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Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Roger Hearing.
And on this edition, the US And Jordan disagree on the future of Gaza.
But how dependent is Jordan on American aid?
Also, condemnation of US Steel and aluminum tariffs from Canada, Mexico and the eu.
We hear about boycott of American goods in Canada, cleaning up a lake in Guatemala to win back tourists,
and the diss track row between two of the world's biggest rappers.
But is it really just a way of selling more music?
But first, it was a tense moment at the White House.
King Abdullah of Jordan sat down with Donald Trump,
the man who had threatened to withhold $1.45 billion of a of aid each year
from the US unless he he agreed to help take in the almost 2 million Palestinians from Gaza.
It was all smiles in the Oval Office, but there was clearly a difference of views.