As Donald Trump completes one month in office as US President, a lookback at some of his policies that made headlines across the world, including the imposition of reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners, including China, Canada and Mexico among other countries.
Meanwhile, Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration has also been a major talking point back home, as hundreds of illegal immigrants have already been sent back to India.
Watch the full report for more.
Meanwhile, Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration has also been a major talking point back home, as hundreds of illegal immigrants have already been sent back to India.
Watch the full report for more.
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00:00I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the
00:26United States.
00:27The Constitution of the United States.
00:29So help me God.
00:30So help me God.
00:31Congratulations, Mr. President.
00:32A month is over with Donald Trump as the President of the United States of America.
00:39In this one month armed with tariff, deportation, world peace, and muskism of expenditure cuts,
00:49Donald Trump has set the tone for his second term in the Oval Office.
00:54At the heart of it all is the slogan, Make America Great Again.
01:02So Mr. President has told all that he cares first for American money, and in that there's
01:08no compromise for friends or foes.
01:12Tariff charged would be reciprocated in equal terms to all to create jobs and enhance the
01:19manufacturing industry in America.
01:23But I'll tell you what will go up is jobs.
01:25The jobs will go up tremendously.
01:27We're going to have great jobs, jobs for everybody.
01:31This is something that should have been done many years ago.
01:35China did it.
01:36I mean, China did it at a level that probably nobody's ever seen before.
01:41If you manufactured a car, you couldn't send it into China.
01:45The tariff was so high.
01:46So everybody went and they built in China.
01:48It was no big secret.
01:50So we're going to see, but it's going to mean tremendous amounts of jobs and ultimately
01:55prices will stay the same, go down.
01:58We know that we think interest rates are going to ultimately be coming down because of things
02:02that happen and they go hand in hand with the tariffs.
02:06But we think that we think that the prices for some things, many things, it could be
02:11all things will go down.
02:14America is for Americans and not for outsiders, especially illegal immigrants.
02:19They are the bane for America and have no place through Uncle Sam's door.
02:25We're tracking down the illegal alien criminals.
02:28We're detaining them and we are throwing them the hell out of our country.
02:32We have no apologies and we're moving forward very fast.
02:35They're very dangerous people.
02:38And the world needs peace at any cost, even if that means the removal of Palestinians
02:45from the world's largest open prison that they call home, Gaza.
02:53Or if that means Ukraine should bow down to Putin and Europe should watch it happen.
03:01I want to see if I can save maybe millions of lives.
03:05This could even end up in a World War Three.
03:07I mean, to be honest with you, you've been hearing now Europe is saying, well, I think
03:10we're going to go in and we're going to go all of a sudden you're going to end up in
03:12World War Three over something that should have never happened.
03:18And all is fair in love and war against expenditures.
03:24If that means access to boost one's business.
03:28Armed with fella Elon Musk, Trump is all set to make American governance effective.
03:36Cut funds, cut jobs, cut all the flab and protect taxpayers' money.
03:47Elon is doing a great job.
03:49He's finding tremendous fraud and corruption and waste.
03:53You see it with the USAID, but you're going to see it even more so with other agencies
03:58and other parts of government.
04:02Musk gets to spread his business and help the man in the White House be a better president.
04:10A legacy of MAGA to leave behind when he becomes the former president, finally, on 19th January
04:182029.
04:22That's what happened in a month of Trump 2.0.
04:28Hello and welcome, I'm Geeta Mohan and you're watching World Today.
04:34I'm reporting from a city of Florence.
04:37This is the city of Luga.
04:39And I'm at the Tower of Guernsey, not the Trump Tower, but the focus certainly is going
04:43to be President Trump's first month in office for the second time.
04:48Top of the list has been his aggressive tariff policy as an economic tool that has sparked
04:54debate at home and abroad.
04:56Here's a report.
05:01The American President Donald Trump's favorite economic tool is the tariff.
05:08Tariffs are a tax on imports, products brought into the United States from outside.
05:17The US president has made reshaping the country's trade policy a centerpiece of his early administration.
05:25He has introduced tariffs on goods from key trading partners, including Canada, Mexico,
05:31China, India and a host of other countries.
05:38In the past month, he has imposed 25% tariffs on goods entering the US from Canada and Mexico.
05:46Imposed increased tariffs on goods from China by 10% and 25% tariff on steel and aluminum
05:52imports from other countries.
05:56On 13th February, the US President Trump announced the imposition of reciprocal tariffs on imports
06:02from various countries, including India.
06:06On trade, I have decided for purposes of fairness that I will charge a reciprocal tariff, meaning
06:12whatever countries charge the United States of America, we will charge them no more, no
06:19less.
06:20If they charge us, they charge us a tax or tariff and we charge them the exact same tax
06:27or tariff.
06:28Very simple.
06:32President Trump defends these tariffs as essential for protecting American industries, stimulating
06:37economic growth and generating revenue.
06:39He even warned his people that there could be adverse repercussions in the beginning.
06:45We may have short term some little pain and people understand that, but long term, the
06:51United States has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world.
06:56We have deficits with almost every country, not every country, but almost, and we're going
07:01to change it.
07:02It's been unfair.
07:03That's why we owe $36 trillion.
07:04We have deficits with everybody.
07:08We help everybody.
07:09We've been helping everybody for years.
07:11And to be honest, I don't think they appreciate it.
07:14So we're going to change that.
07:18And so did he.
07:19His administration believes tariffs can strengthen the US economy and lead to reshoring of manufacturing.
07:26They highlight the potential for job creation and wage increases in sectors like steel and
07:32aluminum.
07:34We were being pummeled by both friend and foe alike.
07:38Our nation requires steel and aluminum to be made in America, not in foreign lands.
07:43We need to create in order to protect our country's future resurgence of U.S. manufacturing
07:49and production, the likes of which has not been seen for many decades.
07:53So essentially, we're putting on a 25 percent tariff, without exception, on all aluminum
08:01and all steel.
08:04And it's going to mean a lot of businesses are going to be opening in the United States.
08:07And America is going to be stronger than it ever was before.
08:13U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policies have faced strong criticism.
08:19Economic studies from his first term suggest that the economic burden of tariffs is ultimately
08:24borne by U.S. consumers through higher prices.
08:28There are also concerns about retaliatory tariffs from other countries potentially escalating
08:33trade wars.
08:36So this will send shockwaves to the world economy.
08:39And that's before you price in the fact that other countries will feel the need to retaliate.
08:44The tariffs on foreign goods will be a tax on our consumers.
08:48When they retaliate, they'll be hurting themselves, but also hurting U.S. exporters.
08:54The coming months will be crucial in determining the long-term effects of President Trump's
08:58tariff policies on the U.S. and global economies.
09:02Bira Report, India Today.
09:08President Trump is keeping his promise, his electoral promise of a massive crackdown on
09:13illegal immigrants.
09:16He's been cracking down on illegal immigrants and sending them back to their respective
09:20countries, India being one of them.
09:23There have been a few batches that have already reached India.
09:26And this is just the beginning of his four-year term.
09:32Handcuffed and shackled, illegal Indian immigrants were deported from the USA in three batches
09:38in the past one month.
09:40The first batch of 104 arrived in India on 5th February.
09:44Their deportation cost a furor in the Indian Parliament.
09:48A week later, the Indian Prime Minister met the U.S. President Donald Trump.
09:52And in Washington, D.C., he agreed to take in all verified illegal Indian immigrants.
10:38A week later, 119 Indian immigrants were deported on 15th February, and another batch
10:48of 112 arrived in India the very next day.
10:52Right after the U.S. President assumed Oval Office, he started a crackdown on illegal
10:57immigrants.
10:58Today, I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and
11:05Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo
11:11Bay.
11:12Most people don't even know about it.
11:13We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening
11:21the American people.
11:22Some of them are so bad, we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't
11:26want them coming back.
11:27So we're going to send them out to Guantanamo.
11:30This will double our capacity immediately.
11:32Right?
11:33And tough.
11:34It's a tough place to get out of.
11:37The very next day, a U.S. Air Force plane repatriated 80 Guatemalan nationals.
11:44Some families asked their local priest to take guardianship of their children as fears
11:49of deportation among migrants in the U.S. loomed large.
11:53U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, arrests increased across the
11:58country with about 900 to 1,200 people picked up per day.
12:04A daily average of arrests by ICE in the fiscal year 2024 was 311, as per its own reports.
12:17Activists started protesting on streets against Donald Trump's immigration policy and ICE
12:22arrests.
12:24Some pushed back against what they call intimidation tactics by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration
12:30vowing to protect immigrant families.
12:34And if we allow people to identify us or put us in categories of criminal or any other
12:42thing just by the way we look, then we're going back to a time that was very dangerous
12:49in this country, specifically for people that looked like me.
12:52The Mexican National Guard started to conduct extensive patrols across the United States
12:57and Mexico border amid growing migration concerns.
13:04I don't think it's necessary for migrants because migrants are poor people who are being
13:09displaced and don't come to commit crimes in Tijuana or the United States.
13:14The ones we should be going after are elsewhere, not at the border or in the shelters.
13:22U.S. flights kept sending immigrants back to different countries.
13:27President Trump also cracked down on birthright citizenship for children born in the United
13:31States to parents who are not citizens or lawful permanent residents with an executive
13:37order signed on the very first day in office.
13:40Federal courts temporarily blocked the order, calling it blatantly unconstitutional.
13:45The U.S. president is all prepared to fight out a legal battle to implement it nonetheless.
13:51Mr. President, a U.S. judge temporarily blocked the birthright citizenship order.
13:56Do you have any reaction?
13:57No, obviously we'll appeal it.
13:59They put it before a certain judge in Seattle, I guess.
14:03And there's no surprises with that judge.
14:08Arrest and deportation of immigrants remain a top agenda, marking a continuity from his
14:12previous regime in the USA in the first month of his second term.
14:17Bureau Report, India Today.
14:21A constant feature in U.S. President Donald Trump's office has been Elon Musk, Tesla chief
14:28and the head of DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency.
14:32There are many policies that Elon Musk is bringing about to change how the government
14:37functions and how U.S. administration really looks.
14:40And there has been a major pushback by Democrats, but that has not wavered or changed how the
14:46president looks at what Elon Musk is doing.
14:49There's a telling picture, not just a picture on the Time magazine, but also memes that
14:55show that in all probability, it is Elon Musk who's in control.
14:59But President Trump has put all those controversies and issues to rest, making it very clear that
15:08Elon Musk takes orders from him.
15:11Nonetheless, a very important feature of Trump administration this time around.
15:16A key figure in Donald Trump's administration of the second term is none other than Elon
15:26Musk.
15:27He was there when the elected president was calling and talking to world leaders, much
15:33before he took over officially.
15:35He's there sometimes even with his young son at the Oval Office while the U.S. president
15:41goes about running the country.
15:44Recently, during an interview with the network, also the Tesla CEO was present.
15:48What we're really trying to do here is restore the will of the people through the president.
15:55And what we're finding is that there's an unelected bureaucracy.
15:59Speaking of unelected, there's a vast federal bureaucracy that is implacably opposed to
16:06the president and the cabinet.
16:09He spoke about the unelected bureaucracy while the opposition in the country is fighting
16:13against his appointment as a DOJ chief, as he's not elected either and has no constitutional
16:19authority.
16:20But he has the president of America by his side.
16:25Now I see, they want you two to start, they want a divorce.
16:29They want you two to start hating each other.
16:31And they try, oh, President Elon Musk, for example.
16:35You do know that they're doing that to you?
16:37Oh, I see it all the time.
16:38They tried it, then they stopped.
16:40They have many different things of hatred.
16:43Actually, Elon called me.
16:46He said, you know, they're trying to drive us apart.
16:48I said, absolutely.
16:49No, they said, we have breaking news.
16:51Donald Trump has ceded control of the presidency to Elon Musk.
16:56President Musk will be attending a cabinet meeting tonight at 8 o'clock.
17:00And I say, it's just so obvious.
17:03They're so bad at it.
17:04I used to think they were good at it.
17:05They're actually bad at it.
17:06Because if they were good at it, I'd never be president.
17:09Because I think nobody in history has ever gotten more bad publicity than me.
17:14I could do the greatest things.
17:16I get 98% bad publicity.
17:18I could do outside of you and a few of your very good friends.
17:22It's like the craziest thing.
17:24But you know what I have learned, Elon?
17:25The people are smart.
17:26They get it.
17:27Yeah, they do.
17:28They get it.
17:30On the very first day in office,
17:32President Trump established DOJ through an executive order.
17:35This new department was created to streamline federal operations
17:39and reduce government spending with the Tesla CEO at the helm.
17:44He announced in a social media post
17:46that his department is working on shutting down U.S. aid
17:49in his federal cost-cutting scheme.
17:53Next came the claims that millions of dollars were being spent
17:57through U.S. aid in different countries for political landscape building.
18:01And the list included India, among others.
18:04Reportedly, $21 million was spent for voter turnout in India.
18:09It has caused a whole lot of debate across the world.
18:12But Elon Musk remains unfazed.
18:16We do need to delete entire agencies
18:21as opposed to leave part of them behind.
18:24Because if you leave part of them behind,
18:26it's easy.
18:27It's kind of like leaving a weed.
18:29If you don't remove the roots of the weed,
18:32then it's easy for the weed to grow back.
18:34But if you remove the roots of the weed,
18:36it doesn't stop weeds from ever growing back,
18:38but it makes it harder.
18:39So we have to really delete entire agencies, many of them.
18:44DOJ's primary mission has been to cut federal expenditures.
18:48Musk claimed that the task force has saved over $1 billion
18:52by canceling various contracts related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
18:57The initiative has led to layoffs in major health agencies,
19:00including the CDC and FDA,
19:03as part of a broader effort to optimize staffing levels
19:06across the federal workforce.
19:08And there are protests across America
19:10against Elon Musk and DOJ going on.
19:14If the will of the president is not implemented,
19:17and the president is representative of the people,
19:20that means the will of the people is not being implemented.
19:23And that means we don't live in a democracy,
19:26we live in a bureaucracy.
19:27And so I think what we're seeing here is
19:29the sort of thrashing of the bureaucracy
19:32as we try to restore democracy and the will of the people.
19:37They are a pair out to clean the system from within.
19:40They are men with a mission,
19:41but their togetherness has also caused President Trump's approval rating
19:45to drop in the past one month.
19:50President Donald Trump this time around wants to be a man of peace.
19:53He's proposing peace talks and has engaged Russia,
19:57keeping Ukraine and the European countries out.
20:00He's proposed peace between Israel and Hamas,
20:03but also spoken about a Riviera and Gaza Strip
20:06without keeping the Gaza stakeholders in the conversation.
20:11With such proposals, can he really bring about peace?
20:14And at what cost?
20:17A news conference between Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky
20:22and the U.S. President Donald Trump's Ukraine envoy
20:25was cancelled at U.S. request,
20:28revealed a Kyiv official on the day
20:30President Trump's second term completed a month in office.
20:34U.S. President Donald Trump has stirred significant controversy
20:38by suggesting that Ukraine is responsible for the war with Russia.
20:44He refuses to have elections.
20:46It's low in the real Ukrainian polls.
20:49I mean, how can you be high when every city is being demolished?
20:52It's hard to be high.
20:53Somebody said, oh, no, his polls are good.
20:55Give me a break.
20:56Every city is being demolished.
20:58They look like a demolition site, every single one of them.
21:02And the only thing he was really good at was playing Joe Biden like a fiddle.
21:07He played him like a fiddle.
21:08That's an expression we use, yes, sir,
21:10to say that he's pretty easy, pretty easy.
21:15A dictator without elections.
21:17Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left.
21:20Got to move, got to move fast
21:22because that war is going in the wrong direction.
21:24In the meantime, we're successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia.
21:31President Trump's assertions came right after the peace talk
21:34between U.S. and Russian diplomats ended in Saudi Arabia,
21:38excluding Ukrainian representatives.
21:41This exclusion has frustrated Ukraine and Europe.
21:45They feel sidelined.
21:50I'm convinced that for Ukraine and for our region, for Europe,
21:53it is critical that any negotiations to end the war
21:57are not happening behind the backs of the key parties
21:59affected by the Russian aggression.
22:02The American president hit back hard at the Ukrainian president.
22:07He refuses to have elections.
22:09It's low in the real Ukrainian polls.
22:12I mean, how can you be high when every city is being demolished?
22:15It's hard to be high.
22:16Somebody said, oh, no, his polls are good.
22:18Give me a break.
22:21Prompt came the reply from Kiev.
22:23Since we are talking about 4%, we have seen this disinformation.
22:26We understand that it is coming from Russia.
22:30We understand this, and we have evidence that these numbers
22:32are being discussed between America and Russia.
22:35That is unfortunately, President Trump,
22:37with great respect for him as a leader of the people,
22:39which we respect very much, the American people,
22:41who constantly support us, unfortunately, lives in this disinformation space.
22:45We understand this, and we have evidence that these numbers
22:48are being discussed between America and Russia.
22:51Unfortunately, lives in this disinformation space.
23:01President Trump's comments have drawn sharp criticism
23:04from European leaders who went on a huddle in Paris
23:08the night before US and Russia were to talk peace in Riyadh.
23:12The war in Ukraine will mark its third anniversary on 24 February.
23:18I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job.
23:21His country is shattered.
23:23And millions and millions of people have unnecessarily died.
23:27And you can't bring a war to an end if you don't talk to both sides.
23:32You got to talk. They haven't been talking for three years.
23:36Not only Ukraine, US President Donald Trump
23:39is trying to bring peace in the Middle East as well.
23:42Take a look at the death in the Middle East
23:44and the death that's taking place between Russia and Ukraine.
23:47It's been going on and we're going to end it.
23:50There's no profit for anyone in having World War III
23:53and you're not so far away from it.
23:55I'll tell you right now, you're not so far away.
23:58If we would have had this administration for another year,
24:00you would have been in World War III and now it's not going to happen.
24:04He has reiterated his plan to buy and own Gaza
24:08amid ongoing tensions in the region.
24:10And I don't want to be cute.
24:12I don't want to be a wise guy but the Riviera of the Middle East,
24:15this could be something that could be so magnificent.
24:21He promised that the US would take responsibility for rebuilding Gaza
24:25and ensuring that Hamas does not regain power there.
24:29The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too.
24:34We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous,
24:38unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site
24:41level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings.
24:46President Trump's first month in office has set the tone
24:50for a broader strategy of asserting US influence in global conflicts
24:55while proposing controversial solutions that often provoke backlash
25:00from international leaders and allies.
25:02But will they stop the violence and give peace a chance?
25:06That will be decided in the next few years.
25:09Our safety will be restored.
25:11That's all in this edition of World Today.
25:13Keep watching India Today for all the latest news and updates after a short break.
25:18We'll keep reporting out of Italy and many other parts of the world
25:22on what's happening in various parts of the world,
25:25particularly how that impacts India.
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