Nato says Trump comments 'undermine all of our society'
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The US presidential hopeful, Donald Trump, suggests Washington will not protect Nato allies if they fail to meet defence spending targets. Also: President Biden says Israel must have a safety plan for civilians in Rafah, and a friend helps Squid - the partially sighted penguin
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| 0:18.0 | Hello, this is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Robin Brantt and in the early hours of |
| 0:26.6 | Monday the 12th of February these are our main stories. NATO's Secretary General |
| 0:31.2 | has rebuked Donald Trump for suggesting that he'd encourage |
| 0:35.1 | Russia to attack any member of the Alliance that hadn't paid its bills. |
| 0:40.5 | The US President Joe Biden has urged Israel's Prime Minister in a phone call not to launch an offensive on Rafa without a plan to protect more than a million civilians there. |
| 0:52.0 | And Keave says it has evidence that Russian troops are |
| 0:54.6 | using Elon Musk's Starlink Satellite Internet service in occupied parts of |
| 0:59.5 | Ukraine. Also coming up in this podcast. She's very much learnt that she needs to stand next |
| 1:07.2 | to him at the feed bucket in order to kind of have her focus and from there she |
| 1:12.3 | will very quickly take the fish but she is |
| 1:14.4 | definitely much more secure by having him next to her. We'll tell you about |
| 1:18.0 | squid the partially sighted penguin that's found a friend at feeding time. |
| 1:30.0 | Let's start there with NATO's Secretary General who has issued a stern rebuke to Donald Trump for suggesting that he would encourage Russia to attack members of the |
| 1:34.4 | alliance who don't pay their Jews. Jens Stoltenberg said the words of the former |
| 1:38.9 | US president who is running for office again this year could undermine security and put soldiers at risk. |
| 1:46.4 | Mr Stoltenberg insisted that the Alliance stood by its commitment to defend any member that was attacked. |
| 1:52.6 | The White House has described Mr Trump's comments made at a campaign rally on Saturday |
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