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"Conducted its annual nuclear drills under Russian president Vladimir Putin's watchful eye this week, the Kremlin says all test fired missiles actually reached their designated targets and The White House does stress, the Moscow apparently did give the U.S. advanced notice of the drill. Everything Russia is doing right now in Ukraine is an indirect impact on every other country in the region right now, and those countries are spending a lot of time trying to understand Russia's every single move. This morning, WTO national security correspondent JJ green has the latest wars. For president Putin the objective of this ongoing war in Ukraine was basically to make Ukraine out of imperialistic Russia. Truly done is the undersecretary for defense policy in the Estonian Ministry of Defense. Belarus appears to have already returned to Russia's empire and is helping them in this war. The providing infrastructure from Belarus that the Russian armies is sending in drones. In a Samantha's Latvia's ambassador to Belarus. Do not says Putin's objectives go much further than just a couple of countries. We will face very long controversy between nera Atlantic community and Russia. So a part of the reason why these countries are so focused on what Russia is doing in Ukraine is because they think that these may be trial runs or test balloons for things Russia might try to do the them later on. JJ, there is widespread doubt that Russia really is going to do anything nuclear. But if that is the case, why then are Western countries continually talking about Russia's nuclear threats? Remember when the war was about to start everything that Russia was about to do intelligence agencies were picking up their plans and putting it all out there in the media. And that was so that people would know about what Russia was doing. Russia was talking about Ukraine in the beginning was going to attack its own people in the north and maybe attack its own people in other locations across the south. But in reality, Russia was planning to do that itself. So what they were doing was trying to get people to think through its disinformation that Ukraine was going to do it. Then they were going to blame Ukraine for doing that essentially saying they were attacking Russian or at least people who were aligned with Russia and used that as a provocation to attack Ukraine. That's the same thing that's been going on with this nuclear threat and this threat to blow up this dam. The intelligence community is from the countries around the world have been
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"Local 26, where electrical contractors come to grow. Good afternoon, I'm Sean Anderson. I'm Hillary Howard. We've got Thomas Robertson as our producer. And Edward top story, a judge is ordering former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before the special grand jury in Georgia that's investigating whether then president Trump and his allies illegally tried influencing the state's 2020 race. Fulton county, DA, Fannie Wilson, Willis, in Georgia, opened the investigation early last year. Because Meadows doesn't live in Georgia, Willis had to use a process that involves getting a judge where he lives in South Carolina to order him to appear. Meadows is one of a number of high profile associates and advisers of the former president whose testimony Willis has sought. He has argued that he's got executive privilege. Well, now to the war in Ukraine, Russia has conducted its annual nuclear drills today under Russian president Vladimir Putin's watchful eye, the Kremlin says all test fired missiles reached their designated targets, The White House says Moscow did give the U.S. advance notice of the drill. Everything rush is doing in Ukraine has an indirect impact on every other country in the region, and those countries are spending a lot of time trying to understand Russia's every move. WTO national security correspondent JJ green joins us live with more JJ. For president Putin the objective of this ongoing war in Ukraine was basically to make Ukraine out of imperialistic Russia. Truly done is the undersecretary for defense policy in the Estonian Ministry of Defense. Belarus appears to have already returned to Russia's empire and is helping them in this war
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"Both sets of people and the fact is Russia's army has shrunk over the years. This is not the Red Army of law. This is not the Soviet Army. It has shrunk in size. And then when the war began, the army was decimated by Ukrainians, it lost huge numbers of people, maybe 60, 70, 80,000 casualties that is killed and wounded in total, so it suffered grievous losses and what we have found is that they can't defend this huge front line, this thousand kilometer front line. It was a manpower problem, ultimately that resulted in weak spots appearing along the line in half if province that opened up space for Ukraine to conduct this spectacular counter offensive two weeks ago. And it's this manpower shortage that has forced Russia's army to rely on mercenaries, convicts, on people press ganged from Ukrainian territory in Donbass. So there's a clear element of desperation that was creeping in to Russia's recruitment policies. Why do you call the number 300,000 aspirational? Because it's easy to get warm bodies, right? You can threaten them with jail, you can count them off in vans. You can pull in prisoners, but warm bodies are not the end of the problem. These people will have some military experience, so you don't have to train them how to fire a gun. But do they have officers to lead them? Do they have equipment with which they can fight? Do they have enough secure handheld radios? You know, it's the absence of all this kit and of leadership and of refresher training because all the officers who would train them are basically dying or fighting that is going to be the major constraint, the big bottleneck on Russia's generation of combat power here. So that's mobilization. Let's move on to the referendum C mentioned, what did he mean by those? Where will they take place and what are they voting on? Well, we've known for a long time that Russia is planning these sort of fake referendums in the provinces of Ukraine that it occupies fully or partially, so that is Don bass, which is done yet, can lohans, and in the south it's croissant and zapor Asia. And we saw yesterday on Tuesday that the officials in those places said they were going to hold referendums on joining Russia between September 23rd and 27th. In other words, in two days time. And they are transparently going to be the same kind of rigged pole that Russia used in 2014 to facilitate the illegal annexation of Crimea, which was also Ukrainian territory. These are kind of puppet regimes that will hold fabricated votes they'll probably rig the results and the result will be that Russia, if it wants to, and we think it now does, will be able to formally absorb these places into the Russian Federation. And the goal of doing that, I would guess is that it allows Putin to treat any attack on those provinces as an attack on Russian territory. Well, this is a war of conquest, so the territory itself adding to Russia's state rebuilding Russia's empire if you want to put it in those more dramatic terms is part of the aim. Beyond anything else, then there's a manpower aspect to this, which is that if this is suddenly Russian territory, well, you can conscript from these places. You can build up manpower from these places, which is a not trivial consideration for his depleted army, and then yes, the third consideration is exactly, as you say, John, if this becomes Russian territory, and Ukraine then attacks these places, the Kremlin can say, look, Ukraine is not just liberating its own territory. It's attacking Russia, and if you attack Russia, then our nuclear weapons may come into play, Russian nuclear doctrine actually says that nuclear weapons come into play only if there is a threat to the existence of the state, but I think we will see the Russian government say this is now a Ukrainian attack on Russian soil and therefore the west had better stop it or who knows where this might end up. Well that brings us to the third thing you mentioned from his speech, which is nuclear threats. What did he say and how seriously should we take his words? Promise to use all resources we have to defend our people. And I think later in the speech he added, it's not a bluff. I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction. So in some sense, this is known different to the speech with which he began this war if you cast your mind back, John, to February 24th, the early hours where he talked about anyone standing in our way would meet with grave destruction, clear illusion the nuclear weapons. What I think has changed over the course of this conflict is our original concerns were about a NATO Russia clash, Russia perhaps attacking NATO convoys, a conflagration, escalating to the use of nuclear weapons in some fashion. The concern we have today is very different. It's about Russian weakness, not Russian strength. It's a fear that Russia may be losing the conflict and out of desperation may use nuclear weapons perhaps a small what we call sub strategic or tactical nuclear weapon to try and shock Ukraine and shock the west into submission. It's by no means clear to me where the Putin was alluding to that, whether he was just conducting generic saber rattling. And I would say that we have to treat these nuclear threats with a critical eye. We shouldn't swallow them uncritically because ultimately Ukraine has been attacking Russian soil with special forces with helicopter raids in places like Belgrade. It's been attacking Russian occupied soil in places like Crimea with missiles and special forces for months and months. And there has been no dramatic apocalyptic reaction. So I'm not going to go as far as to say this is a bluff because we can't know that for sure, but I will say that ultimately these nuclear threats are probably designed to produce a certain psychological reaction in the west, and we should always keep that strategic intention in mind as we interpret these words. And this week, of course, the UN General Assembly has been meeting in New York. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has taken up a whole lot of attention. Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seemed to be positioning himself as an interlocutor. He said that Putin was looking to end the war. This seems the opposite of that. Does this strike you as an escalation? It's undoubtedly an escalation. Ultimately, Russia is losing this war John. It doesn't have the manpower or the morale or the impetus to conduct any more big offensives, so it's offensive capacity is for now spent. Ukraine is exploiting the resulting weaknesses which result in things like this incredible counter offensive that liberated huge chunks of territory and put even the position of Don Bassett risk, Donbass being the ostensible aim of Putin's war effort and in the south in Carson, you have perhaps 20,000 Russian troops, squeezed against the dnieper river with their means of resupply being steadily cut off by missiles and trapped under miserable conditions. So Russia had to do something and for Putin this is now in some ways existential, not in terms of the survival of his country, but in terms of the reputation and therefore perhaps survival of his regime, and therefore I think this was a step that was going to come. He had delayed it as long as possible, it's still isn't a national mobilization. He's not saying he's going to send callow 18 year olds straight into the war in ways that would prompt howls of outrage and potential protests from their mothers and their families. But nonetheless, this is a Putin that is really on the back foot down and is finding some way to revive and rescue his failing war effort. All right, chuck, thanks so much for joining us this morning. Thanks very much, Sean. This year is this adequate valley fair in Maine, took place in one of the most rural parts of America. There was plenty on offer for me and my producer Stevie hurts to find. Prize cows, award winning pickles, and a Sunday with three types of maple syrup. But democratic voters were harder to come across. I'm a Democrat, but vote in republic. In America, not that long ago, the two parties fought hard and almost evenly for rural votes. These days most rural areas are solidly Republican. I don't like the Democrats anymore. They have gone so far to the left. They're not for the working class anymore. What do you think when you think of a Democrat? What does that mean to you? To me, that means higher taxes. Fewer jobs. Yeah. When you think of Democrats, what do you think of? I think it's all just a hoax. Control as much as like a control and everybody just turns a blind eye to everything. On this, the latest in our midterm series looking at the broader forces influencing power and politics ahead of November's elections, we're finding out how Democrats are trying to win back white rural and working class voters. Between now and election day, we're going to different House districts around the country. Each chosen to illuminate a salient theme in American politics. This week we're in Maine's second district. Maine has just two congressional districts. The first is small and liberal the second is rural and huge. Bigger than Ireland. It's significantly older, wider and poorer than the rest of America. So perhaps it's not surprising that Donald Trump won it twice. But so did Barack Obama. It's rightward shift isn't unique. It's part of a national pattern of rural America moving away from Democrats. Here, this local summer fair is still an agricultural event, complete with livestock, lots and lots of livestock. If you signed up for the scramble, come to the polling rate. At the pig scramble, pigs are released. And kids, some as young as 6 compete to catch them. They are, don't be scared. Grab it on those legs. Grab it onto his leg. Build it in there. And if you catch one, you keep it. You want to get it out of the bag as soon as possible, get it out. To raise or sell, there are enough pig farms in the area to give them good homes. The county's Republican Party has a stall at the fair, with buttons, hats, and local candidates. I'm Jim white. I'm running for House district 30 in piscataquis county Maine. Some of Somerset. Biggest things on the Second Amendment advocate. I've owned a gun shop for 30 years. I pro life individual. I'm a Christian. So many of my court beliefs align with the Republican Party. Up here, people hunt. Not just for a hobby, but for food. Gun stores and guns themselves are commonplace. Tell me about the raffle. The AR-15 rifle? Well, last year we did our first firearms raffle. We raffled off two firearms. So we did it again. And it seems very successful and several other committees around the state have been doing firearms around. But a Democrat has represented this district in Congress since 2018. Jared golden is young, not quite 40 years old. He grew up here before joining the marines and serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. I thank the gentlewoman from Florida for yielding. The purpose of my amendment is to call attention to the shortage of VA mental health and substance use disorder facilities. Golden is plain spoken in tattooed with kind of a reserved demeanor. He isn't a typical glad handing politician. His detractors and supporters alike say his most striking quality is attentiveness. He listens to people. For example, veterans in my home state of Maine must travel hundreds of miles out of state to access long-term treatment facilities. That's just unacceptable. We're just ramping up right now, obviously. Some are doing doors, some are doing events, and Joanne mason is the chair of the kennebec county Democrats, helping local candidates like golden with their election campaigns. How do you think he has managed to do so well in a district that voted for Donald Trump? What is his secret? I don't think it's a secret. I think it's right out there. There's many things. One, he thinks very independently. He pays attention to what the community needs. He's a marine, which is huge. People recognize that this is a man who cares about his community. He's a man who, you know, who's handled guns and owns guns, and that's not a hugely democratic thing to put out there. Golden's won twice. Both times by narrow margins. This year, he's running against Bruce poliquin, who he beat in 2018 to win the seat. But while people might like golden himself, the Democrats reputation is still toxic to many in rural America. I hear a lot of people complain about Democrats. It's so liberal and they want everything that you know, they want this or it's not the case. In my opinion, Democrats are very vast group. So golden has worked to separate himself from that national brand, which means distancing himself from the president. I'm Jared golden, and that's why in Congress, I'm an independent voice for you. I'm taking on my own party to stand up for Maine families. I was the only Democrat to vote against trillions of dollars of President Biden's agenda because I knew it would make inflation worse. Golden was the only house Democrat to vote against Joe Biden's massive build back better act. And he recently came out against the administration's plans to forgive student debt. Jared Gordon isn't the last of a vanishing breed, but he's a remnant of a vanishing breed of rural Democrats who represent a kind of old school liberal working class politics that increasingly reads in the contemporary Democratic Party is centrist or center right. James Bennett is The Economist Lexington columnist. If you ask him why are you a Democrat, his answer is because he believes government can play a very important role in helping people. His concern, I think about the contemporary Democratic Party is that it's got kind of a grandiose view of that role. And he says, wants to help everybody, including people who don't really need it. And he's very concerned about the deficit and excessive government spending. Rural Democrats weren't always so rare. As recently as 2009, there were democratic senators from North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Alaska. But that has
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"Strategy works. I'm not sure if you've heard of the explosion that killed Daria dugan. Alexander duggans daughter whoo the man many considered to be creative some of the ideas that mister Putin is acting upon right now. What do you make of that attack? Because the Russians have blamed Ukraine for it. Or some Russian officials have frankly saying I would be happy to know that this made by Ukraine. It means that our special operation forces or other forces are working quite effectively because we are speaking about Moscow, but let's not forget that in Russia everything is like a very corrupt and there are like a battle of different political groups. So I'm not so sure that that's Ukrainian probably it could be some internal battle so internal fights. Even if it was done by someone else, I might put frankly say I'm happy to see it because I believe that it should be some kind of paying back. Elena rover former deputy defense minister of Ukraine. So who is Alexander dugan? And how much sway does he hold over president Putin's political thinking? Care, Giles is a senior consulting fellow of the Russia and Eurasia program at the UK think tank chatham House. Alexander dugan is the notorious figure among those who are supposed to have been the inspiration for president Putin's colonial wars of reconquest and trying to reestablish Russia as an empire as a great power with dominion over its neighbors. He has combined a lot of mystical theories about the history of Russia with ideas about Russia's future destiny to put together a toxic mix of expansionist and aggressive ideologies, which are driving so much of what Russia is doing today. Now, a lot of people blame him for inventing this, but in fact, he's Tapping into just like president Putin. A lot of the long-standing roots of Russian behavior because a lot of these convictions that are expressed by people like dubin and Putin are not new. They simply were submerged for a while while many people thought that Russia was actually a normal western leaning country. So how influential was he and how important were his ideas in what's happening for instance now in Ukraine. There are a lot of different assessments of how much influence dugan actually had. But that misses the point slightly. It may not be that he is the chief adviser to president Putin driving his ideology, but he certainly represents a trend and a groundswell and a background of convictions that drive these Russian behaviors. This belief that Russia is entitled to an empire and that aggressive behavior is the best way to recover it. Daria, his daughter, died in an explosion, she was driving his car, did she share her father's views? Absolutely. It started talking it was another vehement Russian propagandist, calling for the expansion of Russia's empire over Ukraine in particular, but more broadly as well. So there were plenty of reasons for people to dislike, in fact Mayo within the Russian elite. Within the Russian elite factionalism and organized crime are indistinguishable. So how significant do you think this attack is actually right now for mister Putin? Well, first of all, this is a return to an era that Russians thought had gone, the 1990s, the lawlessness, the car bombs for settling scores. Whoever has done this has actually reached back into an earlier playbook for dealing with Moscow and with their rivals within Moscow. If it is Ukraine behind this it indicates an ability to strike at people close to the Putin regime, if instead it's internal factionalism, it might be the first sign of a split within that ruling elite in Russia. Russia analyst Kia Giles here on NewsHour. Support for WNYC comes from Brooklyn solar works, a flat roof solar installer based in gowanus helping power homes with the sun. Information on consultations and more available at Brooklyn solar works dot com. The BBC NewsHour continues at 5, it's all things considered. I hope you'll stay with us this Saturday. I should say Sunday. Gotta keep it straight. That means morning edition is tomorrow and here's a story you'll hear hundreds of people released from prison during the pandemic where the slightest infraction could return them to incarceration. And tomorrow on morning edition. Here are about a new court ruling and action from the Justice Department that are giving them new hope to an end for this story on 93.9 FM AMA 20 or live stream it at WNYC dot org. 81°, a few clouds now. Many more clouds later. Showers and thunderstorms become likely late tonight, mainly after 2 a.m., and those showers and thunderstorms stay with us all day tomorrow. When will be near 80°. Our life from the BBC in London. Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo are heating up and from the language used by at least one side, it could become dangerous again, so be as president has been raising the specter of the vicious wars that sundered the Balkan states in the 90s, vowing that there will be no refugee columns in Kosovo and that's a direct quote. Alexander vucic was speaking on television following a meeting in Belgrade with ethnic ethnic Serb representatives from Kosovo. A Balkans correspondent is what gave rise to the latest tensions. The source of the tension seemed slightly ridiculous. It's this row over number plates, vehicle license plates. The government in Kosovo says that everybody in Kosovo should be using number plates issued by the government in Kosovo. Ethnic Serbs living in Kosovo, particularly those in northern Kosovo, prefer to drive cars which have Serbian issued vehicle license plates. There's been a fudge going on with this for years now and everybody's been getting on quite well with the fudge. But Kosovo's issued deadlines saying that people really do have to hand in their Serbian number plates and swap them for Kosovo plates. They had one attempt at this at the start of August, which resulted in barricades being set up and the EU and the U.S. telling Kosovo to back down very sharpish, which they did. Now we've got a fresh deadline of the 1st of September. We've had talks in Brussels and attempting to find some sort of solution and it hasn't transpired these tensions continue. The tone of the language is really emotive words like pogroms and persecution being used. Why, if it's purely an administrative issue of number plates, I think there's two things going on. One of which is president vucic has sport from Serbs who really don't want to relinquish Serbia's hold on Kosovo. They believe the Kosovo is Serbia. They don't recognize Kosovo's unilateral Declaration of Independence in 2008. They don't want to make any concessions to Kosovo. So it's very much in president future's interests to keep his support base happy and the fair part of that support base a Serbian nationalists. On the other hand, there is a genuine fear among ethnic Serbs in north Kosovo that they might suffer persecution or worse and because this is certainly happened in the past in 2004 there were numerous incidents of so called ethnic cleansing involving ethnic Serbs in Kosovo and there is a genuine fear among people in the north of Kosovo that that may happen again. So the president of Serbia is reassuring them basically not on my watch. Do we have any more detail on what the compromise solution that president which had proposed could mean? We don't really. And I think he's trying to keep his cards as close to his chest as possible. And he's talking about different ideas about identification and papers that you can use going across what cervicals the administrative line into Kosovo. So they're going to keep talking now until the 1st of September in an effort to find some sort of solution that's going to be acceptable to everyone. Is this a sign that the underlying tensions following the conflict that raged in the region in the 90s is still unresolved? Well, in terms of cost of our it's very much unresolved and that's because it's Declaration of Independence in 2008 was unilateral. Serbia didn't agree to it. As a result, Kosovo does find itself in a very difficult position. 5 European Union member states don't recognize Kosovo. Somewhere approaching half of all UN member states don't recognize Kosovo, including such big hitters as India, Russia, China, Brazil, Indonesia. And it's not a member of a lot of international organizations. In addition its citizens are the only people in the western Balkans who don't have Visa free access to the countries of the European Union. So it's unresolved what everywhere you want to look at it. Serbia doesn't accept that Kosovo is an independent country. The people of Kosovo found life very difficult because quite a lot of other countries in the world don't accept that either
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"News I'm Scott Simon Thank you for being with us We begin this hour of the program in Kyiv For more than 5 weeks now Russian forces have been pushing toward the capital of Ukraine there are reports that push at the moment his faltering We are joined now by the mayor of Kyiv vitali Klitschko and he joins us now via Skype mister mayor thanks so much for being with us My pleasure What do you know about Russian forces on the outskirts of Kyiv What's happening I just came from satellite city of Kyiv I saw the whole infrastructure is destroyed There's a building's actually city of air pain but still this city's doesn't exist anymore Whole buildings schools areas totally destroyed And right now we collect we collect the people we don't know the numbers but it's will be hundred maybe thousands It's horrible It's actually very depressive images to see that It's not secret the key was always target from Russians and they right now to go away I actually don't believe Russians The Russians told this special operation just against Ukrainian army I just came in right now from now to the city I saw the whole people shoot Civilian City and old young people women's should buy Russian soldiers and take bodies everywhere there Mayor Klitschko you were give is ordinarily a city of about 3 million people the size of Chicago in fact Can you tell how many people have left What's life in the city like now Kyiv is the largest city in east Europe right now We guess the help of population right now already last It's women's children's will move to west of Ukraine much more safety part of the country And some people temporary move to outside of the country Cities change totally It's always a springtime This city have an energy so many people enjoy this spring sunshine And right now the just blog post the people with weapons It's city almost died Yeah Do you want people to return or is it still unsafe What do you think about the future To be honest I talked to many experts in the world and nobody can predict how situation will be developed Everybody hope of for diplomatic solution but Russians told about solution about compromise is difficult to say which compromise we have to find in this incrementation we can talk about compromise our solution if Russian soldiers go away from our territory from our country Right now the people want to come back to Kyiv but it's still the edges to be in Kyiv because any seconds any buildings any citizens of our cities can be targeted That way right now we can say when a survey was finished Right now a little bit quite damp couple of days before but people still near us What is the city need from the rest of the world What would you like I explain you some very interesting story Just a couple of weeks ago the records launched in apartments building The building destroyed by immediately come to this place with four men to give the help the people one man come to me I guess a little bit more than 60 years old and give the question mister mayor what I have to do I'm homeless right now because this huge hole in the building and I give him proposals to wait him to the west of Ukraine I was very surprised The answer was mister mayor All my life I leave him my hometown in Kyiv All my friends who relatives live here I don't want to leave I want to ask you mister mayor Please Give me the weapons I want to defend my city Because the reason of this war Putin want to rebuild Russia empire also Soviet Union we was in the USSR and we definitely don't want back to the USSR And everyone everyone ready to defend the children and future of our families Of Kyiv thanks so much for being with us You welcome and one message Thank you very much for support of our country from the United States It's very important for us We are ready to fight But please everyone have to understand we defend not just our country we defend not just our families We defend the same values and principles and if someone think the war far away is wrong opinion because this work can touch anyone in routine of anyone in the world Thank you for everyone Mayor vitalik did you go with Kyiv Thank you sir The Biden administration is going to end the sweeping border restrictions known as title 42 For more than two years those restrictions allowed immigration authorities to quickly expel migrants at the border without giving them a chance to seek asylum in the U.S. policy was originally intended to stop the spread of COVID-19 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced that the Trump era policy will end on May 23rd but there are concerns lifting those restrictions could lead to a record influx of migrants at the southern border And Virgil rose covers emigration Joel thanks so much for being with us Hi Scott First what do CDC officials say about their decision Well basically that these restrictions are no longer necessary CDC director Rochelle Walensky wrote that the threat of migrants spreading COVID-19 at the border has quote ceased to be a serious danger to the public health That was the CDC's reason for authorizing these pandemic restrictions more than two years ago The Biden administration has made some exceptions notably for unaccompanied children arriving at the border but it's largely kept title 42 in place until now I'd watch the reaction been so far Immigrant advocates in many Democrats welcomed this decision They have been arguing for a long time that title 42 was really a tool to manage the flow of migrants at the border and limit access to a silent using public health and COVID essentially as an excuse Melissa Crowe is a lawyer at the center for gender and refugee studies at UC Hastings college of the law We commend the Biden administration for getting rid of this racist Trump era relic There's absolutely no legal or policy justification for turning back asylum seekers at the border or for leaving them stranded in some of the most dangerous cities in the world Immigrant advocates also argue that title 42 wasn't actually very effective at managing migration We've seen record breaking numbers of migrant apprehensions at the southern border last year even with title 42 in place So what happens now is that the restrictions are lifted There's a lot of concern that this will lead to a significant increase in migration Republicans are using words like chaos and travesty and Armageddon Here's senator rob Portman Republican of Ohio speaking on the Senate floor this week The border patrol tells me they are already overwhelmed But they say it will be out of control Now someone argue it's already out of control but it's going to get a whole lot worse And even some Democrats are nervous I mean particularly senators who are facing tight reelection contests this year they say that the Biden administration should keep title 42 in place at least until it has a better plan ready to deal with the possible influx How does the Biden administration react to that Homeland Security officials say they will be ready when title 42 ends in just over 7 weeks They say they have a plan They're deploying extra personnel to the border They're standing up temporary facilities to process migrants They are at the same time preparing to roll out a new system for handling asylum claims that is supposed to take months instead of years and Homeland Security officials also say they may place greater numbers of migrants into the so called remain in Mexico program This is another Trump era policy that forces asylum seekers to wait outside of the U.S. for their hearings in immigration courts You know but in the short run there's no question that Biden administration is in a tough spot here Immigrant advocates and liberal Democrats note that the U.S. has a legal obligation to let migrants apply for asylum and there is also no doubt that Republicans will try to blame Biden and Democrats for any increase in migration as we head toward midterm elections And pierce Joel rose thanks so much You're welcome.
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"This is weekend edition from NPR news on Scott Simon Thank you for being with us We begin this hour of the program in Kyiv For more than 5 weeks now Russian forces have been pushing toward the capital of Ukraine there are reports that push at the moment his faltering We are joined now by the mayor of Kyiv the Dolly Klitschko and he joins us now via Skype mister mayor thanks so much for being with us My pleasure What do you know about Russian forces on the outskirts of Kyiv What's happening I just came from satellite city of Kyiv I saw the whole infrastructure is destroyed There's a building's actually city of air pain butcher a stormy this city doesn't exist anymore Whole buildings schools areas total destroyed And right now we collect we collect the people we don't know the numbers but it's will be hundred maybe thousands It's horrible It's actually very depressive images to see that It's not secret the key was always target from Russians and they right now to go away I actually don't believe Russians The Russians told this special operation just against Ukrainian army I just came in right now from now to the city I saw the whole people shoot Civilian To the old young people women's should buy Russian soldiers and take bodies everywhere there Mayor Klitschko you were Kyiv as ordinarily a city of about 3 million people the size of Chicago in fact Can you tell how many people have left What's life in the city like now Keith is the largest city in east Europe right now We guess the help of population right now already the last is women's children's will move to west of Ukraine much more safety part of the country And some people temporary move to outside of the country Cities change totally It's always a springtime This city have an energy so many people enjoy this spring sunshine and right now they're just blog posts People with weapons It's almost that Do you want people to return or is it still unsafe What do you think about the future To be honest I talked to many experts in the world and nobody can predict how situation will be developed Everybody hope of diplomatic solution but Russians told about solution about compromise is difficult to say which compromise we have to find in this situation we can talk about compromise or solution if Russian soldiers go away from our territory from our country Right now the people want to come back to Kyiv but it's still the edges to be in Kyiv because any seconds any buildings any citizens of our cities can be targeted That way right now we can say when the war is finished right now give a little bit quiet them couple of days before but people still near us What is the city need from the rest of the world What would you like I explain you some very interesting story Just a couple of weeks ago the records launched in apartments building The building destroyed by immediately come to this place with four men to give the help the people one man come to me I guess a little bit more than 60 years old and give the question mister mayor what I have to do I'm homeless right now because this huge hole in the building and I give him proposals to wait him to the west of Ukraine I was very surprised The answer was mister mayor All my life I leave him my hometown in Kyiv All my friends who relatives live here I don't want to leave I want to ask you mister mayor Please Give me the weapons I want to defend my city Because the reason of this war Putin want to rebuild Russia empire also Soviet Union who was in the USSR and we definitely don't want back to the USSR And everyone everyone ready to defend the children and future of our families Mayor vitalik to go of Kyiv thanks so much for being with us sir You welcome and one message Thank you very much for support of our country from the United States is very important for us We are ready to fight But please everyone have to understand we defend not just our country we tend not just our families We depend the same values and principles and if someone think the war far away is wrong opinion because this work can touch anyone in any one in the world Thank you for everyone Mayor Vitale of Kyiv thank you sir The Biden administration is going to end the sweeping border restrictions known as title 42 For more than two years those restrictions allowed immigration authorities to quickly expel migrants at the border without giving them a chance to seek asylum in the U.S. policy was originally intended to stop the spread of COVID-19 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced that the Trump era policy will end on May 23rd but there are concerns lifting those restrictions could lead to a record influx of migrants at the southern border and Virgil rose covers immigration Joel thanks so much for being with us Hi Scott First what do CDC officials say about their decision Well basically that these restrictions are no longer necessary CDC director Rochelle Walensky wrote that the threat of migrants spreading COVID-19 at the border has quote ceased to be a serious danger to the public health That was the CDC's reason for authorizing these pandemic restrictions more than two years ago The Biden administration has made some exceptions notably for unaccompanied children arriving at the border but it's largely kept title 42 in place until now I'd watch the reaction been so far Immigrant advocates in many Democrats welcomed this decision They have been arguing for a long time that title 42 was really a tool to manage the flow of migrants at the border and limit access to asylum using public health and COVID essentially as an excuse Melissa Crowe is a lawyer at the center for gender and refugee studies at UC Hastings college of the law We commend the Biden administration for getting rid of this racist Trump era relic There's absolutely no legal or policy justification for turning back asylum seekers at the border or for leaving them stranded in some of the most dangerous cities in the world Immigrant advocates also argue that title 42 wasn't actually very effective at managing migration We've seen record breaking numbers of migrant apprehensions at the southern border last year even with title 42 in place So what happens now is that the restrictions are lifted There's a lot of concern that this will lead to a significant increase in migration Republicans are using words like chaos and travesty and Armageddon Here's senator rob Portman Republican of Ohio speaking on the Senate floor this week The border patrol tells me they are already overwhelmed But they say it will be out of control Now someone argue it's already out of control but it's going to get a whole lot worse And even some Democrats are nervous I mean particularly senators who are facing tight reelection contests this year they say that the Biden administration should keep title 42 in place at least until it has a better plan ready to deal with the possible influx How does the Biden administration react to that Homeland Security officials say they will be ready when title 42 ends in just over 7 weeks They say they have a plan They're deploying extra personnel to the border They're standing up temporary facilities to process migrants They are at the same time preparing to roll out a new system for handling asylum claims that it's supposed to take months instead of years and Homeland Security officials also say they may place greater numbers of migrants into the so called remain in Mexico program This is another Trump era policy that forces asylum seekers to wait outside of the U.S. for their hearings in immigration courts You know but in the short run there's no question that Biden administration is in a tough spot here Immigrant advocates and liberal Democrats note that the U.S. has a legal obligation to let migrants apply for asylum and there is also no doubt that Republicans will try to blame Biden and Democrats for any increase in migration as we head toward midterm elections And.
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"Go ahead and ban Russian energy imports to the United States including Russian oil something he had resisted but he was under increasing pressure from Congress Now Kira rudik participated in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election and was elected as the people's deputy of Ukraine Now since the invasion began she's acquired a rifle She's learning how to shoot at every single day And has even created a resistance unit herself She is joining us on the coco new year's live line You are in Kyiv Right And I plan to stay here until the Russian soldiers come here I will keep their ass and they will go away Cure the president had resisted for a while the call to ban Russian oil imports saying that it would adversely affect Americans and of course this week he did an abrupt about face What are your thoughts about that Well so we are truly grateful for every single step that is being taken by every country in the world to create Russia as many problems as possible in economy in business interaction in just general operation So Russia needs to become a North Korea type country so that they will decrease their appetite in obtaining other countries territories And so they would collapse as a country and stop fighting us So this is one of the steps that needs to be taken and we are really happy and celebrating that President Biden will be going on and on with it However to make a real difference right now on the ground what we need is a no fly zone over Ukraine We have heard that this is impossible This is very hard to do and nobody wants to do it However there are different variants of how this no fly zone over our sky can be implemented including the jets that we need to have including the additional weaponry on the ground So let me explain to you how it's going in Ukraine It's 13th day of war At the very beginning nobody believed that we would stand for more than 24 for 48 hours because Russia's army is one of the largest armies in the world And we were able to fight them We were able to find them hard so that by right now by 13 days they were not able to take any major city because in the land we are hitting them because on the land we are giving them a very very good fight And as of right now we destroyed 13,000 Russian soldiers like around thousand every single day However where we are not the strong is in the air because you can not do anything to protect yourself when there is a rocket or missile going to your home And this is what Putin is doing He is destroying our cities He is destroying our people He is destroying them from the air where we are helpless That's why we are asking to provide us additional protection from the air We don't really care how it will be called We don't really care If it will be the way that NATO is involved or just says it's not us The issue that we need to resolve the chance that my country my nation needs to have right now is to be able to fight and win this war and the only chance that we have right now is to get this protection from the air And this is what we are asking for Different ways different manners whatever it is called we just need to be able to protect the people the fighters who are fighting right now from being bombarded from the air So Kira Putin says okay we're going to create these passages or these safe ways for people to get out of the country We're going to talk about ways for peace Do you believe anything that he says at this point No not at all We have been fighting with him for 8 years on our eastern borders And we know exactly what is he doing First of all you know what is the scariest word that Putin could say This is the world's peace Because this means that he will be attacking us from all the sides that the immune system will be bombarding the nuclear plants trying to create a neutral noble This means that he will be attacking peaceful cities and peaceful convoys He gave us the word three times three times he promised that people women and children will be able to get away from the siege and he will not touch them And guess what three times in a row his army was firing at helpless children and women Today there was a child in mariupol the siege city could act of dehydration Could you believe in worry for century children dying of dehydration at the center of Europe Because some crazy dictator decided if she wants to expand his land and he wants to return to Russia empire how is it even possible And they are fighting and they are firing their arms and they have no mercy at these people And they would just help us people who are left at the bombarded city there was no water no food with their homes destroyed And we are trying to ask for this evocation convoys And he's saying okay go go go forward And they're going and the bullets are fighting firing at them How is this possible And everybody in the world is saying oh we are condemning them We are condemning him like okay and the United Nations is sending an angry email Again how is this possible right now We need to protection We understand that the world wants to rush out to collapse and that's why all the sanctions are imposed And we are really grateful for that But right now when we are talking Ukrainian children are dying They are dying for no reason for no specific idea for no reason at all just because there is no force in the world right now that is able to tell Putin no because there is no force in the world that would say no we are taking Ukraine under our arm and we will be helping Because all the help that we are getting right now we are do really appreciate it But what we really need is right now to protect us from the skies And without that there is the chances of us winning the significantly decrease and what would happen if Ukraine fails Putin already said he will take over Poland then And what would NATO countries do then They would say that Poland is they don't want to protect Poland as well So this is why it's so important that the sanctions and the economy attempt to push putting down will go hand by hand with providing Ukraine with jets with additional missiles So we could fight for ourselves We are not asking anybody to fight for us We are saying protect us from the air so we could fight our battles because this is what we do Member of the Ukrainian parliament Kira rudik joining us here on the kogo news live line What is it like where you are right now You are in Kyiv Yes I'm in Kyiv right now And we are getting ready for the city to being seized We know that has been going for a while and we are preparing for that So we've seen pictures of you with your rifle Are you prepared to use it Yeah I am so since the day one I have been training along with my resistance team to be able to bear arms and fire gun and I think I'm much better right now than in the day one Well at least I hope so This is part one of an interview done with San Diego's morning news this week with Cara rudik who was elected in 2019 to the Ukrainian parliament She has even started her own militia in order to be ready if and or when Russian tanks roll into Kyiv We'll have part two in a moment I'm la Donna Harvey Go go real time traffic sponsored by the gym betrayal real.
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"Freedom of speech for. Election democracy so and Russia what really wants Putin have their own dream to rebuild even not but Russia empire because of that not only Ukraine in dangerous and we see that on friendly moving comes nothing more of Russia, Finland, in Baltic countries. So really we have strong feelings if our western partners not give enough to create no fly zone. And the Ukraine not give us weapon and not take decision about gas and oil in bangla for Russia. The next steps of Putin will be destroying or attack European countries. Thank you. Bettina, there were peace talks yesterday, which again ended up without any agreement. Our Russia's demands unchanging. Yes, I mean, Russia or the Kremlin is attempting to put forward that they are being reasonable about this in any way, shape or form that they're prepared to talk. But it is very clear that what they are suggesting is nothing like any kind of compromise, but it included in that what they are demanding now is the same or even worse of what they demanded for the last couple of months or even years. I'm off Ukraine. And it is clear that these kind of demands are just simply unacceptable for Ukraine because they essentially would be giving up Ukraine sovereignty, Ukraine's ability to decide its own domestic and foreign policy. And this is obviously not something that Ukraine can accept. All of the proposals and the suggestions that Russia has put forward also with regard to the humanitarian corridors that then would lead Ukrainian civilians only into Russia or Belarus are obviously clearly unacceptable. I think a lot of Russia's discourse in that way or rhetoric is also directed domestically within Russia where still this propaganda continues about portraying this horrendous war going on in Ukraine as part of Ukraine's fault, saying, you know, we are often offering humanitarian corridors, but the Ukrainians don't want to accept. This is clearly disingenuous from the Kremlin's point of view, and it is clear that Ukraine can not accept these kind of proposals. As yaroslav was saying, the west has repeatedly refused a no fly zone over Ukraine for fear of being dragged into the conflict. But it has been reported today that a senior military figure in the west has said that NATO could fight now all later and a no fly zone might become necessary. So do you think it's inevitable given Putin's rhetoric that this conflict will escalate to global level? Well, the issue is, of course, that all war has the tendency to escalate. It is already escalated obviously to incredible levels in terms of the way that the Russian armed forces are going about that. But obviously it can not be excluded that this will escalate further. I'm not working for NATO. So I don't make decisions, but as far as I understand it, of course, NATO had ruled out the option of a no fly zone because they had ruled out a military option in terms of aiding Ukraine and of course a no fly zone also is a military option because in order for it to be enforced, of course, Russian aircraft, for example, would need to be shot down. I agree with the official that it is impossible to say how this will develop further, obviously, is Russia. It's not stopped there. It's obviously also the tendency that this will spill beyond Ukraine and into NATO countries, but obviously we should bear in mind what the overall implications of that would be. Yaroslav, meanwhile, president zelensky remains defiant. He makes a point of addressing the country daily yesterday he even told the world exactly where he was, physically. What's been his latest statement and how safe is he? We knew about not less than 5 trying to assassinate him. He still in care. We know that our western partners proposed to him a proper proposal quite him, but he clearly understands that he is a leader of nation. And he must be achieving capital and be like in the center of war. Really, I'm from opposite party. I'm from Polish party who was in a position now. We don't have a position. We have several Russia in peace who escape in Russia and try and it's a fine but trying to fight on in western country, right? Because even Russia programs politicians don't want to leave in Russia, they want to live in western society with democracy with possibility to really visiting two different countries, not in Russia yet or really. So now our president tried to speak day by day with Russian leaders. Explain why we really need to stop Putin in Ukraine and stop this war as early as we can because. Leaders will be afraid about nuclear. Weapon. So nuclear weapon not only in Kremlin, they really have nuclear weapons in China in Iraq. So the level of terroristic demands of not democracy from the non democracy countries can be more tough. There's a landscape became a leader of nation, he not now a leader of just one party or two worked for them in 2020 19. Why? Because he fights. A partner of all your brains. And tomorrow, we have clear Russia yield one of the mayor of small city, Aristotle, and near the clear. Why they killed him because he don't want to collaborate with Russia invaders. And he was killed, when he gave Brett for people. So in time of the missions, so really we see that our leaders, our. Governors, and their attempt. Many of us try to capture him. But it's war. We ready to fight. We ready to fight for the victory, but still we fight with second largest army in the world. Yes, this is our not so effective as matter army. This army not effective us, even Ukrainian army, but we need airplanes. And for us, it's very necessary to receive them even old fashioned from Poland or our name to country. And but we're losing the time. And day by day we have a hundreds of people killed, civilian key people, and day by day blood of these people of this children are not only on a putting hand. It's blood to one hand or western region who are undecided who not take decision who not help us to stop this many who are not will stopped till the possibility to fight. But it's clear that there are appalling crimes against humanity taking place here. There was a hearing at the International Court of Justice yesterday. What was the outcome? Well, the problem and I'm not an expert in international law, but the problem with any international law, of course, is that the countries included in it are need to need to be prepared to actually abide by the rules of the norms or by the agreements that.
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"On ABC News to lay this out for everyone. And I thought, you know, he had to find job, but I think it was formative in cementing the view that somehow Al qaida was synonymous with the space Afghanistan. I think again, I was no Al-Qaeda expert then, and I'm not now. But I think my immediate thought went to war and because my background had been with at that point, mostly Afghans who had been displaced from decades of war whom I counted in Uzbekistan, who were refugees and so on. I thought immediately, many of my mind went to the suffering of Afghan people that this war was going to sweep up, of course, the defenseless people who have nothing to do with these politics. So as you may be a little bit of context, you can speak to. So assume nobody's an expert in anything. Yeah. So let's just say you and I are not experts in anything. Right. As a historian where you're studying at the time and thinking about policy is it the full global history of Afghanistan? Is it the region where you thinking about the mujahideen and Al-Qaeda and Taliban? Were you thinking about the Soviet Union, the proxy war Afghanistan where you thinking about Iraq and oil? What's the full space of things in your heart in your mind at the time? Let me just run. And of course, it was the sense of the suffering and the tragedy of the moment of what the deaths and that was I think I was practicing by the violence at the moment. But as the competition turned to Afghanistan, it has a kind of theater does not respond to this moment. I think Amelia came to mind was that little I knew about alkali the time suggested that the geography was an accurate that this was a global network, a global threat that this is a kind of a movement that went beyond borders. And I think it felt early on that Afghanistan was going to be used as a scapegoat. And this is actually at the time I was teaching at American university. My course is touch on a range of subjects. But I was trying to complete a book on Islam in the Russia empire, actually. But in doing that research, which took me across Russia and Central Asia, pili accident, I had developed an interest in Afghanistan because just again, a series of coincidences, I found myself in touch, the capital was external without housing to an American friend who was the king of the market in Tashkent. You know everyone, he run into Afghan merchants there..
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Presiding over Kiev's tourism boom
"Tourism is booming in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Thanks in large part to the renewed interest in visiting the site of the Noble Nuclear Power Plant all of that is happy news for Kiev's celebrity mayor the former world heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko the rising political star of this former Soviet state sit down with a Europe correspondent Linton Besser in one day some training come come to our school and ask boys who wants to be the champion in boxing yes of course everyone stand up and we starting to train gene from beginning the coach told. I was tall and skinny. He's not good for boxing you. Maybe for swimming. I was really upset. All my friends was boxing and I'm not the young Vitali Klitschko refused to to listen instead. He decided to prove the China wrong it by the way I lose my pillow fight in boxing but the you me so much motivation to show oh my skills and fight and fight and fight and better result than my friends and actually I have a dream to be one day. The heavyweight wait champion the world as you former world heavyweight champion. Vitali Klitschko is now the mayor of the Ukrainian capital Kiev and is one of the most popular politicians in eastern Europe. What's more violent boxing politics boxing my shoe much more easy. You have one opponent. We have clear rules politics you have. I love opponents no rules and in boxing input. Eh ex-professional is fighting just three or four times. A year in politics is fighting three hundred sixty five times everyday. He's five Kiev is now experiencing an unprecedented surge in foreign tourists the heading toward on Ukraine not to sample. It's famous amos cheese dumplings or it's Borscht soup but to visit the scene of the worst nuclear accident in history and the nearby ghost city city of Pripyat. Actually right now is journalists attraction for many people around the wall to everybody know about strategy and many of people want to see the gust CD. Nobody leave their own radio thirty years to listen to the story ball. Oh Disease Strategy and the numbers of visitors right now around hundred thousand breer. It's been thirty three years since Canabal reactor exploded and I went to the exclusions on to report on the boom in disaster tourists. It was a bizarre experience wandering wandering around the city of built to service the power plant and now long since abandoned children all special Chernobyl is it's difficult to explain with water. You have to feel that people leave the house and after that nobody wasn't his houses also if you go in in the loop with date ninety eighty six because in Boston they explained with people you leave just fo couple of days and you come back and after that nobody comes back tally. Klitschko has a special connection to the tragedy. I was fifteen. Eighteen Journal will explode and father told the beat Reggie lease staying home. Please don't go outside. It's was actually officially officially. Nothing happens small problem in the autumn station but nobody expected how Hugest Brooklyn how dangerous FAW AW everybody an Air Force officer Klitschko senior was directly involved in the cleanup operation at the plant farther spent whole all summer and after that years later all his friends died we say God or father stay healthy untouchable from radiation radiation but ten years ago Lake Oma we bring to our father to the best specialist if they Leeson they wasn't your noble. You get wants to love to novel attack. Klitschko is now pushing for the two thousand six hundred square kilometer to noble exclusion zone to be used to house new solar energy fields to help shift Ukraine from its ongoing dependence on nuclear energy the era of turnover have to use a oh for solar energy and actually we have a Lotta companies who ready to do that the infrastructure there already built many in years ago but for nickel as you right now we have to change the green energy and right now we have developed his own as green energies on even while Ukraine fought a war with Russia in its southeast it continues to depend on Russian nuclear fuel for its reactors. Klitschko says Ukrainians Liens don't want to leave and Moscow's Yolk. If you want to talk about the conflict between Russia new brain the conflict gail political question. Shen because Ukraine don't want to be part of Russia Empire. We see off you share part of European family and Ukrainians were that tally Klitschko. Oh has his eyes firmly sit on his future as a rising political star of this troubled former Soviet state but when I ask him about his favorite favorite fights this still glint in the I I fought against many boxers ten and breaks Lennox Lewis. I have a dream always as a WHO drink to fight Mike Tyson but the wheel rid decided about Mike Tyson lose the title and my dreams Brock and you wanted to keep both years is much shorter than me and do the bite my ears to break up. Oh let's consideration as a boxer has to make. How do you keep your ears safe. If you're going to fight Mike Tyson there that was the mayor of Kiev in the former world heavyweight boxing champions retallack Klitschko the speaking to our Europe correspondent Linton Besser.