welcome to newsday, i'm steve lai. in the past few hours, president trump has announced the creation of a huge artificial intelligence project called stargate. it will see the private sector invest $500 billion in al infrastructure in the united states over the next four years. it comes after he delivered on his promise to immediately sign a blitz of executive orders. one of the first, pardoned more than 1500 people convicted or charged in connection to the 2021 capitol riot. president trump commuted the sentence of another 1a people — meaning their sentence will end but convictions will remain on record. several have already been released from jail including former proud boys leader enrique tarrio, who was serving 22 years for seditious conspiracy. and the founder of the oath keepers stewart rhodes who was jailed for 18 years. our north america editor,

sarah smith, reports on day one of donald trump's return to the white house. cheering he's obviously feeling invincible, sword in hand, dancing shoes on, celebrating his return to power last night. even melania seemed to be enjoying herself. but there was a more sombre mood at the national prayer service today, where donald trump wasn't celebrated, but chastised, directly from the pulpit. mr president, millions have put their trust in you, and as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving god. in the name of our god, i ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.

clearly an unwelcome reminder that they may have won the election but they have not converted the whole country to their cause. back at the white house, he could not hide his irritation. reporter: what did you think of the service? - what did you think? did you like it, did you find it exciting? not too exciting, was it? i didn't think it was a good service, no, but thank you very much. thank you press, thank you press! | they can do much better. inside the oval office last night, his desk was stacked high with presidential orders. so, this is january 6th, and these are the hostages. approximately 1,500 for a pardon. yes. full pardon. releasing convicted rioters, pulling out of the paris climate accords, all at the stroke of a pen. he said he will slap steep 25% tariffs on imports from mexico and canada next month if they don't stop drugs and immigrants from crossing their borders. and he mused about an official overseas visit.

so the first foreign trip typically has been with uk. but we did it... i did it with saudi arabia last time because they agreed to buy $450 billion worth of our products. sounds like a presidential visit is now an expensive purchase. and they agreed to do that. activists are already resisting, notjust by protesting, but also launching legal challenges against the orders to deport illegal immigrants and end the right of people born in america to become us citizens. for the better part of a year, we have been preparing for this moment. we are here to defeat, to delay, to dilute trump's extreme agenda at every level, including the state and local level. the freezing weather across washington, these snowy scenes outside the white house, provide a stark contrast with the fiery determination inside to move fast and bring radical change to america. sarah smith, bbc

news, washington. as we've mentioned, president trump has announced private sector investment of $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the united states over the next four years. the ai project — called stargate — will create 100,000 jobs. here's some of what he had to say. together these world—leading technology giants are announcing the formation of stargate, so put that name down in your books because i think you're going to hear a lot about it in the future. a new american company that will invest $500 billion, at least, in al infrastructure in the united states and very, very quickly — moving very rapidly — creating over 100,000 americanjobs almost immediately. this monumental undertaking is a resounding declaration of confidence in america's potential under a new president, let me be... "a new president" — i didn't say it, they did,

so i appreciate that, fellas. but it'll ensure the future of technology. what we want to do is we want to keep it in this country. china's a competitor and others are competitors. we want it to be in this country and we're making it available. i'm going to help a lot through emergency declarations because we have an emergency, we have to get this stuff built. so they have to produce a lot of electricity and we'll make it possible for them to get that production done very easily, at their own plants if they want. earlier i spoke to our washington correspondent merlyn thomas and our north america technology correspondent lily jamali about president trump's announcements so far. it's really the government facilitating this more than anything, not kicking in any dollars. this is private money coming from these companies in the order of 100 billion to start and then growing from there over the next couple of years. but i think this is an acknowledgement ofjust how

difficult it is for the us to achieve ai supremacy, especially against china who's the real target here, without working together, without building coalitions. it is expensive to build and develop this technology and it's also incredibly energy intensive. you heard all of those notes hit by president trump just there. staying with tech, lily, tell us more about what trump has been saying for the potential for elon musk to acquire tiktok. yeah, he said he's open to that but he also said on the stage there, at the podium, he invited larry ellison of oracle to make a bid for it in front of all of the reporters that was standing there. so it's a little bit free—flowing, i would say, right now. we don't know exactly how this is going to go this executive order that donald trump signed in his first day of office, giving tiktok a 75 day extension to comply with the law that ban or sell

law that we have been talking so much about, that really flies in the face of what the other branches of the us government have decided, the congress, the appeals court, the supreme court on a unanimous basis. so he's really out on his own and expecting that other branches will fall in line. it really is quite fascinating to see how this plays out. merlyn, i want to come to you and talk about the broader strokes from that press conference. president trump covered a lot of ground. a wide ranging press conference. what else did he say? he really started off making this announcement and then it turned into a sort of freewheeling conference, something that we see more typically of him and it was very reminiscent of his first term in office. for example, he spoke for over half—an—hour and took questions on any number of things and this is something we really didn't see from the biden administration. president biden took very specific orchestrated schedule conferences where he was very

clear and concise on exactly what he wanted to say. with president trump today we saw a range of diverse topics he talked about, he obviously said he would be open to elon musk buying tiktok. he mentioned president putin and how he had a good relationship with them and that maybe the war in ukraine never would have started if he would have been president. he also mentioned that he might place a 10% tariff on china so threw that into the mix as well. these are big kind of headlines that will affect countries all around the world and global leaders will be asking themselves what to make of this and this is something that we should be getting more and more used to as we see president trump back in office for the second time round. he's already signed a slew of executive orders. should we expect him to sign anymore during this week, his first week in office? he's already signed more than 200 executive orders and says he'll sign more but i think what's more

important this week is we are really going to see the pushback of those executive orders and what people are doing now in retaliation so we've already seeing that kind of reprisal. 18 states have already pushed back against the order to revoke birthright citizenship. that is the right for people who are born in the us to gain us citizenship and people have said the president is not king, he cannot change the constitutionjust by a stroke of a pen because birthright citizenship is something that's protected by the constitution in the 14th amendment. similarly, we are seeing reaction from leaders around the world. leaders of mexico and canada reacting to the fact that he said that he would place at 25% tariff on both of those countries, perhaps even as early as 1 february so again, those leaders are saying we want to defend our country, we want to stake our right on our country and that's something we'll be seeing more of. more and more reaction all around the world.

president trump has defended his decision to release high profile prisoners jailed over the 2021 capitol riots. one of the first executive orders signed by the president pardoned more than 1500 people convicted or charged in connection with the attack. our correspondent emma vardy sent this report from outside the dcjail where january 6th defendants are being processed for release. celebrations outside these walls. inside, january 6 defendants know donald trump has granted their freedom. among those getting a reprieve are the leaders of far—right organisations. stewart rhodes from the group the oath keepers, this morning released from an 18 year sentence. look to your left and look to your right. enrique tarrio, leader of the proud boys, had been serving 22 years. today, he's a free man, along with other members. cheering and applause these came to be some of the defining images of the riots. the man known as the shamen now

has his criminal record wiped. i got the news from my lawyer when i was at the gym and i walked outside and i screamed "freedom" at the top of my lungs and then gave a good native american war cry. the disorder that unfolded at the capitol that day was unprecedented. more than 200 police officers were injured. while politicians and civil servants barricaded themselves inside. police officer michael fanone was on duty. i made my way to the front of that police line, and was eventually pulled from the line, dragged out into the crowd, beaten severely, and i was struck with a taser device, with metal objects, fists. and so what donald trump is saying is that, listen, if you commit acts of violence on my behalf, i'll give you a pass. rachel powell was convicted after smashing a window at the capitol

with an ice axe. today she was released after a year behind bars. most of us went there thinking it would be a regular day, a regular protest where you chant and you go home. and unfortunately it wasn't that. the pardons issued by donald trump releasing people from jail go further than many were expecting, including controversial and divisive figures. but out here, they're welcomed as heroes. ben pollock marched to the capitol that day with his family. he's still waiting for his son and daughter to be released. you know, our lives have been stolen from us for the last four years and it's paid a toll on many families. and when we walked down there to the capitol we were peaceful. do you have any regrets about that day? absolutely not. i was there on january 6. this is political persecution. what about people who violently assaulted police officers and caused injuries? well, you can say violently assaulted, but my question of you, do you watch the videos where officers are

beating people on the ground? it marks a sweeping use of donald trump's new powers in relations to one of america's darkest days. emma vardy, bbc news, washington, dc centraljail. kimberley wehle is a law professor and former assistant us attorney, and the author of a recent book titled pardon power, how the pardon system works and why. i asked for her reaction's to president trump's pardons. some people here are surprised that he did not decline pardons for the hundreds of violent offenders and there's serious concern not only that it will encourage these people to commit violent acts around protests etc, so long as it's serving the interests of donald trump, but also that the capitol police officers and others who testified or supported the january 6 committee's investigation of the january 6 2021 insurrection as well as the lawsuit

or the criminal indictment against donald trump, that they would be subject to personal retaliation by these folks. so it's a very dangerous decision by president trump and one that really has no historical basis in american history. and how should we look at president biden's pardons as well? he pardoned his son, he pardoned members of his family as well. did they pave the way for donald trump to do what he's been doing with pardons? i don't think they paved the way for the pardoning of the january 6 insurrectionists because again, that is unleashing basically a mob into the street with no restraint and conveying to them the rule of law does not apply so long as there's loyalty to donald trump. the hunter biden pardon, i think was, personally, wasjustified, because he had had a multi—year investigation. they found a few small small crimes and there was legitimate concern there'd be retaliation

against hunter biden. not so with the other five members of former president biden's family, that was kind of a head scratcher, and it does create a precedent forjust nebulous pardons that would encourage people, whether it's donald trump or future presidents, to again commit crimes on behalf of a president. the supreme court this summer manufactured criminal immunity for presidents so now they can commit crimes willy—nilly and the biden precedent now i think invites presidents to pre—pardon, nebulously, other people who execute illegal orders on his behalf so that is not a good moment in american law either. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. the home secretary has said public bodies "completely failed" to recognise the danger posed by axel rudakabana before he killed three young girls in southport last year.

yvette cooper has announced a thorough review of prevent, after it emerged that the teenager was referred to the anti—extremism programme on three separate occasions. the prime minister has announced a public inquiry into the attacks. the government is considering backing plans to increase capacity at the uks airports — including a third runway at heathrow and expansions at gatwick and luton. the chancellor, rachel reeves, is expected to make an announcement in a speech on economic growth next week. those who oppose airport expansion say it would damage the environment. the start of prince harry's trial against the publishers of the sun has been delayed, after it emerged that the two sides are involved in settlement talks. the duke of sussex alleges he was unlawfully targeted byjournalists and private investigators working for news group newspapers. the company has always denied unlawful activity at the sun. you're live with bbc news. dealing with the millions

of undocumented migrants that crossed the southern border is donald trump's number one priority. 18 states have filed a lawsuit against his executive order to end birthright citizenship, claiming it violates the 14th amendment of the constitution. there will be other legal challenges. local law enforcement in chicago said they would not be joining federal immigration officials on a targeted roundup of illegal migrants. our correspondent carl nasman is in a latino neighbourhood in chicago, a city where raids from immigration and customs enforcement are expected. there are real practical implications here. resources potentially members of the national guard being sent there and also the cancelling of that app and also the cancelling of that app you mentioned is important because it was one of the few ways to claim asylum trying to enter the united states. without god not on the tens of

thousands of people now without asylum but it is clear that there is a way to apply at all for asylum. there are impacts in chicago in the heart of it very latino have neighbourhood, about fried of mass deportations which donald trump has promised and we had hints from its borders either to cargo could be ground zero for this deportation. the streets overly empty, you get sense that of course it is called the people have decided potentially to stay inside today. stay in because there is a sense that there could be some high level and wide ranging deport asian actions here soon. i'm joined now by murad awawdeh — president and ceo of the new york immigration coalition, a group mobilising against deportations in new york state. what is your reaction to trump's plan to deport legal

migrants?— trump's plan to deport legal miarants? . ., migrants? -- illegal migrants? thank you _ migrants? -- illegal migrants? thank you having _ migrants? -- illegal migrants? thank you having me. - migrants? -- illegal migrants? thank you having me. now- thank you having me. now president trump camp and on his mass deportation platform, what that would actually do is separate families, harm our communities and gutter economies throughout the country. it is truly horrendous and this has never been about safety or security with this individual or administration, it's always been about cruelty and that is what they are trying to instill within our communities.— trying to instill within our communities. , ., ., , communities. jump often equates illeual communities. jump often equates illegal migrants _ communities. jump often equates illegal migrants to _ communities. jump often equates illegal migrants to criminal- illegal migrants to criminal activity stop is a misconception? that is absolutely _ misconception? that is absolutely a _ misconception? that is - absolutely a misconception. study after study shows immigrants they communities safer. communities that don't have immigrants are less safe. our communities have is directly been safer and

continue to be, that is what allows a big city here in new york to continue to thrive. we have millions of immigrants who called new york state home and they are all targets for this administration. we are going to do is ensure that we are fighting back against his unconstitutional war on our community and ensure we are putting up a fight to defend and protect our community. does bein: a and protect our community. does being a century — and protect our community. does being a century city _ and protect our community. does being a century city mean - being a century city mean anything in the face of the administration that's made this administration that's made this a priority? administration that's made this a riori ? . ., , administration that's made this ariori ? . _, a priority? sanctuary policy is ublic a priority? sanctuary policy is public safety _ a priority? sanctuary policy is public safety policy. - a priority? sanctuary policy is public safety policy. it - public safety policy. it ensures people who feel unsafe, who are victims of crimes, people who witness a crime can go to a local police and not feel like they will be turned over to immigration enforcement. many people who get sick can go to hospital and not feel like the nurses will call immigration officials to deport them. that's what

sanctuary policy does. it will protect our communities. it means our city based on local law will not work with immigration enforcement and will not collude to separate our families and got our communities across the city of new york. that doesn't stop them from doing the work they do. it means we are not using local resources that are much needed elsewhere to collude with this administration. what with this administration. what do ou with this administration. what do you see — with this administration. what do you see as _ with this administration. what do you see as the _ with this administration. what do you see as the answer- with this administration. what do you see as the answer being here? if trump and his administration want to deport illegal migrants as you say, there are so many in the community but they don't have a path to citizenship either. it creates a limbo that would extend through generations? that's what it has been. it's been this limbo area for over 30 years at this point in the united states. we have not had comprehensive immigration reform since 1986 under

president ronald reagan. that was the last time there was any real effort to fix our immigration system and since then nearly a0 years later we still haven't seen any traction to move in a direction that provides people with a pathway to legalisation stop fixing up outdated and archean system ensuring that we are making it more efficient and allowing people the opportunity to have multiple entryways into the united states, there has been no effort to do that. every previous effort has failed, so this is an opportunity to really fix the system as opposed to continue to rely on it to skepper immigrants for those empowers failed leadership. that's what we see generation after generation in this codger is immigrants regardless of the way they come with, other eyes the last generation. it's incredibly

unfortunate and this country has been built off the backs of immigrants. every wave of immigration in the city and state have been built by immigrants. roads, bridges, sky crepe is, local economy —— skyscrapers. stock in immigrants sold small businesses across the state in this country. it is a slap in the face of communities that power are state and country forward and it is to the future will stop his plan forward deportation was to be successful, conservative estimates say that the tween 2.6 and 7.8% of our gdp would drop. that is the great recession brings. at the highest and that is quadruple that amount and instead of addressing the issues that voters had, the number one issue that voters had in exeter pole at exeter pole showed was

affordability crisis that has been ravaging our country. people have to choose between paid for groceries or buying their medicine. people have to choose to pay their rent or send their kids to school or recreational activities. this is not a way to be living and instead of addressing the portability crisis, this administration is going to make it worse. they are going to make people's pockets are even more than they are now.- more than they are now. thank ou so more than they are now. thank you so much — more than they are now. thank you so much for— more than they are now. thank you so much for your _ more than they are now. thank you so much for your time - you so much for your time today. murad awawdeh, president ansi of the new york immigration coalition. thank ou. watching the inauguration — you will have seen in the rows behind donald trump, many of the faces he has nominated to be part of his new cabinet. but only one of them has so far been confirmed by the senate — that is marco rubio, who arrived at the state department to be sworn in and begin his newjob as america's top diplomat. he got 99% of the backing in the senate. one of the less controversial picks.

that's all for now — stay with bbc news. hello. wednesday is going to be quite a quiet day weather wise, albeit a rather murky one at times. however, by the end of the week, things will be a lot livelier. we have a named storm on the way. storm eowyn already yellow warnings from the met office, the risk that some places could see gusts of wind of 90mph. but for the time being, certainly no strong winds, in fact, very few isobars on our pressure chart. so, very light winds. that has allowed some mist and fog to form, some of that taking a while to clear. but across scotland, northern ireland, northern england, wales, the south west, through the afternoon, we should see sunny spells and just the odd shower, whereas for central and eastern parts of england will hold on to more in the way of cloud, maybe a little bit of rain, and temperatures 5—8 degrees.

so in spite of the light winds, it's going to feel fairly chilly, and it's going to turn cold again through the night, especially where we have some clear spells. we could see some mist and fog patches, some areas of cloud. temperatures dropping down to freezing, below freezing in places, but later in the night, into the first part of thursday morning, we see a band of rain pushing into northern ireland, that will swing its way eastwards through the day. could well see some snow mixing in over high ground across some northern parts of scotland. it's is going to be fairly breezy, but that is just the precursor to what is heading our way on friday. now, to find out where storm eowyn is forming, we have to look out into the atlantic and look up to the jet stream. the winds high in the atmosphere, a jet stream level likely to exceed 250mph. so that extraordinarily strong jet stream providing the fuel, the energy to deepen this area of low pressure. this low will be deepening rapidly as it approaches our shores, and storm eowyn is likely

to bring widespread gales, outbreaks of rain, some snow across the north. but it is across these irish sea coasts where, at the moment, it looks most likely that we could see wind gusts of 80 to possibly 90mph, maybe even stronger than that in the most exposed spots. obviously those winds could cause some damage and some significant disruption, and that does usher in a rather turbulent period of weather. there will be further spells of wind and rain in the days ahead.

trump's first full day in office sees more major announcements — we'll look at what it all means for the world of business and tech. plus, nextflix adds a record number of subscribers and hikes charges for many of its users. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. in his first full day in the white house, donald trump has been joined by the bosses of open ai, oracle and the japanese investment fund softbank. the firms announced plans for a huge new us artificial intelligence infrastructure project that could see 100s of billions of dollars pumped into the technology. michelle fleury has

the details from new york. for months, even years, openai, the maker of chatgpt, has been raising finance to build the massive computing power, data centres that its artificial intelligence technological needs. in the past, its part in the project has been microsoft which is also its largest shareholders. now, openai is bringing other major backers on board. at the white house, oracle and softbank appeared with president trump as he announced that they will enter a joint venture with openai called stargate. stargate will initially open a data centre in texas and be open to other investors, mr trump claims the deal is evident of his success in building america's ai infrastructure. claims the ceos were obtained to endorse. this monument undertaken is a resounding declaration

of confidence in america's potential under a new