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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause for countries hit by higher US tariffs, but a trade war with China has escalated. Also: Inuit people accuse adventurer of ignorance over Baffin Island trek claim.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Jan Hulat Jalil and in the early |
0:07.0 | hours of Thursday the 10th of April, these are our main stories. Donald Trump pauses |
0:12.1 | higher tariffs on most countries causing stock markets to soar, but hikes import taxes on Chinese |
0:18.7 | goods to 125%. Rescuers continue to search the ruins of a nightclub |
0:25.5 | in the Dominican Republic two days after a roof collapse that killed more than 120 people. |
0:31.6 | The main opposition party in Tanzania says its leader has been arrested at a rally. |
0:38.7 | Also in this podcast, we have a series of jewels here from Gloria Swanson from the 1930s. |
0:45.2 | Grace Kelly, an engagement ring and her tiara, a necklace that belonged to Elizabeth Taylor. |
0:50.8 | A dazzling display of Cartier's finest creations is being exhibited here in London. |
1:02.0 | In a dramatic change of policy, Donald Trump has paused higher tariffs on goods entering the United States from other countries, with one notable exception, China. |
1:14.5 | Stock market surged almost immediately when he announced the move after days of big falls and jitters |
1:20.8 | on the bomb markets. Mr Trump denied he was backtracking on pronouncements he'd made just a few days ago, |
1:28.1 | saying you have to be flexible. And he further increased. denied he was backtracking on pronouncements he'd made just a few days ago, saying, |
1:34.8 | you have to be flexible. And he further increased the eye-watering tariffs he's already imposed on China to 125%, accusing Beijing of showing a lack of respect by its retaliation with its own import |
1:44.1 | taxes on US goods. Mr. Trump insisted |
1:47.7 | his strategy to make America richer was working. They all want to make a deal. Somebody had to do |
1:53.4 | what we did, and I did a 90-day pause for the people that didn't retaliate, because I told |
1:58.3 | him if you retaliate, we're going to double it. And that's what I did |
2:01.4 | with China, because they did retaliate. So we'll see how it all works out. I think it's going to work |
2:06.4 | out amazing. I think that our country's going to be at the end of a year or shorter, but I think |
2:11.5 | we're going to have something that nobody would have dreamt possible. But Democrats accuse the |
2:16.4 | U.S. President of behaving in a reckless manner |
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