:00:14. > :00:16.Hello, Donald Trump has been holding a press conference with Emmanuel
:00:17. > :00:24.Macron. He is making a two-day visit to
:00:25. > :00:27.France, he has been answering questions about his son and a
:00:28. > :00:30.meeting with the Russian lawyer. From a practical standpoint most
:00:31. > :00:36.people would have taken that meeting.
:00:37. > :00:39.Those comments were part of a day in the company of Emmanuel Macron. The
:00:40. > :00:43.Paris climate change agreement came up.
:00:44. > :00:48.If it happens, that will be wonderful. If not, that will be OK
:00:49. > :00:55.as well. The Nobel prizewinner and Chinese
:00:56. > :01:00.dissident has died, he spent most of the last seven years in prison.
:01:01. > :01:04.Evidence of a cross it is committed by Iraqi soldiers in Mosul has
:01:05. > :01:10.emerged. We will look at that in the next couple of moments.
:01:11. > :01:14.In 2016 a record number of environment activists were murdered,
:01:15. > :01:15.who will speak to our environmental correspondent about why the numbers
:01:16. > :01:36.are increasing. Go back to Monday of this week, one
:01:37. > :01:40.of the lead stories on news coverage around the world was that Iraq's
:01:41. > :01:44.Prime Minister had headed north from Baghdad to Mosul, to proclaim
:01:45. > :01:53.victory over the Islamic State group. Most has been held by them
:01:54. > :01:58.since 2014. But in small part it does not seem to be completely
:01:59. > :02:03.finished, this is a map of the city, this small area in red is in the old
:02:04. > :02:07.city, and we understand the authorities think there might still
:02:08. > :02:11.be is London and fighters there. Most of the city is in control of
:02:12. > :02:16.the Iraqi troops, which is helping to understand the cost of the
:02:17. > :02:20.victory in civilian casualties, and also what has been happening by both
:02:21. > :02:26.sides, but positives have been committed. Videos have emerged that
:02:27. > :02:35.seemed to show Iraqi security forces using extreme abuse against
:02:36. > :02:40.suspected Islamic State fighters. The video that has attracted the
:02:41. > :02:45.most attention shows men who are dressed in the Iraqi army uniform, I
:02:46. > :02:49.huddle of them, pulling one man that they holding captive out of a
:02:50. > :02:54.darkened room, taking him to the edge a cliff, there is a river
:02:55. > :02:59.beneath it, it is a long drop, there is a body lying below, lifeless,
:03:00. > :03:06.which they shoot at a couple of times. One man holds his legs, the
:03:07. > :03:12.other holds his arms and they swing him over the cliff. You see it is
:03:13. > :03:17.mobile phone footage, it is not like they were doing a professional way
:03:18. > :03:23.of showing this. You see the body land with a huge thud and they start
:03:24. > :03:28.shooting at him. Other videos that have been emerging show some really
:03:29. > :03:33.savage beating. It is not clear if these are supposed to be actual Isis
:03:34. > :03:39.fighters that have been caught or people suspected of sympathies, it
:03:40. > :03:45.is not clear. They emerged on a Facebook site which has been
:03:46. > :03:48.relatively reliable in the past. People we have spoken to, human
:03:49. > :03:57.rights watch, their representative, they have verified the spot where
:03:58. > :04:02.the first video happened. Many eyewitnesses, many other people have
:04:03. > :04:07.spoken of similar abuse that has been going on. What is significant
:04:08. > :04:14.is there has been a great concern about the militias doing this sort
:04:15. > :04:20.of abuse in other cities, taken over from Islamic State. They are kept
:04:21. > :04:22.over to the West. This appears to be the Iraqi army and the Federal
:04:23. > :04:27.police involved. Some might be surprised that there
:04:28. > :04:34.is a part of my soul that seems to be in the control of Islamic, given
:04:35. > :04:40.what happened on Monday. It is unclear if it is a serious holdout
:04:41. > :04:45.still. It might be suspected that there are fighters there, we do not
:04:46. > :04:54.know from eyewitnesses if the firing that is coming from helicopters is
:04:55. > :05:00.being answered. We are not hearing. But the Iraqi army is taking no
:05:01. > :05:06.chances in this landscape, this ruined lunar landscape that has been
:05:07. > :05:11.left in the old city. What we have heard in the past hour or so is an
:05:12. > :05:14.order from the Iraqi authorities that no journalist should go
:05:15. > :05:18.anywhere near that. Whether that is for their safety or they do not want
:05:19. > :05:22.them to see what is going on is an open question.
:05:23. > :05:29.Let's talk about the British baby Charlie Gard. An American doctor has
:05:30. > :05:33.been giving evidence in court today. He is 11 months old, he has a rare
:05:34. > :05:39.genetic condition which means the cells inside his muscle, liver and
:05:40. > :05:43.brain do not generate energy, so he cannot move his limbs and he is on a
:05:44. > :05:49.ventilator. A judge will rule on whether he can be given an
:05:50. > :05:53.experimental treatment. This afternoon giving evidence via
:05:54. > :05:58.video link from America is a doctor, who is proposing that he can treat
:05:59. > :06:05.him using this experimental therapy. He was asked by counsel for the
:06:06. > :06:08.parents what has happened since April when the original High Court
:06:09. > :06:15.judgment went against his parents. He has said that there is new
:06:16. > :06:20.evidence, this nucleoside therapy is able to reach the brain when tests
:06:21. > :06:25.on mice have been carried out, and it has been seen to help with muscle
:06:26. > :06:30.weakness. He asked what he felt the prospect of success might be. He
:06:31. > :06:38.said he would estimate the chance of clinically meaningful success to be
:06:39. > :06:42.at least 10%. That is based on evidence from nine pensions, one of
:06:43. > :06:49.whom has come off a ventilator. They said he has a different disorder
:06:50. > :06:53.from them, but he said the results so far show that should be
:06:54. > :06:57.clinically meaningful. The hospital says the treatment
:06:58. > :07:00.being offered in the US has not been given to a patient with his
:07:01. > :07:07.condition, and would not necessarily help him. His parents, though,
:07:08. > :07:16.oppose the withdrawal of life support. My colleague was tweeting
:07:17. > :07:19.that the judge said, ... That is perhaps a reference to the publicity
:07:20. > :07:29.and commentary that the case is getting, including in the US. This
:07:30. > :07:32.report includes a child that is receiving a similar experimental
:07:33. > :07:36.treatment to the one that is being offered to Charlie Gard.
:07:37. > :07:45.He likes to throw things on the floor. This boy is now six. He has a
:07:46. > :07:50.similar syndrome to Charlie Gard, that shuts down his muscles and
:07:51. > :07:55.organs. When he was one under half his parents were told to take their
:07:56. > :07:58.child home to die with dignity. They fought to get approval to get
:07:59. > :08:07.experimental treatment for their son. I did not care if he was the
:08:08. > :08:12.first human to try this medication, because they only told us he would
:08:13. > :08:16.die. We had already called a priest to give him the last rites, cos he
:08:17. > :08:24.had not opened his eyes in a queue days. But luckily we were able to
:08:25. > :08:28.get the approval pretty fast, and we were able to give him the
:08:29. > :08:35.medication. Little by little he started to get stronger. Doctors and
:08:36. > :08:38.the courts in the UK say Charlie Gard has suffered too much
:08:39. > :08:44.irreversible brain damage trees of five, and any further treatment
:08:45. > :08:47.could cause insignificant harm. This child is extraordinary for so many
:08:48. > :08:52.reasons. At the forefront of the campaign to keep him on life-support
:08:53. > :08:58.is an anti-abortion pastor from Washington, DC. The group that
:08:59. > :09:02.gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures is also American, and two
:09:03. > :09:06.American congressmen are trying to pass registration to give him
:09:07. > :09:12.American citizenship so he can get treatment in the US. I realise these
:09:13. > :09:16.are hard issues, but we have to stick to these bright lines and make
:09:17. > :09:21.sure that parents are the default decision-makers, because if we
:09:22. > :09:26.don't, all of the little babies in the world are in deep trouble.
:09:27. > :09:31.Donald Trump weighed in as well. The story has become political here,
:09:32. > :09:34.with some on the right saying it shows why having a nationalised
:09:35. > :09:40.health system is bad. In the first year of living was good. Those on
:09:41. > :09:43.the other side say Donald Trump is being hypocritical, showing
:09:44. > :09:46.compassion to a British family while his party tries to pass health
:09:47. > :09:51.legislation that could seriously endanger American children. He is
:09:52. > :09:55.persuading over the biggest medical cuts we have ever seen, as well as
:09:56. > :09:59.this fundamental and radical restructuring of the programme that
:10:00. > :10:04.kids rely on. This will shred the safety net that children have been
:10:05. > :10:09.relying on for many years. It is probably the most important issue
:10:10. > :10:16.for children in decades. This American father's only concern was
:10:17. > :10:19.fighting to keep his son alive. He understands better than anyone what
:10:20. > :10:25.Charlie Gard's parents are going through. He told he should let his
:10:26. > :10:32.child died when their is a promise that he could be saved.
:10:33. > :10:42.Much more information on this and on those proposed health care reforms
:10:43. > :10:49.in the US online now. Let's turn to our sport, and
:10:50. > :10:56.Wimbledon. This appointment for those of us in the UK, Joanna
:10:57. > :11:00.concert is out, beaten by Venus Williams, but last night you were
:11:01. > :11:06.calling Roger Federer a fine wine who keeps getting better, the same
:11:07. > :11:10.description would work today? Absolutely, you mentioned a British
:11:11. > :11:13.player disappointed, but it was either a good day or a bad day,
:11:14. > :11:20.depending on which side of the pond you are. Venus Williams showed, as
:11:21. > :11:26.we talked about, age is but a number. At 37 she powered her way
:11:27. > :11:30.into her ninth Wimbledon final, she is the oldest female player into a
:11:31. > :11:36.final berth and Martina Navratilova finished runner-up in 1994. She
:11:37. > :11:41.played superbly to win 6-4, 6-2 and end Johanna Konta's probes of being
:11:42. > :11:47.the first British woman in a Wimbledon singles final in 40 years.
:11:48. > :11:50.It was a tight contest. Williams working her way to victory with
:11:51. > :11:56.smarter serving and more effective returns of. She is into her first
:11:57. > :12:05.final since 2009. Joining her in the final will be Garbine Muguruza, the
:12:06. > :12:10.14th seed thrashed the unseeded Slovakian 6-1, 6-1 in 64 when it is
:12:11. > :12:15.to advance to her second Wimbledon final. She has previous with the
:12:16. > :12:20.Wimbledon -- with the Williams family, she was runner up to Serena
:12:21. > :12:26.in 2015, before beating her to win the French Open in 2016. That is her
:12:27. > :12:33.only major so far. She was in the zone on Thursday, despatching her
:12:34. > :12:37.opponent in ruthless fashion. Just a quick reminder, we have touched upon
:12:38. > :12:41.Roger Federer, it is the men's semifinal on Friday, he is bidding
:12:42. > :12:48.for a record eighth Wimbledon title, against Tomas Berdych, while Sam
:12:49. > :12:53.Querrey will take on Marin Cilic. A couple of tasty ties on Friday.
:12:54. > :13:00.It is the men's semis on Friday, the women's final on Saturday, the men's
:13:01. > :13:04.final on Sunday. I was looking at the BBC Sport
:13:05. > :13:10.Twitter feed, I saw this clip of Wayne Rooney. Everton are in
:13:11. > :13:13.Tanzania, part of their pre-season tour, Wayne Rooney has left
:13:14. > :13:17.Manchester United, gone back to the club where he made his debut many
:13:18. > :13:26.years ago, and this is a great moment.
:13:27. > :13:32.When really has a look up, he scores a fantastic goal!
:13:33. > :13:39.Wayne Rooney is back scoring again, with an Everton shirt on. You can
:13:40. > :13:43.get that clip now online from the BBC, supplied by Everton TV. The
:13:44. > :13:49.Tanzania and fans enjoyed that. In a minute, we will play the latest
:13:50. > :13:54.report from the BBC's China editor, she has been going along the
:13:55. > :14:00.historic silk Road, which China is investing around ?1 trillion into to
:14:01. > :14:09.recreate. Google talk about the route, and she will report from
:14:10. > :14:12.Poland this time. If you have taken a trip to the
:14:13. > :14:16.Natural History Museum recently, you will have been greeted by Gard the
:14:17. > :14:21.dip in focus, standing proud. But now another creature is taking
:14:22. > :14:29.centre stage, the skeleton of a giant blue whale called Hope. But
:14:30. > :14:35.fans of Dippy, do not worry, he is heading on a tour of the UK.
:14:36. > :14:41.It is the biggest creature that is known to have existed. Once driven
:14:42. > :14:50.to the point of extinction, but now saved by human collaboration. The
:14:51. > :14:55.blue whale is a Natural History Museum iconic display, and it has
:14:56. > :14:58.been named Abdullah two hope. It represents the ability of man to use
:14:59. > :15:02.rational evidence and good science to make decisions that will affect
:15:03. > :15:09.the future. We think it is a message that is important at this time.
:15:10. > :15:14.Hence the reason to call her Hope, hope that we will make the right
:15:15. > :15:18.decisions based on clear evidence. The whale was beached off the coast
:15:19. > :15:26.of Wexford in south-east Ireland in 1891. It has been on display in one
:15:27. > :15:30.of the museums Galleries for more than 100 years, and it has been a
:15:31. > :15:34.huge challenge to move it. The 25 metre skeleton of this young female
:15:35. > :15:38.fills the entire length of the entrance hall of the museum. The
:15:39. > :15:43.skull alone weighs more than a tonne. Its lower jawbone is the
:15:44. > :15:48.single longest bone of any animal on the planet. As visitors arrive, they
:15:49. > :15:53.are greeted by it swooping down towards them, as if they are the
:15:54. > :15:57.tiny krill that Wales feed upon. The whale replaces the much loved
:15:58. > :16:05.dinosaur, which has thrilled visitors the decade. Let's see if we
:16:06. > :16:10.can find out how long it is. I think it is great that we are going to
:16:11. > :16:14.take him around on tour, but we want to engage people around the UK, we
:16:15. > :16:17.are hoping for at least 5 million new people to become engaged when
:16:18. > :16:22.they see him and learn more about the history of that specimen. The
:16:23. > :16:45.staff believe that Hope takes the same place in our hearts.
:16:46. > :16:53.The lead story, it comes from Paris, Donald Trump has been meeting at
:16:54. > :17:02.Emmanuel Macron and has been defending his son's meeting last
:17:03. > :17:06.year with the Russian lawyer. A new report is telling us that last
:17:07. > :17:10.year saw a record number of environmental activists being
:17:11. > :17:17.killed. It comes right campaign group, you can find the whole report
:17:18. > :17:22.online. Our correspondent picked out some of the most important elements.
:17:23. > :17:26.At least 200 murders were committed globally with activists being the
:17:27. > :17:31.victims, and Brazil by far saw the most number of deaths for any
:17:32. > :17:37.individual country. Columbia saw a significant increase. 60% of the
:17:38. > :17:41.killings last year took place in Latin America and many of the
:17:42. > :17:49.victims were from indigenous communities. We are seeing attacks
:17:50. > :17:55.becoming more brazen, because so few of the cases result in successful
:17:56. > :17:57.prosecutions. I have been finding out why the numbers are so high in
:17:58. > :18:02.Latin America. It is the place where the resources
:18:03. > :18:09.are. It is where there has been difficulties about law and who owned
:18:10. > :18:16.land, most people are killed in relation to mining, logging and
:18:17. > :18:19.agribusiness, in South America, more people are killed in Brazil than
:18:20. > :18:26.anywhere else, agribusiness and logging are growing there, and
:18:27. > :18:30.indigenous people are waking up to the fact that their resources are
:18:31. > :18:33.being taken away and trying to do some fig about it. To the
:18:34. > :18:40.governments in these countries acknowledge how poor their judiciary
:18:41. > :18:44.'s have been at convicting people? That is a problem, the lack of
:18:45. > :18:49.prosecutions. Columbia is different, we have had the peace process, after
:18:50. > :18:52.50 years of war, people have gone back to their homes and found other
:18:53. > :18:57.people claiming rights to their homes, which has led to conflict,
:18:58. > :19:03.there is a power vacuum, and so there is no legal authority. You are
:19:04. > :19:06.getting a lot of killings, 37 last year, and it is due to the people
:19:07. > :19:13.going back to the land and finding that organised crime have taken it
:19:14. > :19:18.over. A lot of conflict in that area that is specific to Columbia. Do we
:19:19. > :19:22.have information on the circumstances in which people are
:19:23. > :19:28.dying? Are they being targeted, or dying in the heat of the moment?
:19:29. > :19:34.People are being targeted, the most famous environmentalist killed in
:19:35. > :19:40.Honshu rose, she received 33 death threats and then was shot in her
:19:41. > :19:46.home. She was a Goldman prize winner, very well known in the
:19:47. > :19:49.country, and yet the brazen attitude of people, now feeling they can
:19:50. > :19:55.carry out these attacks in daylight and on prominent people, that is a
:19:56. > :20:02.worrying trend in this report. This week by China editor has been
:20:03. > :20:06.reporting on China's ambitious plan to recreate the famous silk Road
:20:07. > :20:11.trading group between East and West. It is thought this ambitious project
:20:12. > :20:19.will cost in the region of ?1 trillion. Well over $1 trillion. It
:20:20. > :20:23.will involve a rail link from China to the UK. Some of it will lead via
:20:24. > :20:31.India and through Nairobi, others through Central Asia and then into
:20:32. > :20:35.Europe, and into Russia. This report on Monday came from the east of
:20:36. > :20:37.China, and we played one yesterday from Kazakhstan. Today's comes from
:20:38. > :20:50.Poland. Facing West. Since the end of the
:20:51. > :20:57.Soviet in the. Eastern Europe is becoming a key piece in China's
:20:58. > :21:05.should Egypt jigsaw. This family would never sell Polish land to
:21:06. > :21:09.Chinese investors. He explains they are actually trying to expand,
:21:10. > :21:16.hoping to sell dairy products to wealthy Chinese consumers who think
:21:17. > :21:21.the grass here is greener. China could be a big Newmarket for
:21:22. > :21:28.European milk, but it is a long and computer journey from here to the
:21:29. > :21:37.breakfast table in Beijing. It is a journey he wants to risk, as dairy
:21:38. > :21:41.markets shrink in Europe. TRANSLATION: China is a big and
:21:42. > :21:48.interesting market, and we want to try it. It is like a promised land.
:21:49. > :21:56.But China's markets are still far from open. And since the global
:21:57. > :22:03.financial crisis, it has mopped up cheap assets across Europe. Now,
:22:04. > :22:10.China wants to build here and control supply chains. A big idea,
:22:11. > :22:18.driven by the state, not the market. Some economists warn that could be
:22:19. > :22:25.risky. This is planned by the state agencies, it will be implemented by
:22:26. > :22:30.state agencies. My worry that it will end up with a huge amount of
:22:31. > :22:37.bad laws, with dozens of countries involved. It could be very
:22:38. > :22:42.dangerous. China's plan is already on the assembly line. This Polish
:22:43. > :22:49.factory once made thanks for the Soviet bloc. Now it makes big as for
:22:50. > :22:56.the Chinese state company that rescued it from collapse. He hopes
:22:57. > :23:04.China's new silk Road will turn it around. We don't see the mass of
:23:05. > :23:12.orders yet. We are ready and waiting. No real difference from the
:23:13. > :23:17.bottom -- to the bottom line yet? Customers will have the need for the
:23:18. > :23:25.machines, but not yet. Europe's bid for China is still in neutral. While
:23:26. > :23:35.China is moving up a gear here. Either digging Europe out of a hole
:23:36. > :23:39.or digging that whole deeper. One of our top stories concerns
:23:40. > :23:44.China, the dissident writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner has died
:23:45. > :23:48.aged 61. He was being treated for liver cancer and spent most of the
:23:49. > :23:52.last seven years in prison. He was there because the authorities had
:23:53. > :23:57.found him guilty of subversion, but he had called for democratic
:23:58. > :24:05.reforms. The BBC has spoken to a Chinese artist about the treatment
:24:06. > :24:10.he had. Even this is not a new case. We have
:24:11. > :24:17.been through these kind of cases, one after another, but it still came
:24:18. > :24:25.as a big shock, not only because I know him, but also because he has
:24:26. > :24:36.been such a symbol for China's human rights or democratic movement. Even
:24:37. > :24:43.this hope had become deemed or darkened by his sudden death. That
:24:44. > :24:51.is why everybody feels so shocked. This is an editorial in a newspaper
:24:52. > :24:53.connected to the Chinese state, it says he was a victim led astray by
:24:54. > :24:56.the West. Thank you for watching, we will see
:24:57. > :25:14.you next week usual time. Quite a lot to talk about in the
:25:15. > :25:16.weather, so you will have to stay focused. We