The Intelligence: Going for broker
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Our correspondent is travelling with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is on yet another gruelling tour of the Middle East trying to broker peace. What are the chances of a lasting deal? We examine the problems arising from Latin America’s falling fertility rate (11:06). And TikTok has become a destination for news; we meet some of its self-appointed news anchors (17:16).
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| 1:16.0 | I'm Ora Ogambi. |
| 1:18.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:19.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:27.0 | Following in the tracks of much of the developed world, Latin American societies are aging and fast and it seems that the governments aren't prepared for how falling fertility rates and |
| 1:37.8 | rising life expectancy could hold their economies back. |
| 1:48.0 | And really quite a lot of young people are getting their news on Tik-Tok. I know, I know, hasn't anyone told them about the intelligence? |
| 1:52.0 | Anyway, with all that Tik-Tok news come inevitably |
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