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🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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0:00.0 | Show The old is always is 18 and 5 years old |
0:15.0 | 30 years old, lost to men and culture in happen and |
0:19.0 | be right for a hair house for the wrongs. |
0:22.0 | Fly bake. No,h, then we've up the next |
0:25.0 | of love-heancer group ponged careers. |
0:29.0 | Maybe 30 or 20 years ago, a Saudi might have said |
0:32.0 | I'm Muslim and I'm Arab and I'm Saudi. Now they might say I'm |
0:36.8 | Saudi and I'm Arab and I'm Muslim. You know they're trying to radically refashion their |
0:41.2 | country and they need help from the best experts in the world. |
0:44.0 | Do you want to have your country's people be disqualified from that because of some essentially |
0:48.5 | antiquated point of view about how countries work together? |
0:52.1 | In recent months it can feel like Saudi Arabia is |
0:54.7 | intent on buying the world. It's bought up much of golf, sports teams, many of the |
0:59.3 | globe's best soccer players to its own domestic league, and it owns huge chunks of many of the biggest companies on the planet. |
1:06.0 | But Saudi Arabia is not just on a shopping spree. |
1:09.0 | The ones insular oil-rich kingdom is transforming into a major diplomatic and military player, a pivotal |
1:15.8 | actor in the energy transition and looks set to post high-end cultural events like the FIFA |
1:20.9 | World Cup. |
1:21.9 | You know they know that buying a football club immediately brings you a billboard into a global game |
1:28.0 | that allows you to completely reposition yourself or rebrand yourself. |
1:32.0 | It feels like we're entering the era of the Saudi |
1:34.2 | project. But what exactly is the kingdom trying to achieve and will it succeed? Coming soon from |
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