:00:07. > :00:10.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:11. > :00:12.In the past few minutes, Donald Trump has signed
:00:13. > :00:15.Rolling back a raft of Obama's climate change policies
:00:16. > :00:20.including restrictions on coal-fired power stations.
:00:21. > :00:26.The today's executive action I take historic steps to lift the
:00:27. > :00:33.restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion and to
:00:34. > :00:39.cancel job killing regulations. Theresa May will trigger Article 52
:00:40. > :00:41.formally trigger the Brexit posed cess. Scotland voted for a second
:00:42. > :00:45.independence referendum. The people of Scotland
:00:46. > :00:47.must also have their say. Scotland's future should be
:00:48. > :00:50.in Scotland's hands. The UN has called
:00:51. > :00:53.for an urgent review of US-led coalition tactics as hundreds
:00:54. > :00:55.of civilians are killed Jeremy Bowen is on the frontline
:00:56. > :00:59.with Iraqi and US-led They have
:01:00. > :01:01.to convince the Iraqi people that what they are doing
:01:02. > :01:04.here is justified and flattening the city and killing a lot
:01:05. > :01:13.of civilians wil not do that job. Whether you are watching in the UK
:01:14. > :01:19.or elsewhere on BBC world News, you are welcome to get in touch. The
:01:20. > :01:32.contact details on screen throughout.
:01:33. > :01:34.Donald Trump has begun the dismantling of some
:01:35. > :01:36.of America's most high profile climate change policies.
:01:37. > :01:51.The miners told me about the tax on their jobs and livelihoods. They
:01:52. > :01:56.told me about the efforts to shut down their minds, the communities
:01:57. > :02:10.and the very way of life. -- minds. I made on this promise. We will put
:02:11. > :02:12.miners back to work. We have already eliminated a devastating anti-cult
:02:13. > :02:18.regulation but that was just the beginning. Today I'm taking bold
:02:19. > :02:24.action to follow through on that promise. My administration is going
:02:25. > :02:29.to put an end to the war on coal, we will have clean coal, really clean
:02:30. > :02:33.coal. With the executive action today I'm taking historic steps to
:02:34. > :02:36.lift restrictions on American energy, to reverse government
:02:37. > :02:49.intrusion and to cancel job killing regulations. Mr Trump has decided
:02:50. > :02:55.the US environmental protection agency will have its budget slashed.
:02:56. > :02:59.Its former director has come out and condemned this saying this is just
:03:00. > :03:04.not dangerous but embarrassing to us and our businesses on a global scale
:03:05. > :03:08.to be dismissing opportunities for new technologies, economic growth
:03:09. > :03:12.and US leadership. The Obama administration would disagree.
:03:13. > :03:15.Here's environment correspondent Matt McGrath's analysis.
:03:16. > :03:21.There is a big philosophical change, they are redefining what they think
:03:22. > :03:25.of the environment. According to these officials the environment is
:03:26. > :03:29.about air and water. It's not about climate change. They are removing
:03:30. > :03:34.that is an element. President Obama put climate change at the heart of
:03:35. > :03:37.every policy from national security to housing. Officials in the
:03:38. > :03:42.government had to consider the impact on climate change, all of
:03:43. > :03:47.that stops right now. Very bullish saying I help to cut the deal in
:03:48. > :03:51.Paris, this doesn't change a thing? You would expect her to say that.
:03:52. > :03:54.Many in the international community are holding back and they want to
:03:55. > :03:58.see what happens here. It's not just a stroke of the pen that there will
:03:59. > :04:02.be court fight over this that could drag on for years. It could go on
:04:03. > :04:06.past the presidency and many environmentalists are counting on
:04:07. > :04:09.that. Countries are going to hold their powder dry for the time being
:04:10. > :04:13.and see if this happens and then deal with it. The key thing for them
:04:14. > :04:20.is that the United States is still in the Paris deal. We heard from the
:04:21. > :04:25.White House that they believe the executive order will restore
:04:26. > :04:34.thousands of jobs to coal-mining communities. The big question is
:04:35. > :04:36.will that happen. We have this report from Pennsylvania. The coal
:04:37. > :04:42.mine here closed more than the year ago. Hundreds of well-paid miners
:04:43. > :04:50.were laid off. Rightly or wrongly, many blame the policies of the last
:04:51. > :04:55.government. Whether houses, trucks, cars, incomes, losing houses, it's a
:04:56. > :04:58.big impact. If it was up to me every coal miner would be working because
:04:59. > :05:04.the fact is we have been mining coal for over 200 years. But the guys
:05:05. > :05:11.back to work. Do you think it will happen? I believe it is. Nearly 70%
:05:12. > :05:16.of people here in a traditionally Democratic county voted Trump in the
:05:17. > :05:21.election. The fact he said he would reverse Obama policies on carbon
:05:22. > :05:26.emissions to bring back mining jobs was key. President Obama said he was
:05:27. > :05:30.introducing these regulations to curb the reliance on coal because of
:05:31. > :05:35.concerns over climate change. This government is more dismissive
:05:36. > :05:37.towards global warming which is something that is alarming
:05:38. > :05:43.environmentalists and it has promised to reopen coal mines is
:05:44. > :05:48.anyone's element. As well as overturning rules to stop offering
:05:49. > :05:52.new government leases for coal mines, Donald Trump plans to cut
:05:53. > :05:57.funding for America's environmental protection agency by around one
:05:58. > :06:00.third. The man he appointed to head the organisation says he is not even
:06:01. > :06:07.sure human activity affects climate change. But is all of this going to
:06:08. > :06:10.bring back jobs? Trump said many times I love coal miners, I love
:06:11. > :06:18.coal mines, I love coal, we're going to bring back coal. This is the
:06:19. > :06:26.livelihood of this county. A lot of people, a lot of my friends so they
:06:27. > :06:32.believed it. I personally don't. I don't know how you bring back coal.
:06:33. > :06:36.Many mines shut down because of economics, there were cheaper ways
:06:37. > :06:40.of producing energy. If the jobs don't return after hopes of been
:06:41. > :06:44.raised then people here might one day feel all that has really
:06:45. > :06:48.happened is a distraction from truly modernising American industry and a
:06:49. > :06:55.devastating setback in the fight against climate change.
:06:56. > :06:56.Scotland's Parliament has voted to demand
:06:57. > :07:05.55% of voters chose to stay in the UK.
:07:06. > :07:10.The majority of Scots voted to remain in the EU.
:07:11. > :07:13.Here's are both sides of the argument being made today -
:07:14. > :07:37.My argument is simply this, when the nature of the change that is made
:07:38. > :07:42.inevitable by Brexit becomes clear, that change should not be imposed
:07:43. > :07:46.upon us, we should have the right to decide the nature of that change.
:07:47. > :07:52.The people of Scotland should have the right to choose between Brexit,
:07:53. > :07:55.possibly a hard Brexit or becoming an independent country able to chart
:07:56. > :07:59.our own course creating a true partnership of equals across the
:08:00. > :08:01.islands. The First Minister says that she wants the UK to get a good
:08:02. > :08:18.Brexit deal. But no matter how good it is, she still wants to push
:08:19. > :08:21.independence anyway. Whereas our view and the view of the UK
:08:22. > :08:24.Government remains this. At a time of enormous uncertainty when it is
:08:25. > :08:26.only three years since the last fight and we were told it would be
:08:27. > :08:29.wanting a generation. That the decision would be respected by both
:08:30. > :08:31.sides that there would be no rerun without overwhelming changing public
:08:32. > :08:33.opinion and that the people in Scotland have the right to see the
:08:34. > :08:36.process play out, they need to sit operating and working in practice
:08:37. > :08:37.and at the moment we should be pulling together not apart.
:08:38. > :08:47.Now is not the time for another referendum. Nothing has been said in
:08:48. > :08:52.the Scottish parliament which takes away from the fact that a referendum
:08:53. > :08:57.during the Brexit process would be unfair on the people of Scotland.
:08:58. > :09:01.People wouldn't know what they were judging on the continuing
:09:02. > :09:02.relationship with the European Union as part of the UK.
:09:03. > :09:14.Here's the BBC's Scotland Editor Sarah Smith on what happens next.
:09:15. > :09:21.Well it sets up an unprecedented constitutional struggle between the
:09:22. > :09:26.Scottish Government and the UK Government, between Nicola Sturgeon
:09:27. > :09:29.and Theresa May, what will happen next is that the First Minister will
:09:30. > :09:32.now send a letter because that vote gave her the Parliamentary authority
:09:33. > :09:38.to do so, she will send a letter to number ten requesting another
:09:39. > :09:42.referendum on Scottish independence but we know what the Prime Minister
:09:43. > :09:45.will say. She will say it now is not the time to be talking about that
:09:46. > :09:50.because the UK Government and the country needs to concentrate on the
:09:51. > :09:54.Brexit negotiations. This has not happened before. A stand-off like
:09:55. > :09:58.this between Edinburgh and London. It has or has been considered very
:09:59. > :10:02.risky for the Westminster government to tell Scotland that it cannot have
:10:03. > :10:06.an independence referendum, the received wisdom for years is that if
:10:07. > :10:11.they were to do that they might antagonise Scottish voters and build
:10:12. > :10:15.support as a result. The UK Government they are banking on the
:10:16. > :10:25.fact that a lot of people in Scotland don't want another
:10:26. > :10:28.referendum. They simply will not talk about the timing of another
:10:29. > :10:35.referendum for another two years until the UK has left. Let's pick up
:10:36. > :10:39.on that point about public opinion. We broadcasted just before the
:10:40. > :10:44.Brexit vote and all the analyst told us there would be no way the SNP
:10:45. > :10:53.would go for a second referendum unless it was locked down. The polls
:10:54. > :10:59.are split about 50-50 inasmuch as we can trust opinion polls any more.
:11:00. > :11:04.About 5050 yes, no. Also whether what people want another referendum
:11:05. > :11:06.or don't. By and large people who want an independent Scotland do want
:11:07. > :11:14.have another independence referendum. The question is whether
:11:15. > :11:23.this will shift over the next couple of years. They say it doesn't look
:11:24. > :11:27.terribly attractive and maybe they will be better off fighting for
:11:28. > :11:31.independence or will the sense of insecurity that surrounds the huge
:11:32. > :11:36.change that will come as the UK exits the European Union make people
:11:37. > :11:42.think that they have to wait to take a decision about the future of
:11:43. > :11:49.Scotland. There will be extensive coverage of Theresa May triggering
:11:50. > :11:54.Article 50 and the process of exit. There were then enter the two-year
:11:55. > :12:01.period of negotiation and the EU will leave the EU by the end of
:12:02. > :12:04.March 20 19. -- the UK will leave. We are expecting the union to
:12:05. > :12:11.respond to the letter but we're not sure when the response will come.
:12:12. > :12:13.Will have extensive coverage here and on BBC television and on the BBC
:12:14. > :12:17.News app and the BBC News website. Stay with us - in a couple
:12:18. > :12:20.of minutes we'll take a look at these aeriel photos of three
:12:21. > :12:22.newly completed Chinese military installations in the South China Sea
:12:23. > :12:28.and we'll speak to the US thinktank Attacking Islamic State positions
:12:29. > :12:44.that civilians are losing their lives.
:12:45. > :12:51.The formal go-ahead for the UK to leave the EU will happen tomorrow.
:12:52. > :12:54.Theresa May will trigger article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. We have more
:12:55. > :13:01.details about the choreography of the official start of this two-year
:13:02. > :13:07.process leading to Brexit. It's not going to be a debate that triggers
:13:08. > :13:13.article 50, it won't be a statement that would do it, it's going to be a
:13:14. > :13:22.letter that has been personally signed by Theresa May in ink and it
:13:23. > :13:25.will be taken by our man in Brussels, he will march down the
:13:26. > :13:32.corridor and hand it over to officials there. It will only be
:13:33. > :13:37.when Donald Tusk received that letter that Article 50 will have
:13:38. > :13:53.been triggered. We live in BBC newsroom. President
:13:54. > :13:57.Trump signed an executive order rolling back the efforts to combat
:13:58. > :14:02.climate change. Let's bring you some main stories. In Germany and
:14:03. > :14:05.investigation has been opened into suspected of spying by the Turkish
:14:06. > :14:08.government on Turks living in Germany. China has ended a blanket
:14:09. > :14:10.ban imposed on Brazilian meat imports. The ban was imposed after
:14:11. > :14:12.investigators accused meat processing companies of using
:14:13. > :14:27.chemicals to hide the smell of rotting meat. That's on BBC Chinese.
:14:28. > :14:29.Efforts continue to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group.
:14:30. > :14:45.There is an alternative to this very difficult costly street fighting.
:14:46. > :14:55.And that is to call an air strike in and level the neighbourhood. But
:14:56. > :15:03.there is another issue. It is a question of trying to win the
:15:04. > :15:11.political battle. It is not just a question of how many of how many men
:15:12. > :15:20.they kill. They have to convince the people that what doing justified.
:15:21. > :15:25.The latest government offensive has taken ground -
:15:26. > :15:40.That area has been getting bigger and bigger. The reddish area is area
:15:41. > :15:45.by the Islamic State and is getting smaller because of the support.
:15:46. > :15:49.The UN says over 300 civilians have been killed since February.
:15:50. > :15:51.And it wants the US-led coalition and the government
:15:52. > :16:08.Bodies continue to be found in buildings where civilians were
:16:09. > :16:16.reportedly held by Isis as human shields. And were subsequently
:16:17. > :16:23.killed by air strikes and the international coalition forces. As
:16:24. > :16:27.well as by improvised explosive devices planted in the same
:16:28. > :16:30.buildings by Isis. Numerous other civilians have been killed by
:16:31. > :16:37.shelling and have been gunned down by it I sought snipers as they tried
:16:38. > :16:39.to flee. The High Commissioner is welcoming the announcement by the
:16:40. > :16:47.security forces and international coalition.
:16:48. > :16:51.This is Amnesty International today.
:16:52. > :16:55."Evidence gathered on the ground in East Mosul points
:16:56. > :16:58.to an alarming pattern of US-led coalition airstrikes which have
:16:59. > :17:03.destroyed whole houses with entire families inside."
:17:04. > :17:07.The coalition says it's taking reasonable precautions.
:17:08. > :17:12.One of the most serious incidents happened on March 17.
:17:13. > :17:14.Reports suggest at least 100 people died.
:17:15. > :17:28.Who's to blame though is complicated.
:17:29. > :17:37.Their investigations about what happened on that day but it came
:17:38. > :17:41.back and said there have been air strikes on that area but they are
:17:42. > :17:45.not sure if that is what course of civilian deaths. We have to look at
:17:46. > :17:51.this from a certain view, I as we have heard are taking people into
:17:52. > :17:54.their homes that are keeping them as shields. The government is at a
:17:55. > :17:59.point now where it has two attack these homes because that is where
:18:00. > :18:04.the fighters are hiding and it's not the case of that in all of it but
:18:05. > :18:15.that is where most of the civilian losses are happening. They are using
:18:16. > :18:20.these homes and mosques as shields. They can lead the government to them
:18:21. > :18:22.and they are attacking them. Now we have seen the fight stagnate in the
:18:23. > :18:26.last couple of weeks and I think the reason is because the government was
:18:27. > :18:31.being very cautious about the fact there are civilians here and they
:18:32. > :18:43.Not much is change. Several hundred people floss license February, has
:18:44. > :18:47.there been a change in approach? The fighting has intensified in the last
:18:48. > :18:52.week at least I can say. The reason is because the fight has moved from
:18:53. > :18:59.the outskirts of the city to the centre. This is always going to be a
:19:00. > :19:06.scenario that we were expected, the centre of the city has a lot of
:19:07. > :19:10.homes and it is a residential area so the reason why it is changing
:19:11. > :19:18.tactics because it needs to move in this battle.
:19:19. > :19:24.But go back to the least over Donald Trump signing the executive order
:19:25. > :19:29.aiming to dismantle regulation around some of the biggest
:19:30. > :19:34.industries such as coal oil and gas. Let's try work out what that will
:19:35. > :19:45.mean in practical terms. Is a mirror, how long will it take for
:19:46. > :19:50.this executive order to happen? Immediately it could happen, coal
:19:51. > :19:55.companies that were on the brink of extinction because of Obama
:19:56. > :20:02.regulations they will now breathe a sigh of relief. If you look at the
:20:03. > :20:06.really big energy companies, they are moving in the direction of
:20:07. > :20:11.renewable energy say things like wind power and solar power. It
:20:12. > :20:15.doesn't make that much sense for these big companies to then reversed
:20:16. > :20:21.back and concentrate efforts on coal. When you're talking about
:20:22. > :20:25.renewable energy, things like fracking, that has really given
:20:26. > :20:31.America a lot of its energy independence so if the idea is for
:20:32. > :20:38.the Trump administration to bring back jobs, by bringing back old and
:20:39. > :20:40.that may not be the case. So presumably the president would like
:20:41. > :20:45.that to be in the case he might be in the market to offer sweetness to
:20:46. > :20:51.encourage these to invest for example? Right and that certainly is
:20:52. > :20:54.something that could happen but it also does not mean that these
:20:55. > :21:02.companies. Making investments in fracking. Things have become quite
:21:03. > :21:10.lucrative in the last year. Don't go where because we want to talk to
:21:11. > :21:18.about one other story. Other industries. Major investments by
:21:19. > :21:25.three Michigan plans, cars companies back in the US, jobs, jobs, jobs
:21:26. > :21:31.says the president. Steve Ratner advised Barack Obama in the motor
:21:32. > :21:40.industry while he was in power. I think somebody just popped to drink
:21:41. > :21:43.there. The big news ended up being only 130 jobs in Michigan, they were
:21:44. > :21:47.announced in 2015, when will the President's misleading people he
:21:48. > :21:56.says. Here is the header for talking to the BBC. As you know the
:21:57. > :22:10.cascading effect on the auto industry is prominent it is exciting
:22:11. > :22:14.there. All of our industries are happy when you make investments. A
:22:15. > :22:17.percent of sales are made here, we are the largest producer of vehicle
:22:18. > :22:29.so we are reproducing that manufacturing story. That's the
:22:30. > :22:34.header for speaking to the BBC. That Qu bec is a mirror. First of all
:22:35. > :22:43.Kenny Klerk who is right here, is this a small announcement that we
:22:44. > :22:48.had back in 2015? It does seem to be new investments in two of the
:22:49. > :22:53.existing plants here in the US. So it seems they are beefing up some of
:22:54. > :22:56.that and then new investments in a data centre. If you take a step back
:22:57. > :23:01.and you look at it from the Trump administration then this is an
:23:02. > :23:06.administration that campaigns are promised to bring back American
:23:07. > :23:09.jobs. Just like we saw with the col announcement, we're seeing something
:23:10. > :23:18.similar by auto companies that they are bringing jobs back. It certainly
:23:19. > :23:22.allows the president to go on to Twitter and social media to say I'm
:23:23. > :23:27.doing what I set out to do and bringing jobs back. When it comes to
:23:28. > :23:36.numbers you can question it. You can question it in terms of numbers,
:23:37. > :23:41.when it comes to numbers given where the industries of moment. One last
:23:42. > :23:44.point we should get into here is that whatever the president does,
:23:45. > :23:47.it's very hard to judge long-term economic policies in the first few
:23:48. > :23:52.weeks and months of a new administration? Absolutely and so
:23:53. > :23:56.from the point of view of the administration we say we are making
:23:57. > :24:03.the right kinds of moves to allow more jobs and to allow the economy
:24:04. > :24:07.to flourish. Remember one big thing that President Trump has always said
:24:08. > :24:12.with regards to the economy is that regulations are really holding the
:24:13. > :24:17.country back from being able to really get on with growing the
:24:18. > :24:23.economy so part of this decision in terms of rolling back some of the
:24:24. > :24:28.Obama administration with clean energy is taking away some of these
:24:29. > :24:34.regulations and he believes strongly that it will lead to more growth.
:24:35. > :24:40.Thank you for explaining that will speak to tomorrow no doubt. Let's go
:24:41. > :24:45.from the US to South Africa. There is an awful lot of speculation
:24:46. > :24:48.around the finance minister. Look at what that speculation has done to
:24:49. > :24:54.the random the last couple of days, it has slid by as much as 2% today.
:24:55. > :24:58.It also fell dramatically yesterday and all of the speculation was big
:24:59. > :25:04.enough that the finance minister actually pulled out on International
:25:05. > :25:11.trade trip. Let's get more from Johannesburg. The recall of Gordon
:25:12. > :25:15.from a richer and the US really spooked markets because they could
:25:16. > :25:19.not understand why a president would do that. Analyst talking to the
:25:20. > :25:23.media today have called it economic sabotage and a president who I quote
:25:24. > :25:30.is hell-bent on breaking South Africa. All of it has really raised
:25:31. > :25:34.the sceptre of political risk in South Africa. Is not the economic
:25:35. > :25:37.fundamentals that are wrong, not the attractiveness of South Africa as an
:25:38. > :25:41.investment destination but the politics that have started to cloud
:25:42. > :25:44.the judgment of the leadership and investors do not like that. Not just
:25:45. > :25:49.investors but South Africa start like that to.
:25:50. > :25:53.That is it for the south of outside source even a few moments time.