Pier pressure: a visit to Gaza’s aid platform
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The Economist
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Our correspondents were the first media to see the American-built JLOTS pier, intended for aid deliveries into Gaza. Things have not at all gone to plan. After years of slipping, house prices are on the rise again; we ask why (16:51). And a trip to see the Savannah Bananas, a goofy exhibition-baseball team that has serious lessons for the major leagues (22:57).
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:45.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:49.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:54.0 | People really love to predict a crash, |
| 1:00.0 | but house prices are just going up and up. We look at why the global market is so resilient |
| 1:05.6 | and what this means for those desperately trying to get a foot on the property ladder. |
| 1:11.6 | And there are lots of people who say, wrongly, that baseball is boring. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, now they've got options. |
| 1:19.0 | We head to an exhibition variant of the game that's got acrobatics and comedy and theater and some |
| 1:25.0 | lessons for the big leagues. |
| 1:28.6 | First up though. |
| 1:35.0 | though. |
| 1:37.0 | So here we are in the shore. |
| 1:40.0 | So here we are in the shore already. |
| 1:45.0 | Oh my goodness, yes, looking ahead, there it is the Mediterranean. |
| 1:48.0 | That is a short trip. |
| 1:50.0 | This is the part of the Mediterranean. |
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