Closed captions transcript:

00:00:00
There are severe bans
on movement in the u.s.

00:00:02
The government is preparing relief packages
to help businesses and individuals deal

00:00:07
with the economic losses from
the coronavirus pandemic v.o.a.

00:00:11
White House bureau chief Steve Herman has
the story President Donald Trump says he

00:00:15
does not want to see airlines going out of
business or people losing their jobs or

00:00:19
not having any money due to Culver
1000 sweeping the country and causing

00:00:24
a halt to economic activity so we're going
back and that's the way it will be and

00:00:28
that's the way everybody seems to like
it Treasury Secretary Steven minutia and

00:00:32
says the money and he wouldn't say how
much could be sent directly to Americans

00:00:37
within 2 weeks Steve Herman v.o.a.

00:00:40
News at the White House elsewhere the
leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies

00:00:45
are trying to organize a virtual
meeting next week to discuss

00:00:48
a coordinated response to the pandemic

00:00:50
a piece Julie Walker has more Saudi Arabia
which leads the g 20 says it will act in

00:00:55
any way necessary to alleviate the impact
of the coronavirus and put forward

00:00:59
coordinated policies to protect people and
safeguard the global economy but Hong

00:01:04
Kong based financial analyst Lewis says
that may not be enough to stop the market

00:01:09
volatility governments are trying very
hard to. Roll out supportive measures

00:01:16
to. Stabilize the economy but
on the other hand the spread of

00:01:23
coronaviruses. In some countries seems to
be out of control he says investors are

00:01:28
torn between the 2 uncertainties I'm
Julie Walker For more on the coronavirus

00:01:33
please go to v.o.a.

00:01:34
News dot com and learn more about the
symptoms and the latest news this is v.o.a.

00:01:39
News investor worries about the economic
effects of the coronavirus outbreak

00:01:45
continue to weigh on global markets
Wednesday major markets in Asia traded in

00:01:49
positive territory for much of the day but
plunged too late to close with losses

00:01:54
Japan's Nikkei Hong Kong's Hang Seng index
and the Shanghai index all finished.

00:02:00
Down sharply u.s.

00:02:01
Defense secretary Marc aspers says the
Pentagon will provide millions of respirator

00:02:06
masks and ventilators to federal health
authorities to help in the response to the

00:02:10
coronavirus pandemic that is part of the
fence will make available up to 5000000

00:02:15
and 95 respirator masks and other personal
protective equipment from our own

00:02:20
strategic reserves to the Department of
Health and Human Services for distribution

00:02:25
the 1st 1000000 masks will be made
available immediately as per says the

00:02:29
ventilators are designed for use by the
military and civilians will need to be

00:02:33
trained to use them books wagon says it
will close most of its European plants for

00:02:38
2 weeks due to uncertainty about the demand
for cars and the supplies apart amid

00:02:43
the virus outbreak

00:02:44
a peace Charles deal with Desmond report
despite the closures The automaker says

00:02:49
it's trying to businesses coming back the
number of new virus cases then lessons if

00:02:53
somebody just plans to scale up production
of electric cars remains on track the

00:02:58
group adds though it isn't possible to
give or labile outlook for this year's

00:03:02
profits employee representatives say the
law shifts would run this Friday in most

00:03:07
locations the company's facilities
in Italy where the outbreak has been

00:03:11
particularly severe have already shut down
I'm Charles the former us Vice President

00:03:17
Joe Biden scored decisive wins Tuesday
in Democratic presidential primaries in

00:03:22
Florida Illinois and Arizona via ways
Michael Sullivan has more Democrats backed

00:03:27
Biden by large margins in all 3 states
strengthening his claim on his party's

00:03:32
nomination to challenge President
Donald Trump our campaign has had

00:03:37
a very good night we move closer to securing
the Democratic Party's nomination for

00:03:41
president and we're doing it by building

00:03:44
a broad coalition and we need to win in
November with Tuesday's wins Biden has more

00:03:50
than half of the delegates needed for
his party's nomination Michael Sullivan

00:03:55
v.o.y. News Los Angeles China says it is
expelling reporters. From 3 major u.s.

00:04:01
Newspapers The New York Times The Washington
Post and The Wall Street Journal in

00:04:05
response to what officials say is
unwarranted restrictions on Chinese media

00:04:09
agencies in addition Beijing ordered to
other news outlets Time magazine and The

00:04:14
Independent u.s.

00:04:15
Funded Voice of America news operation
to give Chinese authorities detailed

00:04:20
information about their work in China u.s.

00:04:23
Secretary of state Mike Pompei

00:04:24
o criticize China's actions from
Washington I'm Jim Berto v.o.a.

00:04:30
News.

00:04:44
Just to get. The best music.

00:04:59
What do you see. When you.

00:05:13
Take you.

00:05:59
Somewhere.

00:06:14
That's my. Next Montana.

00:07:06
Blood thing. I'm just

00:07:13
done.

00:09:13
Closely.

00:10:40
Yes Bill I won and they had spent to get
the disco hey look I made it we also heard

00:10:44
monster x.

00:10:45
And French Montana who do you love my name
is Nikki strong enough playing you all

00:10:48
the pop music you have Demi Lovato on
the way some juice world to entrap

00:10:53
a Scot here is b.b. Wreck
some last hurrah on v.o.a.

00:10:56
One big hit. I'm telling kid I'm telling
you just love the kid I'm going to blow it

00:11:03
I'm done with the kill and I'm done with
the ladies I'm telling the little sister

00:11:07
to set. And that's was not the
time to touch you said she was

00:11:15
made to feel under pressure to shut up
shut up was killed thank you Gabby.

00:11:25
I. Was doing our little.

00:11:57
Bundle. Of little. When it. Comes.

00:12:15
To Lois was.

00:12:45
Glad to get.

00:13:19
Used to.

00:13:37
Mask piano and try to combat. The

00:13:43
mask and magination. Can. Cause the

00:13:50
tragic traffic in Jackson. Was

00:13:55
a bold as was. This.

00:14:02
New.

00:14:12
Plan is in England.

00:14:21
But they all.

00:14:30
Know.

00:15:26
I just need

00:15:27
a mole bang. Bang. Bang. Bang

00:15:37
. Bang bang I'm

00:15:42
a band. With

00:15:50
. The.

00:15:58
Name now.

00:16:48
Marine stories and. Told them.

00:16:55
Ending. A.

00:17:03
Deal I want and they did say Demi Lovato
with anyone my name is Nikki strong makes

00:17:08
a check out the lady d.j. This
Thursday at 10 or 2200 u.t.c.

00:17:12
For today's hit countdown with the countdown
the top 20 songs on the Billboard Hot

00:17:17
100 chart just weld on the way here is
Arizona's or Vos with Roxanne on v.o.a.

00:17:23
One the hits.

00:17:36
Break sax.

00:18:01
She just sort of put.

00:18:08
Up

00:18:08
a she'd only. Kill. A

00:18:23
few and. It's been in Daddy's money would.

00:18:42
She think dumbest things are.

00:18:56
Going to break soon the family is pretty
badly shaken baby you see the change this

00:19:01
is. Going to chase she want
to date straight in. 30.

00:19:11
Years. And there's going to crazy. But.

00:19:19
If you ain't got

00:19:20
a. Man. And spin in daddy's money. Into

00:19:48
his car you.

00:20:00
I am. Going.

00:20:23
To see

00:20:24
a shadow similar to cancer for
the love that if you'll fix the

00:20:31
issue in the beginning it's the
soul of the toll this is such

00:20:37
a part of the us in it so my heart is to
my sadness found in the I'm going to the

00:20:42
bathroom on the mission
forget the pain. I still see

00:20:47
a shadow see the implications
of the law that. Is the

00:20:53
issue and the candidates Asia so I'm
accustomed to this is in touch with

00:21:00
the lives in my heart instead of my. Son
in the moon but I am the bad one the

00:21:06
pleasure forget the pain. In the end

00:21:12
a. Grave. You love me.

00:21:20
I save her skirt. Mamie's build a coach

00:21:25
a. Mock up in.

00:21:32
A postage triplicate playing

00:21:37
a game you. Were buying

00:21:44
a free ticket told some gold in

00:21:47
a game changer. Comes to.

00:21:55
Her defense and it's

00:21:56
a no watching the way the
to the summit. Coming.

00:22:03
Down I'm sad the. Good thing is. The only.

00:22:19
Way. You.

00:22:43
Can see the love if you. Can.

00:22:51
Do. This is. The one who
lives in my heart is my.

00:22:58
Son to come but I am the bad
one the legend for the.

00:23:06
Cancer. Is the lifeblood.

00:23:13
The place. Easiest to cut the
ones in it's in my heart is.

00:23:20
Found in the mud of the
bad let you forget me.

00:23:49
It's.

00:24:10
But.

00:24:19
Let's. Never know.

00:24:27
I mean. I've.

00:25:20
Never known. I mean Senator.

00:26:04
Lol. Saying something. You
want to bring up just

00:26:11
a. Mom.

00:26:23
Said. Plenty.

00:26:41
Of her subtle.

00:26:50
Lives some legs.

00:26:56
Cut. Cut cut. Cut.

00:27:05
Cut. Cut cut cut

00:27:12
cut cut. Cut.

00:27:19
Above.

00:27:25
Love Zone.

00:27:34
Play.

00:27:44
By play. Play. Play

00:27:51
play play play. Play play play.

00:27:59
Discipline.

00:28:45
That was.

00:29:22
The only one and they had to have

00:29:23
a Scot highest in the room we all certainly
am pain bedroom floor and juice world

00:29:28
a lucid dreams my name is Nikki strong you
can always reach me on social media on

00:29:32
Facebook and Twitter at I
am and i k k I s t r o

00:29:37
n g I am Nikki strong and this is v.o.a.

00:29:40
One bids. Welcome to learning English

00:29:47
a daily 30 minute program from the Voice
of America I'm Jonathan Adams this

00:29:53
program is aimed at English
learners so we speak

00:29:57
a little slower and we use words and for.
Raises especially written for people

00:30:02
learning English. We also explain

00:30:09
words and language rules all while bringing
you stories and information from around

00:30:16
the world. Today on the program you will
hear stories from Ashley Thompson and

00:30:23
and ball later Steve Emperor will
present our American history series The

00:30:29
Making of

00:30:30
a nation but 1st here
is Ashley Thompson with

00:30:37
schools shutting down and the ways of
daily life changing children are hearing

00:30:44
more about the new coronavirus
they may not fully understand it

00:30:51
or know how seriously to take it
but their lives are affected many

00:30:58
parents are trying to decide how to talk
with their children about the virus and

00:31:05
of the outbreak Some say they are
checking in each day to see how their

00:31:12
children are doing but others worry that
talking too much about it could make their

00:31:18
children more nervous and fearful in

00:31:22
a call pony is the mother of 10
year old Clara and 12 year old Jane

00:31:30
the family lives and Audubon
New Jersey she said We talk

00:31:36
a lot about it I watch the news every
morning and they're always watching it too

00:31:42
both girls said they have talked about the
virus at school Jane said her teachers

00:31:49
have discussed it during science lessons
I'm not really as scared of it.

00:31:55
It's still not even that many people
getting sick here Jane said one of my

00:32:02
friends is really scared of it but she's
honestly really scared of all diseases

00:32:09
Beth Young said she has decided to limit
the conversations with her 4 children they

00:32:16
are ages 810-1215 the family lives in Fort

00:32:23
Mill South Carolina she said she does
not want them to be afraid of getting

00:32:29
sick because kids get sick pretty
often and she does not want them

00:32:37
to worry about dying of a
new coronavirus causes

00:32:42
a disease called Kovac 19 for
most people including children

00:32:49
it results in only mild or
moderate sickness such as

00:32:54
a temperature and cough for others
especially older adults and people

00:33:01
with existing health problems it can
cause more severe illness including

00:33:07
pneumonia which facts

00:33:09
a person's ability to breathe most
people recover the World Health

00:33:16
Organization says that people with minor
sickness recover and about 2 weeks

00:33:23
those with

00:33:24
a more serious case may take 3 to 6
weeks to recover child psychology

00:33:31
experts advise parents and others
to be calm and positive when

00:33:37
discussing the issue with young people they
suggest centering discussions on active

00:33:44
steps one can take They also suggest
doing research in order to answer

00:33:51
children's questions
truthfully. Dr Jamie Howard is

00:33:57
a psychologist at the nonprofit Child
Mind Institute she said it is important

00:34:03
to reassure children ask them if they
have questions and tell them how they can

00:34:10
stay safe the Institute and the u.s.

00:34:14
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
offer suggestions on talking with

00:34:20
children some teachers and sports
coaches are working to stop the

00:34:27
idea that the virus is tied to any
group or race the new coronavirus

00:34:34
1st appeared in China some American
adults are staying away from Chinese

00:34:40
restaurants and businesses out of
fear that they may get the virus

00:34:47
Seattle public schools in the state of
Washington wrote on its website that

00:34:52
misinformation has led to fear and
anger the school district's leaders

00:34:59
urged students to combat racism and
bias we are aware of reports that

00:35:06
some of our Asian students have been
targeted and discriminated against in

00:35:12
connection to coded 19 their school
leaders wrote this is unacceptable

00:35:19
parents should explain that measures such
as wearing covers over your mouth and

00:35:25
nose and closing schools are
preventative and temporary Dr Howard

00:35:32
said she urges parents to follow
what the television personality Mr

00:35:38
Rogers used to say look to the
helpers to see what doctors

00:35:45
teachers parents and scientists
are doing to keep them safe I'm

00:35:52
Ashley Thompson.

00:36:39
Wasim

00:36:40
a con stopped attending school
6 years ago she has yet to

00:36:46
complete her studies the 19 year
old is not an exception she

00:36:53
is like many other young women in new
where she lives in northern India

00:37:00
only about 30 percent of the women
there can read and write that is

00:37:07
about half the national
average Wassim Khan

00:37:14
left school because she had to do housework
and help her mother with younger

00:37:20
brothers and sisters she said and
there was no middle school in her

00:37:26
community at the same time
boys living in Pad Piqua

00:37:33
in hard Yana State walk to the nearest
high school about 4 kilometers

00:37:40
away. Yet girls are not permitted
to leave the small village in

00:37:47
puppies many of the women work in
fields or care for farm animals young

00:37:53
girls got water while children play
men often sit outside their homes

00:38:00
in the sun after a cold winter

00:38:04
a group of young women from this mostly
Muslim community made it to college by

00:38:10
overcoming prejudices against women
now they are working to get more

00:38:16
girls into school every Sunday
they spread out in and other

00:38:23
villages to talk to people about why they
should let their daughters study the

00:38:29
young women persuaded Wassim

00:38:31
a cons mother to keep her younger
daughter at school they ease her concerns

00:38:38
about dowries the money or goods that

00:38:41
a woman's family must give to her husband's
family when they marry she fears

00:38:48
that educated girls will want to
marry educated men who will demand

00:38:53
a bigger dowry this is difficult for
many poor families who see no reason to

00:39:00
educate girls all rushed in is

00:39:05
a postgraduate student studying
history she says her college

00:39:11
education has given her the strength
to fight the dowry tradition

00:39:18
I will only marry into

00:39:19
a family which does not demand
dowry she said however well to do

00:39:26
they may be. The young women tell WOSM

00:39:31
a con that she can return to school as

00:39:35
a girl her goal had been to join
India's police force she does not know

00:39:42
if she can go back but she says she
will do whatever she can to make

00:39:49
sure her sister does not leave
school I loved my classes she said

00:39:56
but I was helpless

00:40:00
a nonprofit organization called the selfie
with daughter foundation is leading the

00:40:05
campaign to empower and educate
women in these villages its aim is

00:40:12
to bring change by publicizing the success
stories of girls who came from the

00:40:17
villages and now serve as role
models for other families is one

00:40:24
a cause and began her campaign by persuading
her extended family to educate their

00:40:30
daughters she tells these women that
educated girls could help the villages

00:40:38
in some areas when and are not permitted
to enter act with male lawyers be taught

00:40:44
by male teachers or get treated by
male doctors. And is training for

00:40:51
a job in health care as
a nurse when she was

00:40:55
a teenager she became terribly
sick but her treatment was

00:41:00
a problem her parents could not read and
medical centers in the area were very

00:41:07
poor quality it made her decide
to get her own education

00:41:15
Khan said she wants to bring medical
aid to women in the area this is

00:41:22
a Goal her father urged her to go for
even selling belongings to pay for her

00:41:29
nursing school. They don't want
to educate their daughters but

00:41:36
if women are ill they want

00:41:38
a lady doctor how will that happen
Khan said another girl in the

00:41:45
campaign Shahnaz Bano wants to teach in

00:41:51
a local school she said I tell them that
if your daughters don't attend schools

00:41:58
how will they find female teachers it is

00:42:02
a message the young women repeat as they
go from house to house they point out how

00:42:09
they had to fight with their families to
get the right to study sometimes even

00:42:16
when parents agree to let them
study others in the village raised

00:42:22
objections most boys who complete
college move away to look

00:42:29
for better jobs outside the villages
but the girls hope to use their skills

00:42:36
in education in the community
on them Islamic is studying law

00:42:43
she wants to provide free legal aid to
women I don't want to do that for men she

00:42:50
adds but her bigger goal is to change
minds here men think that women

00:42:57
are only meant to do housework and give
birth to children Islam sad we have to

00:43:04
change this thinking if we have
equality under the law how can society

00:43:10
have this gender discrimination the
campaign is having success influencing

00:43:17
some women they do most of the work
both at home and in the fields.

00:43:25
On is 30 years old she is determined to
educate her 3 daughters she wants to make

00:43:32
sure they can escape her life story of
hard backbreaking work all day long

00:43:39
she works with the animals finds
firewood cleans cooks and washes dishes

00:43:46
she said if I had studied I would
have been saved from this.

00:43:53
I'm Jonathan Evans and. Ball.

00:45:21
Welcome to the making of a nation
American history in the oh

00:45:26
a special English I'm Steve Embury.
The United States entered the 2nd

00:45:33
world war again December of 1941
Europe had already been at war since

00:45:40
1939 but the United States did not enter

00:45:45
a World War 2 until Japanese forces at
tact the American naval base at Pearl

00:45:51
Harbor Hawaii. The attack was

00:45:57
a surprise but American military and political
leaders had believed that the United

00:46:04
States sooner or later would be pulled into
the fighting and they began to prepare

00:46:10
for war. President Franklin Roosevelt
had been assistant secretary of the

00:46:17
Navy under President Woodrow Wilson
during World War one he remembered how

00:46:24
American troops were not ready for battle
war now but he was President Roosevelt

00:46:31
wanted to be sure that the United States
would be ready when it had to fight

00:46:37
throughout 1941 Roosevelt urged
American industries to produce more

00:46:43
weapons and other military supplies the
as damaged new government agencies

00:46:50
to work with industry to increase arms
production. Some business leaders

00:46:57
resisted Roosevelt's efforts they felt there
was no need to produce more arms while

00:47:03
be United States was still at peace
but many others cooperated and by the

00:47:10
time. Pam attacked Pearl Harbor the
American economy was producing millions of

00:47:16
guns and other weapons still
this was not enough to fight

00:47:22
a war after the Japanese attack Roosevelt
increased his demands on American

00:47:28
industry he called 460000 war planes 45000

00:47:35
tanks and 20000 anti aircraft
guns and he wanted all these

00:47:42
within one year. A month after
the Pearl Harbor raid Roosevelt

00:47:49
organized the special committee to direct
military production he created another

00:47:56
group to help companies find men
and women for defense work and he

00:48:02
established

00:48:03
a new office where the nation's best
scientists and engineers could work together

00:48:09
to design new weapons. These new
government organizations faced several

00:48:16
problems sometimes factories produced
too much of one product and not

00:48:23
enough of another sometimes tools
broke and some business owners

00:48:29
refused to accept government orders but
the weapons were produced and American

00:48:35
troops soon have begun
sand supplies they need.

00:48:46
The federal government had to quickly
expand its own workforce to meet war needs

00:48:53
federal spending increased from
$60000000000.00 in 1940 to

00:49:00
$89000000000.00 in 1944
that was 15 times as much

00:49:06
spending in just 5 years Roosevelt
had to take strong steps to get the

00:49:13
money for all this spending he put limits
on wages he increased income taxes to

00:49:20
as much as 94 percent on portions
of incomes over $200000.00

00:49:27
and he asked the American people to lend
money to the federal government the people

00:49:33
answered by purchasing almost
$100000000000.00 in war bonds the great

00:49:40
increase in public spending raise the
threat of high inflation Roosevelt

00:49:47
created the special office with the
power to control prices many Americans

00:49:53
agreed with the idea of price controls
but every business wanted somebody

00:50:00
else's prices controlled not their
own. Federal officials had to work

00:50:07
hard to keep prices and supplies under
control they restricted how much meat

00:50:14
fuel and other goods people could
buy. The price controlled program

00:50:20
generally worked its success kept the
American economy strong to support the troops

00:50:27
fighting in Europe and the Asia. One
reason these strong economic steps worked

00:50:34
was because most of began American people
fully supported the war effort the order

00:50:41
to close off all 000-000-0000 extension
000. 000000 but I think she's

00:50:48
supposed to send the phone she's making
history the part of the king closing.

00:50:55
The king keep shuffle follow somebody down
and sitting up there on the crystal ball

00:51:00
that it will fit into that image and
closing. The riveting book and out of all of

00:51:06
them chanting Charlie the movie.
Rose in particular Charlie to keep

00:51:13
working overtime on the bit and machine
when to give up on production and she was

00:51:19
found as

00:51:20
a good thing being that something true
about that Biden blew up voting. That you

00:51:26
can look at photographs of people from
those times and see in their faces how

00:51:32
strong they have Bay felt. In one
victor from the state of North Carolina

00:51:38
a group of men there standing in front
of old rubber tires they are planning to

00:51:45
give the tires to the army to be fixed
and used for military vehicles. Another

00:51:52
photo shows a woman visiting
a hospital she is singing to

00:51:56
a soldier to lift his spirits still
another photo shows a man who owns

00:52:03
a small food store he is placing
signs on meat and cans of food

00:52:10
to tell people how much they are allowed
to buy. You can also get an idea

00:52:17
about the feelings of the times by the
names of some of the popular songs during

00:52:23
World War 2. Come back to their.

00:52:33
Well I. Was.

00:52:40
Alive. Today. Well I.

00:52:47
Was. In

00:52:54
addition to Rosie the Riveter there were
songs like Praise the Lord them Ashbery

00:53:00
emulation. One of the most hopeful songs
was this was recorded by Britain's

00:53:07
a beer on the. Lawn mowing. 7 7

00:53:14
the lawn was one.

00:53:20
Bomb went off on my good.
Long long time on one.

00:53:30
End of the train on loyally

00:53:32
a bomb plot to bomb from the.

00:53:41
Laundry room to the bomb. Bomb long.

00:53:53
Gone.

00:54:02
And then she's. Gone.

00:54:13
And we have. Cost

00:54:16
a new life away and he
really. Launched the.

00:54:26
Dawn again.

00:54:36
Not all Americans supported the war

00:54:40
a small number refused to fight because
of religious or moral beliefs they were

00:54:47
known as conscientious objectors and some
Americans supported at all for Hitler

00:54:53
and other fascists but almost everyone
else wanted to win the war quickly

00:55:00
and return to

00:55:01
a normal life. Many Japanese
Americans served with honor

00:55:08
in the United States armed forces but
many Americans were suspicious of anyone

00:55:15
whose family had come from Japan.
They refused to trust even Japanese

00:55:21
American families who had lived in
the United States for more than

00:55:26
a century. Many banks refused to
lend money to Japanese Americans

00:55:34
many stores would not sell the 2 of
them. The federal government relocated

00:55:40
thousands of Japanese Americans in
California and other states into

00:55:46
internment camps they were
released only after the war ended.

00:55:53
It was many years before the government
officially apologized for mistreating

00:56:00
Japanese Americans.

00:56:21
But one more to do the progress for another
group that was often the target of

00:56:27
discrimination black
Americans. Blank leaders

00:56:34
spoke out they said that
it was unfair it to fight

00:56:38
a war for freedom in Europe while black
Americans did not have old the same

00:56:45
freedoms as white citizens.
And. White innocent or less.

00:56:54
Noble or one of. Them and
then. The civil rights

00:57:01
revolution but no one to bring in 1941

00:57:06
a leader in the black community a
Philip Randolph threatened to lead

00:57:12
a giant March on Washington for
civil rights for blacks. President

00:57:18
Roosevelt reacted by issuing an order
that made it a crime to deny blacks

00:57:25
a chance for jobs in defense industries
He also ordered the armed forces

00:57:32
to change some of their rules that
discriminated against blacks service members.

00:57:40
Blanks made progress in the military
and defense industries but most other

00:57:46
industries still refused to give
them an equal chance. Major

00:57:53
progress in civil rights would not
come until the 19 fifties and sixties.

00:58:14
Life was busy during the war years there
were many changes in the economy business

00:58:21
music race relations and other areas
but in many ways life continued as it

00:58:28
always does America. Did what they could
during the hard years of World War 2 to

00:58:34
keep life on the home front as normal as
possible but almost everyone understood

00:58:40
that the 1st job was to support the
troops overseas and win the war.

00:58:48
This strength of purpose at home gave
American soldiers the support they needed and

00:58:54
it also helped President Roosevelt as
he negotiated with other world leaders

00:59:01
diplomacy and foreign relations became
much more complex during the war.

00:59:10
And that's our program for today listen
again tomorrow to learn English through

00:59:16
stories from around the
war. Jonathan Abbott.

00:59:44
This is v.o.a.

00:59:45
News I'm Jim Bertelli the World Health
Organization is urging governments to

00:59:49
implement

00:59:50
a comprehensive aggressive approach in
tackling 19 to slow down the rapidly

00:59:56
increasing number of cases and deaths
in Europe in other parts of the world

01:00:00
research reports for v.o.a.

01:00:02
From Geneva the World Health Organization
says it is difficult to nail down any one

01:00:07
factor or particular scenario behind
the surge of cases in Europe w.h.o.

01:00:13
Spokesman Christian Lindenmayer tells me
away his agency has been warning for weeks

01:00:18
that this novel virus would grab hold and
continue spreading with relentless speed

01:00:23
around the world Lindenmayer explains many
countries were unprepared to test treat

01:00:29
and track those. Infected when the virus
struck he says many still lack the

01:00:34
capacity to implement these important
measures he says the lack of medical

01:00:38
equipment tests personnel hospital beds
then to later years and other essential

01:00:44
items is a global problem
the search line for v.o.a.

01:00:48
News Geneva as nations hunker down to
limit exposure to the virus us President

01:00:53
Donald Trump is urging fast action to blunt
the impact. The report the president

01:00:59
says if Americans follow
government guidelines like a.

plus-circle Add Review

comment

Reviews