Good morning. Its 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. Its expected to be a parting plea to americans not to lose faith in their future, no matter what they think about their next president. Its 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 nations 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 with me. This is a big
Good morning. Its 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. Its expected to be a parting plea to americans not to lose faith in their future, no matter what they think about their next president. Its 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 nations 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 with me. This is a big
In the woodthorpe area on monday and died soon afterwards. President obama says good buy. We discussed his economic legacy in asia. Trump says hello. We look at possible Conflict Of Interests. Good morning, asia, hello, world. It is a wednesday. Glad you could join us. As president barack obama prepares to deliver is Farewell Message in chicago in less than an hour s time, in asia we are reflecting what his eight years in office did for the region. A signature free trade deal, the Pacific Partnership will be scrapped by donald trump. I spoke to senior economist. If you look at trade, for examples, trade between developing asia and the us, it increased by a 30 by 2010 and 2015. Of course, part of this is explained by the economic recovery but it is a positive sign none the less. The official effort to deepen ties, is the Free Trade Agreement which will celebrate its fifth anniversary this year. Increase in trade between the us and asia and a rise in investment in us business but there i
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Tonight, thousands of loyal supporters, have queued up in the cold to get their free tickets that we re cold to get their free tickets that were given out. They are here tonight, wanting to hearfrom him, a way ahead. For those who did not vote for donald trump, this is an anxious moment. They are seeking reassurance from the man they have seenin reassurance from the man they have seen in the white house for the last eight years. President obamas aides said the speech is notjust for his supporters, but for all americans. Barack obama is now taking to the stage in chicago, lets listen in to his message to the American People. cheering and applause hello, chicago its great to be home thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much, thank you, thank you. Thank you. Its good to be home. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Where are my tv, ive got to move were on live tv. You can tell that im. You can tell that im a lame duck because nobody is following instructions. Ev