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NPR News: 05-17-2024 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

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NPR News: 05-17-2024 7PM EDT

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0:00.0

On this week's episode of Wild Card, actor Chris Pine tells us it's okay not to be perfect.

0:05.3

My film got absolutely decimated when it premiered, which brings up for me one of my primary triggers or whatever is like not being like. I'm Rachel Martin,

0:15.2

Chris Pine on How to Find Joy in Imperfection. That's on NPR's new podcast, Wild Card,

0:20.6

the game where cards control the conversation.

0:24.8

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

0:28.8

The U.S. military pier off the coast of Gaza is finally ready, and the first trucks rolled off it today

0:35.0

delivering desperately needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians sheltering in the

0:39.7

southern city of Rafa where Israeli forces have moved in. And Piers Tom Bowman has in the

0:44.0

impure's Tom Bowman has more on how it will work.

0:46.7

The expectation is the pier will initially get up to 90 trucks per day

0:50.9

before ramping up to 150 each day. The Israel Defense Forces will

0:55.5

handle security on land, no US troops on the ground in Gaza, and there are two

1:00.3

what's called deconfliction cells manned by U.S. and Israel to make

1:04.9

sure these trucks are properly identified and not mistakenly attacked as we

1:09.2

saw with the world Central Kitchen workers who were killed by an Israeli

1:13.6

airstrike.

1:14.6

And Pierce Tom Bowman reporting, but getting enough trucks rolling will take time.

1:19.6

And the UN's World Food Program says their warehouses are empty. There is no food.

1:25.8

China and Russia have sworn to further deepen their economic and military partnerships

1:30.0

after a meeting between their two leaders in Beijing this week.

1:33.4

Empiers Emily Fang reports that two countries say they see a new global balance emerging.

1:39.4

The Sinow-Russian relationship is at quote,

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