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The final question goes to our security and defence editor Deborah Haynes, who asks about the NATO chief's flattery of Donald Trump.

Mark Rutte described Donald Trump as "daddy" earlier today, in reference to halting the Iran-Israel conflict and treating the participants like children (see our 13.22 post for the video).

Asked if he considers NATO members to be like his children, Trump gives this answer...

"He likes me, I think he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back, and I'll hit him hard, OK? Very affectionate."

Pressed more on how he views his allies in the alliance - given how they've adhered to his demands to spend more on defence - he says he thinks they "need a little help".

"One of the gentlemen said, you know, what we've been trying to [do is] raise the rate for 30 years," Trump adds.

"He said, until you came along, it never happened. What you did is amazing."

Asked if the alliance can cope without US support, he responds "ask Mark", referring to the NATO chief.

As he leaves the stage, he tells the audience to remember the US is the "hottest" country in the world.

Donald Trump's defence secretary is giving an impassioned speech now, claiming Iran's nuclear programme "is obliterated" after US strikes.

Pete Hegseth attacked a US intelligence report which said the Iranian nuclear programme may not have been destroyed, as Trump and his staff have claimed.

He says the report was designated "low confidence" because "all the evidence is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated".

"So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep, because Iran's nuclear programme is obliterated and somebody, somewhere, is trying to leak something to say 'oh, with low confidence'."

He adds: "That's why they came to the table right away, because their nuclear capabilities have been set back beyond what they thought were possible because of the courage of a commander in chief who led our troops, despite with the fake news wants to say."

A reporter from Ukraine is asking Donald Trump about missile defence systems.

After the president asks her if she's from Ukraine, she says yes - and her husband is in the country now serving for the military.

"That's rough stuff," Trump says, describing the reporter as "amazing".

"So, let me just tell you, they do want to have the anti-missile missiles," he says.

"We're going to see if we can make some available. You know, they're very hard to get.

"We need them to... we were supplying them to Israel and they're very effective, 100% effective."

He adds: "That's a very good question. And I wish you a lot of luck. I mean, I can see it's very upsetting to you. So, say hello to your husband. OK?"

Donald Trump says he will make Spain pay more after its government said it wanted its defence spending to stay at 2% of its GDP.

"They're doing very well, the economy is very well, and that economy could be blown right out of the water if something bad happened," he says.

"We're negotiating with Spain on a trade deal, we're going to make them pay twice as much. I'm actually serious about this."

Asked if he is interested in resuming nuclear talks with Iran, Donald Trump says he's "not".

"The way I look at it, they fought, the war's done," he says. 

"I could get a statement that they're not going to go nuclear. We're probably going to ask for that, but they're not going to be doing it, but they're not going to be doing it anyway."

After giving the floor briefly to his secretary of state Marco Rubio - who said they're open to anyone interested in peace - he's pushed again on his stance.

"Look, we're going to talk to them next week, with Iran. We may sign an agreement. I don't know," he says.

"To me, I don't think it's that necessary. I mean, they had a war. They fought. Now they're going back to their world. I don't care if I have an agreement or not."

He adds: "The only thing I would be asking for is what we were asking for before, about... we want no nuclear, but we destroyed the nuclear."

Answering a question about whether Vladimir Putin has any territorial ambitions beyond Ukraine, the US president says "it's possible".

"I know one thing, he'd like to settle. He'd like to get out of this thing, it's a mess for him," he says.

He went on to list several conflicts the US "took care of", including India and Pakistan's recent conflict, and says he thinks they should have ended the Ukraine-Russia war by now.

He says he thinks the Russian president has "been misguided" and adds: "I'm very surprised actually. I thought we should have settled that easily."

Trump says he is not giving up pressure on Iran

In the previous question, Trump was asked if he was giving up his campaign of maximum pressure on Iran, after signalling he may ease sanctions.

Trump said he was not giving up on pressure, but also said Iran will need money and trade to rebuild after the recent conflict with Israel.

He repeatedly spoke about selling US oil to China, instead of Iranian oil.

But he said he didn't want to do that, suggesting he would welcome a return to global trade for Iran.

But, as with many answers during this conference, Trump rambled across many topics in his reply - leaving his approach to Iran and sanctions unclear.

Donald Trump has turned to a question from CNN, which he labels "fake news".

Asked if he is relying on Israeli intelligence to assess the impact of US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, Trump has a direct answer.

"No," he says.

"We've collected additional intelligence, and we've also spoken to people who've seen the site.

"The site is obliterated, and we think everything nuclear is down there. They didn't take it out." 

Donald Trump is now taking questions from the media, with the first being a question on what makes him so confident the war between Israel and Iran is over.

"Because I dealt with both and they're both tired, exhausted," he says.

"They've fought very hard and very viciously, very violently, and they were both satisfied to go home and get out."

But the US president adds: "I guess some day it could maybe start again soon."

He says the two sides "fought a hell of a war" and then claims the war ended when the US hit Iran's nuclear sites.

He then goes on to attack the "fake news" reporting about a US intelligence report saying the strikes did not destroy Iran's nuclear enrichment capabilities, as he has done throughout the day.

The US president is giving more on the strikes on Iranian nuclear sites now.

Donald Trump insists again they were "obliterated", after hitting out at reports in the media that the damage is not what he's made it out to be.

"You can't get into the tunnels," he adds.

"They can't. There's nothing. There's no way you can even get down.

"And the whole thing is collapsed and a disaster. And I think all of the nuclear stuff is down there, because it's very hard to remove.

"And we did it very quickly, when they heard we were coming."

He also says every strike hit "within nine inches" of the target.

Donald Trump briefly touches on the Ukraine war during his remarks, saying: "Hopefully we're going to get that solved."

He goes on to repeat remarks he has made several times before, saying: "It should have never happened, it would have never happened if I was president. I've said that a thousand times."

The US president says it is vital the increase in NATO spending is spent on "very serious military hardware, not bureaucracy" and says he hopes the hardware "is going to be made in America, because we have the very best hardware in the world".

As we reported earlier, Trump and Volodymyr ZelenAG百家乐在线官网y have met on the sidelines of the summit today.