To give his Farewell Address in his Hometown Chicago in a huge Convention Centre beside lake michigan. These are the last few days of his time in the white house. It is in a huge Convention Centre. He returns tonight to the city where he gave his Acceptance Speech in 2008. You will all remember those pictures. Where Laura Chevenement was in chicago was so wildly, we had to abandon those plans. This is what gary 0donoghue told us earlier. In a sense, it will mark president 0bamas last chance to sum up, really, what he thinks hes achieved. Two big end his presidency, to try and notjust to list his achievements as he sees it, but try and weave together those achievements into some sort of idea of how america has improved over the last 80 years, in his view, under his stewardship. There will be a lot about the economy, the jobs. There will be a lot about criminaljustice reform. I am sure of course there will be talk about his Signature Policy on health care reform. There may be an admissio
To give his Farewell Address in his Hometown Chicago in a huge Convention Centre beside lake michigan. These are the last few days of his time in the white house. It is in a huge Convention Centre. He returns tonight to the city where he gave his Acceptance Speech in 2008. You will all remember those pictures. Where Laura Chevenement was in chicago was so wildly, we had to abandon those plans. This is what gary 0donoghue told us earlier. In a sense, it will mark president 0bamas last chance to sum up, really, what he thinks hes achieved. Two big end his presidency, to try and notjust to list his achievements as he sees it, but try and weave together those achievements into some sort of idea of how america has improved over the last 80 years, in his view, under his stewardship. There will be a lot about the economy, the jobs. There will be a lot about criminaljustice reform. I am sure of course there will be talk about his Signature Policy on health care reform. There may be an admissio
Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, 1am here in london and 7pm in chicago, where barack obama is about to deliver the final big speech of his presidency. Its expected to be a parting plea to americans not to lose faith in their future, no matter what they think about their next president. Its also his last chance to try to define his legacy. The president landed in chicago a little earlier, a Fitting Bookend to what began eight years ago, in the city where the nations first black president claimed his victory. This is the scene live, as the stage has been set. Hundreds of people making their way to the Convention Centre in chicago and all eyes will be on barack obama, in around 50 minutes time from now to see him deliver his final farewell address. Our correspondent Laura Trevelyan is in chicago. We saw many people are saying in but now it is pretty quiet, they are all inside . Mostly. There are still some lawyer people doing it. A firefighter here in chicago is with me. This is a big
Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, 1am here in london and 7pm in chicago, where barack obama is about to deliver the final big speech of his presidency. Its expected to be a parting plea to americans not to lose faith in their future, no matter what they think about their next president. Its also his last chance to try to define his legacy. The president landed in chicago a little earlier, a Fitting Bookend to what began eight years ago, in the city where the nations first black president claimed his victory. This is the scene live, as the stage has been set. Hundreds of people making their way to the Convention Centre in chicago and all eyes will be on barack obama, in around 50 minutes time from now to see him deliver his final farewell address. Our correspondent Laura Trevelyan is in chicago. We saw many people are saying in but now it is pretty quiet, they are all inside . Mostly. There are still some lawyer people doing it. A firefighter here in chicago is with me. This is a big
Then a Leave Minister said they had waited their life to do it. Theresa may wants to get on and trigger article 50 well before her self imposed deadline of the end of march. The possible date is the ninth or 10th of march. It has to be a formal letter from the uk. The reason why they want to get an early if they have been advised the European Commission and the European Council will be able to give their formal response before the first round of the president ial election on the 23rd of april, but only if they go early. Obviously, if they do not go early, the second round of the french president ial election is made seventh. Hugh knows. May. Not a great day for labour. Divided, 47 mps defied a three line whip, three members of the Shadow Cabinet resigned, although between ten and 13 Labour Frontbenchers are still in place and as i understand Itjeremy Corbyn is in no rush to do the usual thing, to sack them, hes going to wait for next week and see if any of the amendments we see at the