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🗓️ 30 May 2024
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Ahead of a general election in July, we reflect on 14 years of Conservative rule. It’s not a great record, but will the prime minister be able to spin it on the campaign trail? Latin America is still being torn apart by some of the world’s worst gang violence. Why aren’t countermeasures working (10:26)? And how climate change is making our days ever so slightly longer (20:03).
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to thera Ogunbye. |
| 0:45.0 | Every weekday, well for me just until the end of this week. |
| 0:49.0 | We provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:54.8 | shaping your world. Latin America remains the world's most violent region and the |
| 1:01.9 | gangs are only growing more powerful. |
| 1:04.4 | Yet for most countries heavy-handed tactics like mass incarceration |
| 1:08.7 | are unlikely to help in a long run. |
| 1:10.9 | We look at the alternatives. |
| 1:12.6 | And did you know that climate change can actually slow the Earth's rotation? |
| 1:19.2 | Only by a tiny bit there. |
| 1:22.0 | But as our environmental editor explained, |
| 1:23.9 | it complicates things for those who rely on incredibly precise timekeeping. But first. Today, today Britain's parliament is being dissolved to make way for a general election on the 4th of July. |
| 1:47.0 | It marks the official end of Rishi Sunach's government and the official start of the race for number 10 Downing Street. |
| 1:54.0 | But already the last eight days have seen some vintage electioneering from the Conservative Party. |
| 2:00.0 | This election will take place at a time when the world is more dangerous than it has been since the end of the Cold War. |
| 2:08.0 | Putin's Russia is waging a brutal war in Ukraine. |
| 2:11.0 | It all kicked off when Rishyunak announced the election in the pouring rain. |
| 2:16.2 | Barely audible over the sound of protesters' loudspeakers, |
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