Hizbollah reels after the death of its leader
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of Hassan Nasrallah’s death, Hizbollah looks for a way forward, and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen goes on trial for allegedly embezzling EU funds. Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm is backing a nuclear start-up aimed at fueling artificial intelligence, and a handful of high frequency trading firms have seized market share from traditional investment banks.
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Marine Le Pen goes on trial over EU expenses scandal
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
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| 0:11.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, September 30th, and this is your |
| 0:17.7 | F.T. news briefing. Israel continued to strike Hezbollah over the weekend, and French far right leader |
| 0:24.6 | Marine Le Penh is in hot water over allegedly misusing funds from the European Union. |
| 0:30.1 | Plus, electronification has taken over Wall Street trading, but the traditional |
| 0:36.1 | investment banks are struggling to keep up. |
| 0:38.8 | What we've really seen over the last 15 years is these kind of more obscure but increasingly |
| 0:44.8 | powerful trading firms grab a bigger and bigger slice of the market. I'm Kasha |
| 0:50.3 | Bruxalian and here's the news you need to start your day. Hezbollah is the Is reeling after the death of its leader Hassan Nasrala. |
| 1:05.0 | He was killed on Friday in a massive Israeli strike on Beirut. |
| 1:09.0 | Here to talk about where the militant group goes from here is the FT's Ria Jollaby. She's been covering the conflict from Lebanon. |
| 1:16.7 | Hi Ria. |
| 1:17.7 | Hi. |
| 1:18.7 | So what sort of response have we seen from the news of Nasrala's death? |
| 1:24.0 | For the most part across Beirut for the last two days since news first emerged that he may have |
| 1:28.0 | been killed in this airstrike. |
| 1:29.6 | It's been shock and disbelief. |
| 1:31.5 | His lawyer list didn't want to believe the news when it first came out, not until |
| 1:34.7 | 18 hours later when Hezbollah confirmed it themselves in a statement, and when they did, there were |
| 1:40.1 | Wales across Beirut and much of the country. This is a man who has held their |
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