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The Brian Lehrer Show

News From Your Home Country, Take Two

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Bryan, Politics, Arts, Npr, News, Wnyc, News Commentary, Nyc, Daily News, Lerer, New, Public, Radio, Media, York

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

From India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to New York City, to England's public health service saying it won't routinely provide puberty blockers to children at gender identity clinics, a number of international stories have made the headlines this week. Listeners with ties to countries outside the U.S. call in to share news from abroad.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brian Lair on WNYC, got a few minutes left in the show. Let's do another round of immigrants

0:15.5

from anywhere. Tell us a new story from your country of origin that you think everyone should

0:20.8

know about. 2, 1, 2, 4, 3, WNYC, 2, 1, 2, 4, 3, 9, 6, 9, 2. We did one of these last week

0:30.9

and we got so many more callers than we could actually take. We're going to do another one right now.

0:35.4

It's going to be pretty short again today, but we do these from time to time. But it's another

0:39.7

addition of immigrants from anywhere. Tell us a new story from your country of origin that you

0:45.1

think everyone should know about. What's important? What's interesting? Call 2, 1, 2, 4, 3, WNYC,

0:52.3

2, 1, 2, 4, 3, 9, 6, 9, 2. Just looking at the BBC News website for some ideas, they've got a

1:02.3

story now on The Hodge, right? The pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are supposed to make at least once

1:09.0

in their lifetimes. Tuesday, as they remind us, was the most important day of The Hodge yesterday.

1:15.3

And then their article is about global price rises, making the religious pilgrimage

1:21.2

increasingly unaffordable. So that's one story who's been on The Hodge and wants to talk about

1:26.4

that. They've got another story about South Koreans suddenly becoming younger under a new law

1:33.1

because they're apparently two ways of measuring how old you are in South Korea and they've just

1:38.8

gone more officially to one of them that makes you a little bit younger than the other one does.

1:44.4

Any South Koreans want to talk about that? People originally from there. Here's another example,

1:50.2

just to set the template, immigrants from anywhere, tell us any news story that's interesting or

1:55.6

important from your country of origin, 2, 1, 2, 4, 3, 3, WNYC. Last week, as an example, we heard from

2:04.3

Naminah in Brooklyn who called in about the then upcoming elections happening in Sierra Leone

2:11.4

this week. And here's what she had to say about the current president, Julius Mada bio of the

2:17.6

Sierra Leone people's party. Well, in three towns, Sierra Leone with South Korea, the election

2:24.6

is going to happen on Saturday the 24th. And right now, Brian, the president is so bad in that

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