Indonesia set to inaugurate Nusantara as new capital
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🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Indonesia is set to inaugurate Nusantara as its new capital this weekend. It will replace the current capital, Jakarta, which has a population of about 30 million people and is beginning to slowly sink into the sea. Also, two days of ceasefire negotiations over the war in Gaza wrapped up today with the participants planning to reconvene next week in Cairo, Egypt. And, a new study reveals that islands in the Scottish Hebrides may be the only place on Earth to have a detailed record of how the Earth entered into a deep Ice Age hundreds of millions of years ago. Plus, Iranian-Israeli singer Liraz Charhi releases a new song calling on people across the Middle East to talk to each other more.
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| 0:00.0 | In Afghanistan the Taliban deny women and girls in education, but there are small pockets of hope. |
| 0:11.0 | Yes, there are schools, some of them are secret, some of them not so |
| 0:15.6 | secret, but the best progress is this quiet progress. I'm Marker Wurman and |
| 0:20.4 | more today about women's rights in Afghanistan three years after the Taliban |
| 0:24.0 | took over. Also Indonesia is getting a whole new capital city built from the ground up. |
| 0:29.0 | We try to come in with almost 180 degrees opposite of what Jakarta is. |
| 0:35.0 | Plus we'll hear why some Olympic athletes are getting financial rewards |
| 0:39.0 | and how a geological formation in Scotland presents new insight into our planet's history. |
| 0:44.7 | It confirms that these rocks in Scotland are part of this snowball Earth glaciation |
| 0:48.9 | some 720 million years ago. |
| 0:51.6 | When Earth looked like a snowball and more today here on the world. |
| 0:59.1 | This is the world, I'm Marco Wurman. |
| 1:00.9 | Thank you for joining us this Friday. We begin today in Indonesia. The capital |
| 1:05.0 | city there is in trouble. Greater Jakarta is crammed with more than 30 million people and |
| 1:09.9 | the metropolis is slowly sinking into the ocean. That's why tomorrow Indonesia is |
| 1:14.0 | inaugurating a new and improved capital city. As the World Southeast Asia |
| 1:18.5 | correspondent Patrick Wynne reports, it's about as ambitious as national projects get. |
| 1:25.0 | Smart Forest City. |
| 1:27.0 | A smart forest city. |
| 1:31.0 | A smart forest city. |
| 1:33.0 | That's what Indonesia's government calls its new capital, Nusantara. |
| 1:37.0 | In Nusantara, half the city is covered in trees. |
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