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Speaker 1: News when you wanted with Bloomberg News. Now I met Kalgi.

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Speaker 1: The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian

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Speaker 1: security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Asada and

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Speaker 1: revenge killings that followed, has risen to more than one thousand,

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Speaker 1: making it one of the deadliest acts of violence since

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Speaker 1: Syrious conflict began fourteen years ago. The Britain based Syrian

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Speaker 1: Observatory for Human Rights set in addition to seven hundred

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Speaker 1: forty five civilians killed, mostly in shooting some close distance,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five government security force members and

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Speaker 1: one hundred forty eight militants with armed groups affiliated with

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Speaker 1: Asad were killed. Electricity and drinking water were cut off

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Speaker 1: in large areas around the city of Lakatkia. The clashes

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Speaker 1: which erupted Thursday marked a major escalation and the challenge

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Speaker 1: to the new government in Dabascus, three months after insurgents

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Speaker 1: took authority after removing Asad from power. Iran won't be

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Speaker 1: bullied into negotiations with countries that have not fulfilled their

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Speaker 1: prior commitments, its Supreme leader, Ayatola Ali Khameni said this Saturday.

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Speaker 1: An apparent rebuff to US overtures to start talks for

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Speaker 1: a new nuclear deal. Kamani, who has the final say

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Speaker 1: on Iran's key decisions, did not name specific countries, but

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Speaker 1: said such negotiations were a way to present new demands.

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump said Friday that he had sent a

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Speaker 1: letter to the Iranian leadership urging it to negotiate a

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Speaker 1: peace deal and warning of the possibility of a military

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Speaker 1: intervention if a deal was not reached. House Republicans announced

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Speaker 1: a spending bill to keep government agencies open through September thirtieth,

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Speaker 1: daring Democrats to vote against it and risk a disruptive

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Speaker 1: March fifteenth shutdown. The move tees up a dramatic confrontation

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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill next week and threatens to further fuel

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Speaker 1: uncertainty for a federal workforce roiled by swift and aggressive

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Speaker 1: cuts made by billionaire Elon Musk. Speaker Mike Johnson will

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Speaker 1: attempt to hold the fractious Republican majority together and muscle

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Speaker 1: the one hundred page bill through the House Tuesday, likely

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Speaker 1: without help from Democrats, but the bill would still need

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Speaker 1: the help of moderate Democrats over in the Senate, where

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Speaker 1: the legislation would stall without sixty votes. The Centers for

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Speaker 1: Disease Control and Prevention reported fifty eight new measles cases Friday,

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Speaker 1: jumping thirty five percent in one week. We get more

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Speaker 1: in this from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 2: It is a worrying sign in the outbreak that has

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Speaker 2: already been linked to two deaths. According to the CDC,

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Speaker 2: the US now has two hundred and twenty two cases

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Speaker 2: across twelve states since the beginning of the year, and

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Speaker 2: thirty eight, or seventeen percent of those confirmed cases have

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Speaker 2: led to hospitalization. Measles is a highly contagious disease, and

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Speaker 2: according to the CDC, up to ninety percent of people

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Speaker 2: around a positive case who are not immune will become infected.

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Speaker 2: In New York Charlie Pellett Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Germany's Conservatives and the Social Democrats agree to deepen talks

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Speaker 1: over forming a new government to step forward as pressure

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Speaker 1: builds on Chancellor and Waiting Friedrich Mrz to implement sweeping reforms.

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Speaker 1: At a press briefing in Berlin Saturday, Merz said the

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Speaker 1: parties have agreed to titan border controls to reduce illegal immigration,

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Speaker 1: as well as implement reforms aimed at supporting German industry,

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Speaker 1: including lowering energy costs in corporate taxes. The party is

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Speaker 1: also aimed to ease the tax burden on middle class

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Speaker 1: households and encourage more companies to invest in Germany. Purchase

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Speaker 1: incentives for electric cars will be revived if the parties

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Speaker 1: finalize a coalition deal and form a government. The Trump

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Speaker 1: administration may be eyeing a new trade deal with one

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Speaker 1: of the world's fastest growing nations. Bloomberg's Nathan Hager reports

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Speaker 1: from Washington.

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Speaker 3: Commerce Secretary Howard Luttnik says there's a chance to negotiate

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Speaker 3: a broad trade agreement with India. He spoke at a

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Speaker 3: recent event hosted by India Today Group. He says it

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Speaker 3: could address everything from India's higher tariff levels to its

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Speaker 3: purchases of Russian weapons and efforts to dethrone the dollar

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Speaker 3: through the Bricks Group. India's Commerce minister is on a

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Speaker 3: nearly week long trip to Washington aimed at avoiding the

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Speaker 3: reciprocal tariffs that President Trump has promised nations around the world.

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Speaker 3: Starting April second in Washington, I'm Nathan Hager Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: After three rounds of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at bay

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Speaker 1: Hill near Orlando, Colin Morricawa five under four the day

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Speaker 1: on Saturday, ten under four of the tournament. He will

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Speaker 1: head into Sunday's final round with a one shot lead.

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Speaker 1: The act of putting something aside is an exercise and

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Speaker 1: remembering what we lose when our memories exist entirely in

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