The Atlantic magazine releases full contents of U.S. war plans
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🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Atlantic magazine has released the full contents of a Trump administration group chat in which sensitive details of a US military attack in Yemen were divulged to one of its journalists. The White House has responded calling the leak a ‘hoax’.
Also on the programme: a long-awaited inquiry in South Korea has found previous governments responsible for committing human rights abuses over a decades long adoption program; and we hear about the miniature Dachshund who has spent more than a year on the run.
(Photo: U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth views a display of equipment in Hawaii. Credit: Handout via REUTERS, U.S. March 25, 2025)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm James Menendez. And coming up later, one of the South Koreans who was sent abroad for adoption |
| 0:14.6 | tells us her story. She was sent to Denmark after her mother was told she died at birth. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm a mother myself, and if I had a dead child, I would never get over that. |
| 0:30.1 | So thinking that my birth mother thinks that I'm dead, that's a haunting thought. You can hear that interview in 30 minutes. |
| 0:43.6 | But we begin with developments in the past couple of hours related to the messaging app security |
| 0:48.7 | breach in Washington, D.C. That saw journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine, mistakenly added to a group chat in which very senior Trump administration officials planned the recent series of airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen. |
| 1:04.1 | They're the Iran-back group that's been attacking cargo ships in the Red Sea because of the war in Gaza. |
| 1:10.0 | Well, Mr. Goldberg has just published some of the |
| 1:12.1 | previously redacted messages. We'll hear more about those in just a moment. While the U.S. |
| 1:18.1 | National Security Advisor Mike Wals says that he takes full responsibility for the leak, |
| 1:24.0 | here he is speaking to Fox News's Laura Ingram. Look, I take full responsibility. I built the, |
| 1:29.6 | I built the group. My job is to make sure everything's coordinated. It's embarrassing, yes. |
| 1:34.6 | We're going to get to the bottom of it. I just talked to Elon on the way here. We've got the |
| 1:39.0 | best technical minds looking at how this happened. But I can tell you for 100%, I don't know this guy. I know him by his |
| 1:46.8 | horrible reputation, and he really is the bottom scum of journalists. And I know him in the sense |
| 1:52.5 | that he hates the president, but I don't text him. He wasn't on my phone. And we're going to |
| 1:57.0 | figure out how this happens. There are some members of Congress, supporters of the administration, |
| 2:01.8 | who are uncomfortable with the revelations. |
| 2:04.2 | Pete Sessions is a senior Republican congressman. |
| 2:07.0 | He's worried about the language used in the tax |
| 2:09.8 | and how it will affect America's relationship with its allies. |
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