Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in London.

I'm Tim Franks. And we're beginning with the war in Ukraine and what appears to be a significant change of tone from President Trump.

He had promised that there would be a major announcement today and it du duly came as he met the NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutter.

It wasn't quite a U-turn, a total reversal of policy, but it was, as one of my on-air colleagues put it, a 90-degree turn.

As President Trump's dissatisfaction with the Russian President Vladimir Putin has appeared to grow in recent days,

he has now said that the U.S. will deliver, as he put it, top-of-the-line weapons to Ukraine.

We're going to supply weapons to NATO at a large amount.

They're going to deliver the weapons and they're going to pay for 100% of the weapons.

We thought we had four deals with Putin.

We get off the phone.

Oh, that was a very nice conversation, and then he sends missiles into building someplace.

I said, what was that all about?

So anyway, so we're going to be doing that with NATO, and it's fully approved, fully done.

We'll send them a lot of weapons of all kinds,

and they're going to deliver those weapons immediately to the site, to the side of the war,

different sites of the war.

As President Trump said, these may be U.S. weapons, and we'll try to pick apart what sort of weapons

in a moment, but while they'll be U.S. produced, they'll be paid for by

other NATO member states. This is what the NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutter, sitting alongside

the President in the Oval Office, had to say about the deal.

This is really big. You want Ukraine, what it needs to have, to maintain, to be able to defend itself against Russia,

but you do want Europeans to pay for it, which is totally logical.

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