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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. North Korean troops are suffering major losses in Russia's war against Ukraine. NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports that's according to the Biden administration, which has been watching their involvement closely.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says that 1,000 North Korean troops have been killed or wounded in the past week alone. He says Russia treats them as expendable. He's also raising doubts about Russian President Vladimir Putin's latest comments about possible peace talks with Ukraine.
I mean, just over Christmas days, launching waves of missiles and drones against Ukrainian infrastructure. This is not a man who anyone should take seriously when it comes to saying he's ready for a negotiated settlement. He has proven quite the contrary in almost every single possible way.
Kirby says the Biden administration is trying to put Ukraine in a stronger position ahead of any potential peace talks. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Washington.
The Israeli military has forced the evacuation of one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza, calling it a Hamas terror center. Staff at the hospital say airstrikes overnight that targeted the area killed at least 50 people. Dr. Mimi Syed is an American emergency physician in Gaza.
We do expect a large influx of patients coming into central Gaza where I am here. This hospital is nowhere near equipped to take care of that number of patients or acuity. We are heavily burdened. There are no resources here at the hospital for the patients that are already coming here. I can't imagine what's going to be happening in the next few days.
Speaking there to the BBC. New York State Attorney General Letitia James released what she called shocking and disturbing body camera videos earlier today that show the beating of a handcuffed man in state prison who later died. For Member Station WNYC, Charles Lane reports.
The videos capture the moment Robert Brooks was carried to a medical exam room at the Marcy Correctional Facility in northern New York. Multiple corrections employees can be seen punching and kicking Brooks in the head, groin, and other body parts. He appeared delirious during the beating.
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