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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to live from London. I'm Leila

Naftu. Later in the programme, we'll be hearing about the glitz and the glamour of last night's

Oscar's ceremony in Los

Angeles, why whistleblowers at social media companies are raising the alarm about algorithms used

to keep people engaged with their products and how babies are capable of deception at a

much earlier age than previously thought. But first, with the US.S. Israeli war against Iran, now into its third

week, President Trump now appears to be homing in on one short-term aim, restoring the free passage

of tankers carrying oil and liquefied natural gas through the waterway, the Strait of Hormuz,

to Iran's south. Tehran's effective closure off the strait through

threats and attacks on ships has been a crucial weapon in its arsenal, destabilising global

energy supplies and prompting President Trump to call for US allies to help reopen it. He warned

that NATO would face a very bad future if there was, as he put it, no response or a negative response.

Here he is speaking to journalists on board a very noisy Air Force One as he was traveling from Florida to Washington.

We are talking to other countries about working with us, for the policing of the whole strength. Remember, like as an example,

medications in NATO countries, we're always there for NATO, we're helping them with Ukraine.

It'd be interesting to see what country wouldn't help us with a very small endeavor.

In case you couldn't quite make out what he said,

he said we're always there for NATO.

We're helping them with Ukraine.

It will be interesting to see what countries now help us with this very small endeavor.

Well, India successfully managed to negotiate with Tehran

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