Russia gathers friendly nations

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Russian President Vladimir Putin's government is being squeezed by international sanctions, and he himself faces an arrest warrant for war crimes. But that isn't stopping Putin from hosting a summit this week. Among those invited to the BRICS gathering in Russia are the leaders of China, India and Turkey. Also, the United Nations is calling for an investigation into reports about the killing of dozens of Afghan migrants near Afghanistan's border with Iran. The Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan denied that the killings took place. And, years of war in Ukraine are weighing heavily on the minds of the country's youngest people. Children's books are helping some of them process what they're going through, or just offer a temporary escape.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive
0:03.4	It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.
0:09.6	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 changes 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. Russia is under sanctions and is seen as an international pariah by many Western governments.
1:05.6	That is not stopping Vladimir Putin from hosting a bunch of global leaders at a conference in Russia.
1:11.5	It's very important for Russia to show that it can actually convene a summit and people will attend.
1:16.5	I'm Carolyn Beeler.
1:17.9	And I'm Marco Werman.
1:18.9	Also today, the Civil War in Sudan has forced as many as 20 million people out of their homes or as the US
1:24.6	Special Envoy for Sudan describes it? That's like every single resident of
1:28.6	Virginia, Maryland, and DC having fled their homes and having most of the world not even know about it.
1:35.0	And the Salem witch trials, they were part of an older and much bigger story.
1:40.0	What most fascinates me about the witch hunts is that very often they were sparked by a fear of powerful women.
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