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What A Day
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🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On Thursday, there was a big spike in shelling across the front line between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatists within Ukraine. The separatists claim that Ukrainians are the ones firing at them, and the fear is that Russia could use this as a “justification” for military action to invade.
The Beijing Winter Olympics conclude this Sunday. Ava Wallace, who has been in China reporting on the Olympic Games for the Washington Post, joins us to discuss what it’s been like to cover them.
And in headlines: Over 100 people are dead and dozens more missing in Brazil after mudslides, Florida’s House Republicans passed a bill that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, and a judge ordered former President Trump to testify under oath within the next 21 days.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Friday, February 18th. I'm Gideon Rysic. |
| 0:09.0 | And I am Priyanka Rabindi and this is what a day, the podcast that will soon be twice |
| 0:13.2 | as expensive due to inflation. |
| 0:15.3 | Yes, meaning it will still not cost you anything, but you should just know the amount of nothing |
| 0:19.7 | that it costs will keep pace with the market. |
| 0:21.6 | Yeah, my next year it might cost three times as much nothing. |
| 0:24.7 | We don't control this, folks. |
| 0:26.4 | We wish we did. |
| 0:31.4 | On today's show as the Olympics wrap up, we're going to take you behind the scenes on what |
| 0:34.4 | it was like to actually cover them. |
| 0:36.2 | Plus, Trump is ordered to testify in New York's investigation into his organization. |
| 0:40.9 | But first, a quick update about the situation in Ukraine. |
| 0:44.9 | So we have been hearing a lot about this for a while now. |
| 0:48.1 | You know, will Russia invade? |
| 0:49.5 | When will they do it? |
| 0:50.5 | Is it today? |
| 0:51.5 | Is it tomorrow? |
| 0:52.5 | A few days from now. |
| 0:53.5 | It's really impossible for us to answer definitively, especially as we go to record this now on Thursday |
| 0:58.3 | night. |
| 0:59.3 | But yesterday, there was a big spike in shelling across the front line between the Ukrainian |
| 1:04.2 | military and Russian backseparatists within Ukraine. |
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