Israel Vows To Intensify War, India Deepens Ties With Russia, 2024 Union Lookahead
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Israeli strikes in the south and in central gaza cause more devastation, as israel prime minister says attacks will intensify even more in the coming days.

How is the U. S. Responding after repeated calls on israel to do more to protect .

civilian all IT? That's little father.

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India has gotten a lot of vely way for not fully condemning the war, ukraine. And now that seems it's doubling down on ties with russia. A top indian officials, al, is in moscow for bilateral talks.

What does that mean for U. S. India relations?

And after some big wins in twenty twenty three, the united auto workers union is setting its sites on foreign auto makers with plants in the self.

Vox magazine have gone so far as to started shift where they read out H. I, union talking to us.

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin eton yahoo is digging in on his war against him as as israeli strikes in central and in south gaza intensified over the past few days.

In a speech to the knesset on monday, he vowed to fighting until israel achieves its stated goal of destroying hamas that despite some public pressure from the by administration to .

protect civilians in gaza. Here to discuss all of this, is npr gon tomb?

hi. So tom.

let's start with anti yahoo. He says he'll continue and even go deeper with this war. What's the us a well.

president biden spoke with net ahoo over the weekend and said only they had a long talk. And budden said he did not ask for a ceasefire. There was, does one israel to curtail e bombing go to a more precise ground Operation? That's just not happening, at least not yet.

And just a day ago, some seventy eighty civilians were killed in air strikes in gaza in the crowded neighborhood. Of course, later, as you know, the death toll is more than twenty thousand now, with a majority women and children. I was talking with a retired senior, he was officer, a long experience in the middle, just about all those. And he told me, israel will listen to the us. And then do things its .

own way to staggering numbers there. What else do we know about what's happening on the ground for palestinians who are trying to find safety?

Well, a lot of displaced, the humid rights watch says eighty five percent of gaza s now are displays, newly, have kind of near the border with egypt. A senior administration official told reporters a month ago, the U. S.

Did not want to see large numbers of palestinians who were in northern gaza, remember, four south by israeli forces displaced once again. But that is happening to many thousands of palestinians. Now the israelis are providing maps and information about safer places to go, but little its online.

And with communications blackout, it's kind of difficult to make that happen. Now the us. Wants israel to curtail bombing and go to more precise ground Operation. That's just not happening, at least not yet. And of course, the death toll, again, as we said, it's more than twenty thousand.

Yeah, all this is the U. N. Put a report out saying half a million people are starving in gaza and the risk of fireman is growing every day.

But what about the concern about a larger regional war? The White house said last night that IT conducted air strikes on militants in the iraq. Helpers understand the bigger context here.

Well, the White house says three U. S. Military persons were wounded, one critically, in an attack by kattab hesba, an iranian back group in iraq.

The U. S. Responded with air strikes. We're seeing these attacks from iranian back groups that also back homos in the war against israel.

Who thi rebels in yemen have been attacking commercial ships in the red sea about a dozen or more in the past two months, the us. Has responded by creating a naval coalition to protect commercial ships in the red sea. Um it's a weightless y attitude by the shipping companies. Some are going around africa is a way to reach a europe. But again, this coalition of naval ships has just be gone now.

right now, as we're talking about the possibility of a regional war, the fighting continues in gaza. What do we know about any diplomatic average to try to stop IT?

Egypt has proposed a plan to bring an end to the war by installing a new governing body and gaza to replace him. As reuters news agencies reporting, hamas has rejected the deal. The egyptian plan calls for the release of all hostages in the firing of more imprison palestinians, along with the exchange of bodies of israelis and palestinians killed during the war, and now cut broker the first ceasefire. As you might remember with the masters political office in doha, it's likely to be involved in any future deals, but we just don't know at this point.

Peers pentagon correspondent bo and.

India's foreign minister is in moscow o for a five day visit that began yesterday.

These two countries, russia and india, have a friendly relationship that goes back decades and is only grown closer since russia's invasion of ukraine. But in india, of course, is also close to the ununited states. So how does IT square the .

circle to talk about this? We've got P. S.

Deer headed from her base in mui idea. Hi lina. So india's top diplomat is in moscow. What he doing there?

So india's reign minister is known as s. Janka is likely going to talk about trade. India has been a huge customer of russian oil since the invasion of ukraine, and it's getting that oil cheaper because western sanctions have kept other buyers away.

But those sanctions have also complicated how india pays for that oil. Russia is also india's top ARM supplier, and IT has been for decades. The war in ukraine may have complicated that, so that could be on the agenda as well.

Now india has been getting closer to the us. And its allies in asia as IT tries to counter china's influence in the region. But it's not on the same page when IT comes to ukraine, right.

right? It's not on the same page at all. And it's important to note that india has not condemned russian invasion a of ukraine despite significant pressure to do so.

And there's two reasons why. The first, as you mentioned, india has an old friendly relationship with russia. You might ask, consider them. The tweets by the farm minister is trh alger. Today he wrote how it's started and how it's going.

And he posted a picture of visiting cod to the red square from nineteen sixty two when he went there with his father along side a picture of himself yesterday, the same place. So that's one reason. The other is that india prides itself on its independent foreign policy, what IT calls strategic autonomy. So roj swarry pali, Roger go pala is a political scientist at the observer of research, finished the new delhi and SHE says the indian foreign minister going to russia is a way of signaling that autonomy. Even as india moves closer to western allies on issues .

surrounding china, india has gotten closer to the other states, japan, australia, to so baLance china. India still does not want to seen us going completely into one time for other.

Okay, so I guess that the U. S. Also wants to have india onside when IT comes to china. So will IT even criticize this visit?

That's what analysts say. But there's also some understanding that india's position is also difficult because IT has its own tensions with beijing, and that's part of the reason why it's growing closer to the U. S.

And its allies. But I might need russian support as well if those tensions escalated. Michael google man is the south asia director of the Wilson santa.

India has not condemned the russian invasion, but that doesn't mean that supports the war. IT doesn't support the world at all. The war makes russia more depends on on china. And india doesn't want that because china is india's strategic competitor.

So india needs the U. S. IT also needs russia. Both took counter what IT says as this threat from china. And piers, dear.

headed in mumba. Thank you so much for your time.

You're welcome. Light up.

From auto workers to actors, nurses to newspaper .

reporters, more than half a million workers went on strike this year, and many emerged with big wins. So is this a union comeback? And p is Andrew SHE is here to unpack all this.

Hi, Andrea. hi. So is IT a come back?

Well, it's hard to say exactly. You know, since the hundred and eighties, there have really only been a few years when we saw unions certain themselves like they did this year. Most recently, IT was back in twenty, twenty and twenty nineteen.

But that IT was government workers, teachers, you know, who walked off the job in a bunch of states. I talk with john y. Kales about this. He runs cornels labor action tracker. And he said, what's notable about this year is that it's really been workers in the private sector at companies who have driven the surge.

which is important because that's where unions have been weaker. And IT remains to be seen whether this really translates into more sustainable gains or an increasing unionization rate over time because laya.

right now, only six percent of private sector workers in the U. S. Belonged to unions.

Well, that's a small share. Six percent do union s. Seem to have the wind that their back. Could this be a turning point?

I think it's really too soon to tell. I am closely watching what is happening with the U. A. W, you know, the union president, sean fee, he has a sight set on tesla, and also all of these foreign auto makers like non and vox wagging that have non union plants in the south that the U A, W. Has tried to organize in the past and failed.

But you know, the union is coming off major wins at the bargaining table and at the vox wagon e plan in chat nugatory I shon fanes. Already they have had more than a thousand workers sign union cards. He says workers are being harassed for wearing union stickers and passing out .

union fliers. And he also added so far as to started shift by having front line supervisors hold quick captive audience meetings where they read out entire union talking pots.

Now this is exactly what happened with the newly formed inside amazon and starbucks. Those companies have fought quite successfully to put up your blocks.

to put a road block. So what does that mean for these flogged unions at amazon and starbucks?

Will they are pretty stalled at the moment. The amazon labour union was finally certified in january this year, almost a year ago. But amazon refuses to recognize that illegal methods ongoing.

And at starbucks, around three hundred eighty stores have now unionized, but not a single one has gotten a first contract because each side is accused the other of not bargaining in good faith. And getting a contracts is really the whole point of having a on to be able to collectively bargain for wages and benefits. I talk with ian mega, a briston organ whose store voted to union .

ze almost two years ago. A quick fight that wasn't going to be an easy fight. I would have preferred that starbuck play ball.

but meghan says, in a way, the union has already want something. Starbucks has actually granted non union stores some benefits that the union had pushed for, like credit card tipping and faster sick time, a cruel. These are things that workers now have in the vast majority of starbuck store is ninety six percent of them .

has been a real win for the working class, for the bursts of starbucks.

S on the whole, the other week, starbucks send an email to the union saying IT hopes the two .

sides resume contract talks in january and get A A note here that amazon is among M P R financial supporters and pays to distribute some M P R content. And that's a first for tuesday, december twenty six, that I really love .

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