Ukraine ends contract that allowed Russian gas to reach Europe
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🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Kyiv opts to not renew a contract with Moscow that brought Russian natural gas to Europe and $1 billion dollars in transit fees to Ukraine. Also, Japan grapples with “lonely deaths” of some 68,000 elderly people who die alone at home every year. And, although global cases of tuberculosis have decreased in recent years, Latin America has seen a 19% increase in its number of cases, with one report pointing to rising incarceration rates as a major factor. Plus, Costa Rica has its own version of bullfighting that doesn’t kill the bull.
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| 0:00.0 | Ukraine has stopped supplying Europe with natural gas from Russia in the middle of winter. |
| 0:10.3 | For Ukraine, this is a major point that any income to Russia somehow helps the war effort. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. On today's's show what a stoppage of Russian gas means for all parties involved. |
| 0:22.6 | Also a suspected attacker claims to be inspired by ISIS. |
| 0:25.6 | But what is the current status of the group? |
| 0:28.6 | And bullfighters in Costa Rica are not aiming to kill. |
| 0:32.6 | They're just trying to get out of the bull's way, but it is still a controversial sport. |
| 0:36.6 | I don't think it's human |
| 0:37.7 | playing with a being that evidently doesn't want to be there. I mean, I don't think they're |
| 0:42.1 | enjoying it. Plus 100 is the new 60, so said the world's oldest Olympian. |
| 0:50.3 | That's all head today on the world. |
| 1:00.9 | This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:05.4 | And I'm Marco Wurman. Thanks for joining us this Thursday, the second day of January. |
| 1:11.8 | We begin today's program with the news from New Orleans, where a pickup truck plowed through a crowd of revelers early yesterday morning, killing at least 14 people. The suspect, Shamsu Din Jabbar, died in a |
| 1:18.3 | shootout with police. At a press conference this morning, Christopher Reya of the FBI's counterterrorism |
| 1:23.5 | division said that in videos posted to Facebook shortly before the attack, Jabbar claimed he was inspired by the Islamic State Group, also known as ISIS. |
| 1:32.4 | In the first video, Jabbar explains he originally planned to harm his family and friends, but was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the, quote, |
| 1:42.1 | war between the believers and the disbelievers, end quote. |
| 1:46.7 | Raya added that an ISIS flag was also found on the suspect's vehicle, along with |
| 1:51.2 | explosive devices. At this point, it's believed Jabbar acted alone, but with so many questions |
| 1:56.5 | about ISIS over the past day or so, we wanted to check in on the status of the Islamic State Group as of 2025. |
| 2:03.3 | For that, we turn to Aaron Zelen, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute. |
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