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Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Things have become messier in the Democratic Republic of Congo

after a backroom power-sharing deal appears to have fizzled.

We ask whether the political shift will help or hinder the much-needed reforms that the current

president had promised. And it used to be that rappers the world over got their linguistic

cues from the American scene. But in recent years it's London's multi-ethnic melting pot

that's contributing the slang and perhaps even the worldview that MCs look to.

First up though.

This week's hearings in the Senate for President Joe Biden's cabinet picks will help to shape

how he governs. Yesterday Senators heard from Merrick Garland.

I am honored to appear before you today as the president's nominee to be the attorney general.

Mr. Biden has been praised for the diversity of those he's nominated, some of whom have already

been confirmed. Among them are Janet Yellen, the first woman to become Treasury Secretary,

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