This is v.o.a. News I'm Jim Burchill a new hospital is open in China. Cope with the virus outbreak that has sickened more than 700000 people and killed at least 361 in China alone the World Health Organization says it expects the number of cases to grow as test results from thousands of pending cases come in Meanwhile the pandemic is having an economic impact on China's benchmark stock index Reuters Michelle Hennessy has more China's stock market suffered its worst drop any fine views on Monday is the virus hit mainland exchanges for the 1st time since the Lunar New Year holiday fears over the new coronavirus So investors selling the yuan and dumping commodities with around $400000000000.00 u.s. Dollars wiped from the Shanghai Composite Index the benchmark close nearly 8 percent lower the biggest one day drop since 2015 the ticker over around the Shanghai Stock Exchange which would have shown a plunge was shot off on Monday investors are bracing for volatility as the spread of the new coronavirus waves on the world's growth outlook that is Reuters Michelle Hennessy reporting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is calling for changes to the system for dealing with those convicted of terrorism offenses following a stabbing incident in London British police on Sunday shot dead a man they say stabbed 2 people on a busy street in south London British home secretary pretty Patel says the probe into Sunday's attacker will examine connections with terrorism and radicalization. For the government to what they're doing give us some examples we know there are people who have been. Released from prison Sunday stabbing comes a little more than 2 months after a similar attack killed 2 people and wounded 3 others on London Bridge This is video. When news of the impeachment trial of u.s. President Donald Trump continues today House lawmakers prosecuting the impeachment case and the president's defense team each have 2 hours to make their closing arguments the vote on whether to work with the president will come Wednesday the final outcome of the case seems secure with Republicans holding a 53 to 47 majority in the Senate and then indicating they plan to vote to remove Mr Trump from office. Meanwhile in the state of Iowa hundreds of thousands will cast the 1st votes today in the contest to challenge President Trump a piece Julie Walker reports all weekend Democratic presidential candidates like a little bit more. And the others locked in a 4 way battle with her Joe Biden Bernie Sanders and people who judge puzzled across the state trying to fire up votes Iowan Chris Brown is still undecided palms fire and by the. Gutter on the train I know about Martin Campbell and Anthony bizarrely say their minds are made up I'm going to repeat Bernie I think they're people be the candidate unlike other Democratic primaries the Iowa caucuses are essentially small local meetings where neighbors stand up to show their support for a candidate and get others to join me I'm Julie Walker Turkey says it hit targets in northern Syria Monday responding to shelling by Syrian government forces they killed at least 4 Turkish soldiers a Syrian monitor war Monitor Group says 6 Syrian troops were also killed a recording appears to show that Iran knew a Ukrainian jetliner was hit by a missile immediately after takeoff a piece Charles Dillard as my has the story for cooling of an exchange between a regular air traffic controller and a radian pilot proposed to show through forty's a mediately knew a missile had downed the jetliner after takeoff from Toronto on January 8 killing all 176 people aboard despite days of denials by Iran Ukraine's president has acknowledged. 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Welcome to learning English a daily 30 minute program from the Voice of America on Jonathan Evans and I'm Ashley Thompson this program is aimed at English learners so we speak a little slower and we use words and phrases especially written for people learning English. Today on the program you will hear from Susan shad and Brian Lan and Katie Weaver later we will present our American history series The Making of a nation but 1st. Shortly before Christmas last year Brazilian piano player Carlos marching invited his friends to a bar near his home in Sao Paulo he wanted to show them the best a gift he had received in many years a new pair of gloves they are not just any gloves However the specially made by devices are letting the 79 year old play with both hands for the 1st time in more than 20 years. The artist is considered one of the greatest players of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach Martine's retired last March by then he had undergone 24 medical procedures to try to reduce pain caused by a progressive disease and from a series of accidents. His limitations had forced him to work mostly as a musical conductor since the early to thousands but in the final days of 2019 friends returned to his home they listened to him once again and bring his favorite classical music back to La if on his piano. Before the gloves which were especially developed for him more Chines could only play songs slowly with his thumbs and sometimes his pointer fingers he told the Associated Press after I lost my tools my hands and couldn't play the piano it was as if there was a corpse inside my chest marching says health problems date back to 1965 he became known for coming back from every struggle he faced for example he suffered nerve damage in his arm from a soccer injury while he was on tour a robber hit him over the head with a metal pipe in Bulgaria but even his close friends believed that the latest surgery on his left hand would mark the end of his days as a pianist However one designer believed marching retirement had come to early that designer. Created special by onic gloves for marching bands as hands the clubs help move his fingers up after they press on the piano keys. Kosta said he created early models based on images of marching Zas hands but he said those models were far from ideal He then decided to tell March chains about his efforts. In March chains then spent several months testing different models the perfect match came in December and cost only $125.00 to build these days more chains never takes off his new gloves even when he goes to sleep he said I might not recover the speed of the past I don't know what result I will get I am starting over as though I were an 8 year old learning marching said he has received more than 100 devices in the last 50 years as possible solutions to his hand problems none worked well or long enough but these gloves do he said the new gloves have given him are chains a new goal he hopes to play the piano at New York's Carnegie Hall in October he is already set to conduct a concert celebrating the 60th anniversary of his 1st appearance there. The sound of sax fills a former train station in the Kenyan town queue a 2 hour drive from Nairobi. The train station built during British colonial rule was closed in 2012 now old railroad sleeper cars lie in the grass around the building the 6000 people who live in the area did not lose just their train station 8 years ago they stopped using rail service they depended on the old train to get to their jobs or the nearest hospital traveling by road in this part of eastern Kenya can be slow and costly just 500 meters from the old station the Chinese built a new rail line its high speed trains pass through q. Every day but they do not stop at this forgotten town opened in 2017 the new 3.3 $1000000000.00 rail road is part of China's one belt one road unissued tive the Chinese have provided support for a series of infrastructure projects changing trade and transportation between China and the rest of Asia Europe and Africa the new railroad reduced travel times by 50 percent for passengers and products going between Nairobi and the port of Mombasa the train takes just over 4 hours to make 6 stops but only runs once a day the old train ran 2 times a day and made $46.00 stops. This new railway is just for the rich we do not benefit said Thomas new t.v. To who lives in Kew new t.v. Who added that he used to go to work in Nairobi by train every day but now the train no longer stops and it is too far and costly by road he has stopped going to the capital others who took the train daily to Nairobi now live there full time during the work week and return to queue on the weekends he added state operated Kenya railways said the new line has increased local travel people who used to travel by road or airplane now take the new train last year nearly 5000000 tons of goods were shipped on the new line the railroad tracks for the line cut Emily cut to Munoz farm in half although she was given money for her land she now struggles to get to the market without the old train the government should put a station here so we can benefit since we are traders who need to travel and sell our produce She said vegetable seller Margaret knew Jerry finds it difficult to visit a doctor without the old train the nearest hospital is 24 kilometers away mostly on a dirt road local residents must now pay nearly $5.00 to get to the hospital by a motorbike or a minibus that is 5 times the cost of taking the old train line. We have to wait on the road many hours for transport because the new railway does not have a stop here said Jerry the British belt the old train line more than 100 years ago it was often called the Lunatic Express because it made so many stops However over the years many people came to depend on the train line for every day transportation time Susan Shand. European researchers say they have created a process that can produce oxygen from moon dust the process could provide a major source of oxygen for humans taking part in moon exploration activities in the future researchers from the European Space Agency or e.s.a. Carried out the experiments add a laboratory in the Netherlands they reported their results in a study published in planetary and space science the team says e.s.a. Experimental plant was able to successfully produce oxygen from simulated moon dust the dust is part of a material known as regolith a top layer of dirt and rock pieces that sit on the surface of the moon. Samples of regolith returned from the moon have confirmed that the material contains about 45 percent oxygen by weight however the oxygen is chemically locked in the form of minerals or glass so it is not easily available for use having real samples of regolith from the moon made it possible for the researchers to create the simulated moondust material used during testing the oxygen extraction process is carried out using a method called molten salt electrolysis this involves 1st placing the regolith in a metal container calcium chloride salt is added to the mixture which is then heated to $950.00 degrees Celsius at this temperature the regolith remains solid next and electrical current is passed through the material the researchers say it is this step that results in oxygen being extracted from the regolith the study reported that up to 96 percent of oxygen in the simulated moon dust was extracted during the experiments e.s.a. a Long term goal is to design an oxygen producing pilot plant to operate full time on the moon the 1st technology demonstration of the system is expected to take place in the middle 2020 s. That Lomax of the University of Glasgow was a lead researcher on the project being able to acquire oxygen from resources found on the moon would obviously be hugely useful for future lunar settlers both for breathing and in the local production of rocket fuel she said in a statement the researchers reported that as a bonus the process also results in the production of usable metallic materials e.s.a. Researcher Alexandra Murphy's said the finding that a number of metals are left behind was an important discovery this is another useful line of research to see what are the most useful alloys that could be produced from them and what kind of applications could they be put to he said in a statement e.s.a. And the u.s. Space agency NASA are both working on plans to return human beings to the moon NASA has set a goal for 2024 with the aim to keep humans on the moon for long periods e.s.a. Officials say the latest experiments were part of expanded engine nearing development aimed at finding new ways for lunar materials to be used to support future human activities last August Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida announced its own plans to develop a device that would melt lunar regolith to extract oxygen. The NASA plan would involve heating the regolith to more than $1600.00 degrees Celsius and then flowing electricity through the material agency explained the process would attempt to cause a chemical reaction to split the regolith into oxygen and metals. Have in Grossman is a materials science expert at Kennedy Space Center he said researchers will be carrying out experiments to test the technology with the goal of getting NASA in his words one step closer to an automated mass production of oxygen on the moon I'm Katie Weaver and I'm Brian lim. Welcome to the making of a nation American history in Vo way special English. In the 1914 Europe exploded into the 1st World War It was a war no nation really wanted but no nation seemed able to stop it the assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the city of Sarajevo was the spark that set off the explosion. Harry Munroe and Kay Galanter Tell me about the war and how it affected the United States under President Woodrow Wilson . The Austrian Archduke was murdered by Serbian nationalists they opposed Austrian control of their homeland after the assassination Austria declared war on Serbia one of Serbia's allies was Russia Russia agreed to help Serbia in any war against Austria Austria had allies to the most important was Germany Germany it wanted Russia to stay out of the war when Russia refused Germany declared war on Russia then Germany declared war on Russia's close ally France Britain entered the war a few days later when Germany violated the neutrality of Belgium one nation after another entered the conflict to protect its friends or to honor its treaties within a week most of Europe was it war on one side were the central powers Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side where the Triple Entente allies France Britain and Russia. Many other nations took sides bug area and Turkey joined the Central Powers Italy Romania Portugal and Greece joined the Allies the United States hoped to stay out of the war President Wilson immediately declared American neutrality he said it is a war with which we have nothing to do whose causes cannot touch us most Americans agreed with the President Wilson they did not want to get involved in the fighting however many found it difficult to remain neutral in their hearts some Americans had family roots in Germany they supported the Central Powers a greater number of Americans had family roots in Britain or France they supported the Allies yet the oficial American policy was neutrality the United States planned to continue to trade with both sides Germany and Austria expected a quick victory in the war they were caught between 2 powerful enemies Russia and France but German military leaders were not worried they had a battle plan they were sure would succeed. The German generals planned to strike quickly at friends with most of the German army they expected to defeat France in a short time and then turn to fight Russia in this way the German army would not have to fight both enemies at the same time at 1st the plan worked $2000000.00 German soldiers swept across Belgium and into France they rushed forward toward Paris hoping for a fast victory but the German commanders made a mistake they pushed their men too fast when British and French forces struck back outside Paris the tired and worn German soldiers could not hold their positions the battle was fierce and unbelievably bloody in the end the Germans were forced to withdraw the German withdrawal gave the Allies time to prepare strong defenses there was no chance no for a quick German victory instead it would be a long war with Germany and Austria facing enemies on 2 sides Britain and France where on the West Russia was on the east the allies took immediate steps to reduce Germany's trade with the rest of the world the British Navy began seizing war supplies found on neutral ships sailing toward German ports it then expanded its efforts to block food exports to Germany. The blockade by Britain and the other allies was very successful Germany faced possible starvation its Navy was not strong enough to break the blockade with surface ships its only hope was to break the blockade with another naval weapon submarines Germany and now nst that it would use its submarines to sink any ship that came near the coast of Britain the threat included ships from neutral nations that tried to continue trading with the allies the United States and other neutral nations immediately protested the German announcement they said it was a clear violation of international law when a German submarine sank a British ship in the Irish Sea One of the victims was an American citizen a few weeks later and American oil ship was damaged during a sea battle between British Navy ships and a German submarine and then came the most serious incident of all it involved a British passenger ship called the Lusitania the Lusitania was sailing from New York City to Britain when it was attacked by a German submarine Bellew's Ateneo sank in 18 minutes 1200 persons were killed 129 were Americans the sinking of the Lusitania shocked and horrified the American people they called it mass murder they turned against Germany. President Wilson warned that he might declare war on Germany if Germany continued to sink civilian ships Germany did not want war with the United States yet already faced a strong fight against the European allies it promised not to sink any more civilian ships without warning and it offered regrets for the Lusitania incident President Wilson accepted Germany's apology like most Americans he hoped to stay out of the bloody European struggle and he also knew that the record of the Allies was not completely clean for example he was troubled by reports of mass hunger in Germany he and other Americans felt the British food blockade was cruel they also were shocked by the way British forces brutally crushed a rebellion in Ireland at the time most of all the American people were sickened by reports of what was happening on the battlefields of Europe the armies were using poison gas and other terrible weapons soldiers on both sides were dying by the millions the war had become a bloodbath the United States had a presidential election in 1916 President Wilson won the nomination of the Democratic Party to seek reelection Democrats around the country shouted their support with these words he kept us out of war. Wilson himself did not like the words he felt it raised false hopes but people continued to say it because they did not want war the Republican Party nominated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes as its candidate for president Hughes was a moderate Republican he supported a number of social reforms like Wilson Hughes promised to keep the United States neutral however one of his supporters was former President Theodore Roosevelt and Roosevelt called for strong our Merican policies that could lead to war Roosevelt's words led many Americans to see Wilson as the candidate of peace and Hughes as the candidate of war voting in the presidential election was very close at 1st it seemed Hughes had one he went to bed on election night believing he would be America's next president but voting results later that night confirmed Wilson as the winner the election was so close the Republicans did not accept defeat for 2 weeks Woodrow Wilson had one another term during that term he would find it increasingly difficult to honor the words of the campaign he kept us out of war finally he would find it impossible the United States entered World War one while Woodrow Wilson was president. And that's our program for today listen again tomorrow to learn English 3 stories from around the world I'm Jonathan Evans and I'm Ashley Thompson.
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