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news. —— this hour. new 10% tariffs. the trade tax came into effect on tuesday morning. in response, officials in beijing are introducing a 15% tariff on imported coal and liquefied natural gas agricultural machinery, pick—up trucks and large—engine cars. products and added pvh corp, which is the holding company an investigation into google. against the us. yes, that 15% levy on coal, on liquid natural gas and then agricultural machinery and also large suv cars and trucks.

speaking to analysts, they say that's about 30% an opening salvo from beijing because as well as imposing it is keeping negotiations, or at least the prospect of negotiations, open. so what does china do now and what does the us do now? what we have heard from the white house is that there are going to be at least a call, there's going to be

now, whether or not that will be able to ease with canada and mexico. i asked professorjohn gong from the university of international business and economics in beijing if he was surprised at the scale and timing of china's response to president trump's tariffs. very much measured.

i don't think it represents a very large amount. i think definitely, beijing keeps the door open we don't know much about the details of the negotiation, but i'm betting that it's currently going on right now. i think definitely from china's perspective, we need to, to canada and mexico. it is quite a different situation. what leverage do you think china has if there's any kind of deal or negotiation? well, i think, at a very fundamental level, is really relying on some tariff revenue as being a substitute for the income tax.

i think that, you know, the natural candidate definitely needs assistance from beijing — saying that, you know, china and the united states can work this is definitely something on the negotiation table when they talk about tariff concessions. yeah, interesting, yeah.

that the two leaders had just before the inauguration what people in china are saying about all of this right now. a public outrage or public discussion you know, ithink just as washington

is preparing for this, china is also preparing so they would, you know, we would expect the tariffs would be coming. to be honest with you, i think 10% is very much within expectation, even lower than expectation, but i think the public is used to that, they're prepared for that, to dealing with washington. to hear the perspective from beijing on, i don't know in your world — what is the view of the second trump presidency from that perspective too? i learned my lesson with respect to, but overall, i think, you know,

the public has a sort of he's perceived as very tough. president xi is pretty good. is that he seems to indicate that he doesn't he's trying to strike a very hard bargain here. but on the other hand, the fact that it's still negotiable, from china's perspective.

of a so—called fentanyl tsar and the creation of a task it followed news of a similar deal with mexico, whose leader,

they have agreed to put in 10,000 soldiers permanently, like for ever. the threat of an unwanted trade war with its long—time ally but donald trump sees tariffs as a source of leverage when and has confirmed he now has europe in his sights. would harm consumers on both sides of the atlantic. when targeted unfairly or

arbitrarily, in the world could push up prices and slow global growth. a 10% tariff on goods from china came into effect plans to retaliate. david willis, bbc news, washington. with the latest moves in the trade war.

mette frederiksen are expected to discuss european security, as well as migration. that he wants to acquire greenland. has more details on this. certainly awkward timing, wasn't it, that keir starmer dinner with the eu, just as donald trump, on the airport tarmac in maryland, told the bbc it is clear, by the way, that donald trump sees the uk as very distinct from the eu for these purposes. have been possible pre—brexit. between the uk and the eu. last night's dinner i think was really more about symbolism work of working out

what that new relationship would look like. a way to achieve that with the eu while not harming his relations with the us. that would be a delicate task for even the most experienced prime minister. it's now keir starmer�*s just six or so months into thejob. the man who murdered three girls at a dance class axel rudakubana's life sentence will now be his minimum term of 52 years remains the same, and the life sentences for the ten attempted murder charges remain in place. to attend the hearing.

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at a school in sheffield. he's the fourth teenager in the uk to be fatally stabbed this year. 0ur correspondent jessica lane reports. a candle burns — next to messages and flowers left

it was shortly after midday yesterday when police and paramedics rushed to the school after reports of a stabbing. happened inside. our thoughts are with the family of the boy, efforts of the ambulance

service, he sadly died a short time later. prime minister keir starmer said his thoughts are and so my first thoughts, as prime minister and as a father, are with the family. police have had to come out to this school. a small number of students, and that is all adding pressure

lots of questions and a lot of pressure right now on the government about knife crime. questions need to be answered. but also in their schools. nobody wants this or expects it. here in the local area. down, they've been bringing

flowers, leaving messages. football shirt down as well. by what happened here. they didn't know the family, they live nearby. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be on tuesday.

the gaza ceasefire agreement. 0ur correspondent wyre davis is injerusalem. does hang in the balance. the end of the first stage of the ceasefire process, and it's something that has produced tangible benefits. for more than 500 palestinian prisoners from israeli jails. more aid is getting into gaza. militarily defeated. that's certainly the opinion of people to the right of him in his government, who want the war to be

resumed after the first stage is over. so far that he wants the ceasefire to continue because he wants an end to the war. he's got much bigger plans for this region, in particular a deal with saudi arabia. to eye on how to proceed. how do people see this visit in the israeli media? who were quite critical of this ceasefire deal, because it has brought more hostages back. 0ne speaker at a rally in tel aviv on saturday you know, basically pointing out that more hostages

the rest have been killed or are dead. the problem for those who want to resume the war against hamas, and they don't like these scenes of hamas fighters accompanying every handover of the hostages, is that they don't think that hamas is yet militarily defeated. we can look at the alive rafah as authorities are the task of clearin . the given the task of clearing the millions of tonnes of rubble which has been left by the war, as aid to enter gaza.

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activities in the nhs and helping those women and patients. of the trial, saying that al has immense potential in diagnosis. in cancer care today and said there is an urgent need before you go, an update the united nations in from the united nations in geneva, that comes after the us it freezing announced it was freezing foreign aid. statement says foreign aid. the statement says the un aid agency has fhpunmdaflflnrv has defended their more on that sto as we work. more on that story as we get it. stay with us here on bbc news. hello again. it's continuing to drift

eastwards through the rest behind it, it turns colder and we'll see a return through the next few days and nights and into the weekend and even into the early part of next week. now that weather front is continuing to drift slowly with it, windy across the north of the country. and here too, as the rain continues to edge away towards the south and the east, it will brighten up behind it. there will be a fair bit of cloud at times and we'll see clearing away, leaving

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america imposes 10% tariffs on all chinese exports launching an anti—monoply investigation into google and two other us companies. we'll explore how that might work. welcome to business today, i'm ben thompson. we begin with the latest on the trade clashes between the united states and its key trading partners. at midnight in washington the us went ahead with its promise to impose 10% tariffs on all chinese goods headed to the us. china quickly retaliated saying it would do the same, a tit for tat row that could have big implications for the global economy. would take effect next monday.

an extra 10% tax will be added to goods including crude