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Will Amazon Drone Delivery Come To The U.K. Before The U.S.?

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An Amazon Prime Air drone. The American company announced a partnership with the British government to test unmanned drones for delivering Amazon packages. (Courtesy of Amazon)
An Amazon Prime Air drone. The American company announced a partnership with the British government to test unmanned drones for delivering Amazon packages. (Courtesy of Amazon)

Amazon drone delivery may soon be coming to the United Kingdom.

The American company announced a partnership with the British government to test unmanned drones for delivering Amazon packages. And the U.K. is giving Amazon permission to do something it can't do in the U.S.: test drones that are not visible to the person flying them.

Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with Samuel Burke, CNN correspondent in London, about the implications of the new partnership.

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Samuel Burke, business correspondent for CNN in London and anchor for CNN en Español. He tweets @samuelcnn.

This segment aired on July 27, 2016.

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