Republicans await Trump RNC speech
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Trump is set to take centre stage at the Republican National Convention on Thursday evening to deliver a speech and formally accept the party's presidential nomination - we hear from his former national security advisor. Also on the programme: In Bangladesh the internet is cut off as protesters set fire to the headquarters of the national broadcaster; the stegosaurus bones that have sold for $44.6M. And can Britain learn lessons from an unusually high death toll during the Covid pandemic?
(Photo: Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump stands with members of his extended family on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Credit: Reuters / O'hare)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the program. This is News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Paul Henley. We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:10.8 | The star of the Republican Convention in Milwaukee, Donald Trump, |
| 0:15.2 | is due to speak in a few hours time to delegates. He is on the bill just after |
| 0:19.5 | members of his family and the retired wrestler Hulk Hogan and having just survived an attempt on |
| 0:25.3 | his life he will be projecting vigor and perhaps reconciliation to an America deeply |
| 0:31.0 | divided politically. |
| 0:32.8 | Meanwhile President Biden is holed up in his beach house with COVID |
| 0:36.9 | and is under mounting pressure from fellow Democrats |
| 0:39.6 | to abandon his campaign for re-election. Barack Obama is reported to have told allies Mr Biden needs seriously to reconsider his candidacy. |
| 0:49.0 | The BBC's NEDA Torfique joined us from Milwaukee as atmosphere built ahead of Mr Trump's speech tonight, |
| 0:56.0 | his first since the assassination attempt. |
| 1:00.0 | Well you might hear there's a little bit of opera where the stage is. There's been a lot |
| 1:05.8 | of preparations, rehearsals going on earlier, some rock and roll music to |
| 1:12.3 | introduce Donald Trump you can actually |
| 1:14.7 | also see the balloons in the rafters ready to be released for the big balloon drop |
| 1:20.4 | after Donald Trump finishes his speech. |
| 1:24.2 | So at the moment, kind of a lot of anticipation here. |
| 1:27.4 | I've been speaking to delegates to talk about how they feel kind of being here to witness Donald Trump's first |
| 1:35.1 | major speech since that narrow escape of his life and that assassination |
| 1:40.2 | attempt of course his formal acceptance of the party's nomination and |
| 1:43.4 | the energy is very palpable here people are very very excited and feel like |
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