Thursday, March 10th, 2022

Morning Announcements

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News, Daily News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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We’re starting today with news of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine (again). Next, President Biden signed an executive order yesterday that will be an early step in regulating how cryptocurrency is traded, and the Senate voted 79-19 earlier this week to pass a $107 billion dollar plan to overhaul the US Post Office. Finally, the Idaho state house passed a law that makes it illegal to provide gender affirming care to trans teens, and makes doing so a felony with a life sentence. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: Washington Post: "Zelensky says maternity hospital bombed, children buried under debris" Washington Post: "Chernobyl plant disconnected from power grid; Ukraine demands cease-fire for urgent repairs" Daily Beast: "Chernobyl Blackout Won’t Pump Radiation Across Europe, Says Nuclear Watchdog" Axios: "China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line on war" Axios: "Congress reaches deal on Ukraine aid, $1.5 trillion spending bill" AP News: "AP sources: Biden to issue executive order on cryptocurrency" Axios: "Senate passes sweeping overhaul of USPS" Idaho Press: "House passes anti-trans youth treatment bill" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Thursday, March 10th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:07.2	by Batch's media.
0:08.4	I'm Sammy Sage, and this episode is sponsored by ExpressVPN.
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0:19.2	We're starting today, again, with news of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, now on its 15th
0:24.5	day.
0:25.5	Yesterday, Russia launched airstrikes against the Children's Hospital and Maternity Ward
0:29.7	in Maru, Paul, Ukraine, resulting in dozens of children trapped under the wreckage.
0:35.4	This is in addition to the continued prevention of evacuations via humanitarian corridors
0:40.0	where there are supposed to be ceasefires, and just as this weekend, the refugee count
0:44.0	has ballooned from 1.5 million to 2.1 million people.
0:49.1	Also in military updates from yesterday, Russian forces disconnected the Chernobyl power plant
0:53.5	from Ukraine's electrical grid.
0:55.8	You might be like, okay, so what, doesn't Chernobyl not actually work anyway?
1:00.0	Well, technically yes, but it still does have a significant amount of nuclear materials
1:04.6	stored there, and power is absolutely necessary in the plant in order to cool the nuclear
1:09.3	material.
1:10.6	Without that, there's a risk of radiation escape from the plant.
1:13.7	According to Ukraine, emergency diesel generators have been turned on, but that fuel will only
1:18.6	last for about 48 hours, and they demanded a ceasefire with Russia to allow for repairs.
1:24.5	So how worried should we be about a potential nuclear story?
1:27.8	The International Atomic Energy Agency said that they lost contact with monitoring systems,
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