Georgians seek membership in the EU

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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People in the former Soviet republic of Georgia overwhelmingly seek membership in the European Union. But the EU has put those hopes on ice, accusing the government in Georgia of rolling back democratic freedoms. This weekend, Georgian voters head to the polls in a crucial election for the country, caught between pressures from Russia and Europe. Also, younger workers in Portugal are leaving the country in droves, with rising rents and falling wages pushing them out. The government introduced new tax breaks to try to reverse the trend. But it might be too little, too late, to halt brain drain in Portugal. And, a deadly attack took place on Wednesday in Turkey's capital at the headquarters of a Turkish aerospace and defense company.

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0:11.3	being hammered.
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0:15.2	President Assad is very good at turning crisis into opportunity.
0:19.5	I'm Carolyn Beeler.
0:20.7	And I'm Marco Werman on the show today where Syria stands in the Middle East
0:24.0	conflict. Also the government in England has a plan to ban disposable vapes young
0:29.1	users are the target. But it's unlikely on its own to achieve either of the objective of reducing team vaping or
0:36.1	indeed fully addressing some of the environmental impacts from these products.
0:40.4	And we'll hear about new discoveries in two cities on the ancient silk road in Central Asia.
0:46.0	We think that these cities grew up around an industry of iron production.
0:50.0	And iron, of course, was a hot commodity in the medieval era.
0:53.0	Those stories and much more today on the world.
0:56.0	This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler.
1:01.0	And I'm Marco Werman.
1:02.0	Thank you for joining us this Thursday.
1:04.0	Turkey says it carried out airstrikes overnight in Syria and Iraq against a Kurdish workers
1:08.8	party or PKK.
1:10.4	According to Turkey's defense ministry, 59 militants were killed in those strikes.
1:14.8	They were launched in retaliation for an attack in the Turkish capital on Wednesday.
1:19.2	That happened at the headquarters of Turkey's state aerospace company.
1:23.2	Five people were killed in more than 20 injured.
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