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--:-- Paul Mawson: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Paul Mawson at 12 Hours GMT on Wednesday the 6th of November.
--:-- Paul Mawson: Donald Trump has been confirmed as the 47th President of the United States. His supporters reacting with jubilation. We'll have the full story from the US, plus reaction from around the world, including China, Russia, the Middle East and Ukraine.
--:-- Paul Mawson: We'll also consider what a second Trump term will mean for the global economy and for climate change.
--:-- Paul Mawson: In the end, it wasn't close at all. Donald Trump has staged one of the biggest political comebacks in US history. He not only won in the Electoral College, but also looks like winning the popular vote.
--:-- Paul Mawson: His Republican Party also has control of the Senate, and it's on course to win the House. With Trump-appointed judges dominating the Supreme Court, it gives the incoming president a very powerful mandate for change and the ability to implement it.
--:-- Paul Mawson: Here was Mr. Trump addressing supporters at his campaign headquarters in Florida.
--:-- Donald Trump: This will truly be the golden age of America. That's what we have to have. This is a magnificent victory for the American people.
--:-- Donald Trump: We've been through so much together, and today you showed up in record numbers to deliver a victory like no other. This was something special, and we're going to pay you back.
--:-- Donald Trump: We're going to do the best job. We're going to turn it around. It's got to be turned around. It's got to be turned around fast.
--:-- Donald Trump: And this will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country.
--:-- Donald Trump: It's time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us. It's time to unite. And we're going to try. We're going to try.
--:-- Donald Trump: We have to try. And it's going to happen. Success will bring us together. America's future will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer and stronger than it has ever been before.
--:-- Donald Trump: God bless you and God bless America. Thank you very much.
--:-- Paul Mawson: Mr. Trump's win is bigger than when he was last elected president. All the more notable given that since then he's become a convicted felon, faced numerous lawsuits, survived two impeachments and has been accused of supporting the January 6th riots.
--:-- Paul Mawson: Many of those who worked in the first Trump administration have spoken out against him. His longest serving chief of staff, General John Kelly, described him as a fascist.
--:-- Paul Mawson: And his former defence secretary, Mark Esper, said, I'm not sure we can survive another four years of Donald Trump.
--:-- Paul Mawson: But his supporters were jubilant. Great. Trump won. Awesome.
--:-- Supporter: The country really needed Trump to win because it was going in the very wrong direction.
--:-- Supporter: The world's obviously a super unstable place right now. Everything happening in the Middle East, the stuff in Eastern Europe.
--:-- Supporter: So I think that he has a lot of really solid plans in place. And I think the thing that's most helpful about him is the relationships that he maintains with these foreign leaders.
--:-- Supporter: Yes, I voted for Trump and I feel good with the numbers. I've got my fingers crossed.
--:-- Paul Mawson: So joy for Donald Trump and his base. But for Kamala Harris voters, it was a chastening night.
--:-- Paul Mawson: Earlier in the evening, as results trickled in, showing a Republican surge, Ms. Harris cancelled her speech to the party faithful.
--:-- Paul Mawson: Dejected Democrats streamed away early from the Harris headquarters at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
--:-- Paul Mawson: So a split country and a fractured America. And for the losing side, the mood is gloomy.
--:-- Giovanni Chavez: This is not normal. This is not normal at all.
--:-- Giovanni Chavez: I remember days when a political gaffe could end someone's career.
--:-- Giovanni Chavez: The outlier here is Donald Trump himself. Donald Trump is someone that's very, very divisive, someone that implemented a Muslim ban the last time he was in office, wanted to ban transgender folks from the military, had his supporters storm the Capitol.
--:-- Giovanni Chavez: I think the only way we move on past this divisiveness and get back to a place where we can have friendly disagreements is when we move beyond Trump.
--:-- Giovanni Chavez: And clearly we haven't done that now, but in four years, I think we'll be in a much better place.
--:-- Anna Foster: In the run-up to this event, we talked about the polls, didn't we, and the fact that it was neck and neck.
--:-- Anna Foster: And all through voting yesterday, everybody firmly believed that anything could happen.
--:-- Anna Foster: We watched people casting their votes. We heard all of the sort of the rhetoric that was coming from the candidates, because remember how much effort and energy both of them poured into the state of Pennsylvania.
--:-- Anna Foster: You know, when I was in Philadelphia and Kamala Harris had her final rally there, there was a sense of optimism among both sets of supporters.
--:-- Anna Foster: And I think when Pennsylvania was called for Donald Trump in the very early hours of the morning here, that really felt like the moment that things shifted and changed.
--:-- Anna Foster: His supporters absolutely jubilant today, particularly in those key swing states. They feel that they worked incredibly hard.
--:-- Anna Foster: They feel that the message that they were getting out, particularly on the economy, was going to resonate. And it's been proved now that it did.
--:-- Anna Foster: There was a genuine belief among both camps that it was actually closer than the results that we're seeing so far actually bear out.
--:-- Anna Foster: I think they really thought, and particularly Kamala Harris's team, they had a real sense of positivity.
--:-- Anna Foster: They felt that they were moving the dial and we saw that, didn't we? Sort of slip away as the night went on when she cancelled her planned appearance at the rally.
--:-- Anna Foster: When she said that she wouldn't be coming out and speaking today. And we saw the mood and the tone in those two camps.
--:-- Anna Foster: But I think what is really interesting as well is how people will react to this again in those key swing states.
--:-- Anna Foster: When we got the exit poll data, which looks very much at trends, how people feel, not necessarily just who they voted for.
--:-- Anna Foster: We actually saw from both sides that this real sense of fear and nervousness about what would happen if the other side win.
--:-- Anna Foster: And I think you saw it in that speech that Donald Trump made where he talked about healing the country.
--:-- Anna Foster: I think there's this real schism, this fear that politics once again has opened up a huge divide across America and something now needs to be done to pull people back together, particularly as they wake up to this result.
--:-- Lise Doucette: Once he gets his feet under the table at the Oval Office, there are two international issues which perhaps will be at the top of the president's intray, the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.
--:-- Lise Doucette: We'll hear from our correspondent in Kiev in a moment, but first to our chief international correspondent Lise Doucette in Jerusalem.
--:-- Lise Doucette: She spoke to Alex Ritson. Noticeably, Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel was very quick off the mark in congratulating Donald Trump.
--:-- Lise Doucette: And what was also noticeable was that this was not just a political message. It was a very warm, personal one.
--:-- Lise Doucette: It was addressed to Donald and Melania Trump and signed off in true friendship, yours, Benjamin and Sarah Netanyahu, underlining that the two couples have in fact built up a very strong personal and indeed political relationship over many years.
--:-- Lise Doucette: And it was noticeable too that Prime Minister Netanyahu used almost the same phrase as Viktor Orban of Hungary, another Donald Trump personal and political ally used, talking about history's greatest comeback, exclamation mark.
--:-- Lise Doucette: These are two leaders who never hid the fact they very much wanted Donald Trump to be back in the White House.
--:-- Lise Doucette: The statement from Prime Minister Netanyahu, as indeed the statement from Israeli opposition leaders, all emphasize this longstanding true friendship between the United States and Israel.
--:-- Lise Doucette: That friendship would have endured the strategic partnership that we've seen in full display during the Gaza war and the wider war in the Middle East whether or not it was Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.
--:-- Lise Doucette: But there is a sense that it will be that Prime Minister Netanyahu will have an even freer hand now with Donald Trump about to enter the White House.
--:-- Lise Doucette: And that was reflected in the opinion polls too, with all the polls showing the vast majority of Israelis believing that Donald Trump would be better for Israel.
--:-- Lise Doucette: And yet a more muted reception from the Palestinians. But the Palestinians, an awful lot of them, we saw it, were voting, making a point of voting against Kamala Harris, those in the United States.
--:-- Lise Doucette: In the United States and here and across the region, there was a lot of indifference.
--:-- Lise Doucette: There's been much criticism of President Biden's almost unconditional support for Israel's conduct in the war.
--:-- Lise Doucette: And even though in recent months he has been more open in his criticism of the way too many civilians are dying, He was calling, Kamala Harris was repeatedly calling for a ceasefire and end to the killing of innocent civilians.
--:-- Lise Doucette: But he never used the ultimate weapon that the United States have, and that is to cut off armed supplies or even to suspend them.
--:-- Lise Doucette: There was a very temporary suspension early on in the war.
--:-- Lise Doucette: So across the region, certainly the view from the streets and some of the Arab leaders was that it doesn't matter who's in power.
--:-- Lise Doucette: And in fact, we want to see the Biden team punished for backing Israel to the hilt.
--:-- Lise Doucette: But there's a common thread across the reactions we've had so far from the Arab world.
--:-- Lise Doucette: The leader of the UAE, the Emir of Qatar, President Sisi of Egypt, Jordan's King Abdullah, all of them emphasize the long, you know, decades old strategic partnership between their country and the United States.
--:-- Lise Doucette: All of them say they hope they can work with the new president second time in office to bring peace to the region to bring about security and stability.
--:-- Lise Doucette: They also have their own, they can call up Donald Trump to a particular Gulf state, Saudi Arabia very close relationship during President Trump's first term and they will use that pressure too to try to push him away from Israel and to urge him to try to bring an end to this war.
--:-- Lise Doucette: And it was interesting how one of the first comments Israeli media picked up on in Trump's speech that he made, which he basically he claimed victory, was he pointed out, he said, I was seen as the man who would start wars, but I'm the man who will stop them.
--:-- Lise Doucette: There's certainly a feeling here among the Arabs and the Palestinians. They want him to stop the war in Gaza and in Lebanon.
--:-- James Waterhouse: Donald Trump once accused the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, of being the greatest salesman on earth for securing tens of billions of dollars in weapons and other military assistance from Washington.
--:-- James Waterhouse: This February, it'll be three years since the war in Ukraine began. And it's there that the impact of a Trump victory could be most keenly felt.
--:-- James Waterhouse: During the campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he would quickly end the war, But it remains unclear how or what peace would look like.
--:-- James Waterhouse: Timothy Miliovanov is the president of the Kiev School of Economics and a former minister of economic development and trade.
--:-- James Waterhouse: He's apprehensive. That's a new reality. No one knows, at least in Ukraine, what will happen.
--:-- James Waterhouse: But the question is not what will happen, but what Ukraine and everyone else can do to adapt to this new reality.
--:-- James Waterhouse: And we see that Zelensky administration himself, They moved very quickly to state that they expect Trump to bring a just peace.
--:-- James Waterhouse: So what's the mood like in Kiev? Our correspondent James Waterhouse is in the Ukrainian capital and describes a similar sense of uncertainty.
--:-- James Waterhouse: As a few of MPs have suggested, no one is trying to predict what Donald Trump may do next.
--:-- James Waterhouse: I think the majority view here was that they would have preferred Kamala Harris to be the next US president because it provided certainty.
--:-- James Waterhouse: If you just look at what she had said over support continuing, you've heard what President Trump has said.
--:-- James Waterhouse: And I think we've seen, you know, despite being labeled as a salesman, we're seeing President Zelensky make his pitch with an early congratulations, a message of congratulations for Donald Trump saying they had a great meeting, possibly a bit of language mirroring there.
--:-- James Waterhouse: And he described Ukraine as being one of the strongest military powers in Europe and being committed to peace in the region.
--:-- James Waterhouse: And he talked about the political and economic opportunities for the US in its continued partnership.
--:-- James Waterhouse: From the soldiers we've spoken to this morning, I think this highlights Ukraine's problem.
--:-- James Waterhouse: One said they were feeling especially down on their way to their frontline positions.
--:-- James Waterhouse: In his words, he said, three years ago, we thought we would die through fighting without weapons.
--:-- James Waterhouse: Turns out that was just postponed for three years.
--:-- James Waterhouse: Another gave a more balanced view.
--:-- James Waterhouse: He said, look, there are two scenarios.
--:-- James Waterhouse: The first is that Donald Trump comes in and tells Russia, Vladimir Putin, you need to end this war with a ceasefire.
--:-- James Waterhouse: And he forces Ukraine to do so by withdrawing support.
--:-- James Waterhouse: And that leads to Russia advancing in the coming years and, in his words, destroying Ukraine in the long run.
--:-- James Waterhouse: The second scenario, which is more preferable, is that Vladimir Putin declines the offer to negotiate and that potentially could make Donald Trump resort to either escalated support for Ukraine or more radical measures.
--:-- James Waterhouse: So that is the juncture Ukraine is at.
--:-- James Waterhouse: It is finely balanced for Ukraine geopolitically, not least with North Korea's growing involvement in this war.
--:-- James Waterhouse: And so Kiev is now looking to the West, the US, the next US president, Donald Trump, on how he is going to respond not just in terms of support for Ukraine but in response to North Korea's involvement as well.
--:-- James Waterhouse: Ukraine can't keep fighting in the medium term without the help and weight from the US which provides the most amount of support it also gives political cover to other western allies and for Ukraine if that support was to wane there is a view that it would be seen as a betrayal.
--:-- James Waterhouse: It's hard to see what security guarantees it could get in any kind of negotiation then you know Ukraine will feel in just as perilous position as it was in 2022.
--:-- Faisal Islam: The US dollar surged as Donald Trump's victory became clear.
--:-- Faisal Islam: Traders apparently bet on potential tax cuts, tariffs and rising inflation under Donald Trump.
--:-- Faisal Islam: And the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is also at a record high.
--:-- Faisal Islam: Europe's main stock markets rallied at the start of trading.
--:-- Faisal Islam: London, Paris and Frankfurt all rose by about 1%, while the dollar has gone up against the pound and the euro.
--:-- Faisal Islam: I think it's the absence of what they predicted in a way, which was that this uncertainty would go on for some time to come.
--:-- Faisal Islam: And it's all been settled far more quickly than most of the popular wisdom had it, you know, that we'd be going through days of uncertainty and recounted votes and legal challenges and like that's all been settled far more quickly than expected.
--:-- Faisal Islam: There's also the prospect of unified government i'm not sure about that in terms of what happens in the house of representatives but you certainly have a clear direction with some of the absence if you like of likely or possible social unrest that was feared but now there's lots of focus perhaps on what was less focused upon, which is exactly what a President Trump in his second term will do, not just as regards the US economy, which was clearly a fundamental factor in his second election, but also in the knock-on impact of some of these policies on global economics, which I would submit to you will be profound and have capital cities all around the world kind of running to work out what the consequences will be, not just intended, but unintended too, about having the world's biggest economy go down a rather different economic path.
--:-- Faisal Islam: Bipartisan analysts of the US deficits looked at both candidates' plans and said that both would increase borrowing by some amount.
--:-- Faisal Islam: And this is against the context of a significant increase in US borrowing already and relatively large deficits going on for decades.
--:-- Faisal Islam: On top of that now, the new American president, President-elect Trump, is predicted to add $8 trillion to the US debt with his sort of slew of mainly corporate tax cuts.
--:-- Faisal Islam: So that has affected US borrowing rates.
--:-- Faisal Islam: We've seen those go up.
--:-- Faisal Islam: When they go up, they kind of affect everybody.
--:-- Faisal Islam: They affect the UK, for example, significantly.
--:-- Faisal Islam: Will there be some sort of Federal Reserve response to that in terms of interest rates, which also affect the whole world?
--:-- Faisal Islam: Now, the contrary argument here is something, again that was not particularly well defined but he maybe we should take much more seriously than seemed at the time which was that president trump will get the likes of elon musk in for a department of government efficiency and somehow cut two trillion out of u.s bureaucracy because that's what he's promised and if that happens that will be quite something.
--:-- Matt McGrath: The re-election of Donald Trump to the white house will no doubt raise an alarm for environmentalists in the United States and beyond.
--:-- Matt McGrath: The president has previously called climate change an expensive hoax and he pulled America out of the Paris Agreement a deal which was drafted to strengthen the response to the threat of global warming and other weather changes.
--:-- Matt McGrath: He's been a long-term sceptic on climate change and climate action.
--:-- Matt McGrath: He's been a booster, if you like, for fossil fuels.
--:-- Matt McGrath: And we saw in his previous term, he pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement.
--:-- Matt McGrath: Because of technical reasons, he wasn't able to really give a force to that until a few months before the end of his presidency.
--:-- Matt McGrath: But this time round, if he decides to go down that road again, he'd be able to get the US out within a year.
--:-- Matt McGrath: There's a big worry, I think, amongst climate activists and governments around the world that he might go further and take the US out of the UNFCCC.
--:-- Matt McGrath: That's the underlying treaty signed in Rio in 1992 and approved by the US Senate, which essentially puts the US at the forefront of all climate actions around the world.
--:-- Matt McGrath: That he could go further and take the US out of that.
--:-- Matt McGrath: So there are, I think, big worries today about how this will play out in the climate sphere.
--:-- Matt McGrath: The worry is that Mr. Trump's climate policies are one thing.
--:-- Matt McGrath: The other aspect of that are his energy policies, whether or not he will try to boost oil production, whether he'll allow more gas pipelines, encourage drilling in Alaska, and whether or not there's a market in the world for that.
--:-- Matt McGrath: What we've already seen this morning is that his election has seen share prices for wind turbine producers drop because of fears that US commitments on building wind turbines offshore would be changed.
--:-- Matt McGrath: So he may have an immediate impact on the share prices of companies.
--:-- Matt McGrath: World leaders will be coming next week to Azerbaijan to gather for the next COP, the climate conference.
--:-- Matt McGrath: You know, this is where policies are really set.
--:-- Matt McGrath: Mr. Trump's team will not be there.
--:-- Matt McGrath: It'll be President Biden's team will be there, but the shadow of Mr. Trump will be over that and that will have and carry implications for US actions going forward over the next number of years.
--:-- Matt McGrath: Do environmentalists have any reasons to be optimistic?
--:-- Matt McGrath: I think there's some practical reasons here that would indicate that Mr Trump might temper his policies.
--:-- Matt McGrath: For instance, President Biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRA as it's called, which has put huge money, close to a trillion dollars, into renewable energy and an awful lot of that money has gone into Republican areas in the United States.
--:-- Matt McGrath: They are unlikely to want to see that act torn up.
--:-- Maria Butina: Russia is very open and ready to negotiate with Ukraine and with all the parties who are involved in this conflict today.
--:-- Maria Butina: So we can greet their desire of him to be a peacemaker. That's wonderful. Everybody wants peace.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: Donald Trump has been seen at times as sympathetic to Russia, or at least more so than Joe Biden.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: He's previously spoken warmly about Vladimir Putin.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: But according to Vitaly Shevchenko, Russia editor at BBC Monitoring, Mr Putin will not exactly be giving a warm welcome to Donald Trump's White House return.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: It's difficult to expect a former KGB officer to have much respect, I'll put it this way, for the leader of a country which he sees as the main adversary.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: But there are things that are on the surface and there are things that emerge if you scratch the surface.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: So officially, and this is the line that's been pushed by state media in Russia, Russia is prepared to work with whoever wins the election.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: It's about time, constructive dialogue restarted.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: But if you look between the lines, if you scratch that surface, I can detect a feeling of jubilation, happiness.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: For example, Maria Zakharova, the spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry, this morning she quoted from Kamala Harris, who in turn quoted from the Bible.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: The quote was about laughter and happiness that comes in the morning.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: So Maria Zakharova strongly suggested that now's the time for laughter and happiness, and she said hallelujah.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: So that reveals a certain happiness in the Kremlin about Donald Trump's victory.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: But then again, Donald Trump is hardly a predictable player.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: And this morning, the Kremlin spokesman, Mitter Peskov, has been speaking about it.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: And again, he reiterated the line about working with the new US president.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: But there's a certain circumspection.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: Let's wait and see what kind of policies Donald Trump is going to pursue.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: All accusations of Russia meddling in US elections on behalf of either candidate are strongly rejected by Moscow.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: What we're hearing from Moscow is that, okay, we'll have to wait and see.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: But underneath that surface, there's a certain happiness.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: Is this bad news for Ukraine?
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: That's what I'm reading in Ukrainian media.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: I've not heard or seen any Ukrainian who wants Ukraine to survive, let alone win this war, who would say, I'm so happy that Donald Trump won.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: There's a certain resignation.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: There's a certain acceptance of the fact that Donald Trump's won.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: His rhetoric has strongly suggested that dramatic decrease in US assistance to Ukraine is a possibility.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: And Ukrainians know how dependent they are on this assistance.
--:-- Vitaly Shevchenko: They know that without it Ukraine will have a minuscule chance of surviving this war
--:-- Celia Hatton: Donald Trump has been seen at times as sympathetic to Russia, or at least more so than Joe Biden.
--:-- Celia Hatton: He's previously spoken warmly about Vladimir Putin.
--:-- Celia Hatton: But China's response to Donald Trump's victory has been rather reserved.
--:-- Celia Hatton: It said it will continue to work with the US on the basis of mutual respect, A foreign ministry spokesperson at a regular news conference said the relationship would continue in accordance with the principles of peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation.
--:-- Celia Hatton: So what does this mean in practice?
--:-- Celia Hatton: Our Asia-Pacific regional editor, Celia Hatton, has been trying to read between the lines.
--:-- Celia Hatton: You mentioned the idea of win-win cooperation, but actually I think there's a lot of fear in Beijing right now.
--:-- Celia Hatton: The top body of Chinese leaders is actually meeting behind closed doors this week to try to settle on an economic stimulus package to help China's ailing economy.
--:-- Celia Hatton: And they've let it be widely known that they had two proposals planned, one if Harris won, one if Trump won.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Now that Trump's won, it's widely expected that they're going to unleash a really big stimulus package to try to boost the Chinese economy.
--:-- Celia Hatton: And that's in theory to counter what Donald Trump has said he wants to do on the campaign trail.
--:-- Celia Hatton: He let it be known that he was a big fan of tariffs, especially on Chinese products.
--:-- Celia Hatton: And he said he wanted to put tariffs of up to 60 percent on Chinese products.
--:-- Celia Hatton: These are key things, aren't they, like electric vehicles, which China's future sort of depends on.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Exactly.
--:-- Celia Hatton: So he's really talked about, he hasn't said which tariffs will go on which products, But we're expecting that some products will get tariffs of up to 60 percent.
--:-- Celia Hatton: But many products, even just the cheapest Chinese things, will get tariffs of up to 20 percent.
--:-- Celia Hatton: And so that's let a lot of people worry about the Chinese economy and how they're going to counter that.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Now, politically, we're also seeing how China's reacting to this.
--:-- Celia Hatton: Officially, they've had no comment specifically on a Trump victory.
--:-- Celia Hatton: But we're already seeing Chinese diplomats deploying the same strategy that we saw in the last Trump presidency.
--:-- Celia Hatton: So you read some of the comments from the foreign ministry today saying that it was a win-win, that they were looking forward to working with whoever won the election.
--:-- Celia Hatton: But we've also heard them talking about portraying China as the stable alternative to the United States.
--:-- Celia Hatton: So, for example, the foreign ministry announced today that leaders from Italy and Indonesia were visiting China this week, saying that that underscores the recognition of China as a guardian of stability.
--:-- Celia Hatton: So we're going to expect Beijing to really try to fill the vacuum that the United States might leave if it adopts a more isolationist policy the way that it did under the last Trump presidency.
--:-- Celia Hatton: We're going to expect China to try to fill that space and to try to drive a wedge between the United States and some of its more traditional allies, for example, the EU.
--:-- Celia Hatton: What about North Korea? Trump had an interesting relationship there in his last term.
--:-- Celia Hatton: That's right.
--:-- Celia Hatton: So we've heard in July that North Korea said they really didn't care who won the presidency.
--:-- Celia Hatton: But then we heard in August from a very high profile diplomat who defected, saying that Kim Jong-un actually would be interested in restarting talks with Donald Trump.
--:-- Celia Hatton: I think the answer is that it really is very unpredictable what Donald Trump will do with North Korea.
--:-- Celia Hatton: He once famously threatened fire and fury to North Korea, but then he sat down for talks.
--:-- Celia Hatton: So it's very uncertain.
--:-- Celia Hatton: And I think that's how the region's feeling right now.
--:-- Celia Hatton: We don't know whether Donald Trump will side with the United States traditional allies like South Korea and Japan, or whether he'll start dealing with other countries that the United States has really been ignoring for the past few years, countries like Indonesia, which has just has a new leader, or North Korea, maybe he'll start to restart talks with them.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: American elections are always followed around the world, but none more so perhaps than this one, with so many implications of a Donald Trump victory on so many areas of the globe.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: With his thoughts on the broader global diplomatic significance, we turn to diplomatic and defence analyst Jonathan Marcus.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: Certainly, first of all, it's very bad news for America's allies.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: I think it's a temptation, obviously, in journalism to kind of have instant history.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: Everything is of epochal proportions.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: But I do think that this is a very significant moment.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: I think when historians look back, if Mr. Trump is as bad and as dangerous as potentially he could be to the international order.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: Then I think historians will look back at this day and say it was when the post-1945 world order, the order that America established at the end of the Second World War, which is the key economic and security dimensions, it was the start of that order unraveling.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: And I think in terms of their worst fears, that's something that many of America's allies are worried about.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: There's the context. We have major war in Europe.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: We have an ever-widening crisis in the Middle East with appalling civilian casualties, and no sign of that conflict actually ending.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: Indeed, the danger is that it could spiral further out of control.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: You have the terrible worries now manifest all around us of the impact of climate change.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: Governments in many countries clawing their way back from the twin crises, of the financial crisis and the COVID pandemic.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: They need stability. They need predictability in the international order.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: And one of the big changes, I think, from Trump one, you know, many people might say to me, well, you know, we said lots of these things back when Trump first became president.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: It didn't turn out quite as badly as all that.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: The great difference this time is that Mr. Trump appears to be a man to some extent out for revenge.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: He will not be surrounded as he was last time by fairly establishment, regular figures from the Republican foreign policy circles.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: He's likely to be surrounded by much more dogmatic, much more ideological people.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: And for example, in his choice of vice president, a man who parrots Russian propaganda lines, who clearly doesn't want any money at all being spent on Ukraine.
--:-- Jonathan Marcus: So potentially a very, very different Trump in practical terms than we saw in Trump one, if you want to call it that.
--:-- Paul Mawson: So many questions remain about what a second Donald Trump presidency will look like.
--:-- Paul Mawson: But let's leave you with a look at his road back to the White House.
--:-- Donald Trump: In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.
--:-- Donald Trump: Donald Trump has become the first American president to be a convicted criminal, a felon.
--:-- Donald Trump: I'm dealing with everything we have to do with, look, if.
--:-- Donald Trump: I am now officially the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.
--:-- Donald Trump: Crooked Joe Biden became mentally impaired, said, but lying Kamala Harris, honestly, I believe she was born that way.
--:-- Donald Trump: Take a look what happened if I had not moved my head at that very last instant the assassin's bullet would have perfectly hit its mark this is fun I could do this all day I wouldn't mind this job they're eating the dogs the people that came in they're eating the cats and then they say he's a nazi I'm not a nazi I'm the opposite of a Nazi.
--:-- Host: The Fox News decision desk can now officially project that Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States.
--:-- Host: This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again.
--:-- Host: Oh, we're going to be right. USA! USA! USA! USA!
--:-- Host: And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later.
--:-- Host: If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email.
--:-- Host: The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
--:-- Host: This edition was mixed by Dan Ehrlich and the producer was Nikki Verrico.
--:-- Host: The editor is Karen Martin.
--:-- Host: I'm Paul Moss. Until next time, goodbye.
--:-- Asma Khalid: America is changing. And so is the world.
--:-- Asma Khalid: But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval.
--:-- Asma Khalid: It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
--:-- Asma Khalid: I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.
--:-- Asma Khalid: I'm Tristan Redman in London.
--:-- Asma Khalid: And this is The Global Story.
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