One peace at a time: Gaza, Israel and Iran
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Peace talks in Doha have a chance at progress even in Hamas’s absence. The outcome could determine the scope of Iran’s promised retaliations against Israel. New research suggests Mars may have an ocean’s worth of water deep in its crust (10:30). And Colombia’s bid to sate the global hunger for more sources of vanilla (18:14).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host |
| 0:14.0 | Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping |
| 0:19.0 | your world. |
| 0:22.0 | The The story of water on Mars is complicated. |
| 0:28.0 | First, astronomers thought water was all over the place, |
| 0:31.0 | then that it was utterly dry, then the discovery of polar ice caps |
| 0:35.2 | and frozen soil, and this week hints of a possible ocean's worth deep in the planet's crust. |
| 0:47.0 | And most of the world's vanilla comes from Madagascar, but as demand for the flavor and scent has skyrocketed, |
| 0:50.0 | new sources are needed. |
| 0:52.0 | Our correspondent sniffs around in Colombia, which has a homegrown |
| 0:56.0 | variant that smells like opportunity. |
| 0:58.4 | But first. Two assassinations at the end of last month put the Middle East and the wider world on |
| 1:15.6 | Tenterhooks. In Beirut a strike killed a leader of his bulla. In Tehran a seemingly more |
| 1:21.4 | precise operation killed a leader of Hamas in what had been seen as a secure compound. |
| 1:27.0 | Israel said it had killed senior Hezbollah commander for Ad Shukur in a single strike in Beirut. |
| 1:33.3 | Hamas leader Ismail Hania has been killed in Iran. |
| 1:37.5 | Israel has only publicly claimed responsibility for one of those brazen attacks. |
| 1:43.0 | Iran immediately promised retribution. |
| 1:46.0 | Growing fears of an all-out war in the Middle East with Iran and its proxies threatening to strike back against Israel. |
| 1:52.0 | believes it needs to punish Israel to prevent further instability in the region. |
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