Trump rebrands Department of Defence Department of War

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  This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Paul Moss and in the early hours of Saturday, the 6th of September, these are our main stories.

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  President Trump has signed an order changing the name of the U.S.

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  Department of Defense to the Department of War,

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  calling the rebranding appropriate for the state of the world.

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  And U.S. officials say hundreds of South Koreans have been arrested in a raid on a Hyundai plant in Georgia.

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  Also in this podcast, Darth Vader's lightsaber is sold for more than three million dollars.

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  What's in a name?

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  A famous question posed by Shakespeare.

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  But it might well be asked of the White House,

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  because Donald Trump has officially ordered that the Department of Defense should be renamed the Department of War.

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  It's been called the Department of Defense since 1949.

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  But signing the order in the Oval Office,

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  Mr. Trump seemed to suggest it had been given that name as a concession to liberal sensibilities.

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  We won the First World War.

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  We won the Second World War.

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  We won...

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  Everything before that and in between,

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  and then we decided to go woke and we changed the name to Department of Defense.

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  So we're going Department of War.

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