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It is three I was the universe of time stay
tuned for on DAYBREAK Africa coming up

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after these latest world
news headlines. I'm Victor

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Beatty reporting British prime minister
Theresa May has called for an early

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election Junaid

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a way to boost support in Parliament
during negotiations to leave the European

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Union are opponents believe because the
government's majority is so small that all

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result will weaken and that they can
full service to change course they will

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they underestimate determination
to get the job done and I'm not

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prepared to let them in danger the security
of millions of working people across

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the country because what they are doing
jeopardizes the work we must do to prepare

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the BRICS it asked her opinion polls
suggest her conservative government is

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comfortably ahead of the opposition Labor
Party the news boaster the currency the

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sterling which rose to

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a four month high although that drove
London stocks lower MIKE INGRAM is

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a market analyst with B G C partner
markets of recognize that defending an

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effective majority of any seventeen in
Poland was likely to be quite problematic

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for her in the next couple of years while
Bracks negotiations taking place however

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Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
who supports remaining in the European

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Union called it a huge political
miscalculation that could help efforts in

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a second drive for independence from the
United Kingdom about one hundred South

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Sudanese refugees released sixteen UN staff
workers in eastern Democratic Republic

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of Congo Tuesday after taking them captive
for hours and demanding they be moved to

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a third country the refugees are among
hundreds who fled violence in South Sudan

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last year and have been living in the
Monique the base near Goma most are former

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fighters allied with rebel leader Rick
Machar the UN said they've been unable to

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find a third country willing
to take them this is V.O.A.

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News. Turkey's political opposition has
begun the process of trying to A No

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Sunday's constitutional referendum
that gave President Raja tie a bird

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a wand sweeping new executive powers the
Council of Europe's observer mission set

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up to two and

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a half million votes could have been
tainted in the narrow fifty one percent

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victory now like. Ehrman of the Republican
People's Party who lent his kind said

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they result of the referendum are
illegitimate his party is submitting

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a petition of objection to the country's
electoral board Turkey's prime minister

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called on the opposition to accept the
results European Policy Center analyst

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Amanda polls said she doesn't expect
European observers to endorse that result I

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wouldn't expect them to make

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a statement which they say recognizes free
in fact the friend of because they're

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waiting for the results of the O.S.C.

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Final report so we've seen over the the
narrative from the president of on who said

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he doesn't have anyway and what the E.U.

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Anybody else face the opposition is
particularly alarmed by electoral board's

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decision to accept ballots that did not
bear officials damns verifying they were

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genuine Zimbabwe markets thirty seventh
year of independence Tuesday President

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Robert Mugabe calling for

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a period of trend quality despite the
country's Deek economic problems including

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a cash crisis and high unemployment.
And they said that they. Were

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a good thing. Or were they thinking.

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We had heard back

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a. Who were great and. Siding

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with. Us to. Rethink. The ninety
three year old Bugbee has

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been the sole leader of the country since
one thousand nine hundred eighty in Syria

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airstrikes carried out by the U.S.

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Led coalition struck in eastern held town
held by Islamic state killing at least

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twenty people the late Monday strike
targeted book Amal in Darrell's or province

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along the Iraq border the Ethiopian Human
Rights Commission said nearly. Six

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hundred seventy people have been killed
in unrest that erupted last October and

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prompted

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a state of emergency protestors from the
Iranian and regions of the government is

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trampled on their political rights U.S.

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Government Steve Stevens accused of murdering
an elderly grandfather and posting

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the video on Facebook
killed himself Tuesday in

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a police chase Mark Zuckerberg C.E.O.

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Of Facebook address the tragedy at
a conference in California we have

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a full roadmap of products to help
build groups and community help build

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a more informed society help keep
our community safe and we have

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a long warning to hear that he was pulled
down from Facebook after the hour is the

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latest instance of crime footage shared
on social media NASA scientists said an

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asteroid measuring six hundred fifty
meters is on track to pass close to Earth

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Wednesday at

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a distance of about one point eight million
kilometers I'm Victor Beatty deal with

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news that's the latest
world news from be oh hey.

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Good morning Africa Welcome to DAYBREAK
Africa from the Voice of America James but

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in Washington today it's Wednesday April
nineteenth and here are some of the

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stories we're covering Zambian opposition
leader. Treason charges says police

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assaulted him during his arrest. Today.

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When the attack. Tried. The spokesman
for example as main opposition.

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Party opposition coalition elections
amid confusion and accusations we

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will talk about humanitarian conditions
in the region of need and that Liberia's

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Senator Prince Johnson denies concluding

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a political coalition with businessman.
For the twenty seventh elections.

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For. Less Liberia's Senator Prince
why African countries should not

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depend heavily on oil production to finance
their development and the World Health

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Organization reports progress against
tropical diseases those the rest of the day

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are coming up on DAYBREAK Africa.

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Be an opposition leader. Jailed on treason
charges will appear in court again today

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Wednesday Mr of the united party
for national development U.P.A.

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D was arrested last Tuesday and charged
with treason for allegedly failing to yield

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to

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a presidential motorcade other. Charges include
disobeying police orders and insulting

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a police officer there's

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a hitch element appear in court on Tuesday
and told the judge that he was attacked

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by police during his arrest Zambian inspector
general police Joshua Carr GANG John

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had no comment when contacted the N.D.

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Spokesman Charles Carr Coleman says police
attacked Mr Hicks limits house without

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is search warrant and Lou to his property
including even his children's toys what

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happened was that the police attacked in
the House last week they went without

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their search warrant broke his get intact
the premises broke the doors and windows

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and then just got all the rooms in the
house and then look at these hours took

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a lot of things from the alst including
clothes the cash and what they rather could

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lay their hands on including toys for
surgery after that it was the lead car

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instead of on

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a charge of treason Mr Cochran my first of
all let me say we made attempts to speak

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to the police our inspector general we
were not successful person for Mr hit tell

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him I was arrested almost

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a week ago why now is the part they say
that tell he was assaulted Well what you

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are saying now is what I've described
an assault is not an allegation that is

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coming from us today was referring to an
incident that happened last week when the

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attractive house and they had tried to
arrest him letting the incidents are

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referring to so Mr Tellem appear in court
on Tuesday what happy court what happened

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in court you back here there are eighty
three charges against him the first one was

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actually committed treason and the second
charge will that it's obeyed orders from

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any inspector of police and there if

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a line where that came out and found
policeman but all those really matters we

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attracted

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a preliminary. Issues from his lawyers who
think that those charges are defective

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when is the next court appearance for Mr
had to limit. Is that hearing in court

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again this twenty. Hours and then time

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a day or two ago I spoke with presidential
spokesman turned down brought up the

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issue of the arrest of Mr he'd tell America
whether that was course the is the

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ability in the country he said Well the
fact that Mr had to limit refused to give

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way to the presidential motorcade that
indicates that he is the one that is causing

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instability where there are just interesting
facts the facts of the matter that to

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be forming stylishly must that it ought
to go on that public road was given

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clearance by the Commissioner of
Police that the start of them go to

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a traditional ceremony that was taking
place in the western part of Zambia which

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president had to go along with the publican
president also attended and the there

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were things happening family like when
the Republican president is using

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a second route the police clear the road
so that nobody else is using that road

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except the Republican president but he on
that day the police say Do not fear that

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road it was open to members of
the public and it was not only

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a kind of shame I was using that erode other
members of public are also using that

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to roll the back from

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a stage we must like to see the
police decided to target the stage or

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a mass recall and try to push it out of the
road clearly from the video footage is

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that we are seeing and then according to
our most Chanda they decided to overtake

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the motorcade for

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a kind each Lima and initially I was not
blocking the road and therefore the

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president along with
decided to overtake and is

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a moderate type of taking advantage of
them during that process of the law taking

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cording to the video you are seeing the
president of the public even opening his

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window to look at him out to have

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a tube and that for those not agree to
respond. At that stage so there they should

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be right to restage him I
didn't know it spoke with

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a Republican president not surprising
that we are leaving his motorcade because

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they're there already was a Korea day
for public use by the police there's

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a coma thank you very much it's always

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a pleasure and thank you for keeping us
informed thank you very much thank you very

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much Charles cut Coleman is the spokesman
for them yes Me opposition you P.N.D.

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Party you're speaking with me in from
the capital Lusaka K S top opposition

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coalition is wrapping up primary vote in
this week ahead of August the general

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elections as the ruling Jubilee Coalition
gears up to start is primaries on Friday

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as Mohammad Yousuf reports from
Nairobi the vote is seen as

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a key test of cohesion for
both coalitions. There was

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confusion and accusations of banning

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a cool County after the names of some
opposition or in Democratic Movement party

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candidates were missing from paper ballots
already and party election officials

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called off the vote and was
shared too late summer is also

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a council because of allegations of rigging
and some constituency elections were

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postponed because of logistical issues the
party has held elections in at least ten

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counties Roboto room there is

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a party election board member the exercise
is very big under therefore in an

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exercise like this there will be mistakes
there on the bear but they're being

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corrected Are they some observers of
praise the party for giving competitors an

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equal chance to participate unlike previous
times when some members were favored in

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the primaries political
commentator Martin and R.T.

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Says the opposition party's not following
in actual laws hands the confusion they

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are not using the power to register. Dragons
and all the letters on the political

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parties that people will end up in but
on the island there are some of those in

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a minute as they're saying they're messing
with their sordid past and there are

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parts of America the winners of O.D.M.

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Primaries will face members of other
political parties for various seats

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a move eighth professor
had a man manual raise

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a political analysts and lecture at
the University of Nairobi he says

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a failure to conduct a free and fair
election at the party level sets

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a dangerous precedent there's

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a popular way in which democracy works
under here let him Democracy don't really

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lose out on so long others both will
accept when we do that in Political Pop We

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have been doing our fair or the general
election under because we are doing that

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well and it's under your nose and very
little doubt very much control but

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a proper Tripoli where Let's not be
very. You know one right there is

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a very that's what

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a country the you would he end party
plans to end its primaries in about

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a week for thirty counties unlike the
opposition the ruling to believe parties

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planning is primaries across the country
and Friday Monody Safavian news not ready

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to this Wednesday April nineteenth and
you're listening to daybreak Africa and the

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Voice of America James but in Washington
at daybreak Africa time is now fourteen

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minutes past the hour Liberia's Senator
Prince Why Johnson is denying Yes agreed to

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a political merger with businessman Ben
when you're ready for the twenty seventeen

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presidential election he has also denied
being paid hundreds of thousands of

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dollars by Mr Ury for the alleged
merger Johnson will cause

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a kingmaker from Liberia second most
populous county of Nimba has been trying to

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bring political parties together to challenge
the really Unity Party he says he has

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been studying the individual party platforms
to see which one would satisfy his

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political desire to decentralize the
Liberian government Johnson says Liberia

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currently has an imperial presidency and
he wants to give power to the local people

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to elect their own leaders instead of the
president appointed local officials.

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Other twenty dollars to Guntown to conduct
we were one of those with their duty

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incommode to grow their business listen
to what to tell us one more public and

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we're members unless we are to disarm the
lead follow or. Look into the question

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both are doing because of this question
or the Congress runs it so what are her

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liberal to do will be or rather the other
agreed to let the better one and then I

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so already put on the table yes I do as
I'm looking at some of the Democrats are

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going to be well you have in the past called
us king maker perhaps that's why every

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candidate is trying to get your support
yourself or your candidate this current

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election I am a strong current
or former member going to. Work

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a little and we've got

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a senator who would be learning running it
and we will work together even stronger

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was what are they doing enough to
look obviously big you're looking at

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a platform for the B.B.B.

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The party. Of muscle where we do
what we would do for the large

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government which controls do we do all of
that doesn't mean it's the politics of

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the US government intrusion or to be
vocal rather to look on just like they

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serve them or not to have

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a nuclear president today in the months or
apprenticeship of the commission or one

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of the things I've been talking to people
in the Senate the truck driver of the

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clue for centrist system the poor president
first of all the countries that we live

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in the twenty first century the lives
are going to be so are probably for the

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career that I want to branch to follow
the course of it and then through the

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indiscretion of this up to march to do.
This and do it and I want to see whether

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it's on the buckler minimum or part of
the troops to what. I suggested that

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perhaps you got paid by Mr YOU RE to
come on his site knowing what can I.

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Do listening to little
or no light emerges from

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a building or me I'm not
really familiar with that's

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a balance between it's on the banks that
are settling in the same company to both.

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A couple another where the government serving
the governor calls for doing the job

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with Governor. The governor to protect
them in the center of the weapons access.

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Or the Mississauga one can was raised.
By the People of many units to

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the anarchy one of them dominating nobody
can be so then I would burn what all of

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them bomb and there are principles in the
first place. We didn't ask the rules

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that are part of our Central America obviously
by our time and thus the demographic

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or from us any diplomats under
the lease yet our farmers are on

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a US ally further they don't want
to do that they want to be on again

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a lot of our projects are for us

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a concern the greedy one that some of their
own are everybody is for them another

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to do otherwise one amid the R.B.C.

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Talk not just one principle you know little
or nothing. Senator what do you make of

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what's happening now with the National
Elections Commission here Mr Cook suggests

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that this Akoko yeah Jose United States
passport. Take that back to disqualify or

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he. Should Be So it is proven

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a young American buckle down
to just say it is always

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a pleasure to talk with us thank you
for speaking to us so DAYBREAK Africa.

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Liberia's Senator Prince why Jonson was
speaking with me from the capital Monrovia

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the Boko Haram insurgency may have started
in northeastern Nigeria in two thousand

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and nine but the devastating effects
spread to neighboring countries one of the

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places hit hard by attacks displacement
and an influx of refugees is the default

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region in south western Nisha there's
Nicholas peanut is in the fire and spoke to

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Jordi couple about current humanitarian
conditions there. The situation has

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improved

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a lot you know it was in two thousand
and sixteen and. You can tell that the

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security has improved specially because
of the international task force targeting

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book club members on both side of the
border both. Nigeria but also along Lake

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Chad and so obviously the security's
way better just to have some at X.

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From time to time but overall
general security has improved

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a lot and so what you see right now
some refugees I mean it's still

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a tiny fraction of the population but some
are if you're just trying to go back to

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Nigeria because the situation has
improved you have about two hundred fifty

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thousand refugees and I.D.P.

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Here in the G four region most of them you
know they live in camps around you both

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so for example and along the border we've
Nigeria and all of them they saying they

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would like to go back but right now they
are not sure if it's secure in their

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villages to go back they're waiting they
say they lack food you know international

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organization they provide some assistance
for the refugees just not enough many

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people that I talked to say they are
very hungry they would like some food

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specially for the kids you don't have
starvation in this part of the share you have

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some cases of money tradition but it is not
as serious in here as you would be for

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example in northern Nigeria
have you talked to any U.N.

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Officials or humanitarian agencies about
the humanitarian situation yes I met with

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representatives. Here in the for any Explain
to me that right now they cover the

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ninety percent of the food assistance here
in defense which is about eight thousand

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tons but overall the situation is pretty
good that's what he was saying and now

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they need to think about the long term and
especially how the ridges are going to

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go back because of the sea was

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a temporary situation since the first attack
in you share on February two thousand

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. Fifteen And right now many many communities
you know have been hit pretty hard by

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the attacks and some villages have been
destroyed and right now. Even before I was

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saying that we need to talk about
reconstruction because. Even in the region they

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need to go back into villages what is the
security situation like now indeed as I

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said here in the file you have the regional
task force which is. Chad Nigeria and

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you have also people
from Cameroon and been

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a. Cooperating to. Members
all across the region you

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have headquarters. And you have hearing
before. You have American soldiers sort

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of surely they only provide training and
intelligence the same for the French army

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you can hear when you travel here and
when you leave here and you can hear the.

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Airplanes airplanes. Has only two course
but you can hear them like in the

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morning because they're targeting
some. Region. That's used to call

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a speed not defined the shoes
are useful to the cup or

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a form or pick presidents as countries
should not rely heavily on oil production

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for the national budget development
project to talk calmly you'll who's also

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a former energy minister says oil prices
are too volatile for example low prices

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put Nigeria you do it recession last year
call you spoke to views she now we about

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the need for oil producing countries to
diversify their economies. Well I recommend

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that the countries that are independent
get out of that oil dependence because

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there are sooner or later there would
have to do it that if they do it later it

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would be

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a greater cost socially and politically so
as long as they have different currency

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reserves and they have the time you know
to diversify their economy from oil

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dependence to for example diversify to
be more dependent on argue culture on

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industry on fishing on tourism and
services it would be better in the long

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term but this requires

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a program to carry out you know to be
successful in getting out of oil dependence

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Libya was in the rating

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a decent amount of income from oil before
the Civil War but it did not develop that

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this is so I think now it's oil living is
threatened by the ongoing civil war what

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kind of economic future does Libya has if

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a peaceful solution. Well I think
yes still has big oil reserves they

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used to produce one point five million
barrels per day and now they're producing

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only four hundred or six hundred thousand
barrels per day saw if the situation

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stabilizes that they're going to have
still possibilities to increase their

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production to at least one point five
million barrels per day and this would

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provide them the income to rebuild you
know the infrastructure the schools and

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universities and water distribution
system which Libya has

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a very small population would need in
the future who they were surprised

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at the sources and stop the pending in
their lands on oil and also yes so it is

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very important that countries you know
even if they have. A small population

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diversified their economy because there
are oil is not staying in the country for

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ever so. There would have to prepare

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a plan to diversify the economy
so that it would help them have

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a sustainable development in the long
term Tekken intercounty increase in

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population. Increase quality of living of
the population they're going to need good

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education improved

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a new creation improve the infrastructure
and resources that will allow them

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to avoid the depending on oil in the long
term that's from OPEC president Shockey

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speaking with us Mohammed ocean are we
the World Health Organization's this

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remarkable progress has been made it tackling
many of the world's most disfiguring

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and this neglect the tropical diseases Lisa
Schneider reports from Geneva where the

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W H O report assessing these achievements
is being launched I don't want

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a meeting on the glitter tropical diseases.
About one in one half billion people in

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one hundred forty nine countries are
affected by the neglected tropical diseases

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a group of eighteen debilitating conditions
that disproportionately affect the very

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poor the World Health Organization reports
an estimated one billion people receive

00:27:40
treatment for one or more anti decent two
thousand and fifteen bringing ancient

00:27:45
scourges such as sleeping sickness and
elephantiasis to heal the director of the W

00:27:51
H O's department of control of neglected
tropical diseases Dirk angle cites several

00:27:57
remarkable achievements for example
he notes visceral Lish maniacal is

00:28:02
a disfiguring disease that attacks the
internal organs has been eliminated in

00:28:07
Naipaul and is close to elimination in
subdistricts in India and Bangladesh while

00:28:14
Asia has the largest number of N.T.T.

00:28:16
Cases Africa is the Continent with the
highest concentration of these diseases

00:28:22
angle tells V.O.A.

00:28:23
Up to one half billion people in sub-Saharan
Africa are infected by at least one

00:28:29
tropical disease but usually several at
the same time he says Africa is making

00:28:34
progress in controlling

00:28:36
a number of entities including African
sleeping sickness Tiresias or river

00:28:42
blindness Guinea worm and lymphatic
filariasis. And infection transmitted by

00:28:48
mosquitoes which causes

00:28:50
a large amount of limbs and genitals some
countries are lacking of it and some

00:28:56
countries are actually doing well we
have just acknowledged the first African

00:29:02
country that eliminated. Proper health

00:29:09
ministers representatives from pharmaceutical
companies academics and donors

00:29:14
attending the W.H.O.

00:29:15
Meeting aim to explore ways to better
control and eliminate some of the ten most.

00:29:21
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Hello there today is Wednesday April
nineteenth and this is via always

00:31:09
international edition I'm Lori
London in Washington coming up

00:31:13
a new executive order makes it harder
to hire foreign workers. We're going to

00:31:19
defend our workers protect our jobs and
finally put America first as the president

00:31:26
approaches his one hundredth day

00:31:27
a new poll on his approval rating Scientists
plan marches around the country for

00:31:32
Earth Day Saturday Also ahead how an
endangered lizard could end up saving

00:31:37
thousands of lives throughout the history
of discovering antibiotics we have often

00:31:43
done back to nature in different ways
it's all on today's international edition

00:31:48
Well the Trump administration says it's
time for tougher enforcement of rules

00:31:52
governing hiring certain foreign workers
in the United States President Trump on

00:31:58
Tuesday signed an executive order aimed
at making it harder for companies to hire

00:32:02
temporary foreign workers the order called
by American higher American will take

00:32:07
initial steps to reform the age one B.

00:32:11
Visa program right now H one B.

00:32:14
Visas are awarded in

00:32:16
a totally random lottery and that's wrong
instead they should be given to the most

00:32:23
skilled and highest paid applicants and
they should never ever be used to replace

00:32:28
Americans no one can compete with
American workers when they're given

00:32:33
a fair and level playing field which
has not happened for decades H one B.

00:32:39
El-Al simpler years mostly high tech firms
to hire skilled foreign workers to work

00:32:44
in the U.S.

00:32:45
For three years. For too long we've watched
as our factories have been question

00:32:51
about that this election is an important
election both for Indonesia or and indeed

00:32:56
for Southeast Asia

00:32:57
a survey last week suggested the polls
have tightened the race is very close the

00:33:03
incumbent governor has also strangely He's
been standing trial on blast with the

00:33:08
charges that's part of the whole political
prest if you like the groups who were

00:33:13
opposed to the current government is see
his full name is Suki to high put an arm

00:33:19
but he's often known as a hawk Iraq
is a very unusual for Indonesia

00:33:24
a Christian Chinese He said he's a double
double minority as it were but he's had

00:33:30
a reputation as

00:33:31
a can do person he speaks bluntly expressly
So he's an actor and gets things done

00:33:38
well and his opponents who have been
really from the Islamic groups seized upon

00:33:43
a statement of he's like
drastic you accused him all of

00:33:47
a blasphemy and that's really
a strongly political it's

00:33:50
a political religious move so that better
has been hanging out about this whole

00:33:55
election the charge of blasphemy there is

00:33:57
a court case come to New England to go on
and the judgment in the court case has

00:34:01
been postponed and I think wisely done
till after the election but that hangs

00:34:07
a that is part of the guy a minutes

00:34:08
a family car family vicious political
guy and there's no doubt about it

00:34:13
a hardline Islamist group led by Islamic
Defenders Front have vowed to stage

00:34:18
protests and a revolution quote unquote if

00:34:21
a hawk Mr pronominal wins to some extent
these sorts of threats this rhetoric is

00:34:28
just normal pattern check out of politics
Indonesian politics Indonesian politics

00:34:34
these days is

00:34:35
a very competitive very noisy very competitive
and in some ways in some ways very

00:34:41
healthy because lots of people have access
to the media and freedom of assembly is

00:34:47
strong. So in some ways this is just what
you might call political rhetoric but

00:34:54
nevertheless be right back there based
groups are certainly capable of mobilizing

00:34:58
very large numbers of people and they're
out there pensions and whatever the result

00:35:03
of this election on Wednesday whatever the
result there is going to be continuing

00:35:08
tension but in Chicago and across Indonesia
that's Peter McCawley an Australian

00:35:14
author economist and visiting fellow with
the Indonesian project at the Australian

00:35:19
National University. You're listening
to international edition on V.O.A.

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00:35:30
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The always international edition continues
now well during the presidential

00:36:33
campaign then candidate Donald Trump
dismissed the scientific consensus about the

00:36:38
dangers of human induced climate change
his appointee to lead the Environmental

00:36:43
Protection Agency. Scott Pruitt also
does not accept climate science

00:36:50
now while scientists generally stay out of
politics they have decided to speak out

00:36:55
so this Saturday April twenty second they
will be participating in the March for

00:36:59
science

00:37:00
a demonstration in Washington and more
than five hundred cities around the world

00:37:04
supporting science's role in government
decisions on health safety the economy and

00:37:08
more now the march is symbolically taking
place on Earth Day And joining me now is

00:37:14
Dennis Hays the national coordinator of the
very first original Earth Day on April

00:37:19
twenty second one thousand nine hundred
seventy thank you so much for being with us

00:37:23
to tell us

00:37:23
a little bit about how that event came to
be to begin with. There have been all of

00:37:28
the strains of environmentalism tracing
back to Teddy Roosevelt and his concern

00:37:33
with wilderness scientists who were marching
against radioactive fallout from the

00:37:37
bomb in the fifty's and the Santa Barbara
oil spill and people fighting freeways

00:37:41
cutting through their neighborhoods but
they weren't all tied together people

00:37:45
didn't think of these things as having any
relationship to one another what that

00:37:49
first Earth Day did was to take those
issues and literally dozens of others with

00:37:54
a huge emphasis actually upon her but air
pollution which was just dreadful in the

00:37:58
United States in the one
nine hundred sixty S.

00:38:00
The tie them up in one bundle call it the
environment and then to have all of these

00:38:05
different groups working to support
one another in their common causes my

00:38:09
understanding is that the first Earth
Day actually led to the creation of the

00:38:13
Environmental Protection Agency and the
clean air clean water and Endangered

00:38:18
Species Act is that through go well beyond
that John Ehrlichman who was the chief

00:38:23
domestic counsel to Richard Nixon actually
said that when Nixon was watching the

00:38:28
television sets on the first day and some
of the huge crowds in New York City with

00:38:34
one of his rivals for Republican
leadership America New York John Lindsay

00:38:37
addressing more than

00:38:38
a million people and then he's going to
stay out the window with the gigantic crowd

00:38:42
at the moment Washington D.C.

00:38:43
He decided that he wanted to become somehow
involved in this thing even though he

00:38:47
was not much of an environmentalist and it
was actually on earth take according to

00:38:51
Ehrlichman that that Nixon accepted

00:38:53
a recommendation to set up by executive
order the Environmental Protection Agency

00:38:58
in the next five years we had to Clean
Air Act the Clean Water Act the Safe

00:39:02
Drinking Water Act the Endangered Species
Act We probably got on the order of fifty

00:39:08
trillion dollars of net
benefits to the U.S.

00:39:11
Economy out of legislation that was passed
within the next four to five years after

00:39:16
a stay there's also

00:39:17
a very big march happening on Earth Day
I know at least in Washington D.C.

00:39:21
On the National Mall the earth day for
science I'm sure you're participating What

00:39:26
do you know about the rally. One of the
things that emerged really early on in the

00:39:31
trumpet ministration is

00:39:33
a dramatic set of suggestions for budget
reductions they slash deeply into the

00:39:39
National Institutes for Health the for
you to the National Oceanographic and

00:39:42
Atmospheric Administration. On across
the board the deepest cuts were to the

00:39:48
Environmental Protection Agency and the
deepest cuts within that were to the

00:39:51
research program at the
same time there were

00:39:54
a series of scrapping off of websites any
references to climate science all of

00:39:59
which cut the scientific community
really up in arms environmental movement

00:40:04
probably more than any other movement in
human history is is based upon science and

00:40:09
so it was natural and people became upset
about these across the board cuts that if

00:40:14
they were going to find

00:40:15
a day to protest them that they would do
that on Earth Day So yes the Earth Day

00:40:19
Network is doing all of the organizing for
the rally in the March on April twenty

00:40:24
second and there will be about four hundred
other marches across the United States

00:40:29
and

00:40:29
a couple hundred other parts of the world
just some of the dirty you mentioned since

00:40:33
President from came into office you think
in today's political climate there is an

00:40:37
especially strong sense of urgency
here the trumpet ministration ran an

00:40:42
anti-regulatory platform and clearly the
person that was selected Scott Pruitt to

00:40:48
head the E.P.A. Is a guy who built his
entire career on suing the E.P.A.

00:40:53
To try to overturn various regulations so
it's natural enough that once in office

00:40:59
they are fulfilling those campaign promises
despite the fact that all of the polls

00:41:03
that have been taken in the last couple of
months it's just that this is among the

00:41:07
most unpopular thing that the trumpet
ministration is doing and I suspect that

00:41:11
a lot of these initiatives they are
undertaking are going to be rolled back by

00:41:15
Congress even though the Congress is
controlled by their same political party any

00:41:19
final thoughts on what kind of crowd we
should expect if the weather is absolutely

00:41:24
terrible and I'm guessing we'll have

00:41:26
a couple hundred thousand people. If that
weather is splendid and beautiful that it

00:41:30
could be two three four times that size
this is an issue that is really strongly

00:41:34
resonating with people
and I expect it will be

00:41:37
a great many folks sending has strong message
to the trumpet ministration there may

00:41:41
be an even stronger one to two Congress
that environmental health is deeply

00:41:47
important to Americans safeguarding the
planet's climate is one where America

00:41:51
should be

00:41:52
a leader and moving in the opposite direction
is just public support all right well

00:41:57
that's Dennis Hays national coordinator
of the original Earth Day We appreciate

00:42:01
your time thanks for being
with us. Fighting infection is

00:42:05
a very big concern for medical professionals
particularly with the growing threat

00:42:09
of antibiotic resistance but couldn't
endangered Indonesian lizard known as the

00:42:14
Komodo dragon one day save thousands of
lives scientists at George Mason University

00:42:20
in the U.S.

00:42:21
State of Virginia say the blood of these
creatures offers promising results in

00:42:26
fighting infection Joining me now is Dr
Monique van Hoke associate professor at

00:42:32
George Mason University How do scientists
think to look at all of all things the

00:42:38
Komodo dragon. We were very interested to
look for sources of new peptides that we

00:42:44
could develop into initially into new
antibiotics to treat infections and so we

00:42:49
were able to look in very interesting and
evolutionarily ancient animals in this

00:42:54
case the Komodo dragon to look at their
innate immune peptides and to identify the

00:42:59
peptides which would be active against
different kinds of bacteria and then we can

00:43:04
develop those into an actual potentially
juggle compound like we would when we

00:43:09
found which we call dragon one so
dragon one is a type tide it's

00:43:13
a very small piece of a protein and we
make it chemical synthesizers So this is

00:43:18
a complete sense that it peptide
that we were inspired by

00:43:22
a natural peptide that we saw in the Komodo
dragon blood why would you even have

00:43:26
thought to look at the blood of the Komodo
dragon so Komodo dragons are fascinating

00:43:32
creatures they're reptiles So they are quite
evolutionarily distinct from humans so

00:43:38
we thought that would be an interesting
source there evolutionarily ancient So that

00:43:42
means that they've had millions of years
of evolution to to do what we call sort of

00:43:47
nature's pre-selection So nature has sort
of selected whatever the immune response

00:43:51
of these Komodo dragons is obviously very
successful so we wanted to sort of use

00:43:56
that and say OK well let's go look and see
what the Komodo dragon genome has chosen

00:44:00
for their end to micro real peptides because
that might be an interesting starting

00:44:04
point and also go to dragons have as many
as in the wild they have as many as fifty

00:44:09
different kinds of bacteria found in their
saliva they eat carrion which is sort of

00:44:14
rotting animal carcasses and they live
very close to the ground and so they

00:44:18
interact

00:44:19
a lot with the bacteria in their environment
and yet they're very robust and very

00:44:23
successful so we have Papa says that they
had very strong innate immunity and we

00:44:28
wanted to look and see what role peptides
might play in that how do you get the

00:44:33
blood from the Komodo dragons are very brave
collaborators down at the St Augustine

00:44:37
Alligator Farm are able to do. Small tube
of blood from the tail of the Komodo

00:44:41
dragon only

00:44:42
a few millimeters of blood and this is
enough for us to identify hundreds and

00:44:47
thousands of peptides so the
veterinarian distracts the Dragon what

00:44:51
a dragon at one end with food of a very
carefully take a small tube of blood from

00:44:55
a vein and his tail and then
the peptides that we took for

00:44:59
a Torah study are actually made on

00:45:01
a chemical synthesizer and so they're
actually not derived from the dragon blood

00:45:05
we've heard

00:45:05
a lot more in recent years about human
beings than Americans here in the U.S.

00:45:11
Dying as

00:45:12
a result of antibiotic resistance or
antibiotic resistant infections which seem to

00:45:18
be on the rise my understanding is that
this study and this research might actually

00:45:23
save thousands of lives Well certainly

00:45:26
a multi-drug resistant bacteria and
antibiotic resistant bacteria are an emerging

00:45:30
and continuing threat to human health
and so we and many other scientists are

00:45:35
looking for new approaches to dealing
with these bacteria and so coming up with

00:45:39
a new chemical platform or based on which
to design future drugs is very important

00:45:47
so that's why we were so interested to do
what we call bio prospecting and to go

00:45:52
sort of prospecting around interesting
animals or plants extracts to look for new

00:45:58
compounds that could be the
basis for and developing

00:46:00
a potential new antibiotic which would
then be effective hopefully against these

00:46:04
multi-drug resistant bacteria where does
the research stand at this point so the

00:46:08
dragon one peptide which we
recently published on that is

00:46:12
a compound that we are taking forward to
what is called pre-clinical testing so

00:46:16
we're developing formulations and making
sure that it's stable and making sure that

00:46:21
it's safe for potential use of the topical
treatment for wound infections we're

00:46:26
very interested in looking for the
potential at the veterinary market there's

00:46:30
a big need for wound treatments in
domesticated animals and pets and then also of

00:46:35
course in the future we would like to
take towards the human care market. So it

00:46:39
seems like we're coming full circle with
ancient creatures to help these less

00:46:44
evolved creatures. Ancient
creatures represent

00:46:49
a wonderful new resource and in fact
throughout the history of discovering

00:46:52
antibiotics we have often gone back to
nature in different ways the original

00:46:57
antibiotic came from fundy and from bacteria
and so that was an original first sort

00:47:03
of source for the beginning of antibiotics
and now we need new antibiotics and so

00:47:07
we're taking our bio prospector approach
and going out and looking for new platform

00:47:11
molecules to design the next generation
of antibiotics All right well it sounds

00:47:17
fascinating and thanks so much for your
time explaining it to us that's Dr Monique

00:47:22
van Hoek associate professor at George
Mason University in the state of Virginia

00:47:28
Well popular singer who
hails from Canada has

00:47:30
a new release via ways border crossings
host Larry London joint international

00:47:35
edition Sara Williams with details. Today
it's drake good whose real name is Aubrey

00:47:42
Graham I know you're a fan you're
wearing your I love Drake T.

00:47:44
Shirt right now he was twenty sixteen's
biggest story and it looks like he remains

00:47:49
one of the big stories here in two thousand
and seventeen as well he's put out

00:47:52
a brand new album Hot on the heels of us
from the six which gave us one of your

00:47:57
favorite songs hot line bling and the new
album which is called More Life came out

00:48:02
and debuted at number one it's just kind
of been gangbusters it's sold over five

00:48:06
hundred thousand copies its first
week out he doesn't call it

00:48:10
a CD or an album he calls
it a playlist project got

00:48:14
a special name for it whatever you call
it it has reached the one billion stream

00:48:19
mark which is absolutely huge in such

00:48:22
a short amount of time it had been number
one for three weeks it was just replaced

00:48:26
at the top of the album charts by the new
debut album from chain smokers called

00:48:30
memories do not open but it's still up there
at the top and he's only released one

00:48:35
song off the new album which is what we're
going to listen to today so without any

00:48:39
further delay Here's passionfruit
this is Drake. Seeing.

00:48:49
Plans and also.

00:48:56
So is it known yet Larry yet about the
other songs on this project Well you know

00:49:01
the other songs promised to be just as
good as the debut track passionfruit which

00:49:06
we just heard more life is kind of
it was a surprise to everyone who is

00:49:12
a fan because his album views from the six
is still going strong and still selling

00:49:16
well and remains on the charts and not
only hot line bling you know there's been

00:49:22
just so many songs fake love and all the
other songs that he put out off of the

00:49:26
album they did so well and so he's getting
ready to tour again he just came off

00:49:30
a U.K.

00:49:31
Tour and he's back at home in the United
States now so he's amping up for another

00:49:36
U.S.

00:49:36
Tour he did. Go to the Coachella Valley
Music Festival last weekend and apparently

00:49:42
he did not have

00:49:42
a good time he posted on Instagram that
he was very disappointed and upset as

00:49:46
a matter of fact with his accommodations
he stayed in a country club in

00:49:51
a Coachella Valley in the desert in
California and he said he was the victim of

00:49:55
racial profiling so I'm sure we're going
to hear more about that situation in the

00:49:59
problems there it also came out in the
news within the last day or so that his

00:50:04
house was burglarized he's got

00:50:06
a seven million dollar mansion in
California somebody broke in they told the

00:50:11
security people this woman as a matter
of fact you know who it is it's

00:50:14
a woman and she said no he knows I'm here
he knows I'm coming in she came in and

00:50:18
could have stole anything she wanted to
steal what did she steal she stole ten

00:50:22
dollars worth of mineral water she went
to his refrigerator took out some mineral

00:50:27
water and promptly left so very interesting
Maybe she's an obsessed fan yes I'm

00:50:33
sure that has something to do with it she
wanted to have Drake's mineral water but

00:50:37
nonetheless you know he's he's very popular
artist these days and say what you will

00:50:44
there been those that have criticized
his style of music certainly

00:50:47
a lot in the hip hop world of commented on
his dancing or lack thereof and made fun

00:50:52
of him for that but nonetheless he dated
riata for a little while they attended

00:50:55
a birthday party together

00:50:57
a couple of weekends ago at least they
were at the same party and it was

00:51:01
a very awkward situation and they got it
on videotape the two of them were there at

00:51:05
poolside while the children were having
their party he ignored her she ignored him

00:51:10
I kind of went in their own directions
around the side of the swimming pool and so

00:51:15
you know he'll be out on tour
I'm sure here in the U.S.

00:51:17
Very shortly he's also going to be
appearing in a television show in the U.K.

00:51:21
He got his start in Canada on

00:51:23
a show called the grassy but he's
perhaps going back to a T.V.

00:51:27
Show I don't know if it's a one
off or if it's going to be

00:51:29
a regular thing for him in the U.K.

00:51:31
So that's what's going
on with Drake he's got

00:51:33
a new album out and that album is called
more life and the new track passionfruit

00:51:37
is due. Quite well thanks

00:51:39
a lot Larry that's Larry London he's the
host of the always border crossing. Action

00:51:46
was

00:51:46
a. Massive. Massive. Clean

00:51:54
you know.

00:52:02
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00:52:06
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Laurie London in Washington have

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a great day. Next

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an editorial reflecting the views of the
United States government from time to time

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the United States identifies individuals
who are important to the operation or

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specific agenda of

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a terrorist organization in all cases these
are people who have committed or are

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deemed to pose

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a significant threat of committing acts
of terrorism occasionally the designated

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individual is already in custody this
is a case of. Who was named by the U.S.

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State Department as

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a specially designated global terrorists
Shad really was arrested in two thousand

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and fourteen and sentenced to prison in
two thousand and sixteen for pledging

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allegiance to ISIS and for acting as

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a key figure in the group's recruitment
drive. Along with grief four other men were

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designated as specially designated global
terrorists they include Sami Burruss

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a Swedish national of Tunisian descent and

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a member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
who is known to have planned suicide

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terror attacks Shane Dominic Crawford of
Trinidad and Tobago who fights for ISIS in

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Syria and acts as an English language
propagandist for the group and Mark John

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Taylor of New Zealand who has been fighting
in Syria with ISIS since the fall of

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two thousand and fourteen and appeared in

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a two thousand and fifteen ISIS propaganda
video to encourage terrorist attacks in

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Australia and New Zealand the final
member of this group is shake a member of

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a group of brutal ISIS operatives dubbed
the Beatles for their heavy British

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accents who were put in charge of foreign
born hostages held by ISIS El shake and

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the other three members of the Beatles were
markedly more brutal than other guards

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using extreme methods to torture the
prisoners today they have executed at least

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twenty seven prisoners

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a number of these executions were videotaped
and posted on the Internet by ISIS on

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March thirty first these five
men were marked by the U.S.

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State Department as specially designated
global terrorists under executive order

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one three two two four their assets within
us reach are now frozen and no U.S.

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Citizen or company may conduct business
with them. Designations expose and isolate

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organizations and individuals and result
in denial of access to the US financial

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system Moreover designations can assist
or complement the law enforcement actions

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of other governments. That was an editorial
reflecting the views of the United

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States government.

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