Biden Meets Zelenskyy, June Inflation, SAG-AFTRA Deadline Expires

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

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President Joe Biden meets his Ukrainian counterpart. New inflation numbers are set to show easing inflation. And major Hollywood studios' contract with the actors' union is set to expire.

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0:00.0	President Joe Biden meets Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, at the NATO summit after
0:06.6	the alliance said Ukraine can join eventually.
0:09.6	Slavo Grinia!
0:12.0	When or how might that happen?
0:14.5	I'm Michelle Martin, that's Amartina, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.1	After a long stretch of seeing crisis rise, our wallets may finally be getting a break.
0:25.6	We are not yet at the promised land where the federal reserve can say mission accomplished.
0:30.3	Inflation seems to be easing, so what about those interest rates?
0:33.0	And tonight, major Hollywood studios face a deadline before their contract with the
0:37.0	Actors' Union expires.
0:38.7	We're ready to go on strike, but we don't know if it is going to come to that.
0:42.8	Well, the actors join the screenwriters and go on strikes.
0:45.6	Stay with us, we've got all the news you need to start your day.
0:47.8	President Biden and the leaders of 30 other NATO countries are wrapping up their annual summit
0:57.6	in Lithuania today.
0:58.8	Biden will meet with Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, a day after NATO agreed that
1:03.5	Ukraine would be allowed to join the Transatlantic Military Alliance eventually,
1:08.1	but the current members didn't say when or exactly how.
1:11.2	NPR's Elnor Beersley joins us now from the summit filing center in Lithuania's capital,
1:16.0	Vilnius. Elnor, Ukraine will likely dominate the day.
1:19.6	Take us through what got us here.
1:21.0	Yeah, absolutely.
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