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hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start here in the uk, where rishi sunak and the conservative party have suffered two major set backs and pulled off a surprise narrow win in three by elections in england. there were massive swings away from the tories in the two defeats and the main political parties have been taking stock of what the results mean. there were celebrations for labour in the north yorkshire seat of selby and ainsty the party overturning a conservative majority of more than 20,000 votes. there was an even bigger percentage swing for the liberal democrats in the south west taking somerton and froome overturning a 19,000 majority. but the tories held on to borisjohnson s former constituency of uxbridge and south ruislip in west london winning by just a95 votes. let s go straight to westminister. samantha simmonds is there for us now. samantha. than ....
he was sworn in in front of several hundred thousand people on the steps of capitol hill in washington. in his inaugural speech he said that from this day forward, it s going to be america first . and president trump and the new first lady took to the dance floor, as is the tradition, for the latest incumbents to the white house in what was the first in a series of inaugural balls. they danced to a rendition of the classic song ‘my way‘ at the end of what has been such an eventful day. well, we did it. we did it. we began this journey and they said we, we and me, we didn t have a chance but we knew we were going to win and we won. and today we had a great day. people that were not so nice to me were saying that we did a really good job today. and as the inauguration celebrations kick off with president trump and melantia trump s first dance, our correspondent laura trevelyan is in washington to tell us more about the series of inaugural balls. i found it fascinatin ....
he was sworn in in front of several hundred thousand people on the steps of capitol hill in washington. in his inaugural speech he said that from this day forward, it s going to be america first . and president trump and the new first lady took to the dance floor as is the tradition for the latest incumbents to the white house in what was the first in a series of inaugural balls. they danced to a rendition of the classic song ‘my way‘ at the end of what has been such an eventful day. whirl. we did it. we did it. we began this journey and they said we, we, and me, we didn t have a chance but we knew we were going to win and we won. and. today we had a great day. people that weren t so nice to me were saying that we did a really good job today. our correspondent laura bicker is in washington. donald trump was quite triumphant. he has been sworn in and he is saying that people who were not nice to him have to be nice to him now, essentially. he smiled his way arou ....
ofa we don t see this as the beginning of a new campaign. we ll be live throughout the day in beirut, moscow and washington with the latest reaction to the unfolding events. the other news. a romanian tourist who fell into the river thames during the westminster bridge terror attack has died. a sharp rise in the number of accident and emergency departments turning away ambulances in england. good morning, it s friday the 7th of april. welcome to bbc newsroom live. russia has strongly condemned us missile strikes on a syrian airbase, describing them as an act of aggression against a sovereign state. it has provoked anger from russia. 59 tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from two american navy warships in the mediterranean. their target the shayrat airbase which donald trump said was the airfield used to launch what he described as a horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians earlier this week. six people are said to have died in the air strikes and the base i ....
congressman arthur davis says he s voting for mitt romney this time around. he s going to tell us why. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the cold war is long over, but a chill has settled in in the relations right now. the key shoous, moscow s support in the regime for syria. it may help fuel a brutal crackdown. president obama is addressing that issue headon at the g-20 summit in mexico. dan lothian is joining us right now. dan, what s the latest on this tension between the u.s. and russia? the two leaders met for about two hours. president obama saying the meeting was candid and thorough. i have to tell you, you take a look at the body language, and it gives you a sense of what the meeting was like. they did not sit close together. president obama was leaning towards president putin. president putin was leaning away. you didn t see any smiles at the end of the remarks. they had a quick handshake. sort of half a smile. president obama patting him brie ....