Danny and Derek are back with the #1 news digest in Rákosszentmihály. This week: climate news featuring skyrocketing ocean temperatures and the return of El Niño (0:34), Israeli military strikes in the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp (2:22), Saudi Arabia and Russia cut oil production (6:11), Afghanistan sees more restrictions on women and a grim aid forecast (7:53), Rapid Support Forces gradually gain ground in Sudan (11:07), the government and ELN guerillas cease offensive operations in Colombia (13:57), former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro temporarily banned from political office (15:42), NATO sees more Sweden-Turkey tension and another year for Jens Stoltenberg as secretary general (17:14), a Ukraine update featuring American cluster bombs (22:05) and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant threat (24:28), the whereabouts of Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin remain uncertain (27:04), and a New Cold War update with Janet Yellen in China (29:08) and the United States’ glorious return to UNESCO (30:40).
i wish youse had spent a few more minutes, or perhaps plan a special ep. on the cluster munitions piece. listening to a bbc segment on it now causes me to wonder why Biden is willing to sell these but so unwilling on fighter jets. has his set of red lines (in the sand) painted him into a corner, ergo selling such problematic weapons as these? i know so little about the weapons industry maybe the explanation is far more straightforward!
i wish youse had spent a few more minutes, or perhaps plan a special ep. on the cluster munitions piece. listening to a bbc segment on it now causes me to wonder why Biden is willing to sell these but so unwilling on fighter jets. has his set of red lines (in the sand) painted him into a corner, ergo selling such problematic weapons as these? i know so little about the weapons industry maybe the explanation is far more straightforward!
Always excellent, thoughtful, thorough, useful and engaging.