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What new peace‑talk proposal is Ukraine offering Russia?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. Ukraine is proposing a new round of peace talks with Russia. This comes as President Trump seems to be shifting his approach to the war by threatening to put pressure on Moscow, and Piers Maralayson has more.
Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have not made any progress. Russia is sticking to its demands that Ukraine effectively demilitarize and give up more territory. Russia also is continuing its aerial attacks on civilian targets. Meanwhile, President Trump says if Russia doesn't agree to a peace deal with Ukraine in fifty days, he'll put more sanctions on Russia and secondary sanctions on countries that do business with Russia, like China. Trump also agreed to send more defensive weapons to Ukraine, paid for by the NATO allies. It's not clear if Trump will carry through his threat.
How is the Trump administration escalating pressure on Russia over Ukraine?
He's blown through almost every other deadline he's announced this year. Mara Lyason NPR News.
The city of Los Angeles continues to be a focus of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Massed ICE agents are continuing to take people off those city streets and taking them to deportation centers. LA Mayor Karen Bass says she blames the administration for causing chaos and panic in the city.
The masked men in unmarked cars, no license plate, no real uniforms, jumping out of cars with rifles and snatching people off the street, leading a lot of people to think maybe kidnappings were taking place.
Bass was speaking on ABC's this week. Gaza health officials are reporting at least ninety four Palestinians were killed Sunday by Israeli military fire as they were seeking food aid. This makes it one of the deadliest days Gaza Health officials have recorded for Palestinians who are seeking aid as severe food shortages and widespread hunger there continue.
What is the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza’s food‑aid queues?
NPR's Anas Baba met wounded people in Gaza City, as NPR's Daniel Estran reports.
Shifa hospital in Gaza City was flooded with wounded aid seekers. That is where NPR's Anas Baba met Hassan Abu Marasa, who was wounded in his head and leg from Israeli tank fire. Hunger makes you desperate, he cries. I have no food at home. I went out to feed my kids, and this is what happened to me. Health officials report deaths and injuries in several locations where Palestinians were seeking food. The biggest mass casualty event was in northern Gaza, where Palestinians tried to grab sacks of flour for bread from trucks entering from Israel. The Israeli military said it fired, quote, warning shots at thousands of Palestinians who it said were posing a threat to troops.
How did Japan’s ruling coalition lose its parliamentary majority?
Daniel Estran, NPR News Tel Aviv, with NPR's Anas Baba in Gaza City.
The ruling coalition of Japan's Prime Minister has lost its majority in the upper house of parliament in election Sunday. The coalition fell short of the fifty seats it needed to secure its majority in the two hundred forty-eight seat chamber. The coalition also lost its majority in the lower house last October. You're listening to NPR News. Jake Larson, a World War II veteran and social media star known as Papa Jake, has died. He was 102 years old. And Pierre Chondelist Duster has more on his life and heroism.
Jake Larson was born on december twentieth, nineteen twenty two in Oatana, Minnesota.
Who was WWII veteran ‘Papa Jake’ Larson and why is his story viral?
He joined the Minnesota National Guard when he was just fifteen years old by claiming he was eighteen. He was one of thirty-four thousand Allied soldiers to storm Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion of German occupied Normandy. His recollections of D-Day, including this one from June twenty twenty, have garnered millions of views across social media.
There must have been some intervention from above that kept me. Being lucky all the way through.
Came out with our scratch. Larson received a bronze star from the U.S. Army and the Legion of Honor, France's highest honor. Chandelise Duster, NPR News.
Why are haze and forest‑fire smoke spreading from Sumatra to Malaysia?
Haze caused by forest and peatland fires in Indonesia's Sumatra Island have now reached Malaysia. The haze has reduced visibility there to less than a mile.
Authorities blame plantation owners and farmers for using fire to illegally clear land.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What new peace‑talk proposal is Ukraine offering Russia?
0:01–0:48
2
How is the Trump administration escalating pressure on Russia over Ukraine?
0:48–1:47
3
What is the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza’s food‑aid queues?
1:47–2:35
4
How did Japan’s ruling coalition lose its parliamentary majority?
2:35–3:17
5
Who was WWII veteran ‘Papa Jake’ Larson and why is his story viral?
3:17–3:55
6
Why are haze and forest‑fire smoke spreading from Sumatra to Malaysia?
3:55–4:39