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good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. theresa may is preparing to meet donald trump in the white house in a few hours‘ time, the first foreign leader to visit since mr trump became president. global security and a trade deal after brexit are likely to be high on the agenda. in a speech to us republicans last night, mrs may said the uk and america could not return to failed military interventions to try to remake the world. her visit comes amid ongoing controversy over president trump s support for the waterboarding of terror suspects and his war of words with mexico over the building of a border wall. here s our correspondent richard lister. she ll hope the blustery conditions are not portend for the meeting to come. washington has rolled out the red carpet for mrs may but the prime minister will have to tread carefully with the commercial president who is used to getting his own way. our priority is to lay the groundwork for a trade deal to coun ....
canada s prime minister says the killing of six people at a mosque in quebec was a terrorist attack against muslims . and mps are to conduct an inquiry into so called fake news inaccurate or false news stories shared on social media. good evening and welcome to bbc news. theresa may has insisted president trump s state visit to the uk later this year will go ahead, as a petition against the trip has so far attracted more than 1.3 million supporters. than 1.4 million supporters. it follows his temporary ban on people from seven predominantly muslim countries from entering america. the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, told the commons he had been given assurances that all british passport holders, including dual nationals, can travel to the us. tonight thousands of people have been protesting in a0 towns and cities across the uk. these were the scenes on whitehall, close to the gates of downing street. speaking during a visit to dublin theresa may has insisted the in ....
screen as we we will keep them coming on the screen as we progress. in what s starting to feel like a routine as we have done for the last week at this time let s go live to the state department in washington. we are going to talk about something that a group of colleagues have put together, it is a draft dissent memo. we will come back to that phrase. it is an opposition to president donald trump s executive order on refugees. this is a draft online. it points out among other things that despite the executive order s focus on them, a vanishingly small number of terror attacks on us soil have been committed by foreign nationals who recently entered the united states on an immigrant or non immigrant visa. barbara plett, state department. explained the format this memo is taking. this is something called a descent cable and it is part of a well established channel for disagreement within the state department called the dissent channel. if an employee or a foreign ....
opposition to the threat of budget cuts to agencies that fund scientific work. the president tweeting a couple hours ago i am committed but always remember it enhances environmental protection. jobs matter. miguel marquez is in washington where demonstrators marched from the mall to capitol hill. miguel? reporter: ana, this is the end point for the march for science. thousands and thousands of scientists and their supporters clog the streets of washington. it was cold, it was windy. where they ended here at the capitol, what they were concerned about was the general tone from the trump administration on science and matters of science on funding. very enormous ly engaging in science in washington, d.c., said they didn t want their work to be sifted through. it certainly had a very political edge to it. ana? thank you, miguel. now to new york where the rain didn t keep away the crowds. here is rachel crane. reporter: i m in a crowded and rainy times square. lots of umbrell ....
5:00 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast. it is the memo in a everyothat talking about. and does it discredit the russia investigation? congressional supporters of the u.s. president are being accused of trying to do just that. they allege that the fbi improperly targeted for surveillance a former trump campaign adviser. the contents of the controversial memo are highly disputed. critics say it only on shows part of the picture. and misrepresents the testimony of former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. here is more now from jim sciutto in washington. i think it is terrible. reporter: the president and republicans leveling a new broad side at the fbi. with a four page memo alleging the bureau abused its surveillance authority in seeking a warrant to monitor carter page during the 2016 election. it s been a tough fight. reporter: the disputed memo authorized by the staff of devin nunes claims mccabe says the page warrant would not have been sought without a dossier on t ....