Video: Things went wrong. The journalist tries to implicate the president and gets a historical reversal

I wrote in worldwide he 03/31/2024 09:35 AM

Things went bad. Hey Big corporate journalism He has a habit of raising his tone in interviews, as if the interviewee had to bracket his dignity just to take advantage of the “generous space” provided by the network. Even more so if the interviewee is the president of a small country.

But, sometimes, the interviewee does not accept the subject role they are trying to impose on him and subtly attacks him, as party leader. Guyana, Irfan AliThis was during his interview on the program Difficult talkfrom BBCby Lt. Col. Steven Sackur.

Assuming the role of coloniser, as if he were still dealing with a subject of the former British colony, Sakkur wanted to teach President Ali a lesson about climate problems, criticizing the country's choice to explore Guyana's recently discovered billion-dollar oil reserves, which it had diverted in “Dubai“From South America.

With the discovery of huge reserves of… petroleumGuyana has an estimated reserve of 17 billion barrels – larger than Brazil's estimated reserves of 14 billion barrels – and is experiencing an economic boom.

Citing reports, Sackur said oil and gas extraction would increase carbon emissions off the coast of Guyana by two billion tons.

With typical British sarcasm, the presenter wondered if Guyana's president had participated in the recent climate summit in Dubai, COP28, and almost treated him as a climate outsider. Ali interrupted:

“Let me stop you here. Did you know that Guyana's forests are the size of England and Scotland combined? A forest that stores 19.5 gigatonnes of carbon. Forests that we have kept alive.”

Sakkur tried to respond, but President Irfaan Ali continued to respond with arguments to the usual accusations of the so-called major Western countries, which almost destroyed the planet and now want to teach developing countries what they should and should not do, while they continue to do so. Burn oil at will.

How the President LulaDuring the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), which called on developed countries to take responsibility, the President of Guyana taught the former colonizers a lesson.

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