The race to reinvent the space station
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Opec+ is planning to cut oil production, and Tories are in Birmingham for their annual party conference while demonstrations against the cost of living crisis spread across the UK. Plus the FT’s Peggy Hollinger tells us what the US space agency Nasa is planning to do once the International Space Station is decommissioned.
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:09.8 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:12.0 | Today is Monday, October 3rd, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:18.8 | The UK's Prime Minister faces a growing backlash inside her own party. |
| 0:25.1 | Meanwhile, Brits are taking to the streets to protest high energy bills. |
| 0:30.0 | Plus, the International Space Station is being decommissioned, |
| 0:34.4 | and the US Space Agency NASA is funding private companies to help continue its work. |
| 0:40.3 | It's not like we're going to start building another space station with Russia right now, are we? |
| 0:44.6 | I'm Sonya Hudson in for Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:48.8 | Today, UK Chancellor Quasi Quarting will defend his controversial tax plan to members of his party |
| 1:03.4 | at their annual conference. His plan unleashed havoc across financial markets. |
| 1:09.4 | It would scrap the top tax rate of 45% and take on a lot of debt. |
| 1:15.7 | Many fear it would make inflation worse. |
| 1:19.1 | The plan is stoking a rebellion inside the Tory party, |
| 1:22.9 | as prominent members speak out against the tax cuts and other measures. |
| 1:27.6 | The UK Prime Minister Liz Truss is also not budging on the plan, |
| 1:32.1 | even though she's been warned she could face defeat in the House of Commons. |
| 1:36.3 | As Tory party members gathered in Birmingham this weekend, protesters gathered around the country |
| 1:48.3 | to show their frustration with skyrocketing energy prices. |
| 1:57.2 | Don't pay protests like this one in Central London are encouraging people to not pay their power bills. |
| 2:06.0 | Why are there any kinds of prices that still don't work from last year? |
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