US President Donald Trump is set to announce further tariffs later on 2 April, which he has suggested will hit all countries, and could take effect immediately.

He has already introduced a series of taxes covering steel, aluminium and car imports as well as all goods from China.

Trump argues the measures – which make foreign goods more expensive – will help US manufacturers and protect jobs. However, prices could go up for consumers.

Tariffs are taxes charged on goods imported from other countries.

Typically, tariffs are a percentage of a product’s value. For example, a 25% tariff on a $10 (£7.76) product would mean an additional $2.50 charge.

Companies that bring the foreign goods into the country have to pay the tax to the government.

Firms can choose to pass on some or all of the cost to customers.

Tariffs are a central part of Trump’s economic vision. He says “tariff” is his favourite word.

He argues the taxes will encourage US consumers to buy more American-made goods, boosting the country’s economy and increasing the amount of tax raised.

Trump wants to reduce the gap between the value of goods the US imports and those it exports to other countries.

For example, the US had a trade deficit of $213bn (£165bn) with the European Union (EU) in 2024, something Trump has called “an atrocity”.

The US president also said tariffs were intended to force China, Mexico and Canada – the countries first targeted – to do more to stop migrants and drugs reaching the US.

He has refused to rule out the possibility of a recession as a result of his trade policies. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said tariffs were “worth it” even if they led to an economic downturn.

Several tariffs announced by Trump have subsequently been delayed, amended or scrapped.

2 April:

• 25% tariff on cars coming into the US – 25% tariff on imported car parts due in May or later

12 March:

• 25% tariff on all steel and aluminium imports

6 March:

• Tariff exemption expanded to include other goods shipped under North America’s free-trade agreement, such as televisions, air conditioners, avocados and beef
• Tariffs on potash – used in fertiliser by US farmers – reduced from 25% to 10%

5 March:

• A month-long tariff exemption announced for cars made in North America which comply with the continent’s existing free trade agreement

4 March:

• 10% tariff on Chinese goods doubled to 20%
• 25% tariff against goods from Mexico and Canada, with a 10% tariff on Canadian energy imports

7 February:

• Exemption for shipments from China worth less than $800

4 February:

• 10% tariff on goods from China

Economists expect tariffs to increase prices for US consumers across many imported goods, as firms pass on some or all of their increased costs.

The products affected could include everything from beer, whisky and tequila to maple syrup, fuel and avocados.

Firms may also decide to import fewer foreign goods, which could in turn make those which are available more expensive.

Among Trump’s targets are overseas car firms. The US imported about eight million cars last year – accounting for about $240bn (£186bn) in trade and roughly half of overall sales.

The new import taxes of 25% on cars and car parts will take effect on 2 April, with charges on businesses importing vehicles starting the next day. Taxes on parts are due to kick in later, possibly in May.

Car prices were already expected to rise as a result of tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico.

Component parts typically cross the US, Mexican and Canadian borders multiple times before a vehicle is completely assembled.

The cost of a car made using parts from Mexico and Canada alone could rise by $4,000-$10,000 depending on the vehicle, according to analysts at the Anderson Economic Group.

The tariffs Trump announced during his first term as president raised the average price of steel and aluminium in the US by 2.4% and 1.6% respectively, according to the US International Trade Commission.

US tariffs on imported washing machines between 2018 and 2023 increased the price of laundry equipment by 34%, according to official statistics.

Prices fell once the tariffs expired.

A number of other countries have introduced their own tariffs on goods imported from the US.

These will make US products more expensive, and are bolstering fears of a global trade war which could create problems for economies worldwide.

China has introduced a 10-15% tax on some US agricultural goods. It has also targeted US aviation, defence and tech firms.

EU tariffs targeting US goods worth €26bn (£22bn) will start on 1 April and be fully in place on 13 April. They will cover items ranging “from boats to bourbon to motorbikes”, as well as steel and aluminium products.

The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has promised a “robust and calibrated response” to any further tariff announcements.

Canada has imposed 25% tariffs on US steel, aluminium and a range of other goods. Further counter tariffs may be introduced.

Mexico has delayed introducing its own retaliatory tariffs while negotiations continue.

A photograph of Kaliyah Coa, an 11-year-old girl who went missing in the River Thames on Monday, has been released by the Metropolitan Police.

Police were called at about 13:20 BST after Kaliyah, who had been playing during a school inset day, entered the water near Bargehouse Causeway, near London City Airport in east London.

Emergency services launched a “large-scale response” to the incident, the force said, but crews from the London Ambulance Service, London Fire Brigade (LFB) and the RNLI were later stood down.

The Met said a recovery mission was now under way along the Thames.

On Tuesday, a witness who lives near the causeway said he had been alerted to the incident by the children who were with Kaliyah “shouting, screaming”.

His neighbour, 59-year-old Shaleen Rajaendram, added: “Then I saw suddenly two kids were coming out to the top of the bridge, I said ‘what happened?’

“Then they said ‘one of my friends was playing in the water, one of my friends has gone into water and she’s gone underneath and we can’t find her’.”

One woman, who later found shoes, a sock, a coat and phone by the river, had taken a life ring to the water but could not see Kaliyah.

Bargehouse Causeway is a concrete slope that goes directly into the River Thames and is used to transport boats.

Some residents pointed out that it appeared to be covered in moss and is slippery.

One woman, who said she tried to warn the children not to play there, saw the events unfold.

Speaking to BBC London, she said: “There were a few kids playing and going in the water a little bit. Five minutes later, the screams came and the girls ran for help.”

Another woman said her son had previously got into difficulty in the same area, in the sand around the causeway, when his ball rolled down towards the water.

“He went to get the ball in the water, not realising that when the tide goes out it’s like sinking sand and when he panicked he went deeper in,” said Nadine Taylor.

“My partner had to grab him and it was lucky he was there to get him out. He was traumatised from that – he’s never gone back near that water again.”

Ch Supt Dan Card from the Met, local policing commander for north-east London, said the force was committed to finding Kaliyah, and were using drone technology and boats as part of their “thorough search over a wide area”.

“Specialist officers are supporting Kaliyah’s family through this deeply upsetting time and our thoughts go out to all those impacted by what has happened.”

He added: “I’d like to thank the members of public, our first-responding officers, and colleagues from other emergency services, as they responded rapidly to carry out a large-scale search during a highly pressurised and distressing time.”

The force is appealing for witnesses.

The search on Monday involved boats and helicopters from HM Coastguard, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and London Fire Brigade.

Nintendo has revealed the Switch 2, the long awaited successor to one of the best-selling consoles in history, will be released on June 5.

Fans have been impatiently waiting to find out more since January, when the Japanese gaming giant ended months of speculation by confirming basic information about the new device.

In a Nintendo Direct online presentation, watched by more than a million people, it gave further details of the hardware, as well as confirming it would be accompanied by Mario Kart World, a new edition of Nintendo’s most famous game.

It also announced a series of other new titles for the console, including Elden Ring and Street Fighter 6.

The company said the new device would have better graphics and audio than its predecessor, and a chat button allowing players to speak to each other while playing.

The price will vary in different markets but in the UK it will retail at £395, or £429 with Mario Kart.

As well as huge interest in the device itself, fans have been keen to find out what games they will be able to play on it.

Most eye-catching was Mario Kart World – in which the franchise appears to have been given a significant refresh.

Water graphics, character tweaks, big sprawling race tracks seen from a distance with varying weather and climates – Nintendo is firmly showing fans this console has more under the hood than its predecessor.

The games made by third party developers – such as Elden Ring – are notable too because they are the kind of high-profile games that typically have not come to Nintendo consoles in recent years.

They included:

• Cyberpunk 2077
• Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
• Hitman World of Assassination
• The Duskbloods

The firm also said a new Donkey Kong platforming adventure was in development, and announced Kirby Air Riders will be coming in 2025, a sequel to a fan favourite game released back in 2005.

Nintendo also confirmed that “compatible” Switch games will work on the Switch 2. Others will get Switch 2 editions, meaning they will have updated graphics and gameplay.

The company did not say how much the upgrades will cost.

The console itself has a bigger screen than its predecessor at 7.9 inches, with a better display – 1080p compared to the Switch’s 720p, with HDR support and showing up to 120fps.

Marginal changes – such as larger buttons and control sticks – will get attention. But more interesting is that both controls can be used as a mouse, as with a PC, in supported games.

Nintendo argues its 3D audio tech will create a surround sound experience, but this is unlikely to be the feature that sways people to picking up the device.

256GB of internal storage is a big upgrade, as Nintendo has historically been stingy on this front.

The C button on the switch controller is the new bit of hardware for the Switch 2.

It appears to help control a voice chat feature which is built into the system.

Players pop up at the bottom of the screen, appearing almost like Zoom or Teams – complete with a quite low frame rate screen share – and Nintendo claims its tech will isolate your voice regardless of background noise.

The original Nintendo Switch is one of the best-selling consoles of all time, having shifted more than 150 million units since its 2017 release.

Only Sony’s PS2 and Nintendo’s own DS have proved more popular.

Its hybrid format – allowing players to use it as a handheld device or hooked up to a TV in a more traditional home console set-up – is thought to be one of the big reasons behind its success.

Even if the new device replicates that level of interest, it may need to overcome other challenges.

Console launches are often hit with hardware shortages – a trend that was particularly evident when the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles were launched in late 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Nintendo’s president Shuntaro Furukawa previously told investors the long wait for the new console was partly to ensure the company could manufacture enough machines to meet demand.

Since then the global trading picture has been affected by President Donald Trump launching a wave of tariffs – it is not yet clear how they could affect the production and sales of the Switch 2.

A man has been charged with 64 offences after a major investigation into a funeral directors in Hull in which police removed 35 bodies and a quantity of ashes.

Humberside Police began its inquiry into Legacy Independent Funeral Directors after a report of “concern for care of the deceased” in March last year.

Robert Bush, 47, formerly of Kirk Ella, East Yorkshire, is charged with 30 counts of preventing a lawful and decent burial, 30 counts of fraud by false representation, two counts of theft from charities, one count of fraud and another of fraudulent trading.

He has been released on bail and is due to appear at Hull Magistrates’ Court on 25 June.

A 55-year-old woman, who was arrested in July 2024 on suspicion of money laundering offences, has been released with “no further action to be taken”, the force said.

At a press conference earlier, Deputy Chief Constable Dave Marshall said there were 254 victims in total, of which 172 had been affected by fraudulent trading of funeral plans between 23 May 2012 and 6 March 2024.

Fifty victims were of fraud in relation to human ashes between 1 August 2017 and 6 March last year, he added.

Families have been updated of the development in the case and police have made initial contact with additional victims.

Mr Marshall thanked those affected for their “patience and understanding”.

“They have always been the priority and at the very heart of the entire investigation and this will remain, and we would please ask their privacy is continued to be respected,” he added.

He said the 10-month police investigation had been “complex, protracted and highly sensitive”, culminating in a file of evidence being submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service on 16 January, which had led to the charges being brought.

A month after the inquiry began, Humberside Police said more than 2,000 calls had been received on a dedicated phone line with “a significant number… understandably concerned about the identification of the ashes of their loved ones”.

The force confirmed it was impossible to identify any of the human ashes using DNA profiles which, Mr Marshall had said, would be “devastating news for families and loved ones”.

A dedicated helpline for anyone affected is available on 0808 281 1136.

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Heathrow Airport was warned about the “resilience” of its power supply in the days before a fire which shut down the airport for more than a day last month.

Nigel Wicking, chief executive of Heathrow Airline Operators’ Committee, a group representing airlines, told MPs on Wednesday that he spoke to Heathrow twice in the week before the closure on 21 March.

He questioned why the airport was closed as long as it was and why it was not more prepared considering its importance.

However, Heathrow boss Thomas Woldbye called the fire an “unlikley event” and defended the length of the closure, saying he had to make “very serious safety decisions”.

Mr Woldbye apologised to the more than 300,000 passengers whose journeys were disrupted.

He offered his “deepest regrets” adding that the “situation was unprecedented”. The airport was shutdown after a fire at an electrical substation.

The chaos at Heathrow has raised concerns about the reliability of the major transport hub – and brought into question the UK’s energy resilience more broadly.

Speaking to MPs on the transport committee, Mr Wicking said he raised cases of “theft of wire and cable around some of the power supply” which he said temporarily took out runway lights, which are critical to passenger safety.

“I wanted to understand better the overall resilience of the airport.”

He said he had spoken to the Team Heathrow director on 15 March about his concerns – six days before the fire – and the chief operating officer and chief customer officer on 19 March – two days before the fire.

Mr Woldbye said the airport had to rely on contracts it has with Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks for making the network resilient, and to improve that “comes at a very high cost”, which would raise costs for airlines, and passengers.

However, Mr Wicking said Heathrow is “already the most expensive airport in the world”.

“From an airline perspective, we expect resilience, we expect there to be the capability there and the understanding of when a power supply or an asset is not available, what will you do next, and how quickly will you bring it back?”

On the day of the shutdown, airlines had to divert 120 aircraft, which is “not a light decision to be made in any context”, Mr Wickling added.

As a consequence, when Mr Wicking joined a call with NATs, the national air traffic service, at 05:30, “they’d run out of space within the UK for aircraft to divert”.

“Aircraft were then going to Europe, and then some were even halfway across Europe and going back to base in India,” he said. “So, quite a level of disruption for those passengers, let alone all of the cancellations”.

There were 1,300 cancelled flights, he said.

The airport reopened on the Saturday following the fire.

When asked why it had not reopened sooner, Mr Woldbye said that could have meant passengers got hurt.

He said: “If we had got this wrong, we might be sitting here today having a very different discussion about why people got injured, and I think it would have been a much more serious discussion.

“So there is a margin within which our people have to take very serious safety decisions, and that is what they are trained for, that is what they do, and that requires that every single system is up and running, tested and safe.”

However, Mr Wicking said Terminal 5 could have reopened sooner.

He said: “In terms of T5, my understanding both from British Airways but also on the day, was that pretty much everything was fine to operate by mid-morning, by 10 o’clock.”

After the substation fire began on the Thursday night, Mr Woldbye said Heathrow realised “during the early hours” of Friday 21 March that “we were losing power to the airport”.

“In our operations centre you would seen all the red lights go, that the systems were powering down,” he said. “We had no information as to why.”

“We then had a slightly later stage call from the fire department that the substation was on fire,” he said.

Heathrow is supplied by three substations, but knocking out one caused the airport to shut down.

Mr Woldbye said a third of the airport was powering down and that Terminal 2 was particularly affected, along with certain central systems. He added that it became “first and foremost a safety situation”.

“We need to make sure, when a crisis happens, that people are safe,” he said.

The safest way to proceed was to shut down airport systems, then bring them back on line, he said.

The first priority was to check that no-one been caught in lifts or was hurt.

Safety critical systems such as runway lighting and the control tower “switched in as they should”, however, he said.

The government has backed plans for Heathrow to build a third runway as part of efforts to boost UK economic growth.

The airport would need double the amount of power for its expansion plans, Mr Woldbye said.

However, Mr Wicking said airlines, which support expansion, nevertheless had concerns that it would cost £40bn to £60bn, and that the costs would ultimately be passed onto passengers in the form of higher fees.

The danger was the expansion could turn into a “white elephant”, he said.