Friday, October 18
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson attempts to secure parliamentary support for his Brexit deal, Saudi Aramco postpones the launch of its long-awaited initial public offering and Facebook reveals a project to prevent minors from being exploited on its platforms. Plus, Turkey agrees to pause its military incursion in Syria as the US pledges to ease sanctions, and Mick Mulvaney, acting White House chief of staff, makes an admission regarding Donald Trump’s July phone call to Ukraine.
With Lauren Fedor, FT Washington correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
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| 0:10.0 | Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times. |
| 0:12.0 | Today is Friday, October 18th. Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times. |
| 0:12.6 | Today is Friday, October 18th, and this is your FT news briefing. |
| 0:18.4 | Boris Johnson locks down a Brexit deal with the EU, but now he's got a win over UK MPs. |
| 0:24.8 | Saudi Aramco is hitting the breaks on its long-awaited IPO, and Facebook is launching |
| 0:29.7 | a project to protect miners on its platforms after it introduces encryption. |
| 0:34.7 | But first, we go to Washington where the F.T.'s Lauren Feeder unpacks an interesting afternoon, |
| 0:40.1 | starting with Mike Pence's trip to Turkey. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:49.5 | Mike Prince, the U.S. Vice President, led a delegation of U.S. officials, including the Secretary of State |
| 0:55.9 | Mike Pompeo to Ankara. |
| 0:58.4 | They had a very long meeting with the Turkish President, lasted about five hours hours and when they left the meeting |
| 1:05.2 | Pence said that Turkey had agreed to a five-day suspension of its incursion in |
| 1:10.8 | Syria. Today I'm proud to report, thanks to the strong leadership of President |
| 1:17.7 | Donald Trump, and the strong relationship between President Erdogan and Turkey and the United States of America. |
| 1:27.0 | Today the United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria. |
| 1:33.6 | He also said that the US was going to remove the sanctions if you remember those were |
| 1:37.9 | announced over the weekend so long as the permanent ceasefire went into effect. |
| 1:42.6 | So Lauren, I want to switch gears to yesterday's press conference |
| 1:45.4 | with acting White House Chief of Staff, |
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