Japanese anti-nuclear activist group wins Nobel Peace Prize

The World

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News, Lethaldissent

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been announced: the honor goes to Nihon Hidankyo, a group of survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They united in 1956 to speak out about the suffering caused by nuclear warfare. We'll hear some of their stories. Also, a Ukrainian missile strike in Russian controlled territory last week killed several North Korean military officers, according to officials in Ukraine and South Korea. The Kremlin calls those reports "fake news." But we'll hear why experts who have been closely following Ukraine since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion think it's plausible. And, Friday is the International Day of the Girl, so designated by the UN to address the particular challenges many girls face worldwide. We hear the story of a South Asian film called "Maya: Birth of a Superhero," bringing viewers into a virtual reality designed to alleviate the shame and isolation that accompany menstruation in some cultures.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive It's a Podcast from Marketplace.
0:05.0	In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.
0:10.0	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
0:14.4	It was the cold war, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.
0:18.6	Today, though, there's another threat out there, climate change. This could be the warmest year on record.
0:25.0	Climate change is here.
0:26.0	Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.
0:29.0	And while the threat seems new,
0:31.0	the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.
0:35.9	I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.
0:44.7	This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis
0:47.4	to see how the military is preparing for the threat.
0:51.0	Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:54.0	The survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have carried a heavy burden for decades.
1:05.0	In a way, psychologically, they are closest to the dead and they speak for the dead.
1:10.0	I'm Carol Hills and I'm Carolyn Beeler.
1:13.4	Today a Nobel Peace Prize for these outspoken opponents of nuclear weapons.
1:19.3	And the UN has condemned Israeli fire on a peacekeeping base in Lebanon.
1:23.2	It's interesting to hear an organization like the UN be so clear and issue such a straightforward condemnation.
1:30.0	What makes this attack different?
1:32.0	Plus in Istanbul, Gen Z is embracing an old tradition of looking to coffee grounds for clues about the future.
1:40.0	And a London storefront is peddling poetry based on the emotional state of the reader.
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