Women are experiencing widespread discrimination when it comes to dress codes at work, say mps. Good afternoon. The top story, President Trump is expected to reveal details later today of how he will fulfil a Major Campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border of america and make the mexicans pay for it. Today he signalled it was important for national security. He is expected to sign several orders aimed at restricting immigration. He has already launched an investigation into voter fraud looking at Illegal Immigrants who were not eligible to vote. Lets have a closer look at the border between the us and mexico. There it is crossing an entire continent and joining the Gulf Of Mexico with the pacific ocean. It passes along four us states and six mexican ones and a wide range of geographical hurdles so any new wall would be a feat of engineering. And heres what it looks like close up. The us border with mexico spans 1,989 miles a Central Plank of President Trumps Election C
He is ordering a Major Investigation into voter fraud, still convinced that illegal votes affected the election result. And gun violence in chicago the president says he is considering sending in the feds would it help . Well have reaction from the city. Hello it is wednesday afternoon here in washington, donald trump has promised a big day in the reform of Americas National security laws. The president is outlining changes to immigration, visa controls, and a crack down on gun violence in chicago. And of course there is the promise, which he made throughout that election campaign, to build that wall. Hes also given his first tv interview as president , here is what he said about that wall to abc news. Ultimately we will start negotiations relatively soon with mexico and we will be reimbursed by mexico. So the american taxpayer will pay for the ball first. We will be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we make from mexico. The mexican president said mexico. The mexican
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