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🗓️ 24 February 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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What happened last night in Sweden?
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0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
0:04.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. |
0:08.0 | I'm Ruth Alexander and with me this week making a rare appearance |
0:12.0 | is more or less editor Richard Varden. |
0:14.6 | Hi Ruth, a long time no see. |
0:16.0 | It is. Now every week or more or less we say let's not do Donald Trump this week. |
0:21.7 | And that was our intention this week. |
0:23.5 | We had a whole other program ready to go, but then the President said this at a campaign |
0:28.0 | rally last Saturday and we realized that you and me had to present this week. |
0:31.8 | You look at what's happening. you and me had to present this week. |
0:33.0 | You look at what's happening in Germany. |
0:36.0 | You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. |
0:40.0 | Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. Who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers they're having |
0:46.7 | problems like they never thought possible. You look at what's happening in |
0:51.0 | Brussels. You look at what's happening all over the world, take a look |
0:55.2 | at Nice, take a look at Paris. |
0:58.2 | President Trump's reference to last night in Sweden, followed by a list of cities that had suffered terrorist attacks |
1:04.5 | made people think he was referring to a terrorist attack in Sweden. |
1:08.7 | This puzzled the Swedes who hadn't noticed anything in particular happening last Friday night in Sweden. |
1:13.4 | But it soon all became clear. |
1:15.4 | Donald Trump had been watching TV last night and had seen a Fox News interview with a documentary |
1:21.6 | filmmaker Ami Horovitz who had made a short film |
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