With the grain, assault: Ukraine’s iffy deal

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🗓️ 25 July 2022

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Missile strikes on the port of Odessa have dimmed hopes for a UN-brokered deal to get Ukraine’s grain on the move. We ask what chances it may still have. Tunisia's constitutional referendum looks destined to formalise a march back to the autocratic rule it shook off during the Arab Spring. And how Formula 1 is looking to crack America. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.
0:07.6	In London, I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
0:11.2	Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
0:18.4	Today Tunisians have the chance to vote on a new constitution.
0:22.2	It should be a chance to put the country's new-ish democracy on a firmer footing, but it
0:27.4	won't.
0:28.4	It's designed to further cement creeping autocratic rule, so many will just stay home.
0:36.0	And for decades Formula One was owned and run by one man who believed the sport had no
0:41.5	business moving into the digital age or into America.
0:45.7	With him out of the picture, the sport seems to be making inroads on the other side of
0:49.7	the Atlantic.
0:56.0	Just up though, millions of tons of grain have been stuck in Ukraine since February, hamden
1:04.4	by a Russian blockade and captured ports on the Black Sea and by Ukraine's own minds.
1:10.7	Food prices have skyrocketed in the world over.
1:13.7	Hundreds of millions of people have grown hungrier.
1:16.7	So when a deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey was struck on Friday to start
1:21.1	a safe passage of grain cargo, the UN's Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez was unsparing
1:27.1	and had optimism.
1:28.6	Today, there is a beacon on the Black Sea.
1:33.2	A beacon of hope.
1:36.2	A beacon of possibility.
1:38.9	A beacon of relief in a world that needs it more than ever.
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