President trump meets survivors of wednesdays High School Shooting in florida. The president declined to answer a reporters question on gun control. Also, south africa after president zuma just one of the topics under discussion in dateline london with carrie gracie, in half an hour, here on bbc news. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Lizzy yarnold has won team gbs first gold medal at the Winter Olympics in south korea. Shes won the womens skeleton, making yarnold the first british competitor to defend a winter olympic title. Yarnold headed into the final run 0. 02 seconds behind leaderjanine flock, but a poor finish from the austrian saw her drop out of the medal places. Our sport correspondent is in pyeongchang. An extraordinary day here, one that will live long in british olympic memory. The most successful in british winter olympic history. Thats largely because of Lizzy Yarnold winning the gold medal here in the skeleton and defending her title. Her parentsjoin me now. Clive
We report from what could be the Worlds Largest wildlife sanctuary. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 2am in the swiss resort of davos, where one issue is dominating the start of the World Economic forum, protectionism. It follows the decision by the us President Donald Trump to impose steep import tariffs on washing machines and solar panels. The move has been condemned by china and south korea, who fear it could choke off the revival in global trade. Heres what both sides of the debate had to say. For both solar and washing machines, executive actions uphold the principle of fair trade and demonstrate to the world that the United States will not be taken advantage of any more. Translation our government is expressing regret for the latest us safeguard measures against our industry, ivejust spoken to professor david kang, director of the Korean Studies Institute at the un
Investigating allegations of russian interference in the president ial election. Its understood Jeff Sessions was also questioned about whether the trump team colluded with russia, and then tried to impede the russia inquiry. And the Washington Post is reporting that special Counsel Robert Mueller is seeking to interview the president , as well. The bbcs david willis is following events in washington. You are absolutely right that indeed Thejustice Department confirming today thatJeff Sessions, the attorney general, was interviewed by Robert Muellers team, investigating alleged collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia. That interview taking place last week. The interview with the special counsel, Robert Muellers team, was conducted its been reported in the presence of Jeff Sessions lawyer. It makes Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, the first member of the trump cabinet to be interviewed by Robert Muellers team and that team as well as investigating allegations of collusion be
Killer has confessed. Ukip members will vote on whether henry bolton should remain as party leader. And seeing africa by train. That in the travel show in half an hour. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Theresa may has urged European Union leaders not to put lives at risk by blocking a security deal after brexit because of deep seated ideology. The Prime Minister was speaking at a security conference in munich. Mrs may said that that nothing must get in the way of britain and the eu helping each other to keep people safe. The Prime Minister said that real political will is required to safeguard Intelligence Co operation which has developed over the decades. People across europe are safer because of this corporation and the unique arrangements we have developed between the uk and eu institutions in recent years. So it is in all of our interests to find ways to protect the capabilities that underpin this cooperation when the uk becomes a european country outside the eu, but in a new