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Live coverage of the inauguration of President Barack Obama will be shown on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One, the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News channel and the front page of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News website on Tuesday 20 January from 4.00 to 6.00pm. The inauguration will also be shown in high definition on the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú HD channel.

The parade to the White House will be shown from 7.00 to 9.00pm on the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News channel.

Both events will be simulcast on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú World News and Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú America to an audience of over 280 million households and streamed live on the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News website.

And a live webstream will be available on the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú homepage from 4.30 to 6.30pm.

Huw Edwards will anchor the programme live from Capitol Hill with Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú World News America anchor Matt Frei.

They will be joined by leading Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News correspondents Katty Kay, Rajesh Mirchandani, Jon Sopel and Clive Myrie who will report from key points around Washington DC.

Contributors will include historian Robert Dallek and Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree, who taught both Barack and Michelle Obama, and veteran journalist Bob Woodward.

Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News is sending 60 staff – including technicians, presenters and reporters – to cover the event, alongside the newsgathering team based in the US.

Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Two's Newsnight has a specially extended programme on inauguration night running from 10.30 to 11.40pm. Jeremy Paxman will be presenting live from Washington DC on the day's events and will be joined by a host of guests.

The Today programme on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 4 will run a series of reports from James Naughtie at the inauguration ceremony.

On Radio 4's PM there will be an extended programme from 4.30 to 6.00pm, presented by Eddie Mair in London with James Naughtie and Hugh Sykes reporting.

On World Tonight (Radio 4), Robin Lustig presents a special programme from Alabama focusing on reactions from the birthplace of the civil rights movement. The programme will feature a guest panel, reports from Alabama's historical sites and interviews with people who fought alongside Martin Luther King to abolish racial discrimination.

Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 5 Live Drive will be broadcast from Washington, presented by Anita Anand.

On Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 1, Newsbeat will also be running pieces from their local US reporters.

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