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Global News Podcast

Biden: US Budget 'for those who hold country together'

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It includes big spending plans, worth more than six trillion dollars, with the focus on social programmes. Also: Italy's prime minister announces tough new penalties for people smugglers, after a cabinet meeting on the coast where dozens of migrants drowned last month, and the UK reveals its entrant for the Eurovision song contest.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.8

I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Friday,

0:08.9

the 10th of March, these are our main stories.

0:11.6

Spending big and taxing big.

0:14.5

Joe Biden lays out his stance on America's future finances.

0:18.0

A mass shooting leaves several dead in the German city of Hamburg,

0:22.0

and more big anti-government demonstrations in Georgia

0:25.4

despite a government climb down.

0:27.5

We don't really want to be part of Russia and Georgia is against it, actually.

0:31.2

And we hope tomorrow, Georgian people will be free

0:34.2

from the crashing government of our country.

0:38.5

Also in this podcast, the Ugandan bill that seeks to penalise LGBTQ people.

0:44.4

And good news is the UN secures a ship to remove oil from a huge tanker

0:49.3

that's been languishing off the coast of Yemen for years

0:52.5

threatening environmental disaster.

0:57.8

President Biden has been laying out his stance on America's budget.

1:02.1

It envisages spending big and to pay for that taxing big.

1:06.3

But he's well aware that there'll be many opposing his plans.

1:09.5

Indeed, because of Republican opposition,

1:11.8

he knows his proposals are unlikely to get very far.

1:15.4

Here's a little of him on big business.

1:17.6

I got elected.

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