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🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Peru is inaugurating a huge commercial port built by China, which is expected to become a game changer in the region. Also, a new study finds that private aviation is booming, with flights often clustered around big international events — including climate summits. And, the Biden administration is set to begin sending US military contractors to Ukraine. Plus, a new AI bot whose job is to scam the scammers.
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0:00.0 | China invests big on the Pacific coast of Peru with the opening of a giant container port. |
0:11.4 | This is the largest expansion project, really, to date, that I know of in the Latin American region. |
0:17.7 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
0:18.9 | And I'm Marco Wurman. What the new megaport says about China's |
0:22.1 | role in Latin America. Also today, European regulators just hit meta with a nearly billion dollar fine. |
0:29.5 | Will it matter? Four very large companies. This often just gets baked into the cost of business. |
0:35.9 | Plus, the minaret of Mosul Iraq rises from the ashes, |
0:39.5 | and in Spain, local leaders getting some heat after deadly flash flooding. |
0:45.8 | You'll go down in history, says his politician, |
0:48.8 | as the man who brought us climate change denial. |
0:51.5 | That's all ahead today on the world. |
0:58.9 | I'm Marco Wur. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thanks for spending part of your day with us today. President Joe Biden is on a six-day |
1:04.6 | trip to South America right now. He's currently in Peru, meeting with leaders from the Asia-Pacific |
1:10.2 | region before he heads |
1:11.4 | over to Brazil. |
1:12.8 | But another high-profile event happening tonight in Peru is likely to eclipse Biden's visit. |
1:18.5 | That is the inauguration of a huge commercial port built by China with President Xi Jinping in attendance |
1:24.1 | as a guest of honor. |
1:25.8 | The world's Tibisa Isaiah starts us off with this report. |
1:29.0 | The city of Chianghai used to be a sleepy fishing and farming village in the Pacific coast of Peru. |
1:36.3 | It was popular with tourists and birds migrating from North America until a Chinese company |
1:43.1 | started building a huge commercial port there. |
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