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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. let s 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 here s what it looks like close up. the us border with mexico spans 1,989 miles a central plank of p ....
of his record nine gold medals through no fault of his own. and coming up in the sport on bbc news, serena williams says britain sjohanna konta can be a future grand slam champion, after knocking her out in this good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. there s been a sharp increase in the number of homeless people with more than half the councils in england recording a rise. on a single night last year more than 4,000 people were sleeping rough that s according to the government figures. it amounts to a 16%jump on the year before campaigners say it s an appalling rate. 0ur midlands correspondent sima kotecha reports now from birmingham one of the areas with the largest number of homeless people. as the darkness creeps in, the wind chill begins to bite. those who have nowhere to go look for shelter. volunteers roam the streets, making sure nobody has died because of the cold. one of those workers is paul aitken. the young man there, i m just checking that ....
it s gold again, the triple triple! usain bolt is to hand back one of his olympic gold medals because a team mate tested positive for a banned substance. and the woman in charge of british vogue is to step down after 25 years at the heart of the fashion industry. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news, will liverpool make it to their second wembley final in two years? they re playing southampton in the second leg of the league cup semifinal. good evening. we start tonight with a special report on the marked increase in knife crime. an investigation for bbc news at ten has found that, last year, a knife or blade was used in a crime every 16 minutes somewhere in the uk. the number of incidents involving machetes has risen by over 60% in the past the years. the information was provided by police forces in england and wales. and records show there were at least 2,300 victims of knife crime last year aged 18 or younger, a rise of 45% over three years in england and wales. ou ....
usain bolt‘s nine fold medals, at three different olympics, was unprecedented. now, through no fault of his own, that history has been tarnished. the reason lies with this man, nesta carter, bolt‘s team mate in the relay at the 2008 beijing olympics. his start propelled jamaica both to gold and to a world record. but last year, carter s sample from these games was retested and today he was found guilty of doping. under the ioc rules, the whole team is now disqualified. it s an outcome that bolt has feared for some time. i asked him about it back in august in his hometown of kingston. at any point, if i lose one of my medals it d be devastating and stressful, do you know what i mean? to know that, after all that hard work, this would happen. but i think the sport is in a really bad place now and the only place it can go right now is up. it must be hard as well because the triple triple is such a special achievement? it s very, very, very special, but we ll see. finge ....
can brexit britain and trump s us beat the likes of ireland at their own game and lure back the multinationals and their billions? donald trump has says waterboarding and other interrogation techniques which are widely seen as torture and prohibited by law absolutely work. but he s also stated he will defer to his cia and pentagon chiefs on whether to reinstate them. his comments came amid reports which suggest his administration may be planning to reinstate secret overseas cia black site prisons. earlier, president trump outlined his plans to construct a new wall along the us mexican border. james cook reports from that border. he is meant to meet enrique pena nieto on tuesday and that meeting has been put in doubt, in the last few minutes mexico s foreign minister has said it will indeed go ahead. james cook reports from that border. donald trump s signature pledge is now one step closer to reality. with a stroke of his pen, the new president ordered the constructio ....