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Tonight at Ten - on the eve of his inauguration,

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Donald Trump promises immediate action to start fulfilling

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He flew into the nation's capital less than 24 hours before

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being sworn in as 45th President of the United States.

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One of his first official duties - to remember America's fallen,

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as his deputy promised early action on promises made.

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We've focused at the President-elect's direction

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on a day one, a day 100, and a day 200 action plan,

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for keeping our word to the American people and putting

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the President-elect's promises into practice.

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We'll be looking ahead to tomorrow's events in Washington DC,

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and we'll be asking some Trump voters for their expectations

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At the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Theresa May tells

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business leaders that Britain wants to forge a new role

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From IRA commander to key figure in Northern Ireland's government -

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Martin McGuinness retires from front line politics.

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Dozens are missing, feared dead, after an avalanche engulfed a hotel

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And a French win in record time in the Vendee Globe Race -

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one of the world's toughest sporting challenges.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Another series defeat

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for England's cricketers in India, as they lose by 15 runs

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Donald Trump is in Washington DC tonight, on the eve

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of his inauguration as 45th President of the United States.

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The ceremony, on Capitol Hill, is expected to draw hundreds

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of thousands of spectators to the nation's capital, as Mr Trump

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takes the oath of office, before taking up residence

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His vice-president, Mike Pence, said today that the transition team

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had been working flat out to ensure they'd be ready to implement

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Our North America editor Jon Sopel is in Washington tonight.

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Thank you, and Washington this evening is a city in a city

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undergoing profound change. Tonight, the Obama is well spent their last

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night in the White House and just across the street from here it's

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Blair House, the government guest house, where the Trumps will be

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staying and midday tomorrow, it's all change.

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No longer a plane with Trump emblazoned on the side.

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President-elect arrived in Washington aboard a US military jet,

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and this is the brand he'll now be promoting, defending and the United

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States of America. And though not yet Commander-in-Chief, it was the

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first opportunity to practice his salute, as the base commander

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greeted him and the future First Lady. Across the city the future

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vibes president was thanking the current administration for their

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help in the transition and reflecting on the magnitude of

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what's about to unfold. A momentous day before a historic day and I'm

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pleased to have a chance to report to the American people and all of

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you the progress that we have made at the President-elect's direction.

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Washington is a city in transition. It's out with the old and in with

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the new were the Obama is' possessions are loaded up and taken

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away. Michelle Obama tweeting one last photo from the balcony of her

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home these past eight years. And a video, one last walk through the

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house with their dogs. The new tenants pick up the keys tomorrow.

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Today, they were being sated at a lunch at where else, the Trump

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International hotel. With Republican congressional leaders. I want to

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thank everybody, you have given such great support in this room. But

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amidst the gladhanding that is part and parcel of any inauguration,

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there's solemnity to. The nation's future leaders going to Arlington

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Cemetery and the tomb of the unknown soldier to pay their respects to

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those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

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Hundreds of thousands are converging on Washington for the inauguration.

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Tonight, eight make America greater gain concert at one of the nation's

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most famous monuments, the Lincoln Memorial. Anticipation and

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expectation are high. Since the day he came down the escalator in Trump

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Tower, I was on board. I got to sing the national anthem for Mr Trump

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five different times at his rallies, so I received an invitation in the

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mail. He has the chance to be the next Ronald Reagan. But not everyone

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coming to Washington is here to Lord Donald Trump. There will be

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protesters as well. The inauguration marks the peaceful transfer of power

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but it doesn't signify a unified nation. We'll be talking to John in

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a short while again. In his inaugural address tomorrow,

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Donald Trump is expected to set out his personal vision

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for America's future in line with his familiar campaign pledge

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to "make America great again". It was a pledge which made

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a significant impact in what's called the rust belt -

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those states in the old Our North America correspondent

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Nick Bryant considers the view from Pennsylvania,

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on what voters are now expecting. It's the places of American

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decline that make sense of Donald Trump's rise,

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and it wasn't just working class rage that helped him reach

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the White House, but despondency. We can be just as competitive

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as other countries... Rick Rowlands supported him

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precisely because he was a billionaire businessman,

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and he's been impressed with how the President-elect has fought

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during the transition to keep car We were a manufacturing

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powerhouse at one point. When you say we're going to make

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America great, well, maybe that means we're

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going to restore that sense of optimism in people, that, yes,

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tomorrow will be better than today. Well, it remains to be seen,

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but at least he's talking about it. The neat take on Donald Trump

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is that critics took him literally but not seriously,

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and supporters took him They didn't necessarily

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believe everything he said, but he was talking and listening

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to them. Which is why in working-class

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communities expectations are so high that he will create manufacturing

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jobs and reverse industrial decline. Just flip it on and plant's

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up and running again. Ron Baraff looks after this derelict

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old steel plant and jokes about the magic switch that

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President Trump will flick They're thinking with their

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hearts, not their heads. It will lead to a lot

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of disappointment and people being discontent, because it can't

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happen the way they As much as we would love it,

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industry just isn't what it was. And look what's happening just up

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the road in Pittsburgh. Uber is testing out

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its driverless cars. And research labs are developing

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robots and drones that will deliver So the irony is during this

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political season that although Trump has made the claim that it's foreign

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trade and outsourcing which is killing jobs, really,

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by a factor of four to one, In this age of disruptive

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technology, Donald Trump was In these rust belt communities,

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he'll find it hard to reverse it. As President Trump prepares to take

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office, there'll be an even sharper focus on his relationship

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with Russia and with The outgoing president,

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Barack Obama, has underlined that having a constructive relationship

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with Russia is in the interests Our Moscow correspondent

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Steve Rosenberg considers the view from Russia,

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on the Trump-Putin relationship. If Donald Trump redecorates

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the White House, here's something Artist Nikas Safronov says America's

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new leader reminds him of Napoleon and a pirate,

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and although Nikas did have all bases covered, he says he always

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believed it was Trump who'd create a fresh canvas for

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US-Russian relations. "The American people made

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the right choice," he says. But did Moscow do

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more than just hope? This month, a US intelligence report

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claimed the Kremlin tried to influence the election for Trump

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through cyber attacks, Internet The report highlights the role

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of RT, calling the channel the Kremlin's principal

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international propaganda outlet. How awful it is to see that

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such a huge and powerful country relies on such bad,

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bad, sloppy and just Is RT putting out

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Kremlin propaganda? It's the same as what they say about

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the BBC and CNN here in Russia. There are separate allegations -

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that the Kremlin has been cultivating Donald Trump

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for at least five years, and that Moscow has

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managed to compromise him. These claims are unsubstantiated,

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but potentially explosive. Fake news, say his supporters,

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and Moscow says the same. But the fact that some people

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are even suggesting that Russia influenced an American election,

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that means that Russia will loom And from the Kremlin today,

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this call for cooperation. We desperately need a good

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relationship with Washington, And what will be the approach

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by President Trump, Meanwhile, outside Moscow,

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at a restaurant called The Trump, they're celebrating the inauguration

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with a new creation - Like the man himself,

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it's larger-than-life, and for some, It's a symbol of the high hopes -

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the very high hopes - Russia has for Trump,

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and its appetite for Our North America editor

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Jon Sopel is in Washington. In that first address to America and

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the world after the ceremony tomorrow, what kind of tone do you

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think Mr Trump will strike? I don't think it's going to be a long list

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of detailed policies. I don't think we're going to hear about building a

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war with Mexico and repealing Obamacare and rewriting trade deals.

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Instead, we are being told it's going to be more philosophical,

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sincere, personal, about what it is to be an American, the duty of being

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a citizen, what government can do for the people. So I think Donald

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Trump will be trying to paint with a very broad brush, but also very

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conscious alike he said when he got elected, that he was here to unify

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the American people, because what we are also going to see over this

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weekend the inauguration and not just the parties and the balls, but

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also the protests as well. Because many, many Americans are still not

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reconciled to the idea of a Trump presidency. Let's talk about

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expectations as we look ahead to the next four years. The report there

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from Pennsylvania, lots of people with very, very high expectations of

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this presidency. What is your sense of that and the risks involved there

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for Mr Trump? Talking to the people who are converging on Washington

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today to support Donald Trump, they genuinely do believe he's going to

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make America greater gain. Just like eight years ago, when Barack Obama

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had that word hope around his neck, well, Donald Trump has got make

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America greater gain. He's going to have to deliver on jobs, on trade

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deals, and I think we are going to see him wanting to act very quickly

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on all of those things. But with some of the jobs, they haven't just

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gone to cheap labour from Mexico or the Philippines. They've gone to

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non-passport carrying robots. That's an issue. But he can set up an

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infrastructure bill, which could funnel billions of dollars into the

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US economy, desperately needed, and that will create jobs. So I think he

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will turn the taps on on spending, so he can deliver on that promise to

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create those jobs. We'll talk again tomorrow, but thanks very much, Jon

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Sopel at the White House. The Prime Minister says she's held

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positive discussions with leading banks after a number of them warned

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they might relocate jobs Theresa May was speaking

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at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, where she also told

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business leaders that global companies needed to change

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to regain public trust, as our economics editor

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Kamal Ahmed reports. Wrapped up warmly, whisked

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from private meetings with bankers to private meetings

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with billionaire It's frankly hard to come to Davos

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and not look like a member But although the Prime Minister

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was here to insist that Britain was open for business,

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she was also here with a warning. Talk of greater globalisation can

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make people fearful. For many, it means their jobs being

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outsourced, and wages undercut. It means having to sit back

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as they watch their communities And in their minds, it means

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watching as those who prosper seem Theresa May came to the World

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Economic Forum in Davos not so much Yes, she backs globalisation,

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she backs free trade, she backs But she had another message for this

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rather privileged audience - do more to make globalisation

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work for everyone. And if you don't, she will be quite

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willing to intervene to ensure It was sunny here today, yes -

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but the Prime Minister's visit to Davos was overshadowed,

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as a number of international banks, including Goldman Sachs and JP

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Morgan, said they were reducing investment or planning to cut jobs

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as Britain planned for Brexit. But many reflect that

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the City is a big place, For Barclays, London

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is still the leader. I think the UK will continue to be

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the financial lungs for Europe. We may have to move

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certain activities. We may have to change the legal

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structure that we use But I think it's going

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to be at the margin, I caught up with the

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Prime Minister later. What have the banks

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said to you about why I've had a very good,

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positive discussion with banks about the benefits of the City

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of London, about what it is that has brought them to the City of London,

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and how we can continue to build And there are huge benefits

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for investment in the UK. We have a fundamentally

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very strong economy. We have a service sector

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that is very important to us, I believe that truly global Britain

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can bring jobs and prosperity to the UK across-the-board,

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including in financial services. It is time, she says,

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to look at the wider horizon. But will the world's business

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leaders enjoy the view? This man employs over 112,000 people

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from India to Britain. Frankly, the UK will have to spend

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a lot more time explaining what their positions in this

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global world means. The reality is, it is no longer

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a block of nations that Theresa May has admitted the journey

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ahead will be uncertain, but she claims a bright future,

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and says free-trade deals are being But, just as with the EU,

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discussions are just that - the hard negotiations

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are yet to come. Martin McGuinness, the former IRA

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commander who became a pivotal figure in the political

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establishment in Northern Ireland, is to retire

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from front line politics. He said he would not

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be capable of fighting the forthcoming election campaign

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because of serious health problems. Mr McGuinness's political opponents

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have paid tribute today, to his commitment to providing

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stable government for Northern Ireland even

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when it meant sharing power Our chief correspondent

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Gavin Hewitt has the story. Martin McGuinness is one of the most

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controversial leaders A central figure in both Northern

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Ireland's pain and its peace. Now he is standing

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down due to illness. I will have to be very

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honest with myself. The question I ask myself

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is, are you capable? Are you physically

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capable of fighting this election with the intensity

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that elections need to be fought? And the honest answer is that I am

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not physically capable. His background lay

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in the civil rights riots in Londonderry,

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but Martin McGuinness By the age of 21 he was second

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in command of the IRA in Derry, Can you say whether the bombing

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is likely to stop in the near future Well, we will always take

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on the considerations and the feelings of the people of

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Derry. These feelings will be passed

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onto our HQ in Dublin, you know? He served two prison

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sentences in the He was also convicted

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of IRA membership. He denied that he

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was the IRA chief of staff but said he regarded

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it as a condiment. staff but said he regarded

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it as a compliment. We don't believe that winning

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elections and winning any amount of votes will bring

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freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day it will be

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the cutting edge of the IRA Today he was asked

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whether he had any regrets Well, I think people have

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to consider the circumstances that existed in this city when I did

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join the IRA. We had a city where people

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were being murdered by the RUC, where they were being murdered

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wholesale, as it were, on bloody Sunday by the Parachute Regiment,

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and the fact that many young people like myself, supported by many

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thousands of people in the city, I'm not saying they were the majority,

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decided to fight back. But he was one of the IRA

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leaders who recognised that continued violence would not

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bring further political gains. It laid the foundation

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for peace talks. Sinn Fein nominated him as its chief

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negotiator, leading to the Good Friday Agreement and

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eventually power-sharing. Bitter foes sat alongside each

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other in a new assembly. I've been over 25 years working

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on building the peace. I believe that you know the names

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of the killers of my father. And I want you to

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tell me who they are. But the man who had fought

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the British state eventually won There you go.

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Are you well. Thank you very much.

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I'm still alive. Martin McGuinness's departure

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from politics comes at a sensitive It's power-sharing

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assembly has collapsed and Brexit poses difficult

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questions about the future Many people struggle to forgive

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a leader so steeped in the violence of the past but he earned

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grudging respect for his The gunman who turned politician had

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the authority to make compromises. Joining me from Belfast

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is our Northern lreland political Let's talk about Mr McGuinness's

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legacy, how do you see it? Relatives of IRA victims may say good riddance

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to Martin McGuinness because as Gavin made clear he was an IRA

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leader at the time the organisation carried out attack after attack and

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even stooping to tactics like sending hostages to their sudden

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deaths in car bombs detonated before they could get out of them. At the

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same time he was a key influence in removing the IRA from war to peace

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and it was the fact people knew he had been there at the sharp end I

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gave him the authority to convince other Irish republicans to come with

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him and to denounce those who still clung to the gun as traitors to the

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Ireland of Ireland. The next generation that comes will not have

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the same authority. They won't have the international recognition of

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Martin McGuinness. They face challenges struggling with the

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collapse of the power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland. But

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hopefully they will not face the same kind of conflict of which

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Martin McGuinness was both part of the problem and part of the

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solution. Mark Davenport, thank you for your thoughts on the Martin

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McGuinness decision today. The political crisis

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in Gambia has intensified, with troops from neighbouring

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Senegal entering the country in support

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of its newly-elected president. Adama Barrow has been unable to take

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office because the country's longstanding leader,

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Yahya Jammeh, is refusing to step The Foreign Office is

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advising against all Six Britons have been killed

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in a minibus crash in Saudi Arabia. The group had been

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on a pilgrimage to Mecca. The victims included four members

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of one family - including a baby. Dozens of people are feared dead

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after an avalanche destroyed a hotel At least three people

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are known to have died. Rescue teams are searching for up

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to 35 people still trapped. The avalanche happened yesterday,

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after a series of powerful earthquakes struck the area

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of Abruzzo, around Our correspondent James

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Reynolds sent this report. At night the quickest

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way through the wall These rescuers are among the most

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experienced in Europe. Step-by-step they shovelled their

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way up towards the Rigopiano Hotel. They went further in and came

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to where the avalanche hit. A six-foot-high wall

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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.

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