Trump lands in Europe for NATO summit

特朗普抵达欧洲参加北约峰会

World Business Report

2025-06-25

26 分钟
PDF

单集简介 ...

US president Trump arrives in Europe for the annual NATO summit. He is demanding all member states to commit to spending 5% of national economic output on their militaries. We hear how a social enterprise in Northern Uganda is connecting rural homes and transforming lives by turning agricultural waste into clean, renewable energy. Plus, why are people protesting again a multimillion dollar celebrity wedding in Venice?
更多

单集文稿 ...

  • This is Andrew Peach with World Business Report.

  • On the way,

  • NATO leaders are in the Netherlands as a summit centred on increasing defence spending begins.

  • A former US ambassador to NATO is with us live.

  • Later, we're off to rural northern Uganda,

  • where one social enterprise is using agricultural waste to power homes and plug the energy gap.

  • I got my battery for electricity, which I'm using for cooking.

  • It has improved my life.

  • And protesters in Venice are claiming a win after a last-minute change of venue for the opulent wedding of the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiance Lauren Sanchez.

  • We are not opposing the wedding.

  • What we are opposing is a multi-billionaire can buy Venice for a few days.

  • Going to start in The Hague, though, where President Trump has arrived for the NATO summit.

  • Coverage so far somewhat overshadowed by an extraordinary 24 hours in the conflict between Israel and Iran.

  • But after sending the US president a flattering pre-summit message,

  • which Donald Trump then released on social media,

  • lavishing praise on his handling of the Western alliance,

  • the NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutter,

  • told his European colleagues to stop worrying about the US's commitment and focus on investing.

  • in defence.

  • Both men want each member country to spend 5% of GDP on defence or to break that down more specifically,