Biden At G7 Summit, Israel Hamas Negotiations, Microsoft Cybersecurity

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🗓️ 13 June 2024

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President Biden meets with leaders of the largest economies at the G7 Summit in Italy where they'll discuss the world's most pressing issues including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Mediators are working to close a ceasefire deal in Gaza after Hamas proposed amendments to the US backed proposal. And, Microsoft's president is testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee as ProPublica publishes an investigation into the company's security practices around 2020's SolarWinds cyber hack.

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0:00.0	Leading democracies seek new ways to help Ukraine.
0:05.0	Though several are focused closer to home.
0:08.0	There's little bit of a monkey wrench at all of this because these recent European parliamentary elections.
0:13.1	How does Europe shift to the right affect the war?
0:15.6	I'm Rob Schmitz, that's Steve Innskeep, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.6	U.S. diplomats say a ceasefire they support for Gaza is close to one offered by Hamas.
0:27.0	Hamas has not signed on.
0:28.0	Hamas has proposed numerous changes.
0:31.0	Some of the changes are workable, some are not.
0:34.0	How close is an end to the destruction?
0:37.0	Also, the head of Microsoft faces questions about cyber attacks by Russia and China,
0:41.0	and just as he testifies a news organization investigated
0:45.1	what went wrong and a famous hack in 2020 could Microsoft have prevented it
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1:20.0	David Lynch's films explore dark themes, but in a rare interview on Wild Card this week,
1:25.8	he says he's remarkably content, and you can be too.
1:29.6	We're supposed to be like little dogs where a tail is wagging and being happy, little smiles on our face all day
1:34.8	long. This is the way it's supposed to be.
1:37.2	I'm Rachel Martin.
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