Trump deploys troops to Washington in 'crime crackdown'
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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President Trump has announced he's sending 800 National Guard troops to Washington DC and taking control of its police force, as he targets a crime "emergency" there. He claims that America's capital has been taken over by violent criminals. Also: how breathing into a conch shell could cure snoring, and we hear from the oldest ever contestant on the British version of the gameshow Countdown. The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 12th of August, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.5 | President Trump says he's sending National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and taking control of its police force |
| 0:17.7 | after claiming America's capital had been taken over by violent criminals. |
| 0:22.8 | Mr Trump also said he'd tell Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine when he meets the Russian |
| 0:27.7 | leader on Friday, but again indicated that Kiev would have to cede territory to Moscow. |
| 0:33.4 | Iraq has been hit by a nationwide electricity outage amid a consumption surge caused by weather |
| 0:39.2 | temperatures approaching 50 Celsius. |
| 0:43.7 | Also in this podcast, in the Gambia, the death of a victim of female genital mutilation, |
| 0:49.7 | a one-month-old baby girl. |
| 0:52.1 | Quarters and families who still want to continue the practice are doing it among babies |
| 0:57.4 | because they feel that when they caught babies, they can heal quicker. |
| 1:02.3 | We hear what the perpetrators are doing to avoid detection. |
| 1:16.5 | Donald Trump's presidency is controversial at home as much as it is abroad. |
| 1:23.0 | Two months ago, he launched a military operation in Los Angeles to deal with protests against immigration raids. |
| 1:32.3 | Now President Trump has announced that he will, as he did in L.A., put National Guard soldiers onto the streets in Washington, D.C., 800 of them. |
| 1:38.5 | He also said that he was temporarily taking control of the city's police force to try to end violent crime. |
| 1:44.0 | Speaking at the White House on Monday, President Trump said that massive enforcement operations would follow. |
| 1:49.3 | Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people, and we're not going to let it happen |
| 1:55.5 | anymore. We're not going to take it. It's becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness. And we're getting rid of the slums too. We have slums here. We're getting rid of them. I know it's not politically correct. You'll say, oh, so terrible. No, we're getting rid of the slums. And we'll deploy officers across the district with an overwhelming presence. You'll have more police and you'll be so happy because |
| 2:18.6 | you'll be safe. When you walk down the street, you're going to see police or you're going to |
| 2:22.8 | see FBI agents. We could have a lot of agents on the street. The Democratic mayor of Washington, |
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