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we need to be reached. to unleash the full power of the federal government that the separate today i am officially declaring a national emergency the u.s. steps up its response to the spread of the coronavirus following countries across europe and asia. the trumpet ministration also seeks to restrict medical imports from china which could cause prices to drop heads. and a full whistleblower rounds on the chemical weapons watchdog and backs former colleagues claiming mistreatment and mismanagement in the investigation of an election attack in syria 2 years ago.
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it's just gone 9 am here and most of the stuff in the 14th of march thanks for keeping me company as we took some of the biggest stories of the day so. let's start with how several countries declared an emergency on friday in response to the covert 19 a pandemic spain joined neighboring european nations which are really struggling with containment measures the u.s. has limited travel from europe the restrictions will also affect military personnel that's according to the pentagon while donald trump has announced the u.s. is stepping up its risk level response to unleash the full power of the federal government that the separate today i am officially declaring a national emergency. 2 very big words. the action i am taking will open up access to up to $50000000000.00 of. very importantly for. a large amount of money for states and territories are loco that is in our
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shared fight against this disease and we heard from trump you speaking in the white house rose garden surrounded by mike pence and other officials explaining the dramatic measures now being taken in the united states in response to the corona virus outbreak now when trump declared a national emergency that freed up roughly $50000000000.00 worth of funds that he can then use to take action and set things up now trump describes how they are setting up these drive through testing centers that are being set up around the country in which people are able to be tested they don't get out of their car they just drive up they'll be tested and then drive away and that way they're not getting out of their car there's no danger of them spreading it in the area in which the test is taking place trouble also took the opportunity to tout his travel ban to the european union a band that has been criticized you know many pointed out it doesn't apply to
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certain countries but regardless tatted and said it was an absolutely necessary measure and talked about the need for closing the borders and why closing the borders is very very important in a situation like this now trump wasn't the only one who spoke and we also heard from different officials quite interesting remarks but it appears that in addition to measures that are being taken on a local level here in new york city in different parts of the country we see local states of emergency being declared local dramatic measures being taken states have schools closed their schools you know public events are being canceled all throughout the united states new york city at this point has outlawed any gathering of more than 500 people broadway has been closed down in addition to these local measures we now have the federal government of the united states under the leadership of president donald trump declaring a national emerged. see on a federal level an action is being taken a number of u.s. corporations such as wal-mart and others were listed by the president as being involved in the efforts to to fight against run
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a virus and get us through this crisis here in the united states. of the credit crisis has seen president spinal pick unity to boost sales for the pharmaceuticals industry at home but his push to buy american could hit consumers in the pocket as don't call to explain. it's too little too late for donald trump's ban on european visitors panic has already set in and hordes of coronavirus doomsday preppers are already raiding supermarket shelves. and. they want. corona virus has already spread to well over 100 countries and territories worldwide pandemic according to the u.n. it doesn't care about your race creed or class even millionaires like tom hanks and
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his wife announced they have fallen ill and while china's all but got its own coronavirus situation under control washington still putting most of the blame for everything and anything connected to the pandemic on china the one virus that began at the end of last year you called it the womb on virus chinese communist party has said that this is where the virus started china has unleashed this plague on the entire world through their dishonesty and their lack of transparency and corruption at it rather than using best practices this outbreak and why it was covered up you'd think they'd understand that being the origin of a pandemic was out of beijing's control but while washington continues to throw shade it's forgotten one crucial point pretty much all u.s. antibiotics vitamin c. pills 1st aid supplies are supplied by chinese companies americas basically pharmaceutically dependent on china if china banned the experts of drugs the u.s.
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would sink into the how of the novel coronavirus at the demick and that's given washington more than just the coronavirus to panic about i think it's been clear for a while now that we are far too reliant on china for domestic production especially for essential products that we rely on and of course our medical supply chain is. the very top of that list the corona virus outbreak has made clear we must combat america's supply chain vulnerabilities and dependence on china and critical sectors of our economy the coronavirus crisis puts into sharp focus the unacceptable dependence of the u.s. on china for critical medicines and their ingredients by american trend has gained new traction as a result trumps trade advisories even suggesting a change in federal law that would force the feds to buy from american companies if we have strong buy american procurement that will establish a robust base level of demand that provides the appropriate incentives for our
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pharmaceutical manufacturers to invest and locate domestically worried yet with all of big pharma profit making schemes in the past the outrageous lifelong cost of hiv treatment in the u.s. spiking the prices of insulin it doesn't take an economist to wonder how the already high price of drugs might skyrocket the destruction of the supply chain is what drives them work it down we have you know short many of these production of items not maybe the product itself but maybe a component of the product that's very basic and anyway come to united states to get more you know manufacture so clearly it underlines how vulnerable we are as a 1st world country you know in china to produce these basic products so while you and i see the coronavirus pandemic as a tragedy of world significance big business will try every which way to turn it into a profit making extravaganza for themselves of course whenever there's a crisis someone is always there to make some money off it come on you know now
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you're going to start seeing people going to be at home you're going to see netflix go up or other you know online watching platforms hulu or whatever the case might be and same thing with medications. while the service is impacted the economy and playful stock markets did recover slightly on friday off to suffer. the biggest drop in 30 years the route of the world's 20 wealthiest people collectively lose nearly $80000000000.00 in their net worth as for others with plenty of money in the bank while it seems there are more than keen to use that cash to keep a coronavirus up a. you know.
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you're putting extra resources into recruiting elite educators able to provide interim private tutoring as demand is high this is driving up to their salaries and tuition prices and. members who are traveling commercial at using to book elite services a day or boards not your typical 1st class lounge for example private terminals chicken customs and security members can request for the jetted to be cleared so they minimize the interactions with all their best injures on their way to their seat.
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because a solution tends to be very. interesting virus i see the super rich will be less effective than the rest of us simply because they have the means to us all and much more to rise to much more. large scale plagues united states charges people that. thousands of dollars for corona virus tests and surely doesn't have enough tests to go around summaries and they have tests available for the richest people and at the same time as so many people are worried about whether or not they're going to ask. a chat what they're going to do about childcare because so many schools are closing all these problems meanwhile you have people spending
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millions of dollars to go to go to private islands to go. private doctors things that the vast majority of people turn offs or and i do think it will continue to polarize society because this is a vastly quality inequality that hasn't been seen in american history and it's just a teeny to get worse. from factions is also impacting people's eating habits around the world as dinah's avoid eating out east saudi reports next from london. london is one of the world's top food capitals with eateries offering cuisine from every country you can imagine chinese on the telly and food are among the more popular choices but as with almost every other aspect of everyday life coronavirus has disrupted the restaurant industry google trends data shows that interest in the secrecy and has plummeted since the crisis began from the beginning of the year interest in chinese food has fallen by 33 percent globally by 34
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percent in the u.k. this restaurant and so who's famous chinatown was once thriving in crowded now the tables are empty on this day we are to be the referee. for them or if a week you need to kill our own friend who favored him a nice if we can do you have to kill our own for 30 minutes and raise all the red races either since force the case come from the e.u. ok we immediately have the kinds of places for all of us to to leave the reference and maybe one makes clear. we lost our own think to present until no wrong maybe 6 weeks we lost our wrong 68 percent forward to our normal business or were no lock down you know but we still lost a lot of business and italian restaurants tell the same story as italy has been on
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the forefront of the fight with coronavirus interest has plunged by 24 percent globally by 10 percent in the u.k. and again that's had a devastating impact as businesses which did a brisk trade in pizzas and pastors are now struggling to get by the people don't know how to stop these things so the only way home. the business go. down i don't know how we're going to reach the end of the month i don't know how we how we don't know. we're not working enough to keep it open every day in the morning and the beginning of the week in the morning most of the week we have clothes you know we feel we. saw now the weather is strange and we're supposed to get busy but it is nothing as you can see there where i sit on the launch i mean when i say that. about up and we are in this and that alone these are being street
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is one of the main street between. us where. there is nothing is so struggling that people are scared to stay around you know we all slum that is what they make of the corona juice anxiety love italian food but they don't get. any telly investor and no more but what they will do the display was people are afraid to being around people so your drive of 400 years didn't have you notice recently that the business is quiet. one is going down and down because people are scared. handing track down you can see this weekend nobody's here and then like months ago for the people here if you will for me to go to restaurants do you think it's. actually a different. thing. i think if you with. people that
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kind of stuff since it is just. going to the restaurants. it's lovely ok and so are we will get in the restaurant and that's probably every day as more countries inevitably go to war with coded 19 in the u.k. faces the prospect of its of the style complete looks maybe more than just the once popular italian and chinese restaurants that see the trade devastated. another whistle blower as calling out the international chemical weapons watchdog as well the full thought process and in a matter of months or costing doubt on the investigation into the 2818 alleged chemical attack in syria's duma the anonymous employee describes an atmosphere of fear within the organization. working in the organization has been knowing open and the cause of deep professional shame when i became aware of how a key element of the organization was and clearly continues to be mismanaged i am
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one of many who was stunned and frightened into silence by the reality of how the organization operates the threats of personal harm is not an illusion or else many others would have spoken out by now 2 other former experts came forward to denounce the report on a militant chemical attack in duma in syria where the organization found the government guilty of using chemical weapons against its civilians the former employees those said they took part in the investigation on the ground and they claimed the evidence that suggested the attack could not have been conducted as described in the report obviously undermining its conclusions others have trained the attack may even have been staged. denies that occupations insisting there is no evidence to support those claims in february a 3rd person came for them accusing the organization of attempting to smear its 4
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employees the latest whistleblower has now strongly criticized his behavior. the mistreatment of 2 highly regarded and accomplished professionals can only be described as a parent i fully support their endeavors. russia is now calling on the watchdog to not be so hasty in dismissing these latest claims. of particular interest is the fact that this whistleblower unlike the other 3 whistleblowers is possibly a current employee at the o.p.c. w. technical secretariat and is watching this unfolding mess in the hague 1st hand we hope that the mounting criticism of the technical secretariat from the people concerned over the o.p.c. w.'s health will not be left unheeded with for with the lord to become recently difficult for them to say that they are rolled and of course we would hope maybe even more worst of lors would come out at this time this is a classic problem of powerful entities and especially if they are linked to the us
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government and they think that oh we're being protected by you know powerful entity so that we need to go on and you know let's just hope that there is more integrity and more the the integrity that the 4 whistleblowers have shown let us hope that they can muster more people with that kind of integrity again and to fix this organization which is really needed in the world. or from the middle east iraq says it will complain to the u.n. security council over a u.s. led strikes which killed 6 iraqis on friday the british and american ambassadors have been summoned for questioning in baghdad iraq says washington's options will have a definite effect on relations the u.s. bombing of government security and civilian head courses undermines counterterrorism efforts and disrupt the agreement between iraq and the global
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coalition while the pentagon claims it was targeting iran backed the type hezbollah militia which it accuses of carrying out a deadly rocket attack against coalition personnel 2 days the u.s. has said its retaliatory strikes were aimed at taking out 5 of the paramilitary groups weapons storage facilities. in response to this attack on an iraqi base that hosts coalition forces supporting the iraqi fight against isis we carried out precision defensive strikes to degrade and destroy it vance conventional weapons that have been provided to keep his ball and by there are any and backers we are in iraq to support the people of iraq in their fight against isis however we always reserve the right to defend our forces whenever they're attacked or threaten their auto authorities they say the so-called precision strikes actually killed 3 government soldiers 2 police officers and a civilian and airport under construction in the city of karbala was also damaged in the process the attacks have been met with anger in the capital. and
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i think i have to marvel at the about it that we condemned the attack some popular move lies ation forces sites in the rock iraq has become a war zone for internal and external wars american the run the fighting one of them threatens to be out there and ultimately iraqis are the ones so for the victim that . schools are being settled between america and iran and it is happening in our soil it violates our soul rinty it while it's our rights we are calling for the united nations to intervene. but. i am surprised that the government is ignoring such actions as you condemn both sides iran and america their actions violate iraq's sovereignty which has become a joke among countries in the region and around the world. talked up with rushdie as a foreign policy adviser to the iraqi parliament by he told us that this ongoing u.s. military presence is proving to be extremely harmful for his country. it's ties the
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what you're for iraq it's also a job or ties the life of iraqis but let's not forget the american attacks actually killed iraqis just civilians and policeman so i think the iraqis always are the victims i don't think the americans will withdraw it will not happen by themselves what they actually they paid trillions of dollars since 2003 it's it's not it's my thought is that there is no sense of withdraw from iraq without getting anything from iraq it can be happen if the iraqi political blocs and the iraqi people united together and say to iran and to the united states ok that's it we will not accept you what you are destroying our country you are killing our civilians so of that way i think only on that way we can change the situation in iraq. european story for you to swedish nasa's who say they would
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deny jobs as midwives because of their religious beliefs have failed to get their case heard by the european court of human rights it declined to take up the case saying that in fact sweden acted lawfully the court observes sweden provides nationwide abortion services and therefore has a positive obligation to organize his health system to ensure the effective exercise of freedom of conscience of health professionals does not prevent the provision of search services the nurses retrained as midwives but refused to carry out abortions because of their christian faith swedish nor though requires midwives to carry out the procedure the women how to read the last several court battles against the authorities saying they suffered discrimination but that case is proving to be a divisive. it is not human rights stuff to refuse to provide care this is an important decision that in the long term will help to protect women's health who i do good quality care and to be treated with respect when seeking an
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abortion we are very disappointed by the court's decision not to take up the cases medical professionals should be able to work without being forced to choose between their deeply held convictions and their careers i think that the owner of a hospital has every right to hire or fire somebody that is will is not willing to do something that they want that person to provide so for example somebody owns a hospital they can say i want every doctor here to be willing to provide an abortion and there's only hire doctors were willing to provide abortion but the idea that the government should step in and tell that hospital owner that he can't hire who he wants and that people can't act according to convention could do their convictions is just a basic violation of personal sovereignty if you have a as a person have a conviction that life is precious and worthy of protection and that to be saved and that you are doing your job because you believe just that then the profession
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should make accommodation for that there are many medics around the world as and indeed just as these midwives themselves say who went into the profession who chooses profession because that all about life that are all about saving life not about ending life and the very nature of abortion ends life. let's head to nearby france because of what's described as the country's wost of child sex abuse scandal a retired surgeons gone on trial accused of the hundreds of children many alleged victims have come forward including the doctor's own 2 nieces. i think when he arrived in the cost battle the authorities i don't know at what level were already aware of this and no one intervened to prevent him from being
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recruited. if it's not his family who revealed the less coronet problem it's a literal 5 year old girl who was raped in her own garden shed light on one of the biggest sexual predators one of the biggest pedophiles in french criminal history. you can go kill or conies support your security he acknowledges deviant behavior and he doesn't dispute the possession of child pornography but he denies acts of penetration to prevent his pedophilia from getting out he locked himself up cut all
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social ties his only obsession with his collection of images and this need to put his fantasies on paper. egypt's was storms in decades are thought to have killed at least 20 people many of the deaths are being attributed to collapsed buildings where to accidents and electrical and flooding has severely affected transport links and many say that without. how can you tell. a bottom public outrage in chile hasn't a tad angry crowds from rallying against the president calling for him to quit widespread anger over inequality and a push for constitutional reform have seen months of on rust violence of the latest protests the raw riot police respond with tear gas on want to kind of.
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and it's in the streets maybe desire to because of the coronavirus cough used but they are such me not violent nationwide musicians are taking to the balconies in a flash mob to break the eerie quiet as people pick up an instrumental bust into song to lift the spirits while stuck. well that's how things are shaping up at the moment auto kong has plenty more details antique mall stories so check it out and have a good day. good
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that. direct. what is truly wants is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. aura maybe the shallowness. of the emergency has officially been declared here in the united states as markets have made a light rebound after one of the worst days of trading in history this is a boom bust so one business shows you can't afford to miss unfair montevideo and i'm branch aboard washington come and go shocks have seen a slight recovery following
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a devastating week of trading but investors are still reeling straight ahead we break down the week that was in the markets and what next week may have in store. plus the global virus pandemic slams market supply lines and manufacturing are also taking a major hit we're going to analyze the disruption in manufacturing we have a truck show for you today so let's go and dive right into. the krona virus continues to spread worldwide as president trump just moments ago the claridge a national emergency for the united states. to unleash the full power of the federal government in the sefer today i am officially declaring a national emergency. 2 very big words the action i am taking will open up access to up to $50000000000.00 of. very importantly for important and a large amount of money for states and territories.
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