And present donald trump joins millions of americans who cast an early vote and with just 10 days to go he and rival joe biden grandpop their campaign schedule. Hello welcome to the program and we begin with the current virus pandemic and in colombia where its expected the country could soon record its infection making it the 3rd latin american nation to hit that milestone that when large protests are over what some say is the governments inept handling of the outbreak the situation in colombia isnt isolated either because across latin america governments are increasingly at odds with the citizens of the efforts to contain the virus elsewhere in the disputed region of garner there are fears that war and instability will help the virus spread its thought that people fleeing the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan a taking the disease with them or have more on that in a moment 1st though to europe west pain is considering a new National State the mudge unsee in germany in the Czech R
And present all trump joins millions of americans with cost and votes with just 10. 00 days to go he and his rival joe biden ramp up the campaign schedule. But we begin with the coronavirus pandemic and in colombia where its expected the country could soon record its millionth infection making it the 3rd latin american nation to hit that milestone that in large protests over what some say is the governments inept handling of the outbreak and the situation colombia isnt isolated either because across latin america governments are increasingly alls with their citizens over efforts to contain the virus elsewhere in the disputed nagornokarabakh region there are fears that war and instability will help the virus spread that people fleeing the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan a taking the disease with them we have our report on that in a moment but 1st though were focusing on europe where spain is considering a new National State of emergency and germany in the Czech Republic of both
These declared winner in a controversial president ial election opposition groups dispute the results. Of President Donald Trump joins millions of americans who cost in a vote with just 10. 00 days to go the rival joe biden ramped up a campaign schedule. Welcome to news hour we begin with the corner virus pandemic and in colombia where its expected the country could soon record its millionth infection making it the thug latin american nation to hit that milestone theyve been large protests there of what some say is the governments inept handling of the outbreak and the situation in colombia is an isolated either across latin america governments are increasingly at odds with their citizens over efforts to contain the virus elsewhere in the disputed new going to kyra back region there are fears that war and instability will help the virus spread so people fleeing the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan a taking the disease with them well ill have more on that in a moment 1st though w
Morning and tell us why what prompted you to investigate and write the story. Guest thank you for having me. That thered it was is a suicide epidemic across all graphics. That was something all demographics. That was something my editor and i talked about and the more we dug into it, the worst of it was among middleaged men. As someone who is a member of the demographic, i became intrigued and fascinated about why this was and just kind of started to investigate it from there. Host lets give our viewers and listeners a snapshot from your extensive piece, men in the United States average 22 suicides for 100,000 people. 45 to 64, uped to 30. 1 in 2017. The states with the highest rates are montana with 28. 9 per 100,000. Alaska, 27 . 9 which is all doubled the national rate. New mexico, idaho, and utah round out the top six states. What do you think is causing the geographic centrality of the state and these high suicide rates. Guest all of the states and even alaska which he really did
Epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the west with middle age men dying in record numbers. Thank you for being here this morning. Tell us what prompted you to investigate and write the story. Guest thank you for having me. There is ad it was suicide epidemic across all demographics. That is something my editor and i talked about and the more we dug into it we realized the worst of it was among middleage men and as someone who is a member of the demographic, i became intrigued and fascinated about why this was an just started investigating it from there. Host lets give our viewers a snapshot from your extensive piece of Rolling Stone. Men in the u. S. Average 22 suicides per 100,000 people with those ages of 4564 representing the Fastest Growing group. Per are up from 20. 8 100,000 and 19 eddie nine to 30. 1 and 2017. The states with the highest rates are montana and alaska, all roughly double the national rate. And idaho are also in the top six. What is causi