president obama and japan s prime minister shinzo abe have laid wreaths at the site of the japanese attack on pearl harbour, where nearly 2,500 americans died, in1941. the attack brought the us into the second world war. it s the first visit by a japanese leader while still in office. mr abe pledged that the horrors of war must never be repeated but stopped short of apologising. here s our tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield hayes. it has taken 75 years but today the prime minister of japan and the president of the united states stood side by side in silent contemplation, at the spot where the pacific war began. they threw flowers into the water where the wreck of the battleship arizona still lies. more than a thousand us sailors died when the arizona exploded under a rain ofjapanese bombs. in all, more than 2,400 americans were killed in the surprise 1941 attack. today, prime minister abe spoke of his profound sadness that so many young lives were suddenly ended without war
president obama and japan s prime minister shinzo abe have laid wreaths at the site of the japanese attack on pearl harbour, where nearly 2,500 americans died, in1941. the attack brought the us into the second world war. it s the first visit by a japanese leader while still in office. mr abe pledged that the horrors of war must never be repeated but stopped short of apologising. here s our tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield hayes. it has taken 75 years but today the prime minister of japan and the president of the united states stood side by side in silent contemplation, at the spot where the pacific war began. they threw flowers into the water where the wreck of the battleship arizona still lies. more than a thousand us sailors died when the arizona exploded under a rain ofjapanese bombs. in all, more than 2,400 americans were killed in the surprise 1941 attack. today, prime minister abe spoke of his profound sadness that so many young lives were suddenly ended without war
wednesday 25th january. welcome to bbc newsroom live. president trump has promised a significant day ahead on national security, including an announcement about his plans for a wall on the mexican border. he tweeted: big day planned on national security tomorrow. among many other things, we will build the wall! building a 2,000 mile wall along the mexican border was one of trump s key election promises. he s said the wall would cost $8 billion and will be up to a0 feet high. the new president is also expected to approve immigration restrictions on seven mostly muslim countries in the middle east and africa: iraq, iran, libya, somalia, sudan, syria, and yemen. and trump wants to make all us cities co operate to deport illegal immigrants a move aimed at so called sanctuary cities like san francisco, where local police do not help with most deportations. our washington correspondent david willis has more. we re going to have our borders nice and strong. we re going to buil
what you are looking at are tweets, the abusive tweets my team screenshot. and mclauchlan mp won t read the abue as she receives online, which is just as well, it s deeply personal. she doesn t really want to share it. it takes a lot of strength not to. it s very tempting, if you are alone at night and nobody can see you if you get upset and you cry, to just have a look. but why would i do that to myself? but it s notjust hurtful insults on social media, there s an even darker side of death threats and violence. jo cox was murdered outside her constituency surgery last june. such threats are faced by male members of parliament to, members of parliament too, but two thirds of the female mps he spoke to said they felt less safe ever since. and over half have received a physical threat from a member of the public. i have had death threats towards myself and my family. one of which the police are investigating. and i have had a graphic image of a corpse centimetre, with the threa
on two of his controversial campaign promises. he s pledged that construction of a new wall, to run the length of the us mexican border, will begin within months. he s 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 trump s 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 hu