we start in the us and 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. he said it would create about 100,000 jobs in the us. the initiative expands existing plans to build huge data centres. after signing a swathe of executive orders he has sought to justify his decision to pardon more than 1500 supporters who stormed the us capitol building four years ago. mr trump described their punishments as "ridiculous and excessive". 0ur north america editor, sarah smith reports on donald trump's first full day in office. 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. reporter: what did you think of the service? -

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.

let's look at some of those changes and a bit more detail. mr trump's plans to end automatic citizenship at birth in the united states have been met with a legal action by a coalition of 18 democratic—led states. they are trying to block the move, which they called a flagrant violation of the us constitution. carl nasman sent this update from a latino neighbourhood in chicago, a city where raids from immigration and customs enforcement are expected. a flurry of activity when it comes to immigration in washington, dc has been felt in cities all across the country particularly right here in chicago. we are at the heart of the latina community in the city, people tell us there is a sense of fear particularly because this is where it is believed mass deportation is the president has been promising could begin in the next 2a 248 hours. promising could begin in the next 24 248 hours. a lot of those moves having practical impacts on the border, declaration of a national

emergency bringing more resources down there and should not forget the cancellation of the cpp one app which is how many people worse applying for asylum in the us. without going it is not clear whether or not people have a legal route to apply for asylum in the united states anymore. as all of this is playing out, there are already some challenges when it comes to donald trump �*s move to try and get rid of birthright citizenship. already more than a dozen states have filed lawsuits against that and the aclu, they say it is unconstitutional. as we heard mr trump has sought to justify his decision to pardon more than 1500 supporters who stormed the us capitol four years ago. emma vardy reports from outside the dc jail where january sixth defendants are being processed for release. for two days now supporters of the january six inmates have

been waiting outside this present making phone calls to people still behind bars inside and giving a hero �*s welcome to those that come out for that we have only seen a few actually coming out of this jail so far. 0thers coming out of this jail so far. others have been living presence in other states across the us and coming out to wake you welcome because they are characterised as political prisoners. donald trump often referred to them at the january six hostages. they are being welcomed by friends and families and supporters now they are being released. elsewhere we had a lot of criticism of the sweeping pardons, particularly from police officers who injured empty capital rights that they who see this very much as a betrayal, a message that if you are supportive donald trump than he is giving you a free pass to carry out what they believe amounts to political violence on that day. for here, the people, it is a feeling donald trump made the promises

and kept them and carried out pardons much more sweeping pardons much more sweeping pardons than many people expected because they included people convicted of violent assault that they are the capital. also commutation is effectively ending prison sentences of the leaders are far right groups. the proud boys and oath keepers. it was a really expensive, very defining use of donald trump clemency powers at the very beginning of his presidency. the people here are determined to keep waiting and so every one of the january six defendants who remain behind bars comes out and want to be here to see the moment and celebrate it. in another move mr trump says he's issued a full and unconditional pardon to ross ulbricht, who founded the dark web marketplace, silk road. ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison a decade ago for running the site, where illegal drugs, stolen passports and hacking equipment were sold using bitcoin.

it was shut down by the fbi in 2013. the president described those who'd put ulbricht behind bars as "scum" and i. lunatics" and mr trump's announcement of huge investment in al infrastructure came in the last few hours and that it could create tens of thousands of jobs. 0ur north america technology correspondent lily jamali gave this analysis i think it's significant. ultimately we're talking about a $500 billion investment over a couple of years but we'll start with that first $100 billion — and these are major players well—known to people here in silicon valley. we're talking about 0pen ai which helped kick off the ai revolution from the consumer perspective with the advent of chatgpt which they make. as well as 0racle, longtime player here, and softbank

which is run by masayoshi son, known as masa, and is based injapan and he has forged a pretty close relationship with donald trump. but you know, what we heard is talk of infrastructure, talk of building the data centres that are so critical to powering ai and the development of ai. we heard aboutjobs, which you noted, 100,000 jobs being in the works is what we're promised — and i think that's an acknowledgement of a couple of things. first, how difficult it is to do ai alone. right now we have an ecosystem where there are multiple players trying to do this, vying for dominance. but i think ultimately from the federal government's perspective, from the us and from trump's perspective, the key here is to ensure the us is dominant against china in al and i think that's a big part of what this announcement today represents.

we will look at the global race to lead in all of things ai in detail in business today later in the programme. let's speak to daniel lippman, politico reporter covering the white house and washington. hello. extremely busy time. we knew it would be. give us your take on what president trump has done and announced so far. what is interesting is this is all basically previewed by his campaign and this is what his supporters wanted in many cases, what they voted for it. by cases, what they voted for it. by doing this blizzard of dozens of executive orders it is almost like he is trying to shock the system so democrats and opponents cannot really oppose them on every single thing. there is too much they are fighting about. in his first term in the first month he only signed a dozen or so executive orders. he had that

muslim travel ban. executive orders can be easily withdrawn by the next president and so he has not really passed much legislation to speak of. that is significant. future presidents canjust get is significant. future presidents can just get rid of anything trump did through these executive orders and have to keep in mind to build his own legacy to get some actual laws passed. in own legacy to get some actual laws passed-— own legacy to get some actual laws passed. in your opinion is a decision _ laws passed. in your opinion is a decision to _ laws passed. in your opinion is a decision to pardon _ laws passed. in your opinion is a decision to pardon the - laws passed. in your opinion is a decision to pardon the more | a decision to pardon the more than 1500 supporters of those that stormed the capital four years ago, some of whom convicted of violent crime, is that the most controversial and perhaps polarising move? i think it is for the republicans try to be a party of law and order and you had the police unions that often support republican candidates condemned this move in the last 24 hours and you had jd this move in the last 24 hours and you hadjd vance, trump �*s own vice president in the last week or two, two weeks, he said the violent prisoners should

not be pardoned. even before they took office, jd vance was disagreeing with his bath and you can look at how mike pence ended up, does not usually and well with somebody being the number two to trump. i think a lot of americans knowjust because you get a pardon for january six and does not mean a legitimate high ranking company is going to hire these people because they will still have the scarlet letter that will follow them wherever they are as long as you have google you can just search their name and see what happened to them. tail: see what happened to them. talk us through _ see what happened to them. talk us through this _ see what happened to them. talk us through this new phrase. broligarch. attack brokers, many we saw at the inauguration behind donald trump. and yesterday in the white house the oracle ceo, ceo of sam

altman, 0penai and other softbank ceos, all they are pledging huge amount of money in the us. this is a era, isn't it? it in the us. this is a era, isn't it? , ., ., ., ., it? it is. you have to wonder what would _ it? it is. you have to wonder what would they _ it? it is. you have to wonder what would they have - it? it is. you have to wonder what would they have made | it? it is. you have to wonder. what would they have made the same investments if kamala harris was elected? were they and waiting to announce this to give a win to the next president? that is an unknowable hypothetical. what democrats were pointing out is some of the technology billionaires got better seeds in the inauguration speech than trump �*s own cabinet members for them even the governor of virginia, republican, he was to the overflow room, not even in the overflow room, not even in the rotunda. yet the french billionaire was in the room because he is a supporter of trump. what is billionaires are looking at is they are examining their bottom lines and saying we don't want to get

on the wrong side of this administration, don't want to oppose this trump error like they did in 2017 when he was elected. they don't want to get retaliated by his government. thank you. we'll talk to you again soon. amongst that stream of executive actions signed off by donald trump were major rollbacks in climate policy. trump doubled down on his decision to exit from the paris climate pact for a second time and vowed to drill, baby, drill, pledging to fossilfuels over renewable energy sources. let's speak to henna hundal, a four—time delegate to the un climate change conference and national coordinator for climate live usa, an organisation that promotes climate change awareness for young people. this is absolutely no surprise he said the us would withdraw from the paris agreement. they

did that before when he was president. i do not surprised at all but what is your reaction?— at all but what is your reaction? ., ~ ., ., reaction? thank you for having me. it reaction? thank you for having me- it is _ reaction? thank you for having me- it is no — reaction? thank you for having me. it is no surprise _ reaction? thank you for having me. it is no surprise because l me. it is no surprise because he did it in his first term and promised to do it again and his second temper does not diminish how disappointing this is. it was in 2015, 196 parties from around the world made this commitment whereby every five years or countries would submit nationally determined contributions showing their own commitments to producing fossil fuel emissions. the second round of those commitments were due to be submitted this year in 2025. no surprise he would renege involvement in this pact and therefore not having to show progress the us may or may not be making towards emissions reductions, incredibly disappointing. this is coming on the backs of the los angeles fires which the vegetation was deemed to be 25% drier duty human —induced climate change.

this is quite frankly a horrible year to have this type of escutcheon when we see climate change lead to greater intensity, frequency and duration of these various extreme weather events. [30 duration of these various extreme weather events. do you think china — extreme weather events. do you think china will _ extreme weather events. do you think china will step _ extreme weather events. do you think china will step in _ think china will step in whether us is stepping out on the global leadership this? in the global leadership this? in the prior segment you were talking about us dominance in his various domains. 0nce talk about us dominance in the clean energy transition of the future. we are setting background to a lot of other countries around the world it is such a shortsighted decision to release background and not build up the us clean energy infrastructure. we know for example the return on investment for fossil fuel emissions has been going down for some time. an area where we should be growing our tentacles, not trying to shrink them. �* ., tentacles, not trying to shrink them