Trump is now questioned on the release of Former Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, as well as the pardons for the more than 1,500 people convicted for involvement in the January 6 2021 riot on Capitol Hill.

One reporter asks if people who assaulted police officers deserved a pardon, which Trump does not answer directly.

Asked next if there is a place for them in the political conversation, he responds: "They've been given a pardon, I thought their sentences were ridiculous and excessive."

Trump takes his place at the podium again, resuming his remarks by claiming his administration has already secured nearly $3 trillion of investments in the US.

He adds that this will probably be $6-7 trillion in the next week.

The president touts his flurry of executive orders including bringing down inflation and his orders on immigration.

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OpenAI's Sam Altman keeps his remarks brief, saying he is "thrilled" they get to do this in America, and adding he believes this will be the "most important project of this era".

"We wouldn't be able to do this without you Mr President," he says.

Trumps asks him how AI will fight various problems such as health issues - and Altman says he believes this technology will cure diseases at "rapid" rate.

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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is next up to the podium.

He says that last month, he celebrated Donald Trump's win and promised to invest $100bn.

Son then says he has come back now to offer $500bn - he says the $100bn is immediate and the $500bn will come over five years.

"As you said," Masayoshi Son notes to Trump, "This is the beginning of the golden age of America".

He adds that this is not just for business, but that the investment will help people's lives.

The age of AI is coming "very very soon," he says, and that after that "artificial super intelligence will come to solve the issues that mankind would never had thought we could solve".

Larry Ellison of Oracle is now invited to speak.

He starts by saying to Trump: "We couldn't do this without you."

Ellison says AI holds incredible promise. He adds that data centres are already under construction in Texas and each building is half a million square feet.

He goes on to say that there are 10 buildings, but that will expand to 20 and other locations will be added.

Ellison says the applications they are building will help with maintaining and reviewing electronic health rerecords to improve healthcare.

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump repeatedly characterised himself as the candidate that would boost and revive confidence in the US economy - and that's again his message today.

After noting that he's on his "first day back from having a nice life", Trump says that new firm, Stargate, will create over 100,000 jobs. Specifically, "American jobs".

This, he adds, is a "resounding declaration of confidence in America's potential in a new president".

Trump also says he would be helping through emergency executive orders - a sign that he plans to wield the power of the executive very differently than Joe Biden did.

Trump next announces the formation of Stargate, a new American company that will invest $500 billion (£404 billion) in AI infrastructure over the next four years.

The endevor will create at least 100,000 jobs at least and create the construction of large data centres, he says.

Locations for these new campuses are now being scouted nationwide.

Trump adds that he wants to keep the industry in the US, "I'm going to help a lot through emergency declarations".

The president then hands over to the three tech CEOs with him to further explain their plans.

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Trump begins by telling the press pool in the White House that he recognises some faces from his last time as president.

We had a great first term but we're going to have an even better second term, Trump says, adding he thinks they are going to do things that people are going to be "shocked" by.

He welcomes Larry Ellison of Oracle, Sam Altman of OpenAI and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who are standing next to him.

He says together they are announcing the biggest AI project in history.

Over to the White House now, where Donald Trump has just begun speaking for what is expected to be a announcement on his plans to build artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

As we reported earlier, the BBC's US partner CBS News cites multiple people familiar with the matter as saying the president will announce up to $500bn (£405bn) in private sector investment.

The deal reportedly involves major industry players such as OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle, who are planning a joint venture called Stargate.

Stick with us and we'll bring you what Trump has to say here, or hit Watch Live at the top of the page to stream his remarks.

Fresh from his inauguration, US president Donald Trump has wasted no time in signing off on a suite of executive orders.

Among them is a direction to rename the Gulf of Mexico the ''Gulf of America''. BBC Verify's Jake Horton asks, can the president really do that?

We reported earlier that Trump was due to meet Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

We can now confirm that the meeting began around an hour and half ago in the Oval Office.

We're expecting to hear directly from the president shortly for what is expected to be a significant announcement on infrastructure.

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New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin has announced that his state is leading a group of eighteen others that have sued the federal government over the executive order to end birthright citizenship signed by President Donald Trump last night.

"The executive order renders many children born on American soil without citizenship, creating for the first time a class of American-born children whose health and wellbeing are threatened by their own government," he says.

"This is an extreme and unprecedented act, and this executive order is an assault on the rule of law. It attacks a right that is core to our nation’s earliest days," the Democrat lawmaker adds.

Platkin goes on to say that if the order takes effect, hundreds of thousands of children who are born in the US to non-citizen parents each year will suddenly have an "uncertain legal status". He says this equals to at least 420 children born every day

He adds that the state's ability to safeguard the wellbeing of these children, including providing basic services like healthcare and education, will be "thrown into disarray".

"Presidents in this country have broad powers, but they are not kings," Platkin says, adding: "They do not have the power to unilaterally rewrite the constitution, to disregard our laws."

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House

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The Trump administration has officially re-instated the controversial "Remain in Mexico" policy that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while claims are processed.

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says that the policy - also known as Migrant Protection Protocols - would be re-instated "effective immediately".

First implemented in 2019, Remain in Mexico was scrapped by the Biden administration after a long legal battle and eventual Supreme Court ruling.

President Joe Biden had called the programme "inhumane" and tried to end it on his first day in office.

His efforts, however, were blocked by a federal judge.

During the previous Trump administration, about 70,000 asylum seekers were returned to Mexico to wait for their hearings. They were often left there for months and sometimes were preyed upon by criminal gangs.

Human rights advocates had argued that by 2022 as many as 1,500 had reported being kidnapped, raped, or abused after being returned to Mexico.

Blanca Estrada
Reporting from Chicago

With President Donald Trump back in office, all eyes are on Chicago over looming threats of mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.

The Trump administration has vowed to make Chicago "ground zero" for raids.

Tom Homan, Trump's "border tsar", is expected to deploy federal, state and local law enforcement into immigrant communities living in the city in Illinois.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has vowed to protect immigrant communities through "sanctuary provisions".

I spoke to immigrants in the Little Village neighbourhood of Chicago about their deportation fears ahead of Trump's second term. Watch what they told me below:

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House

In a significant departure from the Biden administration's immigration policies, the Department of Homeland Security has rescinded existing guidelines that prevent immigration officers from entering "sensitive" areas such as schools.

In a statement, DHS said that the guidelines "thwart" law enforcement.

"This action empowers the brave men in women in CBP [Customs and Border Protection] and ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to enforce our immigration laws and catch criminal aliens - including murderers and rapists - who have illegally come into our country," a DHS spokesman said.

The spokesman added that "the Trump administration will not tie the hands" of law enforcement, and expects them to "use common sense."

A second directive stops the use of humanitarian parole, which helped migrants of certain categories enter the US.

Individuals will now be looked at on a case-by-case basis.

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During Trump's first term in the White House, he often opened the door wide to journalists from conservative outlet Fox News for interviews.

And now, just days into his second term, he appears to be welcoming them back, with Fox due to air an interview conducted by Sean Hannity in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

Axios is reporting that Fox will record the interview and then broadcast it at 21:00 eastern time (02:00 GMT Thursday). The interview will cover his raft of executive orders and what to expect from the first 100 days, along with other topics, according to Axios.

Fox has for decades been a home for conservative and Republican voices, and Trump has tapped another of the network's show hosts, Pete Hegseth, to become the next Secretary of Defense.

In December, the network gave Trump its "Patriot of the Year" award, where he and Hannity shared a hug on stage.

Republican lawmakers have been reacting to President Donald Trump's pardoning of more than 1,500 people charged for the US Capitol riot four years ago.

Since the order was signed last night, former Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison in DC.

Here's a round-up of some of the reactions so far from Republican lawmakers:

• Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina said no person who assaulted police on 6 January should get a pardon, but added that he was equally disappointed with former president Joe Biden's decision to issue pardons. Referring to both Trump and Biden, he told Reuters news agency: "Neither action builds confidence in our Justice Department"
• Taking a more partisan stance, Senate Majority Leader John Thune put the blame firmly at Biden's feet. Speaking to CNN, he said Biden "opened the door" to pardons. Biden issued last-minute pre-emptive pardons to members of the 6 January House riot investigation committee as well as members of his family in the last hours of his presidency
• Senator Susan Collins of Maine said that while some caught up in the crowd on 6 January "may well deserve" clemency, she did not support the pardons "given to people who engaged in violence on January 6". She also criticised Biden's last-minute pardons. Collins was one of seven Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in 2021 for his role in the 6 January riot
• And Senator John Cornyn of Texas and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee wouldn't comment on whether he thought or if he agreed with Trump's move, telling CNN: "it's the president's prerogative"

Emma Vardy
Reporting from Washington DC

Another January 6 prisoner has just been released from Washington DC Central Jail.

Rachel Powell, from Pennsylvania, had been in jail for a year, after smashing a window during the Capitol riots with an ice axe.

Speaking outside the jail she said that she would now be home in time for her son's birthday, and praised Donald Trump for keeping his promise of pardons.

"He's a bigger blessing to me than I could ever imagine," she told supporters and a large press scrum waiting for her.

While in prison she said she spent time reading the book authored by Donald Trump’s vice-president J.D Vance, saying "I thought wow I can see why Trump picked this guy."

It’s still unclear when other inmates will be walking out of the jail.

We're hearing that lawyers are trying to speed things up, but it's understood that some of those who are waiting for their cases to be heard in court need to go through a legal process for their cases to be formally dismissed before they can be released.

We've told you about Trump signing an executive order last night beginning the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization.

Since then, the BBC has spoken to Lawrence Gosti, director of the WHO Center for Global Health, who says the move risks ceding leadership to China.

Gostin says: "The US withdrawal even in itself is a severe blow, not just to the World Health Organization and global health — and it is a deep wound to them — but I believe it's an even deeper wound to US national interests and national security."

Trump said he decision was based on China gaining greater influence in the WHO, but Gostin argues the US has been "far more influential".

"The irony is that this could cede leadership to our adversaries, and particularly to China," Gostin tells the BBC World Service's Newshour programme. "Whenever important decisions were made, the United States would be on the outside looking in."

But beyond that, Gostin worries about future emergencies:

Jessica Parker
Berlin correspondent

Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for "cool heads" after US President Donald Trump’s first 24 hours in office.

The German leader said social media suggested a world on the "verge of a nervous breakdown". He added, "Not every press conference in Washington, not every tweet should plunge us into heated, existential debates."

It’s a plea for calm, that some will sympathise with, as Europe navigates the second Trump White House.

However, Chancellor Scholz’s critics might argue that Germany – under his leadership – has been too calm in the face of a radically changing world.

A frequent charge against Berlin is that Europe’s largest economy has failed to step up, generate economic growth or sufficiently splash out on defence.

All eyes will soon be on Germany as it charts its future course – when it holds its own national election next month.