And london, youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Thanks forjoining us. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm In Washington, where donald trump began his day by pushing mexicos buttons a bit over who will pay for his border wall. And after a few hours, the Mexican President pushed back, saying he wont come to the us next week to attend a meeting with mr trump. Not to be outdone, mr trump then stood in front of republican lawmakers and said any such visit would be fruitless unless mexico agreed to foot the bill. And hes now threatened to impose a tax on mexican imports to fund his border wall. Nick bryant has more on this cross border spat. Donald trumps new executive toy. His first ride today on air force one, that potent symbol of us president ial power. But it was the cancelled travel plans of the Mexican President were at the centre of a diplomatic storm. His plane will Stay Grounded after a summit between the two leaders scheduled for washington next week was abruptly
And london, youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Thanks forjoining us. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm In Washington, where donald trump began his day by pushing mexicos buttons a bit over who will pay for his border wall. And after a few hours, the Mexican President pushed back, saying he wont come to the us next week to attend a meeting with mr trump. Not to be outdone, mr trump then stood in front of republican lawmakers and said any such visit would be fruitless unless mexico agreed to foot the bill. And hes now threatened to impose a tax on mexican imports to fund his border wall. Nick bryant has more on this cross border spat. Donald trumps new executive toy. His first ride today on air force one, that potent symbol of us president ial power. But it was the cancelled travel plans of the Mexican President were at the centre of a diplomatic storm. His plane will Stay Grounded after a summit between the two leaders scheduled for washington next week was abruptly
How president s and Prime Ministers interact matters. A great deal of effort goes into making sure they hit it off. Some relationships, however, barely register. Others become central to both. Into which category this latest iteration will fall, well, today we began to find out. Nothing was allowed to get in the way, not even the oval office lamp. An Executive Order, and it was gone. Back in the room, the bust of churchill. This is the original. After a private meeting in the oval office, a Press Conference, where the compliments really flowed. Today, the United States renews our deep bond with britain, military, financial, cultural and political. One of the great bonds. We pledge our lasting support to this most Special Relationship. I am delighted to be able to congratulate you on what was a stunning election victory. As you say, the invitation is an indication of the strength and importance of the Special Relationship. The relationship that exists between our countries, based on the
we now have 50 million people in this country who are foreign-born, okay? they have about 20 million kids. this is the highest percentage we ve ever had in the history of our country. they are doing that at a time where we don t teach our kids about the constitution, western civilization or to believe that america is great. so they re doing this purposefully. wide open borders, they believe in things like the new world order and the united nations making decisions for us. so that s purposeful. i just want republicans to meet that with at least the as much passion and resistance as democrats use to destroy our country. and that s the question for republicans and the speak orer of the house right now. are we going to meet the moment as republicans and use the power of the purse to stop this assault on our freedom, our security and well-being while we empower cartels, empower china, endanger texans? let s stop that right now. we can use the power of the purse. pass a bill that will fund t