Trump Team Attacks "Shameful" Inauguration Coverage
The White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer calls comparisons of the numbers attending Obama and Trump's inaugurations "shameful and wrong".
The new White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, has accused the press of behaving in a "shameful" manner for reporting smaller crowds at Donald Trump's inauguration compared with that of Barack Obama.
Also in the programme: The British Prime Minister will be the first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump; The arts' festival in The Gambia that went ahead amid political upheaval.
(Photo: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer delivers a statement in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on January 21, 2017.
Credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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