The japanese Prime Minister, shinzo abe, is making a historic visit to hawaii, 75 years after the japanese attack on pearl harbor that brought the United States into the second world war. The visit began with mr abe paying tribute to American Military personnel buried at the National Memorial cemetery of the pacific. Before he left tokyo, mr abe said he wanted to send a message that japan would never repeat the atrocities of past wars. Laura bicker reports. Archive december 7th, 1941 a date which will live in infamy. The japanese attacks came in waves during a deadly two hours. Bombs ripped through us battleships, crippling the Pacific Fleet and killing over 2000 americans. Survivors recalled that the once Bustling Port burned for hours. I had a fire hose in one hand, trying to put out the fires, and with the other i went around memorising these nametags so i could write to their parents and tell them what happened to their son. After 75 years, a sitting japanese Prime Minister will at
Materials used by mr. Clapper and others available to them to brief donald trump but it was never discussed in the briefing. The briefing was oral, no place at trump tower to contain top secret documents. No documents were turned over. Intelligence officials go further and say as far as they are concerned, they agree that none of the investigations have foundny conclusionive or direct link between donald trump and the russian government period. Hallie jackson is at the News Conference, we got a preview of this News Conference already. We did. You could see tsts it was a tweet storm this morning with donald trump strongly denying this, calling it fake news and questioning whether we were living in nazi germany. I can tell you about 30 seconds ago, staffers came out filled with paper next to where hell be speaking. This is his First Press Conference as president elect, nearly six months. There are a lot of questions facing him, not just about on reporting on russia but how he will separa
Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that Record Numbers of patients spent more than four hours in accident and emergency units in england in january, according to figures leaked to the bbc. During a difficult winter for the nhs, january seems to be the worst performing month in the past 13 years. The figures also suggest Record Numbers of people waited longer than 12 hours for a hospital bed, once theyd been seen in a e. The bma said the Prime Minister could no longer bury her head in the sand over increasing pressure in the nhs. And it accused the government of failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes reports. For months now, accident and Emergency Departments across england have been struggling. Last week, the bbc was given exclusive access to the royal blackburn hospital, where the pressure on a e was plain to see. We need beds and staff. Its just like banging your head you need a bed. Definitely. Its distressing. Its really distressing
Its always good to get out of washington and come to new york. Its less clever to do it on a day when theres a massive snow storm outside this backdrop is totally fake. Heres what manhattan actually looks like today, which is why ive retreated inside. So hello from new york, christian. Dont give away all the secrets they will think that im not sitting ina posh they will think that im not sitting in a posh office overlooking the thames there are some pretty ill winds blowing through congress at the moment. The latest storm relates to Donald Trumps pick for the Supreme Court. The man he nominated last week is neil gorsuch hes now paying Courtesy Calls on capitol hill to build support for his confirmation. But one of those senators, richard blumenthal, the democrat from conneticut, revealed after their meeting that mr gorsuch isnt too happy with Donald Trumps attacks on thejudiciary. My strong hope is that he will be more vehement publicly. He certainly expressed to me that hes Dishearten
Temporarily banning people from seven muslimmajority y countris from entering the United States. The ruling comes less than two weeks after trump signed the order, sparking protests across the country. Well get reaction from vince warren, executive director of the center for Constitutional Rights. Then to phoenix where the moth massacre. Ms. Conway it is new information after that there was a man that ban. They were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacres. Amy that is fake news. We will talk about real news when the government did feel able fear a Bowling Green massacre from a white supremacist. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A federal Appeals Court in San Francisco has unanimously upheld a suspension of President Trump executive order temporarily banning people from seven muslimmajority countries from entering the united ststates. Thursdays decision appears headed for an appeal to the Sup