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🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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As a successful no-confidence vote topples the French government, a look at the political career of President Emmanuel Macron, whose presidency once signaled hope for change. Also, this week marks 40 years since the world's deadliest industrial disaster. The Bhopal gas leak originating at a pesticide plant in 1984 exposed 500,000 people in India to toxic vapors, killing thousands that night and leaving many more with serious health issues that persist to this day. How the Bhopal disaster changed India. And, Google's new AI weather forecasting tool, in the context of a global need for longer-term weather predictions.
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0:00.0 | It's been 40 years since the world's deadliest industrial disaster. |
0:09.5 | Today, the Bhopal catastrophe still casts a long shadow over India. |
0:13.8 | Despite how well-known this tragedy is and despite promises to provide adequate medical care, |
0:19.4 | people are still suffering and there's still |
0:21.9 | inadequate care. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Worm, and today the decades-long |
0:26.6 | fight for accountability after Bhopal. Also in France, Emmanuel Macron's political career is on |
0:32.3 | the precipice. We'll hear why. Plus, in Ghana, people trying to run businesses are fed up with the economy. |
0:39.0 | I have employees to pay. I have a family to feed. |
0:42.4 | That frustration will follow them to the polls this weekend as Ghana elects a new president. |
0:47.5 | And the pontiff goes electric with an EV Popemobile. |
0:50.9 | All that and more today on The World. |
1:02.7 | This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for being here this Thursday. French President Emmanuel Macron faces tough political headwinds. The coalition of the |
1:08.0 | Prime Minister he appointed two months ago has collapsed following a vote of no confidence. |
1:12.8 | In a televised speech today, Macron accused his opponents of choosing not to do but to undo. |
1:19.0 | Not for fair, but for defair, for create the disorder. |
1:23.4 | Creating disorder. |
1:25.0 | This is a frustrated head of state. |
1:29.4 | But when Macron began his first term in 2017, he was riding high, having won the election as a candidate for change. That trajectory |
1:35.2 | is what we are discussing with Pierre Bentata. He's a professor of economics at the Faculty of Law |
1:40.7 | of Ex-Marcée University, and he's followed Macron's career. At the beginning, he was a very |
1:46.8 | disruptive politician, especially by French standards. He was young, he was wealthy, he was able to |
1:53.2 | speak English, and he was really in favor of promoting innovation and creating what he called |
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