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the participants, not of Rorges News. The familiar sound of a raucous stadium that beams into

many Disney subscribers' homes through its sports network ESPN.

Welcome back to the views room. I'm your host, Amy Donnellan, coming to you from London.

Late last week, pushy activist Dan Loeb revealed a change of heart on Disney. Having pushed for the

$203 billion media giant to sell its sports network ESPN, he now reckons

it may not be the right time. My colleague Jen Seba in New York discusses some of the reasons why

he may have been right all along. Meanwhile, Rio's copper saga is heating up. The $94 billion

mining giant is trying to gain control of the

Oyutulgoy copper mine in Mongolia by buying out the minority stake in Canada's

Turquoise Hill Resources, which owns a majority stake in the copper project. But much like

the complex ownership, columnist George Hay and Karen Kwok have some interesting views on the next

chapter and how it will play out.

I'm Lauren Silva Loughlin, the U.S. editor of Reuters Breaking Views, and I am here with Jennifer

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