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Bloomberg Radio New York
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"And if you had asked me before about environmental and Latin America, the only thing I would have known was ethanol in Brazil because they were pioneers in that. Are there other places in Latin America that are really trying to make strides in this area? Brazil is really interesting as well that you mentioned because we know that the Lula administration has come in. They do have greener policies than the former Bolsonaro administration and Bloomberg who has been immensely helpful in getting this research together is saying that Brazil potentially has a better capacity in terms of solar radiation wind power than Chile. But the drive right now is in Chile. The government in Chile is really aiming to be a top exporter of green hydrogen right now. We know that Colombia wants to do it. Gustavo Petro has taken office in the summer of last year. Last time I spoke to him for saying he was saying he wants to diversify his economy away from fossil fuels he wants to do more on tourism, agriculture also clean energy investments. Colombia, though, has more at stake, Chile is a net energy importer, the way that they see it, they have nothing to lose. In fact, they would be helping some of those communities that rely on oil and gas right now. Colombia, a third of its exports relies on oil and gas. So that's a much more difficult proposition when it comes to transitioning to a greener economy. Yeah, it's a competing with themselves. Sherry on great reporting really appreciate it. Great to have you on, by the way. The cherry on. She's anchor of Bloomberg, Asia open. Coming up, coming to terms with China on tech. Is that possible? Are we going to end up in something equivalent to a Cold War with China when it comes to tech for a good time to come? We're going to ask former HP CEO Carly fiorina. But before that, let's get world and national news from Leslie lotto in the Bloomberg 11 three O newsroom in New York. Thank you, David. A Georgia grand jury who've been investigating the 2020 election
The Ben Shapiro Show
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"Explaining his must give up to power. You must give us the power. Or you have this guy, the UN secretary general, sitting there all fat cat wearing a nice overcoat and a scarf at a ski chalet explaining why he needs more power. Guys, something has happened. God's casting process is at least at least a lot of cast against type once in a while. God, I mean, seriously. Now, Chancellor Olaf Scholes, the Chancellor of Germany. He says the fundamental task of our century is the transformation to a climate neutral economy. I feel like there are more fundamental tasks actually, and that what you're actually talking about is we need innovation. Well, congratulations. Welcome to the world, where innovation has always been necessary. Fundamental tasks are centuries transformation to a climate neutral economy. Again, it's very reminiscent of the foolishness where Joe Biden will say, well, we need as a cancer moonshot. I'll tell you about that, guys. Let me tell you some Milwaukee cancer. Cancer is a malarkey and to fight the cancer. We need to we need some shampoo and we also need we need a moonshot. It's like, oh, you're right. We haven't spent any money trying to cure cancer. And it must be because of our insufficient commitment. We haven't cured cancer. So if we just think real hard and clap for tinkerbell, cancer will be careful. It's the same thing with these schmucks. They're like, wow, what we really need is a climate neutral economy. And if we just think real hard about it. And if we say over and over and over, that's what we need. It will magically appear. Magically innovation will happen. Or maybe that's not how innovation works. Maybe you have posited no solutions that are actually sufficient to the problem you claim exists, but at least you get people to cheer for you at the World Economic Forum, I suppose. Oh, transformation toward the climate neutral economy, the fundamental task of our century is currently taking on an entirely new dynamic. Not in spite of, but because of the Russian war, and the resulting pressure on us Europeans to change. Whether you are a business leader or a climate activist, a security policy specialist or an investor, it is now crystal clear to each and every one of us that the future belongs solely to renewables. Wow, the future belongs solely to renewables. Oh, I don't even know what that means. The future belongs to who decides this, doesn't the market typically decide who wins in the market. And isn't all of Europe now essentially freezing because Russia turned off the oil and natural gas. And now they're dependent on America shipping in a lot of that stuff. It really is amazing stuff. But again, the predicate is for a global redistribution of scheme. Give us power for our global redistribution scheme. The person who makes this clearest is the Colombian president Gustavo Petro, who is in fact a socialist, all of Latin America is undergoing right now a pink wave or a large swath of Vladimir undergoing a pink wave in which quasi socialists or open socialists take over countries and or attempt to overthrow actual democracies, which is what's happening in Peru right now, but the media doesn't care about that. The media only cares when Bolsonaro attacked government buildings in Brazil. They don't care when dozens of people are being killed in the middle of an actual conflict in Peru because the people who are protesting and committing acts of violence against the government those are left wingers. In any case, here is Colombian president Gustavo Petro, saying that what needs to end. If you want to fight climate change, what really needs to end his capitalism. Capitalism is the real problem. This is the underlying message of the World Economic Forum. They like to claim that they're in favor of liberalized economies, but the minute that the liberalized economy runs up against their particular mode of morality, which is top down, control, corporatism, then they immediately throw that out the window. So here's Gustavo Petro. The capitalism that we know nowadays has a driving force and logic. And that is to increase our profit in such a way, and that we talk about history to regulate everything without political or social boundaries. And that's the one we have, this has resulted in some sort of global anarchy. Global anarchy is what capitalism creates. So what we actually mean is top down control, right? The opposite of anarchy is control. We need more control. Al Gore is making his big reappearance. This is a dude who's earned tens of millions of dollars with climate alarmism that is largely been proved false over the course of the last 20 years. So remember all the polar bears were going to be dead at this point. And the ice caps are going to be completely melted. Al Gore is still here. Talking about man, bear pig. So Al Gore over the World Economic Forum. Again, God's casting process is broken. He says, one of the big problems is the head of the World Bank, because the head of the World Bank is not actively giving loans to useless projects that are unlikely to be successful. And the reason for that is because it's a climate denier, because it's a bad guy. We need control of world banks as Al Gore. Young people around the world are looking at what we're doing. They look at the World Bank and they say, oh, you've got a climate denier in charge of the World Bank. So why are you surprised that the World Bank is completely failing? It's completely failing. Man bearer, half man, half bear, half pig, not only that's his Al Gore. If we don't stop this climate, if we don't stop this climate crisis, we are going to see billions of climate refugees, billions of them. I don't believe you, sir. Creating the droughts and melting the ice and raising the sea level and causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach 1 billion in this century. Look at the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from just a few million refugees. What about a billion? We would lose our capacity for self governance. It seems like you want us to lose the capacity for self governance. Now, I noticed. You would like to be the person who governed. This is the left version of democracy. Let's version of democracy as we control things. And if we lose, democracy has been overthrown. You see this everywhere.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Late and gun. In addition to its oil trading prowess, also has pushed a lot into LNG futures, natural gas generally, and some other energy related kind of assets. So we don't know if this is actually going to go through. We understand these are pretty early stage talks. We don't have any real good sense of valuation, but we do understand that adnoc would be considering maybe combining all our part of gun for with its own trading arm this as various players across this region really ramp up their trading capabilities. That's what we've seen. We'll see if this does go through. Simone, thank you very much for the roundup and Simone foxman at the cut of financial center in Doha. Now let's get to the persistent high inflation that is widening the gap between rich and poor, fueling anger around the world over long-standing inequalities, Colombia. For example, that's the one country where we've seen the government opt for radical change and electing a former guerrilla fighter as its first leftist president. But work spoke exclusively to Gustavo Petro about whether he fears that more social unrest over surging prices is going to come. Obviously, hunger leads to despair, violence, et cetera, politics, but the first thing that we have to solve state wise in Colombia is to settle in power, bring food and nutrients to the population is hungry today. You're planning to reduce fuel subsidies. That's unpopular. Is that going to be a problem? We fragmented it, not where it would impact the most on fright transport. And so there we are not going to make increases only in gasoline. It will help the drivers the people who write motorcycles who are workers in general to reduce the impact on most people. At the same time, I'm considering subsidizing fertilizers. If we achieve a sufficient subsidy, it is public money, we could reduce the price of the food that is being produced right now in the country. What do you make of the level of the Colombian peso when it helps your many exports, but it also worsens inflation. Inflation is a product of a deep flaw in the Colombian basil, following most currencies, including the Euro, what we have is a strengthening of the dollar because of the fact that it made its internal interest rate grow is still intends to do so more. And that caused a spike in the value of all the currencies. The Colombian peso much more everything that we import. Then it becomes more expensive for us. Unfortunately, the price doubled for us due to public policies two or three decades ago. Columbia decided to import more food and produce it. Is that going to change? It has to change. It is what I call sovereignty. Feed instead of having the global commercial food security that entered into a crisis. What we have to guarantee is to produce within Colombia the minimum of food for the entire population. We have the capacity, the land, the water, even the farm and culture of the country could help us. But we must take that leap to recover agricultural production in Colombia
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"Is supported by optimum business, a lot goes into small businesses and optimum business with 24/7 customer support provides reliable secure Internet with speeds up to one gig. Learn more at 866-218-0460. You're listening to the BBC NewsHour here on WNYC. Good afternoon. I'm Tiffany Hansen, coming up next hour. It is all things considered. We'll have the latest on President Biden's COVID status and his planned trip to visit flood ravaged areas of Kentucky. We'll also have more on Monday's deadline to file online or by mail for an absentee ballot for the upcoming New York August 23rd primary and Wednesday's live debate as well, coma derated by WNYC's Bridget Bergen with candidates in the tenth district. That's all coming up next hour during all things considered a heat advisory remains in effect until 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. Up to 80° now that the sun has peaked back out after The Rain. You are listening to the BBC World Service, this is NewsHour coming to live from London with James Kamara Sami. In the past hour, political change has officially come to Colombia as a Latin American country's first ever left wing president Gustavo Petro has been sworn into office. The former mayor of Bogotá, a guerrilla fighter in his early years, has promised to bring tranquility and peace to a country that still dealing with the aftermath of 5 decades of civil conflict. Together with francia Marquez's vice president the first woman of African descent in that position, mister Pedro has promised radical change, since his election in June he's been trying to build a broad congressional coalition to help him pass wide ranging economic and land reforms. I'll Sergio Guzman is director of Columbia risk analysis. It's a political risk consulting firm based in the Colombian capital Bogotá and I asked him what kind of expectations the new president was facing. Since the campaign, a very broad and ambitious set of reforms, he wants to end oil exploration, accelerate the energy transition significantly extends subsidies for low income people. He even said he wanted to make the government the employer of land reform. He wants to enact land reform. He wants to enact tax reform. And it's very unlikely that all of those things will pass through. But he's been trying to get this coalition, hasn't he in Congress to help him pass as much of that as he possibly can. Yes, but there's a big Austria skin there, because in Colombia, if political parties are either considered to be opposition or independent, nobody who's affiliated with that political party can have a post in government. And so I believe there's a reason for that that has a lot to do with a self interest of these parties to maintain bureaucratic positions in government. But when it comes to voting in Congress, they will probably look at many of petrus ambitious reforms with dismay. And it's very likely that they will be significantly curved. Is it just political or are they vested interest there that he has to take on and might find that quite a mountain to climb? Yes, and we've already begin seeing it this week earlier, the controller general was elected. And of course the controller general is the person who has to oversee how the government spends its money. And the administration of Gustav Petro had a selected candidate for this position, but it was these independent parties, some of whom had called to be part of the government coalition who selected another personal together. So we're already beginning to see friction within that government coalition. And what are the symbolism of him and of course his deputy taking over the first woman of African descent who will be in that position? I mean, how much difference is that going to make for the country beyond the policies? Oh, the symbolism is extraordinary James. I think one of the things that this government has been able to transmit is that finally there's a government in Colombia that looks like the people it governs. And that's not a small feat. Even though all our presidents have been male, only this is the second vice president who's a female in the first ever publicly elected official at that level who's of African descent. And so I do think that this administration will be high antibiotic gestures, petros already appointed an African Colombian ambassador to the U.S.. He's also appointed an indigenous person as ambassador to the UN. He's also appointed an indigenous person as director of the land restitution agency. So there will be a very high symbolic measure of Gustavo Petro's first 100 days. Thereafter, we'll see. Sergio Guzman of Colombia risk analysis speaking to me from Bogotá. Monsoon rains have created havoc across Pakistan, killing more than 550 people over the past 6 months, thousands of homes have been either partly or completely destroyed, so have roads and bridges. Now, correspondent pumps of a thumbs up fell on his visited some of the remote communities in Baluchistan, where the destruction has been worst. Aslam comes through the ruins of his home that daunting work of rebuilding begins. His village satoru in Baluchistan was laid to waste by the floods and not much could be saved.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Now a global news update. Multiple people are dead many others injured after part of a stadium in Colombia collapsed, a wooden stand crowded with spectators watching a bull fight in LS final gave way earlier today, at least four people are dead dozens others hurt. Video posted to Twitter by Columbia's president elect Gustavo Petro shows the crowd of people come crashing down. As others run from the area. Authorities are now investigating the cause. Representative Jamie Raskin says bringing criminal charges against former president Trump and others involved in trying to overturn the 2020 election were not his principal interest. I'm principally interested in telling the American people the truth, so we can fortify our institutions against coups and insurrections going forward. Appearing on ABC's this week, the Maryland Democrat explained that he was more focused on understanding how the violence happened and how to avoid it being repeated in the future. He went on to say that he had confidence that Department of Justice would do the right thing when it comes to the decision to prosecute. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani says he was hit by a supermarket worker while campaigning for his son Andrew. It happened at a ShopRite on Staten Island earlier today. Giuliani told the New York Post he almost fell down after an employee slapped him on the back and cursed at him. The man was arrested. He'll face assault charges. President Biden is pledging $200 billion in U.S. funding for projects to help improve, developing countries. Developing countries often lack the essential infrastructure to help navigate global shocks like a pandemic. Biden said it's part of a G 7 initiative to invest in sustainable projects. The president announced the move in a speech from the G 7 summit in Germany, saying the goal is to improve lives around the world. A huge shipment of baby formula is now on the ground in Texas, a cargo plane, carrying 150,000 pounds of baby formula from Germany, arrived in Houston this morning to nearly 100 pallets of Nestlé formula were unloaded and set to be distributed nationwide. I'm Brad Siegel. NYPD is investigating after a 16 year old boy was fatally shot in Brooklyn Saturday morning, Paul di Castro has more. The NYPD says officers found a teen with a gunshot wound to his torso at around three 15 a.m. on shutter avenue near Osborne street in Brownsville. EMS rushed the boy to Brookdale hospital, but doctors could not save him. Cops say no arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing. Former Minneapolis police officer Muhammad noor will be released from custody this week. He was serving time behind bars after he was convicted for the 2017 shooting of a woman to death who had called 9-1-1, a judge sentenced him a little over four years after the state's highest court overturned a third degree murder conviction, nor will serve a year and a half of his remaining sentence on supervised release when he gets out of prison on Monday.
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"So there was FDA approval on Friday, CDC director Rochelle Walensky, signed off over the weekend. We remember you had a child during the pandemic. You have two kids under 5. How are you feeling? What are you going to do? I'm so relieved, and I think I speak for a lot of parents of young kids who have essentially put our own lives on hold over the last couple of years. My husband and I delayed travel, seeing relatives, having various get togethers, not so much because of us because we're vaccinated and boosted, but because of our children who are among this, we're in this last group of people who are eligible to be vaccinated. So we are so eager and can not wait until our pediatrician's office begins to offer these vaccines. Right. Well, tell us about the two options. Similarities and differences. Moderna's offering requires two shots, Pfizer's includes three shots over a longer time frame. How should parents choose or will they get to choose? Well, the great news is that both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are safe and they are very effective in that they both induce a very strong antibody response that correlates to protection against severe illness. I think the main decision for parents, first of all, not all parents may want to even have a choice the whole goal with whatever is the first thing that's available to them through their doctor's office. But I think it comes down to what it is that parents value the most. And then there are some parents who will say, I want my kids to be vaccinated as fast as possible. And the Moderna vaccine is a two dose vaccine given four weeks apart. If you start vaccinating your kids nail, they'll be fully vaccinated in time for the next school year. And I think a lot of parents will choose speed. Other parents might say the Pfizer vaccine has a stronger track record because it's been given also to 5 to a 11 year old. The Moderna just got authorized in an older age in this group of older kids. And so some parents might say, well, I feel more comfortable with Pfizer because it's been given to millions of younger kids. Some might go with that three dose vaccine. No matter what, both are excellent choices. Well, and what do we know about the trials? Because we know some adults got slightly sick from these shots that prevented them from getting sicker with COVID. Great tradeoff, but some parents might worry about how a 6 month old will react. What do we know? What we know that children do have some side effects and that should be expected and pediatricians when they give the vaccines will be advising parents of these side effects. And they include local reactions, for example, redness, soreness at the site of the injection. Also what are called systemic reactions. If I have children might get cranky, they might have a fever. They might not feel so great for a day or so, which are actually typical side effects seen in other childhood vaccines as well. And ultimately, we have to think about what it is that the vaccines are meant to do. They're meant to prevent severe illness and it's extremely distressing when kids become hospitalized or otherwise are severely ill. Sure, or die. Some COVID, which they have. Look, you were listing the reasons so many people want the shots. People haven't seen grandparents in two years for fear of little ones infecting them. A Kaiser family foundation study from April found though that about one in 5 parents do want the vaccine right away in about a quarter. Don't want to give their kids vaccines, these little kids, vaccines at all. And 40% are wait and see. What do you say to parents who are hesitant? I would say it's okay. Look that I understand. I mean, we as parents, we all want the best thing for our children. We're even more careful with our kids than with ourselves because we just, we're so protective over them. I think it's fine for those parents who want to go first and are super eager to go ahead and go first because they will their experiences will end up convincing many more parents were on the fence down and who may not be ready yet. And so for those parents though who are not yet ready, I would say have a conversation with your pediatrician and also think about the fact that more than 440 children under the age of 5 have died from COVID during this pandemic. And so it's just not true. There's some people who say, well, COVID isn't a serious issue for younger children. That's just not true. When we look at other diseases that we routinely vaccinate against, they are far fewer children who die every year from bees or hepatitis or polio, but we vaccinate in order to prevent deaths and severe illness. And we should mention that Florida governor Ron DeSantis has refused to order any supply of the vaccine from the federal government. The only state to do that. So doctors are now starting to order it may be harder to get it there. Doctor Lena Wen physician and professor George Washington University school of public health, thank you. Thank you. Last night, Columbia elected its first ever leftist president. Gustavo Petro, Petro is a longtime lawmaker and former clandestine guerrilla who campaigned on wealth redistribution and fighting poverty. Samantha Schmidt is the Bogotá bureau chief for The Washington Post, and she's here to tell us
WNYC 93.9 FM
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"A new president. Gustavo Petro won last night. He is a former mayor of the gigantic city of Bogotá. He has a colorful past in his youth, he joined a guerrilla movement and was imprisoned for a time. Now he's considered Colombia's first leftist to be elected president. He declared a new history for Columbia last night. But is Petro up to the challenge. Reporter Manuel roda joins us now from Bogotá. Good morning. Good morning. So a narrow victory after a closely fought race, you were at Petro headquarters last night, right? What was it like? Well, it was a pretty electric atmosphere. You know, you had this sense that it was something quite historic. It was a basketball arena that's also used for concerts and there were like 8000 people that are making a lot of noise. And what can we expect from a Petro presidency? There are enormous expectations for this new leader of a country that's facing a lot of challenges, right? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Petro's campaign was focused on mentioning social and economic inequalities and talking about how to decrease those and basically the heart of his campaign is to get the government despite more involved in issues like solving unemployment, education, health problems. He's kind of like a Roosevelt from the 1930s once like a new deal for a Columbia. Now the night also brought another moment of history. Colombia has its first black vice president francia Marquez. Tell us more about who she is. Well, she's a very interested character because what she says is that she joined politics to save her life to save her community. She comes to our very small place in the western mountains of Colombia and basically started out as an activist against gold mining against illegal gold mining. So she represents not just Afro Colombian population, but the social community leaders in rural areas of Colombia, who work in very dangerous conditions and often face death threats. Now this election is another blow to establishment politics, not just in Colombia, but in the region, right? Yeah, absolutely. What you're seeing since the pandemic began across different countries of Latin America is that the opposition candidates are winning the outsiders or winning in some cases. It's less this part is like what happened in Peru and Chile last year. But for example, in Ecuador, it was a conservative politician who was from the opposition who won the election. So it's very hard in the current circumstances for incumbents to stay in power. And how is the victory being seen in the region? Well, for some countries it means something unique, for example, Colombia will probably reestablish relations with Venezuela. For the United States, it's going to be a challenge because petrol as a senator has been very critical of U.S. drug policy and the so called war on drugs. So that relation is going to have more friction now, especially when it comes to anti narcotics policies. Thank you very much. That's a reporter Manuel roger in Bogotá. How does Juneteenth change as it becomes an institution? An informal celebration is now a federal holiday. It marks the Emancipation of enslaved people in Texas after the Civil War. Anna gifty a Pokémon thinks a lot about how to celebrate. She's editor of a book called the black agenda, and she plans to mark the holiday even though she is a daughter of immigrants, whose ancestors were not in the United States in 1865. Juneteenth is something that is not necessarily part of the story of all black folks in America, but it's part of black America's story. And I think that is worth celebrating every time. Can I ask a question because I imagine it's on the mind of somebody listening. Should white people celebrate this holiday? I think white people should celebrate this holiday in the way that centers black Americans. What I mean by that is if your celebration looks like taking away or speaking over black Americans and how they're choosing to celebrate and how they're choosing to stand in their truth, then I don't think that's actually celebrating alongside black Americans just don't interrupt. You know, black folks who are just trying to have a great time. What have you thought about as over time this event has gone from an informal holiday celebrated by some people in some places to an official holiday that is becoming a big deal? You know, I think it's great that there's aspects of the black American story that are being commemorated in this way. I think that doctor trevon Logan said it best Juneteenth should remind Americans that Emancipation was necessary, but insufficient, right? There needs to be an actual grappling with how racial injustice is still shaping the lives of black Americans and black folks in America by extension today. Is the holiday becoming commercialized? 100%. Literally, there was like a watermelon salad, you know, at a children's museum, in commemoration of Juneteenth, I think the commodification of Juneteenth oftentimes happens in the absence of black folks actually having a say in how, you know, Juneteenth is commemorated by a company or an organization. I don't think any black person would say, please come out with a Juneteenth flavored ice cream. Okay, I'm looking at Walmart, right? Yeah, Walmart came out with a Juneteenth flavored ice cream. Exactly. So what's wrong with that? Let's put it into words. I mean, why are you taking the celebration of the Emancipation of slavery in certain parts of the U.S. and trying to sell it as a quick, you know, here's something that you can easily digest, literally, right? And I think that that is that is a problem because you wouldn't do that with other important American milestones, right? And I think even then there's a level of care that needs to go into that because the reality is, you know, while Juneteenth is being commodified, black Americans and black folks in America are still struggling. So you're making money off of supposed black liberation and freedom when that freedom and liberation hasn't been fully realized. Is there something inevitable about this? Christmas is massively commercialized. Easter is magically commercialized. There are all these holidays that are deeply meaningful to millions of individuals that are also an opportunity to make a Bach and sometimes it's the very same people doing both things. What I would say about that is, you know, yes, it's America. So a lot of vacation and commercialization isn't inevitable, right? You know, just go to Times Square, for example. I think my whole point around that is organizations that really want to deeply engage with Juneteenth also need to deeply grapple with how racial injustice is sort of taking place in their own organizations. Anna gifty a poko ajima
WTOP
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"But we state university alum miles frost became the youngest ever to win best actor in a musical thanks to his role as Michael Jackson in MJ. It feels amazing. This is my first Broadway show and so to be given such a big honor. I'm really trying to digest it. The 22 year old gave his acceptance speech off the cuff. I didn't have a speech repair. All of that was from heart. And one of those things was me having to pee. I really gotta pee right now, so I keep it quick. He's since heard congrats from his Maryland colleagues. I've had so many people from The Rock Hill area gate this bird area if it does the area, D.C. area depth express how proud they are of me. Here are full chat on my podcast beyond the fame. Jason WT happy news. The country of Colombia will be governed by a leftist president for the first time after former rebel Gustavo Petro narrowly defeated a real estate millionaire at a runoff election that underscored people's disgust with that country's traditional politicians. The election came as Colombian struggle with rising inequality and inflation and violence. Factors that led voters of the elections first round last month to punish long governing centrist and right leaning politicians and to pick two outsiders for the runoff contest. Germany is going to restart coal fired power plants and offer incentives for companies to curb natural gas consumption amid concerns about shortages of gasoline supplies. Russia, cut gas supplies to Europe last week as a countermeasure against European sanctions and military support for Ukraine, Germany has been trying to fill its gas storage facilities to capacity ahead of winter months when gas is more urgently needed as a heating fuel
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"A new president. Gustavo Petro won last night. He is a former mayor of the gigantic city of Bogotá. He has a colorful past in his youth, he joined a guerrilla movement and was imprisoned for a time. Now he's considered Colombia's first leftist to be elected president. He declared a new history for Columbia last night. But is Petro up to the challenge. Reporter Manuel roda joins us now from Bogotá. Good morning. Good morning. So a narrow victory after a closely fought race, you were at Petro headquarters last night, right? What was it like? Well, it was a pretty electric atmosphere. You know, you had the sense that it was something quite historic. It was a basketball arena that's also used for concerts and there were like 8000 people that are making a lot of noise. And what can we expect from a Petro presidency? There are enormous expectations for this new leader of a country that's facing a lot of challenges, right? Yes, absolutely. I mean, Petro's campaign was focused on mentioning social and economic inequalities and talking about how to decrease those and basically the heart of his campaign is to get the government despite more involved in issues like solving unemployment, education, health problems. He's kind of like a Roosevelt from the 1930s once like a new deal for a Columbia. Now the night also brought another moment of history. Colombia has its first black vice president francia Marquez. Tell us more about who she is. Well, she's a very interested in character because what she says is that she joined politics to save her life to save her community. She comes from a very small place in the western mountains of Colombia and basically started out as an activist against gold mining against illegal gold mining. So she represents not just Afro Colombian population, but the social community leaders in rural areas of Colombia, who work in very dangerous conditions and often face death threats. Now this election is another blow to establishment politics, not just in Colombia, but in the region, right? Yeah, absolutely. What you're seeing since the pandemic began across different countries of Latin America is that the opposition candidates are winning the outsiders or winning in some cases. It's leftist parties like what happened in Peru and Chile last year. But for example, in Ecuador, it was a conservative politician who was from the opposition who won the election. So it's very hard in the current circumstances for incumbents to stay in power. And how is the victory being seen in the region? Well, for some countries it means something need, for example, Colombia will probably reestablish relations with Venezuela. For the United States, it's going to be a challenge because Petro as a senator has been very critical of U.S. drug policy and the so called war on drugs. So that relation is going to have more friction now, especially when it comes to anti narcotics policies. Thank you very much. That's a reporter Manuel roger in Bogotá. The world governing body for swimming effectively barred transgender women from elite competitions. The group is known as fina, and its new policy, in effect today, keeps transgender women out of the world championships and out of the Olympics. The sole exception would be women who completed their transitions before the age of 12. Kiran fei is a sports writer for The Associated Press and he's in Budapest, covering swimming's world championships. Welcome to the program. Thank you. Why did fina decide this now? Fina, okay, this goes back to recommendations made from the International Olympic Committee in November that sought to clarify the rules for transgender athletes. It's an issue that has been rumbling on for quite some time. And fina, I guess, was the first sports body I think to try and seek some clarification just to make the rules clearer for everybody involved. Well, it certainly is a matter of debate in the United States. There's been much discussion of a college swimmer here Leah Thomas, who swam as a man, then swam as a woman, and sets some women's records, but this does seem quite rare. It's quite rare it would seem that you would have a trans swimmer trans woman swimmer and quite rare that you would have one who's setting records and upsetting people is this any more common at the global level. It's not common, but I guess it is. It is an issue
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"Among a handful of other companies. David gura, and PR news, New York. Officials at Yellowstone National Park say it may take another couple of weeks before most of the park reopens, that's follows flooding and mudslides that knocked out major roads and damaged bridges. This is NPR news from Washington. Oscar winning film director and screenwriter Paul haggis is under arrest and Italy on charges of sexual assault and personal injury, and PR's Mandalay del barco reports. Italian police arrested haggis for allegedly raping a woman in southern Italy over two days, haggis had been preparing to teach at an upcoming film festival in ostuni in a statement the directors of the alora fest said the news was shocking and they had removed haggis from the event. Haggis attorney says he's innocent and is cooperating with authorities. The 69 year old won Oscar awards for the film's $1 million baby and crash. In 2018 he was sued by a publicist who alleged he had raped her after a film premiere. During the ongoing civil trial, three other women have come forward accusing haggis of sexual misconduct. He has denied the claims. NPR news Voters in Columbia have elected the country's first leftist president, elections officials say Gustavo Petro, a former rebel, received more than 50% of the vote in yesterday's presidential runoff against real estate magnate, rodolfo Hernandez. In his victory speech, Petro said members of the political opposition will be welcomed at the presidential palace in Bogotá to discuss Columbia's problems. Petra was once jailed for being a member of the now defunct M 19 movement, he was later granted Amnesty. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries after an earthquake struck Taiwan this morning, the U.S. geological survey said the quake had a magnitude of 5.9
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"Tell us it's one of the latest on his feed it's a musician singing about the candidate and ending corruption across a table from mister Hernandez's 97 year old mom who's nodding and singing along His left wing opponent Gustavo Petro is also on the platform He actually has more followers and likes But I'll let you get on your dancing in this one the music's over more traditional politician style footage shows mister Petro standing on a car in the middle of a crowd of his supporters The slogan a united people will never be defeated change is coming So how much impact have these TikTok videos had on the campaign Samantha Schmidt is Bogotá bureau chief for The Washington Post I asked her to tell me first about the strategy of rodolfo Hernandez Hughes really forcing everyone here to rethink what it means to run a political campaign His campaign is almost sort of mocking him or putting him in these sort of quirky bizarre situations There's one really popular video where he shows up saying locos papi which means crazy daddy roughly and he is doing sit ups and reggaeton music in the background There's just kind of all these trendy TikTok whimsical videos that show him in these different scenarios that really just kind of try to make him seem like this funny character Sometimes they play off of his kind of foul mouthed brash straight talking personality You know which kind of he comes off as this kind of funny grandpa who can get away with saying whatever he wants And I think it's forcing people to pay attention So why is that attractive to the Colombians who might want to vote for him Why might they want to a crazy daddy as their president Colombians are really fed up with politics and politicians The current administration of Ivan Duque has been deeply unpopular but 80% of the country says the country is going in the wrong direction The two candidates that are competing in this last round of the elections are both anti establishment people that don't come from the traditional parties here And honestly I think Colombians just want something different and a lot of people say they don't really want to read political news They don't want to see a lot of the back and forth It usually comes out of campaigns but they want to be entertained And I think that's been really the goal of this campaign has been to kind of reach out to people who aren't connected who aren't paying attention and just entertain them Now Gustavo Petro his opponent the left wing candidate a former rebel he's also got a TikTok presence It's actually got more followers hasn't it And it's had more likes although I know that these videos are not just viewed on TikTok there viewed on messaging apps where they end up being shared How is Gustavo Petro been embracing TikTok Is he using it in the same way He has been trying to use more TikTok than before When I talk to some experts who've been kind of following the campaigns on social media they feel that he hasn't been as successful on TikTok because he tends to have a structure in place on social media where you know that what's coming from him is coming from his campaign He has this very very massive and loyal following among his supporters but he comes off as a typical politician And so it's different And I think that people already have a perception in their head of who Gustavo Petro is And so when he shows up in some TikTok videos or in Twitter videos for example I think I saw some last week of him playing soccer and kind of doing lots of just normal things that could potentially make him seem more relatable But people still see him as Gustavo Pedro the senator and former mayor that they know of well And we've not got round in this conversation to actually talking about what either of them stand for and maybe that says something maybe that doesn't matter so much in this election That is a great observation even in the last few weeks we haven't had any public debates between the two candidates In fact a court ordered the two candidates to meet for a public debate this last week and only agreed to it under certain conditions and they didn't end up having it So we really haven't had a chance to hear them talk face to face about their policies And as a result of that this is really just been kind of this emotionally charged election that has played out on social media and it makes it very difficult to focus on the policies that are actually standing for Samantha Schmidt from The Washington Post Now Colombia is not an exception when it comes to using social media It's becoming an essential tool of election campaigns across the region Pablo bochkov ski is a professor in the department of communication studies at northwestern university in Illinois and he's been studying the trend We've seen in a number of countries in the region that there have been candidates not particularly well known and without significant budgets for traditional particular broadcast media campaigning who have done very well in their elections we've seen the case in Brazil We've seen the case in Argentina Brazil Bolsonaro Argentina with mockery in the case of bukele in Central America where that is successful or not they depends on the voter but in terms of winning the election these are some of the candidates that come to mind that were social media where platforms that really favor them in their quest for the highest office And his social media persuading people to put their votes in one box or another or is it actually bringing people to vote who wouldn't have voted in the first place otherwise Neither of the above really I mean social media don't do this It's the candidates who do this We should never forget that That in the end is the candidate It's just that they are using tools that there are different from the tools that were used previously or in this case that are used concurrently because there is still a lot of campaigning on TV traditional press Et cetera It is just that sometimes there are some candidates like the case of Barack Obama in the 2008 election The Obama campaign used social media and digital media in general very very skillfully But again in the history of political campaign we've seen this all along Kennedy versus snakes and first televised debate And Kennedy really did it over there But it's not because of television that he was selected It's because he could deliver a particular message and deliver it well on TV whereas Nixon could not What about the language that people use that politicians use when they're communicating on social media I noticed that adolfo Hernandez in Colombia has been using some of his regional slang to talk to voters Does it change the way that people talk in Spanish and when they're politically campaigning There are important differences among platforms And one of them is a different platforms have different cultures So Instagram is very visual right And so we TikTok but TikTok is much more relaxed if you wish playful that Instagram that is very stage Twitter is mostly textual information based Et cetera et cetera So if we compare social media we television it is a little bit more colloquial It is a little bit more informal but there are significant differences across platforms That's professor Pablo bochkov ski from northwestern university.
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"Nieces and nephews ten 5 6 and I just hit just hit me for some reason I said I woke up this morning and I said you know what I gotta go And how was he received I mean was it all universally warm Well some people we spoke with were grateful that the president came to visit and show solidarity and support but as Biden exited the church and our mom an onlooker did shout do something and Biden did say we will And Pierre has been Huang in Yuval Texas Thank you Thanks for having me Heading now to Colombia where a former left wing guerrilla and a populist real estate mogul are headed for a presidential runoff on June 19th Now the pair of anti establishment candidates were the top vote getters in the country's presidential election yesterday It's a rebuttal of the ruling class which is predominantly conservative Reporter John Otis joins us from over Skype rather from Bogotá Hey John How's it going It goes well What do we know about these two candidates Well they're both quite unorthodox in first place yesterday was Gustavo Petro with 40% of the vote He's a former left wing guerrilla who later served in Congress and as the mayor of Bogotá and he's now on his third run for the presidency And petrus promised some pretty big changes here He wants to phase out the production of oil which is Columbia's biggest export He wants to raise taxes on the rich to fund anti poverty programs And he's also plans to reestablish diplomatic relations with the authoritarian regime next door in Venezuela So all of this has Columbia's business leaders and social elites on edge He came in first but he didn't win an outright victory right What happened In Colombia unlike the U.S. you need to win more than half the votes to avoid going to a runoff And that didn't happen Rodolfo Hernandez was runner up with 28% of the vote And he's a really colorful character He made his fortunate real estate He went on to become mayor of the northern city of bukhara manga And ideologically he's just all over the map He's pro business but for example he also supports abortion rights of the legalizing marijuana His main claim to fame as mayor was getting caught on video slapping a city councilman in the face in an argument over corruption He's 77 and he's also prone to gaffes on what occasion he praised Adolf Hitler when he meant to say Albert Einstein He skipped candidate debates He's conducted most of his campaign on TikTok videos and he even granted a TV interview in his pajamas Okay so I mean so is it colorful character But what's the political appeal What's the appeal of his platform to voters Well Hernandez appeals to Colombians who are sick of political corruption and business as usual He plays up this image of himself as this kind of gruff and foul mouthed anti corruption crusader Again Hernandez made millions in real estate which in Colombia is an area riddled with corruption that his campaign is self financed so he claims that if he wins the presidency he's not going to owe anybody but he also faces graft accusations from his time as mayor and that case is set to go to trial in July So the next president is either going to be this real estate developer or this former left wing gorilla I mean these are political outsiders Either way And that's a big deal right Yeah you know in Colombia the winning candidates have always come from centrist or conservative political parties and neither of the current candidates not Gustavo Petro net Rudolf or Hernandez fits this bill But Colombians have become really frustrated by political scandals and rising poverty COVID-19 drove up poverty from 35 to 42% of the population and triggered a protest last year So this time around Colombians really seem ready for something completely different And it's going to be a tight race in that runoff John Otis reporting from Bogotá thank you so much John Thank you very much NPR's Yuki Noguchi has been looking into this and she joins me now Hey Yuki Good morning Rachel All right I think it's probably prudent before we really start talking to just define what we mean when we say serious mental illness Yeah experts say a core part of it involves psychosis you know a loss of touch with reality And this can happen with schizophrenia bipolar disorder major depression which affect about 5% of the population Okay so how did COVID affect people who have serious mental illness Well physically people with schizophrenia are more likely to contract COVID and also to die from it But as far as mental health there's not much data In talking to researchers and doctors a lot seem to depend on a person's circumstance you know whether they had housing family jobs or access to healthcare Those were already challenging for many people because these illnesses often strike young adults and therefore interrupt school careers or dating So they already faced high rates of isolation and poverty pre-pandemic On the other hand people with serious mental illness also told me that dealing with crisis is just old hat to them So I mean that might be just part of life when you're suffering from serious mental illness but did they describe how this particular crisis of the pandemic affected them Well I'll give you an example of a Boston man named Peter He grew up in Romania in the 1980s under the brutal ceausescu regime There was constant government surveillance so a certain amount of paranoia was a survival skill but to this day fear causes epileptic seizures and blackouts for Peter The pandemic made it hard to know what to believe Seeing people wearing masks I was thinking that they're trying to protect themselves from the invasive cameras that are posted on throughout the city old throughout the subway Misinformation about COVID and vaccines made reality feel even slipperier Social media seem to control political discourse and all this validated his fears If I read the news which I do every day I feel like I'm not ill but then of course I read my diagnosis and it tells me right there that I'm schizophrenic and I might have paramount solutions Reality felt delusional sometimes right Yeah So what did he do How did he get through it Well Peter says crisis is familiar to him He knows how to handle it He takes long walks and meditation and that helps Benjamin drus a public health professor at Emory university says here is that kind of thing a lot They've proved to be pretty resilient many of the coping mechanisms that people have developed They're able to put into good use when an enormous stressor like COVID hits He says of course telehealth helped at least if you have an Internet connection but joblessness homelessness and social isolation are unfortunately common among people with serious mental illness That represents a lot of the patient's Hannah Brown sees She is a psychiatry professor at Boston medical center and works in the ER She says patients were more acute and required longer hospital stays two to three times longer than pre-pandemic It speaks to the severity of the disease worsening over the past two years Like significantly worsening So Rachel you know how much social support people had was a huge determinant of how they did Yeah I can imagine And Pierre's Yuki Noguchi we appreciate your reporting on the thank you Thank you.
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"The president and First Lady attended mass at sacred heart Catholic Church then spent the remainder of the afternoon at the local county arena meeting with family members of the victims and first responders I'm Jerry Clayton in San Antonio Triple-A says gasoline prices in the U.S. hit another record high today It says regular now averages about $4 62 cents a gallon nationwide The price has gone up 44 cents a gallon in the past month NPR's Marie Andrews says thousands of airline flights have been canceled over this Memorial Day weekend More than 1600 cancellations took place on Sunday alone according to the flight tracking software flight aware That follows more than 4000 flights canceled in total on Friday and Saturday Throughout the weekend delta has been the U.S. carrier with the most flights canceled the Atlanta based airline blamed bad weather and quote air traffic control actions That's NPR's Marie and crucifix reporting The presidential election in Colombia is headed for a runoff and PR's John Otis reports from Bogotá Gustavo Petro who is trying to become Columbia's first ever left wing president beat the 5 other candidates with 40% of the vote That was well short of the 50% he needed to avoid a runoff So Petra will face rodolfo Hernandez in a second round of voting on June 19th Hernandez is a 77 year old millionaire real estate mogul and a former mayor who garnered 28% He conducted almost his entire campaign over social media but he won over voters with his pledges to wipe out corruption To those who voted for me I will not fail you Hernandez said after the results were in and it head to head contest between Hernandez and Petro the latest polls predict a tight race John Otis NPR news Bogotá This is NPR news from Washington A rock fall and avalanche at Rocky Mountain national park in Colorado has left one climber dead and two others injured It happened yesterday morning on mount meeker one of the two injured was not seriously hurt the park says a Colorado National Guard helicopter was used to rescue a man with more serious injuries that have been during a break in what was described as wintry weather The body of the climber who was killed was found in the afternoon The new movie Top Gun: Maverick took in more than $100 million in its opening weekend NPR's bob Mandela says that's a first for a film starring actor Tom Cruise As one of the first films to postpone its opening when the pandemic struck Top Gun: Maverick sat on the shelf for more than two years Now it's making up for lost time.
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"So much In Colombia the presidential election is headed for a runoff with FrontRunner Gustavo Petro securing 40% of first round votes The 62 year old leftist leader is an ex gorilla and former mayor of Bogotá who wants to tax the rich halt oil exploration and restore ties with Venezuela's socialist government anti establishment outsider Hernandez came in second place with a 28% Now in corporate news the U.S. corruption and market manipulation cases against Glenn court have shed light on the conduct of two former executive executives who did walk away as billionaires authorities have not brought any charges against top Glen core managers in the sweeping cases against the firm that have identified two alleged perpetrators of corruption they include an ex global head of oil and a former head of copper And finally you could find yourself getting a pipe for just 6 pence today going to a bar in green king pubs with a secret password 1952 will get you a bargain beer It's in celebration of the queen's platinum jubilee and marks the average cost of a pint during her Ascension to the throne that year global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries and Jan guerin's this is Bloomberg Stephen Caroline thank you very Caroline Leon thank you very much guarantee as well where you'll be reassuring It doesn't make any difference to be honest I was literally writing down the very important information you've just given us about a cheap pint which is 6 6 P points 6 points Not too bad is it This inflationary time I know but you have to go with the passcode which I gave you and I'm not giving it to you You again So keep forgotten So can you remember it I'll text it to you but that's early on That's good Thank you very much Leanne All right Let's turn now back to China which has been loosening COVID restrictions in several districts that districts of Beijing as the number of new infections there have been falling in Shanghai meanwhile authorities unveiling an aid package which will include allowing manufacturers to resume operations in June concerns though persisting over the world's second largest economy the majority of participants in an M live pulse survey saying they don't expect China to end its COVID zero strategy this year let's listen to what some of Bloomberg's top guests have been saying about China starting with steam Jacobson as chief investment officer at saxo bank I like China Many people calling it uninvestable but there's also a very wide margin of safety September October they will start one of the biggest fiscal impulses in human history We've turned the corner in terms of policy action and that should be supportive for markets And there's also possibility that they reopen and that they stimulate the economy Probably is the part of the world where you'll see economic activity resume more quickly A lot of the attractive long-term growth drivers are still in fact we will be cautious and prudent in this environment But our optimistic about China as a country We're expecting to increase our exposure in China Actually just see a deepening of relationships into China So lots of our guests they've got Katie Coke from Goldman Sachs received a Mayo from gamma and Richards international CEO Brian Dillard from KKR and also either adas from ER shares to CEO and chief investment strategy some of those talking with their reaction or their outlook rather on China Yeah joining us now is Christian COFF's head of fixed income and FX at union union investment Christian thank you so much for being with us So how positive are you on China You've seen a slightly stronger yuan I mean the seaside 300 down 18% because of the COVID outbreak but actually some are quite positive now in terms of high yield Chinese bonds and Iran Yeah good morning from Frankfurt We are not that positive really I think we're not just concerned about the effects of the lockdown in China which may ease over the next couple of days But beyond that we're concerned about rising political risks in China We're heading towards a party Congress this autumn takes place every 5 years And we're heading towards the hundredth anniversary of the Communist Party and there is a lot of political infighting right now within China About the composition of the political standing committee three members will lose their seats and this year three new nominees will get into the standing committee and it remains unclear at this stage which fraction of the Communist Party will win So there's a lot of political uncertainty and we want to stay clear from that for the time being We think that as markets get too politicized that is bad for valuations From the point of view of the yuan then how do you see that being impacted by the situation in China Yeah actually we think that the renminbi could save last year after the recent sell off And that is related to the lifting of the COVID restrictions but we think it's a bit too early to go back in We think it's going to be largely ranged bound We've seen that the Central Bank of China has been quite happy to see the currency depreciate and also the interest rate differential between Chinese government bonds and U.S..
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"Proposed a compromise that would allow imports via the pipeline via land from Russia while implementing a ban early next year on imports via ship And that would be significant because shipments by sea are much larger about twice as much with 1.6 1.6 billion barrels per day by sea Moreover by pipeline most of that oil goes to Russia and to Poland which have already agreed that they're going to cut out their reduce and end their imports from Russia anyway So that would be the reason that this would be significant But according to people familiar Hungary is still looking for more concessions The negotiations are ongoing There's an EU summit meeting of the leaders that starts today in Brussels they were hoping to have this resolved by then I think but it looks like it's going to go longer Yeah We'll see what the next few hours bring Bruce Thank you as always broomberg Bruce einhorn they're in Hong Kong Let's run you through the first one headlines now from around the world and get out to Juliet Sally in Singapore Hi you said the UN's top human rights official is drawing criticism for her visit to China's Xinjiang region Michelle Bachelet is 6 day trip ended with a press conference that did little to address concerns about China's alleged human rights abuses of Uyghur Muslims In a statement Saturday the U.S. State Department said restrictions imposed on the visit made Bachelet was unable to undertake a complete and independent assessment Colombia's presidential election is headed for a runoff with FrontRunner Gustavo Petro securing 40% of first round votes The 62 year old leftist leader is an ex gorilla and former.
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"The people of Colombia have been voting today to elect a new president that much is guaranteed because presidents can only serve one term All political leaders will say they've got a big job to do but Colombia does have particular challenges Not just the major inequalities in fragile economy that plague so many nations but also an imperfectly implemented peace deal following the agreement signed back in 2016 aimed at ending a 50 year conflict between the state and left wing paramilitaries The big question with this election is whether the country will choose the first time and left wing leader The opinion ball suggests that the favorite to succeed the incumbent Ivan Duque is Gustavo Petro former guerrilla temp politician I've been hearing about him from Sergio Guzman director of Columbia risk analysis in the capital Bogotá Candidate He used to be an M 19 guerrilla almost 30 years ago and disarmed And since then he's been very active in politics He served as a representative for the world docu served as a senator for two terms and he's been mayor of Bogotá The reason why at this point in time he's very well placed to win or to make up with a victory in today's first round and then go on to a runoff on June 19th is the dissatisfaction with the status quo around 80% of Colombians feel the country is going in the bad direction They are dissatisfied with the economy with the cost of living with security with inequality with the failed implementation of the peace agreement as you mentioned So this anti incumbent momentum he's writing those coattails When you say failed implementation what specifically do Colombians feel is not going right there One of the things that is very clearly failing is the security for both the people who signed on to the peace agreements and residents of rural communities that are most at risk We saw a few weeks ago an armed group called the clan del golfo start an armed strike which essentially laid siege to 11 departments And that's almost a third of the country So the government's inability to fill the vacuums of power led by the peace agreements has led to assassinations of social leaders has led to the growth of the drug cartels the consolidation of these organizations and is poised to continue making Colombia a more unsafe place in rural areas You mentioned that of course this is just the first round even if you were to be the leading candidate at the end of this round he would still face a runoff Were he to prevail gustavus Petro what do you think it would mean in terms of Columbia's relations both with its immediate neighbors I mean I'm thinking of Venezuela of course but also with the U.S. That's a very important question Tim And I appreciate you asking I think Gustavo Pedro with Venezuela has been very clear He would restart or diplomatic relation with that country that was broken off by president duke who has constantly characterized Nicolas Maduro as a dictator Venezuela has been for a very long time Colombia's most important trade partner and that relationship was suspended during president Chavez in later president Maduro So restarting that relationship may be something key for Gustavo Petro With the United States the central issue is the war on drugs and Gustavo Petro has mentioned on several occasions that the war on drugs as it is is pointless And so that's expected to cause significant friction with the United States But of course Gustavo Petro can't take all his fights at once So it's very likely that he will make a progressive attempt of changing the war on drugs Sergio Guzman director of Columbia risk analysis looking at what might be a Gustavo Petro presidency in Colombia Distribution of the BBC World Service NewsHour in the.
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"Are lost every 50 trillion paces So last W due to corruption in our country And that translates into boys and girls we're dying of malnutrition of hunger Dying in our country without any opportunity to live And it is painful to see that this is happening in our country and it is painful to see that young people don't have access to quality education Free education comprehensive education It is painful to see that mothers as women don't have any guarantee of being able to get to a job Older folks have no guarantees of a pension Everything that the neoliberal model has done that's been imposed by this Colombian elite who have reaped their profits of from death And hunger and exiling people in our expropriation from us of our human condition it is very painful to experience all of that Afro Colombian environmental activist francia Marquez speaking with his in February when she was running for president earlier this week Columbia's presidential FrontRunner Gustavo Petro tapped her to be his running mate If elected Marcus would become the first black woman to serve as Columbia's vice president in a country where Afro Colombians make up nearly 10% of the population Marcus is a prominent land and water defender which are opposition to illegal gold mining that led to death threats and assassination attempt forcing her to flee her home She tweeted this week quote we are writing a new history for Columbia in the vice presidency We will accompany president Gustavo Petro in the duty to create a government that respects life peace justice and social equity Gustavo Petro was running in part on a platform calling for a ban on new fossil fuel exploration Fossil fuels make up more than half of Colombia's exports And the country has long been among the most dangerous countries in the world for environmentalists and activists with at least a 145 murdered last year alone You can also see our interview with francia Marquez in Spanish.
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Down to Brash Tax: Colombias Protests Grow
"Protests in columbia continued overnight after more than a week of clashes rioters looted shops burned buses and police stations and blocked major roads leading to shortages of medicines and groceries in cali colombia's third largest city. The government has responded violently. Deploying the army against them. Dozens of people are dead or missing. Hundreds more have been injured president. Yvonne duquet has said he will listen to the protesters concerns but their fury with him seems only to be growing and gustavo. Petro a hard left senator. Who's leading polls to be mr duquet successor. In next year's election is encouraging people to demonstrate. Thousands have come up to the streets in opposition to tax reform. Bill that the government to congress and mid april that's what triggered the protests. Mariana polo about for the economist. But as of last few days they've come to include a broader set of shoes mostly about the economy. But there's also a lot of resentment against president of on duke will. Let's start with tax reform. That kicked things off what was in that. Legislation sought to increase tax revenue for the government. So what would have done a lot of things that economists have long pleaded the government to do for example it would remove many vat exemptions which mostly benefit the rich it would increase the number of people paying income tax. It would have even taxed pensions which aren't tax right now. In columbia
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Conservative Iván Duque sweeps to victory in Colombia
"Unlikely to support a bill that fails to protect docker recipients or in the administration's policy of separating undocumented migrant children from their parents over the weekend several democratic lawmakers traveled to the texas mexico border too to detention centers including one that can house nearly fifteen hundred children shannon van sant npr news washington homeland security secretary kirsten nielsen is issued tweet over the weekend that says the trump administration does not have a policy of separating families at the border but her statement is contradicted by her agency a d h s spokesman had said that nearly two thousand miners were separated from their parents at the border between mid april and the end of may former first lady laura bush has written in the washington post criticizing the trump administration policy is quote immoral the justice department's inspector general michael horowitz and fbi director christopher ray will be questioned by the senate judiciary committee about the i jeez report released last week npr's miles parks has more the five hundred page report is a look at the justice department investigation into hillary clinton's use of a private e mail server it will provide plenty of fodder for senators on both sides of the aisle monday's hearing even though the report was not about russian interference president trump says a quote totally exonerates him when it comes to the question of whether his campaign coordinator with russia leading up to the presidential election democrats on the other hand point to findings in the report that no decisions by just department prosecutors were affected by bias that directly contradicts trump's claim that justice department investigators were conspiring to help clinton win miles parks npr news washington voters in colombia have elected a new president even duquet a conservative former lawmaker easily defeated gustavo petro a former leftist guerrilla john otis has more from bogota according to official results duquet garnered fifty four percent of the vote compared to forty one percent for petro do gay forty one is political newcomer duquet has pledged to jump start the economy through tax cuts he also plans to rewrite key parts of a twenty sixteen peace agreement that ended columbia's halfcenturyold guerrilla war john otis reporting officials in japan say at least three people were killed in an earthquake today that shook the city of osaka more than three hundred people were heard the tremors magnitude was six point one it toppled walls and triggered fires you're listening to npr news the national weather service says it's going.
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"Is classifying gaming as a mental and addictive disorder lisa shlein reports from geneva that gaming is listed in the who's newly revised international classification of diseases available data mainly from asian countries show only two to three percent of people are addicted to gaming but the problem is growing who expert check sexiness says people should look out for warning signs but if it is consuming stein and if it's interfering with the expected functions of the person whether studies where there is whether it's worth then you need to be cautious and perhaps these games are most commonly played on electric and video devices and have some kind of reward associated with them such as winning money or accumulating points to beat out a competitor for npr news i'm lisa shine in geneva columbia has a new president conservative yvonne duquet a former lawmaker soundly defeated former leftist guerrilla gustavo petro to k who has worked for much of his career at the inter american development bank is promising tax cuts to boost the colombian economy but he's also promising to rewrite the 2016 peace treaty that ended a half century of war with colombian rebels authorities in western japan say the number of people treated for injuries suffered today in a strong earthquake now exceeds three hundred the magnitude six point one quake near the city of osaka killed three people toppled walls and temporarily knocked out some power i'm korva coleman npr news support for npr comes from dream wave maker of luxury massage chairs from japan with shiatsu point detection and sixteen programmed massages including warning night and stretch sessions retailers nationwide more adrain wave chair dot com and the annie e casey foundation.
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Iván Duque wins election to become Colombia's president
"Some other news now columbia has elected a new president yvonne duquet is his name he's a conservative and he defeated a one time leftist rebel named gustavo petro the winner promises to be tough on drugs and on former rebels john otis has more at a rally sunday night duquet celebrated his meteoric rise to the top of colombian politics he received nearly fifty four percent of the vote compared to about forty two percent for petro that means the forty one old dookie will become the youngest president in colombia's history previously he worked at the interamerican development bank and served a single term in the colombian senate he rose from obscurity after he was endorsed by alvarado rebate a popular former colombian president that's why in ducas victory speech the first person he thanked was rebate duke as win marks a rightward shift for columbia the presidentelect plans to cut taxes for businesses he may restart aerial fumigation of coca the plant used to make cocaine fumigation was halted three years ago due to health concerns but since then that coca crop has ballooned alarming officials but duke as most controversial pledge is to rewrite at twenty sixteen peace treaty that accord disarm seven thousand members of the farc rebel group who had been fighting for half a century duquet claims its terms are too lenient for example he wants exrebels accused of atrocities banned from holding political office until they face justice and compensate their victims process there will be changes uk declared we're going to make war victims the focal point of the peace process but too many changes could prompt former farc fighters to take up arms again so says arlene tickner a professor of international relations at rosada university in bogota we have a large number of x farc leadership for example abandoning the process it's very difficult to envision the success of the peace accords although pets lost his candidacy was a breakthrough a former bogota mayor and member of the now defunct m nineteen guerrilla group he was columbia's i ever leftist politician with a realistic shot at the presidency his concession speech petra declared i do not feel defeated petra will now become the head of the opposition while do gate will be sworn in as president on august seventh for a four year term for npr news i'm john otis in bogota it's npr news folder.
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Former guerrilla, young conservative vie to lead Colombia
"In ms thirteen gang subject into traffic a rape or worse the trump administration says family separation is required by democratic law though there is no such law president trump says if democrats get behind the republicans proposed broad immigration overhaul hill end the separations the draft provides billions of dollars for a border wall and poses new limits on legal immigration and toughens rules for asylum seekers of vote is expected this week more than six hundred migrants have finally reached dry land in europe they spent just over a week at sea after italy and malta refused to take them in christopher lives say reports there now arriving in spain migrants rejoice as their ship nears the port of valencia in the end it was spain that agreed to let them dock seven hundred nautical miles away from where they first entered european waters after setting sail from libya they were rescued a week ago by the humanitarian ship aquarius which tried to bring them to nearby ports in malton italy both countries refused the standoff was an early sign of strength from the new populist government in italy the interior minister leading the crackdown on migrants is matteo salvini an outspoken fan of us president donald trump for his part trump has praised italy's new policy he said it seems being tough on immigration now pays for npr news i'm christopher lives say in rome colombians are casting ballots for president today as john notice reports from bogota voters face a stark choice between a former rightwing lawmaker and a one time leftist guerrilla the election pits gustavo petro a former mayor of bogota and an ex guerilla fighter against conservative yvonne duquet who according to the polls is the front runner duke has pledged to rewrite parts of two thousand sixteen peace treaty that ended columbia's halfcenturyold guerrilla war petrol has promised to close the gap between rich and poor and would become colombia's i ever left wing president but there are concerns that many colombian soccer fans could ignore the election to watch today's world cup matches be talking saga will in a televised speech outgoing president juan manuel santos urged colombians to i go to the polls before settling in for soccer from pierre news i'm john otis in bogota this.
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Colombia set for combative runoff with divisions over peace
"Old civil war divides we mentioned this because columbia just recently ended a fifty year old guerrilla war and its first presidential election since the peace accord replays some of their old divides two candidates made a run off one of them a former leftist guerrilla the other a right wing candidate who does not like the peace deal at all john otis is in bogota covering the election for npr news either job hey it's good to be here steve so the right wing candidate who i guess got the most votes right yvonne duquet a largely unknown until recently associated with this president it was really tough on the rebels and then you have this former leftist guerrilla who's he and this is gustavo petro he was in fact part of the m nineteen guerrilla group which disbanded almost thirty years ago in the past colombians would reject leftist politicians like petro because they figured they were still closet guerrillas but now that the major colombian rebel group farc has disarmed under the peace treaty it's opened up a lot more political space for leftist like petro petro has promised to govern on behalf of the poor but his critics are now trying to paint him as a dangerous radical loop plans to adopt some of the same policies that have led to food shortages and hyper inflation in socialist venezuela right next door so things really are getting quite polarized here between the right and the left ahead of the second round election well are things so polarized this peace deal which is not very old could come apart that is a possibility steve petro strongly supports this peace treaty but duke as a big showing on sunday reflects a growing frustration among colombians for the peace accord it ended a war that killed two hundred twenty thousand people and vastly reduced violence but dookie claims it's too lenient on former fighters for example those accused of war crimes are going to be able to avoid prison under the packs of duke as promised to rewrite this treaty others think he might end up focusing on economic issues but either way he easily won the most votes sunday in polls place him as the favourite going into the runoff on june seventeenth thanks very much that's reporter john otis in bogota like many american manufacturing towns messina new york hemorrhage jobs in the past decade gm and reynolds metal closed aluminum company out coa downsized but now messina is banking on a new opportunity to boost its economy crypto
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"Because lebron james played every minute ben and made the difference he led the way again for the cleveland cavaliers as they reached yet another nba finals series that's their fourth in a row with an eighty seven seventy nine win over the boston celtics in the decisive game seven of their eastern conference championship series a game high thirty five points from james who has competed himself in the last seven finals elsewhere mohammed saleh says he's confident he'll be fit to take his place in the egypt squad at the world cup we're told you how to scan on his injured shoulder yesterday egypt's fa are optimistic as well a terrible day is how the defending champion yelena ostapenko described her sunday in paris she went out to the french open tennis in the first round beaten by katharina kozlova later today rafael on the doll starts his defensive is men's singles title and here's lewis hamilton's verdict on the monaco grand prix super unexciting he finished third behind winner daniel ricardo and sebastian federal the problem in monaco is really hard to overtake fernando alonzo agreed with hamilton probably the most boring race ever he called it monaco i'm shield okay thanks very much indeed matthew kenyon to colombia where no candidate won the first round of the country's presidential election meaning the second round will be a face off between even duquet and gustavo petro even duke as from the traditional rightwing centro democratico party gustavo petro left wing a former member of the m nineteen rebel group this is the first election since the government signed a peace agreement with the farc rebel group two years ago monica passion is a professor of political science in the.
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Conservative Duque leading Colombia vote but runoff likely
"Ballots for president today the country's first presidential election since the end of halfcenturylong war against marxist guerrillas as john notice reports five candidates are vying to succeed the term limited president juan manuel santos it will if if doesn't exist in a speech president santos predicted that today's election will be the most peaceful in recent colombian history the front runner according to polls is yvonne duquet he's a right wing senator and a sharp critic of the 2016 peace treaty that ended a half century of fighting he claims it provides too many benefits to former guerrillas do case closest challenger is gustavo petro he's a former mayor of bogota who once belonged to the m nineteen a rebel group that disarmed in nineteen ninety if none of the candidates wins more than half of the votes the top two finishers will meet inner runoff next month for npr news i'm john otis in bogota colombia this is npr just ahead of this memorial day weekend the senate has passed a measure to curb homelessness among native american veterans as npr's quil lawrence reports they serve in the military at a higher rate per capita than any other ethnic group amid the push to end homelessness among veterans nationwide many native american vets had been left out until a few years ago because federal housing vouchers for vets weren't available to tribes or tribal housing authorities the bill passed in the senate would set aside a portion of that housing money for native vets who suffer homelessness at a disproportionately high rate native american veterans have always been over represented in the us military even going back to world war one when they could be drafted even though they didn't yet have us citizenship the bill has bipartisan support and now moves to the house overall homelessness among veterans across the country has dropped over the past eight years but there are still about forty thousand veterans living on the streets quil lawrence npr news.
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"Live from npr news in washington i'm barbara klein alberto is beginning to lash the gulf coast with wind and rain and it's expected to last through this holiday weekend florida mississippi and alabama have states of emergency in place to deal with anticipated flooding but blake farmer of member station w p l n reports the subtropical storm is more of a nuisance so far tropical storm warnings have been issued and states have emergency declared along the southern coast enough to scare the family of george shires from atlanta but he says they're trying to make the most of their memorial day at saint george island florida if again too bad really bad really flooding stuff would probably here in the area where storm surges possible residents and visitors are being told to follow any guidance from local officials rip currents are also an increasing concern but widespread flooding is also possible with five to ten inches of rain expected and the risk of heavy rainfall will continue to spread into much of the southeast us for npr news i'm blake farmer in the florida panhandle voters in columbia are casting ballots for president the country's first presidential election since the end of a half century long war against marxist guerrillas as john notice reports five candidates are vying to succeed the term limited president one manuel santos it will you in a speech president santos predicted that today's election will be the most peaceful in recent colombian history the front runner according to polls is yvonne duquet he's a right wing senator and a sharp critic of the 2016 peace treaty that ended a half century of fighting he claims it provides too many benefits to former guerrillas do case closest challenger is gustavo petro he's a former mayor of bogota who once belonged to the m nineteen a rebel group that disarmed in nineteen ninety if none of the candidates wins more than half of the votes the top two finishers will meet inner runoff next month for npr news i'm john otis in bogota colombia widespread protests continuing nicaragua's demonstrators demand the resignation of president daniel ortega and his wife the vice president at least eight people died this weekend in clashes with security forces european union foreign ministers meet in brussels tomorrow to strategize on save.
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No longer driven by conflict, Colombians vote for president
"Tim joshua hall to the white house of the he was released from a venezuelan prison mr holds had gone to venezuela to get married but the couple were detained soon afterwards thank those who had helped him i'm just overwhelmed with gratitude for you guys everything that you've done for the support of my wife feels two years they were very very very difficult for years not really the the great vacation and i was looking for but we're still together starting off a marriage rough but now we're going to be together and just so grateful for what you guys have done for thinking about mean and carrying about me a normal person colombians are getting to the polls today in the first presidential election since the country's peace deal in two thousand sixteen ended half a century of civil war with the fog guerilla group kenny watson reports with conflict no longer the main concern in columbia priorities have shifted candidates this year have been campaigning on issues of inequality and corruption and that's put left wing candidate gustavo petro in a stronger position especially among the younger generation who are frustrated with traditional politics but the peace deal still deeply divides colombians and front runner yvonne duke has been very critical of it whoever wins could influence the success of that agreement and determine the future of the country an army spokesman in cameroon says troops have as he put it neutralized several terrorists in an anglophone region in the north west of the country colonel said the soldiers had surrounded the hotel following a tipoff that separatist rebels were inside but reports say that's at least twenty two people were killed in a clash with the army in the town of mankad world news from the bbc the roman catholic church chile has accepted the resignation of the bishop who heads a board to investigate sexual abuse by the clergy the bishop of run kagwa alejandro gorge that said he needed to resign so that attention could be focused on the charges against fourteen priests accused of sexual wrongdoing the former japanese prime minister yes you hero nakasone has mocked his hundredth birthday with a call to revise his country's pacifist constitution mr necker sony he served as prime minister between nine hundred eighty two and eighty seven has long advocated amending the constitution to clarify the bigger status at the.
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"Country's peace deal in two thousand sixteen ended half a century of civil war with the farc guerrilla group katie watson reports with conflict no longer the main concern in columbia priorities have shifted candidates this year have been campaigning on issues of inequality and corruption and that's put left wing candidate gustavo petro in a stronger position especially among the younger generation who are frustrated with traditional politics but the peace deal still deeply divides colombians and front row yvonne duquet has been very critical of it whoever wins could influence the success of that agreement and determine the future of the country a roman catholic bishop in chile has resigned as head of a board set up by the church to investigate sexual abuse by clergy the bishop of rancagua alejandro goat cheese among thirty four chilean bishops who offered to resign after pope francis some of them to rome to discuss alleged coverups of sexual abuse well news from the bbc the irish prime minister leo varadkar says the overwhelming referendum result to liberalize strict abortion laws in the republic has raised the stigma and ferdinand shame from hundreds of thousands of women who secretly had abortions he told thousands of jubilant yes campaign is in dublin that the vote meant island had come of age as a country pro choice activists chanted savita savita the name of an indian woman whose death when refused an abortion during a miscarriage galvanized yes campaigners prolife groups described the referendum outcome as a tragedy the american astronaut alan bean has died aged eighty six nasa said he died peacefully in houston following a brief illness chris buckler looks back at his life alan bean was a us navy test pilot when he was selected by nasa to become one of its astronauts he was part of the crew on board apollo twelve in november nineteen sixtynine and during that mission became the fourth human to walk on the surface of the moon he went on not just a command of flight to the first u s space station skylab but also to have a successful career is an artist is paintings were inspired by space and featured lunar footprints as well as small pieces of his mission patches which were stained by moondust dozens of firefighters in south western france tackling a blaze in a residential area of the city of.