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fridays are awesome i had to make that a
good one because i'll only be able to
say it on air one more time this season
i m carl azuz welcome to the show the
coronavirus pandemic has officially
found its way to north korea we say
officially because this is a secretive
tightly controlled communist country and
while it's probably had coveted cases
before this month marked the first time
an outbreak was reported by north korean
media which are controlled by the
government the nation's borders have
been closed since january of 2020 but
unusual cargo flights have been observed
this week traveling between north korea
and china that country is considered
north korea's closest ally and while
observers don't know exactly what's on
these flights china has promised to help
north korea with its covet outbreak so
the planes are thought to be carrying
some kind of aid to the korean peninsula
since last week north korea has reported
almost 2 million cases of what it calls
fever government media say it's a major
national emergency the silver lining is
that the main variant of covid that's
spreading right now is the omicron
strain it's less severe than previous
versions of the disease but it spreads
very easily vaccines do not prevent
people from catching and spreading covet
according to u.s government health
officials but they say the shots can
help prevent serious illness and
hospitalizations from the disease thing
is north korea is so closed off and
impoverished that the impact of kovid
could be worse there than it is in other
countries still the country continues to
cause controversy by test-firing
missiles into the ocean a way of
asserting its military power and
threatening its rivals
this is likely the first time we've seen
north korean leader kim jong-un wear a
mask in public since the pandemic began
ordering all cities to lock down after
admitting the first covert 19 case in
pyongyang we think
that there have probably been cases
before but they haven't admitted them
and the fact that they've admitted them
now would indicate that there's really
no hiding it the number of cases of the
omicron variant are unknown but north
korea is one of only two countries in
the world believed to have delivered
zero coveted vaccinations even in other
settings where there's very low
immunization coverage
presumably there would be a
higher levels of prior exposure and so
this is really a unique uh
situation that we have in in north korea
right now kovacs the global vaccine
sharing hub has moved to a needs-based
vaccine allocation saying it's currently
not committed any for north korea
pyongyang last year is believed to have
rejected vaccines from china according
to the un china now says it is ready to
provide its full support the level of
testing is low up until march 31st just
64 000 people had been tested out of a
population of over 25 million since the
pandemic began and health infrastructure
in the country is fragile at best even
developed health systems around the
world have struggled under omicron
outbreaks i would imagine that in north
korea the high levels of malnutrition
may be an additional risk factor for
severe disease and death associated with
copenhagen right now it is a population
under lockdown in a country not set up
for delivery of food and survival items
extended isolation could have a serious
impact on future food supply already at
a crisis in the country could affect
agriculture
and harvest
it could affect
obviously you know interior commerce uh
within the country the ability of the
public distribution system which is
already you know not working very well
uh to function as many experts wondered
whether an omicron outbreak would halt
its recent run on missile and weapons
tests pyongyang answered thursday
evening with another launch paula hancox
cnn seoul
ten-second trivia which of these events
was held for the first time in 1991
summer olympics in barcelona fifa
women's world cup consumer electronics
show or mlb game at tropicana field
the fifa women's world cup has been held
every four years since 1991.
for the first time a soccer federation
will split its pay and prize money
evenly between its men's and women's
national teams that federation is u.s
soccer after years of legal battles with
female soccer players the organization
announced this week that it would pay
men and women the same amount when they
compete on u.s national soccer teams
like the ones that play in the world cup
this agreement does not apply to all
professional soccer players in america
men's salaries across the sport still
far exceed those of women but for
players on the u.s national teams the
agreement that lasts through 2028 aims
to give men and women equal pay and
equal benefits fifa the international
soccer association will still give
millions more in prize money to world
cup men's teams than it will to world
cup women's teams but u.s soccer will
now evenly split that money between
american men and women on one hand this
means members of the u.s men's national
team may have to give up some of their
pay so that members of the women's
national team are compensated the same
on the other the u.s women's team has
been far more successful in the world
cup
it's a game changing deal i am just so
incredibly proud of what we've achieved
in a new contract u.s soccer women and
men's player associations agreeing to
equal pay for all players
both men and women will now get around
450 thousand dollars a year commercial
and event revenue will be divvied up the
team's also shaking hands on sharing
world cup prize money a first of any
soccer organization in the world
that part of today's agreement
especially notable
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as the women's team clinched the last
two world cups for overall the men
haven't won yet the women's 2015 win
netted less than 2 million dollars while
the men made more than 5 million losing
in the round of 16 the year before that
propelled a movement for equal pay
today's deal is the culmination of that
battle between the u.s soccer federation
and prominent members of the u.s women's
team who filed a federal wage complaint
in 2016 and a gender discrimination
lawsuit in 2019. players settled the
suit earlier this year for 24 million
dollars this comes at a pivotal time as
the men head to qatar later this year
for the 2022 world cup bringing grass
cnn new york
a lot of times when you envision a
sinkhole you probably picture something
like this a crater that opens up in a
road or parking lot and needs to be
filled not far from a village in china
something a little more expansive was
recently discovered but it was not
recently formed you are looking at a
giant sinkhole that's roughly 650 feet
deep and it's old how old is it well
it's said to have an ancient forest
growing in the bottom so it's been
sunken long enough for that the trees
stretch 130 feet high the plants are up
to a person's shoulders experts say it's
possible that new species will be
discovered here this is one of 30
sinkholes that have been found in this
part of southern china giant landforms
like it are relatively common in that
country as well as mexico and papua new
guinea
among the many treasures people have
found at the beach dentures are probably
the last thing a vacationer in gulf
shores alabama expected to see they
actually scared me i was like
yeah i said where's the rest of this
guy's teeth
thankfully the rest of them were in his
head but an unexpected wave had
literally knocked another man's teeth
out and it wasn't until a few days later
that a swimmer looked down and saw them
smiling back up at him in the water the
owner's name was printed on the dentures
so with little social media legwork the
swimmer located and returned the teeth
but not before taking them on a bit of a
road trip
a bit of a road trip to be told that
story's gold it's teething with
excitement what biter way to make a
bridge between two strangers than to
have one give a denton to another's root
problem it's a crowning achievement you
can see why we're enameled with it and
happy to use it to fill our show warwick
veterans middle school has been chomping
at the bit for a shout out great to see
you our viewers in warwick rhode island
we have one week left to go in our
spring broadcasting season up carl azuz
for cnn
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