live from london. this is bbc news. the us defense secretary calls on asian nations to boost military spending - to deal with what he says is the threat from china. meanwhile britain's defence secretary says he has "no doubt" uk military spending will reach 3% of gdp, to meet ambitions understood to be in a strategic review of the armed forces. we have got to strengthen our armed forces, to make us more secure at home and stronger abroad, but also learn the lessons from ukraine as well. president trump says he'll double steel and aluminium import tariffs to 50% - we'll take a look at what this latest move means for the us and global economy? fresh hope for people

with head and neck cancer, after a new drug shows excellent results during trials. and can psg finally claim europe's biggest prize? or will inter milan's experience prove decisive? fans are gathering in munich for this year's champions league final. hello. welcome to this hour hear on bbc news. president trump has announced the us will double its current tariff rate on steel and aluminium imports to 50%. speaking at a rally in pennsylvania, he said the move, which comes in on wednesday, would help boost the local steel industry and national supply while reducing reliance on china. the announcement is the latest turn in trump's roller-coaster approach to tariffs since re-entering office in january. with more here's our business correspondent marc ashdown.

today i have a major announcement. and are you ready to hear this? cheering the president is addressing a rally in pennsylvania, mainly steelworkers. even they were surprised that he plans to double his tariff on steel and aluminium imports. we're going to bring it from 25% to 50%. the tariffs on steel into the united states of america, which will even further secure the steel industry in the united states. nobody's going to get around that. the announcement has already sent shock waves around the world, as businesses and nations weigh up the impact of yet another twist in the tariff story. since donald trump announced the 25% tariff in march, suppliers have seen the cost of exporting steel and aluminium products to the us soar from wednesday. that will now double to 50%. the uk has agreed a trade deal with the us, which would see the tariffs reduced to zero,

but it hasn't come into effect yet. it covers the £700 million worth of uk steel and aluminium exports to america. but uk manufacturers also export £2.2 billion worth of derivative products - items like gym equipment, furniture and machinery which contain steel or aluminium. it's not clear how these will be affected, and for now, exporters continue to face even more costs. this further tariff tax hike from 25% to 50% will deliver a serious body blow to the uk steel sector. it's unexpected. that will cause uncertainty and confusion within our sector, knowing that from next wednesday, our customers in the us will be facing that massive 50% tax hike that will put those orders into jeopardy. and i would say some orders will be cancelled. the government said it was engaging with the us on the implications

of the latest tariff announcement, to provide clarity for the industry and remain committed to protecting british businesses and jobs. the president said his tariffs would boost american jobs and secure the future of us steel. but his latest move has thrown the global industry into chaos and confusion. for the first time in more than 20 years, scientists have made a breakthrough in head and neck cancers. the research - which will be presented at the annual meeting of the american society of clinical oncology - showed immunotherapy kept patients cancer free on average for double the length of time of current treatments. sophie hutchinson reports. back in 2019, laura marston was given a 30% chance of surviving five years. she had cancer of the tongue, which had spread and needed surgery. laura was invited to take part in a trial of an immunotherapy and six

years on, she is cancer-free. the trial involved 714 patients with stage iii head and neck cancer. around half, 363 patients, received injections of the immunotherapy pembrolizumab before and after surgery. the treatment doubled cancer free time from two and a half years to five. giving them immunotherapy before removing the tumour, we give the immune system a chance to have a good look at the tumour, to generate anti-tumour immunity,

and then after removal of the tumour, we continue to amplify that immune response by giving the drug continually for up to a year. scientists say it's taken more than 20 years to make this life-changing breakthrough in treating head and neck cancer. they're now calling for more patients like laura to be offered the treatment on the nhs. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. global military spending is at the top of the agenda at a security meeting in singapore. there - the us defense secretary says the us fully intends to counter china's increasing military dominance in the indo-pacific region, but is not seeking conflict. pete hegseth was speaking at the summit in singapore, known as the shangri la dialogue. it's historically been the setting for top-level encounters between china and the us. mr hegseth also warned that china is rehearsing for a possible invasion of taiwan.

we do not seek conflict with communist china. we do not instigate or seek to humiliate. present trump in the american people have an immense respect for the chinese people and their civilisation. any attempt by communist china to conquer taiwan by force would respond with devastating consequences for the indo-pacific world. that could be eminent. we hope not, but it certainly could be. let's speak to our security correspondent frank gardner who's in singapore. oh, no, we are not able to speak to him at the moment. let's speak to him when we can. just trying to establish contact with him. here in the

uk, the prisoners officer association has warned that there is a tax on prison officers. deliveries by air, here you can see how drones are being used to drop goods into prisons and the suspected contraband could be behind recent attacks on prisons. if we have the threat of drones, why are our airspace is not protected? why do we have ingress in prisons of this. a prison officer was airlifted out yesterday morning after being stabbed. they insisted that it was not a prison made where fern and had been brought

in. -- prison made weapon. he is now in a stable condition. there have been other attacks on prison officers in england recently. earlier this month, a prison officer had boiling water thrown over over them in london. the manchester arena attacker hashem abedi also has attacked officers with boiling oil and weapons. they say that more support is needed. we know there are jails are awash with illicit items, but the map we very rarely lock them down. we want super max facilities. now is the time. so that people who propose the most risk to staff

are lockdown. it is only a matter of time before one of my colleagues is murder on duty. according to the ministry of justice, the number of assaults on staff in prisons has reached its highest level in decades. in december 2024, there were 122 assaults on staff per 1000 prisoners, with a total of over 10,600 assaults on staff in that year. the prison service at the assaults on hard-working staff would not be tolerated. it said it would always push for the strongest punishments against perpetrators. let's return to our top story. we were talking about the summit that is taking place in singapore, the volcano mac dialogue where we were heading

from pete hegseth, who talked about what he said was the growing threat from china. let's go to the summit. glad that we finally establish contact with you. tell us more about what we heard from the us defence secretary and white so notable. this was, i'm going to be polite here, it was a robust speech, bordering on confrontational. it was extremely tough towards china. it was basically warning china to keep their hands off taiwan, which is a self governing island democracy which china has vowed to end its words we take. it says that access from america's back and it is not going away, no one will be able to drive us from this region and we are your friends and

look, the two big powers in this region are us and china and they are not here at this event, which is true. there is a small low level delegation, relatively low but the chinese defence minister, pete hegseth's opposite in beijing because not turned up, i think that is a strategic mistake. i should tell you the last few minutes, there has been a furious response from the chinese embassy here in singapore saying that pete hegseth's speech was full of provocation and instigation and the us is the real troublemaker in the region, that the n must bend an absolute fortune on weapons and has bought offensive weapons to the region and carried out hostile reconnaissance of chinese islands, so it calls, in the chinese see. these are

disputed. they are disputed, but nevertheless, a very robust response saying, how can anybody trust the us as an ally when it keeps changing its mind? it's policies are characterised by back and forth. that's what the chinese embassy are saying. there is an important element to all of theirs. that is that the uk has a very different approach to the us than to china. i was able to spend a short time with britain's most senior serving officer, the defence staff, who is on the back to the uk to present on the review on monday, and his approach is softer and china. he recognises that china propose a serious strategic challenges to the uk and i think there are errors of

disagreements, such as the british airport carrier steaming towards is part of the world right now. china won't like that. but he, tony vatican, went to visit his opposite number in china because he believes there must be military to military communications between nuclear powers and that is not something that the us does. not to the same extent. frank, just another thing that i want to get your thoughts on what we heard from pete hegseth. talking about how the asia pacific region was america's priority theatre. we have seen the trump administration focus on a number of different regions in the world since he returned to office, but they are saying that actually it is the asia pacific that is the biggest concern. i think he is really putting into words what many people have been talking about for a long time which is

the so-called us pivot to the asia pacific, or indo-pacific, we are talking about the indian ocean and the states that border it and the pacific ocean which goes all the way to continental united states and countries like chile who have enable base. some would call it the arabian gulf or persian gulf, but that was the area that was to eject the vital to the united states because it produced so much oil that the us depended on. it doesn't need the oil any more because it pumps more oil of its own. weirdly, have the us headquartered in bahrain and actually, the majority of the oilers heading eastwards to countries like china and india, who also by russian oil. the us

strategic focus is on the specific. make no mistake. there is hotting up strategic rivalry going on between china and the united states. that is why i have come to the conference. why would i bother otherwise? i think this is a really important story. china versus the us and how you avoid natural confrontation over for example taiwan. china has made it wants to take control of taiwan, talks about taking it back. taiwan doesn't want that. the big question is will the us defend taiwan china tactic? and today pete hegseth came about as close as any us defence secretary is ever come to saying that it would. he didn't quite say it, but he came close to saying that they would come to taiwan pass 's defensive china attacked. in china, as you can see the response from

the embassy, wasn't pleased about that. good to get your analysis on that story. we will be with frank throughout that summit. frank gardner, our security, so didn't -- correspondent joining us live. the defence secretary, john healey, has said he has "no doubt" uk military spending will reach 3% of national income by the year 2034. the government previously said that level of funding would only be reached if economic conditions allow. it's understood that the uplift will be needed to fully pay for new plans to modernise britain's armed forces - which are due to be announced in the coming days. it will be around the way we had to strengthen our armed forces, make a stronger home and abroad, but also learn lessons from ukraine. stronger

to just turn the threats that we face and always with people at the heart of our forces, at the heart of our defence. that is why the housing commitments that we make through the strategic defence review are so important to the future. that was the defence secretary here in the uk. reports from nigeria say at least 151 people have been killed by flash flooding in the west of the country. the death toll rose dramatically in the last 24 hours after a number of bodies were recovered near the town of mokwa, which has been the epicentre of the floods. a local official says that more than 250 homes and two bridges have been washed away. more than 3,000 people have been displaced. let's speak to the bbc's azeezat olaoluwa, who is in mokwa. good to talk to you, of course

under these difficult circumstances. authorities are saying more than 150 people are now dead. what is the latest you are hearing and seeing on the ground? yes, absolutely. authorities have told us that more than 150 our dad. the residents are worried that that death toll will rise. behind me there is still searching ongoing. we can't call it rescue any more because they believe that people cannot be found alive any more. the mood here is of sorrow, grief and loss. around me, i see hundreds of houses destroyed, residents are trying to take what they can salvage from the remains of what used to be their home. i am probably standing on what used to be somebody's bedroom. i spoke to a man who said nine of his family members were washed away by the floods and one body has been recovered so

far. he's said he has come to terms of the fact that the remaining eight might not come back alive. i spoke to a secondary school student who said his beloved teacher was one of those missing and family members were also unaccounted for. he lost his father five years ago and said he was sad because he feels he is the one to take care of the rest of his family. people are scavenging right here, trying to take what remains of their property and that makes them very angry. what we are hearing also is that rescue efforts in other areas are also ongoing, emergency respondents is trying to provide supplies for those who have been displaced. i spoke to a woman who said she saw 50 or 60 children in a school washed away by a flood in the early hours of wednesday. the official figure

doesn't exactly specifically capture the extent of the deaths of this community alone, let alone in the community of mokwa as well. we are trying to take stock of the damage and experience of people. thank you very much for that outbreak. let's get a quick break from the news and get an update on the sport with ben. we'll start in paris where the top seed jannick sinner breezed into the last 16 with a straight sets win over jiri lehechka. the italian dropped only seven games in beating richard gasquet on thursday and was even more ruthless against the czech, winning 6-love, 6-1, 6-2. rather understated on court after he said, "i played very well." he'll play 17th seed andrei rublev next. in the women's draw, third seed jessica pegula and sixth seed mirra andreeva are into round four where she will face daria kasatkina. the 18-year-old andreeva proved too strong for yulia putinseva

- a two-time roland garros quarterfinalist - 6-3, 6-1. kasatkina was also a straight sets winner, beating tenth seed paola badosa. and british number one jack draper - seeded five in paris - is taking on joao fonseca. early stages on court suzanne lenglen. he has just taken the first set 6-2. from paris to munich where paris saint-germain and inter milan are gearing up for the champions league final. psg have never won european club football's biggest prize. boss luis enrique feels that the experience of knocking out liverpool, aston villa and arsenal en route to the final should play into their hands. i don't know, i hope it is going to happen again, but i have to say, if you think about the level of the premier league teams, we can see the final of the europa league and also conference league, four english teams winning, we had to play against them

many times this season. i think it was tough, really tough, but at the same time, we could analyse and enjoy playing our football against them. i think we deserved to get to the final. inter - the last italian side to win it in 2010 - start as the underdogs in munich - despite overcoming bayern munich in the quarters and barcelona in an all time classic in the last four. football isn't decided by the bookies, though. translation: every match is a different story, it will not be about budgets, annual revenues or the quality of the squad on paper. it will come down to the players, who understand the small details make the difference. we know finals can be decided on tiny moments. two years ago we were seen as the underdogs but the pitch said that we held our own, maybe even deserved something

more, even when we faced the strongest team in the world at the time, manchester city. onto golf - japan's mai saigo will tee off on saturday with a healthy three-shot lead in the third round of the us women's open as she aims to make it back to back majors this year. the chevron champion started and finished with a birdie in round two, and made five more in the middle to move to 8-under par at erin hills - three ahead of a group of six that includes world number one nelly korda. scotland's gemma dryburgh is the best placed brit on 3 under. the ds penske team has secured its first one-two finish in formula e, with german max gunther winning the shanghai e-prix. pole-sitter gunther made the race-winning move over oliver rowland championship leader oliver rowland on lap 26 of 29. the one-two was completed by two-time world champion jean eric vergne, who secured his first podium of the season in the process too. a huge day at cycling's giro d'italia today

on the famous colle delle finestre. simon yates could be in the lead. he attacked richard carapaz and isaac del toro, who are all battling hard. more on that and spanish grand prix qualifying on our website. we'll have more here on bbc news in the next hour. thank you very much, ben. as you mention, let's take it and live pictures in munich, excitement mounting in the champions league finals. you can see fans around the stage. inter milan take on psg, paris saint-germain hoping to clinch their first champions league final. an italian fan told one of the news agencies that it is tough, very difficult but i hope that inter milan can take that it might play a good game, but psg will definitely when. let's see. you can find more on

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this is bbc news, the headlines. britain's defence secretary says he has "no doubt" uk military spending will eventually reach 3% of gdp. the government is set to unveil its strategic defence review on monday. it'll outline priorities for the armed forces in future years. meanwhile the us defence secretary, pete hegseth, called on asia to boost military spending to deal with what he says is the threat coming china. he made the remarks in singapore - and also repeated pledges to increase america's presence in the indo-pacific. steel and aluminium import tariffs are raised to 50% by donald trump as he pledges to boost manufacturing in the us.

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