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This is the only news North Korea has fired
3 unidentified projectiles into the sea

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just

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a week after test firing 2 short range
ballistic missiles the always Merissa Melton

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North Korea fired 3 unknown projectiles
Monday according to South Korea's military

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it was the 2nd apparent North Korean missile
test of the year the projectiles were

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fired toward the sea off North Korea's east
coast from the eastern town of Sun Doc

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That's according to South Korea's joint
chiefs of staff North Korea has sent mixed

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messages over the past week last Monday
North Korea test fired 2 short range

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ballistic missiles on
Thursday Kim Jong un sent

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a warm letter expressing what South Korea
said was his unwavering friendship and

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trust toward South Korean
president moon j.n.

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It was the 2 leaders 1st
contact in months and

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a New Year's speech Cam said he no longer
felt bound by his self-imposed suspension

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of long range missile

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a nuclear tests he also warned the world
would soon witness what he called

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a new strategic weapon Morrison news
former Vice President Joe Biden and u.s.

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Senator Bernie Sanders have each picked
up significant endorsements for the

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presidential bids this weekend a.p.

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Correspondent been Tom and I have decided
that I and with great enthusiasm going to

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endorse Joe Biden Senator
Kamel Harris joins

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a cluster of one time rivals
for the nomination posting

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a video statement Sunday we need

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a leader who really does care about the
people and who can therefore unify the

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people and I believe Joe can do that I
stammered during the sadness of the but at

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the rally in Grand Rapids Michigan Bernie
Sanders picked up his own endorsement

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from the Reverend Jesse Jackson in the
Oval Office is tasteful just so the people

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in Sanders tells A.B.C.'s This Week he's
not surprised to see the Democratic

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establishment rallying around Biden but
we all winning the support of grassroots

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America because we have an agenda that
speaks to working people I'm Ben Thomas

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Monday marks the day British royal couple
Megan and Harry depart from royal duties

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as they mark out their new life in
Canada away from the meat. Spotlight

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Correspondent Karen Sharma the couple's
relationship with the media had been

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turbulent from the start on their wedding
day the British press featured stories

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about

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a rift between Meghan and her father Harry
publicly defended his wife and directed

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his anger at the intrusive media he has
presented all his life I will not be

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bullied into playing a game that
killed my mom he told i.t.v.

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News last fall Will's expert
poorly McClaren believes there was

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a mismatch between strong minded Meghan
and the royal family because royal women

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are expected to be you know close horses
they're also expected to you know smile

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a lot but not really express any strong
opinions charge Imus London More News dot

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com I'm Tommy make me one the below news.

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Good Morning America welcome to daybreak
Africa for the Voice of America in

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Washington this Monday March the 9th and
here are some of the stories we are

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covering with police Sunday average that
members of the him arrested. On apparent

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crackdown. In the. Neck to battery.

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Operated and. The longer.

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Police did not arrest again people
power movement coming up with

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a spokesperson responsibility
for this attack on a village in

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a French speaking region of the country and
if we repress the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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. African women in leadership
this will be. To get them

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to be more committed to. Leadership in

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leadership. On Sunday on International
Women's Day to demand their rights and we'll

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have

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a report on domestic violence in those the
response. Coming up on Daybreak Africa.

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Police on Sunday I arrested 2 senior
members of the human rights defenders

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coalition an apparent
crackdown police arrest

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a gifted Pen's the group's vice president
along with Dave member Matt Donna send

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the group announced to hold

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a protest statehouse on March the 25 The
arrest came soon after President Peter

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Mubarak us at the rally. Threatening to
deal with the group if they went ahead with

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their protest to make what he call my
lawyer. Governable police Sunday is said to

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be looking for the group's chairperson
Timothy Tom Bill Maher would govern as

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commentator Maku Bowman Tallis says the
Irish the political it motivated is excited

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about that Friday night

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a demonstration that they wanted too much
of that house on trying to create so much

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what they had indicated to say that the
president thanks but I may have misled and

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said that we have to lead
then they will proceed with

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a much and they're going to chip down their
power so that they're going to get very

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narrow alley and diverse because old spoke
at the political rally they had tried to

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talk tough against them but each episode
of that you're not going to college on the

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steps on 3 of these but get in my bag and
believe that that is going to or that

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will leave on that dreaded to use
course when they're going to have that

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demonstration so it's an issue that got
to have been received as one of the

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political connected back mindful of the
fact that that come an hour after the

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president had made remarks and then the
longer we tried to reach Mr Temple

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President of the human rights defenders
Coalition for some reason we could not

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reach him what do you know about him that
time double bed got out of as we know

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kind of delay the police that I don't want
to go back that I want to be thanked and

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it's one of them but what we're not of
now is that that they are yet to address

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them so that Glenn may be might be
in hiding because I think that it's

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a happening that night and that you know
the political speak is that companies are

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right so there's a lot of talk
between them 2 of them to

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a time in Amman are interested. And they
need that translate that narrative that

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can transfer to glance that not that they
are not be harmed that will happen to

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them as you mentioned the human rights
defenders coalition were planning to hold

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a rally on March 25th but these arrests
also coming ahead this week I think the

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Supreme Court is supposed to rule the
challenge made by President Mubarak on the.

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The Constitutional Court decision is not
correct exactly it's always the Supreme

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Court to be sitting outside it to hear the
appeal would that the president made and

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as I did not like the commission I guess
they're doing the constitutional court to

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present

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a metallic negative read it clear that
he has not tapped by the Constitutional

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Court and I think it has been really very
hard against the big question of course

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already is that one of all of that that
that the president on the cutting edge and

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might be taking you know that could put
fear in the activist Express and also for

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the demonstration there be any particular
charges announced against say Mr Trump

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pence and the other so far no Chad Chad
being I'm sorry I'm not that but they're

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east of San Diego and that this and
that big legal making people do or is

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a lot of question but then I think Apple
selected Korea that it's not the 1st time

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the 2 have been that very good during
that time when they were also guys in

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demonstration on this after after they had
done Jemma trashing their old daughter

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but then you go agreeing to an issue that
had to do with the issue at ground how

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they had separate created
don't a foreign banker get to

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a child and that but but and then they're
given bail was one of those techniques

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that government used to say that the
implicated in the provision are defined by

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their use as

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a way of silencing them because they are
done. With the demonstration Macomo

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Tallis I would govern this commentator who
was speaking with us from the capital

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Lilongwe

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a Ugandans opposition pressure group the
people problem movement says at least 50

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of its supporters have been arrested and
detained by police in recent weeks Joe

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Wells saying I knew the spokesperson of the
group says some of those arrested have

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been denied access to their lawyers but
the police denies targeting the people

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power movement supporters
more gloomy Davis rocks

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a range of reports from come problem senior
people both books but for these many of

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there's

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a blood test. Arrested in the last 2 weeks
he claims some of the Aristide supporters

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have been to Ted and were denied access
to legal representation you had about 22

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were arrested in the east taken
to a place called not a failure

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a notorious place for torture other people
are arrested from within so reports of

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the country we have been pushing some of
been released this particular week others

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are still in detention some we know where
they are of course they've been denied

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access for their lawyers others we don't
even know where they are the people power

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movement is a political
pressure group led by

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a popular parliamentarian and at least
nobody tell Blainey also known as Bob the

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way to go and he was cleared by the little
commission to go ahead and make come to

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any consultation on his mission for the
presidency of Uganda the elections expected

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sometime next year but many are going to
make consultations have been interrupted

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by the police saying he does not follow
the necessary procedures it's difficult

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times but well of more resolute than
ever before even his comrades that are

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detained and so on their strong and they
know that now more than ever they must

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keep this fight to see that we see

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a transition accuses the police of being
used by the ring Betty the national

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resistance movement whose lead their president
to get them 7 has been in power for

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more than 30 years Uganda police spokesperson
Fred in anger denies the police we

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are arresting people based on their
political affiliation. We don't.

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Know.

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It's just the people who are producing

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a list of their supporters they claim
to have been arrested for a news item

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a good many Davis income Palla Uganda

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a spokesperson for Cameron's Amazonian
separatist movement is denying

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responsibility for Sunday's
reported attack on

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a village in the for. Speaking region of
the country the Associated Press reports

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that the separatists attack

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a security post in the village of gallium
killing at least 7 people but Chris

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a new secretary of state for communication
of the separate claims zone Republik

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says Sunni and fighters want to deny they
defend their territory and to not launch

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cross border attacks there is

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a French come alone movement that is
printed out of Paris that has taken

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responsibility of that attack on
the UN's have no reason crossing

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our boundaries going to

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a lot of people to come out on to which
wall we are defending our credit rating and

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not them all are you saying Chris that
there is another group of separatist from

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the French peak in Cameroon side I don't
know what you refer to separatists and we

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do not consider ourselves separatists we
Restorationist the other group has taken

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responsibility of this
arc consider themselves

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a nationalist movement of Cameroon the
group was created in Paris. Breguet

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and cited not French Cam'ron nationalist
movement created out of power isn't base

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all of our ideas for Aren't they part
of your movement they are not part of

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a movement they don't believe in independence
for the sudden come around we have

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nothing in common it is true they carry out
these attacks is it something that you

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won't come we do not appreciate the killing
the sharing of in most and blood and so

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of course we do not condone it we do not
support it however with saying that

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a region in frames come out it was the
problems in each house that would not have

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this situation where they have got own
citizens attacking their own institutions

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and leading to the shedding of blood
what is the way out of the some of the

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politike. People have spoken

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a ball maybe they need it Federation to
solve this problem instead of through the

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barrel of the gun. Wrong prescription
James our people have not being killed

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our children slaughtered bird and mass
graves our villages and towns this message

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was for us to get. X.

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Falls from the beginning of this struggle
that was the demand enjoy tiles and 16

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there is also and that core of
names to. The. Force and so

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on and so on these are all now dragged on
for going to 4 years and we are all about

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12000 of our people see

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a lot close to him merely on living
in these places settlements and over

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a $100000.00 refugees why should
ways settle for anything less than

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a free and independent thought in time on
snow we are looking for nothing nothing

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but

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a free independent numbers on the Chris our
news the secretary of state for communication

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of to self proclaimed zone in separatist
movement of Cameroon who are speaking with

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us from the u.s.

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City of Houston in Texas today is Monday
night and you're listening to daybreak

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Africa and the Voice of America I'm James
Butty in Washington they broke Africa

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time 16 minutes past the hour women across
the world celebrating International

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Women's Day yesterday Sunday
ahead of the day from

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a Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
gather women leaders from across the

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well. To launch

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a special initiative that she said will
groom women leadership across Africa so

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leave Africa's 1st elected woman president
launched the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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Presidential Center for Women and development
she explains the proposals of the

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center to report to Moses Ghazi

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a will it's objective. To bring
women leaders to give. To share

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experiences to be able to embrace
their profiles to come together

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and perfecting their strategies to
plans to recognise what leadership in

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me is the responsibilities in the rewards
for me to ship and in this we hope

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to create a wave of women who s.

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And resold of

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a commitment and accomplishment in leadership
will move to even higher levels will

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be able to have more influence in the
exercise of than the issue alone preschool

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was loosing it should say as you left
the political office 2 years ago things

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aren't going to well Wolf women exerting
himself that's why you're launching an

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initiative

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a so much 1st of all I don't think it's
really totally true that women have not

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been exerting themselves very true that in
terms of the progress of women in one of

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2 places they've been some decline in
achieving the goals that have been set I also

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pointed out that part of this may be effected
by the fact that to democracy itself

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is under threat and women tend to thrive
and do better into backcrosses But what

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this is the center will be

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a catalyst to get them to be
more committed Energi Move

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Active taking and promoting
leadership in Taishan

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a leadership unabashedly So they're going
for leadership they're going to claim it

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in every way they can and help
other women to also exercise

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a seam of monetary in all areas of
public service in every country from

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a Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
speaking with reporter Moses Garcia will

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Amun Ra via 40 percent of marriage women
in Kenya have reported being victims of

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other domestic vile. All sexual abuse the
wicked Media Foundation says low level of

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education religion and socio economic
status where the main causes of domestic

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violence in Kenya and the world celebrate
the International Women's Day yesterday

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Sunday. Reports from Nairobi
Kenya a woman who is

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a survivor of domestic violence and also

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a pioneer of non-governmental organizations
to help women who survived domestic

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violence the statistics seem to be
increasing day by day as the rate of Monday

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cases especially among married couple
on the rise in Kenya on Friday 19th

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a pretty $20000.00 then at
the Monday a mother of 2 and

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a survivor of domestic violence becomes
a we do this was often a Taney

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a lot of story time and sorrow for the
late husband came home with them I shared

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a threatens to kill the kids and finally
killed himself after the kids Sunday and I

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rescued I mean disbelief mass can do this
to me by the time I come to realize I

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need to hide it cutting some 21 times on
me he was letting you know I'm asking him

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questions and he's taking me to turn now
to do something to me when I'm. In my

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nature is this. If it were me. I
decide to identify. And I'm dead.

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Screaming as if cutting How was not
enough then as Bond calls his parents and

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in-laws to inform them about the incident
reminding them that they should buy

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a coffin and prepare for burial arrangements
then I say is this time she is over

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bleeding and still running to save the
children who are screaming for half

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a dozen my dad asking your daughter and
I'm going to kill grandchildren and came

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myself then that is rescued and taken to
hospital then I've signed damaged in her

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head she goes for surgery immediately
she leaves the theater room

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a police officer in waiting for high.
Drug tested meant because the husband had

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killed himself then and now has

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a case to answer she's charged
of my doc she never committed on

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a way out my husband tells me go die in the
hospital I'm going to die here so I was

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taken to theatre after almost 7 hours
Dangote I came out in the 1st phone call is

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he killed himself the next person
I meet coming from theater and

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a police officer expected to write

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a statement for transpired after 2
months of recuperating in hospital she's

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discharged before she hears of the scars
and psychological torture she is handed

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a child shared at this time she has

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a mother case to answer the employer
releases her from walk she becomes desperate

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the future is deemed by to Irene code then
no wins the case the disparate situation

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gives then it is easier to look for other
women who faced domestic violence as well

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as reducing the society through her initiative
of the non-governmental organization

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the garment suppose the women she grew
the number from 15 to 1400000 nationwide

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I decided to just an interview and
now the women who organize them into

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a manageable number of 26
other widows seem b.s.

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And even other vulnerable women were going
through violence when they saw the city

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starting now or the government now became

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a bottom up and. That was Marine Corps
general reporting from Nairobi Kenya on the

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location of International Women's Day
yesterday than 20000 camera women from rural

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and urban areas assemble in the capital
young day to press for their rights to

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education and decision making urgent
stop to early marriages and home for

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traditional practices Moki
reports from yeah one day.

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A group of women at the central market
in companies capitally I won't be saying

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that they like all of Africa longing
to be freedom from the bondage of

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strong traditional practices that's impede
that emancipation and well being among

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them is female activists. Of the end
come and women for participation in

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development and Casey's high end is
working to change the perception that's

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women should only bring up babies carry
out the mystic Charles and walk in

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farms. And see all the mystic

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balance because if. You
mind right. To say no.

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It. Beats the woman
they love. Me any. More

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khakis said they were asking can the
room to rectify them up to 2 parts

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a car on the rights of women in Africa
which it signed in 2006 and respect

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the un Convention on the elimination of
all forms of discrimination against women

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the 10s of thousands of women got that
Sunday only said they were unhappy that

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a strong tradition of practice is still
in. Coverage of female genital mutilation

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and any marriage is modest there is a been

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a only 2 hour coming minister of women's
empowerment and the family says in spite

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of the challenges much has been done to
respect each shoe as there are 50 it's

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women in the world and it's a member
no house of parliament and 36 women

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a mass in the country that has about 380
councils clearly even women have to move

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forward they need the support of command
the men are capable and women have also

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dead because many of them would not even
believe enough to post you need the

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environment is not family tradition has to
change the keep good tradition that you

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should give up the bad tradition on to
us said the government was taking on

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necessary measures to improve access
to education for women and girls with

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a particular focus on rural areas and by
carrying out public awareness raising

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campaigns Malky Edwin kins a car for v o

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not for every capital Supposing
there was something. Nigeria

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a very good Monday morning to you something
good Monday morning to James you begin

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the sports with the calf Champions League
where all the food semifinalist have

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emerged into 292020 Cup Champions League
after the 2nd quarter final marches were

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concluded these past weekend Raja
Casablanca reached the semifinals after

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a 15 year absence despite
losing one new away to t.p.

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Mazembe a of the Democratic
Republic of Congo as

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a one the 1st leg to kneel at home why that
script through 21 on aggregate despite

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losing one nail at the 2 to see

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a hell of Tunisia on Friday Zamalek of Egypt
knocked out to defending champions of

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Tunisia falling one meal in Tunisia to
an early penalty but going through 32 on

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aggregates. Hallie of Egypt
adventure human Legion Lost

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a member the descendants of South Africa
last season by drawing 11 in Pretoria on

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Saturday to qualify for the semifinals
31 on aggregate the 2 legged semifinals

00:24:35
during May Will Pete Cairo and Casablanca
clubs against each other with Roger

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physicians' Dominic and whether Casablanca
talking called Holly of Egypt in the

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camp Confederations Cup Nigerian heavyweights
about bowed out of the competition

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after they were beaten 2 Neil away to
Guinea and club who react in can agree to

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secure a 31 aggregate triumph
double tome pyramid f.c.

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Reached the semifinals of the
Confederations Cup after

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a big Zambians than Arco 31 on aggregate
on Sunday and though the match is played

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as a dear defeated Nasri
of Libya to Neil thanks to

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a penalty from Karim kui and
the last group goal from

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a taxi to advance as comprehensive
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a rather sad note in football player in
the Nigerian professional food league who

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plays for Nasri United chin him a Martin's
died on Sunday after slamming into

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a night jumper fashion of Football League
tie against not them beside cause in the

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United an eyewitness who was at the stadium
said the late defender was standing

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alone when he slumped around the 45th
minute his team had been awarded

00:25:44
a free kick and he was standing alone in
their own house when he suddenly collapsed

00:25:48
all the players in from the referee and
he was eventually rushed to the hospital

00:25:52
where he was pronounced dead in all the
news Nigel Bourne mixed martial arts at

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this winger defended his
middleweight title with

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a unanimous decision win over only medalists
you will remarry Do you ever see 248

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in Las Vegas on Sunday in the cage

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a tactical come to the lux the excitement
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a powerful leg kicks to victory on this.
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standstill we're Romero static in the
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00:28:07
Hello there today is Monday March 9th and
this is via ways international edition

00:28:12
I'm Lori London in Washington coming up not
under control coronavirus concerns are

00:28:17
growing as the covert 19 continues
to spread worldwide c.d.c.

00:28:22
. The state's private labs let's increase.

00:28:31
Our testing capacity. Bernie Sanders and
Joe Biden get big endorsements over the

00:28:37
weekend Also ahead North Korea makes another
provocative move it's all on today's

00:28:43
international edition. To us
the death toll from the new

00:28:50
coronavirus reached at least 21 California's
governor is reassuring the public that

00:28:55
none of the passengers from

00:28:56
a ship carrying people infected with the
virus will have to stay on that ship and

00:29:02
they will be released into
the public before undergoing

00:29:05
a 14 day quarantine Grand Princess
carrying more than 3500 people from

00:29:12
54 countries is expected to dock today
in Oakland in the east San Francisco Bay

00:29:17
Area a.p.

00:29:18
Correspondent Julie Walker reports the
cruise ship can be seen moving up the coast

00:29:23
the captain told passengers last night those
requiring acute medical treatment and

00:29:27
hospitalization will be taken to health
care facilities in California others will

00:29:32
go to federally operated isolation sites
or transported out of state passenger

00:29:37
Karen Devore says she and her husband
have been holed up in their room since

00:29:40
Thursday feel fine and are anxious to get
off the boat you know it's up point it

00:29:45
has to stop so they tell me anything
negative Well then let it go you know don't

00:29:50
the grammarian says about 2 dozen
reported cases of coronavirus the ship is

00:29:54
carrying more than 3500 people I'm Julie
Walker with the number of confirmed

00:29:59
infections in the us. Climbing above 500
as testing for the virus increases Dr

00:30:05
Anthony Fauci the National Institutes of
Health it's infectious disease chief said

00:30:09
Sunday that widespread closure of

00:30:12
a city or region is possible but New York
Governor Andrew Cuomo news conference

00:30:17
Sunday said that's unlikely in his state
but he is urging health officials to speed

00:30:21
up the testing process c.d.c.

00:30:25
Wake up let the states test let
private labs have let's increase as

00:30:32
quickly as possible our testing capacity
so we identify the positive people so we

00:30:38
can isolate and were successful in our
pretty tame Meanwhile Italy imposed

00:30:44
a virtual lockdown across

00:30:46
a large region of its wealthy north Sunday
including the financial capital of Milan

00:30:51
in a drastic new attempt to try to contain

00:30:54
a rapidly growing outbreak the total
number known of covert $1000.00 in Italy

00:31:00
surpassed South Korea's Sunday becoming the
country with the 2nd highest number of

00:31:04
infections after China Italian government
authorities say the country now has more

00:31:09
than 7000 cases Sabena consul Franco
reports from Rome Italy has never

00:31:16
experienced anything like the imagines
he restrictions approved David night and

00:31:20
which are effective from Sunday the wealthy
region of lumber dnd 14 other provinces

00:31:26
in the nearby regions of immediate
Oh man you are Veneto and p.

00:31:30
Had moaned have been locked down in efforts
to stop the spread of couvade 19 this

00:31:36
will affect busy cities like Milan Venice
part of mind more than I as well as

00:31:41
others the prime minister said the new
measures will be enforced by police more

00:31:46
than 16000000 people living in its lease
northern areas will be impacted early in

00:31:51
the outbreak Italy was zealous in testing
those living in hot bed areas even if

00:31:56
they had no symptoms or close contact
with someone known to be in fact. So far

00:32:02
a tie in health personnel have performed
some 50000 tests Meanwhile as the code 19

00:32:08
spread across European nations
it is also spreading concern

00:32:15
Joining us to talk more about of this
Paris based reporter Catherine field

00:32:19
Catherine France now seen

00:32:20
a huge increase in confirmed cases just
overnight in the over the weekend while

00:32:25
Italy as talk taking some pretty aggressive
actions and it sounds like other

00:32:29
European nations are following those
aggressive steps in Italy. The reason that

00:32:36
decree was put in place it was that virtually
overnight Saturday to Sunday there

00:32:42
was an increase of about 25 percent and
the number of reported cases went up from

00:32:48
around 5800 to some around
$7300.00 cases of the

00:32:55
coronavirus So the government and running
really felt it. And let's not forget also

00:33:01
across the country the government.
Has closed down schools in affected

00:33:08
areas schools and universities will not
reopen until mid March we've also got

00:33:15
cinemas faeces entertainment nationwide
they've been ordered to suspend their

00:33:20
activities so that's just an innocently
here and from the sort of calls there was

00:33:26
an enormous increase
over the weekend you had

00:33:29
a 5 fold increase in cases and just
one week is now more than 1100 cases

00:33:37
200 new cases just in 24 hours over the
weekend what the government has put in

00:33:43
place there has been that gatherings of the
1000 people cannot now take place that

00:33:49
involve threat to the Ts
lodge. Event lodge in

00:33:56
stamen venue as well so they've also
asked people me. I want to go visit the

00:34:02
elderly not to go visit the sick saying
that anyone who could possibly be at risk

00:34:07
and that is again the elderly and those
who are already sick you should stay away

00:34:11
from them do not go visiting and of course
in Germany there you've got more than

00:34:17
900 cases in Germany you've got them
and 3 quite large clusters in western

00:34:23
Germany again the government there is asking
the gatherings of all of them the 1000

00:34:28
people to also be canceled for the time
being while these governments try and get

00:34:33
a handle on those trying to get in place
all the measures they need to said least

00:34:38
they can feel that they can curb the spread
of the coronavirus Austria's chancellor

00:34:44
is calling on all other European countries
to adopt the containment measures that

00:34:49
are as dramatic as Italy has taken obviously
the way European countries are so

00:34:55
interconnected and people are going from
one country to another freely It just

00:34:59
seems like they would have
no truly so cross the e.u.

00:35:03
That is the problem when
it comes to health this is

00:35:06
a national jurisdiction it is
not something that the g.o.p.

00:35:10
And union the 27 countries of the European
Union can impose on all members and that

00:35:15
is

00:35:16
a problem that they are trying to organize
put together some sort of support across

00:35:21
the member states so everyone is if you
like working same it's that the same plan

00:35:25
this is really being the problem is that
you getting all these countries where as

00:35:30
you rightly say there is freedom of
movement across Allee's borders people

00:35:33
traveling around they need to do something
about that put in place areas around the

00:35:38
border where some sort of control could
be put and now what they're going to be

00:35:44
looking at is these just going to be
measures where the say for example Austria

00:35:49
which has

00:35:50
a border with is really those are the
places where you actually are right against

00:35:54
the border with the No one area that has
all these clusters or are they going to

00:35:59
have to have

00:35:59
a look again. At bringing in that.
Has been really really. Down

00:36:07
on freedom of movement that is something
that is. All that was in the liberal

00:36:13
democracies and Europe is just not used
to that sort of. Paris based reporter

00:36:18
Catherine Field thank you so much all u.s.

00:36:21
Envoy says the United States has offered
humanitarian assistance to Iran to help

00:36:26
them deal with their corona virus outbreak
but the regime rejected the offer Iran

00:36:31
has reported 107 virus deaths making it one
of the hardest hit nations hit nations

00:36:36
outside of China 5 Americans are being
held in Iran and the envoy added that

00:36:43
Washington is working through Switzerland
on this and couldn't provide more details

00:36:48
but Joining us now is Ben I'm Ben Taleb
Lou senior fellow with the Foundation for

00:36:52
the Defense of Democracies. It's my
understanding that Iran was offered some help

00:36:58
and aid and refused any sort of assistance
so we really don't know what's going on

00:37:04
there I know there are some concerns from
people in Western nations that have loved

00:37:09
ones there that can't get any information
what can you tell us so that we can use.

00:37:16
A series of threats to make one of the
public different security threats and then

00:37:19
the latest that embracing
the how is it actually

00:37:21
a biohazard and it's one where the lack
of transparency hurts not just people in

00:37:25
the region but people all
around the world there is

00:37:28
a legitimate. Number that are being under
reported by the government of the country

00:37:33
actually are 2 or 3 hold more than what
we would hear now adays and I think more

00:37:37
importantly the offers for help
are being rejected for purposes

00:37:40
a primary or to score political points if
you remember previously the us at all for

00:37:45
humanitarian aid after earthquakes the
mid 2000 the regime rejected I think now

00:37:49
again of

00:37:50
a party to reject help be able to signal
that they had all control in fact the

00:37:54
Supreme by the holiday of

00:37:55
a few days ago had talked about
the coronavirus not being

00:37:58
a big deal despite Iran becoming

00:38:00
a regional epicenter so I think most
unfortunately public health policy

00:38:05
correspondent with the international community
has put the country in the position

00:38:09
it was

00:38:09
a student which is most unfortunate it
sounds like from what we're hearing that

00:38:13
outside of China Iran has one of the deadliest
outbreaks that's right here on Italy

00:38:20
South Korea outside of China these countries
that are significant travel warnings

00:38:24
for and of course this place it is really
what they're doing quarantine as well as

00:38:28
South Korea Iran has formally rejected
city quarantine model but it has now twice

00:38:34
shut down Friday prayers which is quite
historic for the regime in the country but

00:38:39
you have people now sending videos of
health workers medical workers aid workers

00:38:44
dancing trying to be triumphant spite site
but they are on the front lines of the

00:38:47
crisis getting exposed to the virus as
well as trying to save money and some

00:38:51
companies that are doing that
taking it home and it took

00:38:54
a while. For them to even acknowledge that
they even had anyone in infected there

00:38:58
is that correct that's right and I think
nothing some of the some early responses

00:39:02
which I call

00:39:03
a posh phase the response to this which is
you had elected and appointed officials

00:39:08
people who were supposed to be representatives
of the public. Actually the regime

00:39:13
caring for segments of the population and
up going on and actually meeting with

00:39:18
supporters and that's conducting Saturday
sweating and using coughing in confined

00:39:23
spaces with other individuals nothing of
size or signals the problem here that

00:39:27
isn't that I know they were concerned about
parliamentary elections there at the

00:39:32
time of the outbreak beginning to break
there was rumors and if I'm inclined to

00:39:37
believe it's course that the regime
knew about it because it's putting

00:39:41
a lot of stake on the recent
presidential elections which still had

00:39:44
a historically low turnout even if you
look at the official numbers of them what

00:39:47
you hear about unofficial numbers which
are essentially half of that that the

00:39:50
regime knew about it but didn't want to
scare anyone and. It was also pushing

00:39:55
people to come out into the streets and
for the sake of politics exposed segments

00:39:59
of the population to the virus if you talk
to anyone over there that's concerned I

00:40:03
know that Iranians typically have

00:40:04
a lot of faith in their healthcare professionals
in their health care system but it

00:40:08
sounds like that's waning as well for the
sake of the safety of people inside the

00:40:12
country. When I get
information I tend to be

00:40:15
a little bit more indirect so not to have

00:40:16
a direct communication but it could you
know that I would then which later on ended

00:40:20
up being on there was actually an aide
worker. I don't know what city exactly and

00:40:27
showing young children how to properly
apply. And to properly secure facemasks and

00:40:33
I think the only thing you can say about
that is that because of the government

00:40:36
response at least you have

00:40:38
a series of people in the aid workers
and medical professionals who are doing

00:40:42
everything including leaks into their own
life and limb to at least help fellow

00:40:46
citizens and that type of wiring the problem
is you have to feel despair with this

00:40:50
one issue with one or 2 drops of hope
that's Benenden Callaloo senior fellow with

00:40:55
the Foundation for the Defense
of Democracy democracies.

00:41:06
Some of the other stories
we are following at v.o.a.

00:41:08
News dot com The 1st hearing in the trial
of 4th Egypt is suspected in the downing

00:41:13
of airlines flight in July 24th teen begins
today in Amsterdam it comes more than 5

00:41:20
years after the plane was shot down by

00:41:22
a Russian missile and Ukraine Prosecutors
believe the suspects are in Russia as

00:41:27
well and the election Council
reported Sunday that

00:41:31
a weekend fire destroyed voting machines
stored in its main warehouse in Iraq as

00:41:36
early 50000 voting machines and almost
6000 computers went up in flames.

00:41:42
Complicating parliamentary elections this
year Turkish president type fertilizer

00:41:48
are used to open its gates to refugees
trying to enter. Turkey and says he hopes to

00:41:53
win more support on migration from. The
talks later today tens of thousands of

00:41:59
migrants of the trying to get in to freeze.
Calm it all the coronavirus concerns

00:42:06
in South Korea there is more activity coming
from its neighbor North Korea joining

00:42:10
us for details as v.o.a.

00:42:12
Is Seoul correspondent Bill Gallo Bill
what can you tell us on North Korea fired

00:42:17
what appears to be re jet
probably short range rocket.

00:42:23
We don't have

00:42:24
a lot of detail but it appears that were
fired from the eastern part of the country

00:42:29
into the ocean and that there's that launch
in the past week any speculation as to

00:42:35
why they're ramping it up now in the midst
of all the other crises all over the

00:42:40
world with the coronavirus there's

00:42:41
a lot of speculation and the answer is
nobody no I mean the badly has been quite

00:42:46
inconsistent and erratic even by North
Korean standards we have on last Monday 2

00:42:52
short range missile being launched going
on they can go and since there really

00:42:56
a letter basically to black think South
Korea's presidential office that he. Then

00:43:00
on Thursday Kim Jong un sent

00:43:02
a letter to South Korea talking about you
know the wonderful friendship they have

00:43:06
a very conciliatory letter and now we
have another missile launch so there's

00:43:10
a lot of mixed messages going on here and
this of course comes as people believe

00:43:15
that North Korea dealing with what is likely
to be its own coronavirus outbreak so

00:43:20
we just don't know about that part of it
do it because of the secretive nature of

00:43:24
that nation you know we basically know
nothing about what is going on and in North

00:43:28
Korea regarding the coronavirus they have
not reported any cases over that seems

00:43:32
unlikely given their proximity to China
North Korea did shut the border down or

00:43:36
attempt to shut the border down with China
basically sooner than anyone else did as

00:43:40
soon as the outbreak happened
in January but there's

00:43:44
a lot of holes in that border they rely on
trade with China it seems unlikely that

00:43:49
they could have kept the virus out completely
well regarding these projectiles it

00:43:53
sounds like these were personally overseen
by North Korean leader Kim Jong are you

00:43:58
hearing any analysts over there in South
Korea with any sort of speculation as to

00:44:03
why he's ramping this stuff up again now
we don't know yet many details about the

00:44:08
specifics of the 400 appears to be sure
range and the reason I say that is because

00:44:12
South Korea's military says 3 missiles
excuse me 3 projectiles were fired this

00:44:18
morning that is consistent with what they
have done repeatedly over the past year

00:44:21
with the short range multiple rocket
launchers they usually launch 2 sometimes

00:44:26
a 3 at the same time so these
are short range they pose

00:44:30
a big danger to South Korea and to u.s.

00:44:33
Troops but they're not the kind of provocations
that could totally up in diplomacy

00:44:37
with the United States which is sort of
nonexistent for now anyway but the bottom

00:44:41
line is Donald Trump has not reacted firmly
to these types of launches in the past

00:44:46
and he is unlikely to do so this was
well it sounds like a number of e.u.

00:44:52
Nations including Britain Germany France
Belgium the Stoney a are going to the u.n.

00:44:57
Security Council over there are they
already do. Last week and this is pretty

00:45:01
standard behavior that because
wanted by North Korea violate u.n.

00:45:06
Security Council resolution even if the
United States right now isn't too upset

00:45:10
about the launch of Donald Trump consistently
play them down many European nations

00:45:14
are concerned because it violates international
law in North Korea of course every

00:45:18
time this happens they get very sensitive
to those type of accusation and they

00:45:22
really angry statement they did so in
this case as well but it's sort of

00:45:26
a pattern. That. We don't know where it
will end at this point as of you know

00:45:33
a soul correspondent Bill Gallo Joe
Biden and Bernie Sanders each picked up

00:45:38
significant endorsements for the
presidential bid of the weekend a.p.

00:45:42
Correspondent Ben Thomas reports I have
decided that I am with great enthusiasm

00:45:49
going to endorse still by
Senator comma Harris joins

00:45:52
a cluster of one time rivals
for the nomination posting

00:45:55
a video statement Sunday we need

00:45:57
a leader who really does care about the
people and who can therefore unify the

00:46:02
people and I believe them are
in a sense this is a bit of

00:46:06
a rally in Grand Rapids Michigan Bernie
Sanders picked up his own endorsement from

00:46:10
the Reverend Jesse Jackson who is no below
says he's for justice for the people in

00:46:15
Sanders tells A.B.C.'s This Week he's
not surprised to see the Democratic

00:46:19
establishment going around by what we all
winning the support of grassroots America

00:46:23
because we have an agenda that speaks to
working people I'm Ben Thomas. Sunday was

00:46:29
International Women's Day and it has
also been 100 years since the 1900 the

00:46:33
management was passed giving women the
right to vote in the United States to

00:46:37
commemorate the centennial of the u.

00:46:39
New York Historical Society has launched

00:46:41
a special exhibit called Women March and
explores Women's Collective action before

00:46:47
and after the suffrage victory all the way
into the 21st century it was Penelope

00:46:53
pool who visited the exhibit and spoke with
the curators the exhibit women marched

00:46:58
at the New York Historical
Society New York City takes

00:47:01
a visitor along 200 years of women's
collective action in American history

00:47:06
photographs drawings and archival video
footage bring their activism to life it

00:47:12
started as early as the twenty's says the
society's Valerie women came together as

00:47:18
these moral arbiters of

00:47:19
a new nation and and were speaking out
against slavery and Indian removal and all

00:47:26
sorts of issues by. Lending their
names to petitions in a way

00:47:31
a pro women's March if you well 100 years
later the passage of the 19th Amendment

00:47:37
in 1920 granted women the right to vote

00:47:40
a digital interactive map shows the 19th
Amendment was not inclusive it took

00:47:45
decades before all American
women could vote with

00:47:49
a wealthy white women being the 1st and
black women in the south enjoying the same

00:47:53
right only after the Voting Rights Act
passed in 165 and the white women and black

00:48:00
women formed

00:48:01
a coalition during that period their
perspectives were often divided along racial

00:48:05
lines says Pamela Walker

00:48:08
a team member of the exhibit one thing
that was really thick in Africa and really

00:48:12
important for this exhibition at the show
that any movement for women's rights and

00:48:18
women's liberation and that there will
always be tension and that women are coming

00:48:23
from different perspectives whether they
are white women are last next. O'er and

00:48:30
black the latter part of the exhibit focuses
on women's collective action from the

00:48:35
1970s through today during this period 2
women marched to demand legal rights equal

00:48:41
to men they also marched to on issues driven
topics such as gun control and active

00:48:47
Rights says Killian with her another team
member of the exhibit one thing that I

00:48:53
think the women's part of January 27th and
sequent women's March as dead was bring

00:48:59
together an incredibly diverse group of
women who share the identity of being women

00:49:05
but also have

00:49:06
a multitude of other identities women
of color women in the gay community and

00:49:12
feminists who votes genders and March
together in cities all over the world one day

00:49:17
after President Trump was
inaugurated to 2017 to send

00:49:21
a message that women's rights are human
rights since then women marched on

00:49:27
a broad swath of issues such as climate
change gun violence sexual assault and

00:49:33
sexual discrimination women from all walks
of life come together through digital

00:49:38
technology to form global Internet
movements such as. Me to get on with

00:49:45
dinner as the exhibit shows that securing
the vote to 100 years ago was just the

00:49:51
beginning the idea that beyond the
vote beyond. Many legal hallmarks

00:49:58
of equality we always must keep safeguarding
what we have fought so hard for people

00:50:04
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00:51:56
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00:52:03
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00:52:10
Cameron Ross started the sleeze by

00:52:12
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00:52:57
changed. Everywhere.

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I started doing the research and it's
to make sure. The picture again at

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least. That meant making biodegradable
products that can break down in only

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a few years while many capitals in restaurants
are choosing paper products to be

00:53:22
more eco conscious it isn't cheap paper
Stross can cost about $8.00 times more than

00:53:27
plastic Stross but by a plastic
Stross cost less than a penny

00:53:30
a straw not even double the price of plastic
ones another problem with paper straws

00:53:36
is that they get soggy You don't want to
be sitting something alters your drink or

00:53:40
search them out by drinking and then
you have to get another favorite which

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includes more waste are needed
Ross hopes his Washington d.c.

00:53:47
Based company will provide an eco friendly
solution for food service providers

00:53:52
engineered really was Washington. This is.

00:54:00
Disturbances on the sun have the potential
to reach calving with power grids and

00:54:04
communication equipment

00:54:06
a new study by biologists and Duke University
in North Carolina and in the stream

00:54:11
or from the I bear Planetarium in Chicago
suggests that solar storms could also

00:54:17
makes up the navigational abilities of
whales causing them to be stranded or

00:54:21
beached on one scientists have found of
some animal species can detect the kind of

00:54:27
magnetic field. Well the good
news is there's a kind of g.p.s.

00:54:30
To navigate their migration the study's
authors say that solar storms could be

00:54:35
disrupting signals from that magnetic
field they suspect radio frequency noise

00:54:40
created when high energy solar particles
smack into the magnetic field could be

00:54:45
over powering the wells sensitives it
would be like turning off their g.p.s.

00:54:50
During the middle of their journey
I'd be always repents Alayo.

00:55:01
Cloudy with an obvious baby bump Katy Perry
paid tribute to International Women's

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Day with

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a performance of some of our biggest fan
women's 20 up in Elbert Talia. I'll

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be on say on the.

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International.

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Day.

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This is the away News I'm Tom. Show
director General Petraeus and I'm.

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