Gaza Blackout, Pakistan strikes back at Iran, and the status of U.S. aid to Ukraine
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
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| 0:00.0 | A communications blackout hurts the distribution of aid in Gaza. |
| 0:06.0 | To coordinate to the delivery of assistance, it's extremely difficult not to have a phone line. |
| 0:11.0 | Phone lines and the internet have been out for nearly a week as the Israeli military campaign |
| 0:15.4 | against Hamas takes more lives. |
| 0:17.2 | I mean Martinez with Le Lafoddle and this is up first from NPR News. Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Iran. our news. |
| 0:22.9 | Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Iran two days after Iran did the same in Pakistan. |
| 0:28.3 | Both sides say they're targeting separatist militants, so what's this tit for |
| 0:31.7 | tad all about? |
| 0:32.8 | And here in Washington, Republicans are holding up more aid to Ukraine |
| 0:36.6 | until Democrats agree to changes in U.S. border policy. |
| 0:40.3 | We understand that there's concern about the safety security sovereignty of Ukraine, |
| 0:44.8 | but the American people have those same concerns about our own domestic sovereignty and |
| 0:49.5 | our safety and our security. |
| 0:51.2 | Is the president willing to make concessions? Stay with us, we'll give |
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