Trump’s Tariff Turmoil
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at Sir Keir Starmer being the first UK Prime Minister to join a gathering of EU leaders since Brexit. Meanwhile, President Trump has unveiled his much promised tariffs.
Starmer says the trip is part of what he calls a “reset” between the UK and European Union. It comes as President Trump says the US will “definitely” impose trade tariffs on the EU. This follows Trump imposing tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China this weekend - only for the tariffs on Mexico to be reversed. Adam and Chris are joined by BBC economics editor Faisal Islam.
And, what is the future for the EU in the face of tariffs and internal disputes? Adam speaks to Katya Adler, BBC Europe editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.4 | Hello, all this week, we're going to incredibly self-indulgently celebrate the fact that it's five years to the very week since newscast became a daily news podcast. Having previously been a weekly, although sometimes hourly podcast called Brexitcast. |
| 0:22.8 | Now, your five-year anniversary apparently is marked with something made of wood. |
| 0:27.6 | So we're going to have a really wooden episode today because you're going to hear from not just Chris Mason, |
| 0:32.9 | but also Dr. Katja Adler, BBC Europe editor. |
| 0:37.0 | So it is a sort of wooden reunion of Soros. |
| 0:39.8 | And the reason they're both on this episode of Newscast is that Kier Starrmer is heading to Brussels |
| 0:44.0 | as part of his reset of UK-EU relations. And there's quite a lot of US-EU relationships |
| 0:50.2 | happening in the background as well, all on this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:56.0 | Newscast from the BBC. I like landscapes. |
| 0:57.0 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 0:59.0 | Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. |
| 1:01.0 | That is not the agenda. |
| 1:03.0 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 1:05.0 | The star is born, Elon. |
| 1:07.0 | It's all hurt that a miracle with us happening. |
| 1:09.0 | Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
| 1:11.0 | Take me down to Downing Street. |
| 1:12.7 | Let's go have it to work. |
| 1:14.3 | Blimey. |
| 1:16.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. |
| 1:18.2 | And sitting opposite me here in BBC Broadcasting House is our economics editor at Faisal Islam. |
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