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canada and mexico both say they will retaliate with counter—tariffs. on its way to mexico crashes in philadelphia. tensions in economic relations tonight — canada, mexico and china have vowed countermeasures america's top trading partners. on saturday prime minister justin trudeau announced at a press conference that canada will introduce its own 25% tariff against the
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united states, matching earlier in the day. mr trudeau said ottawa's measures will be far—reaching, in a two—part process, to give canadian firms time to adjust. take a listen. together, we've built the most successful economic, military and security partnership the world has ever seen — a relationship that has been the envy of the world.
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canada has critical minerals, reliable and affordable energy, and secure partnership for the north american economy, and we stand at the ready to work together. prime minister trudeau also outlined some of the american goods that would be affected as part of canada's counter—tariffs. beer, wine and bourbon, fruits and fruitjuices, including orangejuice, along with vegetables,
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appliances, furniture and sports equipment, and materials like lumber and plastics, along with much, much more. and as part of our response, we are considering, energy, procurement and other partnerships. we will stand strong for canada. by president trump with its own import taxes and other countermeasures. has an alliance with drug trafficking groups as slander. about the response from
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the us's southern neighbour. well, it was always going to be pretty much the case, helena, that claudia sheinbaum was going to be pretty robust in her response to these tariffs. a bit of time to prepare. to follow the same line we heard from justin trudeau just that there will be tariff and non—tariff measures but what i thought was interesting was the tone — that she was very robust against the suggestion that
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and talk to us more about the reaction that you are hearing there in mexico, both to the tariffs country's president. out. with the trump administration.
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to cut demand, to stop guns coming from north to south, that this is a partnership. in frank dialogue. could progress, ispoke to wendy cutler.
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to 10% tariffs. i interpret this to be the opening salvo. overall, do you think this will work? you have to experience as a former acting deputy trade representative. how effective do you see this strategy being? it is hard to tell at the moment. all countries will be pressure to about counter—retaliation if countries retaliate.
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in my view. effects when it comes to global supply chains, the global economy. what are your thoughts there? my thoughts there are for canada and mexico, for china it is more just fentanyl. that be explained the difference in the tariff rate. again, i don't think we but again, i don't think we should read too much into it. is 'ust is just the first tariff this is just the first tariff that the trump this is just the first tariff that the will np this is just the first tariff that the will be taking, administration will be taking, and has been clear and trump has been very clear that europe and others are on 7: 7777lista7s7we7ll7.7 77 77 7 7 7 77 were killed when a medical transport plane crashed this is the moment of impact, caught on cameras
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across the city. the medicaljet was carrying a mexican child back from a hospital when it crashed in a busy neighbourhood, it comes two days after the mid—air collision between a military helicopter and a passenger plane one of three soldiers aboard that black hawk chopper has with an army helicopter. that is the passenger plane — as it encountered the
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at 8:46:47, dca tower cleared otherjet traffic on runway one at 8:47:39, a radio transmission from the tower automated traffic advisory at 8:47:42, a radio transmission from the tower at 8:47:58, the crew had a verbal reaction,
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to increase its pitch. ntsb chairjennifer homedy gave this update on the and the plane is highly fragmented. the debris field extends four or five blocks, and i do want to stress that this is an active it is very dangerous, and so i encourage everyone to stay out of the accident site. it's very dangerous.
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you'll see over the next several days, possibly extending into weeks, where we will be collecting that debris, loading it onto a truck and moving it to a secure location so that we can begin to do our evaluation of that debris. it is damaged. so if there are citizens or business owners or others who find debris, please email the ntsb at witness@ntsb.gov. that's witness@ntsb.gov.
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ahead of the visit, demonstrators took to mr rubio will meet with the president of panama, president trump has accused panama of allowing china to station troops on the canal while charging the us our correspondent tom bateman has been travelling with the us about wanting to tackle are the economic challenges but for the americas, and trying to put a focus on the us�*s own backyard, in effect — the first time, actually, that a secretary
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of state has visited absolutely dominated by president trump's claims on the panama canal. now, we know that that has already provoked a significant over the canal. the american argument effectively, once you sort of strip away perhaps the more maximalist rhetoric of mr trump, is they believe that over the years panama has controlled by a hong kong—based company. there are other ports on the two ends of the canal. they aren't the only ones there. by the new trump administration
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to try to say to central aligned to america rather than china, basically. panamanians feel extremely strongly about their connection and we do anticipate more protests — there were a few as mr rubio begins his visit. and more than 180 palestinian prisoners freed in the occupied west bank as part of the gaza ceasefire deal. medical evacuations since the truce was agreed. international news organisations aren't allowed
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demanded that hamas impose control. for hamas, controlling gaza is exactly what these public handovers are designed to show. not whistling crowds. from keith siegel, a small, thin smile from the stage. hostage deal. strike. cheering in israel's hostage square, the bibas family has become it's heartbreaking. and honestly speaking,
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i cannot see how you can recover from it. it's devastating. highlights those still left in gaza. this first stage of the ceasefire deal, with its regular hostage exchanges, spotlights the role of hamas in gaza. today, many thin and frail, but defiant, greeting the crowds with victory salutes. some searching for familiar faces, ali nazzal, freed
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"it's the first time i'm seeing him," ali said. "thank god for this joy." "i'm so happy," his son says. of his sister and his dad. ending a war is more complicated than pausing the fighting, and healing more complicated than simply coming home. lucy williamson, bbc news, tel aviv. rebel fighters have continued their advance in the eastern of south kivu province.
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the red cross has recovered the bodies of victims killed amid the recent clashes. day. of dr congo's capital, kinshasa, having already claimed to be in control of the eastern city of goma. on saturday the president of neighbouring burundi warned and advocacy specialist shelley thakral. shelley, thank you so much for being with us here on bbc news. i understand that you are helping civilians from kinshasa. what are you seeing on the ground? desperate stories from people. they've been cut off from food, from water, from medicines. and these are already people
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who are facing health issues in the east of the country — measles, cholera, mpox epidemic. so these are tough times for people. i think people are just really trying to catch their breath and think about, you know, when can i go and get supplies? we heard from one mother this week who told us, just don't know where the food is, whether the water is safe enough to drink." since the start of the year. of people, from a humanitarian aid perspective? well, this is what we do.
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i think what we're worried about right now is some than iokm, 15km away from the provincial capital. i think that is a problem that we're going to have to take stock of in coming days.
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it's supplies getting in. i've also heard today from families saying the price so we're really faced by a situation which on a protection level is pretty serious as well. the women need? what do the elderly people need as well? assault.
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what mechanisms are in place to document to respond to them? so what we have been doing, and it's notjust been when people don't have food, when you're in very temporary shelter, especially women who have to go that they might have,
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and so over a period of time, we are working different agencies. and we're all looking at how we can help all you want to do is to be able to look after your family. and unfortunately, you know, they are stretched so far. you know they are under a massive amounts of trauma. so again, it's really important that we have mechanisms that they can have skills so that they can perhaps that might be tailoring.
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i need to keep my children safe. i need to keep my family safe. in harm's way. one more story to bring you before we go. a rare mercedes racing car has set a new world record the silver 1954 streamliner was sold at an auction sold at auction. for all the latest you can always had to webpage. we always had to our—webpage. wa to update always had to gar—webpage. wa to update you those continua tddpdatsyau'an—thasa tariffs which continua to'updatayou'on—thosa tariffs which will rataliatory tariffs'which will brought in by canada as well be brought in by canada as well
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as mexico now in response ta riffs tariffs from the us. you watching 7bbc news. hello. we actually started to see the cloud move away and sunshine work in. drier air from the continent started to clear the skies, and that'll be with us into sunday, so much more going to be pushing its way slowly towards high pressure, be very weak. that do this. across western areas, but not very much at all across the east. now, in a bit more detail, over the next few hours we do have some fairly heavy rain just moving its way into northern ireland, western areas of scotland. a few patches of drizzle around elsewhere.
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slowly pushes eastwards. as it does so, it weakens significantly, so through the afternoon, as it arrives across wales and western england, central and eastern scotland too, it'lljust be a lump of cloud with a few patches of drizzle here and there. to the afternoon. temperatures about 7—9 degrees celsius. now, heading into the early part of the new working week, islands, for example. the winds a lot lighter further east. that'll get heavier as we get towards monday night—time. and wherever you are, we're looking at mild weather
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of the uk on tuesday. in for wednesday. and that brings about quite a significant change in our weather patterns, the weather becoming dry and sunny. but there will be some frost and some fog patches around that it could start to get colder, perhaps with some wintry weather.
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