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As Hurricane Ian slams Florida, we get an update from Tampa, look at links between the climate crisis and hurricanes and rising sea levels, and hear from a prisoner rights advocate about incarcerated people in the storm’s path; As Russia moves to formally annex four Ukrainian areas after referendums widely denounced as sham votes, we speak to a prominent Ukrainian journalist investigating potential war crimes committed by Russia in areas that were recently recaptured during Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

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Update from Tampa as Hurricane Ian bears down on Florida as a possible Category 5 storm; Democratic Senator Joe Manchin stops a vote on his own energy permitting proposal that would have fast-tracked the Mountain Valley Pipeline; NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus; Slate reporter Dahlia Lithwick on her new book, “Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America.”

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Dozens of people in Iran are killed in a series of escalating protests demanding justice for Mahsa Amini; Jared Kushner’s property management company reaches a $3.25 million settlement in a Baltimore housing scandal that was first investigated by ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis; Philadelphia housing activists are fighting to keep a major housing complex affordable; Movement leader William Barber gives an update on the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi.

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As Italy’s first far-right leader since Benito Mussolini declares victory, we look at “the return of fascism in Italy” and its spread in Europe with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”; Ahead of the next House committee hearing on the January 6 Capitol insurrection, we look at one of the key groups that helped plan and carry out the attack, with reporter Andy Campbell, author of the new book, “We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered In a New Era of American Extremism.”

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Update from Moscow as anger grows over Putin’s plans to draft an extra 300,000 troops into the fight in Ukraine; Youth climate activist Mikaela Loach in New York City on Climate Week and the global climate strike; Lessons from the 1990 police killing of Black teenager Phillip Pannell in Teaneck, New Jersey, for the Black Lives Matter movement today.

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Part 2 of our interview about the 1990 police killing of Phillip Pannell, and whether the case could be reopened in the wake of the growing movement for police accountability.