Brazil prepares to host the G20 summit
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
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| 0:00.0 | As world leaders meet again, have we reached Peak Summit? |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, this is the Marketplace Morning Report, and we're live from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Leanna Byrne. |
| 0:10.4 | World leaders are gathering in Brazil for another summit. |
| 0:13.3 | It's the G20, or Group of 20, a club of countries that meets to discuss global economic and political issues. |
| 0:19.8 | The BBC's Mariko OiI can explain more. Hi |
| 0:22.4 | there. Hello. Marika, what's at stake at this G20 summit? Well, the G20 is of course the group of |
| 0:30.1 | 20 very powerful economies, including the two biggest economies of the world, the United States and China. |
| 0:36.5 | And it actually makes up about 85% of global GDP |
| 0:40.5 | more than three quarters of global trade. So as you can imagine, it makes it a very crucial |
| 0:46.5 | forum in shaping the world economy. Now, this time it's taking place in Brazil and the host |
| 0:53.6 | it has set its goal in fighting poverty |
| 0:56.7 | and inequality, also reforming global governance and global tax, whether or not they can |
| 1:02.3 | all agree on all these topics remains to be seen. But of course, Mr. Trump, Donald Trump, |
| 1:08.7 | who is president-elect of the United States, who's not there, |
| 1:13.0 | but his victory is expected to complicate discussions because of his criticism of those |
| 1:18.4 | international institutions. |
| 1:19.8 | Trump's election has changed the mood, hasn't it? |
| 1:22.3 | What about President Miele from Argentina? |
| 1:25.2 | How has his alignment with Donald Trump? |
| 1:29.3 | How is that influenced disagreements about things like tax and climate change? Yeah, you're spot on there because he has already |
| 1:34.7 | spoken out against some of the goals that Brazil has suggested, things like especially global |
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