Friday, April 5
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 5 April 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Talks between Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have slowed ahead of a crucial European Union summit, a federal judge says the Securities and Exchange Commission and Elon Musk, Tesla chief executive, must resolve a Twitter dispute outside of court and the price of oil tops $70 a barrel for the first time since November. Plus, the FT’s James Politi tells us why the US and China have pushed back the timing of a possible trade deal.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times. |
| 0:13.0 | Today is Friday, April 5th, and this is your FT news briefing. |
| 0:17.0 | Today, talks between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn Sloane |
| 0:21.0 | as the Prime Minister sets her sights on next week's EU summit. |
| 0:25.0 | Then a judge chimes in on the ongoing dispute between the Securities Exchange Commission |
| 0:30.1 | and Elon Musk's Twitter account. And the price of oil is the highest it's been in nearly five months. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:40.8 | Theresa May. start your day. |
| 0:50.0 | Theresa May and Jeremy Corbin resume their talks on Thursday but walked away without an agreement. So what's next for the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition? |
| 0:53.5 | Hello, I'm Henry Mance reporting for the FT from Westminster. |
| 0:57.0 | The big thing coming up on the Brexit horizon is next Wednesday's European Summit |
| 1:01.7 | where Theresa May will ask European leaders for an extension |
| 1:05.6 | to Article 50, the Brexit process, a delay to Brexit, which is currently due to happen next Friday. |
| 1:11.1 | Now we don't know how long she'll ask for and we don't know what |
| 1:14.3 | European leaders will agree to and at the moment two parallel processes are going |
| 1:20.0 | on one is that the Prime Minister is negotiating with the leader of the opposition |
| 1:23.2 | Jeremy Corbyn to see if they can come to a new arrangement on Brexit a compromise deal. |
| 1:28.0 | Most people think that's fairly unlikely. We don't really know whether there's been much progress in those talks and in the |
| 1:34.9 | meantime a group of back ventures are trying to legally bind the Prime Minister to |
| 1:39.7 | involve them in her decision about how long a delay to Brexit to ask for and to ensure that |
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