What was a marginal seat, with the victorious labour candidate notching up a majority of more than 9,000 votes, his party describing it as a seismic and historic win. They said that we couldnt change the labour party, and we did it. They said that we couldnt win in the south of england and the north of england, and we did it. They said, youll never beat the snp in scotland, and, rutherglen, you did it. From the partys leader to activists working the streets, labour poured resources into this constituency and their win was much, much bigger than many had expected. Michael shanks, Scottish Labour party, 17,841. Labour winning double the votes cast for the snp. The party of power at holyrood faced challenges going into the vote and had been managing expectations of a win, but even so, this was a bruising result for them. I do recognise that we have a big challenge on our hands and as a party, we need to come together collectively to right the wrongs that have happened in the last few mont
Over what officials see as unfair attacks on president trump. The new administration has taken issue with the number of people who attended the inauguration on friday. President trump claims at least a Million People turned out, but aerial photographs appear to tell a different story. With more heres our North America editorjon sopel. The weightiest issues on the planet were discussed at Donald Trumps inaugural address, but what the president is in a white rage about are suggestions that the crowds for him were not as big as they were for barack obama eight years ago, even though the evidence is incontrovertible, as these two photos, each taken 45 minutes before the inauguration started, make plain. But last night, journalists were summoned to the most extraordinary White House Briefing to be told they were lying. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. This kind of dishonesty in the media, the challenging, the bringing of our nation together, is making i
The babies who die before 2a weeks and their parents who are denied a birth certificate. Asa as a mother, you want to protect your children. And we could not. We had no choice. Good morning. You could be paying to get money out of thousands more Cash Machines if banks and Atm Operators fail to reach an agreement over fees. Ill be taking a look at why. In sport, its a happy birthday forJose Mourinho. Manchester united reach the league cup final, with an aggregate victory over hull, so theyll face southampton at wembley next month. And carol has the weather. Good morning. A cold and frosty start to the day. Once again, pockets of fog around. Cloudy. Summer rain. The sunshine hanging around for the longest in the far north of scotland like yesterday. And ill have the rest of your Weather Forecast details in 15 minutes. Thanks, carol. Good morning. First, our main story. Theresa may will meet President Donald Trump at the white house this afternoon. Shell be hoping to prepare the ground fo
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Washington post also reports tonight the white house is preparing an Executive Order that authorizes the president to punish foreign interference in u. S. Elections. The post writes, quote, the eightpage draft order appears to be an effort to stave off aggressive legislation, including a bill introduced in congress this month and to quell criticism that trump seems to give more credence to russian president Vladimir Putins denials of interference than to u. S. Intelligence agencies conclusion to the kremlin sought to undermine the 2016 election. That comes to us as Florida Democratic senator bill nelson, whose running in a tough reelection fight, tells the tampa bay times, quote, russian operatives have penetrated some of floridas Election Systems ahead of the 2018 mid terms. He said any further information is classified. Today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on
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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Gates, and said well, you couldnt have had manafort paying that those attention or you wouldnt have been able to steal so much money. That has to influence the jury. Thats a scary statement he made. Hes gone way beyond what anybody should have expected of a judge. In the meantime, jill, i notice your pin youre wearing, nixon lodge. That was from his first Unsuccessful Campaign for president. Today is the 44th anniversary of his resignation for obstruction of justice among other things, and while it may foretell the future, it certainly inspired my pin today to remember what happens when you obstruct justice. Well, let me ask you about that, because i know you must get asked all the time about sort of the way that these two may be similar and the ways that they may be different. What do you tell people . Well i actually think this situation is