Boeing struggles in the final frontier
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia’s military to refrain from striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure for 30 days, and the Israel-Hamas ceasefire was broken after Israeli strikes killed more than 400 people on Tuesday. Boeing’s rescue mission highlights the company’s struggles in space. Plus, Germany’s parliament approves Friedrich Merz’s plans to boost defence spending.
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Putin agrees 30-day halt to strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in call with Trump
Israel strikes kill more than 400 as Gaza ceasefire breaks down
Stranded astronauts’ rescue mission lays bare Boeing’s struggles in space
Germany’s parliament approves Friedrich Merz’s 1tn spending plan
The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian, Ethan Plotkin, Lulu Smyth, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Joseph Salcedo. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | We're Equinor, an energy company searching for better. |
| 0:03.0 | Currently, we supply 27% of the UK's gas, 15% of its oil, |
| 0:07.7 | and we're playing our part in the UK's energy transition. |
| 0:11.0 | Our wind farms power 750,000 homes, |
| 0:14.0 | and we expect that to grow to over 7 million. |
| 0:16.5 | Last year, we invested 20% of our global growth spend in renewables |
| 0:20.1 | and lower carbon solutions. |
| 0:22.0 | We plan to increase that to 50% by 2030. |
| 0:25.4 | We're an energy company searching for better. |
| 0:28.4 | equinore.com.uk. |
| 0:33.7 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:35.6 | Today is Wednesday, March 19th. |
| 0:39.3 | And this is your FT News briefing. Russia will stop hitting certain targets in Ukraine. Meanwhile, a ceasefire in Gaza has fallen apart. |
| 0:46.3 | And Boeing's problems are out of this world, literally. |
| 0:51.3 | What's really interesting about what's emerged in the space business is that all of this echoes |
| 0:57.4 | a lot of the problems that Boeing actually suffered in its commercial aerospace business. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to stop striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure for 30 days. |
| 1:22.4 | The decision came after speaking with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday. |
| 1:26.2 | Now, Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky basically floated this idea back in October. |
| 1:31.8 | He said that it could pave the way to broader peace talks. |
| 1:35.0 | But yesterday, Putin stopped short of agreeing to an unconditional ceasefire. |
| 1:39.5 | He said there are, quote, serious risks about Ukraine's compliance. |
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