28/03/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

In the past few minutes, Donald Trump has signed

Rolling back a raft of Obama's climate change policies

including restrictions on coal-fired power stations.

The today's executive action I take historic steps to lift the

restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion and to

cancel job killing regulations. Theresa May will trigger Article 52

formally trigger the Brexit posed cess. Scotland voted for a second

independence referendum. The people of Scotland

must also have their say. Scotland's future should be

in Scotland's hands. The UN has called

for an urgent review of US-led coalition tactics as hundreds

of civilians are killed Jeremy Bowen is on the frontline

with Iraqi and US-led They have

to convince the Iraqi people that what they are doing

here is justified and flattening the city and killing a lot

of civilians wil not do that job. Whether you are watching in the UK

or elsewhere on BBC world News, you are welcome to get in touch. The

contact details on screen throughout.

Donald Trump has begun the dismantling of some

of America's most high profile climate change policies.

The miners told me about the tax on their jobs and livelihoods. They

told me about the efforts to shut down their minds, the communities

and the very way of life. -- minds. I made on this promise. We will put

miners back to work. We have already eliminated a devastating anti-cult

regulation but that was just the beginning. Today I'm taking bold

action to follow through on that promise. My administration is going

to put an end to the war on coal, we will have clean coal, really clean

coal. With the executive action today I'm taking historic steps to

lift restrictions on American energy, to reverse government

intrusion and to cancel job killing regulations. Mr Trump has decided

the US environmental protection agency will have its budget slashed.

Its former director has come out and condemned this saying this is just

not dangerous but embarrassing to us and our businesses on a global scale

to be dismissing opportunities for new technologies, economic growth

and US leadership. The Obama administration would disagree.

Here's environment correspondent Matt McGrath's analysis.

There is a big philosophical change, they are redefining what they think

of the environment. According to these officials the environment is

about air and water. It's not about climate change. They are removing

that is an element. President Obama put climate change at the heart of

every policy from national security to housing. Officials in the

government had to consider the impact on climate change, all of

that stops right now. Very bullish saying I help to cut the deal in

Paris, this doesn't change a thing? You would expect her to say that.

Many in the international community are holding back and they want to

see what happens here. It's not just a stroke of the pen that there will

be court fight over this that could drag on for years. It could go on

past the presidency and many environmentalists are counting on

that. Countries are going to hold their powder dry for the time being

and see if this happens and then deal with it. The key thing for them

is that the United States is still in the Paris deal. We heard from the

White House that they believe the executive order will restore

thousands of jobs to coal-mining communities. The big question is

will that happen. We have this report from Pennsylvania. The coal

mine here closed more than the year ago. Hundreds of well-paid miners

were laid off. Rightly or wrongly, many blame the policies of the last

government. Whether houses, trucks, cars, incomes, losing houses, it's a

big impact. If it was up to me every coal miner would be working because

the fact is we have been mining coal for over 200 years. But the guys

back to work. Do you think it will happen? I believe it is. Nearly 70%

of people here in a traditionally Democratic county voted Trump in the

election. The fact he said he would reverse Obama policies on carbon

emissions to bring back mining jobs was key. President Obama said he was

introducing these regulations to curb the reliance on coal because of

concerns over climate change. This government is more dismissive

towards global warming which is something that is alarming

environmentalists and it has promised to reopen coal mines is

anyone's element. As well as overturning rules to stop offering

new government leases for coal mines, Donald Trump plans to cut

funding for America's environmental protection agency by around one

third. The man he appointed to head the organisation says he is not even

sure human activity affects climate change. But is all of this going to

bring back jobs? Trump said many times I love coal miners, I love

coal mines, I love coal, we're going to bring back coal. This is the

livelihood of this county. A lot of people, a lot of my friends so they

believed it. I personally don't. I don't know how you bring back coal.

Many mines shut down because of economics, there were cheaper ways

of producing energy. If the jobs don't return after hopes of been

raised then people here might one day feel all that has really

happened is a distraction from truly modernising American industry and a

devastating setback in the fight against climate change.

Scotland's Parliament has voted to demand

55% of voters chose to stay in the UK.

The majority of Scots voted to remain in the EU.

Here's are both sides of the argument being made today -

My argument is simply this, when the nature of the change that is made

inevitable by Brexit becomes clear, that change should not be imposed

upon us, we should have the right to decide the nature of that change.

The people of Scotland should have the right to choose between Brexit,

possibly a hard Brexit or becoming an independent country able to chart

our own course creating a true partnership of equals across the

islands. The First Minister says that she wants the UK to get a good

Brexit deal. But no matter how good it is, she still wants to push

independence anyway. Whereas our view and the view of the UK

Government remains this. At a time of enormous uncertainty when it is

only three years since the last fight and we were told it would be

wanting a generation. That the decision would be respected by both

sides that there would be no rerun without overwhelming changing public

opinion and that the people in Scotland have the right to see the

process play out, they need to sit operating and working in practice

and at the moment we should be pulling together not apart.

Now is not the time for another referendum. Nothing has been said in

the Scottish parliament which takes away from the fact that a referendum

during the Brexit process would be unfair on the people of Scotland.

People wouldn't know what they were judging on the continuing

relationship with the European Union as part of the UK.

Here's the BBC's Scotland Editor Sarah Smith on what happens next.

Well it sets up an unprecedented constitutional struggle between the

Scottish Government and the UK Government, between Nicola Sturgeon

and Theresa May, what will happen next is that the First Minister will

now send a letter because that vote gave her the Parliamentary authority

to do so, she will send a letter to number ten requesting another

referendum on Scottish independence but we know what the Prime Minister

will say. She will say it now is not the time to be talking about that

because the UK Government and the country needs to concentrate on the

Brexit negotiations. This has not happened before. A stand-off like

this between Edinburgh and London. It has or has been considered very

risky for the Westminster government to tell Scotland that it cannot have

an independence referendum, the received wisdom for years is that if

they were to do that they might antagonise Scottish voters and build

support as a result. The UK Government they are banking on the

fact that a lot of people in Scotland don't want another

referendum. They simply will not talk about the timing of another

referendum for another two years until the UK has left. Let's pick up

on that point about public opinion. We broadcasted just before the

Brexit vote and all the analyst told us there would be no way the SNP

would go for a second referendum unless it was locked down. The polls

are split about 50-50 inasmuch as we can trust opinion polls any more.

About 5050 yes, no. Also whether what people want another referendum

or don't. By and large people who want an independent Scotland do want

have another independence referendum. The question is whether

this will shift over the next couple of years. They say it doesn't look

terribly attractive and maybe they will be better off fighting for

independence or will the sense of insecurity that surrounds the huge

change that will come as the UK exits the European Union make people

think that they have to wait to take a decision about the future of

Scotland. There will be extensive coverage of Theresa May triggering

Article 50 and the process of exit. There were then enter the two-year

period of negotiation and the EU will leave the EU by the end of

March 20 19. -- the UK will leave. We are expecting the union to

respond to the letter but we're not sure when the response will come.

Will have extensive coverage here and on BBC television and on the BBC

News app and the BBC News website. Stay with us - in a couple

of minutes we'll take a look at these aeriel photos of three

newly completed Chinese military installations in the South China Sea

and we'll speak to the US thinktank Attacking Islamic State positions

that civilians are losing their lives.

The formal go-ahead for the UK to leave the EU will happen tomorrow.

Theresa May will trigger article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. We have more

details about the choreography of the official start of this two-year

process leading to Brexit. It's not going to be a debate that triggers

article 50, it won't be a statement that would do it, it's going to be a

letter that has been personally signed by Theresa May in ink and it

will be taken by our man in Brussels, he will march down the

corridor and hand it over to officials there. It will only be

when Donald Tusk received that letter that Article 50 will have

been triggered. We live in BBC newsroom. President

Trump signed an executive order rolling back the efforts to combat

climate change. Let's bring you some main stories. In Germany and

investigation has been opened into suspected of spying by the Turkish

government on Turks living in Germany. China has ended a blanket

ban imposed on Brazilian meat imports. The ban was imposed after

investigators accused meat processing companies of using

chemicals to hide the smell of rotting meat. That's on BBC Chinese.

Efforts continue to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group.

There is an alternative to this very difficult costly street fighting.

And that is to call an air strike in and level the neighbourhood. But

there is another issue. It is a question of trying to win the

political battle. It is not just a question of how many of how many men

they kill. They have to convince the people that what doing justified.

The latest government offensive has taken ground -

That area has been getting bigger and bigger. The reddish area is area

by the Islamic State and is getting smaller because of the support.

The UN says over 300 civilians have been killed since February.

And it wants the US-led coalition and the government

Bodies continue to be found in buildings where civilians were

reportedly held by Isis as human shields. And were subsequently

killed by air strikes and the international coalition forces. As

well as by improvised explosive devices planted in the same

buildings by Isis. Numerous other civilians have been killed by

shelling and have been gunned down by it I sought snipers as they tried

to flee. The High Commissioner is welcoming the announcement by the

security forces and international coalition.

This is Amnesty International today.

"Evidence gathered on the ground in East Mosul points

to an alarming pattern of US-led coalition airstrikes which have

destroyed whole houses with entire families inside."

The coalition says it's taking reasonable precautions.

One of the most serious incidents happened on March 17.

Reports suggest at least 100 people died.

Who's to blame though is complicated.

Their investigations about what happened on that day but it came

back and said there have been air strikes on that area but they are

not sure if that is what course of civilian deaths. We have to look at

this from a certain view, I as we have heard are taking people into

their homes that are keeping them as shields. The government is at a

point now where it has two attack these homes because that is where

the fighters are hiding and it's not the case of that in all of it but

that is where most of the civilian losses are happening. They are using

these homes and mosques as shields. They can lead the government to them

and they are attacking them. Now we have seen the fight stagnate in the

last couple of weeks and I think the reason is because the government was

being very cautious about the fact there are civilians here and they

Not much is change. Several hundred people floss license February, has

there been a change in approach? The fighting has intensified in the last

week at least I can say. The reason is because the fight has moved from

the outskirts of the city to the centre. This is always going to be a

scenario that we were expected, the centre of the city has a lot of

homes and it is a residential area so the reason why it is changing

tactics because it needs to move in this battle.

But go back to the least over Donald Trump signing the executive order

aiming to dismantle regulation around some of the biggest

industries such as coal oil and gas. Let's try work out what that will

mean in practical terms. Is a mirror, how long will it take for

this executive order to happen? Immediately it could happen, coal

companies that were on the brink of extinction because of Obama

regulations they will now breathe a sigh of relief. If you look at the

really big energy companies, they are moving in the direction of

renewable energy say things like wind power and solar power. It

doesn't make that much sense for these big companies to then reversed

back and concentrate efforts on coal. When you're talking about

renewable energy, things like fracking, that has really given

America a lot of its energy independence so if the idea is for

the Trump administration to bring back jobs, by bringing back old and

that may not be the case. So presumably the president would like

that to be in the case he might be in the market to offer sweetness to

encourage these to invest for example? Right and that certainly is

something that could happen but it also does not mean that these

companies. Making investments in fracking. Things have become quite

lucrative in the last year. Don't go where because we want to talk to

about one other story. Other industries. Major investments by

three Michigan plans, cars companies back in the US, jobs, jobs, jobs

says the president. Steve Ratner advised Barack Obama in the motor

industry while he was in power. I think somebody just popped to drink

there. The big news ended up being only 130 jobs in Michigan, they were

announced in 2015, when will the President's misleading people he

says. Here is the header for talking to the BBC. As you know the

cascading effect on the auto industry is prominent it is exciting

there. All of our industries are happy when you make investments. A

percent of sales are made here, we are the largest producer of vehicle

so we are reproducing that manufacturing story. That's the

header for speaking to the BBC. That Qu bec is a mirror. First of all

Kenny Klerk who is right here, is this a small announcement that we

had back in 2015? It does seem to be new investments in two of the

existing plants here in the US. So it seems they are beefing up some of

that and then new investments in a data centre. If you take a step back

and you look at it from the Trump administration then this is an

administration that campaigns are promised to bring back American

jobs. Just like we saw with the col announcement, we're seeing something

similar by auto companies that they are bringing jobs back. It certainly

allows the president to go on to Twitter and social media to say I'm

doing what I set out to do and bringing jobs back. When it comes to

numbers you can question it. You can question it in terms of numbers,

when it comes to numbers given where the industries of moment. One last

point we should get into here is that whatever the president does,

it's very hard to judge long-term economic policies in the first few

weeks and months of a new administration? Absolutely and so

from the point of view of the administration we say we are making

the right kinds of moves to allow more jobs and to allow the economy

to flourish. Remember one big thing that President Trump has always said

with regards to the economy is that regulations are really holding the

country back from being able to really get on with growing the

economy so part of this decision in terms of rolling back some of the

Obama administration with clean energy is taking away some of these

regulations and he believes strongly that it will lead to more growth.

Thank you for explaining that will speak to tomorrow no doubt. Let's go

from the US to South Africa. There is an awful lot of speculation

around the finance minister. Look at what that speculation has done to

the random the last couple of days, it has slid by as much as 2% today.

It also fell dramatically yesterday and all of the speculation was big

enough that the finance minister actually pulled out on International

trade trip. Let's get more from Johannesburg. The recall of Gordon

from a richer and the US really spooked markets because they could

not understand why a president would do that. Analyst talking to the

media today have called it economic sabotage and a president who I quote

is hell-bent on breaking South Africa. All of it has really raised

the sceptre of political risk in South Africa. Is not the economic

fundamentals that are wrong, not the attractiveness of South Africa as an

investment destination but the politics that have started to cloud

the judgment of the leadership and investors do not like that. Not just

investors but South Africa start like that to.

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