The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence.
From The Economist, I'm Jason Palmer.
And I'm Rosie Bloor.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
These days the tech race is really overwhelmingly a talent race.
Clever people are the currency wherever they hail from.
But America is putting the squeeze on skilled worker visas,
and it's not going to have the effect that the administration expects.
And for the first time,
the number of school-aged children globally who are obese exceeds those who are severely undernourished.
Yet despite more awareness and education about nutrition,
the number of overweight kids just keeps going up.
First up, though.
At the end of his speech at the United Nations in New York yesterday,
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky made an impassioned appeal.
People are waiting for action.
But as Russia drags the war on, the internal signs of strain are becoming more and more apparent.
It's now three years and seven months into the war.
Chris Lockwood is our Europe editor.