Biden targets Trump in combative speech
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Giving his annual State of the Union address, the US President accused Donald Trump of "bowing down" before Russia and said the US would not back down from supporting Ukraine. Also: Gunmen on motorbikes have reportedly seized more than 100 schoolchildren in the second mass kidnapping this week in Nigeria, and anticipation mounts ahead of a heavyweight boxing bout in Saudi Arabia.
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| 0:19.5 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm Rachel Wright and in the early hours of Friday the 8th of March these are our main stories. |
| 0:30.0 | We have the latest on President Biden's school children in Nigeria, the country's |
| 0:39.1 | second mass kidnapping in a matter of days. Also in this podcast, Haiti's main port has suspended all operations as violence escalates |
| 0:50.0 | and criminal gangs consolidate their grip on the capital. |
| 0:53.2 | We get the latest in the Formula One Red Bull Saga. |
| 0:56.5 | And we head to Los Alamos, the town in New Mexico, |
| 0:59.9 | made famous by the film Oppenheimer, |
| 1:02.2 | where people are dealing with a conflicted past. |
| 1:05.0 | It's really easy for us 75 years later to sit in self-righteous judgment of decisions that were made. |
| 1:14.8 | We started the United States where President Joe Biden has been delivering the State of |
| 1:19.2 | the Union address. |
| 1:20.2 | Here's my colleague Paul Moss with the details. |
| 1:23.0 | There were those who thought Joe Biden's State of the Union address might be weakly delivered, |
| 1:28.0 | sounding tentative, proving what his critics say that this is a man who's already too old for the job, let alone |
| 1:34.7 | in a state to hold office for another four years. Well, Mr. Biden came out fighting, no prelimaries, no niceties to sugar the speech. |
| 1:43.7 | Instead he launched a direct attack on the man |
| 1:46.5 | almost certain to be his opponent in the forthcoming election. |
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