24/07/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Karin Giannone, this is Outside Source.

The parents of the terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard have

ended their legal battle to take him to the US for treatment.

They made the decision after an American doctor said

it was too late to give Charlie an experimental therapy.

To Charlie, we say mummy and daddy love you so much. We always have and

we always will and we are so sorry we couldn't save you.

President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, says all of his

actions were proper during the US election, after giving evidence

to senators on his contact with Russian officials.

I did not collude with Russia, nor do I know

of anyone else in the campaign who did so.

At least 35 people have died in a suicide bombing

The Taliban say they carried out the attack.

And we'll also be looking at a potential breakthrough

in treatment for HIV, our Health reporter will join us

from Paris where a research conference is taking place.

The parents of the terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard have

ended their legal battle to take him to the US for

It follows an American doctor, who examined

Charlie saying he was no longer willing to offer the therapy,

Here's our Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh.

The fight over Charlie Gard's future is over.

This desperately sick little boy will now be allowed to die.

After a hugely emotional hearing, where his parents said they had

agreed to let their son go, they emerged to face

Our son is an absolute warrior and we could not be prouder of him

His body, heart and soul may soon be gone, but his spirit will live

on for eternity and he will make a difference to people's

lives for years to come, we will make sure of that.

We are now going to spend our last precious moments with our son,

Charlie, who unfortunately will not make his first birthday in just

Charlie has been in Great Ormond Street Hospital since October.

He has a serious inherited condition, mitochondrial

He cannot move, feed or breathe unaided.

The central question in this case was whether this powder,

nucleoside therapy, which is added to food, could boost

His parents raised ?1.3 million for the treatment

That money will now go to a foundation in Charlie's name.

But Great Ormond Street, backed by many independent experts,

said the treatment was futile because Charlie had

suffered catastrophic and irreversible brain damage.

Because Charlie's parents and doctors could not agree,

In April, the judge ruled that Charlie's suffering should end.

Every legal appeal brought by Charlie's parents failed and then

came interventions from the Pope and Donald Trump, the latter

And this has been an extraordinary case, the battle over the fate

of a baby boy which was fought out not just here in court

The judge said it was one of the pitfalls of social media

that the watching world felt it right to have opinions without

He said the court's paramount consideration had been Charlie's

The case came back to court when American neurologist,

Dr Michio Hirano, claimed new evidence showed his nucleoside

therapy could help Charlie and last week he flew over to examine him.

On Friday, Charlie's parents accepted that these

showed his muscle wasting was now so severe he was beyond help.

It is an incredibly brave decision by Charlie's parents,

they have thought for themselves what the new evidence shows

and they have reached a conclusion, probably the judge would have

It is very brave of them to do it without waiting

In court, Connie Yates said they would be haunted for the rest

of their lives by what-ifs - what if their son had received

She said he had the potential to be a normal boy but

For Charlie, we say Mummy and Daddy, we love you so much.

We always have and we always will and we are so sorry

The parents are now with Charlie in his final hours.

Great Ormond Street said the agony, desolation and bravery

of their decision humbled all who worked there.

This is Jared Kushner, President Trump's advisor and son-in-law.

He's been testifying before a Senate panel investigating Russian

He gave a rare public statement earlier - here's some of it.

The record and documents I've voluntarily provided will show all

of my actions were proper and occurred in the normal course of

events of a very unique campaign. Let me be very clear.

I did not collude with Russia, nor do I know of anyone else

I have not relied on Russian funds for my businesses.

And I have been fully transparent in providing

Donald Trump had a better message and ran a smarter campaign,

Suggesting otherwise ridicules those who voted for him.

Remember, the Senate, the House and a special counsel

are all investigating alleged Russian interference

Mr Kushner is under scrutiny because he failed to declare his

He says it was an administrative error.

We know he met with the Russian ambassador a banker

who was presented to him as having direct links to Putin and this

This last meeting was revealed in emails released by Donald Trump Jnr,

in which Natalia Veselnitskaya was described as having "information

that would incriminate Hillary" which was "part of Russia

and its government's support for Mr Trump."

Mr Kushner says that the election was not discussed at

And this is his father-in-law's perspective.

I think those words were quietly spoken but forcefully spoken and

what they've managed to do in that statement are several things. First

of all some of you may have noticed the White House sale though, that is

unusual coming to the microphone in the White House. It is usually just

reserved for the likes of the President or vice president. Jared

Kushner was speaking for the White House. In that statement are not

only did he manage to get across the fact he feels he has been open and

transparent and he has volunteered all the information that has been

asked of him and that there was no collusion, he turned it round to

Donald Trump's voters and Donald Trump's base by saying it is an

insult to them to say that this election was rigged by the Russians

that Donald Trump didn't deserve to win. And that is the message this

White House is trying to get across. They are trying to draw a line under

the affair because it is overshadowing Donald Trump's entire

agenda but that list of contacts Jared Kushner has had with several

Russians has been of concern not just Democrats and politicians but

to those this entire affair, whether or not Russian meddling in the US

election, whether or not they did it on behalf of Donald Trump. Many

Democrats feel there are still questions to be answered, even after

his two-hour testimony today. And as far as Jared Kushner is concerned,

this is just hearing number one has to testify in front of. Tomorrow he

will face similar questions but it will be behind closed doors again.

Some of the questions being asked outside of those closed doors why is

it taking so long for Jared Kushner to come up with his version of

events. These meetings were in March so why has it taken so long for this

information to become public? Why is it being held behind closed doors is

one of the questions that continually is being asked. When it

comes to Jeff Sessions and James Komi, the former FBI, all testify in

public. When it comes to that, their testimony is open and transparent.

But Jared Kushner goes back to his statement, all it is, all of it is

open everything I've done and said. I imagine it might not be enough,

that perhaps there will be more to come.

HIV experts meeting in Paris say advances in vaccine and treatment

research is opening new doors in the fight against

Hundreds of people have gathered in north-east London tonight

after the death of a 20-year-old man, who died after being restrained

Scotland Yard say Rashan Charles tried to swallow an object ,

and that officers had tried to prevent him from harming himself.

Our correspondent Andy Moore was at the protest.

There was certainly an air of tension here, a lot of people very

angry. You can see over on this side some heated exchanges. Just a while

ago here we saw some police outriders on their motorbikes come

by, five or six of them. They were stopped by the crowd and briefly

missiles were thrown at them. And they turned around and went back in

another direction. The road here is closed at the moment. You won't see

any police officers in the immediate vicinity. Some of the community

police officers were getting abuse from the crowd but the police are

monitoring the situation, the helicopter is overhead.

This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.

The parents of the terminally ill British baby, Charlie Gard,

have abandoned their legal battle to take him to America

They made their decision after seeing the latest brain scans

Swiss police say five people have been injured,

two of them seriously, in an attack in the town of

Police say the attack was carried out by a man armed with a chainsaw,

who is believed to have fled in a white van.

The suspect has been identified but remains at large.

A Buddhist temple in central Myanmar has been swallowed by rising

floodwaters after heavy rainfall. The pagoda was built in 2009. At

least two people have died and 90,000 people have been displaced by

flooding in Myanmar this month. And among the most watched

on the BBC Website - these pictures of a very

focused thunderstorm over the city of Lian-cheng,

in the south-east of China. Even though the storm is raging just

a few hundred metres away, the cameras themselves appear

to have remained dry. It's taken three years for Iraqi

forces to recapture the country's second largest city,

Mosul, here in the north, The brutal occupation and a

nine-month battle has claimed Neighbourhoods have been flattened

and 700,000 people have been But now, just two weeks

after the liberation, people are slowly returning

to the city. Yalda Hakim has been

to find out more. The Isis reign of terror is over but

this is what liberation looks like. The city is flattened. This woman

has returned to the this neighbourhood with her two children.

They'd attempted to get away during the battle but were captured by ISAs

soldiers and imprisoned. Husband was shot dead.

She says she may now be liberated but it means nothing

Life, she says, has become even more difficult.

At the local hospital there is chaos.

Everyday people queue up, the injured, the sick

The battle is officially over but it's not safe in Mosul.

Isis rigged houses and buildings with booby traps.

All over the city, the forces are working day and night to clear the

city of unexploded devices. This unit has been working for the last

two days to get rid of everything. TRANSLATION: There was

a car bomb over there. There are IEDs nearby

and in the school so we are moving forward because there are more

unexploded devices over there. This man says his tribe didn't

support Isis. When the Iraqi military fled the city they had no

choice. TRANSLATION: The Iraqi military

controlled all of Mosul I blame what happened to our city

on politics and the leaders. The politicians need

to strike a deal. If they don't come up

with an agreement, Laughter is once again allowed

in Mosul and children leap to take Many have known nothing

but life under Isis. The Iraq they will inherit has

arguably never been more divided During its brutal sweep of Iraq,

the so-called Islamic State also targeted the country's oldest

ethnic minority, the Yazidis. Thousands were expelled from their

homes in the Sinjar region. Many of the men were shot,

while the women and children were kidnapped, taken

as hostage and raped. Many of the women who managed

to escape captivity have We've been given exclusive access

to a small group living Our reporter Fiona Lamdin has

spent a couple of days with them as they attempt

to re-build their lives. You may find some of

the details upsetting. 17 Yazidis are living on this

corridor in the middle of It's a long way from their

home in northern Iraq, This girl was 14 at the time. They

tried to escape up the mountain but they couldn't run fast enough.

She was then kidnapped, torn apart from her mother,

She told me she saw things that will always haunt her.

Would you like to go back to Iraq to live there?

Leading this team is Jacqueline Isaac, an American lawyer. She met

the girl just days after she had escaped. When I first met her, her

head was down. All of their heads were down. There was no eye contact

in the beginning. What do I say to them? There were councillors we had

brought on the right-hand side on stand-by to give girls counselling

and I remember thinking this isn't the time for counselling, this is

the time to recognise them as human beings. More than two years on, they

are now starting to live again, living, though, with deep, deep

scars but at least they say. Estimated between 2000-4000 Yazidi

children, women and men are still in captivity.

Major developments in the battle against HIV have been announced

at an international science conference taking place in Paris.

Amongst them, three significant breakthroughs came to light.

That a nine-year old child infected with HIV at birth has reportedly

been all-but cured after just one year of treatment.

That daily doses of HIV drugs could be a thing of a past,

as they could be replaced by two-monthly injections.

And that cancer treatment may unlock the answer to curing HIV,

as it's believed the virus multiplies in a similar

Our science correspondent James Gallagher was there

Thousands of scientists are meeting here in Paris to discuss the latest

advances in her HIV and how it could potentially transform the

Now one of them is about an incredible case of

They caught HIV as they were born but have spent 18

and a half years not needing any anti-retroviral therapy.

Most people need to take the drug every single day of their lives.

On the very first day of their lives, they were given

anti-retroviral therapy but then taken off it and the virus

So understanding why could really help develop new therapies.

Is it something about the child's immune system or DNA that has given

them extra protection and can be harnessed to help other people?

Something closer to reality and actually happening is this idea

So at the moment, people have to take an HIV pill every day

The idea of injections is that you need to take an injection maybe

every month or two months to get that same dose of medicine in order

to contain the virus, so it will become much easier

for patients to live with the disease rather than having

to take medicine every single day of their lives.

One final new thought, really, is about whether HIV can learn

Now, cancer has made incredible progress by harnessing the power

So by training people's immune system is, people with even

terminal cancer have seen their cancers disappear.

Now, can HIV science learn anything from that?

We don't know yet but there have been meetings between HIV and cancer

scientists trying to see if HIV can learn from them and get us one

Today, Britain's trade secretary Liam Fox is in Washington

to discuss a preliminary deal ahead of Britain's departure

A final agreement can't be ratified until the UK formally leaves the EU,

but the two nations are keen to lay the foundations for

Samira Hussain joins us from New York.

We believe they've just met Liam Fox with the US trade Representative,

what has been on the agenda? Really this is really a chance for both

sides to outline some of the priorities they are going to have,

going forward, when they start in earnest with these trade

negotiations. Remember, the UK has been out of the game for decades

now, mostly relying on the EU to negotiate these trade agreements so

that does put them in a little bit of a back step compared to the

United States that has been negotiating trade deals with

countries all around the world. This also comes at a time when Donald

Trump is using protectionist language trying to encourage to buy

American, make in America. It is a tricky time to be in engaging in

this time of activity but both sides are keen to get a deal ironed out as

soon as possible. Stay with us. The International Monetary Fund has

downgraded the growth forecasts The IMF says that the UK economy

would grow by just 1.7% this year compared to a previous

estimate of 2%. Similarly, it revised

down its growth forecast for the US The IMF said that this was based

on "the assumption that fiscal "policy will be less expansionary

than previously assumed". What does that mean exactly? Well,

really, and it comes down down to something with talked about a lot,

with the aspirations of the Trump administration on what can be

accomplished. President from when he was campaigning to be president said

we're going to see a growth rate of 4% in the United States. That was

downgraded to 3% when he took office. When we're looking at the

growth rates, they are in the low 2%. The big problem, especially from

the position of the IMF, it is all of these legislative aspirations,

things like getting the tax code reformed, and getting the big

infrastructure plan pushed through, those are not looking realistic. It

is looking difficult for the crab-maco administration to get

those things past and as a result that will have an impact on how much

the US economy grows. Just in the last few minutes, some numbers out

from Google's parent company, alphabet ink, it reported a 27

points and % drop in quarterly profit, why? It is just the money

they've made in three months and that drop. They still made a profit

of $3.5 billion in the quarter. The big reason has to do do with

something that happened last month. EU regulators have slapped Google

with a $2.7 billion fine which had to do with Google's algorithm, and

how you went on Google shopping it would show preferential treatment

for some of these Google sites. According to EU regulators, that

didn't give shoppers a clear and open idea of what was available to

them. Google has long said it is going to be trying to fight this but

it still had to be included in the earnings for the last quarter. Thank

you very much for that round-up. Just one more story to bring you in

the business section. The budget airline Ryanair has made an

announcement. The Irish carrier said it had had a red increase in average

fares of 1% which led to a more than 50% jump in profits for the quarter.

Ryanair also announced it is interested in purchasing the

struggling Italian carrier Alitalia. That is it for this edition of

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