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Closed captions transcript: 00:00:00 Debris on to when it was his beloved photos published by the Italian news agency 00:00:04 and showed 00:00:05 a massive empty gulf between two sections of the bridge and so says the Italian all 00:00:10 sorts his suspect 00:00:11 a structural weakness had cools the collapse but there was no immediate explanation 00:00:16 for what had happened I'm Charleston of the London police have arrested 00:00:20 a man on suspicion of terrorism after he crashed a car into 00:00:24 a group of pedestrians and cyclists before hitting 00:00:27 a set of barriers outside of Britain's houses of parliament Tuesday authorities 00:00:32 said there were no other people in the car and that they did not find any weapons 00:00:36 they put the age of the suspect as B. 00:00:39 Being in his late twenty's Donovan Parsons is an eyewitness to the volume of the 00:00:44 crime side loud sounds going to speak to some space in the roundabout to me how 00:00:49 slow of size they seem to be going from the attention of the London ambulance 00:00:54 service to treated and transported two people to 00:00:56 a hospital bed neither had injuries that were life threatening 00:01:00 a third person was treated at the crash site he was president Donald Trump resumed 00:01:04 his attacks Tuesday on a former adviser on a Rossa manacled Newman calling her 00:01:09 a dog who deserved to be fired in 00:01:11 a Twitter comment the US leader praises chief of staff John Kelly for dismissing 00:01:16 her late last year as he was 00:01:17 a long time contestant on Trump's one time reality show The Apprentice before Trump 00:01:23 named her to a year White House position this is be only news. U.S. 00:01:28 President Donald Trump unleashed new attacks to the on Attorney General Jeff 00:01:32 Sessions and fired F.B.I. 00:01:34 Agent Peter Struck blaming them for the investigation of Russian links to his 00:01:38 twenty six thousand U.S. 00:01:39 Presidential campaign that has consumed his presidency comes attack on the 00:01:44 country's top law enforcement official came days after he described sessions as 00:01:48 scared stiff and missing in action Trump has long been critical of sessions but it 00:01:54 stopped short of firing him for recusing himself from oversight of Special Counsel 00:01:59 Robert Muller's criminal investigation into whether Trump associates conspired with 00:02:04 Russia during the twenty six thousand presidential campaign meanwhile one time 00:02:09 Trump campaign chairman Paul man of Ford's defense has rested in the case without 00:02:13 calling any witnesses in his tax evasion and fraud trial A.P. 00:02:17 Washington correspondent Zakouma Ghani reports from the White House metaphor 00:02:22 himself chose not to take the stand answering No sir when the judge asked if he 00:02:27 wished to testify in his defense the decision not to call any defense witnesses 00:02:31 clears the path for jurors to hear closing arguments tomorrow morning metaphor it's 00:02:36 accused of hiding millions of dollars in income received from advising Ukrainian 00:02:40 politicians the former Trump campaign chairman's lawyers blamed financial 00:02:44 wrongdoing on his former assistant Rick Gates who cut 00:02:47 a plea deal and was the government's star witness the judge today rejected 00:02:52 a defense motion to dismiss the case on grounds prosecutors did not meet their 00:02:56 burden of proof solder at the White House Taliban militants have seized control of 00:03:03 an Army base in northern Afghanistan killing and capturing dozens of government 00:03:08 soldiers the fall of the camp in the fairy 00:03:12 a district in Province late Monday followed two days of intense fighting officials 00:03:17 say the Afghan national army base was lost after soldiers failed to receive 00:03:22 reinforcements in air support and ran out of ammunition and other supplies regional 00:03:28 military and government officials to say confirmed to V.O.A. 00:03:31 That forty of the seventy soldiers stationed at the base surrendered to the Taliban 00:03:36 they said the rest of either been killed or fled to nearby mountains during the 00:03:40 clashes. Turkish president of one threaten to say to boycott U.S. 00:03:46 Electronic goods and response to what he says is 00:03:49 a targeted economic war being waged against Turkey by the United States the 00:03:54 diplomatic dispute between the two countries has helped spark an economic crisis in 00:03:58 Turkey and push its currency the leeward to record lows and one has called on 00:04:04 people to exchange 00:04:05 a US dollars for earlier an order to shore up the currency it has plunged forty 00:04:09 percent this year and saw drops of sixteen percent Friday in them up another seven 00:04:13 percent on Monday. Tommy. 00:04:32 Today is Tuesday August fourteenth and this is feel ways international edition I'm 00:04:37 Steve Miller in Washington coming up 00:04:39 a bridge over an industrial area and Italy collapsed during 00:04:43 a sudden and violent storm police in London arrest 00:04:46 a man in his twenty's after driving his car into pedestrians the full human side 00:04:53 sounded like something some space on the ground to slow. Same to. 00:05:00 Bust North Korea has repeated the call for 00:05:02 a deal declaration firmly ending the Korean War and out for his support for the 00:05:08 ailing Queen of Soul It's all ahead on today's international edition. 00:05:15 Bridge Over an industrial area in the Italian city of general partially collapsed 00:05:20 during 00:05:20 a sudden and violent storm on Tuesday and left several vehicles crushed in the 00:05:24 rubble below joining me on the phone from Ed Lee is reporter Sabina Castle Franco 00:05:29 thank you so much for joining today's international edition you know there have 00:05:34 been a number of reports both vehicles being crushed by the bridge and 00:05:38 a number of fatalities what has been confirmed by authorities thus far. 00:05:45 Sunday and deputy transport who wanted to actually. 00:05:51 Confirm to Sky twenty four twenty two. 00:05:58 And I believe. That have been taken to 00:06:02 a nearby. Number. 00:06:10 That the death toll will rise 00:06:12 a number of. Reports saying and what will. Your 00:06:19 priority of them said. We're 00:06:26 on the bridge when the disaster occurred and of course these many of these cars and 00:06:32 trucks crashing down. And then follow that. 00:06:40 I would crush them by the concrete pillars and concrete strongest. 00:06:47 Actual bridging the. Highway bridge that we're on over in the industrial area 00:06:54 that would say ran 00:06:55 a river Have there been any kind of discussions as to understanding why this took 00:07:01 place I mean I understand it was some sort of sudden storm but has anything been 00:07:06 made clear if there was this huge thunderstorm on the ad and they were. 00:07:13 Concerned that the bridge was struck by lightning aged before it crashed down 00:07:20 others said that the winds were blowing very strong and you could see that the 00:07:26 bridge would slightly moving. And there have been other records of possible lead to 00:07:32 then so it would probably work between the Laughlin confirmed by the on Sardi's 00:07:38 firefighters told the Associated Press that they were worried about gas lines 00:07:42 exploding in the area from the collapse what have authorities said about their 00:07:47 rescue efforts will be dispatched hundred. Miles hi there is 00:07:53 a rescue worker and that emergency I operate in I'm being struck by you 00:08:00 know. How. Some of the local. 00:08:07 Anything could happen but it would be 00:08:09 a slow detox I couldn't cram them in particular the Civil Defense Department press 00:08:15 conference was given not for long ago and to special commission have been 00:08:19 established to cordon aid efforts. To help find any survivors in the. 00:08:26 Rubble and any government official cover ready said that such 00:08:32 a tragedy is no longer acceptable in this country and that much more needs to be 00:08:39 done to ensure that the structures. Did. Anything 00:08:45 untoward Sabina Castle Franco's 00:08:47 a reporter in Italy thank you so much for joining us thank you. 00:08:55 Among other top stories Congo's latest deadly Ebola outbreak has spread into 00:09:00 a neighboring province as health workers began using experimental treatment for the 00:09:05 disease so far there have been thirty confirmed cases including fourteen deaths 00:09:10 Portugal has become the first European country just say when taken some of the one 00:09:14 hundred forty one migrants aboard the rescue ship Aquarius defense attorneys for 00:09:19 Paul Manor for rest of their case Tuesday without calling any witnesses or having 00:09:23 the former top campaign chairman testify in the trial where he's accused of bank 00:09:28 and tax fraud Tessa's coordinate 00:09:30 a special committee to evaluate the possibility of taking the electric car maker 00:09:34 private for expanded coverage of these stories and more are V.O.A. 00:09:39 News dot com and on The View 00:09:40 a mobile app this is international edition. This is. 00:09:50 A little Iraq this is 00:09:51 a primitive hominid species that is said to have liberty tween about two million 00:09:55 and one hundred forty three thousand years ago this early human relative is said to 00:10:00 be the first hominid species to migrate from Africa but like other archaic human 00:10:05 relatives Homo erectus became extinct 00:10:08 a team of scientists led by the Australian National University say they found 00:10:13 evidence that one reason why the species came to an end was because in essence they 00:10:18 were lazy the scientists who study material found in archaeological excavations 00:10:24 that they'd back to the early stone age say they found indications that Homo 00:10:28 erectus really didn't put that much effort into their tool making fun how they 00:10:32 collected resources they say that these are kids people seemingly look for the 00:10:37 easiest way to do things that were key to their survival I feel ways Rick pencil 00:10:42 ale. 00:10:49 The always international edition continues a man was arrested after 00:10:54 a car collided with security or security barriers outside London's parliament 00:10:58 building and 00:10:58 a number of pedestrians were injured joining me on the phone is London based 00:11:02 reporter Amy Gutmann Amy can you take us through the events that took place this 00:11:08 morning as best we know them gave about seven thirty this morning 00:11:11 a man drove his car into cyclists and pedestrians outside the Houses of Parliament 00:11:16 now this was the start of the commuter hour though it's mid August so it's 00:11:20 important to bear in mind that typically busy areas are much quieter than normal 00:11:25 Having said that there were still plenty of people around Also it's important you 00:11:28 know the Parliament is on summer break until September so there wasn't the usual 00:11:33 busy ness that you would find around the house of the parliament there either 00:11:37 However this is 00:11:38 a very busy area for tourists obviously because of the houses of parliament because 00:11:43 the Westminster Abbey and big band which are all anchored right there at 00:11:47 Westminster now there were some reports of at least two individuals being injured 00:11:52 by the attack what do we know about those victims we know very little we know that 00:11:59 he were taken to the hospital one has already been released and the other is 00:12:02 currently still being treated for non-life threatening injuries and as far as you 00:12:08 know authorities they have said they are treating this as 00:12:12 a terrorist incident and one person has been arrested what do we know about the 00:12:17 alleged perpetrator we know very little about the alleged perpetrator and that's 00:12:22 largely because he's been refusing to cooperate with police since he's been 00:12:25 apprehended However they have been able to identify him in fact he's known to local 00:12:32 police in his area they believe he's from the Midlands that's an area two or three 00:12:36 hours north of London they know he's 00:12:39 a man in his twenty's but they don't know very much more so they don't know whether 00:12:43 the. Car was borrowed stolen or belonged to him they know that there were several 00:12:47 previous owners so it's off it's leave 00:12:49 a huge car but again whether the car was registered to him it's not yet known they 00:12:55 will know his name Of course they haven't released that yet he was not on the radar 00:13:00 of security services for the U.K. 00:13:02 But again he was known to local police now police are nationally cordoned off some 00:13:06 of the area around where the attack took place some of those cordons have been 00:13:10 lifted but how else is the government response on doing. The government is 00:13:15 responding as it usually does with these kinds of attacks and that is with what's 00:13:19 called the Cobra meeting so cobber is essentially an emergency response committee 00:13:24 made up of ministers police intelligence officers civil servants and also very high 00:13:30 ranking lawyers and advisors to the prime minister they'll all be meeting at 00:13:34 Whitehall which is 00:13:35 a government building to figure out whether they need to raise the threat level 00:13:40 whether they can expect further attacks you know all of these kinds of inner 00:13:46 workings of the government once an attack is happened how to respond. Just 00:13:53 how secure they need to make the nation that meeting is currently still ongoing 00:13:58 police have also told people to avoid the Westminster area they had previously 00:14:03 closed the Tube station and several side streets but corners are now being lifted 00:14:08 course that hasn't stopped tourists from continuing to stop selfies of the NZ host 00:14:13 even in front of these barriers Amy Gutmann is 00:14:16 a reporter based out of London thank you so much for joining today's program thank 00:14:20 you Afghan officials say they've sent special forces backed by U.S. 00:14:25 Advisers and air strikes to the city of God's name were clashes with Taliban 00:14:29 fighters have left hundreds of people dead over days of fighting Reuters Ryan 00:14:34 Brooks has more. The Afghan Taliban said there and control of most of the city of 00:14:41 Gaza on Monday after four days of. Fighting hundreds of people have been killed or 00:14:45 wounded in the clashes diplomats in the capital Kabul tell Reuters The government 00:14:50 says they were surprised when the attack began late last week the as 00:14:55 a strategic center on the highway that links Kabul to the country's south people 00:14:59 fleeing they have described the bodies in the streets while 00:15:03 a group say hospitals are struggling to take in the wounded the Taliban siege is 00:15:07 a blow to President. Weeks before 00:15:10 a parliamentary election that dashes hopes the two sides could begin peace talks on 00:15:15 Monday after days of silence Ghani said on Twitter that reinforcements would be 00:15:19 sent to the city and the defense minister said Special Forces had been dispatched 00:15:25 out of the med one has thrown 00:15:26 a message to the people of Afghanistan and especially for Gaza new residents is 00:15:30 that Afghan security forces are ready to defend their people and country at any 00:15:34 time by accepting sacrifices on the battlefield officials say U.S. 00:15:38 Forces are on the ground helping to coordinate airstrikes U.S. 00:15:42 Military said it's launched at least two dozen of them since Friday while the 00:15:46 government said the situation had improved by mid Monday the Taliban claimed they 00:15:50 still control much of the city it all adds to tension ahead of October's election 00:15:55 and raises questions over the threat posed by the Taliban and other armed 00:15:58 insurgents while the fight raged in Gaza the suicide bomber in Kabul set off 00:16:03 a deadly blast New York crowd of protesters at the Election Commission officials 00:16:08 say at least one police officer was killed and another was wounded that was 00:16:12 a Reuters reporter Ryan Brooks North Korea has repeated the call for 00:16:17 a declaration formally ending the Korean War as 00:16:20 a way to foster mutual trust and call those 00:16:23 a requirement and said it was necessary for progress on denuclearization according 00:16:29 to South Korea's Yonhap news agency North Korea's state run publication the tongue 00:16:35 Goshen bow said that the United States should take 00:16:38 a practical measure to employment what was agreed to on June twelfth in Singapore 00:16:43 between. North Korean leader Kim Jong un and President Donald Trump the beaver also 00:16:47 warned South Korea that continued sanctions and improving relations are 00:16:51 incompatible Monday's commentary follow the agreement between the Koreas for their 00:16:57 leaders to meet for 00:16:58 a third time this year that meeting is to take place sometime in September in 00:17:03 Pyongyang on the demands by North Korea are no surprise to analysts Heerey kasi 00:17:07 honest the director of Defense Studies at the Center for the national interest he 00:17:12 told V.O.A. Is Victor BEATTIE The planned Korean summit comes at 00:17:15 a time when the pace toward denuclearization has stalled seems like the North 00:17:20 Koreans want to lot of concessions up front before they're willing to really even 00:17:23 talk about denuclearization whereas the Trump administration their starting point 00:17:28 negotiations was what everybody was calling a few months ago C.B. 00:17:32 ID that they were 00:17:33 a complete verifiable irreversible denuclearization of North Korea so it's very 00:17:38 clear that Washington in Pyongyang are basically on two three opposite ends of the 00:17:43 spectrum and I think with South Korea's trying to do here is trying to bridge the 00:17:47 gap there if that's going to happen but we're going to find out pretty soon who 00:17:50 wants this meeting more North or South Korea or is it mutual think it's mutual I 00:17:54 think for moon in South Korea you know his popularity has dipped 00:17:58 a little bit the economy is starting to have 00:18:00 a lot of problems for Kim Jong mood I think it's pretty obvious that he really 00:18:06 wants to get South Korean and best friends he's looking to try and build his legacy 00:18:11 and he's also trying to legitimize itself in the international arena so for both 00:18:15 Korean leaders it's obvious the reasons why they would want to meet again the two 00:18:19 at their April meeting their first summit agreed to push for 00:18:23 a declaration of an end to the Korean conflict but Ambassador Harry Harris said 00:18:28 that would be premature at this point you know I don't understand the road quite 00:18:32 why so many people are against it some sort of formal declaration that the Korean 00:18:35 War The war is over so it's the equivalent of everybody arguing sky is blue 00:18:41 everybody knows the sky is blue and it's. If people view it as some sort of 00:18:45 concession on America or souls part saying that the war's over I think that's 00:18:50 a good thing I think it would be 00:18:52 a bad idea if you know its present mood Donald Trump or Kim Jong Il and maybe even 00:18:57 met you know at this potential third Korean summit and at the war I think that 00:19:02 would be 00:19:02 a good way to test North Korea's intentions because quite frankly for many years 00:19:06 that has been something they've been asking for I don't think there's any harm in 00:19:10 doing that and I think at that point you could honestly go to Kim Jong Il and say 00:19:13 look we've given you three meetings with bae Pompei Oh we've given you 00:19:17 a summit with Donald Trump now we're ending the Korean War Where's your turn in 00:19:21 terms of doing what you said you would do and work towards denuclearization at that 00:19:26 point they still won't talk about denuclearization I think that only you have the 00:19:30 international community not your side to contain North Korea you how really the 00:19:36 entire world on Donald Trump's side so I think this is something that we can do are 00:19:40 you surprised at the lack of forward motion on denuclearization you know I'm not 00:19:45 surprised I mean the North Koreans have been very clear in 00:19:48 a lot of their public statements that denuclearization is almost an aspirational 00:19:52 goal for them the things they want upfront before they were denuclearize that 00:19:56 they've said and sometimes in 00:19:57 a very full throated ways in some ways sort of is that they want the Korean War to 00:20:02 be ended they want to see some of the sanctions removed you know they're looking to 00:20:06 be legitimatized in the international arena as 00:20:08 a legitimate nation news also reports that 00:20:11 a South Korean advance team is heading to North Korea this week to inspect 00:20:15 preparations for the August twentieth to twenty six planned family reunions 00:20:20 evolving one hundred people from each side who have been separated since the 00:20:24 armistice was signed ending the one nine hundred fifty to one nine hundred fifty 00:20:27 three Korean War This is international edition. Come celebrate the sixtieth 00:20:34 birthday of legendary queen of pop Madonna on Thursday August sixteenth up with 00:20:39 a very special edition of border crossings join Larry London as it takes you. 00:20:43 Through time with a full hour of Madonna's presets with 00:20:47 a career spanning over thirty five years Madonna has given us plenty of songs 00:20:50 choose from Don't miss border crossings on Thursday August sixteenth at fifteen 00:20:55 hundred universal as we pay tribute to one of the greatest pop stars of all time. 00:21:05 Hello this is shut the follies of those played took out for on the next train to 00:21:10 Africa fresh off 00:21:11 a two nation Africa visit to Zimbabwe and Malawi shocked the sunny talked about the 00:21:16 fascinating people he met and the challenges he encountered reporting on democracy 00:21:21 in Africa on the road with Shaka on the next day to Africa tune in to one of the 00:21:27 day that you neglect to use the great here Africa. 00:21:37 From the Voice of America this is international edition Japan's and verbal take 00:21:42 part in an annual memorial ceremony honoring war dead on Wednesday Reuters 00:21:47 graciously reports it will be the last time Akihito will do so as reigning Emperor 00:21:53 . Actions speak louder than words when it comes to Japanese Emperor Akihito. 00:22:01 Force three decades he's visited countless war memorials across Asia and beyond 00:22:06 seeking to heal the wounds of 00:22:07 a war waged in his father's name but Akihito is set to abdicate this room next year 00:22:13 and on Wednesday Hill honors awarded for the last time as reigning emperor on the 00:22:18 anniversary of Japan's World War two surrender in my mind more specifically. The 00:22:24 first. Thing he did was to. Console the 00:22:31 soul of the boy that in an exclusive interview 00:22:34 a former senior aide MCO to what to Nabil told Reuters he's seen first hand 00:22:39 a key to push for reconciliation because of his. Soul. Five sort of. 00:22:46 Truth truth and you always have to look for truth is in 00:22:53 a way. I had to say about science in June two thousand and five sixty years 00:22:59 after a bloody World War two battle Akihito and his wife stood head bowed at 00:23:05 a seaside cliff on side Pat They paid their respects that memorials not only for 00:23:09 Japanese but also for American and Korean War dead though politicians have 00:23:15 sometimes undercut official apologies Akihito message has remained consistent he 00:23:20 has really made it his business to expand the role of the Emperor and all sorts of 00:23:26 ways but in terms of addressing history issues and what he thinks was the resolve 00:23:33 to linger 00:23:34 a legacies of his father's raying when Akihito steps down next year he'll be the 00:23:40 first Japanese emperor to abdicate in two centuries however his decades of work 00:23:45 leaves behind 00:23:46 a promising legacy his heir Prince Naruhito holds similar views about teaching the 00:23:51 tragedies of war that was Reuters reporter Grace Lee Aretha Franklin is known 00:23:57 throughout the music industry as the queen of soul 00:24:00 a person close to Franklin who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the 00:24:04 person was not allowed to publicly talk about the topic told the Associated Press 00:24:08 on Monday that the singer is seriously ill and provided no additional details as 00:24:14 the news has spread so did an outpouring of support and musical tributes A.P. 00:24:19 Entertainment editor Oscar Wells Gabriel reports. I think it was fate that brought 00:24:25 beyond Sade to liberate the Franklins own backyard Detroit last night but there she 00:24:29 was at Ford Field performing with her husband Jay Z. 00:24:32 As part of this summer tour the expressions of support for Franklin began well 00:24:36 before the headliners took the stage D.J. 00:24:38 Can lead to hype the crowd by playing one of those biggest hits respect they did. 00:24:43 What Free Press reports that during the show beyond say dedicated her performance 00:24:48 to Franklin and express thanks to her for the beautiful music she has done during 00:24:51 her career the show came the same day 00:24:53 a source close to Franklin told the Associated Press that the singer is seriously 00:24:58 ill. 00:25:10 Perhaps Missy Elliott put it best when she wrote on Twitter that the ten point to 00:25:13 give props to iconic performers while they are still here with us she says 00:25:18 a way to Franklin certainly deserves such praise for giving us decades of timeless 00:25:22 music the right to carry also expressed concern in the wake of news that the queen 00:25:26 of soul is ailing saying that she is praying for Franklin to recover 00:25:30 a Moscow because Gabriel before I go today on this day back in one thousand nine 00:25:35 hundred international forces including U.S. 00:25:38 Marines entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion now 00:25:42 a Chinese organization called the ITOCHU on or the Society for the righteous and 00:25:46 harmonious fest led the uprising in the northern part of China against the spread 00:25:51 of Western and Japanese M fluence that movement had between summer of fifty 00:25:56 thousand and one hundred thousand members the rebels were referred to by westerners 00:26:00 as boxers and this was because they perform physical exercises 00:26:04 a special kind of Chinese martial arts that some call Chinese boxing boxers killed 00:26:09 foreigners Chinese Christians and destroyed foreign property the uprising in did in 00:26:14 one thousand one with the boxer protocol and that is going to do it for today's 00:26:19 international edition Patrice Martin director the program and Nash one college 00:26:24 engineer the broadcast but before I go today I would like to thank you for taking 00:26:28 time out of your day to join us now to keep up with the latest pictures videos 00:26:33 stories and more be sure to follow the voice of America on You Tube Facebook 00:26:37 Twitter and Instagram I'm Steve Miller in Washington have 00:26:41 a terrific Tuesday. I've 00:26:50 . 00:27:01 Pledged an editorial reflecting the views of the United States government religious 00:27:06 freedom is under threat in many parts of the world today indeed 00:27:10 a stunning eighty three percent of the world's population live in nations where 00:27:14 religious freedom is either threatened or even banned said vice president Mike 00:27:18 Pence in 00:27:19 a speech at the ministerial to advance religious freedom the victims of religious 00:27:23 persecution faced economic sanctions they're often arrested and imprisoned they are 00:27:28 the target of mob violence and state sanctioned terror and all too often those who 00:27:33 believes run counter to their rulers face not just persecution but death warrant Mr 00:27:39 Pence the list of religious freedom violators is long he said their crimes and span 00:27:46 the with of our world in the western hemisphere the Nicaraguan government of Daniel 00:27:51 Ortega is virtually waging war on the Catholic Church said vice president pence for 00:27:56 months Nicaragua's bishops have sought to broker 00:27:59 a national dialogue following pro-democracy protests that swept through the country 00:28:04 earlier this year but government backed mobs armed with machetes and even heavy 00:28:09 weapons have attacked parishes and church properties and bishops and priests have 00:28:14 been physically assaulted by the police father Raul's 00:28:18 a moron is the pastor of Divine Mercy church and is 00:28:21 a hero of the Faith said Mr Pence recently the Ortega government laid siege to his 00:28:27 church after more than two hundred students sought shelter there and two students 00:28:31 lost their lives they joined the more than three hundred fifty courageous 00:28:36 Nicaraguans who have died for the cause of freedom this here alone speaking to 00:28:41 fathers and more and the Nicaraguan people. Vice President Penn said Aap prayers 00:28:46 are with you and the people of America stand with you for freedom of religion and 00:28:51 freedom in Nicaragua. That was an editorial reflecting the views of the United 00:28:58 States government if you have 00:28:59 a comment please write to editorials Vio wave Washington D.C. 00:29:04 Two zero two three seven USA You may also comment and view all our current 00:29:10 editorials at the V.O.A. Editorials home page W W W W V.O.A. 00:29:16 News dot com slash editorial. 00:29:31 Welcome to learning English 00:29:33 a daily thirty minute program from the Voice of America I'm Jonathan evidence and 00:29:39 I'm Ashley Thompson and this program is aimed at English learners so we speak 00:29:46 a little slower and we use words and phrases especially written for people learning 00:29:53 English. Today on the program 00:29:59 you will hear from Brian Lamb and Katie Weaver and on I'm A Teo later Steve Amber 00:30:06 will present our American history series The Making of 00:30:10 a nation but first here is Brian Lamb. A former 00:30:17 advisor to President Donald Trump has released 00:30:22 a recording she says she secretly made inside the White House's 00:30:29 high security situation room. The advisor. 00:30:37 Manigault Newman began serving in the White House shortly after Trump took 00:30:44 office in January twenty seventeen she held the positions of 00:30:51 assistant to the president and director of communications for the Office of Public 00:30:58 Liaison she left her job in the White House last December 00:31:06 Manigault Newman had also worked for Trump during his presidential campaign 00:31:13 she had known him since they worked together in two thousand and four on the first 00:31:19 season of the American reality T.V. 00:31:22 Show The Apprentice Donald Trump presented the show and 00:31:29 Manigault Newman was one of the people competing on it 00:31:35 during the campaign and throughout her White House service men 00:31:41 a gold Newman was publicly supportive of the president and his policies 00:31:48 she had also defended Trump against accusations of racism 00:31:56 Manigault Newman has now written 00:31:58 a book called Unhinged to be released Tuesday about her White House 00:32:05 experiences while publicizing the book she released an audio 00:32:12 recording of 00:32:13 a discussion she says she secretly recorded inside the White House 00:32:21 she says the discussion with White House chief of staff John Kelly took place 00:32:28 in the highly secured SITUATION ROOM. Manigault Newman 00:32:34 released part of the recording Sunday on the N.B.C. 00:32:39 Television show Meet the Press in the recording which the 00:32:45 Associated Press independently listened to Kelly is heard saying he wants to 00:32:52 talk with Manigault Newman about leaving the White House Kelly said 00:32:59 there were some integrity issues related to manage. The issues 00:33:06 were related to her use of government vehicles and money issues and other things 00:33:13 Kelly can be heard saying if we make this 00:33:18 a friendly departure you can look at your time here in the White House as 00:33:24 a year of service to the nation and then you can go on without any type of 00:33:31 difficulty in the future relative to your reputation. Tells 00:33:38 her Manigault Newman says she considered the statement 00:33:44 a threat she has defended her decision to secretly record it and says she 00:33:51 has recorded additional White House conversations that she might be releasing as 00:33:57 well but critics condemned Manigault Nomen for secretly 00:34:03 recording in the White House's SITUATION ROOM The Situation Room was 00:34:10 created by President John F. 00:34:12 Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs disaster in one thousand nine hundred sixty one 00:34:18 according to 00:34:19 a paper published on the Central Intelligence Agency or CIA website. 00:34:27 That crisis showed the need for 00:34:30 a fast and secure communications center to handle large amounts of national 00:34:36 security information coming in from many places to the president since 00:34:42 then the mission of The Situation Room has been to provide up to date intelligence 00:34:49 and crisis support to the National Security Council and the president 00:34:57 in THE SITUATION ROOM is used by the president and his advisors to manage the 00:35:03 nation's most important and secret foreign policy decisions and military 00:35:09 actions in the past this included former President Barack Obama 00:35:16 and his top aides watching in real time the hunting down of Al-Qaeda leader 00:35:23 Osama bin Laden earlier this year the White House said President 00:35:30 Trump met with his top advisors and held meetings in THE SITUATION ROOM before the 00:35:36 launching of air strikes on Syrian military targets the air strikes were 00:35:43 ordered to answer 00:35:44 a chemical weapons attack in Syria some national security 00:35:51 experts and White House officials say Manigault Nomen may have violated ethics and 00:35:58 security rules for making the secret White House Recordings White 00:36:04 House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was quick to criticize her actions 00:36:12 she said the very idea that an employee would secretly record inside the Situation 00:36:18 Room shows 00:36:20 a blatant disregard for our national security. Trump's attorney 00:36:27 Rudy Giuliani told 00:36:29 a morning television show Monday Manigault Newman may have broken the law she's 00:36:36 certainly violating national security regulations which I think have the force of 00:36:42 law he said Ned Pryce served as 00:36:47 a spokesman for the National Security Council in the Obama administration he 00:36:54 told the Associated Press he had never heard of 00:36:58 a more serious breach of protocol Price said while there is no one 00:37:05 at the door of the situation room checking devices there is 00:37:10 a sign posted outside making clear that electronic devices are not permitted 00:37:17 Pryce also questioned why Kelly would have chosen to hold such 00:37:22 a meeting in THE SITUATION ROOM I am Brian LAN. 00:37:39 North and South Korean officials say their leaders will meet in North Korea's 00:37:46 capital Pyongyang in September the announcement followed 00:37:53 high level talks between representatives of both sides on Monday 00:38:00 officials met in Panmunjom the neutral village in the border area that 00:38:07 separates the two Koreas in their statement the officials did 00:38:14 not include 00:38:15 a date for the meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong un and 00:38:22 South Korean president moon J N. Kim and move on met 00:38:28 in April for the first time in Panmunjom in May They 00:38:35 met there again moon will become the first South Korean leader to 00:38:42 visit. If the September meeting takes place the 00:38:49 meeting would continue 00:38:50 a series of diplomatic moves between the two Koreas tensions 00:38:57 between the sides eased when Kim accepted Moon's offer for North 00:39:04 Koreans to take part in the Winter Olympic Games in P. 00:39:09 On time in February that helped lead to historic talks 00:39:16 between Kim and American president Donald Trump in June the 00:39:23 two leaders met and signed an agreement in Singapore the 00:39:29 agreement included 00:39:31 a promise from North Korea to work toward denuclearization of 00:39:38 the Korean Peninsula I'm Katie Weaver. 00:39:57 From V.O.A. 00:39:58 Learning English this is the health and lifestyle report 00:40:04 a new study from brain researchers helps explain how the human brain evolved or 00:40:10 changed over time to permit people to speak and write this new 00:40:17 research may also help people who are learning 00:40:20 a new language Michael Allman is the lead researcher. 00:40:27 He is a professor at Georgetown University Medical School in Washington D.C. 00:40:34 He has been studying language learning for more than twenty years old and says 00:40:41 his research shows that the human brain does not have 00:40:45 a special area or system for making language over time he says 00:40:53 we have simply reuse or co-opted parts of our brain for language 00:41:00 and those parts he says are ancient older even then humans themselves 00:41:08 if study examined the theoretical framework that language 00:41:15 is Lauren storage and processed in. Time. 00:41:22 You exist in human learning and memory of the brain and you have zero 00:41:29 option. For language in humans non-human animals have 00:41:36 these systems to add one of the study's co-authors Philip Hamrick 00:41:43 is with Kent State University in Ohio in 00:41:47 a press statement he explains that rats use the same memory systems to complete 00:41:54 some tests Allman Hamrick and the rest of the team looked at data from 00:42:01 sixteen other studies on language they found that people learn language 00:42:08 using two memory systems declarative and procedural 00:42:15 memorizing vocabulary for example is 00:42:18 a declarative memory process but learning grammar is mostly 00:42:24 a procedural memory process. Again here is Professor Allman 00:42:31 declarative memory in humans at least is what we think of as learning or memory 00:42:37 such as oh I remember what you that last night or things like that and procedural 00:42:42 members but we often call older memories such as how you want to ride 00:42:47 a bicycle or he adds how to conjugate verbs these 00:42:54 procedural memory skills become so deeply learned that we are no longer aware that 00:43:01 we are doing them however Ulman explains that the two long term memory 00:43:07 systems can share tasks and he adds the adult brain uses the 00:43:14 systems to learn language a bit differently then 00:43:18 a child's brain adult learners of a second language and 00:43:24 a lie on learning the grammar and declarative memory early on but eventually they 00:43:29 become just like kids learning the grammar and they depend on procedural memory in 00:43:34 other words adult language learners maybe use their declarative memory for using 00:43:40 grammar patterns they think about it purposefully for 00:43:46 a child the grammar may come more naturally they don't have to think about the 00:43:52 grammar rules before speaking in addition to language learners Ulman study could 00:43:59 help people who have 00:44:00 a brain injury that affects speaking and writing this knowledge can also 00:44:07 help those who have learning disabilities such as dyslexia people 00:44:14 with dyslexia have difficulty identifying words and symbols accurately. 00:44:21 In 00:44:21 a statement to the press Allman said he hopes the new research will lead to exciting 00:44:27 advances in our understanding of language and how both second language learning and 00:44:34 language problems can be improved and that's the health and lifestyle reports I'm 00:44:41 on I'm A tayo. 00:44:54 Welcome to the making of a nation American history in video 00:45:00 a special English I'm Steve vender the day we tell about life in the United 00:45:07 States during the one nine hundred sixty S. 00:45:09 . 00:45:23 The one nine hundred sixty S. 00:45:24 Began with the election of the first president born in the twentieth century John 00:45:31 Kennedy for many Americans a young president represented 00:45:36 a spirit of hope for the nation when Kennedy was murdered in one nine hundred sixty 00:45:42 three many felt that their hopes died too this was especially true of 00:45:49 young people and members and supporters of minority groups 00:45:55 a time of innocence and hope soon began to look Lanka time of anger and violence 00:46:02 many Americans protested to demand an end to the unfair treatment of black 00:46:09 citizens many more protested to demand an end to the war in Vietnam 00:46:16 and many protested their demand full equality for women. By the middle 00:46:23 of the one nine hundred sixty S. 00:46:25 It had become almost impossible for President Lyndon Johnson to leave the White 00:46:30 House without facing protestors against the war in Vietnam in March of one thousand 00:46:37 nine hundred sixty eight Johnson announced that he would not seek another term in 00:46:43 office. In addition to President Kennedy two other influential 00:46:49 Americans who were murdered during the one nine hundred sixty S. 00:46:54 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was shot in Memphis Tennessee in one nine 00:47:01 hundred sixty eight. Several weeks later Robert Kennedy John Kennedy's 00:47:07 brother was shot in Los Angeles California he was campaigning to win his party's 00:47:14 nomination for president. But two 00:47:21 murders resulted in riots in cities across the country be unrest and 00:47:27 violence affected many young Americans the effect seemed especially bad 00:47:34 because of the time in which they had grown up by the middle nineteen fifties most 00:47:40 of their parents had jobs that paid well they expressed satisfaction with their 00:47:47 lives they taught their children what were called middle class values these 00:47:53 included the belief in god hard work and service to their country. 00:48:00 Later many young Americans began to question these beliefs they felt that 00:48:07 their parents' values were not enough to help them deal with the social and racial 00:48:13 difficulties of the one nine hundred sixty S. 00:48:17 They rebelled by letting their hair grow long and by wearing out unusual clothing 00:48:24 their dissatisfaction was strongly expressed in music rock N roll music had 00:48:30 become very popular in America in the one nine hundred fifty S. 00:48:35 Some people however did not approve of it they thought did was too sexual these 00:48:41 people disliked but rock'n'roll of the nineteen sixty's even more they found the 00:48:47 words as especially young pleasant the musicians themselves thought the words were 00:48:54 extremely important as thing are and songwriter Bob Dylan said there would be no 00:49:01 music without the words Bob Dylan produced many songs of social 00:49:07 protest. He wrote antiwar songs before the war in Vietnam became 00:49:14 a violent issue in the United States one was called Blowin In The Wind. 00:49:23 Walked down the phone. On him. 00:49:31 This season must know what I say. 00:49:43 To him but. Never. 00:49:52 Somehow frame this longing we. Go on. 00:50:00 In addition to songs of social protest rock N roll music continued to be popular in 00:50:06 America during the one nine hundred sixty S. 00:50:10 The most popular group however was not American it was British the Beatles 00:50:17 rock N roll is 00:50:18 a Sherman's from Liverpool. The 00:50:42 Beatles song I Want To Hold Your Ham went on sale Ian video United States happy end 00:50:48 of one nine hundred sixty three within five weeks it was the biggest selling record 00:50:54 in the country. 00:51:25 Other songs including some by the Beatles sounded more revolutionary they spoke 00:51:31 about drugs and sex although not always open like. 00:51:48 In the one nine hundred sixty S. 00:51:50 Do your own thing became 00:51:51 a common expression it meant to do whatever you wanted without feeling guilty. 00:52:02 Five hundred thousand young Americans did their own thing at 00:52:06 a Woodstock Music Festival in one nine hundred sixty nine. 00:52:16 They gathered at 00:52:17 a farm in New York State. They listened to musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and Joan 00:52:24 Baez and to groups like The Who and Jefferson Airplane. 00:52:42 Woodstock became 00:52:43 a symbol of the young people's rebellion against traditional values. 00:52:53 Many young people call themselves if it's hippies believe there should be more love 00:52:59 than personal freedom in America. In one nine hundred sixty seven poet 00:53:06 Allen Ginsberg helped lead 00:53:08 a gathering of hippies in San Francisco no one knows exactly how many people 00:53:15 considered themselves hippies but twenty thousand at tended the gathering. 00:53:22 Another leader of the event was Timothy Levy. Anarchy. 00:53:30 He was 00:53:30 a former university professor and researcher Leary urged the crowd in San Francisco 00:53:38 to tune in and drop out this man they should use drugs and leave school 00:53:45 or their job. 00:53:54 One drug that was used in the nineteen sixty's was lysergic acid diethylamide or 00:54:00 L.S.D. . EMMONS D. 00:54:04 Causes the brain to see strange colorful images it can also cause brain 00:54:10 damage. 00:54:23 Some people say the Beatles song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds was about L.S.D. 00:54:30 . When I take that. And add in the 00:54:37 whole we may not be giving it 00:54:39 a bad all day but don't you. As many Americans were listening to songs about drugs 00:54:46 and sex many others were watching television programs with traditional family 00:54:52 values these include in the end the Griffith Show and The Beverly Hillbillies at 00:54:59 the movies some films captured the rebellious spirit of the times these included 00:55:06 the graduate and Dr Strangelove the tell us is the author of producing in the mind 00:55:13 of. The fear threats are also because of the ultimate. 00:55:21 Decision making process which arose out of meddling but the state machine 00:55:28 is terrifying. Circle to understand I'm completely fed up of 00:55:34 argument she I wish we had one of Doomsday Machine. 00:56:02 Other films offered escape through Spy adventures like the James Bond films 00:56:09 many Americans refuse to tune in and drop out in the one nine hundred sixty S. 00:56:15 They took no part in the social revolution instead they continued leading normal 00:56:22 lives of work family and home. Others the activists of American 00:56:29 society were busy fighting for peace and racial and social justice. 00:56:38 And. 00:56:46 Women's groups for example were seeking quality with men they wanted the same 00:56:53 chances as men they get a good education and 00:56:56 a good job they also demanded equal pay for equal work 00:57:03 a widely popular book on women in modern America was called The Feminine Mystique 00:57:10 it was written by Betty for than and published in one thousand nine hundred sixty 00:57:15 three the idea known as The Feminine Mystique was the traditional Lybia 00:57:22 that women have only one part to play in society they are to have children and 00:57:29 stay at home to raise them in her book MS for Dan urged women to establish 00:57:35 professional lives of their own. In the early one nine hundred sixty S. 00:57:41 a Committee was appointed to investigate the condition of women it was led by 00:57:48 Eleanor Roosevelt she was 00:57:50 a former first lady. The committee's findings helped lead to new rules and 00:57:57 laws the one nine hundred sixty four Civil Rights Act guaranteed equal treatment 00:58:04 for all groups this included women after the law went into effect however 00:58:11 many activists said it was not being enforced the National Organization for 00:58:18 Women now was started in an effort to correct the problem the movement for 00:58:25 women's equality was known as the women's liberation movement activists were called 00:58:32 women's libbers they called each other sisters early activists were usually 00:58:39 rich liberal white women later activists included women of all 00:58:45 ages women of color rich and poor educated and educated 00:58:52 they acted together the when recognition for the work done by all women in America 00:58:59 . And that's our program for today 00:59:07 listen again tomorrow to learn English three stories from around the world I'm 00:59:13 Jonathan Evans and I'm Ashley Thompson. 00:59:29 This is feel a News I'm Tom 00:59:30 a big need. To tell you no Thora they say at least thirty five people have been 00:59:35 killed when 00:59:36 a bridge appearing in vehicles partially collapsed in the northern part of the city 00:59:40 of Genoa Tuesday during a ten storm A.P. 00:59:43 Correspondent Charles de la Desmond reports the disaster which occurred on 00:59:47 a major highway that connects Italy to France.