America And The War In Ukraine
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
A busy week for President Biden! On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion, he made a surprise trip to Kyiv to meet President Zelensky, pledging to support Ukraine for "as long as it takes". Biden then gave a speech in Poland to reaffirm America's commitment to Nato. Sarah was on the trip and shares her impressions, and the Americast team also talk to Assistant US Secretary of State Karen Donfried.
In Kentucky, a Christian university campus went viral on TikTok after one of its church services turned into a continuous worship session lasting two weeks. We speak to a student about the so-called "Asbury Revival".
And former President Jimmy Carter, 98, has been moved to hospice care. Carter served just one term between 1976 and 1980, but what will his legacy be?
Americast is presented by North America editor Sarah Smith, Today host Justin Webb, the BBC's social media and disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring, and North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher.
Find out more about our "undercover voters" here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63530374.
Email Americast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments and send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, to +44 3301239480.
This episode was made by Phil Marzouk, Cat Farnsworth and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor was Simon Watts. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | All. All. Again, this is the second panel of the morning and we welcome Marianna Spring, |
| 0:10.8 | the Disinformation and Social Media correspondent of the BBC. The most important message today |
| 0:16.8 | is Happy Birthday. Oh, thank you. I'm sure you can know where you'd rather spend your |
| 0:22.2 | birthday. I'll put you before a select committee. Oh, my goodness. You know you've made it in |
| 0:28.5 | life when you testify before a select committee. Before the age of 30, the birthday girl is here |
| 0:35.1 | with us today. Happy birthday. Misinformation. Yeah, I was amazed that they knew it was my birthday. |
| 0:40.4 | Well, I couldn't quite work out how they'd figured it out. Well, I was taking it back when they said |
| 0:44.8 | Happy Birthday. I assumed it was, that was why you were there. There was another reason. There was |
| 0:49.7 | another reason. I was there to talk about some of the reporting and investigations I've done and |
| 0:54.1 | also to talk about America's undercover voters. I think it went down well. There are ways that we |
| 1:00.0 | can improve social media literacy through the reporting we do and there's a project and investigation |
| 1:05.6 | I've been doing for the BBC's America's podcast and it's five characters that I created based |
| 1:10.2 | on data from the Pew Research Centre. There's supposed to reflect US voters sitting across the |
| 1:14.6 | political spectrum. They are different ages from different places, different backgrounds, etc. |
| 1:19.1 | And that's just an opportunity to explain to the audience how different people are targeted, |
| 1:22.4 | even on the same topic and understanding the subjective social media worlds that you can be a part of. |
| 1:27.8 | And in the background of Please Car coming to get you, Mary. And I'm so pleased, though, to see |
| 1:31.7 | America's plugged in the corridors of power. And happy, belated birthday to you, Mary Anna. |
| 1:37.2 | Which I can wish you because I'm here in London at the America's worldwide head quarters. |
| 1:42.4 | They finally let me in and I brought your birthday present. I brought you the famous Air Force one, |
| 1:47.6 | M&Ms. There's a box for you as well. I'm sure you've had them before, Justin. But these ones are |
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