Caroline Hepker

When asked by the Telegraph newspaper if he would consider pulling the US out of the treaty, President Trump said, oh yes, I would say it's beyond reconsideration.

In the same interview, the president called the bloc a paper tiger and criticised European members' refusal to send ships to unblock the Strait of Hormuz.

NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation, Pierre Vandier, says the alliance must weather the storm.

Vandier added that it's a moment when we need to have cool heads.

His comments came as the FT reported Trump had threatened to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine in order to pressure the Europeans to join a coalition of the willing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The war in Iran has prompted a surge in UK petrol prices.

It's a development which adds to the pressure facing Prime Minister Keir Starmer to help those struggling with the cost of living.

Bloomberg's Tima Adebayo has the story.

The Trump administration is preparing to outline a tiered system for tariffs on steel and aluminium products.

50% tariffs on a large number of derivative products will be maintained while other products will be tariffed at a lower 25% rate and some will fall below that level.

Bloomberg understands that the expected announcement could come as early as today in response to pushback from American companies over widespread levies

posing difficulties for imports into the US.

The move comes a year after President Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, which Bloomberg economics say have now dealt the deep blow to growth that many feared.

US imports from April to December 2025 were down just 1.7% compared to the same period a year prior.

And lastly, a crew of NASA astronauts are going to be closer to the moon than any other person, than any human in some 50 years.

Here's the moment that Artemis II, the mission, took off.

So that was the rocket taller than the Statue of Liberty taking off reaching speeds of around 17,500 miles per hour as it hurtled to space.

Its crew is now set to travel further into space than anyone in history and fly by the moon's surface in about four days time.

So those are our top stories.

Of course, President Trump made reference to Artemis II and that takeoff, that moon orbital trip in his speech to the nation only a few hours ago.