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Workers the millions of workers who are
adversely affected by this crisis 1st

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Congress passed an $8300000000.00 measure
earlier in the month to combat the corona

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virus outbreak and develop

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a vaccine for the highly contagious disease
on Wednesday lawmakers approved in Mr

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Trump signed another $105000000000.00 plus
plan to limit the damage to free testing

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paid sick leave an expanded safety
net spending this is v.o.a.

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News. Italy became the global epicenter
of the virus outbreak Thursday with more

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than 3400 people dead from covert 19
that surpass China their original center

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of the Alberich now the Trump administration
is warning Americans not to travel

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overseas because of the pandemic a.p.

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Said Donohue the uprated alert urges
Americans not to travel abroad under any

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circumstances and return home immediately
if they are already abroad unless they

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are planning to stay for an indefinite
period the previous alert advised

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reconsidering all international
travel which is called

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a level 3 alert this alert is level 4 and
is unprecedented usually reserved for

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specific countries involved in conflict
natural disasters or where Americans face

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specific threats these alerts are not
mandatory The only way to ban Americans from

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going abroad would be to invalidate their
passports Donoghue Washington grocery

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stores in Britain are now and changing their
rules amid virus outbreak demand a.p.

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Correspondent Karen Seamus Heaney remember
it's in the reaction to the spread of

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the corona virus has one supermarket
shelves around the country and printing

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produce even market chains to bring in
measures to limit customers to planning

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produce limitations have
been in place to now l.t.

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And vulnerable people to be able to get
the cards they need Tesco Britain's not

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just chain is limiting customers to 3 items
each across its entire product range

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and Sainsbury's was that the fast trading
in its tools. Will cost him his current

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time as London suspected Islamic militants
killed $29000000.00 soldiers Thursday

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this was in an attack on

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a base in the country's north east according
to the army it said in the earlier in

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the day that just 2 soldiers had died but
tweeted later that the death toll had

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heavily volved the $29.00 and killed 5
wounded there was no immediate claim

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responsibility for the attack in the city
or one town which. About 125 kilometers

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north of the city of gal Mali's Army has
repeatedly suffered heavy casualties from

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jihad as fighters active in the area with
links to al Qaeda and Islamic state vast

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swaths of central and northern Mali are
effectively lawless used by the hottest as

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a base for attacks in Mali India hang 4
men on Friday who were convicted for the

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rape and murder of a young woman
on a bus in New Delhi and 2012 in

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a case that shocked the world and shamed
the country over its appalling record for

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crimes against the women the
men who were executed a don in

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a jail on the outskirts of the capital
for television news channels reported m

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Tommy McNeill v.o.a.

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News.

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To recover from the. Day.

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Some of the.

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Race is. Getting used to
but given to. Someone who.

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Think like I was there
not by the bye bye. Bye.

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It. Was. A presidential

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election this is a cabinet that is they
are going to go after them and this is

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a cabinet. To govern the
electorate. Or they

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could be they would be

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a follower. Coming

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up on the brink of.

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A big. Is formidable
if they. Say they are.

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And they are running out of imported products
from China which is the origin of the

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current us but Uganda's finance
minister. Says Ugandans she used the

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opportunity to start local manufacturing.

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It is unusual. One of the busiest places
in Kampala normally the place is but to

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thousands of people but as I say less of
it is common does mean late to spare parts

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and electronics so the 1st to come in
more gate one of the triggers here says

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Clarence have reduced by more than 60
percent for the last 2 weeks because of the

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Covenant in disease even here you are
seeing we are not really related we are

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people who used to come by and by now we
see we respect our most didn't really see

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and no one is coming and do you believe
they are to get near them when they might

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have to pay the rent we are using We are
living with the stuff they come by by docs

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by what. We are going to
be affected. And that

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a 70 year old father of 3 employees 4
people at his business and must pay rent of

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$1000000.00 Uganda shillings were

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a blood clot incidentally less every month
I'll comment to grab another businessman

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who doesn't look to next agrees he says
that some of his customers are not coming

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simply because his business is one of
those 2 for some of the products. We are

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known to be able to make because we are
getting them feeling they no longer go to

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China or is this like the
week we wanted me to.

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Say I'm going to go to get them because
they I would I don't. Know one of them.

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So you could get these and put this in the
foods mainly fruits he says business is

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struggling because what if

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a product that is available market is
obtained at the head price for example

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a couple of garlic which is to say let
810000 are going to slings or $2.00 to $9.00

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is no sending a $180000.00 you get

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a slings for the $8.00 if braces
increased 20 degrees devalues reduce the

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reduce the quantities they are taking so
no does that take either someone who was

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thinking make 10 bucks is the great 5
because they're not buying. People feeling

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like by way addressing the Parliament
this Thursday but. You can as finance

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minister says well aware of the problem
he said inputs expected to declaim by 44

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percent but he says this is

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a civil lining in the
unfortunate pandemic did. They

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just ignorant the disease will lead to

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a decline in economic growth and an increase
in the levels of poverty he says the

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government would borrow some $100000000.00
for the budget deficits brought the boat

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by the consequences of the going to
Vegas on the economy for the news

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a young woman. In

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a company Uganda. The Media Council of
chaos as the Kenyan government to provide

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live news feeds for
coronavirus updates to avoid

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a news conference is this exclusive interview
with The Voice of America the media

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comes to Deputy Chief Executive Officer
and program manager Victor Ray said the

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move is to sort of caught the journalist
and also help the government in fighting

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the deadly virus Morrill jumble reports
from Nairobi and the new guidelines by the

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media cons of Kenya and the media that
came against the response team the consul

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has written an advisory to the office of
the spokesperson to suspend all the live

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press conferences as a way of avoiding
large gatherings speaking in an o.b.

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The deputy chief executive officer
media console of can have

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a day said that the move will be the best
way for journalists to comply with the

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Ministry of have guidelines uncovered
19 among them avoiding crowded places

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advisory was informed by one we need to
protect next year that we shall What is the

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public perception I would say they are
waiting there telling the public to give us

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a show this but to do it in such that
briefings with. 50 people public are likely

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to see that and not follow the data to the
safety of the people we don't know where

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these journalists are coming from at the
same time we don't know some of these

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people are running the commerce secretary
some of them are magnetics who of the us

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come from health and want to the possibility
that they can in fact in the advisory

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The council has also asked the media houses
to prioritize on the safety of their

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employees Mr Brady says and I feel so
have other media houses far from the city

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also to access the information and
that generally is should embrace other

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multi-media ways to get the content the
ministry can use is patient in the

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presidential delivery units infrastructure
to do our life need understand that

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these can be recorded messages this kind
of recorded press conferences which can

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then the day lives on multimedia orders
can be sent to other media houses in any

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case the issue of say we minimize people
who go for press conferences 10 that is

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not to deny and then I was
from doing interviews there

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a lot of other means of doing interviews
not in our family from going to press

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briefing the council However ses in that
case generalised are needed to call

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a breaking news then the government should
provide the necessary protective gear is

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to protect them from the deadly virus
identities based scenario they then can make

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change says that the challenges for move
made lead to other media houses missing

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out on crucial information from the
conferences and that the government should

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consider wildlife aid for all different
than the government will buy this idea then

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they owed to ensure that they provided the
tentative solutions this is providing

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a single field to all of the media
houses as much as they have

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a ban on the live press conferences The
ensure that all the journalists gets to be

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at the right information from the right
channels and this is through the government

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single feed and so that all the media houses.
So that they don't end up misleading

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the public tomorrow. Beholding

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a national prayer and the government has
already advised the media houses to reduce

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the number of attending the function
reporting for these daybreak Africa I am

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Marina jumble you know the Kenya the Gambian
government has suspended the flights

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from 13 countries to prevent the spread
of the current virus. By report from

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rollock North Carolina the government
reached a decision on 1st thing during

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a cabinet meeting. Some of the
list of the. Good bye to all

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of them but I was suspended. From
corner African countries would

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be suspended until for

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a little decision for one of the government
recommendations to receive from ex-pats

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100 indignant about us. I mean what
you see is what is the present.

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And today how I mean it and.
Also use that opportunity to

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Greenock the planet and the cabinet. Under
the conditions. On indifference and

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development. So. They have decided and

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countries. Like the common fund there.

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And on to. Be modern countries where
exempted from the temperate China.

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And United States among those countries
many couldn't comprehend behind

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a goal as the show but. You don't
have that explained I'm informed.

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You know. Along with.

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And Monday. I'm definitely
going to put on in.

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The column is this edition for a lot of
the escape that you want to be Expedia as

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a single friend from the Golden Beach want
to read you rather couldn't cheat on.

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Depression yes read in how do you read the
Saturday conditions and you. Decided to

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bring in what you'll be nice to know how
to house call on Gandhi installment

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impossible hygiene really been
pretty and when you put on

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a virus that means continue to abide by

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a recommendation. Much

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of it will cost somebody always

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a gun beyond political activities
Joe described it going to come in

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a different engine quoting for the. Price
coming into the country and the reason

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for that is. That is most important
because of that he says and he

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you know I think from what I'm
going to Meanwhile one can be

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a lady has been tested positive for
the girl in the barrens 19. Chief

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Inspector General of Police were on board
the same flight. As the boss and you.

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Got despondent by reporting from Iraq.
You're listening to the brick Africa on the

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Voice of America on terms but in Washington
today it is Friday March 20th but are

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we in President Peter mood to recount
little affairs that named the new covenant

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The announcement comes days after the
formation of an alliance in the run up to the

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mid $1000.00 presidential election

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a rerun of the alliance is between the
ruling Democratic Progressive Party. The

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d.p.p. And the opposition United
Democratic Front the u.d.a.

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Have led by 2 political Lewsey the son of
former president Buckley Musi political

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analyst Vin thing Conway says the
new cabinet appears to be billeted

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a move by the president to try to garner
the support I had of the. To visit What do

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you make of the new cabinet assembled
by the president Professor I think it's

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a mistake Oh well like I had previously
St And I indicated that we should expect

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everybody brought to Cabinet tool

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a highly political
carbonates and now 3 this is

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a cabinet that is based on political
prism and under full plate this is

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a cabinet that has been put together to
govern I use the electoral votes for

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the d.p.p.

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And they would if I land and then when
seeing again and. I mean by the parliament

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who have been appointed into the cabinet
for an independent member of parliament

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who previously had to belong to the
People's Party squarely puts this is

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a cabinet that is going. Appeasement What
do you think are the prospects of this

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new cabinet and do you think
it will govern as the d.p.p.

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I and. My chances of

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a Ted presidential election really run
particularly when they. Are their

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ally and of the m.c.p. And the u.t.m.

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Formally being launched in Malawi ahead
of the election Well it seems to

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me that the d.p.p.

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And the head of state is are now fighting
March because when you look at this

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they're the true member club
and it has also brought into

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a big guy being next individuals who are
not members of parliament since pointing

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to

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a 14 when Pete time Terry got into power if I
am very very correct he has never appointed

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individuals who are not should muscle
into his cabinet so this is the

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fairest as the way that these people want

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a kind of political capital it is very very.
Now true because in some of the people

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we have appointed attorneys cabinet I
do know 3 members of parliament in the

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constituencies that we are competing for
whether they are political Capito it is

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said to be saying right
now. For me that the d.p.p.

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Has to contend with yes it is do you think.
You would see in my lions but for me

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the biggest Charlie has been Fania to
deliver on that approach me face. Is going

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to the minister have a lecture at p.s.

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The Parliament House passed

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a vote of no confidence in the ability
of the commissioners of the electoral

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commission including the chairperson just
as Jane. To administer the elections

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operations however he had not to have been
announced to the general public so who

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is going to organize the selection
was that the new chap Singh on

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a. New team to run their
presidential election rerun. Well.

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According to. The group from wake
you. Can only recommend defying

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the electoral commission commission us to
the president then it is the president

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who is supposed to actually fire the electoral
commission Sean commissioned us now

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by refusing to fire. Members of the
commission who the president is acting

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illegally it's within the legal powers to
mother with political analyst Vince think

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underway when speaking with us Peter
Clottey from the capital a long way

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a lawyer for former Ugandan security
minister lieutenant general and meant to

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convey says there has been

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a consistent pattern in Uganda for all kind
of just desiring to challenge longtime

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president Yoweri Museveni to be charged
with treason and other charges your attempt

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to convey who. Lost respect for his intention
to challenge President with $71.00 to

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2021 election was this week charged with
treason and possession of firearms Alex la

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Gonda says General has denied the
charges against him. Generals'

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reminded. Me of. The

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concrete. Trees on the
topic what I can see maybe

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it do you know exactly why he's being
charged. Yes I'm quoting today

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a document that where prevented
I called him Patrick love it I

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didn't read it. Terry and says that he met
while appearing on one of the local t.v.

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. In which he say that. If you
was run by who but he was

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seeking for change in Uganda and
the child is in respite just.

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Because the state failed it just
let me get. You one another

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comment. You gotta love it yet Roy very
clear I respect what he's made his

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decision. But. The general
announced just recently he

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was still running for president in 22. I
know that the honorable gobby Marini has

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announced Also you must run for president
is similar thing has been happening to

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game same with their doctor visit those
they generally see similarity or does he

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think that big charges against him are
related to his announcement to run for

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president meaning politically motivated
enough to believe it has been

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a very consistent and we need new.
Kind of that come up and presidential

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ambition to be slapped with gives
ranging from treason and Similary

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naked political offenses
saw it also must be not.

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General to make one day on the
side. Oh. Not by the electoral

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commission but he will be starting to close
out. In respect to his presidential bid

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. Days after I had notified the police
taking full day but will baby His elect his

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electric beard and was not the strong
presence so being arrested. Less than.

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10 days after you had declared his
presidential ambitions leaves

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a lot to be desired I wouldn't from

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a legal perspective one to conclude the
same but the pattern and the consistent fun

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time. In their present position leaves

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a lot to be desired when it is Next day
for the general and what can you tell us

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about his the case was adjourned up to
the fact. That this is just when the

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general is expected back in called the
mention of his case however as the legal

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team we are preparing to take the hearing
will his bail application presumably be

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a full the touchable much.
Best to prevent get

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a date within next week when you will be
in position to appear because his health

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is not good bye and I was detained when he
was just picked from I was picked up it

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rolled. The jacket to anyone
remanded to Lucilla prison.

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For. Jury. Duty.

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Because the school was. To be.

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Suspended. Weeks after the
number of cases the creased from

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St. 12 according to a statement by the

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n f f the shutdown affects all on field
activities the various national teams the

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natural professional football league
youth football programs and even streets

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foodborne the national government has also
called of the national sports festival

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scheduled for the 22nd of March in move
that full top off lets such as the

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Commonwealth women's 100 meters record
holder lesson carry Kathleen in

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a last minute Streep's to Nigeria to
participate at the games the news of the

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suspension of sports activities in Nigeria
has been received with mixed reactions

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by sports fans and officials
when we have such

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a large gathering of people just one person
can cause so much damage and because of

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the way. System is because
of the fire that's

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a lot of this guys are coming
from towns that have little.

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Things It's been a disaster that. Becomes

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a breeding ground for this virus evil we
hear about for an ugly. Ply their trade

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wherever. Will be allowed to become ours
and some states I think are put on x.

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Box and I think it's just good let's wait
the legs are less rush things elsewhere

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in South Africa the Premier Soccer League
have resolved to try and finish the

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292020 season by June 30th but they did
remain flexible beyond that to bring the

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campaign to

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a conclusion that these that I've kept in
the league is on hold due to the canal

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virus outbreak and the p s l has hoped to
plea on from as early as next week after

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again in the backing of the mist of sports
arts and culture nothing to do so stay

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with the coronavirus pandemic the Confederation
of African football earlier this

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week the 2025 African nations championship
over concerns our own the coronavirus

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pandemic Uganda was one of the 16 countries
that was that's to to. Part of the

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tunnel meant that if to see for African
play as be used in the out no new leads the

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tournament had been set to run between the
food and the 25th in April in Canada one

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but following its postponement the physician
of Uganda Football Association has

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called of

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a training camp and guess what thing is
the chief executive officer of the Uganda

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Football Federation the national team
that has been in the batting for John is

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going to be stopped on the plaza will
be released to go back to the clubs and

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that's because sports I
am something my leg in

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a Belgian I generate back to you James
in Washington thank you something have

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a good weekend we look forward to your
report again Monday morning that is that for

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this Friday March 25th edition of daybreak
Africa we thank you for spending this

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week with us for the daybreak Africa team
producer Nicole back from reporters Peter

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Clottey every keystroke as well as Post
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of our engineers and James about
the Washington wishing you

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Large. International. Coming out.

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Very nervous now to.

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Any of the 40.

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3405 registered deaths roughly 150
more than China a country with

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a population more than 20 times larger
than milestone came the same day that the

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Chinese city where the virus 1st
emerged recorded no new infections

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a sign that China's draconian laws were

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a powerful method to
stop the viruses spread

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a visiting Chinese Red Cross team has
criticized Italians failure to properly

00:29:43
quarantine themselves and take the national
lockdown seriously Meanwhile in the

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u.s.

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President Donald Trump announced Thursday
that anti-viral therapies used to treat

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malaria and ebola are among those that
may be made available as potential

00:29:59
treatments for covert 19 but officials
cautioned that widespread use was still

00:30:04
a long way off and it's not clear how
effective they would be White House

00:30:08
correspondent Patsy would accuse has
the story. Drug commonly used to

00:30:15
treat malaria

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a disease transmitted by mosquitoes is
being touted by President Donald Trump on

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Thursday he said parking or
hydroxy core again may be

00:30:25
a promising potential treatment for a
covert 19 nice guy. As it's been around for

00:30:30
a long time so we know that event
if things don't go as planned it's

00:30:37
not going to. Kill anybody Last month the
French and disease expert made the case

00:30:43
for using for

00:30:44
a king to treat pool with 1000 patients
on the back of recent Chinese studies

00:30:48
initial results are promising said
David cord learned a hormone f.d.a.

00:30:52
Medical officer for one reason or another
even though we don't really understand

00:30:57
the mechanism of action the combination of
Miller. In companies which is the other

00:31:03
minds that is showing promise Ebola drug
Rem disappear I was also mentioned by

00:31:08
Trump as another potential treatment
stressing that his administration is for

00:31:12
moving barriers to roll out treatments
as fast as possible the Gruden Drug

00:31:17
Administration commissioner Steven Hahn was
quick to point out that further testing

00:31:22
is good we want to do that in
the setting of a clinical trial

00:31:25
a large pragmatic clinical trial to actually
gather that information and answer the

00:31:30
question that needs to be answered
and asked and answered also there's

00:31:34
a trump like

00:31:35
a video teleconference at the Federal
Emergency Management Agency headquarters with

00:31:40
the nation's governors all 50 us States
have confirmed coronavirus cases and

00:31:45
several are facing and on President said
public health crisis. Viewing use at

00:31:52
the White House also new on Thursday
researchers say young people not just the

00:31:58
elderly are at risk of getting sick from
the coronavirus joining us for more on

00:32:04
this latest new information
Dr Deborah Davis she's

00:32:07
a fellow at the American College
of the epidemiology and

00:32:11
a member of the Nobel Prize team that worked
with Al Gore on climate change effects

00:32:16
on health thank you for being with us with
reports that many younger individuals

00:32:21
are still getting together for spring break
as in parties on Florida beaches and

00:32:25
other gatherings What is it that you can
tell us about this latest new information

00:32:30
regarding who may be vulnerable. The latest
information looks at the analysis of

00:32:35
breakdown by risk cases by their demographic
factors that is what age are they

00:32:41
right in the beginning we thought that the
millennium goals were impervious but now

00:32:45
we know that's not at all the case
in some hospitals as many as 50 to

00:32:50
a 3rd of all cases are people 20 to 40 and
there have been deaths there as well one

00:32:56
of them was a 21 year old soccer coach
who had been a cancer patient so he had

00:33:00
a cold factor but I want to run to raise
was totally recovered from leukemia this

00:33:05
is a British soccer coach
done so it's really

00:33:09
a mistake for young people to think
that they are impervious to theirs and

00:33:12
therefore go party and hang out on the
beaches anywhere in the world because they

00:33:16
could have inadvertently contributed to
the horrible toll that we are seeing in

00:33:21
older people who have

00:33:22
a death rate that could be $10.00 to $100.00
times higher than the death rate in

00:33:27
the very young but do you
think a very young are

00:33:29
a higher risk rate that we previously
thought yes they are very young are Iris

00:33:34
great and we previously thought and one
of the things that we do know he sent

00:33:38
people who are in intensive care or the
probability that they will get out depends

00:33:42
on their age and went over to help
problems they might have and I have of all

00:33:47
people that got into intensive care in
China did not make it out What about young

00:33:51
kids children very few children got in
intensive care but it was not 0 you know

00:33:55
summer of wart in the ring or in general
medicine that there have been cases again

00:34:00
in in China with children were hospitalized
and in some cases in the i.c.u.

00:34:05
So we know that we have to take it seriously
intense as well I'm talking about

00:34:08
children under the age of one of the things
that we also know is that what makes is

00:34:13
particularly difficult to control his the
matter of children that contain the virus

00:34:18
in high levels and the child that no
symptoms at all literally a mother changing

00:34:24
a diaper that's exactly like that becomes

00:34:26
a very dangerous thing and it's very
important for young parents to know that

00:34:30
they're changing

00:34:30
a diaper or wiping up. Bottom they have
to assume they've been exposed wash their

00:34:35
hands or only with warm so and water and
make certain why things surface and briefs

00:34:41
and come in contact one of the studies
that was done on services in China showed

00:34:45
highest levels of the covert 19 viruses
found in battle that is because as I said

00:34:51
we now know that this 1st can be transmitted
diseases and that was not appreciated

00:34:57
so Marson begin to cry and even the top
of that can go on their own and potty

00:35:00
trained could be not washing their hands
or you'll know that's the case good

00:35:05
information it's coming out late in the
game here but not too late obviously but we

00:35:09
still really don't have enough testing in
this country to know where we are with

00:35:13
the numbers it's not pretty accurate statement
that is why flimsy accurate and then

00:35:17
Syrians forced into this so much just
information floating around some of the

00:35:21
companies. We do not have test available
for everybody wants and we need to know

00:35:27
that the high risk population should be
people was symptoms and sank Lee Most

00:35:32
people are going to recover from this illness
but it's the elderly that we have to

00:35:36
be most concerned about is the elderly
where many of them will be developing very

00:35:41
serious problems with their lungs you
think about it along our face like

00:35:45
a huge sponge and all those are Newtons
of minutes of reading a light on

00:35:50
a lungs get clogged up because there is
residents most when we are young along get

00:35:55
rid of these things is something called

00:35:57
a newco ciliary escalator and basically
any bacteria or virus or smoking particle

00:36:03
gets extruded that's what we do we
cough to get rid of it if you're

00:36:07
a smoker or if you live in areas like

00:36:09
a bank well on the air pollution is
dreadful your lungs are already impaired by

00:36:15
virtue of living in this environment
because you have to be longs of

00:36:18
a smoker whether you smoke tobacco or not
and then if you just smoke tobacco and

00:36:23
you live in these areas it's even about

00:36:25
a 5th of the infected people who got infected
between the ages of 20 to 40 Someone

00:36:29
had to be hospitalized and. Listen percent
ended up in the intensive care unit this

00:36:35
is the age group of 20 to 40 or so that are
going on the beach right now is putting

00:36:40
yourself and your parents and grandparents
at risk Dr Deborah Davis fellow the

00:36:45
American College of at the gamey ology.
We have not heard much about the

00:36:51
coronavirus situation in North Korea as its
reclusive leader Kim Jong un claims his

00:36:56
nation has no cases but now we are
hearing that he has ordered the rapid

00:37:01
construction of

00:37:01
a hospital in the capital of Pyongyang
Joining us to talk about it is David Maxwell

00:37:07
senior fellow with the Foundation
for the Defense of Democracies

00:37:11
a coronavirus doesn't care about borders
and boundaries what are you hearing about

00:37:15
the situation in North Korea and North
Korea has shut down its borders down to

00:37:21
include smuggling and it is of course
instituted population resources control

00:37:26
issues something that it can do very well
that is really the strength the only

00:37:30
strength North Korea has to deal with
just because its medical system is just

00:37:36
really becoming the worst in the world.
It will not be able to handle break in

00:37:43
so they have all information tried
to really for the basically

00:37:50
from the world they certainly do not
want to acknowledge the end of the virus

00:37:56
freaking out inside North Korea because
it will it will ravage the population.

00:38:03
However we have heard reports of
outbreaks in Pyongyang. As well as the

00:38:10
report that between 180 and 200 soldiers
have died from the virus those are

00:38:15
unconfirmed. But. You know
there is communication between

00:38:22
especially between escapees or defectors
and person personnel inside North Korea

00:38:29
information is getting out and all indications.
As our North Korea is very worried

00:38:34
about this virus and what it will do to
the population the military ultimately

00:38:40
impact on children in the Kim family
regime in the elite even the borders are

00:38:44
penetrable but it is pretty tight to get
in and out of North Korea how might this

00:38:50
have gotten in there prior to them desire
to shut down you know there's trade with

00:38:56
China diplomats flow back and forth but
damn particularly cross border trade with

00:39:02
China is likely that that's how you would
get into into North Korea and of course

00:39:09
their trade with China and. North Koreans
will cross the border into the trade was

00:39:15
really when he was Chinese. Citizens
there and that is likely how it was

00:39:21
transmitted and of course you know has
things were developing in China and we know

00:39:27
the incubation period it was not 14 days
so it's likely that there was contact in

00:39:33
transmission but in waiting that someone
was sick it was likely passed the way this

00:39:38
thing is spreading like wildfire so it
really doesn't take much he wants it's rare

00:39:42
right and of course about 40 percent of
the population you know is. Significant

00:39:48
level. You know since really since 194-1967
the arduous March into Greek famine

00:39:55
were as many as 3000000
people may have died as

00:39:58
a result of the famine populations and the
growth is you know their immune systems

00:40:03
are weak tuberculosis is

00:40:05
a problem in North Korea into the you
know you name it really almost all the

00:40:11
population would be at high risk because
an inefficiency in the link so we can

00:40:17
expect that it will ravage the population
with the only way that they will be able

00:40:22
to mitigate it is true corn teen.
People to people contact any kind of

00:40:29
movement. Given the. Did

00:40:32
a little the hospital. In the you
know requested medical supply

00:40:38
yourself was to commit about 840000
dollars for medical. Maybe have

00:40:45
some information on what's going. On
occasions are there to do something is

00:40:51
happening inside despite the regime is
propaganda and education apartment runs here

00:40:58
deny everything it's almost like he does
protest too much they don't want to see

00:41:04
what's. Lastly I would just ask
you mentioned you know that the

00:41:10
regime feels potentially threatened
by this whole situation how likely is

00:41:17
this if it does get. Seriously out of
control to have an impact on the Kim regime

00:41:23
we're going to get is the plans for North
Korea instability in collapse we define

00:41:28
the class of the regime this way the regime
and the current governor of the entire

00:41:33
territory in the north from combined with
the loss of coherency in support of the

00:41:39
military with conditions around the regime
which really agree. If the military is

00:41:46
ravaged by this. By this virus it
will lose coherence in that of course

00:41:53
is the regime to prioritise his military
units because of the outbreak in

00:41:58
a virus there will be

00:42:00
a competition for resources which would
likely lead to internal Terry conflict in

00:42:05
the north which could alter lead to some
this gets out of control the regime really

00:42:11
will be threatened just like the paradox
that exists today North Korea needs to

00:42:15
reform and open up reform and opening
up is more a threat to any case is

00:42:20
a clone of ours they need transparency
international support in order to deal with

00:42:25
the regime but transparency
international support is also

00:42:28
a lot of threat to the regime Yes really
the paradox that exists in the North Ridge

00:42:32
David Maxwell senior fellow with the
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies aid

00:42:37
groups are warning that any outbreak of
the cold 19 virus in refugee communities

00:42:43
will have

00:42:44
a devastating impact the United States
estimates there are more than 30000000

00:42:49
refugees worldwide many living in
conditions that are ideal for the virus

00:42:53
transmission even as French Nations
struggle to cope with the pandemic health

00:42:58
experts say it's vital that the
international community is prepared for any

00:43:03
outbreak among the world's most vulnerable
Henry Ridgwell reports across the world

00:43:09
helpful for a t.

00:43:11
Cell telling people to stay home to keep
away from other people to make life

00:43:16
a priority for council. That in

00:43:19
a refugee camp many of these refugees often
park are very tightly into camps and

00:43:25
that makes

00:43:26
a big difference the transmission the
access of course to water sanitation and

00:43:31
hygiene makes a big difference and also
just the general nutritional stay there in

00:43:36
a huge state to stress anyway which suppresses
their name systems. Coaxes bazaar in

00:43:42
Bangladesh is home 290-0000 refugees
who have fled violence in Myanmar

00:43:49
knowledge of the Ovid 19 virus is varied.

00:43:56
I forgot the name of the virus and then
I heard that disease has occurred in

00:44:00
different countries people are dying so we
should clean our hands over the way that

00:44:06
good advice is mixed with rumor and
misinformation yammering in the night I heard

00:44:13
that if you are attacked by the new disease
the hands and feet are disabled saliva

00:44:17
falls from the mouth the
injured person barks like

00:44:20
a dog. Camp all currencies are
trying to screen all visitors

00:44:27
and new arrivals. Going again because
we have instructed the foreign

00:44:34
aid workers to stay in their health
condition themselves not to bring immunity

00:44:39
workers from up the road. But you know
how to get out of that. Come take

00:44:46
camp in northern Iraq is home to
15000 years the refugees the am

00:44:52
a foundation has led to 19 awareness programs
and advice on preventing transmission

00:44:59
. Of course many refugees are particularly
in tiny displaced populations live in

00:45:04
makeshift camps very far
away from any sort of

00:45:08
a external official help and those are
the ones that are really very very

00:45:12
vulnerable that includes the hundreds of
thousands escaping conflict in Syria is it

00:45:19
. Province aid workers are receiving
instructions on coping with any outbreak

00:45:25
thousands of migrants are stuck in makeshift
camps on the occasion Greeks. Live in

00:45:32
overcrowded camps on the Greek islands and
aid groups say Europe must evacuate them

00:45:38
urgently as the coronavirus bridge
looms Kakuma in Kenya is home

00:45:44
220-0000 refugees one told v.o.a.

00:45:49
That nothing has been done so far in terms
of raising awareness in the camp of the

00:45:54
coronavirus many camps are in countries
we've stretched or under resourced health

00:46:00
systems Kenya Bangladesh Iraq Lebanon.
They're already operating at had

00:46:06
a very high capacity and so the question
is will they be able to be deployed to

00:46:12
accommodate people living perhaps even
rich nations are struggling to cope with

00:46:19
covert 19 any outbreak among refugee
communities could have catastrophic

00:46:26
consequences. Of the London.

00:46:35
Fears on the other stories we are keeping
an eye on it. The land World Program

00:46:41
Executive Director David Beasley says he
has been diagnosed with COPD at 19 easily

00:46:47
saying in

00:46:47
a statement he began to feel ill after
returning Mitchell to stick to Canada and

00:46:52
put himself into quarantine at
his South Carolina Saturday.

00:46:59
And miles across the us where some store
shelves are empty and patients in

00:47:05
authorities are receiving

00:47:06
a surge of reports about people trying
to cash in on the virus crisis with

00:47:11
outrageous prices killers and other
scams. Preserving Turkey's channels

00:47:18
and all the. State down the number of
complaints has already exceeded I found one

00:47:24
story because hand sanitizer and $60.00
of. Claims for unemployment compensation

00:47:31
surged in the last last week economic
in tacos the virus. Us Labor

00:47:38
Department said Thursday 281000 workers
filed for benefits the claims you make your

00:47:45
clients to intimidate. Today were dealing
for all the very latest on the drama

00:47:50
virus pandemic as prospects faint for Senator
Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic

00:47:56
Party presidential nomination questions
arise as to whether he or his ardent

00:48:01
supporters will back the more moderate
winner former Vice President Joe Biden or

00:48:07
just stay home from the presidential
election you know as Brian Patton reports

00:48:12
today after

00:48:13
a string of decisive primary losses Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders is reportedly

00:48:18
considering ending his presidential
campaign seizing the raise to former Vice

00:48:23
President Joe Biden for the Democratic
nomination but you many of these young

00:48:27
passionate supporters are not going
to give up and I don't think I have

00:48:33
a wider group of moderate just because
you know. He is very ridiculous there's

00:48:40
a large chunk of the Democratic
electorate. Is pretty Bernie Sanders

00:48:46
a self described Democratic Socialist
has gained a firman following with

00:48:49
a sweeping progressive agenda for free
healthcare and free college education

00:48:54
nationwide to his supporters the coronavirus
crisis that has become the focus of

00:48:59
American life underscores the need for
these policies however voters you have

00:49:05
coalesced around the more moderate Biden
who helped enact News Limited health care

00:49:09
reform as former President Barack Obama's
vice president to me and then the other

00:49:14
people who study presidential rhetoric
would suggest that voters would want to go

00:49:18
with the person who preach. The stability
the most knowledge of the way government

00:49:22
works the most sort of stability Anna and

00:49:25
a gentle less than authoritarian
sense many Democrats want to prevent

00:49:29
a repeat of the 2016 race in which Sanders
protracted primary challenge to Hillary

00:49:34
Clinton divided the party and many analysts
believe contributed to Clinton is lost

00:49:41
to Republican president Donald Trump the
former vice president has reached out to

00:49:45
Sanders supporters so let me say especially
to the young voters who have been

00:49:49
inspired by Senator Sanders I hear you I
know which is steak I know we have to do

00:49:56
but many Sanders followers are deeply
disappointed by Biden's surge in the

00:50:00
primaries distrustful of Biden's political
moderation and questioned the validity

00:50:06
of recent primaries in which many voters
stayed home to avoid the risk of Corona

00:50:10
virus infection I don't I don't know how
legitimate the results are I don't know.

00:50:17
What are people actually feel right now.
Even if Sanders concedes the raise many of

00:50:23
his followers may not Brian Paddick view

00:50:26
a news Washington meanwhile Hawaii
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbert is now officially

00:50:31
suspending her presidential
campaign ending

00:50:33
a longshot 2020 effort that saw her feuding
with Hillary Clinton and raising fears

00:50:39
among Democrats that she would mount

00:50:40
a 3rd party candidacy she made the
announcement Thursday to her supporters via

00:50:46
Facebook to Tuesday's election it's clear
that Democratic primary voters have

00:50:51
chosen vice president Joe Biden to be the
person who will take on President Trump

00:50:56
in the general election. I know Vice President
Biden and his wife and I'm grateful

00:51:02
to call his son Beau

00:51:03
a friend who also served in the National
Guard although I may not agree with the

00:51:08
vice president on every
issue I know that he has

00:51:12
a good heart and he's motivated by his love
for our country and the American people

00:51:18
I'm confident that. He will lead our country
guided by the spirit of Aloha respect

00:51:24
and compassion and thus help heal the
divisiveness that has been tearing our

00:51:30
country apart jabbered attracted

00:51:33
a sizable following in New Hampshire but
largely failed to resonate elsewhere.

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