Gideon talks to the FT’s Michael Stott about Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, whose friendship with Donald Trump has been in the spotlight over his willingness to imprison US deportees, notably Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Clip: The White House

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Nayib Bukele: the TikTok authoritarian feted across Latin America

El Salvador’s Bukele refuses to repatriate man wrongly deported from US

How El Salvador became a model for the global far right

Trump is halfway to making America a police state

El Salvador offers to swap Venezuelan US deportees for political prisoners

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Nuclear talks between the US and Iran began last weekend in Oman, and are set to continue in the coming weeks. President Trump has warned that if the talks fail the US could take military action against the Islamic republic – an idea that Israel's government is pressing for. What might a new nuclear deal with Iran look like – and how might it change the geopolitical picture in the Middle East? Clip: The Express Tribune

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The false promise of regime change in Iran: https://on.ft.com/4ioWvyl

US and Iran agree to follow-up talks over nuclear crisis: https://on.ft.com/4jtTSw4

Is Iran on a collision course with the west?: https://on.ft.com/3Yzva5j

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Gideon talks to the economic historian Harold James about the economic and political implications of Donald Trump's tariffs. What are the similarities with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930? What kind of forces will his decision to smash the global economic order unleash? Clip: CBC

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It falls to Congress to unravel Trump’s reckless tariffs

Trump’s ‘reshoring’ ambitions threatened by tariff chaos

Market turmoil strains bro-sphere’s bromance with Donald Trump

Trump and the mob boss approach to global markets

Markets could get a lot worse — and quickly

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