India Train Crash, Biden Debt Ceiling Speech, China Tensions

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

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A train derailment in India leaves more than 200 dead and many more injured. Biden delivers an Oval Office speech praising the bipartisan debt ceiling legislation. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin addresses a security conference in Singapore amid rising tensions with China.

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0:00.0	The two trained derailment in India has killed more than 280 people and injured more than
0:07.5	900.
0:08.5	Rescuers spent all day sorting through the wreckage.
0:11.0	We'll have the latest details.
0:13.2	I'm Aisha Roscoe.
0:14.5	And I'm Scott Simon and this is up first from NPR News.
0:17.4	President Biden will soon sign a bill to raise the dead ceiling.
0:22.6	In a speech from the Oval Office yesterday, he praised the deal as a feat of bipartisanship.
0:28.1	No one got everything they wanted, but the American people got what they needed.
0:32.8	We've heard an economic crisis and economic collapse.
0:36.3	Also the U.S. tests the waters quite literally between China and Taiwan as the Secretary
0:41.5	of Defense outlines a renewed military interest in the Asian Pacific region.
0:45.9	Stay with us.
0:46.9	We've got the news you need to start your weekend.
0:55.6	Here's a day of mourning in India following one of the deadliest trained disasters there
1:00.2	in decades.
1:01.5	Rescuers climbed atop the trains to break open doors and ripped through metal with cutting
1:06.7	torches.
1:07.7	Journalist Shalu Yadav joins us now from Delhi.
1:10.5	Thank you so much for being with us.
1:12.5	Good morning Scott.
1:14.0	Can you tell us what happened?
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