Rubio: US is constantly reassessing its relationship with NATO
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
At a summit in Sweden, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, says the Trump administration is constantly reviewing its relationship with NATO. The chief of the military alliance, Mark Rutte, insists it has grown closer and will become less reliant on the United States.
Also: students at one of Turkey's oldest private universities protest over its closure; the WHO upgrades its risk for ebola in the DRC; two sisters share their experience of living in Iran during the US and Israeli attacks; the TV programme, The Late Show, is broadcast for the final time in the US; ahead of the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas on Sunday we hear more about which athletes are competing and Manchester City's coach, Pep Guardiola, has confirmed that he's leaving the club.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello, I'm Ankara, 16 GMT on Friday the 22nd of May. |
| 0:16.0 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:17.8 | The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is constantly |
| 0:22.1 | reassessing its relationship with the NATO military alliance. Elsewhere protests have broken out |
| 0:27.6 | in Turkey after a university known for its liberal politics was closed by a decree from the president. |
| 0:34.1 | And Manchester City have confirmed that their manager, Pep Guardiola, will leave the English football club after 10 seasons. |
| 0:41.4 | Also in this podcast, scientists at Oxford University are working to create a new Ebola vaccine |
| 0:48.1 | as the number of suspected cases rises to 750. |
| 0:51.8 | There are various scientific and logistical challenges to get over, but in general |
| 0:57.7 | terms, it should be possible from a starting gun. In two to three months, maybe that sort of |
| 1:04.4 | time scale to have vaccines that could be deployed. And the controversy is huge. I think when it |
| 1:10.5 | first got launched, most people's instinct is to say that this is not fair, |
| 1:14.7 | that this is a bit of a far, a bit of a spectacle. |
| 1:18.0 | Las Vegas is gearing up for the enhanced games, which will allow athletes to use banned substances. |
| 1:27.3 | NATO is officially an alliance, but there's a lot right now that its members seemingly aren't aligned on. |
| 1:34.5 | The US is upset with other nations for not doing more to help during the war with Iran. |
| 1:39.8 | European countries, though, have had their own concerns, |
| 1:42.6 | with Donald Trump's pressure to annex |
| 1:44.6 | Greenland from Denmark. So when foreign ministers met in Sweden today for the first time since |
| 1:50.0 | the Iran war broke out, there was a lot to discuss. Before the summit, NATO Secretary General |
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