says he was in the same class at harvard as mr0bama. it says he was in the same class at harvard as mr 0bamasure how politically allied they were. he holds a ph.d. from 0xford, he is the real rolls—royce in terms of his cv. and he toured the supreme court justices, three of his cv. and he toured the supreme courtjustices, three will be very reassured. and apparently his mum was in ronald reagan's government. that's right. the president was supposed to be draining the swamp and it wasn't meant to be business as usual, but maybe he is reverting to type. many will be reassured, but i think those in the left will have to be strategic. they may try to block him or say that two 80 —year—olds will step down in the next couple of years, that's when we will have our wheel fight. now, the german papers reacting. i'm looking at die welt. reacting to various stories coming out of the us, relating to germany. this is the head of this new organisation, a national trade body, in the us and he has been talking about how the euro is an implicit deutsche mark. it is very weak and the big winner is germany bec

i would ask the 0bama administration is, they came up with the classification. mr have heard that said they may add these countries. i could see it from the standpoint of, we are talking countries that have refugees and jihadist terror, brea kd owns refugees and jihadist terror, breakdowns in society, that to me, others seven countries. when i go behind harrods and see a lamborghini with and arabic license plate i don't think of refugees but i do and i think of some of these other countries. some terror attacks in the united states have been home—grown like the recent attack in florida. true, but it doesn't mean you negate with working with all your problems, just as you have to have the intelligence to watch that you have to prevent way you can those who could be coming in. one very brief question which mike pence was addressing, when president trump said thisjudge was was addressing, when president trump said this judge was a so—called church isn't that insulting the independence of the judiciary? —— a so—called judge. independence of the judiciary? —— a so-calle

now, around that time, mr 0bama had announced sanctions on russia for its intervention in the electionnow, mr flynn initially said that the conversations that he had did not include any mention of possibly lifting the that 0bama had imposed. the vice president, mike pence, went on television based on that to say categorically that there had been no such discussion of sanctions, only for intel it is intercepts to prove the opposite. and that, of course, left mike pence looking rather embarrassed, to say the least. now, there was a weekend of deafening silence as far as the defence of michael flynn was concerned, and then a a few hours ago, kellyanne conway, special counsellor to the president, came out and said that michael flynn continue to enjoy donald trump's full confidence, only for the white house press spokesman, sean spicer, one hour later to say that michael flynn's situation was being evaluated, as he put it, by the president himself. and, as ever, with this case, it is an ancient law he appears to have contravened, but as so often in politics it is the alleged cover—up as muc

that mr putin did not kick out any spooks or diplomats from russia following the announcement that mr 0bamaiplomat in the united states. there are two explanations for putin's action. 0ne are two explanations for putin's action. one is the simple one you're putting, that they were told in this conversation, don't do that, don't overreact and everything will be fine. ithink overreact and everything will be fine. i think there was also an interest on putin's park, regardless of this conversation, it was quite a clever game not to react. had he reacted, they would be back to the same old tit—for—tat stuff. by not reacting, i won't say he got the moral high ground, but he tossed the ball back into the trump camp and said, this is my contribution. i'm not going to retaliate, now it's up to you to do something to break this logjam. there is no doubt that relations between america and russia did get completely stuck on 0bama. is it possible to just look into the mind of the russians with all this happening at the moment? are they thinking, god, we have lost our man? 0rare thinking, god, we have lo

mr bill malia 0bama has said he is not looking at his possession. unions stand7 —— mr miliband. they play an important role. they have offered support to jeremy corbyn throughout. 0ne have offered support to jeremy corbyn throughout. one thing we probably want to watch in coming days, there is an election going on for the position of leading unite. len mccluskey has been running that union, and is being challenged. now, the contention there is that len mccluskey, one of the big backers of jeremy corbyn, is too close to westminster politics. the challenge says we want to move away from that. if that does change, that could change the relationship between labour, jeremy corbyn and unions. but for now, i think, at the moment, broadly speaking we are seeing unions mostly backing jeremy corbyn, albeit some friendly criticism that he needs to do better because copland was a disaster. briefly, we'll be hearing from the scottish labour party on de two of the spring conference. indeed, up in perth. we have heard from tom watson, labour's deputy leaderfor the

mr trump said his predecessor barack 0bama had been "kind" in making a deal with tehran over its nuclearrned that he would be taking a very different approach. it comes after social media posts by the president yesterday, in which he warned iran had been "put on notice" after their test of the missile at the weekend. iran has insisted it would never use its weapons except in self defence, and said the sanctions violated us legal commitments. donald trump's press secretary sean spicer has been giving his press briefing and was asked whether americans should expect the possibility of us military action against iran. look, i've said this before, and the president's been very clear — he doesn't take options off the table but he if understands the impact of something like that. the sanctions today, i think, are going to be very, very strong and impactful, and i hope that iran realises that after the provocative measures that they've taken, that they understand that this president and this administration is not going to sit back and take it lightly. let's speak to our correspondent in washingt

221 signed by 0bama and 222l signed by 0bama and strongly deal, signed by 0bama and strongly supported by the japanese. mrrelationship with japan. let me show you why. we have put some numbers together. last yearjapan sold almost $69 billion of staff to the us then it ought from the us. that, of course, is the trade surplus, as it is called. it is one of the biggest any nation has with america. now, to give you an idea why, look at this. in 2015, the latest figures we have, the us exported 16,000 cars to japan. here is hammy japanese cars were sold in the united states. 17.5 million! that is an all—time record. here is the vital point. most of those cars, they are actually made in the united states. shinzo abe is expected to stress, and stress strongly, that something like 1.5 million american jobs rely either directly or indirectly on japanese jobs rely either directly or indirectly onjapanese car makers. 0n indirectly onjapanese car makers. on top of this you have the so—called currency wars, because mr trump, he has claimed that the japanese yen is kept artificially low against the dollar to help the j

0bama. well today she made it clear in the commons that she was adamant to mr nash and yahoo that the israelislements. —— mr neta nyahu. are you building settlements. —— mr netanyahu. are you saying that behind—the—scenes things are more fluid? i was not in the meeting and interestingly they decided not to have a press conference afterwards, they just put have a press conference afterwards, theyjust put out a statement which is kind of unusual. i think a sign that neither of them wanted to face awkward questions. a spokeswoman for theresa may said the objection to settle m e nts theresa may said the objection to settlements was that they undermine trust, the reality is there is no trust, the reality is there is no trust between the israelis and palestinians on these particular issues. and there is a pretty strong international consensus that the growth of settlements is doing more than anything else to reduce the chances of the so—called two state solution. palestinian state alongside israel. now of course they wa nt alongside israel. now of course they want the visit to go well, the uk needs

mr trump said his predecessor, barack 0bama, had been "kind" in making a deal with tehran over its nuclear he would be taking a very different approach. it comes after tweets by the president yesterday, in which he warned iran they had been put on notice after their test of the missile at the weekend. iran's foreign minister javad zarif has responded, tweeting that his country is unmoved by threats and that they would never use their weapons except in self defence. let's speak to our correspondent in washington, kim ghattas. this war of words escalating. yes, a war of words not escalating into a full—scale war but we do understand that... there is always that danger that... there is always that danger that as the war of words escalates, countries could stumble into war by mistake but i think certainly the iranians are showing a lot of restraint. what we have from the trump administration today is delivering on this notice that they put iran on earlier this week, sanctioning 13 individuals and 12 companies, most of them in iran, some chinese, some in the united arab emirates and that is in

it was agreed with president 0bama but can he just throw it away? i would imagine that mr to put it in the waste basket so that is where it will go. interesting to listen to malcolm turnbull in a radio interview after donald trump's furious twitter message, saying he still remains hopeful this refugee accord will still go ahead. he said the americans had an obligation because of the deal signed with the outgoing 0bama administration in november last year but speculation here in australia and beyond, we have to say this deal looks shaky despite mixed m essa 9 es this deal looks shaky despite mixed messages coming out of the white house and the state department. thank you. we will have much more on that story and all the very latest developments from the donald trump white house at 7pm this evening. two former hbos bankers and four other people who were convicted of a £245 million lending fraud are due to be sentenced today. a court heard that one of the bankers, lynden scourfield, accepted bribes — including sex parties — to agree inappropriate loans. the fraud was discover

mr trump said his predecessor, barack 0bama, had been "kind" in making a deal with tehran over its nuclearomes after tweets by the president yesterday, in which he warned iran they had been "put on notice" after their test of the missile at the weekend. iran's foreign ministerjavad zarif has responded, tweeting that his country is "unmoved by threats" and that they would never use their weapons except in self defence. with me is kasra naji from the bbc‘s persian service. very interesting response from iran, ina very interesting response from iran, in a sense more measured than president trump himself. that in a senseis president trump himself. that in a sense is quite surprising. it is in the leaders in iran haven't decided how to respond to these provocations from the us. they don't know what is coming their way, everyday is a new thing and as you said in the last few days they been pretty restrained, the reigning foreign minister tweeted in response to a tweet by president trump which said iran is playing with fire. he responded so we won't start a war but if we are attacked we will defe

mrs netanyahu arrived at the white house there seemed to be real warmth. the israeli prime minister certainly hopes so. he had a sour relationship with barack 0bamad ready to give israel a blank cheque on the palestinians. mr netanyahu authorised thousands more homes forjews in the occupied territories in defiance of international law within days of mr trump's inauguration. but now he's in the white house, the president has changed his tune. he sees himself as america's greatest deal—maker and seems to believe he can make the deal between israel and the palestinians that evaded the last four american presidents. but that, he said, means give and take. as far as settlements, i'd like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit. we'll work something out. but i would like to see a deal being made. i think a deal will be made. as with any successful negotiation, both sides will have to make compromises. you know that, right? both sides. but in a middle east that is often chaotic, mr netanyahu sees opportunities. for the first time in my lifetime, and for the first time in the life of my country, arab countries in the region do not see israel

he said his predecessor, barack 0bama, had been "kind" in making a deal with tehran over its nuclear programme. yesterday, mrsaying we will never use our weapons against anyone exceptin never use our weapons against anyone except in self defence. let's speak to our correspondent in washington kim ghattas. we are now at the end of a week of this sort of language. how are we to assess mr trump's comments? it is quite the day when a tweet by the iranians foreign minister is more measured and diplomatic than a tweet by the american president. it started early this morning with this latest tweet from president trump saying that his predecessor had been too kind towards iran, and as you said, it has been quite a week of people in american foreign policy, with not just people in american foreign policy, with notjust america's people in american foreign policy, with not just america's foes people in american foreign policy, with notjust america's foes being put on notice, but also it allies. we had this tense conversation with the australian prime minister yesterday, and tense conversations with the mexican presiden

but — in a reversal of a key campaign pledge — mr trump will protect dreamers — children who were brought to america illegally by their parents. president 0bamative order in 2012 giving almost one million dreamers in the us certain rights — president trump is not reversing those rules. the white house press secretary, sean spicer, has been talking on the issue. the memo regarding the executive order outlines the steps that the homeland security will take to secure the southern border, prevent further illegal immigration and re patriate prevent further illegal immigration and repatriate immigrants swiftly and repatriate immigrants swiftly and humanely. this includes immediately identifying and allocating all sorts of funding for the planning, design, construction and funding of a wall along our southern border and additional personnel including new border agents. the white house has been working on this policy since mr trump took office. at the press conference last thursday he spoke — in surprisingly candid language — about his own struggles with the law as it concerns dreamers. we're gonna show great heart, daca is a very, very difficult sub

mr trump described the deal struck by the previous 0bama administration as dumb on twitter. ers held in offshore detention centres off australia to be resettled in the us. the washington post reported mr trump called the phone conversation between the two leaders as "the worst by far" of his calls and cut it short. 10,000 fewer people applied to train to become nurses last year, compared with 2015. the figures — from the university admissions service ucas — show a drop of almost 25%. they also show that overall university applications from uk students fell by 5%. an investigation for this programme has found that some homeowners who thought they'd bought their homes outright are actually caught in complicated leaseholder deals. some have discovered the ground their property is built on is being sold for profit without their knowledge. we'll have the full report shortly. a body that monitors anti—semitism in britain says violence and abuse againstjewish people has reached an all—time high. according to the community security trust, there were more than 1300 reported incidents

0bama on russia for allegations of interfering in the election. there can bea interfering in the election. there can be a lot of pressure on mrs conference come withjustin trudeau at his side. a bell—ringer at worcester cathedral had to be rescued by the emergency services on saturday evening after his foot got caught in the rope and he was pulled upside down. the 51—year—old, who was one of 20 bell—ringers in the bell tower, fractured a bone in his back. sima kotecha is at the cathedral. so, what exactly happened, then? well, 51—year—old ian bowman was visiting this cathedral, worcester cathedral, with several other bell—ringers, when he was involved in an accident. he was in the ringing room, just above me here, where you can see those four lights. he was running some bells when a piece of rope got tangled round his foot. he was pulled several feet up into the air, and then he fell down several feet, banging his into the air, and then he fell down severalfeet, banging his head. i'm joined by grant wills from the hereford and worcester fire investors service. thank you very much forjoining us. how conflict was this operation

sanctions with them, sanctions imposed by president 0bama on russia for allegations of interfering in the election. there will be a lot of pressure on mrome up in his press conference withjustin trudeau at his side. police in the pakistani city of lahore is at least ten people have been killed and dozens wounded after a large explosion which is believed to have happened outside the punjab assembly building were a protest rally had been underway. you can get the latest from our correspondence in islamabad —— we can get. do we know who the target was? what we know who the target was? what we know is that this blast happened outside the assembly of the punjab regional government. at that time there was a large protest being held by representatives of the pharmaceutical industry who were demonstrating against a new law that was taking place. there was also a large number of local journalists who were there to cover the demonstration and local tv channels filmed the moment of the explosion where what appears to be a car goes up where what appears to be a car goes up inflames, where what appears to be a car goes up in flames, sending hundred

had put a hold on the 0bama ruling so why and what is the motivation for the trump administration in revoking this? he is appealing to his base, that is the bottom line, which is mre conservative base and sees this asa the conservative base and sees this as a moral issue, the 0bama administration saw this as a civil rights issue. there was a great deal of hammering at the federal government was overreaching and interfering in an issue that really should be determined at state level. that is what mr trump has done in withdrawing this guidance, he has not issued any new laws, he simply said that the guidance the longer cou nts said that the guidance the longer counts but he has said in this new edict that transgender people, lgbt community, should be protected and should be protected specifically from bullying. there is an acknowledgement here that this is an issue for the lgbt community and transgender students in particular. perhaps a mixed message coming from the president to some extent, is now up the president to some extent, is now up to individual states to decide on this? it is not over yet because it is still making its way through the courts and there is

mr trump from the beginning of the campaign. thank you forjoining us. i want to pick up on the australia question. whatever you think of this refugee dude that president 0bamawith the australians, is it useful, wise, helpful for the australians, is it useful, wise, helpfulfor president the australians, is it useful, wise, helpful for president trump to be taking on somebody who has been such a key ally of the united states? there is no doubt that australia has been a key ally of the united states. i think it is also fair to say that this was not an agreement that was popular with the american people. you can look at the election results and see that. people want to make certain that the refugee issues are addressed, absolutely. systems, ways we can be of help, but having refugees that are coming in without proper vetting or agreements to take refugees in large numbers without this, the president is ready to go back and say with a minute, with this administration, going forward we wa nt this administration, going forward we want to look at this, we wanted to revisit it. this is not a step the american people are wanting to take. i get at that point about thi

mr trump's plans for the budget. ahead of that speech he gave an interview to fox. he was asked about his allegations of the involvement with barack 0bamals protests. i think president 0bama is behind it because his people are certainly behind it. some of the links possibly come from that group. really very serious links because they are very bad in terms of national security. but i also understand that politics. in terms of him being behind things, that's politics. it will probably continue. our correspondent is in washington. how damaging have protest them? a lot of republican lawmakers are pleased to be back in this building behind me today. i do not think they have been damaging so much as a real eye—opener to the of feeling around 0bama care. the affordable care act which is by and large these protesters have been demonstrating about. a lot of lawmakers weren't ready for that, they were of course voted in on the mandate that they would repeal 0bama care. to have by and large democrats turning up in vast numbers saying they want to keep it may not have been an unsurprising, but i think to republican lawmakers it was perhaps a bit of