Monday, August 5

FT News Briefing

Forhecz Topher

News, Daily News, News & Politics

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🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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At least 29 people were killed in two separate shootings in the US over the weekend, Washington identifies Chinese tankers carrying Iranian oil and US retailers warn that new tariffs threaten to accelerate lay-offs across the industry. Plus, the FT’s Michael Stott explains the political standoff fuelling an economic collapse in Venezuela.

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0:00.0	The UK's energy partner.
0:06.0	Learn more at equinore.
0:10.0	Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.
0:12.0	Today is Monday, August 5th. Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.
0:12.7	Today is Monday, August 5th, and this is your FT news briefing.
0:19.0	More than two dozen people are dead after two separate mass shootings
0:22.4	in the US over the weekend.
0:24.7	The US identifies Chinese tankers carrying Iranian oil, and US retailers have shed 50,000 jobs
0:31.7	over the past two years.
0:34.0	Now they're worried new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump
0:37.6	could make things worse.
0:39.7	Plus the F.T.'s Michael Stott explains
0:41.9	how the ongoing political standoff in Venezuela is causing its
0:45.6	citizens to suffer. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. Two separate mass shootings left dozens dead in the United States this past weekend.
1:01.0	A shooter killed at least 20 people and injured another 26 in
1:05.3	El Paso, Texas on Saturday. El Paso is a primarily Hispanic Texan city close to the U.S. border
1:11.8	with Mexico.
1:13.0	Less than 24 hours later, another man opened fired on an entertainment district of Dayton, Ohio.
1:19.0	The Texas shooting is being treated as domestic terrorism and a potential hate crime.
1:25.2	The shooter is alleged to have posted an anti-immigrant manifesto to social media and expressed
1:30.2	sympathy for the Christ Church Killer, who murdered 51 people in New Zealand in March.
1:34.7	The El Paso suspect appears to have surrendered. The Ohio shooter was killed by police.
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