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On The Voice of America this is v.o.a.

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News reporting via remote I'm David Byrd
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said

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Friday he would still lead the country's
response to the corona virus outbreak but

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would be holed up inside

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a borrowed office within the nation's
seat of government after testing positive

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writers Francesca liner reports British
prime minister that Boris Johnson was south

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I think

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a thing for 7 days and rocking since
unfunny day after announcing his positive

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coronavirus test result in

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a dark and I can continue thanks to that
we've been technology the piano now has

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meals on paper to move it to do and will
communicate with of teams I think you can

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print things as the u.k.

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Government continues the country against
current as I. No secretary not revealed on

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Friday that he had come down with the virus
I had when tested not tested in public

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citizen since in syllogism Thursday just

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a day after he was in the House of Commons
chamber on certain penances question

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it's unclear how many Downing Street and
seeing him in the room now need to isolate

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themselves given that many have had contact
with Johnson and how come every day

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week the u.s.

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House of Representatives has approved
the largest stimulus package in u.s.

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History Friday as part of the response
to the economic crisis caused by the

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coronavirus pandemic as A.P.'s sovereign
The Gunny reports the measure passed after

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some time heated debate freshman Democrat
Haley Stevens appeared to have driven all

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night to the Capitol but usually bile Janet
Stevenson's wearing pink latex gloves

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said she was speaking directly to doctors
and nurses to love the fact that these.

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New leaders eventually called her all the
gentle lady would suspend Stevens kept

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yelling while walking away. Soccer
Megan Washington this is video

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a news. South Africans woke up under lockdown
Friday struggling to adapt to some of

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the toughest restrictions in the world as
the country recorded its 1st coronavirus

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deaths and confirmed cases rose above
1000 Reuters him across the reports South

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Africans woke to 21 died locked down on
Friday some of the toughest measures in the

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world as

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a country recorded its 1st coronavirus
death and consumed cases rose above 1000

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but the results and me stand underlines
the difficulty other countries in the

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region knife fight if the disease takes
real to the streets of Johannesburg it

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practically deserted for example while
military and traffic police have been

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removing homeless people from the streets
and forcing them into shelters not far

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away in Alexandria and other poor township
large crowds the still gathering and the

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cramped conditions in those places go
against social distancing rules and act as

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a breeding ground for the virus among people
reliant on the country's ailing public

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health system the restrictions confined
paypal to their homes the most activities

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including exercise only committing trips
outside for specific purposes like buying

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food of the health emergencies South
Africa's 1st 2 deaths from the virus both

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occurred in Wisden kite more than 600
miles from Johannesburg the country has

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become an epicenter of the outbreak on
the continent with 3212 people have been

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infected overruled of whom 84 have
died. Iranian media reports that

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hundreds of people have been killed and
more than 1000 sickened by ingesting

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methanol in the mistaken belief it protects
against the corona virus A.P.'s Shankly

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has details in

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a rainy and talk to helping the country's
health ministry told the Associated Press

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The problem was even great giving

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a death toll of on 480 with 2850
people sick had the poisonings

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come as fake remedies spread across social
media in Iran but people remain deeply

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suspicious of the government to downplay
the crisis for days before overwhelmed the

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country this I make Republic has reported
over 29000 confirmed cases and more than

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2200 deaths from the virus the
highest toll of any country and any.

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Shecky on Wall Street with about an hour
left in the trading day all 3 major

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indices are lower the Dow Jones
Industrials are down by nearly 2 and

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a half percent well the s. And p.

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Is off by about 2.4 percent for more on
these stories and the rest of the day's

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news visit our Web site v.o.a.

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News dot com reporting via
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News.

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Today is Friday March 27th and this is
below A's international edition I'm Steve

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Miller in Washington the United States is
now the epicenter of the worldwide corona

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virus outbreak there are now open wounds
of the 82000 to more than China where the

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virus originated and Europe's epicenter of
plus how well are governments responding

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to the crisis to see Love different outcomes
but the most important thing was the

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differences in actually is the rate of
response to him likely the governments of

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these measures once they become
exposed to the virus post or is

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a more our next I've reduced prime

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minister Boris Johnson has tested positive
for the krona virus he is currently self

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isolating but will still leave the
government's response to the on break Kong's

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chief executive Kerry Lam says the special
administrative region in China will ban

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public gatherings of more than 4 people
to combat the spread of covert night tame

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this all comes as u.s.

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President Donald Trump says the nation
needs to reopen for business even as the

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u.s. Reaches

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a milestone in the coronavirus pandemic
B.A.P.'s Saager Magon it starts us off

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Johns Hopkins University is running tally
shows America now has more confirmed

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virus cases than any other nation even
China where the virus originated but the

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president's been saying for days he wants
to ease nationwide guidelines that have

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kept the many Americans home in

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a bid to stammer further spread and people
want to go back to work I'm hearing I'm

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hearing it loud and clear from everybody
he's told the nation's governors the virus

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in bags to regions in different ways
than federal officials are developing

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guidelines to rate counties by risk of
virus spread the president later told Fox

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News Channel's Hannity is somewhat less
impacted areas like the farm belt could

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really. Open 1st Saugor of agony
Washington more than 537800

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people have been affected by the novel
coronavirus across the world and 24100 have

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died that's according to

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a John Hopkins University tally infections
have also been reported in at least 200

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countries and territories says the 1st
cases were identified in China back in

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December of 29 tain as United States works
overtime to scream foul ones for the

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novel coronavirus a new blood test offers

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a chance to find out who may have immunity

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a potential game changer in the battle to
contain infections and get the economy

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back on track orders Gloria so has that
story test for the coronavirus are limited

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in the United States which means people who
are showing strong signs of the disease

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are likely to go undetected

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a new blood test could change that as
the country works overtime to screen

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thousands for the virus and contain it
these tests can quickly identify disease

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fighting and so bodies and those who might
be infected have few or no symptoms all

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it takes is a prick of the finger different
from the current diagnostic test with

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a nasal swab that can be hard to come
by California based by America is among

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private companies already selling
the tests outside the u.s.

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They say their kid sells for
less than $10.00 company c.e.o.

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Zack Irani Cohan warns though that just
because someone has answered bodies doesn't

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mean they're covered proof what our test
tells you is if they've been exposed to

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over 1000 are producing antibodies to
prove it 19 Ok As for and there are some

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papers that suggest that they will have

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a likely immunity to it so there are
clinical studies that suggest that they will

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have a likely immunity to over 19 is

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a very new it is novel and so we don't have
all the answers yet disease experts say

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Kovan $1000.00 immunity could last
for several months or more than

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a year based on other coronavirus studies
but they also. Caution there's no way to

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know for sure and it could be different
from person to person Tony Mazzoli is the

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chief microbiologist of Toronto's Sinai
health system is somebody has recovered.

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Saying they've made the appropriate and
universe once and therefore you can find

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these if you're going to use them to questions
are going to anybody's in the us to

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protect them from getting refunds acted
so can they go back to school given their

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daily activities no injury on them you
know and then when they last questions

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remain over how accurate the tests are and
how they would be rolled out the u.s.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
said it is working on its own version of

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antibody tests but it is not given

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a timetable that was Reuters reporter Gloria
so the leaders of the world's foremost

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industrialized nations convened via
teleconference on Thursday to discuss the

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global corona virus outbreak White House
correspondent Patty Whitaker Swara as that

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story. A New York City National
Guard soldiers begin converting

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a convention center into a
temporary medical facility to ease

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a hospital bed shortage as part of the
state's response to the call that 193

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President Donald Thompson leaders of the
g 20 the world's foremost industrialized

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nations teleconference Thursday morning
to discuss the global response we have

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a lot of different ideas what

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a good idea is working together the leaders
gathered. Virtually around the world to

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discuss. The whole subject of
the problem that right now

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$151.00 nations have got Trump again called
for opening parts of the country soon

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to solve the economy the public health
experts warn against relaxing social

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distancing guidelines too soon they want
to see some evidence that actions are

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slowing to the point where we may feel
comfortable releasing some of the

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restrictions slowly well. Also how do
you plan in place to rapidly identify

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additional cases and to isolate them
critically with more than $81000.00 cases in

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the u.s.

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And then surpassing $1000.00 criticism has
been mounting overseas about the fund

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administration's approach my expectations
are that things are going to go far worse

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before they get better.
We in the past have been

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a leader for the world I think very few
people in the world now are looking toward

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the United States for leadership the
virtuous cycle is called by the current g 20

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chairman Saudi king and

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a statement after the meeting the g 20
announced they will inject more than 5

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trillion dollars into the global economy
share more health needs and address

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potential trade destructions Patsy you
know what have you seen us Malaysia as the

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world's top supplier of medical
gloves manufacturers are warning of

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a global shortage because of the government's
partial lockdown on the country just

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as the krona virus driven demand is soaring
worldwide Malaysia currently needs more

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than half of the global demand for the
gloves the country however it has the

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highest number of firms. The country
however does have the highest number of

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confirmed Kovan 1000 cases
in Southeast Asia and issued

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a movement control order March 18th that
extends through April 14th in hopes of

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slowing the infection rate international
and domestic travel is restricted and

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non-essential businesses have been ordered
close that's just one of the many

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responses governments have taken to combat
the pandemic that the university of

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Ontario. School of Government has launched

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a covert 19 government response tracker it
aggregates data from $73.00 countries so

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far including China South Korea Italy Britain
Canada and the United States I spoke

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with Thomas Hale associate professor of
global public policy. At the but next call

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about this research
project via Skype we see

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a general trend toward increasing stringency
and measures more school closings more

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workplace closings more travel
restrictions set around we see

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a lot of variation in the level of governments
have got you already. Are already

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had

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a very high rate of stringency even with
relatively few quick cases like creation

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or so the other using are
being countries are still

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a bit down like things we see that for
example in Brazil others are falling sort of

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with class where they see 1st with them
quickly correct this number of cases begins

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to grow so we see

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a lot of different outcomes but the most
important thing we're seeing differences

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in actually is the rate of response or
how quickly the governments around these

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measures once they become exposed to the
virus in some countries their rate of

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stringency increases sort of in line with
the rate of cases in other countries it

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lags it unfortunately in
the u.s. And the u.k.

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Are 2 countries where that lag is been

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a bit larger given facilities relatively
new how much data do you think the you

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need to cool lacked globally how much time
how many different countries before you

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can make some good policy recommendations
as to what has worked in the past the

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trick is really the lacking in how do you
get when people come back to and we see

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their cases entering our data so because
this is up to 2 we kind of delay in one

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sentence take effect and because people got
to testify these cases and you think of

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policies from 2 weeks ago are the ones that
we need to study for the understand you

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think now so unfortunately
we're going to be

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a little bit behind the curve in that sense
of identifying what works like I said

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we've seen the explosion in number of
countries where 2 weeks ago stringency was

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much lower and I think we'll be able to
measure that increasingly welcome forward

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how can you disseminate your results in

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a meaningful way yeah I mean this is the.
Accessible and useful is really at the

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heart of our project so everything we
collect is immediately available on the Web

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site in real time will be able to make but
that is not public for anyone to take

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and use we think it's really important
to do that because as missing really

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a bit slow at the moment our responses to
this when you get them is begin to adapt

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in real time based on what the administration
says works or doesn't work and we're

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not going to do it for not. Commissions
clearly as you know the last is mutating

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the very fast team and you can innovate
and we can also in the past actually work

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together in collaboration this way. Thomas
Hale is an associate professor of global

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policy had Oxford University is
next school and coming up later we.

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Want to museum to make their critics
and you're listening to v.o.a.

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News. This is. Scientists in

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Chicago who discovered the oldest solid
material ever found on Europe from inside

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a meteorite that fell in Australia 50 years
ago but the founder dreams of stored

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a microscopic remnants of stars that
died billions of years ago thanking blue

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wanted to help form new stars planets
from other objects like meteorites the

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ancient bits of stardust around actually
tiny grains of pre-schoolers so we can

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carbide that were created long before our
Some 4600000000 years ago to determine

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the age of the Stardust the scientists
measured 6 pusher to high energy costs to

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graze the fly through the galaxy using bad
dating techniques the researchers found

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the grains of stardust are between
4670000000 years old the scientists findings

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were published in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences I envy you

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ways Rick Perry the Mayo.

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View ways international edition
continues I am Steve Miller

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a bit of American tribes in the United
States fear they're covered 1000 outbreak

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could have

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a devastating effect on them and New
Zealand is the trouble chairman of the bay

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Mills reservation of us all say Marie Benz
of Chippewa Indians in Michigan you and

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told v.o.a.

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Is using Patinkin but the Cove in 1000
outbreak threatens some tribes very

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existence one of the big challenges we say
is that culturally we lead very communal

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lifestyles so we have

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a lot where multiple generations
of family members live together

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a lot as an informal care networks in our
community where everybody takes care of

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everybody else so if you tell people don't
ask grandmother or your aunt to watch

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your kid that's unusual in that makes it
hard for you to shelter in place or if you

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have an adult sibling or a
neighbor who knew for a meal once

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a week or just

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a chicken to make sure they're Ok and you
take that away from somebody it makes it

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hard for them to live their daily
lives so when you have to rely on

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those community care networks and he
lay around that cultural way of life

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that is built around being together it
makes you especially vulnerable to the

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spread of infectious disease what about
in terms of the health care aspect in our

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community we have

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a pretty well developed tribal health care
system in health center but it's what we

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call

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a primary care facility we don't have
intensive care units on our reservation we

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don't have ventilators and we have
actually very few. For the coronavirus or

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other protective equipment for the health
care workers for the nearest hospital is

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. 25 miles away and so if you have people
in our community who get sick they're

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going to be transported competing with
others to reservation for those types of

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resources. There are

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a lot of travel communities in the United
States that are even more remote than we

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are and in some places it might be

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a 100 miles. With intensive care units
and ventilators people in those

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communities often have the resources to
make those trips on their own very few

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travel communities have access to the to
care you would need if you can trust that

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the crowd of players with
any community on earth

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a disease that seems to target the
elderly is vicious but particularly for

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tribes I think it's even more so because
of the knowledge the history the culture

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the language that resides in those
overly individuals can you talk

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a bit about that you know you really
hit the nail on the head because for

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a lot of tribes the ability to speak our
language is slightly diminished over the

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years because of federal government policies
and education policies Indian children

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were basically told you are not allowed
to speak your language or you'll be

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punished so the people who have the
ability the knowledge John are the most

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vulnerable the coronavirus in some tribal
communities are male maybe 2 or 3 people

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who have that ability their language
fluently losing that connection with your

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culture will be devastating to your
very existence are their existence as

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indigenous people that was Brian Newlin
the tribal chairman of the bay Mills

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reservation of the saw Samaria bands of
chip away Indians he was speaking to be

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always Jason but again grown

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a virus pandemic has shuttered Europe's
museums feeders and concert halls but

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artistic expression is flourishing anyway
at least online from Paris user Brian

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reports on the cultural offerings for

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a lockdown. Audience and cover
nineteen's impact on the industry.

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How about an evening with
the Berlin Philharmonic

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a crowd free visit to the little museum.

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Joining

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a dance class with the
Dutch National Ballet. Or

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attending a concert by
Spanish singer Danny j.

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. Has covered Knight puts more

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and more European countries under lockdown
the region's cultural and creative

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industries are getting creative audiences
may be forced to stay home but they've

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got

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a truly movable on line feast for free. To

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line up professionals and amateurs like
this You Tube recording of the balcony

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concert in Italy now

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a tradition said secant you went under
lockdown this month also online articles

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that bets like the clip collection at
Austria's Belvedere museum or pest

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impressionism at the movies they are
meant. To grant. Would amuse you

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to make their critics
inaccessible David v.o.m.

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Chairs the executive board at the network
of European museum organizations and he

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also directs the German Museums Association
the reason. Why you knew where you.

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Would you know. We were. Very.

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Good you know made by you directed
by one person we've been.

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Here in the French capital the Paris
Philharmonic is joining European counterparts

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in putting some of its greatest concerts
online to fill. Harmonic Secretary-General

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does seem all can be opposed to the
tension that you have. But it's

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actually that you can. More than.

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Welcome to. The.

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Bridge they covered 19 is also dealing
Europe's cultural institutions and artists

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a major financial blow it's far too early
to estimate the impact but it will be

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sizable especially for those living on the
edge financial support and on so far by

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some European governments can only cover

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a fraction of the losses the government
said that the everything that should have

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to buy the company. But we don't know
exactly how with. Some of the major.

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Is what. About 2 such advised European

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museums share these concerns.
A lot of critics or

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a lot of problems you know credit you know
you know. Some countries in Europe going

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to have access to one another to who had

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a very. Good run

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a virus is taking its toll in other ways
it's infected artists like Italian opera

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star Placido Domingo and Cameroonian jazz
legend minute Bongo who died in Paris

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this week. But debunkers music

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goes on and so does your arts
cultural scene Lisa Bryant for v.o.a.

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News pass today Friday March 27th as national
correspondent Jim along. Phones last

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day with the Voice of
America he's wrapping up

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a 37 year career in which
he's covered Africa the u.s.

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Congress and so much more before he before
he enters retirement I spoke to him

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about covering the u.s.

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Political be mostly I've been
interested in trying to frame things in

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a greater and more general context over the
years and provide kind of analysis that

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gets beyond the daily back and forth you
certainly have to be aware of the latest

00:25:37
developments but I think it's also important
to be able to pull back on these major

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election debates or issues of the day and
try to find some kind of sense of it in

00:25:50
a broader context and sort of get away
from the moment to moment hyper activity

00:25:56
that you might find on Twitter or or other
aspects of social media coverage and

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that's

00:26:02
a great challenge because you know for
voters their attention span is much less

00:26:08
than it used to be you believe your way for
37 years now you know looking back over

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your career you know what are some of the
highlights that day you look back on

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finally with your coverage now with politics
but with other areas that you've been

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with feel way yeah I mean
I started with the l.a.

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After I had been

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a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa I was in
the small nation of what was then called

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Swazi land. In the late seventy's
and early eighty's and.

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My 1st experiences it via way were with
the English Africa Division which has

00:26:46
a very loyal audience following and I think
both my time overseas and my time there

00:26:52
crystallized how listeners and viewers
overseas are interested in what goes on in

00:26:59
the United States and our political system
and how you have to sort of cater to

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their. Their interests in

00:27:05
a different way than you would an American
domestic audience and that's something

00:27:10
I've I've looked to hone over the years
I also think my experience covering

00:27:16
Congress in the early ninety's was instructive
because there was no better place to

00:27:21
see the conflicting currents of this large
and complicated country come together

00:27:26
and say on the floor of the House of
Representatives 435 people representing in

00:27:31
a huge country of over 300000000 and you
saw all those competing interests sort of

00:27:38
clashing and coming together on

00:27:40
a daily basis and how for the most part you
know that institution was able to work

00:27:46
out the differences and come to some sort
of compromise at times but I have to say

00:27:53
also in the in the 2 thousands to watch
the rise of the Tea Party their political

00:27:58
mantra was no more
compromise and so we've seen

00:28:01
a much greater political polarization
in recent decades and sort of

00:28:07
a political tribalism in our
political parties that you know it's

00:28:12
a bit disturbing moving forward there are
always signs of bipartisanship we've

00:28:17
sought as Congress try to come together
to help with the corona virus outbreak in

00:28:22
an aid package there are signs of it but
you know our political differences there

00:28:27
are always there for all to
see and it's going to be

00:28:30
a concern moving forward it has been

00:28:33
a great privilege and pleasure trying to
follow all these great sort of dynamic

00:28:38
changes in the country politically over the
years and to find them out through the

00:28:43
voices of real Americans and you know present
those views on Vo way and try to give

00:28:49
people around the world

00:28:50
a deeper understanding of how complex
our country is and you know it is

00:28:55
a democracy but it's it's it's often messy
it's not always neat and it's always

00:29:02
evolving and so to try to crystallize. Well
that for listeners viewers and readers

00:29:07
are received has been a
great challenge but also

00:29:10
a great source of. Satisfaction over the
years Jim it has been an absolute pleasure

00:29:16
speaking with you and working with you
these last few years and I wish you the

00:29:19
absolute best as you set off for retirement
Steve thanks so much and the same goes

00:29:25
for you I wish you the best as always and
with that that's going to do it for us

00:29:30
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00:29:35
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News dot com Until next time I'm
Steve Miller in Washington have

00:29:53
a great weekend. Welcome

00:30:09
to learning English

00:30:11
a daily 30 minute program from the Voice
of America I'm Jonathan Evans and I'm

00:30:17
Ashley Thompson this program is aimed
at English learners so we speak

00:30:23
a little slower and we use words and phrases
especially written for people learning

00:30:30
English. Today on the program you

00:30:37
will hear from Mario Ritter Jr Jill
Robinson and Alice Bryant later Steve Earle

00:30:44
will present our American
history series The Making of

00:30:47
a nation but 1st here is Mario
Ritter Jr. People returning

00:30:54
from Western countries are bringing

00:30:57
a new wave of Corona virus cases
to parts of Asia such as Hong

00:31:04
Kong and Taiwan this is
happening as health officials

00:31:11
in the area were getting their
outbreaks under control the

00:31:17
development which health officials
describe as imported cases

00:31:25
threatens Disease Control
work and economic recoveries

00:31:33
once their overseas situations
easily develop Taiwan Health and

00:31:40
Welfare Minister Chun sure
Chung said this week however

00:31:47
returning have the right to live
here so if they have any symptoms we

00:31:53
do our best to intercept them
at the airports Chen said

00:32:00
people arriving from heavily infected
places such as Western Europe and

00:32:07
the United States brought many
new cases last week the Taiwan

00:32:14
Centers for Disease Control said most
of the new cases reported earlier this

00:32:21
week had come to the island from
other countries the total number of

00:32:28
cases in Taiwan has grown nearly
5 times since early March

00:32:36
late last week Hong Kong
recorded 48 cases in one day

00:32:42
resulting in warnings there
about arrivals from overseas.

00:32:50
Singapore had contained its outbreak
one of the world's earliest However

00:32:57
people returning from overseas have
pushed the total caseload higher

00:33:04
Singapore's Ministry of Health said
many of the new cases were imported

00:33:12
local media reported people
are returning to Taiwan from

00:33:19
overseas for several reasons
including school cancellations

00:33:25
Taiwanese health minister Chen said
those returns will continue for

00:33:32
another 2 weeks he predicted
before everyone gets back the

00:33:39
daily number of people entering Taiwan
is decreasing and totalled about

00:33:46
4600 early this week Taiwan

00:33:52
Singapore Malaysia and Vietnam
have all banned most foreign

00:33:59
visitors Taiwan took the extra
step Sunday of barring transit

00:34:06
passengers quarantine rules
have been strengthened on

00:34:12
a rival's with any kind of
passports people arriving in Hong

00:34:18
Kong from anywhere in the world
are ordered to quarantine

00:34:26
Taiwan asks airplane passengers to
report travel histories and any

00:34:32
clear symptoms most airplane
passengers are returning

00:34:39
home as few people are starting
trips said Brendan so be

00:34:46
he started this Singapore based
advising company so be aviation.

00:34:54
What will happen in Singapore and
Taiwan and Hong Kong will depend on the

00:35:00
cases that came from abroad
said Raj of biz was Asia

00:35:07
Pacific chief economist at the
information services company i.h.s.

00:35:14
Market if it can be kept under
control for the next couple of weeks

00:35:21
then hopefully things should get
better he said in China where the

00:35:28
virus spread began citizens have
slowly returned to work this month

00:35:35
people have started going out to
eat again and to visit stores in

00:35:42
Taiwan children are still attending
school workplaces remain open

00:35:49
and restaurants are filled
on weekends but experts warn

00:35:56
that bans on foreign travel and to
Asian countries will reduce how

00:36:03
much people spend their especially
in the case of foreign travelers

00:36:10
for example Vietnam's normally
active tourism industry is

00:36:17
almost completely quiet
the country reported

00:36:22
a few imported coronavirus cases
this month there are more than

00:36:29
$230.00 confirmed cases
there Adam McCarthy

00:36:36
is chief economist with advisory
company make Kong economics

00:36:43
he said travel bans Maine little
economic improvement can be made.

00:36:50
People can't travel from one country
to another. And well not pick up

00:36:57
no matter how much money you throw at the
problem so it's really different from

00:37:04
just

00:37:04
a normal downturn
McCarty. I Mario Richard.

00:37:27
The face of double mom is blistered
as she fights to breathe the little

00:37:34
girl is crying and slowly going
blind her mother holds 3 year

00:37:41
old Dubbo in her arms at

00:37:43
a health center in northern
Democratic Republic of Congo here

00:37:50
doctors are working hard to contain

00:37:52
a deadly virus towboat does not
have the new coronavirus or Ebola

00:37:59
virus disease she has. This
preventable but extremely

00:38:05
infectious disease has moved quickly
through the country since early 2019

00:38:13
measles has killed about 6400
people official reports show but

00:38:20
health care workers say the number is
much higher reporting rates are very low

00:38:27
doubles mother when they are barely
spoke to the Reuters news agency she

00:38:34
said I feel guilty because I'm afraid people
might say it's because I didn't get my

00:38:40
daughter treatment quickly my
belly is hardly to blame Congo's

00:38:47
government has delayed
vaccine campaigns because of

00:38:50
a lack of money. That has left millions of
children without protection for measles

00:38:58
health workers say there is also

00:39:01
a problem with poor quality vaccines
leaving thousands at risk in

00:39:06
a country of 81000000 people health
officials have sent hundreds of millions of

00:39:13
dollars and workers to
Eastern Congo to fight

00:39:17
a 19 month outbreak of Ebola that
disease has killed over 2000

00:39:24
people the number of new cases is
finally decreasing just as Kovac at

00:39:31
19 the disease from the new
coronavirus arrives after

00:39:38
a 1st corona virus case in the capital
Kinshasa this month reported infections rose

00:39:44
to 8 team by last weekend priority
will be given to Cove it 19 in

00:39:51
the coming weeks or months depending on
the trend of the disease said Vincent So

00:39:57
Gino he leads the anti-missiles
effort in Congo for the World Health

00:40:03
Organization measles is on the rise
around the world but Congo is worst

00:40:10
hit the hospital where Dubbo is being
treated lies deep in the forest the

00:40:17
nearest paved road is 125 kilometers
to the south in the city of Lee Sala

00:40:25
keeping vaccines cool for the trip from
Kinshasa is important but difficult

00:40:32
on

00:40:32
a recent vaccination campaign medical
aid group medicines sun frontier or

00:40:39
m.s.f.

00:40:40
Food 2700 containers 2.
In the large cool boxes

00:40:48
in Lee Sala the boxes were tied to the
back of motorbikes for the 10 hour trip to

00:40:53
the hospital. And the s.f.

00:40:56
Workers said the vaccines remained at the
correct temperature for the right. I'm

00:41:02
Jill Robins.

00:41:24
Just everyone you might be reading or
listening to this every day grammar program

00:41:31
from your living room or bedroom
in fact you might even be wearing

00:41:38
pajamas no matter the time of
day if you are like us here in

00:41:44
Washington d.c.

00:41:46
And many other places health officials
have asked you to stay at home for now

00:41:53
and with so many people at home for long
periods people are looking for activities

00:42:00
to keep their minds occupied too
much time on social media can be

00:42:06
a problem even binge watching movies
and television shows loses its

00:42:13
appeal after

00:42:14
a while with this in mind we
will be offering ideas for

00:42:20
games that you can play with your family
or housemates in the coming weeks to

00:42:26
practice your English on today's
program we will talk about

00:42:32
Jeopardy

00:42:33
a favorite game of English
learning classrooms the idea

00:42:40
comes from the American television game
show in which players give their answers

00:42:47
in the form of

00:42:48
a question you may have even seen
the show and your country. In

00:42:55
Jeopardy players choose from categories
and try to win money like this

00:43:02
I'll take countries for $100.00 this
Asian country is famous for its high

00:43:09
quality motorcycles what is Japan that is

00:43:15
correct notice that the
answer came in the form of

00:43:21
a question what is Japan you
will also note the host read

00:43:28
a fact in statement form we
will call those facts clues

00:43:35
playing Jeopardy at home is

00:43:37
a good way to get experience
forming questions in English it

00:43:44
also can improve your speaking and
listening skills and help expand your

00:43:50
vocabulary now let's talk
about how to play the game

00:43:58
you will need 3 or more English
learners one person to serve as hosts

00:44:05
and the others to play there are
2 ways to play the game the

00:44:12
traditional way with answers and question
form and the easier way which you can

00:44:18
find on our website at
learning English v.o.a.

00:44:23
News dot com Here is how to play
the traditional way the 1st

00:44:29
step is to decide who the host
will be his or her job is together

00:44:36
clues for the game the host also
reads clues to the players and

00:44:43
keeps

00:44:44
a record of points one to play the
game you will need 5 separate

00:44:51
categories. For example you
might choose countries animals

00:44:58
foods sports and actors for each category

00:45:05
choose 6 clues from easy
or $100.00 to difficult or

00:45:11
$600.00 the host will also
need to keep the clues on

00:45:18
a computer screen or
write or print them on

00:45:22
a small piece of paper to set
up the game you will need

00:45:28
a board or large piece of paper
if using paper put it on

00:45:34
a wall for all the players to
see on the large paper or board

00:45:41
make

00:45:41
a grid like the simple design
shown on our website write the

00:45:48
categories on the left of the grid
and the money amounts across the top

00:45:55
for the full directions on how to play the
game to see how to make the grid and for

00:46:02
links to clues that are already prepared
go to our website join us again

00:46:08
soon for more grammar games you can
play at home I'm Alice Bryant.

00:46:26
Welcome to the making of a nation
American history in the oh

00:46:32
a special English I'm Steve Embry.

00:46:39
We continue the story of America's
33rd President Harry Truman.

00:46:47
Truman was sometimes called an
accidental president he only became

00:46:54
president because he was vice president
when Franklin Roosevelt died in

00:46:59
1945 in the election
of 1948 Truman ran for

00:47:06
a full term as we told you last week
many experts predicted he would lose

00:47:14
but voters chose him over the
Republican party candidate Thomas e.

00:47:19
Dewey the governor of New York Americans
also reelected a Congress with

00:47:26
a majority from Truman's Democratic
Party. The president might have expected

00:47:32
a Congress led by his own party to
support his policies but that did not

00:47:39
always happen time after time Democrats
from southern states joined in voting

00:47:46
with conservative Republicans together
these lawmakers defeated some of Truman's

00:47:52
most important proposals one
of the defeated bills was

00:47:57
a proposal for health care insurance
for every American. One of the major

00:48:04
issues during Truman's 2nd term was
fear of communism after World War

00:48:11
2 Americans watched as one Eastern
European nation after another became an

00:48:17
ally of the Soviet Union Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin wanted to see

00:48:24
communism spread around the world and
Americans watched as China became

00:48:30
communist in 1949 as forces led by
mouths that don't defeated the Chinese

00:48:37
Nationalist after

00:48:39
a civil war that had lasted more than
10 years during this tense period

00:48:46
there were charges that communists held
important jobs in the United States

00:48:52
government these fears real or
imagined became known as the Red Scare

00:49:00
of the All I wanted. To fire a
little I want a little bit about

00:49:05
a lot of little. A Republican
senator from Wisconsin Joseph

00:49:12
McCarthy led the search for
Communists in America in speeches and

00:49:19
congressional hearings he accused
hundreds of people of being communist or

00:49:25
communist supporters. His targets
included the State Department the army

00:49:31
and the entertainment industry. Senator
McCarthy often had little evidence to

00:49:38
support his accusations many of his
charges would not have been accepted in

00:49:45
a court of law but the rules governing
congressional hearings were different so

00:49:52
he was able to make his accusations
freely many people lost their

00:49:58
jobs after they were denounced as
communists some had to use false names

00:50:05
to get work

00:50:07
a few went to jail briefly for
refusing to cooperate with McCarthy

00:50:13
the senator continued his anti communist
investigations for several years by

00:50:20
the early 1950 s.

00:50:22
However more people began to
question his methods critics said he

00:50:29
violated Democratic traditions.
In 1954 the Senate

00:50:36
finally voted to condemn his actions
McCarthy died 3 years later.

00:50:50
There were problems caused by the fear of
communists at home but President Truman

00:50:56
also had to deal with the threat of
communism in other countries he agreed to

00:51:03
send American aid to Greece and Turkey.
He also supported continuing the

00:51:10
Marshall Plan that was the huge economic
aid program that helped rebuild

00:51:17
Western Europe after World War 2.
Many historians say the Marshall

00:51:23
Plan prevented Western Europe from
becoming communist the defense of

00:51:30
Western Europe against Soviet communism
led Truman to support the creation of but

00:51:37
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO began in 1949 with

00:51:44
figure knighted States Britain
Canada France and 8 other nations

00:51:51
the treaty that created NATO stated that

00:51:54
a military attack on any member would
be considered an attack on all of them

00:52:02
Truman named General Dr Eisenhower
to command the new organization

00:52:09
generalize and Howard had been supreme
commander of allied forces in Europe in

00:52:15
World War 2. In his
swearing in speech in 1949

00:52:21
Truman urged the United States to lend
money to other countries to aid their

00:52:28
development he also wanted to share
American Science and Technology.

00:52:36
In 1951 the president asked
Congress to wrest abolition

00:52:41
a new foreign aid program the aid would
go to countries threatened by communist

00:52:48
forces in Europe the Middle East
North Africa East Asia South Asia

00:52:55
and Latin America Truman believed the
United States would be stronger if its

00:53:02
allies were stronger. President Truman
believed that many of the world's problems

00:53:09
could be settled by means other than the
military force but he supported and

00:53:15
used military power
throughout his presidency.

00:53:28
On June 25th 1950 forces from
North Korea invaded South Korea

00:53:35
2 days later the United Nations
Security Council approved

00:53:40
a resolution urging u.n.

00:53:43
Members to help South Korea
resist the invasion.

00:53:54
At 1st President Truman agreed to send
American planes and ships later he

00:54:01
agreed to send American ground forces the
president knew his decision could start

00:54:08
World War 3 if the Soviet Union entered
the war on the side of communist North

00:54:14
Korea yet he felt the United
States had to act later he

00:54:21
said it was the most difficult decision
he made as President Truman named

00:54:28
Army General Douglas MacArthur to command
all United Nations forces in South Korea

00:54:34
. Most of the fighting in the Korean War
took place among the geographic line

00:54:41
known as the 38th Parallel this line
formed the border between North and South

00:54:48
Korea. Many victories on the
battlefield were only temporary one

00:54:54
side would capture

00:54:56
a hill and the other side
would recapture it. In

00:55:04
September of 1950 MacArthur led the
un land and sea attack at Inchon

00:55:11
pushing the North Koreans back across the
border there was hope that the war could

00:55:17
end by Christmas December 25th in
late November however troops from

00:55:24
China joined the North Koreans thousands
of Chinese soldiers helped push the

00:55:30
un troops south. General MacArthur
wanted to attack Chinese bases in

00:55:37
Manchuria President Truman said no he
did not want the fighting to spread

00:55:44
Bejan but for reimplement him
again he feared that such

00:55:49
a decision could start another World War.
I counter strongly believed he could

00:55:56
end the war quickly by extending it to the
Chinese mainland he publicly denounced

00:56:03
Truman's policy saying there
is no substitute for victory.

00:56:11
For him and felt that the general left
him no choice in April of 1951 he

00:56:17
dismissed Mag I think it is the deepest
pressure of threat that I found myself

00:56:22
compelled to take this action rather than
of our British military commanders but

00:56:28
the fall of our world. Is much more
important than any individual in the

00:56:34
United States military leaders are expected
to obey their commander in chief the

00:56:40
president while some Americans approved
of the General's dismissal many others

00:56:47
supported back I think millions greeted
him when he returned to the United States

00:56:54
there were huge parades in his honor
in San Francisco and New York in fact

00:57:00
few leaders in the 20th century could
boast the support MacArthur had almost

00:57:07
7000000 people at tended the tickertape
parade given to him by New York City

00:57:14
and that almost doubled the size of the one
given to another returning World War 2

00:57:21
hero General Dr Eisenhower. MacArthur
gave his farewell speech to

00:57:27
a joint session of Congress
on April 19th 1951. I am

00:57:34
closing. My 52 years of military service.

00:57:46
When I joined the Army. Even
before the turn of the century. It

00:57:53
was the fulfillment. Of all
my boyish hopes and dreams.

00:58:01
The world has turned over many.
Such I took the oath on the

00:58:08
plane at West Point. And the
hopes and dreams. Of walnuts

00:58:15
and span. But I still
remember the brain. Of

00:58:21
one of the most popular
bar ballads of that day.

00:58:28
Which proclaimed and most
probably. At all soldiers.

00:58:35
Never Die. They. Just paid away. And

00:58:42
like the old soldier of what.
I now close my military

00:58:49
career. And just. Fade away. I don't know

00:58:56
your. Pride to do his duty.
As God gave him the light to

00:59:03
see to it. But.

00:59:16
On the Korean peninsula the word
consider ceasefire talks began in July

00:59:22
1951 but the conflict would
last for another 2 years until

00:59:28
a truce was declared. The Korean War
armistice agreement was signed on July

00:59:35
27th 1953. And that's our

00:59:42
program for today listen again tomorrow to
learn English 3 stories from around the

00:59:49
world Jonathan Evans and
I'm Ashley Thompson.

01:00:06
This is v.o.a. News reporting via
remote I'm David Burd the u.s.

01:00:11
House of Representatives
on Friday approved

01:00:13
a 2.2 trillion dollar aid package the
largest in American history to help people

01:00:20
and businesses cope with the economic
downturn inflicted by the coronavirus

01:00:24
pandemic

01:00:26
a quorum is present the
motion is adopted. The

01:00:33
massive bill rushes billions of dollars to
medical providers on the front lines of

01:00:38
the outbreak House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
said that members from both parties were

01:00:43
able to put aside their differences to do
what is best for the country so placed

01:00:48
today to be had so to have had passed
on the for practicing on the small

01:00:55
they this important they don't care and we
want to demonstrate that we do care for

01:01:01
the American people and every way House
minority leader Kevin McCarthy sought to

01:01:06
reassure small business owners who have
had to close because of the coronavirus

01:01:11
pandemic to every small business that is
that the shutdown and everyone who works

01:01:16
for

01:01:16
a small this. Now the resources are there
for you the Senate has already approved

01:01:22
the bill by unanimous vote President
Donald Trump has said that he will sign it

01:01:27
into law. British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson has tested positive for the new

01:01:33
coronavirus A.P.'s Ben Thomas has
details I developed my symptoms on

01:01:39
the right of r.s.s.

01:01:41
The say call to video posted on Twitter
prime minister Boris Johnson says he was

01:01:45
tested for covert 19 on the advice of
Britain's chief medical officer and that

01:01:49
tests came out positive what's in from I'm
so if isolated but Johnston says he will

01:01:55
be able to continue with his responsibilities
to lead the national fight back

01:02:00
against correct about if Congress doesn't
become unable to work but government says

01:02:04
foreign secretary Dominic raw.

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