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U.S. as latest hefty tariffs on Canadian goods to imports of cars, trucks, auto parts,
and steel as of the new year. He had already imposed 50 percent tariffs after Canadian
Prime Minister Mark Carney walked out of Friday's talks, he said the U.S. was pushing new unfair tariffs. Carney is promising to protect levies on American goods. Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson says fertilizer to mid-west farmer stands to be affected. We've also provided electricity from Ontario to the Northeast and Premier, again, the conservative Premier of Ontario. This said, well, maybe we'll put a text on that as
well. So there are things that Canada could do that would hurt Canadians and hurt Americans. But U.S. Trade Representative Jamison Greer says Canada stands to suffer more than the
“U.S. I think this is a little bit of a tempest in a T-plot, you know, the tariffs”
on the place of the weekend, which we warned about for a long time. You only covered about 5 percent of Canadian trade. It only points 0.6 percent of U.S. overall consumption. Meanwhile, the U.S. is preparing to launch intensified economic warfare on Iran. This afternoon Treasury Secretary Scott Besson is expected to disclose details of a strategy designed to financially isolate Iran with major sanctions against that country. That includes
pressure on other countries to refrain from doing business with Iran. The U.S. already has enabled blockade on the country. And PR assembly Fang has more. Alan Air was a long-time American diplomat. And a former member of the U.S. is Mughal negotiating team until 2015. He's very familiar with the nearly five decade history of American sanctions on Iran. When it comes to sanctions, we've done the low hanging fruit, the mid hanging fruit, the
“hang in high hanging fruit, the tree, and also there are no new sanctions that are effective.”
Being little is left to impose new sanctions on. Bessonton Trump has said they will target countries and governments that host entities which help Iran evade penalties. Emily Fang and Pernu's Washington. The fast-moving Hawkefire near Reno, Nevada has grown more than 15,000 acres. Zero percent contain hundreds of people spent the night in an evacuation center. Other slept in their cars and RVs after being evacuated. Maria Palma of Immortation
KU and our hesilators. The Red Cross is running the evacuation center which has a capacity of 900 bets. About 90,000 people are in the combined evacuation and get set to evacuate areas. The Washington County School District canceled classes for all schools today. And the energy says about 10,000 customers in Northern Nevada are without power. Fire officials say several homes have been lost, but don't have an exact number. Road closures and evacuations
are causing traffic delays in the area. Some residents reported being stuck in traffic for up to four hours as they tried to evacuate. And the Washington County Sheriff's office says the fire was human cost. That's Maria Palma reporting. It's NPR news. China has postponed its lunar mission that was scheduled to take off in the coming days. An update for Ben PR is Jennifer Pack. China's unmanned spacecraft named Changluo 7 was said to search for frozen
“water near the Moon's South Pole. It also meant to make breakthroughs in key technologies,”
including high precision soft landing on the lunar surface and exploring craters that are permanently in the shadows. So state-run Tsinghua News Agency. For weeks, the spacecraft had been in China's southern Hainan island preparing for the mission. But on Sunday, after the China man's space agency had done a comprehensive assessment, it said the spacecraft did not meet the conditions for launch for now. But did not set a new date. Jennifer Pack and PR News Beijing.
New Zealand's government has introduced legislation of Parliament to ban children under the
age of 16 from using social media, critical call-up has a latest. Prime Minister Christopher
Luxon spoke about what is at the heart of the bill. It's not about technology. It's actually about our children. The New Zealand bill requires tech companies to take reasonable steps to verify the ages of their users and proposes fines of up to 10 percent of global revenues for platforms that fail to comply. Australia became the first country to restrict children's use of platforms like TikTok, Facebook and YouTube. A visual data showed millions of accounts were
closed, but with little change to children's online behaviour. Canada, Brazil and Indonesia have also introduced bands. While France's top court blocked a bill, finding that in fringes on freedom of expression and privacy. For NPN News, I'm Christina Cocona and Melbourne, Australia. This is NPR News. For the past 25 years, a rare Pacific ecosystem has been undisturbed. Now, the Trump administration is opening nearby waters to commercial fishing.
The Americans' fishermen have never had a better ally in the White House and Donald Trump.
This week on the Sunday Story, we discuss what's at stake for this wild ecosystem. Listen now to the Sunday Story from the Up First Podcast on the NPR app.
