And london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm in washington, where President Donald Trump has marked his first working day in office with a decisive shift in americas dealings with the rest of the world. The tra ns Pacific Partnership is a huge Trade Agreement with countries in the pacific rim. Now, mr trump has said he will pull out of the deal negotiated by the Obama Administration. He says it would have damaged Us Manufacturing and jobs. Our north america editor, jon sopel, has the latest. Weve been talking about this for a long time. Oh the power of the pen. These are Executive Orders signed by the president as he starts his first week in thejob. From now on america will have nothing to do with the pacific trade deal. Another order sets in train plans to renegotiate the nafta agreement with mexico and canada. A far more complex undertaking. And theres to be a freeze on recruitment forfederaljobs. One other Executive Order particularly
Iamat i am at the World Economic form of forum in dulles and my guest is one of the worlds most senior politicians, German Defence minister ursula von der leyen. And she is deputy chair of Angela Merkels ruling cdu party. Does the arrival of donald trump plus breaks it spell the start of A New World Order and mark a shift in power away from the west . Minister ursula von der leyen, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. The present the president of germany has said, with the inauguration of a new us president , we face challenges to the International Order and to transatlantic relations. Germany and europe can no longer live as usual on the trans atlantic partnership, can they . I am deeply convinced that they can rely on the Transatlantic Partnership because there is a strong foundation, the Transatlantic Partnership, almost 70 years, there isa partnership, almost 70 years, there is a huge amount of common experience, of trust and confidence in each other and we have this Transatlantic Partn
And london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm in washington, where President Donald Trump has marked his first working day in office with a decisive shift in americas dealings with the rest of the world. The tra ns Pacific Partnership is a huge Trade Agreement with countries in the pacific rim. Now, mr trump has said he will pull out of the deal negotiated by the Obama Administration. He says it would have damaged Us Manufacturing and jobs. Our north america editor, jon sopel, has the latest. Weve been talking about this for a long time. Oh the power of the pen. These are Executive Orders signed by the president as he starts his first week in thejob. From now on america will have nothing to do with the pacific trade deal. Another order sets in train plans to renegotiate the nafta agreement with mexico and canada. A far more complex undertaking. And theres to be a freeze on recruitment forfederaljobs. One other Executive Order particularly
Taking the first set. 4 1; in the second. The 35 year old Roger Federer is in action against mischa zverev, who beat the world number one, andy murray, later. Bernie ecclestones face is one familiar to us all. But, after a four decade reign as the ruler of formula 1, the sport is now in the hands of new owners, the American Company liberty media, and chairman chase carey. Their 8 billion takeover of the sport is complete, ending ecclestones Long Association at the top of f1. Carey had already been installed as the sports chairman, but now takes over ecclestones role as Chief Executive as well. The 86 year Old Ecclestone has been handed the role of honorary chairman, and will be available as a source to the new board, but will no longer be involved in the day to day running of the sport, for the First Time Since the 19705. This is what ecclestone had to say following the takeover. The bbcs formula 1 reporter Andrew Benson gave us his reaction to the takeover, and the Part Ecclestone has