Hello and welcome to News Hour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in London.
I'm Tim Franks.
And we're beginning with the war in Ukraine and what appears to be a significant change of tone from President Trump.
He had promised that there would be a major announcement today and it duly came
as he met the NATO Secretary General,
Mark Rutter.
It wasn't quite a U-turn, a total reversal of policy, but it was,
as one of my on-air colleagues put it, a 90 degree turn.
As President Trump's dissatisfaction with the Russian President,
Vladimir Putin, has appeared to grow in recent days,
he has now said that the US will deliver, as he put it, top of the line weapons to Ukraine.
We're going to supply weapons to NATO at a large amount.
They're going to deliver the weapons and they're going to pay for 100% of the weapons.
We thought we had four deals with Putin.
We get off the phone.
Oh, that was a very nice conversation.
And then he sends missiles into buildings someplace.
I said, what was that all about?
So anyway, so we're going to be doing that with NATO.