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Gavin Grey: UK and Europe correspondent on US President Donald Trump landing in the Netherlands for his first NATO summit since 2019 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Kevin grane Are UK europe correspondent Gavin Goods, Morning, good
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  Speaker 1: evening to you, hither Rod. Yeah, it's certainly going to
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  Speaker 1: be an important meeting. It's the first Trump NATO summit
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  Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen, and he's going to be delighted, I
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  Speaker 1: think with what he sees because it looks like all
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  Speaker 1: thirty two leaders are set to commit to spending five
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  Speaker 1: percent of national output on defense and related infrastructure. At
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  Speaker 1: least that is the hope, because there are some that
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  Speaker 1: are going to really try and wriggle out of this.
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  Speaker 1: Spain incidentally one of them. Spain spends very little of
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  Speaker 1: its gross domestic product. It's at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: list when it comes to defense spending, and it's trying
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  Speaker 1: to wiggle out, saying, well, it can't afford it. It'll
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  Speaker 1: have to cut back on pensions and benefits as well.
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  Speaker 1: But there's definitely pressure on Spain to get back in there,
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  Speaker 1: and Belgium too, apparently sharing some wriggle room with that,
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  Speaker 1: but also ringing Donald Trump's is or well not quite
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  Speaker 1: because it was posted by Donald Trump is a private
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  Speaker 1: message that the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter has sent
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  Speaker 1: him in a pre summit message lavishing praise on his
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  Speaker 1: handling of the Western Alliance, and it says, and I quote,
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  Speaker 1: you're flying into another big success in the Hague this evening.
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  Speaker 1: It was not easy, but we got them all signed
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  Speaker 1: up to five percent. He's congratulated Trump on his quote
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  Speaker 1: decisive action in Iran that was truly extraordinary in something
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  Speaker 1: no one else dared to do. It makes us safer.
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  Speaker 1: Asked whether he was embarrassed at this private message had
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  Speaker 1: been made public, he said not at all. Other people
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  Speaker 1: will be deeply embarrassed. I mean, you've got if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to send the ticks to Donald Trump, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to expect that it's gonna end up or potentially end
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  Speaker 1: up on the public domain, don't you. So you can't
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  Speaker 1: be too surprised. Hey, I love the story the Cinderella
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  Speaker 1: krocking in the UK. Yeah, an amazing story. This so
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  Speaker 1: a man who was basically riding on an e bike
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  Speaker 1: suddenly snatched the phone out of somebody's hand in East
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  Speaker 1: London on l like Gate Hill back in August of
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  Speaker 1: last year. Now he was tackled by members of the public,
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  Speaker 1: having stolen the handset from the victim's hand and in
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  Speaker 1: the struggle to get back on the bike, this man,
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  Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old, lost a trainer one of
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  Speaker 1: his shoes. Now he continued, however, wearing one shoe and
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  Speaker 1: managed to get away. However, yes, you guessed it. DNA
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  Speaker 1: analysis now looked at the single shoe, the so called
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  Speaker 1: Cinderella shoe, and matched the DNA on it. They found
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  Speaker 1: there was just enough DNA on the shoe. Found there
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  Speaker 1: was just enough to match it to an existing profile
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  Speaker 1: of a thief on the national database. And a twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight year old man has now been found guilty of
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  Speaker 1: that and he's now going to be sentenced in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of months time. The forensic manager of the City
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  Speaker 1: of London Police said, this really is a Cinderella story.
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  Speaker 1: This slipper fitted our Cinderella and we produced a hit
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  Speaker 1: to a man who has profile had previously been up
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  Speaker 1: deloaded with those in criminal acts. Good good, it's good
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  Speaker 1: to hear that one of them is finally being caught.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for that. Kevin Grant, UK europe Correspondent.
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