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Sumner Redstone, BTG Pactual and the Paris climate talks

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The 92-year-old controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS is showing his age, while the Brazilian bank's boss is in jail: Should either remain at the helm? Plus, the case for chipping away at climate change. All in this week's edition of the Viewsroom. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal.

0:03.2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab.

0:08.3

Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure.

0:11.0

Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal.

0:16.3

Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last.

0:20.3

The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Roiders' News.

0:30.0

Welcome to The Views Room, a weekly podcast brought to you by Reuters Breaking Views.

0:33.7

I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views in Zurich.

0:36.4

While the convention's season is over, which means everyone can get back to re-watching episodes

0:40.3

of Tiger King or whatever strikes their fancy.

0:43.3

The Republicans finished up on Thursday night with a one-hour address by President Trump

0:47.3

on the lawn of the White House.

0:48.3

For some perspective on the four-day apprentice-like Bonanza, I'm joined by John Foley,

0:53.3

our U.S. editor and and Anna Schumanski,

0:55.3

our columnist in Brooklyn. Hey, guys. Hello. So, Anna, let me start with you. What did you think of it?

1:02.2

How to compare with last week's Democrat extravaganza? You know, I was thinking about it,

1:08.9

and I feel like it's like the Ipetac convention, which is like, if you just take out the coronavirus, this is the America that they were describing.

1:20.0

So it was interesting.

1:22.8

I would say in comparison to last week, in some sense, it felt like a more standard convention

1:33.3

in that it wasn't using all of the digital tools that the Democrats used.

1:37.3

However, as I'm sure we will discuss, it was also highly, highly unusual in terms of the content,

1:43.3

and also specifically the use of the White

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