'Additional sanctions' against Russia being considered after Navalny death
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🗓️ 20 February 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday, February 20th, 2024. This is the exit. |
| 0:20.0 | Today, the latest aftermath from Navalny's death, plus what polling tells us ahead of the |
| 0:28.8 | South Carolina primary and do bans on plastic bags actually work? |
| 0:34.8 | President Joe Biden said yesterday that the US is considering additional sanctions on |
| 0:39.4 | Russia for the death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexi Nivolni. |
| 0:43.3 | Biden has blamed Nivolni's death on Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:47.1 | Nivolni survived a poisoning and spent months in isolation cells before dying in an |
| 0:51.5 | Arctic maximum security prison. |
| 0:53.4 | It's not clear what new US sanctions would look like. |
| 0:56.4 | Biden has also been urging the Republican controlled House to immediately approve |
| 1:00.9 | $60 billion in security funding for Ukraine two years into Putin's |
| 1:06.0 | invasion and war there. |
| 1:08.0 | So far, Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to take the foreign aid bill to the House for a vote, insisting that it also include measures |
| 1:15.0 | to secure the southern U.S. border. |
| 1:17.0 | Meanwhile, Julia Navalnya, Navalny's wife, issued a statement yesterday |
| 1:22.0 | vowing to continue his work. |
| 1:24.0 | In a Russian language video posted to YouTube, |
| 1:26.8 | she accused Putin of orchestrating her husband's death. |
| 1:30.0 | And she said, quote, |
| 1:31.0 | I should not have been in this position. |
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