Dozens are missing, feared dead, after an avalanche engulfed a hotel for skiers in central italy. And a french win in record time in the Vendee Globe Race one of the Worlds Toughest sporting challenges. And coming up in Sportsday On Bbc News another Series Defeat for englands cricketers in india, as they lose by 15 runs in the second one dayer. Good evening. Donald trump is in Washington Dc tonight, on the eve of his inauguration as 45th president of the United States. The ceremony, on capitol hill, is expected to draw Hundreds Of Thousands of spectators to the nations capital, as mr trump takes the oath of office, before taking up residence at the white house. His Vice President , mike pence, said today that the Transition Team had been working flat out to ensure theyd be ready to implement mr trumps policies. Our North America Editorjon Sopel is in washington tonight. Thank you, and washington this evening is a city in a city undergoing profound change. Tonight, the obama is well spe
To be an optimistic speech, notjust to be an optimistic speech, notjust to be an optimistic speech, notjust to be American People but to the american congress. There are at least two audiences, if not more for this address. For these big addresses. The president needs to win over the people in the room, and just as importantly, win over those watching on television. The numbers of those watching on television have declined by almost 50 in the last few decades. President pays attention to his ratings, so it will be interesting to see how many people to tune into this. The president. I think it is crucial in this address, he really has to start legislating. He has not introduced any legislation yet. A lot of Members Of Congress have expressed concern about him not pushing hard enough, championing things for. Has done a lot of Executive Orders but not a lot of policies. Here is the joint session of congress, the floor of congress. You have members of the senate and the House Of Representa
We are alsojoin, i hope. I still have with me from christie and] newton small, the democratic response . This is such a tough speech together. They almost always bomb it. It was so hokey. It is really the Existential Crisis for democrats. Do they go for the white Middle Class Union base they have lost which is clearly what they did here or do they support minorities who did not show up in and after this to support hillary clinton. It is like an identity crisis. Clearly in the response they went for the middle class White Union Vote but the diner was super auckland. Laughter all could. was surprised to hear from bob casey that this was not an economic speech the democrats would like, 1 trillion spent in infrastructure is kind of what president obama had suggested. We talked about his very ambitious infrastructure plan, he talked about health play, clean water, clean air president obama articulated the same things. This guy is saying things i actually believe in, some will be saying. Eve
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Support, it has paid 1. 2 billion pounds to retain the rights to show Champions League and Europa League football until 2021. No doubt you heard about this story at the weekend, donald trump saying how low as president obama gone . To top my phone is chairing the very sacred election process. Pieces this is nixon and watergate. Bad or sick quy is nixon and watergate. Bad or sick guy. The president offered no evidence whatsoever to back up these claims and now we have notable reports in the us media, one from the New York Times, also from nbc as well, saying the fbi director, james comey, has rejected these claims. He has asked the Department Ofjustice to publicly rejected. That has not happened. There is no sign of mr trump will back down. Here is his friend, chris ruddy, speaking to the bbc. I spoke to him after he did the tweed that morning when he alleged there were wiretaps made against him and his campaign at the order of president obama. He was angry that he was targeted and he w