Why is Trump pardoning war crimes?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

President Trump’s been in the UK for the meeting of the world’s biggest military alliance, NATO. NATO’s been struggling recently, partly because Trump doesn’t get along so well with America’s traditional allies and now he’s in a row with his own military chiefs. This is because he’s taken decisions without informing them, like pulling out of Syria. And also because they think he doesn’t care about traditional military standards like army discipline. The latest row involves the trial of decorated Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher, who was accused of murdering an Iraqi prisoner. We hear from the BBC’s Whitehouse Correspondent Tara McKelvey about the case find out why Trump has got involved. Presenter: Matthew Price Produced by Philly Beaumont Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.3	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.9	Welcome to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:11.0	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:15.0	Today why is Trump pardoning war crimes? So this week's lesson has got to be don't have private conversations when the TV cameras are nearby.
0:44.6	Did you see the video?
0:45.6	It had Boris Johnson standing in a circle.
0:48.7	The French president was there, the Dutch leader,
0:51.6	and Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister
0:54.0	Princess Anne was somewhere in there as well and you can just about here
0:58.2	Trudeau talking about someone. Everybody assumed they then start laughing about President Trump.
1:09.6	And the next day Trump called Trudeau.
1:12.3	Well he's too fast.
1:13.3	Too faced.
1:14.9	And left the summit a little bit early. Good morning and many thanks for Mr Johnson for hosting all of us. It's really a
1:30.4	great pleasure to be here.
1:32.8	They were all here for a meeting of the world's biggest military alliance, NATO.
1:37.7	It's a group of 29 countries that work together.
1:40.2	They pledge to defend one another.
1:41.6	We meet here to mark the seventh anniversary of our alliance.
1:47.0	NATO, after 70 years, has more recently been struggling.
1:53.0	Partly because Trump and America's a really key influence within NATO,
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