Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. I'm Rebecca Kesb.

Within the next few hours, the Asian stock markets will reopen following the weekend break

and after huge losses in global markets last week, as President Trump's new tariffs were announced.

Many will be hoping for a calmer time. President Trump has urged US businesses to hang tough,

promising that his tariff plan will deliver historic results, for Americans at least.

But now that more than 50 countries are individually trying to open negotiations with the Trump

administration to do the deals Mr Trump himself says he wants. Can the Department of Commerce

manage that workload, especially as it's due to lose 20% of its workforce in planned

doge cuts? More on that in a moment. But the Sunday morning shows in the US today have been busy.

US politicians have been lining up to have their say.

US Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins told CNN there would be a period of adjustment,

but that things would even out.

We are unleashing a new golden age and we will see an economy that will benefit not just

every corner of America, but our farmers and our ranchers and the people that have been

left behind for far too long by both Republicans and Democrats.

But Larry Summers, the former U.S. Treasury Secretary who worked for both Presidents Clinton and Obama, told ABC that tariffs were a disaster for the United States.

This is the biggest self-inflicted wound we've put on our economy in history.

We've never seen anything like this before, and whether it's economic forecasts,

whether it's the stock market, whether it's Democrats making the forecast, whether it's

Republicans like Trump ally, Ted Cruz making the forecast. There's no one virtually who doesn't work for the president who thinks this is a good

idea. Well, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik has been speaking to our U.S. partner station,

CBS. He said that all the tariffs the U.S. has announced will come into effect.

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