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Live News,16 Mar 2026,29 mins

NATO “reluctance” to follow Trump

Newsnight

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As Donald Trump demands Nato countries join him in his war in the Middle East, his friend the President of Finland tells Newsnight why there has been "reluctance and a little bit of a pushback" to the US President. Plus, two years after Keir Starmer told Esther Rantzen that he was "personally committed" to changing the law on assisted dying, she tells us she's “begging” the House of Lords not to block the bill in an act of "sabotage". What next for the bill? With Matt Chorley.

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