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Northern Gaza the eu’s foreign policy Chief says Israel Bears responsibility the problem is that Hunters of truck are waiting in the border and the ones who control the Border prevent them from coming into they thereare to say well yes Israel is provoking for him a security crisis in Haiti continues one
Resident speaks of the chaos we are the situation because the G become institution of the state we’ll bring you a report from capan where America has been airlifting its citizens out plus schools Clos in South Sudan as an extreme Heatwave takes hold first this news hello I’m Emily Thomas with the BBC
News a new report backed by the United Nations says famine is expected between now and May in the north of the Gaza Strip the report by the integrated food security phase classification says about half of gaza’s population is already facing cast atrophic hunger Stephanie hegy reports the conditions for
Declaring a f are strict 20% of the population must be starving 30% of children must be severely malnourished or wasted and the death rate from malnutrition must double the first two have already been exceeded in Northern Gaza and with the rate of mortality of children Rising sharply famine is now
Expected there any day half the population of Gaza are in the catastrophic phase of food insecurity which means they’re starving and in the north one in three children is acutely malnourished Israel says it has increased Aid into Gaza via its border on the north of the strip but Aid
Agencies say the quantities coming in will have to ramp up rapidly for the worst disaster to be averted Pakistan has confirmed it carried out what it called anti-terrorist operations in the Border regions inside Afghanistan earlier Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers said eight people were killed in the strikes Caroline Davis is in Islamabad we just
Had confirmation from the foreign ministry here in Pakistan confirming that Pakistan did carry out attacks inside Afghanistan territory the statement has come saying this morning Pakistan carried out intelligence-based anti-terrorist operations in the Border regions inside Afghanistan they say that the target of the operations was a particular terrorist group that have
Responsible B say for multiple terrorist attacks including one that happened on Saturday we know that put the lives of seven members of the military here in Pakistan Ethiopia’s largest Commercial Bank is trying to retrieve millions of dollars withdrawn by its customers after an incident it described as a systems
Glitch more than $40 million were reportedly withdrawn from the state-owned Commercial Bank of Ethiopia or transferred to other Banks when customers found out they could take out more cash than they had in their accounts a Cyber attack has been ruled out as the cause the European Union has denounced Russia’s president IAL
Election which according to official results saw Vladimir Putin reelected by a landslide the result has been welcomed by Russia’s allies here Danny abart in a statement on behalf of the EU its Foreign Affairs Chief Jose Burell said Russia’s election had taken place in an environment characterized by accelerating and systematic repression
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Senate 11 of the 22 Republicans who joined all 32 Democrats in voting for Jason Stevens for house Speaker over Derek Maron last year are facing primary Challengers Karen castler reports there’s a lot of money in those contests and other races Americans for Prosperity the conservative group founded by
Charles and David Co is spending money in some of these races Donovan O’Neal speaks for the Ohio AFP for some folks this is a referendum on a minority of Republicans who joined a majority of Democrats to elect a speaker for others I see it as a referendum on a series of
Bad votes members have taken session after session AFP has endorsed in 18 Ohio House and Senate contests Republican Senate President Matt Huffman is also involved in some house races he’s running un opposed for the house and is expected to challenge Stevens for speaker Marin supporters sued to get
Control over $3 million in the House Republicans campaign fund but a Franklin County Judge ruled for Stevens saw Karen Castor at the Ohio public radio State House news yor it’s been 10 years since a pipeline owned by a sonoko subsidiary burst in col rain Township spilling thousands of gallons of oil through
Oakland nature preserve near the great Miami River clean up and Remediation took about 4 years great Parks Watershed specialist Amanda Nur says a 10-year monitoring process began in 2018 in some ways we are seeing a rebound and in some ways we aren’t so we still have a few more years left
Of monitoring and we’re hopeful that you know the populations will continue to rebound Bar says it will be up to the EPA to decide what happens once the formal monitoring process ends hello and welcome to newsour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from London I’m nula macarin a little
Later in the program we’ll discuss what has been called an inevitable election win for President Putin of Russia also we’ll hear from former prime minister of Ukraine AR yanuk he’ll speak to us about that when but also the 10th anniversary of the annexation of Crimea so that is
All coming up but first there have been reports of heavy gunfire at the alifa hospital in Gaza after Israeli forces launched an overnight raid at that complex Israel’s Defense Forces said that Hamas had regrouped inside the hospital they were calling for gazin to evacuate as They carried out their
Military operation but the IDE of spokesperson rear Admiral Daniel hagari said patients patients or medical staff would not have to leave we have Arabic speakers on the ground so that we can communicate to the patients in the hospital in their own language and IDF doctors to assist those in need we will
Also be conducting a humanitarian effort to provide food water and other supplies to the patients and civilians in the hospital compound there is no obligation for the patients and the medical staff to evacuate the hospital but there is and will be a passage way for other civilians to exit the hospital we call
Upon all Hamas terrorists hiding in hospital surrender immediately medical facilities should never be exploited for Terror Hamas must be held accountable that is the IDF spokesperson Daniel hagari there will the mass run Health Ministry in Gaza has called a violation of international law hospitals do have protected status during times of
War under International humanitarian law but they can lose that protection in limited circumstances if they’re being used to commit an I quote an act harmful to the enemy unquote let me turn to the BBC’s Mark loen who’s in Jerusalem good to have you with us Mark what do we know
About the situation at the moment at alcha we understand that the Israeli Defense Forces have um taken control of ARA hospitala um the The Raid was launched at 2:30 this morning um there were 80 people who were who were detained uh say the Israelis um and as
You heard that from Daniel hagari they evacuated uh civilians from around the hospital they dropped leaflets urging them to to to flee there are thousands actually who were who were camped out around the hospital but not the patients from inside and we’ve also just heard from the Israeli Defense Forces saying
That um they say that hamas’s head of internal security who was a guy called F mahu was killed in this operation in alifa uh the IDF says that mahu was responsible among other things for synchronizing hamas’s operations in the Gaza Strip they say he was located armed
And hiding inside the hospital and that many weapons were found in the room next to his we’ve also had confirmation of his uh death from a Palestinian security official uh talking to the BBC now if this is if if it was confirmed that he he was indeed killed from inside the
Hospital that of course will bolster Israel’s claim that Hamas has been using medical facilities to launch attacks against the Israelis and against the Israeli Defense Forces which is what Israel has been arguing all along and therefore would justify Israel targeting hospitals and Healthcare facilies that is something that Hamas has consistently
Denied there um I mentioned that they said the IDF that medical staff and patients can remain in the hospital you talked about the other gazans to evacuate but go where to go to um Parts I suppose Parts in the north of Gaza where there were not where
There are not combat operations I mean even though the north the vast majority of residents of the north of Gaza have fled south I mean we’re talking about you know the the the the fleeing a couple of months ago actually of of hundreds of thousands of people so much
So now that half of the entire population of Gaza is crowded into the very south of the strip around Rua and yet despite the north of Gaza having been really kind of r juice all right for there has overwhelmed police is crippling the country’s infrastructure and fueling a humanitarian
Crisis the sound of hundreds of displaced families in PTO Prince fighting to get cooked meals distributed by the world through program whose director warns that 1.4 million people are a step away from famine NPR Z paralta has been monitoring developments from capan where he reports on how
Residents are forced to find ways around a government infrastructure failure just to survive I spent some time in the rural part of town uh with an older lady uh and she said in the old days they didn’t need the government because they could grow their own food uh but climate
Change means it’s not as rainy as it used to be here and it means that in order to grow food you need irrigation and that’s not something patients can do on their own the government has to drill Wells NPR Zeta Peralta reporting the UN warns famine is imminent in Northern
Gaza following 5 months of war between Israel and Hamas today President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the White House says the Israeli leader has agreed to send a team of military intelligence and humanitarian officials to Washington in the coming days to hear us concerns about the Israeli military operation
Proposed for the southern Gaza City of Rafa lawyers for former president and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump say coming up with the bond on roughly half a billion dollars while he appeals his New York fraud judgment is a quote practical impossibility NPR’s Andrea Bernstein reports Trump is on the hook for
Persistently lying about the value of his assets Trump’s lawyers say they’ve approached 30 companies through four Brokers and none will accept his real estate holdings as a guarantee on the bond for $454 million they argue the judgment is unconstitutionally high and filed an affidavit from an insurance
Broker saying it’s not possible to find a bond that big the broker was an expert witness for Trump during the trial trial judge already noted in his decision that this broker was quote a close personal friend of Trumps and had a financial interest in the outcome a decision could
Come from the appeals court later this week Andrea Bernstein NPR news New York Tom Stafford one of the astronauts from nest’s early days has died at the age of 93 following after battling a long illness Stafford flew in space four times he commanded Apollo 10 the mission
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Approved the property sale and 30-year tax exemption today Adam gilter with developer 3cdc says they’re limited with what they can do with the space the high Ballroom sits above the for shacks and it’s hard to see so people don’t know that and then shared loading dock so you
Really can’t get rid of the building uh you really got to deal with what’s there uh similarly because it’s an apartment store it doesn’t really work for a residential conversion or a Hospitality conversion because of the deep floor plates the city is selling the site to
3cdc for just a dollar but the de developer is pledging to share Revenue with the city project is expected to cost just over $30 million a new report shows Indiana has only 34 affordable and available available rental units for every 100 extremely low-income households in the state Indiana Public
Broadcasting Violet comr wiland reports Advocates are calling on the governor to come up with Solutions about 26% of Indiana’s renter households are considered extremely low income and the number of these households has increased by 10 10,000 since 2023 Aspen Clemens is the executive director for Prosperity Indiana one of
The organizations behind the report she says it also reveals that over 70% of hoers are severely cost burdened by housing meaning they spend more than half of their income on it that’s less than 50% of their income to spend on other basic life Necessities including food uh Health Care Transportation Child
Care the things that they need to be able to a contribute to our Workforce and be productive community Prosperity Indiana and other housing advocacy groups called on Governor Eric hok to appoint a commission on housing safety stability and affordability to address these concerns and come up with practical solutions for Indiana Public
Broadcasting I’m Violet kumber wiland a low of 26 tonight mostly sunny and Breezy on Tuesday a high tomorrow of 53 it’s 36° now from NTR news this is all things considered I’m Ari Shapiro and I’m Sasha feifer Vladimir Putin has been in power for a quarter Century in Russia and
Yesterday’s election results confirm that he will reign for a fifth term Putin’s hold on the Kremlin gives him control of the world’s largest nuclear Arsenal and a military that’s been at war in Ukraine for more than 2 years ever since he launched an invasion in February 2022 that war has killed or wounded
Hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers but despite those losses the Russian military is pressing forward and Ukraine is facing the Stark Prospect of a fight in which key US military assistance is in question so what will six more years of Vladimir Putin mean for the war in Ukraine and
Where do both militaries stand to this point in that brutal War Dara maso is a senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and joins us now welcome to All Things Considered thanks for having me on the show Dara a big
Picture question to start I’m wondering how much of an impact Putin’s reelection could have on how Russia proceeds now in this war if there may be any notable changes in direction or strategy or aggression what’s your sense of that I think that his concerns are the same now
As before the election he is primarily motivated by managing this war and succeeding without overheating his own economy or agitating his own population um I think we’re going to see him continue along the same lines of getting men into service with volunteer methods and not mobilizing them because that’s a
Political risk but of course there is another course that he could take if he chose to meaning conscription yes yes that would be another round of mobilization but I I think he would only do this if he wanted to initiate another large offensive against Ukraine and
Right now I don’t see them taking those steps you know that most experts expected Russia’s victory in Ukraine to be be pretty Swift they didn’t expect that Russia would need to be rebuilding its military more than 2 years after the invasion if you had to describe overall
The state of the Russian military right now how would you I would say that the Russian army that we’re looking at 2 years into the war is very different quantitatively and qualitatively than what they began with they’ve lost 14,000 pieces of equipment estimates range wildly but hundreds of thousands of
Casualties since the beginning of this War so we’re seeing older vehicles that are Soviet origin that they’re pulling out of Siberia and we’re seeing volunteers that they’ve either pulled in um through various methods recruited from the prison system or recruited fresh off the street with no military
Background so it is a mobilization based Army the same thing could be said for the Ukrainian side as well this is a damaged organization and yet parts of it are learning and becoming lethal so it’s it is a mixed picture which is why I feel that even though Russia has a lot
Of advantages on the advantages on the ground and in the skies they are still not able to translate those advantages into really decisive games for now besides reaching into warehouses and bringing out old Soviet equipment as you said are they also getting newer equipment from other countries they are
They are so they I I probably would highlight two very important features of their aid that they’re getting from abroad number one is the the Shahed drones that they’ve purchased from Iran and now they are manufacturing inside Russia the second type of equipment that’s been very important for Russia
Has been the artillery that they’ve been able to purchase from North Korea and um to a lesser extent from Iran there’s also some additional support that that does matter whether that’s ballistic missiles from North Korea or the type of support that China is providing them that is not necessarily quite so obvious
But they are contributing to the Russian war effort the US is a potential Factor here because if Donald Trump is reelected and goes back to the White House he might stop substantial Aid to Ukraine and Putin as a result may not have to call up large number of troops
How much do you think that possibility is part of Putin’s culus I think it’s a large part I if you look at this Dynamic from the perspective of how the Russian military general staff looks at things they’re looking at Ukraine thinking they are short on critical ammunition they are also delaying mobilization decisions
So that means their units on the front line at least for right now are vulnerable they’re looking at the delays in Congress and they’re also thinking longterm you what happens after November to the United States and if the United States support from Ukraine Falls away what will that do to European Aid and
All of these things to the Russian military planner look incredibly positive and they have a lot of incentives from that persp perspective to move forward and continue to attack Ukrainian positions before these issues get resolved based on everything you take into account of what may play out in
2024 how do you expect this year to end up for Russia and Ukraine could this be an end do you expect it to drag on well this year is going to be decisive the challenge for me in terms of forcasting how it will look on the battlefield is
So much as contingent on whether or not um the impal gets passed here in the United States for 61 billion which is mostly going to be converted into lethal aid for Ukraine if that money is approved and those weapons and ammunition do begin flowing quickly to Ukraine there is a very good possibility
That next year is going to look better for Ukraine because they can hold off Russian attacks now and rebuild and modify the force moving forward when Russia’s advantages start to erode in 2025 and 2026 however the flip side of this is if the aid is not
Approved then we are going to see a process which is already underway of Ukrainian units that are rationing their ammunition that could give way to True depletion of ammunition and if that happens whether that’s on the ground or in the skies Ukrainian units are not going to be able to protect themselves
And we’re going to start to think about what a Russian breakthrough would look like later on in the second half of this year if that supplemental doesn’t go through so when you said that this year will be decisive you don’t necessarily mean the war will end it will just
Really pave the way for who comes out of this year stronger correct correct that’s Dara maso of the KY he Endowment for International Peace thank you thanks so much for having me nearly 115,000 unaccompanied migrant children arrived in the US last year and we’re about to meet one of them she’s a
16-year-old from Guatemala and like many smuggled migrants she arrived saddled with debt she’s now having a hard time making ends meet TI typically relatives back home borrow money to pay Smugglers for the dangerous Trek but migrants who make it into the US have to pay back thousands of dollars immediately naen
Saai of the Public’s radio in Rhode Island has the story at a banquet hall just minutes away from the New bedri Port Alandra is about to speak she begins to answer questions about her previous job at a seafood processing plant more than 300 people listen they include government officials celebrating the anniversary of
A worker’s Advocacy Center the interviewer asks what she wants in the future and alra makes a plea she says what she needs is a work permit and permanent residency so she can stay in this country Alandra came to the US from Guatemala early last year Alandra is a nickname we’re not
Providing her full name because she fears it would impact her immigration case Alandra left her mom grandparents and six siblings behind to reunite with her dad in an apartment they share with another family she has $4500 in debt and no way to pay it she also needs to help
Her dad cover the rent buy groceries and pay utility bills she says he was paying for everything and he couldn’t this is why she started working with a fake ID that said she was 20 years old alundra got a job working at a seafood processing plant she didn’t know the plant was
Under investigation by the US Department of Labor for possible child labor violations in September alundra says she got a phone call from her person she could only described as quote someone from the government the person on the other end of the phone asked alandre if she was working at that
Plan she says she didn’t want to tell them because she was afraid they send her back to Guatemala so she said no alundra was working during the day and planning to start school in the next semester they didn’t get she says they told her you have to go to
School because it’s obligatory you’re a minor so she left her job and started school she says she was a little sad because she wanted to work she wants to pay her debts we don’t know for sure if it was Federal officials who told alundra to leave her job what we do know
Is that Alandra says she’s cooperating with the ongoing investigation into the seafood proc processing plant where she worked because of her cooperation alra was able to apply for something called deferred action a form of prosecutorial discretion that allows her to remain in the country for a 2-year period and
Become eligible for a work permit that is not the normal outcome Ben Roth is faculty at the University of South Carolina researching the topic of Youth migrants he says that aer’s ability to apply for deferred action gives her a very unusual Advantage other accompanied minors don’t have most of them are going
To work in this highly vulnerable set of conditions unaccompanied minors have the option of applying for Asylum or a special Visa it’s a costly and lengthy process and as Congress remains at a standstill regarding comprehensive immigration reform there is no Assurance of what protections they’ll receive in the future Jennifer valard is an
Immigration attorney in New Bedford she says getting undocumented teens a work permit provides more than access to Safe work it also provides teens with a voice the importance of even individuals in this situation I work on station it gives them the power to say okay I’m not
Going to be AF free anymore alundra was supposed to be making payments under $4,500 loan starting last month but she told her lenders in Guatemala that she doesn’t have the money she says she told them to give her more time and explained she doesn’t have
A job they told her they need the money and she said I’m not working I don’t have the money she convinced them to push off her loans for now meanwhile alundra is desperately waiting for a response on her deferred action application for NPR news I’m meet Dean saai in Massachusetts you’re listening to all things considered from NPR news coming up on wvxu Nvidia designs the chips powering artificial intelligence applications like chat GPT the company has not surprisingly seen explosive growth over the past year Nvidia is now worth more than Amazon or Google’s parent company alphabet the
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Chang in a stretch of Louisiana near the Mississippi River hundreds of oil factories have polluted the air for decades it’s a highly toxic environment known as cancer alley it’s one of the most polluted places in the world and people who live in that area particularly black people with low
Incomes have faced seriously elevated risks of cancer and respiratory disease now a new study has focused on how the toxic air may affect pregnant people and their children potentially leading to low birth weights and pre-term births Jessica CS has been reporting on this for the nonprofit site the 19th and
Joins us now welcome hi thank you thank you so tell us a little more about what this study found exactly yeah so the main findings of the study were that when you looked at census tracks that had high air pollution there was also a higher rate of low
Birth weight and also pre-term births and briefly explain what you mean by those two things low weight birth and pre-term birth right so low birth weights are babies that are born under 5 lb and 8 oz and pre-term births are babies born before 37 weeks of pregnancy and that’s important because there’s
Like long-term life impacts for those babies so that could lead to respiratory issues like asthma or other developmental issues um that can kind of follow that baby through personhood right and we should note that this study found a correlation but the researchers they do acknowledge that the data
Doesn’t prove causation right so even if that’s the case why does this study matter yeah as you mentioned they can’t prove uh causation because you would have to essentially expose pregnant people to toxic air pollution intentionally and then see what the results are um so this study Builds on
Other studies from other states just kind of adding to the evidence that toxic air pollution does likely correlate to poor birth outcomes and in the state of Louisiana um it has one of the highest rates of low birth weights and pre-term births so this is just kind
Of another clue as to why that is well I saw that you talked to a woman who herself had seen the effects of this pollution on her own life on her own family can you tell us a little bit about her absolutely um so yeah so I
Talked to a resident named Ashley and she has three children they were all born pre-term and they were all born um at low birth weights and she realized that her mother had similar experiences with her pregnancies her sisters her friends other people in her community and had kind of become normalized so I
Think it was in some ways a surprise um but in other ways she and other women they have been aware of the other impacts of pollution on their community’s health and they have been pretty active in doing you know environmental justice work well where is
The EPA on all of this I mean this area it’s called cancer alley for a reason from the fact that the risk of cancer is much worse in this region of Louisiana so government Regulators how much have they responded so the EPA is obviously aware of um the situation in cancer alley and
Is recently as 2022 the EPA actually opened a civil rights investigation looking into whether State Regulators had violated the civil rights of black residents living in this part of the state they were sued by the attorney general and so they later dropped uh the case um which is controversial in itself
But that is kind of the latest move that the EPA did make right Jessica CS is a gender climate and sustainability reporter for the nonprofit site the 19th thank you very much thank you ala in Arizona the electorate is divided into thirds LLY equally among Republicans Democrats and independents when
Arizonans head to the polls tomorrow to cast their votes for presidential nominees all those independent voters don’t get much of a say from Member station kjzz and phoen Phenix Ben Giles reports first of all let’s establish a few ground rules number one we call it a preference election as opposed to a
Primary Eric Spencer served as Arizona’s state elections director under a previous Republican Administration for the PPE or the presidential preference election only registered party members are allowed to participate that makes the vote tomorrow unique all other primaries in Arizona like the one the state will hold on July 30th are open to
Independence sort of Arizona has what’s called a semiopen primary as Democratic elections attorney Roy Herrera explains registered Republicans can vote for republicans and registered democrats for Democrats but if you’re an independent trying to vote in a primary you have to select which Party primary you want to participate in either by requesting a
Ballot for that particular primary or when you go into to vote you have to pick whether you want to vote in the Republican or a Democrat primary Arizona voters approved this system with a ballot measure in the late ’90s but they also left intact the state’s presidential preference election created
A few years prior to that Adrien Fontes attempted to change that in 2019 back then he helped run elections in the state’s largest county it made sense to me at the time to make sure to include as many voters as possible in that presidential preference election
Contest the PPE may be a vote by and for political parties but it’s run by Arizona counties and paid for by all the state’s taxpayers but Democrats at a state committee meeting rejected the idea when it comes to nominating a presidential candidate many still feel it’s a process best left to party
Members only on this Spencer a Republican and Herrera a Democrat can agree and Spencer warned that if Independents were involved it would radically alter the way presidential candidates campaign in Arizona it radically alter who received Arizona’s votes and thus probably radically alter the course of the entire presidential
Election since Arizona is a swing state but to voters like Patricia Coughlin that’s exactly the point this is why we have these two extremes because the extremes of those parties turn out during the primary and that’s who goes on to the general Coughlin has been a registered independent for about a
Decade this year she did something a little different she re-registered as a Republican to cast a vote for Nikki Haley after sending in her early ballot she re-registered again as an independent I just feel that it is our duty to vote we’re lucky to be able to
And it was frustrating to me that I couldn’t you know cast The Ballot the temporary switch is completely legal but it’s not a step many Arizona voters take every 4 years 4 years from now it might not be necessary there’s a ballot initiative Gathering signat atures that would require the Republican and
Democratic parties to either pay for future ppes or let Independents participate it’s got coughlin’s support full disclosure her husband’s the political consultant running the ballot campaign but she’s also one of the roughly 1.4 million Arizona Independents who stand to benefit and I think if more people voted in the primary it would be
Better as for Fontes now he’s the secretary of state so he won’t take a position on a measure that could appear on Arizona ballots in November but I asked him if his opinion has changed since he tried to convince Arizona Democrats to let in in dependent four years ago Arizona’s voters should be
Allowed to vote in every election Republicans Democrats and yes Independents for NPR news I’m Ben Giles in Phoenix this is NPR news the new host of top shf says even experience in a world class kitchen won’t guarantee victory for this season’s contestants if the top chef challenge was to run your own restaurant
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Strategy to refill its ranks yes it is actually happening on a big scale you know not just from India and Nepal but from countries like you know China kazakistan but last week India said its citizens weren’t voluntarily signing up with a mission military they were trafficked several Indi Nationals have work
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Things came to a head in India one of the countries where some of these men are recruited from the Indian government recently warned its citizens against job offers in the Russian army this is shalu yadov she’s an independent journalist in Delhi who worked on an investigation into the South Asian men fighting
Russia’s War India’s investigative agency known as the Central Bureau of Investigation or the CBI busted a network of agents and Visa Consultants who had been sending people to Russia on the pretext of giving them jobs you know I think a lot of people might know that
India and a lot of South Asian countries have a very large population of young men who go abroad to work send money home and will periodically come home it sounds like that is something that the country is quite used to but why was it so important for the ministry of
External Affairs to tell its citizens living over 2,000 M away from Russia that you need to stay away from job offers from this country well you’re absolutely right Hala uh you know there’s a lot of foreign remittance that comes into the countries in South Asian countries uh by way of jobs uh that
Indians get abroad uh for instance in Dubai but why the government had to spring into action is because of the farway war on the Russia Ukraine border because it had pulled dozens of Indians into its fold without them even realizing what they were getting into which is a hardcore
War the travel agents who low them um arrange a tourist or a student visa for them for which they charge a huge sum of about $4,000 Hala so they’re not breaking the law because uh the Russian army has been inducting foreign uh manpower to increase its strength in the
War against Ukraine and it doesn’t care if those coming in to join are on a tourist visa or on a student visa now in one of the YouTube videos I watched by a travel agent I heard him luring job Seekers by telling them that a Russian passport will open the gateway to Europe
Where they can go after one year of completing their contract with the Russian army I spoke to a 31-year-old uh young man named Saras who is from the city of Kolkata in India basically where what normal I’m basically from a very normal family man in my family there is
My father mother two brothers and my sister my brothers and I work and support the family and he shared with me the details of how he was Gone in August my father started having pain in his foot and the doctor said we might need to amputate it and I got really scared whatever money I had I spent on my father I didn’t have any work and I was really stressed my savings were almost done and in the
Middle of all that I got this video which said that there’s work available you’ll get 3 months of training to be a security Helper the way the travel agents put it in their videos to which they lure these men into these job uh they described that this job is going to involve maybe you know job of a security guard maybe maning the gates uh you know or sort of like cleaning the gun supplies when they
Come or loading the trucks or unloading them and so on I thought once I get to Russia I’ll work and maybe my future will be better that’s why I went to Russia in fact he asked his mother to spare all her savings and loaned money from his brother to pay the travel agent
A fee of about $4,000 he was then clubbed with other men from different parts of the country who were flown to Moscow via Bahrain and some of these men were flown uh via Dubai in fact these agents also duped Indians and nepales who were already working in by into this job track in
Russia so it sounds like these agents are very aware of this large migrant worker community and are basically recruiting from various hotpots where people are in need of a paycheck and are willing to travel for one exactly what does training for these men end up looking like so this training is almost
Like a crash course to be a soldier Hal Lia these men are trained for 15 days to be a fighter the training involves uh handling guns grenades and digging trenches and after the training they taken in dozens to different parts of the front line where many have died over
The last 6 months injured soldiers who return alive from the front line some of them did return with lost limbs and with Grievous injuries they are quickly replaced by the next batch of these uh trained soldiers what did your Source Sur for us tell you about his experience
In training did he go through it he told me that when he landed along with other men in Moscow they were taken to a military facility they were asked to sign contracts that were in Russian language which they clearly didn’t understand the agents assured them that there’s nothing to worry about and they
Should just go ahead and sign it but to his shock when he was sent to the military camp in Ran city in Russia he discovered that the job of a helper actually does not exist and he along with other men from different countries would be trained for 15 days to go ahead
And fight the war on behalf of Russia then they asked us did you sign a contract we said yes they said the contract you signed there’s a group here called Wagner you’re now members of that and for one year you will go fight for us on the Ukraine border he actually didn’t have words to
Describe his shock he said that information just sent chills down his spine and he immediately got in touch with another guy who was with him when he left from India he was a part of the same group that was sent by the agent to Moscow uh this guy’s name was Hil and
They had quickly become friends you know in this in the short period that they had spent together in India before they left for Moscow I met him for the first time and he was so friendly he was a really good guy now Hil had had been sent forward
Into the next camp where he was stained as a fighter and he got in touch with Saras and told him the reality of what had actually happened he said if you come here surar they will send you to the front they’re taking us 2,000 km directly into Ukraine
To the front zone I’m already here and he said I’m really scared sir farz I can’t do anything but you can still get out because you’re still in the city and how does suras end up making his Escape so safra’s uh you know he spent first few couple of days after
Having been after having realized that you know he’s been scammed he spent first few days in uh you know establishing friendships uh with the Russian commanders using Google translate app and uh in in some time he had sort of gained their confidence enough to be able to have permission to
Move out of the camp to buy some snacks or you know get some drinks for the group when I got out of the camp I went straight to the I went straight to the Indian Embassy in Moscow but to his surprise the uh Indian embassies told him that you know it’s
Going to take them a while to get him out using the official sort of diplomatic channels as the Indian uh Embassy was trying to figure out the details of how to get its citizens out of um of Russia um SAS decided that he’s not going to go back to the Russian army
And so he decided to live in hiding in Moscow and he described it as one of the toughest period of his life it was about 3 weeks uh that he spent uh where he went hungry for days and so he had a very tough time until he came across
Another Indian guy uh by the name of Raja patan who had joined the Russian army a year ago and he had managed to put in his papers and so he helped him to get the money to apply for a white passport at the at the embassy which in
Turn uh you know got him a return visa to come back to India and so he said that you know he wanted to return desperately to India to be able to help U his best friend Hil in that group used to say over and over again
Sir farz my brother please help me get us out of here if it takes money I’ll get the money well when he came back to India as soon as he landed it was so sad that he got a call from U you know one
Of the guys in in hil’s group who was uh sent to the front line that he had died in a drone strike it’s too late for that Shalo let’s talk numbers how many South Asians at this point have actually joined the Russian military and do we
Have a sense of how many people are or are not making it back home well I can speak for Nepal and India because I’ve been in touch with uh Indian and uh Nepalese men who’ve been stuck in Russia over the last 3 months uh Nepal’s government puts the the figure of Nepali
Men in Russia to 400 but the Nepali Fighters I have interviewed over the last 3 months believe that the number is easily over a thousand but as far as Indians are concerned the government says 35 Indians were duped into joining the war but that number again could be a
Lot higher is what I’ve been told by my sources in Russia and of these potentially thousands of men do we know how many are actually making it back home not many I’m afraid Hala unless you manag to escape the first army camp in an Saras was lucky to escape the camp
But not all of them uh you know have had the luck to be able to do that uh now obviously the the Indian government has woken up to the crisis over the last few days uh and Nepal’s government has been talking about it for months uh but we
Haven’t seen any news of nepales men returning home Actually families of those missing or who are in Russia pleading to come back have been asking questions of the government but they haven’t got any answers in fact recently a group of napales men shared a video with me where they are appealing to the Indian government to rescue them as their pleas
To the napales government have gone in vain and they they go on to say that because Indian um you know government has a lot of clout uh abroad and its friendship with Russia is um you know has been good historically and so they are asking for Indian government to
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Which is euphemism I was originally in the a US Army paratrooper I did that for about 8 years I got out and then I hocked to the dark side as some would say and I worked initially on US Government contracts in Africa doing things traditionally given to the CIA or Special Operations forces
And then I expanded I was a free agent if you will uh working for oil companies and other things um then I got out cuz I was not meeting older people in my industry oh wow that was the reason I had to rethink some of my life choices
And also because I had seen some rather disturbing things about the privatization of warfare and I wanted to think about the implications deeply well I’m glad we’re talking to you Sean because we just spent the first half of our show talking about Nepali and Indian men who are going to Russia for what
They think is a security job only to find out once they get there that they’re being sent to a 15 to 20-day training camp to allegedly become members of the Vagner group how would you classify these men are they technically mercenaries are they members of the dark side these men are victims
Of human trafficking in the market for M and the world of mercenaries think of it like a pyramid at the very top you call it t one they’re like Special Operations forces guys like you know seals and Green Berets and spns and then lower you have the the tier two which are pretty
Effective offensive tier three is what most private military contractors are they defend this oil line defend this something and then tier four is sort of like not even mercenaries they’re more like conscripts into the mercenary world they’re either traffic like these Indian and nepales men were tricked into it or
They were sort of dumped out of jail which is what progan did but these are purely CF I mean these are sort of un of unskilled Fighters and yeah the world would view them as mercenaries even though that they are being trafficked and victims but it’s it’s in it’s in another world
Of mercenaries if you can think of such a thing we’ve covered the Vagner group in depth on this show and we know that the Russian government is no stranger to working with Hired Guns but I wonder if this particular strategy um of as you say trafficking young untrained Fighters is
Something new it’s not new to you know Gang Press people into mercenary outfits that is as old as mercenary Warfare which is called the second oldest profession what it shows you about Russia Today is that they are desperate they have chewed through the resources of the lner group
Then they emptied out jails to the Vagner group they chewed through those resources they have no more jails to empty out for this reason and now they’re starting to abduct essentially foreigners to fill the battlefield in Ukraine so what it shows you is that Russia is run out of private military
Fighters and are doing schemes like in India and Nepal to to put troops on the battlefield in Ukraine I’m wondering if you can talk about the real life concerns that come up when we talk about an increasing Reliance on Mercenaries Russia has been turning to mercenaries because mercenaries are a
Way of disguising the costs of War to a population Russians hate seeing Russian soldiers come home in body bags but they don’t care about dead contractors whether they’re Russian or they’re Indian or whatever so Putin likes to use mercenaries so he doesn’t have big peace protests in the street of Moscow or St
Petersburg so mercenaries disguise the costs of War but they can also turn against you as Putin himself learned last summer when the vet group marched on Moscow out right and Putin sent attack helicopters and aircraft at at them and the V group shot them down so when you create a world of mercenaries
You always have problems of control safety and accountability and that also a world a wash and mercenaries mercenaries we know from history are incentivized to start wars and elongate Wars for profit so a world with more Mercy mer Aries in it is a world with more Warfare and human
Suffering we’re talking about Putin and Russia specifically and the ability to disguise the cost of War when you are relying on contractors especially foreign contractors because nobody wants to see one of their citizen soldiers come back in a body bag that sounds like something that would be a reality
Everywhere so are we seeing other countries play the same game that Putin is yes the United States of America played this game during the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan initially like Putin they thought those Wars would be very quick a few days a few weeks and when they protracted they couldn’t get enough
Americans to volunteer for the US armed forces and so they turned to contractors increasingly over the years and a lot of those contractors came from other countries so when I was in this industry I worked alongside people from every single continent except for Antarctica including South
Asia when those contracts ended a lot of them went home and they started their own mercenary companies or looked for more work and we’ve seen them appear in places like Africa and the Middle East um we’ve seen the UAE and the Gulf States hire them to prosecute the war in
Yemen we’ve seen them on both sides of the war in Libya uh we seen them throughout Subs Africa you know you see them in Conflict markets so any place where there’s things like natural resources to extract or were to fight and you have wealthy clients and unconstrained political
Rivalries very weak rule of law you will see mercenaries start to gather there but we’re seeing every year an increase of mercenaries globally wow and this is the problem because if this trend continues into the next decade or two we could have wars without States you know one Oil Company fighting another oil
Company’s rented Force you know billionaires or like Elon Musk having his own space force I mean what does it mean when States no longer have the Monopoly of force Sean you’re painting a very complicated picture here at times it sounds like a world with more mercenaries is doomed for longer more
Violent Wars and then at others it sounds like a world with more mercenaries is just a return to a world order that existed maybe long before the citizen Army did but at the end of the day I think everyone’s concern is kind of the same that how do we make war less
Violent and less frequent and I want to put that question to you how do we make war less violent and less frequent in light of these Trends well it’s a great question and I would say this is that mercenaries um they are like fire they can either burn your house down but if
You use them well they can for for is for for is is e for for is for all for for for for for in for for for for for e for for for for for weend in a lot of chaos but but people often see leaders in the moment in like
The crisis moments good or bad um but a thing I really value in leaders is how people act on a boring Tuesday at 9:46 in the morning and in in just sort of the the the normal drudgery of the day-to-day how someone shows up in a meeting the quality of the decisions
They make that was what I meant about the quiet mons meaning like most of the work is done on a day by day in the meeting by meeting just just be present and and make great decisions yeah I mean look what you wanted to have wanted to
Spend the last 20 minutes about and I understand is like this one very traumatic weekend yeah but that’s not really what opening eye is about opening eye is really about the other seven years well yeah human civilization is not about the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany but still that’s
Something to focus on very very interesting it gives us an insight into human nature the extremes of human nature perhaps some of the damage and some of the triumphs of human civilization can happen in those moments as like Illustrated let me ask about Ilia is he being held hostage in a
Secret nuclear facility no what about a regular secret facility no what about a nuclear non secret facility neither not that either I mean it’s becoming a meme at some point you’ve known Ilia for for a long time he obviously in part of this drama with the board and all that kind of
Stuff what’s your relationship with him uh now I love Ilia I have tremendous respect for Ilia I uh I don’t have anything I can like say about his plans right now that’s that’s a question for him um but I really hope we work together for you know starting the rest of my
Career he’s a little bit younger than me maybe he works a little bit longer you know there’s a there’s a meme that he saw something like he maybe saw AGI and that gave him a lot of worry internally uh what did ilas see uh IIA has not seen AGI none of us
Have seen AI we’ve not built AI uh I I do think uh one of the many things that I really love about Ilia is he takes Ai and the safety concerns broadly speaking you know including things like the impact this is going to have on society very seriously and we as
We continue to make significant progress um Ilia is one of the people that I’ve spent the most time over the last couple of years talking about what this is going to mean what we need to do to ensure we get it right to ensure that we succeed at the mission um
So Ilia do not see AGI um but Ilia is a credit to humanity in terms of how much he thinks and worries about making sure we get this right I’ve had a bunch of conversation with him in the past I think when he talks about technology he’s always like doing this long-term
Thinking type of thing so he’s not thinking about what this is going to be in thank you for choosing McDonald’s how can I help you um I have a mobile order okay what’s your code uh GJ 43 for Russell yep okay pull forward to the first one now thanks oh thanks have good
Night many years yeah just thinking from first principles is like okay if the scales what are the fundamentals here where’s this going and so that that’s a foundation for them thinking about like all the other safety concerns and all that kind of stuff uh which makes him a
Really fascinating human uh to talk with do you have any idea why he’s been kind of quiet is it he’s just doing some soul searching again I don’t want to like speak for for oh yeah I think that you should ask him that um he’s definitely a thoughtful guy
Uh I think I kind of think of Ilia is like thanks for for a really good way yes yeah also he appreciates the power of Silence also I’m told he can be a silly guy which I’ve I’ve never seen that it’s very sweet one that I’ve never witnessed a silly ilot
But uh I look forward to to that as well I was at a dinner party with him recently and he was playing with a puppy and I and he was like in a very silly mood very endearing and I was thinking like oh man this is like not the side of
The ILO that the world sees the most so just to wrap up this whole Saga are are you feeling good about the board structure about all of this and like where it’s moving I feel great about the new board in terms of the structure of
Open AI I you know one of the board’s tasks is to look at that and see where we can make it more robust um we wanted to get new board members in place first uh but you know we clearly learned a lesson about structure throughout this
Process I don’t have I think super deep things to say it was a crazy very painful experience I think it was like a perfect storm of weirdness it was like a preview for me of what’s going to happen as the stakes get higher and higher and the need that we have like robust
Governance structures and process and people um I am kind of happy it happened when it did but it was a shocking and painful thing to go through did it make you be more hesitant interesting people yes just in a personal I think I’m like an EXT I think
I’m like an extremely trusting person I have always had a life philosophy of you know like don’t worry about all of the paranoia don’t worry about the edge cases you know you get a little bit screwed in exchange for getting into with your guard down and this was so
Shocking to me I was so caught off guard that it is definitely changed and I really don’t like this it’s definitely ch
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