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At 152-0100 u.t.c.

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. This is the only news I'm
Gene Randall in Afghanistan

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a production of violence agreement between
the United States and the Taliban has

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apparently led to

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a peace deal one designed to pave the way
for direct talks between the insurgents

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and the Afghan government the announcement
is expected tomorrow the news is being

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greeted with

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a mixture of optimism and doubt here is
former Afghan president Hamid Karzai to the

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American people are miss it is we are
grateful for the help that she gave us in

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areas where there has been

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a lot of improvement to the Afghan
society together with the rest of the

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international community. Mainland China
reported 337 new corona virus infections

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yesterday the lowest daily
number in more than

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a month but elsewhere in the world things
are getting worse in South Korea the

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hardest hit country outside China the
caseload has swollen to more than 2000

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including $256.00 new infections and 13
deaths the World Health Organization is

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urging all nations to be alert to the
danger and to act accordingly Nigeria has

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reported its 1st covered 19 case it is
the 1st in sub-Saharan Africa and it's

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raising fears about what
could follow we get

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a report from Henry Ridge Well Nigerian
officials say the confirmed case is that

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it's currently

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a national who works in Nigeria and return
to Lagos from Milan Italy earlier this

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week he is now being treated in

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a Lagos hospital and is said to have no
serious symptoms the case has raised fears

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of

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a potential corona virus outbreak in one
of Africa's most densely populated cities

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single cases of the coronavirus have been
detected in Egypt and Algeria but so far

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there has been no large scale outbreak on
the continent that was Henry rich while

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reporting for v.o.a.

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Switzerland has unveiled a 2 month
ban on public gatherings of

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a 1000 or more people Switzerland has
19 reported corona virus cases with an

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estimated 100 people in quarantine More
news at the News dot com from Washington

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this is v.o.a.

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News health authorities have announced
they've confirmed the 1st 2 cases of Corona

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virus in Mexico

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a man in Mexico City who recently visited
Italy tested positive today another

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patient is in the northern state of Sinaloa
Brazil is the only other country that's

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reported covered 19 in Latin America. The
presidents of Turkey and Russia today

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spoke by phone

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a day after Syrian government airstrikes
killed 33 Turkish troops it was the

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largest church death toll since Aker
after the Syrian conflict in 2016 and

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a serious escalation of tensions with
Moscow Meanwhile Turkey is calling on the

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international community to impose

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a no fly zone in Syria to protect
hundreds of thousands of civilians from

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airstrikes in and around it live province
research line reports for v.o.a.

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On the situation there nearly 1000000
civilians are camped out near the border with

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Turkey under horrific conditions intensified
shelling and airstrikes by Russian

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backed Syrian forces trying to retake it
live in northern Syria from rebel groups

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has sent people fleeing for their lives but
they do not have anywhere to go Turkey

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will not open its borders to them and so
they are stranded close to the area where

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the bombing is taking place well tells
Organization spokesman Christian Lindenmayer

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tells v.o.a.

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Shelter is scarce exposing people to
the harsh elements nearly 170000 newly

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displaced people are estimated to be
sleeping out in the open as you know as you

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rightfully said which has been exposing
at least 800000 children to temperatures

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close to 0 degrees and that's a drama
Lisa filed that report from Geneva

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a worker with the u.s. Health and
Human Services Department is filed

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a whistleblower complaint about

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a lack of protective gear and training
when caring for coronavirus evacuees from

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China may be correspondent Ben Thomas has

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a report the Department of Health and
Human Services says it's a valuating

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a government whistle blowers complaint
alleging federal workers did not have the

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necessary protective gear or training when
they were deployed to assist Americans

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evacuated from China because of the
coronavirus I would want to get

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a report out my team I'm not aware of any
violation of quarantine or or isolation

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protocols that's Health and Human
Services secretary Alex as are at

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a House hearing Thursday responding to

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a question from Congressman Jimmy
go. The California Democrat says

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a high ranking Department
official complained that h.h.s.

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Employees sent to Travis in March air bases
weren't properly prepared when Thomas

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Washington voters in South
Carolina tomorrow cast ballots in

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a crucial us presidential primary election
among the questions to be answered

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whether self-styled democratic socialist
Bernie Sanders strong bid for the

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nomination can be stalled and if former
Vice President Joe Biden can stage

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a comeback victory after poor showings
in Iowa and New Hampshire Gene Randall

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v.o.a.

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News. Today

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is Friday Feb 28th and this is video is
international edition I'm Jason Patinkin in

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Washington coming up as the covert 1000
corona virus spreads fears grow that it

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could hit

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a refugee camp I would find it difficult
to say at the moment everything is done

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probably prevented yet it would be
pretty to put it here but the u.s.

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And the Taliban are expected to sign

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a peace deal tomorrow after 19 years
of war and Zonker of calls for

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a no fly zone in Syria after an airstrike
killed $33.00 Turkish soldiers those

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stories and more are next.

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In our top story today as of Friday there
were more than 83000 coronavirus cases

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worldwide and more than 2800 deaths most
of the cases are in China where the number

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of new cases has dropped China's National
Health Commission reported $327.00 new

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cases and $44.00 deaths early Friday the
lowest number of new cases in more than

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a month but in South Korea the hardest hit
country outside China cases surpassed

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2000 with 256 new cases and 13 deaths
most of the cases are in Daegu the

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southeast the South Korea South Korea's 4th
largest cunt city at least 40 countries

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are reporting the virus with some new
cases in new places Mexico New Zealand's

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Nigeria Lithuania and Estonia have all now
reported the virus within their borders

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in the u.s.

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Officials are reporting the 1st coronavirus
case of quote unknown origin and quote

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meaning the female victim in Northern
California did not travel outside the u.s.

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Or come in contact with anyone who was known
to be infected and in Switzerland the

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Geneva auto show was canceled after the
Swiss government put in immediate ban

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Friday on all. Public and private events
involving more than $1000.00 people to

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limit the spread of the virus as coded
$900.00 spreads around the world aid workers

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fear the worst if the virus hits

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a major refugee camp in Africa the Middle
East or in Southeast Asia in many camps

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thousands of people are packed together
with poor sanitation facilities to find out

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more about preparations to protect refugee
camps I spoke earlier today with Dr

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Tancred sht a bit of Doctors Without
Borders also known as m.s.f.

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Dr bit recently spent 4 weeks in Southeast
Asia assessing prepared this and helping

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train health workers including at the Cox's
Bazar refugee camps in Bangladesh where

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nearly

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a 1000000 Rohingya refugees have fled from
neighboring man Mark here's what he had

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to say about the risk of covert 19 for
refugees I would be quite concerned because

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people living in those very often crammed
camps immune capacity is lower so

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usually they have to deal with a lot
of teachers anyway house isn't in

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a particularly strong state and of course
looked particularly at Cox because and.

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Quite heavily involved in there so we made
sure that we have an intensive care unit

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there prepared so we can isolate people and
can put them there also on ventilation

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machine if it comes to the worst thing
but the most important thing would be to

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really prevent that to happen because every
refugee camp means death thousands of

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people involved and once an outbreak
with Koran I would be inside

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a camp it would be very very difficult
to handle because you can prevent

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a protest spread it is everywhere and people
are going to number. Houses status is

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impaired so what priority is to prevent it
to getting back to 1st place and so can

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you talk

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a bit about what are the things that
should be done to prevent it from getting.

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There in the 1st place one important element
is to check the borders to check the

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major haps that means airports border
places called in Bangladesh is close to the

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Myanmar border and Myanmar itself has

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a land border to China Fortunately those
ways from China all the way to Cox by the

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is not an easy way for traveling so at the
moment we know that overseas travelers

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are at

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a big risk of transmitting the disease so
making sure that everyone who enters the

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camp will be screened that if there is

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a suspicious case that we find very
creative ways to make the diagnosis if that

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diagnosis turns out positive to isolate
that person treat accordingly but make sure

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that further spread inside Occam would
be prevented so making sure that at the

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entrances of the gate we have

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a good screening system and our system
in place to make sure that if there's

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a sick patient we can separate them from
the from the healthy ones is there enough

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attention is there enough being done right
now to prevent this Corona virus from

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entering into refugee camps are the
global health authorities and different

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agencies are they taking this seriously
enough and doing enough the trouble is that

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just in the last few days we have seen
many many more countries being affected by

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the outbreak so yes we need to be concerned
that also in those poor countries and

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that's not to be forgotten more than 80
percent of all refugees in the world are

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hosted by resource poor countries usually
those refugee camps are at land borders

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but they are not usually closed
to be kept tortillas So this is

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a little sign of hope I think we have to
be very cautious at the moment because we

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know that those people living in those
very very precarious situations will be

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affected we know also now Corona cases
have been found in Africa I would find it

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difficult to say at the moment everything
is done properly to prevent. Yeah this

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would be probably too
positive you know we see

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a lot of countries having good
protocols in place no but to have

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a good protocol somewhere on written doesn't
how we need to implement it we need to

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make sure that our medical stuff on the
ground exactly know how to implement that

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to have

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a step by step approach what to do when
they see you suspected case how they do the

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diagnosis how to separate them and have
that all in place that's crucial it's not

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enough to have

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a good protocol and somewhere in headquarters
in the ministry it needs to be on the

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ground where the people are affected
that was Dr Tom for the Doctors Without

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Borders also known as m.s.f.

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In Afghanistan the reduction of
violence agreements between the u.s.

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And the Taliban is largely holding and
Afghans are getting a 1st glimpse of what

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a peace deal between the u.s.

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And the Taliban would look like after
nearly 19 years of war the 2 groups are

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expected to sign

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a peace deal on Saturday at 2 pm local
time in Doha the capital of Hotwire where

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for the last 18 months the 2 sides have
been holding grueling negotiations via ways

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Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau chief tons
eem is in Doha covering the talks and

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gave me an update earlier today the Afghan
government announced that it had banned

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6 people to Doha to doctor Taliban about
prisoners would be the Taliban have denied

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that and the people here in Doha it is not
clear whether they will meet the Taliban

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or whether they will not meet the public
bond and that prisoner release is that

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something that could potentially delay
this process further or is that something

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that is kind of last minute shuffling of
the chairs but the peace deal is expected

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to go through anyways so whole process has
to step the 1st step is the deal between

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the u.s. And dollar bond
and that is that they want

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a done deal. And they have agreed the u.s.

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Has agreed both sides of announced media
are. Around the world is arriving in the

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how diplomats from around the world are
arriving that got to the government of

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hosting the ceremony so that deal is going
to be signed the 2nd step of that is

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within 10 days of signing the deal there's
supposed to be the start of another

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negotiation this time between Taleban and

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a representative team of other Us gone
that team of all 1520 people is supposed

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to have members of government opposition
women human rights activists that said

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graph that Bruce's can be delayed not just
because of the prison the relief back

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and forth but also because there's

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a political crisis in Kabul after the
presidential election 2 candidates both

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declared victory that political crisis
is going to make it difficult to form

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a team off of cons that all sides is Ok
with and finds it represents them so

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the 1st step is going to happen tomorrow
the 2nd step Yes could be delayed and

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that's

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a concept that's the interest and Afghan
dialogue is that correct yes the 2nd step

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is the interim Afghan dialogue and many
observers say that is going to be the more

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complicated one and

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a lot of people have said that is where the
real work will have to be put in the us

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soft on the negotiation those complicated
but at least both sides agreed on the

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outcome which is dollar bond wanted us to

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a good fortune and us want to do would
go us its forces under the right

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circumstances in the end cross gone both
sides disagree on what the future of the

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country should look like so on one hand
we have solid blonde who want an Islamic

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system and they do claim that they believe
in women rights and human rights but

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their definition of what those rights are
is much different from how human rights

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activists for women's rights activists
in Afghanistan define. Those rights for

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themselves so there's going to be

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a more complicated Oshie ation not to mention
that there's going to be some kind of

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power sharing because of course the polygon
are not going to just simply give up

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everything for nothing and there might be
an insistence on changes in the Afghan

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constitution and nobody knows for sure what
the future up of sourness on looks like

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so that's going to be the hard work that
needs to be put in and that all sides are

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expecting will start this month fingers
crossed going back to the deal between the

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u.s. And the Taleban after
the signing on Saturday

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a then what are the next steps for
implementing that deal what is expected is

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within the 1st few months off
the deal finding the u.s.

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Which have 13 cows and soldiers in Afghanistan
right now will bring the number down

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to $8600.00 However the u.s.

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Has made it very clear that

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a lot depends on implementation of everything
on the ground what the Pentagon have

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promised is counterterrorism guarantees
they've said that they will work with the

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u.s.

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To keep Okada at bay and Isis at Bally's
Lovick state add baby not Islamic state

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has claimed several attacks in of Gaza
faun during the last one week which was

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supposed to be a reduction in
violence week when both the u.s.

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And the live longer and the Afghan security
forces were all holding their fire so

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the counter-terrorism part of it and how
both sides cooperate on that that will

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determine what happens after the u.s.

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Reduces its forces to $8600.00 President
Trump recently said in India that from

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that point onwards

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a lot of other things will determine how
the rest of the reduction happens the

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dollar bond have said that
there be live but the u.s.

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When we go all its board says however we
have not seen the deal we don't know if

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there is

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a timeline but we do know as president
from said that things will be interlinked.

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That was

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a few ways I should tuns
Eamonn in Doha. Hong

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Kong police Friday arrested 3 prominent
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists including

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media mogul Jimmy live on charges of
illegal assembly lion outspoken critic of

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Beijing and 2 other pro-democracy activists
were charged for having taken part in

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the in an August protest March live who
did not speak to reporters when he was

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released later in the day
is said to have been

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a target of criticism by Chinese state
media former legislators each who can and

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you were also arrested on the same charges
flee say all 3 are due in court May 5th

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u.s.

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Stocks fell sharply Friday and were on track
for their worst week since October 2008

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as the spreading coronavirus threatens
to derail the global economy the virus

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outbreak has been shutting down industrial
centers emptying shops in severely

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crimping travel all over the world more
companies are warning investors that their

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finances will take

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a hit. If you're listening to v.o.a.

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News. Despite no fresh violence
in the last 3 days in New

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Delhi The death toll from anti Muslim riots
that took place earlier this week in

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the Indian city rose to 41 as wounded
people succumbs to their injuries there

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remain about 300 people in hospitals for
more on how Muslims and Hindus in India

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are recovering from the worst sectarian
clashes in India in years and how India's

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ruling

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b j p party is responding earlier today I
spoke with journalist. Reka in New Delhi

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. Kept up to date. Mocks
led again police of.

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Even drones were deployed
to monitor the situation

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a lot of advance have been baiting the
something is to ensure that the tuition got

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under control now that sounds like

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a change from before the police previously
had been accused of letting the riots

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happen in not really intervening excellently
the police have come under very heavy

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criticism for not preventing divides
from taking on this serious allowing 40

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a dog the systematic didn't often take
by both kinda. Cool In fact we have to

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have the national security adviser to
actually explain. The riots and who do take

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charge off the situation. Under control how
are communities doing in the aftermath

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obviously there has been not not only
the injuries and the death toll but

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destruction to shrines to mosques to shops
to houses how are people recovering and

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picking up the pieces you know
it is going to take people

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a lot of time to rebuild their lives
because they died have really devastated.

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Many people here have small businesses
small shops it's. Many of the destroyed.

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Schools in the area back.
To. Many. I only just

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went from there to be a very
skilled Fadia most gauged with

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a lot of the homes so
you don't actually see

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a lot of people out in the streets as
yet and what does this mean for the

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communities themselves obviously India is
an incredibly diverse country although

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there have been numerous instances of
sectarian violence in the past Hindus and

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Muslims still do live together what is what
is this doing to these communities are

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the Hindu and Muslim communities in New
Delhi now very very far apart or is there

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a chance for some kind of reconciliation
I think there is a chance they can get

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a nation becomes agitated people sort of
leave together in these neighborhoods in

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fact in this particular neighborhood
also you have thought of people and

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a lot of Muslims and in the aftermath
of that I do you have a lot of

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a lot of good stories or want to go on the
golf because well one community should

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join those of the of the community also
being pulled off from the whole feeding

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them from that idea of doing
something to stop trying to get

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a mob to go away for example
if you thought it was

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a lot like going to Muslim
optical they are going to do

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a lot of good stories coming up as I get
to many of I think situation it is not all

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you know the people who are really just
on the glue phone they can often remind

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them and it's uncomfortable to have actually
and Bill and provided the gun goes to

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the storms which will hold back each other
so hopefully in the long time they're

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going to be the building that will be
just established though of course at this

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point of time there is still

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a lot of feel now last of all looking
politically there's there's been

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a an uptick in anti muslim or
violence in particular in the under

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the under the administration of Prime
Minister Modi what what politically does this

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do these riots mean and have his
government come out and credibly condemns

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them or credibly taken action
to to repair the damage

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a lot of the polarized atmosphere with.
It's supposed to have actually legs to the

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ride has been created by

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a new citizenship law that was Basque
in India recently and which Muslims

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protesting the citizenship go excludes
Muslims from immigrants who will be granted

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nationality completely but in
countries and they worry that this is

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a pledge to their citizenship the government
of of course they repeatedly said it

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does not send any Indian Muslims at all
that it happened in each bank and so on

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however the government simply says that
the protesters are misled and the home to

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step up

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a charge with the number 2 man and the
government today actually accused opposition

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bodies of misleading those who are protesting
this law and creating the score that

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I used atmosphere many analysts tell it
to say that the riots of field actually

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because of hate speech by members of the
ruling party against the go against That's

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the tree have had a lot off in the last
2 months in fact it was comments by

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a leader off the beach in the warning
protesters duplicated gold in divided effect

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Galia which is supposed to have acted
after to go all the violence. That was

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journalist. In New Delhi
India Turkey announced

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a revised death toll of 33 Friday from
the Thursday airstrikes by Syria's

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government in the war torn
illiberal engine v.o.a.

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Is i n

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b or has the details Turkey Friday called
for an international no fly zone in Syria

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to protect hundreds of thousands of civilians
from government forces airstrikes in

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the ad lib region the proposal came hours
after Syrian government forces carried

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out an airstrike killing $33.00 Turkish
soldiers in northeast Syria NATO country

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ambassadors held emergency
talks at the request of Turkey

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a member of the alliance Turkey also
announced that refugees could gain access to

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Europe through Turkey Turkey's security
forces have been ordered not to stop the

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Exodus at least temporarily reversing
an arrangement made with the e.u.

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In 2016 Turkey shares borders would 2
European Union countries Greece and Bulgaria

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Greek police reinforcements were deployed
to the country's border checkpoints with

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Turkey on Friday to prevent migrants
entering crease Greek police buses were seen

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preventing access Meanwhile Bulgaria's
defense minister said Friday they were

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sending $1000.00 extra troops to its border
with Turkey to prevent illegal migrant

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inflows cross America said
Border Police had prevented

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a 2 groups of about 30 people from entering
both carry on from Turkey on Friday

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about 1000000 Syrian refugees have been
displaced and have gathered near the border

00:24:59
with Turkey since December that was v.o.a.

00:25:03
Is Iran be your for more on the latest
developments on the Syrian border with

00:25:07
Turkey v.o.a.

00:25:08
Editor Kate pound Dawson spoke with Dorian
Jones age analyst in Istanbul who has

00:25:13
been closely following the story. The
falses have been pounding Syrian regime

00:25:19
targets all across this it lit province
which is the center of fighting between the

00:25:25
regime and the rebels Syrian rebels are
last main stronghold. Defense Minister

00:25:31
Ritchie our colleague said that they opened
200 thought. Claiming to have killed

00:25:37
hundreds of Syrian regime soldiers tanks
helicopters and they said they are now

00:25:41
assessing the affected lives of those
attacks before deciding further steps the

00:25:47
same time he'd be looking to express some
allies in calling for the creation of

00:25:52
a no fly zone over this province the
reason why that is seen as so important

00:25:57
because at the moment Russian jets up being
in I've been acting with impunity along

00:26:04
with Syrian regime forces against the rebels
and the forces and Turkey has not been

00:26:09
able to enter Syrian airspace because
of the presence of Russian forces and

00:26:13
a missile system now on core is looking
to the to its NATO allies them in seeking

00:26:19
to Washington possibly to a ploy a u.s.

00:26:22
Patriot missile system on the Syrian border
which would then create clear the skies

00:26:27
as it was and revive this vital protection
for Turkish forces of the moment was

00:26:32
suffering so badly from the attack so
it has to be said we understand is the

00:26:37
message from NATO and from Washington so
yes we support you guess be on find your

00:26:42
predicament but there is little support
the idea of throwing forces on the ground

00:26:47
but could ultimately come into confrontation
with Russian forces and that is called

00:26:52
a great disappointment and and the same
time the president of one has been speaking

00:26:56
to the Russian president Vladimir Putin
those 2 leaders have agreed to meet at some

00:27:01
point and the outcome of that meeting if
it does occur has seen this key to the

00:27:05
future of this crisis and possibly the
ultimate end of the Syrian civil war and how

00:27:09
that will end now what is the
situation for the refugees. On

00:27:16
the Syrian side of the border with Turkey
what's going on there and wonder what is

00:27:22
Turkey's concern about the refugee situation
the reason why Turkey has deployed

00:27:27
forces military forces into into the
Syrian Italy province is because to

00:27:34
prevent a new exodus of refugees
into Turkey Turkey fears a possibly

00:27:39
a 1000000 maybe 2000000 refugees Well
ultimately ended if the mask over of others

00:27:44
has lost

00:27:44
a place which is our home to over 3000000
people with Giora to women and children

00:27:50
Turkey says we have 3 and

00:27:51
a half 1000000 refugees already in Turkey
from the Syrian civil war we can't take

00:27:55
anymore and that is why Turkey has made
this quite dramatic move it says it's now

00:28:01
opening all those all refugees in Turkey
to go into Europe because it says it can't

00:28:06
take anymore feels look in support from
Europe and now it says that the situation

00:28:11
that Turkey faces should be the problem
of all of Europe what's Europe's reaction

00:28:16
men to that position on the refugees
Well I think it's great deal of all our.

00:28:21
Neighbors Greece area have been ramping
up security forces to protect the long

00:28:28
bulldoze area for the sending soldiers
gives you an indication of all the rising

00:28:33
tensions are rising concerns because both
those countries will be aware of the risk

00:28:39
of another major exodus of refugees
into their house if it happened

00:28:42
a few years ago called chaos for those
countries and for why they are Europe and

00:28:46
ultimately the fear of

00:28:47
a new refugee crisis and being turned main
called over Europe it is now deciding to

00:28:52
play that call. That was journalist
Dorian Jones in Istanbul speaking with my

00:28:58
colleague Kate pound Dawson Somali troops
clashed with the regional militia on

00:29:04
Friday in one of the most serious
outbreaks of fighting yet over political

00:29:07
rivalries in the Horn of Africa country
11 people were killed in the violence

00:29:12
witnesses said tensions spilled over
on Thursday evening between the Somali

00:29:16
national army and the alu Suno while
Jamaah militia that militia is

00:29:21
a group of moderate Sunni
Muslims which has played

00:29:23
a key role in the fight against the al
Qaeda linked al-Shabaab insurgency. That's

00:29:29
going to do it for us today you have been
listening to international edition on The

00:29:34
Voice of America on behalf of our
director not in our engineer p.j.

00:29:39
Elliott I'm Jason Patinkin in Washington
thank you so much for listening.

00:30:07
Welcome to learning English

00:30:09
a daily 30 minute program from the Voice
of America on Jonathan evidence and I'm

00:30:16
Ashley Thompson this program is aimed
at English learners so we speak

00:30:22
a little slower and we use words and phrases
especially written for people learning

00:30:29
English. Today on the program

00:30:36
you will hear from people just oh Dorothy
Gandhi and Alice Bryant later we will

00:30:42
present our American history
series The Making of

00:30:45
a nation. But 1st here is
Pete Musto. In October

00:30:52
26th Tina the head of Russia's
largest oil company traveled to the

00:30:59
birthplace of. The former
president of Venezuela

00:31:05
Rosenau eft Chief Executive Officer
Igor say Chen brought with him

00:31:11
a singing group from Moscow to
celebrate the presentation of

00:31:16
a huge statue of the former
leader Chavez had died 3 years

00:31:22
earlier say Chin's visit marked

00:31:26
a turning point in the relationship
between Russia and Venezuela he spoke to

00:31:33
a crowd of government supporters in Spanish
which he learned in his days working

00:31:40
for the Soviet military in
Africa we have no choice between

00:31:46
victory or death said sation
repeating the words of

00:31:52
a Venezuelan independence hero he
was describing the deepening ties

00:31:58
between Russia and Venezuela in their
competition with the United States

00:32:05
we must achieve victory he said now
the us government wants to break up

00:32:12
that growing partnership as part of its
campaign to remove Chavez's replacement

00:32:20
Nicolas Maduro earlier this month the u.s.

00:32:24
Treasury Department barred American
companies from doing business with the rose

00:32:30
next trading as. It accused
the company the subsidiary of

00:32:36
Russia's state owned oil business
of supporting. As he seeks to

00:32:43
avoid u.s. Sanctions. For months u.s.

00:32:47
Officials have been warning foreign companies
that they could face action if they

00:32:54
continue to do business with Madeira and
his government those warnings have been

00:33:00
directed mainly at Russia the us
government made it illegal for

00:33:07
Americans to buy crude oil from Venezuela

00:33:11
a year ago and government officials
say Russia has processed about

00:33:17
70 percent of Venezuelan oil
sales since that time Francisco

00:33:24
money all day is

00:33:25
a Venezuelan oil expert at Rice
University in Houston Texas he

00:33:32
told the Associated Press the latest actions
should cause concern among companies

00:33:39
in countries that continue to partner
with the Venezuelan state operated oil

00:33:45
company p s a the u.s.

00:33:50
Action could also lead to the ending of

00:33:53
a special license for Chevron
the permit has so far kept the

00:33:59
California based company from having
to pull out of Venezuela Chevron

00:34:06
is

00:34:06
a partner in joint operations
with. Us. Together they

00:34:13
are responsible for about

00:34:15
a 4th of Venezuela's
total oil production in

00:34:21
a statement. Say condemned the
us government for what it called

00:34:28
economic assassination aimed at
taking control of Venezuela's oil

00:34:34
industry. Foreign Minister Jorge
Arias said the new actions

00:34:41
would support Venezuela's case
against the administration of u.s.

00:34:46
President Donald Trump Venezuela is
accusing the administration of crimes

00:34:53
against humanity and is taking the case
to the International Criminal Court

00:35:00
Rosen after operates several
oil fields with p.d.

00:35:04
Vs say that it has controlled since
Chavez's government forced u.s.

00:35:09
Companies out of the country but oil
experts say that as the new go to

00:35:16
supplier of the country's crude oil
supplies Rose NAFTA wins 2 ways

00:35:23
1st Rose left by Venezuela's
high quality mat a 16 crude at

00:35:30
a greatly reduced cost it then
uses money from sales of mad

00:35:36
a $16.00 to pay down
$6500000000.00 lent to p.d.

00:35:42
Vs say since 2014 for the purchase
of Russian made weaponry and other

00:35:49
goods to avoid problems for
buyers in China and India Rose

00:35:56
NAFTA has been using oil transport ships
that try to hide what they are carrying

00:36:03
they turn off their required tracking
systems and carry out risky ship

00:36:10
to ship exchanges off the coast
of West Africa and other areas in

00:36:17
the short term Francisco expects Monday
or oh we'll have to pay more to find

00:36:24
someone else to take on the added risk
of moving the country's oil. That

00:36:30
means Venezuela will have even less money
to import food and medical supplies

00:36:37
or repair its failing electricity
infrastructure and with storage

00:36:44
centers already full
production that is already at

00:36:48
a 70 year low is likely to fall
even further he added still

00:36:55
nobody expects oil sales from Venezuela
to dry up completely That is

00:37:01
unless the u.s.

00:37:03
Navy blocks all of the country's
ports the trumpet ministration has

00:37:09
refused to deny it will do so but
has shown no sign of taking that

00:37:16
action the United States leads

00:37:19
a group of now nearly 60 nations
that recognize Venezuelan opposition

00:37:26
leader won quite go as the country's
rightful leader the group

00:37:32
considers Maduro's 2018
reelection illegal in turn

00:37:39
Russia has accused the Trump administration
of spreading false information to

00:37:46
engineer and overthrow of the
government Richard nephew is an energy

00:37:53
researcher at Columbia University
in New York he helped design the

00:37:59
u.s.

00:38:00
Sanctions policy while at the State Department
during the presidency of Barack Obama

00:38:07
nephew said by not dealing with Rose next
itself and only going after one of its

00:38:14
many parts the effect on Russia's continued
support for him and Darrow will likely

00:38:21
be limited This seems more like

00:38:25
a warning shot designed to look bigger
than it actually is he noted. It's

00:38:31
shooting someone who is Russian sounding
without really punishing the Russians

00:38:37
themselves several pro Putin
lawmakers were dismissive of the

00:38:44
trumpet ministrations efforts they said
they would appeal to the World Trade

00:38:50
Organization to remove what
they described as unlawful u.s.

00:38:56
Actions I think this issue can be
resolved the leddy mayor to jabber of

00:39:03
a member of Russia's upper house of
parliament told our a Navarro's t.v.

00:39:09
News agency they're smart over there
in Rose NAFTA and they will find

00:39:15
a way to get around it I'm Dorothy
Gandhi and I'm Pete Musto.

00:39:47
Hi everyone today let's
start the program with

00:39:51
a question What is your city
famous for making I'll tell you

00:39:58
my answer New York is famous
for making great pizza Here's

00:40:05
another question that follows the same
structure what are you excited about

00:40:11
learning I hope your answer is how to
make sentences that use adjectives

00:40:18
followed by propositions and Jaron that
is the topic of today's every day grammar

00:40:24
program. Without even realizing
it you may already know several

00:40:31
adjectives that use this sentence
structure let's look at 3 of them today

00:40:38
interested excited and bored
now listen to 2 sentences that

00:40:44
use the adjective bored and think
about which sounds more natural

00:40:51
Noemi was bored of doing the same
job. Was bored to do the same

00:40:58
job hopefully the 1st sentence
sounds more natural to you

00:41:05
if so your ears are probably accustomed
to hearing the structure we are exploring

00:41:11
today b.

00:41:13
Plus adjective plus proposition
plus Jaron and in the sentence

00:41:20
was is the verb of being bored
is the adjective of is the

00:41:26
proposition and doing is the Geron
and you may remember that a Geron is

00:41:32
a verb form that ends
and i n g and acts as

00:41:37
a noun if the 2nd example sounds more
natural to you you are likely in the

00:41:44
habit of making the common mistake of
using an infinitive after some adjectives

00:41:52
you may remember that
the infinitive form of

00:41:55
a verb is 2 plus its simplest
form as in to do but

00:42:02
think of the adjective plus
prep a zisha in structure as

00:42:06
a signal that some kind of
noun will follow such as

00:42:11
a Geron and or noun phrase
not an infinitive verb

00:42:17
Ok so I mentioned the adjective
interested excited and bored

00:42:24
now let's look at the propositions that
usually come after them. Listen for the

00:42:31
word that follows interested in the
next example he is interested in

00:42:38
studying abroad the word n.

00:42:42
Is the only prep

00:42:43
a zisha in that can come after the
adjective interested I cannot say for

00:42:50
example I am interested about
studying abroad the good news is that

00:42:57
even though the grammar is not correct the
listener would probably still understand

00:43:03
my meaning Now listen for the
proposition in this example I

00:43:10
am excited about learning to play the
guitar I hope you noted the prep

00:43:15
a zisha about it almost always
follows the adjective excited

00:43:22
finally listen for the prep is ition
in this example they were bored

00:43:29
of staying inside all day that's
right bored of usually goes

00:43:36
together as you can see
in English specific prep

00:43:41
a zisha ans follow specific
adjectives before we go

00:43:48
let's briefly hear what today's example
sound like in the negative form here

00:43:55
are the 3 examples is not interested
in studying abroad he plans to

00:44:02
travel after he finishes school Noemi
was not bored of doing the same job

00:44:10
she learned something new every day I am
not excited about learning to play the

00:44:16
guitar my father is making me do it
can you see how to form the negative

00:44:23
simply add the word not between the b.

00:44:27
Verb and the adjective. But keep in
mind that most native English speakers

00:44:33
use contractions so in real life the
sentences would probably sound more

00:44:40
like he's not interested in studying
abroad and Noemi wasn't bored of doing the

00:44:47
same job so what can you do to
practice the grammar we talked about

00:44:53
today here's one idea try to
familiarize yourself with

00:45:00
a list of about 20 of the most common
adjectives that are followed by propositions

00:45:08
then listen and look for those
adjectives whenever you hear and read

00:45:14
English ask yourself if the speaker
or writer is using the sentence

00:45:21
structure from today's lesson you
can also practice writing your own

00:45:27
sentences and then use them when
you speak or write English to

00:45:33
friends or practice partners while
today's topic is fresh in your mind

00:45:40
here's

00:45:40
a great way to practice right now
answer 12 or all of these questions

00:45:49
What is your city famous for making
what are you excited about learning

00:45:57
what are you not bored of doing
I am very very interested

00:46:04
in reading your answers I'm Alice Bryant.

00:46:20
Welcome to the making of a nation
American history in v.o.a.

00:46:26
Special English I'm Bob Doty with Steve
member we continue the story of the

00:46:33
administration of Herbert Hoover
and we talk about the election of

00:46:38
1932.

00:46:51
President Herbert Hoover worked hard to
rescue would be American economy following

00:46:57
that crash the stock market it
happened in October of 1929

00:47:04
within

00:47:05
a month Hoover called the nation's business
leaders to the White House don't lower

00:47:12
wages the president told them Hoover
called on the bankers at the Federal

00:47:18
Reserve to make it easier for
businesses to borrow money he tried to

00:47:25
provide funds to help farmers get
fair prices for their crops he

00:47:32
pushed Congress to lower
personal taxes and above all the

00:47:38
president urged Americans not to
lose hope in their economy or in

00:47:45
themselves but the economy
was in ruins falling faster

00:47:52
with each passing day of the crisis that
grew into the Great Depression. The

00:47:58
value of stocks had collapsed
millions of workers lost their jobs

00:48:06
the level of industrial production in the
country was less than half of what it had

00:48:12
been before the stock market
crash Hoover's efforts were not

00:48:19
enough to stop the growing crisis in
ever greater numbers people called

00:48:26
on the president to increase federal
spending and provide jobs for people out

00:48:33
of work but the president was

00:48:37
a conservative Republican he did not
think it was the responsibility of the

00:48:43
federal government to provide relief
for poor Americans and he thought it

00:48:50
was wrong to increase spending above the
amount of money that the government

00:48:56
received in taxes the situation
seemed out of control the

00:49:03
nation's government than business leaders
appeared to have no idea how to save the

00:49:09
dollar and put people back to work
Hoover was willing to take steps like

00:49:16
spending government money to help
farmers buy seeds and fertilizer but

00:49:23
he was not willing to give wheat to
unemployed workers who were hungry

00:49:30
he created and them urgency committee
to study the unemployment problem

00:49:37
but he would not launch government
programs to create jobs. Hoover

00:49:44
called on Americans to help their
friends in need but he resisted

00:49:51
calls to spend federal funds for
major relief programs to help the

00:49:58
millions of Americans facing
disaster leaders of the

00:50:04
Democratic Party made the most of the
situation they accused the president

00:50:11
of not caring about the common man
they said Hoover was willing to spend

00:50:18
money to feed starving cattle for
businessmen but not willing to feed poor

00:50:25
children Hoover tried to show the
nation that he was dealing with the

00:50:32
crisis he worked with Congress
to try to save the banks and to

00:50:39
keep the dollar tied to the value of
gold he tried hard to balance the

00:50:46
federal budget and he told Americans
that it was not the responsibility

00:50:53
of the national government
to solve all their problems.

00:51:02
Late in 1931 President Hoover appointed

00:51:06
a new committee on unemployment he
named Walter Gifford to head this

00:51:13
committee Gifford was chief of

00:51:17
a big company American Telephone
and Telegraph but Gifford did

00:51:23
Hoover more harm than good when he
appeared before Congress Gifford

00:51:30
was unable to defend Hoover's
position that relief was the response

00:51:36
ability of local governments and
private giving. He admitted that

00:51:43
he did not know how many people were
out of work he did not know how

00:51:50
many of them needed help or
how much help they needed or

00:51:57
how much money local governments
could raise the situation grew

00:52:04
worse some Americans began to completely
lose faith in their government

00:52:11
they looked to groups with extreme
political ideas to provide answers

00:52:18
some Americans joined the Communist
Party others helped elect state leaders

00:52:25
with extreme political ideas
and in growing numbers people

00:52:32
began to turn to hatred and
violence however most Americans

00:52:39
remained loyal to traditional values
even as conditions grew steadily

00:52:45
worse they looked ahead tonight
teen 32 when they would have

00:52:51
a chance to vote for

00:52:53
a new president leaders of the
Democratic Party felt they had an

00:53:00
excellent chance to capture the White
House in the election and their hopes

00:53:06
increased when the Republicans re nominated
President Hoover and vice president

00:53:13
Charles Curtis in the summer
of 1932 for this reason

00:53:19
competition was fierce for the Democratic
presidential nomination but top

00:53:26
candidate was Franklin Delano Roosevelt
the governor of New York State

00:53:33
Roosevelt had been reelected
to that office by

00:53:37
a large majority just 2
years earlier. He came from

00:53:43
a rich and famous family
but he was seen as

00:53:47
a friend of the common man
Roosevelt was conservative in his

00:53:53
economic thinking but he was

00:53:56
a progressive in his opinion that government
should be active in helping people

00:54:04
Roosevelt had suffered from polio
and could not walk he used

00:54:10
a wheelchair although it was
really shown in news pictures

00:54:17
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 2 main
opponents were Ausmus and John Garner

00:54:25
Smith had been the governor of
New York before Roosevelt garner

00:54:31
a Texan was the speaker of the House
of Representatives together they hoped

00:54:38
to block Roosevelt's nomination and
they succeeded the 1st 3 times

00:54:45
that delegates voted at the Democratic
nominating convention in Chicago

00:54:52
Roosevelt's chief political adviser James
Farley worked hard to find Roosevelt

00:54:59
the votes he needed at the
convention finally Farley found

00:55:06
a solution he made

00:55:08
a deal with the supporters of John
Garner Roosevelt would make garner the

00:55:15
vice presidential nominee if garners
forces voted to make Roosevelt the

00:55:21
presidential nominee Garner
agreed and on the next vote the

00:55:28
Democratic delegates nominated Franklin
Roosevelt to be their presidential

00:55:33
candidate Al Smith was so angry
about the deal that he left

00:55:39
Chicago without congratulating
Roosevelt. Roosevelt wanted to show the

00:55:46
nation that he was the kind of man
to take action that he had more

00:55:53
imagination than Hoover so he broke
tradition and flew to Chicago

00:56:00
it was the 1st time a candidate had
ever appeared at a convention to accept

00:56:06
a nomination. And Roosevelt told the
cheering crowd that together they

00:56:13
would defeat Hoover.

00:56:22
The main issue in the campaign
of 932 was the economy President

00:56:29
Hoover defended his policies Roosevelt
and but Democrats attacked the

00:56:35
administration for not taking enough
action Roosevelt knew that most

00:56:42
Americans were unhappy with the Hoover
administration so his plan during

00:56:49
the campaign was to let Hoover
defeat himself he avoided saying

00:56:55
anything that might make groups of
voters think he was too extreme but

00:57:02
Roosevelt did make clear that he would
move the federal government into action to

00:57:09
help people suffering from the
economic crisis he said he was for

00:57:16
a balanced federal budget but he
also said the government must be

00:57:22
willing to spend extra money to
prevent people from starving

00:57:30
Americans liked what they heard from
Franklin Roosevelt he seemed strong he

00:57:37
enjoyed life and Roosevelt seemed
willing to try new ideas to

00:57:43
experiment with government. Hoover
attacked Roosevelt bitterly during the

00:57:50
campaign he warned that Roosevelt
and the Democrats would destroy the

00:57:56
American system but Americans were
tired of Hoover they thought he

00:58:03
was too serious too afraid of change
to friendly with business leaders

00:58:10
instead of the working man most of
all they blamed Hoover for the hard

00:58:17
times of the Depression on
Election Day Americans voted in

00:58:23
huge numbers for Franklin Roosevelt
and the Democrats Roosevelt

00:58:30
won 42 of the 48 states at
that time the Democrats also

00:58:37
gained

00:58:37
a large majority in both houses
of Congress the election that

00:58:44
ended 12 years of Republican rule in
the White House it also marked the

00:58:51
passing along conservative period
in American political life

00:58:58
Franklin Delano Roosevelt would become one
of the strongest and most progressive

00:59:04
presidents in the nation's history he would
serve longer than any other president

00:59:11
changing the face of America's
political and economic systems.

00:59:20
And that's our program for today listen
again tomorrow to learn English 3 stories

00:59:26
from around the world on Jonathan
other things and Ashley Thomson.

01:00:05
This is v.o.a.

01:00:06
News I'm David for Mexican health authorities
announced Friday they have confirmed

01:00:12
the 1st 2 cases of Corona virus in Mexico
the virus emerged in at least 5 other

01:00:18
countries Friday Azerbaijan Bella Ruse
Lithuania New Zealand and Nigeria World

01:00:24
Health Organization director
general Tedder also added on give

01:00:27
a yes or says the spread of the virus
is of what he called deep concern about

01:00:33
epidemiologists have been money testing
these developments continuously and we have

01:00:39
an increased assessment of that the scope
of spread and the risk of the impact of

01:00:44
Corvet 19 to very high
global level the w.h.o.

01:00:50
Says the breaking of the chain of transmission
is key to fighting the virus and the

01:00:55
number of new cases has dropped in the
center of the outbreak China but has risen

01:01:00
in South Korea.

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