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Hi, I`m Carl Azuz for CNN STUDENT NEWS. We are happy to see you.
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It`s Monday, April 7 and we are going all over the world today starting in Afghanistan.
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There was a big election there on Saturday. One that would determine the country`s next president.
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Afghanistan`s been led by President Hamid Karzai since 2001.
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That`s when the U.S.-led coalition kicked out Afghanistan`s former rulers, the Taliban who were protecting terrorists.
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The Taliban threatened voters in the run up to this election with violence.
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At least 20 people were killed by insurgent attacks across the country, but that combined with bad weather couldn`t keep people from the voting booths.
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There were a couple frontrunners for the title of president.
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Preliminary results will be announced at the end of the month, but some say that no matter who wins, the people will.
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Standing in the rain, some waiting for hours, the people of Afghanistan lined up, each holding their voting card, their ticket to democracy.
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We vote for him to win the future, we want to build the future for this man.
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It was hope for the President Karzai would provide that future during his 12 years in office.
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But it`s now his successor who this Afghans are banking on.
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How does it feel to be here tonight?
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Fantastic. Proud. Happy. Successful.
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I feel really good because I believe today is my day.
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Today is the day, which is people of Afghanistan can go and vote it freely.
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Following weeks of high profile attacks and Taliban threats to disrupt this elections, the capital was unlocked down.
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Every man, woman and child searched before entering the polling station.
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Inside voters queued again, this time to deep their forefinger into the ink, before being given the ballot papers.
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Today I came here to select my next president and I hope to be a good person and to help the people and to survive the people and to bring change in Afghanistan.
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Voter turned out exceeded expectations.
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Well and 50 percent of eligible voters cast their ballot.
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Remarkably, one third of them were women.
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Several polling stations ran out of ballots and voting hours were extended by an hour, due to heavy turnouts.
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The resilience of these people is truly inspiring.
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Despite all the attacks and threats of violence, Afghans have turned out in encouraging numbers to cast their vote in polling stations around the country.
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They strongly believe that after so many years of war, they too deserve a peaceful and brighter future.
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Democratic elections are also taking place in what`s known as the world`s largest democracy.
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India is officially a federal republic. Its population is 1.2 billion people, the second highest population in the world.
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And because more than 814 million of them are eligible to vote, the election that starting in India today is being called the biggest election the world`s ever seen.
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Opinion polls show that the political party that`s led India for the last ten years could be in trouble.
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The economy has slowed down, there`ve been some high profile scandals involving corruptions.
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And about 30 percent of the population leaves in poverty, so change is in the air.
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But with so many people voting this election happens in phases.
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The last one of those ends on May 12, and the results should be in by May 16.
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The plane hasn`t been found, but the mystery about what happened to Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 has gotten deeper.
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A Malaysian government official says after the plane`s transponders stopped sending tracking information,
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the jet flew a wayward path around Indonesian airspace.
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Was it taken this way intentionally to avoid radar?
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As investigators consider that, two search ships might have picked up a signal over the weekend.
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They were in two different search areas in the Indian Ocean.
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What they heard might have been the ping that flight data recorders sent off after a plane goes down.
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The ships can`t confirm, this is what they picked up and the batteries powering the signal only last a month or so.
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The flight disappeared on March 8.
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More ships are headed to this area`s west of Australia to listen in.
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The search has been massive, the cost of doing it massive.
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The search for Flight 370 will likely rank as the most expensive in history.
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Think about it. The scope unprecedented. 21 nations, 80 ships, 61 aircrafts.
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Now, most of the money coming from military training budget.
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Think about it, that makes sense. You`ve got all of these countries usually spending money doing mock exercises.
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This is something real. So money are coming from those training budgets.
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Also, some from humanitarian budgets. And for the U.S., the money is now shifted, it`s coming from Navy operations in some cases.
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So, the Pentagon originally allocated $4 million for the search. 3.2 million spent between the 2nd of March and the 24.
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One source the military telling us, this general rule cost about $100,000 a day, this operation.
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Some of these aircrafts, think about it, cost $10,000 an hour to operate.
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Now, other countries are pitching. And these are the big Seven.
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The big seven here: the Australians taking the lead, officially taking the lead of the investigation ending the week.
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The prime minister there saying, everyone paying their own cost right now.
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They are not keeping track, quite frankly.
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They are really trying to get out there and solve this mystery.
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So, if you do the back of the envelope math, based on what the U.S. is spending, we can estimate the search probably costing more than $21 million per month.
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So, how does that compare with other aviation disasters?
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Air France Flight 447 two years search after that crash in 2009.
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That was about $50 million. TWA Flight 800, that was about 40 million, 1996, one of the longest investigations the NTSB ever conducted.
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Swiss Air 111. This went down off the coast of Nova Scotia, in 1998.
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Search recovery investigation took four years and cost $39 million.
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Time for The Shoutout. In which Shakespearean play would you find the famous quote All the world is stage, and all the men and women merely players.
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If though knowst it, shout it out! Is it, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing?, Twelfth Night or All`s Well That Ends Well. You`ve got three seconds, go.
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This is a tough one, but the quote is from Shakespeare`s comedy As You Like It.
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That`s your answer and that`s your Shoutout.
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Quick look at William Shakespeare by the numbers. We just named four of his 37 plays.
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He wrote more than a million words and made up more than 1000 of them.
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He was born 450 years ago this month, and his work has been translated into more than 80 languages.
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It`s been performed in places and in front of audiences far beyond the globe theater in London.
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This month marks William Shakespeare`s 450th birthday and people around the world are celebrating from Stratfordians to Syrians.
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Yes, Syrians. 100 Syrian children have just performed an adaptation of King Lear in one of the world`s largest refugee camps located in Jordan.
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The Zaatari Camp is home to over 100,000 Syrian refugees over half of whom are under the age of 18.
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Many of the children are not educated and have never read or seen any of Shakespeare`s work,
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but they are no strangers, of course, to the tragedy of the human condition.
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And this particular play, a story of exile, a land divided by rival groups, a tale of human cruelty seems especially relevant.
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While the refugee camp may seem like the unlikeliest of places to discover Shakespeare,
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the playwright himself might not have thought so.
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After all, mentioning faraway places was common in his place.
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In both Macbeth and Otello, in fact, Shakespeare mentions the Syrian city of Aleppo.
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Another reminder that Syria is one of the oldest centers of human civilization, which makes the current violence there seem even more tragic.
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North, south and east - it`s a tridirectional roll call today.
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In the land of 10,000 lakes we`ve got the Spartans on the roll.
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They are watching at Rocori High School in Cold Spring, Minnesota.
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In the South, right near Mobile Bay, Alabama, great to see the trodgents (ph) of Daphne High School in Daphne.
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And northeastern New Jersey at Schalick High School, hello the Cougars watching in Pitts Grove.
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When the game of Tetris came out in 1984, no one had a 65-inch HDLCDTV to play it on.
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But even if someone did, this is better:
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a Drexel University Associate professor worked with the Tetris company to make this happen in Philadelphia over the weekend.
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People played the game from half a mile away.
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LED lights were placed on the glass facade of a 29 stories skyscraper to make it possible to game on.
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Don`t know yet if they broke their record, but when all the pieces fall together like this, the sky scrapers the limit.
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There`s no question it was a blockbuster, it brought delight with delights and made for one fine Gameboy.
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That`s our show for today, I hope the rest of yours is a great one. I`m Carl Azuz.