Friday, January 20, 2023

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

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Summary

Ukraine's Western allies consider whether to send battle tanks to the country, what's next for the March for Life after Dobbs, China celebrates the Lunar New Year amid relaxed COVID rules.

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0:00.0	Ukraine's allies are preparing to send more weapons, though not everything Ukrainians would
0:06.6	like.
0:07.6	President Volotomyr Zelensky wants US and German main battle tanks.
0:11.8	What makes the allies reluctant to send them?
0:13.8	I mean, Martinez, that's Steve Innskipe, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.4	Opponents of abortion rights got the Supreme Court decision they wanted, but will continue
0:25.4	their movement.
0:26.4	It's kind of just beginning in a lot of ways.
0:28.6	The annual March for Life comes this weekend in Washington.
0:31.5	What's their next goal?
0:32.5	Also the year of the rabbit begins on Sunday.
0:35.6	In China, the Lunar New Year is a time for hundreds of millions of urban workers to return
0:40.9	to their home villages.
0:42.2	How does all that travel work when COVID is killing an estimated 33,000 people per day in
0:47.8	China?
0:48.8	Stay with us.
0:49.8	We've got the news you need to start your day.
0:57.8	Leaders from Ukraine and its allies gathered around a table in Germany today.
1:02.4	They're discussing how to help Ukraine as Russia's invasion near its first anniversary.
1:07.0	Many nations are sending aid and one nation faces extra pressure to send more.
1:12.1	Germany has yet to allow Ukraine to receive German-made battle tanks.
1:15.6	NPR's Rob Schmitt has been covering the war in Ukraine and he joins us now from Germany.
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