Summary
Today, we discuss President Trump’s new vision for global security, one that is creating a lot of criticism in Europe.
The 33-page document called the National Security Strategy suggests Europe is facing "civilisational erasure" and does not cast Russia as a threat to the US. Russia says the strategy is “largely consistent” with their vision.
Security correspondent Frank Gardner and former UK ambassador to the US Lord Kim Darroch join Adam to discuss what this means for Europe.
Plus, we discuss what has happened in Syria a year after former President Bashar al-Assad was overthrown. Adam chats with Mina Al-Lami from BBC Monitoring.
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| 0:35.2 | Unfortunately, I missed the bit where Donald Trump got the new FIFA Peace Prize, |
| 0:40.3 | because everyone's been posting pictures about how weird that trophy is. In the meantime, |
| 0:44.9 | the other thing Donald Trump was doing at the end of last week was publishing his new national |
| 0:48.7 | security strategy for the US, which also is quite an eye-opening experience, and we will dig into that document |
| 0:55.7 | and what the consequences of it are for the entire world, and particularly Europe, in this |
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| 1:22.0 | Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, and I've just been going through the 33 pages long United States |
| 1:29.1 | National Security Strategy, which has got all diplomats everywhere in the world and particularly |
| 1:34.9 | in Europe, agog. So let's dig into it now and find out what's in it and what it means |
| 1:40.3 | because I'm joined in the studio by two people who've also been reading it. Frank Gardner is the BBC security correspondent. Hello, Frank. Hello, Adam. And also back in the |
| 1:48.4 | newscast studio is Lord Derek, Kim Darryk, former British ambassador to the US and former |
| 1:52.5 | national security adviser. Hello. Hello, Adam. Right. We will talk about the latest |
| 1:56.9 | talks on Ukraine in a minute. But first of all, this document that's emerged in Washington |
| 2:00.9 | DC, I say emerged, it was published. It's an official thing. The national security strategy, |
| 2:06.0 | Frank, put that document in some kind of context for us. How important is it as a piece of paper? |
| 2:11.2 | Well, what a dance is that it sets out America's worldview on what it views as the security |
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