it is 7:00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 8:00pm in the united states, where donald trump has given what is, even by his standards, a quite extraordinary interview. speaking to the london times newspaper in his new york office, the president elect held forth on a range of issues sure to reverberate around the world. he called nato obsolete, though he insisted the defence organisation was still very important. and on trade, he criticised china, and said the system just wasn t working for america. here is a little of what mr trump, due to be inaugurated later this week, had to say. the problem is, the united states is a lwa ys the problem is, the united states is always taken the problem is, the united states is always ta ken advantage the problem is, the united states is always taken advantage of. yes. we have hundreds of billions of dollars of trade deficits with china. we have $805 billion in trade deficits, with the world. you almost say, who is making these deals,
and london. this is bbc world news. it s newsday. good morning. it s 9:00am in singapore, 1:00am in london and 8:00pm in new york, where donald trump has given details of his foreign policy goals. speaking to the times newspaper at his office in manhattan, the president elect spoke on a range of issues sure to reverberate around the world. he called nato obsolete though he insisted the defence organisation was still very important. and on trade he criticised china and said the system just wasn t working for america. here s a little of what mr trump due to be inaugurated on friday had to say. the problem is the united states is a lwa ys the problem is the united states is always taken the problem is the united states is always ta ken advantage the problem is the united states is always taken advantage of. we have trade deficit with the world you almost say, who is making these deals when you are losing that kind of money. almost $100 billion of the trade deficit with t
from time to time. who knows? amy: the late folk artist and activist pete seeger was a musical and political icon who helped create the modern american folk music movement. now there are some new pages to add to his songbook, the government has released nearly 1800 pages that reveal the fbi spied on him for almost 30 years. the surveillance began when seeger protested the targeting of japanese-americans during world war ii. it continued until the early 1970 s as he wrote some of the most famous anti-war songs of the 20th century. don t be a nervous nelly, the captain said to him deep in the big muddy amy: we will speak to peter seeger s biographer, david king dunaway about the more than 1700 pages the government has released. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the number of refugees that have entered europe this year has topped one million. international organization for migration says the ta
well, i assumed most of my life that if it wasn t a microphone under the bed am a they were tapping the phone from time to time and opening my mail from time to time. who knows? amy: the late folk artist and activist pete seeger was a musical and political icon who helped create the modern american folk music movement. now there are some new pages to add to his songbook, the government has released nearly 1800 pages that reveal the fbi spied on him for almost 30 years. the surveillance began when seeger protested the targeting of japanese-americans during world war ii. it continued until the early 1970 s as he wrote some of the most famous anti-war songs of the 20th century. don t be a nervous nelly, the captain said to him deep in the big muddy amy: we will speak to peter seeger s biographer, david king dunaway about the more than 1700 pages the government has released. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i
life that if it wasn t a microphone under the bed am a they were tapping the phone from time to time and opening my mail from time to time. who knows? amy: the late folk artist and activist pete seeger was a musical and political icon who helped create the modern american folk music movement. now there are some new pages to add to his songbook, the government has released nearly 1800 pages that reveal the fbi spied on him for almost 30 years. the surveillance began when seeger protested the targeting of japanese-americans during world war ii. it continued until the early 1970 s as he wrote some of the most famous anti-war songs of the 20th century. don t be a nervous nelly, the captain said to him deep in the big muddy amy: we will speak to peter seeger s biographer, david king dunaway about the more than 1700 pages the government has released. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the number of