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WSJ What’s News

The Future of Ireland, 25 Years After the Good Friday Agreement

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

President Joe Biden on Wednesday commemorates the anniversary of the truce that brought peace to Northern Ireland. WSJ U.K. bureau chief David Luhnow explains how after a quarter century of peace, Ireland may be closer to unification, and why Brexit may be the real catalyst. Plus, Ukraine plays down the classified assessment of its battlefield vulnerabilities, found in purportedly leaked documents. Peter Granitz hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

3, 2, 1

0:03.0

What will the world look like 10 or 20 years from now?

0:07.3

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0:11.7

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0:13.7

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0:19.6

Ukraine plays down the leaked assessment of its battlefield weaknesses.

0:24.3

Plus credit reporting companies in the US will no longer list medical debts less than $500

0:29.9

and a quarter century of peace in Northern Ireland.

0:32.2

The key existential question that underlies all this is the province eventually going

0:36.9

to be reunited Ireland or is it going to try to remain a part of Britain.

0:40.7

25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, what's the future for the island of Ireland?

0:45.6

It is Wednesday, April 12th on Peter Granits filling in Filippe Vargas with the Wall

0:49.5

Street Journal, and here's the AM edition of What's New, the top headlines and business

0:53.6

stories moving your world today.

1:00.9

The Ukrainian army says it's repelled Russian forces along the front lines of the war,

1:05.7

including near the city of Buckmoot and in the country's south as well.

1:09.2

The claimed defenses come as Ukrainian officials play down the purportedly leaked US assessment

1:14.5

of Ukraine's potential battlefield weaknesses that analysis was part of a trove of apparently

1:19.9

leaked classified information that's been viewed by the Wall Street Journal.

1:23.6

The journal was not able to independently authenticate the documents, but they contain

1:27.6

enough detail to give them credibility.

1:30.1

We're joined now by Matthew Luxemore who covers the war in Ukraine.

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