Venezuela votes for a land grab in Guyana
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Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 5 December 2023
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Summary
The UK will make it harder for employers to hire overseas staff in an attempt to reduce record immigration by 300,000 a year, a Venezuelan referendum lays claim to two-thirds of neighbouring Guyana, and the White House says the US is set to run out of funds to aid Ukraine by the end of the year. Plus, we get a preview of the new Hot Money season, which dives into the European cocaine trade.
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UK government unveils measures to cut immigration by 300,000 a year
Venezuela says voters back claim to oil-rich swath of Guyana
US funding for Ukraine set to run out by end of the year, White House warns
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning for the financial Times. Today is Tuesday, December 5th, and this is your |
| 0:16.7 | FT news briefing. Conservatives have unveiled a plan to stop hundreds of thousands of people from migrating to the UK, |
| 0:25.0 | and Venezuela wants to snatch up most of its neighbor, Guyana. |
| 0:29.0 | So this is an old Venezuelan claim to the territory, but in recent years it had largely been |
| 0:34.8 | dormant and Maduro has revived it. |
| 0:38.0 | Plus the FT's Hot Money Podcast is back for season two. |
| 0:42.0 | We will talk about cocaine, murder, and a massive European drug |
| 0:45.8 | cartel. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. The UK government announced plans yesterday to cut immigration by 300,000 people each year. |
| 1:07.0 | The idea is to make it harder for companies to hire people from other countries. |
| 1:12.0 | Employees right now need to make a certain amount of |
| 1:14.3 | money in the UK to get a skilled worker visa and the government wants to raise |
| 1:18.7 | that minimum to nearly 39,000 pounds per year. Net migration hit a record high in 2022, and Prime Minister Rishi |
| 1:27.9 | Sunak is under a lot of pressure to address it ahead of next year's election. |
| 1:44.8 | Venezuela might be on its way to annexing its neighbor. The country is trying to lay claim to nearly two-thirds of Guyana. Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his government |
| 1:49.8 | said that voters supported the move in a referendum on Sunday. |
| 1:53.2 | Guyana is a former British colony that has been arguing with Venezuela |
| 1:57.4 | over its borders for more than a century. |
| 1:59.7 | I'm joined now by the F.T's Latin America editor Michael Stott. |
| 2:03.6 | Hey Michael. |
| 2:04.6 | Hey Mark. |
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