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The world economy, every economy, will suffer if ships keep coming under attack in this illegal

and unacceptable way. And these attacks need to stop or actions will be taken.

That was Britain's foreign minister, David Cameron, talking earlier this month about the

impact of attacks in the Red Sea, which are driving up freight costs and risk eating

into company margins.

But what can governments and companies do to alleviate these risks?

Stay tuned for this week's viewsroom.

Welcome back to the views, a podcast from Reuters breaking views where columnists

from around the world talk about the big stories of the week. I'm your host, Amy Donovan,

coming to you from London. The Red Sea is a source of a lot of tension far beyond the Middle East.

Attacks on tankers carrying goods like toys, fast fashion items and even pharmaceutical,

risk resurrecting supply chain issues for companies.

It's a complicated situation with many different players.

So here to talk us through it is Francesco Guerrera, Breaking

View's Global Economics Editor, and Yowen Chen, their columnist that has been looking closely at this

issue. So welcome Francesco and Yowen. Hi, Amy. Hi, thanks for having us. So, Yowen, you've written quite a bit about

this situation and been looking at it. I mean, it's almost daily we're getting stories about

what's going on in the Red Sea. Could you just, if we could just take a step back? What is what started

this whole situation in the Red Sea and what are what is what is what I guess

what is the problems with global trade that we're seeing there yes thank you um I I think it's

it's it's it's something that really surprised everyone because it started off as you know

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