13/07/2017 BBC News at Ten

Another big step towards Brexit, as the Government publishes

its plans to convert EU law into British law.

Ministers call for all parties to work with them,

but already the opposition is calling for changes.

The Prime Minister faces a difficult path ahead

She says she was devastated by the election result.

We'll be looking at the challenges ahead.

The parents of baby Charlie Gard return to court, as an American

doctor says a trial therapy could give him a chance

On a visit to Paris, just weeks after President Trump

said he'd pull America out of the Paris climate accord,

World leaders pay tribute to one of China's most prominent

political dissidents, Liu Xiaobo, after he dies

And the end of a dream for Johanna Konta, as she fails

to become the first British woman in 40 years to reach

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:

Chris Froome loses the yellow jersey in the Tour de France,

as he struggles on the final climb in today's 12th stage.

It's another major step on Britain's path to leaving the European Union.

The Government has finally published its long-awaited plans

to pave the way for EU law to be transferred into British law.

The European Union Withdrawal Bill is being described as one

of the largest legal projects ever undertaken in the UK.

The Government's called for all parties to work together

But already Labour is calling for significant changes,

and the Liberal Democrats are warning they will make life

The bill will take an estimated 12,000 EU laws and copy them into UK

law on the day that the UK leaves the European Union.

The Government will then have powers to amend laws as it sees fit.

Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has this report.

A warning - it contains some flashing images.

Still doing the handshakes, rolling out the red

carpet for royalty - Spanish, this time.

Still embarking on the task of taking us out of the European Union.

For the first time today, the Prime Minister explaining her

I felt, um, I suppose, devastated really, because,

as I say, I knew the campaign wasn't going perfectly, but still,

the messages I was getting from people I was speaking to,

but also, the comments we were getting back

from a lot of people, that were being passed on to me,

were that we were going to get a better result than we did.

And then you obviously have to brush yourself down.

You have a responsibility, you are a human being, you have been

But I was there as leader of the party and Prime Minister.

I had a responsibility then, as we went through the night,

to determine what we were going to do the next morning.

Today, the bill that will legally take us out of the European Union

Broadly, the withdrawal bill cuts and pastes thousands of EU laws that

govern so much right now into British law.

But with Theresa May's shaky grip, MPs will inevitably try

I think there is a big understanding now amongst ministers,

right the way across the board, that there will need to be a bit

of compromise, there will need to be inevitable changes.

So you think ministers have understood that,

The withdrawal bill is such a huge undertaking.

It also gives ministers the power to try to change or strike out

swathes of regulation without guaranteeing MPs a say.

This bill, as it stands though, would give ministers

like you sweeping powers to change, get rid of bits and pieces

of regulation that you don't like, without MPs having a guaranteed vote

These are hardly massive changes, these are technical changes

And it's up to the House of Commons, if a statutory instrument is placed

front of the House of Commons, the House of Commons

decides whether it debates it and votes on it.

But they're not guaranteed votes unless today you want to give

That's in the call of the House of Commons, what it chooses

But no, it's not just a ministerial signature,

it is what they call a statutory instrument, which can be

Asking for its own meetings in Brussels.

Trying to get the EU's negotiator onside.

Barnier, you are now playing for Arsenal!

Although it might take more than an Arsenal shirt to do that!

But there's no way, as it stands, that Labour will back the bill.

We will make sure there is full Parliamentary scrutiny,

We have a Parliament where the government does

not have a majority, we have a country that

has voted in two ways, on Leave and Remain.

Obviously the majority voted to leave, we respect that.

But they didn't vote to lose jobs, they didn't vote to have Parliament

Nicola Sturgeon with her own Kodak moment in Brussels today too.

The Scottish Parliament can't technically veto the plan,

As the bill stands just now, in good conscience I could not

recommend to the Scottish Parliament that it gives legislative

This bill takes powers away from the Scottish parliament

This bill takes powers away fromt the Scottish Parliament

and undermines the very foundations of the devolution settlement that

As Whitehall begins this enormous process, ministers

are all too well aware that there will be conflict ahead.

The question, how they balance, compromise and hang

And what ends up on the statute books does not just sit

on the shelf, but shapes how ministers govern, how

And Laura's in Westminster for us tonight.

It is clear that there is a rocky road ahead for the government.

Absolutely. Ministers know this will be very difficult and there will be

all sorts of attempts to change the legislation. One joke doing the

rounds at Westminster is that MPs are going to try and hang so much on

this bill that it's going to end up dressed up like a Christmas tree.

Ministers know they'll have to concede in some areas. The question

is, where will they compromised and when? Will they try and fight day by

day, once MPs are back in the autumn, on every issue? If you sniff

very hard, there is a vague whiff of compromise in the air, maybe for the

first time. Talking to Brexit Secretary David Davis earlier, he

did suggest the UK might be able to have some sort of associate

membership of the nuclear safety agency it sounds a bit obscure, but

that is a green rebellion that has been gathering steam in the last few

days he also sketched out the idea of what he had described as

arbitration mechanisms, a potential way around the brick wall that has

built up between Westminster and Brussels over what you do over who's

in charge of life after Brexit. Remember, Louisa May is adamant that

European judges must no longer have control over what happened in the

UK. -- Theresa May. In Brussels, they believe European judges will

have to continue having a role to police the things that have come

down through European law over the time. I think David Davis was

deliberately sketching out a possible way out of that particular

quagmire. Ministers want to stick to their guns as much as they can, but

since the election, with their political authority dilutive, and

the clock ticking louder and louder, they know, as things proceed, they

are going to have to concede or compromise politically, but they

don't want to be seen to back down. An American doctor has told

the High Court that a trial therapy in the States could give a chance

of meaningful improvement to the condition of the terminally

ill baby Charlie Gard. Charlie's parents returned to court

today for the latest stage of their legal battle

to keep him alive. The judge says he will only

change his ruling - allowing Great Ormond Street Hospital

to withdraw life support - Our Medical Correspondent,

Fergus Walsh, reports. Save Charlie Gard,

save Charlie Gard. They call themselves Charlie's Army,

some of the half a million people who signed the petition calling

for him to be allowed abroad Chris Gard and Connie Yates reject

evidence from Charlie's doctors that their son has

irreversible brain damage. If he is still fighting,

then we are still fighting. Charlie is terminally ill,

cannot move or breathe unaided. Four courts have already ruled

he should be allowed to die. The key evidence today came

via video link from the American He said he now had a better

understanding of the benefits Of nine patients treated so far,

none of whom has the same genetic mutation as Charlie,

five now spent less time each day on a ventilator, and one of them

could breathe completely unaided. He said this led him to conclude

there was at least a 10% chance of meaningful

improvement for Charlie. It's a powder added to food,

which aims to boost energy Six-year-old Art Estopinan has

a muscle-wasting condition and is one of those treated with it

in the US. We were able to give him

the medications, and little by little he started

to get stronger. I didn't care if he was the first

human to try these medications, because they only told us

he was going to die. But Great Ormond Street says

Charlie's catastrophic brain damage The final decision

of the court is aimed to be at Charlie's best interest,

and that would be a balance It's not black-and-white,

but it's going to be a summation of all the possible benefits

and all the possible risks, and what that could do for Charlie,

not what it does for anybody else. In court, Connie Yates insisted

Charlie is not suffering or in pain, and both parents briefly walked out

of the hearing after the judge said they had agreed their son currently

had no quality of life. So this desperately sick boy

remains in intensive care, kept alive on a ventilator,

as arguments over what is in his President Trump has hinted America

could still shift its policy on the Paris climate accord,

despite his decision last month to withdraw from the global

agreement to limit climate change. He made the comments

in Paris after talks with the French President,

Emmanuel Macron. He also faced questions

about the controversy surrounding his son's meeting

with a Russian lawyer during the presidential

campaign last year. This report contains

some flashing images. If diplomacy is about power

disguised as flattery, there are few more potent greetings

than a ten-second handshake. Emmanuel Macron welcomed

Donald Trump today with a visit to the tomb of France's and military

leader, Napoleon, the impressive location designed to flatter both

the visitor and host. Both these two men see

themselves as modern-day political revolutionaries,

sweeping away the old But Mr Macron also sees nothing

wrong with using France's imperial history and military might

to put its current diplomatic The two men have been battling

for the role of alpha male ever since their first handshake

on the sidelines of the G7 summit. Donald Trump later pulled out

of a key climate change deal brokered in Paris,

prompting Mr Macron to issue a video parodying the US

President's campaign slogan. But Mr Macron, keen to boost

French influence abroad, And Mr Trump's comments today

on climate change suggest Something could happen with respect

to the Paris accord. But we will talk about that over

the coming period of time. And if it happens,

that will be wonderful, and if it doesn't that

will be OK, too. TRANSLATION: I want to continue

discussions with the US and President Trump on this

very important subject. I think it's compatible

in the Paris Agreement. Now we have to let the US

work on its road map And amid allegations that Russia

interfered in the US election, Mr Trump was also asked

about his son's contact I have a son who is a great young

man, he is a fine person. He took a meeting with

a lawyer from Russia. It lasted for a very short period

and nothing came of the meeting. And I think it's a meeting that

most people in politics Today, no differences were allowed

to mar the transatlantic ties. But what do French voters think

of Mr Trump's visit? I don't like him much,

but what do I have to say? Trying to understand

what he wants and where he's Even if he does not appreciate him

as a person, or what he stands for. So I think French

diplomacy at its best. In a visit where symbolism

was the substance, the two couples A place labelled pragmatic,

rather than pretty, to cement an alliance imperfect but crucial

to France's place in the world. A brief look at some

of the day's other news stories. A Russian military court has jailed

five members of a Chechen gang for killing the leading opposition

politician Boris Nemtsov. Mr Nemtsov, a former deputy

prime minister and fierce critic of President Putin,

was shot close to The gang's ringleader was sentenced

to 20 years in prison. A former soldier who raped

and killed a 15-year-old schoolgirl has been found guilty

of her manslaughter more Stephen Hough killed Janet Commins

in Flint in north Wales in 1976. Another man has already served six

years for the crime. Hough will be sentenced

at a later date. Train drivers working

for Southern Rail have announced Members of the Aslef union,

who are already in a dispute with the firm about driver-only

operated trains, have voted Southern's parent firm was fined

?13 million this morning for poor performance,

during a period which saw a number An aristocrat has been jailed

for posting menacing messages online Rhodri Philipps, the 4th

Viscount St Davids, offered ?5,000 to anyone who would kill Gina Miller

after she won a legal challenge saying Parliament had to be

consulted about Brexit. It's being hailed as the biggest

shake-up of ambulance response times At the moment, when an urgent

999 call is received, the call handlers have to decide

within 60 seconds whether or not The upshot is that a quarter

of ambulances end up being stood down when it turns out

they're not needed. Now call handlers are going to be

given more time to assess the needs of a caller,

to try to make the system Breathe normally for me,

I'm just going to have Paramedics in the West Midlands

today, with a 92-year-old patient. After a checkup, they decide it's

safe to leave him at home. Try to keep your

breathing nice and slow. The Ambulance Service is under great

pressure but the way it works now allows too many vehicles to go

to urgent cases, leaving other The new way of working will mean

that we can identify and get to the sickest patients faster,

that all patients will get the best response, rather

than just the nearest... Under the current system,

in a control room like this, call handlers have just 60 seconds

to decide whether to dispatch an ambulance, and whether it should

be a blue light for the most The problem is, that sometimes isn't

long enough to decide the most appropriate response,

and ambulances can be That decision time will be extended

for serious but not critical cases. And while for the most urgent cases

under the current system the target is for an ambulance to arrive at 75%

of patients within eight minutes, under the new one there will be

a target of 90% seen Service leaders say fewer 999 calls

will be treated as life-threatening, and some people needing urgent care

will have to wait longer, but they can be more certain

of getting the right response. Willie Wynne says the system

as it is failed his family. His daughter, Ingrid,

had a heart condition. She had palpitations and he called

999 six times and no ambulance You have people with a broken arm

and a broken leg going, I know I'd love them to have it,

but, you know, that is not We are talking about emergencies,

and an emergency is an emergency. But nobody done anything

about an emergency. The local ambulance trust,

South Central, said it extended At the time, many of its resources

were tied up elsewhere. Some argue that while the reforms

are welcome, they won't solve From the patients' point of view,

this could be good, in terms of one part of their journey,

as it were. But it's no good if they get messed

up in A, or can't get a bed Reforms have already been

introduced in Wales. There is a pilot scheme

under way in Scotland. Trials in England suggest more

ambulances can be freed up to get to a wider range of patients,

but the real test will come this winter, when it's

introduced nationally. One of China's most prominent

political dissidents, Liu Xiaobo, has died of cancer a month

after he was moved He'd been serving an 11-year

sentence for "inciting Mr Liu won the Nobel peace prize

in 2010 for his pursuit There have been tributes

from around the world. The leader of the Norwegian Nobel

Committee said the government in Beijing bore a heavy

responsibility for his death. Our China Editor,

Carrie Gracie, reports. Reunited with his wife

only at the end. And still, under the watchful

eye of the state. Two foreign doctors were allowed

to visit his bedside. The pictures released abroad

to support the Government's claim Along with videos to deflect

the charge that his cancer But he was denied his dying

wish - to leave China. We have been through these kind

of cases one after another, but it has still come

as a big shock. Because, not only because I know

him, but also because he has been such a symbol for China's human

rights, or democratic movement. The Tiananmen Square

democracy protests. He tried to secure

students safe passage out. Before the army moved

in to kill unknown numbers. In and out of jail,

for demanding political freedoms. TRANSLATION: As a survivor

of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement, I feel I have a duty

to uphold justice for those In 2010 he won the Nobel Peace

Prize, but he was back "Empty chair" became a banned

expression on China's internet. His once irrepressible wife,

Lui Xia, was placed under house arrest, where she fell

victim to depression. It was only two weeks' ago the world

learned of Liu Xiaobo's illness. Hong Kong, the one place in China

citizens could call for his release. Chinese censorship is formidable,

and few here know of Liu Xiaobo's life, his death or his Nobel Peace

Prize. Many Chinese see the one party state

as an unavoidable fact of life, and under the strong arm rule

of President Xi Jinping it has become even more

dangerous to challenge that. Liu Xiaobo once warned,

"If you want to enter hell, He felt no ill-will

toward his jailers. He said he'd committed no crime,

but had no complaints. The Chinese political

dissident Liu Xiaobo, An Italian delegation has been

in Libya today in a new attempt to stop the people smugglers sending

thousands of migrants Most of them set out to sea

from Libya, which has no Italian coastguards have taken

to burning the smugglers' boats to stem the flow,

despite criticism that it makes Our Europe Editor, Katya Adler,

is here with more. The number of migrants arriving

in Europe has fallen dramatically But Italy is still under

immense pressure. More than 85,000 people

have arrived this year, In total, Italy has received over

600,000 newcomers over the last four years,

while around 13,000 people have died Alongside that human tragedy,

the political and economic impact is huge, and Italy says

it can't cope. Amnesty International is warning

that 2017 is set to become the deadliest year on what it calls

the deadliest migration Italy is keen to crackdown

on the people smugglers, but charities working on the front

line accused the EU of cutting back on rescue missions,

in an attempt, they say, to put other migrants off

trying to come to Europe. This footage was filmed by the BBC

off the Libyan coast. Throughout the day the Italian

coastguard has been moving around, trying to set fire to as many

of these smugglers' The EU says this is the most

important thing to do In addition to saving lives,

to disrupt the business model of the smugglers,

and this is how they do it. So where are the

migrants coming from? At the height of the crisis,

two years ago, many Hundreds of thousands made perilous

crossing from Turkey to Greece That route has now been slammed

shut, partly due to an EU deal with Turkey to stop

the people smugglers. But Italy's story

is a different one. Migrants are heading there

from across sub Saharan Africa, They set off to Europe

from conflict torn Libya. most are not refugees

but economic migrants - The International Organisation

for Migration says we're facing this for the long-term

because people are attracted It is not something that is going

to go away in a year or two. It is something that is going

to stay for a variety of reasons. What is complicated is the fact

that the response is left to just The front line and a couple

of others more in the interior of the EU that are ready to come

and share the responsibility Germany's Angela Merkel

and France's Emmanuel Macron met the Italian Prime Minister

yesterday. But Italians say they have heard

lots of empty promises. Italy could send economic migrants

back home, since they are neither refugees nor asylum-seekers,

but many have no ID papers. Their countries of origin are often

reluctant to issue new ones, and they can't be returned to Libya

safely because of the EU countries have pledged to improve

lives in Africa so fewer people feel the need to move,

but that is a long-term goal. In the meantime, lives

continue to be lost at sea, Johanna Konta's dream of becoming

the first British woman to reach the Wimbledon finals in 40

years is over. She crashed out of the championships

after being beaten in straight sets by the five-time champion Venus

Williams. Joe Wilson was watching

the match on centre court. Everyone knows your name,

everyone wants your name. For Johanna Konta,

it's all been new. For Venus Williams,

it's been her life. Venus has seen it all,

returned it all. But Konta, well, she wasn't

here to be intimidated. Konta created an opportunity

in the first set. For Konta the methodical,

the reliable, the match Double fault and broken

in the second set. Centre Court yearned for the Konta

we had seen in previous rounds. Now, come on, it's a lovely

afternoon, we'd like to Well, this match lasted just one

hour and 14 minutes. Williams, too good and too

composed when it mattered. Overwhelmed by a Williams

at Wimbledon. Quite honestly, I think

I was in just as much of a shot I think today it came down

on the day and Venus I mean, I think I've definitely got

a lot more to improve on and there's a lot of exciting things I can

still get better at. Well, we always felt this

was an open women's tournament, full of possibility,

because somebody was missing. With Serena Williams

happily enjoying pregnancy, An opportunity, it turns

out, for her sister. Last week, Venus was in tears,

talking about the car Now, she's in another final, at 37,

at the place she loves. I thought the crowd was very

nice to me, actually. They could have really been

even more boisterous. I thought the crowd was so fair,

and I know that they love Jo I thought she handled it well,

and I think my experience Dealing with this disappointment

is Jo Konta's next challenge. She's ranked high enough to expect

titles, but the future offers no guarantees of more opportunities

like this one. Tonight, the government tells us

that in the wake of the Grenfell disaster, it except that building

regulations are not up to the job and will be fully reviewed.

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