this is the scene live right now in
washington
early in the morning there mr trump is
yet to comment today but
uh the world will be watching closely
particularly for any use of the
presidential power to issue
pardons to criminals whatever he does it
will be against the backdrop of perhaps
the tightest ever security
for an inauguration thousands of
national guard personnel will be on duty
fences topped with barbed wire have been
set up around the capitol building
the fbi has issued nationwide alerts for
any repeat of the violent actions by
pro-trump groups which resulted in five
deaths earlier this month
well mr trump says he won't attend mr
biden's inauguration and it's clear the
two administrations don't see eye to eye
on
policy either with mr biden's team
saying they would immediately block any
attempt
by the outgoing president to lift covert
travel bans
on visitors from most of europe and
brazil well we begin our coverage with
this report from our correspondent in
washington
nomika america's capital city
is eerily quiet and so is its president
mr trump has been largely silent after
twitter permanently banned him
but there is some last minute business
he announced a covert 19 travel ban
on much of europe would be lifted the
incoming biden administration plans to
reverse it though
in a tweet the incoming press secretary
says in fact
they will strengthen it one thing they
won't be able to stop
are mr trump's pardons like all outgoing
presidents he plans to use his last bit
of power
to grant clemency to more than a hundred
convicted criminals
this is all against the backdrop of a
city that's turned into a fortress
up to 25 000 troops from the national
guard are here
the most since the civil war era this
nation is still reeling from the riots
earlier this month it's emerged that
some of them had connections to law
enforcement
and now all the inauguration security is
being vetted by the army
and the fbi one of the bigger challenges
will be identifying people in law
enforcement
who have sympathies for these groups or
act in concert with them
and again law enforcement has all the
authorities they need the fbi has
jurisdiction
to investigate civil rights abuses by
law enforcement officers
they just need to prioritize that work
president-elect biden will fly into the
city for his inauguration at capitol
hill
a trip he originally planned to make by
train president trump
won't be there the first time that's
happened in more than 150 years
he plans to leave for florida wednesday
morning with the first lady melania
trump
she has delivered a goodbye address
in all circumstances i ask every
american
to be an ambassador of be best
to focus on what unites us to raise
above
what divides us to always choose love
over hatred
peace over violence and others be for
yourself
four years on and president trump will
be leaving the white house just as he
entered it
with chaos and without convention he did
get his wall though
just not the one he expected nomirikval
bbc news washington