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Outbreak in the future and the 2020 Elim
pick still would have been delayed for

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about a year after an agreement was
reached via telephone Tuesday with

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a limp for committee president Thomas buck
the games were originally scheduled to

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begin on July 24th Japanese prime
minister Shinzo Abbay said Tuesday the

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postponement came after months of
escalating pressure from some participating

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countries and athletes Italy meanwhile
has suffered the far far by far the

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deadliest consequences of the novel
coronavirus outbreak reported she is reported

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on Tuesday

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a 3rd consecutive day in which its daily
deaths and new infections declined the 601

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deaths recorded Monday are still a
staggering figure but one that is

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a vast improvement from nearly 800 on
Saturday last week Italy has before reported

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more than 6000 deaths and has

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a high of the 2nd highest overall number
of cases South Korea which once held the

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position of being one of the hardest hit
nations showed its own continued progress

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reporting Tuesday

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a daily rise in new cases 76 that
was its 13th consecutive day below

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100 Meanwhile China continued to report
its own improvements with just 4 locally

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transmitted cases and its latest figures
on Tuesday official said Healthy people in

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who they province the center of the
outbreak will be able to leave the province

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after 2 months of lockdown for eventual
capital on it will see the same relief in

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early April but worries persist about
a comeback for the virus and China

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a place that was 1st detected in late
December due to cases among people who arrive

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from elsewhere in the world China reported
74 such imported cases on Tuesday those

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fears have prompted governments all over
the world to institute travel restrictions

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. Botswana also has to keep an eagle eye
on South Africa which had recorded more

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than 500 covert 1000 cases as of Tuesday

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a number of border jumpers from South
Africa and Botswana's other neighbors is

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usually small the trial in absentia of 3
Russians and the Ukrainian charged with

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multiple counts of murder over the
downing of Malaysia Airlines flight m

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h 17 over Eastern Ukraine in 2014 regime
resumed briefly at the Hague on Tuesday

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amid the coronavirus restrictions Dutch
judges in the trial read out several

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preliminary decisions. The promote
Imus and Nelson the late news.

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Today is Tuesday March 24th and this is
real ways international edition I'm Steve

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Miller in Washington as

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a number of cases of covert 19 continues
to rise governments are mincing words with

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their recommendations and not is

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a no go home and stay home plus
how do you protect yourself from

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disinformation is very skeptical of what
you see all social media and only go when

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you have questions to trusted sources and
the world says goodbye to an iconic comic

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artist Those stories and
more are next. I've.

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Been number of infected covered 19 cases
approaches 400000 globally as countries

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continue to grapple with the human and
economic impact of the pandemic the

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International Olympic Committee and
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abbay have

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concluded the 2020 Tokyo Olympics must
be postponed and held no later than

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a summer of 2021 of the i.o.c.

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And the Tokyo 2020 organizers said
on Tuesday after a call with i.o.c.

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President Thomas Bach Abbay said that the
July 24th through August 9th event would

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be rescheduled for the summer of 2021 at
the latest as proof of victory over the

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corona virus on Tuesday in the reported

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a 3rd consecutive day in which its daily
deaths and new infections declined that

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nation has suffered by far the deadliest
consequences of the novel coronavirus

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outbreak with nearly double the number of
fatalities of China where many experts

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say the pandemic originated South Korea
which once held the position of being one

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of the hardest hit nations showed its own
continued progress numbers. These Tuesday

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showed 76 new cases that makes 13 consecutive
days of new infections below 100 the

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World Health Organization said
the United States could become

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a global epicenter of the Crow virus outbreak
as Britain went into lockdown but the

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Chinese province of who Bay where the virus
was 1st identified in December said it

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would lift travel restrictions on people
leaving the region as the epidemic very

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easy is on Monday Canadian prime minister
Justin Trudeau said people defying advice

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to isolate themselves to fight the corona
virus outbreak she go home and stay home

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or face sanctions we've all seen the
pictures online of people who seem to think

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they're invincible Well you're
not. Enough is enough go home

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and stay home. This is what we all need
to be doing and we're going to make sure

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this happens whether by educating people
more on the risks or by enforcing the

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rules if that's needed nothing that
could help is off the table also South

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African president Cyril
Ramaphosa said he will impose

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a nationwide lockdown for 21 days beginning
Thursday to try to contain the krona

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virus outbreak orders Livy Hogan
reports. South Africa will impose

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a nationwide lockdown for 21 days from
midnight on Thursday to try to contain the

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current virus contagion as the number of
confirmed cases jumped to 2 of the 400 on

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Monday president's ear ran a
pose that addressed the nation

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a nation wide lockdown is necessary to
fundamentally does the map to the chain of

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transmission across society. I have
accordingly directed to the South African

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national defense force to be deployed to
support the South African Police Service

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in ensuring that the measure as I don't
sing implemented. South Africans will still

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be able to leave their homes to buy food
seek medical care and collect social

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grants but all shops and businesses
will be closed except for essential is

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including fantasy's bank supermarkets and
the Johannesburg Stock Exchange when the

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poses said health workers and the personnel
and security services would be among

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those exempt from the look down on the
streets Cape Town local willing to Nikki

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accepted the news to be Ok if they would
be exposed I was sat down just to move.

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To minimize though at the spreading of
the virus South Africa has the most

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confirmed cases of Corona virus in sub-Saharan
Africa and public health experts are

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worried that it could overwhelm the health
system if invention rates continue to

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rise elsewhere on the continent Zimbabwe
closed all its borders except to returning

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residents author of putting its 1st death
from the virus Nigeria Africa's most

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populous country also closed its land borders
up to also registering its 1st death

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would be Hogan reports for Reuters News
Stream and states are closing their borders

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in

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a bid to slow the spread of the corona $1000.00
virus Western Australia South Australia

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and the Northern Territory or grant quarantine
free entry to only essential workers

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from other parts of the country Phil Mercer
reports there are more than $1800.00

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confirmed Kovan $1000.00 cases in Australia
and at least 7 deaths Australian states

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and closing their bolt is in

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a bid to slow the spread of the cove
$819.00 virus Western Australia South

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Australia and the Northern Territory will
grant current team free entry to only

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essential workers from other parts of
the country there are more than 2000

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confirmed Kovi 19 cases in Australia
8 people have died from Sydney.

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Stillness are reports and here's the
text in 5. Western Australia stretches

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across 2 and a half 1000000
square kilometers it covers

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a 3rd of the vaastu Australian continent
beginning chews day it will try to sail

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itself all from the rest of the country in

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a bid to limit the spread of Covidien 19
the all star it is referring to fully

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closing the border anyone who crosses into
Western Australia will be forced into

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quarantine essential workers are exempt
the state premium on the gallon says the

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new measures tough will be introducing
new border controls to Westerners rather

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they think new border controls
will all access point. And say

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I've listed exempted arrivals from me
just so I will be old enough to sell cars

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wide support thing. Is in control of 5
personal services and essential workers

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I've been looking at wiring very
good I've somehow tell. You why

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things are I've away you can have places
to quarantine people who have difficulties

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toss Whiting I've all who want to help us
in South Australia is introducing similar

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regulations the island of Tasmania has
already effectively shut itself off from the

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Australian mainland the state of Queensland
will shanty its borders Wednesday the

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Australian Prime Minister's school
Morrison said his country was facing an

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unprecedented crisis for many
young and old thanks to a

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t 20 will be the toughest to your of our
lives in Australia's 2 biggest cities

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Sydney and Melbourne bars cafes and cinemas
have been ordered to close as that

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Covidien 19 France intensifies banks
supermarkets pharmacies and other essential

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services will remain open. Well strain
is domestic so could competition the

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a league has become the last major sporting
competition to postpone matches because

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of the corona virus pandemic
film a sense of v.o.a.

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News Sydney reliable information
is key to curtailing the spread of

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a covert 1000 coronavirus during the
pandemic some bad actors are spreading

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disinformation online spoke with v.o.a.

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National Security Correspondent Geoff
Seldon to learn more well there are lots of

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different types of this information and
you can plug into to be categories and in

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very broad categories the 1st being the
type of disinformation that people who are

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trying to run some scams might about if you
do this you give us money well we have

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it you're

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a will provide some sort of protection so
now or you know you're out of all these

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regulations and so do this and give us
information which will then use later to get

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you know identify information maybe
Access Bank Yancey of that type of

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disinformation that's out there the other
type of disinformation. How reading lunch

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being fluent in center for

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a lot of us government officials for
quite some time is. Disinformation

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can in

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a big 3 countries mostly doing this one
is Russia and starting in about you know

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you were. The Us was warning no
Rustin outlets whether they were

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state run media or Internet

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a counseling to the Russian officials
were putting the campaign saying that

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coronavirus was an engineer by the u.s.

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That it was something created by or that
it was something created by the CIA

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designed to hurt China in China's
economy because China's becoming such

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a rival to the u.s.

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On the global stage so there's that. More
recently the State Department officials

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from all the reports of government have
singled out China and have criticized China

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for using their official Twitter accounts
to similarly put out information about

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the u.s. Role in coronavirus which
they say are completely untrue

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a lot of them coming back to some
of these theories about u.s.

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Involvement in creating
coronavirus whereas the u.s.

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And most other countries say the 1st cases
actually originated in China and then

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more recently the State Department
and some other officials

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a government appointed to all wrong and
some of the information that they've been

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sharing with their public they say the
Iranian government the Iranian regime has

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been lying to the Iranian people about
what's been going on with corona virus and

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as

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a result has put their population at great
risk so those are the things that are going

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on so you mentioned that the State Department
has put out this information about

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these 3 states putting out alleged
disinform ation What about the technology

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companies because they're presenting this
information online I know Twitter has

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taken some steps as well as
Facebook and but can you explain

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a little bit about what's happening to
curtail the spread of misinformation Well

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it's really really difficult as you
mentioned both Twitter and Facebook have

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announced steps they're taking trying
to make sure that bad information this

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information is either more or is simply not
spread they will actually take it down

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and make sure that it's not shared with
all their users but the difficulty is

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a lot of this information isn't
being shared you know ping forums

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a lot of it is actually coming in forms
that you can see things like Facebook

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groups were private. Networks or
private groups other social media apps

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like telegrams were you really researchers
in the government really have

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a hard time going in there and seeing what's
going on they take Meek's it that the

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people in the countries that are spreading
this disinformation. Like listen live

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they're using very much similar to what
they've been doing in full view which the

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us all back in the 2016 election blood is
happening behind the scenes now behind

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this veil and so it's very hard to see it
and that makes it much more difficult to

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call out and of course one thing that
they've always been good at doing whether

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it's Russia or China but especially Russia
is finding the little populations of

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they can exploit with this information there
will be more likely to adopted and to

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repeated elsewhere so what can consumers
of information do to essentially

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verify what they read is in fact true and
not something that's being propagated as

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false information is the basic advice
that most intelligence officials State

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Department officials other u.s.

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Government officials have been giving
giving all along is look. Your be aware be

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very skeptical of what you see all social
media and only go when you have questions

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to trusted sources like the
c.d.c. Jeff Seldon is v.o.a.

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Is national security correspondent
in the Western u.s.

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State of Arizona

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a man in his sixty's died from ingesting
clear on Quien phosphate it's an additive

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that's typically used to clean fish tanks
reports of cases of Chloroquine poisoning

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also come from Vietnam and I Geria
the poisoning follows a claim by

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a us President Donald Trump last week that
the widely available anti-malarial drug

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might help treat covert 19 but that remains
an unproven treatment the ways Jason

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but taken spoke to Columbia University
epidemiologist Dr Elizabeth Raiden about

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what we know about the effectiveness of
Chloroquine and hydroxy chloroquine for

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fighting covert 19 and how
far we might be from having

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a proven treatment available to patients
around the world but also. How that shown

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to. Be true which they can.

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So if we just chemically combine
these agents. In a glass tube or

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a petri dish we can see activity there
there was in China that study was

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sharing

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a smaller kind of on the order of 100
people and the findings were relatively

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career narry because of that that reported
chloroquine treatment banking related

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pneumonia those patients to were treated
in that setting were recorded on

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a clinical benefit someone getting their
virus in comparison to that group it

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wasn't treated and it was recommended as

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a controlling key. Luminary
evident clear when and.

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Are recommended or. Patients.
Now there's calving.

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That those are only recommended
when they should to r.t.

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. There is no clinical trial and
didn't form dosing or duration

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or either profile accidents or
treatment. So really overall we're at

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a preliminary stage in what is this
process to approve the drug as

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a treatment and then where along that line
does chloroquine fall so there are 3 key

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steps the 1st is testing
the safety of the drug on

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a small scale toxin
patient a 2nd is creating

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a drug that we now think we have that
didn't seem to be saying is also expected

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that achieving the outcome we want and
that's done with approximately hundreds of

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patients and the 3rd step is
testing that safety and hoping see

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a much larger sample that allows us to
consider certain elations younger people

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older people or people with

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a certain preexisting condition and
that allows us to consider potentially

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different game situations or even combination.
Other drugs and those studies are on

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the order. We have not gotten
all the way through every step

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across or clerk when current treatment or
that not the trials are very much ongoing

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we don't have the results what why is it
important to wait for the end of those

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trials we need to know that we have the
best possible evidence that I drug is safe

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and we need to know rigorous training and
struggle so that it's not something that

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just happened random bringing
in one patient we're not making

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a false assumption or to cure it because
we don't want patients to be wasting

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precious time that they have
the next treatment taking

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a drug that might not be affected when
they could be taking something else that

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could help more there have been people
self medicating with chloroquine and now

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than it up with clinical poisoning
self medication. And risky there are

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safety considerations and safety profile
for all drugs there are underlying

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condition that could make the drug dangerous
there are possible interactions with

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other drugs you might be taking the case
of clinical and there is the adage factor

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that people who are trying to take Laurent
when for prevention or treatment I don't

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think that 19 that's not

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a condition the drug is currently recommended
for at all even if this were to move

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through the clinical trials successfully
there is the issue of making sure there's

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enough of it and getting it to all the
people who need it or might need it it takes

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time to plan to implement and to analyze
the types of studies that I've described

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asking about

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a little group gathered it still has to
be reviewed by regulatory authorities has

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to be labeled or given specific
recommendations gordo's take

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a side effect and then it has to be produced
and distributed all of these steps are

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being axed. It all looks. Like 8 or 19

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not in a rush. For really having

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a pro Brantley approved and appropriately
approved recommended treatment

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in. Her eyes Dr Elizabeth Raiden is an
epidemiologist at Columbia University

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she spoke to v.o.a.

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Is Jason Patinkin and coming up later on
payouts strongly rebuked Ghani and I do

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not by name saying their failure has
harmed us Afghan relations wiil ways

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international edition continues I'm Steve
Miller even as top health officials warn

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that America's corona virus
outbreak will get worse u.s.

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President Donald Trump says he wants to
reopen the nation's businesses soon he

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a peace agreement Ghani takes things from
here there is growing tension between one

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camp are going the nation
risks falling into

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a deep economic depression of less than
reopens and medical experts who warn the

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human cost of doing that will be catastrophic
with the outbreak not even at its

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peak yet the president appears to be growing
impatient with the shutdown we have to

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open our country because that causes
problems that in my opinion could be far

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bigger problem with the economic impact
growing and markets fall and he wants the

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country open again in the weeks not months
saying without evidence the consequences

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of keeping it shuttered could be worse
than those of the pandemic itself probably

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more deaths from that than anything that
we're talking about with respect to the

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virus suggesting it could cost more
lives than the virus it will be

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a tremendous death from the death in
each other many deaths with outside the

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evidence the nation's about halfway through
the government suggested 15 day run of

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closures which the president acknowledges
has saved many lives many many health

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experts say unless the u.s.

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. New sharply limiting social interactions
virus cases will overwhelm the nation's

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health care system as did his top health
officials have signed off on his idea the

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president said they have not I think they're
Ok with it and I'm Ok with it solder

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a bag on the Washington there was

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a surge in markets Tuesday thanks to
historic measures taken by central banks to

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support economies reeling from the
coronavirus pandemic South Korea's benchmark

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Kaspi index gained more than 8 percent of
the end of the day while Japan's Nikkei

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rose 7 percent and disease in Australia
and Hong Kong both finished 4 percent

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higher Well the Shanghai ended up more
than 2 percent the markets were boosted by

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the Us Federal Reserve's
announcement that it was launching

00:23:10
a massive buying program in various
investments to keep in the Asians economy

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afloat including corporate and union
support bonds South Korea and Japan have

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announced similar economic rescue measures
the good news extended into Europe with

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the Dax index in Frankfurt gaining 5
percent in mid-morning trading on both

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London's footsie and CAC 40 in
Paris up nearly 4 percent u.s.

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Markets rallied more than 5 percent in
early trading. Publisher as of 3 u.s.

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Newspapers urged China on Tuesday to
reverse its decision to force out about

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a dozen American journalists saying in an
open letter that the explosions calm at

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a time of shared crises for the world
China announced on March 18th there was

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revoking the press credentials of all
American journalists in the China bureaus of

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3 newspapers that were due to expire at the
end of 2020 effectively expelling them

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representatives of the Wall Street Journal
Washington Post and The New York Times

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that the decision was uniquely damaging
and reckless as the world is fighting

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a global coronavirus pandemic explosions
were the latest escalation in

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a dispute with the United States over media
freedom and access. He was secretary of

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state Mike Bombay I made

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a previously unannounced visit to Kabul.
On Monday to meet with Afghanistan's rival

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leaders as he sought to end the political
crisis and salvage the peace process with

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the Afghan Taliban but
after the visit Pompei

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o blasted those leaders saying they were
unable to agree on an inclusive government

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and announcing a $1000000000.00 cut u.s.

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Assistance to Afghanistan for this year
the ways diplomatic correspondent stayed

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the same as the story. The secretary of
state might come Peo travel to violence

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stricken Afghanistan during the middle of

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a global coronavirus pandemic to meet in
person with both the Afghan president

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Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdul Abdulla
both Ghani and Abdulla declared themselves

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out resident of the country after

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a contentious election and the
dispute threatens to derail

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a deal signed between the u.s.

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And the Taliban last time in

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a written statement hours after the visit
compay out strongly rebuked Ghani and

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Abdulla by name saying their
failure has harmed the u.s.

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Afghan relations and sadly just honors
those Afghan American and coalition

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partners who have sacrificed their lives
and treasure in the struggle to build

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a new future for this country experts
say Pompei of his visit to under the

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circumstances showed just how high the
stakes were I think that the idea here was

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to say no to probable and to Afghanistan
on the whole just how committed the u.s.

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Is to helping I've got to thinking through

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a very difficult political crisis that is
going the way of launching peace talks

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last month historic peace deal in doa
has been followed by weeks of disputes

00:26:16
between the Taliban and the Afghan
government Cindy seign v.o.a.

00:26:21
News Al Barrow dares over who drew the
Asterix and Obelix comics that delighted

00:26:26
legions. Children and adults over the past
6 decades has died at the age of 92 his

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then a log told a French news agency that
he died in his sleep in his home after

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a heart attack that was not linked to the
coronavirus he'd also been extremely

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tired for the past several weeks and that's
going to do it for us today you've been

00:26:47
listening to international edition of The
Voice of America on behalf of the entire

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English. Today on the
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00:28:04
John Russell Pete Musto and on the
Teo. Later Steve ember will present

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our American history series The Making of

00:28:14
a nation. But 1st here
is John Russell. The

00:28:20
containers of flowers in storage
at Hank vender slots farm

00:28:26
in the Netherlands were supposed
to go to Vatican City the Roman

00:28:33
Catholic Church planned to use them to
help celebrate the Easter holiday on

00:28:40
April 12th but travel and
transport restrictions forced

00:28:46
a change of plans for the church will
go without the famed Dutch flowers

00:28:53
this year the church is not
alone and that the corona virus

00:28:59
is

00:29:00
a disaster for the Dutch flower
industry said Michette of on ski he

00:29:07
is the press officer
at Royal Flora Holland

00:29:11
a group of growers that sells some
$12000000000.00 plants and flowers each

00:29:18
year but vanished he said
85 per cent of the market

00:29:24
turnover has disappeared that does

00:29:28
a big problem for the industry last
year Dutch flour exports brought in

00:29:35
more than $6000000000.00 euros The
Dutch government says the country has

00:29:42
a 44 per cent share of world
trade in flowers and plants

00:29:49
some Dutch farmers are now giving away
to the ups to health care workers as

00:29:55
a way to thank them for helping
fight Covidien 19. It is not only

00:30:01
growers in the Netherlands who are hurting
the pain has spread to farmers in

00:30:08
Europe and Africa in Kenya few
people are at work at Mara

00:30:15
dad the flowers farm about 90
kilometers north of Nairobi

00:30:21
normally 120 people are busy at
work in the company's product

00:30:28
quality control area but it
is almost empty now the few

00:30:35
employees there are cutting down
roses and throwing them away about

00:30:41
230-002-2500 extension 00 flowers each day

00:30:48
owner Jack nappers is

00:30:50
a Dutchman who has worked in Kenya
for many years he said about 80 per

00:30:57
cent of his $720.00 employees
are at home this is costing us

00:31:04
about half a $1000000.00

00:31:06
a month nappers said he said he will
start to dismiss employees if the

00:31:13
situation continues much longer.
To roil Flora Holland's large

00:31:19
auction few flowers are being traded
the auction was the point of sale

00:31:26
for about $4700000000.00 euros
worth of flowers last year

00:31:33
now it is asking the farmers to send
only about 25 per cent of their usual

00:31:39
crops Frons funder Sloat is keeping
his to the ups in cold storage for

00:31:46
as long as possible he is hoping sales
will recover around Easter on April

00:31:53
12th but if he is wrong he will
have to throw out his flowers.

00:32:00
Earlier this week he threw out

00:32:03
a lot of tulip bulbs because it would
not be economical to plant them

00:32:10
they fed them to cows he said
they were 1st class bulbs. I'm

00:32:17
John Ross on.

00:32:30
The people of Guadalupe Arizona are
very proud of their history the

00:32:37
town's name comes from Our Lady
of Guadalupe it is linked to the

00:32:44
reported sightings of Mary the Mother
of Jesus Christ in Mexico during the

00:32:51
1500s Yaki Indian refugees from Mexico

00:32:57
established Guadalupe in the southwestern
United States over 100 years ago

00:33:05
today the town is known for religious
ceremonies connected to the Christian holiday

00:33:11
of Easter but people there are

00:33:14
a little worried about outsiders as
they prepare for the 2020 census

00:33:22
the u.s.

00:33:22
Bureau of the census plans to gather
information about the country's population and

00:33:29
their communities next month town leaders
hope to ease any unwillingness to

00:33:36
join the population count which takes
place once every 10 years that is

00:33:43
because the census could decide if
Guadalupe gets more federal money the

00:33:50
local government has

00:33:51
a budget of $12000000.00. The town
uses the money to repair roads

00:33:58
and the local waste water treatment
system every revenue stream is important

00:34:05
to

00:34:05
a community as small as this one town
manager Jeff told the Associated

00:34:12
Press or a.p.

00:34:15
Across the country small poor towns such
as Guadalupe present problems for census

00:34:22
workers these communities are often
home to one or more ethnic groups

00:34:29
language barriers and poverty can be

00:34:32
a problem it can be very difficult
to count people who move from

00:34:39
place to place to find employment
such individuals can be distrustful

00:34:46
of the government the u.s.

00:34:48
Government has already delayed sending
workers to count college students during the

00:34:54
coronavirus pandemic as people are asked
to keep their distance from one another

00:35:01
counts in places like Guadalupe could
grow even more difficult Native

00:35:08
Americans make up almost one 3rd
of the $6500.00 people living in

00:35:15
Guadalupe about 70 percent of all
people there identify as Hispanic

00:35:23
a 3rd struggle with poverty in the community
where the average yearly household

00:35:28
income is around $32000.00 and
the average owner occupied

00:35:35
a home is worth less than
$90000.00 just 60 percent of

00:35:41
adults finished high school it is

00:35:44
a similar story in Immokalee Florida.
A recent wave of immigration by

00:35:51
indigenous Guatemalans who speak Mayan
languages has created challenges for the

00:35:58
local government the nearest hospital is
nearly 50 kilometers away in the wealthy

00:36:04
community of Naples Immokalee is

00:36:08
a farming town and home to $25000.00
people it has been called

00:36:14
a food desert meaning it has
few food stores more than 43

00:36:21
percent of the population is in poverty

00:36:25
a similar percentage have not finished
the 1st year of high school and a.p.

00:36:31
Study shows that such small poor
and largely Latino communities

00:36:38
historically have been undercounted
in earlier censuses. Cohn

00:36:44
writes about the census for the Pew
Research Center she said it is an

00:36:51
increasingly difficult and costly job
to count these hard to counter groups

00:36:58
it may be because they distrust the
government or are moving around or people who

00:37:04
don't speak English said Cohen The
Census Bureau is spending $500000000.00

00:37:11
in advertising $50000000.00 for ads
designed to ease the fears among

00:37:18
some Latinos This includes trying to
ease their concerns that they will be

00:37:24
asked about citizenship which
is incorrect. I'm Pete Musto.

00:37:56
From v.o.a.

00:37:57
Learning English and this is the
health and lifestyle report several

00:38:04
governments around the world have
requested or ordered their citizens to

00:38:10
quarantine themselves to stay
at home to avoid contact with

00:38:17
others quarantines help
slow the spread of diseases

00:38:24
like Kovac 19 Koren teens
however can cause health

00:38:31
problems themselves people are
at greater risk of anxiety

00:38:38
and depression as

00:38:39
a result of the isolation
caused by quarantines

00:38:46
So health experts around the world
are offering advice to help deal

00:38:53
with the undesirable effects of
Coron teens on mental health

00:39:02
psychologist Claudia w.

00:39:05
Allen is among them she directs
the behavioral science

00:39:11
department at the University
of Virginia School of Medicine

00:39:18
she leads the family stress
clinic there as well Allen

00:39:24
says continuing with normal routines
as much as possible will help you stay

00:39:31
healthy during quarantines. For
example she says people should

00:39:38
continue to wake up and get
dressed at their usual time

00:39:45
she says with some people staying in
pajamas all day could lead to feelings

00:39:52
of being unproductive
or without purpose She

00:39:59
also advises people to make plans write

00:40:04
a list of activities and
times for carrying them out

00:40:11
these activities might include
cleaning your home paying bills

00:40:17
making calls and preparing
meals health experts

00:40:24
also suggest eating your
meals at your usual time.

00:40:33
Alan says everyone should include
self care activities during

00:40:39
quarantine such as exercise
reading or playing musical

00:40:46
instruments getting exercise
is important even if you

00:40:52
must stay indoors make sure to
move your body maybe seek some

00:40:59
online exercise classes keeping

00:41:04
a list will help you balance the things
you have to do and the things you want to

00:41:10
do Alan also suggests using

00:41:15
a quarantine to develop

00:41:18
a new skill or to learn
about something like Most

00:41:24
health experts Alan also advises
people to make sure to spend time

00:41:31
outdoors being in nature can
help to ease boredom and other

00:41:38
tensions of quarantine. So take

00:41:44
a walk work in the yard
if you have one start

00:41:50
a garden and explore
some woods or wild areas

00:41:57
get sunshine on your face
wash your car or bicycle

00:42:05
Alan says helping others is another
way to lift your spirit during

00:42:12
quarantine this could be as
simple as calling someone who was

00:42:18
alone or greeting

00:42:20
a neighbor from your window
you could also provide

00:42:25
a service online for example if you are

00:42:30
a teacher you could offer online
homework help to friends who must now

00:42:37
homeschool their children and keep

00:42:42
a check on your own feelings if you
are experiencing difficulty from the

00:42:48
effects of quarantine contact
health care provider

00:42:55
community organization or
an emergency hotline number

00:43:02
and that's the health and lifestyle
report I'm Mario Ritter Jr.

00:43:21
Welcome to the making of a
nation American history in v o n

00:43:26
a special English I'm Stephen very.

00:43:36
Britain was once the most powerful
nation in the world it ruled

00:43:41
a far reaching empire we look at how
British power gave way to American

00:43:47
influence after World War 2.

00:43:57
1 can almost name the day when
this happened it was February 21st

00:44:03
1947 British diplomats in Washington
called the State Department they

00:44:09
had 2 messages from their government
the 1st was about Greece the

00:44:16
situation there was critical reset been
occupied by Germany and during the war

00:44:23
now it was split by

00:44:25
a bitter civil war on one side of the
fighting was the Greek royal family

00:44:31
supported by Britain on the other side
were communists led rebels supported by

00:44:38
Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union
British forces had helped keep Greece

00:44:45
from becoming communist
at the end of World War 2

00:44:50
a few years later Britain could no longer
help it needed all its strength to

00:44:56
rebuild after the war so on
that February day in 1947

00:45:03
Britain told the United States it would
soon end all support for Greece.

00:45:10
Britain's 2nd message that day was
about Turkey Turkey was stronger than

00:45:17
Greece but the concern was that it
too could become communist unless it

00:45:23
received outside help. Britain warned
the United States that the Soviet Union

00:45:30
would soon extend its control all the
way across Eastern Europe to the

00:45:37
eastern Mediterranean it called President
having the Truman to provide strong

00:45:43
American support to help Greece and
Turkey resist the Communist threat

00:45:51
Britain in effect was asking the United
States to take over the leadership of the

00:45:56
Western world the United States was ready
to accept this new responsibility.

00:46:08
For months relations between
the United States sand us

00:46:12
a Viet Union had been
growing worse and worse.

00:46:24
The 2 countries at fought together
as allies in the 2nd World War But

00:46:30
Soviet actions after the war shocked
the American people the Soviet

00:46:37
Union wanted to block Western public
tical and economic influence in Central

00:46:43
and Eastern Europe it wanted to
extend its own influence instead.

00:46:51
So after the war it forced

00:46:53
a number of countries to establish communist
governments around let me in in the

00:47:00
Baltic it would be out here in the Adriatic
and I are you going to manage it and in

00:47:06
the ground the company Britain's Prime
Minister Winston Churchill described the

00:47:11
situation in

00:47:13
a speech in March of 1946 at Westminster
College in the American state of

00:47:20
Missouri behind that line by all
the capital of the ancient date of

00:47:26
central and eastern New York.
Waterfall early in the rod.

00:47:34
Build up in Belgrade

00:47:36
a big red and popular Wally basement
that is and the population around

00:47:43
them lived in whopping amount of gold
that there would be. And all out up there

00:47:50
in one form or another lot of it over here
in the world but one day at high and in

00:47:56
time Katie in creating the Grand Opera in
the gravel from article Churchill warned

00:48:02
that the Soviet Union was trying to
expand its power he described it as an

00:48:09
Iron Curtain falling across the
middle of Europe. This iron curtain

00:48:15
divided Europe into

00:48:17
a Communist East and the
Democratic whist. The

00:48:35
situation was made even more tense
by news coming from China China was

00:48:42
a divided nation at the end of World War
2. The forces of nationalist leader

00:48:48
Chiang Kai shek controlled the
southwestern part of the country communist

00:48:55
forces under mild said dong controlled the
north both the United States sand the

00:49:02
Soviet Union expected that Chiang Kai
shek would be able to unite China

00:49:09
Chiang and the nationalist one several early
victories over the Communists but Mao

00:49:15
and his forces used the growing hatred of
the nationalist government to win support

00:49:23
slowly they began to win battles
and capture arms. Early in

00:49:29
1949 communist forces took
control of Peking Now Beijing

00:49:36
and t.n.c.

00:49:37
Then. They captured Shanghai and
count on. By the end of the year

00:49:44
Chang and his nationalist forces ad
to flee to the island of Taiwan.

00:49:52
The fall of the nationalist
government on the mainland caused

00:49:56
a bitter political debate in America some
critics of the Truman administration

00:50:02
thought the United States at not done
enough to help the nationalist but

00:50:09
Truman administration rejected the
charges it said Chang caused his own

00:50:16
defeat by failing to reform and win
the support of the Chinese people.

00:50:23
Secretary of State Dean Acheson described
the defeat this way The unfortunate

00:50:30
but in

00:50:31
a ski pole fact is that the ominous
result that the civil war in China was

00:50:37
begun and the control of the government
of the United States. Nothing that this

00:50:44
country did or could have done and within
the reasonable limits of its capabilities

00:50:51
could have changed that result. Nothing
that was left undone by this country has

00:50:57
contributed to it it was the product that
internal Chinese forces forces which

00:51:04
this country tried to
influence but could not

00:51:09
a decision was arrived at within China
if only at this Asia and by default.

00:51:23
The United States was more successful in
its policies toward Europe the British

00:51:28
warnings about the communist threat in
Greece and Turkey led President Truman to

00:51:35
speak to Congress he said I believe that
it must be the policy of the you and I.

00:51:42
It states to support free peoples who
are resisting attempted subjugation

00:51:49
by armed minorities or by outside
pressures. Truman called on

00:51:55
Congress to give him $400000000.00
in aid for Greece and Turkey.

00:52:02
After

00:52:03
a brief but intense national debate
Congress agreed. Truman then

00:52:10
launched an effort to save the Greek
economy and reorganize the Greek army.

00:52:17
Soon after that Yugoslavia and the
Soviet Union ended their aid to Greek

00:52:24
rebels the civil war in Greece
ended. American help for

00:52:30
Greece and Turkey was the 1st step in
what became known as the Truman Doctrine.

00:52:38
The goal of this policy was to stop
Soviet aggression anywhere in the world.

00:52:46
Truman was willing to use military force
to stop the spread of communism but he

00:52:52
also believed it was equally important to
build up Western European nations so they

00:52:59
would be strong enough to defend themselves
Europe was suffering terribly after

00:53:06
World War 2 there were severe
shortages of food and fuel crops were

00:53:13
destroyed many Europeans were beginning
to look to the Communists to anybody to

00:53:20
save them. This is one reason why
Truman and his advisors developed

00:53:26
a plan to rebuild the economies of
Europe after the war President Truman

00:53:33
made George Marshall his secretary of
state Marshall had led American troops

00:53:41
as

00:53:41
a general in World War 2 Now as the
nation's top diplomat he proposed

00:53:48
the idea for rebuilding Europe this
idea became known as the Marshall

00:53:54
Plan President Truman
explained why there had to be

00:53:59
a Marshall Plan people were starving
he said there had been food riots in

00:54:06
France and Italy there was not enough
fuel people were cold and sick

00:54:14
tuberculosis was breaking out as Truman
said later something had to be done

00:54:21
secretary of state Marshall
described the plan during

00:54:25
a congressional hearing in Washington why
must the United States very soon bring

00:54:30
a little you helping your. Answer is simple
United States is the only country in

00:54:37
the world today which is the economic power
and productivity the burnished the need

00:54:42
it is just 6 and I can't even
propose the 1st 15 months less than

00:54:48
a single one charge of the war would be
quite clear it's unprecedented it never

00:54:53
knew where to go. It is account
later. It is the typical

00:55:00
program. And you know far better than I
do the political difficulties involved in

00:55:06
this program but there's no doubt whatever
my mind that if we decide to do this

00:55:12
thing we can do it success and there's
also no doubt in my mind that the whole

00:55:16
world. And in the balance
as to what it is to be.

00:55:25
The United States offered aid through the
Marshall Plan to all countries in Europe

00:55:32
the Soviet Union and its allies
refused to help 16 other countries

00:55:39
however welcomed the aid from 19481952

00:55:46
administrators of the Marshall Plan worked
with these countries the United States

00:55:52
spent $13000000000.00 The plan
worked agricultural production

00:55:59
in Marshall Plan countries increased
by 10 percent industrial production

00:56:06
increased by 35 percent production
in some industries such as steel

00:56:13
increased by much more. There
were political results as well

00:56:19
stronger economies helped to prevent
communists from gaining control of the

00:56:25
governments in France and Italy. Some
Europeans criticized the Marshall plan

00:56:32
they said it increased tensions between
the United States Sambo's Soviet Union in

00:56:38
the years after the war yet few could
deny that the plan was one of the most

00:56:45
successful international
economic programs in history.

00:56:53
And that's our program for today listen
again tomorrow and to learn English 3

00:56:59
stories from around the world on Jonathan
other means and I'm Ashley Thompson.

00:57:09
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00:57:15
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00:57:30
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00:57:33
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