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President Donald Trump's impeachment trial quickly turned into a debate Wednesday over whether its former national security adviser John Bolton should be called as a witness Congressman Adam Schiff the lead impeachment manager says despite the fence warnings of a dragged out trial members of the Senate than a president should what witnesses to be called the Clear president trumps name about his dealings with Ukraine if the present were so confident that this was a perfect call and that those around him would agree that there was nothing nefarious going on he would want witnesses to come and testify but of course he doesn't and he doesn't want his former national security adviser to testify doesn't want his current chief of staff to testify doesn't want those that were heading o.m.b. To testify he doesn't want you to hear from any of them President Trump's defense attorney Alan Dershowitz answers the question posed by Democrats on why President from didn't ask about Hunter Biden's link to a Ukrainian energy company until Joe Biden downs his candidacy for president he could be the president of the United States and if he's the president of the United States and he is a corrupt son the fact that he's announced his candidacy is a very good reason for upping the interest in his son if he wasn't running for president he has another question and answer process will continue Thursday as well before the chamber proceeds to a 4 hour debate on witnesses Friday during a signing ceremony on the White House South Lawn u.s. President Trump declared an end to what he termed the nightmare North American Free Trade Agreement under overcast skies in frigid temperatures Wednesday Mr Trump flanked by hard hat wearing American workers in his name on the u.s. Mexico can eat or Canada agreement the White House predicts the new agreement will steer more automotive production to the United States will boost American dairy egg and poultry exports and overall as a potential to create nearly 600000 jobs and generate up to 235000000000 in economic activity this is the news. The chief of the World Health Organization says it will decide Thursday whether to declare the corona virus outbreak a global health emergency the w.h.o. Said last week the outbreak did not meet that threshold but that was before the number of confirmed cases reached 6000 the Lees Lisa Bryant executive director of health emergencies program Michael Ryan says the decision to reconvene the Emergency Committee is based on the evidence of an increasing number of cases and also upon the human to human transmission that has occurred outside of China Ryan says these developments in the evolution of the outbreak are spurring China and other countries into action says that Chinese response to the new coronavirus has been extraordinary it praises the transparency and willingness of the government to share vital information and provide assistance to foreign countries grappling with the disease for v.o.a. News Geneva internal documents reveal that the United Nations was the victim of a sophisticated computer hack this summer correspondent Jackie Quint dozens of servers for the un in Tunisia and Vienna were infiltrated last summer and it's not known the extent of data obtained or who is responsible among the servers compromised the u.n. Human Rights Office which collects sensitive data the un put out a statement that no confidential information was compromised although the attack was serious the United Nations had kept the breach quiet until a leaked document from September was made public it says that logs that would have revealed what the hackers accessed were cleared that leads one hacking expert to say that he thinks it's espionage but not a top spy level operation saying u.s. Russia and Chinese agents would know how to cover their tracks I'm Jacki Queen Kobe Bryant's would over Nessa Bryant has released a statement on Instagram Correspondent Mike Ross in her 1st public statement since the helicopter crash Sunday that killed her husband Colby and 13. Year old daughter Giana the Nesa Bryant writes on Instagram thank you for all the prayers we definitely need them but also Brian also announced a fund is being formed to help support the families of the other 7 victims in the crash the Los Angeles Lakers for whom Kobe Bryant played for 20 years held a media availability after practice Wednesday Lakers coach Frank Vogel we are all deeply deeply saddened by this unthinkable tragedy so far there has been no one ounce mid-on funeral or memorial plans for Colby and Giana Bryant I might Rossiya u.s. Secretary of state Mike pump Ale has warned that the United States will only pass information across what he termed trusted networks and criticized close down my Britain over its decision to allow the Chinese firm while way to build part of the country's 5 g. Mobile network forward for you a News dot com I'm Tommy McNeil between. Us. Good morning Africa welcome to daybreak Africa from the Voice of America James but a Washington today is Thursday January 30th think you are some of the stories we're covering what would be the likely economic impact on the Africa Channel coronavirus for example a country like Nigeria is heavily dependent on the price of oil Anything that reduces transportation and travel in China that reduces the demand for oil for business activity is going to push that price down and directly impact the. Alert level to the west Africa region home to thousands of Chinese nationals the u.n. Has again appeal for dialoguing Kennie's ongoing political crisis an unexplained gas shortage has hit Liberia and Zimbabwe opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is itself Africa. Your home. Oh it is a little. I dissent time the government denies that there is a crisis in Zimbabwe. Opposition Coalition has suffered a setback in its day it still overturned last October's general election results those stories and more are coming up on Daybreak Africa. China's growing corona virus if an epidemic has already spread well beyond its borders and that while the epidemic is primarily a health and humanitarian crisis its impact also extends to China's economy which is connected as never before to emerging markets in the developing world including Africa the us Adam Phillips spoke with economist Joseph fall of the New York University where he teaches courses on emerging markets and Asian economies. Countries that trade with China it means you know demand for their goods is likely to be down remember China is the largest importer in the world of almost every major commodity be that cement copper or just a range of goods produced and exported around the world one of the lives of the developing world. Left America and especially Africa where this is the view is being broadcast So an enormous amount of the output of emerging markets around the world today is exports particularly of raw materials metals other commodities food that goes to China and so anytime we expect a slowdown in Chinese growth that's going to directly affect the quantities of exports and the prices from those countries a lot of these countries are also destinations for Chinese investment particularly under the one belt one wrote those all wrong on investments and I don't expect them to be impacted but the timing of those investments may get put off in future you're going to see fewer Chinese traveling abroad fewer international business people traveling to China over the next couple of months and that means lots of projects that might have gotten started later in the year will be delayed potentially 6 months or even a year which is an example of an actual impact the vision maybe a store in Africa a direct impact will be on the prices of the goods are selling so for example a country like Nigeria is heavily dependent on the price of oil Anything that reduces transportation and travel in China that reduces the demand for oil for business activity is going to push that price down and directly impact the Nigerian economy in the other direction there are many Chinese companies looking to invest across Africa and while that investment going to continue in the long run you could imagine that there's going to be a pause for the next 6 months on many of those projects as fewer people travel internationally and as Chinese companies and Chinese government officials take a wait and see approach New York University economics professor just to follow the he spoke with viewers Adam Phillips in New York the virus appears to be spreading rapidly and governments are. Around the world sounding the alarm was stuff is home to thousands of Chinese nationals and of fishes there are standing guard after its suspected case was reported in a closed. Reports from the west Africa is no stranger to deadly epidemics during the 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak more than 11000 people lost their lives but by some measures the disease has made the region stronger reports about the coronavirus began surfacing some government officials were quick to respond Dr Guy is the director of the National Service for education and health information with Senegal's Ministry of Health. If you need me. He says Any time an epidemic outbreak occurs that has the potential to spread to Senegal the government forms a national committee comprised of the ministries of health livestock environment and others working together the ministers have created a toll free emergency number that residents can dial in the event of suspected infection they broadcast announcements via t.v. And radio to inform people what to do if they exhibit symptoms and they've installed thermal cameras at the shipping port an airport that can detect if a traveler has a temperature as of Wednesday no cases of Corona virus in West Africa had been confirmed however one suspected case in Ivory Coast was under investigation given West Africa's ties to China the region is out of disadvantage according to Dr Michelle you know a program manager for emergency response for the World Health Organization in Africa. Yes said countries can best protect the residents by closely monitoring their ports of entry many West African shared concern to carbon stand my edge up was getting her hair braided in the cities and Gore neighborhood on Wednesday she said that the situation is nothing like what she experienced during the a bull outbreak she. Worried or not they laugh I mean action. Average of she says some Senegalese have family in China who are posting on social media that they can no longer leave their homes if they return to Senegal without knowing whether they have the virus they could transmit it everyone is concerned said John Manning a kind of couple he next door was named after the famed Senegalese soccer champion said he too was worried he says I see no problem even if it's in China he says people are always travelling left and right so that concerns them too as the number of those infected rises each day so does the concern the disease will reach the shores of West Africa and a camera shake for viewing news to car the special representative of the un secretary general for West Africa and his high hill Mohammed event chambres says the United Nations is trying to meet team peace and stability in the region while respect and national constitutional provisions this comes as some reports say Gagne's economy is crumbling after months of massive protest against President called these alleged attempt to change the Constitution and seek another term on Wednesday Guinea and religious leaders appealed to the National Front for the defense of the Constitution the f. And d. C. The alliance of opposition groups behind the protest to suspend their demonstration the religious group also as the Gideon government to suspend the Feb 16th parliamentary election and for both sides to die luck charm says there is need for dialogue among all Guineans. Position clear from the. Earth's corridors the political parties. Of course. The government every 4. Create according to says. I dress. Better. Result. Thing a street confrontation that we have been witnessing on the part of a National Front for the defense of Constitution and security forces from Wednesday a religious leader a guinea presented a statement to the f n d c as well as the government of Guinea calling a day Adventist to suspend street demonstrations and President Fox Conn did the government to suspend the process to once the election what do you make of that we encourage Gainey and Puno our leaders publicly this traditional religious leader to play a role in absolutely the situation calling for restraint on all sides and calling for bad luck and would like to see them. Take more of a center stage and had to create a platform to bring in a state to be able to come around and talk about issues that divide them I'm sure that they will sign that and then the more things that unite them again and people then they divided really have some concerns or sort of relating to increasing at an extension and you know the opposition accuse the government of wrong in this yet in this song f. Made balance because if you talk to the opposition to tell you that the people who have died so far during these protests have been people who are not members of the president on this ethnic group I wonder if you heard that from other sources that it's something that we have been here for some time and naturally. And that's why. This issue was raised at the highest level and with the sense to call it that at any 2nd there were different ethnic groups have lived together Hamelin yesterday and that's not reason. Well you and the warrior split conflict and you mentioned the parliamentary elections that are supposed to take place in February and 1 of the concerns the opposition has been raising with us is that the national registry necessary for these election has been corrupted at the un coverage and that you see elections to take place on a free and fair atmosphere can they really take place in February I'm not in a position to comment on that because they have not been invited to support the electoral process so we do not have any experts working in you know as I told you the ratio. Or yes which has and mission that we support the effort. Address that you can make sense that the opposition and others have so that at the end you will have an Electrolux. Place and all political actors will have confidence and I dissent travel all these disputes the protests and everything is the argument made by the opposition that the president Alpha condé is trying to change the Constitution to remain in power will have you common round discussed in this do your meetings with both the opposition and the president in opposition as you and what we can do and what we do so I. Respect the constitution of its country thank you very much sir we are always happy to speak with you thank you Mr grudging separator. Mohammed bin Tom does is the special representative of the u.n. Secretary general for West Africa and there's a hell he was speaking with us from Dakar Senegal You're listening to daybreak Africa on the Voice of America James but in Washington today is Thursday January 30th. Daybreak Africa time is now 17 minutes past the hour fall nearly a week now Liberians have been experiencing an unexplained shortage of gasoline in the country resulting in long queues filling stations across the country some retailers have also triple the price of the commodity which has created inconveniences for the citizens as Moses Ghazi Yawar reports from Monrovia the Liberian government says it is making efforts to resolve the crisis. Now with a very long queue I did look a feeling station looking at the Legend in mind from President George we as well. Over 50 doesn't so much as interest Sacco's. At doing business. It. Has been exactly from one pianist fishing to another this morning and he is not closer to get drunk yeah I'll dance since 5 o'clock this morning I want to get to a trio and I want to get gasoline so now I thought I had to drive he says they are not going to be if I can get a guy 30 miles down my warning like Kevin just well you know and not a taxi driver is also frustrated by the fight that he's on able to do business because of gas shortage a big here and I'm getting bit about this didn't. Get in there with us all but I would all my family and I because I did typical to go out of so well so is red it really brought you to be. Kidding me and I was one of the lucky few to get gas hitting Yes parties Cadoudal asking if I was to go for them I've got em back and so I think Guy. They are very happy with their walking around is free to go to work at the Liberia truly frightening company deny the shot to claim India was sufficient custody in the country the f.b.i. Is he also a threat to the vendors who said we're creating at a Future Shop the commerce minister was in Tampa to look a media that the situation has become an embarrassment for the government this state is a very serious matter we realize it is a problem as of the week of June Well 24 we have a 4400000 gallons of b m and that is I will give it about 26 These are some ply and I was ready when we got to realize we're actually going to take in the tanks at a video store is positive it was significantly less than that he said the ship containing about $2700.00 metric tons of gasoline enough for 8 days of supply was expect the u.s. Today Wednesday to minutes to type in the corner shop that is expected to last about a week. Between now and the weekend or less in Monday or Tuesday we should be able to play a good event on the number of ships down economy what are 3 speak this ministry with the support of the president is taking still working with p.r.c. To bring additional quantity me $100.00 subjects a drivers expected to 4 days or even a week with being able to provide for their families due to the gas shortage commuters were also continuing to be stranded here to the absence of promotion he goes. In news my movie. Zimbabwe's opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is in South Africa on a diplomatic offensive to pressure the president. To intervene Zimbabwe's ongoing political crisis and I voted for the economic decline. The leader of the Movement for Democratic Change the m.d.c. Has made several appeals to run the polls to facilitate dialogue. Between him and President Gore has challenged not God was legitimacy and I Q's one of stealing the 2018 elections tell me just tell us a lesson Zulu of you is them by a police service that he wants Pretoria to intervene because the political temperature in Zimbabwe is rising. And. Make sure that creates a platform for that evolution. Creates an opportunity. For us and also friends on the African continent. To come to believe that we have to find a common commitment and an ongoing problem with the able to move forward that. Any plans to meet President through my points are also my president I will make you do . What I can tell you that we will be. Helping out to help. Me I'm going to come from Bob So we need to come together but be challenged by our neighbor. Development to move the country to be. A dandy. Mending Tepco and we've got to get back to. My Bob we kind of Air Force. One Muslim law. That's a good. Thing but proved and. He's . Saying that these new need voted no intervention and they're saying that they discussions going on and the ban on these so-called Pohlad or like in the one. That got from our. Affiliate. We are talking. People out. We. Kind of. Want. To get our men. And. How. They are saying that. Intervene if these the crises they are alleging that there's no crisis in Zimbabwe. Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa he was speaking from Johannesburg South Africa. Vio Zimbabwe's service reacting to love ization leader Nelson Chamisa us regional initiative ruling Zanu p.f. Politics secretary for administration Paul says there is no crisis in Zimbabwe now calls for regional intervention. Point blank that. I mean right now we can cope or not even free to join. The political parties the country can't really. Live in a country not. A country. But some political analysts. Arguing that. Too bad no we have. Not reported and we re clear. Only need to come and tell you what color to believe I did a lot of. But what is wrong with the region. Intervention. Economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe seems to be where. We have. Been is a. Lie we've given. Any tell. You within that period. Paul McGuire is the secretary for ministration Full Bull insanity of party who is speaking from Harare with reporter pleasant views them bubbles service bus One us opposition coalition has suffered a blow it is bait to have a last October's general election results overturned on Wednesday the southern African nations court of appeal dismissed the opposition's election challenge which all but and their victory hopes can do see do bear reports from only bus wanna go position in the I'm going to for Democratic Change u.t.c. Went to court in December 2nd to overturn last year's general election results by the country's high court dismissed the 1st challenge on a technicality due to see it won 15 seats in the $57.00 member does not the same but i.q. To the process was fraught with unique in that it is the only but on the Democratic side to be the pm took $38.00 seats in the eastern s. And Weitzman to participate the remaining 4 after that the High Court lost opposition sort the intervention of the Supreme Court by donors the the Court of Appeals for bench dismissed that justice can be speaking on behalf of a 5 member Penna said the Court of Appeal the highest in the end it knew to the section to hear the petitions this did read and write readings say the issue has been laid to rest once and that Titian is brought it is dealt with it is dismissed . That has been determined. A new petition is vote that there may be an opportunity time may still exist to bring a new petition but for the time that their petition has been dismissed the dispute in relation to the validity of the election is a u.t.c. Spokesperson more I deem wise than if used to comment on the controlling you say it is part 2 and analyze the judgement faced the ruling party peace books place in banks can see a stop or seem to accept the Corvette and not to try now the country to move forward and president seem i.c.c. This who told the media doesn't. Instruction in the running of the government despite their looked on challenges we have always been added to the rule of law and so it wavers it is and they know that if you have a challenge you have a dispute you have the cause a lawyer divisible So when matters are before the courts life goes on President my c.c. Will now prove mighty easier after Wednesday's ruling which now broke the Southern African Development Community so I did and did a 2 listening at a point on the parts on election pending the outcome of the court process for view a this is going to see to be inhabited only ports are not. Briefly before we leave you a summary of Africa news the corona virus appears to be spreading rapidly and governments around the world are sounding the alarm West Africa is home to thousands of Chinese nationals and officials there are standing guard after I suspect the case was reported in a very cost the special representative of the u.n. Secretary general for West Africa and it's a hell Mohammed even Tom does say the United Nations is trying to meet team peace and stability in the region while respecting national constitutional provisions and Zimbabwe's opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is the South Africa on a diplomatic offensive to pressure the president. To intervene in Zimbabwe's ongoing political crisis and I've wrote a further economic decline the Chinese are the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change has made several appeals to run a post out of facilitate dialogue between him and President my God That is it for this Thursday January 30th edition of daybreak Africa on behalf of the daybreak Africa through producer Nicole back from reporters to declaw to Rakeysh tragic as well as Post editor something or Molly but a Washington wishing you a very good day. For. Africa Great Lakes region has a turbulent history marked by conflict at the expense of its citizens human rights in the Great Lakes region on the next straight Africa. Right here v.o.a. Africa. Are are coming are all America's finest Expo. Is it the way I am in a way that it I mean there's a Trailways this musical tradition. Was on the border crossings on Feb 6th to be our greatest musician like Jerry Lee Lewis Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley only the Voice of America. Hello there today is Thursday January 30th this is via ways international edition I'm Lori London in Washington coming up the president's impeachment trial turns into a major debate over a form. Trump aides possibly testimony by Could very interesting end of this we could be getting a. World. In the international. Severity of the coronavirus Also ahead singer Billy Eilish fresh off big wins at the Grammy Awards now has a whole nother big event to look to it's all on today's international edition. Wednesday marked the next phase of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump which is the question answer period senators have a total of 16 hours over 2 days to probe impeachment managers in the house as well as the White House defense team senators I'm not allowed to talk during those questions so they're submitting them in writing to the chief justice of the Supreme Court Justice John Roberts who reads that out loud while stating who is asking as lawmakers continue to argue for and against having witnesses to testify v.o.a. Congressional Correspondent Catherine Jepson files this report from the Capitol. Outside the u.s. Capitol. Protesters calling for more information part of the majority of the American public who say they want to see new evidence and testimony in the Senate impeachment trial starting with former national security adviser John Bolton and a call supported by some Republican senators Senator Mitt Romney Republican John Bolton Francis may be able to tell us precisely when the decision was made not to provide the aid out of immediate bases to Ukraine and what the president's reasoning was at that point I mean these are questions that we've seen no evidence out at this stage and I'd like to get that answer but it's still unclear if there will be anough Republican support for calling witnesses when that vote likely occurs this Friday Republican Senator Susan Collins I have no idea what how the code circling. A decision Democrats say decides the ultimate fairness of the trial Democratic Senator Tim Kaine before there's a vote on conviction or acquittal there's going to be a vote on whether this is a trial or a sham the question phase of the impeachment trial turn into a debate over allowing witnesses Chief Justice John Roberts reading a senator's question is there any way for the Senate to render a fully informed verdict in this case without hearing the testimony of Bolton veiny and the other key eye witnesses or without seeing the relevant documentary evidence Democratic congressmen in the House impeachment manager Adam Schefter the short answer the question is no there's no way to have a fair trial without witnesses but each side also got an opportunity to refine their argument against the impeachment of Trump and in support of a. Alan Dershowitz Trump defense attorney president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in an impeachment housen Pietschmann manager Congressman Adam Schiff if you look at the pattern in this president's conduct and his words what you see is a president who identifies the state as being himself senators we'll have 8 more hours for questions Thursday followed by the all important decision on witnesses by the end of the week Catherine Jepson Fiona a news. Well joining us now to talk further about this is Dr Robert Knight's f.s.r. Of governmental affairs at George Mason University What's your take on what we've missed sir what we've witnessed I should say so far well everything changed as a result of the Times story involving some materials in the Fulton memoirs according to the story the bold memoirs say that the president directly told Mr Bolton that there was that of that the support for Ukraine was being held up until the Ukraine did something to investigate the Biden and that has really roiled things in the Senate because it puts the Republicans in a very difficult position you know they want to get this thing over quickly and if there were no Bolton then you know right now they be talking about having a vote and you know the matter would be probably dismissed but the fact is that it's very hard to pretend that the bold materials don't exist and it's very hard to argue that they're not credible because Bolton is known as being very conservative as a hawk and so no indication that he is on the other quote side close quote from President Trump and so the blind Republicans are in is they can they can blow it off and say oh we don't want to hear it and then when the memoirs are published having people say wait a minute you could have heard all this and it wouldn't have made any difference in your judgment or they can they can say Ok let's have Bolden testify and then thereby delay the proceedings and possibly leading to a change in mind by many Republicans that by golly a quid pro quo was discovered so the Republicans are in a real bind on this in my view when the White House now also gets blocking of the manuscript at the ball book from coming out can they do that they're simply looking for are there any classified materials I everybody who is working with classified materials has that obligation I have that obligation but can they keep it. From the Senate realistically No And the reason is as the Republicans are demanding to see it how can a Republican president say ixnay And does that really help the president he does say no so ultimately where do you think we're headed here with all of that allows is a risk the really thorny problem my instinct and this is nothing more than an inch thing is that ultimately the Bold will testify now they may end up with a pair of deal that is Bolton is testifies and then Hunter Biden testifies. But I don't think that's you know it be embarrassing for I think for the Bidens But ultimately I don't think it has much of effect on the outcome it's not as if anything Hunter or Joe Biden did excuses the president's conduct so I think we're in for a very interesting end of this week at the beginning of next week. All right well Robert diets he is a professor of governmental affairs at George Mason University we appreciate your perspective. The Senate is expected to vote on whether call witnesses to testify in the impeachment trial this Friday and if they vote yes it would mean that next week Trump will deliver his State of the Union speech while being tried for his removal from office 2 American presidents have done this in the past Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon Patsy would a coup Swara you know a White House correspondent looks at how past presidents navigated the situation and what Trump can learn from them the president of the United States. May become the 3rd president in American history to deliver his State of the Union speech under the threat of removal from office following Bill Clinton in 1909 let us lift our eyes as one nation and from the mountaintop of this American Century look ahead to the next one asking God's blessing on our endeavors and on our beloved country and Richard Nixon in 1974 facing impeachment from the Watergate scandal Nixon used part of his speech to defend himself I believe the time in which calm to bring that investigation and the other investigations of his matter to him in. One year of Watergate and the No I well content took a different approach but it was a very optimistic upbeat speech about how good conditions in the United States were how powerful the American economy was and how many jobs have been created and what economic recovery had been done but completely ignored the impeachment issue the February 5th speech is particularly important to trump ahead of the November election let me economy is roaring along unemployment has been extremely low in fact the unemployment rate for African-Americans and Hispanics has hit record lows those are the kind of achievements that I think a president would want to talk about no matter what else is quite odd to Congress including a paycheck now Clinton was a. Quoted Well Nixon resigned before he was impeached analysts expect approach to be a mix of his feet assessor's he will probably extol the achievements of his administration particularly on the economy but he will also probably mention impeachment and probably attack quite strongly the Democrats for their policy on that as his rallies are any indication whatever happens in his impeachment trial pump will likely continue to project optimism this still thinking we're going to win back sometimes we are going to join the Senate we are going to keep the White House had some really. Bold health officials will are expressing great concern then a dangerous new virus to starting to spread between people outside of China and troubling development of China and the world works to contain the corona virus outbreak for a 2nd day the number of infections grew dramatically to almost 6000 scientists say there are many questions to be answered about the new virus including just how easily it spreads and how severe it is Joining us to talk more about this is Mark Kaplan professor of bioethics at nor New York University Lang gone Medical Center and to founding director of the division of math and medical ethics thanks for being with us so can you 1st explain just exactly what this virus is corona virus is in the family of cold viruses so there are a force trends that are circulating around that would give us a cold we know that cold get into our alone and they do it in 2 or bronchitis when one of these viruses mutate changes the genetic information which they do periodically just randomly doors or in this case whatever we're going to call with the criminal virus or trying to that is much more nasty to read and it's nasty it was waiting to go alone in a crowded room. What we call. Comfortable but. There was contagion from scaring. People suspicious took place in one of these markets where they have. That sort of thing how is it that it's spreading. Just highly highly contagious. Virus. Droplets in the. Basically a virus that. Seems to be what the root is for this virus there does seem to be. Going to like a cold virus or. Would you say it's reached epidemic proportions. Absolutely. People infected hundreds of people. Obviously in many countries around the world but I think the signal. In a matter of. A clearer that epidemic. Because it's spreading pretty quickly with. The number of countries outside of China that are showing. A strain. A signal that you've probably got an epidemic can agree on a little scary but an epidemic basically a lot of transmission around the. Infected. We don't really know if it is. Just anyone but the signal is rapid transmission. Looks pretty infectious. You know. About the. People out of this. Place China is this all just precautionary or it sounds scary is it is scary as it sounds or is it just precautionary so that it doesn't become something very bad because scary as it sounds it's not like people are just feeling over the streets and they're going to get these people out of there you know because it's the equivalent of you know an impending bursting d.m. Or some kind of earth quake that's coming for repercussion ery trying to move people away from the source of infection which so far really is confined to central China that's why the Chinese are quarantine those cities and travel out all precautionary obviously the people inside those cities are at much higher risk that's dangerous but travel restrictions are evacuations these are precautionary So you're expecting the World Health Organization will declare it an epidemic is that a name is that the same as a global health emergency Yes And I think we'll get both descriptions it's just spread fast enough and it looks like it's human to human transmission like old to do and so I think it's big enough now that they're going to have to clear it of such can people get this just airborne or do they have to be in physical contact with a disease that we offered that about but you had to be in physical contact and so its transmission was tough but we didn't really I think we overreacted to that this one is looking like it's airborne droplets in the air somebody sneezes in a room you could pick it up it doesn't appear to be as contagious by the way as measles which is like a super contagious thing you can get that being in a room where someone with the measles was there like 2 days ago I don't think it's that communicable but it does look like it's one of the sneezing coughing into the atmosphere kind of things aren't that is Art Caplan professor of bioethics at New York University Langan Medical Center and he's also the founding director of the division of medical ethics thank you for being with us. Here are some of the stories we're following at mealing News dot com The u.s. Is warning information sharing is at risk as Britain approves a while way 5 g. Rollout. Democratic presidential contenders are making their final push in Iowa the 1st test of the presidential campaign u.s. Issues and fresh sanctions now over Ukraine's Crimea the Treasury poured into the Treasury website and several Minnesota men who joined al-Shabaab say they are now in room where school find expanded coverage of these stories and more at v.o.a. News dot com and on our v.o.a. Mobile app this is international edition. If the u.s. President Donald Trump has signed into law the u.s. Mexico Canada trade agreement or u.s. M.c.a. Replacing the North America Free Trade Agreement the always Steve Herman reports although support from opposition Democrats was vital for passage of the u.s. M.c.a. Trade pact they were not at the ceremony Trump administration officials say a few were invited but declined to attend amid the fierce partisan divide in Washington where Trump is on trial in the Senate after being impeached in the house something the president alluded to in his remarks at Wednesday's ceremony we do have some incredible people that work so hard and senators and maybe I'm being just may still because I want to vote does that make sense. I don't want to leave anybody out much of the u.s. M.c.a. Is an update to the quarter century old NAFTA with new laws related to intellectual property protection the Internet currencies investment and state owned enterprises Steve Herman v.o.a. News at the White House. According to the nonprofit group world's children an estimated 21000000 people are ignorant of human trafficking many of them are undocumented Hispanic women who are hard to track because they're often afraid to seek help authorities or from authorities the u.s. Christina Sado Smith reports on documented he's spending woman in the United States can often be victims of human trafficking experts say because they live in the shadows to avoid being deported they are easier prey for criminals personas Katon in some of the cases we see are women who work as maids the employer takes away their passport or hides it they don't let them communicate with their family and most of the victims we see are Hispanics to Katie Alvarez is the director of Social Services I say for a University of Maryland initiative which supports victims of labor exclude the Asian and human trafficking persona but I Ham players sometimes people if they are undocumented are afraid to reach out to police they are afraid to seek help. According to a report by The Who is a permanent home and security human trafficking generated $150000000000.00 annually for criminal organizations during 2013 the national helpline received more than $41000.00 telephone calls which comes to men and you'll see a lot of victims in the. Construction business or our culture industries while women we encounter emotionally and I would consider to mistake jobs it or listen. Massage parlors or businesses judge your own Mo deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Investigations underscores the point that immigrants without documents are more vulnerable that is an area that human trafficking organizations will exploit because their vulnerability of being exposed to foreign fortunate because of their immigration status again that is something they see as a weakness and able to prevail in. Me County Maryland which has a high Hispanic population local lawmakers say it is extremely important since the talk about the issue to you know meet people who have been and beaten and drugged and forced to have sex or forced to perform labor against their will for months at a time or years at a time and I'm part of that life they need a lot of support from us and the public needs to be calm aware of the signs of it so they can bring it to the attention of our law enforcement our county government authorities also warned about the need to be careful with social media they say many criminal gangs use online tools to promote or non-existing jobs as a way to lure potential victims Christine I say this me the only news Washington. And you are listening to international edition we will be back in a minute. Our voices were talking about the news that you were talking about sharing stories of development in Africa all around the world and in our lives topics that info. And change the world it's time for us is with me. International Edition continues at the Computer History Museum at the heart of Silicon Valley African entrepreneurs and investors and others gather recently to talk about the future of business on the continent Among the topics discussed the economic power of remittances and how to turn them into investment avenues for startups protecting intellectual property of African firms and how to bring more companies and investors to the continent Michelle Quinn talked to entrepreneurs and investors. At the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley people gathered recently at the African Diaspora investment supposed to talk about the future of Africa business in the past many Africans and specially people like me from the Diaspora were not invited to the table to do really discuss one on issues that matter of the continent so we said well what if we if we can just bring everyone together so we can have that list fashion at the same table remittances money set by people living in the u.s. To family and Africa has long been a key way to support the continent speaker said once it's been it gosh and others said there are other uses of d.x. Profundities how do we scale Tremont census so they can also be invested in other people than our family supporting startups While many investors and businesses want to come to Africa it can be a challenge to navigate which is why African nations have been working on the African continent of free trade area says Joseph mature a Google's 1st Sub-Saharan African leader and they are Minister in the Kenyan government how do they with the defender of the legions of inventors be able to get into the continent so we're providing their platform that they can now use they come and that's part of the continental fridge or in the area they're able to then go to many of the other different markets for the roughly 50 African entrepreneurs attending the event this was an opportunity to pitch their businesses Boubacar Camara an architect from Guinea is working on a housing start up and we're implicating people in the process watching building their homes you know we want to change the concept of what is architecture which is architecture has a lot to do with your identity named Nick who lease is the chief executive of a sports technology company in South Africa we have a is smart wearable that he. So onto the comments are on the joint encodes of the office comments. Runs you conduct women in technology which trains female students and young women for technology jobs like coding I met some really good question especially in terms of funding fundraising and I am proud to be a 2nd generation family business leader for many of the attendees the event was a welcome chance to talk about Africa's successes stomach ache your runs in Nigeria the base business accelerator and Investment Fund for Women my businesses I think one of the problems that Africa has had for years as we we tend not to talk about the debate the progress and the developments that are happening on the continent so it's been a pleasure to come here and share with people that live here in the valley about the work that we're doing. A lot of the connections made at the Savannah can be long lasting as people look for ways to be part of the burgeoning African business sector the shock when viewing news Mountain View California out. This is something. That's it has announced that the Spitzer Space Telescope mission will end on January 30th 2020 launched in 2003 Spicher has studied the solar system to the far edges of the known universe in paper read like my observing the cosmos at infrared wavelengths scientists could see things too cold to produce much visible light such as exoplanets brown dwarfs and matter interstellar space among its many accomplishments Spitzer studied and identified some of the oldest galaxies in the universe it also analyzed the chemical composition of interstellar dust providing scientists with new insight into the elements for one planets and stars in addition Spicher investigated and provided information on the chemical makeup of this to planet's atmosphere while it was designed for only a 2 to 5 year mission Spitzer provided valuable data for more than 16 years I'm be always right Bandolero. 18 year old breakthrough pop singer Billy Eilish you just swept all top 4 categories a last weekend's Grammy Awards including Best song and album of the Year Best New Artist Best Pop Vocal Album will now be performing at Hollywood's biggest awards ceremony as well Eilish his appearance is being billed as a special performance by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Oscar ceremony next Sunday evening Eilish will be performing the title song to the new upcoming James Bond film no time to die which song she wrote with her older brother. Eilish is the youngest artist in history to write and record in movie theme song. You blissing to international edition that does it for our show today but you can always find us at News dot com We thank you for listening and thanks to our director Tracy Carter and our engineer. London and Washington have a great day. They called me. And 5 minutes newscast come to the top of each hour. A africa your trust a source of information.

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