Oil prices rise over Middle East tensions
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🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: The biggest rise in oil prices for nearly two years was recorded on Friday, as the world watches mounting tensions in the Middle East and how Israel will respond to attacks by Iran. Then, an aging population is straining future growth prospects for Malaysia’s economy. And a British woman who spent nearly half a century wondering why a dream job application went unanswered has finally found out why.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive |
| 0:03.4 | It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy. |
| 0:09.6 | Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. |
| 0:14.4 | It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers. |
| 0:18.6 | Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change. |
| 0:22.6 | This could be the warmest year on record. |
| 0:24.6 | Climate change is here. |
| 0:25.7 | Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth. |
| 0:29.5 | And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s. |
| 0:35.9 | I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change. |
| 0:44.7 | This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis |
| 0:47.5 | to see how the military is preparing for the threat. |
| 0:51.0 | Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:55.0 | Oil prices have been watched closely as conflict continues in the Middle East. |
| 1:01.0 | Live from the BBC World Service, this is the Marketplace Morning Report. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm Luke Wilson. |
| 1:05.7 | Good morning. |
| 1:06.7 | Oil prices rose in early trading this morning, amid continued speculation about how Israel |
| 1:12.2 | might respond to a missile attack by Iran six days ago. |
| 1:16.0 | Brent Crude is currently trading at more than $79 a barrel, up 10% in a week. |
| 1:21.0 | But how does that compare to the past few years? The BBC's Mariko Ooy joins me now. |
| 1:26.6 | Hi Mariko. |
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