Israel and Iran enter a second week of war

The World

PRX

News, Lethaldissent

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Iran's foreign minister is in Europe meeting with diplomats there as war with Israel continues. Meanwhile, Iranians have been cut off from the global internet for nearly two full days now and hundreds of Israelis are caught in Cyprus, the EU country closest to Israel, still trying to get home. Also, cases of the recently identified COVID-19 variant dubbed "razor blade throat" are rising. And, the Enhanced Games allows athletes to actually take performance enhancing drugs. Plus, the Brooklyn Museum opens a Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room.

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0:00.0	This week on the assignment with me, Audie Cornish.
0:03.9	The push to have bigger families and more babies is part of a movement called pro-natalism.
0:09.6	They are freaking out about declining global fertility rates.
0:13.8	And that is real.
0:14.7	It's a phenomenon called birth-death.
0:17.4	What's behind this push to start a new baby boom?
0:20.8	Who are the voices pushing for a more
0:22.5	pro-family America? And what exactly does that mean? Listen to the assignment with me,
0:28.7	Audie Cornish, streaming now on your favorite podcast app.
0:41.0	There's a new COVID variant going around.
0:42.8	The main symptom sounds nasty.
0:45.7	Thankfully, global immunity has come a long way.
0:52.4	The vaccines have been massively important to build the communal immunity in as safe a way as possible.
0:53.9	I'm Marco Wurman.
0:59.0	Also today, forests and wetlands can be used as a natural defense system during times of war. It would be maybe more clever and also cheaper to use nature at least at sides when we have forests and wetlands.
1:09.0	Plus an athletic competition where performance-enhancing drugs are not just allowed, they are encouraged.
1:14.9	But transparency only goes so far.
1:17.2	We will never share what an athlete is taking because it's a middle situation, so we respect the privacy of athletes.
1:24.0	Doping for gold and more.
1:25.8	Today, here on the world.
1:30.6	This is the world.
1:31.8	I'm Marco Wurman.
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