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good morning. it s 8am in singapore, 1am here in london and 7pm in chicago, where barack obama is about to deliver the final big speech of his presidency. it s expected to be a parting plea to americans not to lose faith in their future, no matter what they think about their next president. it s also his last chance to try to define his legacy. the president landed in chicago a little earlier, a fitting bookend to what began eight years ago, in the city where the nation s first black president claimed his victory. this is the scene live, as the stage has been set. hundreds of people making their way to the convention centre in chicago and all eyes will be on barack obama, in around 50 minutes time from now to see him deliver his final farewell address. our correspondent laura trevelyan is in chicago. we saw many people are saying in but now it is pretty quiet, they are all inside? mostly. there are still some lawyer people doing it. a firefighter here in chicago is wi ....
wales take on early lead in the six nations. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. president trump says he may bring forward a new immigration executive order to enforce america s homeland security. but there s still no clarity on what he s planning. the administration will continue to argue for the temporary ban on migrants from seven countries that s been blocked by federaljudges. earlier i spoke to dr larry sabato, professor of politics at the university of virginia, and asked whether he expected the president to introduce a new executive order. that appears to be the route the trump administration has chosen. they may still appeal the earlier court decisions to the supreme court. but i think they re more likely to issue a new executive order. and if they do that, how different will it have to be from the first order to avoid legal challenges? it must be substantially different. it will have to be much more carefully and narrowly tailored than the first one. even t ....
the pressure on the health service. this can lead to long waits for those needing to be admitted from accident and emergency departments, but also for those needing planned surgery. i sometimes feel that i spend as much energy on trying to organise and manage beds and the movement, the flow, of patients within the hospital to allow us to do what we want to get on with, which is to operate. the programme showed how if beds are not available for patients to recover in safely, operations simply cannot go ahead. now the royal college of surgeons and the nhs body that represents nhs trusts says this is damaging efforts to improve productivity with surgeons left kicking their heels while they wait for beds to be made free. we are waiting for someone to let us do work. it is not good for the staff and it is not good for the patients and it is not good for the efficiency of the nhs. the latest figures from nhs england reveal more than 95% of beds were occupied last week, well a ....
with guns and feeling quite horrified and realising we grew up in different circumstances. circumstances have changed. this does seem to be a compromise of sorts, at least that we are not going down the full firearms route, a taser is not a nice thing to be on the receiving end of, but the fatalities that we have experienced in the us on both sides. heavily armed cops on every in the us on both sides. heavily armed cops on every corner. in the us on both sides. heavily armed cops on every corner. the baftas, you were there this evening! i wasn t in the front row, i need to stress. we are always keen to talk to people who were there. the daily telegraph has a picture on the front page of people who are not actors are tall, but they stole the limelight on the red carpet, i think, prince william and lovely kate. it is a revelation when you are there on the sidelines and you get these a list is and their oscar winning sam baird golden globe winners, and they are so used to ....
9:00 in the east, 6:00 a.m. out west. here s what s happening. taxing situation. the battles that lie ahead, the gop gets ready to rewrite the u.s. tax code. we re going to tell you about one idea that could keep high earners from getting a big break. gone but not forgotten, the lives of four american soldier were remembered this weekend while the search for answers intensifies. new insight into why so many troops are in africa and what their mission is. you knighted front. for the first time in years, five former presidents gather on stage at the same time. what prompted the gathering and how it helped so many in need. but we begin with politics and president trump s ongoing feud with democratic congresswoman frederica wilson, entering the sixth day with the president ramping up his attacks in a tweet again this morning saying wacky congresswoman wilson is the gift that keeps on giving for the republican party, a disaster for dems. you watch her in action and vote r. in a s ....