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Again. This is the way News I'm Tom.

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The last 2 major us Democratic presidential
candidate former Vice President Joe

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Biden remarked Senator Bernie Sanders the
faded and hour for this hour in an empty

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t.v.

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Studio with supporters limited to watching
the debate on television because of the

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coronavirus concerns and viral break was
at the top of the agenda for Sunday's

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debate with each candidate playing on what
he would do if he were president during

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such a crisis and very critical of u.s.

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President Donald Trump
Sanders who has been pushing

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a single payer health care system said his
plan would provide free treatment for

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those afflicted with coronavirus Biden
said he would authorize government funding

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to pay for treatment centers in Biden are
competing for the Democratic presidential

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nomination to face Republican president
Donald Trump and November's national

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election Mr Trump is seeking

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a 2nd 4 year term in the White House. The
governor of the state of Illinois has

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announced a drastic step to help contain
the spread of the new coronavirus a.p.

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Correspondent Jackie Quinn explains the
Illinois governor's heeding the warning

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from federal health officials who say
Americans really need to hunker down more to

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help slow the spread of the coronavirus to
not overwhelm them better call system so

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j.b. Pritzker announced

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a major step to keep people home I am
ordering all bars and restaurants in the

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state of Illinois to close to the public
as of the close of business Monday night

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earlier he blasted the Trump administration
because of long lines of returning

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international passengers at O'Hare Airport
where some 3000 people were crammed

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together in the customs area very close
contact that discouraged for health safety

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I'm Jackie Quinn and the c.d.c.

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On Sunday said that it recommends canceling
or postponing events like conferences

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sporting events and weddings that have 50
people more President Trump has told the

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American people to just relax and refrain
from hoarding supplies this is v.o.a.

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News new travel restrictions and border
closures have reverberated across Europe

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and beyond his daily life
increasingly grounds to

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a halt as countries try to slow
the spread of the virus e.p.

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Correspondence area Shaklee whole and
restored checks on its borders of the Germany

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the Czech Republic Lithuania and as it
responded to the spread of the coronavirus

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in Europe rose in public spaces were
deserted in Barcelona Spain's nationwide

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lockdown began the Brazilian German run

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a says she was told not to run and only
walk for an hour maximum we thought that we

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need to stop to run Michel Martin. And
then we are allowed to run today and that

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they said that starting today we are just
allowed to leave our home by the bath and

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I bet you think sings Meanwhile in
London supermarkets were packed as local

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residents stockpile essentials including
past the rise in total. Shock. I know it's

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not it was rocked by

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a huge explosion Sunday via ways Jim
Bourke tell reports Nigeria's emergency

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services say an explosion on Sunday killed
at least 15 people and destroyed about

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50 buildings after a fire broke out in

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a suburb of Lego's this man witnessed the
explosion some house the school lost even

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the new stuff every we have who are secure
and so did was I hear you guys it was

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yes let me give you the idea what several
people were injured and taken to

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a hospital the exact cause of the explosion
is not yet known Jim Breuer tells

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v.o.a.

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News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
is proposing an emergency government

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to tackle the coronavirus crisis Reuters
David Doyle Israeli Prime Minister

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Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday proposed

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a 6 month emergency government to Taco
coronavirus just as the epidemic delayed his

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corruption trial by 2 months but Israel's
justice minister said the trial would now

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begin on May 24th due to developments
related to the spread of coronavirus.

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Also this week Israel's president was
poised to pick a candidate to try to form

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a governing coalition. That's
after Israel's 3rd election in

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a year on March the 2nd proved once again
to be inconclusive with neither Netanyahu

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is right wing Likud or his main rival
but he gets his blue and white securing

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enough seats for an outright majority on
Sunday Netanyahu made an offer to guns via

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Twitter to form a national emergency
government done signaled he was open to

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a unity government but cost doubts on
Netanyahu is true intentions. Reuters David

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Doyle French voters went to the
polls Sunday to cast their votes

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a missile election despite an outbreak of
the coronavirus and an outcry that the

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virus in the fear of contamination
will keep many voters home more v.o.a.

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News dot com Tom McNeil v.o.a.

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News.

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Good morning Africa and welcome to daybreak
Africa from the Voice of America I'm

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James but take in Washington today is
Monday March 16th and here are some of the

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stories we're covering does the Zimbabwe
government at the Coronado virus is

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a punishment for the u.s.

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And Europe imposing sanctions on
Zimbabwe thank. You for you and.

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It will be very. Very
low on the got there.

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For people or people who are not is the
secretary for legal affairs of Zimbabwe is

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bullish on the p.f.

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Party came close is learning institutions
and banks court proceedings because of

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the corona virus Malawi's
president will soon name

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a new cabinet and 3 West African leaders
are expected to visit Guinea cannot print

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to morrow Tuesday. On the program. And.

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The goal. And.

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it 'd. Will undergo. Is the member
of the National Front for the

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defense of the Constitution Guinea and was
causing the massive deaths of cultures

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in Guinea Bissau those blow something
coming up on Daybreak Africa.

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Zimbabwe's defense minister. Has

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a report the list said that they coronavirus
pandemic as a punishment for the u.s.

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And Europe for imposing sanctions on
some members of the will is done a p.f.

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Party according to The Associated Press.
Was addressing Iran the on Saturday. In

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a northern town team hole Yeah Paul Monk
one secretary for the Gore fans of the one

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is not a p.f.

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Thought he would not say whether the Defense
Minister was right bucked he says it

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will be difficult for exam Bob way to
effectively fight the cronut virus and if

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it's biting suctions
good or nonviolence is

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a serious problem to make and then ask
every government is busy trying to emulate

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its people to take heed to the instructions
in that excuse we have getting

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from our. Need to go Fred Chaney tea
or not preventing the spread of this

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flag among our own people we have many
C.D.'s of that take precautions to

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make sure that our people don't attack one
truck this violence because that we have

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already had. 7 v.a.

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Shortage don't fly some of these drugs and
if we don't take precautions then we'll

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invite lots of long lost it's unfair to say
that the government maybe does not shed

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the views expressed reportedly expressed
by Defense Minister to haul you all I'm

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saying is that when we're talking about
sanctions that sanctions that are you know

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that what that would fall on our population
because if we've gone to school good

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medical facilities you know it will be
very difficult of then to have on general

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public I say that this is

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a need to go for the trinity people
of people so all I can see this is

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a very black which every country should
be worried about because they're losing

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a single soul and given the state. To
those in leadership everything aside

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from what did defense minister allegedly
set it seems to me that the issue of

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Western sanctions is still really something
that's in. Bob way is concerned about

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him obviously thinking of all that because
look we are the only country as being

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outside the. Pool cannot
access the lungs from

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financial institutions like the i.m.f.

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And the wall of banks so that we can also
get the balance of payments apart which

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every country is enjoying and you know
very well that for the past 2 decades we

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have been relying on

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a little slime sales and who could not
really come to light our industries we have

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been disadvantaged as well in the past 2
decades to access to foreign funding you

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know so it will be very difficult for us
to say it is medicine because now even

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more if it is been very difficult are not
out to survive and the 2nd instance as I

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was saying there some

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a Zimbabwe students studying China and they
were I think some of them with pirating

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I listen to one of the interviews I'll
Kali's into Zimbabwe sort of is that one of

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the appealing to the government of Zimbabwe
to help them to make sure that they get

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food and everything so what is the
government doing about Zimbabweans

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a China the Chinese government is guaranteed
that they will look after the student

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so we are not worried because as you know
in China the 2nd biggest economy in the

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world they can claim to look after those
'd few students who are that they've

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assured this bubbling up and that they'll
take care of them and they communication

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we are getting from the embassy and from
Australians they are saying it all is well

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being and they think. Phenomenal and then

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they will go back to normal life Paul McKenna
is the secretary for legal affairs of

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them Bob p.f.

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Party you're speaking with us from the
Capitol Hill robbery. Has locked down all

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learning institutions starting today
Monday and advised the employer yes. Allow

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employees to work from home after reporting
3 cases of the deadlock or another

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virus address and the media yesterday
Sunday President. Said the move will help

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reduce the chances of the virus spreading
as Morey or reports from Nairobi Kenya

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judiciary has also just suspend the court
proceedings on till further notice the

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deadly virus was fast reported in
Kenya on Friday last trick after

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a patient who had travelled from the United
States via London tested positive of

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the virus the Kenyan government upon tracking
how movement more than 20 people have

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been isolated and 2 more
positive cases reported the 2

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a said to have sat with her in the plane
from London to be speaking in Nairobi

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Kenya as president of Iraq Anetta there
it'd only lending institutions close to

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starting today Monday as well as public
gatherings among them church and Federal

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Service has as

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a way of reducing the number of infections
we have received confirmation. This is.

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Tested positive as

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a result of coming into contact with the
1st patient we have suspended learning in

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education institutions with immediate
effect government offices businesses and

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companies are encouraged to allow
employees to work with the exception.

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Is working critical all
essential services Kenya

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before the case was detected allowed
for light to land the joking at the

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international airport especially flights
that came from affected countries claiming

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the government was prepared to handle the
pandemic and in his speech Mr Kenyon to

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says all flights are suspended and only
Kenyan nationals would be allowed in the

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country the government is suspending
travel. Coming into Kenya from any country

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with

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a reported this case is only Kenyan citizens
and foreigners with knowledge residence

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permits will be allowed to come in provided
the proceeds unself or unchanged or to

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a government designated warranty facility
this will take effect within the next 48

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hours to cater for any passengers maybe
in this directive will remain in effect

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for the next 30 days on the other hand
Supreme Court Judge David Miranda has

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suspended all court proceedings across the
country for 14 days with no open case

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appearances. Down
dignities the country for

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a period of 2 weeks starting to morrow for
16 months in order to allow for further

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consultations and to say an appropriate
measures to prevent the spread during this

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period reasoners and remand is
to be bridged the gap in euros.

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Serious ones will be dealt to the police
station in accordance with the guidelines

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to be issued by the inspector general of
police for them and to steal on their own

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to harm or the people who caught in contact
with the fast question for isolation

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however Kenya's move to knock down businesses
and companies after the discovery of

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their 3 cases may affect the economy since
most Kenyans live below poverty level

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and most of them are. Reporting for various
daybreak Africa more and more in Arabic

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Kenya Mali and President the
motoric are suspected to name

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a new cabinet saw this after he dissolved
cabinet on Friday and also followed the

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recent alliance between his ruling
Democratic progressive parted the d.p.p.

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And the opposition United
Democratic Front the u. D.f.

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Ahead of the much anticipated mid $1000.00
presidential election rerun Vincent

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conduit political analysts tells us Peter
Cotty the president what our records as

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part of the cabinet will be named with an
eye on the upcoming election. All right

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so the president has dissolved copying
it with the expectation that he will.

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Announce a new cabinet
fully with the u.b.s.

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So if I may I ask you what I also thought
about the dissolution of cabinet and the

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new cabinet is that the president
is soon to assemble given the.

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Dynamics that are happening and
in view that. They will show

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a card said that in the winning candidate
must acquire the 50 percent plus one

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which is an absolute
majority and the b.p.u.

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Went into announced with the you know dear
friends in right train politics now the

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dissolution of cabinet in view over the
waking alliance with the they would. I

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think we should expect

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a cabinet that is going to save the
political interest of the you would be as

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a political party and as it
in moderation of the d.p.p.

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For all this would be

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a highly. I mean it well one can see that
pic I mean it is always political but

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like I explained to. Maybe the expect ties
with the of the payphones but the this

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one different race is going to look more
at the political right you know but the

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individuals that are going to be appointed
into the cabinet are going to bring the

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electoral alliance for that p.p.

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And go into the fresh elections without

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a lot of or influence on the. Couple
Eisenstein all the individuals that are

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going to be appointed in the cabinet saw
whatever happens to always present Salo as

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chilly Ma he has no part of the alliance
he has form on lands with him in

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a position Bazzi the Malawi Congress party
but the court's decision also says that

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their vice president has to be in the
cot. By law so wouldn't the president be

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found lifting the Constitution.
Doesn't include silos. And his

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cabinet despite the point of the Come fall
out or the press not fall out between

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the 2 gentlemen you see
the vice president is

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a member of the competent government
through the replacement of the long slow

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president of Metallica with the interview
they give him no I mean still your

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portfolio on March by official and
their vice presidents their. Being

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a member of the crime unit through the
operation of the construction here remains

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the them off guard unit now. It's
the prerogative on home prison to

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Metallica to apply including cabinet ministers
to become members of the cabinet so

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you can. Give me a certain means
tell you this or not that because

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a presidential poll your gut. Do not break
any law he gives you no way I mean still

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your position or not but my vision of
being the vice president who remains

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a member of the cabinet screw up all in
front of the Constitution. Malawi political

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analyst Vincent conduit was speaking with
the us Peter Clottey from the capital

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long way to this Monday March 16th and
you're listening to daybreak Africa and the

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Voice of America I'm James Butty in
Washington 3 West African leaders the

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presidents of Nigeria Nisha and Donna and
probably Bach enough Aso I suspected to

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visit Guinea tomorrow Tuesday this comes
as the country is experiencing political

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turmoil because of President
Condon's decision to organize

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a controversial constitutional referendum
and parliamentary elections the

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opposition says Mr condé is trying
to seek a 3rd term merely moon 0 is

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a member of the National Front for the in
defense of the constitution he says the

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West African leaders will likely call on
President Condi and the opposition to find

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a solution to the political crisis that
would avoid violence. The book is Why

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is your constitution if it is you know
enough not to need to do as our fund is.

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Either going to call upon the president
Oliver and the Opposition to go around the

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table and how we connect employed by an

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a. And it is platform looking for
under all conditions and in the past

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when there is an issue to ask as
to stop any demonstration we did.

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It with ourselves on the if you
didn't even meet with. Everybody

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know. On which side you are
coming from suppose the African

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leaders ask you which way to avoid the
violence in Guinea what will be the

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opposition response on
the way we can do for

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a while are needed to stop that
process of. And the process

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of election because it may be
political party people got to leave.

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Because we say really anything to that
delicious free was completely policy

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not that everybody knows that there are
actually 3 is completely caught up with why

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can we think down and see how that can be
corrected and get on to our right before

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going to

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a lecture if that's how we are sure that
not in buying are going to happen but if

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defaults to go to election this country we
face probably the last time we spoke out

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your team was going to Abuja to attend the
opening of this court of justice what

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was the outcome there what me well how did
the hearing goal it went away and the

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car badly to make the ruling.
On the bank under 19

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there are now some about what is likely
is this case about this case is about.

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Was protocol which is like

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a constitution. To
complete the. Basic early.

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Evaluation when one tried to change
the Constitution to confiscate our.

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Last about 42 people and
about 2 thirds of them went

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killed. All those killings and
that is happening in one of those

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controlling it is against the protocol
of. Their faith I think we have some

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merit to call on them
for your minimal no is

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a member of the National Front for the
defense of the Constitution and getting your

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speaking with us from the capital can
agree at least 1000 voters of die it is

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believed that most if not all of them
who did voters which are endangered the

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numbers might rise says the Water Conservation
Foundation Director holds cover as

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he does make you forget the incident is
the worst voter mortality incident in the

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world in recent history we still believe
that fighting is the most probable cause

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of this mortality even though we are
keeping our options open and could we

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eventually though it is unlikely
you know some sort of you see

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a couple of researchers have suggested
for example avian influenza but the

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information that we get the from the field
the fact that some of the birds were

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bubbling from there because they were
seeking water and so on is are very common

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symptoms of bison and the fact that the
mortality occurred all at once you know in

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the camp. You know in

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a couple of new clues our our our our focus
areas are so suggests by seeing but we

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don't know because no one knowledge has
ever been done so therefore we need to keep

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our our options. Open generally
speaking with vultures poisoning is the

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major factor out of mortality all over
the world and poisoning doctors Africa

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a long story you know 3 different formats
what they do differently and one of them

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use the poisoning due to human wildlife
conflict in which the vultures are the

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collateral victims of such by doing so
vultures are not the intended victims and

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then an African very specific go to Africa
there are 2 other types of poisoning

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what we call Sentinel poisoning and you
see these associated with poaching of

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elephants and rhino now this is not
likely never sell because you never sell

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there's never any elephants around no other
talk going on in country with the local

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with me about the local park authority
yet so we really have been engaging with

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that with them with the bob and weave the
Ministry of Agriculture and you know the

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veterinary services and they've reacted
actually very very quickly teams were sent

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out to the field and they've incinerated
several 100 of the vultures that you know

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that were found there and so there's then
that the you know there was obviously

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some worry about public health impacts of
this the problem the only problem is that

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and fortunately nothing out samples were
collected one of the next well the next

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steps is if indeed you know vulture corpses
are collected and we hope that they are

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being collected and frozen what we would
like to do is would like to send the

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mission to interview cell. Not
only to the field to try to find

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a little bit more information. About exactly
the details of the poisoning but after

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including an avian pathologist that could
perform Martens and and eventually take

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the samples to

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a lab abroad where they can be properly
analyzed and fortunately there is no such

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lab in. Country now us holds it Tavarez
the volatile Conservation Foundation

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director you are speaking to
Ricky struck from Portugal.

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Is the norm for daybreak Africans for
saying here is something. Nigeria is very

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good Monday morning to you something good
Monday morning to you James you begin the

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sports with the latest news and how could
one of violence is affect in sports one

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to continent medical experts at the
Confederation of African football in Cameroon

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this past weekend to us says the measures
taken by Cameroon to come back to the

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virus and then they continue to post the
20 twentieth's vision of the African

00:26:05
nations championships the competition
exclusively for looking viz to play us from

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the 4th to the 25th of April Cameroon has
reported several cases of the Grown-Up

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virus the pandemic has forced the
cancellation of almost all new just sporting

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events and leagues around the world on
Friday Cath postponed the back to back

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rounds of the 2021 African Cup of Nations
qualify as which was set to be held in

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late March however the chance Jill
has the green light to go ahead with

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a calf statement explaining that the
delegation will that says the preventive

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measures taken by the look in committee
So how do fans on the African continent

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react to the diversity effect of the cone
of virus on sports but human life forced

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a life forced up at

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a lot of golf or do I think I would like
to be on the cover of people out of one of

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Africa I think I've told you

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a normal life I'll be suspended needs to
qualify as I would count on. People's

00:27:07
lives stick I think I'd say something like
up for now he's not there for the crowd

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and mostly for the p.r.

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Job search was also about its content
on time before we expanded calendar.

00:27:22
Competitions and then 2 women's football
news victories at home during Saturday's

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2nd leg marches of the 2nd round of the
African qualify as for the fee for under

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$17.00 Women's World Cup India 2020 was
enough for 5 teams to book their place at

00:27:38
the final round Cameroon Ghana Nigeria
South Africa and Uganda sealed sports in

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style as

00:27:46
a continental journey to India reaches
the final lap in yellow one day the.

00:27:52
National team proved too hot
to handle for South. With

00:27:56
a 6th. Grade victory Ghana's
black medians completed

00:28:01
a double over the Liberian counterparts
with an 8 mil victory in the Ghanians had

00:28:08
to kneel in Monrovia Nigeria continued to
Florida campaign for the tickets to India

00:28:14
with

00:28:14
a 51 home we in Qana parts and again
in Lagos victory secured the Flamingos

00:28:21
passage with an emphatic $112.00 Aggregate
tween full India $61.00 1st leg win last

00:28:27
week in Conakry elsewhere in Johannesburg
South Africa overturned it to new laws

00:28:32
for the 1st leg with

00:28:34
a 3 new win against neighbors Zambia to
progress and that's. Because sports I am

00:28:41
something. Back to you James in
Washington thank you some say have

00:28:47
a good day voted for this Monday March 16th
edition of daybreak Africa we thank you

00:28:52
for starting your with that with us will
be our for the daybreak Africa group I'm

00:28:56
Jeff but in Washington
hoping that you will have

00:28:59
a very good day. Great music can come

00:29:05
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00:29:12
Because this is Africa this week on border
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00:29:17
down 10 different musicians from. 10
different countries around the world.

00:29:24
Today on Tuesday March 17th at 1500
universal over on The Voice of America.

00:29:33
This is your. Place for. The next. 25

00:29:40
years ago the international
community. In an attempt to create

00:29:45
a world where men and women are equal

00:29:48
a discussion on women's equality
on the continent on the next. 2

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to one of the day that if
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00:30:14
Today is Monday March 16th and this is
below ways international edition I'm Lori

00:30:19
London in Washington coming up. Nations
worldwide take dramatic steps to combat the

00:30:26
covert 19 pandemic. A number
of cases skyrockets in Italy.

00:30:34
Also ahead scammers are trying to take
advantage of people looking to get tested

00:30:40
it's all on today's international
edition more than 156000 people

00:30:46
worldwide have been infected with the
coronavirus and almost 6000 have died as

00:30:51
nations scramble to contain the spread of
the current run of virus pandemic Italy

00:30:57
had its worst day yet Sunday with
3600 new cases and 368 deaths in

00:31:03
a 24 hour period Spain had the 2nd most
cases in Europe as that country is now on

00:31:10
lockdown and Germany is temporarily introducing
border controls with several of its

00:31:17
closest neighbors the. U.k.

00:31:19
Plans to escalate virus
fighting measures in

00:31:22
a sign that countries edging closer to
tactics adopted by its European neighbors

00:31:26
that it had resisted health secretary
Matt Hancock said Sunday the British

00:31:32
government is getting closer to the next
phase of its action plan which includes

00:31:36
requiring people over 70 to self isolate
possibly for months it's also preparing

00:31:42
legislation this week that will give it
extra power such as quarantining people who

00:31:47
are sick but refusing to isolate themselves
Britain's virus death toll rose to

00:31:53
$35.00 well confirmed cases there rose to
more than $1300.00 in the United States

00:31:59
another dramatic step the Centers for Disease
Control is recommending stopping all

00:32:05
gatherings of 50 people or more throughout
the country for the next 8 weeks

00:32:12
the head of Infectious
Diseases at the u.s.

00:32:15
National Institutes of Health is also
strongly cautioning Americans against

00:32:20
gathering in public places at all and
taking the risk of contracting the cone

00:32:28
and warning to take the risk of
contracting corona virus seriously.

00:32:35
Zachery gone or not Reuters files this
report looks like you're overreacting you're

00:32:40
probably doing the right thing a top u.s.

00:32:42
Health official on Sunday said Americans
should be prepared to hunker down as the

00:32:46
number of coronavirus cases in the country
continues to climb and it is correct

00:32:50
that the infections are going to go up Dr
Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes

00:32:54
of Health said Americans needed to seriously
weigh the risks of contracting the

00:32:58
highly contagious and sometimes deadly
respiratory illness by going out in public

00:33:03
you don't want to make a pronouncement
that no one should ever go into

00:33:06
a restaurant I mean I think that might be
overkill right now but everything is on

00:33:09
the table it may come to the situation
will be strongly recommended right now

00:33:15
myself personally I wouldn't go to a
restaurant I am officially declaring

00:33:18
a national emergency u.s.

00:33:20
President I will jump on Friday declared

00:33:22
a national emergency over
the ice break and the u.s.

00:33:25
House of Representatives later passed an
economic relief measure that may go to the

00:33:28
Senate this week but the national responses
so far been piecemeal that by state

00:33:32
governors mayors school district superintendents
and employers decided on their own

00:33:37
to impose closures or direct people to
work from home the containment measures in

00:33:41
the u.s.

00:33:42
Have so far been mild compared to the
national lockdowns imposed in Italy France

00:33:46
and Spain the virus has infected more than
156000 people in 142 countries resulting

00:33:53
in over 5800 deaths but limited testing
available officials have recorded nearly

00:33:58
3000 cases and 39 deaths in the United
States patchy expected Friday laboratories

00:34:04
in the u.s.

00:34:04
To ramp up tests production this week
is sort of seeing test more and more

00:34:08
available and so pretty soon they're going
to be quite well billable but in the

00:34:12
next day or so you can find people
going to say you know I want to get

00:34:15
a test they couldn't get it that's going
to happen as cases climb the next question

00:34:20
becomes whether u.s.
Hospitals are prepared for

00:34:22
a way for patients hospitals will be over
and I'm not I don't say that I think it's

00:34:26
possible that they could be but when you
see that people get frightened she did not

00:34:31
want to cause alarm but he said
the government was preparing for

00:34:34
a word. Case scenario would be only
list that to not pay attention to the

00:34:38
possibility that she could help and at
least one former federal official was

00:34:42
prepared to say what that might look like
are there enough medical supplies not if

00:34:47
we have a woman style outbreak in

00:34:49
a major city or multiple cities which is
my concern that we could have outbreaks of

00:34:52
that proportion in multiple u.s.

00:34:54
Cities got Ghalib as a former
commissioner of the u.s.

00:34:56
Food and Drug Administration he said
that the virus which wreaks havoc on the

00:35:00
Chinese city in which you decide to it
originated could have a similar impact on

00:35:04
a similarly sized American
metropolis we have

00:35:08
a little hunt style outbreak in New York
City that's could overwhelm the system so

00:35:12
they need to be building surge capacity
right now in anticipation of that

00:35:16
possibility now there's ways to avert it
but that's the risk that we face right now

00:35:21
u.s. Hospitals gearing up for

00:35:23
a large surge in patients are worried
that school closures will make it more

00:35:27
difficult for doctors and nurses to
work they are reaching out to temporary

00:35:31
staffing agencies and exploring other ways
to maintain workforce levels as health

00:35:35
officials are urged people to heed the
warnings about social distancing Americans

00:35:39
returning home over the weekend from Europe
trying to get in on time before the ban

00:35:46
takes effect had to wait for hours to be
tested for Corona virus before entering

00:35:52
citizens were coming into 13 major
u.s. Airports including j.f.k.

00:35:57
In New York and O'Hare International in
Chicago but Chicago mayor Laurie Lightfoot

00:36:02
expressed anger and frustration with the
United States federal government after

00:36:06
large crowds arriving from those international
flights were forced to stand in long

00:36:11
lines for hours but I want to make known
my strong concerns and disappointments for

00:36:17
the federal government's lack of preparedness
and issuing new directives regarding

00:36:21
airport screening that fail is directly
the cause of last night's unacceptable

00:36:28
conditions at O'Hare International Airport
and other airports across the country. I

00:36:33
mean

00:36:33
a series of very frank discussions with our
federally is ons both at the White House

00:36:40
and at Homeland Security to express my
concern and disappointment but also offer

00:36:46
concrete suggestions on how to avoid or
at least mitigate these problems going

00:36:51
forward the city's security of our
residents including those of the traveling

00:36:56
public and only here on the world's busiest
airfield our top concern last night

00:37:03
we saw them safety and security was seriously
compromised and people were forced

00:37:08
into conditions that are against serious
enough guidance and are totally

00:37:13
unacceptable thousands of travels the
horse which misleadingly long lines

00:37:20
congregating in Concord Concord apocalypses
and putting themselves in their loved

00:37:25
ones at greater risk of exposure
of a cold with 19 acting u.s.

00:37:30
Homeland security secretary Chad Wolf tweeted
Sunday that the government is working

00:37:35
to fix the situation and will be adding
more virus screening capacity as well as

00:37:41
working with the airlines He says
screenings really should take about

00:37:46
a minute per passenger in South Africa
President Cyril Rama Post spoke to citizens

00:37:53
there Sunday about aggressive steps that
countries taking we have now to good and

00:37:59
that's not

00:37:59
a state of too soft. In terms of the
Disaster Management Act This will

00:38:06
enable us to have an integrated and coordinated
disaster management McKenna's them

00:38:13
that will focus on preventing and you
just seeing the outbreak of this virus we

00:38:20
will also be able to set up emergency rep
picked an effective response systems

00:38:27
to mitigate this is your duty
office impact. Well imposing

00:38:32
a travel bag and even foreign nationals
from high risk countries such as Italy

00:38:39
Iran South Korea Spain
Germany the United States

00:38:46
the United Kingdom and China
as from 8000 March 2020

00:38:54
with concert visas to visitors from those
countries from today and previously

00:39:01
granted visas I hear about invoked.
South African citizens advice to

00:39:08
refrain from all forms of trouble
to or through the European Union

00:39:15
the United States United Kingdom and
other I defied high risk countries

00:39:22
such as China Iran and South
Korea. This is effective

00:39:28
immediately several African governments
Sunday closed borders cancelled flights and

00:39:33
imposed strict entry and quarantine
requirements to contain the spread of the new

00:39:38
corona virus which has

00:39:40
a foothold in at least $26.00 countries on
the continent as cases continue to rise

00:39:45
in West Africa gonna will ban entry from
Tuesday on to anyone who has been to

00:39:50
a country with more than 200 cases of the
virus in the past 14 days in Namibia

00:39:57
schools were ordered closed for

00:39:59
a month after recording its 1st 2 cases
on Saturday other nations up shut down

00:40:04
schools cancelled religious festivals and
sporting events to minimise the risk of

00:40:09
transmission.

00:40:30
Here are some of the other important stories
we're following at the news consumers

00:40:34
are being warned not to fall for bogus
coronavirus home testing kits customs agents

00:40:40
say they intercepted

00:40:41
a package at Los Angeles International
Airport filled with vials labeled. It

00:40:48
Federal officials say coronavirus testing
is only conducted in verified state and

00:40:53
public labs the situation for struggling
airlines continues to worsen as demand

00:41:00
continues to plunge American Airlines
is cutting international flights by 75

00:41:05
percent while Delta said Friday it's cutting
capacity by 40 percent in the next few

00:41:10
months the largest in the airline's history
Italy says it will likely take over

00:41:17
area Tallia as that airline is unable to
sustain itself and the Vatican says fully

00:41:23
weeks ceremonies will go ahead but without.
Public attendance as Italy tries to

00:41:29
contain the growing a virus outbreak the
public will be able to follow via t.v.

00:41:34
Radio and online media several measures
aimed at protecting Citizen Health make it

00:41:39
impossible for the rank and file faithful
to attend Holy Week begins with Palm

00:41:45
Sunday on April 5th
culminating on Easter Sunday

00:41:49
a week later with tradition calling for
Al Gore masses in St Peter's Square and

00:41:56
beyond on both Sundays tens of thousands
of the faithful usually turn out for the

00:42:02
celebration.

00:42:10
Stay with the way for all the latest on

00:42:12
a coronavirus pandemic. Sunday's
Democratic presidential debate

00:42:19
went on despite the pandemic it's the 1st
with just 2 candidates Joe Biden Bernie

00:42:24
Sanders the debate hosted by c.n.n.

00:42:27
Is being held in Attala vision studio in
Washington without an in person audience

00:42:33
in Arizona planned it's also the 1st since
Biden took command of the primary race

00:42:39
c.n.n.

00:42:40
The network hosting the debate said it was
positioning Biden and Sanders podium 6

00:42:45
feet apart in keeping with
guidance from the c.d.c.

00:42:49
For limiting the spread of coronavirus they
always Jim Malone files this report on

00:42:55
the debate well it was an unusual debate
by the normal procedures of these

00:43:00
presidential debates that we've seen since
last year only 2 people on stage the 2

00:43:06
remaining Democrats vying for the nomination
that would be former Vice President

00:43:11
Biden and of course Senator Sanders from
Vermont and the coronavirus crisis cast

00:43:19
definitely

00:43:19
a shadow over the entire debate both men
sought to lay out what they would do in

00:43:26
a time. Of national crisis Biden says
his heart went out does go out to those

00:43:32
affected by it those who've lost loved ones
those suffering and he referred to the

00:43:37
issue as

00:43:38
a sort of national rallying together that
the country is now going through Bernie

00:43:44
Sanders was

00:43:45
a little more overtly critical of President
Trump's handling of the issue so far

00:43:52
said the president's statements that time
undermine health care officials in the

00:43:57
administration in terms of their approach
in dealing with the crisis. And I think

00:44:03
both men also tried to lay out in detail
how they would deal with this they would

00:44:08
ramp up the testing as best they could
Biden said he would take the testing kids

00:44:13
from the World Health Organization both
also talked about the need to ramp up

00:44:20
hospitals in terms of coming up with as
effective ways to treat those people who

00:44:26
are going to be affected by the virus and
that would include additional ventilators

00:44:32
. To the hospitals that are going to be
accepting those suffering from the disease

00:44:39
they also talk though about the need to
help people financially who are affected

00:44:46
by the crisis people who will lose
time on the job people who will.

00:44:53
Lose time because they have to care for
children at home that kind of thing so they

00:44:59
both came up with various types of what
they would call bailout programs to help

00:45:04
those affected by the crisis and both
said the need would be immediate to get

00:45:10
something to those who are hurting because
of the coronavirus pandemic going on at

00:45:16
the moment and another note it's interesting
was that Senator Sanders tried to

00:45:21
pivot it times to make his argument for

00:45:24
a more broader government health care
right. On facility his favorite approach is

00:45:30
Medicare for all so he pivoted to that

00:45:33
a few times saying that this crisis showed
bare the needs to improve the health

00:45:40
care system in general whereas the former
Vice President Biden was more focused on

00:45:46
the immediate nature of the crisis and
referred several times that he wanted

00:45:51
results not revolution in terms of how to
deal with this crisis so it times it was

00:45:58
a very spirited debate between the 2 men
they went over their past records Sanders

00:46:04
obviously is in a bit of

00:46:06
a deficit at the moment in terms of where
the race stands and we have 4 major

00:46:12
states voting on Tuesday Arizona
Florida Illinois and Ohio Biden

00:46:19
is slated to do well in several of those
states but of course there are questions

00:46:24
about who exactly at this point is going
to turn out to vote in the primary given

00:46:30
the concerns about coronavirus
around the country but we are at

00:46:35
a critical time in the in the
Democratic race Biden has

00:46:40
a lead in the delegate count he has turned
the race around earlier this month with

00:46:46
his strong showing in the Super Tuesday
primaries and again last week so right now

00:46:51
Sanders needs to find something to try
to turn the race around and whether this

00:46:56
debate was it hard to say and certainly
most people I think right now would want to

00:47:02
know from both men what they would want to
do in terms of handling this coronavirus

00:47:08
pandemic people across France

00:47:10
a voted in the 1st round of municipal
elections Sunday one of the few major events

00:47:14
that authorities have not cancelled there
or postponed the Kerner virus outbreak.

00:47:20
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00:48:09
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00:48:17
5 minutes newscast. At the top of
each of. Your thoughts the source

00:48:24
of information Iran is battling one of the
worst outbreaks outside of China as the

00:48:30
Health Ministry reports 113 more fate
holidays bringing the country's death toll to

00:48:35
724 amid close to 4000 confirmed
cases the real number of

00:48:42
infections could be even higher as
questions have been raised about the

00:48:46
government's transparency Iran's official
leading the response acknowledged the

00:48:51
pandemic could overwhelm health facilities
in the country which is under severe

00:48:56
u.s. Sanctions Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu announced

00:49:01
a series of sharp restrictions on Israelis
to combat the spread of covert 19 The

00:49:07
measures include an almost total shutdown
of the country except for pharmacies and

00:49:13
supermarkets and

00:49:14
a ban on gatherings of more than 10 people
he also said he wants to use Cyberman.

00:49:20
To track the locations of those infected
Linda Gradstein reports for v.o.a.

00:49:26
From Jerusalem speaking on national television
Natanya who said the coronavirus is

00:49:31
an invisible enemy and seem to be doubling
should be advantaged almost to blame

00:49:35
loom over UK But tool he said that he
would use all means available to fight

00:49:40
coronavirus including technological
means he has hesitated to use until now

00:49:46
referring to cyber tools used to fight
terrorism Israel's attorney general approved

00:49:52
using cyber measures to track coronavirus
patients phones Israeli media said it

00:49:57
would primarily be used to inform Israelis
who might have been in the facility of

00:50:01
a patient and to ensure that patients under
quarantine are staying at home there

00:50:06
are at least 200 Israelis diagnosed with
corona virus and tens of thousands are

00:50:11
under a 2 week quarantine either
because they had contact with

00:50:15
a patient with the virus or because they
return from abroad Israel's former justice

00:50:20
minister I yell

00:50:21
a check Cade said that the decision to
track the location of patients using their

00:50:25
phone is problematic and she would try to
make sure there is as little invasion of

00:50:30
privacy as possible new restrictions that
went into force on Sunday closed down all

00:50:35
preschools and entertainment venues schools
were closed last week and classes were

00:50:39
being moved on line
Professor goalline shofar

00:50:43
a neuro psychologist said that so far
Israelis are coping well I can be really

00:50:48
probably. The poor other
probably democratic

00:50:54
world Arianna creamed. Her.

00:51:02
But in my humble opinion without comment
there were long lines at supermarkets

00:51:06
despite Natanya whose assurances that
everything would remain open most Israelis

00:51:11
were ordered to work at home or put on
furlough the Israeli government announced

00:51:16
a month long grace period for paying
taxes and said that those temp. Rarely

00:51:21
unemployed including thousands of tour
guides can apply for unemployment Gil

00:51:26
Bussmann is the chief economist
at Israel's Bank Leumi from

00:51:29
a 3rd term that will draw down chronometer
activity quite substantially with

00:51:34
a focus on specific sectors that are
likely. Substantial because cats will be

00:51:40
appropriate in other types of difficulties
Meanwhile in the 10 Yahoo's trial for

00:51:44
fraud and breach of trust that was scheduled
to start on Tuesday has been postponed

00:51:49
for 2 months now 10
Yahoo is trying to form

00:51:52
a unity government with former chief of
staff Benny Gantz after an inconclusive

00:51:56
election Israel's 3rd this year
Linda Gradstein for v.o.a.

00:52:01
News Jerusalem as more and more schools
are closing and people are being told not

00:52:06
to congregate businesses are also trying
to equip their employees to be able to

00:52:10
work from home Joining us to talk
about how remote work has become

00:52:14
a key element in the wake of the coronavirus
is she's transparency officer with

00:52:21
transparent business and a former
senior advisor to Joe Biden most of

00:52:26
a Law Thank you for being with us
tell us how this is making. Sends

00:52:33
to help employees work from home
and say. We are a software as

00:52:39
a service company we have developed
software that has multiple functions in the

00:52:44
transparency space probably the most
relevant function of our software today

00:52:50
because of the coronavirus pandemic is are
that at some point Citi Group had named

00:52:56
our software the top people
management software of the year

00:52:59
a few years ago and so that is one of the
ways that it can be used today as we

00:53:07
combat this horrible virus and so
it allows employers to monitor

00:53:13
a remote workforce and so what we know
from watching other countries and dealing

00:53:19
with with this virus and now we're having
to deal with in the United States what we

00:53:24
have figured out from watching all this
is that one of the easiest and quickest

00:53:30
ways to mitigate the spread of the virus
is to stop making your employees and large

00:53:37
masses of people to congregate one of
the best ways to address that is remote

00:53:42
workforce

00:53:43
a lot of folks have been headed that way
in the private sector for years anyway but

00:53:47
a lot of employees have been reluctant
because there's really no way to truly

00:53:51
monitor your employees when they're working
remotely our software allows you to do

00:53:56
that without invading their privacy how
does that happen yes because what we do is

00:54:02
we do screen shots every 3 minutes and
we do keystrokes we do not record your

00:54:08
keystrokes that we don't know what you're
typing We just know that you are attacked

00:54:12
because green shops on the other hand
are very fascinating that our software

00:54:17
provide because the employees actually gets
to control at the end of the day what I

00:54:23
mean shot of their work throughout the day
it's to go to their manager and their

00:54:26
employer so if you went and shop online
you clearly you know where boss. I know

00:54:32
that right in the right not going to
approve that screenshot that he sent in

00:54:36
claiming that you were working right what
this does is it holds people accountable

00:54:41
but it doesn't take away your power
to determine your privacy as far as

00:54:45
a coronavirus goes you know more and more
offices and buildings and businesses are

00:54:50
telling people not to come in and you
know if we with we just completely halts

00:54:55
productivity that's going to even have
more detriment to not just our economy but

00:55:00
the global economy so it absolutely
totally makes sense because these this

00:55:04
specially something it's as infectious
as this sounds like it is and people's

00:55:09
announcing things that etc
So yeah it just seems like

00:55:13
a no brainer to have people just work from
home but not be out of work it does but

00:55:19
what we're very you know we're very
very sad and very very concerned as

00:55:23
a company obviously for you know
this this virus and the. Rapid

00:55:30
breath of it all over the world it's
bittersweet because we're really glad we have

00:55:35
a solution in a tool that will
help in mitigating its spread it's

00:55:40
a bad bad situation I'm glad that we are
able to step up and offer something that

00:55:46
can make

00:55:46
a difference and save some people's lives
and frankly what really concerns me is

00:55:52
that when folks find out that this type of

00:55:55
a solution and tool exists not using
technology in the solution that hand in some

00:56:00
way is it feels and moral we've got something
that can help you we don't need to

00:56:05
cripple the economy by keeping everybody
at home and then if you're worried that

00:56:09
you're not going to really know what people
are really doing and that's going to

00:56:12
hurt your company's growth we've got
something that can help by Obviously this is

00:56:17
not just

00:56:18
a matter of convenience or or even the
environmental aspects of humiliating this is

00:56:24
actually potentially

00:56:25
a matter of life and death that working
how working as the government employees

00:56:31
call in or. We're not working however
you want to call it really seems like

00:56:35
a could be a very big part of emergency
preparedness Yes and you raise

00:56:41
a very excellent point one of the obviously
the reasons that you want to look at

00:56:46
teleworking or remote work forces as

00:56:49
a part of the solution and the mitigation
of the spread unrest is not just because

00:56:55
of the congregation of people in the
workforce you raise an excellent point it's

00:56:59
also the congregation of people in mass
transportation so it's trains and buses

00:57:06
where we've got people congregated So we're
going to be able to alleviate some of

00:57:10
that stress and burden and and take away

00:57:13
a lot of the the opportunity for this
virus to spread if we give people an

00:57:18
opportunity to work from home and give them
and give the employers and managers and

00:57:23
the government the tools
to monitor appropriate.

00:58:03
Everything. Breakout star
Billie Eilish is opening

00:58:10
up about why her song everything I
wanted is so dark she says she was in

00:58:16
a bad place emotionally and struggled with
depression since adolescence she says

00:58:22
the song was inspired by our thoughts of
suicide her brother producer says he and

00:58:28
his family were insanely concerned when
they 1st heard the song but Eilish says

00:58:33
talking about it was

00:58:34
a very healthy stuff and helping
our mental health. That

00:58:41
. You've been listening to

00:58:48
international edition that's it for our
show today but you can always find us at

00:58:53
the News dot com on the hop of our
director Tracy Carter and our engineer

00:59:00
Jackson. I'm Laurie London
and Washington have

00:59:04
a wonderful day and please be well.

00:59:43
They called me.

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