Nastasya Tay
@NastasyaTay
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Anchor @AJEnglish. Sometimes host of @AJInsideStory. Former senior correspondent @SBSNews, @iwmf fellow; Africa for @npr, @AP, @independent.
Doha, Qatar
Joined May 2009
We're staying on air - so you can stay at home. Here's a peek behind the @AJEnglish anchor desk, with its fresh supply of wipes and sanitiser. #StayHomeSaveLives #coronavirus
Amid the Covid19 Pandemic, while reporting the news to its global audience, @AJEnglish presenters call on everyone to #Stayhome and #Staysafe
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Kidnapped from Dubai, or lured into a private plane ostensibly bound for Burundi? It’s still not super clear how #Rwanda managed to arrest Paul Rusesabagina (but also harder to work out while he’s in prison w/ people listening in)
“Imagine how you would feel if you find yourself where you are not supposed to be”: In the first interview since he was arraigned in court, Paul Rusesabagina tells me how he mysteriously vanished from Dubai last month and arrived in Kigali.
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The #UAE, #Bahrain & #Israel are about to sign the deal to normalise ties - that's already being greeted with protests. We'll have @nida_journo in Ramallah, @harryjfawcett in Israel, & @KimberlyHalkett at the White House - for all of it live. Join me on @AJEnglish from 16GMT.
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Do we see a pattern emerging? From #COVID19 #pandemic response to #climatechange, what happened to the #UnitedStates in 2020? This #Trump clip pretty much covers it
"It'll start getting cooler, you just watch." - President Trump. "I wish science agreed with you" - CA Natural Resources Secretary. "I don't think science knows actually."- President Trump. #NBC7.
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Apt or awkward? Could there a sleeper troll inside the Trump #USElection2020 campaign? Just to spice things up, because they needed further spicing #Trump ad asks voters to "Support Our Troops". But those are #Russian jets. via @politico
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What have gangs been up to under #COVID19 #lockdown in #Kenya & #SouthAfrica? Recruiting kids while handing out hand sanitiser. Growing distrust in police + no more school feeding schemes = hungry parents encouraging it. Interesting, from @GI_TOC:
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#SouthAfrica’s #COVID19 lockdown came at a huge cost, but it also saved lives. So many shouty opinions; if only we had some data. Oh wait, we do. Your Monday longread: a considered, data-driven look at #SA’s #coronavirus response from @brodiegal:
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In this sea of politicised #coronavirus #pandemic confusion, some concise scientific nuance is handy. Is herd immunity realistic? Should paused vaccine trials scare you? Your friendly local epidemiologist explains:
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Amid all the #SignsTheApocalypseHasArrived, THIS is what should terrify you: @GlobPeaceIndex’s 2020 Ecological Threat Register projects 1 BILLION people displaced by #climatechange by 2050. That’s MORE THAN 1 IN 8 of us within 30 years. A map of threats:
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When #coronavirus quarantine goes very, very wrong: months of restrictions turn to anger, anger turns to conflict, conflict turns to destruction and more displacement for the already-displaced. What now for #Moria, and its #COVID19 outbreak?
After a fire broke out in #Moria camp on Lesvos last night, thousands of refugees are sleeping on the streets. Early reports suggest 50-80% of the camp, which sheltered over 12,000 people, has been destroyed. A thread 👇
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#Coronavirus and now this: a large fire's blazing inside the overcrowded #Moria migrant camp on #Lesbos, while more than 12,000 people are stuck there under quarantine. I'll be talking to @dfherman on @AJEnglish v shortly, to find out what's going on inside the fence.
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Any indication of whether it was a commercial flight? It would take a mighty strong drug to get him on a Rwanda-bound plane
Judging from this, Rusesabagina may well have been kidnapped from Dubai
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The #USA may be in crisis, but America still has its heroes. #SaucyNugs
🐔 Ander Christensen, a Nebraska resident, made a passionate plea to the Lincoln City Council to rename boneless chicken wings because they are not in fact wings from a chicken. WATCH -->>
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Here’s a question I didn’t get to ask you, @doctorshaib: #Novichok is a family of binary nerve agents, right? To combine components at the last moment, as you deploy it, presumably you’d need very, very specialised knowledge indeed. #Navalny
Today with @NastasyaTay on @AJEnglish we discussed #Novichok & its mode of action on the human body. It is important to also screen the close contacts of Mr Alexei #Navalnyi The signs, symptoms & presentation all point to an acute poisioning event.
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Celebrating the restoration of internet in the world’s largest #refugee camp, with a belated retweet. In 3 years, so little has changed for the #Rohingya. Something as simple as turning the 3G back on in #CoxsBazar: overdue, and welcome.
I spoke w @AJEnglish’s @NastasyaTay about a grim anniversary: 3 yrs since Myanmar’s military launched a brutal campaign of mass killings, rapes & arson against the #Rohingya. #Refugees I know have always called it #genocide. They want justice but don’t expect they’ll get it soon.
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Looking at #Lebanon's #COVID19 numbers post-#BeirutBlast: half the country's infections are from the last 2 weeks alone. What do you do when hospitals are gone? I'll be speaking to @rochdi_najat, the #UN's Humanitarian Coordinator on @AJEnglish just after 10GMT, to find out.
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Amid the clouds of smoke and teargas in #Beirut; I can confirm the excellent @ZeinakhodrAljaz was doing lives between taking breaths in her gas mask. Amazing team, @AJEnglish. Now the question: will there be elections in #Lebanon? And will they really make a difference?
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Just WHAT exactly happened in #Beirut? What “confiscated explosives” could create that sort of shockwave? All the latest in the aftermath of those enormous explosions, live on @AJEnglish, with my colleague @afinighan, and our excellent @ZeinakhodrAljaz, on the ground. #Lebanon
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“If they’re going to come after me, they may as well march to Capitol Hill… arrest everybody in the White House.” I speak to a defiant @samuelmchu: US citizen, lobbyist; now one of 6 activists-in-exile wanted by #HongKong police in #China’s latest crackdown. @AJEnglish
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Thanks, So. Tune in. We'll be talking Zoom privacy issues and asking whether we should all be wearing facemasks. #coronavirus #newnormal?
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