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🗓️ 21 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | It's rare to find a podcast that can actually change your life. |
| 0:03.8 | But when the show is called Life Kit, that's kind of the whole point. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Mariel Segarra. |
| 0:09.1 | Three times a week on the Life Kit podcast, we guide you through a topic we could all use help with, |
| 0:13.6 | from personal development to healthy living to managing your dinero, |
| 0:17.0 | with takeaways so you can start living what you learn right away. |
| 0:21.2 | Escucha El Life Kit podcast from NPR. |
| 0:24.9 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright. |
| 0:28.7 | The UN's World Food Program says the hunger crisis in Gaza has reached, quote, new and astonishing levels of desperation. |
| 0:36.4 | The Secretary General is also raising alarms, |
| 0:39.1 | urging Israel to allow aid in at the scale that is needed, as NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports. |
| 0:45.3 | A top official with the World Food Program says he needs at least 100 trucks a day to meet |
| 0:50.0 | basic needs in Gaza, but Ross Smith says less than 10% of what's needed has made it in since the |
| 0:56.7 | middle of May. The third of the population are not eating for multiple days in a row. This includes |
| 1:02.0 | women and children. And as I think is through our assessments that have been released publicly, |
| 1:07.0 | a quarter of the population are facing famine-like conditions. He spoke via video to reporters at the United Nations. The Secretary General Antonio |
| 1:15.4 | Gutierrez also issued a statement saying he's appalled by what he calls the accelerating |
| 1:21.4 | breakdown of humanitarian conditions in Gaza. Michelle Kellerman and NPR News, the State Department. |
| 1:28.2 | President Trump says he wants to help Afghan refugees detained in the United Arab Emirates. |
| 1:33.7 | But since returning to office, Trump ended protections, allowing them to live in the U.S. |
| 1:39.0 | Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton is an Iraq war veteran who has advocated for Iraqis and also Afghans who |
| 1:45.7 | helped the U.S. during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He spoke to NPRs, all things considered. |
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