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NATO leaders unveiled arms deals worth tens of billions of dollars in Turkey on Tuesday (June 7), driving home the message that they are heeding U.S. calls to spend more to defend Europe even as President Donald Trump said he felt let down and renewed his push to control Greenland. - REUTERS
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00:00NATO leaders gathered in Turkey on Tuesday with a message for Donald Trump.
00:05We are heeding the call to spend more on Europe's defence.
00:09The Ankara summit saw a series of big deals set out.
00:13Among the announcements was a plan to spend $4.5 billion on new early warning radar planes
00:19from Sweden's Saab.
00:21Speaking earlier, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called for a defence industry revolution
00:27to counter Russia and China.
00:29He said the alliance would establish its own fleet of transport aircraft as one step.
00:34Allies are also launching a new multinational project focused on the Airbus A400M.
00:41This is world-class strategic airlift capability.
00:46Other deals included a commitment to buy surveillance drones from US firm Northrop Grumman.
00:51The UK said 12 European nations would spend $50 billion on new long-range weapons.
00:58And Canada said it would buy a fleet of up to 12 submarines from German company TKMS.
01:05None of that appears sufficient to stop the US president feeling let down, however.
01:10Trump said he might have boycotted the summit, but for his warm relations with Turkish leader
01:16Tayyip Erdogan.
01:17He continues to blame European nations for doing little to help with the US-Israeli strikes
01:23on Iran.
01:23And he used the summit to renew his calls for US control over Greenland.
01:29That should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark.
01:33Speaking at the summit, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she expected allies to
01:39respect her country's sovereignty over Greenland.
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