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Ryan and Emily discuss John Kirby losing it while defending Israel's strike on WCK workers, Bibi bans Al Jazeera, Hillary scolds undecided voters, Jon Stewart reveals Apple blocked him from interviewing Lina Khan, The View debates if US better now or under Trump, AIPAC launches ad blitz against Jan 6 cop candidate, Biden donor Amed Khan says US intentionally starving Gaza.

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A tentative aid deal in Gaza is just a sliver of what is needed; hunger and disease may well claim more Palestinian lives this year than the military campaign will. New research suggests American places worst-hit by the opioid epidemic are undergoing a rightward political shift (11:45). And why Britain, renowned for its facility with statistics, might end its decadal census (17:19).

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Moody’s Investors Service advised staff in China to work from home ahead of its cut to the outlook for the country’s sovereign credit rating, Palestinians in Gaza are running out of places to evacuate to, and oil prices have fallen to their lowest level in five months. Plus, the FT’s Christopher Miller explains what would happen on the ground in Ukraine if western aid dries up. 

Mentioned in this podcast:

Moody’s advised staff to work from home ahead of China outlook cut

Joe Biden says Republican refusal to fund Ukraine is a ‘gift’ to Vladimir Putin

Kyiv’s political feuds cause cracks in Ukrainian unity

Shattered Israel-Hamas truce leaves Gaza’s civilians with nowhere left to run

Republicans tell Joe Biden US aid to Kyiv depends on immigration curbs

EU budget dispute threatens €50bn war lifeline for Ukraine

Oil slumps to lowest in five months despite Opec+ production cuts

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Hostages are at the heart of the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, now in its fifth day. As of Monday night, 50 Israeli hostages had been released, as had 150 Palestinian prisoners. More releases were expected on Tuesday, under what Qatari mediators said was a deal to extend the cease-fire by two days.

Isabel Kershner, a Jerusalem-based reporter for The New York Times, explains how a grass-roots movement managed to pause the war, and what it will mean for the rest of the conflict.

Guest: Isabel Kershner, who covers Israeli and Palestinian politics and society for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• The extension of the cease-fire, and another exchange of hostages and prisoners, raised hopes that more people would be set free and more humanitarian aid would reach people in the Gaza Strip.
• Here are the latest updates from Israel and Gaza.

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Krystal and Saagar discuss US military preps for Iran War, Israel rejects Hostage release, Justin Amash reveals his family was killed in Gaza Church Strike, shock polling shows US majority reject sending weapons to Israel, US warns of Gaza military nightmare if ground invasion occurs, Sidney Powell flips on Trump in GA case, and Dave Chapelle triggers the crowd at his recent live show with Israel Palestine takes.

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The Ukrainian military gets a lot of help from foreign governments with war munitions and equipment.
And people are constantly wondering how they can help out the civilians living through the horror that is the constant bombing in their home country of Ukraine.
They are donating money to bring Ukrainian refugees out of the country. Or, they're trying to help with food and clothing for families.
There's a group in Belgium that is working to bring more ambulances into Ukraine, where they are used for a lot more than just taking injured people to the hospital. In a lot of cases, those ambulances ARE the hospital, because the hospital buildings have been flattened.

Our guest on Ask The Expert volunteered to go to Eastern Europe to help with the cause, and we talked to him. Gregg Stebben is a volunteer, and he's helping refugees leave the fighting. He's also working with a group called BEforUA  and he joined us on Ask The Expert.

This episode contains strong language. 

In response to Russia’s increasingly brutal campaign against Ukrainian towns and cities, an estimated 1.5 million people — most of them women and children — have fled Ukraine over the past 10 days. It’s the fastest displacement of people in Europe since World War II.

While evacuating the capital city of Kyiv for Lviv in the west, a seven-hour journey that took two days and nights, the Daily host Sabrina Tavernise traveled alongside some of those fleeing the conflict.

Background reading: 

• With most Ukrainian men legally prohibited from leaving Ukraine, the international border gates serve as a painful filter, splitting families as women and children move on.
• Spared direct attacks so far, Lviv, a city in Ukraine’s west, has become a transit point for thousands of fleeing refugees and for men and supplies headed to the front lines.

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For three decades, President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus, a former Soviet nation in Eastern Europe, ruled with an iron fist. But pressure has mounted on him in the past year and a half. After a contested election in 2020, the European Union enacted sanctions and refused to recognize his leadership.

In the hopes of bringing the bloc to the negotiating table, Mr. Lukashenko has engineered a migrant crisis on the Poland-Belarus border, where thousands from the Middle East, Africa and Asia have converged.

What are the conditions like for those at the border, and will Mr. Lukashenko’s political gamble reap his desired results? 

Guests: Monika Pronczuk, a reporter covering the European Union for The New York Times; and Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times. 

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Background reading: 

• Poland massed thousands of troops on its border with Belarus to keep out Middle Eastern migrants who have set up camp there, as Western officials accuse Belarus’s leader of intentionally trying to create a new migrant crisis in Europe.
• Belarusian authorities on Thursday cleared the encampments at the main border crossing into Poland, removing for the moment a major flashpoint that has raised tensions across the continent.

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