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Today, Explained

We need to talk about Yemen

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s travel ban this week, making it all but impossible for the citizens of seven countries to enter the United States. One of those countries is Yemen, which the United Nations says is undergoing the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet. International Crisis Group’s Joost Hiltermann explains how things got so bad, and why they could get a lot worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All together now Uber is moving forward listening to feedback so they can improve and get better with every trip

0:06.4

They're building new features to take the stress out of your pickup and working on ways to keep you better protected and connected throughout your ride

0:12.7

You can find out more by going to uber.com slash moving forward

0:23.1

Shortly after we put out our show yesterday

0:25.1

We found out that about 30 miles east of our office in anapolis, Maryland a man entered the newsroom at the Capitol Gazette with a shotgun and

0:33.9

Started shooting at employees

0:35.9

He killed five of them

0:37.9

Rebecca Smith was a sales assistant

0:40.2

Rob Hyson was an editor and columnist Wendy Winters was a correspondent

0:45.6

Gerald Fishman was the editorial page editor and John McNamara wrote about sports

0:51.3

The shooter wanted to kill journalists for doing their jobs

0:55.1

for reporting the news

0:57.1

and he did in our shows short history we've covered these mass shootings in America several times on one episode

1:04.7

We talked about something called learned helplessness. We hear about these shootings. We feel sad

1:10.4

We feel like there's nothing we can do we move on

1:14.6

Our show today isn't about this tragedy, but my team and I wanted to do something as journalists

1:20.2

We wanted to say something

1:22.4

We mourned the loss at the Capitol Gazette a newspaper that's been publishing in some shape or form since

1:29.2

1727

1:31.1

And today after suffering a tragedy after losing their newsroom after losing five colleagues

1:37.2

They still published a few reporters and a photographer made today's paper from the back of a pickup truck in a parking lot last night

1:44.9

It's in print. It's online. We hope you'll take some time to go read it

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