VOA [Voice of America] Global English : April 14, 2020 08:00PM-09:00PM EDT

Closed captions transcript: 00:00:00 Revues the agency's handling of the corona virus pandemic John said late Tuesday 00:00:05 the w.h.o. Played 00:00:07 a role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of Corona virus he 00:00:12 contends the un agency failed to carry out what he said was its basic duty to 00:00:17 investigate the early reports of the virus that are coming out of China when the 00:00:22 outbreak began in December there's been no reaction so far from the w.h.o. 00:00:27 Trump has been on the defensive recently because of accusations in the media and 00:00:31 elsewhere that he failed to recognize the seriousness of the corona virus outbreak 00:00:36 early enough to get the u.s. 00:00:38 More time to prepare. India France and Nigeria are among several countries whose 00:00:44 leaders are extending lockdowns aimed at stopping the spread of the novel 00:00:48 coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases worldwide approaches 2000000 with the 00:00:54 number of infections in his country at close 211000 Indian Prime Minister Nuri Modi 00:01:00 announced Tuesday 00:01:01 a nationwide lockdown would run through May the 3rd French president Emmanuel 00:01:06 McCrone gave 00:01:07 a late Monday televised address saying France's lockdown would last through May the 00:01:11 11th Nigeria is also adding 2 more weeks to lockdown orders for major cities well 00:01:18 Turkish for president President Reagan. Said 48 hour weekend lockdown would be 00:01:24 repeated this week by far the most cases have been found in the United States which 00:01:29 accounts for close 260-0000 known infections around one 3rd of confirmed cases 00:01:35 worldwide the hardest hit area is the state of New York there are more than 106700 00:01:41 cases in New York City and 195000 cases in the entire state that's more than Spain 00:01:47 or Italy. This is the. Reopening the economy has led to 00:01:54 a spat between the New York governor and the president on Monday New York Governor 00:01:58 Andrew Cuomo announced he and 6 other state governors have established 00:02:02 a coalition to coordinate plans to reopen businesses 00:02:06 a question about that move President Donald Trump declared Monday he had total 00:02:10 authority to determine when states could begin to reopen their economies will no 00:02:14 responded on Tuesday he said attempts by Trump to apply federal authority over the 00:02:19 states would trigger 00:02:21 a constitutional crisis also Tuesday California Governor Gavin Newsome one of the 00:02:26 1st state governors to tell people to stay home was expected to announce his 00:02:30 administration's plan for allowing Californians to begin to resume their normal 00:02:35 activities it was 00:02:37 a good day on Wall Street Tuesday big gains for all 3 major indexes on optimistic 00:02:41 coronavirus news the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 559 points it closed up 2 00:02:48 percent s. And p. 00:02:49 $500.00 was 3.3 percent higher and the Nasdaq rose 00:02:53 a hefty 4 percent European markets are mixed London was off 00:02:56 a fraction while Frankfurt and Paris were both one percent higher Asia also had 00:03:01 a good day Tuesday the Nikkei Index was up 3 percent South Korea Australia and 00:03:06 Shanghai all 2 percent higher and Hong Kong also closed up 00:03:10 a fraction. A lawsuit filed in federal court claims Liberty University failed to 00:03:15 protect its students by inviting them back to campus during 00:03:19 a covert 900 stay at home order in the Us state of Virginia 00:03:23 a class action suit filed by a plaintiffs known as student 00:03:26 a says liberty urged by remaining open and inviting students back to campus 00:03:32 potentially exposing them to the coronavirus which much of the world is in 00:03:36 isolation to avoid the student says students who lived on campus and on campus 00:03:41 housing were not expressly forced to move out of their housing Well the 00:03:45 university's president Jerry Falwell Jr tried to downplay the significance of the 00:03:50 pandemic the lawsuit questions Falwell's comparison of covert 19 to seasonal flu 00:03:56 and his comments made during 00:03:57 a March 13th interview on Fox News that people were overreacting to the coronavirus 00:04:03 lawsuit also takes issue with speculation during that interview that the virus was 00:04:07 a quote Christmas present from China and North Korea. Former us President Barack 00:04:13 Obama on Tuesday endorsed his former 2nd in command Joe Biden for the Democratic 00:04:18 presidential nomination saying Biden was a clear choice to challenge 00:04:22 a Republican president Donald Trump in November's presidential election Obama said 00:04:28 the country's future hangs on this election and added it would not be easy to 00:04:32 defeat Trump Trump had never held political office before when he won an upset 00:04:37 victory in 2016 over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Support of 00:04:43 Obama who still support among Democrats could help by Biden win the nomination. 00:04:51 Feel he can. Just pick. The best music. 00:05:10 To come you know meet. As it may 00:05:17 be. Our own skew. 00:05:28 South homes. Have 00:05:31 a chance. To 00:05:38 see Hackett's. Say. Its failure. 00:05:45 To move its. 00:05:59 Law. To. 00:06:11 Pull up. 00:06:18 Paddle. Claims. 00:06:26 Act can't. Change. 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Mr John said the United States has 01:00:10 a duty to insist on full accountability and accuse the organization of failing to 01:00:16 obtain and share information on the virus in a timely fashion the w.h.o. 01:00:21 Failed in its basic duty Trump said in his daily coronavirus Task Force briefing he 01:00:26 also touted his own decision to close off the United States from travelers coming 01:00:30 to China insisting that his decision saved thousands of lives India France and 01:00:36 Nigeria are among several countries whose leaders are extending lockdowns aimed at 01:00:41 stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases 01:00:46 worldwide approaches 2000000 with the number of infections in his country at close 01:00:51 211000 Indian prime minister Narendra.