is in corporate america, and he helped to ride democrat donald trump's inauguration speech in which he talked about the forgotten people and he is the authentic voice of donald trump and that is why donald trump wants him in this important position. i have a question from amanda watching on the bbc news channel and quite a few people are wondering this. at which point does the rest of the us government get to join in deciding policy, or can mr trumpjust join in deciding policy, or can mr trump just signed unlimited executive orders? well, not unlimited. the president has in some ways limited discussion on what he can sign executive orders on but the areas where he can donald trump is absolutely going for it. of course, those who are critical to say this is hypocrisy and why are the republicans not saying anything? they criticised barack obama and said he was the imperial president because he used executive orders to bypass congress which was deadlocked but trump could go through them because they are not deadlocked, senate and congress. the crucial thing about the executive order ha

he bashed the media and said that they were misrepresenting the crowds at the inauguration. and steve bannon is someone inauguration. and steve bannon is someone who donald trump listens to, a very close adviser. along with stephen miller, he calls them the two steves, both of them firebrands with an anti—establishment view of politics. in his inaugural address, he bashed the establishment, bashed washington, said he was giving power back to the people, alec is rhetoric. and they might have been involved in that speech. you think the media in the us now see themselves as the opposition?” think they feel that they have a responsibility to challenge donald trump at every turn. i think that they took to heart some of the accusations that they did not take a donald trump seriously early enough in the presidential campaign. i think use or later in the campaign, particularly in that press conference which ended up not being a press conference, at the donald trump h, where he refuse to answer media questions and dismissed the allegations that he was responsible for questioning barack oba

inauguration crowd was the biggest there's been. the one today featured mr spicer defending mr trump's renewed claim that there were millions of fraudulent votes in the election. it's a claim backed up by no evidence whatsoever. here's mr spicer. reporter: does the president believe that millions voted illegally in that millions voted illegally in that election and what evidence do you have of widespread voter fraud, if that's the case? the president does believe that. he stated that before. he stated his concerns of voter fraud before. he stated his concerns of voterfraud and before. he stated his concerns of voter fraud and people voting illegally during the campaign. he continues to maintain that belief. reporter: exactly what evidence. senator ryan says that's there evidence, the national association of secretaries of states say they don't agree with the president's assessment, what evidence do you have? as i said, i think the president has believed that for a while based on studies and information he has. back to catty. he's got a tough job, information he has. back to cat

coming to our first official briefing. i was going to start with a recap of the inauguration but we have covered that pretty well. by the way i know thatjosh ernest was voted the most popular press secretary by the press corps and after checking my twitter feed secretary by the press corps and after checking my twitterfeed i shot him an e—mail letting him know he can rest easy that his title is secure for the next few days at least! that did not go down so well. we then got a sign of how the rules of the game have changed — first question to rupert murdoch's new york post. second to the christian broadcasting network, then two questions to fox journalists. inevitably though the issue of the size of the inauguration crowd came up. remember sean spicer said it was the biggest ever inauguration crowd — when a raft of evidence suggests that's not true. here's his response. there are times when we believe something to be true or get something to be true or get something from an agency or we act in haste because the information available was not complete but our desire to communicat

concert on the eve of donald trump's inauguration. this time tomorrow, he will be president. senegalese troops have entered the gambia after the new president was sworn in in a ceremony in senegal. the man who lost the election, the current president, is refusing to stand down. the vendee globe has finished after a thrilling race. we will have a full report from the coast of france. and as you are watching, if you have questions, some of you have been getting in touch. i will do my best to a nswer getting in touch. i will do my best to answer you as we go along. i think the actorjon voight is currently on stage during the make america great again concert in washington. ‘s have a look at the pictures and see what's negatiuewm—f we... negative lies 7 a»- negative lies1 111 mr negative lies = mr trump, the negative lies against mr trump, whose only desire... cheering and applause whose only desire was to make america great again. cheering and applause he certainly didn't need this job. and, yes, yes, god answered all our prayers. because here it is. we will be part of hist

leading up to his inauguration on friday. the vice president—elect says this will be a smooth transfer of power. ourjob is to be ready on day one. the american people can be confident that we will be. donald trump's relationship with russia is already under the spotlight. i'll play you a bbc interview with president putin's spokesperson, who denies that the russian state hacked the us elections. we'll update you from the gambia. senegalese troops have entered the country to support the new president — who's been sworn in, despite the old president refusing to stand down. up to 35 people are missing after an avalanche hit a luxury hotel in italy. if you have any questions on the stories we are covering, in particular about inauguration day. you can contact us on social media. you can contact us on social media. you can contact us on social media. you can see the contact information on the screen throughout. if i can't a nswer on the screen throughout. if i can't answer the question, i'll try and find someone who can. this time tomorrow, doanld trump will be president of america. he's

... how does it work on inauguration day? this is where donald trump will wa ke day? this is where donald trump will wake up on inauguration morning, the white house guesthouse, it doesn't look like much, really, does it? it has been nicknamed the most exclusive hotel in the world, and thatis exclusive hotel in the world, and that is because it has played host to some distinguished guests over the years. this is stjohn‘s episcopal church, where mr trump will head to for a church service. barack obama came the morning of his inauguration too. look at this, it is absolutely beautiful. so here i am, in the president's pew, actually sitting where presidents of history have sat. after he is done, donald trump bakes the very shortjourney across the road to the white house. i don't think they're going to lead us i don't think they're going to lead us in. as is part of tradition, he will go to the white house to meet president obama. another tradition that always happens is that the outgoing president always writes the incoming president a note, a word of advice. this, the us capitol, is

because of an ever worsening political crisis. in theory the new president will be inaugurated tomorrow. it's not going to happen as the man who lost the election is refusing to go. we'll talk to the us journalist who campaigned to get the cia to put millions of documents online, which they've now done. and frank gardner on donald trump and the nuclear codes. barack obama ba rack obama has just barack obama has just finished his last press conference as president. there was plenty to discuss within it. we'll work through the main points with the help of katty kay. here is the president talking about russia. in my first term we negotiated the start two treaty which has substantially reduced our nuclear stockpiles, both russia and the united states. i was prepared to go further, i told president putin i was prepared to go further. they have been unwilling to negotiate. if president—elect trump is able to restart those talks in a serious way, there remains a lot of room for oui’ way, there remains a lot of room for our countries to reduce our stockpiles. part of the reason we'

inauguration on friday. he‘s been to president obama‘s favourite diner. now the uk voted to leave the european union by 52% to 48. the leave camp won the majority of votes in england and wales. while every council in scotland saw remain majority. so is theresa may‘s vision of britain‘s future what voters had in mind when they went to the polls for the referendum? our midlands correspondent has more. it's correspondent has more. it‘s the correspondent has more. it's the 50-50 correspondent has more. it‘s the 50—50 city, where half the population voted to leave the eu and the other half voted to remain. today in her speech, the prime minister said people who had voted for brexit had done so with their eyes open. out. out of course, absolutely. country seems like it‘s slipping, slipping. we lost everything, didn‘t we. everything to the european. everything is going up. we seem to be slipping away. she spells out her vision for britain after it leaves the eu. but not everybody‘s clear about what she means. unless it's laid out in lehman‘s terms, we don‘t —— layman�

is very much his own man. his nomination —— his inauguration is on friday. he was positive about brexit. he was positive about cheap deals. we will get to that in detail in 20 minutes. —— positive about trade deals. a turkish boeing 747 cargo plane has crashed into a village in kyrgyzstan. 33 people on the ground were killed — as were all four crew members. the plane was en route from hong kong to istanbul and was due to make a refuelling stop just north of the kyrgyz capital bishkek. the problems came as it tried to land in fog. and the plane crashed at around 7:30 in the morning local time. here's bbc kyrgyz‘ gulnara kasmambetov with more details. if you imagine that from a small village of 350 households, 20 houses we re village of 350 households, 20 houses were hit, and that many people died in one morning, it is a heartbreaking story. a small schoolboy just leaving heartbreaking story. a small schoolboyjust leaving his house, just to look back and see how his entire house was destroyed. that is quite devastating for a nation with a6 quite devastating for a nation wit

the bbc newsroom. just a week until he's inaugurated and donald trump continues to make headlines that he'd no doubt prefer not to. the former british spy who produced a dossier about mr trump's alleged behaviour while in russia has gone into hiding. we've been following the cyprus reunification talks all week. today at talks in geneva, the un secretary general has said that a deal is very close. the eu is planning to draw up rules for how humans might get along with artificial intelligence or robots. and sports news — former england football manager graham taylor has died. let's talk about this dossier again which continues to dominate news coverage of donald trump. he details allegations that russia has compromising material on donald trump that could be used to blackmail him. the dossier was written by a former uk intelligence agent called christopher steele. here's our security correspondent frank gardner, with more about him. he's a former intelligence officer at mi6, he is a specialist in russia. his firm was hired by a washington lobbyist, initially they we re washington

main stories here in the bbc newsroom. just a week until he's inaugurated and donald trump continues to make headlines that he'd no doubt prefer not to. the former british spy who produced a dossier about mr trump's alleged behaviour while in russia has gone into hiding. we've been following the cyprus reunification talks all week. today at talks in geneva, the un secretary general has said that a deal is very close. the eu is planning to draw up rules for how humans might get along with artificial intelligence or robots. and sports news — former england football manager graham taylor has died.

hearings take and do they have to be done before inauguration day? if the senate says 0k, inauguration day? if the senate says ok, is that the end of the matter? the hearings take as long as it ta kes for the hearings take as long as it takes for the senators on the committee could ask all their questions. they will continue tomorrow. they don't have to be done by inauguration day, but if they are not done then there is a delay in the appointment of cabinet members so that this a dong of the new administration being able to take on its responsibilities. we appreciate you explain that. speak to you soon. let's break away from us politics and talk about sport. one of the stories of last year's rio olympics was the fiji rugby 7s team's gold medal. it was the first gold medal the pacific island nation had ever won. now their story has been made into a documentary. it's called sevens from heaven. here's a little taste. it has been really tough. you get knocked down twice or more times than you can count. easy people with their houses destroyed. nothing left. they still had their tv on and t

. let's talk about cristiano ronaldo, who has won fifa's inaugural best player of the year award. will perry is live with us year award. will perry is live with us from the bbc sport centre. no great surprise here, i think the thing of more interest as this is a brand—new award when we already have one that does much the same thing. yes, we should explain that, because for the past six years the world's best player has received what was called the fifa cosmic ballon d'or award. a version of that prize has been awarded from france football's magazine since 1956. fifa end of the association of that, instead —— ended their association with that. 2016, what a year for cristiano ronaldo, as well as scoring that decisive penalty in the shoot out to win the champions league, he captained portugal to euro 2016 glory and was recognised with his fourth ballon d'or in december. in has something messi doesn't, which he will enjoy, the honour of being named best fifa men's player. the former manchester united forward had been the favourite in the weeks building up to this. 44 games, 42

picks were confirmed on inauguration day but there is a strategy here by the republicans. they are going harder than past administrations have, trying to jam administrations have, trying to jam a bunch of hearings into the same day. two tomorrow, anotherfour on wednesday with hopes that opponents can't focus on one particular nominee and have them make headlines. in fact, nominee and have them make headlines. infact, donald nominee and have them make headlines. in fact, donald trump is holding his press conference on when state and that will dominate the headlines rather than these hearings. one of the most political websites in the us was previewing the people donald trump is bringing in and it used the phrase, a motley crew of political neophytes and would—be insiders". how would you categorise this new establishment? it isa categorise this new establishment? it is a strange blend. to call it a motley crew but then include literal insiders like congressmen price and jeff sessions who is going to be justice department attorney general, combine them with stephen bannon, a conserv

beginning, leading up to the inauguration on the 20th, does it feel different? that is a difficult question to answer, the problem is, you feel so in is constant and the whole thing, that the surprise, the shock, it is very difficult to tell what has actually changed at the moment, especially because donald trump is not actually here, we still have a president in the white house, barack obama, certainly the feeling where i am now, we have had freshman congressmen and senators walking through, doing lots of interviews, most of them republican, most of them smiling. untiljanuary 20, when donald trump takes the reins, i think that is when we will see the real difference in atmosphere. thank you very much indeed. jane will be pa rt you very much indeed. jane will be part of the bbc team in washington, dc as we cover the inauguration of donald trump on january dc as we cover the inauguration of donald trump onjanuary 20. this is the 115th congress. and it will be the 115th congress. and it will be the most diverse ever. we spotted this graphic from he pew research centre, it shows that from 2001

extensive coverage of donald trump‘s inauguration on the 20th ofjanuary. just one last word on the darts... in the last few moments michael van gerwen has won the world darts championship in what is being widely held as one of the greatest darts matches we‘ve ever seen. he beat gary anderson, the reigning champion, so there will be delirium in parts of the netherlands. there is definitely delirium in north london where the event is taking place. quite an atmosphere. you can get much more on the darts on the bbc sport app. i will be back tomorrow night at the same time. goodbye. hgppy happy new year. 2016 ended on a relatively mild and cloudy note. 2017 has kicked off with a different feel. it has been clearer and colder. we have had views like one of —— like this one here. over the next few days things are staying largely settled. there will be some frost around overnight but also wintry sunshine coming through by day, too. we have high pressure sitting out towards the west. still windy towards the north—east. we have a lot of isobars on the map. this frontal system trying to mov