Nato vows 'irreversible path' to Ukraine membership
Newshour
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🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Nato members have pledged their support for an "irreversible path" to future membership for Ukraine, as well as more aid. In response, former Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev said he hoped this would end "either with the disappearance of Ukraine, or NATO -- or better still, both”. A US State Department director tells Newshour that Russia is trying to “undermine the alliance and threaten” the war-torn nation. Also in the programme: US President Joe Biden prepares to take to the stage at a NATO summit news conference. Will he reassure critics that he is a competent candidate for the 2024 election? Moreover, researchers film male lions swimming over a mile to find mates - in a species first. We speak to a big cat expert.
Photo: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky hugs NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the 2024 NATO Conference in Washington DC, 11th July 2024. Credit: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from |
| 0:07.9 | London. I'm Paul Henley. At the NATO Conference in Washington the Alliance |
| 0:12.4 | pledges to provide more military aid to Ukraine |
| 0:15.8 | much to Russia's annoyance. |
| 0:18.0 | Also on the program could a press conference by President Biden be a defining moment in his battle to beat Donald Trump to the next presidency, |
| 0:26.8 | and we'll hear the story of a teacher from Gaza killed shortly before he was due to escape |
| 0:31.6 | from the war. Mohammed was due to escape from the war. |
| 0:33.0 | Mohammed was planning to join his future wife in Egypt. |
| 0:36.0 | Her family escaped there after nine were killed in an earlier air strike. |
| 0:41.0 | Mohammed's fiancee Hadil. |
| 0:43.4 | Up to the last minute I was planning for him to arrive here. We were going to stay for |
| 0:49.5 | a while and if things improved go back to Gaza. |
| 0:54.0 | Now, I don't know what to do. |
| 0:56.0 | More on that in about 15 minutes. |
| 0:58.0 | New promises to Kiev from NATO at its ongoing summit in Washington might fall short of satisfying the |
| 1:05.5 | Ukrainian president. They are more than enough though to anger Moscow. |
| 1:10.2 | Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Pescov, said NATO had made itself a clear threat to Russia's national security. |
| 1:17.0 | Former Russian President Dimitri Medvedev said he hoped this would all end either with the disappearance of Ukraine, of NATO, |
| 1:25.1 | or better still, he said, of both. In a joint statement delivered by the outgoing |
| 1:29.9 | NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, leaders of the military alliance have pledged a minimum |
| 1:35.2 | of $40 billion of military aid to Kiev over the coming year. |
| 1:39.7 | Mr Stoltenberg outlined further NATO measures to help Ukraine with training and logistics, but he stressed |
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