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good morning and welcome to bbc newsroom live. downing street has rejected calls to cancel the state visit to the uk by president trump, which is expected to ta ke president trump, which is expected to take place this summer. an online petition calling on the prime minister to withdraw the invitation has gathered more than a million signatures. government sources say it is in britain s long term interest to maintain links with the us. foreign secretary borisjohnson will give a statement to mps this afternoon after the us says britons who have shared nationality with one of the seven middle eastern and african countries would not be stopped from coming into america. the uk foreign office has advised that only those dual nationals travelling from one of the blacklisted seven countries would be subject to extra checks and those travelling between the uk and us would not be affected. thousands have gathered at us airports in protest at the measures. president trump says t ....
the confirmation hearings go on in washington. today, the senate will vote jeff sessions, who is donald trump s nominee to be attorney general. and the president isn t happy about the pace of this. it is a disgrace that my full cabinet is still not in place, the longest such delay in the history of our country. obstruction by democrats! that s not true, by the way it s not the longest such delay. anyhow, it is very likely mr trump will get the cabinet he wants. but he will still face significant challenges if he wants his main policies through. and this next report, by the mark urban from the bbc‘s newsnight programme, looks at just that. you can come here, promising to drain the swamp or dethrone the establishment, but this city has a way of protecting its interests, slowing down those who challenge its ways. so the trump administration s they don t have the numbers to wreck trump s agenda. rather, it s doubts among republicans that could pose the most serious th ....
also expect the president to address russia s annexation of crimea? reporter: probably so just because this dominated the discussion so much. the g-7 meeting which was held as a part of the nuclear security summit wasn t really, the move wasn t originally part of the plan. it wasn t because of the esflepevents that happened in ukraine. suspending with the biggest economies in the world. russia was supposed to host in june in sochi. it is a big step. the question, though, is, specially among critics, will this have any effect? the u.s.ed administration, other countries repeatedly said, there is still a door open to discussion, to a diplomatic solution. there is a chance for deescalation. we can change things if russia decides to change course. for everything that has been said and all the talks that have been held, not only among western countries but talks with russia, nothing has changed that course. so it remains to be seen now what could constitute escalation for addition ....
and it starts with copper, the mineral copper. there s copper in brass. there s copper in bronze. the statue of liberty is sheathed in a layer of copper. that s about the thickness of two pennies. pennies themselves used to be copper, but now they re just copper-covered zinc, which sort of seems sad. it makes financial sense, because copper over time became too valuable to use in something as cheap as a penny, because most of what we use copper for now is conducting electricity. we use copper for wiring. there is a massive global appetite for copper. and the world s largest producer of copper is an american company. it s a company that used to be based in new orleans but now the mining company freeport is based in phoenix, arizona. and the freeport mining company of phoenix, arizona, they do still mine copper in arizona and they mine copper in new mexico and in colorado. but they are a gigantic firm. and they re a global operation. in south america, they mine copper in chile, ....
robbie mook calling on the fbi to give donald trump the same treatment it gave to hillary clinton. all that we re asking, so that reporting can be fair, is that the information get released. release whatever information they have, and then if you re in the business of releasing information about investigations on presidential candidates, release everything you have on donald trump. release the information on his connections to the russians. maybe there are investigations now into his taxes. trump s taxes may not have been legal. reports of the maneuver trump used conferred enormous tax benefits on him losing vast amounts of other people s money by exploiting a loophole. today clinton sought to remind voters of trump s treatment of women. she appeared with alicia machado who trump shamed over two decades ago. even instructing his twitter celebrity, who wouldn t let you into one of his hotels unless you were cleaning the room, wouldn t let you on one of his golf courses unle ....