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Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Leanna Byrne. Good morning.

But first, President Trump has said he now backs NATO, now that countries in the military alliance

are paying their bills.

The president's comments

are part of a wide-ranging exclusive interview with the BBC and follows a deal to send more

US weapons to Ukraine in conjunction with European allies and a threat of tariffs for Russia

if there's no ceasefire with Ukraine in 50 days. Trump also talked about trade, Brexit and his US spending bill. But first,

my colleague, the BBC's Gary O'Donohue, asked about defence spending.

The deal we made last week is amazing. The, you know, the 5%. Nobody heard that that was possible.

And it amounts to over a trillion dollars a year. On that deal, you once said that NATO was

obsolete. I think NATO is now becoming the opposite of that. I do think it was past, and it was very

unfair because the United States paid for almost 100% of it. But now they're paying their own bills and I think that's much

better. Can I ask you about Britain? Because you're having the state visit in September. I know

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