America's friends

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

From a US president who is turning the world upside down – with a relish for dismantling global agreements – the message is clear: it’s America first. But where does that leave old European allies? Few expect the transatlantic relationship to go back to where it was before Trump. Europe, says Angela Merkel, now has to shape its own destiny. James Naughtie explores the uncertain future for America's friends.

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0:00.0	60 seconds. We choose to go to the moon.
0:03.5	40 feet down to an hour. Neal said we can't land here.
0:06.7	Everyone is sitting there not knowing what is happening.
0:10.1	30 seconds. We're about to make it.
0:12.0	13 minutes to the moon from the BBC World Service coming soon.
0:25.0	It really breaks my heart to hear people saying America first.
0:29.8	There was this big friendship once.
0:32.8	When I see what has become of that today, that really gets to me.
0:39.8	This is James Nochti.
0:40.8	And in America's friends here on the BBC World Service,
0:43.8	I'll be looking at what's happening to the transatlantic relationship
0:47.8	in the era of Donald Trump and asking where we go from here.
0:52.8	A American president used to come to Europe as friends.
1:01.8	John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama.
1:04.8	A time of change, an old alliance pulled apart.
1:09.8	Then we look and look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country.
1:17.8	And this great continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe.
1:24.8	We come to Berlin, we American presidents,
1:27.8	because it's our duty to speak in this place of freedom.
1:34.8	America has no better partner than Europe.
1:40.8	Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one
1:45.8	that binds us across the Atlantic.
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