tiktok is back up and running in the united states after a short—lived ban. the app's chinese owners thank donald trump. hello, welcome to bbc news on a historic day for the us. the inauguration of donald trump. let's take you live to washington dc, where in the coming hours, donald trump will be sworn into office as the 47th president of the united states, withjd vance taking the oath of office as his vice president. mr trump has already re—affirmed his commitment to carry out the largest deportation programme in american history. and that he's going to enact a series of executive orders within hours of taking office. ahead of his inauguration, during a wide—ranging speech at a rally in washington, he told supporters the united states was about to begin a new era of prosperity, whilst restoring patriotism

and law and order. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports. # god bless the usa! donald trump is back where he wants to be, reclaiming power. at noon, the curtain closes on four long years of american decline, and we begin a brand new day of american strength and prosperity, dignity and pride. his bombastic style remains a crowd—pleaser. i think someone like trump comes around once in a lifetime. i mean, when you look at the man who, everything was thrown at him, not only about the impeachment, wanting to, and all the lawfare, and still standing. so that says a lot about a man. i think with the 2016 election, when he got elected through 2020,

he did a good job, was faced with a very hard challenge with covid. how does anyone deal with that, having never experienced it before? but i think he did the best that he could. time to get some real leadership back in this country. stop bending over backwards for everybody else and bend over backwards for americans. thousands of donald trump supporters are here to celebrate his return to power. this is a happy crowd. unlike four years ago. a mob loyal to trump broke into the us capitol in support of his false claims the 2020 election was stolen. he's promised to pardon those convicted. other big promises include carrying out mass deportations and ending global wars. the weather has forced donald trump's inauguration inside the capitol, the first time in 25 years. he won't get the crowds he loves to see, so he plans to hold another rally. and we are going to make america great again.

this year marks ten years since donald trump first announced his run for the white house, and his return underlines what once seemed impossible. trump has dominated american politics and will continue to for the next four years. inderjeet parmar, professor of international politics at the city university of london, told us trump's second administration will be tough with international foes and allies alike. this is a person, if you like, who's making history in the united states and going to impact the world. just a few weeks ago, he was declared by the democratic party's leadership to be a fascist. we know he's been convicted in court, and we know that he tried to overthrow the certification of the election in 2020. yet he's been welcomed in with the kind of red carpet

treatment by the democrats and so on. so i think he is going to really have a massive impact at home and abroad. and i think world leaders need to be prepared, that he is weaponising every aspect of american power that he possibly can, including rhetorical threats and so on, in order to get what he wants to squeeze out of other parts of the world. and i'm not talking only about so—called adversaries, for example, like china or other countries like that. but i think from people who would normally be considered allies of the united states as well. you say he's weaponising everything that's coming down the track, but surely that's just in response to what his voters have told him, really quite in huge numbers that they want to see? they want to see a reordering of things, notjust in the united states, but around the world, where america is not

necessarily going to have to police everything for everyone. i think it's a bit more than that. i think it's half right. i think that his populist appeal is certainly along those kinds of lines. but i think if you look at his cabinet, you look at the people who donated large amounts of money. this is a kind of strategy for the millionaires and billionaires to get even more rich and more powerful as well. and it's their messages, their kind of places on the cabinet that really are going to make the running. so i think to say... you're absolutely right, the american people are discontented, but this programme is partly trump, but also partly a continuation of biden, which was partly a continuation of trump's first administration. and i think you're right, it is a reordering, but it's a very radical reordering, which basically means that that international system within which the united states kind of presided over world order, is now going to be effectively abandoned, largely abandoned.

the rule of law and so on is going to be abandoned. international institutions are largely going to be abandoned unless they serve us interests directly. and i think that's what world leaders and others can expect to see. so that, in effect, the very rich and powerful are going to get even more rich and powerful, and the united states is going to try to squeeze every economic, financial, security and other benefit from the rest of the world. as we've been hearing, donald trump has re—affirmed his commitment to carry out the largest deportation programme in american history. our correspondent will grant has travelled to the mexican—us border city of tijuana to meet some of those in a migrant camp. these days, the road to the white house begins at the us southern border. like no other issue, immigration raises tempers

and brings out votes. for donald trump, it proved a winning strategy, and he arrives to the white house with both a promise and a threat — to carry out what he calls the largest deportation in american history. the border security measures i will outline in my inaugural address tomorrow will be the most aggressive, sweeping effort to restore our borders. for migrants stuck in the mexican border city of tijuana, that's intended as a warning. some have travelled thousands of dangerous miles to reach this point. others, like oralia, are fleeing cartel violence in mexico itself. with her children, she's waited seven months in this shelter to lodge an asylum request. but trump's return, she says, has left her defeated. "now we've lost hope of being able to cross, i'll have to find somewhere to live in mexico, and trust in god to keep us safe," she adds. people running migrant shelters

are worried that things are about to turn very ugly. translation: we're | being hit on two fronts. firstly, the arrival of mexicans and many other migrants who are fleeing violence. but also we'll have the mass deportations. we don't know how many people will come across the border needing our help, but together that could create a huge problem. in the shadow of the border fence, a handful of migrants and activists gathered to voice their opposition to trump's policies. but in truth, they'll struggle to be heard over the clamour of those in the us calling for a crackdown. it's important to distinguish between rhetoric and reality when it comes to donald trump and immigration. for all the talk of building a border wall, only 80 miles of new fencing were erected during his last time in office. now, of course, he's threatened to deport millions of undocumented people from the united states,

and people here — for now — are taking him on his word. of all those most immediately impacted by mr trump's return to the white house, undocumented immigrants — inside the us and waiting at the border — are perhaps at the top of the list. as he delivers his inaugural speech, they're bracing themselves for the executive orders which will follow — and which could radically change the way the country's immigration system is run. will grant, bbc news, on the us—mexico border. and we will have full live coverage of donald trump's inauguration here on bbc news, with a special programme from washington, starting at 12 gmt today. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

let's focus on events in the middle east, and in the past few hours 90 palestinians have been released from ofer prison

in the occupied west bank under the gaza ceasefire deal with hamas. two buses with tinted windows left the facility, soon to be surrounded byjubilant crowds. most of those freed were women. in tel aviv, crowds celebrated as three israeli hostages were released by hamas — handed over in dramatic scenes. among them, 28—year—old emily damari, a british—israeli, who was reunited with her mother. and 24—year—old romi gonen and 31—year—old doron steinbrecher who were met by their mothers. jonah fisher reports from jerusalem. our internation editorjeremy bowen is injerusalem. he told us more about day one of the ceasefire. i think on a day like this, day one of the ceasefire, people have got to try and be optimistic. you know, reporting the middle east, it's often you don't lose if you're pessimistic, and of course there are many potential problems ahead. but let's look on the bright side. for the first time in 15 months, there is no killing going on in and around gaza. there are people who are hoping in gaza to get back to their homes.

there are those family reunions in the west bank for palestinians, the israelis, the three women who came out. so those are all positives. the issue is, first of all, hamas is still there. they showed that when they paraded with their guns, quite symbolic but making a point. and the israelis, the israeli deputy foreign minister, has been telling the bbc this morning that that's not acceptable for them — hamas has to go. now, hamas doesn't want to go. so that points at some point to a resumption of the war. the question is whether it happens during this process of a ceasefire. and she also said, the deputy foreign minister, that it was a temporary ceasefire because it is to get the hostages back. and then there is still for them, the israelis, the whole issue of hamas. who would fill the gap, though, if it weren't hamas in charge in the gaza strip?

well, this is one of the problems, is that the israelis, for their own reasons, mostly because it's politically controversial inside israel. the prime minister has not specified what he wants, except to say that he doesn't want hamas to be there, and also he doesn't want the palestinian authority, which is the other palestinian body, which is based in the west bank, he doesn't want them either. the difficulty with all of that is that what is the alternative? is it a long—running israeli occupation? well, no. well, no, if they respect the terms of the ceasefire, because that writes in the second phase of israel pulling out. now, someone has to run the territory. and while there are arab

countries who have said that they would get involved and fund things, not least the united arab emirates, the fact is they're also putting attaching to that the rider that there has to be at the same time, concrete progress, irrevocable progress towards palestinian self—determination — in other words, independence, freedom from israeli occupation leading towards their own independent state. and that is something that the israeli government is absolutely opposed to. what's the situation, though, regarding benjamin netanyahu? how precarious a position politically is he in? well, he's, you know, he is someone who has a reputation in israel for being a real political survivor and a guy with almost at times, magical political powers in terms of manipulating his enemies and his friends. he's somebody who, after the 7th of october attacks, his ratings absolutely cratered because a lot of israelis still regard him as someone who was behind the security mistakes that

allowed hamas to attack with such devastating consequences. but since then, particularly since they widened the war in lebanon, and he and the israelis really inflicted damage on lebanese hezbollah, and also on iran, his ratings have gone up again. so on one level, he's better off than he was. but he relies on a coalition which is built on the support of extreme ultranationalist right wing parties. and now one of those parties has resigned from the government, though it says it's not going to try to bring the government down. the other one is still in there, but they have both said that the war needs to resume and it probably needs to resume by the time of the first, the expiry of the first phase of the ceasefire, which is in six weeks from now. how much concern then, will

that generate for the families of the hostages who are still in gaza? massive, because under the terms of the ceasefire, in the first phase, the first 42 days, 33 are coming out. so three have come out. the next tranche, if you like, the next individuals will be coming out at the weekend, on saturday, and then there will be more exchanges and that will go on as israel pulls back, humanitarian aid comes in. but that leaves two thirds of the hostages, and many of them, the israelis say, are dead, but they want the bodies back for a decent burial and for the families' sake. so if they resume the war, and this is the argument against resuming the warfrom israel's perspective, if they resume it around the time of the end

of the first phase, then that leaves those hostages, wherever they're being held in gaza, in some dreadful tunnel. so that's something which is a factor militating against a resumption of the war. but, you know, here's the question. is hamas going to willingly give up in phase two, all of the remaining hostages and the bodies of the dead hostages, and then say, "all right, israel, come and get us. we're still here." i don't think they probably will do that. and of course, that depends on soon to be inaugurated president donald trump, because his intervention twisting netanyahu's arm, actually, i think, was the key thing in getting the ceasefire over the line. so in a sense, he's still got a great deal of influence. and if he says to the israelis, "ok, go ahead, we'll back you," then they might well resume the war. but if he said "no, hang on a minute. i'm trying to negotiate with the saudi arabians over a big pact. i don't want you to do that."

will netanyahu, in that circumstance say, you know, i'm sorry, mr president, we've got to do it," which is what he might well have said tojoe biden, or will he listen to donald trump in a very different and rather more respectful way? joining us now on the line is mahmoud rostom, who is a journalist in gaza and is speaking to us from khan yunis. i hope that we have got good communications with you this time. tell us what you and your family have been doing since the ceasefire began? irate family have been doing since the ceasefire began? we started to no back the ceasefire began? we started to go back to _ the ceasefire began? we started to go back to our— the ceasefire began? we started to go back to our home. - the ceasefire began? we started to go back to our home. we - to go back to our home. we started to make a clean—up and

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to us from khan yunis. our correspondentjon donnison is in ramallah, and gave this update about the release of palestinian prisoners. you had fireworks being launched. you had lots of people waving palestinian flags, chanting songs, some of them actually in support of hamas. and for the 90 prisoners who were released yesterday, the vast majority of them women, they are enjoying their first day of freedom after, in some cases months in prison and in some cases years. some of those women had been arrested for relatively minor offences. you know, there were women who had beenjailed for social media posts. there were some people who hadn't been charged at all with any crime and had been injailfor months. so, you know, again, there's a sort of bittersweet moment, really, because all of the women i spoke to who came out and heard their voices, they said, "look, we're happy to be out of prison, but the main thing is

that there is some sort of ceasefire in gaza." and there's also real sadness because, of course, so many lives have been lost over the past 15 months. we're expecting some 900 palestinian prisoners to be released. now, the ones we saw yesterday, as i say, relatively minor offences, mostly women, some children. it's going to get more and more difficult as the six weeks go on and we get a new tranche each week because the big names, the most high profile names, the people who have been charged with murder, attempted murder, in some cases, mass murder, they're going to be saved to the end. and, you know, ithink there are going to be difficult, anxious days, just like we had yesterday on both sides of this conflict, as loved ones wait to see if they're finally going to see theirfamily members come home. a court in india has handed down a life sentence to a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor.

the attack happened inside the hospital where the woman worked in kolkata. the murder and rape outraged people in india and there have been rallies and protests. our correspondent samira hussain is in delhi and following developments. well, this is a case that happened back in august and what happened was there was a medical trainee, a junior doctor, she was about 31 years old, and she was resting after a 36—hour shift. she was on a night shift and she went to take a rest in the seminar room. the next day, her body, half naked and severely beaten, was found by a colleague. eventually, they found the person responsible. it was seen that she had actually been raped and murdered. the police had arrested sanjay roy, who was a volunteer police the police had arrested sanjay roy, who was a volunteer policeman working at the hospital.

but this is a case that really sparked an immense amount of outrage. for weeks and weeks doctors were on strike, not only at the hospital in kolkata, but many hospitals across the country. and so it really highlighted just the issue of safety for health care workers and specifically safety for female workers. what has the reaction to the sentence been? the reaction to the sentence has been quite mixed because many people were advocating for the death penalty, which is legal here in india. but the judge opted instead for a life sentence. during the sentencing, sanjay roy was able to speak and he continues to maintain his innocence, saying that he is absolutely being framed for this, that he is not responsible. we can't really go into why thejudge opted for one sentence over another, but certainly there were many people advocating

for the death penalty. our because fondant reporting from delhi. just a reminder that our live coverage of the inauguration of donald trump begins at midday gmt. stay with us on bbc news. hello again. it looks like we could be in for some stormy conditions, especially so on friday. but before that, the weather is very much the same for the next few days. cloudy, some patchy light rain, some brighter breaks. best of the sunshine today across parts of scotland and northern ireland and light winds. still going to feel cold though, wherever you are. for example, across parts of england and wales, our top temperatures between 4 and 8 degrees. temperatures a little bit higher in western scotland and northern ireland, where we're looking at ten degrees. now, through this evening and overnight, still a lot of cloud around,

still the patchy rain. and we've got another band of rain coming in across scotland with some snow on the mountain tops. where the sky is clear, we could see some mist and fog patches forming and the temperatures will fall away. these temperatures are what you can expect in towns and cities. so the fog slow to clear tomorrow. and we still do have our weather front draped across northern england and also parts of wales, introducing the rain, but a bit more in the way of bright conditions tomorrow. but still the peppering of showers in the north and the west. temperatures five to about eight or nine degrees. then, as we head overnight tuesday into wednesday, we've got low pressure around iberia and you can see this weather front edging closer to us during the course of wednesday, and it looks like that's going to bring in some rain to the far southeast of england. still a lot of cloud around, but we'll see some breaks develop, some brighter breaks, maybe a little glimmer or two of sunshine, but temperatures still nothing to write home about — four to about eight degrees. but it's after that the weather starts to change. we could be in for a stormy

period, turning wetter, and also the potential for some disruptive winds, especially, but not exclusively in the north and the west. what's happening is we've got this arctic plunge of cold air bumping into the milder atlantic air across the states. what that's doing is fuelling up a very strong jet stream. and that, in turn, is developing some really potent areas of low pressure which are coming our way. you can look at the squeeze on those isobars, especially as we head on in through friday. but the weekend after friday is going to remain unsettled. it will be wet, it will be windy and it's going to feel quite cold as well.

the trump bump. just hours before he takes office, donald trump whips up the crowds in washington dc promising record breaking executive orders on day one. trump's tariffs plans will weigh heavily on the minds of world leaders as they gather in switzerland for the world economic forum — we'll be live in davos. and tiktok back online — trump vows to postpone the us ban on the app. we'll have the latest from tiktoks global headquarters... welcome to business today. we start in washington dc —

where donald trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the united states later. he's promised strong america first, tariff—led protectionist trade policies, with low taxes, looser regulation and less government spending. and he's expected to hit the ground running with a promise to sign a blitz of executive orders on his first day as president, telling supporters he would move with historic speed and strength in the hours after taking the oath of office. so who are the people that will shape what some are calling trumponomics 2.0? from new york, michelle fleury reports. so the next trump administration is here. what will the president and the many members — formal and informal — of his government get up to this time? everyone wants to know. when it comes to the economy, think of them as trump's class of 2025. in the first group are the clean—cut mainstream bunch — the wall street guys.