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from the Paris climate treaty, President Trump says it's

Speaking within the past hour the president said he'd

try to renegotiate but the current gave other countries an unfair

We will see if we can make a deal that's fair.

The Paris climate agreement was signed by 200 countries just two

years ago to limit greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

The decision will have fatal consequences for the environment

and for people around the world according to climate

He is weakening America, he is losing jobs, he's exposing Americans

We'll have the details and the reaction to

On the campiagn trail - both Conservatives and Labour claim

they're best placed to manage the Brexit process.

After the Manchester bombing - we talk to one of the surgeons who

What we saw was essentially war wounds.

Yes, so the kind of wounds you would see on a battlefield.

And we look at the politics of zero-hours contracts

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,

England's Champions Trophy ambitions take Root,

as they win their opening match against Bangladesh by eight wickets

with Joe Root scoring an unbeaten century.

President Trump has announced that America is to withdraw

from the Paris climate agreement, the treaty signed by 200 countries

just two years ago to reduce greenhouse

because of the the economic burdens imposed by the treaty.

His predecessor, Barack Obama, whose administration

signed the accord, said it was a decision

Mr Trump made the announcement despite several appeals

from the United Nations to respect the future of the planet.

Our correspondent Nick Bryant has more details.

June the 1st, 2017, it is a day that will be talked about for years,

maybe decades to come. It was such a momentous decision from Donald

Trump. He showed today for him, America first, means America first.

The White House rose garden, the most fragrant of settings for what

environmentalists will see as a toxic presidential decision. One

that affects ecosystems all over the planet from Donald Trump's back

lawn, to the mightiest of oceans and ice sheets.

In order to fulfil my duty to protect America and its citizens,

the United States will withdraw... From the Paris Climate Accord.

He slammed this global agreement, a legacy of Barack Obama, claiming it

gave China and other countries an unfair competitive advantage and

penalised American workers. From the first word to its last, this was an

America first address. This agreement is less about the

climate and more about other countries gaining a financial

advantage over the United States. The rest of the world applauded when

we signed the Paris agreement, they went wild, they were so happy. For

the simple reason that it put our country, the United States of

America, which we all love, at a very, very big economic

disadvantage. At what point does America get demeaned? At what point

do they start laughing at us as a country? We want fair treatment for

its citizens and we want fair treatment for our taxpayers. We

don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore and

they won't be. They won't be. I was elected to represent the

citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris. For Donald Trump it is all about the

art of the deal. He said he wants to negotiate a better one for America.

But he didn't seem that worried if the rest of the world doesn't agree

to one. In negotiations to renter, either

the Paris Accord, or in really entirely new transactions, on terms

that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its

people, its taxpayers, so we're getting out but we will start to

negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal that's fair and if we

can, that's great, and if we can't, that's fine.

Climate change is an American problem too. Vert Florida, a

floodline, rising sea levels risk turning Miami beach into a modern

day Atlantis. A city sub#34er7b8ged by water. Even on sunny days it can

get water-logged as the tides bring the water up to the doorsteps.

Further up the coast, the estate here of the President, it is

estimated that a quarter of it could be under water in a decade.

No wonder the local residents are alarmed.

Our so-called President think it is is a Chinese hoax. I mean, I can't

believe it. I live right in the middle of climate change every day.

We are so affected here. How dare the leader of this great country say

it doesn't exist! Travel to the mist west coal and rust belt, there is a

different view. Here, the Paris agreement is seen as a killer of

American jobs but head further west to California, a state that long set

the pace on green issues on America, there is a democratic governor who

promised to conduct his own climate change negotiations with the

President of China. Donald Trump has gone AWOL. Now it

is up to the President of China and for California to work with him and

other countries to do whatever we can to off set the negative pathway

chosen by President Trump. This is a decision of enormous

planetary and geopolitical significance. Critics claiming

America has abdicated leadership on the world's biggest problem, that

America first, means aAmerica alone. Nick Bryant, BBC News, Washington.

The European Commission said it deeply regretted the decision

by the United States to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement,

saying it would seek new alliances to combat climate change.

"The EU deeply regrets the unilateral decision by the Trump

administration to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement," the

after US President Donald Trump announced his country's

One of the first to respond to the annoucecment

was Mr Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama,

whose administration signed the treaty.

Mr Obama accused the president of rejecting the future.

Our science editor, David Shukman, considers the response

and the likely impact of the president's decision.

With new records for temperatures set around the world, and scientists

warn being the raising ice and sea levels, nearly ercountry in the

world had agreed to try to cut the greenhouse gases that are heating

the atmosphere. They came together amid jubilant scenes, ushering in

the Paris aagreement, negotiated in 2015, the first global attempt to

tackle climate change, a landmark deal that America has now dealt a

major blow. This is a terrible day for

international efforts to combat climate change, the biggest issues

that the world faces. 195 countries signed the Paris climate agreement

and for the second largest polluter in the world, to say that we don't

care anymore is a gesture of contempt to the rest of the world.

Under the agreement, the countries pledged to cut emissions of carbon

dioxide. The aim to limit the rise in global average temperature to 2

Celsius but the promise of $100 billion a year for the poor

countries to cope with the effect. So with America pulling out, how

will other countries react? China is forging ahead with a huge push for

renewable energy. A partnership between China and America, the two

biggest polluters was the foundation stone of the Paris agreement but

today, the Chinese government was clear.

TRANSLATION: China will continue to implement promises made in the Paris

agreement, to move towards the 2030 goals step by step, steadfastly. But

we hope to do this in co-operation with others.

But for trurm Trump, what matters is the plight of the US coal

industries. He wants to revive it. But as things stand, the number of

Americans working in coal is dwarfed by those with jobs in the solar and

the wind industries. So what does this decision by Donald

Trump mean? Well, leaving the Paris agreement is a four-year process.

But there will be a halt to US funding for UN climate projects. $2

billion due by 2020. On the other hand, Donald Trump has spoken of

renegotiation, offering the prospect of reentering the agreement, though

it will not be easy given the criticism of big players such as

China and India this evening. On the tiny islands of the Pacific,

threatened with the rising seas, the Paris Accord was seen as a

salvation, tonight they are critical of what Donald Trump has done.

Certainly this is difficult for our country which is low-lying and at

the forefront of the climate impact. In the Maldives we have been going

through these challenges constantly. Last year America played a leading

role in tackling climate change. But then, the Secretary of State, John

Kerry brought his granddaughter to the signing of the Paris agreement.

The President is not in fact making America great again in this, he is

weakening America, he is losing jobs, he is exposing Americans to

worst climate change. So will the deal survive? Well the key may lie

in renewable technologies likes solar and wind which have tumbled in

cost. So with or without the agreement, a low carbon future may

make sense Boxing Day. David Shuckman, BBC News.

In the statement made in the past couple of hours and more reaction

but first we go back to Nick there in North America. The reaction

there, Nick. After all, this is the President doing something he

promised to do? Yes. People like Barack Obama are saying this is

President Trump rejecting the future. He says he hopes that cities

and states and businesses will step. He said in the last few minutes a

green alliance forged between the green states. And the New York City

Mayor slammed this decision as immorale. But this is what they are

saying on the west coast and the East Coast but it is not what is

said in the American heartland says Donald Trump. It is there it took

hold. That the Paris Accord was a job killer and the reduce and coal

states are the important electoral region of America. Donald Trump has

angered many people around the world but pleased the people that put him

in the White House. Nick, thank you. We are going

Brussels. Qatar is there. The President is talking of

renegotiating in some form. But what is the response in Brussels among

the Europeaning leaders? Europe is in a defiant mood. In Paris, the

Town Hall has been lit up in green in support of the environment. We

have had a joint statement from Germany, Italy and France, saying

that they regret Donald Trump's decision, that contrary to what he

suggested that the Paris climate accord is not renegotiable and that

the fight against climate change will continue without the United

States. As luck has it for the EU, tomorrow is the annual EU China

summit so that gives them the chance to stand side by side with the

biggest polluter and to give a joint statement on the accord. The

decision of Donald Trump comes hot on the heels with the meetings with

the leaders here at the G7 commit. But I urge caution, in the end the

EU has a lot more in common with the US than it does with China. This is

a tense and difficult moment in a close relationship but it is not the

end of it. Thank you Katya Adler and Nick

Bryant in the White House for us in Washington.

The European Union says it wants to start Brexit negotiations

on the 19th of June just 11 days after the election.

On the campaign trail today, both Conservatives and Labour

insisted they would be ready for the challenge

Theresa May told supporters that Britain would be more

prosperous outside the EU, while Jeremy Corbyn accused Mrs May

The European Union says it wants to start Brexit negotiations

of creating a toxic climate in talks with European partners.

Our politica editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has the latest.

You can see who seems to be enjoying it more, but whoever's

in charge next week, taking us out of the European Union

is their biggest job, their biggest opportunity,

I am confident that we can fulfil the promise of Brexit

together and build a Britain that is stronger, fairer and even

more prosperous than it is today, because the promise of Brexit

is great, the opportunities before us enormous.

We in Labour understand that getting the right deal,

one that secures our country's interest for the long-term,

A matter of serious planning and negotiations,

Ready to deliver a deal that gives British business and British society

the chance to thrive in a post-Brexit world.

Beyond those big claims, though, there's a lot we just do not know,

about how the next occupant of this place would approach everything once

in charge when Whitehall really has to get down to work

Both main parties say freedom of movement would come to an end,

the Prime Minister claims it would make hitting her

We will be able to control our own borders, ensuring that we continue

to attract the brightest and the best to work

but ensuring that we have control of that process

But neither the Tories nor Labour will be explicit about the kind

What about EU citizens here and Brits abroad?

Well, the Tories say they will be generous but won't guarantee

their rights until the same promises are made for UK citizens.

We will start by giving a clear commitment to every EU national

who lives here and works here who contributes a huge amount

to our society, they will be guaranteed their existing rights

We're out of the single market, a huge European free trading area

under both of the main parties' plans who say they'd

but the Scottish National Party want a different deal for Scotland.

We need to try to stay in the single market to protect jobs

and investment and living standards and we need strong SNP MPs in the

But leaving the EU means huge changes to the law

Theresa May declared that it will be our Supreme Courts and not

the European courts that will be in overall charge.

But it might not be that straightforward

because the continental judges oversee some things

like the European arrest warrants that we might

Labour says it's open to discussions.

The Lib Dems, though, remember, promise whatever the Brexit deal,

The British people have the right to either accept that deal,

and in that case we leave the European Union

on the 1st of April 2019 or to reject it and remain.

I will be very clear as I have been over the last 12 months,

I cannot see us any chance of us getting a better

There'd be no second vote under Labour but Jeremy Corbyn says

he wouldn't walk away until there was an EU deal.

The Tories insist, though, no deal is better than a bad one

Yet Theresa May is a long way from closing the deal with you.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

So talk today from the parties on their Brexit plans,

but how much detail did we actually get?

So here's our Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris.

It is striking that there has been so little debate

during this election campaign, even today, about exactly how

the Brexit negotiations will be conducted.

Both the Conservatives and Labour are saying, in effect,

But neither party has really discussed the difficult compromises

with the EU that will be needed if they are to succeed.

That's partly because as soon as you dig down a bit into Brexit,

it doesn't fit into neat election slogans.

Let's just take a couple of examples.

The European Court of Justice - the union's top court.

The Conservatives say it will no longer play a role

But the EU insists that the ECJ must continue

to protect the rights of EU citizens here in the future.

And what about the huge issue of immigration?

Labour says it accepts that free movement of people

But it also says it wants to maintain tariff-free access

The EU says you can't really have both at the same time,

Both the Tories and Labour say that under their leadership,

the UK will be more prosperous after Brexit.

Maybe it will be, but the Government's independent forecaster,

the Office for Budget Responsibility,

says that, for a few years at least, growth is likely to be lower

and inflation is likely to be higher.

There's nothing wrong with being optimistic.

But critics ask if we've had an honest debate

about whether "taking back control" might come with a cost.

What it means is that a week before an election that was called

specifically because of Brexit, at a time when the EU is setting

out its plans in detail, we know remarkably little about

how the UK will approach the most complex and most important

negotiations this country has faced in decades.

Chris, thanks very much, Chris Morris, with our Reality Check.

There has been a new development on immigration this evening, we can go

to Westminster and talk to Laura Kuenssberg, what have you learned?

Many of our viewers will remember that he may decided to stick with

her ambition of reducing net migration, the difference between

the number of people who move away and the number of people who settle

here permanently, to under 100,000 when she published her manifesto. It

was controversial, because the target has been missed by miles by

the Tories since 2010. But she has resolutely refused to give a

timetable, to give herself a deadline. When asked by reporters

this afternoon whether that might been by the end of the parliament,

by 2022, she said that is what we are working for, although it won't

be easy. Now, that significant, because it is the first time she has

gone anywhere near setting out a timetable, but also slightly

awkward, because the Brexit Secretary, David Davis, has told

Question Time, we cannot promise it within five years. Tonight, Tory

sources are playing this down, saying they have always been clear

there isn't a strict deadline, that is not what Theresa May was saying,

they have told me there is no disagreement, and that the Tories in

their view the only party in this election committed to getting

immigration down significantly. But it matters because this is a huge

issue for millions of voters around the country, and also because right

now it feels like Tories are having a choppy campaign, and on any issue,

let alone one of their central promises, they can't afford to have

confusion. Laura, again, thanks very much for the update, Laura

Kuenssberg with the latest on the campaign from Westminster.

The mother of the youngest victim who was killed

in the Manchester Arena bombing has been taken off a life-support

machine and now knows about her daughter's death.

Eight-year-old Saffie Roussos, from Leyland in Lancashire,

was with her mother and sister at the concert

when she was killed as they left the building.

Flowers and balloons have been placed outside

Mrs Roussos and Saffie's sister, Ashley,

are now said to be recovering and out of danger.

Security forces in the Philippines say they are now in full control

of one of the country's biggest hotel resorts

after reports of gunfire and explosions.

People fleeing the Resorts World complex in the capital, Manila,

said a masked gunman had opened fire in a casino.

Police say nobody has been shot, there are no hostages,

and the motive may have been robbery rather than terrorism.

Recently, President Duterte declared martial law

in part of the country where the army is fighting militants

Pakistan has rejected allegations by the government of Afghanistan

that it was involved in a massive attack in Kabul yesterday.

90 people died, and at least 400 were injured,

in the bombing in the capital, which happened during rush hour.

The attack, which was launched from a lorry

packed with explosives near Zanbaq Square,

created a massive crater in the ground.

It also blew out windows across the heavily fortified Green Zone

which houses several foreign embassies.

Our correspondent Secunder Kermani sent this report from Kabul.

This man has just identified his brother's remains at the morgue.

The victim worked as a security guard

TRANSLATION: There were dozens of bodies in the morgue,

and they were all burned beyond recognition.

We've only just found him after searching for him for two days.

The blast left a huge plume of smoke hanging over the city.

Authorities believe a suicide bomber detonated 1500 kg of explosives

Attacks are common in Kabul, but this is one of the largest ever.

directly opposite the site of the blast.

Today, construction workers were filling in the huge crater

This area really is the heart of Kabul.

The wall you can see marks the boundary of what's known

as the fortified Green Zone, in which most of the international

charities and the foreign embassies, like the partially destroyed

German Embassy over there, are based, and there are questions

about how an attacker could reach into such a sensitive

Security in Afghanistan has been steadily deteriorating.

Last year saw the highest ever recorded number

No-one's claimed responsibility for this attack.

The Afghan authorities have blamed Pakistani sponsored militants.

For those waiting outside this emergency hospital

the focus of their anger was their own government.

they were just sleeping, nothing else.

Their own daughters and sons, they were in foreign countries,

and only the poor people they are destroying here

The United States is due to decide shortly on whether to send an extra

3500 troops into Afghanistan, but almost everyone here

expects more violence in the coming weeks and months.

The Ulster Unionist Party has published its election manifesto,

which includes a promise to reform the NHS in Northern Ireland,

merging the five health-care trusts to create a single body.

The party leader Robin Swann, also rejected the idea

of Northern Ireland being given special status

He described it as "an attempt to create a united Ireland

There can be no border up the middle of the Irish Sea.

There can be no passport checks for citizens of Northern Ireland

All our energies should be focused instead on the Brexit negotiations

and getting the best deal for our people.

During the election campaign, BBC News is looking in more detail

at aspects of policy, and this week we're focusing

on working lives - how fulfilling are jobs,

how are those jobs changing, how well do they pay,

has been looking at the controversy surrounding zero-hours contracts

and the prospect of enhancing workers' rights.

It was the everyday insult for poorly paid, dead-end employment -

the McJob, it became part of our vocabulary.

It even makes an appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary.

it's an outdated view rich with the whiff of snobbery.

Liz Stephenson has been with McDonald's her whole career,

starting in the kitchens when she was at school,

though she has never flipped a burger.

you know, "Why are you still working in McDonald's?"

And I think there's always been that stigma.

Almost, and I think even to the point

where people weren't proud to say that they worked at McDonald's.

It takes less than two minutes to make a Big Mac -

unless you're not absolutely sure what you are doing.

This is a company built on flexibility -

The chief executive talks about a new world of work

between nontraditional employment and traditional values.

In some ways, they have been demonised,

but it was time we moved forward and made sure that we offered

the contracts that our people wanted in McDonald's.

After controversies over zero-hours abuses at other firms,

McDonald's offered offered its staff the chance to change

This is a company that has certainly been on a journey.

From McJob to a chief executive who says he wants to see that term

removed from the Oxford English Dictionary.

Two big trends in the new world of work - the huge growth

in the number of zero-hours contracts and the huge growth

in the number of self-employed, both raising big challenges

Whoever wins the next general election

will have to contend with the new world of work.

In 2007, there were 143,000 people on zero-hours contracts,

which do not guarantee any hours of work.

By 2016, that figure had risen to 905,000.

In the same period, the number of people who are self-employed

The changing world of work may be positive for some,

but there are still serious questions.

Flexibility can be great if it's a genuine choice

and it's genuinely a two-way street between the boss and the worker.

The problem is when all the power is in the hands of the boss,

and we've seen too many bad bosses getting away with treating

workers badly, having them at their beck and call.

It's not so much flexibility, it's more a very old form

Whoever cashes in on June 8th, one of the first reports

on Number Ten's desk will be on the new world of work.

The Government commissions study is likely to call for

and the status of the self-employed in the gig economy.

The new Prime Minister will be expected to respond,

making the rules fit for people who have moved on from McJobs.

The actor Roy Barraclough, who's best known

for playing the landlord Alec Gilroy in Coronation Street,

He was also known for his double act with Les Dawson,

playing Lancashire housewives Cissie and Ada.

His death comes following a short illness.

A surgeon who operated on many of the young victims

of the Manchester bombing last week has said the injuries he saw

were like those sustained in war zones.

Dr Ibrar Majid, who works at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital,

said he was angry that a man who claimed to share his Muslim faith

could have carried out such an attack.

Dr Majid spoke to our correspondent Martin Bashir.

It was the front line in treating the youngest victims

and soon welcomed the Queen, who offered support and comfort.

Hopefully it mends quickly. Hope so.

The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital has won widespread praise

for its response to the bomb attack, and leading the team of surgeons

the head of trauma and orthopaedic surgery.

What we saw was essentially war wounds.

Yes, so the kind of wounds you would see on a battlefield.

We were operating from probably about one o'clock in the morning

all the way to just before eight o'clock.

then there was a pecking order of what needed to be done.

So the life-saving surgery had to be done before the limb-saving surgery.

And were there several children where there

Yes, and even to this day we're continuing

to operate on some children, and some of these children

will continue to need surgeries going into next week.

Fortunately, that night in theatre, we didn't lose any patients.

He would oversee three operating theatres,

managing a team of nurses and consultants.

The clinical challenge for Dr Majid was only compounded by the knowledge

that the attacker claimed to be a Muslim.

I don't understand how somebody who professes to have that same

faith has such a discordant view of life.

How do you feel about individuals who claim to be Muslims

I can understand why people are angry - I am angry.

I am angry that someone would do this,

After eight hours of nonstop surgery,

he finally went home to his family.

What did you tell your wife when you got home?

I couldn't really talk to her much at all,

I think the words I used were, "It was horrific,"

and I said I needed to rest, and I just went upstairs.

I slept for about two hours, I was woken by my son,

he'd just come back from nursery, and I can remember giving him

Having operated on children all night with life

I cherished any moment with him more than I ever have.

A dark night for the medical community, but the darkness

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