NATO meets for 'consequential' summit
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
NATO leaders have been meeting in the Netherlands at a time when President Trump's 'America First' policies have strained the transatlantic alliance. We listen to some of President Trump's comments and ask what they might mean for the defence of Europe. Also in the programme: our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet reports from the Iranian capital, Tehran; and an interview with British rock legend Sir Rod Stewart, who will be playing at the Glastonbury Festival this month.
(Photo: U.S. President Donald Trump at a press conference at the NATO summit; Credit: REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Rebecca Kesbby. |
| 0:09.4 | And let's cross straight to the NATO summit in the Netherlands, |
| 0:13.6 | because in the past few minutes, President Trump has begun speaking, |
| 0:17.0 | and we can listen to what he's been saying now. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, I want to thank you for joining us at the conclusion of a highly productive NATO summit |
| 0:25.9 | in the Netherlands. I want to thank them for the royal treatment they've given us. Couldn't |
| 0:31.8 | have been nicer. And it's a beautiful country, really a beautiful country. |
| 0:38.5 | Coming in, I saw the most beautiful trees. |
| 0:40.5 | In fact, I want to bring some back with me. |
| 0:43.8 | I want to also thank I had breakfast this morning with the king and queen, and they're incredible people. |
| 0:51.6 | I called, I said, you're central casting, beautiful people, great people, big, beautiful |
| 0:57.4 | heart. And I enjoyed that. And also, NATO Secretary General Mark Rota, who's been terrific. |
| 1:07.3 | He's been a friend of mine. He used to be right here running this wonderful country. |
| 1:12.6 | Now, as the NATO Secretary General is doing a fantastic job and the Prime Minister, we appreciate |
| 1:18.0 | everything you've done. And as you know, last weekend, the United States successfully carried |
| 1:22.5 | out a massive precision strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, and it was very, very successful. |
| 1:33.5 | It was called obliteration. No other military on Earth could have done it, and now this |
| 1:38.7 | incredible exercise of American strength has paved the way for peace for the historic ceasefire agreement |
| 1:46.1 | late Monday, and we call it the 12-day war. I spoke to a few people. I guess that just |
| 1:52.5 | sounded like the right name. It was a 12-day war. And we think it's over. I don't think they're |
| 1:59.5 | going to be going back at each other. I don't think so. |
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