China helps revive struggling Myanmar regime

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Revolutionary groups in Myanmar have been successful in battling the military junta that controls the central government. But China is not giving up on the regime. That's making it difficult for the rebels to topple the military rulers who seized power in a coup. Also, Ukraine now has a green light from the US to strike deep into Russian-held territory with long-range American weapons. And, we hear from a city in India that's become a model for protecting its citizens from a heat wave.

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0:11.8	Officials in Moscow are livid.
0:13.9	They're livid because Biden has done it, and now Putin would have to respond.
0:19.2	I'm Marco Werman.
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0:39.5	And we visit a city in India which launched the first heat action plan on the subcontinent to help people cope with soaring temperatures.
0:50.1	I have to wipe sweat from my face with one hand and work with the other.
0:53.7	Those stores and more today on the world.
0:57.3	Thank you for joining us today.
0:59.3	It has been almost a thousand days since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine,
1:03.6	and currently the war is growing more intense.
1:06.5	Today, the Kremlin unleashed one of its biggest missile strikes against Ukraine to date.
1:10.5	It involved more than 200 missiles and drones, many of them targeting civilian infrastructure. Today, the Kremlin unleashed one of its biggest missile strikes against Ukraine to date.
1:15.1	It involved more than 200 missiles and drones, many of them targeting civilian infrastructure.
1:20.2	The Ukrainian government in Kiev got some long-awaited good news in recent days.
1:29.1	President Joe Biden is apparently giving the Ukrainian military the green light to use U.S. supplied long-range missiles to strike inside Russia for the first time.
1:34.4	Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zolensky issued a video statement saying the news media is talking
1:41.5	about permissions, but these missiles, he said, will speak for
1:45.2	themselves. For the reaction from Moscow, we reached out to Nina Khrushcheva. She's a professor
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