:00:00. > :00:16.Round two of the formal Brexit talks gets under way.
:00:17. > :00:19.It's time to get down to business say officials as they try to hammer
:00:20. > :00:22.out some of the key details over Britain's departure from the EU.
:00:23. > :00:25.After North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile test,
:00:26. > :00:27.the South offers talks, but how will the invitation
:00:28. > :00:34.And the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge become
:00:35. > :00:37.the latest high profile visitors to touch down in Poland -
:00:38. > :00:54.the first stop in their diplomacy tour with family in tow.
:00:55. > :00:56.Hello and welcome to World News Today.
:00:57. > :00:59.Britain's Brexit minister has pledged to get down to business
:01:00. > :01:02.as the second round of formal talks on the UK's departure from
:01:03. > :01:09.In a brief appearance alongside EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier,
:01:10. > :01:13.Mr Davis said there had been a good start to the process.
:01:14. > :01:15.Mr Barnier described the atmospherics as good and said
:01:16. > :01:18.talks would now delve into the heart of the matter.
:01:19. > :01:22.This week's discussions will mainly revolve around the issues
:01:23. > :01:24.of the Irish border - that's the frontier
:01:25. > :01:27.between Northern Ireland, a part of the UK, and the Republic
:01:28. > :01:33.The size of any so-called divorce bill, which is the financial
:01:34. > :01:37.commitment Britain made as a member and has to honour before leaving.
:01:38. > :01:40.And citizen rights - what will happen to millions of EU
:01:41. > :01:44.citizens living in the UK, and about a million UK expats
:01:45. > :01:50.But a year after Britain voted narrowly to leave the EU,
:01:51. > :01:54.the UK Government seemed at war with itself over Brexit,
:01:55. > :01:57.with leaks over the weekend suggesting the cabinet is extremely
:01:58. > :02:04.Our political editor Laura Kuennesberg has the latest.
:02:05. > :02:08.They don't really have much time to hang around,
:02:09. > :02:12.the two men who'll haggle over how we leave.
:02:13. > :02:17.Especially with the UK's political situation rather fluid, at best.
:02:18. > :02:21.It's incredibly important we now make good progress,
:02:22. > :02:25.that we negotiate through this and identify the differences
:02:26. > :02:27.so we can deal with them, and identify the similarities
:02:28. > :02:33.And now it's time to get down to work and make this
:02:34. > :02:46.Working out the Irish border, the Brexit bill,
:02:47. > :02:49.But government ministers don't agree completely
:02:50. > :02:53.Perhaps that is why the Brexit secretary seemed
:02:54. > :02:57.Perhaps because chatter around the Cabinet at home suggests
:02:58. > :03:06.You've seen in another part of town today, I'm very pleased that
:03:07. > :03:13.negotiations are beginning, and as you know, a very fair,
:03:14. > :03:17.serious offer has been put on the table by the UK Government.
:03:18. > :03:19.It's not just that Government has to wrangle Brexit
:03:20. > :03:22.through Brussels and Parliament, but deal with other pressures
:03:23. > :03:25.and disagreements - on public sector pay
:03:26. > :03:31.Above all, the disagreements have emerged into daylight
:03:32. > :03:34.because the discipline Theresa May had imposed on the Tories
:03:35. > :03:37.has all but disappeared since the general election.
:03:38. > :03:47.Tomorrow, she will warn the cabinet to behave,
:03:48. > :03:49.to keep their views to themselves, but those
:03:50. > :03:51.with desire for the top job believe the game is on.
:03:52. > :03:55.I think whoever is doing it, everybody needs to get
:03:56. > :03:58.into a cold bath or shower, and then get together
:03:59. > :04:01.and have a warm pint afterwards because this is damaging.
:04:02. > :04:06.It's damaging to the party, to the Parliamentary MPs,
:04:07. > :04:12.Remember him, urging the Tories today to inspire,
:04:13. > :04:17.The risk for the Tories - the current generation hurts each
:04:18. > :04:25.From the UK to the US, where it is Made in America week
:04:26. > :04:28.at the White House - there will be a show of goods
:04:29. > :04:31.on the South Lawn as President Trump promotes US manufacturing.
:04:32. > :04:34.But when it comes to legislation there are fears that the Senate's
:04:35. > :04:37.health care bill may be stalled after Senator John McCain
:04:38. > :04:40.underwent surgery and is out for at least a week.
:04:41. > :04:43.And the President has once again tweeted his support for his son
:04:44. > :04:47.Don Jr, who met with a Russian lawyer during the election campaign.
:04:48. > :04:54.Here to help us through it all is the BBC's Anthony Zurcher.
:04:55. > :05:02.The White House is trying to shift the focus back to the economy but
:05:03. > :05:08.bringing jobs and manufacturing back to the US is easier said than done.
:05:09. > :05:14.Absolutely, happy Made in America wait to you. There is a running
:05:15. > :05:19.theme over this year, the Trump Administration have tried to focus
:05:20. > :05:25.on infrastructure, jobs, spending on infrastructure. It is become a
:05:26. > :05:29.running joke because these weeks tend to get sidetracked by Don
:05:30. > :05:35.from's own statements. He was tweeting about a woman's golf
:05:36. > :05:39.tournament over the weekend and the infrastructure week was sidetracked
:05:40. > :05:44.by James Komi's testimony. Nobody really mentioned anything about
:05:45. > :05:49.infrastructure week at the time and nobody has talked about it since, so
:05:50. > :05:53.there are lorries and fire trucks and construction equipment scattered
:05:54. > :05:59.over the lawn of the White House but we will see if it can break through
:06:00. > :06:05.the messages. Let's get back to the Tbits as he wants to do before the
:06:06. > :06:10.summer is out, health care reform, a stumbling block with news that John
:06:11. > :06:16.McCain is recovering from can -- surgery? John Mike Kane was a
:06:17. > :06:22.reliable vote for health care reform, it shows if Republicans lose
:06:23. > :06:27.one reliable vote they may not be able to pass the bill. Also the
:06:28. > :06:34.budget office scoring of the impact on unemployed people may not come
:06:35. > :06:38.out in time, Republicans have extended their stay here in
:06:39. > :06:44.Washington for a couple of weeks in August but may not get to work. The
:06:45. > :06:49.president has also reiterated his support for his son Don Junior, last
:06:50. > :06:57.week you could have said was Russian e-mail week. What more can we expect
:06:58. > :07:02.on that? It is a steady drip of new information, we are finding out
:07:03. > :07:05.about new people who attended this meeting, a Russian American
:07:06. > :07:11.lobbyists who said documents were handed over, some detail on possible
:07:12. > :07:17.ties between the Democrats and Russia, something Donald Junior has
:07:18. > :07:20.said never happened, so it seems like every new story, there is a new
:07:21. > :07:26.reason for the Trump Administration to get on the defensive. I spoke to
:07:27. > :07:32.said they don't mind the Russian thing because they think a lot of it
:07:33. > :07:37.is made up by the media. The President's approval ratings came
:07:38. > :07:42.out and were not good for him. They show a record low for his
:07:43. > :07:49.Administration at 36%, which is lower than Barack Obama or George W
:07:50. > :07:55.Bush at the same point in their administrations. Republican support
:07:56. > :08:01.is still high, 80%, it is Democrats and independents who are becoming
:08:02. > :08:04.strongly opposed to him. That may undermine Republicans trying to run
:08:05. > :08:10.for election next year but that is still a long way off and Democrats,
:08:11. > :08:14.a majority think American Democrats only stand for anti-Trump, not for
:08:15. > :08:20.anything on their own. Democrats need to find their own issue to
:08:21. > :08:24.campaign on, they cannot just be the anti-Donald Trump party. Thank you,
:08:25. > :08:26.Anthony. Well, among President Trump's
:08:27. > :08:28.promises on the campaign trail was an immigration crackdown -
:08:29. > :08:30.with a pledge to deport So far arrests have risen but actual
:08:31. > :08:34.deportations haven't. But a special report by the BBC's
:08:35. > :08:36.Panorama programme reveals that thousands of undocumented immigrants
:08:37. > :08:40.with no criminal records are also being caught in these sweeps,
:08:41. > :08:43.with families split apart One morning in May,
:08:44. > :08:52.when they were getting ready for school in their home
:08:53. > :08:55.in San Diego, California, border patrol officers came
:08:56. > :08:59.and arrested both of their parents. They just came up to my mum
:09:00. > :09:02.and told her she was arrested Their parents, Rosenda
:09:03. > :09:10.and Francisco Duarte Snr, have been living in America
:09:11. > :09:15.illegally the 21 years. Border patrol initially
:09:16. > :09:17.suspected them of involvement in international human trafficking,
:09:18. > :09:22.but later dropped the accusation. The Duarte parents run
:09:23. > :09:25.a small ice cream business The first night alone,
:09:26. > :09:32.the children all moved their beds Francisco, the older brother, now
:09:33. > :09:38.does his best to run the household. The border guards knew
:09:39. > :09:40.they were leaving a teenager They just asked me,
:09:41. > :09:43.are you Francisco? They said, OK, you can
:09:44. > :09:51.take care of them. So they just left you here
:09:52. > :09:55.with all the family? President Trump came to office
:09:56. > :09:58.on a promise to prioritise We have some bad hombres here
:09:59. > :10:06.and we are going to get them out. In his first 100 days,
:10:07. > :10:10.41,000 illegals or suspected Most were criminals,
:10:11. > :10:15.but there was a massive spike in people like the Duartes
:10:16. > :10:18.being arrested, non-criminals President Trump's supporters
:10:19. > :10:23.say the administration Nobody wants families split
:10:24. > :10:30.and the way to ensure that, if you are a family,
:10:31. > :10:33.is to not come to this Sometimes the sins of the father
:10:34. > :10:38.are visited upon the sons, and that's unfortunate,
:10:39. > :10:41.but the Government didn't The Duartes went to see their
:10:42. > :10:47.parents in the immigrant detention Their mother has since been released
:10:48. > :10:56.on bail, but both parents still face possible deportation,
:10:57. > :10:58.as now do any of America's Today the Washington Post reported
:10:59. > :11:08.that the United Arab Emirates hacked into Qatari government news websites
:11:09. > :11:14.and social media, posting inflammatory false quotes attributed
:11:15. > :11:17.to the Emir of Qatar. Those reports then sparked
:11:18. > :11:19.the ongoing upheaval between Qatar and its neighbours which led
:11:20. > :11:22.to the cutting of diplomatic ties. The UAE Minister of State
:11:23. > :11:24.for Foreign Affairs, Anwar bin Mohammed Gargash,
:11:25. > :11:28.spoke to the BBC's Lucy Hockings earlier today and issued this
:11:29. > :11:45.denial of the report. This is a crisis. Every day there is
:11:46. > :11:50.a new allegation and there was an allegation about us asking for the
:11:51. > :11:57.withdrawal of Qatar from hosting the World Cup, today it is this one,
:11:58. > :12:00.completely untrue. They are quite specific allegations from US
:12:01. > :12:08.intelligence. And it said than defied also. Washington Post is
:12:09. > :12:14.quoting intelligence sources. You believe there was a hack? I just
:12:15. > :12:18.want to say the story is completely untrue. I haven't read the story
:12:19. > :12:24.yet, I have seen the reports but it is untrue. It says your country
:12:25. > :12:25.hacked Qatar's news websites. And posted comments that said that
:12:26. > :12:28."Qatar's ruler praises Do you think he would have
:12:29. > :12:32.said those comments? Very diplomatically
:12:33. > :12:33.sensitive comments. No, I think if you look
:12:34. > :12:36.at the comments, they are very consistent with what they have been
:12:37. > :12:38.doing. I'm talking about the hack,
:12:39. > :12:40.completely untrue. They also said that on the 23rd
:12:41. > :12:42.of May, senior members of your government discussed
:12:43. > :12:45.the plan and its implementation. Again, the whole story
:12:46. > :12:51.is completely untrue. For the first time in nearly two
:12:52. > :12:54.years, South Korea has proposed The proposal comes in spite
:12:55. > :12:59.of the test earlier this month of what many experts say
:13:00. > :13:01.was Pyongyang's first President Moon Jae-in,
:13:02. > :13:09.who took over leadership of the South in May,
:13:10. > :13:12.has said he wants to see closer engagement with the North
:13:13. > :13:14.to de-escalate what he describes But how will that sit with the US
:13:15. > :13:20.and regional allies? We are joined from Washington
:13:21. > :13:22.now by Balbina Hwang, who formerly served in the State
:13:23. > :13:37.department and is now These engagement the right way to
:13:38. > :13:41.handle the North Korean situation? I don't think only engagement, I think
:13:42. > :13:48.it has to be engagement along with all other types of Africa, including
:13:49. > :13:52.upping some of the pressure against these outrageous activities North
:13:53. > :13:57.Korea conducts, and that is what President Moon Jae-in has said will
:13:58. > :14:01.be his policy. How do you think countries like the US who have been
:14:02. > :14:08.promising at tougher stance on North Korea will take this? The Trump
:14:09. > :14:15.Administration has declared that it will pursue a tougher stance but it
:14:16. > :14:19.has also made clear that it is also interested in types of engagement,
:14:20. > :14:25.including diplomatic and political engagement, so I believe there is
:14:26. > :14:29.full support from the US and I hope the cupboard nation between the
:14:30. > :14:35.Allies is close. What about other players in the region? This is in
:14:36. > :14:43.line with what China has claimed it has wanted for several decades and I
:14:44. > :14:47.don't think anybody else would oppose this approach, not even
:14:48. > :14:52.Japan, and I think Shinzo a also understands there has to be some
:14:53. > :14:58.sort of engagement along with continued pressure to stop North
:14:59. > :15:02.Korea's illicit activities. This is the intention to hold these talks
:15:03. > :15:08.but what is the likelihood of that happening? There is been so much
:15:09. > :15:13.debate about engagement were not and whether one is better than the
:15:14. > :15:18.other, I think we have moved beyond the debate about engagement, the
:15:19. > :15:24.point about engagement is it only works if both sides of the party
:15:25. > :15:28.participate, and the problem is not the engagement itself but that North
:15:29. > :15:34.Korea has consistently refused for the last six years to engage, so we
:15:35. > :15:42.will have to see if North Korea will respond to President Moon's
:15:43. > :15:44.approaches. Does this gesture from South Korea are effectively
:15:45. > :15:51.legitimise North Korea's actions at the moment? I suppose some would
:15:52. > :15:57.argue that but I think we have moved beyond that point. What I like about
:15:58. > :16:02.this recent proposal from President Moon is that he is talking about
:16:03. > :16:07.military engagements and that is critical. Some of the broad gestures
:16:08. > :16:15.he has ventured is starting a co-economic involvement project, and
:16:16. > :16:18.reunion groups, to me those are gestures which I am not certain
:16:19. > :16:23.would get North Korea to take action. It is really military action
:16:24. > :16:29.and military talks are crucial if North Korea is willing to
:16:30. > :16:31.participate. Thank you for joining us and we will see if those talks to
:16:32. > :16:32.happen. Let's take a look at some of
:16:33. > :16:35.the other stories making the news. The United Nations says the number
:16:36. > :16:37.of civilian casualties in Afghanistan has reached a record
:16:38. > :16:40.high in the first half of 2017. In a new report, the UN said more
:16:41. > :16:44.than 1600 people were killed from January to the end of June,
:16:45. > :16:46.an increase of 2% The majority of the victims died
:16:47. > :16:50.in attacks by the Taliban Two bomb blasts have killed at least
:16:51. > :16:55.nine people in the city of Maiduguri A female suicide bomber blew
:16:56. > :17:02.herself up at a mosque, killing eight people
:17:03. > :17:03.during morning prayers. In another incident,
:17:04. > :17:05.the police say Boko Haram insurgents forcefully strapped explosives
:17:06. > :17:07.to a ten-year-old boy Relatives of the mostly Dutch
:17:08. > :17:14.passengers of the Malaysia Airlines flight shot down over Ukraine three
:17:15. > :17:17.years ago have gathered for a ceremony in the Netherlands
:17:18. > :17:19.to dedicate a memorial forest The memorial site is close
:17:20. > :17:24.to Schiphol Airport, where Flight MH17 left on its last
:17:25. > :17:26.journey three years ago. Investigators say the rocket that
:17:27. > :17:29.brought down the plane was fired from territory controlled
:17:30. > :17:37.by Russian-backed rebels. A terminally ill man has
:17:38. > :17:39.begun a legal challenge against the ban on assisted dying
:17:40. > :17:42.in England and Wales. 67-year-old Noel Conway has
:17:43. > :17:45.motor neurone disease. He says he fears becoming entombed
:17:46. > :17:49.in his body and wants to be able to choose when and where he dies,
:17:50. > :17:52.without those who aid Currently it is illegal
:17:53. > :17:57.to help someone to die. Our medical correspondent
:17:58. > :18:01.Fergus Walsh reports. It's an issue which polarises
:18:02. > :18:09.opinion, and keeps coming The latest challenge
:18:10. > :18:16.is from Noel Conway from Shropshire, who was too weak to attend
:18:17. > :18:19.today's hearing. Motor neurone disease
:18:20. > :18:25.means he increasingly Once fit and active, his muscles
:18:26. > :18:33.are progressively wasting. He fears how he will die,
:18:34. > :18:37.and wants a doctor to be allowed I want to be able to say goodbye
:18:38. > :18:44.to the people that I love at the right time, not to be
:18:45. > :18:50.in a zombie-like condition, suffering both physically
:18:51. > :18:54.and psychologically. It is only three years
:18:55. > :19:02.since the Supreme Court rejected a similar plea for a right to die
:19:03. > :19:07.from Tony Nicklinson, though he was not considered
:19:08. > :19:10.to be terminally ill. The blanket ban on assisted dying
:19:11. > :19:15.has been challenged many times, and in every case, the courts have
:19:16. > :19:19.rejected the central argument that the current law breaches human
:19:20. > :19:24.rights by preventing people Mr Conway's lawyers argue
:19:25. > :19:30.that his challenge is different, as it applies to a narrow group
:19:31. > :19:37.of people - those who are terminally ill, with less than six months
:19:38. > :19:40.to live, and who have a settled But those safeguards have already
:19:41. > :19:46.failed to persuade Parliament. It's only two years since MPs
:19:47. > :19:50.overwhelmingly rejected proposals Baroness Jane Campbell,
:19:51. > :19:57.a disability rights campaigner, says changing the law would send
:19:58. > :20:00.all the wrong signals, This case must not become law
:20:01. > :20:08.because it will burden disabled people across the country,
:20:09. > :20:12.who will not feel safe without the protection of a law
:20:13. > :20:16.that says it is wrong Noel Conway's health is faltering,
:20:17. > :20:25.and he knows he may die The High Court will reserve
:20:26. > :20:31.its judgment until October, and it may then go all the way
:20:32. > :20:39.to the Supreme Court. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
:20:40. > :20:43.have arrived in Warsaw for the first part of an official visit to both
:20:44. > :20:45.Poland and Germany Along with them are
:20:46. > :20:48.their three-year-old son George and two-year-old
:20:49. > :20:50.daughter Charlotte. From Warsaw, our royal
:20:51. > :20:57.correspondent Peter Hunt reports. At three, he's far too young to know
:20:58. > :21:01.if he's a reluctant royal, but Prince George definitely wasn't
:21:02. > :21:04.keen to embrace Warsaw One future king did persuade another
:21:05. > :21:16.one to follow in his footsteps. On the tarmac, George struck
:21:17. > :21:19.a nonchalant pose and practised A fidgeting toddler
:21:20. > :21:26.with a lifetime under an intense Princess Charlotte's freedom
:21:27. > :21:32.of movement was constrained The language divide isn't
:21:33. > :21:40.the only challenge. Here, a country that relatively
:21:41. > :21:44.recently embraced the EU is welcoming royals from one
:21:45. > :21:51.on its way out of the institution. The nitty-gritty of Brexit
:21:52. > :21:58.will not feature here. Rather, William and Kate
:21:59. > :22:01.are in Warsaw to remind people of the depth of past links
:22:02. > :22:03.and the potential for future ones Warsaw's past on display
:22:04. > :22:10.on a memorial wall to those murdered when, during the Second World War,
:22:11. > :22:14.the Poles tried and failed You wore this all the time
:22:15. > :22:19.during the uprising? Marjenna Schejbal, aged 20,
:22:20. > :22:25.joined the Warsaw uprising. Now 92, she said they had
:22:26. > :22:29.to fight for independence. We couldn't stand any longer those
:22:30. > :22:36.misbehavings from Germany. The spoken-for royal
:22:37. > :22:46.with an admirer in the crowd. A crowd like others elsewhere,
:22:47. > :23:06.curious to see the future And the Duke and Duchess of
:23:07. > :23:07.Cambridge will head to Germany for the next leg of that tour.
:23:08. > :23:10.More than 60 years ago, a feisty little girl named Eloise
:23:11. > :23:14.Her adventures in the Plaza Hotel entertained many who read the books
:23:15. > :23:18.Now an exhibition in Manhattan is celebrating
:23:19. > :23:21.the book that Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight created.
:23:22. > :23:23.It's appropriately named Eloise at the Museum
:23:24. > :23:42.Eloise landed with a skibble and a squeak at the Plaza Hotel
:23:43. > :23:50.She was a six-year-old girl, no parents, no siblings, just nanny,
:23:51. > :23:54.living in luxury at this splendid hotel, and America
:23:55. > :24:02.I think the secret of Eloise's charm and allure is twofold -
:24:03. > :24:05.one, it's that voice, that funny voice that
:24:06. > :24:10.The other part is Hilary Knight's drawings, which are full
:24:11. > :24:17.of marvellous detail and rhythm and gesture and mime.
:24:18. > :24:21.When a child reads a picture book he enters into the book
:24:22. > :24:24.and that was what I was trying to accomplish in the gallery here -
:24:25. > :24:27.you enter the Plaza, you see the house phones and you can
:24:28. > :24:31.pick up a house phone and hear Bernadette Peters reading
:24:32. > :24:40.You see Eloise at Christmas time and you see a beautiful suite
:24:41. > :24:43.of finished drawings from Eloise in Moscow, which was published
:24:44. > :24:48.in 1959 and was the last book in the original series.
:24:49. > :24:52.In the middle of the Cold War, Kay and Hilary went to the Soviet Union.
:24:53. > :24:55.It's like Kay's prank phone call to the Soviets.
:24:56. > :25:00.She's spoofing the harshness of the Soviet regime by contrasting
:25:01. > :25:03.it with this little girl from the decadent West,
:25:04. > :25:09.this rich young thing who arrives in a Rolls-Royce.
:25:10. > :25:12.To be a really successful picture book you have to do three things.
:25:13. > :25:16.You have to have an amazing heroine or hero, you have to evoke
:25:17. > :25:20.a wonderful spot like the Plaza, and you have to last
:25:21. > :25:23.through several generations, and Eloise has done all three
:25:24. > :25:39.And the adventures of Haagen-Dazs end our programme here and her
:25:40. > :25:41.stories have spanned generations. Don't forget you can get
:25:42. > :25:46.in touch with me and Thank you for watching and please
:25:47. > :25:50.stay with BBC World News.