2024-12-04
26 分钟South Korea's president Yoon Suk Yeol declares emergency martial law amid an escalating row with lawmakers over the budget. We get business reaction. Also, China bans exports to the US of metals needed for semiconductor manufacturing and military applications. And could US President Joe Biden’s visit to Angola deliver business opportunities for the continent?
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Hello and welcome to Wild Business Report on the BBC World Service.
I'm Will Bain.
Thanks for being back with us.
Coming up today, gallium and germanium, not exactly household names even in the world of rare earth metals, but today they're at the epicentre of the latest tremors in global trade.
We'll explain why or try to and what they're used for in just a moment.
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We are making living out of it, yeah.
Plenty more from World Business Reports.
Ed Butler's reporting from Ghana.
A little bit later on in the program in what is of course election week there here on the program.
We're going to start though with some news that's broken in the past hour or so in the President of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol has declared martial law in an unannounced late night television address.