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#TEXAS: #PANAMA: #HEXBOLLAH: Returned from the drought-damaged Panama Canal, war correspondent Michel Yon comments on the migrant flow through the Darien Gap and headed to the Southern Border -- with sopecial attention to Hezbollah agents who are suspect

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#TEXAS: #PANAMA: #HEXBOLLAH: Returned from the drought-damaged Panama Canal, war correspondent Michel Yon comments on the migrant flow through the Darien Gap and headed to the Southern Border -- with sopecial attention to Hezbollah agents who are suspect bad actors during the crisis in the Middle East. @Michael_Yon

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/01/21/america-and-iran-step-closer-to-the-brink-of-war

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UK. This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

0:22.0

I'm John Bachelor Michael Jan.

0:24.0

Michael Yahn at Michael underlined Jan is where to find his reporting.

0:28.0

Has just arrived from Panama. He's in Texas, the great state of Texas. We're going to start with a

0:34.5

photograph Michael sent me of Khatan Lake, which is the major source of

0:40.2

water for the Panama Canal, now severely reduced.

0:44.0

Michael, the photograph shows a number of poles sticking up from underneath the lake,

0:51.0

and at first I thought it was an old wharf it looks like the west side of

0:54.8

Manhattan where on the Hudson they used to build big piers that ran out but you tell

1:00.4

me those are not that's not a wharf what am I looking at good day to you

1:04.9

Michael good day from Texas now yeah just left Panama and I was on the pan America I mean I'm sorry the

1:11.3

Panama Canal Railway.

1:13.0

And we got to, Masako Ganaha and I got to ride on the locomotive.

1:19.0

So we rode all the way across the continent, the entire continent of Panama,

1:24.8

which is an intercontinental railway actually.

1:27.6

And there's literally tens of thousands of trees

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