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Theresa May becomes the first overseas leader to hold face-to-face | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
PC leaders appear to be in step on major issues, including Nato and the | :00:17. | :00:28. | |
deep bond between our countries. A free and independent Britain is a | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
blessing to the world and relationship has never been | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
stronger. We are united in our recognition of Nato as the Bill work | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
of defence and today we have reaffirmed our unshakeable | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
commitment to this alliance. Detox also focused on trade and relations | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
with Russia. We will have all the details. | :00:56. | :01:10. | |
At the end of his first week as US president, Donald Trump has held his | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
first meeting with a foreign leader, hosting the British Prime Minister | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Theresa May at the White House. The two talked for around an hour before | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
emerging to take questions from journalists, covering terrorism, | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
trade, Nato and Mexico. Theresa May was greeted by Donald Trump as she | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
arrived at the White House. The president then gave the Prime | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Minister a tour of the White House. At one stage, Mr Trump took her hand | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
as they walked. Theresa May confirmed that the president has | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
accepted an invitation from the Queen free State visit to the UK | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
later this year. Their joint news conference was a chance for | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
journalists talk about wives been described both sides of the Atlantic | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
as a special relationship. The BBC's political editor was among the | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
journalists to ask a question. Prime Minister, you've talked | :02:08. | :02:38. | |
about where you agree, but you've also said you would be | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
frank where you disagree Can you tell us where in our talks | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
you did disagree, and do you think the president listened | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
to what you have to say? You have said before | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
that torture works. You have said you want to ban some | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Muslims from coming to America. You have suggested there should be | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
punishment for abortion. For many people in Britain, | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
those sound like alarming beliefs. What do you say to our viewers | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
at home who are worried about some of your views and worried | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
about you becoming the leader On the issue you raised with me, | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
Laura, can I confirm that I have been listening to the president | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
and the president has That is the point of | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
having a conversation. We have been discussing | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
a number of topics. We will carry on meeting | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
after this press conference There will be issues | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
on which we disagree. The point of the special | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
relationship is that we are able to have that open and frank | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
discussion so that we can make that But I am clear also | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
that there are many issues on which the United Kingdom | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
and the United States stand alongside one another, | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
many issues on which we agree. As I said in my speech, | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
I think we are at a moment when we can build an even stronger | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
special relationship which will be in the interests not just of the UK | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
and the United States, but in the interests | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
of the wider world as well. We have a great general who has just | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
been appointed secretary of defence, He has stated publicly that he does | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
not necessarily believe in torture, or waterboarding or however | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
you want to define it, enhanced interrogation, I guess, | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
would be the words a lot of people I don't necessarily agree, | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
but I would tell you that he will override because I am | :04:07. | :04:24. | |
giving him that power. He is the generals' general, | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
got through the Senate very quickly, which in this country is not | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
easy, I will tell you. I have been open about that | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
for a long period of time, but I am going with our leaders | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
and we are going to Some of what happened just a short | :04:47. | :05:04. | |
time ago. Our correspondent is at the White House for us. Just on a | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
couple of specifics on the question of torture. Very interesting there. | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
He seems to be ceding authority over this to the person who's going to | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
take charge. Is that a surprise? Well, he has been very much | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
supportive of the general who is the secretary of defence. He has always | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
spoken very positively about him and the general has made it pity clear | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
that he thinks torture or enhancement derogation techniques | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
are not the way to go. But as you heard there, Mr Trump still believes | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
it could work, but he will defer to the general. I have to say, I think | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
that will be a great relief to people here, as well as to people in | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
the UK that he is taking the journal so seriously, because the secretary | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
of defence is seen as a safe pair of hands, somebody very experienced who | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
has a lot of experience in terms of relationships with other armies and | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
other defence departments. Not only on the issue of torture, which was | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
important that Theresa May said something like that, given the | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
criticism of comments back home, but also in terms of the general | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
conversation he will have with the secretary of defence. To be talking | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
to Russian, German and French leaders tomorrow by only told. His | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
tone on Russia seemed a little different from what we have heard in | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
the past. Hugh was noncommittal. He said he wanted to have a good | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
relationship with valid Amir Putin. He put that into the context of | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
other countries. He said, I hope the get along. He said that sometimes he | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
thinks we will get along very well with somebody and when I meet them, | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
I don't make them at all and sometimes it is the verse. He was | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
also noncommittal about sanctions on Russia over Ukraine. You was asked | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
about reports circulating that he might sign the report lifting the | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
sanctions and he said it was very early to talk about that. He said he | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
might consider it, which is something that Theresa May will have | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
taken a tough, because Britain's position is that sanctions should | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
only be lifted when Russia needs his obligations in terms of the conflict | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
in Ukraine. What was the reaction to seeing the spread of images together | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
in this press conference? Have conferred legitimacy on each other? | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
They are both very new readers. -- leaders. The press conference went | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
there as far as can be expected from that point of view. There was a lot | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
of speculation about possibly awkward moments, but Mr Trump and | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
his reputation for being unpredictable and erratic. He might | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
embarrass her or say something and statesman-like. Was his first news | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
conference and visit with a foreign leader and it turns out that they | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
both seemed to handle it pretty well. He made a concerted effort to | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
rein in some of those instincts, to present himself in a more | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
professional way. It wasn't Bill Clinton and Tony Blair in terms of | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
US and British leaders having a conversation. They seem to hold | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
their own and that will have been noticed. Look I guess, he held her | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
hand. One of the major points that came out of this of course is Nato, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
something that has been worrying many countries. Donald Trump has | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
previously questioned the role of the US in this organisation. Theresa | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
May seem to make it clear that she is confident of their commitment. | :09:01. | :09:16. | |
You said your 100% behind Nato, but we are also discussing the | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
importance of Nato continuing to fight terrorism and cyber warfare as | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
it is to fight more conventional forms of work. I've agreed to | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
continue my efforts to encourage fellow European leaders to deliver | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
on defence of the bridge and is more friendly shed. It is only by | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
investing properly in defence we can ensure we are properly equipped to | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
face our shared challenges together. Theresa May speaking for the | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
president there. The camera we had was not on his face, so I can see | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
whether he was not deny shaking his head. He didn't deny wishy stated | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
there. How crucial is that? Think I was pretty important. Britain and | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
its partners in the two are quite worried about his statements about | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
the alliance, that it is obsolete, that America might not be as | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
committed to it as it had been and is over how to state in that way" | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
him that he was 100% behind it, you are right, he didn't say the words | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
himself, but he did not refute her. It is an important signal. He said a | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
need to become more nimble in terms of more modern challenges like cyber | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
warfare and making sure people pay their bills and their defence | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
requirements for the alliance. Something he has stopped about a | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
lot. I would also say that if he's going to defer to the general in the | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
wake defer to him on the torture question, the general has been very | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
clear that America is completely committed to Nato and two of the | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
first three calls he made were to be head of Nato and the secretary of | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
Britain where he made that point. Perhaps it will be reassuring for | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
Britain. Because this is a slightly different Donald Trump that we have | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
seen, do you think you will be more presidential in a way? Think he was | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
making an effort to come across as more statesman-like, yes. The new US | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
president at his inauguration spoke just one week ago of putting America | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
first. Theresa May looking at Brexit, getting a good trade with | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
the US is a priority. Trade between our countries is | :11:44. | :11:53. | |
already worth ?150 billion a year. The US is the single biggest source | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
of the inward investment to the UK and together, | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
we have around $1 trillion invested The UK-US defence relationship | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
is the broadest, deepest and most advanced of any two countries | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
sharing military The president and I are ambitious | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
to build on this relationship in order to grow our respective | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
economies, provide the high-skilled, high-paid jobs | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
of the future for working people Are North American business | :12:15. | :12:27. | |
correspondent has been looking at the reaction to this. She is in New | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
York for us. We didn't get a huge amount of detail from either the | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
Prime Minister or the president. What has the reaction been? The kind | :12:36. | :12:44. | |
of line which used there is what people want here. -- language. The | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
UK still has to deal with Brexit, they have to disentangle themselves | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
from that. No real concrete action can be taken. The fact that we heard | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
Theresa May said the groundwork has started, is encouraging. You had | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
that same positive language coming from President Trump as well, | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
reiterating how important have a partner that the UK is and how | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
important they are in terms of establishing bilateral trade | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
agreements. Not like is in the conflict in the US position and | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
President Trump has taken a very protectionist line? Theresa May | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
needs a fast deal politically here. There is going to be very difficult, | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
because traders are notoriously complex. In some ways, it does work | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
in the way that President Trump has been talking about. He's very | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
against these big, multi-country trade deals. Things they'd TPP which | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
involve a dozen companiess countries, which is an agreement | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
with Canada, the United States and Mexico. What he wants to put forward | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
our bilateral trade deals. Trade deals with one individual country. | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
He believes that is a better way for the United States to get a trade | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
deal that is more beneficial with them, because really that is what | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
Donald Trump has set with these trade agreements, the United States | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
has not been able to get a very fair deal in his opinion. They have now | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
parted ways, but the US president has continued with my engagements | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
today. A short while ago, he arrived at the Pentagon, where he is | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
introducing his new secretary of defence, here we have been hearing | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
quite a lot about. The commander-in-chief police | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
interrogation techniques like water boarding can be effective. He has | :14:44. | :14:53. | |
said that he will allow the general to overwrite that view. That has | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
been a big change, because has been a big political row over his | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
statements on torture. Much more ahead on BBC world News. We will go | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
to Pennsylvania, with the tradition of welcoming refugees, to see what | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
the impact of his Executive order will be. The shuttle exploded soon | :15:13. | :15:25. | |
after that tough, there were seven astronauts on board. All of them are | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
believed to have been killed. By the evening, the heart of official Cairo | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
was in the hands of the demonstrators. They were using the | :15:33. | :15:33. | |
word revolution. Tonight the search for it survivors | :15:34. | :15:53. | |
has an increasing desperation about it as the hours pass. The new | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
Government is firmly in control of the Republic of Uganda. Moscow got | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
his first taste of Western Ferries food as McDonald's opened the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
biggest restaurant. Hundreds of people queueing up today will not | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
find a cheap, with a big Mack costing half a day 's wages for the | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
average Russian. This is BBC world News today. The British by Minister | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
Theresa May has become the first world leader to visit the new US | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
President Donald Trump at the White House. The two leaders pay tribute | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
to the special relationship between our countries and reaffirmed their | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
commitment to the Nato alliance. Relations between Britain and the US | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
are comparatively easy perhaps compared with those of US and | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
Mexico. There could be progress there, too. | :16:51. | :16:51. | |
We had a talk that lasted for about an hour this morning, | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
and we are going to be working on a fair and new relationship. | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
But the United States cannot continue to lose vast | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
amounts of business, vast amounts of companies | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
and millions and millions of people losing their jobs. | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
We're no longer going to be the country that doesn't | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
So we are going to renegotiate our trade deals and we're | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
going to renegotiate other aspects of our relationship with Mexico. | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
In the end, I think it will be good for both countries. | :17:25. | :17:33. | |
There have been a number of developments since then. Talk | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
through the last couple of hours if you can, because after that press | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
conference, we had a statement from the Mexican Government. That is | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
correct. The past 48 hours have been a blur. They don't know where to | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
begin. I suppose the thing is that what stood out to me from the joint | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
statement from both sides were but they have agreed to at least not | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
publicly discuss the border issue, which is so controversial. At least | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
that is to one side and of the two diplomatic teams can begin to find | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
more common ground on these areas of trade, a cross-border migration, | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
security. Some of the other key issues they need to talk about in | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
which the wall has muddied the waters so much, the two men could | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
not sit down and hold a summit, which was scheduled for Tuesday. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
That border tax question will carry through for many weeks and months | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
and we wait and see if the White House comes up with a more concrete | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
proposal. I gather you were there with a very interesting development. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
Yes, I came dashing back from that just now and it was interesting. He | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
talked about Mexican unity a lot and about how he is not the Mexicans | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
unified around a single class in the 1985 earthquake that left many dead. | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
It's very interesting to have him compare this political and economic | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
earthquake on a similar scale. In terms of Donald Trump, you could | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
hear a degree of sympathy towards him. He was seen by Mexican | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
conditions in the United States are very favourable at the moment, which | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
echoes this line from Donald Trump and Mexico is taking advantage | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
somehow the United States. Nevertheless, Mr Slim and his basic | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
line was that he is there to support the Mexican people when it comes to | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
the relationship of the United States. But there's anyone who | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
outranks financially Donald Trump it is Carlos Slim. We'll have to leave | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
it there. Let's catch up with some other newsletter. The US vice | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
president has sold an anti-abortion rally in Washington that the tide is | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
no turning with the president. Both houses of Congress opposed to the | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
practice. Turkey has agreed to cancel you do with the European | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
Union on taking back migrants who cross over to Greece. The policy | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
decision by the Greek supreme court not to extra to date a group of | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece. More international help as arrived | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
to help to refight the worst wildfire in modern history. Russia | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
has sent a supertanker aircraft capable of carrying tonnes of water. | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
One town has been destroyed by the police. Hundreds of millions of | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
people across Asia and around the world are celebrating the start of | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
the lunar New Year. The year of the Rooster officially began in China | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
several hours ago the celebrations running into the evening. Fireworks, | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
flowers, line dancing and lots of food are part of the celebrations | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
for many. This extraordinary week has seen Donald Trump breaking his | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
way to many of his campaign promises and is thought that another imminent | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
one is a crackdown on immigration. He is expected to sign an Executive | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
order restricting migrants from a number of countries in Africa and | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
the Middle East, where Islamist militants have sparked violent | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
conflict. He's also but be preparing to announce tighter limits on the | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
number of refugees that US taken. For more insight into what it is | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
like for it migrants in the years, we're been to Lancaster, | :21:38. | :21:38. | |
Pennsylvania. We were initially tied to welcome | :21:39. | :21:55. | |
refugees, because it is our heritage, that is how we started | :21:56. | :22:05. | |
this state. Consider Lancaster to be the best place in the world. | :22:06. | :22:21. | |
Mohammed and his wife and his four children arrived to Lancaster | :22:22. | :22:30. | |
Pennsylvania last July. We left Syria because it was unbearable and | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
we were not able to stay there. For long months we were not able to | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
sleep. Not than four months, he found a job in a supporting his | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
family and wife. A family of six can be self-sufficient within four to | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
six months. We're really happy about that. Refugees are like any other | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
human, looking for a better life friends and children. Education, | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
looking for jobs, just like any other person. How does it make you | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
feel that family, relatives, friends might not be able to come here? | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
Disappointed. We had hoped that we would reunite | :23:11. | :23:23. | |
again with the people that we know. Think a lot of people are nervous | :23:24. | :23:45. | |
with the aspect of terrorism and we have to be extremely careful and | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
that American citizens first and safety. That is the number one role | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
of the Government. With any problem, we have to stop the bleeding. Cut | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
off any refugees coming into this point, get a solution very quickly | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
and reinstate refugees coming back the country. From a faith | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
perspective, there is a moral obligation. Particularly talking | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
about women and children, to try to bring people out of harms way. | :24:12. | :24:25. | |
Well, there is much more on our website that the John presidency, | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
including a look back at the events of his first week in power. Just | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
time to bring you one last moment from his first news conference since | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
becoming president, one journalist took advantage of the opportunity to | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
ask him about the way his character comes over in public. Just listen to | :24:46. | :24:47. | |
this. Have you found anything in common | :24:48. | :25:07. | |
personally yet? We are not as brash as you might think. We're going to | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
get along very well. I'm a people person. I think you are also, to | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
reason. I can often tell how I'm going to get on with somebody very | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
early and I think we're going to have a fantastic relationship. | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
Donald Trump with Theresa May. Lots of pressure on many relationship. | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
Let me just bring you one development on the last few minutes | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
on all this. Donald Trump has been hosting his first foreign leader at | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
the White House, Theresa May. He is due to hold talks tomorrow on | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
Saturday, with other world leaders including Putin and speculation that | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
he plans to recent sanctions against Marks boot Moscow. He has said that | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
he opposes lifting any sanctions on Russia. Things are much for | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
watching. Thanks for joining me. We'll give | :25:57. | :26:18. | |
you a flavour of the weekends by the prospect in | :26:19. | :26:19. |