Russia and Ukraine attacks, astronauts splash down, Netflix show arrest & more

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

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Russia and Ukraine have exchanged attacks overnight, despite the Kremlin agreeing to stop striking energy infrastructure targets. The Trump administration is fighting a lot of legal battles this week. Two NASA astronauts have splashed back down to Earth after unexpectedly spending nine months in space. The world just experienced its hottest decade. Plus, we’ll tell you why a Hollywood director has been arrested over a Netflix show that never aired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.6	know for Wednesday, March 19th.
0:38.6	Russia and Ukraine have exchanged air attacks overnight, despite the Kremlin agreeing to a 30-day
0:45.2	pause on striking energy infrastructure targets, just hours earlier. During President Donald
0:51.7	Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin's lengthy phone call yesterday,
0:56.0	Russia's leader stopped short of signing off on a broader ceasefire.
1:00.0	According to Ukrainian officials, the Russian attacks hit civilian infrastructure,
1:05.0	including a hospital and an electricity system powering the railways in central Ukraine.
1:11.1	Meanwhile, Russia's Defense Ministry said it had shot down 57 drones launched by Ukraine overnight,
1:18.0	with 35 of those intercepted and destroyed over the Kursk border region.
1:22.9	It comes as U.S. envoy Steve Whitkoff told Fox News that ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine
1:29.7	will start Sunday in Saudi Arabia. But the two nations haven't confirmed that yet.
1:35.0	Beyond that, we'll move to a full ceasefire. And we have some very good conversation today
1:40.6	on the ingredients to achieve that.
1:48.7	The Trump administration is fighting a lot of legal battles this week.
1:54.2	The Justice Department has until noon today to give the court more information about mass deportation flights that left the U.S. on Saturday around the time a judge ruled that
2:00.4	they should be halted.
2:02.1	The judge wants to know exactly when they took off and left U.S. airspace, when they landed
2:07.1	in other countries, and when the alleged gang members were handed over.
2:11.6	Meanwhile, Trump told Fox News that he's going to appeal a decision from a different federal
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