Blazed and confused: Turkey’s raging fires
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The Economist
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🗓️ 11 August 2021
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Across the Mediterranean and beyond, flames are consuming the landscape. Our correspondent says Turkey’s government helped make the country a tinderbox and was caught flat-footed by the blaze. State secrets, business intelligence, even conservation data: it’s all online, and freely available. We examine the pros and cons in an era of open-source intelligence. And the “murder hornet” threatening America’s north-west.
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| 0:00.0 | Saudi Arabia's economy is transforming. What's behind it? The Public Investment Fund, or PIF. |
| 0:07.1 | It's one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, creating 13 new sectors, |
| 0:12.2 | 66 companies, and more than 500,000 direct and indirect jobs so far. PIF is also the first |
| 0:19.5 | sovereign wealth fund to issue a green bond supporting Saudi Arabia's 2016 Net Zero emissions target. |
| 0:26.6 | Find out more at pif.gov.sa. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:41.1 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:49.9 | Coming through satellite images to gauge a state's defense capabilities is the stuff of old |
| 0:55.2 | school spycraft. The new school is this. Those images are now free online and communities of |
| 1:01.9 | sleuths are finding all manner of information that was once top secret. And the name |
| 1:08.3 | murder hornet is certainly evocative. The threat that these invasive creatures present in America |
| 1:14.0 | isn't to humans but to the humble honeybee. That is still worrisome and the way they take down |
| 1:19.8 | their prey is nothing short of gruesome. First up though. |
| 1:37.2 | Across the Mediterranean wildfires are consuming the landscape. |
| 1:41.8 | Viewed from the air the northern part of the Greek island of Evia when your Athens |
| 1:46.3 | is a uniform ruined ground. The smoke has forced Athenians indoors. Thousands of people on the |
| 1:53.1 | island have fled. Typhled memories are burned right now. I used to run in these forests. I used to |
| 1:58.8 | recycle. We used to go for and collect fruits. Now everything is gone. Other European states are |
| 2:05.6 | sending in support on the ground and in the air where Greece's water bombing campaign has been |
| 2:11.1 | lacking. Prime Minister Karyako Mitsotakis apologized for his government's failure to contain |
| 2:16.8 | the blazes. We have a debt to shield the country against the reality of climate change he said. |
| 2:24.6 | I'm not looking for excuses. The problem is bigger than Greece. A lot bigger. From Italy to Algeria, |
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