Mexico and Canada hit back at Trump's tariffs
Both nations have said they are preparing retaliatory tariffs of their own.
Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, and Mexican president ,Claudia Sheinbaum, have threatened retaliatory tariffs after Donald Trump announced he would impose 25% tariffs on both nations' goods beginning on Tuesday. Canadian energy faces a lower 10% tariff.
Also on the programme: The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is due to holds talk with the President Jos茅 Ra煤l Mulino of Panama today amid threats by President Trump to seize the Panama Canal; and in recognition of the huge crowds it draws, Da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is to be moved to what's being described as its own "special space" within the Louvre museum in Paris.
Presenter Julian Worricker is joined in our London studio by Dayo Forster, a Gambian-born writer and data specialist now based in the UK, and Roman Krznaric, a UK-based writer and social philosopher.
(Photo: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum during a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico on 30 January 2025. Credit: SASHENKA GUTIERREZ/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)