Trump lobbies the EU to pressure Moscow live from the UK. This is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Nick Kureshi.

US President Donald Trump is calling on the European Union to hit China and India, two major buyers of Russian oil, with tariffs of up to 100%. It's part of efforts to force Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

The BBC's Katie Silver joins us on Marketplace.

Hi, Katie.

Hi, Nick.

How's this all come about? What's he had to say?

So we understand that the demands were made or the requests during a meeting between Washington and EU officials on Tuesday.

President Trump, of course, has been trying and some would say failing to broker a peace

deal between Moscow and Kiev, most notably, of course, that all-important, highly

anticipated summit that was held with President Putin just last month in Alaska.

But despite this involvement, we have seen

Russia intensifying its strikes in Ukraine. And really economics or tariffs or sanctions have

been seen as the way to try and bring Moscow to the negotiating table. And significant because

China and India are major buyers of Russian oil. That's right. And we have,

of course, heard from President Trump trying to keep the pressure up on the likes of China and India.

In just the last day or so, we've also seen him posting on truth social, saying that the US

and India were continuing negotiations to address the trade barriers and that he expects that he's

going to speak to India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in the coming weeks, and hopes that there

might be to quote him a successful conclusion to their trade talks. Now, it was just last

month that we saw the US imposing a 50% huge tariff on goods from India, including a 25% penalty for its transactions with Russia.

We've also heard as well from Narendra Modi say that the two countries were close friends

and natural partners. And so whether or not we might finally see a trade deal when it comes to India,

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