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Coronavirus ties as

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a war as his administration in Congress
raced to boost the nation's ability to

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confront a growing pandemic a.p.

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Washington correspondent
Sangama Gunny calling himself

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a wartime president he's invoking emergency
powers to steer private companies

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toward producing more critical supplies
like masks and ventilators and is also

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moving to boost the virus testing capacity
he's comparing the effort to measures

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taken during World War 2 And now it's
time we must sacrifice together Mitch

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McConnell Senate sending him

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a bill that among other things would
guarantee sick leave to those who have the

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virus while working on

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a massive relief package that could approach
one trillion dollars we aren't leaving

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until we deliver in the meantime the
pandemic continues battering the economy the

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Dow sank again and has now lost nearly
all its gains since the president's

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inauguration Saager Magni
Washington and the u.s.

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Senate overwhelmingly passed a 2nd
coronavirus response Bilson ing it to u.s.

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President Trump to an act with
his signature the vote was

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a lopsided 90 to 8 despite worries
by many Republicans about

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a temporary new employer mandate to provide
sick leave to workers who get covert 19

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
just how long it will take to go through

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their steps is unclear but as
everyone knows we are moving rapidly

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because the situation demands that the
measure is also aimed dead diagnostic test

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for the virus free meanwhile the administration
pushed forward its broad economic

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research rescue plan with proposals for

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a $50000000000.00 in checks to millions
of Americans with the 1st checks to come

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out April 6th of Congress approves

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a plan the government would reimburse
businesses but business advocacy groups say

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the plan is unworkable for
many small firms this is via

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a news. The United States and Canada have
agreed to temporarily close their shared

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border to nonessential travel due to the
corona virus pandemic correspondent Shelia

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laughter president cheated about in the
morning he spoke about the new restrictions

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at

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a White House news conference it's non-essential
crossings it won't affect trade at

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all and it was just something we thought
would be good for both countries Canadian

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prime minister Justin Trudeau on c.t.v.

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Essential travel will continue our governments
recognize that it is critical that

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we preserve supply chains between both
countries chatted there relies on the u.s.

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For 75 percent of its exports I'm sure
me after the Federal Deposit Insurance

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Corporation is warning of bank scams connected
to the corona virus outbreak reports

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one scam is

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a claim banks are limiting access to customers
money the f.d.i.c says there's been

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an uptick in calls text messages letters
and e-mails from Scammers pretending to be

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f.d.i.c employees using names of people
who actually work at the f.d.i.c they say

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there are security issues with bank deposits
the f.d.i.c says they're out to get

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bank accounts and other personal information
no deposit or has lost money since the

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f.d.i.c was created in 1933 because of

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a coronavirus many banks have shortened
branch hours or are pushing customers to

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use online banking I met
Donohue Volvo has announced

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a recall of hundreds of thousands of vehicles
because the automatic braking systems

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aren't working properly maybe correspondent
Jackie Quinn would detail the recall of

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facts newly built at 60 v. 60 s 90 l.

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And v 90 models the company says there's

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a software hardware compatibility glitch
that can block the automatic emergency

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braking system for of detecting obstacles
failing to stop the vehicles and

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increasing the risk of

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a crash both of us says the phone word
collision warning systems work as designed.

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The 2102020 models but there's

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a risk in certain environments and
temperatures that the automatic brakes won't

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deploy no accidents have been linked to
this problem Valvo will update the software

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for free I'm Jackie queen

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a coronavirus pandemic is having the
Empacher big impact on the automotive

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manufacturing industry and
according to the head of

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a Japanese lobby group Thursday he said
that in separate announcement this week

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Toyota Nissan Motor Company and Honda
Motor Company said they would temporarily

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halt North American factories to protect
worker health hit by demand and they also

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suspended production at several plants in
Europe with Honda closing its facility at

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Swindon and Britain until at least April
5th I'm Tommy McNeil be owing to.

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Good morning Africa welcome to daybreak
Africa from the Voice of America. In

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Washington today is Thursday March 19th
and here are some of the stories we are

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covering and president. Reagan's
against making super profits amid

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a coronavirus crisis this country has
ever had a problem with somebody making

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a profit but indeed it is highly if we
take advantage of an unfortunate situation

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to make

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a profit Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
announces measures to prevent the spread

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of the current virus Liberian health
authorities say. A 5 primary contacts of the

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country's 1st corona virus
patients have come out negative be

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a director then it sends

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a message about the rich world and the
crew another. Guinea's opposition vows to

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disrupt Sunday's controversy
over constitutional referendum.

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Elect.

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Is

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a member of the National Front for the defense
of the Constitution but the government

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says the opposition must read

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a book that is not yet open to those stories
and more coming up on Daybreak Africa

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.

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And banks will provide believed was.
Based on individual circumstances

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arising from the coronavirus
pandemic. A report from Nairobi.

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Traders against making super profits made

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a coronavirus crisis. Balance

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inquiries also bear the cost of any church
and during this time according to the

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central bank governor general Greg the
move is to help Kenyans who experiencing

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crying during the lockdown is dangerous
says the measures aimed at reducing the

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need for actual cash transaction
that has been banned for

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a while in the conclave charges on
transfers from banks to the mobile

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wallet and vice versa all those are been
eliminated the banks will seek to provide

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relief to borrowers past more loans based
on their individual circumstances arising

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from the pandemic guys from the banks who
will be quarantined for at least 7 days

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giving time for the virus to become an
active before the currency is released took

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and as governor general this is the time
interval adopted is now for the virus to

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become inactive and has got in Kenyans at
this time of danger to make sure that we

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don't have the virus being transmitted via
cash all cash that will be coming out of

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banks will be quarantined for

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a tryst one week so that is more than
enough time for the virus to become in the

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present your opinion to has shown to traders
in the country against raising prices

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of basic commodities in the wake of
the corona virus outbreak Mr King and

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a command of the banking sector for coming
up with their after of measures and

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business community to mediate this period
this is not the time to take undue

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advantage on our people to our trade
supermarket to your business do it rights do

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it justly nobody in this
country has ever had

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a problem with somebody making profit but
indeed it is highly immoral if we take

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advantage of an unfortunate
situation to make

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a profit for them and continues to
dialogue with old stakeholders to address

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challenges being faced by. Citizens as the
country battles the outbreak he's today

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when his day can you know could it 3 more
cases bring in the coronavirus patients

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number 7 King and trade as importing goods
from affected countries have reported

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slow movement units McCauley and operating
while in Kenya night the difficulties

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she is facing in her business for the
baby show most of us supplies come from

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Turkey Thailand and China for China this
year we've not been able to get most of

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the items because of the. Imports
from have been coming in well not had

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a problem except recently when we've gotten
messages from our suppliers that they

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have

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a company that officially closing Kenya's
moved asking people to walk from home has

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affected most businesses across the country
people are saying for V.A.'s they broke

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Africa yammering and Jim will be Kenya in

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a bid to prevent the importation of the
deadly Cronauer barrister Uganda Ugandan

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President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the
closure of schools and suspended public

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gatherings such as political cultural and
religious events President Museveni also

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to suspend the public washrooms effective
yesterday Wednesday Davis Michael Ritchie

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reports from come Paula in

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a televised message to the nation President
James Ivan ordered all schools in the

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country to close within 2 days President 7
said students are they have risk if the

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virus which is the country he said they
are both $15000000.00 students or the

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$15000.00 schools there could easily
contract the disease it is why is that we

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temporary remove these causes
racial problems by the

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primary and secondary schools.
Pre-primary. Of the universities

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contention is usually for one month.
Starting with the Friday the 20th of March.

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20 or 20 study of me do this what the
government has to say the corner of

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a gas can dissipate from one person to
another between people in close contact

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between the distance of 6 feet according
to the Center for Disease Control and

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Prevention c It can be transmitted through
respect or droplets produced when and if

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a person coughs or sneezes and it is my
face when symptoms such as fever cough

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cough or things of breath presidents have
been also suspended we just governing

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across the country prayers in
judges. In the mosques. Open air

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prayers. On side issues on Fridays Saturdays
on Saturday and on Sundays in the

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interest of our people as head
of this should be suspended for

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a month with immediate effect equally
banged up at great and even. Public

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rallies called for this
is the elections it is g

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o Z's here by forbidding. For the 2
days with the media to fix Gandhi's

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propelling toward the elections next year
and potential candidates have started

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lecturing such as making public consultations
the presidential band again and from

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Coventry in countries with high numbers
of people affected by the kind of items

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this could take Italy the United States
France South Korea and United Kingdom we

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buying out

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a bond Uganda is going to go
through these countries. Going

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to those countries are free to do so
provided they do not intend to come back

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within the prohibited from Reuters or
barriers will also be done but only family

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members this cannot address will be strictly
managed by government should divide us

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reach the country he also at that stage
at the head is provision measures such as

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for people to look at places and
those parties to. Follow the

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a news item. Divison according to become
Uganda Liberian health authorities

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say they have completed

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a test on fine for the primary contacts
of the country's 1st coronavirus patient

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live full coming out

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a negative the only positive contact is
the driver of the effect of official but

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the unfair it is saying they will keep all
those tests that are under observation

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Meanwhile on do not rely bemused On been
reacting to the coronavirus outbreak in

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their country it is severe implications
and it is going say how did the news of

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Liberia get in the case of coronavirus of
in 1000 Liberia which I. Love you and it

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was disappointing. Me was anticipated
so I expected that we would be

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prepared for it because all the Midway
would have come to love what you said you

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were disappointed in recent days were you
disappointed by this point in time with

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the Liberian economy Calabrian social
fabric so we're not in the position to have

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another shock to our system because our
system is so for us our that's why I was I

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am disappointed in him is being from Ok
when. We just pray that you know everything

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goes on well and we have authorities have
the right equipment and be I able to

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attend to all those problems so far what
are the implications for Liberia with this

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outbreak judging from point the 14th wed
the country became had essayed to be

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without adding to

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a staff of most of the time when these
objects happen when their greatest impact is

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on our economic and social web and so
right now global leader Wallace has been

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saying you can use

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a comic setback and Liberia is no exception
to that and this is going to create

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another social men's attention cause because
as I speak right now be power to panic

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people are already. Losing Faith losing
hope about what I can. It is for everybody

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to be strong we thought resilience
brought us to what I'll break.

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Until practice. Is all washing our hands
with plain salt and using the sanitizing

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there and upset the all who is with God
about the movie and the library minister

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about everything about thank you my name
is Prince chroma looking up oh Ditto the

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image is mine I love you can amuse thought
oh some of those things at all and with

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the cooling of Barlow's things I knew and
you moved when the 1st queues local were

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not Barlow's was pronounced by the president
of the Republic of life you go to

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a 3 hours after that try to find him full
of gas which means the movement. Is not

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just about the health implications he is
going to be economic implications as well

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school besides all I have said to you
know is that there is not up to the talks

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everyone knows that I mean it is the rose
issue my name is very difficult but below

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for me it is not about to read it now
because this is something that people she

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aspects if I die

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a good stuff on the continent appointed
step offs I'm seeing it is their boss as

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the Nigerian jewel puts on a lot of
protective gear and continue to watch while

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a hand and that's the only way we can be

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a want to play it we know cover it up
Barbara not be killed while we can prevent

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that doing what if it does this
outbreak for Liberia was about money

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breakdown if you can just imagine that
you'll be insulted I met with one Jack

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and send it to the blood and trampling
on Bill Clinton and then get equal where

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people are not going to tread on my gig
you've done my can't just be are it's your

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loss of her love you and be obviously God.
If I got people I think these cold gets

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things that we need in life the views of
some like the rest of the cover the more

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revealing about the coronavirus this
bloke would report more this guy. Really

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Today is Thursday March 19th. Will
this Sunday March 22nd make yet

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another attempt to hold

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a controversial constitutional referendum
it was originally scheduled to take place

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must 1st but President of the postponed
it here is the information minister Mario

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some battery. Ration related. Raid.

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From California as

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a station and also by her was going to
say shooting the breeze event decided to

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postpone the election until this
Sunday to make sure the fi electros

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has been properly checked and all the
problem that's been raised by these 2

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different organisation has been addressed
and corrected which was don't last week

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and finally based on the proposal of
the need which is the institution that

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organisation in Guinea the brazier don't
create to organize the referendum and the

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parliamentary elections on Sunday March
22nd but the Opposition has accused the

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president of condé of wanting to have these
elections so as to stay in power safe

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or if. Unfortunately dear James the
opposition leaders want to read

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a book that has been opened yet they are
talking about spirit and we talking about

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a new constitution that are
going to change the life of

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a lot of population in giving the you will
the women very progressive position for

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their freedom for their
protection and also

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a very creased decentralization in the
country to all poor people in the

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countryside so we're not talking about
we talking about social progression and

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the president's. Given opinion
on what is going to do next

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we were told that

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a number of West African leaders
were supposed to have visited Guinea

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this past Tuesday did they come and if not
why are you getting the 1st question.

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Regarding their current out of the
race prizes that are rich West Africa.

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You know and some restriction
measures were taken by

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some countries around and I think there are
different African West African leaders

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widely decided to postpone their visit in
Guinea or to cancel it for the time being

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that's the reason why the b.b.c.

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Not regarding the Sudan question I
don't know if we'll be attending the

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election. That is

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a question that can be answered by any
institution that organized the election or

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some power is going to this information
minister he was speaking with us from the

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capital cannot create the National Front
for the defense of the Constitution Guinea

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says it will do everything necessary to
make sure that Sunday's constitutional

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referendum does not take place the opposition
says President Afrikander wants to

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use the referendum to seek
him for a term for you is

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a member of the National Front for the
defense of the Constitution in Guinea Bissau

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well in those elections.
We make sure those

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elections don't happen
that is what we have.

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Last year on our use in
everything that is allowed by the

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Constitution and the law
of this land because.

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Then the thirsts of the
Constitution. If we

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have British people we have
the right to resist the

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operation. So do the people all right.

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We are experiencing

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a lot of bile and there
of feeling. Just because.

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All. The people you know are
going to love and we're going to

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every legal group then.
It seems to me there is

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a recipe for violence yeah no
parent violence but we know that.

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Only. In. Uni.

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And. Only. In.

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Here or so we are aware of but
we're not going to be afraid.

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We're going to. Fight. For you know it's

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a member of the National Front for the
defense of the Constitution Guinea speaking

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with us from the capital cannot create
the fragility of the state and the

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governance key issues of the ongoing
Central African Republic all see

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a hour of crisis but since the signature
of the peace agreement if we were $29.00

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t.

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Very small steps of progress according to the
Now this is from the International Crisis

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Group behind the money who went
to Central Africa sitting on

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a list for the i c g spoke to reconstruct
about the progress that has me made in

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the far distance there remains improvement
very remain quite. Quite small

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I'm not. Going to. Believe
some progress. On the

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front what is the government in place
to make these. These progressions

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at least slow advance by
the government are. Merely

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a cauldron told you. Policemen understand
into programs these things the signature

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of the agreement before that there was
no military man no policeman no short

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outside

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a company called bunkie I don't factoid
that we can see more moral proof appointed

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by the government to walk step tool take
their position in the provinces but the

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international community also was on
contributed most un peacekeeping mean Mission

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Minos com adopt

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a model most approach for the protection
of civilians on the un multiply different

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our green man's talk with arms groups
when incidents are caught in different

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critics saw the program creates what about
the lack of governance and the lack of

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the state structures how does that tell
me if I would be cock about the national

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news sources as

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a are and the many international players
who come into the country and try

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to either formally or informally legally
or illegally as spoils of resources and in

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doing so often exploit the population
and absent exacerbate the situation the

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conflicts the problems related to see

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a crisis should be phoned in to see
it south and we kind of believe the

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international community cannot emphasize
sufficiently in their talk with the

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government of on the need to reform the
governance of the country and even the need

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to reform it secretes said go on and things
are sort so those are the deep roots of

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c.r.

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Crisis the lack of inclusion in the in the
political governance and sink our social

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but yes you evidently highlighted the
fact that many international those

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boards will have a role in the
complication that we've seen c.r.

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Not just international those but also
regional October's Sudan and Chad have been

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a point to one point. Like supporting some
of the rebel groups in the north east

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and. Certainly not the government
of Sudan no. Definitive.

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We don't need. Of the government of
those countries to deny them. You know.

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There's the geopolitical situation on
the ground level of the of the crisis

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involves of course from Russia
on the order you know it's not

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a big power. Now. It's

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a political transition into Internet Marketing
public but we want to get to you now

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supporting from what you do
government of why do you know. That.

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Central Africa. For the
International Crisis Group. From.

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video always international edition I'm

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Laurie London and Washington coming up more
dramatic steps around the world as the

00:30:09
foliage 19 continues to rage. Meijer

00:30:15
us media outlets at

00:30:17
a time when experts say.
Is critical. Areas are

00:30:24
working to keep our
closest living ancestors.

00:30:32
International.

00:30:42
U.s.

00:30:42
President Donald Trump is invoking the
Defense Production Act which would allow his

00:30:46
administration to force American industry
to manufacture medical supplies that are

00:30:52
in short supply in the fight against
the coronavirus pandemic. White House

00:30:57
correspondent Patsy Flora has more

00:31:01
a shortage of protective equipment and
medical supplies as the United States

00:31:05
response to the coronavirus pandemic the
country's Federal Emergency Management

00:31:10
Agency has been activated had the highest
level nationwide on Wednesday President

00:31:15
Donald Trump took it as the fair there
will be involved in the Defense Production

00:31:20
Act just in case we need it the act provides
presidential authority to expedite and

00:31:26
expand the supply of resources from the
country's industrial base to support

00:31:30
national defense will give priority to those
kinds of materials that are needed to

00:31:36
fight the virus for example masks
are a concern and if there's

00:31:43
a mask manufacturer the government could
go to that manufacturer and say you must

00:31:47
give priority to production of these mass
also announced the deployment of 2 u.s.

00:31:53
Navy ships comfort and mercy the ships
are literally floating hospitals often

00:31:58
deployed for humanitarian assistance and
natural disasters it has about 1000

00:32:05
rooms on it it has operating rooms. And
the president is going to dispatch the

00:32:11
comfort to us it will be in New York
City harbor. This will be as an

00:32:18
extraordinary step of Usually the u.s.

00:32:21
And as comfort is undergoing maintenance
and will deploy to New York in the coming

00:32:25
weeks the u.s.

00:32:26
And as mercy will deploy somewhere on the
West Coast in the coming days Defense

00:32:31
Secretary Mike esper and ask that u.s.

00:32:33
Military field hospitals are also being
prepared for deployment and that his

00:32:37
department will make available up to
5000000 and 95 respirator mask and other

00:32:43
personal protective equipment for distribution
the 1st 1000000 masks will be made

00:32:48
available immediately. Next we are
prepared to distribute to h.h.s.

00:32:53
Up to 2000 deployable ventilators for use
as needed. The administration plans to

00:32:58
mobilize the army corps of engineers to
create new medical facilities in response

00:33:03
to the outbreak

00:33:04
a plan that would need the support of the
private sector bringing the Army Corps of

00:33:08
Engineers in might help increase the number
of skilled contracting officers were

00:33:12
vailable and tapping into assets in the
civilian economy but they don't bring any

00:33:19
actual construction it would raise
themselves Meanwhile in the u.s.

00:33:23
Capital Metro stations are deserted as

00:33:26
a boy these Irish residents to stay home
want us possible. Viewing use at the White

00:33:32
House meanwhile on Wall Street stocks slumped
again the Dow lost more than $1300.00

00:33:38
points or more than 6 percent nearly all
of the gains on Wall Street since Trump's

00:33:43
inauguration have now been wiped out
economic fallout from the crisis is mounting

00:33:49
with Word got the 3 big u.s.

00:33:51
Automakers are shutting down their factories
across North America meanwhile the

00:33:56
situation in Europe is not any better or
for that part of the story we are joined

00:34:01
by Paris based reporter Catherine field
Catherine you're in Paris let's start there

00:34:08
a little and here in France we've had the
1st full day of people getting used to

00:34:13
the fact you know going to have to go in

00:34:15
a no is no homes and go shopping when they
will and we've had at least 5000 cases

00:34:20
across the country all having. Fines
to people who drugs if you like

00:34:28
without the necessary paperwork we've
also had no please the last 24 hours old.

00:34:36
89 you did that is numbers up
to 260 jewelry and all in front

00:34:43
of the new figure that we've just got in
the French general direction of Hell's.

00:34:48
Bells and was

00:34:49
a big city people had his to positive.
So it is getting was the Health Ministry

00:34:56
is saying. Numbers are going up when.
The end of this and as. The French

00:35:02
government has declared

00:35:03
a healthy state of emergency that means
that parliament gives the government the

00:35:09
right to just have what it wants to try and
bring an end to those prizes that need

00:35:15
whatever they need for the health care
whatever they need to get provisions to Ms

00:35:19
Daum to give her visions to the military
to help that sort of thing we've also seen

00:35:25
the 1st of patients from that critical areas
like Deniece military have moved this

00:35:31
flying people out of that area for treatment
in the cells because the hospitals

00:35:36
there are just completely saturated they
can't treat anymore people what about the

00:35:41
rest of Europe it's so interconnected we
know they're closing borders but everybody

00:35:46
seems to have the so what is the
latest well as Europe we've now got. A

00:35:53
period about to come and where
travelers from outside of the e.u.

00:35:57
Will not be able to come into the area
that has now been agreed no Eventually I

00:36:02
mean it's 24 hours it will be really
tight in the European Union zone

00:36:09
let's have

00:36:10
a look Germany is closing its borders of
course in response to the virus the German

00:36:15
chancellor Angela Merkel went on state
television Wednesday night to appeal to the

00:36:20
nation said that this was the biggest threat
the German nation had face since World

00:36:26
War 2 And there's actually this was

00:36:29
a time when the country was really going
to be tested for its soul and so on that

00:36:34
school. Is really getting at is that
the numbers start going up we've

00:36:40
seen today

00:36:42
a record number of people have died in
the last 24 hours 475 died now let the

00:36:49
highest recorded number in

00:36:50
a single day in any country so that is
concerning in the area long body. In the

00:36:57
north was to tell an area long body
president says that the numbers of the

00:37:02
sanctions are not reducing still too
high and they're actually going to start

00:37:07
thinking about need to bring in more
restrictions on the movement of people I guess

00:37:14
you look at Spain is concerned there that
they're going to have to extend the 15

00:37:19
day lockdown because numbers still seem to
be on the rise to areas where there has

00:37:25
been

00:37:25
a lot of conflict has been on the
Austria-Hungary border that what was closed and

00:37:30
that is

00:37:30
a very important area for people wanted
to get home remaining at. That border so

00:37:37
that was closed we've also got

00:37:39
a situational live German Polish border
that border has been closed and is

00:37:44
a loop back lot of people who are from
the. Who need to transit through Poland to

00:37:50
get that the polls are saying they're not
going to open that border so for the time

00:37:54
being using is to check points of countries
that are absolutely terrified of even

00:37:59
letting people transit through their country
to be able to get home and I hear the

00:38:04
situation in Lombardy Italy is just getting
really really concerning it is really

00:38:11
concerning and difficulty with a
lot of body is there already on

00:38:15
a very very serious long term people cannot
go out. So what all can they do with.

00:38:23
Along. Some supplies being flown into
European Union particularly from China

00:38:30
China has been shipping them to Italy these
are being lent of front so the supply

00:38:36
isn't coming in the testing kits are coming
in but really the numbers do keep going

00:38:41
up and long and just really everyone's

00:38:45
a lot of these do think
what will they can do

00:38:48
a lot about it when you think about it that
includes mainland one of the wealthiest

00:38:53
counties in

00:38:53
a state just doesn't seem to have the tools
you know. Get on top of those fires 3

00:38:58
major u.s.

00:38:59
Media outlets have been expelled from
China while others including the Voice of

00:39:03
America are being told they need to provide
detailed information about why they are

00:39:08
there it comes at a time when
the world is dealing with

00:39:12
a global crisis that really needs open
communication about the spread of the Koran

00:39:16
a virus Joining us to talk about it is prick
Tricia Gallagher Newbery president of

00:39:21
the Society of Professional Journalists
this really seems like an especially

00:39:26
dangerous time to be shuttering information
being is that China is making this

00:39:30
decision at this really critical time to
expel the New York Times The Washington

00:39:35
Post and The Wall Street Journal from China
in the midst of this global pandemic is

00:39:41
irresponsible it's unsettling and it's
very detrimental to all of our knowledge

00:39:47
about what's happening with the coronavirus
So obviously these are major news

00:39:52
organizations here in the West they are
the high producing high level news

00:39:57
organizations that are
covering this story at

00:40:00
a very comprehensive level they're throwing
all resources on this story and so to

00:40:05
be asked to exit the country at this really
critical time is really detrimental to

00:40:11
all of our knowledge on what's going on
at the epicenter of the pandemic what do

00:40:16
you think they would do something like this
at this critical moment well of course

00:40:20
what we're reading is that it's a
retaliatory move that we've had

00:40:25
a trade war with China for

00:40:26
a number of months now and then earlier
this month in early March the top

00:40:31
administration sought to expel some Chinese
journalists from the United States I

00:40:36
believe it was up to

00:40:37
a 100 journalists who would be
expelled from the United States

00:40:41
a journalist affiliated with state run
Chinese media organization so so this seems

00:40:46
to be we can only use our
conjecture here but it seems to be

00:40:49
a retaliatory move on the part of China
in reaction to the trumpet ministrations

00:40:54
move right well this just.
Seems to be coming at

00:40:57
a time when the world is just dealing
with such an incredibly massive crisis

00:41:03
worldwide crisis that in fact everyone on
the planet they're in worries some very

00:41:08
worrisome and of course we can only guess
but it seems as though China would just

00:41:12
not like Western news organizations to be
poking around on this story because this

00:41:19
is of course the genesis of the coronavirus
epidemic it started and will hop on and

00:41:26
we have Western news organizations trying
to get to the bottom of it trying to

00:41:30
understand why it 1st emanated from this
part of China what Chinese officials

00:41:37
did or did not do in reaction did or did
not do in sufficient amount of time to

00:41:44
contain the fire and so we can only
guess that these are angles of this

00:41:50
continuing new story the Chinese officials
would just not like out there in the

00:41:57
news ecosystem and apparently they have
also told Time magazine and believe America

00:42:03
that they want to have more information
about what they're covering absolutely is

00:42:09
what we're hearing is that the Chinese
government is asking for information about

00:42:13
the personnel of the 3 organizations already
mentioned New York Times Washington

00:42:18
Post Wall Street Journal it just fully Voice
of America and Time magazine they want

00:42:23
to know personnel and they want to know
asset levels I guess investment levels in

00:42:28
China of those 5 western based news
organizations I'm not sure what the motivation

00:42:35
of that would be why would they want that
additional information and is it all in

00:42:40
service to maybe also seeking to put out
voice of American time I I don't know it's

00:42:47
a very curious move and
it could not come at

00:42:49
a worse time we need to know how this
all happened so that we. As a people as

00:42:56
a. As society goes back fight back
and ultimately find solutions to

00:43:03
ending the growth of coronavirus That's
Patricia Gallagher Newbery president of the

00:43:08
Society of Professional Journalists thank
you for being with us. Former Vice

00:43:13
President Joe Biden now appears to be on

00:43:15
a glide path to the Democratic Party's
presidential nomination after convincing

00:43:20
victories in 3 state primaries Tuesday in
Arizona Florida and Illinois Biden has

00:43:27
been on

00:43:27
a massive winning streak in recent weeks
over his remaining rival Amaan Senator

00:43:32
Bernie Sanders the Sanders campaign says
the senator well now reassess his campaign

00:43:38
in conversations with supporters he'll
weigh national correspondent general alone

00:43:44
has more from Washington Democratic
presidential candidate Joe Biden solidified his

00:43:49
grip on the party's nomination Tuesday and
also sought to reassure us voters on the

00:43:56
threat posed by the corona virus are all
this together this is one for each of us

00:44:02
to see and believe the best in everyone
of us to look out for our neighbors

00:44:07
understand the fear and stress and so many
are feeling Senator Bernie Sanders also

00:44:13
focused on the coronavirus pandemic but
said little about Tuesday's primary results

00:44:20
where Sanders lost in all 3 states for grabs
we need to make certain that everybody

00:44:26
in our country who needs to go to

00:44:29
a doctor to get the health care they need
regardless of their income Biden coasted

00:44:35
to victories in Arizona Florida
and Illinois Tuesday in

00:44:39
a primary race that is now overshadowed by
the coronavirus pandemic Illinois voter

00:44:46
Dave clay one supported Sandow so I'll go
vote and that and I'll vigorously wash my

00:44:52
hands afterward Biden turned
his campaign around with

00:44:56
a victory in the South Carolina primary
less than 3 weeks ago and he has never

00:45:01
looked back says analyst Jim Kasler
I'm going to send his became

00:45:05
a serious candidate and people really said
Ok is it going to be him they said no

00:45:11
let's coalesce behind somebody. And it was
Joe Democrats must now focus on uniting

00:45:16
the party if they hope to defeat Donald
Trump in the November election says

00:45:21
Professor Berry sabotage Bernie has to
find ways to call Dale the more extreme

00:45:28
dirty boxes they're called early and
the supporters in the mainstream

00:45:35
establishment Democrats have got to reach
out to the Sanders people have serious

00:45:40
conversations with several of the coming
primaries have already been postponed due

00:45:46
to the coronavirus threat some states are
also looking to move to mail in ballots

00:45:52
Jim Malone v.o.a.

00:45:53
News Washington.

00:46:03
Dear world how is the
lock down sign. That was

00:46:07
a not so subtle dig on social media to the
international community from someone in

00:46:11
Gaza it's just one among

00:46:13
a torrent of social media posts emerging
from the blockaded Gaza Strip in the wake

00:46:18
of the coronavirus pandemic the site of

00:46:21
a world locking itself down
seems to have unleashed

00:46:24
a wellspring of emotions in Gaza the tiny
coastal on clay of the past 4 years lived

00:46:29
with enforced isolation and finding

00:46:33
a long 90 percent of its land and sea
boundaries its access to the outside world is

00:46:38
controlled by Israel and by Egypt on its
narrow southern border the irony is not

00:46:43
lost on Gaza the restrictions may have also
contributed to slowing the entry of the

00:46:49
coronavirus with no cases reported thus
far in Gaza. The Us immigration for

00:46:56
its are either closed or drastically
curtailing operations in the latest of

00:47:00
a series of moves by the child in

00:47:02
a stray shot acting in advance to the us
during the crisis after repeated requests

00:47:07
from the immigration judges Union the
Justice Department Wednesday ordered 10 in.

00:47:12
Gratian courts shuttered
until April 10th bringing

00:47:15
a total shutdown to
$1158.00. And Apollo 15

00:47:22
astronaut circled along while his 2
crewmates drove around in the 1st

00:47:28
a rover died of the age of 8. This

00:47:35
rehab center Wednesday after
treatment for an infection 40.

00:47:41
1971 along with David's.
Only space flight.

00:47:49
Astronaut class chosen a $966.00 is

00:47:53
a long. Walk to long stay with
you all the latest virus.

00:48:01
And. A year after eastern Zimbabwe was
hit by cyclonic die one of the worst

00:48:08
tropical storms for Africa on record some
survivors are still recovering the Cyclon

00:48:14
killed hundreds of people in Zimbabwe left
thousands homeless authorities have been

00:48:19
rebuilding but many are still living in
temporary housing Columbus' some of the

00:48:25
border with Mozambique You're listening to
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00:49:43
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00:50:34
in wrong in National Park in Rwanda
officials are temporarily closing mountain

00:50:38
gorilla tourism as

00:50:40
a precautionary measure scientific experts
say primates including endangered

00:50:45
mountain gorillas are likely to complications
arising from the virus Park officials

00:50:51
say they must do everything they can to
protect endangered species Meanwhile

00:50:56
a Washington state sanctuary for chimpanzees
once used for scientific research is

00:51:01
also taking measures to safeguard its
resident primates Diana Goodrich co-founded

00:51:07
the sanctuary says their whole population
could be vulnerable you have to in some

00:51:12
ways. Assume that we're carrying it
especially because we know that you can be

00:51:17
completely asymptomatic but still be
carrying it so we just want to put

00:51:22
a barrier between our germs and the times
as much as we can so we're burning gloves

00:51:27
that we're going to wearing masks to protect
them from us as reports of coronavirus

00:51:34
cases in Washington began piling up at the
beginning of March Goodrich started to

00:51:39
drastically reduce the number of staff
members entering the sanctuary just are

00:51:44
going along as usual and the gyms are
just doing their thing so urgent

00:51:48
a day doesn't change that much except
that we're wearing scrubs and masks and

00:51:52
gloves that are not let into our scan at
all and we just have to really just simply

00:51:58
reduce the number of people here now just

00:52:00
a few workers come in each day to help
feed and clean firing medical scrubs and

00:52:05
gloves to reduce chances of exposure closures
cost Fada coronavirus pandemic means

00:52:11
many parents are trying to come up with
some sort of way to educate and entertain

00:52:16
their children at home while there are many
online options Some parents worry about

00:52:21
too much screen time you know is Elizabeth
Lee has details about locations that

00:52:27
combine the physical and digital so students
learning at home get the best of both

00:52:32
worlds. The parents are worried about too
much screen time when their children are

00:52:38
home not alone if you're wasting your time
on You Tube and surround and take talk

00:52:44
that's the bad kind of train time that we
want to eliminate technology's great it's

00:52:48
all around us today and there's so many
things out there by. The way you maybe

00:52:54
could use

00:52:55
a passive instead of playing video games
and consuming other people's ideas

00:53:00
software engineer Mark Horstman created

00:53:03
a way for children to express their own
ideas by combining real world skills with

00:53:08
technology like it's an app called Doodle
Matic 1st designed and. Draw again using

00:53:13
specific colors a different color tells the
program whether something is an avatar

00:53:18
a goal or a hazard take
a picture of it from

00:53:21
a mobile device through
the app and it becomes

00:53:24
a video game Horstmann says may seem video
games can teach important life skills

00:53:31
and we believe strongly that creativity
imagination and stalking them for and you

00:53:36
know for every country or have that you
might end up taking kids in design to

00:53:41
animated games for free then pay just under
$30.00 to create $1000.00 more animated

00:53:48
games another app called vivid books uses
augmented reality to bring these pages to

00:53:54
life. And difficult physics concepts
says the book's co-founder David

00:54:01
Drabek if you look at any traditional
text mode the kids use today or that they

00:54:05
used to use over the last 40 years you see
some small diagrams and plenty of text

00:54:10
around them physics has a lot of caveats

00:54:13
a lot of concepts that are. Very
visual in the sense that if you apply

00:54:19
a digital layer with an animation that
explains different concepts it's much easier

00:54:24
to explain it rather than having
to read a lot of text through

00:54:26
a desktop or mobile device vivid books
pages can be printed out with the app this

00:54:32
is what you'll see when

00:54:33
a mobile device is held over the page
the device recognizes the image on the

00:54:38
worksheet and does how it
knows that it should play

00:54:40
a certain type of animation. The opposite
we only available for Apple mobile

00:54:46
devices web and the Android versions
are. Doing the pandemic parents can

00:54:52
access textbook pages for free the target
age 10 to 12 years old the company plans

00:54:59
to add 10 mystery n.

00:55:00
Biology content and expanded material for
more ages these apps try to combine the

00:55:07
best of the real and digital worlds to
help children stay mentally active and

00:55:11
engaged. While they were away from
school Elizabeth Lee's The only.

00:55:22
American singer songwriter Justin tray
which can only plays up to 18 live shows

00:55:26
a month and now 0 due to concert venues
shutting down due to the coronavirus is now

00:55:32
coming up with an alternative to
entertaining his fans online it started as

00:55:37
a way to pay the bills but evolved into
something more Reuters producer Julian

00:55:42
Kitchener files this report what you're
doing or you know what let me see the

00:55:47
people who. Know this in the me it is
well documented singer songwriter Justin

00:55:54
Trudeau and his team close to its
fans to sing something that's

00:55:58
a High Street big surprise is the
mike on a so. It's all you can do as

00:56:04
a spring coronavirus in the United States
that is dozen or so my shows I'm up ice

00:56:09
as

00:56:10
a musician 100 percent of my income comes
from not only being as if I'm playing guitar

00:56:14
but playing guitar live in front of.
Shows to be canceled it is that

00:56:21
a very deep slowly but surely into the
amount of money that I make to pay for

00:56:26
things like not only the rent here in my
apartment or you know I'm talking but also

00:56:31
health insurance. Car insurance
gas when I talk to a good leads

00:56:37
a financial survival a lead singer a just

00:56:39
a train wreck in the common good luck his
friends my streams here for his it's from

00:56:44
his home in Arlington Virginia using. The
dirty 8 year old films in class digital

00:56:51
Denise's there's

00:56:52
a 2 ways that if you feel like to bring us
the pen and if you don't feel like it no

00:56:58
problem in just 2 seconds trailing

00:57:01
a great dinner ready to cover the losses
by cancelled shows but essentially

00:57:06
disappear for good since agreeing to treat
rake are now about more than just money

00:57:10
but you know I think that we're bringing.
I don't think. That is creating

00:57:17
a little bit of levity in their
lives where they may all be

00:57:20
a little stressed otherwise you know are
going to crash and people are fighting

00:57:25
over you know a lot. Or a little bit
more work than they are normally

00:57:32
a life. Really like the cheers would
be to an 80 from the crowd of $3000.00

00:57:39
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each with its own v.o.a.

00:58:16
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provides evidence that it rains and
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exoplanets wasp 76 b.

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The authors describe the planet as an
ultra super Jupiter from located 390 like

00:58:36
years away and that it's totally locked
with a star This means that the planet has

00:58:42
a permanent day and night so they side
temperature is said to be over 2400 degrees

00:58:47
Celsius odd enough to vaporize metals
like tyrant into the atmosphere one side

00:58:53
temperatures drop to 1500 degrees Celsius
the study authors found the strong winds

00:58:59
are generated due to the temperature
difference between the 2 sides of the planet

00:59:03
these winds carry the vaporized from the
ultra hot the size of the cooling my thigh

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forming iron droplets that then fall like
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To see it wastes as there are now
more than 200000 confirmed run of

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virus cases worldwide and the
president of Trump is taking

01:00:06
a short merry steps to fight the American
outbreak if the Washington correspondent

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solder my God I'm on the other things the
president's invoking an act of giving him

01:00:14
broad authorities to push private companies
toward developing essential goods

01:00:18
during

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a national crisis in this case and masks
and ventilators at the same time Congress

01:00:24
has approved one financial aid package and
is working on another massive one that

01:00:29
could hit

01:00:29
a trillion dollars as the markets took
another beating the president's dismissing

01:00:34
his own treasury chiefs talk that domestic
unemployment could hit 20 percent No I

01:00:40
don't agree that the absolute total worst
case scenario defiantly promising the

01:00:44
u.s. Will win what he calls a war
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a mag on the Washington written downs wenzi
it would close schools in the coming

01:00:54
days and place 20000 troops on standby and
efforts to stem the spread of the corona

01:00:59
virus as the death toll topped 100 prime
minister Boris Johnson had held off

01:01:05
following the lead of other European countries
because of the impact it would have

01:01:09
on the workforce he emphasized the country
needs. Schools to make provisions for

01:01:14
the children of key workers who will be
otherwise forced to stay home and that they

01:01:19
will also need to lock after the
most vulnerable children. In schools

01:01:26
and that will. Be crucial.

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He. Says he. And the prime
minister also said the

01:01:42
government will bring forward measures
to protect privates and renters from

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addiction and the government's.

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