to strengthen borders. tariffs on china are still expected to go ahead — over the next phase of the gaza ceasefire deal.

which would have taken effect tuesday, impacting nearly included in the deal, mexico's president claudia sheinbaum said she would deploy to combat drug smuggling. into mexico. interests in reducing the traffic of fentanyl the agreement that is in the agreement that was put to the united states. negotiations with canada went down to the wire — with prime ministerjustin

trudeau warning that to works of art.but president trump and after their first call, president trump told reporters negotiating partner. to give us lumber. because we have all the agriculture we need. theydnntfahf- a little bit they do, but not much. we take theirs. in the us. china has not been spared. a 10% tariff on chinese imports into the us is expected

to take effect in three hours. i'm joined now by kenneth smith ramos, who was mexico's chief negotiator for the modernisation of the north american free trade agreement .. gs..you :. gg s g.g.ss ggyou for g g. - g... you for t ts gg..g me. tsts you for t ts gg..g me. you area great tstst you for t ts gg..g me. you are a great person to speak about we been are a great person to speak about what we have been safer (laser the last aeer the last hours. happen over the last 2a hours. what is the main thing we should understand this 30 should understand about this 30 day pause?— daypause? is very day , pause? is very what it is very important what mexico achieved in terms of immediate avoiding the immediate imposition of tariffs which have been a violation of terms of the us mca and the terms of the us mca and would have caused great damage to mexican exporters but as well to us economy that well to the us economy that heavily both on imports depends heavily both on imports from mexico and also its from mexico and also on its exports the mexican market. exports to the mexican market. i think the mexican government has emphasised over the last weeks that the my

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think >tiate, we have seen. present weapons mexico reduced weapons towards mexico which the violence in which fuelled the violence in our country. that's understand when it 7 7 when it comes drug 7 7 this a shared trafficking, this is a shared responsibility mexico responsibility between mexico and the united states. the drugs don'tjust simply crossed border and arrive ”all? -. -.-- . .. all urban centres in the states. is clearly crime operatin- in corruption 7 fouption stopi 7 corruption stop there the us, corruption stop there is this flow cash from 7 v 7 wfrorm the . from the united states weapons from the united states into mexico to think mexico is doing the right thing saying we need to down and we need to need to sit down and we need to negotiate, we need give negotiate, we need to give concessions on both sides and negotiate, we need to give concessio and 1 both sides and negotiate, we need to give concessio and come sides and negotiate, we need to give concessio and come to les and negotiate, we need to give concessio and come to a s and negotiate, we need to give concessio and come to a good solution which tries to resolve the immigration and security issue putting in issue without putting in jeopardy this very jeeparsysthis wary imparts ht agreement trade agreement that strengthens the economies of america. strengthens the economi - america. ., , strengthens the economi - oflmerica. ., , strengthens the economi - of these a. ., , strengthens the economies of of these negotiations aeeh mm “u what is the ke to sentence, what is the key to dealing with president trump? firm, if he

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the european union. totally unnecessary and stupid tariff wars or trade wars. if the united states, the us, starts the trade war, the anger you heard there was prompted by president trump describing the eu as an atrocity and saying it would face taxes on its imports into america.

cryptic about the united kingdom. and walking towards imposing more. back in brussels, a city of flags matters to your day—to—day life? it can give economies the shivers. on the uk that dominated.

with president trump. we can have a better, closer relationship when it comes to trade and security. and on trade and the economy. but how much of this is possible, desirable, soon enough something

is likely to have to give. thanks for your today. how will the will we we have been seeing from what we have been seeing �* the last 2a from what we have been seeing �*the last 2a hours with over the last 2a hours with tariff threats to the trump's tariff threats to the us —— to the mexico canada. us —— to the mexico and canada. trump tends to address these tariffs threats in stages so one kind 6 one kind �*vague stage one is kind of vague threat that he has making threat that he has been making quite some about the for quite some time about the european made it european union and made it again this week because of it is not up any is not backed up by any orders. it is a executive orders. it is a statement of intent some statement of intent at some. in the future, perhaps. point in the future, perhaps. stage is putting an stage two is putting an executive order to that, as we saw with mexico and canada. you know that he put

however, you know that he put the executive order interplay the. ssseotiss larder ihtefehe? then had a bot then actoallythad a three pause before things were before were to — before tariffs were to be -.-..--- so — before tariffs were to be s ss so gave for imposed so that gave time for negotiating room. and now we've seen these deals, the 7” ”77 " that that mexicans commitments that the mexicans and canadians haven't paid are not that which are actually not that i think putting gjggificant. i think putting guard mexican troops on the national guard troops on the is going step its cooperation on isa "is; cattery“ ' 7 "is; ;gigiitgityngaut it is a relatively small, of fentanyl it is a relatively small, of fenta nyl that gets portion of fentanyl that gets into the united states through these 77 these are things 77 these are things that have been negotiated could have been negotiated through the kind of normal, but intense through the kind of normal, there tense through the kind of normal, there are ;e through the kind of normal, there are not any diplomacy. there are not any hard and fast ways to enforce really, that 7 really, that we 7 see these, really, that we will see pressure again over next

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mr netanyahu is already in washington meeting 0ur correspondentjoe inwood is in jerusalem, of the gaza ceasefire. prime minister netanyahu didn't seem keen to emphasise that. instead he spoke about the strength of the relationship to the white house — although it's worth pointing between the two.

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and although it has eased off in townsville, areas further north have had more than i'm joined now by ann—maree greaney, who is the acting mayor of townsville. relief that more hasn't occurred to give a hasn't occurred to give us a sense of bad have sense of how bad things have been? . , sense of how bad things have been? ., , ., , , here over h777ere over the last couple bad here over the last couple days. we were very of days. we were very. very that of days. we were very, very that it of days. we were very. very that it become concerned that it would become another event another unprecedented event like it did in 2019. the 7 7 was7in2019that 7 7 was7ir7i2019thatwe difference was in solo that we a difference was in sets that we a of rain over the had a lot of rain over the catchment area of the dam where catchment area of the as"- whsrs tt t t t t tt this time we had extensive his title? t“??? we had ettshs'ts 7777777777777 over is this tints we had eeteheiefe tt over the is this tinoe we had eeteheiefe tt over the whole city and -77 local area of thelocal government area .of- . and we've reported townsville and we�*ve reported outlying have some outlying suburbs have over 1.3, 1.5 metres received over 1.3, 1.5 metres. in five days. an of rain in fies daysottantttt amount of

of rain in fi;stto�*a;stto§.n t - amount of t gggrmous amount of water. have your residence now have your residence been able to cope? what have you been doing to alleviate been doing to help alleviate the stress they are under? yes. are here at our disaster we are here at our disaster management centre where we have 7= the77 governing bodies, the all the governing bodies, the police, ses, the queensland fire and emergency services and fire and emergency semices and number of i that work together 77 e had 7-ople 77 77777 7 7 7 7 people in what we evacuated people in what we called our blackstone with pin.k es. tt.tet eszt tt pink zone around the open three are now, we had a centres. they are now, we had a rip preeve in the weather, we rip preeve in the weather. we closing those down and are closing those down and people are allowed return to people are allowed to return to �* homes. it is not their homes. it is not saying our feathers —— their homes. it is not saying ourfeathers —— �* neighbours north . north. like illewman fuzrtzhegu o northotb’tke tttewnoa n i co m pletely fuzrtzhegu o northotb’tke tttewnoa n i completely cut fuzrtzheyuo northotb’ketnewnoan i completely cut off cardwell, i completely cut off at moment. we're very lucky at the moment. we're very lucky we are a garrison city, that we are a garrison city, the largest in and the largest in australia. and have of we have the aid of the defence force. very handy to have those

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today, by the now. —— bye for now. hello. the weather prospects for the rest high pressure will establish itself, although it will eventually turn colder. some of the rain will be fairly heavy, but there's some pretty mild air tied up within this weather system. central and eastern parts of england, northern ireland we see a mix of sunny spells and hefty showers. degrees in many locations.

then we see clear skies, some showers, in fact some we could see snow down to 200 or 300m elevation, it's going to be a pretty chilly night. pretty chilly start to wednesday morning, but a relatively bright start. many places will see a lot of sunshine through the day. temperatures between 7—10 degrees in most places. now, this area of high pressure is responsible for giving that largely dry weather through wednesday. will tend to slip

away northeastwards. and with that, well, just the chance of one or two wintry showers. and into the weekend.

with a 10% levy due to come into effect later today. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. president trump has agreed to delay imposing tariffs and clamp down on trafficking of fentanyl. told him let's put on pause for a month and i'm sure in this we have in this month we can have results, results for your results, good results for your people, good results of the _ww of mexico and f of mexico and this was people of mexico and this was role of the agreement. the w w is i think his very truth is i think it is very important are paused to

important tariffs are paused to allow us to and