it is like a soldier on a battlefield, you don t know what you will be faced with. on top of that, you have got the fear, am i going to make it home tonight? the brexit bill is published, causing tension within labour, which tells its mps you must vote for it. and one of the leading contemporary art prizes in the world won tonight by a british artist and film maker. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: manchester united went behind in their efl cup semifinal second leg at hull. find out if they could hold onto their aggregate lead to reach the final at wembley. good evening. theresa may has arrived in america at the start of a trip which she hopes will pave the way for a post brexit trade deal with the united states. she ll be the first foreign leader to hold talks with donald trump, when she meets the new president at the white house tomorrow. this evening, she addressed a republican conference in philadelphia, in a speech where she sought to find common ground with m
welcome to bbc news. theresa may has arrived in america at the start of a trip which she hopes will pave the way for a post brexit trade deal with the united states. she ll be the first foreign leader to hold talks with donald trump when she meets the new president at the white house tomorrow. this evening, she addressed a republican conference in philadelphia in a speech where she sought to find common ground with mr trump. but the prime minister s bid to launch a new era of co operation with america risked being overshadowed by a row about president trump s support for torture and in particular, water boarding. our political editor laura kuenssberg is travelling with theresa may and has just sent this report. opposites attract. theresa may s hope. but how close does she want to get to him? the prime minister made a quieter arrival, making her way down the windy steps in philadelphia. her convoy speeding towards her debut in trump land, here to make friends. no hate, no fear
and london, you re watching bbc world news. it s newsday. thanks forjoining us. it s 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm in washington, where donald trump began his day by pushing mexico s buttons a bit over who will pay for his border wall. and after a few hours, the mexican president pushed back, saying he won t come to the us next week to attend a meeting with mr trump. not to be outdone, mr trump then stood in front of republican lawmakers and said any such visit would be fruitless unless mexico agreed to foot the bill. and he s now threatened to impose a tax on mexican imports to fund his border wall. nick bryant has more on this cross border spat. donald trump s new executive toy. his first ride today on air force one, that potent symbol of us presidential power. but it was the cancelled travel plans of the mexican president were at the centre of a diplomatic storm. his plane will stay grounded after a summit between the two leaders scheduled for washington next
if mexico had hoped donald trump s promises on the campaign trail had just been bluster and bravado, it looks like the country s in for a disappointment. first he ordered the building of a border wall. now the white house is threatening a new tax on imports. mexico s president, enrique pena nieto, has cancelled a meeting with his american counterpart a meeting mr trump said would be fruitless. if the two countries are heading for a possible trade war how much money is involved? official figures for 2015 show that the united states exported nearly $270 billion of goods and services to mexico. in return mexico exported more than $316 billion of goods and services in the same year. that meant the us had a trade deficit of nearly $50 billion the white house says that figure was $60 billion for 2016. nick bryant has more. donald trump s new executive toy. his first ride today on air force one, that potent symbol of us presidential power. but it was the cancelled travel plans o
if mexicans hoped donald trump s promises on the campaign trail had just been bluster and bravado, it looks as though they, and many americans who voted against him, are in for more disappointment. mr trump has already ordered a start on the border wall. now the white house is threatening a new tax on imports. mexico s president has cancelled a visit to washington next week, a meeting mr trump said would be fruitless. if the two countries are heading for a possible trade war how much money is involved? official figures for 2015 show that the united states exported nearly $270 billion of goods and services to mexico. in return mexico exported more than $316 billion of goods and services in the same year. that meant the us had a trade deficit of nearly $50 billion the white house says that figure was $60 billion for 2016. nick bryant has more. donald trump s new executive toy. his first ride today on air force one, that potent symbol of us presidential power. but it was the c