FairChen

BBC news with Aileen McHugh.
President Joe Biden has signed executive orders covering his administration approach to Covid-19. He's made mask-wearing in federal building mandatory and asked people to wear masks in airports and on trains, airplanes and in the city buses until at least April. The order also addressed virus testing, protecting workers and improving public health standards.


The head of World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has welcomed the new Biden administration's annoucement that America intends to join Covax. The program to share coronavirus vaccines with poorer countries. He said the move and Washington's commitment to rejoin the WTO again was a good day for the WHO and for gobal health.


The Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has welcomed details of a bill on migration to be sent by the US President Joe Biden to Congress. He described the legislation as very good. If passed, it could open a path to citizenship for immigrants living in the United States.


Police in Italy have placed nearly 50 people under an arrest in an operation targeting the most powerful Mafia group, the Ndrangheta. Ir centers on a major fraud network alleged to operating in southern region of Calabria . One of the those being investigated is the region's Finance Minister Francesco Talarico.


A court has sentenced the former head of the Vatican Bank Angelo Caloia and two Italian lawyers to prison for money-laundering and embezzlement. 81-year-old, Mr. Caloia, jailed for nearly nine years, is the highest ranking Vatican official to be found guilty and financial wrongdoing. One of the convicted lawyers is aged 97.


The South African government Minister Jackson Mthembu has died from complication related to Covid-19. He was 62. President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed deep sorrow and shock at the death.


BBC news.



This post was generated by put listening repetition system,  Check the original dictation thread!