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Mobile app from here and Washington this
is the only news former Vice President Joe

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Biden swept to

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a convincing win in Tuesday's Democratic
presidential primaries in Florida in

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Illinois over Senator Bernie Sanders but
Biden also expected to win in Arizona our

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campaign has had

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a very good night we move closer to securing
the Democratic Party's nomination for

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president the victories place Biden well
ahead of Sanders in that race to clinch

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the party's nomination the state of Ohio
postponed its person in person voting

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because of the corona virus outbreak
European Union new leaders agreed to impose

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travel restrictions on most foreigners
entering Europe 20 minutes to support of the

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virus we agreed to we enforce extended
borders applying to college units

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temporary wish to chin off known
essential travel to the e.u.

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For period of 30 days if you Council
President Charles Michel said leaders also

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agreed to coordinate the
repatriation of e.u.

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Citizens stranded outside member nations
the virus count in Europe climbed to more

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than 60000 with more than 2700
deaths reported an n.b.a.

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Star is among 4 book and Brooklyn Nets to
contract the coronavirus to get more on

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that story from Tom Marion 4 members of the
Brooklyn Nets including Kevin Durant's

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have tested positive for the corona
virus that brings the total of n.b.a.

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Players to at least 7 with you does really
go beyond Donovan Mitchell And Detroit's

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Christian would previously testing positive
direct confirm to sponsor the results

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to the Atlantic he has not played at all
this season his recovers from an Achilles

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tear in last year's playoffs the nets
organization did not name the other 3 players

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but did say one of the 4 is exhibiting
symptoms while the other 3 symptomatic the

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nets say they are notifying anyone who had
been in contact with the players in any

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capacity I'm John Merriam China said Tuesday
it is expelling reporters from 3 major

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you. This newspaper as the New York Times
The Washington Post and The Wall Street

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Journal in response to what officials say
is not warranted restrictions on Chinese

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media agencies and addition Beijing order
to other news outlets Time magazine and

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The Independent u.s.

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Funded Voice of America news operation
to give Chinese authorities detail

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information about their work
and China China said the u.s.

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Journalists will not be allowed to continue
working as journalists in the People's

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Republic of China including its Hong Kong
and Macau Special Administrative Region

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and former California Republican Congressman
Duncan Hunter has been sentenced to 11

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months and President after pleading guilty
to misspending campaign funds the ex

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marine resigned from Congress back
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a 6 nearly 6 terms representing one of
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Good morning Africa welcome to daybreak
Africa and the Voice of America not in

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Washington today. Here are some other
stories we're covering the president says

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he does not agree with probably from
bill passed by the parliament. That

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president will make it

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a decision that he has made by the men and
that they need to get to record discuss

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the justification that the president. Has
the governor is committed to you've got

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to go column if spots controversy about
it. He has clinical research you know

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money staff to manage the coronavirus
pandemic in the line during government says

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it's giving us the positive.

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Here is help me get him inflation rate
has more than double those stories are

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coming up on Daybreak Africa.

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Because he does not agree with the electoral
reform bills passed by the parliament

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in February this year the problem is
that May 1000 this year to hold fresh

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presidential elections after the constitutional
court in February this year they

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made 21000 presidential election
because of irregularities presidential

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spokesperson gamming colony told

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a news conference on Tuesday that the
parliamentary bills conflict where the

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Constitution Meanwhile President. On
Tuesday announced the removal of General

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New doing as commander of them I would
defend fools without explanation the

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president's spokesperson I didn't this guy
did not want it to brief the nation I

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don't disturb. The abuse that argument
had passed and dress into the president.

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For him to us and as it was the at

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a commendation set by him and had made to
the president on our defragging or the

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chairperson of the actual mission asking
about the commission of my that he and the

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commission so there's going to the all
conference My Space is going to end up

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getting be about the
compact but I would have

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a net come past Bill coming from the
directions for reform which meant to send the

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current commission I was equal to
the chairperson justice Gee. Now

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so what do I need to get is that the
president has every shoes I dropped

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200 of commendation and that he should
fire the commission as well as the chips

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and

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a commission so what this is means not always
that the president would need to communicate

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the decision that he has meant to do but
it meant that that but I mean to need to

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reconvene and I'm going to discuss the
justifications at the present us given

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because according to the design the going
to be just that the president has given

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is that. Body and mind you know to have

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a mandate entrusted to do that but I mean
to go into that mandate to be sure and

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they critique our for this election when
they were in beneficiary of the same

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election which was administered by the
time I read that critical mission and Dana

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Those are saying you shouldn't do it said
the commission as were ambushed and that

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they did not have to be quoting present
dition when that. Pending these meetings by

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the by you but public appointment to
comedians before I was there be I mean we

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aren't sure from the opposition straight
to the president says folks posting his

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news conference so funny so official reaction
from the opposition but then I think

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we need some members of the opposition I
can just relax you may be on social media

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a deposition of couples to graduate to
have. An official reaction but definitely

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the reaction will be yeah make it easy for
the mind from the Fuck do that. In the

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same position that I get to meet your
difficult position I don't get if I did that

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what did that bust these bills and you
know and so we should really expect some

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negative fanatic reaction from the
opposition what can you tell us about the.

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Way as the commander to my we Defense
Force Yes Under the present tense excited

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state of the powers that
he has but I try to have

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a movie that fits it not great as the
commander of the monthly Defense Force and I

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think yes I think of him placed that
just today the recent visit to the big

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decrease and that's how I don't think
giving but I think I want is very clean he

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said Time date reasons behind his
voice actually to doorways to have

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room for that yet latest on Monday case I
have the last 8 months as you know in the

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last 6 months reacting nationwide
demonstrations and during these demonstrations

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that my defense force rost Ok show to
practice and practice tests but short that

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down I have purchased

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a snap back to get that I think he's
no force that is used which was

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a pretty contrary to what the president had
been preaching giving him plenty to cry

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at aging the police aging the. U.s.

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Force ad agency in order to. Tali is

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safe and I would governess commutator he
was speaking with us from the capital

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Langley Uganda speaker of parliament has
sparked controversy with the claim that

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a local pharmaceutical company is about
to manufacture on alleged kill for the

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current

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a virus on Tuesday you know this health
minister we want to get spreading false

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information about the pandemic are too
many reports from Kampala while addressing

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lawmakers Monday Ugandans be
called parliamentary make

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a cadet essayed that any local
pharmaceutical company was producing

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a cure for the corner virus in 2 weeks'
time house takes meant came after

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a meeting with Professor. A centrist from
the University of Illinois in the United

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States and the proprietors of de
biopharma Uganda limited. Treatment will

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communicate with you with

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a great admitted to Uganda I'm going to
put me to the treatment. When the market

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here in Uganda is being
made by a company called b.

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International I bet we could be related but
maybe the speaker was not the only one

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who got excited Maak Yes my goal I buy

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a chemist walking for the pharmaceutical
company and also met God and president

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here I'm 70 and seemed to convince him
that the product would kill not just call

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the 19 but any virus is only just we're
not going to want to not get it by

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producing some one to do the next I think
it would be very close to this problem

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not by

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a. Good thing. But then going to be
other by the world that's going to

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be either putting back to you very few
people who are going to become older than

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what happened with them and go back you
can get other so it can get all viruses

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However when asked if this is
true you got a minister. Dr Ruth

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a chain who has been walking causally with
the wall to Health Organization and u.s.

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Centers for Disease Control warned this is
false information I Ching sede research

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on Corby 19 is still ongoing
and she noted the w.h.o.

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Have yet to endorse any treatment for the
Cornell virus there is no research that

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has been approved by w.h.

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Or clearly is saying let the countries
implemented this and saw until w.h.o.

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Has say this is the way to go we still
know that the treatment for coffee is

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supportive treatment lots of fluids
and. 6 For those who are in pain

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for those who are in the hospital with

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a severe form we want to rehydrate them
give them oxygen where it is necessary and

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treat pneumonia where there is more need

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a chain also encouraged to Ugandans to
continue washing their hands with soap and

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water or Hansen tithers to prevent the
spread of the virus the best measure of

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preventing cough in $1000.00 doctors say
is for everyone in affected countries to

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stay put and limit physical contact and
wait for the virus to stop spreading highly

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math money for being used as company they
can usually of clinical offices have

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ousted government to employ more clinical
officers to manage the coronavirus

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pandemic speaking in honor of the yesterday
Tuesday Union chairperson Peters watch

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Iraq expressed concerns about a
clinical officers Hundley suspect

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a coronavirus cases as Marie or Jiang will
report from Nairobi Kenya has already

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recorded its full of cases of the virus
addressing the media in the can you know of

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clinical offices has
expressed fear as all day

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a man must being infected wait attending
to the affected patients. Said that

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moment he needed. To attend to the patients
and manage the spreading of coronavirus

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that has increased the affected number in
Kenya from 3 to 4 there is almost 2 areas

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we need more medics and in Madrid train
that had the workers confident in the

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project the missiles they have because
they will be the ones to give the civic

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education and even to manage this and
that is why we are think it's not

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a day for us to shift blame it's not

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a time for abuse Asians and counter accusations
it's time that we come together and

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that is where the union we have is

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a going to work with government to
ensure that we bring out the got enough

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personnel and equipment in most health
facilities across the country might be

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a hindrance in fighting coronavirus pandemic
in Kenya Mr Scherer says the health

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workers should be provided with. To limit
the spread of the virus to their family

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members for help because sometimes they
also get infected in the process number one

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of the country we have

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a number 2 for maybe infected the Belling
on how rid of the virus girls and

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women need to quarantine them so we need
more than enough health workers so that

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they will be needed. Then we will have
enough to continue saying we are asking the

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government to provide accommodation for
affinity so that whoever is working in.

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Cannot remain there Kenya has conducted
$111.00 Tests since the country started

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running the $1000.00 tests
I did this month and

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a total of $71.00 case just want to get if
that is 6 people and observation and for

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already tested positive for the virus
speaking yesterday Tuesday I state I was

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Nairobi President Obama Kenyatta has
declared Saturday 20 foster national prayer

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day for the country we acknowledge always
that we are nothing without Ah God we

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have learnt over time the turning to God
in such times gives us not only comfort.

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But also hope and strength to overcome
even those challenges I have decided to

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declare this coming Saturday as

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a National Day of Prayer on that day
through our religious leaders we will be

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asking God for His forgiveness anything
that we may have done wrong or wrong on

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that day we shall together ask for his
protection and blessing for our nation for

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our people for the world and all global
citizens can you ask health minister says

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all surveillance into Kenya including
citizens diplomats residents and United

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Nations staff will say i legal document
that they will solve quarantine rules

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reporting for fear is they broke Africa
more energy in Arabic Kenya personally

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today broke Africa on the Voice of America
James but it wasn't on today it's

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Wednesday March 18th the Liberian
government says its 2nd person has tested

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positive for the corner virus
disease the new case is

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a domestic worker in the home of the
official who tested positive for the disease

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on Monday this week they have ministry says
the 2nd case was the primary contact of

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the oarfish will when he returned to
raise residents from Switzerland health

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minister Willie Meena gala tells v.o.a.

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Liberia is currently on
a robust contract for

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a stay of all those who might have come
into contact with the effect or persons who

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were able to gather the contents very
quickly and we tested one of the contacts.

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That became possible. Within
24 did it come from your.

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Contact came from one of the direct
contacts media contacts. Friend.

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And. You've been looking at the many.
How many people can we confirm

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the process trying to. Run. Between 20200

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so he was in the business guys so were able
to lease on him and if it is identified

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to those people would asset according to
the deputies full recognition directly

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behind or to decide

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a middle of them can we see we were able
to identify 3 point i would mean if that

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got down game and 2 other passengers that
got done in like you do you already have

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the current team or you've done some
observation and we are currently you kidding

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them we have the addresses and we have sent
people to come in to file with the mill

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minister this local library is preparedness
for this current virus in terms of

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contact trees seen as
evidence I think we are doing

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a good job Elise as soon as we form

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a we're able to run 00 most of the suspected
cases Saudi contacts boy it would do

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that very good clip so for that I would
say we're quite prepared in terms of big

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equipment advent in the us and other
things we do have so well currently in in

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contact with

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a lot of badness who are willing to make
sure that all of these things are only

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ground Luckily for us the try species
doing to is very stable but we have some

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vented it does in the country that we
can move we have oxygen we have some

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postcards to me just now we have some
other things that we get to use initially

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here on the ground the issue of testing
kids is Liberia ready in terms of doing

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a confirmation test we have test to do

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a lot of testing right now
West spec team so who were in

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a few days and even respect in

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a rapid test so would be able to do ab in
right now can I do the rapid test but all

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the way in a week would be able to do have

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a chance to test kids coming in the room
in the early last information was it pro

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1st well going to get so many repetitions
in the country what will move people out

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Bru County might be one way running 2
months you can solve the problem and one is

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green right Wolf. It took

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a while to read the stats on the track to
tracking everything down so it took out

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on time in

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a lot of cases happen but when people got
it he quickly oh went down and he bore

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lot it was

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a condition of touch all which is different
from so in the case of Ebola he's

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coming to look for you. If you
try somebody getting by in

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a case of who is in the air so it's not

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a matter of you finding it will find you
this is the reason why we had to be

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intensifying the contacts
we don't want people to run

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a week because one ia we is not going to
help would try by all means possible to.

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See who the pricing is in terms of calling
me because it makes people in sweat and

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people who try to run

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a week Gambian government in collaboration
with the Medical Research Council has

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announced its 1st cases of the coronavirus
health minister I'm on to the summit

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made the announcement shortly after
President of the month battle addressed the

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nation on the current of the respond
Demick. By the reports from garlic North

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Carolina. African nation and began b

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n how to use that if. You counted 900
kids was discovered by the United Kingdom

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a base many got recycled m.r.c.

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Don't tell me some agenda is
Gambia showed me to. Turn me into.

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Going to.

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Church for the. First. Some

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a decision by saying yes we. Would
look in on quarantine not rational.

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And. Some of this statement below is still
not addressed made by pretty good Barrow

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who really did

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a show on he's going to plans to come by
the corner planted any this in this light

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or this and sell to our government
officials including. This

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$1000000.00 and Veritas

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a former minister his
department's agents. Whatever one

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people are doing probably got inside here
by declare that or form of governance or

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spend their. Share no doubt who is the
leader of the United Democratic Party down

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but I didn't use cold Press on Tuesday he
said the fight against Corona going to be

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19 should not be let in the hands
of the government along. She's the

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only. Offense in the Vendean

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because of these in the schools all of us
will stand by and support your government

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and began in his insults to convene and
then departed and we want to present this

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comment in China later spread around it
was gonna be actually able to concretion

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Abrar is I'm only an African countries
affected by country $19.00 in the corner of

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virus cases how to be reported in

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a French speaking nation needed really
days concern about it ever to me no

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medications either should really coronavirus
it was close it's obvious global

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pandemic is not an just an
obvious health crisis it has

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a certain in that sense of the us economy
down. Gonna be an economy wouldn't be

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able to we stand such a pandemic u.d.p.

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Including the government policies and
Ms to antiquity P.C.'s but you can even

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consider places of use and

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a myth. Really that also raises the need
for the gun ban going to take this board

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us we should add more. Vigor this is
bonded by reporting from rounded up

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Caroline Zimbabwe's inflation returns
more than doubled according to the latest

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figures the writ has been released for the
1st time in 9 months after the Zimbabwe

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government controversy really suspended the
publication of the data are they going

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to has more the Zimbabwean national statistics
agency exams that this week save the

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country see you when you inflation rate
for the month of February as measured by

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the all items Consumer Price Index student
540 percent the last time the annual

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inflation rate was reported in June
$29000.00 it's 2 did 176 percent I couldn't

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resist that the month on month inflation
raging February was stating and

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a half percent up sharply from the general
figure of just over 2 percent the

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soaring inflation compounds the economy
quagmire the country has been in just as it

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confronts the risk of the
cozy 9000 flyers more than

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a year of hyper inflation is eroding the
household income when he called living is

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based on the local currency known is that a
t.g. Which is fast losing value the u.s.

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Dollar current He trades it around 14
T.J.'s up from $36.00 last week on the part

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of the market but each of us and since
his businesses have had to raise their

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prices on the streets of 2nd largest city
citizens feel the pain of inflation Rosa

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Moyo is

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a receptionist and the 30 year old mother
of one of his staff now because when we.

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Employed like myself I need to buy
things for make it like you. Need

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to be employed I need to buy from South
Africa and I wanted to buy everything the

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cost of the roofs and really it we can't
afford maybe I think we should do away

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with. Him. Try to I don't some of the cases
the see Joe Blow I recently raised the

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hikes and service fees by 400 percent
arguing the local government is financially

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seen going many residents say

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a few months ago city council suspended
the provision of basic services such as I

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believe and said This isn't like this court
action but residents say they are one

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incomes have not grown tension at

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a dubious ways in. Obesity don't
really. Use it isn't saved

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by something sitting there to be seen for
example I used to be named the alleged

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needed water now 81 but for months and then
I'm fortunately city doesn't result in

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such really nor destroyed Lizzie didn't
see that it is North sure to come in just

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the money does so they just need to get

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a moment of conception and then put the
winter here that would God should give them

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a static in the sense that there wouldn't
actually be kids they need to do is say

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that while he knows infection is not the
consul's fault the higher rates and

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fearful most residents well they won't
be reducing pollution 500 percent that

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doesn't include

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a muzzle that is full of people for the
weekend who have been deceived that

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question to question them last week at 10
cage bed Wolf unsubsidized 1000000 now

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went up to 230 dollars from about $180.00

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a 2 liter bottle of cooking oil now costs
$84.00 from about $70.00 spent to conduct

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a fruit and vegetable vendor says his
business feels the pressure of the higher

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prices though you're still always in the
morning and afternoon you cannot zipless

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them look good tomatoes the books with
feeling them less than bone Bellucci

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a month ago No they're good for 20230 so
does that in the good done to mitigate the

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roads in Congress has the government
sure to tend to the old multi. It's

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a system which it allowed him and his
customers to stall fighting they put you for

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your way to see that he got That's it for
this Wednesday March 18th edition of

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Today is Wednesday March 18th and this
is the always international edition I'm

00:28:25
Laurie London in Washington coming up
Nations world wide are rushing to put

00:28:29
together packages to soften the devastating
can Demick impact on their economy I

00:28:35
don't give

00:28:36
a payroll tax to trade for rich people to
go out it's that I don't think it's going

00:28:40
to work for steel in this period I think
the best thing you can do is anything

00:28:46
that's losers credit that fires 3 u.s.

00:28:48
States. Primary elections Tuesday
while one cancels as voters expressed

00:28:55
frustration. State's decision. Also ahead

00:29:00
a new song with heartfelt
tribute to the late and be

00:29:04
a star Kobe Bryant it's all on
today's international edition mass

00:29:10
disruptions are cascading around the world
as governments. Struggle to slow the

00:29:15
spread of the coronavirus while also
trying to keep their economies afloat the

00:29:19
chaos on Tuesday stretched from Lithuania
where border traffic jams were 40 miles

00:29:25
deep to the u.s.

00:29:27
State of Detroit where bus service came to

00:29:29
a sudden stop when drivers didn't show up
for work increasingly worried about the

00:29:35
economic fallout of the global shutdown
several nations announced rescue packages

00:29:40
totaling hundreds of
billions of dollars the u.s.

00:29:42
Government is looking at quickly sending
money directly to Americans v.o.a.

00:29:47
White House bureau chief Steve Herman files
this report President Donald Trump says

00:29:52
he does not want to see airlines going out
of business or people losing their jobs

00:29:57
or not having any money due to coded
19 sweeping the country and causing

00:30:01
a halt to economic activity so we're going
back and that's the way it will be and

00:30:06
that's the way everybody seems to like
it Treasury Secretary Steven minutia and

00:30:09
says the money many wouldn't say how
much could be sent directly to Americans

00:30:14
within 2 weeks Steve Herman v.o.a.
News at the White House where u.s.

00:30:20
Stocks gained back some of their recent
massive losses after President Trump's

00:30:25
plans to ease the economic blow were
announced the Dow rallied Tuesday about

00:30:30
a 1000 points spot there was still

00:30:33
a lot of uncertainty and
fear but there still is

00:30:36
a lot of uncertainty and fear Joining us
to talk about the economic stress former

00:30:41
Obama economic adviser
Austin goals faith there is

00:30:45
a lot of talk about the fact
that we are likely already in

00:30:49
a recession but the deal word is now also
being brought up depression and that

00:30:55
takes the fear to

00:30:56
a whole new level do you see any economic
depression on the horizon I don't think

00:31:01
so and let's just get the terms
right what's the difference between

00:31:07
a recession and depression. A recession
turns into a depression when there is

00:31:13
a collapse usually of the financial system
so that the normal self correcting the

00:31:19
mechanism of the business
cycle in it it normally it's

00:31:23
a cycle they go down it goes up that it
goes down and it stays down and it can't

00:31:27
come back that doesn't seem thus far to be
at all the pattern of what this thing is

00:31:35
and historically the things that lead
to depression Zz are when the financial

00:31:40
system collapses thus far
what we're facing is

00:31:43
a very abrupt very serious
drop in demand by

00:31:49
consumers in every country of the world
where this virus is so I'm hoping that

00:31:55
that's

00:31:55
a temporary phenomenon and one of our
policy challenges is precisely to try to

00:32:01
prevent a very sharp temporary
hit from morphing into

00:32:05
a permanent problem by letting people and
companies and whatever go bankrupt and

00:32:11
things like that well if they've got the
airlines basically looking like they're

00:32:15
close to collapsing with no business and
on everything shutting down and we're

00:32:20
hearing from the president this could last
through the summer some say longer How

00:32:25
does an economy survive in that
situation well of course it matters

00:32:29
a lot how long does this last but let's
say the president is right in that we're

00:32:34
going to have

00:32:34
a peak and then the virus itself come down
I think that administration is on path

00:32:40
with their new stimulus
proposal to start rediscovering

00:32:44
a bunch of the complications of the bailouts
in the financial crisis which begin

00:32:50
with if you save somebody
but you don't have

00:32:53
a framework that you've explained of who
deserves money and how much money did they

00:32:58
deserve everybody lines up so people are
going to say Wait why give $50000000000.00

00:33:04
to the airlines and not to the workers
that they just laid off or why did. The

00:33:09
money to the airline industry but not the
restaurant in the union why not you know

00:33:13
and so we go down the line so I
kind of think they need to develop

00:33:16
a framework and I think the frameworks got
to center around what in the financial

00:33:22
language we might call forbearance which
is writ large versions of the government

00:33:28
saying people don't have to pay their taxes
by April 15th and that we're going to

00:33:33
give you

00:33:33
a sensually an interest free loan till
October to pay your taxes because we know

00:33:39
that you're in

00:33:40
a cash crunch right now right if we
could have Rip Van Winkle style go into

00:33:45
hibernation than 3 months that
would be a huge drop in the g.d.p.

00:33:50
But you woke up and there was this or they
could have been but now it's going to be

00:33:54
following in

00:33:55
a way that would be perfect and so I
think what you're likely to see is

00:33:58
a lot more actions like Italy and at the
beginning they say they sort of made fun

00:34:03
of it but they announced
nobody has to make

00:34:05
a mortgage payment and there won't be any
foreclosures or even actions for 60 days

00:34:11
I believe it was and stuff like
that makes sense in a way that is

00:34:15
a rescue but it's not

00:34:17
a bailout if you're going to explicitly
do bailouts I think the other thing we

00:34:21
learned from the financial crisis is you
don't want to just hand money to companies

00:34:26
without thinking about what are the
restrictions on what they're allowed to do with

00:34:30
the money and probably you
want to give the u.s.

00:34:34
Taxpayer equity so that if the virus goes
away demand comes back those companies

00:34:40
restored of profitability and their
stock prices go up it's not just

00:34:44
a thanks for nothing insurance policy that
we gave them that the American taxpayer

00:34:50
gets a pay back when if they get

00:34:52
a payback people are worried they're worried
about lot of people being laid off how

00:34:56
are they going to pay their bills are
they going to get evicted so all of those

00:34:59
things you just said Of course
people also worried about their for

00:35:01
a long case wondering if you're even
going to have a retirement when they see

00:35:05
a 3000 drop in the Dow That's

00:35:07
a scary number to see. And wonder if
you're just going to get wiped out and the

00:35:11
look that was on one day but
that horrible day followed

00:35:15
a couple of horrible weeks right before
that so so there's no question of that fear

00:35:23
plus that the government and the health
officials are telling us don't go outside

00:35:28
don't go they don't congregate don't go to
movies don't go to concerts don't fly an

00:35:32
airplane don't know do

00:35:33
a whole bunch of services which actually
make up the majority of our economy that

00:35:39
in my view it contributes to what I've
called virus economics that virus economics

00:35:44
is different from business cycle economics
or normal economics because the most

00:35:49
important thing you can do for the economy
is slow the spread of the virus because

00:35:56
if we could wave

00:35:57
a magic wind and showed people because of
the medicine or because of public health

00:36:02
things that we've done
this is not as big of

00:36:05
a threat to your health we would have
mediately see a return to growth for

00:36:11
a wide parts of the economy and I think
trying to do explicit old fashioned

00:36:17
stimulus before you have

00:36:19
a handle on the health part of that crisis
I think is going to prove hard to do

00:36:24
right I think it's a bit like in

00:36:26
a financial crisis they always say you
can't do anything until you stop the bank

00:36:32
runs that when people are in that panic
and pulling their money out you can't

00:36:36
really do stimulus it tells that settles
down and I think the healthy quibble in

00:36:41
here is pretty direct that the president's
proposing $500000000000.00 payroll tax

00:36:47
cut but sides the fact that

00:36:48
a lot of the people who you most want to
get money to are the people who have just

00:36:52
lost John Right exactly and yet separate
from that I don't think that giving

00:36:57
a payroll tax to try to encourage people
to go out and spend I don't think it's

00:37:01
going to work while we're still in this
period I think the best thing you can do is

00:37:06
anything that slows their spread of that
by. It was former Obama economic adviser

00:37:11
Austin Goolsbee thank you so much for being
with us former Vice President Joe Biden

00:37:15
easily defeated for months Senator
Bernie Sanders and Florida's Democratic

00:37:19
presidential primary Tuesday securing
another large amount of delegates needed to

00:37:24
get him to the nomination with 201000
delegates at stake Florida was considered

00:37:30
a key win between Biden and Sanders The
state also will be crucial for president

00:37:36
Trump's reelection chances while 4 states
were set to vote in Tuesday's primaries

00:37:42
one of them didn't go forward at the urging
of Ohio's governor Ohio secretary of

00:37:47
state Frankel Rose told w s y x t.v.

00:37:52
He contacted state election officials to
postpone the presidential primary out of

00:37:57
concerns over the cove the 19 pandemic I
made it clear that my directions are those

00:38:03
ideas or it is to hold an election on
June 2nd until Obama has to vote by Bill

00:38:07
between all of that against what that
kind of clarity going forward what voters

00:38:12
like these say they're disappointed about
the postponement of the course is that

00:38:17
you can see. If you can take
those losses it was it was

00:38:21
a toss up at least it was I was right
you know. So it's like building as we

00:38:28
were going I think is horrible especially
if the way things are going what now we

00:38:32
see that they're right to do that it would
be in polls Paul I don't know if it's

00:38:36
one to be very very fast that's for this
time you know given the situation with the

00:38:41
primary elections falling
smack in the middle of

00:38:45
a global pandemic there are now new calls
to expand vote by mail options to protect

00:38:51
vulnerable populations and of course
Democratic instructions primary elections in

00:38:56
Georgia and Louisiana were to be held in
late March in early April but officials

00:39:01
have postponed the polls because of the
coronavirus threat and we want to protect

00:39:05
the health and safety over our own abuse
Yanni and by doing harm. Part to prevent

00:39:09
the spread of this highly infectious disease
the deadly outbreak has forced schools

00:39:14
and businesses to close and the cancellation
of public events as official seek to

00:39:19
contain the virus and visor reason against
public gatherings have impacted the

00:39:23
presidential campaign Sunday's Democratic
debate between former Vice President Joe

00:39:27
Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders
was held without an audience present to

00:39:32
ensure polls continue during
the crisis sen one why didn't

00:39:36
a Democrat from the state
of Oregon has introduced

00:39:39
a bill to expand vote by mail
options in all 50 states

00:39:43
a move voting rights groups have long
advocated. Where is all hers good everyone is

00:39:50
on this is ironically

00:39:53
a unique opportunity to modernize our
early systems in the better everywhere

00:40:00
currently 34 states and the District of
Columbia offer no excuse absentee voting by

00:40:06
mail some like Washington and Colorado have
eliminated in person voting completely

00:40:12
other states require

00:40:13
a justification for requesting an early
ballot such as conflicting travel or work

00:40:18
schedules as the coronavirus threatens
Democrats and Republicans alike

00:40:22
a safer voting alternative could attract
bipartisan support Brian Padden v.o.a.

00:40:28
News Washington.

00:40:35
Here's some of the other headlines
we're following at the l.a.

00:40:38
Town hall was lit up with the colors
of the Italian flag Tuesday in

00:40:42
a shell of solidarity with the country as
it continues to baffle the proponent Iris

00:40:48
The death toll also rose. More
than 2500 over the past 24

00:40:55
hours while the number of confirmed cases
increased to more than 31000 its the

00:41:00
largest number outside of the crisis has
pushed hospitals to the breaking point of

00:41:05
the epicenter of the. Region's
scrambling to strike.

00:41:12
The number of people infected rising.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent

00:41:18
April 22nd for

00:41:19
a nationwide referendum on constitutional
amendments that. Power until at least

00:41:25
2036 signed

00:41:27
a decree young Tuesday. Approved the
amendment constitutional amendments

00:41:34
last week passed both chambers of the
national parliament. All Russian region.

00:41:47
And

00:41:48
a mystery disease. The mystery

00:41:55
disease is causing. Other symptoms.

00:42:02
Around all the different. Companies
looking for oil and natural gas.

00:42:11
Latest on the virus and. Israel is
issued new restrictions for the whole

00:42:18
country to fight the coronavirus basically
putting the entire country under

00:42:22
quarantine except for grocery shopping and
medical care public transport is also

00:42:27
being curtailed Israel is opening special
drive through testing stations to find

00:42:33
more people infected with Corona as health
officials worry it is running fast Linda

00:42:38
Gradstein reports for v.o.a.

00:42:40
From Jerusalem except for urgent medical
care and to restock supplies Israelis are

00:42:46
being told to stay at home and avoid
parks beaches and even open spaces the

00:42:52
restrictions come after some Israelis
went to the beach taking advantage of

00:42:56
a warm spring day in the closure of many
schools and offices under the new rules

00:43:01
people are being allowed out to walk their
dogs or to take short walks in the fresh

00:43:05
air the measures however have sparked
another round of panic shopping as many

00:43:10
people fear that supermarkets will close
despite government assurances Professor

00:43:15
Manfred green from the School of Public
Health at the University of Haifa said the

00:43:20
virus is spreading quickly according to
what we see that elsewhere and according to

00:43:25
what we are losing them about the infective
appeal this wire likely that going to

00:43:30
spread very widely
everywhere and it's just

00:43:33
a matter of time so basically we are
doing it repeating try and slow down you

00:43:40
really don't grimly believe we can stop
it because it could have very infectious

00:43:45
disease Israel has more than 320 confirmed
cases but health officials say thousands

00:43:51
likely have the infection Israel's my game
divided dome Emergency Service said that

00:43:56
starting Wednesday it will open drive
through testing stations in the country's

00:44:00
large cities to enable hundreds of tests
to be conducted each day tens of thousands

00:44:06
of Israelis are in strict home quarantine
after coming in contact with an infected

00:44:11
person Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
recently in. Nouns that Israel should Bet

00:44:16
security service will begin using cyber
tools to track coronavirus patients and

00:44:22
warn anyone who has been in contact with
them the tools are also being used to

00:44:26
enforce home quarantine to heal as
Schwartz Altshuler of the Israel Democracy

00:44:31
Institute says she is concerned about
these new tools what Netanyahu

00:44:36
a noun United it's very very uncommon if
you think extreme authority than extreme

00:44:43
tool which were granted to Secret Service
has been ordered to fight terror you know

00:44:48
ordered to fight

00:44:49
a people problem or the. I don't think
the appropriate amid the new crisis

00:44:56
Israel still has no government more than
2 weeks after an election it's 3rd this

00:45:01
year former chief of staff Benny
Gantz is trying to put together

00:45:05
a unity government with Netanyahu guns
tried after the previous election but was

00:45:10
not successful Linda
Gradstein for the l.a.

00:45:12
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The always an international edition
continues. The Coven 1000 virus cannot stop

00:46:24
Women's History Month and we won't let it
hold us back from profiling the amazing

00:46:29
accomplishments of women I recently had

00:46:31
a chance to sit down with Navy Vice Admiral
Nancy Norton she's the 1st woman at the

00:46:37
helm of the Defense Information Systems
Agency and the commander of the Joint Force

00:46:43
Headquarters Department of Defense
Information Network that is quite

00:46:47
a title and very historic but we're so glad
to speak with you but the title that I

00:46:52
have doesn't really describe what I do in

00:46:55
a way that most people can understand but
but I know the breadth and depth of what

00:47:01
that title means and it is an enormous
responsibility and enormous opportunity

00:47:09
with that title I have about 16000 people
around the globe that work for me that

00:47:14
are responsible for securing operating and
defending the defense that the United

00:47:21
States the fence Department's networks.
In providing communication for

00:47:28
our war fighters for our our Pentagon all
the way down to people I thought tactical

00:47:35
edge and so that opportunity to to
support every one of our d.o.t.

00:47:40
Missions with all of our people and ensuring
that I can enable those people to be

00:47:45
effective in the job is just

00:47:47
a wonderful opportunity now that I would
never repeat it. And how does it feel

00:47:51
knowing that you are the 1st woman ever
to hold this title to to gain this status

00:47:59
Well it's

00:47:59
a real honor it absolutely is an honor I
mean it's an honor to be the director and

00:48:04
the commander of these these amazing
organizations it's an wonderful opportunity to

00:48:09
lead

00:48:09
a very diverse workforce and so being the
1st woman to do that we have had lots of

00:48:14
senior women in into this what we call it
and decide for many many years but it's

00:48:21
the 1st time we've ever had

00:48:22
a female as the leader and
so being able to represent

00:48:29
all of that diverse workforce to include
all of the women in the workforce that

00:48:34
work so hard day in and day out really.
It allows me to represent them in

00:48:40
a way that hopefully I can I can justice
and do you feel like you are respected as

00:48:45
an equal among the people that you oversee
overall or or your peers for that matter

00:48:52
absolutely that's one of the things about
about being in the Department of Defense

00:48:56
and being in the military
is that it is very much

00:48:59
a meritocracy if you do your job well if
you're performing it doesn't matter and

00:49:04
what your background is where you come
from what your gender is what your races

00:49:08
it's all about Are You

00:49:10
a team player and are you performing
the mission. When you were

00:49:16
a little girl would you have ever thought
this is where you would be where you

00:49:19
would end up absolutely not
so 1st of all I grew up in

00:49:24
a small rural town and in
Oregon very very small I didn't

00:49:31
even get to travel a lot when I was

00:49:33
a child so you know imagining this kind
of exposure and opportunity was not

00:49:39
something that I had envisioned at all but
I always wanted to serve I always wanted

00:49:44
to travel I always wanted to be part of
something bigger than me I wanted to give

00:49:49
back I always knew that was important to
me and so this meandering path that led me

00:49:54
to the Navy is one that I am really grateful
that I got to choose how did you get

00:49:59
here well so I wanted to be

00:50:01
a doctor. And thought that that was what
I was going to end up doing and like I

00:50:07
said small rural town
blue color family. Not

00:50:12
a lot of money I couldn't afford to go
to college without scholarships so I

00:50:17
consider joining the military when I
was in high school to to get college

00:50:21
scholarships and that didn't work out. I
mean I didn't need to because I minded

00:50:26
getting academic scholarships so so I
went to college pre-med major but then my

00:50:32
grades weren't good enough to get scholarships
from medical school for much higher

00:50:36
bar and so I started looking at the
military again as an opportunity to get

00:50:40
a military medical scholarship and and so
wound up talking to the recruiters and

00:50:47
found out that the best path to do that
would be to join the Navy and then apply

00:50:51
for the scholarship program so I
joined the Navy they sent me to

00:50:56
a telecommunications job you know communications
long haul communications for ships

00:51:01
and submarines an aircraft in Hawaii and
I loved the job and I never applied for

00:51:07
the medical scholarship program fascinating
you forgot all about it or you just

00:51:10
sort of let that go and let life take you
where you where you where it wanted too.

00:51:15
That's right so initially you know I thought
about it over and over and said But I

00:51:20
love what I'm doing and I couldn't see
myself loving that more than what I was

00:51:25
doing and the opportunities that the
Navy was giving me and the people that I

00:51:29
worked with and the people that I was
I had the opportunity to lead as as

00:51:33
a very junior officer and leading lots of
sailors that were doing great work for

00:51:39
our nation it was just too good to pass
up and so I kept doing it and apparently

00:51:44
you kept advancing within that
the ranks That's right so

00:51:52
you know I went to the Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey California where you

00:51:56
spent time all right and I got my master's
degree in computer science and that led

00:52:02
me into even more work and cybersecurity
and networking and the kinds of things

00:52:08
that I've been doing you know for

00:52:10
a very long time 2020 plus years 2025
years that I've been working networks

00:52:16
and and you know continue to get promoted
and now 16000 people you're overseeing

00:52:22
and cybersecurity I mean I can't think
of many more things that could be more

00:52:26
important right now that's right it absolutely
is you know everything that we do in

00:52:32
the Department of Defense and so much of
what we do in in the nation as individuals

00:52:37
and as as

00:52:38
a country and businesses rely on. Our
capabilities in cyber domain and if we're not

00:52:45
doing that securely then all of those
capabilities all of those missions are at

00:52:49
risk. I can't help ask you you
know we we are in the midst of

00:52:54
a presidential campaign we had

00:52:57
a very diverse group of Democrats to begin
with running for president we had an

00:53:02
Asian American we had African-Americans we
had women why do you think that the u.s.

00:53:08
Is not yet. As far as we've come and
particularly someone like you in the position

00:53:15
you are in why do you think the
us has yet to be able to put

00:53:20
a woman in the White House. I think it's

00:53:25
a level of comfort and then the opportunity
to see women in the right positions

00:53:32
that will give them the confidence that
that they're very comfortable having

00:53:38
a woman in that position you know we we
see it in certain positions we see it in

00:53:44
certain positions and as they they
progress and we see more and more women in

00:53:49
leadership roles at the highest level of
government and it gives more and more

00:53:53
people the opportunity to say I can see
that I can envision that and then it's just

00:53:58
finding the right woman so you think it's

00:54:01
a matter of people just aren't comfortable
because they haven't seen it yet so they

00:54:05
just Or do you think it's women
themselves that often undersell

00:54:12
themselves and don't think they're
capable. Well I wouldn't say that women

00:54:17
necessarily undersell
themselves in terms of

00:54:19
a potential for the presidency
but but in general I think

00:54:24
a lot of women do sell themselves short
hold themselves back. Underestimate their

00:54:30
ability underestimate particular their
leadership ability and what that means in

00:54:34
and jobs of

00:54:36
a significant responsibility and we need
to keep pushing that across you know all

00:54:41
of the women that we have in the country
in the world and particularly to our young

00:54:46
girls. What would you say to those young
girls what would you say to them.

00:54:55
Who in their lifetime at least young young
girls some of those you know we heard

00:55:00
Elizabeth Warren last week talking about
her pinky swears run for president you

00:55:05
know. They've never seen

00:55:07
a woman in the White House in that position
but you know they haven't looked at

00:55:12
live that long what would you say to them
about their own dreams and aspirations to

00:55:17
encourage them well when I was

00:55:19
a young girl my mother told me you can do
anything you want to do if you put your

00:55:23
mind to it and I would tell them the same
thing and I do tell girls that all of the

00:55:28
time don't hold yourself back there are
lots of other people that are going to try

00:55:33
to put barriers in front of you and try
to hold you back don't be one of them you

00:55:38
push yourself through and and allow
yourself the space to do anything that you

00:55:43
dream of Navy Vice Admiral Nancy Norton
the 1st woman at the helm of the Defense

00:55:47
Information Systems Agency and the
commander of the Joint Force Headquarters

00:55:52
Department of Defense
Information Network it's

00:55:54
a big title for an important
job we are so happy we had

00:55:58
a chance to get to know you better and
speak with you on Women's History Month

00:56:01
thank you so much for being with us well
thank you Laurie I really appreciate the

00:56:05
opportunity to talk to
you and your audience.

00:56:21
Finally

00:56:22
a moving song has just been released as
friends colleagues and fans worldwide are

00:56:27
still coming to terms with the sudden
death of legendary basketball star Kobe

00:56:32
Bryant and his 13 year old daughter Giana
who along with 7 other souls perished in

00:56:38
a helicopter crash in January.
Described as a divine gift

00:56:43
a new track titled We love you lose hope
I'm close by Los Angeles face songwriters

00:56:50
on the way

00:56:50
a diamond and Tony Rock Thomas the tune
has been really. In radio. You've been

00:56:57
listening to international edition that's
it for our show today but you can always

00:57:01
find us at below

00:57:02
a News dot com on the director Tracy Carter
and our engineer Jackson one on Laury

00:57:09
London in Washington
please take care well.

00:57:30
I've.

00:57:41
Done

00:57:41
a. Bit. To

00:58:01
.

00:58:10
Be.

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