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Hornyak the lockdown will remain in force
through April 7th China has expressed its

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strong opposition to u.s.

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President Donald Trump using the term
Chinese virus to refer to the novel

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coronavirus that has spread to more than
150 countries around the world Chinese

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Foreign Ministry spokesman gang Schwanke
said Trump's language stigmatizes China

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Trump used the language in a tweet
Monday last week he retreated

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a message using the terminology the World
Health Organization rivers to the novel

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coronavirus as the code 19. From
Washington you're listening to news.

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U.s.

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Secretary of state Mike Pompei 0 told Iraqi
prime minister of Del of the Mahdi Monday

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that those responsible
for a deadly attack on

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a military base last week must be held
accountable 2 American service members and

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a British medic were killed when an Iraqi
base came under rocket attack last

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Wednesday at least 14
others were injured u.s.

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Retaliatory strikes late Thursday and
early Friday it 5 weapons depots of the

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Iranian backed group Hezbollah and Iraq
the commander who oversees the u.s.

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Operations in the Middle East warned that
the threat from Iran and its proxies

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remains high Iraq's Joint
Operations Command called the u.s.

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Strikes a blatant attack in

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a tweet on Friday the International
Organization for Migration reports that despite

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Yemen's brutal civil war tens of thousands
of refugees and migrants cross the Gulf

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of Aden each year into the conflict
ridden country in hopes of reaching Saudi

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Arabia and finding work for
Lisa flying reports from i.o.m.

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Headquarters in Geneva the United Nations
considers Yemen the world's worst

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humanitarian catastrophe despite this just
as her situation migrants from the Horn

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of Africa remain undeterred in their
determination to reach Yemen and then to Saudi

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Arabia and to hope for better life last
year the International Organization for

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Migration reports more than 138000 people
cross the Gulf of Aden to Yemen it

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says an agreement last year between Saudi
Arabia in Ethiopia that allows 100000

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Ethiopian workers to travel legally to
Saudi Arabia for work has been successful

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and the agency calls for it to be
extended Lisa shrine for v.o.a.

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News Geneva the world has changed at
least temporarily and doing business has

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changed right along with it Shelley Adler
reports from the Associated Press over

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the past few days in the cart Wal-Mart
grocery and shipped which is owned by Target

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Corporation have set records for jail.
Only app downloads That's according to app

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topia

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a data tracking firm Sandy during birth
who lives in California is one of those

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shoppers I had gone to the grocery store
are after the outbreak started and it was

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a mad house and I was proud of people all
and everybody coughing and you know me

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probably being

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a little paranoid Maybe not says Professor
John Swartz Burge who's with the u.c.

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Berkeley School of Public Health
going to the grocery store is

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a perfect opportunity to interact with
lots of other people. Critically if the

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grocery store is crowded so that could
be a problem actually after the u.s.

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Justice Department has announced that an
Iranian man will face federal charges in

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connection with an alleged scheme to obtain
military parts that could be used in

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nuclear and other weapons system the judge
said the Justice Department said that

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the moves violate the Iranian embargo I'm

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a risk the militant
You're listening to news.

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Today is Tuesday March 17th and this is

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a feel ways international edition I'm
Steve Miller in Washington the world

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continues to an extractor guidelines
to prevent the spread of covert 19

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a war gathering in groups of more than 10
people plus Americans cautiously go to

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the polls. Is that really the major concern
for most people right now in the middle

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of this emergency and Hollywood technology
comes to your smartphone Those stories

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and more are next. Thank you.

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Thank the number of people who contracted
the covert 19 virus outside China

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is now greater than the cases of the disease
in China where the novel coronavirus

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was 1st identified the current virus
covered 19 global cases system run by John

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Hopkins University near Washington d.c.

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Is tracking at least 182000 cases around
the world Europe is now the center of the

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global pandemic Italy is the hardest
hit one adding Spain Germany France

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Switzerland bred in the Netherlands Norway
Sweden Belgium Austria and Denmark it

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accounts for over 62000 cases now to put
that into perspective China has just over

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81000 cases the escalating threat from
covert 19 is forcing governments to take

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action the Philippine Stock Exchange has
shut down operations indefinitely the 1st

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stock exchange in the world to stop trading
amid the economic fallout caused by the

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novel coronavirus pandemic the decision to
close the exchange comes as the capital

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of Manila has been placed under

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a virtual lockdown and it is in reaction
to daily losses. Sustained in the global

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financial markets as
every day life grinds to

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a halt in practically every country and
major city in an effort to halt the spread

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of the virus Mother Nature other Asian
markets ended mostly up for the day European

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shares retreated after an initial bounce
as the damage to companies and economies

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across the globe grows and keeps
financial markets on edge u.s.

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Markets are up in early trading after losing
about 12 percent in value Monday this

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is after u.s.

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President Donald Trump announced that
for the next 15 days the United States

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government wants Americans to avoid gathering
in groups of more than 10 schooling

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should be at home and discretionary
travel should be avoided v.o.a.

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White House bureau chief Steve Herman has
the details the president in the White

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House briefing room also said people should
not patronize bars or restaurants and

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not unnecessarily socialize as we combat
the virus each and every one of us says

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a critical role to play is being the spread
in transmission of the letters as the

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president spoke of the Dow Jones Industrial
Average closed down 13 percent its

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worst performance since the start of the
coronavirus crisis asked about the plunge

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Trump said markets will boom again once the
pandemic passes but he acknowledged in

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the meantime the economy could go
into a recession Steve Herman v.o.a.

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News at the White House

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a new Gallup poll showed some 60 percent
of Americans are now very or somewhat

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worried that they or

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a family member will be exposed to the
coronavirus up from 36 percent in February

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confidence in the government's ability
to respond has fallen sharply Poland's

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government was under quarantine Tuesday
after one minister tested positive for the

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novel coronavirus as authorities introduce
sweeping measures to combat the spread

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of the disease the European Union's
external borders will be closed to

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non-essential travel. 30 days as of Tuesday
to fight the spread of covert 19 France

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Italy and Spain in imposing

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a nationwide lockdown for at least 15 days
Lisa Bryant has more the country wide

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school shutdown will last at least
15 days for all French educational

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establishments from kindergartens to
universities it counts among the most drastic

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of the new measures French President
Emanuel and I call announced

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a nationwide address to fight close to
3000 coronavirus cases here here insert

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Michael act in French fade under my colon
called on elderly citizens with health

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problems to stay home announced help for
businesses to cope with the coronavirus

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related losses and to urge bosses to let
their employees work at home when possible

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major events are cancelled but municipal
elections taking place over the next 2

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Sundays will go ahead for now my call
called the battery of prevention measures

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a way to gain time so hospitals do
not become overloaded he urged civic

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responsibility here insert 3
in French fade under in an

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apparent response to the trumpet ministrations
temporary travel ban on most of

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Europe McCall said Nationalism is not the
answer to the corona virus outbreak since

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it respects no borders he also called for

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a united and strong European response to
deal with the virus and his financial

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fallout the yawn fiscal stimulus measures
announced Thursday by the European

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Central Bank here inserted ambient
of Renzi. In French paid under

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France has one of Europe's highest coronavirus
case loads although its numbers are

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still

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a fraction of those in neighboring Italy
however speaking on French radio Friday

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former Italian Minister Matteo. Renzi said
the nation wide lockdown in Italy now

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faces risk becoming the rule across Europe
he ordered to France to move quickly to

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take Italy's path reactions to my cause
announcements have been mixed including not

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surprisingly from his political opponents
the French employers Union saluted here

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insert clothes she actin French faded
into our stiff fine clothes she general

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secretary of the as c u n s a
teachers' union told French t.v.

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That the nationwide school shutdown was
unexpected to French authorities he said

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had previously insisted that wouldn't happen
Lisa Bryant for v.o.a. News Perez u.s.

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Health officials say the 1st human trial
has begun to test an experimental

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coronavirus vaccine as scientists race
to find treatments for the pandemic

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scientists at the Kaiser Permanente
Washington Research Institute in Seattle give

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the 1st shots Monday to a small
group of healthy people the u.s.

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National Institutes of Health said the
trial would involve $45.00 healthy adult

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volunteers between the ages of $18.55 who
would be given the experimental vaccine

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over

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a 6 week period it is one of many studies
of experimental vaccines that will take

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place around the world in the
coming months to try and find

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a way to protect people against
covert 19 scientists say

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a vaccine will likely not be available
for widespread use for at least

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a year as all potential vaccines must go
through several phases of testing to prove

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that they work and are safe elsewhere
on Monday Colombia enacted

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a complete ban on entries of nonresidents
but tens of thousands of people from

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neighboring Venezuela crossed into
Colombia each day seeking food and medical

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supplies in addition more than 1700000
Venezuelans were living in Colombia after

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fleeing economic and political upheaval
in their home country for more of the

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potential if. Of Colombia's decision on
Venezuela migrants view ways Jason but

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taken spoke earlier to journalist
Megan Jeannette ski. It was

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a closure that we expected
because Colombia is also facing

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a medical crisis it especially on the
borders and large part to the Venezuelan

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migration their hospitals are very very
overwhelmed so unlike last night said we

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are facing one of the biggest challenges
in our history which is pretty significant

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for

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a country with half of century civil war
behind them but I think I think the scariest

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thing about the border being closed
with Venezuela is just the humanitarian

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a fax and migrants being pushed into
clandestine means of you know surviving

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so obviously there's been. A huge migration
is people moving from then as well into

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Colombia due to the political unrest in the
humanitarian situation in Venezuela how

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might this closure of borders affect those
people thousands of people leave the

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country every single day and many more I
would say about 4050000 people cross by

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land to get supplies like food
and medicine so even like basic

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medical services and Colombia because
Venezuela is so collapsed at this moment so

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that that's the context like there

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a lot of people are already relying on
these borders while everyone pretty much

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expects is that more desperate migrants
will be pushed into these things called

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Treacherous which are and form all pathways
along the border where they have to get

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small gold over and those
can be very dangerous and

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a lot of times it's migrants that are then
victimized and that sounds like there's

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really not

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a way to truly close the border it sounds
like it's just closing the official

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crossings but the border is in no way sealed
it's not actually something that will

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stop people from coming from that his way
lanes of Colombia no no and that I mean

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you see that everywhere there's so many
people just flowing. Over and even see that

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with the illegality that aspects of the
border with Colombia you know there are

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a lot of armed groups that run along the
Colombia Venezuela border between the 2

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countries because it's kind of just

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a porous and fairly large border
so while you can create the

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migratory restrictions people are going to
keep coming what does that mean for the

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health of the migrants and refugees who
are already in Colombia people are pretty

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much on able to get food and basic supplies
like hand sanitizer and like it's get

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it's really really hard to self isolate
like if you look at for instance Venezuela

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and across the region many are like
homeless living on the streets having in

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shelters living in homes with like 12
different people it just makes the

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challenges for these people so much higher
and what about for Venezuela Venezuela

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is obviously suffering it's quite

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a bit due to all of the political unrest
and other people over the last few years

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with this border being closed what will
that mean for potentially getting medical

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supplies into that country I have met so
many people about it rely on Colombia and

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even other countries to bring back
supply is to sustain their family if it

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continues on the pace that it's going out
in terms of closures it's just going to

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be a lot harder and have a lot more
negative implications for an r.t.

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Desperate population and Venezuela that
was making internet ski journalist dimity

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Colombia she spoke to our own Jason Petain
Kim there is significantly more covert

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available at v.o.a.

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News dot com.

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Turkish French German and
British leaders are holding

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a video summit to address the migration
crisis. Stomach comes after Turkey opened

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its European borders to refugees saying
it can no longer cope with over 3000000

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refugees mainly from Syria
Grizz move comes as a Fear is

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a new exodus from Syria as government
forces prepared to seize the last rebel

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stronghold of Islam the video summit is
expected to discuss both it live and

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Turkey's European Union refugee deal for
more I spoke with reporter Dorian Jones

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and as Dan bull Well I think. The
discussion will focus on this crisis on the

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creek area I'm told with

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a migrant over the last few weeks being
thousands tens of thousands of migrants

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trying to enter into Greece primarily all
to take its own control policy to Europe

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for Refugee the migrants in this
country I think that will be

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a key area of discussion on both sides
they will be pressing all reexamination

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a new deal migration refugee deal with
the European Union there was 11 to

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15 that the ended a mass
exodus of refugees into year

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a 1000000 or so people entered all of that
deal those numbers drastically fell but

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on Cross says the terms of the deal would
fulfilled all the European side the

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question of money that looking program
$3000000000.00 mall euro zone they also go

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into

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a new deal going full now that will be
another area of tool also will be the fate

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of the situation in. Syria improving the
last help by rebel currently on the siege

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by the math its goals is at the very end
to the ceasefire but uncle realized that

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he thought it unlikely they are looking
for a school of their idea of creating

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a safe haven they're protected by no fly
zone or will be looking to it's told the

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key NATO members to back going forward
which they feel would prevent

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a new exodus of refugees into speaking of
refugees this is all happening. Under the

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umbrella of the worldwide pandemic of the
krona virus covered 19 What concerns are

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the parties discussing in terms of
humanitarian relief well I think that. The new

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dimension on the already makes treatment
difficult situation there is the can take

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in

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a clip fire if that creates another humanitarian
crisis on top of the already existing

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one live already very little health
infrastructure and what there is being targeted

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by the mask of school says serious
given the fact that there is a around

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a 1000000 refugees already owned gold.
Riotous good to cold and then the situation

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would be catastrophic that there were already
warnings from the un. All right so I

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think the crew will be using that
as another argument for creating

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a paper or allow some kind of medical
infrastructure to be created that could cause

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a catastrophe which is how I can quote
describe this and also many international

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aid agencies on top of that these refugees
that seeking to enter Iraq is another

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concern that many of them also they could
be carrying the virus given the fact that

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quite a lot of them are rainy
and refugees on them does have

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a major problem with the buyers as well so
this will all add and I think focus the

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minds on resulting is why the problem
of breath ichi even the fact that these

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people will find it more difficult
to access help they are seeing

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a primary concern of many aid
agencies so I think that this is

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a novel and I think that we all are seeing
that already the situation only Greek

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can carry in Boulder the choice in doesn't
seem to be resulting itself we're

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getting reports it's much karma that the
more pulled off is not taking the refugees

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away from the border into the main It has
to be the gesture by Ancora ahead of the

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toll so I think that that is another primary
concern among those talking today in

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resolving this migration crisis that
was Dorian Jones in Istanbul. The

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internationally condemned ritual of female
genital mutilation is practiced in the

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least $92.00 countries according to

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a new study released by 3
advocacy groups despite

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a decline in its prevalence in recent
decades there are still millions of girls

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around the world subjected to the
painful and dangerous practice the u.n.

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Estimates that more than 200000000 girls
have undergone the ritual in 32 countries

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in recent decades the u.s.

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Government considers female genital
mutilation a serious human rights abuse and

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a form of gender based violence and child
abuse in 2015 un members that eradication

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of f g m as one of their sustainable
development goals for 2030 but at 2018 United

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Nations Population Fund reporter warned
that if current population trends hold at

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least $68000000.00 more
girls will face as g.m.

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By 2030 with the number of victims rising
to $4600000.00 per year and still to come

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boating is that really the major concern
for most people right now in the middle of

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this emergency if you're
listening to v.o.a.

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News.

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Or 61 Haiti.

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Or Ireland paper in St Patrick's Day is
named guys in the Irish religion other

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authorities say the day
more than 3 decades later

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493882003 President George w.

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Bush gives an ultimatum to Iraq's dictator
Saddam Hussein and his 2 sons Saddam

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Hussein and his sons must leave
Iraq within 48 hours. Their

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refusal to do so will result in
military conflict commenced at

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a time of our choosing days later the
American led invasion of Iraq begins toppling

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Saddam as brutal regime from. Today in
History March 17th Mike Ross to the

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Associated Press.

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Tuesday in primary elections to pick the
Democratic Party's presidential candidate

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despite worries about the krona virus
outbreak that forced one state to postpone

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its voting going into Tuesday for. Former
Vice President Joe Biden leads from

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Senator Bernie Sanders 898 to 745
in pledged delegates view ways

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Kaine Farah Bol is covering the primaries
and I asked him how things are going as

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Ohio Illinois Florida and Arizona However
in the late hours Monday night into

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Tuesday Ohio is postponing its primary
election so that's leaving the voters going

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to the polls now it's 3 states Illinois
Arizona and Florida. You know I think I

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said Chicago instead of Florida in my in
the 1st part of that sorry I just turned

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over guess All right one of those 2 Yeah
yeah. Well the week began there was meant

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to be voting in 4 states and that would
have been Ohio Illinois Arizona at Florida

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but in the late hours of Monday into
Tuesday morning everybody throughout the

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weekend officials in Ohio have been trying
to delay or postpone Ohio's primary and

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Ohio's primary at least as it stands right
now is not occurring but the primary

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elections in the other 3 states
Illinois Florida there was

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a are underway you're out there in Illinois
and you went out to polling places

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today what did you see and are voters
coming on to the normal numbers or is the

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concern about the covert 1000 coronavirus
affecting voter output Well the concern

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is already taken hold and really the week
leading up to the primary election here

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in Illinois there were many polling precincts
or polling locations inside nursing

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homes in my particular community and those
were some of the 1st polling location

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that had to be moved elsewhere in order to
maintain safe distances from some of the

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elderly population who are most susceptible
to the cook at night Iris So there's

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been

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a little bit of confusion as to where some
of the polling locations have shifted to

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in order to keep them out of nursing homes
in areas where the elderly are the most

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at risk and the congregate so that's
started out when I went to the polls this

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morning I'm in an area right
now that does not yet have

00:24:05
a confirmed case of covert banking in the
state of Illinois so. But the turnout

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here I would say is there were we were among
some of the only voters at our polling

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location in our precincts when I looked at
the registration at least in the ballot

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box and we put our ballot in the box it
looks like there might have been 21 voters

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in my precinct the forests
I think that's down

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a little bit but I think the real
understanding of how this is impacting voter

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turnout won't be known
until we start to see

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a lot more the real numbers trickle in
here towards the end of the day if we take

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a look forward there has been some
discussion of whether or not there will be.

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Political conventions this summer to
formally choose the nominees for the

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Democratic and Republican Party
is how voters expression

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a kind of concerned about what impact the
coronavirus may have on the electoral

00:24:55
process it's already changing this electoral
process dramatically I mean neither

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Right now it's really

00:25:02
a 2 way race between former Vice President
Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders for

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the Democratic nomination. President
Donald Trump is the presumed Republican

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nominee. Right now neither Biden nor
Sanders can really get out and campaign in

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person and or Sanders in particular
large rally as were sort of

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a hallmark of his campaign at least leading
up to this call that 19 emergency if he

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can't do that anymore and he is the candidate
trailing Joe Biden so he is going to

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increase voter turnout I mean

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a primary election in the weeks ahead to
rallying his voters and getting them out

00:25:42
to vote for him which is something he needs
to do and he previously had done that

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by these big rallies and voted I think
people in his large crowd that was for us

00:25:50
came Farah by. A trial opened in the
Netherlands on Monday of 3 Russians and

00:25:56
a Ukrainian over the downing of Malaysia
Airlines Flight 172014 orders Lauren

00:26:02
Anthony reports the China full featured
have suspects over the downing of Malaysian

00:26:06
Airlines Flight 17 started in Amsterdam on
Monday more than 5 years after the plane

00:26:12
came down in Ukraine prosecutors say 3
Russians and Ukrainians will be tried in

00:26:17
absentia challenged with my dad the Ricci's
are helping to arrange the Russian

00:26:22
missile system used to shoot down the
passenger jet ski suspects still at large I

00:26:26
believe to be in Russia. And

00:26:29
a 17 was traveling from Amsterdam to
Kuala Lumpur in 2014 when it was hit by

00:26:34
a set is to end this aisle old he wanted
in 1000 passengers and crew were killed on

00:26:40
Sunday some of the victims' families
protested outside the Russia. Embassy in The

00:26:44
Hague and his house empty chairs to represent
those who died so. That the idea of

00:26:49
the actual mission is to wake up if you
can clear to the Russian state that they

00:26:54
have to cooperate with the investigation
you know up till now the Russians have

00:27:00
I've struck that's the investigation. Or
at least they didn't. Cooperate with you

00:27:06
if it's the question of the joys of education
to descendants of Russian segued even

00:27:11
see I like little of and they go back in
and Ukrainian Leonid. Had senior positions

00:27:16
in prime Russia militias in eastern Ukraine
back in 2014 they are presumed innocent

00:27:21
until proven guilty back in his sad
rebels were not responsible for the pains

00:27:26
Downing and declined to fire the comments
the across Downing led to sanctions

00:27:30
against Russia by the European Union and
high since tensions between Russia and

00:27:34
Western powers he blame as for the
disaster that was Reuters reporter Lauren

00:27:38
Anthony Iraq's military said
Tuesday 2 rockets struck

00:27:42
a base south of Baghdad hosting u.s.

00:27:44
Led coalition troops and NATO trainers
as Damon did not include any mention of

00:27:48
casualties the rockets hit the bus Maya
base where there are coalition troops from

00:27:53
Spain as part of the mission to combat
the Islamic state militant group

00:27:57
a rocket attack last week at Camp Taji
north of the Iraqi capital killed 2 u.s.

00:28:03
Service members and a British medic
well meaning 14 others the u.s.

00:28:07
Has blamed such attacks on
Iranian proxies in Iraq u.s.

00:28:12
Forces carried out where

00:28:13
a teller Torrie strikes Thursday on Friday
against weapons depots of the Iranian

00:28:18
backed group Taiba Hezbollah. And that's
going to do it for us today until next

00:28:24
time I'm Steve Miller in Washington have

00:28:26
a great day I've

00:28:36
. Been. Welcome to learning English

00:28:42
daily. 30 minute program from
the Voice of America I must go

00:28:49
and I'm Dorothy Kennedy this program
is aimed at learners so we speak

00:28:56
a little slower and we use words and
phrases as specially written for people

00:29:03
learning.

00:29:10
Today on the program you will hear stories
from Susan Shand John Russell and Steve

00:29:17
Emer But 1st this report from Teo from

00:29:24
v.o.a.

00:29:24
Learning English this is the health
and lifestyle reports every culture

00:29:31
has some sorts of person to person greeting
but they are different all over the

00:29:37
world in some countries such as
the United States handshakes and

00:29:44
hugs are the norm in many European
cultures kisses on the cheek or

00:29:50
air kisses are the thing to do when
greeting people and if you play on

00:29:57
a sports team high fives may be the
greeting no matter what your cultural

00:30:03
background these are our
traditions during normal times

00:30:10
the World Health Organization
recently declared the new coronavirus

00:30:15
a pandemic health officials all over the
world are urging people to wash their

00:30:21
hands frequently people are warned
to avoid large crowds and to

00:30:28
practice social distancing to
control the spread of the disease

00:30:34
this has led to new ways of greetings
around the world. The new coded 19

00:30:41
virus came from will haunt China
so it is not surprising that

00:30:47
a video featuring something called the
Wu hunt shake recently went viral

00:30:54
in the video a man offers
his hand to another man for

00:30:59
a handshake instead of shaking hands the
2 men greet each other by kicking feet

00:31:07
quick right to kick quick left to
kick the video then shows more men

00:31:13
greeting each other this way
it looks like a dance step or

00:31:19
a soccer move other videos are appearing
on social media showing people

00:31:25
in other parts of the world
using the foot tap as

00:31:29
a greeting Junge un is

00:31:33
a television host for Voice of America's
China service her job involves contact

00:31:40
with many on air guests so she says she
has changed her guest greeting policy.

00:31:48
Searching today I was telling my guest
appearance studio we don't shake hands

00:31:54
anymore we do touch we do you know foot
tapping or we say for just saying you know

00:32:00
another journalist in Vo ways
China branch Sharon Wu is taking

00:32:05
a different approach for now she has
not changed the way she greets guests

00:32:12
however she has

00:32:13
a new after greeting habit
group hand-washing recently

00:32:20
guest coming to the studio and for me I
still shake hands with them after I say Ok

00:32:27
that's going to wash. Mirror. Work

00:32:34
said Voice of America in the Afghan service.
He says that while hugging between men

00:32:40
and women is not common same sex
hugging is however those who used to

00:32:47
hug have started using new ways
of greeting people. People

00:32:53
are not shaking. Your greeting or
really don't know which is common among

00:33:00
Afghans here in my service we are just.
Sometimes really kicking feet to each

00:33:07
other and sometimes we are just you know
having. To each other in Iran people have

00:33:14
used

00:33:14
a similar greeting called but bump
besides the foot kick but bump and elbow

00:33:21
touch there are other ways to greet people
without touching many Asian cultures

00:33:28
already use non-contact Greetings so
people in this part of the world may

00:33:35
have an easier time avoiding
person to person contact in Japan

00:33:41
a deep bow with both hands
kept down to the sides is

00:33:45
a traditional greeting
in Europe kissing is

00:33:50
a common way to greet people people in
France and other parts of Europe often use

00:33:57
2 kisses one on each
cheek or in the air as

00:34:01
a greeting people in Switzerland
give 3 kisses Reuters

00:34:08
reported that health officials in Switzerland
and France have advised people to

00:34:14
stop the traditional kiss greeting and the
Italian government has banned kissing

00:34:21
in an effort to stop the spread of
the disease this is not the 1st time

00:34:27
a government has made lip contact
between people forbidden in

00:34:33
1439 kissing was temporarily banned in
England during ceremonies involving King

00:34:40
Henry the 6th. This was to avoid endangering
the king's life during the plague

00:34:48
and that's the health and
lifestyle reports on I'm

00:34:52
a Teo. 60

00:35:00
years have passed sense American Roslan
pope came home from Europe to the southern

00:35:07
United States at the time parts
of the South still enforced

00:35:13
segregation of the races blacks were
required to live separately from

00:35:19
whites concerned about injustice
and angry pope set down and

00:35:26
wrote

00:35:26
a document that became an appeal of
for human rights it was published on

00:35:33
March 9th 1968 announced the
formation of the Atlanta student

00:35:40
movement whose campaign of civil
disobedience helped end racist laws and

00:35:47
policies across the south
after all this time Rosalind

00:35:53
pope is still deeply worried that the
rights she and others fought for are slowly

00:36:00
disappearing we have to be careful
it's not as if we can rest

00:36:07
and think that all is well she told
The Associated Press last week

00:36:14
the appeal quickly became a civil rights
call to action after it appeared as

00:36:20
a full page advertisement in Atlanta's
newspapers it was denounced

00:36:27
by Georgia's then Governor Ernest
then Davar. However pope's

00:36:34
appeal was celebrated in many other
areas the New York Times and The Los

00:36:40
Angeles Times reprinted it it also was
entered into the Congressional Record

00:36:47
the official record of the u.s.

00:36:49
Congress the idea was to explain why
black students would not listen

00:36:56
to their parents professors and police
who urged them to end segregation

00:37:03
through the political system the
students decided to take action

00:37:10
the appeal denounced the racist
laws that controlled education jobs

00:37:16
housing voting and law
enforcement it called on

00:37:23
all people of goodwill to
work to end segregation we do

00:37:30
not intend to wait for those rights
which are already legally and morally

00:37:37
ours to be meted out to us one at

00:37:40
a time it said The time has
come for the people of

00:37:47
Atlanta and Georgia to take

00:37:49
a good look at what is really happening in
this country and to stop believing those

00:37:56
who tell us that everything is fine
and equal it said the students

00:38:03
persuaded Atlanta's black families to
boycott segregated stores and theaters

00:38:10
they told them to repeatedly seek service
in places where black people were not

00:38:15
permitted after many acts of
nonviolent protest hundreds of

00:38:22
students were arrested throughout that
spring and summer pope wrote the Atlantic

00:38:29
student movements appeal as

00:38:31
a 21 year old student body
president at Spelman College.

00:38:38
Born and raised in Atlanta pope said she
did not know how it felt to be free until

00:38:45
she was 20 when she spent
a year in Europe on

00:38:49
a Merrill scholarship there
were no places I couldn't go no

00:38:56
programs I couldn't take advantage of
no limits to my existence I could eat

00:39:02
where I wanted I couldn't do that in
Atlanta she said I felt like the shackles

00:39:09
had been taken off me when she
returned to the United States I was

00:39:16
so miserable I just didn't know how
I was going to stand it she said

00:39:24
Pope said she was drinking coffee with
Julian Bond who would later become

00:39:29
a leader of the civil rights
movement when they learned about

00:39:33
a sit in in North Carolina during the
protest black students would enter an

00:39:40
all white restaurant and refuse
to leave why aren't we doing that

00:39:47
bond and Pope asked themselves
we decided to start

00:39:53
a movement pope recalled college
officials asked pope bond and other

00:40:00
students to write

00:40:02
a public document explaining their
decision to act pope wrote it herself

00:40:09
while Julian Bond used

00:40:11
a typewriter to put her words to
paper. Their campaign of boycotts

00:40:18
and sit ins forced white leaders to
desegregation stores theaters and schools

00:40:26
I'm Susan Chand. The floor.

00:40:34
Is getting its very own museum in
its birthplace in New York State.

00:40:42
If poverty is the name for the music
dance and fashion culture that developed

00:40:49
around 50 years ago in The New
York City borough of the Bronx

00:40:56
the permanent home of the universal
hip hop museum set to open in

00:41:03
2023 celebrates the
cultures history for now

00:41:10
a small pop up exhibit shows
what visitors can expect Rocky

00:41:17
Cano is the museum's executive
director he noted that until

00:41:23
now there isn't

00:41:25
a physical place that is dedicated to the
preservation and celebration of hip hop

00:41:32
history and culture who canno
told the Reuters News Agency

00:41:39
that the museum started as
an idea about 80 years ago

00:41:45
rappers Kurtis Blow Africa.
And Grandmaster Melle

00:41:51
a Mel wanted to make sure that the
stories can be told accurately by the

00:41:58
people who created the history
themselves who Kano said other

00:42:04
performers have since become partners
in the project they include Nagas

00:42:11
iced tea and l l cool j.

00:42:14
. Hip hop was born in the
South Bronx in the 1970 s.

00:42:22
The dancing rapping and deejaying
parts of hip hop grew out of the

00:42:28
difficult inner city and Vironment hip
hop has since developed into part

00:42:35
of popular culture the new exhibit
tells about the early days of hip hop

00:42:43
The exhibit will be replaced every 6 months
with the next period in the culture's

00:42:49
development when the
museum is complete the

00:42:54
5570 square metre space will
have interactive exhibits

00:43:01
live shows film screenings and
conferences one room will

00:43:08
have

00:43:09
a break between narrative interactive
console the device was created with

00:43:15
Microsoft Corporation and the mit
Center for Advanced virtuality

00:43:22
it takes visitors on

00:43:24
a hip hop history trip based on their
reactions to different characters in

00:43:30
a game it forms

00:43:33
a custom narrative of hip hop history based
on their musical preferences who Kano

00:43:40
said the exhibit will include Curtis
billows original beat box machine

00:43:47
and the 1st and 2nd to rap records
ever released the grand opening in

00:43:54
2023 is planned to mark 50
years of hip hop work on the

00:44:01
project will begin in
July. I'm John Ross all.

00:44:11
Welcome to the making of a nation
American history in the oh

00:44:17
a special English I'm Steve embers.
The United States entered the 2nd

00:44:23
World War In December of 1941 Europe
had already been at war since

00:44:30
1939 but the United States did
not enter World War 2 until

00:44:37
Japanese forces at tack the American
naval base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii.

00:44:46
The attack was

00:44:47
a surprise but American military and political
leaders had believed that the United

00:44:54
States sooner or later would be pulled into
the fighting and they began to prepare

00:45:00
for war. President Franklin Roosevelt
had been assistant secretary of the

00:45:07
Navy under President Woodrow Wilson
during World War one he remembered how

00:45:14
American troops were not ready if up that
war now that he was President Roosevelt

00:45:21
wanted to be sure that the United States
would be ready when it had to fight

00:45:27
throughout the 1941 Roosevelt urged
American industries to produce more

00:45:33
weapons and other military supplies the
as damaged new government agencies

00:45:40
to work with industry to increase arms
production. Some business leaders

00:45:47
resisted Roosevelt's efforts they felt there
was no need to produce more arms while

00:45:53
be United States was still at peace
but many others cooperated and by the

00:46:00
time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the
American. Enemy was producing millions of

00:46:06
guns and other weapons still
this was not enough to fight

00:46:12
a war after the Japanese attack Roosevelt
increased his demands on American

00:46:19
industry he called 460000 war planes 45000

00:46:25
tanks and $20000.00 anti aircraft
guns and he wanted all these

00:46:32
within one year. A month after
the Pearl Harbor raid Roosevelt

00:46:39
organized

00:46:40
a special committee to direct military
production he created another group to

00:46:47
help companies find men and women
for defense work and he established

00:46:53
a new office where the nation's best
scientists and engineers could work together

00:46:59
to design new weapons. These new
government organizations faced several

00:47:06
problems sometimes factories produced
too much of one product and not

00:47:13
enough of another sometimes tools
broke and some business owners

00:47:19
refused to accept government orders but
the weapons were produced and American

00:47:26
troops soon have but guns
and supplies they need.

00:47:36
The federal government had to quickly
expand its own workforce to meet war needs

00:47:43
federal spending increased from
$60000000000.00 in 1940 to

00:47:50
$89000000000.00 in 1944
that was 15 times as much

00:47:56
spending in just 5 years Roosevelt
had to take strong steps to get the

00:48:03
money for all this spending he put limits
on wages he increased income taxes to

00:48:10
as much as 94 percent on potions
of incomes over $200000.00

00:48:17
and he asked the American people to lend
money to the federal government the people

00:48:23
answered by purchasing almost
$100000000000.00 in war bonds the great

00:48:30
increase in public spending raise the
threat of high inflation Roosevelt

00:48:37
created the special office with the
power to control prices many Americans

00:48:43
agreed with the idea of price controls
but every business wanted somebody

00:48:50
else's prices controlled not their
own federal officials had to work

00:48:57
hard to keep prices and supplies under
control they risk. Strick did how much meat

00:49:04
he was and other goods people could
buy. The price controlled program

00:49:10
generally worked its success kept the
American economy strong to support the troops

00:49:17
fighting in Europe and the Asia. One
reason these strong economic steps worked

00:49:24
was because most of the get American
people fully supported the war effort Talk

00:49:31
Talk phone 000-000-0000
extension 0. 000000 but. She's

00:49:38
supposed to send me and she's making it
to the parking lot they can be voting.

00:49:45
To keep shut the fuck Sambo down sitting
up there on the pistol that they will fit

00:49:51
into that little bit of

00:49:53
a building. But it will get out
of our thing Charlie the movie.

00:50:01
Roasted garlic do. You want to know the
amount of it in Washington when they get

00:50:07
the attention she was called as

00:50:10
a going to be there something
true about Biden blew up. You can

00:50:17
look at photographs of people from those
times and see in their faces strongly they

00:50:23
felt. In one picture from
the state of North Carolina

00:50:28
a group of men there standing in front
of old rubber tires they are planning to

00:50:35
give the tires to the army to be fixed
and used for military vehicles. Another

00:50:42
photo shows a woman visiting
a hospital she is singing to

00:50:47
a soldier to lift his spirits still
another photo shows a man who owns

00:50:53
a small food store he is placing
the signs on meat and cans of food

00:51:01
to tell people how much they are allowed
to buy. You can also get an idea

00:51:07
about the feelings of the times by the
names of some of the popular songs during

00:51:13
World War 2. Come back there.

00:51:23
Was. The my.

00:51:32
Business. Well I. Was.

00:51:44
In addition to Rosie the Riveter there were
songs like Praise the Lord them as for

00:51:50
the ammunition. One of the most hopeful
songs was this one recorded by Britons

00:51:57
of Iran the.

00:52:04
Law of Oslo. The

00:52:10
bomb dump alone my good. Long long walk.

00:52:20
And the rain all lonely

00:52:23
a bomb plot to bomb from the.

00:52:31
Laundry room to the bomb. Bomb to new law.

00:52:42
The. Gone. Gone gone gone.

00:52:52
And the time she is. Gone.

00:53:03
And we. Lost

00:53:06
a new life when he really.
Wanted to leave law and the.

00:53:16
Gone again.

00:53:26
Not all Americans supported the war

00:53:30
a small number refused to fight because
of religious or moral beliefs they were

00:53:37
known as conscientious objectors and
some Americans supported at all Fittler

00:53:44
and other fascists but almost everyone
else wanted to win the war quickly

00:53:50
and return to

00:53:51
a normal life. Many Japanese
Americans served with honor the in

00:53:58
the United States armed forces but many
Americans were suspicious of anyone

00:54:05
whose family had come from Japan.
They refused to trust even Japanese

00:54:11
American families who had lived in
the United States for more than

00:54:16
a century. Many banks refused and
then money to Japanese Americans

00:54:24
many stores would not sell the 2 of
them. The federal government relocated

00:54:30
thousands of Japanese Americans in
California and other states into internment

00:54:38
camps they were released only
after the war ended. It was many

00:54:44
years before the government officially
apologized for mistreating Japanese

00:54:50
Americans.

00:55:11
But were more to do to progress for another
group that was often the target of

00:55:17
discrimination black
Americans. Blank leaders

00:55:24
spoke out they said that
it was unfair it to fight

00:55:29
a war for freedom in Europe while black
Americans did not have old the same

00:55:35
freedoms as white citizens.
Long. White innocent or less.

00:55:43
Long. Or some of. Them and then.

00:55:51
The civil rights revolution
but no one to bring in 1941

00:55:56
a leader in the black community a
Philip Randolph threatened to lead

00:56:02
a giant March on Washington for
civil rights for blacks. President

00:56:08
Roosevelt reacted by issuing
an order that made it

00:56:12
a crime to deny blacks at the chance
for jobs in defense industries

00:56:19
He also ordered the armed forces to change
some of their rules that discriminated

00:56:26
against blacks service members. Blanks
made progress in the military and

00:56:33
defense industries but most other
industries still refused to give them an

00:56:40
equal chance. Major progress civil
rights would not come until the

00:56:47
19 fifties and sixties.

00:57:04
Life was busy during the war years there
were many changes in the economy business

00:57:11
music race relations and other areas
but in many ways life continued as it

00:57:18
always does America. Did what they could
during the hard years of World War 2 The

00:57:24
Good Life on the home front as normal as
possible but almost everyone understood

00:57:31
that the 1st job was to support the
troops overseas and win the war.

00:57:38
This strength of purpose at home gave
American soldiers the support they needed and

00:57:44
it also helped President Roosevelt as
he negotiated with other world leaders

00:57:51
diplomacy and foreign relations became
much more complex during the war.

00:58:04
And that's our program for today listen
again tomorrow to learn English through

00:58:11
stories from around the world I'm
Pete Musto and I'm Dorothy Gandhi.

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