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Many of Peru’s younger people have been protesting their government. They want changes to the constitution and reform of a corrupt congress. They have had three Presidents in one week. They want to fix the mistakes of other generations. Many plans to vote in the election. The young people who are called “bicentennials” vow to keep protesting until they have real change.

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LIMA - Grace Yarango is only 18 and she's already helped take down a president. Now she-and many other of Peru's millennials and Generation Z youth-have their eyes on bigger prizes: changes to the constitution and reforming a widely reviled Congress.

Peru's younger generation-dubbed the 'bicentennials' in reference to the 200-year anniversary of Peruvian independence next year-were at the heart of recent protests that led to the resignation of the country's interim president on Sunday.

The appointment of socially liberal lawmaker Francisco Sagasti on Tuesday-Peru's third president in just over a week - has restored some calm, but the crisis has ignited wider anger at the country's political classes and rampant corruption.

That could see Peru follow in the footsteps of Andean neighbor Chile, which in the wake of fiery street demonstrations last year is now rewriting its constitution.

"We want to fix the mistakes of past generations," said Yarango, who expects to vote for the first time next year, in elections scheduled for April. "I feel part of this bicentennial generation, we want a better country."

The protests were sparked by the abrupt removal in an impeachment trial on Nov. 9 of popular, centrist leader Martin Vizcarra by an opposition-led Congress, many of whom had been angered by Vizcarra's anti-graft measures. Young Peruvians railed against the lawmakers as corrupt, waving banners calling for constitutional change.

"There are no clean lawmakers," said Angelica Guerra, 20, heading to a protest in downtown Lima on Tuesday.

Peru's bicentennials could be crucial in the April election. Those between 20-34 years of age make up about 40% of those of mandatory voting age, official figures show. They have grown up in a rapidly changing Peru, which has seen years of strong economic growth on the back of mining exports and given them access to communication tools and information their parents could never have imagined.

Over half of those aged 18-24 said they took part in various anti-government protests this month, whether by marching or pot-banging in the streets, a poll by think-tank IEP showed. That compared to a third of those aged over 40.

Some 90% of Peruvians polled said they disapproved of Congress, and 65% did not identify with any political party, a potentially volatile mix as the economy battles a deep contraction after being hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

Political leaders are starting to take note.

"The great citizen movement today belongs to the youth," Sagasti, 76, said in his inaugural address after taking office.

"We have to call on the youth of all ages because there are adults who have a young spirit of rebellion, the youthful spirit of seeking a better country, and that is what we need."

Reuters spoke to over a dozen Peruvians, mostly in their twenties, who vowed to keep protesting until the country's leaders agreed to real change. Gathering in Lima's Plaza San Martin earlier this week, they were draped in red and white flags and bearing signs saying 'bicentennials.'

Many said they wanted to see Peru's unicameral Congress overhauled. Others wanted a new constitution to replace what they described as an illegitimate magna carta, created by former strong-man President Alberto Fujimori in 1993, before many of them were born.

Most did not fully witness the violence of Fujimori's government, but have seen one president after another become embroiled in corruption scandals.

"People are expecting not just for the presidents to change, but for the institutions to change," said Cesar Landa, a leading constitutional lawyer. "This is a constitution-making moment."

But challenges remain. The movement as yet has no visible leaders, and anyone under 25 is too young to run for Congress themselves.

The protests also met with fierce resistance from security forces, who were widely criticized by human rights organizations for use of excessive force. There are ongoing investigations.

And none of the political parties have made targeting young voters a cornerstone of their strategy - so far. But Peru's youth has demographics on its side.

"Our generation has come together for this," said 20-year-old Evelyn Borja. "This is the first time I feel a part of politics."
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Peru's youth has taken down a president. They want to see more change.

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LIMA - Grace Yarango is only 18 and she's already helped take down a president. Now she-and many other of Peru's millennials and Generation Z youth-have their eyes on bigger prizes: changes to the constitution and reforming a widely reviled Congress.

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Florida is issued a tropical storm warning after Cuba had been slammed by a category 4 hurricane, killing around 100 people. The hurricane also struck in Honduras as one of the most powerful storms to hit central america in years.

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Ryan- Corona virus statistics and numbers on how many people died may not be known for a couple years. Mexico is currently the fourth highest in the world for cases with 76,430 deaths and 730,000 cases, but they only count deaths that happened after someone tested positive before dying.

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Puerto Rico gears up to vote in statehood referendum this November

In the last four years, Puerto Rico’s billion dollar debt crisis, devastation caused by hurricanes, earthquakes, and the mass exodus of half a million to the mainland, have all thrown the territory’s relationship to the U.S. in the national spotlight. This November, Puerto Ricans will vote in the statehood referendum of 2020, which asks a question that has been at the heart of Puerto Rican politics for decades: Should the territory be admitted to the union as a state? Ivette Feliciano reports.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52711458 This article is about the number of cases per day in Latin America. Also if it's spreading or not. According to the article, Brazil has the second highest death toll in the world, which I found surprising. This means Peru is pretty prone to the coronavirus.

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Venezuela’s broken oil industry is spewing crude into the Caribbean Sea

Venezuela’s oil industry is falling apart due to years of mismanagement, corruption, and falling prices. Analysts warn that ruptured pipelines, rusting tankers and rickety refineries are contributing to an ecological disaster. Between 2010 and 2016, the PDVSA was responsible for more than 46,000 spills of crude and other pollutants. In 2016, state engineers estimated that tens of thousands of gallons of oil were seeping into the lake each month.

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2 Hurricanes Could Form In Gulf Of Mexico Next Week — An Apparent First

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Dean Tran

Two hurricanes have been predicted to hit Louisiana next week. The two hurricanes are named Marco and Laura. Even though the two hurricanes are hundreds of miles apart they are believed to overlap at a certain point. The two hurricanes aren't a hundred percent sure going to hit landforms as hurricanes since their paths might diverge or they might die out.

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Rebecca Del Secco

Fred Barrett was preparing for Texas to have heavy rain and flooding and heavy wind. The epa did not report any leakage but the floods could've gotten carried offsite. More then 700 of the 945 sites and vunlerable to climate change are in 100 years flood plains which means they have more chances of flooding in a year.

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Donald Trump has just sent $13billion in disaster aid. Congress had approved the funding but Donald Trumps administration had been holding back for months. The small island had faced a large hurricane that crippled its economy and housing. Trump said "I'm the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico" but many are asking. Why? Trump's is running for re-election and many of the voters in Florida are Puerto Ricans after the hurricane meaning that in order to gain the states support in the coming election he must send aid to the U.S. territory.

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Opinion: Puerto Rico needs more than Trump's cynical ploy

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As Puerto Ricans still suffer from the effects of 2017's Hurricane Maria, Donald Trump has finally decided it is time to send the island $13 billion in disaster aid. Former Congressman Luis V. Gutiérrez writes that the timing is "no coincidence" given that Puerto Ricans make up almost a third of eligible Hispanic voters in the battleground state of Florida.

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Summary: Locusts swarmed crops in Brazil but no one knew where they came from. The insects travel very fast so people think they came from Africa.

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In pictures: Ash covers Ecuador farming land

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Summary: On Sunday, one of Ecuador's most active volcanoes erupted. The ash has covered. 80,000 hectares of farming land. The volcano isn't surrounded by civilization but when the volcano erupted the ashes (with help from wind) traveled all the way to Ecuador's agriculture and cow lands. Ecuador has had to clean up ash off of crops and have also had to use food ration for the cattle.

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Sangay is one of eight volcanoes on the Ecuadorean mainland which have been active in the past five centuries. The other seven are Cotopaxi, Tungurahua, El Reventador, Cayambe, Guagua Pichincha, Chacana and Sumaco.

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'I thought I was going to die.' Inside Venezuela's mandatory quarantine motels

Venezualans exposed to covid 19 are put in Quarintine motels. are more acuratly a prison as everything from eating to sleeping is controled and overveiw by the venizualian goverment. poorly maintained, crowded and unsanitary, these Quarantine Motelsbeing called are often hotspots for covid 19 are an understatment as most are infested with vermin.

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Mexico violence: Gunmen kill six at wake in Morelos

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Mexico violence: Gunmen kill six at wake in Morelos

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In Mexico this year there has been one of the highest records of murders . In genereal though, there has been a lot of crime, murdering, kipnapping and violence going on in Mexico. Recently there was a shooting that killed 6 people in Cuernavaca, Mexico. There was a group gathered together mourning the loss of a kid who died in a motorcycle accident when some men came with guns and fired over 60 shots. Some died at the scene and one died on the way to the hospital, sadly two of the people that were killed were children. Unfortunatley, the motive is unknown and no one has been arrested yet.

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President López Obrador said that his government was combating the causes of crime by "providing work, education and welfare for people who are at risk of being recruited by criminal groups, especially the young".

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Mexico violence: Gunmen kill six at wake in Morelos

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President López Obrador said that his government was combating the causes of crime by "providing work, education and welfare for people who are at risk of being recruited by criminal groups, especially the young".

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Jaci Paraná, Porto Velho - State of Rondônia, Brazil

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Jaci Paraná, Porto Velho - State of Rondônia, Brazil

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Jaci Paraná, Porto Velho - State of Rondônia, Brazil

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For the second consecutive year, fires continue to rage at high levels through the Amazon in Brazil. Raising concerns among scientists that the rainforest's destruction could eventually reach a point of no return. As the trend goes on, the Amazon is heading toward a tipping point, when large areas of the rainforest will no longer be able to produce enough rain to sustain itself. Once that happens, the rainforest will begin to die, eventually turning into savannah. This could be very dangerous because the Amazon rainforest is considered to be the Earth's air conditioner.

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Fires continue to rage at high levels through the Amazon in Brazil for the second consecutive year, raising concerns among scientists that the rainforest's destruction could eventually reach a point of no return.

Since Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took office, governmental measures to curb illegal fires have shown little impact, as flames and deforestation erase vast swathes of the world's biggest rainforest.

Most fires in the Amazon are set by land-grabbers and wildcat ranchers, seeking to transform parts of the rainforest into their own lucrative agricultural enterprises. And this August was a particularly bad time for such fires: Preliminary data collected by the National Spatial Research Institute (INPE) show 29,307 fires in the Brazilian Amazon last month.

However, due to a technical issue with the NASA satellite tracking fires, experts say that figure could be even higher. The final tally of fires recorded in August is expected to rise 2% above the August 2019 total, says Albert Setzer, INPE's senior scientist - which would make this August the worst in 10 years.

The more fires there are, the faster the rainforest is transformed into grasslands for illicit cattle and soy-growing operations. According to research from NGO MapBiomas, which tracks land use in Brazil, 95% of the deforested area in Brazil in 2019 wasn't authorized. "Most of (the fires) are illegal," said Tasso Azevedo, a former head of Brazil's forest service and coordinator of MapBiomas.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon biome reached 1,830 square miles, an area bigger than Rhode Island state, in the period from January to July 2020,. August figures for deforestation are yet to be released.

A tipping point?

As the trend goes on, the Amazon is speeding toward a tipping point, when large areas of the rainforest will no longer be able to produce enough rain to sustain itself, according to Carlos Nobre, one of Brazil's leading climate scientists and researcher at the University of Sao Paulo.

Once that happens, the rainforest will begin to die, eventually turning into savannah, said Nobre.

The Amazon serves as an " air conditioner " for the planet, scientists say, influencing global temperature and rainfall patterns. And a healthy Amazon also absorbs carbon dioxide, while fires do the opposite, releasing massive quantities of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The Brazilian Amazon's deforestation has accelerated since Bolsonaro took office in 2019, and environmentalists accuse the president of encouraging development on protected lands.

Pressure from international investors and companies this summer pushed the Brazilian President to issue a 120-day moratorium on July 15, banning fires in the Amazon and in the Pantanal, which is the world´s largest wetland area.

However, INPE´s data appears to show that the ban was utterly ignored. From July 15 to the end of August, the fires in Amazon remained at the same level (around 35,000) and almost quadrupled (from 2035 to 7320 fires) in the Pantanal, compared to the same period in 2019.

The haze we see over the Amazon is actually smoke from the vast burning of the region. In the center of this photo you see a massive concentration of smoke. #savetheamazon #savetheplanet pic.twitter.com/uWooqTT6zx
- Chris Cassidy (@Astro_SEAL) August 20, 2020

Brazil also launched Operation Green Brazil 2 in May, which mobilized the Armed Forces to fight deforestation and fires in the Amazon together with the federal environmental agencies and local police forces.

But they too failed to halt the Amazon's destruction, acknowledged Vice-President Hamilton Mourão, who led the operation. "We are late in the fight against deforestation," Mourão said in a Sept. 4 press conference, asking for more time to show results.

The last frontier: Amazonas

The Brazilian state of Amazonas is one of the last frontiers where forests remain mostly preserved. But even there, illegal operations of loggers and ranchers are expanding.

Deforestation has grown 209% in Amazonas state since Bolsonaro took office - erasing 844 square miles of forest in less than two years.

Unregulated agricultural expansion drives local small farmers and ranchers further into the forest every year. "The lands that are closer to the main roads are more concentrated in the possession of a few big landowners, so landowners with less economic power are pushed further into the forest, whether by economic pressure, political pressure or by the use of violence," said Rômulo Batista, senior forest campaigner of Greenpeace.

The most degraded areas border two federal highways in the south of Amazonas. In the city of Apuí, near to the junction of both roads, deforestation reached 110 square miles last year - almost twice the deforestation of 2018.

And every time the agricultural frontier is pushed inside the forest, the Amazon gets closer to its tipping point.

One symptom of the accelerating deforestation is longer dry seasons, Nobre said. This will initially be felt in Brazil and elsewhere in South America, as the Amazon generates a great part of the rains for the rest of the country, and also affects the rains in neighboring Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina.

And even farmers and ranchers will feel the consequences. "This 'savannah-ization' of the Amazon will lead to a reduction in rainfall that will affect especially the agricultural sector, which is driving deforestation further. It's a real shot in the foot," Batista said.

If the Amazon one day disappeared altogether, Brazil's rainfall on average would be reduced by up to 25%, predicts one modeling exercise by researchers at Princeton University. Average temperatures would also be expected to rise 2 degrees in Brazil and 0.25 degrees worldwide.

Nobre predicts that the tipping point for when the Amazon can no longer sustain itself lies between 20% and 25% of deforestation. So far, it has lost 17% of its original area, according to INPE.

"It's hard to say when it's going to happen, but we are seeing that it is coming faster than we previously thought," Nobre said.

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Aideen Gaskell--Experts: Venezuela Is 'Worst Case Scenario' for Coronavirus

In Venezuela, experts are worried that the Coronavirus may take over the country. This is due to the uncontrolled poverty and the damaged health care. To explain, as the Coronavirus spreads, there will be more people infected who will be unable to receive the proper treatment, and this unfortunately leads to many deaths around the country. Manuela Bolívar states "Every Venezuelan right now is facing the death,”. This shows that Venezuela is at high risk of collapsing.

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Brazil says football fans can return to stadiums

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Brazil says football fans can return to stadiums

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Brazil is currently second in total death tolls from COVID-19 at 138,000. With football in Brazil returning, Brazil's government has ordered that fans can attend these games. The stadiums would host fans at 30% capacity, which would mean around 25,000 people would be in attendance. City authorities can however veto this, which some cities have done so already.

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Thanks for joining us. Here's a round-up of some of the key stories of the day:

The recorded number of daily coronavirus cases in the UK rose by 6,178 on Wednesday - up from 4,926 yesterday, while there were a further 37 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.

The government has defended their latest coronavirus measures as "balanced, targeted and proportionate" amid criticism from some scientists and business leaders. A 22:00 closing time for hospitality venues and bigger fines for rule breakers are among the new restrictions. But Prof John Edmunds, who advises the government, said they did not go "anywhere near far enough".

UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has promised to update MPs on Thursday on the government's plans to "continue protecting jobs through the winter". With new coronavirus measures in England set to hit some sectors of the economy hard, the government is under increasing pressure to set out a replacement for its job retention scheme.

Israel recorded 6,861 new coronavirus infections - another record high in the country. A second national lockdown began on Friday but the government is considering tightening restrictions even further.

The Austrian government is being sued over the spread of coronavirus at a number of ski resorts earlier this year. One resort, Ischgl, was linked to cases in 45 countries after skiers brought the virus home with them.

The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has praised African leaders for supporting a joint continental strategy to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) previously said the Covid-19 outbreak in Africa may have passed its peak.

It has been a long time coming but England and Wales' Covid-19 app will launch on Thursday.

It follows in the footsteps of Scotland and Northern Ireland's own efforts but has more features.

Apple and Google's automated contact-tracing technology will be used to tell people to self-isolate if their phone detects they were near someone later determined to have the virus.But there's more, including:

a venue check-in barcode scanner

a postcode-based risk-level checker

a symptoms-reporter tool

the means to order a coronavirus test and receive its results

a countdown timer to keep track of how long to stay in self-isolation

a guide to the latest advice on local restrictions, financial support and other related information

Read more about the new app here.

There have been 6,178 confirmed cases of coronavirus recorded in the last 24 hours. This is the third highest daily total recorded in the UK.

According to government data, the highest was on 1 May when there were 6,201 positive cases and the second highest was on 5 April at 6,199 cases.

But it's important to remember that the number of tests being carried out on those days was much lower than it is now.

On 5 April 16,080 tests were processed, meaning nearly 40% came back positive.

Almost all of these tests were what's known as Pillar 1 tests - for hospital patients and health workers.

On 1 May, 84,215 tests were processed, giving a positivity rate of around 7%.

By this point about half the tests were carried out in hospitals, with the other half in the community.

In the last 24 hours, 246,359 tests were processed, so only 2.5% of these were positive.

Cases are on the rise again though - the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in England has doubled in the last 10 days.

The number of daily reported Covid-19 cases has risen by a quarter, according to the latest UK government figures.

There was an increase of 1,252 infections on yesterday's figures, and while hospital admissions are not currently rising at the same rate as cases, Public Health England's medical director Yvonne Doyle said it was "essential" the public followed the new measures brought in to curb the spread.

Governments around the world keep talking about R0, also known as the "reproduction number" or "R-number".

It's a measurement that lots of countries are using when it comes to making decisions about lockdowns, which restrictions should be kept in place and which ones should be lifted.

But what exactly is the R number and why is it important?

BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains what governments are aiming for and why it matters.

Russian-Austrian opera star Anna Netrebko says she has now recovered from Covid-19.

On her Instagram page, Netrebko, 49, thanked Russian medics, describing them as "the best". She was discharged from a Moscow hospital on Tuesday.

The soprano says she tested positive eight days ago and later developed pneumonia.

It happened after she had performed twice in Verdi's Don Carlos when the Bolshoi Theatre re-opened its doors earlier this month in the Russian capital.

Gerard McLarnon spent 57 days in intensive care with Covid-19 at the height of the pandemic.

The County Antrim man was admitted to hospital in March.

He told the BBC he was "terrified" when he woke up on a ventilator towards the end of May.

There have, over the past 24 hours, been a further 389 cases of coronavirus reported in Wales, up from 281 on Tuesday.

It is the highest number of cases reported in a single day since April.

The number of people who have died with Covid-19 has gone up by two to 1,605, Public Health Wales said.

Wales has this week announced new measures, including table service for pubs, cafes and restaurants and limiting alcohol sales, in an effort to tackle the rise in cases.

Rob Cameron

BBC Prague Correspondent

The head of the Czech Confederation of Commerce and Tourism, Tomas Prouza, has warned that a recent spike in infections has destroyed the country's reputation as a safe destination, and says he fears tourists will not come back.

Mr Prouza, a former Europe minister, told the iDNES website he believed tourists would largely stay away for up to two years.

More and more countries are reintroducing restrictions on travel to and from the Czech Republic, the latest being Germany.

Winning back the country's reputation as a safe destination would be extremely difficult, Mr Prouza added.

Downing Street has sought to clarify a number of the measures announced on Tuesday, as part of package to prevent rising infections across England.

The PM's official spokesman said ministers had so far ruled out a nationwide ban on mixing households, but added: "There are very significant parts of England where two households aren't able to meet indoors and it's a policy we may well decide we need to apply in other localised parts of England."

Chauffeur-driven cars will be exempt from the laws enforcing passengers to wear masks in taxis. The spokesman said the two were "not comparable", stressing that a private driver typically chauffeurs a single individual but the driver of licensed vehicle carries - and risks infection from - a range of customers and should be afforded protection.

The PM took advice from "a wide range of scientists" on his latest measures - but the spokesman would not confirm whether the effectiveness of a 22:00 hospitality curfew had been modelled by government scientists: "What has been brought forward is a suite of different measures which, taken in their entirety, we believe will have a significant impact on reducing the rate of infection."

The UK government has scrapped plans for an Autumn Budget this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

It is an annual statement made by the chancellor to announce the government's tax and spending plans for the year ahead.

A Treasury statement said: "As we heard this week, now is not the right time to outline long-term plans - people want to see us focused on the here and now.

"So we are confirming today that there will be no Budget this autumn."

Nick Triggle

Health Correspondent

We should be very careful about reading too much into a single day's rise - the jump of more than 1,000 is rapid and if repeated would mean daily case numbers doubling in less than a week.

But figures can fluctuate from day to day. Nonetheless, the UK has been warned it should be prepared for cases to continue growing.

The figure for new cases is well below what was seen at the peak, which was estimated at 100,000 cases a day - although we don't know for sure as a lack of testing meant the system was only picking up the tip of the iceberg then.

Clearly we are not picking up all the cases now. The evidence from last week's surveillance report suggested perhaps only half were being identified by the testing programme.

What matters now is whether this scale of rise is repeated in the coming days and weeks - and how that translates into hospitalisations and deaths, both of which are going up too.

The data from Spain and France, both of which started seeing rises before the UK, suggests that sharp rises can slow, and upward trends in admissions to hospital can be reversed.

But make no mistake, the UK is entering a crucial point in the battle against the virus.

Kerry Allen

BBC Monitoring, Chinese Media Analyst

Before Covid-19, it was common in China to hear stories of attacks on medical practitioners. There was even debate in early January about installing metal detectors at hospitals across the country because attacks over dissatisfaction with medical care were becoming so common.

However, China's handling of the virus has drastically changed things and today China's top disease specialist, Zhong Nanshan, has been appearing at a university in southern Guangdong province to speak about how the virus has made people come to appreciate the true value of doctors.

State media have long showered praise on medical workers. However, the everyday fragility of China's leading medical specialists has really turned people like Dr Zhong into household names.

Dr Zhong is 83 years old, and images of him sleeping in a train carriage in the early stages of China's outbreak went viral as he "raced" to the front line.

Another senior Chinese doctor, Zhang Dingyu, who heads one of Wuhan's main hospitals, has found fame for working on Covid-19 while living with motor neurone disease.

Both have reportedly been inspiring young Chinese to believe that nothing should stand in their way if they want to make a difference.

There have been 6,178 new coronavirus infections recorded in the past 24 hours across the UK - a significant rise on yesterday's figures of 4,926.

In addition there were, of those who tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 28 days, a further 37 deaths..

It comes as the UK goverment - and those in the devolved administrations - announced a fresh tranche of measures in a bid to curb the rising number of infections.

There are currently 211 patients with coronavirus on ventilators in hospital.

UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has tweeted that he will update the House of Commons on government plans "to continue protecting jobs through the winter" on Thursday.

As we told you earlier, the chancellor is understood to be looking at options to replace the furlough scheme, which expires at the end of October, including two salary top-up schemes currently deployed in France and Germany.

Gavin Lee

BBC Europe reporter

Belgium is to reduce the quarantine period for people with Coronavirus symptoms from 14 days to seven.

It's one of a number of new measures for the country announced by the Belgian prime minister, Sophie Wilmès, on Wednesday afternoon.

The new quarantine rule will apply from October.

The prime minister said: "An isolation period of 14 days is often difficult to keep up. As a result we asked experts to look again at this."

A spokesperson for Belgium's Crisis Committee told the BBC that the new rules are based on latest scientific advice on the adequate length of time needed for self-isolation.

People with coronavirus symptoms can take a test on the fifth day of quarantine and, if it is negative, they can end their isolation when the week is up. If it's positive, they must complete a two-week isolation period then take another test.

The prime minister also announced that it will no longer be compulsory to wear a face mask outside from October, with the exception of heavily crowded areas.

Sophie Wilmès stated that rules on social contact will continue to be monitored. At the moment groups of up to 10 people can meet together at the same time, providing social-distancing rules are applied. The so called "bubble" rule will also continue. It means that people can chose five others to be in close contact with.

Sophie Wilmès defined close contact as "being physically close for more than 15 minutes, without socially distancing or wearing a mask." Each person can choose to be in that bubble with five others for a month, before changing members of the group, if required.

Meanwhile, figures show that there has been an average of 1,374 coronavirus cases a day in Belgium for the past week. That's a 60% increase on cases recorded compared to the week before.

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Thanks for joining us. Here's a round-up of some of the key stories of the day: The recorded number of daily coronavirus cases in the UK rose by 6,178 on Wednesday - up from 4,926 yesterday, while there were a further 37 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.

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This article talks about how doctors are dealing with many patients and that if a patient has minor symptoms, then they send them home to quarantine for themselves. Some don't like this idea, and say that the doctors don't want to care for them, even though this is not the case at all. The doctors are more thoroughly treating patients with severe symptoms. This also explains problem with coronavirus and the president. The doctors are telling people how important it is to stay home, because the coronavirus is so dangerous, while the president doesn't care if people are staying home or not.

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Patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms have been arriving at Dr. Joao Miori's hospital in ever increasing numbers this past week, requiring intubation, ventilation and days of intensive care before they either die or recover enough to be discharged.

Miori, 29, an emergency room doctor in his third year of residency at Sao Paulo's Federal University Hospital, explained that Brazil currently lacks the ability to carry out widespread testing, so those with milder symptoms are simply asked to return home and quarantine themselves.

But, he says, many patients now refuse to leave the facility, and insist on staying in waiting rooms that may be filled with others infected with the virus.

"They think we're just blowing them off, so that we don't have to take care of them," he said in a recent phone interview. "They're scared, and I totally understand."

He worries, though, that patients not already infected when they arrive are more likely to be when they finally leave, while the viral load may be accelerated in any infected individuals.

Brazil was the first country in Latin America to report a case of COVID-19 and currently has the most cases in the region.

Miori blames mixed messages from the country's top leadership about the dangers posed by the novel coronavirus, and the undermining of social distancing measures that have been put in place.

As Brazil's already fragile health care system struggles to treat the surge of coronavirus patients, which is expected to rise exponentially in the coming weeks, medical practitioners say they're being hamstrung by President Jair Bolsonaro and his very public skepticism of directives on social distancing, quarantining and the pandemic's death toll.

"We know that we are nowhere near our top number of cases, and this kind of position is probably making it worse," Bolsonaro has said. "It is probably adding up to the confusion and the panic that people are feeling."

"Part of the state government demands something, then the city says something different, then the president says something different," says Dr. Michelle Almeida, a family physician based in the beach town of Garopaba, in southern Brazil. "People are confused about what they can do."

Dozens of doctors and medical professionals at public and private health care facilities across Brazil told NBC News via emails, WhatsApp messages, video and phone calls that they were proud of the work of their colleagues and hospitals, as well as the efforts of the increasingly popular health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta.

But many of them - often speaking in a private capacity - said that Bolsonaro, a populist firebrand who has already clashed with most of the country's state governors over lockdown measures and recently threatened to fire Mandetta, is still not taking the threat of the pandemic sufficiently seriously.
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Early in March, Bolsonaro dismissed the spread of the coronavirus as a media "fantasy," and weeks later he described it as a "gripezinha" -- the Portuguese word for a mild flu. Facebook and Twitter recently deleted a post of Bolsonaro touting an unproven antiviral for the coronavirus.

Recent polls show that Bolsonaro's cavalier attitude has significantly reduced his popularity among ordinary Brazilians.

"We have a problem right now with the president," said Roberta Tallarico, 38, who runs the intensive care unit inside the private Home Hospital in the capital city Brasilia. While she said some governors acted judiciously to enforce lockdowns early, she expressed frustration with Bolsonaro's willingness to contravene them and flout his own health minister's medical advice. "He's really difficult. He doesn't believe the science and the doctors."

The country's overwhelmed medical professionals say the public health care system is historically underfunded, personal protective equipment is still in short supply, and intensive care units are already two or three times fuller than usual. Meanwhile, the president's recent public pronouncements and behavior have been seen as being deeply unhelpful.

"It's so difficult," said Dr. Nilton Freire de Assis Neto, 28, an emergency room doctor practicing in Sao Paulo, who has taken to warning friends, family and patients that medical advice must be followed and quarantine is not a vacation.

"I tell them that people die on top of me, people die while waiting, people die because they don't breathe." He says many Brazilians are not following the advice because Bolsonaro himself continues to question it. "We talk to patients, talk to people about the importance of staying at home, and the president goes on TV and talks about the fact that he doesn't care if they stay at home."

Dr. Ricardo Bandeira Filho, 32, is a lung specialist at the large Royal Portugal Hospital in Recife, which is now dedicated to treating coronavirus patients. "We feel like we have to struggle with him every day," he says of Bolsonaro, insisting that he was speaking in a personal capacity. Filho and his colleagues are now using social media and posters to try and inform the public of the consequences of ignoring restrictions on movement.

"People are starting to understand that other people close to them are getting ill and are are going to the hospital, and dying," he said.

Dr. Lucila de Campos, 49, is a clinical immunologist and allergist at the University of Sao Paulo hospital, and has previously carried out research at Harvard Medical School. She acknowledged that there is the need for a debate that balances public safety with economic security - particularly in a developing nation like Brazil -but added that the current situation has frightened everyone, including doctors.

"We have a bad future for 20 days in Brazil," de Campos said, stressing that a purely scientific approach must be supported. "This can collapse the health care system for sure."

Dr. Amanda Steil, 25, a first-year doctor specializing in emergency medicine at the country's largest training hospital, Unifesp, has begun research into the psychological impact of combating the pandemic.

"The government is recruiting us to be on the front line," she said. "We felt that we were afraid of these kinds of patients, and that we were frustrated with not knowing for sure with what we were dealing."

Dr. Gustavo Janot, 49, has worked for 23 days straight at the intensive care unit of the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital on the southwestern outskirts of Sao Paulo. Brazil's commercial capital is a COVID-19 hot spot, thanks to its busy international airport. Janot says the hardest moments for him during the outbreak have been when fellow doctors have succumbed to the virus.

"It's very heavy emotionally to us to see your friends in the ICU bed under mechanical ventilation," he said in a Skype interview. "I think this is the toughest part, to see our colleagues in the firing line." But Janot credits Mandetta, the health minister, with doing "very positive things," adding the medical community is satisfied with the minister's actions.

Mandetta's daily press briefings have become must-see events for many Brazilians, with his detailed and lengthy technical answers to journalists' questions. But earlier this week, Bolsonaro threatened to oust Mandetta, according to reports, after the health minister warned he would publicly criticize the president if Bolsonaro didn't heed the experts' social distancing advice. "Nobody should forget that I'm the president," Bolsonaro said.

The Brazilian health ministry did not respond to NBC News' request for comment about the president's actions and the impact on the country's doctors.

Bolsonaro's now-infamous March 24 public address, in which he downplayed the virus' ferocity and explicitly criticized measures put in place by the vast majority of Brazil's 26 state governors and his own federal health service, remains unconscionable for many of the country's front-line doctors.

"That was a catastrophic speech," said Dr. Luiz Alberto Cerqueira Batista Filho, 39, an intensive care specialist at Sao Paulo's Santa Marcelina Hospital. "A lot of doctors feel that way too, I am no exception about that subject."

Filho says he is having a "tough time" with increasing patient numbers despite a doubling of the facility's ICU capacity. He is facing a shortage of mechanical ventilators, and is finding it hard to discharge COVID-19 patients from the hospital quickly. Some are staying intubated for 20 days, and he worries that he will soon run out of beds.

"At some point, the health system will not be able to deal with all of them," he said, likening his future to that of doctors in Italy. "We will have to start to choose which patient will have mechanical ventilation - I don't even want to think about it."
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Brazil's doctors fight coronavirus pandemic while they 'struggle' with Bolsonaro 'every day'

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Patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms have been arriving at Dr. Joao Miori's hospital in ever increasing numbers this past week, requiring intubation, ventilation and days of intensive care before they either die or recover enough to be discharged.

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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/09/10/910737751/the-women-of-peru-are-suffering-from-a-shadow-pandemic

In Peru, hundreds of women and their families are suffering from the “shadow pandemic”. There have been 1,423 women reported missing in Peru since the country entered a state of emergency in mid march. There were warnings of this in april. What a “shadow pandemic” is is a global increase in domestic violence in women and girls. Peru isn't the only place struggling with this right now. Tunisia to Argentina and the United States among many other places are having the same issues.

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Brazillian president Jair Bolsonaro claims that Brazil is a victim of "radical environmentalism" and there is a campaign led against his government. This is said despite the fact that “Under his watch, illegal land clearances, illicit deforestation, and wildcat mining have soared,” says Robert Muggah, co-founder of Igarapé Institute. He also says that the country did the best it could for COVID-19 releif, despte the President himself repeatedly not wearing a mask in public and only giving to COVID releif when he saw it would improve his ratings.

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro defended his administration's record protecting the Amazon rainforest, telling the United Nations' virtual meeting of global leaders on Tuesday that his country has been wrongly portrayed as an environmental villain. Bolsonaro's critics were quick to pick apart his claims.

As the first speaker in the U.N. General Assembly's general debate, in keeping with tradition for the Brazilian leader, Bolsonaro said the South American nation's agribusiness sector has succeeded in boosting agricultural exports to feed a growing global population, which has made it a target.

"We are victims of one of the most brutal disinformation campaigns about the Amazon and the Pantanal wetlands," Bolsonaro said. "The Brazilian Amazon is well known to be very rich. That explains why international institutions support such campaigns based on ulterior interests, joined by self-serving and unpatriotic Brazilian associations, with the objective of harming the government and Brazil itself."

Last week, a group of European countries - the Amsterdam Declarations Partnership, led by Germany - published a joint statement urging Brazil to take action in the Amazon. They said deforestation is making it "increasingly difficult" for businesses and investors in Brazil to fulfill their environmental, social and governance criteria.

"He (Bolsonaro) claimed that they were leading a campaign to discredit his government, yet it is his administration that has systematically eroded environmental legislation and not enforced penalties for environmental crime," said Robert Muggah, co-founder of Igarapé Institute, a Rio de Janeiro-based think tank focused on public, digital and environmental security.

"Under his watch, illegal land clearances, illicit deforestation, and wildcat mining have soared," Muggah said.

Bolsonaro came to office in 2019 promising to open more of the Amazon to development such as farming and mining. International concern, particularly after last year's fires, has led investors to distance themselves from rising deforestation and pressure Bolsonaro's government to take more action.

In Bolsonaro's debut appearance at the assembly in 2019, he struck a defiant tone, railing against the media and socialism. He declared Brazilian sovereignty over the Amazon and denounced what he termed "radical environmentalism.″

"It is the same as last year: a mix of denial of reality and self-praise for promoting an environmental policy that does not exist," said Rubens Ricupero, a Brazilian who was secretary-general of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development for nearly a decade.

In May, Bolsonaro put the army in charge of protecting the rainforest. Two months later, he banned setting agricultural and forest fires for 120 days as the country entered the dry season. Brazilian law requires permits for fires to clear brush and open land for farming, ranching or logging, but the requirement is widely ignored.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon region may have reached a 14-year high in the 12 months through July, according to preliminary data published last month by the country's space agency. Final data will be released in coming months.

Fires spiraled out of control in Brazil's Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands, with the number of blazes surpassing 16,000 so far in 2020 - considerably more than any full year on record, since 1998.

Bolsonaro also defended his government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in front of the U.N., highlighting the distribution of emergency cash for 65 million low-income Brazilians and financial support for small and micro businesses to keep them afloat amid a crushing economic downturn.

"Part of the Brazilian press also politicized the virus, disseminating panic among the population under the motto 'Stay at home and we'll see about the economy after,' and almost brought social chaos to the country," Bolsonaro said. "Our government, in a bold way, implemented various economic measures that avoided the greater evil."

Igarapé's Muggah pointed out that Bolsonaro initially opposed the pandemic aid until he perceived how it helped buoy his approval ratings.

And Thiago de Aragão, director of strategy for political consultancy Arko Advice, said Bolsonaro is bragging about results of the ongoing tragedy by claiming, without evidence, that a worse outcome was avoided.

Since the pandemic's onset, Bolsonaro downplayed the severity of the coronavirus, calling it "a little flu." Even as he himself tested positive for the virus this summer and had to quarantine, he has at times adopted fatalism, saying there's no way to prevent 70% of the population from contracting the illness. He has repeatedly said that shutting down the economy would inflict worse hardship upon the population.

And he led by example, often taking outings that drew thronging crowds, sometimes without wearing a mask. Through his actions and his rhetoric, he sabotaged efforts by mayors and governors to convince people to remain in quarantine.

In his speech to the U.N., Bolsonaro said the Supreme Court ruled states would determine quarantine measures. He fired his first health minister for siding with local leaders on the need for broad restrictions to activity.

Brazil has confirmed 4.6 million coronavirus cases, the third most in the world, according to the tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Its death toll of 137,000 trails only the U.S.

Finally, Bolsonaro made appeals to his conservative base, saying that Brazil is a Christian country and denouncing what he called "Christian-phobia.″

"The speech was, once again, aimed at his supporters at home rather than to the world," Arko's de Aragão said. "It seems that the opinion of the world matters less and less to him."

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Savarese reported from Sao Paulo. Follow David Biller on Twitter at http://twitter.com/DLBiller

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro defended his administration's record protecting the Amazon rainforest, telling the United Nations' virtual meeting of global leaders on Tuesday that his country has been wrongly portrayed as an environmental villain. Bolsonaro's critics were quick to pick apart his claims. As the first speaker in the U.N.

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Costa Rica is a Central American country with coastlines on the Caribbean and Pacific.  Costa Rica is known for its beaches, volcanoes, and biodiversity.A quarter of it is made up of protected jungle, teeming with wildlife including spider monkeys and quetzal birds.

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Rieli Franciscato died while protecting indigenous people from outsiders. It is believed that he was shot for being mistaken as an invader. The area that this happened in gets lots of invasions, so some policemen were there watching. Franciscato worked for the Brazilian government's indigenous affairs agency. He dedicated his life to protecting the indigenous tribes.

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Environmentalists in Brazil are mourning the death of a leading expert on uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, who was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest.

Friends of Rieli Franciscato say he died inside the rainforest while on a mission to shield an isolated indigenous group from a possible hostile encounter with outsiders.

It happened on the edge of the Uru Eu Wau Wau reservation in the western Brazilian state of Rondônia, an area in which the forest has suffered heavily from invasions by illegal loggers and miners, and also from ranchers setting fires to clear land.

The killing prompted speculation that Franciscato was shot by the uncontacted group after being mistaken for an invader. His death, on Wednesday, was witnessed by a policeman, Paulo Ricardo Bressa, whom Franciscato had asked to accompany him on his expedition into the area.

Bressa says that Franciscato climbed a hill to see if he could verify whether isolated tribal people were moving through the area.

"We heard the noise of an arrow that hit his chest. He let out a cry, pulled out the arrow, and came running back. He managed to run 50 to 60 meters and then he collapsed, lifeless," said Bressa, in an audio message posted by Brazilian media.

Franciscato, 56, spent his career working for the Brazilian government's indigenous affairs agency, Funai, and earned a reputation as a tireless defender of isolated indigenous groups and their forest lands.

Survival International, an organization that campaigns for tribal peoples' rights, described his death as a "tragic and immeasurable loss."

"He refused to accept the violent greed destroying the Amazon rainforest and its best guardians," it said, "He worked tirelessly to protect the lands of uncontacted tribes from outsiders.

"He dedicated his life to it, working on the front line to combat the illegal invasions by loggers, ranchers and miners who threaten to wipe out the most vulnerable peoples on the planet."

Franciscato's death is reinforcing concern among forest protectors about the policies pursued by Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro, who advocates the integration of the indigenous into broader Brazilian society and wants to exploit the Amazon's natural resources.

They accuse Bolsonaro of fueling violence in the Amazon region by cutting back government environmental protection agencies, and emboldening groups intent on invading indigenous lands. As evidence, environmental activists point to the number of fires now burning within the Brazilian Amazon. In the first nine days of this month, satellites used by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research detected 12,412 fires - more than double the number during the same period last year. Many of these are set by illegal ranchers clearing already deforested land.

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Defender Of Amazon Tribes Killed In Brazil

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Environmentalists in Brazil are mourning the death of a leading expert on uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, who was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest. Friends of Rieli Franciscato say he died inside the rainforest while on a mission to shield an isolated indigenous group from a possible hostile encounter with outsiders.

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Costa Rica is a Central American country with coastlines on the Caribbean and Pacific.  Costa Rica is known for its beaches, volcanoes, and biodiversity.A quarter of it is made up of protected jungle, teeming with wildlife including spider monkeys and quetzal birds.

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"LTT 9779 b": Chilean astronomers discover a strange new type of planet

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"LTT 9779 b": Chilean astronomers discover a strange new type of planet

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LTT 9779 b is the name of a new planet discovered by Chilean astronomers. It is located in the Neptunian desert, which is made up of planets that are similar to Neptune in size and radius. This planet is so close to its sun that a year is only 19 Earth hours. Additionally, this means that the planet is far too hot for humans to inhabit. In fact, it is unknown to scientists how the atmosphere is still intact because of the amount of radiation. However, this planet is still a very important discovery, as it is quite rare and can possibly lead to other discoveries.

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Mexico's ancient Mayan city re-opens

Mexico is opening some of its stunning archaeological sites to the public again after coronavirus forced them to close.

On Tuesday the remains of Mayan city Chichén Itzá joined the list.

The city in Yucatán was built in the 9th and 10th Centuries - the stepped pyramid El Castillo displayed Mayan astronomical knowledge. It features a total of 365 steps, the number of days in the solar year.

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Brazil gives equal pay to men's and women's national players

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Brazil's women's national players will be paid the same as male players for representing their country, Brazil's football association (CBF) has said.

All players will be granted the same daily and prize amounts for taking part in preparation periods and games.

CBF president Rogerio Caboclo says the measures were put in place in March.

"Since March of this year, CBF has made an equal value in terms of prizes and daily rates between men's and women's football," he said.

"That is, the players earn the same thing as the players during the calls. What they receive by daily call, women also receive."

The same arrangement has applied in England since January, with an FA spokesperson saying it pays women the same as men for representing their country, both for match fees and bonuses.

Caboclo says its arrangement also applies to performances at international tournaments such as the World Cup and Olympics.

"There is no more gender difference, as the CBF is treating men and women equally," he said.

"What they will gain by conquering or by staging the Olympics next year will be the same as the men will have."

Australia, Norway and New Zealand are among the nations to previously decide to pay their men and women internationals the same amount.

Brazil's women's team have not played since March, when many competitions around the world were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Brazil's women's national players will be paid the same as male players for representing their country, Brazil's football association (CBF) has said. All players will be granted the same daily and prize amounts for taking part in preparation periods and games. CBF president Rogerio Caboclo says the measures were put in place in March.

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/americas/venezuala-covid-19-quarantine-motels-intl/index.html

A Venezuelan woman describes her harrowing ordeal in a quarantine motel run by the Venezuelan government. "I felt frustrated, I thought I was going to die" stated the woman, who remains anonymous in fear of government reprisal.

These quarantine motels have been described as unsanitary and prison-like. These quarantines have gained a reputation for lacking resources and proper management. Venezuelans fear not only the bodily effects of COVID-19, but also what the government will do to them if officials were to find out.

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Belize is located in Central America and is bordered to the north of Mexico. Belize has 14 people per square kilometers. Belize is a very diverse country with tons of cultures and language.

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WHO warns Latin America reopening too soon amid COVID-19 risk

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/warns-latin-america-reopening-covid-19-risk-200916204647738.html

Summary: According to The WHO regional director Carissa Ethenne, Latin America is being too hasty to reopen and could potentially suffer major setbacks. On the border of Colombia and Venezuela, cases have increased tenfold in the past couple weeks. Death rates have also been climbing in Mexico, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Bolivia, and parts of Argentina. “Etienne said governments must monitor travel very carefully because reopening to tourism can lead to setbacks. That has happened in the Caribbean, where several countries that had virtually no cases have experienced spikes as tourism resumed.” Latin America has recorded 8.4 million cases and 314,000 deaths, the worst of any region in the world.

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Brazil: Wildfire burns Brazil's largest wetlands, killing thousands of wild animals

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Brazil: Wildfire burns Brazil's largest wetlands, killing thousands of wild animals

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A fire has been burning since mid-July in the remote wetlands of west-central Brazil and they aren’t getting their yearly floods. Amazon deforestation has surged 34.5% in the 12 months through July. “Destruction of the Amazon rainforest to the north is exacerbating drought in the Pantanal over the long term,” said Philip Fearnside. There are more than 100 state firefighters battling the blazes. “The fires are causing great damage to fauna, flora and to the Pantanal region," Salles said. 1,347 square kilometers have been burned, dead snakes are seen every few meters.

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Summary: The United States is offering a reward of up to $5 million dollars for information leading to the arrest of a leader of the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group in a the country of Colombia. The ELN is a rebel group that has been around for over 50 years. The US accuses Wilver Villegas Palomino, 38, of involvement in "an ongoing 20-year conspiracy to distribute (can't type the drug name, but it's a type of drug) from Colombia to the United States" to finance the ELN."

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US offers $5m-reward for Colombian ELN rebel leader

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Wilver Villegas Palomino, a leading ELN member, has been charged with "narcoterrorism" by the US.

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Taylor Cartago:  Ecuador Faces Worst Unemployment Crisis in Latin America.

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Taylor Cartago:  Ecuador Faces Worst Unemployment Crisis in Latin America.

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As general info, Al Jazeera (the news site I used) is a Latin American news source with a slight left-center bias.

Due to COVID-19, most restaurants aren’t able to open up, but because no one is making money, the small amount of people that are open don’t get as many customers. Ronny Coronel, an Ecuadorian restaurant owner, has said that he needs to pay his employees anywhere from 80-50% of what their wages were beforehand. Only around a month ago (August), 4 out of 10 people had full employment. As of right now, 85% of Ecuadorians are either unemployed or in freelance jobs. Paulo Freire, an unemployed journalist, makes money selling soaps, bleach, and masks. Ecuador has proven before that they are willing to protest, and some have even started protest against the COVID-19 restrictions.

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Puerto Rico: Rep. Jenniffer González-Colón Discusses Trump's Puerto Rico Aid Package

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Puerto Rico: Rep. Jenniffer González-Colón Discusses Trump's Puerto Rico Aid Package

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Summary: Recently, a few weeks before the 2020 election day, President Trump says he wants to give a 13 billion dollar package to Puerto Rico for pandemic relief and hurricane relief from Hurricane Maria back in 2017. The host, Scott Simon is wondering if he is doing this primarily because of election day coming soon and he wants more votes from Puerto Ricans voting in Florida(which is a swing state). While this could be a reason because he has said before that Puerto Rico doesn’t need money, PR’s Representative Jennifer González-Colón states that she doesn't necessarily agree with everything Trump says, but if work and money is being put into helping her place, that is what really counts.

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