:00:09. > :00:10.Hello, I'm Karin Giannone,
:00:11. > :00:15.President Trump says the US military will not allow transgender
:00:16. > :00:22.individuals to serve in the armed forces in any capacity.
:00:23. > :00:25.reached the decision after consulting his generals,
:00:26. > :00:27.adding that transgender people would disrupt the military
:00:28. > :00:34.and burden it with large medical bills.
:00:35. > :00:36.After the House of Representatives votes
:00:37. > :00:38.for new sanctions against Russia, the European Union
:00:39. > :00:44.Moscow describes it as a step towards destroying better ties.
:00:45. > :00:46.France appeals for help from Europe
:00:47. > :00:48.in fighting wildfires that have consumed large areas of forest
:00:49. > :00:50.And the British government announces
:00:51. > :00:54.a ban on new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 -
:00:55. > :01:11.as part of efforts to tackle air pollution.
:01:12. > :01:19.This is President Trump Tweeting this morning.
:01:20. > :01:24."After consultation with my Generals and military
:01:25. > :01:26.experts, please be advised that the United States Government
:01:27. > :01:29.Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity
:01:30. > :01:36.And the reason he gives - "Our military must be focused
:01:37. > :01:38.on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened
:01:39. > :01:43.and disruption that transgender in the military would entail."
:01:44. > :01:46.The move rolls back on an Obama administration policy which allowed
:01:47. > :01:49.transgender people to serve openly in the military.
:01:50. > :01:53.Roughly 4,000 active-duty and reserve service members
:01:54. > :01:58.The White House Press secretary was questioned about the change
:01:59. > :02:09.The president has expressed concern since this Obama policy came into
:02:10. > :02:12.effect but he has also voiced that this is a very expensive and
:02:13. > :02:16.disruptive policy and based on consultation he's had with his
:02:17. > :02:21.national security team came to the conclusion that it erodes military
:02:22. > :02:23.readiness and unit cohesion and he made the decision based on that.
:02:24. > :02:25.The White House Press secretary there, calling it
:02:26. > :02:28.Well the Washington Post has been breaking down
:02:29. > :02:35.They say that "these treatments would cost the military
:02:36. > :02:46.between $2.4 million and $8.4 million annually."
:02:47. > :02:48.To put that in perspective they work the cost out to be
:02:49. > :02:50.a 1,000th of 1% of the Defense Department's
:02:51. > :02:54.Or to put it even more in perspective it's about a tenth
:02:55. > :02:56.of "the total military spending on erectile dysfunction medicines",
:02:57. > :03:01.which amounts "to $84 million annually".
:03:02. > :03:04.The president's decision has provoked outcry around the world,
:03:05. > :03:10.Eric Fanning is the first openly gay Secretary of the Army
:03:11. > :03:20.I am disappointed, I think it's the wrong decision to have made. We
:03:21. > :03:25.already currently have thousands of transgender Americans serving in the
:03:26. > :03:28.military with this tension and it was an important step to open up the
:03:29. > :03:31.opportunity for service in the military for a number of important
:03:32. > :03:36.reasons. It aligns with call American values of equality of
:03:37. > :03:38.opportunity and it means we can allow the best and brightest the
:03:39. > :03:45.country has two other. Over to our correspondent. With
:03:46. > :03:51.everything president Tom is dealing with, this has come out of the blue.
:03:52. > :03:59.Yes, no one was expecting this bombshell announcement, and quite
:04:00. > :04:04.sparse, really, 140 characters to make a major policy change. It
:04:05. > :04:09.sounds like he is calling for a ban of all transgender people serving in
:04:10. > :04:11.the military. We know that there was a six-month delay in terms of
:04:12. > :04:17.accepting new recruits which was meant to happen in July and has been
:04:18. > :04:22.shifted to January. Is that going to become permanent? And what happens
:04:23. > :04:26.to transgender people already serving, some 2500 and we believe,
:04:27. > :04:31.maybe more, will be kicked out. The White House spokesman there saying
:04:32. > :04:34.she believed the limitation of the policy would be worked out between
:04:35. > :04:37.the White House and the Department for defence but at the moment there
:04:38. > :04:42.is a lot of confusion. How does this play politically? I would imagine it
:04:43. > :04:48.has quite a lot of support from Donald Trump's base? He has quite a
:04:49. > :04:52.lot of support among social Conservatives so there will be some
:04:53. > :04:57.support culturally from them in terms of transgender people serving
:04:58. > :05:02.in the military, and those who have an issue about whether they can
:05:03. > :05:09.choose which bathroom to use, that ran into a lot of opposition. There
:05:10. > :05:14.will be those who are social Conservatives who will support this.
:05:15. > :05:17.In Congress it has been a live issue, some congressional
:05:18. > :05:23.Republicans have strongly opposed, especially the medical side, they
:05:24. > :05:26.don't think that the military health care plan should be paying for
:05:27. > :05:31.sexual reassignment surgery but that is the basis for their opposition,
:05:32. > :05:34.they haven't called for a complete ban. So many eyebrows raised about
:05:35. > :05:42.the timing of the announcement and the method. How much does it detract
:05:43. > :05:47.from what the trouble administration is grappling with right now? You are
:05:48. > :05:53.grappling with one issue in the morning and another when you go to
:05:54. > :05:58.bed, it feels like -- the Trump administration is grappling with
:05:59. > :06:03.right now. He has issues with criticising his Attorney General,
:06:04. > :06:06.the ongoing problem with dealing with the health care repealed and
:06:07. > :06:11.replaced Bill. I don't think they are going away and this has added to
:06:12. > :06:14.the pile. Activists have said that they would take legal action if this
:06:15. > :06:18.actually goes through and I think they will probably go through with
:06:19. > :06:23.that. Quite a lot of criticism from people who are not activists,
:06:24. > :06:27.including lawmakers and others who treat this as an issue of civil
:06:28. > :06:30.rights and discrimination. They say that if someone can do the job, they
:06:31. > :06:34.should be able to do it, whatever their gender. It is opening up a new
:06:35. > :06:37.issue, really. Thank you for joining us.
:06:38. > :06:41.The EU has criticised plans for fresh US sanctions against Russia.
:06:42. > :06:43.Remember, the House of Representatives voted
:06:44. > :06:49.The EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker
:06:50. > :06:52."unintended unilateral effects that impact the EU's energy security
:06:53. > :06:55.interests" and warned that if these concerns aren't acknowledged,
:06:56. > :06:57.the EU will "stand ready to act appropriately
:06:58. > :07:08.Here's Jasmine Taylor-Coleman on why the EU has taken this position.
:07:09. > :07:16.The EU says it supports sanctions on Russia. The annexation of Crimea
:07:17. > :07:19.from the Ukraine in 2014 and allegations of Russian interference
:07:20. > :07:22.in the US election. The problem is when it starts to harm the economic
:07:23. > :07:28.interests of EU countries, especially Germany. Germany is
:07:29. > :07:32.powerful within the EU and it is involved in building a natural gas
:07:33. > :07:36.pipeline from Russia to Germany. Germany doesn't like the idea that
:07:37. > :07:42.its companies can be harmed by some of these US objections, they may
:07:43. > :07:46.have limited access to US banks if they keep working with Russia.
:07:47. > :07:49.Germany says the US does not have the right to tell other countries
:07:50. > :07:52.with whom to do business and they say that the US is using economic
:07:53. > :07:56.sanctions to impose their own industrial policy on other parts of
:07:57. > :07:59.the world. That's the opinion of the EU, but Russia isn't happy either.
:08:00. > :08:03.Russia's foreign ministry warned that Russia and America were heading
:08:04. > :08:05.into 'uncharted territory' and that the US had taken
:08:06. > :08:08.'a serious step towards destroying the possibilities for normalising
:08:09. > :08:17.Here's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow.
:08:18. > :08:25.Rusher, when Donald Trump was elected,, it was felt that previous
:08:26. > :08:33.actions could be overturned and that relations would improved but in the
:08:34. > :08:37.-- indeed it has been the opposite and this is the latest blow. People
:08:38. > :08:43.asking what kind of retaliation Moscow might now take, asking if
:08:44. > :08:48.there is any point in hoping that Donald Trump can turn things around.
:08:49. > :08:54.As Russia sees it, Donald Trump, in his attempts to start a dialogue
:08:55. > :08:58.with Russia and improve relations, is swimming against a tide of Russia
:08:59. > :09:00.phobia, so it seems in official circles.
:09:01. > :09:02.However, back in the US, House Speaker Paul Ryan insists
:09:03. > :09:05.that the sanctions package "tightens the screws on our most dangerous
:09:06. > :09:07.adversaries in order to keep Americans safe".
:09:08. > :09:11.Nothing's final yet as the package must be considered by the Senate
:09:12. > :09:18.before it's then sent to the President for his approval.
:09:19. > :09:29.Is Donald Trump likely to stand in the way of this? At the moment it
:09:30. > :09:33.will be difficult. He could veto the bill when it lands on his desk but
:09:34. > :09:38.we've seen these sanctions passed in the Senate and the house by huge
:09:39. > :09:43.majorities, only three votes against it in the House of Representatives
:09:44. > :09:46.and two in the Senate. They are large enough majorities that they
:09:47. > :09:52.could override any kind of veto that Donald Trump froze up. You seen a
:09:53. > :09:55.transition in terms of how the transition has else with this bill,
:09:56. > :09:59.it is clear there is widespread support. At first they were against
:10:00. > :10:04.it, then they said they wanted modifications, especially about the
:10:05. > :10:08.energy sector interests, the same things that the EU has objected to.
:10:09. > :10:11.When they were taken into account they said that they would sign the
:10:12. > :10:19.bill. They have been vague about whether they will, whether the
:10:20. > :10:22.president will. They don't want to draw a line in the sand and then
:10:23. > :10:27.have Congress reversed the President's action quickly. I
:10:28. > :10:31.believe there is a clause stopping President Trump from single-handedly
:10:32. > :10:35.ease the sanctions against Moscow. The fact that the bill got support
:10:36. > :10:41.from both parties, what does that say about the level of concern about
:10:42. > :10:43.his relations with Russia? It says dramatically that Congress does not
:10:44. > :10:48.trust the president when he dealing with Russia. There has been a cloud
:10:49. > :10:54.hanging over the President's head, the Russia investigation, Russian
:10:55. > :10:57.meddling in the 2016 election has expanded to include about whether
:10:58. > :11:02.there was involvement in the Trump campaign itself. This shows that
:11:03. > :11:06.there are people on both sides of the aisle in Congress who wonder
:11:07. > :11:11.about any kind of deals that Trump has with the Russians, whether there
:11:12. > :11:15.is any untoward involvement. Michael Flynn, the National security
:11:16. > :11:18.adviser, had to resign from his position shortly after being named
:11:19. > :11:24.by Donald Trump because it came out that he was talking with the Russian
:11:25. > :11:28.ambassador about the sanctions that Obama imposed in December in
:11:29. > :11:31.retaliation for Russian meddling. He was effectively telling the Russian
:11:32. > :11:36.ambassador not to worry, that the Trump administration may have a
:11:37. > :11:41.friendly view over the sanctions and would ease them. Now I think you're
:11:42. > :11:46.seeing this kind of bill as a result of those allegations. How much of a
:11:47. > :11:50.headache does it present for Donald Trump and his relations with Russia
:11:51. > :11:58.if there are more sanctions? It definitely ties his hands. It
:11:59. > :12:01.aggravates rusher, as we've seen. It takes power away from the President,
:12:02. > :12:08.it takes flexibility away from Donald Trump to ease sanctions as
:12:09. > :12:11.part of negotiations with Russia about other things, such as Syria
:12:12. > :12:20.and the Ukraine. So it's going to frustrate them. Outside of the
:12:21. > :12:22.problems that this shows, that Congress is not particularly happy
:12:23. > :12:23.about what Donald Trump is doing with Russia. Thank you for joining
:12:24. > :12:27.us. The Afghan Taliban have carried out
:12:28. > :12:30.a violent attack on a military camp close to the southern
:12:31. > :12:32.city of Kandahar. It's thought that at least 30
:12:33. > :12:34.soldiers were killed in the attack. The militants also captured
:12:35. > :12:40.weapons and vehicles. The attack was close to Helmand
:12:41. > :12:42.province, where the Taliban This is however just the latest
:12:43. > :12:47.attack by the insurgents after a bombing in Kabul on Monday
:12:48. > :13:05.and further offensives The Afghan Minister of defence
:13:06. > :13:10.confirms that a number of Afghan military personnel were killed after
:13:11. > :13:14.their base was stormed by the Taliban fighters last night. This is
:13:15. > :13:21.a significant achievement for the Taliban in this province. In the
:13:22. > :13:25.past, their efforts used to be focused mainly on the neighbouring
:13:26. > :13:32.Helmand province but that prevents, having been weakened enough for
:13:33. > :13:43.them, it seems that the insurgents have focused now on Kandahar -- that
:13:44. > :13:44.Providence. -- province. Many of their leaders have come from these
:13:45. > :13:45.areas. Stay with us on Outside
:13:46. > :13:49.Source - still to come. We'll be live in Venezuela -
:13:50. > :13:52.on the same day of yet another anti-government strike,
:13:53. > :13:54.the US has imposed sanctions against The Supreme Court has scrapped
:13:55. > :14:07.charges for people who want to bring a case to employment tribunals,
:14:08. > :14:17.ruling that the fees are unlawful. The government, who introduced fees
:14:18. > :14:21.of up to ?1,200 in 2013, must now pay back ?32
:14:22. > :14:22.million to claimants. Our Legal Affairs Correspondent
:14:23. > :14:31.Clive Coleman reports. The ruling is huge. It means that
:14:32. > :14:36.not only the order that introduced tribunal fees in 2013 is quashed, it
:14:37. > :14:44.also means that everyone who paid the fees, that is some ?32 million,
:14:45. > :14:48.will now get their money back. After a four-year legal struggle, Unison
:14:49. > :14:52.were delighted. We knew from day one that this was not just unlawful, it
:14:53. > :15:03.was immoral, that low paid workers should be in this position. We are
:15:04. > :15:07.going to check the judgment on board and we will comply with it. -- take
:15:08. > :15:13.the judgment on board. This is Outside Source live
:15:14. > :15:17.from the BBC newsroom. President Trump says the US military
:15:18. > :15:19.will not allow transgender individuals to serve in the armed
:15:20. > :15:22.forces in any capacity. Other stories being
:15:23. > :15:28.reported around the BBC. Mariano Rajoy has become Spain's
:15:29. > :15:30.first sitting prime minister He appeared as a witness
:15:31. > :15:36.in a corruption trial which involves politicians from the conservative
:15:37. > :15:38.Popular Party. Mr Rajoy does not face
:15:39. > :15:39.any charges himself. And this sports story is one
:15:40. > :15:49.of the most read online. Novak Djokovic will miss the rest
:15:50. > :15:53.of the 2017 tennis season The problem forced the 12-time grand
:15:54. > :15:58.slam champion to retire from his Wimbledon quarter-final
:15:59. > :16:06.against Thomas Berdych. The parents of a terminally-ill
:16:07. > :16:09.baby boy, Charlie Gard, have given up their legal battle
:16:10. > :16:13.for their son to die at home. Lawyers at the High Court in London
:16:14. > :16:16.accepted that he should instead be But there's still no agreement
:16:17. > :16:20.on when his life support Our medical correspondent
:16:21. > :16:33.Fergus Walsh explains the dispute. The family want Charlie transferred
:16:34. > :16:38.to a hospice and for a private medical team to take over his care
:16:39. > :16:43.so they can have a period of days with him, a period of reflection, to
:16:44. > :16:49.build memories with him before his ventilator is switched off. They say
:16:50. > :16:51.that some nurses at Great Ormond Street caring for Charlie have
:16:52. > :16:57.volunteered to do this and they have a private GP but hospices are not
:16:58. > :17:00.set out to take children on ventilators for long periods and
:17:01. > :17:05.they haven't found a hospice willing to take him. They have a private GP
:17:06. > :17:10.but they haven't found a paediatric intensive care consultant and they
:17:11. > :17:15.appealed for one to come forward overnight. Great Ormond Street said
:17:16. > :17:19.that waiting here was causing stress for the family and staff and they
:17:20. > :17:23.would like to seek Charlie transferred to a hospice no later
:17:24. > :17:27.than Friday. So the judge ordered, if they can't come to an agreement
:17:28. > :17:33.by noon tomorrow, that Charlie should be transferred to a hospice,
:17:34. > :17:36.and then that palliative care should begin and that his breathing tube
:17:37. > :17:41.should be withdrawn shortly there after. He said it is three and a
:17:42. > :17:45.half months since he ruled that Charlie should be able to die with
:17:46. > :17:49.dignity. He was conscious that Charlie may be suffering and that
:17:50. > :17:50.this whole process should come to an end.
:17:51. > :17:53.The situation in Venezuela is getting even more tense.
:17:54. > :17:56.Another two days of anti-government strike action began today -
:17:57. > :18:01.take a look at these pictures from the streets of Caracas.
:18:02. > :18:03.Venezuelans have been blockading the roads
:18:04. > :18:07.with rubbish, stones and ropes - many businesses stayed closed.
:18:08. > :18:10.This is a last ditch attempt to make President Nicolas Maduro cancel
:18:11. > :18:12.an election this weekend - which will essentially
:18:13. > :18:15.lead to the country's constitution being re-written.
:18:16. > :18:20.His critics say that will cement him as a dictator.
:18:21. > :18:24.Today the Trump administration weighed in, sending a strong
:18:25. > :18:26.message to the Venezuelan President to back down.
:18:27. > :18:30.It's accused 13 senior officials in the government, military,
:18:31. > :18:32.police and state oil company of human rights
:18:33. > :18:36.abuse and corruption, imposing strict sanctions on them.
:18:37. > :18:38.Anatoly Kurmanayev is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal
:18:39. > :18:43.in Caracas - this was his take when he spoke to me an hour ago.
:18:44. > :18:50.These sanctions have been around for quite some time, the Trump
:18:51. > :18:55.administration have made it clear some months ago, American concern
:18:56. > :19:00.about the situation. Senior officials have met with senior
:19:01. > :19:05.opposition leaders and today they rolled out sanctions against
:19:06. > :19:10.officials, most notably the head of the national election Council,
:19:11. > :19:17.overseeing the vote on Sunday. Importantly, the Trump
:19:18. > :19:21.administration has left out two key officials in Venezuela, the head of
:19:22. > :19:27.the Armed Forces and also the second vice president of the ruling party.
:19:28. > :19:38.What Trump is trying to do, he's trying to create a sense, people
:19:39. > :19:45.close to President med Euro -- president Maduro to rise up. The
:19:46. > :19:48.Trump administration have made it clear that if he continues they will
:19:49. > :19:53.roll out even stronger sanctions possibly from next week, so the
:19:54. > :19:59.result is crucial. I want to play a clip of the Venezuelan opposition
:20:00. > :20:15.leader, Leopoldo Lopez. He has been in jail for three years for inciting
:20:16. > :20:19.protest. TRANSLATION: I tell you that in my conviction, my fight and
:20:20. > :20:23.my determination of accompanying the Venezuelan people so that together
:20:24. > :20:29.we will have a democracy. If that represents a risk for me of
:20:30. > :20:34.returning to a prison cell, I willing to take on the risk. I
:20:35. > :20:41.wonder what the chances are that the opposition leader might be jailed
:20:42. > :20:44.again. Well, Leopoldo Lopez has come in for a lot of criticism since
:20:45. > :20:50.being released from jail earlier this month for not speaking out more
:20:51. > :20:58.strongly against the government, for not taking charge of the protest
:20:59. > :21:05.movement. What came in his message was quite expected. His lawyer said
:21:06. > :21:11.it doesn't break the terms of his house arrest. To be fair I think the
:21:12. > :21:21.government is comfortable with Diepoldova being in his house making
:21:22. > :21:24.these videos because it is creating confusion in the opposition movement
:21:25. > :21:29.about who is leading the protest, who will be the candidate if the
:21:30. > :21:39.elections are held -- comfortable with Leopoldo being held. In the
:21:40. > :21:46.last 30 seconds or so, how tense do things feel in Caracas today? Well,
:21:47. > :21:50.today has been largely quiet, shops are shot and the streets are empty,
:21:51. > :21:56.both sides preparing for the final stretch this week which they see as
:21:57. > :22:01.a decisive battle. A big government rally tomorrow followed by a big
:22:02. > :22:04.opposition rally on Saturday to stop the vote going ahead, so tensions
:22:05. > :22:11.are going to be rising and we can expect more violence.
:22:12. > :22:14.Volkswagen has held an emergency board meeting regarding allegations
:22:15. > :22:16.that the carmaker operated a cartel alongside several other
:22:17. > :22:20.If true, the reports would be a further blow to VW,
:22:21. > :22:22.which is trying to recover from its recent emissions scandal.
:22:23. > :22:27.Damien McGuinness reports from Berlin.
:22:28. > :22:36.Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler, Audi, Portia. All German car brands clues
:22:37. > :22:41.of collusion. The allegation is that since the 1990s they regularly held
:22:42. > :23:02.talks to agree costs, either for parts or for technology.
:23:03. > :23:12.The news has rattled investors. When German media first published the
:23:13. > :23:18.reports, shares in Volkswagen fell by 4.9% and shares in BMW and
:23:19. > :23:21.Daimler dropped by more than 3%. The European Commission and the German
:23:22. > :23:25.cartel office haven't yet launched an official probe but they are
:23:26. > :23:28.looking into the allegations. If true, this would open up a whole new
:23:29. > :23:34.chapter in the diesel emissions scandal. That's because engine
:23:35. > :23:39.exhaust technology was also allegedly involved in the cartel.
:23:40. > :23:44.Volkswagen and other German brands are only now starting to recover
:23:45. > :23:46.from the emissions row. So another scandal would be a blow to the
:23:47. > :23:52.industry's reputation. Let's cross over to the US now-
:23:53. > :23:57.earlier CNBC tweeted this: "Trump to announce later today that
:23:58. > :23:59.Apple-supplier Foxconn will build Let's get more on this
:24:00. > :24:15.with Samira Hussain in New York. Good to see you. Tell us more about
:24:16. > :24:19.what they are planning. We're going to be hearing from the president
:24:20. > :24:22.himself in less than an hour's time, he will speak from the White House.
:24:23. > :24:30.We're expecting to hear an announcement about M3 Mac -- about
:24:31. > :24:35.Foxconn. It is well-known for being one of the companies that makes some
:24:36. > :24:39.of the Apple iPads and iPhones in China. It has said that it wants to
:24:40. > :24:45.open up factories in the United States. That's really what we're
:24:46. > :24:48.waiting to hear. Looks like they will invest some $10 million in the
:24:49. > :24:53.United States, creating a couple of hundred jobs. That is part of
:24:54. > :25:00.President Trump's mantra, for companies to start manufacturing in
:25:01. > :25:05.the United States and this would bode well. However Foxconn has made
:25:06. > :25:09.an announcement like this before, in 2013 is said that it would expand a
:25:10. > :25:13.factory in Pennsylvania and make a big investment but it never came to
:25:14. > :25:16.fruition. Time to touch on something that's happened in the last the Met
:25:17. > :25:22.minutes, Facebook releasing its latest results. -- the last the Met
:25:23. > :25:28.minutes. Facebook is making money on top of money and the big thing is
:25:29. > :25:31.their advertising revenue, a big boost as a result of video
:25:32. > :25:39.advertising. Comparing this quarter to the same time last year, mobile
:25:40. > :25:42.video ads has gone up to 87% compared to 84%, so they have beaten
:25:43. > :25:45.investor expectations and you can expect that their stock value is
:25:46. > :25:51.going to go even higher. Thank you for joining us. Stay with us. We'll
:25:52. > :25:55.have the latest on the situation on those wildfires in the south of
:25:56. > :26:08.France, 10,000 people evacuated overnight.
:26:09. > :26:14.Time to get the very latest on the big world weather stories and first
:26:15. > :26:16.of all, south