US President Barack Obama makes Guantanamo closure plan

Source: BBCNews

President Obama is delivering a year-end address before heading to San Bernardino to visit families bereaved by the terror attacks.

The speech and the trip to California are his last scheduled appearances before going to Hawaii for holiday until the new year.

He is taking questions from reporters. Here is a sample of his answers, with some analysis from the BBC's Laura Trevelyan in Washington.

Mr Obama said it was his expectation by early next year to have reduced the prison population at the camp in Cuba to below 100.

He said he will present a plan to Congress to close it, keeping back the threat of using his executive powers if Congress rejects it.