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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

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