NATO leaders set to support Trump defense spending target
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🗓️ 25 June 2025
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From the BBC World Service: We start today's show in the Netherlands, where President Donald Trump is for the NATO Summit. Most European countries have agreed to up their defense spending to 5% of GDP, though Spain has been less forthcoming. Then, India's dark stores deliver to online shoppers in just 10 minutes. What's the impact on retailers? And, demonstrators protest the lavish wedding of Jeff Bezos in Venice by throwing inflatable alligators into some of the city's iconic canals.
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| 0:00.0 | The dark stores delivering to online shoppers in just 10 minutes. |
| 0:05.0 | Coming up, we'll look at the impact on other retailers in India, live from the UK. |
| 0:09.5 | This is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Stuart Clarkson in Fort Leanna Byrne. Good morning. |
| 0:16.0 | Let's start in Europe, though, where President Trump is in the Hague in the Netherlands for the NATO summit, |
| 0:20.5 | most European countries have agreed to up their defence spending to 5% of GDP, which is higher |
| 0:25.6 | than what the US currently spends, but on every country has signed up and speaking to reporters |
| 0:29.9 | on his flight to the summit, Mr. Trump singled out Spain. |
| 0:33.1 | They're having a problem with Spain. They're always a problem with Spain, because Spain's not |
| 0:37.7 | agreed, which is very unfair to the rest of them. |
| 0:39.9 | Well, Havi Lopez is a member of the European Parliament for Spain's governing socialist |
| 0:43.6 | party and a member of the EU Committee on Security and Defence. |
| 0:47.3 | What we made during this year is to have a huge increase, like coming from 1.5 to 2%. This was the decision made by our government, |
| 0:59.1 | and we are ready to work on this direction and to spend more. But the reality is like it's not |
| 1:04.9 | the same every country. We are not facing the same reality, the same geography, the same |
| 1:09.7 | history and the same budget. |
| 1:11.9 | Next today, quick commerce is big business. This is where you tap an app on your phone to buy |
| 1:16.6 | something and it turns up at your door in just 10 minutes. In India, the firm's offering |
| 1:21.1 | this are changing shopping habits, but it's creating problems too, including exhausted gig economy |
| 1:26.7 | workers and struggling family-run stores. |
| 1:29.2 | Here's the BBC's Davina Gupta on India's 10-minute delivery craze. |
| 1:33.2 | Hi. How are you? |
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