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LONG The White House has urged investors to trust in Donald Trump as Wall Street continues a global sell-off in response to his tariff announcement. The Dow Jones index is down more than three percent, the dollar has fallen and oil prices have slipped. Shares prices in Europe and Asia closed sharply down. As government officials consider what to do next, we speak to a former US secretary of commerce and an American businessman.

Also in the programme: a BBC team reports from Mandalay, close to the centre of the Burmese earthquake zone; and the UK is to host the women’s football World Cup in 2035

(Photo: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York Credit: JUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

After the US President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs yesterday, global leaders have reacted to the unprecedented measures. We'll hear from China, Bangladesh, and a Nobel-prize winning economist. Also on the programme: a rare report from inside Myanmar following last week's earthquake; and could a vaccine against shingles protect against dementia? (Photo: Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House. Credit: Reuters)

President Trump has announced sweeping tariffs aimed at most if not all of America's trading partners following promises he made while on the campaign trail. But how will they affect the world economy? We'll hear viewpoints from inside and outside the US. Also, a special report from our BBC team on the ground in Myanmar, some of the first international journalists to enter the country since the earthquake. (IMAGE: U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to sign an executive order related to the U.S. live entertainment ticketing industry in the Oval Office, March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis)

The head of the European Central Bank says Donald Trump's sweeping new tariffs - to be announced later - will have a negative impact across the world. Christine Lagarde said the damage would depend on the extent of the tariffs. But what might President Trump's tariffs mean for the global economy? We hear from Roberto Azevedo, a former director general of the World Trade Organization.

Also, the American actor, Val Kilmer, who appeared in Top Gun, The Doors and Batman Forever, has died at the age of sixty-five. We will look back at his life and career.

And a new British exhibition reveals MI5 secrets and spy gadgets!

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The BBC has become one of the first international news organisations to reach the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, since the army recaptured it, and has found overwhelming destruction. Barbara Plett Usher reports.

Also on the programme: countries around the world are preparing their responses to President Trump's expected announcement on Wednesday of sweeping tariffs, affecting trillions of dollars of US imports. Meanwhile, the Trump administration faces its first electoral challenge since November's election, as Wisconsin votes for a new member if its supreme court.

(Picture: A ruined building in Khartoum. Credit: Barbara Plett Usher)

The Israeli military has sought to defend its actions in Gaza a week ago when its troops fired upon a convoy of vehicles, killing fifteen paramedics, civil defence workers and a UN worker. An Israeli spokesman said there had been no random shooting and militants had been targeted. We hear from Olga Cherevko of the UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza.

Also, a woman has been pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Myanmar's capital, four days after a huge earthquake that left thousands dead.

And the Great Gatsby turns a hundred - why does it still speak to us today?

(Photo: Palestinians gather around a body as they mourn medics, who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission, after their bodies were recovered, according to the Red Cross, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled)

France's far right leader Marine le Pen has come out fighting after a court blocked her from running for President in two years, following her conviction for embezzlement. We hear reaction from her party, plus analysis of what this means for French politics.

Also in the programme: the UN's humanitarian chief says he wants answers and justice after fifteen Palestinian medics and aid workers are killed by Israeli forces in Gaza; and as news emerges of Sudan's National Museum being ransacked by retreating forces, we hear from a senior curator.

(IMAGE: President of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) parliamentary group Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, France, 31 March 2025 / CREDIT: THOMAS SAMSON/POOL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Marine Le Pen has been barred from running for public office for five years, meaning she would not be able to run in the 2027 French presidential election. Also on the programme, the military authorities in Myanmar say more than two-thousand people are now known to have been killed by Friday's earthquake, but the final figure is likely to be higher; and a look at the young tennis player who defeated Novak Djokovic.

(Photo: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, member of parliament of the Rassemblement National (National Rally - RN) party, looks on as she arrives for the verdict of her trial alongside 24 other defendants (party officials and employees, former lawmakers and parliamentary assistants) and the RN party itself, over accusations of misappropriation of European Union funds, at the courthouse in Paris, France, March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq)

More aftershocks have been felt in Myanmar as the military junta continues bombing rebels. We speak to Kim Aris, Aung San Suu Kyi’s son, about her 4 years’ incarceration in a Burmese jail.

Also: Donald Trump has said he was very angry with President Putin for questioning the credibility of the Ukrainian president; and we explore the relationship between John Lennon and his fellow Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney. (Image: Burmese rescuers sift through the rubble of a collapsed building. Credit: Reuters)

Two days after a devastating earthquake, an aftershock hits as we speak to someone in Mandalay, Myanmar's second largest city.

Rescue teams from around the world are continuing operations to search for survivors and recover bodies in the conflict-hit country and in neighbouring Thailand.

Also in the programme: We'll hear a report on how articial intellgence is being used in films in Hollywood; Syria's Islamist president appoints cabinet members from the country's minorities; and we'll hear how basketball is being used as a force for peace in Haiti.

(Photo shows commuters drive past a building that collapsed in Mandalay, Myanmar on 30 March 2025. Credit: Reuters)

At least 1,600 people have died in the earthquake in Myanmar. Meanwhile, the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar has condemned the military government's continued attacks in areas controlled by ethnic rebel groups. Tom Andrews told Newshour at least three airstrikes were carried out in the Sagaing region - the epicentre of the quake and a rebel stronghold. He called on the ruling junta to stop. Also in the programme: Hundreds of thousands of Turks have attended a rally in Istanbul in support of the city's jailed former mayor; and why did a Polish presidential candidate appear on TV in disguise? (Photo: Rescue personnel work at the site of a building that collapsed, following a strong earthquake, in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 29, 2025. Credit: Reuters)

Amidst all the death and damage caused by the earthquake in Myanmar, the UN said they have had reports the military government is still launching air strikes on rebel-held areas.

More than 1,000 are now known to have died in Myanmar and thousands more injured after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday.

Also on the programme: the opposition protests in Istanbul continue to attract huge crowds; and an author who has conducted interviews with young men who call themselves involuntary celibates in many countries tells us what she discovered about the incel movement.

(Photo: People look at the collapsed Maha Myat Muni Pagoda following an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar. Credit: STRINGER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Myanmar’s military government has asked the international community for aid after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit the country. We hear from rescue workers in the Mandalay area, close to the earthquake’s epicentre.

Also on the programme: US Vice President JD Vance visits Greenland, without an invitation from the Greenlandic government; and the singer Dua Lipa is cleared of accusations of plagiarising elements of her song ‘Levitating’.

(Picture: People look at damaged house in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, 28 March 2025 Credit: NYEIN CHAN NAING/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake - which the US Geological Survey says had an epicentre in central Myanmar - has been felt in neighbouring countries, including Thailand where an unfinished high-rise has collapsed. Dozens of construction workers are missing, the Thai deputy prime minister says, and a search and rescue operation is under way. Damage in Myanmar is still being assessed. We speak to the International Red Cross in Yangon and hear first hand testiomny from Thailand's capital Bangkok.

Also on the programme: the European Commission -- the EU's executive arm -- has announced a package of measures to help winemakers struggling to sell their product. Wine writer Julia Harding MW tells us why less wine is being drunk; and the visit by the US vice-president, JD Vance, to Greenland has sparked controversy. Greenlandic politician Qupanuk Olsen shares her perspective.

(Image: Motorists ride past a damaged building after a strong earthquake struck central Myanmar, in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 28, 2025. Credit: Reuters)