to try to discover why the plane crashed with 92 people on board. and in half an hour, we take a look at the front pages, including the daily telegraph, which reports the wea ker daily telegraph, which reports the weaker pound has left the military underfunded. good evening and welcome to bbc news. let s ta ke let s take you straight to hawaii. the japanese prime minister, shinzo abe, is in hawaii for an historic visit, seeing him pay his respects at the sight of the japanese attack on pearl harbor in1941. shinzo abe side by side with barack obama, the united states president. let s listening through the translator. dotmacro when aerial bombing tore the uss arizona in two. even 75 years later, the uss arizona, now rests atop the sea bed, is the final resting place for a tremendous number of sailors and marines. listening again, as i focused my senses alongside song of the seas and the rumble of the rolling waves, i can almost discern the voices of those crewmen. voices of liv
responsible for undermining the election process and he has also proved the expulsion of 35 russian diplomats from the united states. three weeks before donald trump is sworn in as president, mr obamas said that all americans should be alarmed by russia s actions. russia said it would order adequate reply. as our correspondent reports. russia stands accused of trying to help donald trump become president. moscow had been warned but now it is being punished for interfering in us elections. the top intelligence agencies believe a cyber attack on the e mails of hillary clinton s closest aides was orchestrated by the highest levels of russian government. but mr trump has always questioned the evidence. if you don t catch them in the act of hacking you never will. you don t know if it is russia or china. it could be somebody sitting on a bed someplace. but the cia and the fbi both agree. the hackers, they say, were russian, and president obama says americans should be alarmed. he
for a couple of pounds. and hull s year as the uk city of culture started with a bang last night as thousands of people watched a fireworks display from the banks of the humber estuary. and as the international olympic committee creates a new team of refugees, we ve been following some of the hopefuls. that s in half an hour on bbc news. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. rail fares across england, wales and scotland will rise today, with passengers facing an average increase of more than 2%. public transport campaigners say the fare rises are another kick in the teeth for long suffering rail passengers. but the transport secretary, chris grayling, said the government was delivering the biggest rail modernisation programme for more than a century. here s our transport correspondent richard westcott. punctuality across britain is well below target, strikes have brought one of the busiest operators to a standstill, but none of it stops rail fares going up again today. i t
welcome to bbc news. the uk s most senior diplomat in brussels, sir ivan rogers, has resigned. sir ivan was criticised for warning the government that it could take a decade to reach a trade deal with the european union once britain has left. he told his office today that he would be stepping down as ambassador early just two months before formal brexit talks are due to begin. he was appointed by the then prime minister david cameron in november 2013. the reason for his resignation has not been revealed. let s get more from our political correspondent iain watson at westminster. we still don t know, we still haven t heard anything from him? i m afraid we haven t. what is interesting is the downing street statement, a pretty anodyne couple of lines from number ten, effectively saying the reason he stood down in fact was to give a successof stood down in fact was to give a successor the chance to be in place before the brexit negotiations took place. of course we expect artic
the diplodocus. good morning. it s the 4th of january. welcome to bbc newsroom live. britain s outgoing ambassador to the european union, sir ivan rogers, has strongly criticised the government s preparations for brexit. in his resignation letter he said he didn t know what ministers‘ negotiating objectives were and called on his colleagues to challenge what he called muddled thinking. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports. sir ivan rogers has been britain s ambassador to the eu for three yea rs, ambassador to the eu for three years, and his criticisms about the government s preparations for brexit will be hard to ignore. in his resignation e mail he said there is a short supply of serious multilateral negotiating experience in whitehall and he said the structure of the uk s negotiating tea m structure of the uk s negotiating team need rapid resolution. he reveals that even he does not know what the government s negotiating objectives for brexit will be. b