Diplomacy, Defence and.... Daddy?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today, world leaders have agreed to increase defence spending to 5% at a Nato summit at The Hague.

Member states will commit 3.5% of GDP on core defence expenditure by 2035, plus up to 1.5% on a security investments. President Trump hailed the outcome as a “big win” and said he no longer thought Nato was a "rip-off". Adam is joined by BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale and former British Ambassador to the United States, Lord Kim Darroch.

Also at the summit is Chris, who’s been traveling with the Prime Minister. Starmer is facing a backbench rebellion over changes to the welfare system.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	Hello, we've caused a diplomatic incident with the Netherlands.
0:08.6	This follows Catchers reporting from the NATO summit in the Hague in the Netherlands on the last episode of newscast,
0:14.7	where she talked about a type of biscuit called cock.
0:18.5	Newscast listener Silka got in touch, and the important thing here is Silka is Dutch.
0:23.8	I heard Katya speak about a Dutch biscuit last night
0:29.0	in the podcast on the NATO summit in the Hague,
0:33.1	and I thought I might want to clarify the pronunciation
0:36.3	of that really delicious Dutch treat,
0:40.0	which is actually cook rather than the male genital that she mentioned.
0:47.4	So I hope this helps.
0:48.8	Silka, thank you for that.
0:50.3	In my defence, when I then looked up these biscuits later in the episode yesterday,
0:55.5	I think I did say it looks like it's more like pronounced cook than cock,
1:01.6	but we stand corrected.
1:05.3	Let's see what else we can get wrong in this episode of Newscast.
1:10.2	Newscast from the BBC.
1:12.6	He has just compared me to the fat controller.
1:15.5	Did I say that?
1:16.9	I can't believe I said that.
1:18.4	Next Wednesday?
1:19.2	This is R for the benefit of Earth.
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