Blinken Visits Kyiv, Biden Heads to Asia, Proud Boys Leader Sentenced

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected in Kyiv to show American support for Ukraine's war effort. President Joe Biden will travel to India and Vietnam as he tries to China's influence in the developing world. And Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in jail.

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0:00.0	Ukraine's hope to use the last weeks of summer to accelerate and offensive.
0:06.8	How satisfied is the United States with the progress?
0:09.5	Secretary of State Antony Blinken reached Keeves soon after Russian cruise missile struck.
0:14.1	I'm Leila Faldon, that's Steve Innscape and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.1	President Biden is also traveling, he's visiting India and Vietnam while talking
0:25.6	of improvements at the World Bank.
0:27.9	The message that President Biden's going to India win, which is we're not accepting
0:32.2	our responsibility and we're going to drive reform.
0:35.2	The US wants developing nations to borrow from Western institutions.
0:39.2	Can they make a better case than China?
0:41.3	Also, how did a judge explain the 22-year prison sentence for the leader of the proud boys?
0:46.5	Stay with us, we've got the news you need to start your day.
0:49.2	US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Keeves this morning.
1:00.0	He later wreath at a cemetery honoring Ukrainian soldiers lost in Ukraine's war.
1:05.3	And it's a war that continues shortly before he arrived.
1:08.7	Russian cruise missiles targeted the city, though Ukraine says it shocked them down.
1:13.2	Look south on the map from Keeves and you'd see the area where Ukrainian troops are struggling
1:17.9	forward in a US-backed counteroffensive.
1:20.7	NPR's Brian Mann is in Keeves.
1:22.4	Hey there, Brian.
1:23.6	Hi, Steve.
1:24.5	Why is Blinken there now?
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