now we moved to India because Donald
Trump is enjoying his first state visit
there the president along with First
Lady Melania Trump began their visit in
Narendra Modi's hometown almond of bad
here are some of the pictures that have
come in through the day well here's the
president and Melania Trump getting off
the plane big trademark bear hug from
Prime Minister Modi thousands of others
were there to offer a welcome to as you
might imagine the towns being getting
ready for the arrival but not always in
a way that everyone's approved off this
wall was part of a beautification
project and essentially it was built to
hide a slum which is how home to around
800 families from view as the president
went by a little bit later in the day
the president and the first lady learned
at the home of Mahatma Gandhi all about
the traditional way of producing cloth
Gandhi used this skill as a form of
protest against foreign made cloth
during India's struggle for self-rule
from Britain and you can see the
president learning all about this and
then this was very much the main event a
huge rally to inaugurate the world's
largest cricket stadium more than a
hundred thousand people showed up and
both of the leaders when they addressed
the crowd spoke of their special
relationship and of their hopes for the
future
[Applause]
just another partnership it is a Power
greater and closer relationship America
loves India America respects India and
America will always be faithful and
friends to the Indian people unless you
could imagine
both men were thrilled with the scale of
the turnout it's reasonable to say
though not everyone stayed to hear the
end of Donald Trump's speech anemic ball
my colleague shared this on social media
earlier showing people streaming out as
Donald Trump spoke the New York Times
estimates that up to a third of people
there had gone by the time the speech
finished there was also a lot of
attention on Indian social media
president Trump's efforts to pronounce
Indian names including actually the city
that he was speaking in five months ago
the United States welcomed your great
prime minister at a giant football
stadium in Texas and today India
welcomes us at the world's largest
cricket stadium right here in a bad
that's because she could forgive in for
the next one as he went on to talk about
the Indian philosopher Swami Vivekananda
as the great religious teacher Swami VV
come on and once said and he had a good
laugh about that as did everyone in the
stadium perhaps there's a little bit
less sympathy though when the president
took on a couple of Indian cricket
legends Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli
this is the country where your people
cheer on some of the world's greatest
cricket players from suChin Tendulkar to
villa
[Applause]
still got a big cheer and in the end
this trips not about pronunciation it's
about the chemistry between the two men
and it's particularly about trade
well mr. Trump's next stop was much
further north close to Delhi because he
and Melania Trump visited the Taj Mahal
and spent some time there Donald Trump
described it as truly incredible now
this is an interesting dimension to the
story Michael Google moons from the
Wilson Center which is the think-tank he
says you can't discuss Trump in India
without also highlighting the violence
that's played out today it's a sign of
the times in India it's a big deal
India media outlets of breaking away
from Trump Modi to focus on this now
this violence is connected to a new
citizenship law which gives amnesty to
non Muslim immigrants from nearby
countries but not to Muslims there were
mass process which began in December we
talked about them a lot on outside
source they very much continued today
this is in Delhi hours before President
Trump landed one policeman died in the
classes and critics are accusing the
government of trying to marginalize
Indies 200 million Muslims the
government very much rejects this but
there are some of these issues in this
article in Time which we spotted by the
Kolkata author soo ketsu Mehta drawing
comparisons between Narendra Modi and
Donald Trump on what he calls their
mistreatment of Muslims and tough
immigration looking policies well we
should say both men would reject the
idea they mistreat Muslims both would
probably acknowledged the second
certainly we know President Trump is
proud of his immigration policies he's
also proud of his stance on trade he's
previously described India as the king
of the tariffs and called the setup
unacceptable but there's a huge amount
at stake bear in mind this trading
relationship was worth in 2018 over a
hundred and forty billion dollars so mr.
Trump wants a reset the question is will
he get one here's your key to the might
in Delhi
well tomorrow is actually when they get
down to business today really was about
a display of the chemistry between these
two leaders tomorrow is when they will
hold their bilateral agreement and we
got a teaser of what we might expect
tomorrow in president Trump's speech
today which is a deal possibly being
signed between the two countries for
India to purchase
three billion dollars worth military
helicopters from the US but the much
touted sort of bigger trade deal and
that's not expected to happen during
this visit expectations were watered
down a week ago