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US President Donald Trump announces that universal 10% tariffs on all imports into the US will come into effect on 5 April, marking a watershed moment for global trade.

Watch Adam Fleming, Chris Mason, and Faisal Islam discuss what it means for the UK, how Prime Minister Keir Starmer might respond, as well as the European Union and the rest of the world.

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A BBC undercover team has witnessed the horrific trauma left by Myanmar’s earthquake after entering the country and reaching the city of Mandalay which was hit hardest by the disaster.

As Yogita Limaye and her team drove into the city the massive scale of the destruction revealed itself bit by bit. In almost every street they found buildings had completely collapsed, reduced to piles of rubble. At the main city hospital patients are being treated outdoors.

Myanmar's military government has said it's not allowing foreign journalists into the country after the quake, so the BBC team went in without permission. They had to operate carefully because the country has many informers and secret police who spy on their own people on behalf of the ruling military regime.

The BBC team witnessed terrible trauma and suffering with little help for people facing the massive disaster.

Anna Foster presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Yogita Limaye.

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Donald Trump has announced sweeping tariffs on goods from countries around the world on what he has called “Liberation Day”. The US President said it was the start of a "golden age" for America.

Trump announced that a 25% tariff on all foreign-made vehicles would begin from midnight local time.

On other imports, the EU will face 20% tariffs on goods entering the US, while UK goods will face a 10% tariff.

Trump said countries would face what he called “reciprocal tariffs” according to what he said they charged on US goods, with a minimum charge - what he called a baseline” - of a 10% tariff.

He said Chinese goods would face a tariff of 34% while for India the figure is 26%.

Trump said tit-for-tat tariffs would be imposed to counter not just other countries' tariffs on US goods but what he called “nonmonetary" barriers like currency manipulation and "pollution havens."

Ben Brown presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith, Chris Mason and Faisal Islam.

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The ruling military junta in Myanmar said the death toll after last week's devastating earthquake now stands at almost 2,900 people.

It is feared that the actual death toll is much higher, with many people still stuck under the rubble in affected cities.

The ruling military junta declared that it will not let foreign journalists into the country after the earthquake making it hard to report from the country.

The BBC's Yogita Limaye has become the first foreign journalist to enter the country since the disaster struck and travelled to the city of Mandalay.

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Deadly Israeli air strikes have been reported in Gaza, as Israel's defence minister said its military would expand its offensive and seize large areas of the Palestinian territory, incorporating them into what he described as "security zones".

Israel Katz said the expanded operation aimed to "destroy and clear the area of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure", and would require a large-scale evacuation of Palestinians.

Later, at least 19 Palestinians, including nine children, were killed in a strike on a UN clinic sheltering displaced families in the northern town of Jabalia, the nearby Indonesian hospital said.

The Israeli military said it targeted "Hamas terrorists" hiding there.

Overnight strikes across Gaza killed at least 20 more people, according to local hospitals.

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Myanmar's military opened fire at a Chinese Red Cross convoy carrying earthquake relief supplies on Tuesday night.

The Ta'ang National Liberation Army, an armed rebel group, said that military troops shot at the convoy of nine vehicles with machine guns in eastern Shan State.

Myanmar's junta, which said it was investigating the incident, denied shooting directly at the vehicles and said troops fired shots into the air after the convoy did not stop, despite it being signalled to do so.

Myanmar has been gripped by violence amid a civil war between the junta, which seized power in a 2021 coup and ethnic militias and resistance forces across the country.

Rebel groups have unilaterally announced a ceasefire to support earthquake relief efforts, but the military has refused to do the same.

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US President Donald Trump is preparing to unveil sweeping tariffs, in what the White House has dubbed "Liberation Day”.

He will outline the plans at the White House later today, but at this stage it's unclear how high the tariffs could go and exactly which countries could be targeted.

Trump argues the tariffs will help US manufacturers by encouraging consumers to buy American-made goods, but analysts warned it could push up prices and trigger a trade war.

The White House said Trump is open to last-minute talks, with "quite a few" countries calling the president on the eve of the announcement.

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Actor Val Kilmer, who starred in some of the biggest movies of the 1980s and 90s, including Top Gun and Batman Forever, has died at the age of 65.

Kilmer died of pneumonia on Tuesday in Los Angeles and was previously diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 but later recovered, his daughter Mercedes told US media.

He also appeared in 1991's The Doors, playing the legendary band's frontman Jim Morrison, plus the Western Tombstone and crime drama Heat.

"After so many years of Val battling disease and maintaining his spirit, this is tremendously sad news," Heat director Michael Mann wrote on Instagram.

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A 63-year-old woman has been rescued from the rubble in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw. However hopes are fading of finding many more survivors almost five days after the 7.7 magnitude earthquake devastated the country.

More than 2,700 people are known to have died with many thousands more left homeless and without food and shelter.

Aid groups say there’s an urgent need for food and water across large parts of the country, but civil war is preventing help reaching many desperate communities.

Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Anna Foster and Nick Beake.

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Today, we look at how the UK and the rest of the world have been bracing themselves for Trump’s sweeping global tariffs.

The exact details of the tariffs remain unclear so leaders are left to wonder: how big is this going to be? Adam and Chris speak to Caitríona Perry, Chief Presenter for BBC News in DC about how Keir Starmer will balance the delicate line between the UK’s interests and it’s relationship with the US President.

And, people across the UK are seeing their bills going up. Financial Times journalist, Claer Barrett is in the studio to guide us through why this is happening and what we can do to lessen the blow.

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