Rhodes goes to Glasgow
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week, Ben calls in from the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow where he’s traveling with President Obama. In this episode Ben and Tommy cover the latest news from COP26, the increasingly dire civil war in Ethiopia, recent Biden administrations actions against ransomware hackers and the spyware for profit industry, a drone attack in Iraq, the US reopening its borders, and the #Fartghazi scandal lingering in the UK. Then Ben speaks to climate activists Hannah Martin and Luisa Neubauer, and former Secretary of State John Kerry about the intense climate negotiations in Glasgow.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Positive World on Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.9 | Ben is coming to us all the way from Glasgow, Scotland, where he is attending the COP26 summit |
| 0:21.1 | with President Obama. |
| 0:22.1 | Ben, is it true that you just left a protest with Greta Thunberg where you were throwing |
| 0:26.6 | a pig's blood at an ex on CEO? |
| 0:29.3 | Was that accurate? |
| 0:30.3 | I read that a little bit. |
| 0:31.3 | Close to it. |
| 0:32.3 | But yeah, there were some pretty intense protestors like right before we got here. |
| 0:39.1 | Actually I'm not just telling this to a grand-dice Barack Obama. |
| 0:44.2 | It was just kind of a funny Scottish policing. |
| 0:47.4 | We were driving to one of his events and they said, oh, there's a big protest where we're |
| 0:54.3 | concerned about this just so you know, you should be aware. |
| 0:58.0 | We arrived. |
| 1:01.6 | It wasn't a protest. |
| 1:02.6 | It was just like a lot of people that wanted to see Barack Obama. |
| 1:05.0 | There we go. |
| 1:06.0 | So, you know, I mean, that was good. |
| 1:08.4 | Turn that protest into a parade. |
| 1:10.1 | We're going to talk a lot more about COP26 and what you're doing over there in a minute. |
| 1:14.2 | Before we jump into the show, let me tell folks what the other issues we're going to cover |
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