life from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s six in the morning here in singapore and 6pm in washington, where president biden is in isolation after testing positive for covid. the confirmation came hours ago first in a statement from the white house, then in a tweet by by the president then in a tweet by the president and finally in this video message, released on social media. so, that s president biden suffering from covid, and these are the last moving pictures of him before he tested positive. they were filmed as he flew back to the white house on wednesday evening, by way of comparison to how he looked a few hours ago. dr ashistha is the white house covid 19 response coordinator. he says the president is only experiencing mild symptoms, and he s started a course of pfizer s antiviral pill called paxlovid which reduces the severity of covid 19. because the pres
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in washington in the united states where it s a crucial night for the committee investigating the january sixth capitol riot, when supporters of former president donald trump stormed congress, while lawmakers met to certinyoe biden s election victory last year. this will be the committee s eighth hearing, and maybe the final televised hearing before the report is published in the autumn. let s hearfrom two insiders who were in the trump white house onjanuary 6th. matthew pottinger, the deputy national security adviser. he s one of the few senior officials to have been there, throughout the trump administration. as countless others left, he stayed. until the afternoon of jan 6. at 2:24, the president sent this tweet attacking mike pence at the very moment his supporters were in the capitol search for the vice president. at tha
On two of his Controversial Campaign promises. Hes pledged that construction of a new wall, to run the length of the us Mexican Border, will begin within months. Hes also signed an Executive Order increasing the number of staff to patrol that frontier. But the white house has distanced itself from suggestions there could be a return to some of the more extreme Security Measures which were dropped under president obama. James cook reports. Donald trumps vision of a Fortress America the new president ordered the construction of the great wall on the Mexican Border and he said it would begin within months. A nation without borders is not a nation. Beginning today, the United States of america gets back control of its borders. We are going to get the bad ones out, the criminals and the drug dealers and gangs and gang members and cartel leaders. Is over when they can stay in our country and recover it. Strengthening and expanding the existing barrier on this frontier will be hugely expensiv
On two of his Controversial Campaign promises. Hes pledged that construction of a new wall, to run the length of the us Mexican Border, will begin within months. Hes also signed an Executive Order increasing the number of staff to patrol that frontier. But the white house has distanced itself from suggestions there could be a return to some of the more extreme Security Measures which were dropped under president obama. James cook reports. Donald trumps vision of a Fortress America the new president ordered the construction of the great wall on the Mexican Border and he said it would begin within months. A nation without borders is not a nation. Beginning today, the United States of america gets back control of its borders. We are going to get the bad ones out, the criminals and the drug dealers and gangs and gang members and cartel leaders. Is over when they can stay in our country and recover it. Strengthening and expanding the existing barrier on this frontier will be hugely expensiv