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Live coverage of the inauguration of President Barack Obama will be shown on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News channel and the front page of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News website on Tuesday 20 January from 4.00 to 6.00pm. The inauguration will also be shown in high definition on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ HD channel.

The parade to the White House will be shown from 7.00 to 9.00pm on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News channel.

Both events will be simulcast on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ World News and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ America to an audience of over 280 million households and streamed live on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News website.

And a live webstream will be available on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ homepage from 4.30 to 6.30pm.

Huw Edwards will anchor the programme live from Capitol Hill with ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ World News America anchor Matt Frei.

They will be joined by leading ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ 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.

³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News is sending 60 staff – including technicians, presenters and reporters – to cover the event, alongside the newsgathering team based in the US.

³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ 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 ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ 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.

³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 5 Live Drive will be broadcast from Washington, presented by Anita Anand.

On ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 1, Newsbeat will also be running pieces from their local US reporters.

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