21/01/2017 BBC Weekend News

Hundreds of thousands of people joined protest marches

around the world today, on the first full day

The demonstrations are to highlight women's and minority rights,

which protesters say are under threat from the new administration.

Tens of thousands of people joined the rally in London,

and other cities across the UK, but the biggest event

Washington has a long history of public protest but even judged by

those standards, this march is massive. Hundreds of thousands of

women and many men as well poured into the capital to make their

voices heard. I came from Hawaii to be here today and I am here to

represent all the people back cannot be here. I am glad there is a lot of

people who are willing to come and stand up for these things. I feel it

is important. It's not that we hate Trump but we hate

what he stands for. Bigotry and racism, we will not stand for that.

It gives me hope for the future, it was a really dark day when the

election results came in and seeing this gives me hope that we will move

forward for the better. It is clear from the scale of this march that

President Trump faces an enormous and perhaps impossible challenge,

convincing these women and many more like them around the country that he

governs for all America. He will need more than a prey to unite the

nation. Mr Trump and his Vice President started their first full

day in office at church with their families. The new President shows no

sign of compromising with his opponents as his choice of music at

this inaugural ball handed. Even as they danced, plans to repeal a

President Obama's health-care were underway. We want to see great

things happen for our country. We want to make America a great again

and be well. Politicians around the world are now adjusting to the new

era, Britain's Foreign Secretary give his reaction. Our new President

has made it very clear that he wants to put Britain at the front of line

for a new trade deal and that is exciting and important. But the

German leader had what sounded like a coded warning for President Trump.

TRANSLATION: I believe it is best if we work together based on rules,

common values and joint actions on International trade and military

alliances. There was less subtlety on the streets, these were the

scenes in London at an anti-trump-macro demonstration. They

were reflected here in the Kenyan capital Nairobi and in the

Australian city of Sydney and in many other places. The elevation of

a controversial populace to the most powerful office in the West has

shaken the entire world. James Cook is in

Washington for us now. How is this being reported and what

message for the new President? Well, I think it is difficult to

ignore the scale of the opposition to the new President Donald Trump,

not only here in Washington, DC and as we saw around the world, but

across the United States. More than 600 marchers are planned today and

in fact they are even marching or at least demonstrating against as far

as way as a research station in Antarctica. What the White House and

President Trump would say is that his supporters are in great number

as well and that many of them perhaps do not travel to the likes

of Washington, DC, the swampy has said he wants to drain, not least

because at least according to his side, they are the poorer members of

society for whom he says he will stick up. It has become a cliche to

say that this country is divided and as for Mr Trump, this afternoon we

expect him to go and meet the CIA, that will be potentially very

interesting, possibly fraught, given his conflict with the intelligence

services during the latter stages of the election campaign and following

his election with their assessment that Russia had attempted to

interfere in the US election on his behalf. Clearly the wheels of

government are going into motion and he is now in charge. Indeed. Thank

you very much. Ukip's candidate for

upcoming by-election in Stoke-on-Trent Central will be

the party's leader - The MEP took charge

of Ukip in November. He'll now try to win

the seat off Labour, whose previous MP Tristam Hunt stood

down to become the head of the V museum.

Our political correspondent Iain Watson is here -

how risky is this for Is this a risky move. It is for Paul

Nuttall. He is a straight talking Scouser who set out this ambitious

aim of replacing the Labour Party and making new kept the Patriot

voice of working people. In Stoke, two thirds of people backed Brexit

and he called the city the capital of Brexit and if he fails to beat

Labour there it could damage his leadership. His predecessor Nigel

Farage despite various failed attempts to get into Parliament. If

he wins, he strikes a body blow at Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour leader

was campaigning ahead of another by-election today. It is a Labour

seat but people there and local campaigners are saying that there

are undecided voters. It represents high stakes. Thank you.

Sixteen people - mostly teenagers - have been killed in Verona

in northern Italy after their bus hit a highway barrier

and caught fire. The school students from Hungary

were returning from a skiing trip with teachers and parents

Around forty people were also injured.

Twenty-three people are still missing three days

after an avalanche buried and partly destroyed a hotel in central Italy.

Nine people, including four children, have so far been pulled

From the ruins of the hotel, in the last moments of light on the third

day, rescuers pulled this six-year-old girl to safety. She was

the final member of her family to be saved. Relief workers then carried

away a boy who had been with her. Concrete walls had protected them

from the avalanche. Later, rescuers made their way to for more

survivors, two men and two women. The rescued adults and children were

flown to hospital in a coastal city where they are recovering quickly.

TRANSLATION: The medical condition of the survivors is good. Only one

patient is currently in the operating theatre having surgery on

their right arm. The survivors family members can now breathe

again. TRANSLATION: Doesn't my face show

how happy I am? It is great. I cannot describe it in words. I would

like to see him but for now the boy is safe. Fresh rescue teams prepared

to relieve their exhausted colleagues this morning. They have

plenty of work ahead. TRANSLATION: We are going to take

over. The rescue operation will continue through the night. We are

convinced that we will find other people still alive. To find them,

they will have to dig through tonnes of snow, rock and concrete. How many

more survivors might there be underneath all of this? James

Reynolds, BBC News, Rome. Onto sport and Wayne Rooney has

become Manchester United's leading goalscorer.

His equaliser against Stoke City this afternoon was his two hundred

and fiftieth for the club and takes him past the record

of Sir Bobby Charlton. British number One Johanna Konta

is through to the last 16 She saw off former world number One,

Denmark's Caroline Wozniaki to make it though to the fourth

round in Melbourne. Few British parts people are as well

received in Melbourne as Johanna Konta, she was after all born in

Australia, played for Australia and is currently, they think, playing

like an Australian. Whatever her nationality, she is becoming

world-class, her power broke the former number one Caroline Wozniaki

midway through the first set, the second was a dismantling. Caroline

Wozniaki has been enjoying a renaissance recently and here she

was taken back to the dark ages, chasing shadows. Johanna Konta was

not hanging around, it took 75 minutes to complete her eighth

straight victory, such was its style, such was its acclaim, well,

they had to answer. What do you think issue British? But what do the

Aussies think? That is an awkward conversation. It is an awkward

conversation. Next up, Katarina Makarova, Johanna Konta will be

favourite, as it seems she always is around here.

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