Biden launches blistering attack on Trump
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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The president accuses him of using language reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, in his first election campaign speech of 2024. Also: Residents of the Russian border city of Belgorod are being moved to safety because of the persistent threat of Ukrainian attacks, and the Nigerian film that's winning big audiences and breaking a box office record.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Saturday, the 6th of January. |
| 0:10.3 | The US President Joe Biden kicks off America's election year with an attack on Donald Trump. |
| 0:15.6 | Today we're here to answer the most important of questions. |
| 0:19.6 | Is democracy still America's sacred cause? |
| 0:25.6 | Hezbollah says it has to respond to the assassination of a Hamas leader in its stronghold in Lebanon |
| 0:31.2 | or face more Israeli attacks and those people who spoke freely they |
| 0:36.4 | were arrested they were beaten they were tortured some of them were killed in |
| 0:40.6 | the jail we report on an opposition crackdown ahead of Bangladesh's election. |
| 0:47.6 | Also in the podcast, Move Over Hollywood, Make Way for Nollywood. In the cinema I watched it. |
| 0:54.0 | Everyone who saw the movie was open on their feet, |
| 0:56.0 | clapping for the producer of the movie. |
| 0:59.0 | The Nigerian film that's storming the box office, |
| 1:02.0 | and we hear which band has won the |
| 1:04.1 | BBC's prestigious sound of 2024. |
| 1:07.0 | The US President Joe Biden has kicked off America's election year with a forceful |
| 1:16.1 | attack on his likely rival, Donald Trump. |
| 1:18.9 | Speaking in Pennsylvania near Valley Forge, the site where George Washington regrouped his forces |
| 1:24.0 | during the War of Independence, President Biden highlighted Mr Trump's actions |
| 1:28.4 | on the 6th of January 2021 when his supporters storm the US capital. |
| 1:33.0 | Today we're here to answer the most important of questions. |
| 1:36.0 | Is democracy still America's sacred cause? |
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