Blinken Visits Kyiv, Biden Heads to Asia, Proud Boys Leader Sentenced
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Ukrainians hope to use the last weeks of summer to accelerate an offensive.

how santis fied is the united states with the progress secretary blink reach keys soon after russian cruise.

That's Steven skip. And this is up first from N. P. R. news. President biden is also traveling, is visiting india and vietnam while talking of improvements at the world bank.

The message that president, but was going to india wish, which is we're accepting our responsibility, ie. m. We're going to drive form the U.

S. Wants developing nations to borrow from western institutions. Can they make a Better case than china?

How did the judge explain the two year prison sentence for the leader of the proud boys? Stay with us. We ve got the news to start your day.

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U. S. Secretary of state antony blinkin is in key of this morning. He laid a read at a cemetery honoring ukrainian soldiers lost in ukraine's war.

and it's a wb that continues shortly before he arrived, russian and cruises scs targeted the city, though ukraine says IT shot them down. Looks south on the map from key, and you see the area where ukrainian troops are struggling forward in A U. S. back.

Counteroffensive and pears. Brian, man is in. Kev, there. Brian.

hi Steve.

Why is blinking there? now?

That was big goal, is to signal washington support for ukraine despite questions about th Epace o f t his c ounter o ffensive i n t he h uge c ost s ome o f t hat s upports g oing t o b e t angible. A senior state department official says blinkin will deliver roughly another billion dollars in new us funding that includes military, financial and humAnitary arian aid. And the official said the us. Also wants to show they are aligned with ukraine as this war now heads into the fall and winter.

Are they entirely aligned though, given some of the tensions around th Epace o f t his c ounter o ffensive?

Yeah know the washroom post reported on the us intelligence analysis that had predicted ukraine likely won't reach its objectives this summer that includes punching through to meet oppoa city on the sea of assab, part of an effort to divide russia's army and cut off their supply lines. Some critics, Steve, said that ukraine spread their forces too thin, attacking in too many areas along the front line.

Ukrainian officials here have pushed back on that. They say they are gaining ground in the face of really strong russian defenses. So the state department official told reporters another goal of this visit will be for blinking to get a really accurate assessment of what's happening on the ground. And he'll meet with presidents Ellen ski today, who, in fact, is just back in key after heading to the front lines and meeting with soldiers in the south and east.

What did you give us our own assessment here? What are you hearing from soldiers and military analysts in ukraine?

Will they do talk about progress around robot south ukraine peers who have really pushed through the toughest line of russian minefields, trenches and artillery batteries? They're right now trying to breach the next line of offences around the town called for above ukrainian. An officer or I spoke to was candid, Steve, about how heroic ing this is.

It's a tough fight. Ukrainians hope that if they can reach these lines, that will create a bigger opening for them to move more quickly using those western tanks and braddy fighting vehicles. We have been hearing about one thing, though, the clock is ticking here. Once the autumn rain set in the next few weeks, this battle field is gna turn to modern, and that will make movement even harder.

Brian, can you tell us about the development on the other end of uraso? We are following these reports that north korean leader, we'll get on a train, leave his country for sum at a meeting where i'll have a chance to talk face to face with bloomy or putin. What's going on?

The state department official who brief reporters described putin's effort has scrounging for equipment and said, this is another sign of russians desperation, and we have seen signs that russian military continues to struggle. You've lost a lot of soldiers, and a lot of their best weapons have been used up. British intelligence reports save this week found russia's army is now trying to recruit men from neighboring countries to fight.

Ukraine also has a problem with manpower, but kev obviously has much broader international support. Ukrainian media have reported that president lensky is expected to travel to new york later this month for the U. N. General assembly meeting, where he's expected to make the case for that support for ukraine to continue.

Ray, thanks so much.

Thank you, Steve.

That's ten years, brian, man.

As his secretary of state, as an ukraine president, biden heads to asia this week. I'll be travelling thursday, going to india. And then on the.

now both of these countries are china's neighbors. They also have two rising economies at a moment when china's economy is struggling, and biden will be there in part to focus on countering chinese influence. He wants developing nations to more easily find investment and credit without turning to china.

MPA why dose corresponded? Asma holed is with this. Good morning. Good morning, Steve.

So you'll be traveling .

along with the president. The first stop is new delhi, which is not just a biden visit. The g twenty, the world's twenty largest economies. What's on the agenda?

Well, we are also a question here is who is gonna shown up for this agenda? Two big members of this group are not going to be there, chinese president decision paying, and russian president vladimir putin. The host year will be in nra mothy, the indian prime minister.

And i'm sure you recall he had a very warm welcome here when he visited washington recently over the summer, a big state dinner. The by administration sees movies india really as a counterweight in the region. And I will say that even though the g. Twenty has been fractured in recent years with russia's war, ukraine and some of the increasing competition between the united states in china, biden on this trip is really attempting to show that the united states remains committed to the due to, and this administration believes there is still value in international economic CoOperation.

Oh, well, let's talk that through because when you're talking about a meeting of wealthy nations, one question is, how can they help developing nations? Even some of the nations on this list would counters developing nations. What is the president proposing to help them?

Well, essentially, the main proposal we hear that he's taking is an effort to build a bigger and Better world bank. You know, in recent decades, western countries, i've been backing the bank, if sort of I think lots of bof focuses what I hear on this institution. While china, in the meantime, has made a big push with its own multicolor al lending programs and its own bilateral program, i'm sure you know the one belt, one road initiative.

China itself has also become the third largest player in the world bank itself. And so what we hear is that biden is going to be asking. Bitten has already, in fact, asked congress for two billion dollars to put into the world bank.

The White house's assessment is that this would leverage tens of billions of dollars more from other countries in the g. Twenty, and that this could really help start beeping up the institution. And here's regio kite. He was the former envoy for a climate change of the world bank.

All of that requires the U. S. Is the largest shareholder to take a lead. And I think that's the message that president buddings going to india with, which is we're accept in our responsibility and we're going to drive reform.

This is a very fine line. The U. S. Is walking here. They are insisting that they are not targeting china with this proposal, but also saying that this proposal is an alternative to chinese lending.

I'm really interested in the next stop on this trip. The president goes to vietnam. Asma, when president first went in to the united states senate in the one thousand nine hundred and seventy vietnam a was an enemy of the united states IT later became something uh, of a friend and a trading partners. So what is the president hope to achieve there?

I think this is a really key stuff. The present is intending to deepen economic CoOperation. There is an expectation that vietnam will upgrade its relationship status with the us, which if you mention, is key, because the us.

Only Normalized relations with vietnam in nineteen and ninety five. At this point, the us has become the largest export market for vietnam companies. Things in large part to the tariffs were put on chinese exports under the former president that have remained in effect. And so I think what we will see on this trip is by and really trying to engage both india and vietnam as friends in the region who could be a counterbaLance to china.

And here as my hello talks, so much safe travels.

Alright, the leader of the proud boys has been sentenced to the longest prison term for any january sixth defendant.

a federal judge in washington tuesday sentenced in rict ario to twenty two years in. He was convicted of sadness ous conspiracy y in may.

in part so debt use of covers domestic extremely m and is on the line.

Good morning morning, Steve.

What was the judge is reasoning for exactly that sentence twenty two years.

will judge timer Kelly said the atta aria was the ultimate leader of the group's conspiracy. That quote ended up with about two hundred men amped up for a battle and circling the capital.

Kelly noted toro's criminal history, saying that this sentence had a bittern effect, and he said that he believed tario qualified for terrorism enhancements to his sentence, but ultimately didn't sentence within that range because he said he didn't ve tario hadn't intend to kill people but tara's trial was, uh, interesting, Steve, because he wasn't actually in washington, dc. On january six, he was monitoring developments from a hotel room in bolt. mr.

Prosecutors used his tests during the trial to show his role in orchestrating a breach of the capital, and before the judge announced the sentence, taro expressed regret for his role. He said he wasn't a political sallet. He acknowledge that Donald trump st. The election. But judge Kelly said, quote, IT cannot happen again.

Where does this leave the proud boys?

Well, the trial effectively is put away leadership of the group. Four of tario leu tenants were sentenced last week to terms between ten and eighteen years and present uh, four of them, including tario, were convicted of ciders, ous conspiracy and IT really Marks remarkable and tutorial s tenure as a chairman. National chairman of the proud boys know that group really started as a violent street gang fighting leftists.

But IT was vaulted into the national consciousness in twenty twenty when former president Donald mp. t. Declined to disavow the group's violence in a presidential debate with joe biden.

Stand back and stand by.

but i'll tell you what. And after that, Steve, the proud boys became regulars at pro trump and stop the steel ralles. But the twister is that despite the prison sentences for tario and other leaders, the organization actually is not weaker today. And in fact, they're larger in terms of chapters and membership.

And they were on generate six.

How have they grow? Um well, so unlike some other pair military groups that were involved that day, like the oath keepers, the proud boys adapted, they pip IT away from a centralized national structure and now they're part of a broader coalition, uh, driving the top on key issues like L G B T Q rights, limiting inclusive curriculum at schools, walking back abortion rights, really promoting disinformation and harassment campaigns at a local level.

One person I spoke with this, casey Miller, at the southern poverty law center, and he said, this is part of a much broader authoritarian, an movement in the U. S. At the GPT really needs to renounce and IT. It'll take a whole of society .

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