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They believe Donald Trump is the saviour of the American way of life and only he alone can take on the Democrats and the political and corporate establishment.

We spoke to the Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, and started by asking him what he made of video released today, showing Vladimir Putin dunking himself in ice-cold water to mark the Russian Orthodox day of Epiphany – a ceremony that supposedly symbolises a person cleansing themself of sin.

Donald Trump has less than 24 hours left as president, and the reckoning has already begun – including from some whose support he was able to count on. 

We spoke to the Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle. 

The inauguration of the 46th US President marks the end of America’s four-year experiment with carnage and chaos – with a new Commander in chief being sworn in today.

A Russian judge has imprisoned the opposition leader Alexei Navalny for 30 days. The hearing took place not in court, but a police station, with Navalny’s lawyer given barely any notice. The UK and other European countries are understood to be weighing possible further sanctions.

The author and political scientist Yascha Mounk specialises in the crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of populism.

In just over 40 hours, on Wednesday early morning, President Trump will leave the White House to fly to West Palm Beach in Florida, skipping the inauguration ceremony of his successor – the first outgoing President to do so since Andrew Johnson in 1869.  If there has been an element of continuity in Trump’s presidency,…

There is a vaccine story in Washington too – 30 million doses delivered so far, but only 12 million have ended up in people’s arms. President-elect Biden intends to change that quickly. Today, he visited a food bank as Americans celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King Jr. King was assassinated and there are fears of similar…

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has spent five months in Berlin recovering from a poisoning attack, has been detained by police after arriving back in Moscow in the last hour. The Kremlin critic risks being arrested but told hoards of reporters on board his flight that he was “an innocent person” and he was…

We were joined from Florida by Mick Mulvaney who was acting White House Chief of Staff under Donald Trump for more than a year.

Siobhan Kennedy is in Lansing, the state capital of Michigan for us now, another city facing tightened security.

There’s usually tight security here in the run-up to a Presidential inauguration, but this time it is tighter than ever thanks to the deadly siege of Capitol Hill 11 days ago. In state capitals across the US, law enforcement officers are on high alert for protests promised for today by Donald Trump’s supporters. So far,…

India has launched one of the world’s biggest and most ambitious vaccination drives against for its 1.3 billion citizens. The government aims to administer 300 million coronavirus jabs by August – with healthcare workers first in line for the vaccine. India has registered more than 10.5 million coronavirus cases, the second highest in the world,…

A new documentary sheds light on how the FBI targeted America’s most prominent civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s. The film called MLK/FBI draws on recently declassified files and bug and phone tapping recordings of Martin Luther King, yet to be released. At the time they wanted to find links he had with…