What countries in Africa are saying about a 2nd Trump term
The World
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🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Africa is home to more than 1.3 billion people in 54 different countries. The reactions to Donald Trump's reelection are wide ranging, but there's also a gap between the expectations of African leaders and ordinary people. Also, COP29 opens on Nov. 11 in Azerbaijan. Many environmentalists are critical that the conference is being hosted by an oil-producing nation, but others are hopeful it will bring results. And, the f-word is part of the unique set of profanities that cannot be uttered on public radio, but its history and use is no less fascinating. We'll dive into the etymology of that four-letter word.
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| 0:00.0 | Experts and activists from every part of the world are gathering for another major climate summit, |
| 0:10.5 | but the choice of Azerbaijan to host the conference is already attracting criticism. |
| 0:14.8 | Putting in charge of the climate negotiations, a country that depends very much on fossil fuels, |
| 0:23.5 | is at least questionable. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm Carol Hills, more on the COP 29 summit. And in Africa, there's a lot at stake when Donald Trump returns to the White House. There is more that binds Africa to the United States than we |
| 0:36.0 | care to admit. Also today, people in the former East Germany take a look back at the Berlin Wall. |
| 0:42.1 | It divided the country for decades before it came down 35 years ago. |
| 0:46.5 | It's more like an artifact. |
| 0:48.3 | I don't really have an emotional connection to it. |
| 0:50.5 | All those stories and more. |
| 0:51.9 | Ahead today on the world. |
| 0:57.0 | Thanks for joining us on this Friday. |
| 0:59.8 | COP 29 kicks off on Monday in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. |
| 1:04.0 | This is the annual United Nations Climate Conference with representatives from around 200 countries. |
| 1:10.7 | It's become a huge global gathering |
| 1:12.4 | for discussing international efforts on climate change, but that's not what the chief |
| 1:17.0 | executive of COP29 appeared to be talking about when he was secretly recorded on a video call |
| 1:22.9 | with someone pretending to be a potential investor. As I said, we have a lot of pipeline infrastructure. |
| 1:30.4 | We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed. |
| 1:34.4 | That's the voice of Elnur Soltanov, who's also Azerbaijan's Deputy Energy Minister. |
| 1:39.5 | The recording came from environmental activists posing as oil and gas developers from Hong Kong. |
| 1:45.8 | And it's making news because it appears to show a top official at COP29 scoping out possible fossil fuel deals. |
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