Speak to the Playwright David Pair about his film on holocaust denial. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. President trump has signed an Executive Order to build a wall along the us border with mexico. It was one of his key pledges during the election campaign. Mr trump said he expected construction to start within months and that planning will begin immediately. He insisted that while american taxpayers would have to pay for the initial work, he would expect mexico to reimburse the cost. Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto is reportedly considering cancelling next weeks visit to washington following Donald Trumps order. Our correspondent james cook reports from the us mexico border. Donald trumps Signature Pledge is now one step closer to reality. With a stroke of his pen, the new president ordered the construction of a great wall on the Mexican Border. It would begin, he said, within months. A nation without borders is not a nation. Beginning today, the United States of america ge
Speak to the Playwright David Pair about his film on holocaust denial. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. President trump has signed an Executive Order to build a wall along the us border with mexico. It was one of his key pledges during the election campaign. Mr trump said he expected construction to start within months and that planning will begin immediately. He insisted that while american taxpayers would have to pay for the initial work, he would expect mexico to reimburse the cost. Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto is reportedly considering cancelling next weeks visit to washington following Donald Trumps order. Our correspondent james cook reports from the us mexico border. Donald trumps Signature Pledge is now one step closer to reality. With a stroke of his pen, the new president ordered the construction of a great wall on the Mexican Border. It would begin, he said, within months. A nation without borders is not a nation. Beginning today, the United States of america ge
Forthe trump stump, today President Trump confirmed he was totally serious. The secretary of homeland security, working with myself and my staff, will begin immediate construction of a border wall. Applause the United States of america gets back control of its borders, gets back its borders. Can we go ahead . But, as previous president s have found, it is one thing to sign and seal and another to deliver. On his second full day in office, president obama ordered the closing of guantanamo bay. But it stubbornly outlasted even his second term in office. His plans were locked up by an uncooperative congress. So might Donald Trumps wall meet similar obstacles . Its obstacle is literary, build a wall. There are a lot of nuts and bolts in the process. First of all, the money has to be appropriated, it has to go to congress, and there is the question of what the physical wall looks like. If some of it fencing, and is some of it a virtual wall . Today was basically a message that they are seri
i think this came in much stronger than everyone was expecting, and so it is a reminder ofjust how strong america s labour market was for 2023. these are the figures for the month of december. it came in at 216,012 economists were forecasting something like 170,000. thatjump something like 170,000. that jump offset something like 170,000. thatjump offset any downward revisions we saw to the month of november and october. a lot of the jobs came from things like government and health care, some of the areas that have been slower to pick up since the pandemic, particularly in terms of government hiring. broadly speaking, i think people are looking at this and going, hang on a second, if we were hoping that the central reserve might cut rates perhaps early this year, that is may be cast into doubt