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On at this time’s episode of the 5 Issues podcast: Talks to renew as Russia pushes west in Ukraine
Russian missiles hit a army base close to the Polish border on Sunday. Plus, reporter Celina Tebor talks about Russian censorship legal guidelines, the Courier-Journal’s Veda Morgan talks to Black ladies two years after Breonna Taylor’s demise, USA TODAY Sports activities’ Mackenzie Salmon offers some March Insanity recommendation and it is Pi Day.
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Taylor Wilson:
Good morning. I am Taylor Wilson and that is 5 Issues you have to know Monday, the 14th of March 2022. Right now Russia’s Ukraine invasion nears Poland. Plus, two years since Breonna Taylor’s killing, and extra.
Listed here are a number of the prime headlines.
- Iran has claimed duty for a missile strike that hit close to a US consulate advanced in Northern Iraq. It stated it was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard this week.
- William Harm has died. The actor who gained an Oscar for a Kiss of the Spider Lady was 71.
- And Tom Brady is coming again. The quarterback is popping out of his quick retirement and can return to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers subsequent season.
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Russia has expanded its invasion in Ukraine. The nation slammed a army coaching base in Western Ukraine with missiles yesterday, just some miles from the Polish border. At the least 35 folks had been killed. The bottom had been used as a serious hub for cooperate between Ukraine and NATO nations supporting its protection. And the assault marks a serious shift from Russia’s give attention to the Japanese half of the nation. Russia continues to battle to take the capital of Kyiv, however is in a lot of its suburbs as of this morning. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky once more known as yesterday for NATO to determine a no fly zone over Ukraine.
Taylor Wilson translating for Volodymyr Zelensky:
“However the West stays steadfast in opposition to that out of fears of escalating the conflict to the nuclear stage.”
A fourth spherical of talks is anticipated at this time between Ukrainian and Russian officers. They’re going to plan to give attention to the most recent routes to securely transfer provides across the nation. The Southern metropolis of Mariupol stays largely lower off, regardless of earlier talks of assist convoys. The United Nations has recorded at the very least 596 civilian deaths since Russia invaded Ukraine on February twenty fourth, although it believes the true toll is way greater.
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As Russia grows more and more remoted from the Western world because of sanctions, the Kremlin has in some methods embraced the isolation, pushing out non-Russian speech and press. And reporter Celina Tebor says residents can face jail time for utilizing phrases like “conflict” and “invasion” when speaking about Ukraine.
Celina Tebor:
So Russia has been imposing censorship on its residents and the free press for fairly a while now. It has handed a number of legal guidelines limiting free speech and free press, saying that they may impose charges or fines, or threatening jail time for any journalists and even people who’re publishing issues or saying issues that go in opposition to the Russian authorities’s narrative. However most lately, starting on Friday, March 4th, Russia handed a brand new “faux information” legislation. And that legislation mainly threatens as much as 15 years of jail time for anybody, any particular person, any journalist, who promotes or publishes data that does not go together with the strains of what Russia is saying about their invasion in Ukraine. And that’s really a part of the legislation. So Russia is not calling the invasion an invasion, they’re calling it a specialised army operation. And if a journalist, for instance, or a person calls it an invasion or a conflict, that is technically breaking the legislation and that might land somebody in jail for as much as 15 years.
This legislation is only a solution to stop free speech from flowing, and social media is among the best methods for data to get out all through Russia. Principally this new legislation would not solely punish professionals or journalists, but it surely punishes any people, together with those that are on social media, who’re talking concerning the invasion or the conflict in Ukraine. So in response, there have been apps like TikTok who introduced that they’d not be publishing any new movies popping out of Russia or any livestreams saying that this new legislation left them mainly no selection to take action in an effort to defend their customers and their staff. And beforehand, earlier than Russia handed this legislation, additionally they banned Meta, which is Fb, and so they banned Twitter as properly. And they also’re banning some social media websites after which utilizing legal guidelines to mainly power different social media websites to cease publishing data from Russia. And so this is only one different manner that they’re utilizing censorship to form of management the narrative of what they’re doing in Ukraine.
Taylor Wilson:
For Celina’s full piece, take a look at at this time’s episode description.
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Two years after she was killed, Black ladies see themselves in Breonna Taylor. Veda Morgan is the Senior Director for Engagement on the Courier-Journal in Louisville, a part of the USA TODAY Community. She has extra on the anniversary of Breonna’s demise.
Veda Morgan:
Yesterday marked two years since Louisville police shot and killed Breonna Taylor whereas serving a search warrant at her dwelling. Her demise sparked protests all over the world, but it surely affected no another than the black ladies who noticed themselves mirrored in her. USA TODAY lately requested black ladies in Breonna’s hometown what her demise has meant to them. This is a few of what they needed to say.
Interview #1:
To reply the query, how has Breonna Taylor’s demise continued to have an effect on me personally as a Black girl? I might say that it’s one thing you’re feeling within the air. It is one thing I am reminded of day-after-day. It is one thing that I’m reminded of each time I go a mural of Breonna’s face and see that it has been painted over. It is query of worth. And the reality is I oftentimes don’t really feel valued as a black girl in my neighborhood. Black and brown individuals are a number of the solely folks in America that may be harmless and be killed and we query whether or not or not they deserved to die. And the actual fact that we, two years after Breonna’s demise nonetheless must have conversations about whether or not or not she as a Black girl deserved to die, I feel says every little thing about how we’re valued in our neighborhood and in our society.
Interview #2
I’ve been impacted by the Breonna Taylor killing in a manner that affected my coronary heart, my mind-set. It made me embrace ladies in my household, my buddies, my neighbors, as a result of I feel we’re nonetheless very susceptible on this nation. And I see that, though I’ve advocated for modifications within the Louisville neighborhood, these modifications have been sluggish to return. However what that has additionally accomplished is made me dedicated to proceed to advocate for ladies, for youngsters and for secure neighborhoods, as a result of I consider that we must always all be secure inside and outdoors our dwelling. Nobody has the precise to take that away from us for any cause. And accountability is now what I advocate for within the metropolis of Louisville.
Veda Morgan:
Messages from 17 black ladies in Louisville could be heard now on the USA TODAY app. Go to the augmented actuality part to hearken to their tales in their very own voices.
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The fields are set for the boys’s and ladies’s faculty basketball tournaments, which tip off this week. Within the ladies’s bracket, South Carolina, Stanford, Louisville, and NC State claimed the highest regional seeds. And within the males’s match it will be Gonzaga, Baylor, Arizona, and Kansas. The lads’s match suggestions first with play-in video games starting Tuesday. So to get you prepared for March Insanity, USA TODAY Sports activities Mackenzie Salmon has some suggestions for filling out that bracket.
Mackenzie Salmon:
Do not choose the defending champ to win all of it. Yep, Baylor is the prime seed and look primed for a repeat. Nevertheless, within the final 30 years, just one defending champ has repeated, and that was Florida in ’07. And since Florida, not a single defending champ has even gotten previous the Candy 16. Good luck to you Baylor.
Do choose 11s over 6s. Whereas everybody obsesses over the 12-5 matchup, an excellent safer upset choose is 11 over 6s. In reality, within the final 11 years, the 11 seeds have a successful report over the 6 seeds. Simply final yr, two 11s beat 6s, the place just one 12 beat a 5. Do not go all chalk. On common, one to 2 1 seeds make the Ultimate 4. However do not get too carried away. Solely twice have we seen zero 1 seeds make the Ultimate 4, and in 11 of the previous 14 seasons, a 1 seed has gained all of it.
So in brief, choose two 1 seeds you belief probably the most to make it to New Orleans. Decide one to win all of it. Do think about first 4 groups to do properly. Because the begin of the First 4 in 2011, two First 4 groups have gone all the way in which to the Ultimate 4 in VCU in 2011 and UCLA final yr. In reality, 2019 is the one yr {that a} First 4 winner didn’t win a recreation within the spherical of 64. What does that imply? That the momentum and successful within the First 4 issues. So choose at the very least one group enjoying early to trigger some noise.
Taylor Wilson:
For extra protection of each tournaments and a breakdown of yesterday’s Choice Sunday, keep on with USA TODAY Sports activities. And make sure to play our USA TODAY bracket problem. You could find a hyperlink in at this time’s episode description.
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Joyful Pi Day. Right now’s the annual celebration of the mathematical fixed known as pi, the ratio of a circle circumference to its diameter and the ratio is rounded to at this time’s date 3.14. However it might technically go on without end and in keeping with Guinness World Data, probably the most correct worth is greater than 62 trillion digits. That was calculated final August by the College of Utilized Sciences in Switzerland. The idea of pi has been round for about 4,000 years when it was utilized by historical Babylonians. And Pi Day goes again to 1988 and physicist Larry Shaw. He introduced the concept to the San Francisco Exploratorium. Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking died on the day again in 2018. And naturally like many made up American holidays, there are many offers on meals and extra everywhere in the nation at this time. Try our cash part for a full record.
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