:00:13. > :00:17.Donald Trump has arrived in Washington ahead of his inauguration
:00:18. > :00:24.tomorrow as America's 45th President. Martin McGuinness, the
:00:25. > :00:27.former IRA commander turned peacemaker has announced his
:00:28. > :00:31.retiring from front line politics. The Sinn Fein politician recently
:00:32. > :00:35.quit Northern Ireland's Power saving executive and he now says he is
:00:36. > :00:40.suffering from ill health. The question I ask myself is are you
:00:41. > :01:01.physically capable? Theresa May said Britain will be
:01:02. > :01:04.open for business after Brexit as one high St bank predicted London
:01:05. > :01:11.will remain your's top financial centre despite the UK's leading.
:01:12. > :01:16.Also coming up, the latest on the unfolding crisis in Gambia.
:01:17. > :01:23.Neighbouring Senegal has sent in troops to make sure a new present --
:01:24. > :01:45.presidency. Under French -- and a winning record time.
:01:46. > :01:53.Hello, and welcome to BBC News. Donald Trump has arrived in
:01:54. > :01:54.Washington ahead of their inauguration tomorrow as the 43rd
:01:55. > :02:10.President of the United States. Let's cross to our Washington
:02:11. > :02:24.Correspondent Jane O'Brien. A sign of the times, our viewers saw
:02:25. > :02:30.the pictures. That plane did not have the word Trump all over it and
:02:31. > :02:36.it will be official tomorrow. The clock is ticking, fewer than 24
:02:37. > :02:40.hours to go on Donald Trump will become president. He is on his way
:02:41. > :02:43.right now to the national cemetery to lay a wreath. He has had lunch
:02:44. > :02:49.with some of his cabinet picks and the Republican leadership at Trump
:02:50. > :02:54.Hotel which he jokingly referred to as weird he would move in whether or
:02:55. > :02:59.not he won the White House, also on Pennsylvania Avenue. He has a
:03:00. > :03:04.concert with on this afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial which he is
:03:05. > :03:08.expected to speak. The celebrations underway for Donald Trump at least
:03:09. > :03:14.but a lot of protests expected to kick off, including a big march at
:03:15. > :03:20.the weekend where women from all over the country had expected to
:03:21. > :03:24.converge on Washington. There will be a huge security presence with
:03:25. > :03:30.$500,000 spent on security around the inauguration site.
:03:31. > :03:34.Non-collapsible umbrellas will not be allowed and no selfie sticks.
:03:35. > :03:41.That is right, but the Park service has made a concession to the rain
:03:42. > :03:43.because it is expected to report tomorrow, they say short collapsible
:03:44. > :03:50.umbrellas will be allowed so you can take some shelter. Security will be
:03:51. > :03:57.tight. We're not sure at the moment how many people to expect. There has
:03:58. > :04:01.been some controversy. Donald Trump, as you would expect, said hotels are
:04:02. > :04:07.booked solid but they are not. He has also got less than a stellar
:04:08. > :04:13.line-up of celebrities, a lot refusing to appear with him, so a
:04:14. > :04:19.bit of a B list for some of the events, but his new press secretary
:04:20. > :04:24.today said the inauguration was 20% under budget and that the money
:04:25. > :04:29.would be returned to the taxpayer. He said Donald Trump was already off
:04:30. > :04:40.to a good start. This historians pour over presidential inaugurals.
:04:41. > :04:44.What do they expect from President Tromp tomorrow? That is an
:04:45. > :04:51.interesting question. His press secretary said it wouldn't be so
:04:52. > :04:57.much an agenda as a philosophical document. I am not sure what we can
:04:58. > :05:04.take from that. It will be quite short, we think. He has not finished
:05:05. > :05:11.writing it as couple of hours ago. We don't really know whether it will
:05:12. > :05:16.lay out his priorities. According to Mr Spicer it is about what it means
:05:17. > :05:22.to be an American, this is a member of Congress, and what it means to be
:05:23. > :05:26.a citizen at this point of time. This is all important because the
:05:27. > :05:32.country according to the latest polls is more divided than ever, 86%
:05:33. > :05:40.think Donald Trump is taking office over a deeply divided nation. Thank
:05:41. > :05:44.you very much. I should say of course stay with us tomorrow because
:05:45. > :05:51.you will be able to see the inauguration ceremony.
:05:52. > :05:52.The former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister,
:05:53. > :05:55.Martin McGuinness has announced he is to retire from politics
:05:56. > :05:57.and will not seek re-election to the Stormont Assembly in March.
:05:58. > :06:00.Mr McGuinness says he had been planning to stand down in May,
:06:01. > :06:03.on the tenth anniversary of sharing power with Ian Paisley.
:06:04. > :06:05.But he says that plan was over taken by his health
:06:06. > :06:07.problems and the political crisis at Stormont.
:06:08. > :06:13.Our chief correspondent Gavin Hewitt has more.
:06:14. > :06:20.Martin McGuinness is one of the most controversial leaders in British and
:06:21. > :06:24.Irish politics. He has been a central figure in both Northern
:06:25. > :06:30.Ireland's pain and peace and is now standing down due to illness. I have
:06:31. > :06:34.to be honest with myself and the question I ask is are you physically
:06:35. > :06:38.capable of fighting this election with the intensity with which they
:06:39. > :06:45.need to be fought? The honest answered I am physically capable.
:06:46. > :06:48.His background lay in the civil rights and riots in Londonderry but
:06:49. > :06:54.Martin McGuinness chose violent resistance. By the age of 21 he was
:06:55. > :06:58.second-in-command of the IRA in Derry talking about the bombing
:06:59. > :07:01.campaign. Can you save whether the bombing is likely to stop in the
:07:02. > :07:07.near future in response to public demand? We've always take
:07:08. > :07:13.consideration the feelings of the people of Derry and these feelings
:07:14. > :07:16.will be passed on. He served two prison sentences in the Irish
:07:17. > :07:21.Republic and was also convicted of IRA membership. He openly attended
:07:22. > :07:26.IRA events, he denied he was the IRA chief of staff but said he regarded
:07:27. > :07:30.it as a compliment. We don't believe that winning elections or any amount
:07:31. > :07:34.of votes will bring freedom to Ireland. At the end of the day it is
:07:35. > :07:41.the cutting edge of the IRA that will bring freedom. Today he asked
:07:42. > :07:43.-- was asked if he had any regrets. People have to remember the
:07:44. > :07:48.circumstances that existed in the city when I joined the IRA are --
:07:49. > :07:56.the IRA. We had a situation with people being murdered wholesale by
:07:57. > :08:00.the RUC, as on bloody Sunday, and the fact many young people and
:08:01. > :08:04.myself were supported by thousands in the city. I am not saying it was
:08:05. > :08:13.a majority but we decided to fight back. He was one of the IRA leaders
:08:14. > :08:18.who recognised that further violence would not bring political gains. In
:08:19. > :08:21.1994 there was a ceasefire which laid the foundation of peace talks
:08:22. > :08:25.and Sinn Fein nominated him for a lead negotiator leading to the Good
:08:26. > :08:29.Friday agreement and eventual power-sharing. But foes sat
:08:30. > :08:35.alongside each other in a new assembly. My journey has been a long
:08:36. > :08:42.journey, more than 25 years building the peace. His departure from
:08:43. > :08:45.politics comes at a sensitive time for Northern Ireland. Its
:08:46. > :08:50.power-sharing assembly has collapsed and the Brexit poses difficult
:08:51. > :08:54.questions about the future of the border with Ireland. Many people
:08:55. > :08:59.would struggle to forgive the man who played such a key role in a
:09:00. > :09:02.violent campaign but he earned grudging respect for his commitment
:09:03. > :09:04.to peace and the gunmen had turned politician have the authority to
:09:05. > :09:10.make compromises. Let's cross to our Northern Ireland
:09:11. > :09:22.Political Editor Mark Devenport. This he had been ill for some time,
:09:23. > :09:26.any surprise he is stepping down. Not particularly. It was probably
:09:27. > :09:29.predictable from the time he appeared and resigned as Deputy
:09:30. > :09:34.First Minister and appeared very weak on that particular day about
:09:35. > :09:37.ten days ago. There had been a lot of speculation he would not be able
:09:38. > :09:41.to fight the campaign but it nevertheless has the feel of the end
:09:42. > :09:47.of a new dock and while he didn't use the word retirement he said if
:09:48. > :09:50.he conquers the illness you could perform an ambassadorial role, there
:09:51. > :09:56.is the sense of him stepping back from the front line. His family were
:09:57. > :10:01.they are supporting him. And how much of a loss is this for Sinn
:10:02. > :10:05.Fein? There is no doubt he will miss Martin McGuinness and he says this
:10:06. > :10:12.is part of a process of transition which will like it will also see
:10:13. > :10:15.Gerry Adams at some point yet to be announced stepping down. The new
:10:16. > :10:21.generation are not as well-known and certainly across the world as Martin
:10:22. > :10:27.McGuinness or Gerry Adams. They will be tested soon on handling the
:10:28. > :10:30.difficulties because we have had the breakdown of the power-sharing
:10:31. > :10:34.system in Northern Ireland over the renewable heating scandal. The one
:10:35. > :10:35.hope is they will not be tested in the tough times that Martin
:10:36. > :10:43.McGuinness lived through. The Prime Minister says she's
:10:44. > :10:45.confident that Britain's financial services sector will continue
:10:46. > :10:47.to prosper after It's a view echoed by the head
:10:48. > :10:51.of Barclays who says he expects the City of London to remain
:10:52. > :10:54.the financial centre of Europe. That's despite a number of OTHER
:10:55. > :10:56.banks and financial institutions suggesting they will move thousands
:10:57. > :10:59.of jobs AWAY from London.Theresa May has been talking to business
:11:00. > :11:01.leaders in Davos - and to our economics
:11:02. > :11:14.editor Kamal Ahmed. Wrapped up warm, whisked from
:11:15. > :11:20.meetings with bankers to millionaire technology entrepreneurs. It is hard
:11:21. > :11:23.to come to Davos cannot look like a member of the global elite. While
:11:24. > :11:29.she was here to say that Britain is open for business she was also hear
:11:30. > :11:35.with a warning. Talk of greater globalisation can make people
:11:36. > :11:39.fearful. For many it means jobs outsourced and wages undercut. It
:11:40. > :11:44.means having to sit back as they watch communities change around
:11:45. > :11:50.them, and in their minds, it means watching as those who prosper seem
:11:51. > :11:54.to play by a different set of rules. To these age came to the World
:11:55. > :12:00.Economic Forum not so much to celebrate business as to warn that.
:12:01. > :12:05.She backs globalisation and free trade and a deal with the European
:12:06. > :12:09.rain, but she had another message for this rather privileged audience,
:12:10. > :12:15.do more to make globalisation work for everyone or if you don't she
:12:16. > :12:20.will be quite willing to intervene to ensure businesses change their
:12:21. > :12:25.behaviour. It was sunny here today but the Prime Minister's visit to
:12:26. > :12:29.Davos was overshadowed with a number of international banks involving
:12:30. > :12:35.Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan saying they are reducing investment or
:12:36. > :12:38.planning to cut jobs. The city is a big place with different voices and
:12:39. > :12:48.for Barclays London are still in the lead. I think the UK will continue
:12:49. > :12:52.to be the financial ones for Europe. We may have to change the legal
:12:53. > :12:57.structure we used to operate in Europe but I think it will be at the
:12:58. > :13:00.margin and will be manageable. I caught up with the Prime Minister
:13:01. > :13:05.later. What have the bank said to you about why they are moving jobs?
:13:06. > :13:09.I have had a positive discussion with banks about the benefits of the
:13:10. > :13:14.City of London and what has brought them, and how we can continue to
:13:15. > :13:18.build on that for the future. There are huge benefits for investment in
:13:19. > :13:22.the UK. We have fundamentally strong economy and the service sector that
:13:23. > :13:29.is very important but valued around the world. I believe a truly global
:13:30. > :13:33.Britain can bring jobs and prosperity to the UK and across the
:13:34. > :13:41.board including financial services. Many are reflecting on one of the
:13:42. > :13:44.key tests of Brexit, keeping UK financial services buoyant. Hard
:13:45. > :13:48.Brexit does the country damage but the point I am making to political
:13:49. > :13:54.leaders is if businesses decide to leave London, they are going to
:13:55. > :14:01.Paris, Madrid or Frankfort, they are going to Hong Kong and New York. It
:14:02. > :14:06.is a lose- lose battle, bad for London and the UK and the EU as
:14:07. > :14:09.well. Theresa May said she was an optimist and free trade discussions
:14:10. > :14:15.had also started with India and Australia. She admitted the journey
:14:16. > :14:23.ahead was unpredictable but with the right deal the future was bright.
:14:24. > :14:26.Dozens of people are feared dead after an avalanche buried a hotel
:14:27. > :14:29.At least three people have been killed
:14:30. > :14:31.rescue teams are searching for up to 35 people still trapped
:14:32. > :14:34.The avalanche happened after a series of powerful
:14:35. > :14:36.earthquakes struck the area of Abruzzo yesterday
:14:37. > :14:39.The three-storey hotel was pushed almost 10 metres downhill
:14:40. > :14:42.as the huge wall of snow hit it directly as it raced down
:14:43. > :14:46.It's the third in a series of earthquakes in the region
:14:47. > :14:48.since last summer killing almost 300 people.
:14:49. > :14:58.Our correspondent James Reynolds is in the nearby village of Penne.
:14:59. > :15:01.At night, the quickest way through this the wall
:15:02. > :15:07.These rescuers are among the most experienced in Europe.
:15:08. > :15:25.Step-by-step, they shovelled their way up towards the Rigopiano hotel.
:15:26. > :15:39.They went further in and came to where the avalanche hit.
:15:40. > :15:42.A six foot high wall of snow and rock broke
:15:43. > :15:51.Several miles away, a father waited for news
:15:52. > :15:55.Straight after yesterday's earthquakes, they texted each other.
:15:56. > :16:08."I think the worst has already happened", he reassured her.
:16:09. > :16:16.His daughter and many other people, may be trapped
:16:17. > :16:23.These pictures, filmed after daybreak, show the Rigopiano
:16:24. > :16:34.Do you think it's possible to find more people alive?
:16:35. > :16:38.In the past, we found people after three days
:16:39. > :16:42.And especially in this case, there could be some
:16:43. > :16:52.Rescuers are helped by the fact that conditions here have improved.
:16:53. > :16:54.We haven't felt any more earthquakes or tremors.
:16:55. > :17:01.Relief workers a few miles up the hill, will hope the snow holds
:17:02. > :17:06.And those rescuers continue on their path to and from
:17:07. > :17:07.the destroyed hotel, searching for survivors or bodies.
:17:08. > :17:27.James Reynolds, BBC News, Penne, central Italy.
:17:28. > :17:29.you are watching BBC News, the top stories now.
:17:30. > :17:32.Donald Trump has arrived in Washington, ahead of being sworn
:17:33. > :17:35.in tomorrow as America's 45th President.
:17:36. > :17:36.Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland's former
:17:37. > :17:38.deputy first minister, has announced he's retiring
:17:39. > :17:44.Dozens are feared dead in Italy, after an avalanche engulfed a hotel.
:17:45. > :18:06.The Foreign Office has confirmed that six Britons have dry after a
:18:07. > :18:13.road accident in Saudi Arabia. The victims were all thought to be on
:18:14. > :18:17.pilgrimage when their minibus crashed. We understand that this
:18:18. > :18:21.family travelled on a journey they had booked through the two operator
:18:22. > :18:26.behind me, they have told us that all 12 of the people on the minibus
:18:27. > :18:31.are part of the same extended family. Some from Scotland, some
:18:32. > :18:35.from here in Manchester, with age ranging from pensioners down to a
:18:36. > :18:43.small baby just a couple of months old. That baby, we are told that he
:18:44. > :18:48.dry in the crash along with his grandparents who are from
:18:49. > :18:53.Manchester. Another relative from Manchester as well. Also that the
:18:54. > :19:01.two people from Glasgow who died were part of that family as well. We
:19:02. > :19:05.believe from Glasgow Central mosque that they had five children who we
:19:06. > :19:09.don't think were involved in the crash. There were also several
:19:10. > :19:16.people injured including the mother of the baby and his siblings,
:19:17. > :19:21.children aged between two and four, and also a pensioner in a critical
:19:22. > :19:25.condition so the Foreign Office are providing consular assistance. The
:19:26. > :19:29.tour operators say it is the first accident may have had anybody
:19:30. > :19:34.involved with in the last 15 years since we have been running the trip
:19:35. > :19:41.and they say the family was partway through a fortnight trip, making a
:19:42. > :19:46.pilgrimage, travelling on a minibus to the second leg of their journey
:19:47. > :19:51.to the holy site in the Medina. It is thought that one of the tires on
:19:52. > :19:53.the vehicle had a blow out but they are still trying to work out what
:19:54. > :19:56.happened and are providing assistance to other members of the
:19:57. > :20:01.extended family from the UK now in the process of travelling over to
:20:02. > :20:02.Saudi Arabia to find that information for themselves.
:20:03. > :20:04.Senegalese troops have entered The Gambia to ensure Adama Barrow
:20:05. > :20:07.assumes power as the country's new president, a Senegalese
:20:08. > :20:11.Mr Barrow has been sworn in at the Gambian embassy in Senegal.
:20:12. > :20:12.In his inaugural speech, President Barrow urged
:20:13. > :20:14.Gambian soldiers to remain in their barracks, saying
:20:15. > :20:16.those who did not would be considered rebels.
:20:17. > :20:18.The UN Security Council has unanimously backed
:20:19. > :20:20.the West African regional group, ECOWAS, which has threatened
:20:21. > :20:22.military intervention to ensure that the new president takes power
:20:23. > :20:34.from Yahya Jammeh who is refusing to stand down.
:20:35. > :20:36.We're less than 24 hours away from the inauguration of US
:20:37. > :20:40.Last year's elections had been dominated by the allegations that
:20:41. > :20:42.Russia ran a hacking campaign to influence the results.
:20:43. > :20:44.Stephen Sackur from BBC's Hardtalk has just completed an interview
:20:45. > :20:47.with the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov who works closely
:20:48. > :21:01.It's good to see you. Was he defensive as far as the ledger that
:21:02. > :21:06.actions of Russia, as far as those actions are concerned, but America
:21:07. > :21:13.clearly believes influenced the US election. I wouldn't say he was
:21:14. > :21:23.defensive so much as combative and that really is Peskov's style. He is
:21:24. > :21:29.spokesman for the president and also one of Vladimir Putin's most trusted
:21:30. > :21:32.advisers, and he really is the spin doctor and message manager of the
:21:33. > :21:38.Kremlin. Under enormous pressure in the last few days because as you
:21:39. > :21:41.say, all these allegations of hacking and dirty tricks and
:21:42. > :21:48.allegations of a honey trap being laid, all of this stuff has in a
:21:49. > :21:51.sense being laid at the floor of the chief press officer, and when I saw
:21:52. > :21:56.him a couple of hours ago when his office close to the Kremlin are said
:21:57. > :22:02.to him, how do you respond to these allegations which, from the very top
:22:03. > :22:10.of the US intelligence agencies, and this is how he responded to me.
:22:11. > :22:17.Every day, we have hundreds and thousands of cyber attacks against
:22:18. > :22:24.our digital systems in the Russian Federation. Some of them are coming
:22:25. > :22:29.from the territorial of the United States. Dozens are coming from the
:22:30. > :22:41.territorial Germany. Dozens from Great Britain. Do you think that it
:22:42. > :22:44.means, with the high state of certainty, that those attacks
:22:45. > :22:51.against our digital systems are being promoted by the governments in
:22:52. > :22:55.Washington, London and Berlin? You would probably say no. We want to
:22:56. > :23:02.have good relationships with America. We believe that we cannot
:23:03. > :23:07.solve lots of problems in this world and in the region that are
:23:08. > :23:13.endangering our country without cooperation with the Americans. That
:23:14. > :23:18.is why we desperately need good relationships with Washington, but
:23:19. > :23:24.it takes two to tangle. What would be the approach by President from,
:23:25. > :23:31.this is the question. It takes two to tangle, clearly Russia hoping
:23:32. > :23:36.there will be a reset when Donald Trump takes power in Washington,
:23:37. > :23:40.that relations will be more cooperative and warmer with the new
:23:41. > :23:44.US administration, but there is some scepticism and very much an attitude
:23:45. > :23:49.of wait and see and that is what we all must do until we see what Donald
:23:50. > :23:51.Trump really means by his talk of a new relationship by the mere Putin.
:23:52. > :23:56.Thank you. It's nicknamed the Everest
:23:57. > :23:58.of the Seas -- a gruelling solo round the world yacht race
:23:59. > :24:01.which after 74 days finishes today. British sailor -- Alex Thomson --
:24:02. > :24:04.turned round a disastrous start and looks set to come second
:24:05. > :24:06.in the prestigious Our Sports correspondent
:24:07. > :24:09.Natalie Pirks is following the race from Les Sables d'Olonne
:24:10. > :24:24.on France's Atlantic coast. After ten unpredictable weeks, the
:24:25. > :24:28.Frenchman celebrating was a well one story, for six weeks he has battled
:24:29. > :24:32.everything the ocean has thrown at him, eating only freeze dried
:24:33. > :24:33.noodles and jelly and surviving on as little as 20 minutes sleep every
:24:34. > :24:38.few hours. When he set off with 28 other boats
:24:39. > :24:44.on the 6th of November, the Hampshire yachtsman waved
:24:45. > :24:46.goodbye to his wife and two young children and attempted
:24:47. > :24:48.for the fourth time to become the first Briton to win the Vendee
:24:49. > :25:00.Globe in the race's 27 year history. He headed around Antarctica, across
:25:01. > :25:05.the Cape of good Hope, around the furthest place from civilisation on
:25:06. > :25:09.Earth and back around Cape Horn. When he arrives here tomorrow
:25:10. > :25:10.morning he was not stop somewhere between 25 and 30,000 nautical
:25:11. > :25:17.miles. There have been good moments This is the southern ocean
:25:18. > :25:19.moments and it's sunny. And moments over Christmas
:25:20. > :25:39.where his family worried his wife is simply desperate to get
:25:40. > :25:44.him home. I can't wait! I am so excited about seeing him. I have
:25:45. > :25:49.spoken to him and been in contact but actually seeing him, I can't
:25:50. > :25:54.wait. Just two weeks into the race has bought got so badly damaged that
:25:55. > :25:57.usually affected his speed yet he still smashed the world record for
:25:58. > :26:05.the greatest distance sailed so low in 24 hours. The big event tomorrow
:26:06. > :26:11.if the inauguration of Donald Trump and stay with us on BBC News for
:26:12. > :26:12.that, life. You are watching BBC News and no time for a look at all
:26:13. > :26:13.the