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Tonight at Ten - on the eve of his inauguration, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Donald Trump promises immediate action to start fulfilling | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
He flew into the nation's capital less than 24 hours before | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
being sworn in as 45th President of the United States. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
One of his first official duties - to remember America's fallen, | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
as his deputy promised early action on promises made. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
We've focused at the President-elect's direction | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
on a day one, a day 100, and a day 200 action plan, | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
for keeping our word to the American people and putting | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
the President-elect's promises into practice. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
We'll be looking ahead to tomorrow's events in Washington DC, | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
and we'll be asking some Trump voters for their expectations | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
At the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Theresa May tells | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
business leaders that Britain wants to forge a new role | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
From IRA commander to key figure in Northern Ireland's government - | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
Martin McGuinness retires from front line politics. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Dozens are missing, feared dead, after an avalanche engulfed a hotel | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
And a French win in record time in the Vendee Globe Race - | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
one of the world's toughest sporting challenges. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Another series defeat | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
for England's cricketers in India, as they lose by 15 runs | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Donald Trump is in Washington DC tonight, on the eve | :01:33. | :02:00. | |
of his inauguration as 45th President of the United States. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
The ceremony, on Capitol Hill, is expected to draw hundreds | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
of thousands of spectators to the nation's capital, as Mr Trump | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
takes the oath of office, before taking up residence | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
His vice-president, Mike Pence, said today that the transition team | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
had been working flat out to ensure they'd be ready to implement | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
Our North America editor Jon Sopel is in Washington tonight. | :02:20. | :02:32. | |
Thank you, and Washington this evening is a city in a city | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
undergoing profound change. Tonight, the Obama is well spent their last | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
night in the White House and just across the street from here it's | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
Blair House, the government guest house, where the Trumps will be | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
staying and midday tomorrow, it's all change. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
No longer a plane with Trump emblazoned on the side. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
President-elect arrived in Washington aboard a US military jet, | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
and this is the brand he'll now be promoting, defending and the United | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
States of America. And though not yet Commander-in-Chief, it was the | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
first opportunity to practice his salute, as the base commander | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
greeted him and the future First Lady. Across the city the future | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
vibes president was thanking the current administration for their | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
help in the transition and reflecting on the magnitude of | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
what's about to unfold. A momentous day before a historic day and I'm | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
pleased to have a chance to report to the American people and all of | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
you the progress that we have made at the President-elect's direction. | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Washington is a city in transition. It's out with the old and in with | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
the new were the Obama is' possessions are loaded up and taken | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
away. Michelle Obama tweeting one last photo from the balcony of her | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
home these past eight years. And a video, one last walk through the | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
house with their dogs. The new tenants pick up the keys tomorrow. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
Today, they were being sated at a lunch at where else, the Trump | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
International hotel. With Republican congressional leaders. I want to | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
thank everybody, you have given such great support in this room. But | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
amidst the gladhanding that is part and parcel of any inauguration, | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
there's solemnity to. The nation's future leaders going to Arlington | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Cemetery and the tomb of the unknown soldier to pay their respects to | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. | :04:42. | :04:52. | |
Hundreds of thousands are converging on Washington for the inauguration. | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
Tonight, eight make America greater gain concert at one of the nation's | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
most famous monuments, the Lincoln Memorial. Anticipation and | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
expectation are high. Since the day he came down the escalator in Trump | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Tower, I was on board. I got to sing the national anthem for Mr Trump | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
five different times at his rallies, so I received an invitation in the | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
mail. He has the chance to be the next Ronald Reagan. But not everyone | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
coming to Washington is here to Lord Donald Trump. There will be | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
protesters as well. The inauguration marks the peaceful transfer of power | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
but it doesn't signify a unified nation. We'll be talking to John in | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
a short while again. In his inaugural address tomorrow, | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Donald Trump is expected to set out his personal vision | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
for America's future in line with his familiar campaign pledge | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
to "make America great again". It was a pledge which made | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
a significant impact in what's called the rust belt - | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
those states in the old Our North America correspondent | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
Nick Bryant considers the view from Pennsylvania, | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
on what voters are now expecting. It's the places of American | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
decline that make sense of Donald Trump's rise, | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
and it wasn't just working class rage that helped him reach | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
the White House, but despondency. We can be just as competitive | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
as other countries... Rick Rowlands supported him | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
precisely because he was a billionaire businessman, | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
and he's been impressed with how the President-elect has fought | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
during the transition to keep car We were a manufacturing | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
powerhouse at one point. When you say we're going to make | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
America great, well, maybe that means we're | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
going to restore that sense of optimism in people, that, yes, | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
tomorrow will be better than today. Well, it remains to be seen, | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
but at least he's talking about it. The neat take on Donald Trump | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
is that critics took him literally but not seriously, | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
and supporters took him They didn't necessarily | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
believe everything he said, but he was talking and listening | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
to them. Which is why in working-class | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
communities expectations are so high that he will create manufacturing | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
jobs and reverse industrial decline. Just flip it on and plant's | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
up and running again. Ron Baraff looks after this derelict | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
old steel plant and jokes about the magic switch that | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
President Trump will flick They're thinking with their | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
hearts, not their heads. It will lead to a lot | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
of disappointment and people being discontent, because it can't | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
happen the way they As much as we would love it, | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
industry just isn't what it was. And look what's happening just up | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
the road in Pittsburgh. Uber is testing out | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
its driverless cars. And research labs are developing | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
robots and drones that will deliver So the irony is during this | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
political season that although Trump has made the claim that it's foreign | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
trade and outsourcing which is killing jobs, really, | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
by a factor of four to one, In this age of disruptive | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
technology, Donald Trump was In these rust belt communities, | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
he'll find it hard to reverse it. As President Trump prepares to take | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
office, there'll be an even sharper focus on his relationship | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
with Russia and with The outgoing president, | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
Barack Obama, has underlined that having a constructive relationship | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
with Russia is in the interests Our Moscow correspondent | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
Steve Rosenberg considers the view from Russia, | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
on the Trump-Putin relationship. If Donald Trump redecorates | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
the White House, here's something Artist Nikas Safronov says America's | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
new leader reminds him of Napoleon and a pirate, | :09:03. | :09:11. | |
and although Nikas did have all bases covered, he says he always | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
believed it was Trump who'd create a fresh canvas for | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
US-Russian relations. "The American people made | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
the right choice," he says. But did Moscow do | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
more than just hope? This month, a US intelligence report | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
claimed the Kremlin tried to influence the election for Trump | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
through cyber attacks, Internet The report highlights the role | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
of RT, calling the channel the Kremlin's principal | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
international propaganda outlet. How awful it is to see that | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
such a huge and powerful country relies on such bad, | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
bad, sloppy and just Is RT putting out | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Kremlin propaganda? It's the same as what they say about | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
the BBC and CNN here in Russia. There are separate allegations - | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
that the Kremlin has been cultivating Donald Trump | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
for at least five years, and that Moscow has | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
managed to compromise him. These claims are unsubstantiated, | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
but potentially explosive. Fake news, say his supporters, | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
and Moscow says the same. But the fact that some people | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
are even suggesting that Russia influenced an American election, | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
that means that Russia will loom And from the Kremlin today, | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
this call for cooperation. We desperately need a good | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
relationship with Washington, And what will be the approach | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
by President Trump, Meanwhile, outside Moscow, | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
at a restaurant called The Trump, they're celebrating the inauguration | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
with a new creation - Like the man himself, | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
it's larger-than-life, and for some, It's a symbol of the high hopes - | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
the very high hopes - Russia has for Trump, | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
and its appetite for Our North America editor | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
Jon Sopel is in Washington. In that first address to America and | :11:25. | :11:42. | |
the world after the ceremony tomorrow, what kind of tone do you | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
think Mr Trump will strike? I don't think it's going to be a long list | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
of detailed policies. I don't think we're going to hear about building a | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
war with Mexico and repealing Obamacare and rewriting trade deals. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
Instead, we are being told it's going to be more philosophical, | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
sincere, personal, about what it is to be an American, the duty of being | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
a citizen, what government can do for the people. So I think Donald | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
Trump will be trying to paint with a very broad brush, but also very | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
conscious alike he said when he got elected, that he was here to unify | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
the American people, because what we are also going to see over this | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
weekend the inauguration and not just the parties and the balls, but | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
also the protests as well. Because many, many Americans are still not | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
reconciled to the idea of a Trump presidency. Let's talk about | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
expectations as we look ahead to the next four years. The report there | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
from Pennsylvania, lots of people with very, very high expectations of | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
this presidency. What is your sense of that and the risks involved there | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
for Mr Trump? Talking to the people who are converging on Washington | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
today to support Donald Trump, they genuinely do believe he's going to | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
make America greater gain. Just like eight years ago, when Barack Obama | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
had that word hope around his neck, well, Donald Trump has got make | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
America greater gain. He's going to have to deliver on jobs, on trade | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
deals, and I think we are going to see him wanting to act very quickly | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
on all of those things. But with some of the jobs, they haven't just | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
gone to cheap labour from Mexico or the Philippines. They've gone to | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
non-passport carrying robots. That's an issue. But he can set up an | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
infrastructure bill, which could funnel billions of dollars into the | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
US economy, desperately needed, and that will create jobs. So I think he | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
will turn the taps on on spending, so he can deliver on that promise to | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
create those jobs. We'll talk again tomorrow, but thanks very much, Jon | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
Sopel at the White House. The Prime Minister says she's held | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
positive discussions with leading banks after a number of them warned | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
they might relocate jobs Theresa May was speaking | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, where she also told | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
business leaders that global companies needed to change | :13:59. | :14:00. | |
to regain public trust, as our economics editor | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
Kamal Ahmed reports. Wrapped up warmly, whisked | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
from private meetings with bankers to private meetings | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
with billionaire It's frankly hard to come to Davos | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
and not look like a member But although the Prime Minister | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
was here to insist that Britain was open for business, | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
she was also here with a warning. Talk of greater globalisation can | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
make people fearful. For many, it means their jobs being | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
outsourced, and wages undercut. It means having to sit back | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
as they watch their communities And in their minds, it means | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
watching as those who prosper seem Theresa May came to the World | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
Economic Forum in Davos not so much Yes, she backs globalisation, | :14:49. | :14:58. | |
she backs free trade, she backs But she had another message for this | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
rather privileged audience - do more to make globalisation | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
work for everyone. And if you don't, she will be quite | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
willing to intervene to ensure It was sunny here today, yes - | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
but the Prime Minister's visit to Davos was overshadowed, | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
as a number of international banks, including Goldman Sachs and JP | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
Morgan, said they were reducing investment or planning to cut jobs | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
as Britain planned for Brexit. But many reflect that | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
the City is a big place, For Barclays, London | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
is still the leader. I think the UK will continue to be | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
the financial lungs for Europe. We may have to move | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
certain activities. We may have to change the legal | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
structure that we use But I think it's going | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
to be at the margin, I caught up with the | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
Prime Minister later. What have the banks | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
said to you about why I've had a very good, | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
positive discussion with banks about the benefits of the City | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
of London, about what it is that has brought them to the City of London, | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
and how we can continue to build And there are huge benefits | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
for investment in the UK. We have a fundamentally | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
very strong economy. We have a service sector | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
that is very important to us, I believe that truly global Britain | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
can bring jobs and prosperity to the UK across-the-board, | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
including in financial services. It is time, she says, | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
to look at the wider horizon. But will the world's business | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
leaders enjoy the view? This man employs over 112,000 people | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
from India to Britain. Frankly, the UK will have to spend | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
a lot more time explaining what their positions in this | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
global world means. The reality is, it is no longer | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
a block of nations that Theresa May has admitted the journey | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
ahead will be uncertain, but she claims a bright future, | :16:59. | :17:12. | |
and says free-trade deals are being But, just as with the EU, | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
discussions are just that - the hard negotiations | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
are yet to come. Martin McGuinness, the former IRA | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
commander who became a pivotal figure in the political | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
establishment in Northern Ireland, is to retire | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
from front line politics. He said he would not | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
be capable of fighting the forthcoming election campaign | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
because of serious health problems. Mr McGuinness's political opponents | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
have paid tribute today, to his commitment to providing | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
stable government for Northern Ireland even | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
when it meant sharing power Our chief correspondent | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
Gavin Hewitt has the story. Martin McGuinness is one of the most | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
controversial leaders A central figure in both Northern | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
Ireland's pain and its peace. Now he is standing | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
down due to illness. I will have to be very | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
honest with myself. The question I ask myself | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
is, are you capable? Are you physically | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
capable of fighting this election with the intensity | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
that elections need to be fought? And the honest answer is that I am | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
not physically capable. His background lay | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
in the civil rights riots in Londonderry, | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
but Martin McGuinness By the age of 21 he was second | :18:34. | :18:34. | |
in command of the IRA in Derry, Can you say whether the bombing | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
is likely to stop in the near future Well, we will always take | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
on the considerations and the feelings of the people of | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
Derry. These feelings will be passed | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
onto our HQ in Dublin, you know? He served two prison | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
sentences in the He was also convicted | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
of IRA membership. He denied that he | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
was the IRA chief of staff but said he regarded | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
it as a condiment. staff but said he regarded | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
it as a compliment. We don't believe that winning | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
elections and winning any amount of votes will bring | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day it will be | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
the cutting edge of the IRA Today he was asked | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
whether he had any regrets Well, I think people have | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
to consider the circumstances that existed in this city when I did | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
join the IRA. We had a city where people | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
were being murdered by the RUC, where they were being murdered | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
wholesale, as it were, on bloody Sunday by the Parachute Regiment, | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
and the fact that many young people like myself, supported by many | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
thousands of people in the city, I'm not saying they were the majority, | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
decided to fight back. But he was one of the IRA | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
leaders who recognised that continued violence would not | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
bring further political gains. It laid the foundation | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
for peace talks. Sinn Fein nominated him as its chief | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
negotiator, leading to the Good Friday Agreement and | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
eventually power-sharing. Bitter foes sat alongside each | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
other in a new assembly. I've been over 25 years working | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
on building the peace. I believe that you know the names | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
of the killers of my father. And I want you to | :20:24. | :20:37. | |
tell me who they are. But the man who had fought | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
the British state eventually won There you go. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Are you well. Thank you very much. | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
I'm still alive. Martin McGuinness's departure | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
from politics comes at a sensitive It's power-sharing | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
assembly has collapsed and Brexit poses difficult | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
questions about the future Many people struggle to forgive | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
a leader so steeped in the violence of the past but he earned | :21:01. | :21:14. | |
grudging respect for his The gunman who turned politician had | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
the authority to make compromises. Joining me from Belfast | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
is our Northern lreland political Let's talk about Mr McGuinness's | :21:21. | :21:36. | |
legacy, how do you see it? Relatives of IRA victims may say good riddance | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
to Martin McGuinness because as Gavin made clear he was an IRA | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
leader at the time the organisation carried out attack after attack and | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
even stooping to tactics like sending hostages to their sudden | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
deaths in car bombs detonated before they could get out of them. At the | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
same time he was a key influence in removing the IRA from war to peace | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
and it was the fact people knew he had been there at the sharp end I | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
gave him the authority to convince other Irish republicans to come with | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
him and to denounce those who still clung to the gun as traitors to the | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
Ireland of Ireland. The next generation that comes will not have | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
the same authority. They won't have the international recognition of | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Martin McGuinness. They face challenges struggling with the | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
collapse of the power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland. But | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
hopefully they will not face the same kind of conflict of which | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
Martin McGuinness was both part of the problem and part of the | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
solution. Mark Davenport, thank you for your thoughts on the Martin | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
McGuinness decision today. The political crisis | :22:36. | :22:36. | |
in Gambia has intensified, with troops from neighbouring | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
Senegal entering the country in support | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
of its newly-elected president. Adama Barrow has been unable to take | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
office because the country's longstanding leader, | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
Yahya Jammeh, is refusing to step The Foreign Office is | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
advising against all Six Britons have been killed | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
in a minibus crash in Saudi Arabia. The group had been | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
on a pilgrimage to Mecca. The victims included four members | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
of one family - including a baby. Dozens of people are feared dead | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
after an avalanche destroyed a hotel At least three people | :23:07. | :23:18. | |
are known to have died. Rescue teams are searching for up | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
to 35 people still trapped. The avalanche happened yesterday, | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
after a series of powerful earthquakes struck the area | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
of Abruzzo, around Our correspondent James | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
Reynolds sent this report. At night the quickest | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
way through the wall These rescuers are among the most | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
experienced in Europe. Step-by-step they shovelled their | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
way up towards the Rigopiano Hotel. They went further in and came | :23:51. | :24:00. | |
to where the avalanche hit. A six-foot-high wall | :24:01. | :24:25. | |
of snow and rock Several miles away a father | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
waited for news of his Straight after yesterday's | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
earthquakes they text each other. "Calm?" | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
"That's hard," she replied. "I think that the worst has already | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
happened," he reassured her. His daughter and many other | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
people may be trapped These pictures filmed after daybreak | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
show the Rigopiano hotel swept away Do you think it's possible | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
to find more people alive? For sure, yes. | :25:04. | :25:12. | |
For sure, yes. In the past we've found | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
people after three days, or something like this, | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
and especially in this case there could be some | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
room under the snow. Tonight conditions | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
here have improved. We haven't felt any | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
more earthquakes or tremors, and rescue workers will | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
want the snow to hold off to allow Italy's Prime Minister has | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
said that the entire James Reynolds, BBC | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
News, Penne, central Italy. The latest crime figures for England | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
and Wales reveal there were more than five million offences of fraud | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
and computer crime in It's the first time figures | :25:58. | :25:59. | |
for those crimes have been included, and it's seen the total number | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
of offences jump People are now twice as likely to be | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
a victim of credit card or online fraud as they are a victim | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
of vehicle theft. Surrey County Council, which is run | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
by a Conservative administration, is to hold a referendum | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
on whether to increase council tax by 15% to sustain | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
its social care service. The council says there's a "huge | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
gap" in its budget and blames cuts imposed by Conservative | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
ministers at Westminster. The area includes the constituencies | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
of Chancellor Philip Hammond and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
as our deputy political editor You don't get a choice about getting | :26:40. | :26:41. | |
old, but how to pay the huge bills Councils pay most and one's had | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
enough of government cuts, Surrey's asking council | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
taxpayers yes or no I think it's important that | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
politicians stand up and tell the truth and be honest | :27:01. | :27:09. | |
with the residents, and tell them It's not easy finding people | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
here who are keen to pay what will be nearly ?200 a year | :27:13. | :27:22. | |
more on an average home, though no Hi there. | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
Good afternoon. So I believe, I heard it | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
on the One O'Clock News today. How about some more of that money | :27:29. | :27:36. | |
for council for social care? Certainly not. | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
That's totally obscene. There's lots of money in Surrey | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
but that doesn't mean that, you know, we're going to accept | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
a 15% rate increase. I can't afford to pay | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
because my pension is frozen. More council tax to | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
pay for social care. Do you fancy that? | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
Yes or no? I think we live in a | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
very affluent area, I think we can all afford it and there | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
are lots of people around who need The sign of a civilised | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
society is one that looks after and cares for its older | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
people responsibly. And I think it's a problem | :28:17. | :28:18. | |
that's going to escalate It's not going to go away | :28:19. | :28:20. | |
and we have to address it. The Labour leader also agrees | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
all taxpayers should bear the rising It's not right that we should | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
thrust the social care crisis on local authorities, | :28:28. | :28:37. | |
all of whom have different levels of and the central government should | :28:38. | :28:39. | |
face up to its responsibility. Local voters have been | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
asked to vote on a council tax rise just once | :28:47. | :28:48. | |
in England in the last five years. The local MPs here include | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
the Health Secretary and the this local referendum very, very | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
carefully. If Surrey votes no to this council | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
tax rise it could mean But it could also force | :29:00. | :29:01. | |
ministers to confront a tough and perhaps unpopular set of | :29:02. | :29:10. | |
decisions on the future funding of social care that many say government | :29:11. | :29:12. | |
after government have avoided for John Pienaar, BBC News, | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
Esher, in Surrey. One of the world's toughest | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
sporting challenges, the Vendee Globe round-the-world | :29:20. | :29:22. | |
yacht race, has yet again This time it's Armel Le Cleac'h, | :29:23. | :29:24. | |
who crossed the finishing line off the west coast of France in a record | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
time of 74 days. The Welsh sailor Alex Thomson, | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
who recovered from a poor start, Our sports correspondent | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
Natalie Pirks reports After ten unpredictable | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
weeks in the world's most dangerous seas, | :29:40. | :29:49. | |
a Frenchman celebrating victory What wasn't was the Hampshire | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
yachtsmen who gave him For three months Alex | :29:53. | :30:00. | |
Thomson has battled everything the ocean's | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
thrown at him, eaten only freeze dried noodles, | :30:04. | :30:05. | |
and survived on as little At stake was his lifelong obsession | :30:06. | :30:07. | |
of becoming the first Briton to win Dame Ellen MacArthur also | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
came second in 2001. When you've been at sea | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
for that long and you know you're not going to win | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
the race, and you're absolutely exhausted I think | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
that's pretty brutal. So hopefully he'll have a smile | :30:23. | :30:23. | |
at the finish line but it will Thomson set off from here, | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
Les Sables-d'Olonne, on 6th November heading out of this case | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
down to the equator He headed around Antarctica, under | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
the Cape of Good Hope, and passed round Australasia, crossed | :30:35. | :30:44. | |
the South Pacific where he passed Point Nemo, the furthest place | :30:45. | :30:46. | |
from civilisation on Earth before heading | :30:47. | :30:48. | |
round Cape Horn, back up the Atlantic and negotiating | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
the equator once more. When he arrives back | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
here at Les Sables early tomorrow morning he'll have notched up | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
somewhere between 25,000 For Alex there have | :30:58. | :30:59. | |
been good moments. It's a good day in | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
the Southern Ocean and And moments over Christmas | :31:04. | :31:05. | |
where his family worried he was # Jingle bells, Alex sails, | :31:06. | :31:15. | |
Round the world he goes # His wife is simply | :31:16. | :31:21. | |
desperate to get him home. Yeah, I have spoken | :31:22. | :31:23. | |
to him, I have been in contact but actually seeing him | :31:24. | :31:32. | |
is just totally different. Just two weeks into the race his | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
boat got badly damaged, which Despite this, though, | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
Thomson still caught up to within 34 miles | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
of the winner, and also smashed the world | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
record for the greatest distance But what is perhaps better | :31:48. | :31:50. | |
than a world record His team have promised | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
to have on hand a hot Newsnight is about to begin on BBC | :31:55. | :32:11. | |
Two. Here is MLE. Tonight we're live in Washington on | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
the eve of a seminal moment for America. There is a nervous | :32:17. | :32:19. | |
excitement in this city, the streets are starting to fill up, but are | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
they Trump supporters who have travelled across the land, or Trump | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
protesters marching against this inexorable chapter of history? Join | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
me now on BBC Two. That's Newsnight with Emily in | :32:32. | :32:32. | |
Washington. | :32:33. | :32:34. |