The cultural importance of gold in India as a symbol of wealth, prosperity and safety is well known ? but how much do Indians actually own? Reporter Perisha Kudhail looks at a widely circulated claim about Indian women owning 11% of the world?s gold, with the help of Delhi based journalist Mridu Bhandari and Joshua Saul, CEO of the Pure Gold Company.
Presenter: Ben Carter
Reporter and Producer: Perisha Kudhail
Series Producer: Jon Bithrey
Editor: Richard Vadon
Sound Engineer: James Beard
(Image: A saleswoman shows gold bangles to a customer at a jewellery showroom in Kolkata. Credit: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri/File Photo)
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over efforts to minimize civilian deaths in Israel-Hamas war. The President and First Lady visit grieving loved ones and first responders in Lewiston, Maine following a deadly mass shooting. And U.S. job growth slowed in October.
On October 31st Israeli military forces bombed the Jabalia refugee camp just north of Gaza City.
They said the area was a Hamas stronghold that included underground tunnels and a command center, and that they were targeting a Hamas commander there.
The health ministry in Gaza says the strike caused a large number of civilian casualties. So what are the rules of war that might apply to such situations?
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Tom Dannenbaum, an associate professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy about the rules of war in an urban setting.
On October 31st Israeli military forces bombed the Jabalia refugee camp just north of Gaza City.
They said the area was a Hamas stronghold that included underground tunnels and a command center, and that they were targeting a Hamas commander there.
The health ministry in Gaza says the strike caused a large number of civilian casualties. So what are the rules of war that might apply to such situations?
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Tom Dannenbaum, an associate professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy about the rules of war in an urban setting.
On October 31st Israeli military forces bombed the Jabalia refugee camp just north of Gaza City.
They said the area was a Hamas stronghold that included underground tunnels and a command center, and that they were targeting a Hamas commander there.
The health ministry in Gaza says the strike caused a large number of civilian casualties. So what are the rules of war that might apply to such situations?
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Tom Dannenbaum, an associate professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy about the rules of war in an urban setting.
Chicago gets the season's first snowfall, fierce debate continues in City Council over where to house the more than 20,000 migrants, and Mayor Brandon Johnson heads to Washington D.C. with other mayors, looking for federal help.
Reset goes behind those headlines and more with Paris Schutz, reporter and anchor with WTTW; Daniel Knowles, Midwest correspondent with The Economist; and Tina Sfondeles, chief political reporter of the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Israeli military isn't saying much about it's ground offensive in Gaza but satellite images and social media offer some clues about its strategy. And the dramatic scene at the border between Gaza and Egypt where only a small number of people are being allowed to escape the war.
When Lina Khan was in law school back in 2017, she wrote a law review article called 'Amazon's Antitrust Paradox,' that went kinda viral in policy circles. In it, she argued that antitrust enforcement in the U.S. was behind the times. For decades, regulators had focused narrowly on consumer welfare, and they'd bring companies to court only when they thought consumers were being harmed by things like rising prices. But in the age of digital platforms like Amazon and Facebook, Khan argued in the article, the time had come for a more proactive approach to antitrust.
Just four years later, President Biden appointed Lina Khan to be the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, one of the main government agencies responsible for enforcing antitrust in America, putting her in the rare position of putting some of her ideas into practice.
Now, two years into the job, Khan has taken some big swings at big tech companies like Meta and Microsoft. But the FTC has also faced a couple of big losses in the courts. On today's show, a conversation with FTC Chair Lina Khan on what it's like to try to turn audacious theory into bureaucratic practice, the FTC's new lawsuit against Amazon, and what it all means for business as usual.
Trump is glorifying insurrectionist prisoners, Bannon-world is using Confederate code words, and Republicans and a lot of the media are just pretending this radicalizing talk isn't happening. Plus, Mike Johnson's thoughts on dinosaurs and gay people. Tim Miller joins Charlie Sykes for the weekend pod.
