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The Intelligence from The Economist

The Intelligence: An interview with the director of the IAEA

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

News, Daily News, Global News

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The IAEA is charged with promoting the peaceful use of atomic energy. But with uncertainty in Iran and a delicate situation in Ukraine, can the organisation still keep risks under control? The world’s most important diamond company is in trouble. Could selling out save them (10:31)? And, a look at Russia’s low-tech tank defences (16:51)


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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 thera Okenby.

0:45.0

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

0:55.0

A diamond is forever, but a diamond company might not be.

1:00.0

We look at what's been going on with De Beers, the world's most important rock flogger. not be

1:02.8

the world's most important rock floger why it looks to be hitting the market soon and why it's a terrible time to try to sell it.

1:11.7

And what on earth is a turtle tank.

1:15.0

No, it isn't a tank top with a turtle neck.

1:17.4

It's the Russians' latest attempts to protect their vehicles from drone attacks.

1:21.6

But do they work? But first. Iran's nuclear capability just keeps rising and a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency that was leaked yesterday has put troubling new numbers to it.

1:52.0

These are, as we keep talking about on the show,

1:55.0

worrisome times in the nuclear world order,

1:58.0

and the IAEA is one of the agencies designed to maintain stability.

2:02.0

Mostly it does what its name suggests, promoting the peaceful use of atomic energy.

2:07.0

That of course is a dual use technology,

2:10.0

so the agency's other task is to prevent countries that only have nuclear energy

2:15.1

programs from becoming countries with nuclear weapons programs.

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