out, the criminals and the drug dealers and the gangs and gang members and cartel leaders. across the hour we will cover every development in the us. if you have questions and, my goodness, i think we all do, the hashtag is #bbcos, you can e mail or find we all do, the hashtag is #bbcos, you can e mail orfind me on social media. we will answer your questions across the hour. it isa it is a measure of how extraordinary todayis it is a measure of how extraordinary today is that when the president of america announces a major investigation into voter fraud, voter fraud investigation into voter fraud, voterfraud for which investigation into voter fraud, voter fraud for which there is no evidence whatsoever, it is ranking about nine four tenths in the most significant developments of the day. across the hour, anthony zurcher will be live from washington, dc. we have not seen many days like this? it is pretty remarkable and the challenge is to try to draw the line between what trum
executive orders so far with more to come today. so how do voters who put donald trump in the white house feel about his first few days in office? we ll be speaking to one of them. and the presidential candidate who is shaking up french politics meet emmanuel macron. hello and welcome. it s a dispute with the neighbours that s spilling out of control one side wants a dividing wall, the other doesn t. one side wants the other to pay for it, and the other is point blank refusing. the result mexico s president is now cancelling a visit to washington, after an ultimatum from donald trump. the fight between the us and mexico over that wall took an extraordinary twist on twitter today. lets see what donald trump wrote. if mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting. and then this riposte from the mexican president. this morning we informed the white house that i will not be attending the working meeting planned for
be live at the state department, where the entire senior management tea m where the entire senior management team has resigned. barbara plett will explain that one for our struggle for us. how about this for a headline from the washington post when it was put on nine, it was shared thousands of times every minute. the entire senior management tea m minute. the entire senior management team has resigned. barbara plett usher can explain. what is the story? well, yes, senior members of the management team have resigned. actually, ros, it is not so unusual, whenever there is a change of administration, fulfilling these kinds of postings, which are appointed for term limits, have to offer their letter of resignation. it is not unusual, especially for senior people, to be kept on for a to smooth the transition in the state department. but in this case, all of these people were apparently told, we don t need you, and so they are leaving. it means that the incoming secretary of
welcome to bbc news. more thani million people have signed a petition calling on the government to cancel a planned state visit to the uk by president trump. it follows his temporary ban on visitors from seven, predominantly muslim, countries from entering the usa. labour leaderjeremy corbyn said the visit should be postponed. but downing street said that would undo everything achieved in mrs may s recent visit to washington. here s our political correspondent, iain watson. chanting: no fascist usa! the demonstrations in america against president trump s imposition of a temporary travel ban are likely to be repeated here, with protests planned outside downing street later today and in other uk cities. although the foreign office have clarified that british citizens are exempt from the ban, the foreign secretary has been under pressure to say why it took so long to get that clarification. i ll be talking to you in the house of commons. that s the place. house of commons be
the government is expected to publish the brexit strategy in an hour s time. the white paper will set out its priorities for negotiations with the european union after parliament takes the first step towards britain leaving the union, as mps vote overwhelmingly in favour of triggering article 50. last night mps voted 498 to 114 in favour of approving legislation which gives the prime minister the power to start negotiations with european leaders. 47 labour mps, one in five, voted against the bill despite a three line whip imposed by the party leader, jeremy corbyn. and what will happen next? as mentioned, at around noon, brexit secretary david davis will announce the government s white paper on exiting the eu. this will allow parliament to send the bill on forfurther amending and scrutiny, before it becomes law. our assistant political editor, norman smith, is at westminster with the latest. what are we going to find out? probably very little. i think most people expect it to