The News Roundup for December 16, 2022
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🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
China is racing to prepare its citizens for another wave of COVID-19. Authorities are moving to vaccinate the country's most vulnerable.
And Iran is sentencing 400 people involved with the demonstrations against the government to jail terms of up to 10 years for participating in the protests.
We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the 1A podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Omnenevaz of the PBS NewsHour in for Gen White. |
| 0:14.0 | Let's get into the news roundup. |
| 0:16.0 | So much news this week. |
| 0:18.6 | Some of it continues to royal the stock market. |
| 0:21.1 | One headline grabbed the world's attention and has millions of people talking about science. |
| 0:26.5 | And of course, there's Elon Musk. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome our panel first. |
| 0:30.3 | Wendy Benjaminson is the deputy managing editor for US Government at Bloomberg News. |
| 0:34.9 | Wendy, welcome back. |
| 0:35.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:36.9 | Neftali Ben David is a politics editor for the Washington Post. |
| 0:40.4 | Neftali, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:41.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:42.9 | Also with us is Reed Wilson. |
| 0:44.6 | He is the editor-in-chief at Pluribus News, a national outlet following state politics. |
| 0:50.0 | Read thanks for being here. |
| 0:51.0 | Hey, I'm not how are you? |
| 0:52.9 | I'm great. |
| 0:53.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:54.9 | Let's start with Twitter. |
| 0:56.1 | Twitter has banned the accounts of several high-profile journalists, a move that's been |
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