tonight, thousands of loyal supporters, have queued up in the cold to get their free tickets that we re cold to get their free tickets that were given out. they are here tonight, wanting to hearfrom him, a way ahead. for those who did not vote for donald trump, this is an anxious moment. they are seeking reassurance from the man they have seenin reassurance from the man they have seen in the white house for the last eight years. president obama s aides said the speech is notjust for his supporters, but for all americans. barack obama is now taking to the stage in chicago, let s listen in to his message to the american people. (cheering and applause) hello, chicago! it s great to be home! thank you, everybody. thank you. thank you. thank you so much, thank you, thank you. thank you. it s good to be home. thank you. thank you. thank you. all right. where are my tv, i ve got to move! we re on live tv. you can tell that i m. you can tell that i m a lame duck because nobody is
the sentence of chelsea manning, the american soldier, formerly bradley manning, who was found guilty of providing us intelligence documents to wikileaks and sentenced to 35 years in prison. she has served seven years. it s a high profile and controversial move just days before mr obama leaves office. the bbc‘s rajini vaidyanathan, who covered the original trial, has the story. chelsea manning is responsible for one of the largest leak of government secrets in american history. former bradley manning, who was serving in iraq, at the low banking private hacked government databases, adding all 700,000 classified documents to the wikileaks classified documents to the wikilea ks organisation. classified documents to the wikileaks organisation. handing. that included his classified video showing us forces machine gunned iraqi civilians they mistook for insurgents. and also 250,000 diplomatic cables from across the globe and nearly 500,000 military records, which detailed amer
applause. we had a massive field of people. you saw that. packed. i turn on the network this morning and they show an empty field. i said, wait a minute, i made a speech, i looked out, the field was. it looked like a million, a million and a half people. they showed a field where there were practically nobody standing there. the white house has accused some parts of the media of engaging in what it called false reporting of mr trump s inauguration as president. the white house spokesman, sean spicer, said the number of people who had gathered was the largest crowd to witness an inauguration. perhaps unusually, mr spicer ended his news conference without taking any questions from any of the journalists present. he simply said goodbye and walked off the stage. more than a million people have turned out to protest against president trump in cities across the united states. originally planned as a march on washington to demonstrate against mr trump s statements on women, the rall
that he has a running war with the media. the remarks were made during a speech at the cia headquarters in virginia, where the new president described some members of the press as the most dishonest people on earth. he also accused the media of making it sounds like he had a feud with the intelligence community, and of publishing misleading information about the number of people who attended his inauguration ceremony on friday. here s a little of what he had to say. the reason you are my first stop is that as you know i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. applause. right? and they sort of made it sounds like i had a feud with the intelligence community. this is why you re my number one stop. it is exactly the opposite, and they understand that, too. i was explaining about the numbers. we did a thing yesterday, the speech. did everybody like the speech, right? applause. we had a massive field of people. you saw that.
our boxing correspondent mike costello watched the fight. our boxing correspondent mike costello watched the fightli our boxing correspondent mike costello watched the fight. i had sa nta costello watched the fight. i had santa cruz winning by four rounds but many of those rounds were very tight. the key question in the build up to the fight was, could sa nta build up to the fight was, could santa cruz do anything different to the first contest lastjuly? carl frampton and his trainer shane mcguigan seemed convinced he wouldn t be able to do anything different. he spent most of the time on the front foot lastjuly and they doubted his ability to box on the back foot and let carl frampton come to him. but he was very adept this evening on the back foot and that made the difference, he was clean with his punching and more clinical and that made the difference. there was more vigour about his work and he seemed more determined to avenge the defeat lastjuly. he seemed more determin