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What did they miss the first time?
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seven years on, those volunteers have been tried and acquitted.
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This is NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
My name's Paul Henley.
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First up today,
there have been many tests during the first year of Donald Trump's second presidency of the famous transatlantic relationship.
But European leaders always towed the line.