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FT News Briefing

Ukraine strikes targets deep in Russia

FT News Briefing

Forhecz Topher

News, Daily News, News & Politics

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Far-right firebrand Geert Wilders has conceded he will not become prime minister of the Netherlands, Ukraine has stepped up drone strikes on oil refineries deep inside Russia, and a bill to ban TikTok in the US passed the House of Representatives. Plus, Nigeria is in the middle of a currency crisis and the government is blaming Binance for a lot of it.


Mentioned in this podcast:

Geert Wilders announces he will not be PM

Ukraine strikes oil refineries deep inside Russia

US House votes through bill to ban TikTok

Nigeria pushes Binance for user data in stand-off over naira speculation


The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.


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0:00.0

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Learn more at equinore.

0:10.0

At equinore. UK. Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Thursday, March 14th, and this is your

0:17.7

F.T. news briefing. The far right movement hit a roadblock in the Netherlands and Ukrainian drones are

0:26.0

striking deep inside Russia. Plus Nigeria is blaming its currency problems on

0:32.2

finance. Nigeria is blaming its currency problems on Binance.

0:34.0

Nigeria has always had this interesting relationship with

0:37.0

crypto, but now it looks like that relationship is turning for the worse again.

0:42.0

I'm Sonia Hudson, and here's the news you need to start your day. Geert builders is not going to be the next Dutch Prime Minister.

1:06.0

The far-right politician said as much yesterday.

1:08.9

He acknowledged that even though his Freedom Party had won the most seats in last year's elections, he didn't have enough support from others.

1:16.0

Vilder's Party didn't win an outright majority in the election, so he needed others to form a governing coalition.

1:24.0

His failure to become Prime Minister is another setback for the far right movement in Europe.

1:29.0

Hard right parties in Spain and Portugal have also struggled to gain power despite pretty solid

1:34.9

showings in elections.

1:37.0

Ukraine has been stepping up its drone attacks, this time deep inside Russia.

1:48.0

The country hit key oil and energy infrastructure targets this week

1:53.0

hundreds of miles from the Ukrainian border.

1:56.1

Here to talk to us about these strikes is the F.T's Chris Miller.

1:59.8

So Chris, what's the strategy behind these new drone attacks and how significant have they really been?

2:06.0

So the strategy here, Ukraine hopes, is to deprive the enemy of resources and reduce the flow of oil money and fuel.

2:14.6

So really it's to disrupt Russia's war economy to stop the oil that helps finance Russia's

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