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🗓️ 26 November 2024
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Mexico’s president has warned US President-elect Donald Trump against plans to slap large tariffs on the United States' three largest trading partners: Mexico, Canada and China. Also, Interpol's affiliate, Afripol, which is a union of African law enforcement agencies, has arrested more than a thousand suspected cybercriminals of various stripes in a continent-wide dragnet. And, thousands of supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan have flooded Pakistan’s capital Islamabad demanding his release. Plus, Italy plans to start the construction of a suspension bridge connecting mainland Italy to Sicily in 2025, an idea that’s been centuries in the making.
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0:00.0 | War in Ukraine is wearing people down. |
0:08.0 | When the full-scale war started, I really went to shelter during each alert. |
0:12.0 | Then I understood that it's very exhausting. |
0:15.0 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
0:16.0 | And I'm Marco Wurman, today trying not to be fatalistic in Ukraine. |
0:20.0 | Also, Mexico reacts to threats of tariffs. |
0:22.6 | It's a negotiating tactic, but that doesn't mean that Trump will not be speaking loudly and carrying a big stick in his relationship from Mexico. |
0:31.6 | Plus, a Haitian photographer whose pictures embrace the possibility of change. |
0:36.6 | I don't want to look at my country like that anymore, |
0:39.5 | so I'm going to do something. And the South African writer who opposed apartheid in its own language. |
0:45.1 | It's the first time anybody wrote anything like that in Afrikaans. That's all ahead today on the world. |
0:57.5 | This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
1:00.5 | And I'm Marco Wurman. It's good to have you here. Last night, President-elect Donald Trump announced what would amount to a major change to the global economy. |
1:08.0 | He pledged that on his first day in office, he'd slap a 25% tariff |
1:11.9 | on imports from Canada and Mexico, plus an additional 10% on goods from China. Mexico and Canada |
1:18.2 | were quick to react. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called Trump last night, as he |
1:23.7 | told reporters today. This is a relationship that we know takes a certain amount of working on, and that's what we'll do. |
1:30.2 | And Mexican President Claudia Shanebaum wondered what would happen if Mexico retaliated with tariffs of its own. |
1:40.1 | She said one tariff would be followed by another in response and so on until we put our common businesses at risk. |
1:47.7 | Arturo Serucan is a former Mexican ambassador to the U.S. |
1:52.5 | He told me Trump's announcement is something of a deja vu moment for many in Mexico. |
1:57.5 | In March of 2019, Trump did exactly the same thing with former president Andres Manuel Lepsovraador, |
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