Diane Roberts thank you is a ministration source says Attorney General William Barr he's thinking about putting. Wire reports the a.p. Is learned from an administration official that Attorney General William Barr has told people close to him he is considering resigning after President Trump disregarded his warning that his interference is making his job impossible to do rather than heed the warning Trump double down tweeting he has a legal right to intervene in criminal cases and sidestep the Justice Department's historical independence he adds he is considering suing those involved in Special Counsel Robert Muller's Russia investigation and that is confident Roger Stone deserves a new trial a number of Trump allies including South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham have expressed confidence in the attorney general to McGuire Washington billionaire Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg pledges if elected president he would not follow in President Donald Trump's footsteps when it comes to his business. Well to billionaire Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is prepared to sell his company Bloomberg LP if he's elected to the White House top adviser Tim O'Brien tells the Associated Press the sale would be overseen by a trustee and proceeds would go to the charitable giving arm Bloomberg philanthropies O'Brien said the only restriction Bloomberg would put on the sale is that it not be sold to a foreign buyer or private equity company Bloomberg is worth as estimated at $60000000000.00 and he's entirely self funding his campaign Mike Ross c.e.o. Washington President Trump granted clemency Tuesday to several prominent men convicted of various crimes including a former Democratic state governor who once sought to sell former President Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat President Trump commuted the 14 year sentence of x. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich after he'd served 8 years. This is v.o.a. News China has updated its latest coronavirus figures now reporting more than 2000 people have died and the number of infected exceeds 75000 the always Julie Tabeau has more w.h.o. Director general said it's crucial for impacted countries to be transparent and share information with the World Health Organization so it can help this signals. Show the importance of all countries being ready for the arrival of the virus to treat patients with dignity and compassion to protect. And to prevent on Ward transmission and while vaccine development is important experts say it's not necessarily a top priority at the moment we all want to invest in the vaccine is a long term solution but there are people sick now in the health systems that are vulnerable so we need to balance our investments and invest in the weaker health systems are all systems and then we do the other things and we develop the vaccine . The only news Washington Libya's internationally recognized government pulled out of u.n. Sponsored peace talks Tuesday after forces from a rival government shelled the port in Tripoli the OAS Merissa Melton has more former General Khalifa Haftar as a Libyan national army fired missiles striking just a few meters from a liquefied gas tanker the l n a 1st said it was targeting a Turkish ship bringing arms to government fighters it later said it was firing at an arms depot Libya's government of national chord responded by saying it's suspending its participation in the peace talks until firm responses are taken against the attacks at the urging of Russia and Turkey who support opposite sides in Libya both sides agreed last month to a ceasefire and to open talks in Geneva but the truce has frequently been violated both sides have been fighting for control of Tripoli for nearly a year without either side making much progress some 150000 civilians have fled their homes to escape the violence Marisa melt and the away news. And is 10 bull court acquitted noted philanthropist. On charges of sedition ending a trial that drew international attention as a test of civil liberties in Turkey. And 8 other defendants were acquitted on all charges for a lack of concrete evidence the packed courtroom erupted into applause and cheers as the verdicts were announced the court acquitted 9 but the cases of 7 others who had left the country and were tried in absentia would now be tried separately but warrants for them have been lifted and repeating our top story a u.s. Administration source says Attorney General William Barr is thinking about quitting I'm Diane Roberts for more on these and other stories go to feel way some coming in the bay on the baby lives out d.j. Cat lead and little Nas axes Dolly but don't start now the only one. I've. The baby oh my oh my that song Camille it could be all rebels against the image of a nice girl that she has set up for herself and turns into an assassin My name is Nikki strong the lives. 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Today on the program you will hear from John Russell and Joel Robins later we will present our American history series The Making of a nation but 1st. This month France marks the 60th anniversary of nuclear weapons tests that made the country one of the world's 1st nuclear powers but critics claim more than 30 years of testing in Algeria and French Polynesia left many suffering from the effects of harmful radiation on Feb 13th 1960 France held its 1st nuclear test in Algeria southern Sahara desert your 8th for France then French President Charles de Gaulle wrote at the time but John Claude Have you had other memories. He joined the French testing efforts in Algeria as an electrician he remembers a nuclear test in 1962 that did not go according to plan radioactive dust and rock as scaped from underground air view and others observing the testing ran for shelter 2 French ministers were among them the group washed themselves in a military housing area to decontaminate France held more than 200 nuclear tests until a later President Jacques Chirac ended testing and 1996 most to us took place in French Polynesia but 17 took place in Algeria between 196-1966 dating for years after all Jerry has independence from France Brahimi Monsoor is a North Africa expert at the French Institute of International Relations in Paris he said it's part of the whole issue of decolonization and Algerians in general asking for recognition of colonisation crimes he added that official recognition and financial compensation for the Algerian tests could cost millions of dollars every year who spent 10 years working on nuclear test areas in Algeria and later French Polynesia now $88.00 and living and France's Leone area he says he is physically 5 but he used to receive some questionable radioactive testing results from the French government. Board is a former French physicist and spokesman for an independent French atomic safety research group called Cry rad he has visited the Algerian test area as they board said he discovered very high radiation levels in some places he believes the French government should release important information about the explosions but he also blames Algerian officials for failing to correctly secure the desert testing areas France's nuclear Compensation Commission seaven said more than 1600 claims have been filed under a 2010 French law that finally recognized health problems related to the testing only about one 3rd had met the requirements needed to receive financial benefits the requirements including about 20 for a possible radiation related cancers almost all the claims came from France and French Polynesia of the 51 claims from Algeria only one has been compensated seaven director. Said the commission can judge only the Algerian claims it receives he said the sickness is described in the few claims that did come in and did not match the requirements for compensation he added the commission could not actively go out and search for other victims. Vacationers nature lovers and other people are using their cameras to document the affects of extreme high tides by doing so these men and women are helping scientists predict what rising sea levels will mean for coastal communities around the world so volunteer photographers are taking pictures of an unusually high tide the king tide king tides take place about 2 times a year in coastal areas when the sun and Earth's Moon align the alignment increases the gravitational pull that produces the normal rising and falling of the sea the volunteers goal is to capture how high the water line gets and where all the water goes the volunteers then upload the images for use by scientists policymakers and even city planners the pictures show where flooding facts some roads and offer clues as to whether it is safe to build new housing. The 1st of these king tide projects involving the public began in 2009 in Australia the idea has since spread to coastal areas in the United States Canada New Zealand Morrish us and other nations flooding from king tides helps to show how rising sea levels will affect coastal communities said Peter Rouge arrow acting chief of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute he added that warmer ocean water and bigger storms could make those changes more intense skip Stiles is the executive director of a not for profit group called wetlands watch it helped organize 700 people to document a king tide in the u.s. City of Norfolk Virginia in 2017 for us the king tide offers a look at where the water will be in about 2050 about 30 to 46 centimeters above normal levels Stiles said his group's efforts have since grown into a computer software program that uses crowdsourcing to gather images in find flooding what we're finding is there's a real appetite for this data he said. Some of the king tide projects are operating under the direction of nonprofit groups while others work with state and local governments they all have the same goal to educate the public and provide a clear example of how climate change will affect every day life. Soros helped develop California as king tides project a lot of the conversation around climate change was what was happening far away and not about what people were going to be experiencing in their own lives she said the goal of the project was to get people thinking more about climate change locally instead of just polar bears when Auckland New Zealand organized its 1st king tide photo Advent people shared pictures of flooded areas and roads with local government officials some of the images were used to develop a plan to build up a popular beach that was slowly being washed away last year the group expanded the program to include a series of tide gauges citizen scientists inspected said Ben Sheeran founder of the New Zealand the king tide project there's no eureka moment where it all comes into play but it's an evolving database of information that's there when needed he said. John Russell. 2 years ago this month a 19 year old American fought and killed 17 people at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School and Parkland Florida 14 of the victims were students the other 3 were teachers the gunman was a former student at the high school on this anniversary as with other anniversaries of school shootings Americans continue debating how to make sure students are safe in schools on Feb 11th a group called every town for Gun Safety released a report on one method for reducing gun violence at schools in the United States every town is a not for profit organization it joined with 2 labor unions in writing the report on school safety drills for active shootings the till Are the American Federation of Teachers or a.f.p. And the National Education Association and. The Us Federal Bureau of Investigation defines an active shooter as an individual actively engaged and killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area. To increase preparedness for such an event many schools now hold active shooter drills for students and their teachers the new report notes the possible harmful effects of such exercises it urges school administrators to look for better ways to make schools safe and to prepare children for an active shooter u.s. Department of Education numbers show how rare gun violence at schools is only point 2 percent of about $36000.00 gun deaths a year happen on school grounds but almost all schools hold drills designed to prepare their employees and students for an active shooter in fact 40 states require such exercises the report says one problem with the way schools carry out active shooter drills is how much they frighten students when a school fails to inform parents and students about plans for a drill parents cannot prepare their children and the children may think that the attack is real in some communities the report says schools deploy individuals who are told to act like massed gunman students as young as 3 or 4 years old may be told to stay quiet in a small space for a long period of time experts on mental health say these experiences can have both short and long term effects on how well the children behave in school as well as on their physical and mental health for example after one drill in New Jersey and 8th grade student reportedly said. I was genuinely not sure if I would finish the day a life Melissa Reeves is a former president of the National Association of School psychologist she said the drills may trigger either past trauma or trigger such a reaction that it actually ends up scaring the individuals instead of better preparing them to respond in these kinds of situations there has been little research on how well the exercises prepare students for an active shooter in 20071 study found it better to prepare students for an intruder rather than a shooter another study noted the value of announcing drills in advance and following them with discussion students in that situation felt better prepared to handle possible violence surprise drills on the other hand can result in trauma to children one woman in Arizona described the effect drills at her son's school had on him he started biting his fingernails and refused to go anywhere alone even to his room or a bathroom at home he said I'm Jill Robins. Welcome to the making of a nation American history in Vo way special English Americans experimented with many new customs and social traditions during the night $120.00 s. Their word their dances new kinds of clothes sand some of the most imaginative our tanned writing ever produced in the United States but in most ways the 1920 s. Were a conservative time in American life voters elected 3 conservative Republican presidents Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover and they supported many conservative social and political policies Cagle land tanned Harry Monroe continue the story of American conservatism during the 1920 s. One such policy concerned immigration most Americans in the 1920 s. Had at least sometimes through blood or marriage to the 1st Americans who came from Britain and many people with these kinds of historic ties considered themselves to be real Americans true Americans Americans traditionally had welcomed newcomers from such Western European countries as Britain France or Germany. But most of the people arriving in New York City and other harbors in the 1920 s. Were from the central eastern and southern areas of Europe some Americans became afraid of these millions of people arriving at their shores they worried that the immigrant newcomers might steal their jobs or they feared the political beliefs of the immigrants pressure to control immigration increased following the World War Congress passed a bill that set a limit on how many people would be allowed to enter from each foreign country and the Congress and President Calvin Coolidge agreed to an even stronger immigration law in $1024.00 under the new law limits on the number of immigrants from each foreign country depended on the number of Americans who had families in that country for example the law allowed many immigrants to enter from Britain or France because many American citizens had family is in those countries but fewer people could come from Italy or Russia because fewer Americans had family members in those countries the laws were very difficult to enforce but they did succeed in limiting the number of immigrants from certain countries. A 2nd sign of the conservative feelings in the 1920 s. Was the nation's effort to ban the sale of alcoholic drinks or liquor this policy was known as pro have Bishan because it prohibited or banned alcoholic drinks many of the strongest supporters of prohibition were conservative Americans living in rural areas many of them then leave that liquor was evil the product of the devil a number of towns and states passed laws banning alcohol sales during the 1st years of the 20th century and in 1919 the nation passed the 18th Amendment to the federal constitution this amendment and the Volstead Act made it unlawful to make sell or transport liquor prohibition laws failed terribly from the start there was only a small force of police to enforce the new laws and millions of Americans still wanted to drink liquor it was not possible for the police to watch every American who wanted to buy a drink secretly or make liquor in his own home not surprisingly thousands of Americans soon saw a chance to make profits from the new laws they began to import liquor illegally to sell for high prices. Criminals began to bring liquor across the long on protected border with Canada or on fast boats from the Caribbean island. At the same time private manufacturers in both cities and rural areas began to produce liquor and the shop owners in cities across the country sold liquor with little interference from local police by the middle of the 1920 is it was clear to most Americans that prohibition laws were a failure but the laws were not changed on till they are lection of President Franklin Roosevelt in 1032 a 3rd sign of conservatism in the 1920 s. Was the effort by some Americans to ban school books on modern science most of the Americans who supported these efforts were conservative rural Americans who believed in the traditional ideas of the Protestant Christian church now many of them were fearful of the many changes that had taken place in American society science became an enemy to many of these traditional religious Americans science seemed to challenge the most basic ideas taught in the Bible the conflict burst into a major public debate in 1925 in a trial over Charles Darwin's idea of evolution. British scientist Charles Darwin published his books the origin of the species and the Descent of Man in the 19th century the books explained to Darwin's idea that humans developed over millions of years from apes and other animals most Europeans and educated people accepted Darwin's theory by the end of the 19th century but the book had little effect in rural parts of the United States until the 1920 s. William Jennings Bryan led to the attack on Darwin's ideas Brian was a rural Democrat who ran twice for president he lost both time. But Bryan remained popular among many traditional Americans Brian told his followers that the theory of evolution was evil because it challenge the traditional idea that God created the world in 6 days he accused scientists of violating God's words in the Bible Brian and his supporters called on local school officials to ban the teaching of evolution some state legislatures in the more conservative south eastern part of the country passed laws making it a crime to teach evolution theory. In 1925 a young science teacher in the southern state of Tennessee challenge to the state's new teaching law the teacher John Scopes taught Darwin's evolution ideas officials arrested scopes and put him on trial some of the nation's greatest lawyers rushed to Tennessee to defend the young teacher they believed the state had violated his right to free speech and they thought Tennessee's law against teaching evolution was foolish in a modern scientific society America's most famous lawyer Clarence Darrow became the leader of scopes defense team Brian and other religious conservatives also rushed to the trial they supported the right of the state of Tennessee to ban the teaching of evolution the trial was held in the small town of Dayton Tennessee hundreds of people came to watch religious conservatives free speech supporters news men and others the high point of the trial came when Brian himself sat before the court lawyer Clarence Darrow ask Brian question after question about the Bible and about science how did Brian know the Bible is true Did God really create the earth in a single day is a day in the Bible 24 hours or can it mean a 1000000 years. Brian answered the questions but he showed a great lack of knowledge about modern science the judge found the scopes guilty of breaking the law but in the battle of ideas science defeated conservatism and on higher court later ruled that Scopes was not guilty the scopes evolution trial captured the imagination of Americans the issue was not really whether one young teacher was innocent or guilty of breaking a law the real question was the struggle for America's spirit between the forces of modern ideas and those of traditional rural conservatism the trial represented this larger conflict American society was changing in many important ways during the early part of the 20th century it was not yet the world superpower that it would become after World War 2 but neither was it a traditional rural society of conservative farmers and clergy the 1920 s. Were a period of growth of change and of struggle between the old and new values. 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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