine brand with his son he's
got an illustrious music career

00:47:54
a 14 album soon to be 15 and he's just

00:47:58
a legend he's an icon I mean everybody
around the world heard of Bon Jovi one of

00:48:03
the great rock bands of all time and he's
going to be here on the show tomorrow so

00:48:09
make sure you're listening to
border crossings tomorrow for

00:48:12
a chat with Bon Jovi and
then Friday we have

00:48:14
a special music program for Bon Jovi fans
and the tomorrow's Thanksgiving so the

00:48:20
government is closed so we will not be
taking requests again until Monday when

00:48:24
we're back here in the studios
mark in Guyana wants a request for

00:48:29
a Sam Smith song that features
nor money I mention her

00:48:32
a little while ago here is Sam Smith with
Norman. This was called Dancing with the

00:48:36
stranger on border crossings.

00:48:47
As you lose that comes I suppose
you. Can still do some good

00:48:54
ideas you. Don't want to
come to town tonight.

00:49:03
I've seen. Some new things.

00:49:10
I am going to move on.
Because I don't come home

00:49:17
tonight. To know. The beauty of

00:49:25
the begin to believe I am stronger
the scream you come from the

00:49:31
bigger. The believe the

00:49:38
been stolen is trying to
examine. In instance the

00:49:44
sun coming in your. Clinton.

00:49:53
Campaign to get you the
bomb was. Coming sadly. To

00:50:00
the little. Donkey. The only.

00:50:09
Good name in the book. And
in the Bolivian plane to see

00:50:16
the answers to the what you
ended the book. And in the

00:50:22
book and it may be.

00:50:29
The body getting some. In the.

00:50:39
Slim. Long.

00:50:53
String. Good. Luck.

00:51:02
Sustiva she. Comes.

00:51:22
To. What's up with the black eyed peas in

00:51:25
a listening to our board Larry let. Me

00:51:38
Thank. You for this what you and. She.

00:51:52
Got me going to. Be.

00:52:00
Told in the drama only the track of the
things in the book the trauma. Trying to

00:52:05
stop. The terrorist training was

00:52:10
a good mix. The clips and the k.k.k.

00:52:14
But if you. Think it only
takes place in the form of

00:52:19
a discipline then they. Break. Loose what

00:52:26
you chemistry can't. Wait. To set

00:52:31
a straight 6 minute let's go. The

00:52:38
band.

00:53:34
Was going.

00:53:50
To.

00:54:20
Be Told.

00:54:29
To get to the make. Just one.

00:54:38
The value. Of the fairness.
Is to spreading.

00:54:46
From. The.

00:54:54
Village.

00:55:25
Where is the love the love is here on
border crossings that's where the love is

00:55:29
Samuel thank you for your request on the
Voice of America thanks for listening and

00:55:33
I want to say about

00:55:34
a prince as well who checked in and I'm
sure Nathan who asked me to play queen this

00:55:40
once called in the lap of God's.

00:57:47
I think that's qui for sure Nathan thanks
for listening high the merry go bed moved

00:57:52
who is listening as well nice to have
you tuned in Mary thank you for joining

00:57:56
border crossings and checking out our
Facebook page and before I leave I would like

00:58:01
to give away

00:58:02
a couple of those C.D.'s so the now 71 sees
the last remaining now 71 C.D.'s we've

00:58:09
got one for Andrea Griffin the in South
Africa and 8 will take in South Africa.

00:58:16
Ok Yes Andrea is actually in the bin in
England so sorry about that but Andrea you

00:58:22
have won the cd and so hesitating
Congratulations to both of you thanks for

00:58:26
listening thanks to Joe Our engineer Vince
our director Brian our producer on Larry

00:58:30
London Happy Thanksgiving one joke me
tomorrow this is border crossings on the

00:58:34
v.o.a.

00:58:34
Global English network. This

00:58:41
is v.o.a. News I'm Jim Byrd tells The
New York Times is reporting u.s.

00:58:46
President Donald Trump learned about

00:58:48
a whistleblower complaint regarding his
relations with Ukraine before he decided to

00:58:53
one freeze nearly 400000000 dollars in
military aid this is at the center of the

00:58:58
impeachment inquiry The Times says White
House lawyers told the president about the

00:59:02
complaint in late August Mr Trump spoke
about the impeachment inquiry during

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a rally in Florida Mike Ross he has more
the president started his Thanksgiving

00:59:11
holiday with

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a rally in Sunrise Florida Tuesday night
America is winning again and America is

00:59:18
respected again Trump took aim at the ongoing
impeachment inquiry in Washington the

00:59:23
radical left Democrats are trying to rip
our nation apart and he ripped former Vice

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President Joe Biden and his son Hunter all
of the started his father becomes vice

00:59:33
president and he's making millions and
millions The president also downplayed his

00:59:38
unscheduled trip to Walter Reed National
Medical Center earlier this month I was

00:59:42
there just to save

00:59:43
a little time ingenue I feel great the
president and his family will be spending

00:59:47
Thanksgiving weekend at Trump's Mar

00:59:49
a Lago Club in Palm Beach I Mike Ross Yes
the bodies of some of the victims found

00:59:54
in a British truck last month are
being repatriated to Vietnam

00:59:58
a piece Charles Taylor
Decimo reports about is

01:00:00
a 16 of the $39.00 Vietnamese who died
when he went traffickers carried them by

01:00:05
truck to England last month have been
flown back to their homeland and of being

01:00:10
taken to their families one father of
an 18 year old victim says he had been

01:00:15
informed by

01:00:15
a local government official that his son's
remains will be brought home Wednesday

01:00:20
along with 6 other victims
the mantel the a.p.

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I'm devastated but I'll be happy to have
him back with us soon I'm shells of this

01:00:29
month for more on any of today's
stories please go to v.o.a.

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a poem for all undersea earthquake rattled
Greece's southern island of Crete on Wednesday

01:00:43
and was felt in the southern mainland in
Bosnia authorities have canceled classes

01:00:47
in several towns in a.

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