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🗓️ 26 April 2024
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As Parliament has now agreed to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, many members of the ruling Conservative party want to quit the court that tried to block it. It would be yet another costly mistake. Earth’s largest refrigerator, Antarctica, is defrosting. What does this mean for the rest of the world (09:24)? And a tribute to the American journalist held captive by Hizbullah for almost 7 years (17:50).
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| 0:54.0 | A Greenland-sized amount of ice has disappeared around Antarctica. |
| 1:01.0 | That's a lot. And its consequences will quite literally have ripple effects for the rest of the world in the form of rising sea levels. |
| 1:12.0 | And on the life of Terry Anderson, the American journalist who was held hostage by his |
| 1:17.5 | Belar militants for almost seven years. He wished that his years of captivity |
| 1:22.3 | wouldn't define him, but perhaps that was beyond his control. First up there. |
| 1:35.0 | there. |
| 1:36.0 | In an ideal world. |
| 1:42.0 | In an ideal world, bad ideas would fade into irrelevance. In Britain's ruling Conservative |
| 1:49.8 | Party, they have a good chance of becoming official policy. |
| 1:54.0 | This parliament just refuses to get Brexit done. |
| 1:58.0 | The British people voted for change. |
| 2:01.0 | They voted to leave the European Union. Divorced the country's largest |
| 2:05.1 | trading partner. Sure. Send asylum seekers to Africa. Let's do it. |
| 2:10.3 | Being relocated to Rwanda is not a punishment, but an innovative way of addressing a major problem |
| 2:16.6 | to redress the imbalance. |
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