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Deaths from Corona virus in the United
States has topped 100 Kovac 19 has caused

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deaths in at least 34 states
as well as Washington d.c.

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And Puerto Rico more than 41000 people
nationwide have been affected New York is

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the nation's hardest hit
state with 43 deaths

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a member of the International
Olympic Committee has told a u.s.

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Newspaper that the 2020 Tokyo Elim picks
will be postponed because of the cope with

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19 pandemic Dick Pound

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a Canadian citizen and longtime member of
the committee told USA Today sports on

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Monday that the games will not move forward
as scheduled he said on the basis of

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information the i.o.c.

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Has postponement has been decided he said
details have not been worked out the

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games were scheduled to start in Tokyo
on July 24th neither the i.o.c.

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Nor the Tokyo Organizing Committee has
yet to confirm to pounds remarks British

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced
new curbs on life in Great Britain to

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slow the spread of covert
19 Johnson said in

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a televised address on Monday that people
must stay home except for shopping and

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other basic errands daily exercise and
travelling to and from essential work or

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medical appointments gatherings and
public more than 2 people who don't live

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together are prohibited and shops selling
non-essential goods are being told to

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close police will be empowered to enforce
the rules he said in Great Britain 335

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people have died from Coban hunting the
Us Central Bank the Federal Reserve

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announced aggressive new actions early
Monday to try to bolster the world's largest

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economy against the jolting effects of
the coronavirus its plans to buy an

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unlimited amount of government backed
debt and mortgage backed securities to

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support credit markets
this is the way news.

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The u.s. Senate has failed
for a 2nd time to advance

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a massive 2 trillion dollars economic aid
package to send money to most Americans

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and many businesses that have been severely
impacted by the deadly coronavirus

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before the vote Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell chided Democrats for trying

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to add provisions not directly related to
the coronavirus pandemic the aid package

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would send money to most Americans.
And many businesses Democrats say the

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legislation is weighted too heavily to favor
businesses over workers hospitals and

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health care professionals Republicans accuse
the Democrats of obstructing the 8 at

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a time Americans need the most as the
effects of the virus severely impact their

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jobs and financial
wellbeing the u.s. And s.

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Mercy Hospital Ship has left its San Diego
port for Los Angeles to help support the

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city's response to an overwhelming number
of coronavirus cases defense secretary

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Mark esper told reporters at the Pentagon
on Monday that the Defense Department is

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working with the Federal Emergency Management
Agency or Fema to set the conditions

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for the mercies arrival and
l.a. Later this week. U.s.

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Military hospital ships and field hospitals
have been sent to overwhelm cities

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they're not meant to treat coronavirus
but instead are to treat other patients

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freeing up local hospital beds for coronavirus
care and I should have said military

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hospital ships and field hospitals are being
sent to overwhelm cities they have not

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yet gone out u.s.

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Secretary of state Mike Pompei arrived
Monday in Kabul on an urgent visit to try to

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move forward a u.s.

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Peace deal signed last month with the
Taliban the trip comes despite the

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coronavirus pandemic at

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a time when world leaders and statesmen
are curtailing official travel since the

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signing of the deal the peace process
has stalled amid political turmoil in

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Afghanistan the country's leaders have
been squabbling over who won the September

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presidential election incumbent Ostroff
Gunny or his challenger Abdullah Abdullah

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the 2 men held dueling inauguration ceremonies
earlier this month it was easier to

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breathe Monday in India's megacities as
lockdowns ordered to combat the spread of

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a coronavirus kept cars off the road and
get factories close to that improve the

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air quality and Japan's prime minister
has announced his country will require

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a 14 day quarantine to all visitors from
the United States amid an escalating

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number of Corona virus infections around
the globe the quarantine requirement

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includes Japanese and American citizens
and will go into effect Thursday it will

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last until the end of April German
Chancellor Angela Merkel who has been in

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quarantine since discovering she was
exposed to the virus last week has tested

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negative so far for Corona virus she's
expected to undergo additional testing.

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Thank you good doctors and nurses are
arriving in Italy to help stop the spread of

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the coronavirus new. Lines will be
lost because we weren't prepared right

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now I've got to solve problems and I
need the federal government to help.

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Us States are at odds with Washington on
coronavirus response It's Tuesday March

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24th this is feel way Asia I'm Jim
Stevenson in Washington you'll find us on

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Facebook at v.o.a.

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Asia Also ahead Trump spars with China
in blame game New York's Chinatown shuts

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down we hear individual stories of new
lives at home the name Congress has been

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altered robotics for walking it's
all on today's feel way Asia.

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Global cases of the coronavirus which
causes covert 19 topped more than 320000 at

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the beginning of this week at the same time
officials identified nearly 30000 cases

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in the United States governors say the
federal government lags far behind in

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providing the equipment they need to protect
their citizens but Washington says the

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supply chain is flowing. A Saudi
has more health experts agree

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a coronavirus vaccine is at least

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a year away countries now must prepare for
an expected surge and strain on their

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health care systems in the u.s.

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That preparation comes with

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a lot of finger pointing as states say the
federal government is not doing enough

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of the federal government says all hands
are on deck we are shipping from our

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national stockpile with shipping from
vendors were shipping from donations it is

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happening the demand from the government
is great the demand around the world is

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great streets in most cities are empty and
more states each day order citizens to

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stay at home governors say the federal
government's help is not coming fast enough

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we are desperate for more. P.p.

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Equipment personal protective
equipment would have

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a big gas can do the strategic stockpile
in the White House they've given us

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a fraction of our ask but
we need a lot more p.p.

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Both to protect our health care workers
and to treat the sick lives will be lost

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because we weren't prepared right now
I've got to solve problems and I need the

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federal government to to help me make
sure that I've got what we need for our

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frontline providers and particular but
also ventilators for people that are going

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to suffer in an evening news conference
Sunday President Trump again called it the

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Chinese virus but stress that supplies
are on route to states and some already

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delivered we have large quantities of
medical equipment and supplies on the way

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based on all of this to those states including
respirators surgical masks and dams

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face shields coveralls and gloves with
large quantities already delivered to

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Washington and to New York the percentage
of infected people continue spiking with

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global deaths now more than 14000 the
governor of Italy's hardest hit region says

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the health care system there is pushed to
the break with one in 10 cases affecting

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health workers are raw share
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raises the possibility of postponing 2020

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Tokyo Olympics. Postponed in the light
of coronavirus India falls silent

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as it observes 14 hour long down South
Korea's coronavirus plan is working in the

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old copy of athletic housing in Indonesia
turned into emergency coronavirus

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a News dot com Good song. This

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is feel way Asia the United States and
China have been blaming each other for the

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spread of the coronavirus further straining
a relationship already stressed by

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a trade war President Trump continues to
call it the China virus and suggested he

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was doing so in part because of remarks
Chinese officials have made to spread

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propaganda that the United States may
have been responsible for bringing the

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disease to their country Patsy what it is
so Warren has the story as China begins

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to bring its corona virus outbreak
under control and significantly slow

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domestically transmitted cases the top
administration continues to blame Beijing

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for not giving other countries enough
warning after finding out about the virus

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late last year on Friday Secretary of State
Mike Pompei or China had to share data

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about the outbreak transparency this
real time information sharing is

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a tip is it about political
games this fight

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a United Nations body reminding that
virus has no nationality both Pompeo and

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President Donald Trump continued
to use the term Chinese virus or

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a system whether it comes from China
it's going to come from China or to be

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accurate from said you also use the time
to counter Chinese propaganda that the

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u.s.

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Army may have been responsible for bringing
in the virus known to be 1st discovered

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in 101 of the 2 countries could and should
be cooperating to better care and they

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are instead involved in blame game and
arguing about what to call this virus in

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a way that is I think childish and also
dangerous in that it distracts both sides

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taking care of their people trying to set
it is strongly in Big meant by referrals

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of the Chinese virus and deny claims that
it has. Not been transparent July and we

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urge the United States to immediately
correct its mistakes and immediately stop

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with its unjustified accusations against
China this squabble over her own

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a virus is further testing us China
relationship already stressed by trade were

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these are the fruits of

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a headlong rush in Beijing and Washington
toward rivalrous relations it's going on

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for some. And could lead to
further problems particularly at

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a time when the truck
administration is seeking to find

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a drug treatment for covert 19 even if we
did want to produce the drugs the United

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States and we have the capacity to produce
them which we do not 100 percent of the

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really agents or the rock chemicals or
building blocks to build these drugs to make

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these drugs. Come from China also this
week Beijing expelled American journalists

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in retaliation for Washington reducing the
number of Chinese nationals allowed to

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work for Chinese state media in the u.s.

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Have seen viewing use. This news from
feel white Asia Japanese prime minister

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Shinzo are they announced Monday
that his country will require

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a 14 day corn team to all visit the United
States made an escalating number of

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Corona virus infections around the globe
Bornstein requirements of the Japanese and

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the citizens it goes into effect
Thursday until the end of

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a new find more on our Facebook page I
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In Chinese communities across New York
City the local economy has also been hit

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hard by the outbreak of the coronavirus
business leaders in China Town have called

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on the government to introduce emergency
rescue measures to help Chinese

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businessmen survive the difficult times
we hear more from ye one in this report

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narrated by Tina Tren chin chin yuan is

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a Chinese restaurant located on 8th Avenue
in Brooklyn New York since Chinese New

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Year business. Here's been relatively
deserted the hose out of the ride was so few

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people come out for dinner at night
we used to get busy. But we have no

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business we just sit there and chat the
epidemic that has swept across many

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countries has severely impacted the economy
of Chinese communities in New York just

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a new chairman of the Chinese Chamber of
Commerce in New York said that compared

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with Manhattan's Chinatown the impact
on Brooklyn's 8th Avenue in Flushing

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Chinatown in Queens was particularly
severe. Problem whether it's our

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supermarkets our restaurants Chinatowns
or Brooklyn and Queens they have been hit

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hard. But it seems the Chinese Chamber
of Commerce of New York estimates the

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epidemic has caused losses as high as 50
percent in major Chinatown industries such

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as dining retail and tourism. To help keep
business going just in you suggesting

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that Chinatown merchants adapt to the new
reality. For example the number of dine

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in meal is way down but deliveries have
increased employees here say they don't

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have any plans to lay off staff but if the
outbreak intensifies in New York many

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may have to reconsider Tina train
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a spillway. Via way Asia continues I'm Jim

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Stevenson in Washington as more people
across the United States stay home due to

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the threat of the coronavirus they're
learning to adapt to a new way of life

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a few ways Julie Tabeau spoke with

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a few Washington area residents to
see how they're making the best of

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a scary situation restaurants are empty so
museums movie theaters and other popular

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places that people tend to gather all due
to the threat of Kobe 90 so Washington

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area residents are preparing to stay
closer to home just check out the grocery

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store I try to just take exactly what we
need and no more because I make sure to

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leave something for
everybody. Making the best

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a row because I don't want to be at the
store and I'm the only things to sound

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trying to be reasonable about it I stock
up then I have about 14 days worth of

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things that I think what I would need to
support myself if I got it all for him me

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and Jason tronic stocking up on alcohol
is also important we're buying alcohol in

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case we get bored and we heard the DEA
and so vendor government have closed all

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state liquor stores only for her to. Get
while the getting's good. That's good news

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for

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a liquor store owner mounted saying he says
he's noticed an uptick in business lately

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people are working from home whole business
the need some reason to be to have beer

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home and they're buying the next home. And
who is savoring quality time with her

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family trying to spend the time being
outside as much as possible. It could be.

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Paul than inside the house and so we are
coming out of the park I'm enjoying

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spending more time with my
pets honey and that Teddy is

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a gorgeous guy here and I'm just getting
e-mails for some fresh air in the

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springtime you have an aching cupcake so
feel control is making the best of her

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time away from school. Each day
seemed as if something needs

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to plant she decorates cupcakes. Does
face time with her friends and spends

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time with her sister Jasmine I'm really
happy because you're more time to spend

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reform or

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a. Caribbean bank rattling.
Down our alley route. And

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then leaving you know our craft 3 cupcakes.
Adults and children alike despite these

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trying times seem to be taking it all in
stride so it's always a pleasure to have

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a martini at the end of

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a stressful day think about better times
to come which I'm thinking I'm hoping are

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around for Julie Tebow. Washington
as the corona virus spreads

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rapidly and cities move toward possible
lockdown families across the United States

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are bracing for the worst via ways to
keep Well Islam spent an evening with

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a family in Great Falls Virginia it's
not an ordinary evening it took on

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a household as they discuss the importance
of practicing every day preventive

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actions that can help contain the spread
of Koran of Iris most important thing

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chimneypiece got to get in order not to
get it. And how do you wash your hands

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rigorously. Donny is an infectious disease
epidemiologist and says that he has been

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getting his family ready for

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a pandemic like coronavirus also known as
Colbert 1950 percent of the people who

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will get the disease will be asymptomatic
social distancing is very important at

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this point and what you've got to do is
you've got to me. Sure that you don't

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expose yourself to unnecessary risks. Danny
said before the pandemic ever broke out

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his family had

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a strict rule about hand washing you have
to wash in between our fingers one of the

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things that has been instilled in my family
from generations and specifically my

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wife imposes that rule you have to wash
your hands if you're going outside when you

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come back now what we've
done is we've pushed that

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a little bit further and told the kids and
instructed them how to really wash your

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hands in order for you to not contaminate
any surfaces the entire situation has

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been

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a lot on his children I really must be going
to school and I guess like my friends

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now that many schools are closed and his
family is spending most of the time

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together the Chinese are also
practicing social distancing in

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a way that does not impact their
ability to connect. The most. Being

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able to have physical contact with
my loved ones because we all as

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a family we. Share

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a lot of personal space the potential that
it could be like almost for the entire.

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They're also stocking up on food
but only to last a few weeks at

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a time I just want to say that it's good
that you can start. Doing. Shit And

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there's also. The truth on is that like
many American families pitting for the

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worst without knowing just how long this
public health crisis will last suck about

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Islam really news Great Falls Virginia.
And this is from your friends feel way

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Asia can the coronavirus survive in
cold weather can the virus be spread by

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mosquitoes is there

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a vaccine or medication that prevents it
is there any medicine to cure isn't the

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answer to all of the questions is No the
best steps to take wash your hands cover

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your calls. Stay at home if you're sick
or advise to the local authorities

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a message from your friends and feel way
Asia. A series of dams on the trans

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boundary Mekong River has reduced water
levels damaged fisheries and caused other

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environmental problems for the people
who depend on the waterway for their

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livelihoods and food now as the latest dam
the Lao own side Barry begins operations

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on the lower make on

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a Thai activist group is going to court
to slow down the sale of electricity to

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Thai companies Steve Sanford speaks to
those affected life on the Mekong has

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changed dramatically in the last 6 months
with increased water shortages following

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design dams and start up studies warning
about the dams the impact on the rivers

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ecosystem have come true as fishermen are
seen aquatic habitat disappear and water

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levels dip but that's not all now many
won't be and the water has changed and the

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color has changed when the water was
natural it was not clear like this and it

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would have settlements and nutrients in
that the water is clear that the sediments

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and nutrients have gone on now I'm

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a Kong activist group is asking the courts
to slow down there's Ibrary dam sale of

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electricity to

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a state owned company until an impact
assessment report is made public then

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collecting home one comment we can't get
access to the information and get access

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to the public hearing about it that's
organized by the Natural Resources department

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that was part of the Mekong River
Commission they can't give us 100 percent

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information regarding our concerns for
farmers like Sinnott Kuhn who rely heavily

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on the water for irrigation the options
are drying up. Because the water is so

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shallow it's difficult for the pump to
suck the water out to distribute the water

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evenly to the rice and corn fields it has
gone down from 100 to 40 percent design

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power company says it has spent hundreds
of millions of dollars to mitigate the

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negative environmental impacts. Including
building outlets for sediment passage and

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flow and for allowing the passage of
fish village leader IP man who says the

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problem can only be resolved by cooperation
between affected countries. Will break

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out and I know how we have to find

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a way how we can live together because right
now the villages have no choice don't

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know what to do anymore so we only can ask
help from the government to be all voice

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to talk and ago she had between countries
with the Thai government said to meet

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with the villagers next month time will
tell what will remain of the river once the

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dust settles on the future of the
cyber Dan Steve Stanford for v.o.a.

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News in Thailand truck so robotics is
the invention of 2 passionate robotics

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engineers who decided they wanted to help
those who cannot walk or otherwise move

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independently Angeline about to sorry and
has the story narrated by Anna Rice 5

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year old Bentley has sampled causing these
on the very 1st chance he has ever made

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. This is amazing to get

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a movie as special robot helps the boy
move on his own these senses together with

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the main mechanism on it tends to the boy's
legs while banking relies heavily on

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a walking frame they were
bought as often need to through

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a special they exist Gallatin was created
by 2 friends moneyed mom and run who does

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the family go to the project was born from
personal experience when she learned his

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nephew had cerebral palsy my nephew credits
kind of cerebral palsy and that he

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would never be able to walk we started
looking into it and he realized that not

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walking has so many negative health effects
associated with it and we just wanted

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to change that and when we couldn't find
any solution for him we decided to build

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it ourselves developing the ngs is Kalitan
to Chios Mongul remembers printing out

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parts for it on his 3 d.

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Printer at night often
fine tuning India for

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a series of fittings for his nephew
It took a long time the 20. He saw

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a prominent walk for the very 1st time with
the help of the Rubaiyat he knew he had

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one there are some 700000 people
with cerebral palsy in the u.s.

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So once Mom was invention got on the market
phones of parents lined up to get it in

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the hopes that it would help their children
walk the device can be purchased for

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$29900.00 or it can also be nice
for a $1000.00 a month he had

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a kid as young as 11 months old use

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a device and someone as old as
25 years old right now we have

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a long waiting list but we take reservations
we'll call her own the robotic support

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is

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a true technological miracle it's an incredible
feeling I mean I'm normally for living

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on my chair but I'm 60
when I'm standing so it's

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a great feeling when I'm upright and scenery
but you know just. You know it doesn't

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allow for you like it does you Mr Julio
suffered is to view back injury at work 10

00:25:41
years ago and has been glued to behind the
news until he found the 6 in skeleton

00:25:47
there's

00:25:48
a saucer on the left tip of the device and
that sensor can sense his body movements

00:25:53
or as the weight shifts to a
left his right foot studs as

00:25:56
a way shift to the right his left foot
stops and the device is doing that's that

00:26:00
movement for him but he's in the control
of how he's walking in the u.s.

00:26:06
And just possible to get such devices with
the hope of insurance the price depends

00:26:10
on exoskeletons complexity that's
$1.00 cost around $130000.00

00:26:17
fine game of the sort on the Los Angeles
and erase news 20000 years ago humans

00:26:24
lived in grassy Tundras near the Arctic
Circle trees were scarce of these cold dry

00:26:29
regions so I say Gee hunters could not
build campfires using wood instead these

00:26:35
hardy humans made campfires by burning the
bones of the big animals they hunted few

00:26:40
modern people know how to
make a bone fire recently

00:26:44
a Colorado are. Ologist dad
some volunteers gave it

00:26:47
a try Shelley shudder has more from
Longmont Colorado these bones at the Denver

00:26:52
Science Museum come from ancient bison
20000 years ago ice age people build fires

00:26:59
using bones like these from the animals
they hunted in cold dry Prairie's they had

00:27:03
only grass and twigs from bushes but no
trees so campfire wood was scarce their

00:27:09
alternative fuel clearly was bone because
bone ash shows up and in many of the

00:27:14
archaeological sites that
I have worked at now

00:27:17
a team of volunteers house Hoffecker
make an ice age bone fire starting with

00:27:22
a Paleolithic fire drill. I'm not dreaming
that it's going to happen because.

00:27:30
If we try to bow drill that's

00:27:32
a lot of work so we went to our methods
with the clatter volunteers and the fire

00:27:38
not big logs but sticks similar to the
twiggy bushes that Ice Age hunters added to

00:27:43
their fires then Hoffecker adds
the main fuel the bones of

00:27:48
a deer carcass cut just hours earlier the
sizzling sound is mostly that fat burning

00:27:54
off which is occurring to be. Very flammable.
Actually if we can reach the ignition

00:28:00
temperature or

00:28:01
a bone which is high it's over 350 degrees
Centigrade it's much higher than it

00:28:06
would so it looks like maybe we're getting
there I said hunters used mostly bones

00:28:11
but when Hoppergrass adds more bones flames
turned to smoke they saved the fire by

00:28:16
going back to sticks and so we're feeding
it here were we were feeding it. Like man

00:28:22
. The fire gets hot enough for grilling
steaks and the team eats them Paleolithic

00:28:28
style there's something the Supreme least
I'm fine about eating meat with your

00:28:33
hands it's just freshly cut.
That's when people start to notice

00:28:38
a change in the fire. Wood
fire the majority of them are.

00:28:44
Wires going off of the animal fats in America
Senator Franken there I think most of

00:28:50
the words being consumed at this point.
Yeah the thing is we've hardly fed this at

00:28:55
all for like the last 30 minutes for.
Some of the bone is burning gas.

00:29:03
And. Thicker plans to try more bonfires
to better understand the ice age humans

00:29:10
who lived in cold dry places 20000 years
ago Shelley Schlender the Iranians

00:29:16
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Welcome to learning English

00:29:57
a daily 30 minute program from the Voice
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00:30:04
Ashley Thompson this program is aimed
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00:30:09
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especially written for people learning

00:30:16
English. Today on the program

00:30:24
Ashley and I will bring you stories along
with Brian Lynn. Later Steve Emperor

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

00:30:34
a nation. But 1st. You can find

00:30:40
a lot in popular culture about the generation
of young people called Millennial.

00:30:48
Millennial are often described in
movies and television shows as feeling

00:30:54
entitled they act as if they have

00:30:58
a right to the good things in life many
millennia holes also are identified

00:31:05
as jobless and more likely than other
young people to be living with one or

00:31:11
both parents the youngest members of
this generation are in their middle

00:31:18
twenty's while the oldest are nearly
40 years old they lived through the

00:31:25
Great Recession of 2007
to 2009 many are weighed

00:31:31
down with debt from student loans
and have a hard time finding

00:31:36
a good job in their field of study saw

00:31:40
a more strong candidates for
such jobs but instead accepted

00:31:45
a lower paying position today
those decisions and experiences

00:31:52
continue to affect millions of
millennial Zz However some young

00:31:59
adults within the millennial age group have
been able to succeed and done very well

00:32:06
there is

00:32:07
a name for these young men
and women. Jason Dorsey is

00:32:13
president and researcher at the
Center for generational kinetics

00:32:18
a group based in Texas he told v.o.a.

00:32:23
. Kept working and tried pulling
themselves forward in the workforce during

00:32:30
hard economic times. Dorsey added
that mega Lenny olds are now

00:32:36
further ahead compared to the rest of their
generation because they were still out

00:32:42
there producing doing what they
could do to make it happen there is

00:32:47
a big difference between the Mega and
what have been called me lineal.

00:32:54
Mealand holes are members of the
generation that have still struggled

00:32:58
professionally and are still working
on finding their place in life what we

00:33:05
think is fascinating is that the group of
people that are most offended at work by

00:33:10
millennial acting entitled are actually
other millennial who do not feel entitled

00:33:17
Dorsey said they think the rest
of the generation is giving them

00:33:22
a bad reputation 821000 opinion
survey seems to suggest that

00:33:29
may be the case the survey was

00:33:33
a project of the Business Insider
website and morning console

00:33:38
a privately held technology and
media company it found that many

00:33:45
millennia old think they are doing better
than others in their generation it showed

00:33:52
that 46 percent of them asked think
they are somewhat or much better off

00:33:57
financially than other members of their
generation only 36 percent thought they are

00:34:04
somewhat or much worse off
about 37 percent said not very

00:34:11
good or not good at all when asked
how they feel about their finances

00:34:17
experts say this shows that the reality
for millennial may not be quite as bad as

00:34:24
what they are often told so why do some
millennial olds do well while other

00:34:31
people in their age group did not. What
we found is that they were more resilient

00:34:37
to often times in their career Dorsey
noted they also managed to keep working

00:34:44
and building their networks and did whatever
they could to keep pushing themselves

00:34:49
forward Dorsey added that millennia olds
are likely to place themselves into

00:34:56
one group or the other he said
that while mega Lenny ols and

00:35:02
a meal any ols share many experiences
the 2 groups are not likely to see

00:35:08
themselves in each other.

00:35:26
Ugandan poet Stella Nancy was
released and February after

00:35:33
spending more than

00:35:35
a year in prison for some words
she wrote on Facebook you

00:35:41
gondolas government says those words
and salted president Yuri was 70

00:35:49
while in prison Nancy wrote

00:35:51
a book of poems called no roses
from my mouth her writings have

00:35:58
influenced other people to use poetry
to express their political opinions

00:36:06
now Uganda is government plans to
appeal her recent acquittal before

00:36:13
her release and February Stella
Nancy was serving 18 months in

00:36:18
a prison for cyber harassing

00:36:21
a Ugandan president. She was
jailed last year for writing on

00:36:28
Facebook in 2018 that she
wished most 70 had died as

00:36:35
a fetus she blamed him for her
country's many problems I sit

00:36:42
on the prison beddings spread on the
floor lean against the wall and write

00:36:48
whatever I please what freedom
to right Nancy said she

00:36:55
added that her writings were often taken
by prison guards during body searches

00:37:02
but she continued to write as

00:37:05
a form of resistance after
her sentencing some Ugandan

00:37:11
writers were afraid to criticize the
government free speech was quieted

00:37:19
Nancy supporters were pleased by her
decision to use her poetry to take on

00:37:26
politics but others are still
too frightened to publish

00:37:33
Danson Yana works for the Department of
literature at mock hereright university

00:37:41
he says he wrote

00:37:42
a book that he decided not to publish because
he does not have the courage of Nancy

00:37:51
She's our hero I think we shall
celebrate her one day there will

00:37:57
come

00:37:58
a time when we shall say Stella you
are the reason we are better governed

00:38:05
because your fighting has given us
all these beautiful fruits he said

00:38:12
Ugandan officials have repeatedly
detained Nancy for criticizing

00:38:19
most 70 who has served as
president for 34 years.

00:38:26
Although the high court cancelled the cyber
harassment charge against her Uganda's

00:38:33
public prosecutor continues to say
that Nancy's Facebook post was

00:38:40
illegal Jacqueline Couey is

00:38:44
a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office
she said the government is appealing the

00:38:51
high court's ruling and will continue
bringing legal action against Nancy

00:38:58
other poets like deaf in our Inda are
learning what it means to try to speak freely

00:39:05
and was seventies Uganda so
I am terrified I can't lie

00:39:12
but I also have the confidence and also
the Enter well to know that if I'm

00:39:19
strong about something then I can
pursue it to its And she said.

00:39:27
Has written poetry about
Nancy nails dark and from

00:39:32
a walk amongst trees that's
her that's her ask no more

00:39:39
who she is who who who she is she wrote

00:39:48
for now Nancy lives at her home
waiting for her next court appearance

00:39:55
no one is sure when that will be.

00:40:15
The government restrictions aimed at
slowing the spread of the new coronavirus

00:40:22
appear to have led to major drops in
pollution levels in parts of China

00:40:29
and Italy. Earlier this month
pollution observing satellites overt

00:40:36
China discovered sharp decreases
in levels of nitrogen dioxide

00:40:43
a gas that is mainly produced by
motor vehicles power plants and

00:40:49
factories the satellite data
was released by the u.s.

00:40:55
Space agency NASA and the
European Space Agency or e.s.a.

00:41:04
And there is evidence that the change is
at least partly related to the economic

00:41:10
slowdown following the outbreak
of Corona virus NASA said in

00:41:16
a statement the drop in
nitrogen dioxide 1st

00:41:22
appeared in areas around han the
city in central China where cases

00:41:29
of the new corona virus were 1st
reported in December the pollution

00:41:36
drops then spread across the
country NASA said satellite

00:41:43
images that NASA published online show
pollution clouds had almost completely

00:41:50
disappeared between January
1st and February 25th

00:41:57
during this period the Chinese government
shut down transportation going into and

00:42:04
out of move on and ordered local
businesses to stop operating this

00:42:11
is the 1st time I have seen such
a dramatic drop off over such

00:42:16
a wide area for

00:42:18
a specific event NASA air quality
researcher faith Lou said in

00:42:25
a statement. You said he believes
the last major drop in pollution

00:42:32
levels over several countries came
during the economic recession that began

00:42:39
in 2008 but he said that
decrease happened slowly

00:42:45
over time Laurie Mellor veto is

00:42:50
a climate researcher with the Center for
Research on energy and clean air in

00:42:57
Helsinki Finland in

00:42:59
a recent report on the pollution changes
in China published in carbon brief he

00:43:06
wrote that electricity demand and
industrial output remained far below their

00:43:13
usual levels in several main areas. Noted

00:43:19
a study showing that coal usage at
power plants in China was down 36

00:43:26
percent in the 4 weeks after the
January 25th Lunar New Year.

00:43:33
Old demand fell by about 34
percent China's virus fighting

00:43:40
measures likely cut carbon dioxide emissions
by at least 25 percent during this

00:43:47
period the research showed but
Miller vetoed told the Associated

00:43:54
Press that he fears the
pollution levels could see

00:43:58
a sharp rise once the current
crisis and. The important question

00:44:04
now is how China's government
will respond he said Miller veto

00:44:11
a noted that after the 2008 to
2009 financial crisis China

00:44:18
attempted to make up for lost economic
activity by launching massive aid programs

00:44:25
that also supported pollution
causing industries. If such

00:44:31
assistance happens again it would make
the environment worse long term he said

00:44:40
in Italy the country hit hardest by
the virus outside of China e.s.a.

00:44:46
Satellites observed drops in air pollution
as well pollution decreases were

00:44:52
especially evident in northern Italy where
officials have ordered shutdowns and at

00:44:58
reducing the spread of the
corona virus the e.s.a.

00:45:03
Released satellite images showing clear
drops in levels of nitrogen dioxide over

00:45:10
the post Valley area in
northern Italy. Klaus zener

00:45:17
is in charge of the
Copernicus Sentinel 5 p.

00:45:21
Satellites operations he said in

00:45:25
a statement it is possible that the satellite
data could also have been affected by

00:45:31
cloud cover and changing weather
however he added that his team

00:45:38
is very confident that the reduction in
emissions that we can see coincides with

00:45:45
the lockdown in Italy causing less
traffic and industrial activities

00:45:52
I'm Brian Lynn.

00:46:06
Welcome to the making of a nation
American history in v.o.a.

00:46:11
a Special English I'm Steve Embry. The
House of Representatives ended the

00:46:17
day's business early on the rainy
afternoon of April 12th 1985 but

00:46:24
House Democratic leader
speaker's Sam Rayburn invited

00:46:29
a friend to come by his office for

00:46:31
a drink to be there around 5 Rayburn
said Harry Truman is coming over.

00:46:39
Harry Truman was the vice president at the
time the events described in the book

00:46:46
about his presidency conflict
and crisis by Robert Donovan.

00:46:53
World War 2 was not over yet but it was

00:46:56
a quiet afternoon in Washington President
Franklin Roosevelt was in the southern

00:47:02
state of Georgia he was resting after
his recent trip to to meet with British

00:47:09
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin the president's

00:47:15
wife Eleanor was at the
White House working on

00:47:19
a speech supporting the new United Nations
Amery Truman was at the Senate but

00:47:26
he was not interested in the debate that
was taking place he spent most of his time

00:47:33
writing to his family back in Missouri
when the debate finished he went to the

00:47:39
office of House leader
Rayburn to join him for

00:47:42
a drink it was an afternoon Truman
would never forget. Rayburn and his

00:47:49
friend were talking in the office before
Truman or right the telephone rang it

00:47:56
was

00:47:56
a call from the White House asking whether the
vice president had arrived yet no Reverend

00:48:04
replied the caller asked him to have Truman
telephone the White House as soon as he

00:48:10
arrived Truman entered

00:48:13
a minute later he immediately called
the White House as he talked his face

00:48:20
became white he put down the phone
and raced out the door to his car.

00:48:27
Arrived at the White House within minutes
and the assistant took him up to the

00:48:32
presidents private living area Eleanor
Roosevelt was waiting for him there Harry

00:48:39
she said the president is dead
Truman was shocked he asked to Mrs

00:48:46
Roosevelt if there was anything he could
do to help her but her reply made

00:48:53
clear to him that his own life at
suddenly changed. Is there anything we

00:49:00
can do for you Mrs Roosevelt asked the
new president you are the one in trouble

00:49:07
now. Within hours the world learned
the news that Franklin Roosevelt

00:49:14
the longest serving president in
American history was dead he died of

00:49:20
a cerebral hemorrhage bleeding in the
brain. Americans were shocked and

00:49:27
scared it was 1945 and the
United States was still at war

00:49:34
Roosevelt had led the nation
since early 1933 he was the only

00:49:40
president many young Americans had
ever known. Who would lead them now

00:49:47
all eyes turn to have read Truman our
departed leader never that that way he looked

00:49:53
forward and. That he would
want that that is what

00:50:00
America will do. Every Truman
his 1st speech to Congress

00:50:07
as president when great. I call
upon all of them. Good help

00:50:14
me the nation united. But

00:50:20
eloquently played by Frank that really.

00:50:29
Are I won't hurt you if you're

00:50:32
a Bible under and all of those who
love liberty to out the word that I

00:50:38
look the part and then you know that.
We're all liars right and all.

00:50:53
Truman had been

00:50:54
a surprise choice for vice president and
that the Democratic. Party nominating

00:50:59
convention in 1944 delegates
considered several other

00:51:06
candidates before they chose him as
Roosevelt's running mate that was at

00:51:12
a time when presidential candidates did
not make their own choices for vice

00:51:18
president. Harry Truman lacked
the fame the rich family and the

00:51:24
strong speech making skills
of Franklin Roosevelt he was

00:51:29
a much simpler man he grew up in
the midwestern state of Missouri

00:51:36
Truman only studied through high school but
took some night time law school classes

00:51:43
he worked for many years as a farmer and

00:51:46
a small business man but without
much success Truman had long been

00:51:52
interested in Tala tics when he was
almost 40 he finally won several

00:51:59
low level positions in his
home state. By 1934 he was

00:52:06
popular enough in Missouri to be nominated
and elected to the United States Senate

00:52:13
and he won reelection 6 years
later. Most Americans however knew

00:52:20
little about Harry Truman when he became
president they knew he had close ties to

00:52:27
the Democratic Party political machine
in his home state but they had owned so

00:52:33
heard that he was

00:52:35
a very honest man they could see that
Truman had strongly supported President

00:52:41
Roosevelt's New Deal Breaux gran's but
they could not be sure what kind of

00:52:48
President Truman would become. History
gave Truman little time to learn about

00:52:55
his new job the most important power
he now possessed was the power of

00:53:01
a Tomic weapons and soon after he became
president he faced the decision of whether

00:53:08
or not to use that power while the
1st time in history. Truman firmly

00:53:14
believed that using the atomic bomb
was the only way to force Japan to

00:53:21
surrender so in August of 1945
he gave the orders to drop the

00:53:28
atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki having found their

00:53:35
Tomic bomb we have used it we shall continue
to use it until we completely destroy

00:53:41
Japan's power to make war. Only

00:53:45
a Japanese surrender will stop us it is
an awful responsibility which has come to

00:53:50
us we thank God that it has come to
us instead of to our enemies and

00:53:57
we pray that he may guide us to use
it in his ways and for his purposes

00:54:04
days earlier Truman had met in Pottstown
Germany near Berlin with the British and

00:54:11
Soviet leaders Winston Churchill and
Joseph Stalin to plan but peace the war

00:54:18
in Europe and indeed several months before
Good evening from the White House in

00:54:23
Washington ladies and gentleman the
president of the United States not fellow

00:54:29
Americans. I have just
returned from Berlin

00:54:34
a study for which the Germans
intended to rule the world it is

00:54:37
a ghost city the buildings are in ruin its
economy and its people are in. Our party

00:54:44
also visited what is left of Frankfort and
Darmstadt. We flew over the remains of

00:54:50
Castle Monte Berg and other devastated
cities German women and children and old

00:54:57
men were wandering over the highways
returning to bombed out homes are leaving

00:55:02
bombed out cities searching for food and
shelter war has indeed come home to

00:55:08
Germany and to the German people it has
come home and all the frightfulness with

00:55:13
which the German leaders started and
waged it the 3 leaders agreed that their

00:55:19
nations and France would jointly
occupy Germany. They also agreed

00:55:26
to end the Nazi Party in Germany to hold
trials for Nazi war criminals and to

00:55:33
break up some German businesses foreign
ministers of the allied nations later

00:55:39
negotiated peace treaties with Germany
and other countries including Italy and

00:55:46
Kerry and Romania Eastern European nations
agreed to protect the political and

00:55:52
economic freedom of their citizens
however Western political experts were

00:55:59
increasingly worried that the Soviet
Union would block any effort for real

00:56:05
democracy in Eastern Europe. Truman
did not trust the Soviets and

00:56:12
as he made plans for post more Asia he
promised himself that he would not allow

00:56:18
Moscow any part in controlling Japan the
leader of the American occupation in

00:56:25
Japan was Army General Douglas MacArthur
back either acted quickly to hold

00:56:32
a series of trials or Japanese
war crimes he also launched

00:56:37
a series of reforms to move
Japan toward becoming more like

00:56:43
a western democracy women were given
the right to vote land was divided

00:56:50
among farmers the idea of

00:56:52
a national religion was ended and the
educational system was reorganized

00:57:00
Japan began to recover becoming stronger
than ever as an economic power.

00:57:07
Truman and other world leaders were dealing
with the problems of making peace but

00:57:14
at the same time they were
also trying to establish

00:57:18
a new system for keeping that peace.
The United States the Soviet Union

00:57:25
Britain and the other allies had formed
the United Nations during war time

00:57:32
but soon after Truman took office they met
in San Francisco to discuss ways to make

00:57:39
the United Nations

00:57:40
a permanent organization
for peace. In July of 1944

00:57:47
many of the world's top economic
experts met the war going eyes

00:57:52
a new system for the world
economy. They gathered at

00:57:57
a hotel in Bretton Woods in the American
state of New Hampshire they created the

00:58:04
World Bank and the International Monetary
Fund to help nations rebuild their

00:58:10
economies. At the center of all
the action was having Truman it

00:58:17
was not long before he showed Americans and
the world that he had the ability to be

00:58:23
a good president he was honest strong
and willing to make decisions.

00:58:31
I was sworn in one night and the next morning
I had to get right to the job at hand

00:58:38
for him and remembered years later in an
oral history recorded with the writer

00:58:43
Merle Miller from and said I was afraid
but of course I didn't let anybody know

00:58:50
that and I knew that I would not be called
on to do anything that I was not able to

00:58:57
do that's something I learned from
reading history. Truman spoke of how

00:59:04
people in the past add much bigger problems
somehow he said the best of them just

00:59:10
went ahead and did what they had to
do and they usually did all right.

00:59:27
And that's our program for today listen
again tomorrow to learn English 3 stories

00:59:34
from around the world I'm Jonathan
Evans and I'm Ashley Thompson.

00:59:51
This is the only news via
remote I'm Arisa Milton u.s.

00:59:55
President Donald Trump said today Asian
Americans should not be blamed for the

00:59:59
spread of coronavirus he made a statement
in a news conference and also in

01:00:03
a tweet it was

01:00:04
a change of tone for the president Mr Trump
himself has been criticized in recent

01:00:08
weeks for referring to covert 19 of the
corona virus as the Chinese virus the

01:00:14
United States is considering all options
to help citizens return home from

01:00:18
countries that have suspended air travel
or closed their borders to stem the spread

01:00:22
of the coronavirus us official said Monday
thousands of Americans are believed to

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be stranded abroad and are desperate to
return to the United States amid the covert

01:00:31
19 global pandemic us citizens are
encouraged to 1st use commercial flights to

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return home while they're still available

01:00:39
a senior official said after that military
aircraft and private charters through

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the congressional authorized special funds
for an unexpected emergencies will be

01:00:49
used to help them return
in another reefing u.s.

01:00:52
Defense secretary Mark esper said the u.s.

01:00:55
Military is always available for evacuating
Americans trapped abroad but that the

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military is a less likely
role than commercial options

01:01:05
a fresh week on Wall Street got off to

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a bad start Monday after the Senate
failed again to pass an economic stimulus

01:01:11
package to help those hurt by the corona
virus outbreak the Dow Jones Industrial

01:01:16
Average dropped nearly 600 points
setting free percent the s. And p.

01:01:20
500 was off 3 percent
while the Nasdaq was down

01:01:24
a fraction all buying and selling was done
electronically and the Associated Press

01:01:30
is reporting people have found

01:01:31
a new way to keep spirits up
as the entire world copes with

01:01:34
a pandemic putting up outdoor Christmas
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