UK deterrent missile fails second test in a row
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The missile's booster rockets are reported to have failed and it landed in the sea close to the launch site. The failure is highly embarrassing for both the UK and the US manufacturer of the Trident missile. Also: new research links some of the world's largest meat-packing companies to illegal deforestation in Brazil, and the Premier League tackles online abuse of players and their families.
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| 0:00.0 | We lost our humanity. We lost our dignity. We got punished for something we did not do. |
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| 0:19.9 | Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Nigel Adelie and at 14 hours |
| 0:27.1 | GMT on Wednesday, February the 21st, these are our main stories. |
| 0:32.1 | Another test of the UK's nuclear missile program fails. |
| 0:36.0 | We examine who or what was to blame. |
| 0:39.0 | New research links some of the world's largest meat packing companies to illegal |
| 0:44.1 | deforestation in Brazil and a coalition government is formed in Pakistan. We hear |
| 0:49.9 | opinion from the streets of Karachi. Also in this podcast, the widow of Haiti's murdered president defends herself from allegations of involvement in her husband's death. |
| 1:02.0 | We hear from her lawyer. of Family members getting as much abuse, sadly, as the players do. |
| 1:13.0 | Sometimes more abuse is sent to them than the players themselves. |
| 1:17.0 | The Premier League speaks out about online abuse. The British Ministry of Defence has insisted that the UK's nuclear deterrent |
| 1:28.5 | remains safe and effective despite the second successive failure of a test firing of a missile designed to carry warheads. |
| 1:37.0 | The Ministry said an anomaly occurred during the test but did not give further information. With the Defence Secretary and the head of the Navy on board to watch it launch, |
| 1:47.0 | it does, to say the least, look like an embarrassing failure. |
| 1:51.4 | Jerome Stark is the Defence editor of the Sun newspaper and he got |
| 1:55.9 | the scoop. He's been talking to Rebecca Kespi. Well embarrassing really is the word but |
| 2:01.7 | the message that the Minister of Defence in the UK are really thing really |
| 2:05.0 | keen to stress is that this hasn't undermined their nuclear deterrent. |
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