Boris Johnson to host Afghanistan crisis talks
FT News Briefing
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🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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UK prime minister Boris Johnson will on Tuesday host crisis talks on Afghanistan with world leaders as Britain presses the US to extend the evacuation timetable amid chaos and deaths at Kabul airport, US cinema owners meeting in Las Vegas this week hope a slate of blockbusters will draw the curtain on Covid slump, and the spread of non-disclosure agreements, or NDA’s, is bad for companies as well as workers.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:03.6 | Today is Monday, August 23rd, |
| 0:06.1 | and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:09.6 | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson |
| 0:11.7 | is preparing to meet with world leaders |
| 0:13.4 | to discuss the crisis in Afghanistan. |
| 0:15.8 | And in the US, cinema owners are gathering this week |
| 0:18.9 | to grapple with the existential crisis |
| 0:21.0 | in their own industry. |
| 0:22.8 | Plus, I'll be chatting with our employment columnist, |
| 0:25.5 | Sarah O'Connor, about the spread |
| 0:27.6 | of non-disclosure agreements. |
| 0:29.7 | She says they're not good for workers, |
| 0:31.6 | but they're also not good for companies. |
| 0:33.8 | If you, as a good employer, want to distinguish yourself |
| 0:36.8 | from other employers who perhaps don't treat their workers so well, |
| 0:40.3 | it's harder to do that, actually, |
| 0:41.9 | if there isn't enough of a free-flow of information |
| 0:44.5 | about what working for various companies is really like. |
| 0:47.8 | I'm Taylor Nicole Rogers, |
| 0:49.3 | in for Mark Filipino, |
| 0:50.7 | and here's the news you need to start your day. |
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