Behind me now. The road is now open again. It was closed for the kings on arrival at the senate but things are now up and running as that speech has wrapped up. Some of those big key themes around unity, of course, between the uk and france. That shared history, shared history of democracy, and fighting for democracy, and that fight are still ongoing today. Also around Climate Change, one of the kings are big priorities, we were wondering, many speculated perhaps about whether we would hear so much on that issue, given the comments from the uk government yesterday about delaying some of their greener commitments, but no, that was in the speech, as well, as well as Fund References to his late mother and his own personal relationship with france, as well. As you mentioned, he spoke in english and in french. Lets take a listen to some of it now. Translation listen to some of it now. Translation . ,. , translation your longlived democracy translation your longlived democracy can translatio
To the announcement. In some ways this was inevitable. Yes, Rupert Murdoch always said he would never retire. His son lachlan always said his dad would never retire. But his companies have been shrinking over the years and struggling against the Media Headwinds that all Media Companies are facing. For example, streaming and the struggles of newspapers. So Rupert Murdoch is not the swashbuckling feared and reviled media mogul that he once was that he was for decades. He was strangely passive in recent years as his Fox News Network in the us promoted lies about voter fraud in 2020. He seemed to be more like the passenger, rather than the driver he seemed more like the passenger than the captain of the ship. And so i think todays announcement confirms and signifies that. Weve just had a statement from Lachlan Murdoch, who says, On Behalf Of The Fox and news corp boards of directors, Leadership Teams and all the shareholders whove benefited from his hard work, i congratulate my father on h