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  • welcome to CNN. 2

  • 10 were a people in Venezuela is the first story we're explaining this way. 3

  • I'm Coral Jesus. 4

  • At the CNN Center on April 30th conflicting reports were coming out about what was happening in the South America during a protest in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. 5

  • One Guido, the opposition leader who in January declared himself the new president of Venezuela, said, Quote, Operation freedom has begun. 6

  • We're going to stand here together asking and demanding the military to join. 7

  • CNN reporters called this an escalation of Guido's efforts to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power. 8

  • What we don't know is whether this amounts to an attempted military coup when the armed forces take action to change the nation's government. 9

  • Guido's ambassador in Washington says it's not a military coup. 10

  • He called it the constitutional process led by the Venezuelan people and said there'd be more events in the hours and days to come. 11

  • The Venezuelan government official also said it wasn't a military coupe, but he told the Reuters news agency that it was another chapter in an attempted civilian coup led by Venezuela's opposition party and supported by the U. 12

  • S. 13

  • So the question here is have members of Venezuela's military, which have largely supported President Maduro, now joined forces with the opposition protesters who want Maduro out of power. 14

  • At the time we produce this show, we didn't have a clear answer on that will keep you updated on what happens in the troubled South American nation. 15

  • Next story. 16

  • Earlier this month, the island nation of the Philippines protested to China because hundreds of Chinese boats were sailing near an island administered by the Philippines. 17

  • But this particular place is also in the Spratlys chain, a disputed area that includes man made islands that China has built up in recent years. 18

  • Despite the dispute, the president of the Philippines has strengthened his country's relationship with China and that country's investments in the Philippines have caused concerns for some people there and abroad. 19

  • It was U S military power in the heart of the Philippines. 20

  • For decades, Clark Air Base was the largest American base outside the U. 21

  • S. 22

  • Veterans Anthony Grim and John Gilbert remember it well. 23

  • It was really watch. 24

  • The town is still called. 25

  • Clark still has a V F W posts, but the base is a memory the Americans left in 1991. 26

  • Well, after Vietnam, we no longer needed those bases. 27

  • They were not a critical asset, so the old based sat idle for years, but not anymore. 28

  • So this is gonna be a major hub, just the country, but the entire region. 29

  • It'll cover more area than Manhattan skyscrapers, a new airport, residential, billions of dollars of investment and who's helping build it? 30

  • You are seeing more of a Chinese. 31

  • Sure, a lot of a lot of projects. 32

  • Chinese money has poured into the Philippines reason, joining other firms already here. 33

  • This company owned by China's government, is building a road half a mile away. 34

  • Steel going up isn't from Pittsburgh. 35

  • The fact that I'm surrounded by Chinese steel and that China is one of the biggest country investors in this new city is remarkable given the state of relations between the Philippines and China. 36

  • Just a few years ago, sign of Filipino relations hit rock bottom in mid 2016 after Manila took Beijing to international court over artificial islands China has built and militarized not far from the Filipino coast. 37

  • About that time, though, came a new president, Rodrigo Duterte. 38

  • You're right said that in Beijing and soon cozied up to China. 39

  • China has since pledged tens of billions of dollars to projects in the Philippines whose supporters call healthy, necessary loans. 40

  • The sheer scale that China brings is something that not a lot of countries can bring to any economy. 41

  • But some see that spending as dangerous should anything go wrong with repayments, Manila could be beholden to Beijing. 42

  • It's the ultimate symbol off the subjugation off the Philippines towards China. 43

  • China has doled out hundreds of billions in similar loans to developing countries across Asia and Africa, and the U. 44

  • S has warned of debt trap diplomacy. 45

  • Beijing recently took a 99 year lease on a key port in Sri Lanka after the government there defaulted on Chinese loans used to build it. 46

  • The Jew dirty administration argues the Philippines is different and faces no such threat. 47

  • Plus, the U. 48

  • S still has a defense treaty with Manila. 49

  • But in this zero sum game for influence, when America gives room, China will try to fill that void. 50

  • Matt Rivers, CNN, Clark, the Philippines. 51

  • 10 seconds Which of these African nations borders both Lake Victoria and the Indian Ocean, Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, the only one of these countries that borders both of these bodies of water is Kenya. 52

  • According to the CIA World Factbook, the backbone of 10 years, economy is agriculture. 53

  • It accounts for about 1/3 of the nation's gross domestic product. 54

  • But tourism also factors in. 55

  • And when a married couple from the U. 56

  • S. 57

  • State of Nevada recently traveled to Kenya, they wanted something a little bit off the beaten path of safaris and big game hunting. 58

  • I'm tasting Cheatham on our Martin records are We are from lucky ladies and we came to Kenya to celebrate my 50th birthday. 59

  • This guy said I could go anywhere in the world and I picked Kenya. 60

  • We're within the old until a Conservancy, which is about 40,000 acres of community land on three times the size of Manhattan. 61

  • Thank you. 62

  • I like it. 63

  • Most of our guests are thoughtful, intelligent people and thoughtful, intelligent people just love to solve problems. 64

  • So we show them problems on their response to that is how can I help? 65

  • We've built schools. 66

  • We employ teachers way built a hospital. 67

  • Nice to meet you. 68

  • I wanted to make a donation to the kids for school supplies. 69

  • I didn't want to come to Kenya for safari. 70

  • I wanted to come to Kenya for the people. 71

  • I wanted to learn about the culture because that's not what people do. 72

  • And I love going the opposite direction. 73

  • The problem with that we have to do with this students they come from how far they traveling together? 74

  • Some meeting. 75

  • Of course there is Dangling does right, Linda. 76

  • So that's what you all are working forward now. 77

  • You want someplace where so they don't have to walk so far to go to school. 78

  • I remember when I went to Tanzania, I was constantly asked where was I from? 79

  • And I would say I'm sorry, What what part of Africa are you from? 80

  • And that's how this all got started because I couldn't answer that question. 81

  • So I did one of those DNA test, you know, so I could figure out which countries that I was from, because apparently I had to be from somewhere way got the results. 82

  • I was from everywhere. 83

  • So it's important for me to come back because now when I get asked the question where you're from, I can say I'm from here. 84

  • Here, here here, here, here, here and here with great pride. 85

  • There are only two different families in the village on Dhe. 86

  • Normally, they can leave was one family in one village or friends together way. 87

  • Try to encourage our guests to have fun while being good at the same time, they end up enjoying the place and wanting to be part of the project on be part of the community that they have come to visit. 88

  • I thought this is unlikely. 89

  • At Ohio's Walnut Hills High School, 17 students recently got a perfect score on the a C T. 90

  • A college admissions test, and the school says 23 Maur seniors were only one point away from a perfect score. 91

  • So what? 92

  • Well, according to the administrators of the test, out of the roughly two million students who take it every year on Lee, 1/10 of 1% of them get a perfect score. 93

  • Soto have 17 perfect scores at one high school is nothing short of a sea. 94

  • Terrific. 95

  • They became number one with a number two pencil. 96

  • They set a new standardized. 97

  • The teachers had a multiple choice of students to congratulate. 98

  • Just don't tell a competing exam they had a scholastic aptitude for it that might test some nerves. 99

  • I'm picking, see, and a fur Coral Azzouz on CNN.

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Crisis in Venezuela | May 1, 2019

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Keywords

conflict

US /ˈkɑnˌflɪkt/

UK /'kɒnflɪkt/

  • verb
  • (of two things) be incompatible or at variance; clash.
  • To have opposite ideas; to disagree; To not match
  • noun
  • A serious disagreement or argument.
  • Argument or struggle between two or more parties
  • Mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands
  • A serious incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests.
  • A prolonged armed struggle; war
  • other
  • To be incompatible or at variance; clash.
attempt

US /əˈtɛmpt/

UK /ə'tempt/

  • noun
  • Effort made to try to do or accomplish something
  • verb
  • To try to do something challenging or difficult
community

US /kəˈmjunɪti/

UK /kə'mju:nətɪ/

  • noun
  • Group of people who share a common idea or area
  • An interacting group of various species in a common location.
  • A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
  • A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
  • The European Economic Community.
  • A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
  • A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
  • An interacting group of various species in a common location.
  • A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
  • A group of people who share a craft or profession and learn from each other.
  • A group of people who interact with each other primarily through online platforms.
  • A group of people who interact with each other primarily online.
  • An organized group of people with a common interest or purpose.
  • A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
  • A group of people sharing common characteristics or interests.
  • A group of people living in a particular area or locality.
  • Joint ownership or use.
  • adjective
  • Relating to or shared by the people in a particular area.
  • Relating to or characteristic of a community.
  • Relating to or done by a community.
  • Relating to or shared by the people in a community.
  • Shared or participated in by all members of a group
  • other
  • A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
  • A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
  • A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
  • Joint ownership or use.
  • A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
demand

US /dɪˈmænd/

UK /dɪ'mɑ:nd/

  • noun
  • A firm request.
  • Desire customers have to buy product, service
  • A legal requirement.
  • A firm request.
  • A strong request for someone to do something
  • other
  • To require or need something.
  • To need something.
  • To ask for something forcefully, as though it is your right.
  • To require or need something.
  • other
  • An economic principle referring to a consumer's desire to purchase goods and services and willingness to pay a price for a specific good or service.
  • A need for something to be sold or supplied.
  • The need or desire that people have for particular goods or services.
  • A need or desire for goods or services by people wanting to buy or use them.
  • other
  • A specific thing that someone needs or asks for.
  • verb
  • To strongly request someone to do something
military

US /ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri/

UK /'mɪlətrɪ/

  • adjective
  • Concerning the army or navy
  • Relating to or characteristic of soldiers or armed forces.
  • noun
  • Army or armed forces
  • The armed forces of a nation.
state

US /stet/

UK /steɪt/

  • adjective
  • Concerning region within a country
  • noun
  • Region within a country, with its own government
  • Situation or condition something is in
  • verb
  • To say; declare as fact
pour

US /pɔr, por/

UK /pɔ:(r)/

  • other
  • To come or go in large numbers.
  • To rain heavily.
  • other
  • To devote or apply (oneself or energy) purposefully or wholeheartedly.
  • To express one's feelings freely.
  • To flow or cause to flow in a steady stream.
  • verb
  • To fill a person's glass or cup with a drink
  • To make something flow in a steady stream
  • To rain very heavily
pledge

US /plɛdʒ/

UK /pledʒ/

  • noun
  • A formal promise
  • verb
  • To make a promise; make an oath
ambassador

US /æmˈbæsədɚ, -ˌdɔr/

UK /æm'bæsədə(r)/

  • noun
  • Official representing a country in another country
  • A diplomatic agent of the highest rank accredited to a foreign government or sovereign as the resident representative of his or her own government or sovereign or appointed for special and often temporary duty.
  • A person who acts as a representative or promoter of a specified activity.
intelligent

US /ɪnˈtɛlədʒənt/

UK /ɪnˈtelɪdʒənt/

  • adjective
  • Based on or displaying intelligence; sensible; well-reasoned.
  • Showing evidence of careful thought and planning; well-designed.
  • Capable of learning, reasoning, and understanding; exhibiting artificial intelligence.
  • (of a machine or computer program) able to vary its state and actions in response to varying situations and past experience; able to perform tasks that usually require human intelligence.
  • Having or showing intelligence, especially of a high level.
  • Having a good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend.
  • Smart; able to think and reason