Tense exchange: Russia’s prisoner swap
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The Economist
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The biggest exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West since the Cold War included opposition leaders, journalists and prisoners of conscience. Our correspondent accompanies America’s defence secretary on a tour of Asia designed to bolster military alliances (12:17). And why King Charles counts his swans every year (21:15).
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to roll out EV charging hubs in the UK and we're keeping oil and gas |
| 0:06.0 | flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all that's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:11.8 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas. We increased the proportion |
| 0:15.8 | of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses |
| 0:20.6 | from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:25.8 | BP.com slash and not all. The Economist. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm your host Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:48.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 1:02.0 | America's Defence Secretary has been touring Asia to beef up alliances and military strength in the region, including a new war fighting |
| 1:04.2 | command in Japan. Our correspondent went with him. And every year in Britain there is |
| 1:11.4 | a census not of people but of swans. |
| 1:14.4 | Specifically swans that belong to the king. |
| 1:17.2 | Yes, you heard that right. |
| 1:18.8 | It's an 800 year old ceremony and it takes five days. |
| 1:22.4 | Swan upping, you might love it if you tried it. |
| 1:35.0 | But first, it could have been a scene. |
| 1:37.0 | It could have been a scene from a Cold War spy thriller. |
| 1:45.0 | Seven aircraft from six countries carrying dissidents, spies, mercenaries and journalists, |
| 1:51.0 | all flying into a neutral country, their passengers disembarking before being traded |
| 1:56.5 | and boarding jets bound for home. |
| 2:00.1 | But this wasn't a movie. |
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