i will charge a reciprocal tariff, meaning whatever countries charge the united states of america, we will charge them — no more, no less. we'll look at how mr trump's threat of tariffs is being received around the world. and also ahead... a real—lifejonah and the whale — how did a chilean

you've said that future nato membership is impractical. what will, the reporter said, you ask russia to give up? and to that question, president trump didn't really appear to have an answer. in fact, he said that maybe russia will give up a lot, maybe they won't. and it's all dependent on what is going to happen — the negotiations haven't really started. so it's really a rowing back and tempering on some of those comments that he's made about that conversation already. and all of these comments

will be setting off alarm bells in europe and nato ahead of that security conference in munich, where those world leaders from across the globe will be meeting, including the american vice presidentjd vance, as well ukrainian president zelenskyy, as well. and president trump has said that his american officials will also meet with the russian representatives to further those negotiations and peace talks. so as tensions rise about who is and isn't at the negotiating table, we'll be waiting to see what more happens. while mr trump has been in washington, his defence secretary pete hegseth is in europe. where, on thursday, in brussels, he told a gathering of nato defence ministers that the trump administration envisaged ukraine giving up territory in exchange for peace. the eu said that would be tantamount to appeasement. mr hegseth is visiting ukraine's neighbour, poland, today. let's speak to our europe correspondent will vernon — who's in warsaw.

what can we expect from the visit? in what can we expect from the visit? . ., , visit? in a few hours the secretary _ visit? in a few hours the secretary of _ visit? in a few hours the secretary of defence - visit? in a few hours the | secretary of defence will arrive in warsaw for talks with the polish defence minister and president as part of his first overseas tour and officially on the agenda is joint military projects and bilateral cooperation but surely much discussion will be about ukraine. mr hegseth arrives here leaving a trail of incendiary comments in his wake. he said in brussels that returning ukraine to its internationally recognised borders was unrealistic. he passed out our nato's article five on collective defence and played down any prospect of ukraine joining played down any prospect of ukrainejoining nato and played down any prospect of ukraine joining nato and those comments together with donald trump �*s proposal to hold direct talks with putin led to

a cacophony of criticism. saying his boss had made concessions and given vladimir putin what he wanted before peace talks began. yesterday mr hegseth rejected that and said donald trump would not let anyone turn uncle sam into uncle soccer. but european colleagues yesterday voicing support for ukraine. —— uncle sucker. and officials are furious that donald trump appears to be wanting to hold talks with russia without any sign of involvement of european countries and ukraine. donald tusk said ukraine, europe and the us must be united in peace talks and i'm sure that is the message that will be given to mr hegseth that nato must not be undermined and no concessions to vladimir putin and any talks must involve

europe and ukraine. this country poland shares borders with ukraine and russia. it has a long and painful history of russian occupation. that is why poland is now building the largest army in europe and spending huge amounts of money, perhaps 5% of gdp on the military. i think during the talks with mr hegseth today poland will want to discuss cooperation, military cooperation, military cooperation with america but also securing the future of the us military presence inside poland. . ukraine on the agenda at the munich security conference. it takes place later today. we'll be broadcasting live from the munich security conference in the coming hours here on bbc news with our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet live in germany. staying with donald trump — and the president has signed a new memorandum calling

for reciprocal trade tariffs on all major us trading partners. it means the us will tax foreign goods at the same rate that other nations apply to american products. mr trump says that in doing so, it will reduce what he calls �*unfair behaviour�* from trade partners. but the levies will not go into effect immediately. mr trump said that he has instructed his commerce secretary nominee to determine the appropriate tariff levels for each affected country. the president also indicated that sending goods through other countries, in a bid to avoid tariffs, would not be accepted. mr trump said prices on us goods may increase in the short term, but that the new tariffs would �*level the playing field�*. and on trade, i have decided, for purposes of fairness, that i will charge a reciprocal tariff, meaning whatever countries charge the united states of america, we will charge them — no more, no less.

in other words, they charge us a tax or tariff and we charge them the exact same tax or tariff. very simple. mr trump�*s threat of tariffs came as he entertained india�*s prime minister, narendra modi, at the white house. india has a huge trade surplus with the us. mr trump said that india would be subject to the same tariffs it placed on american imports, but he also announced that india would buy more us produced oil and gas. mr modi said he hoped the two nations would begin talks on a trade agreement. stocks closed higher in new york, after mr trump�*s announcement about tariffs. but there�*s also been some global concern — with taiwan calling a meeting of its national security council to discuss the development. asia business reporter suranjana tewari is following this story from singapore and she talked me through the reaction.

two big events for asia to react to and one is the announcement that trump�*s administration will work on these retaliatory tariffs. his would become a secretary said it will be based on a country by country basis. and it depends on what

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