Trump Secures Business Deals in Qatar, Pushes for Iran Deal

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Donald Trump has secured what he called trillion-dollar deals with Qatar, while visiting the country during his three-nation Middle East tour. The U.S. president is also pushing for Qatar's help in securing a peaceful resolution to Iran's nuclear program.

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00:00The red carpet is rolled out for Donald Trump in Qatar, the second leg of the US

00:07President's Middle East tour focused on drumming up investments. And after a

00:14meeting with the country's EMEA, the two announced business deals between the

00:18United States and Qatar totaling more than 243 billion US dollars. Among them

00:24the purchase of hundreds of Boeing jets. Kelly's telling me from Boeing it's the

00:29largest order of jets in the history of Boeing that's pretty good it's actually

00:33200 including the 40 so it's over 200 billion dollars but 160 in terms of the

00:41jets that's fantastic so that's a record Kelly and congratulations to Boeing get

00:46those planes out there. Set to be produced over the next seven years the White

00:52House said the deal would support over 150 jobs in the US each year, while the

00:59agreement between the two countries including a mutual defense deal for

01:03advanced drone technology will reportedly generate more than a trillion US dollars

01:07in extra business for the two nations.

01:12It comes as Trump faces backlash for accepting a 400 million US dollar jet

01:17from Qatar described as a flying palace to be used as Air Force One.

01:22Qatar's Prime Minister pushed back on the criticism saying the jet is a routine

01:27government-to-government transaction not a personal gift.

01:30First of all we bought this airplane from an American company it's basically part of a

01:37cooperation that's we've been doing a lot together in between Qatar and the United States.

01:43Trump has brushed off any questions about the jet focusing instead on Iran.

01:50During a state dinner Trump repeated his calls for a peaceful resolution to Iran's nuclear program

01:55appealing to Qatar to help with the situation. Washington has held four negotiations to reach

02:01a deal over the project. Further talks are planned but the US president said for a deal to be made

02:07Iran must end its support for proxy groups. You're also working with us very closely with respect

02:13to negotiating a deal with Iran which is the far friendlier course that you would see. I mean we have

02:22two courses there's only two courses there aren't three or four or five there's two there's a friendly

02:27and a non-friendly and the non-friendly is a violent course and I don't want that. I'll say it up front

02:33I don't want that but they have to get moving.

02:39Trump is pushing for agreement despite abandoning the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 during his first term

02:45in office. Responding to Trump Iranian President Mazoud Pazeshkian said his country would not bow to any bully.

02:52With that deal seemingly shut down Trump is now turning his attention back to his Middle East tour.

03:10He will next meet with US troops at Qatar's Al-Youdid airbase before jetting to his final

03:15destination the UAE where he would continue looking to make deals that he promised the American people.

03:21Dolphine Chen and Rosie Granger for Taiwan Plus

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