内容摘要：The US president has said tariffs will boost US manufacturing and jobs but economists have warned they risk fuelling inflation. Trump campaigned on cutting inflation.

The US president has said tariffs will boost US manufacturing and jobs but economists have warned they risk fuelling inflation. Trump campaigned on cutting inflation.

Earlier on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Riyadh for the first high-level, face-to-face talks between the two countries since the invasion, and agreed to appoint teams to start negotiating the end of the war.Lavrov said his country would not accept peacekeeping forces from Nato countries in Ukraine under any peace deal, a proposal raised at a meeting of European members of Nato in Paris on Monday.

European Nato states, who remain committed to supporting Ukraine against Russia, have been smarting at being sidelined by Trump's unilateral peace initiative, which reversed the resolutely pro-Ukraine policy of his predecessor as president, Joe Biden.Following what he referred to as "the infamous meeting" - to which Ukraine was not invited either - Zelensky accused the Russian delegation in Riyadh of lying, adding that Russia could not be trusted and "must be pressured for peace"Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago residence, Trump was asked by BBC News what his message was to Ukrainians who might feel betrayed.

"I hear that they're upset about not having a seat, well, they've had a seat for three years and a long time before that. This could have been settled very easily," he said."You should have never started it. You could have made a deal," he later added.

"I could have made a deal for Ukraine," he said. "That would have given them almost all of the land, everything, almost all of the land - and no people would have been killed, and no city would have been demolished."

After the meeting in Riyadh, Trump said he was "much more confident".“With further cuts, there is not only a risk to the artistic quality and talent development of our artists and arts workforce, but also a real risk to cross-sector work including in health and education which has a huge impact," she said.

A spokeswoman for performing arts network Creu Cymru welcomed the report and agrees that the 40% cut in funding since 2010 needs to be “urgently addressed”.She said urgent action was needed to prevent closures and the “downward spiral that will cause the arts to lose their impact”.

The spokeswoman added that the challenges faced by the sector were hitting its ability to stay open, retain staff, and produce new work.“Even a small boost in arts funding could have a major impact, creating more than a thousand new jobs across Wales,” she said.