Trump pressures Nato to reopen Strait of Hormuz

特朗普敦促北约重新开放霍尔木兹海峡

Newshour

2026-03-16

48 分钟
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As the Iran war goes into its third week, which countries will heed President Trump's call to help unblock the flow of global oil? We hear from a former British army officer who served as Nato’s deputy supreme allied commander of Europe. Also on the programme: whistleblowers tell the BBC social media giants have allowed harmful content on feeds to entice users; and a new study finds that babies experiment with deceptive behaviour much earlier than previously thought. (Photo: US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on a flight back to Washington on March 15, 2026. Credit: Reuters)
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  • Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

  • We're coming to you live from London.

  • I'm Leila Nafu.

  • Later in the programme,

  • we'll be hearing about the glitz and the glamour of last night's Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles,

  • why whistleblowers at social media companies are raising the alarm about algorithms used to keep people engaged with their products,

  • and how babies are capable of deception at a much earlier age than previously thought.

  • But first, with the US-Israeli war against Iran now into its third week.

  • President Trump now appears to be homing in on one short-term aim,

  • restoring the free passage of tankers carrying oil and liquefied natural gas through the waterway,

  • the Strait of Hormuz, to Iran's south.

  • Tehran's effective closure off the strait through threats and attacks on ships has been a crucial weapon in its arsenal,

  • destabilising global energy supplies and prompting President Trump to call for US allies to help reopen it.

  • He warned that NATO would face a very bad future.

  • if there was, as he put it, no response or a negative response.

  • Here he is speaking to journalists on board a very noisy Air Force One

  • as he was travelling from Florida to Washington.

  • We are talking to other countries about working with us for the policing of being straight.

  • Remember, as an example, medications in NATO countries.

  • We're always there for NATO.