Putin Rebukes Wagner, Biden on Putin, Nevada Lithium Mine
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don't do that. Oh okay. The nights in a western time zone, russian president fatmir putin n broke his silence after a mutiny LED by his one time, ala putin .

declared he's in control of russia as the leader of that muti is exiled. But is this over?

I'm Steven. Keep with lila father. And this is at first from npr news.

President biden sal spoke about russia after a weekend of silence. The us and nato allies didn't want to get involved or be blamed. A nato summit on russia's Doris step comes in a couple weeks.

Western tribes and conservation groups are in court today to try to stop a lithium miner. Sacred sites mining company say a lot of lithium is needed to meet demand for tric vehicles and renewable energy, so stay with us will give you the news. You need to start your day.

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Two presidents are talking of a uti in russia.

Presidents biden commented. After staying carefully silent for days, we'll hear him in a moment. Russia's vladimir putin also fell silent for a couple of days, but then he gave a speech about the private military contractors who briefly marched toward moscow. You have getting promotion. The head of the ordinary group called office advance and accepted .

exile and beats Charles mains joins us now from moscow to discuss high Charles either. So what did putin say to the russian people?

You know, state media initially reported putin spokesman had built the speech is determining the fate of russia. The spokesman now says he never use those words either way. This addressed seemed less about the future, the country, and more about putin, real, certain in control troll. Placing himself back at the center events, the russian leader was visibly still angry about the uprising, denouncing the leaders of the interaction as criminals, but making clear that he, putin, had been firmly charged the whole time. Let's .

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he gave direct orter that steps should be taken to minimize bloodshed. But that had, that had a required time, mainly ly, for the organ fighters to realize the mistake they've made and the futility of the uprising. Putin also said this deal for wagner, this amnesty itis broken by the leader of belarus, was in fact, putin's idea of ordinary fighters, putin said, now had a choice that get sign up with the military, go home their families, or choose examine bellrope, where vogler 的 leader， you have gained preggers sion as putin former ally who LED the rebellion and who the president did not mention by name in a speech, has also been offered safe passage.

So what do we know about pergola point? Has he taken the deal? Do we know where he is?

Yeah, a bear. Russian media today reported that a plane believed to be used by progression landed in minsk, the capital of bellus, this morning, and also russia's federal security services, the fsb, announced this morning they dropped this interaction charge against progression sion and the rest of the organic fighters. The question now seems to be whether progression will keep his end of whatever bargain he made with putin. Yesterday, progression issued to me a copy on social media, which he basically said this was all a bigness, understanding that wagner was protecting a decision that would put them under the authority of the defense ministry leadership leadership they consider a component. But they had never had any desire to over through the government toward chAllenge the russian leader.

IT feels like as as quick as IT started, IT ended. So is all this really over at this point? You know, IT does seem .

too tidy and end to what's been a really messy sub. Lot of infighting between progression and the military leadership amid the war in ukraine. All the political intrigue here is the fact that as many fifteen russian service men were killed in fighting between voda and the army as precaution ous mercy y LED this mad max style run on moscow saturday.

H also the the initial reason for all this, this vault nal allegations of incompetence by the top, rather still out there, left defective yet in his commenced yesterday progression said the ease of vagina is moved into russia. Seizing a major city in the south and then moving under the capital was all the proof you needed. And yet president putin met with his top security officials, including the defense minister, sergey shi gu, who's been on the receiving end of precaution ons ire this whole time and basically told them job well done. And actually, the criminal seems to be pushing the idea that this whole episode is, in a way, something to celebrate, that russia's enemies wanted the country to descend into civil war, and instead russians had come together and stopped IT. They passed the test when IT matter most and years.

Charles means in moscow. Charles, thank you.

Thank you.

President britton said nothing in public about russians crisis until the weekend of action was over.

We had to make sure we gave put no excuse, if we can put no excuse to blame this on the west or to blame this on nato.

so that by in explaining the silence and P. S. White house correspondent franco or donis was listening. And with us now anko 来。

did you learn? Well, I mean, yesterday biden gave a little more insight to all that he was doing at camp David. During all, this action was happening.

He was said he was getting hour by hour updates from his national security team and that he directed them to prepare for a ranged of scenario. He didn't go into details, though. He also said that it's too early to draw any conclusions about the lasting impacts, but that his team continues to assess the fallout. And as you noted at the top, the key message he wanted to deliver and he wanted to deliver IT to cameras, was that the united states had nothing to do with russia's troubles, and that this was an internal struggle with the russian system.

So explain that. Why was that so key to make sure the us. Wasn't perceived to have been involved?

Well, a little of IT might have to do with knocking down this russian state media account, allowing to an investigation of western involvement. But what this really seems to be about is wanting to kind of stay out of a very fraught situation. I spoke to Andrea kenton Taylor, who advised the bin transition team on russian policy. You know, he says buying was making IT clear to putin that the administration was not going to try to exploit this incident for its game.

There is a long held belief, not just for putin, but really of the security services in russia, that the united states, we will seek to use instability to try to break up the russian state and to keep russia down.

And was so much tension, you know, the biggest fear is a misunderstanding, the kind of misunderstanding that could spiral out of control. And there is another audience here, and that's the rest of the world. Kendo Taylor says the White is trying to counter that narrative that the U. S. Likes to metal in the domestic affairs of other countries, and that's something that russia and china like to promote.

But did the administration say anything about what this has done to putin's group on power?

Well, junk carb. A spokesman for the national security council said yesterday that IT does show russia's military is not as wanted as the kremen likes to make IT out to be, but he also cautioned that I know those who are trying to predict putin's demise. He noted that putin still commands are very large, capable military, and tens of thousands of russian troops are still fighting in ukraine and fighting very vigorously.

Yeah, I mean, and also just to remind people, this private mercenary group that march towards moscow is key in the fighting in ukraine for russia. Did the White house say anything about what this means for ukraine and also for russia's stability?

Well, the way he says, it's too soon to really say how this will all play out, but IT will be clear early. An important item discussed at next month nato summit and IT also raises some concerns about instability in russia. A lot of concerns, which is always a big deal when dealing with a nuclear power IT all also point out that the White house says IT remains committed to ukraine and that there will be another financial package for ukraine announced later .

this week that was npr White house correspondent franco or Daniel.

Thank you so much. thanks.

Lawyers for tribes and the american west are in court today.

They want to stop construction of the nation's largest lithium mine. It's designed to dig up a strategic metal on federal land that the tribes consider sacred ground.

And p cursedly. Lar is covering the story and he joins us now. High cork.

good morning.

Good morning. So this goes back to the trumpet administration, which in its final days approved the mine. But the by adding ministration wants the mine too.

right? They do. And this was approved in early twenty twenty one, as you say, right before president trump left office.

Lithium is considered a strategic mineral by the us. It's also needed for electric vehicle batteries, among other things. And a lot of IT we have to import right now.

But as you say, the mind is on ancestral land, federal public land, but then considered sacred by west coast piete. It's believed to be near and a Jason to, and on the side of a ancient massacre of west cos piot by the U. S.

Cover back to eighteen hundred and sixty five. One of the tribes that has been bringing the court chAllenges is the reno Sparks indian colony and their chairman, our land. Melendez told me that once again, in his words, native people are being asked to get out of the way for american progress.

It's like we're going backwards in the, uh, respect that native americans are getting as far as those sacred sites.

And lamin, as a small tribe, has played a big role in the court battle to stop the mine. This latest appeal occurs here in california this morning.

So those who are building the mine, who are backing the mind mean what are they saying?

right? So to be clear here, a federal judge earlier this year approve the mind to go forward. So there has been some initial construction by a company called lithium americas, and specifically lithium nevada. They've declined an interview request by npr, citing today's court hearing, but they've maintained that they have followed all of the environmental laws required.

And they're partnering with one local tribe that is actually in favor of this mine in the form thermit and SHE shown any tribe, and they are planning to higher workers from the local tribe. I mean, the argument here basically lay, is that no energy development comes without some impacts. And if you're going to make this whole scale transition and try to transform our energy grid, you know, olive iams need for evy batteries, you're gonna need mining of some sort. And I talked to corby Anderson about this. He's a medal legist at the color to school of mines.

If we don't permit and get this mind going, what happens to the next one? Do we wait ad in panie. M, meanwhile, there's these stakes in the ground to create electric vehicles and require their use. Yeah, we're going to have to go somewhere to get the lithium.

And so Anderson told me that the country can still transform its energy grid probably without this mine, which, by the way, would be the largest lithium mine in america. But we had to continue to go abroad to countries like china and other nations that have seen as hostile toward the us. And evolve in through the pandemic and seen the supply chain disruptions. And so the backers are saying, we need this mind and people.

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