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BBC news 2017-02-02

BBC News with Eileen Macue.

On his first full day in office, President Trump and his White House team have accused the media of lying about the size of the crowds at his inauguration on Friday. Mr. Trump said more than a million people had attended his swear-in ceremony. Later, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, told journalists that the audience had been the largest to witness an inauguration and that efforts to lessen the enthusiasm had been shameful and wrong.

More than a million Americans turned out on Saturday to protest against President Trump. Originally-planned as a march on Washington to demonstrate against President Trump's statements on women, the rallies drew huge crowds in many major American cities.

The former president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, is on his way to exile in Equatorial Guinea, after agreeing to hand over power to Adama Barrow, who defeated him in a presidential election last month. Mr. Barrow is expected to return from Senegal shortly.

An express train has crashed in eastern India, killing at least 36 people and injuring more than 60 others. Rescue workers are still trying to reach survivors trapped in the wreckage. Sabotage is not ruled out.

Voting has begun in France in the Socialist Party's primary to decide on the nominee for the presidential election in April. Two candidates will be chosen from a field of seven in the first round, but the deeply-unpopular current President, Francois Hollande, isn't standing.

Pope Francis has warned against a rise in populism. He says seeking a savior in times of crisis could lead to the election of leaders like Hitler. The Pope also said it was too early to give an opinion on the U.S. President, Donald Trump. He suggested waiting to see what Mr. Trump did before passing judgments.

And in tennis, the top seed in the men's singles, Andy Murray, has been knocked out of the Australia Open by an unseeded German peer, Mischa Zverev. Murray lost in 4 sets.

BBC News.