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a seat at the table to in the war with russia -- end the war with russia. ♪ a very warm welcome. donald trump has signed a new memorandum calling for reciprocal trade tariffs on all trade partners. mr. trump said that in doing so, it will reduce what he calls unfair behavior from trade partners. these will not go into effect immediately. mr. trump saying that he has instructed his commerce secretary nominee to determine the appropriate levels for each affected country. the president also indicated that sending goods to other countries in a bid to avoid tariffs will not be accepted. mr. trump said prices on u.s.

goods may increase in the short-term but that the new tariffs would level the playing field. >> because of these tariffs, who do you think voters should hold responsible? >> what is going to go up is jobs. prices could go up's short-term but they will also go down. our farmers will be helped, our manufacturers will be helped. if somebody wants to come in including the car companies and build car plants, they will do it without tariffs. therefore prices will not go up. there could be some short-term disturbance but long-term it is going to make our country a fortune. anchor: the prime minister of india it here in washington for talks with president trump of the white house. the two leaders have enjoyed warm relations in the past. it is thought that the tariffs and immigration will dominate the discussions. he is expected to push for a trade deal with india.

bilateral trade between the countries hit $129 billion last year with india running a trade surplus of $46 billion. president trump has voiced frustration with india's tariffs . he has accused india of blocking u.s. imports. the leaders are expected to discuss defense sales and a new defense framework. mr. modi also met with elon musk. he said on the social media platform x that he discussed various issues including space, technology, and innovation. he will later meet with vivek ramaswamy. let's talk about his visit. with the former ambassador to india. always good to have you with us.

let's talk about the fact that donald trump has announced this memo instructing his government to look at reciprocal tariffs at the same time that the prime minister is here. how much could this impact india? >> nice to meet with you would be with your viewers. mr. trump has signaled the art of the negotiation. high-stakes on the world stage. he has been saying for months that tariffs will be his leverage to try to get better access to foreign markets and create more jobs, lower prices in america. he has shown his hand and he says he wants to make america great again. mr. modi, sears saying he wants to make things in india. and not let new products get into my markets and take my jobs away from people in india.

so we have some potential tension here. anchor: can i jump in and ask you, shirley modi has come to this meeting with some sort of deal that were perhaps exempt india from some of these tariffs . what do you think that might look like? >> i think mr. trump has showed his hand with his tariffs on canada a week ago. he said he would put tariffs but removes them right away would canada countered. mr. modi paid attention to that. he has come here with a package to say i will put some concessions on the table initially.

motorbikes, high-end cars, maybe by more liquefied natural gas. but here's what i want to talk about. i want to talk about our commonalities on china and our concerns. our commonalities in artificial intelligence. growing our technological cooperation. he probably talked to elon musk about space, ai, starlink. i think they will move on a package of concessions on trade to a broader package of all of the common geopolitical interest and values and they will talk about that over dinner. anchor: indeed. is it fair to describe india as an unfair trading partner with the tariffs that have been? put on u.s. goods? >> i think it is fair for mr. trump to say we want more access

and trade with india. india is a tough negotiator on trade. i have had that experience with them. we need more access to their markets. some tough negotiations on the part of the u.s. to force open some of those indian markets i think is good strategy and good use of some of the tariffs. you will see some negotiation and other areas. anchor: they are said to have a warm, close relationship. how important do you think that is in these negotiations taking place? >> i think it is key to have a fundamental trust in someone else.

this is a great relationship. we have 5 million indian americans in the u.s. 300,000 indian students studying here. they will have a good dinner talking about all of those commonalities. the ways these relationships can expand on defense, intelligence sharing. where can we cooperate in space and under the seas? there will be tension on the economic issues. we will probably see some kind of announcement on an overall bargain between these two geopolitical powers. anchor: you mentioned immigration being an issue.

how big an issue has this become? >> india was ahead of the negotiation here. they have been working behind the scenes and acted about 100 people who had come to the u.s. illegally and they were flown back to india several days ago. mr. modi got ahead of the sensitivity to mr. trump on the immigration issue. i will give you this and i hope we can negotiate on tariffs and other things and then get to the bigger issues. other really important geopolitical issues. anchor: always good to speak to you. thank you for speaking to us tonight. anchor: president trump and prime minister modi spoke shortly ago. here's some of what they had to say. >> i think we have some big things to talk about.

they will be purchasing a lot of oil and gas. they need it and we have it. we will talk about trade. we will talk about many things. it is an honor to see you. you have been my friend for a long time. congratulations on having done a great job. anchor: that was from a short while ago. we are bringing you all of the updates. the former presidential candidate was confirmed to the role. he has faced criticism on his anti-vaccine stance.

mr. kennedy will oversee medicare and medicaid. the senate voted to confirm him largely on party lines. only one republican voted against it, senator mitch mcconnell. he explained his vote in this statement-- cash patel also moved forward in the confirmation process. this paves the way for a confirmation vote. he has called for a radical reshaping of the fbi. democrats have accused him of promoting conspiracy theories.

his critics say he wants to use the job to exact retribution on the presidents enemies. that is something he denies. this caused a rift within nato. the secretary of defense told a meeting of nato foreign ministers that ukraine should give up its ambitions to join nato and it must except that it will lose some territory as part of a peace deal. mr. trump refused to say that ukraine would be part of negotiations. now they appear to be walking those comments back. he defended what he said was a

realistic approach. >> that is something we stated. these negotiations are led by president trump. i'm not going to stand at this podium and declare what president trump will do or won't do. what concessions will be made. i can look at what is surrealistic. anchor: those comments came after the european union foreign policy chief accused him and mr. trump of appeasement. >> it is clear that in a deal behind our backs will not work. any agreement will lead ukraine and europe. this is clear that appeasement

always fails. we should not take anything off the table. before negotiations have even started. wire we giving everything that they want? before negotiations have started? it is appeasement. it has never worked. anchor: the nato secretary-general try to keep a lid on the brewing conflict between member states. >> i have always said that whatever the outcome is, we have to make sure that putin will never try again to attack ukraine. that is crucial. we can think of five or 10 ways to make sure we have those guarantees in place. there has never been a promise

to ukraine that part of a peace deal will be they are in nato. anchor: even if nato agrees that ukrainian membership is off the table, the question still remains where their borders should stand after a peace agreement with russia. at the start of 2014, this is how ukraine looked. then february annexed crimea. you can see this marked on the map in red. donald trump has repeatedly claimed that had it been him in the white house, putin would've never invited an invasion of ukraine. jake sullivan took issue with that narrative. who knows what would've happened.

but what did he say when putin invaded he said he thought it was a good thing. he said it was beautiful to see what russia was doing. i think it is equally plausible that he would be sitting in ky ivv today. he is not because joe biden and the u.s. rallied nations to supply ukraine with what they needed to stop putin from taking over the country. anchor: no one really knows the exact number of people who have died since the war started. but president zelenskyy says at least 45,000 ukrainian soldiers have been killed. the bbc estimates that 90,000 troops are dead although that figure could be much higher. our international editor is in kviv anti-this report. reporter: every flag represents

a soldier killed. a memorial in the center of the city. every photo is a life lost in the war that putin started. which she now might have a big role in finishing. all of this is the reason why president trump might find it hard to persuade or bully ukrainians to accept a bad deal. it is clear that putin is only interested in an agreement that amounts to ukrainian surrender. it is about breaking ukraine's capacity to act as a sovereign nation. the u.s. defense secretary arrived at a nato meeting carrying his presidents messages.

>> this administration believes and alliances. make no mistake, president trump will not allow anyone to turn uncle sam into uncle sucker. reporter: this was kyiv the night before last. the main thing president zelenskyy told journalists was stopping putin's plan to do a bilateral deal with the u.s. as an independent country, ukraine cannot accept agreements made without it.

he told us donald trump might not have much leverage. visited a brutal truth that you are losing the war? >> strategically we have won the war already. russia failed to take kyiv within three days. i believe time is on our side. the question is, who will outlast whom? reporter: but if they give you no more weapons, time is on your side. >> i do not believe americans and trump will stop providing us weaponry. if we fail because of this, it will be a huge stain on trump's reputation. he wants to go down in history as a successful president, not as neville chamberlain. reporter: this is the toughest

moment that ukraine has faced. anchor: hamas says it will release israeli hostages due to a timeline. that is a change from days ago. israel says hamas must release three live hostages on saturday. here is our middle east bureau chief. reporter: tonight, millions of people in gaza are holding their breath to see if this fragile cease-fire deal will hold. hamas was publicly proclaiming that it would stick to the timetable. in the last couple of hours, we have had a rocket launched from

gaza. this is an indicator of how tense things are. and how much each side is pushing the other. the israeli government says it expects three live hostages to be released this weekend. and we are expecting hamas to release a list of who they propose to let out of gaza on saturday. if they don't do that, there's a big question on what happens next. israel has committed to releasing a number of prisoners. that has taken up 500 or so prisoners in the last three weeks. all of this began at the start of the week when hamas said it was not satisfied with israel's part of the deal. they said not enough aid had gotten in. and there was too much shooting inside the gaza strip.

trump suggested that if all the hostages were not released by midday on saturday, all hell should break loose. the focus is very much on tomorrow. anchor: at least 28 people have been injured, some critically, after a man drove a car into a group of people in munich. he is understood to be a 24-year-old afghan asylum seeker who has been detained. according to local media he came to germany as a teenager. the fbi is helping german police with the investigation. they said the incident was for beverly and attack. >> it is simply terrible when

you get the news that yet again someone has rammed into a group of people. it is a slap in the face. i hope they make it out alive and healthy. anchor: our german correspondent has more on the attack. reporter: this is where the suspected attack happened earlier today. there was a protest over public sector pay and conditions. police say they had a vehicle marshaling the protest but another car overtook the vehicle and ran into people in the crowd. afterward there was a scene of devastation. and overturned child's buggy. we know the suspect is a 24-year-old afghan asylum seeker and they cannot rule out an

extremist background. this comes just a week ahead of the national election taking place. there are people saying in germany that communities must not become divided. anchor: let's take a quick look at some other headlines. 12 people were heard after a grenade was thrown into a busy bar in france. this happened late wednesday night. they do not believe it was linked to terrorism. no one has been arrested yet. the two companies say they will so collaborate on electric cars.

nissan was forced to restructure on profit losses. google maps is blocking reviews for the gulf of mexico after it was renamed gulf of america. this comes after donald trump ordered the name change and official u.s. documents. google also to -- appears to have deleted some negative responses. before we go, a kayaker who was out with his father, look at what happened. he was swallowed by a humpback whale while his father was filming. and then spat out again just seconds later. incredibly he was unhurt. >> i thought it had already eaten bee and swallowed me.

of course i thought maybe it was a killer whale. we have been talking about workers shortly before -- orcas shortly before. i thought it was just curious and wanted to communicate. anchor: very good to see him unhurt. you can get more on all of the days news on our website. to see what we are working on at any time, check us out on your social favorite media -- narrator: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... bdo, accountants and advisors, funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation, the judy and peter blum kovler foundation, upholding freedom by strengthening democracies at home and abroad. ♪ ♪ usa today calls it "arguably the best bargain in streaming" that's because the free pbs app let's you watch

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geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. amna: and i'm amna nawaz. on the “news hour” tonight, european allies criticize the u.s. for moving ahead on ukraine peace talks while seeming to sideline ukraine. geoff: president trump announces new reciprocal tarrifs, a move that could escalate trade wars and raise inflation.