Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Washington and other major US cities in one of the biggest US political demonstrations in recent memory — a stark rebuke to Donald Trump in the first hours of his presidency.
By early Saturday morning, tens of thousands of protesters had begun to swarm the Capitol for the Women’s March on Washington, while thousands more were crowding the DC Metro.
More than 100 sister marches are expected to take place in cities across the US, including New York, San Francisco and Boston. Outside the US, large rallies were already under way in cities including Paris, Amsterdam and London, where thousands packed Trafalgar Square.