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Today, Explained

The invisible border

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

After nearly four years of acrimony, Britain finally Brexits tonight. But it risks plunging Northern Ireland back into a living nightmare. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A warning that today's episode features some graphic descriptions of violence near

0:05.1

the top and the bottom of this first half.

0:08.1

There's no violence after the break if you want to avoid it all together.

0:12.2

Let's begin.

0:13.8

Tonight, believe or not, the United Kingdom will officially leave the European Union.

0:23.3

It happens at 11 o'clock London time.

0:26.3

Brexit is happening.

0:28.5

We have covered Brexit backwards and forwards on today.

0:32.1

Explained we've talked about trade and immigration and ideology and it's all been abstract, very

0:38.9

political.

0:39.9

But on the show today, our reporter, Noam Hasenfeld, is going to take us to a place where you can

0:44.9

actually see what Brexit might do with your own eyes.

0:48.4

Yeah.

0:49.4

In the interest of minimizing my carbon footprint, I got someone closer to go for me.

0:54.1

My name is Leona O'Neil and I'm a journalist from Northern Ireland.

0:58.1

Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, but it shares a border with the independent

1:02.3

country of Ireland to the south.

1:04.5

I am on the border between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.

1:09.5

It's just outside Derry.

1:11.4

It's a very, very, very busy road of Pilde, the site of road here.

1:15.9

There's literally hundreds of cars going up and down past me here.

1:20.3

Right now, since both the United Kingdom and Ireland are in the European Union, that border

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