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Netanyahu’s plan to invade Rafah: “We’re not going to leave” · Apple News Today

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  [INTRO MUSIC FADES IN]
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  Yasmeen Khan, Narrating: Good morning! It's Monday, March 11th.
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  I'm Yasmeen Khan, in for Shumita Basu.
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  This is "Apple News Today."
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  Coming up: escalating violence in Haiti;
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  the preventable disease killing more and more American babies;
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  and the highlights from Oscars night.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  But first, Israel and Hamas failed to reach a cease-fire deal
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  before the start of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month,
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  which officially began on Sunday.
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  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that if a deal was not met,
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  he would order a ground invasion on Rafah,
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  a city in the south
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  where 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering.
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  On Saturday,
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  President Biden warned that escalating attacks in Rafah,
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  which would likely result in significant civilian casualties,
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  would cross a, quote, “red line. ”
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  Here he is, talking to "MSNBC" about Netanyahu’s strategy:
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  [START MSNBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  President Joe Biden: He must, he must, he must pay more attention
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  to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken.
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  He's hurting…
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  In my view, he’s hurting Israel
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  more than helping Israel by making the rest of the world…
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  It’s contrary to what Israel stands for.
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  [END MSNBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: Netanyahu responded Sunday,
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  telling the German media company "Axel Springer,"
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  that October 7th was a red line for Israel.
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  He says Israel plans to move ahead with a ground invasion of Rafah,
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  and said, quote, "we’re not going to leave."
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  This comes as the chief of the UN aid agency for Palestinians,
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  known as UNRWA,
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  says “extreme hunger” is spreading rapidly.
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  Two more Palestinians died over the weekend of starvation,
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  bringing the total deaths from malnutrition to at least 25.
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  Over the weekend,
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  there were a flurry of efforts to get more aid into Gaza.
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  The United States military sent its first ship
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  carrying aid to a floating pier on Gaza’s coast,
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  something Biden promised in his State of the Union address.
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  And many countries continued to air drop aid,
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  though "CBS News" reports
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  that one airdropped package killed five people in a refugee camp
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  when its parachute failed to deploy.
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  Meanwhile, "CNN" had reporters at the Israeli border,
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  where protesters have been trying to block aid from entering Gaza.
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  In this exchange,
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  you can hear CNN’s Clarissa Ward confronting the protesters
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  who say they don't want Gaza to get any more aid
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  until all the hostages are released.
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  [START CNN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
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  Protester: If we knew it's getting to children in Gaza, we would do it.
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  This does not arrive at their doorstep.
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  This arrives into the tunnels of Hamas,
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  that are fighting us and holding our hostages.
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  Clarissa Ward: There's no evidence to support the idea that all of this aid is going to Hamas.
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  Not to the rest of the population.
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  This is intelligence only for terror.
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  That's why they're getting…
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  They should get only the minimum calories required to survive.
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  Ward: They are starving to death.
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  They are not starving.
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  Ward: They are starving to death.
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  You know what?
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  If they are starving to death, give us back… give the hostages back.
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  No single loaf of bread should go there
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  till our hostages are coming back.
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  [END CNN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: Netanyahu told "Axel Springer,"
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  he does not believe people in Gaza are starving.
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  And a recent poll by the Israel Democracy Institute
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  found that 68 percent of Jewish Israelis
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  agree that no more aid should be getting into Gaza
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  until hostages are released.
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  Now that Ramadan is underway,
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  there are growing fears that the war will only escalate,
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  [PENSIVE MUSIC FADES IN]
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  both in Gaza, but also, in other parts of Israel.
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  "The Wall Street Journal" reports
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  that the holy month could bring violence at religious sites in Jerusalem.
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  Now, to two other stories we're following in international news.
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  In Haiti,
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  the U.S. military flew in marines to Port-au-Prince over the weekend,
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  to evacuate some U.S. embassy staff members
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  and beef up security for the U.S. mission there.
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  State department officials say they arranged for the evacuation
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  because of “heightened gang violence” in Haiti’s capital.
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  Haiti has descended into chaos in recent days,
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  with gangs overrunning the city.
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  They have attacked police stations and prisons,
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  looted seaports and public buildings, and shut down the airport.
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  They're calling for the removal of Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry.
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  A Canadian man named Richard Phillips, who is stuck in Port-au-Prince,
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  described the situation to "ABC News:"
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  [START ABC NEWS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Richard Phillips: The country just deteriorated really, really quickly.
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  The real fear is that if the police force collapses in Haiti,
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  you become very vulnerable as a hostage, quite frankly.
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  [END ABC NEWS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: And in Nigeria, the country is grappling with mass abductions.
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  Gunman kidnapped some 15 children over the weekend
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  from a boarding school in the Northwestern part of the country,
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  just days after armed men abducted nearly 300 children
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  from another school.
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  The army is on the hunt for those students,
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  [SOMBER MUSIC FADES IN]
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  who range in age from seven-years-old to 18.
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  The kidnapping late last week
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  was the largest mass abduction there in three years.
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  Over the last five or so years,
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  the United States has seen an alarming rise in cases of syphilis,
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  a highly contagious sexually transmitted infection.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  As of 2022, the most recent year the CDC has data,
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  cases were up nearly 80% nationwide.
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  And for one particularly vulnerable group,
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  pregnant woman and babies,
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  cases were up more than 250 percent.
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  The spike has physicians and public health experts deeply concerned
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  because syphilis is entirely treatable and preventable.
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  But it can be devastating
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  when transmitted from pregnant mother to infant in the womb.
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  Four out of 10 babies born to women with untreated syphilis can be stillborn,
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  or die as newborns, according to the CDC.
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  Anna Maria Barry-Jester wrote about this for "ProPublica:"
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  Anna Maria Barry-Jester: In infants that survive, they can have very severe consequences,
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  including deformed bones, excruciating pain,
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  problems with their organs, sometimes they struggle to hear or see.
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  Khan, Narrating: Physicians and public health experts told her
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  they’ve been able unable to treat the surge in cases
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  because of repeated shortages of a critical drug.
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  It's a form of penicillin.
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  It's the only syphilis treatment safe to take during pregnancy.
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  And Pfizer is the only U.S. drugmaker that produces it.
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  Barry-Jester: So, in one case,
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  a nurse in a county jail in South Dakota found that one of the people in the jail
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  had syphilis and was pregnant and needed treatment.
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  And so, she started calling around to all the pharmacies and no one had it.
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  She started calling to all the pharmacies she could find within an hour
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  and no one had it.
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  She reached out to the state and they could give her one dose,
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  but this woman needed three.
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  Khan, Narrating: It ended up taking the nurse three weeks to secure the doses for her patient.
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  Health experts told Barry-Jester that Pfizer, and the federal government,
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  are falling short in their response to the growing crisis.
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  Barry-Jester: Providers on the ground say they don't have enough information
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  about when the shots will be available
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  and the timelines and how much will be available when.
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  Khan, Narrating: The FDA says it cannot force Pfizer, or any drugmaker, to produce more.
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  So, for now,
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  the government has a task force working on the crisis.
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  And it approved the import of a similar drug made in France,
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  which many clinics say they cannot afford.
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  Some have suggested the U.S. government create a stockpile,
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  manufacture the drug itself, or declare a federal emergency.
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  Others want to see the government flex its power
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  as the number one buyer of this drug, and add more pressure to Pfizer.
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  The company says it’s doing what it can in the face of increased demand,
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  but public health experts have argued the shortage was easy to see coming.
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  [PLAYFUL MUSIC FADES IN]
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  Barry-Jester: And since this is entirely preventable, this is seen as just an absolute tragedy.
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  Khan, Narrating: Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, the Oscars, belonged to "Oppenheimer."
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  The film took home seven out of 13 awards it was nominated for,
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  including the very first Oscar win for Christopher Nolan,
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  who directed the film.
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  And actor Cillian Murphy won Best Actor for playing Oppenheimer.
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  [START INSTAGRAM ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  [APPLAUSE]
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  Cillian Murphy: You know… We made a film…
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  We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb.
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  And for better or for worse, we’re living in Oppenheimer's world.
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  So, I'd really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere.
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  [APPLAUSE AND CHEERING]
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  [END INSTAGRAM ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: Global politics, and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine,
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  hung heavy over the night.
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  Some stars wore pins to show support for a cease-fire in Gaza,
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  and some attendees were delayed by protesters outside the Dolby Theater.
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  Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny
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  was among those honored in the 'In Memoriam' tribute.
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  And the first Ukrainian filmmaker, Mstyslav Chernov
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  took home an Oscar for "20 Days in Mariupol."
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  It won best documentary feature.
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  [START YOUTUBE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  [APPLAUSE]
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  Mstyslav Chernov: And I’m honored. I’m honored.
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  But probably I will be the first director on this stage who will say:
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  I wish I never made this film.
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  I wish to be able to exchange this to Russia never attacking Ukraine,
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  never occupying our cities.
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  [APPLAUSE]
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  [END YOUTUBE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
• 9:57
  Khan, Narrating: And it was a big night for several other winners.
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  At 22 years old, Billie Eilish
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  became the youngest person ever to have won two Oscars.
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  And Godzilla,
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  an iconic movie monster that had never been nominated before,
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  took home its very first award for best visual effects.
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  [OUTRO MUSIC FADES IN]
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  "Godzilla Minus One"
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  beat out several films with much larger budgets.
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  As they accepted their award,
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  members of the excited crew hugged small Godzilla figurines
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  that they carried on stage.
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  You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.
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  And if you’re already listening in the News app right now,
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  we've got a "Narrated Article" coming up next
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  from the "San Francisco Chronicle."
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  Reporters investigated a lethal, national trend,
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  police chases are killing more and more Americans.
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  "The Chronicle" found lax rules for law enforcement
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  caused fatalities to climb,
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  and a lack of government accountability
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  has meant the true totals are going under-counted.
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  If you’re listening in the Podcasts app,
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  follow Apple News+ Narrated to find that story.
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  And I’ll be back with the news tomorrow.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]