Telegram CEO arrest reignites free speech debate
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
French authorities detain Telegram’s chief executive as part of a content moderation investigation, which has reignited the debate about free speech online. Plus, oil prices reached a two-week high as Libya says it is shutting down oil production, and Grenada triggers a first-of-its-kind ‘hurricane clause’ to pause its debt repayments.
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Oil hits 2-week high after Libya says it will shut down crude exports
Grenada triggers ‘hurricane clause’ to suspend bond payments
Telegram says detained founder Pavel Durov has ‘nothing to hide’
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, August 27th, and this is your |
| 0:17.6 | FT news briefing. The price of oil is back on the up and Grenada is trying this thing where it pauses debt payments to focus on recovering from a hurricane. |
| 0:29.0 | Plus France arrested the founder of the social media app telegram and in doing so reopen the debate about free |
| 0:36.3 | speech online. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. The price of oil hit a two week high on Monday. |
| 0:55.0 | Brent Crude jumped about 3%. |
| 1:01.0 | Things in Libya caused the uptick. The North African country has been in |
| 1:05.3 | political chaos for years now and yesterday it said it's shutting down oil |
| 1:09.4 | production. Now this is a big deal because Libya exports about 1 million barrels of crude every day. |
| 1:16.0 | Still, oil prices are relatively low, especially given that there are major wars going on in Europe |
| 1:22.2 | and the Middle East. but it is a reminder of just |
| 1:25.6 | how exposed oil is to politics. Grenada is this small island nation about 500 miles off the coast of Venezuela and |
| 1:40.6 | it's right in the path of a lot of hurricanes, which means it's going to have to rebuild after a big storm. |
| 1:47.0 | That costs money and Grenada sometimes has to take on loans to do it. |
| 1:52.0 | But then another storm hits and the site... has to take on loans to do it. |
| 1:53.0 | But then another storm hits, and the cycle starts all over again. |
| 1:57.4 | It is hard to pay for all this hurricane recovery, especially if you're also on the hook |
| 2:02.3 | to investors for other stuff, which is why Grenada has set up something called a hurricane clause. |
| 2:08.0 | Here to talk about why it's doing this is the F.T's emerging markets correspondent Joseph Karel. |
| 2:14.0 | Hey Joseph. |
| 2:15.0 | Hi there. |
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