Weekly Roundup: April 22

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The United States will welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and will streamline their immigration and vetting process, the White House told reporters this week. The news comes as Russian violence continues to roil the country's east. Another possible mass grave with as many as 9,000 bodies has been found near the besieged city of Mariupol.

And in both France and the United States, inflation is making paychecks feel smaller—and it has become an animating issue for conservative voters. French President Emmanuel Macron faces populist Marine Le Pen in a runoff election this weekend.

This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, white House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, White House correspondent Asma Khalid, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and France correspondent Eleanor Beardsley.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Kim Struzuki in the Czech Republic. I am listening to the politics podcast as my
0:05.2	American study abroad students play hide and seek with the children of Ukrainian refugees.
0:10.4	We arrange free basic check classes at our school to help with their stay here and arrange for
0:15.1	our students to volunteer to play with their kids while they study. This podcast was recorded at
0:20.5	1217 PM on Friday, April 22nd. Things may have changed by the time you hear this and I hope
0:26.2	the Russians and Ukrainians are closer to a ceasefire. Enjoy the show.
0:33.6	Oh, that's great work. Yeah, it's amazing how people have really come together for the people
0:37.8	of Ukraine. Yeah. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress.
0:43.3	And I'm Asma Kalle. I cover the White House. And I'm Franco Ordonius in Ukraine.
0:48.4	And Franco, I want to say before we get into your reporting that this episode is one of our
0:53.1	listeners might not want to share if they have little kids around. There is new satellite imagery
0:58.9	that appears to show hundreds of gravesites outside the Beseech port city of Mary Opal.
1:03.9	And Ukrainian officials say thousands of people could be buried there.
1:07.2	Evacuation corridors are on hold. Officials had hoped to evacuate thousands from the city.
1:12.8	Franco, this mirrors a lot of the news we've seen a few weeks ago around the suburbs of Kiev,
1:17.6	where you are right now. What is the latest?
1:20.5	You know, it's really bad. I mean, those images we've been looking at show that some of those trenches
1:27.6	where the bodies are almost 300 feet long. They're kind of tucked behind a gas station and a cemetery
1:35.2	and a village just outside of Mary Opal. And as you said, city officials estimate there could be
1:40.2	thousands of bodies buried in there, but they really don't know. And the mayor of Mary Opal says
1:45.8	the Russians are using these mass graves to cover up war crimes. I actually had lunch with an
1:51.7	advisor to President Zelensky today. And he just said over and over that this is genocide.
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