Podcast: Millions Of People Are Stuck Fleeing Both War And COVID-19

"The thing about people on the run is that often they're residing in close quarters. They may not have enough clean water for drinking, for handwashing, even. And they often just don't have the resources to do those basic steps that we've been able to do.”

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Stranded migrant laborers with their belongings wait at a railway station in Chennai, India, July 9.

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On today's episode of News O'Clock, we discuss:

1. The US hit 1,000 reported COVID-19 deaths in one day yesterday.

2. President Trump tried to get the US ambassador to the UK to move the British Open to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland.

3. Twitter has purged thousands of accounts related to the QAnon conspiracy movement from the site.

4. Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly did an intense joint interview on a podcast about their relationship.

5. Kim Kardashian West issued a lengthy statement on Instagram today addressing Kanye's mental health and how it's affecting their family.

And we talked with Anissa Toscano, vice president of humanitarian leadership and response at Mercy Corps, about how the coronavirus is affecting the world’s most vulnerable populations.

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Syrian Civil Defence rescue workers carry a body out of the debris of a building in Idlib, Syria, July 10.

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