18/07/2017 World News Today

Our top stories... Donald Trump's mantra

on the campaign trail: we'll repeal and replace ObamaCare.

Now his plan appears dead in the water -

They are going to come to us and say, how do we fix it? How do we fix

it? How victims of abuse

at a world-famous choir school A report says hundreds of boys

were abused over six decades. On the 200th anniversary

of the novelist's death, Jane Austen is unveiled on the UK's

new ten pound note. Hello and welcome

to World News Today. Repeal and replace -

the phrase became a rallying cry for Republicans as they promised

to scrap President Obama's reforms to the US healthcare system,

which came to be known as Obamacare. But just six months into office

President Trump and his party have Last night, it became clear

the Senate simply doesn't have the votes to push

through a new plan. failing ObamaCare now and work

on a new healthcare plan that The Senate Majority Leader,

Republican Mitch McConnell took up the same cry but the votes simply

don't look as if they are there. And what about the millions

of Americans whose coverage Just a short time ago President

Trump addressed the setback. I am disappointed. For so many years

I have heard repealed and replaced. I am sitting in the Oval Office

right next door. Pen in hand. Waiting to sign something. And I

will be waiting and eventually we will get something done and it is

going to be very good. ObamaCare is a big failure. It has to be changed.

We had to go to a plan that work. We need a much less expensive plan in

terms of premiums and something will happen and it will be very good. It

might not be as quick as we hoped but it is going to happen.

I am joined by Buddy Carter from Georgia. Congressman, thank you for

joining us. Your party promised to repeal and replace ObamaCare and now

it looks like you'll struggle to do either those. I do not think we will

struggle to repeal it and that is what we need to do. We said all

along we would repeal and replace. We now have an opportunity to repeal

it. That is the part we should take at this point. How would repeal work

without a replacement already in place? Well, keep in mind that all

along the way we have said we will have a stable transition period

here. There is going to be a glide path, if you will. We never said we

would turn the switches off and it would go away overnight. That is not

the plan. We always said we would have a transition. Yes, it will take

maybe two, three years to wind down but we will wind down and have

something to replace it when the time comes. But it begs the question

Republicans have been saying for almost eight years that they want to

get rid of ObamaCare. Why was there not already a plan in place? We have

been working on a plan. I was part of the commerce committee that had

27.5 hours of committee meetings where we passed up the American

health care act. I voted for it when it was voted out of the house. I

think it is a good plan. Obviously any plan we come up with is going to

have to be tweaked and mass arched over time. We understand that. At

this point we are not ready to agree. -- mass arched. -- and looked

out over time. We need to repeal this bad failed wall in ObamaCare

and get started with what we want to replace it with. Some of your Senate

colleagues say they do not even want to go ahead with a repeal. The

repeal is the only pathway for us right now. I do not understand how

people who have voted in the past four repeal cannot do so again. We

voted for it last session at the session before. Full repeal. You

pull up the same bill we had in 2015 and vote for it again the way you

did last time. Where does this leave millions of Americans who could be

in limbo for the next two years if this repeal goes ahead? We said all

along we are not going to pull out the rug from under need anybody. We

will have a stable transition. It is not going to happen overnight. It

will take time to wind the programme down, this failed programme of

ObamaCare. It will take a while to wind it down. We will continue to

rip work on a replacement as we have been. We will have it in place by

the time we wind down this failed ObamaCare. You need to get the

Democrats on board but that is unlikely, isn't it? If we repeal

ObamaCare we can start focusing on health care cost. That is going to

be bipartisan. That is going to help with the insurance markets as we

decrease the cost of health care through more competition and

choices. Then we will have insurance companies who are going to be

competing for our business. That is what we want. A robust and vibrant

insurance market competing for business. Not us begging or

subsidising them in order to keep in the market. Congressman, thank you

very much for joining us. And for more on the politics

and fallout for the Trump administration I am joined

now by David Catanese, Senior Politics Writer for US News

and World Report. Thank you very much for joining us.

Who do you blame for all of this? You have to blame Republicans in

Congress. Even before President Trump was on the scene they had

campaigned on a repeal for seven years. They control the house and

Senate. They finally got it through. But the Senate could not deliver. I

think part of it is they were never really prepared for this moment. A

lot of people did not think President Trump would have the

Presidency. It was easy to be in opposition and campaign against

ObamaCare rather than craft a new plan that they could get around. Now

we have conservatives on one side of the issue and moderates on the

other. And they could not agree. This looks dead in the water. How

damaging is this for President Trump? Many people who voted for him

did so because they wanted ObamaCare repealed and replaced. I think it is

tremendously damaging to him in Washington. This guy campaigned on

being a deal-maker, who could go to Capitol Hill and put people in a

room and have them come together. He has failed on that. Congressman from

the Republican Party said they health care is tied to the other

parts of his agenda, tax cuts which they had to get the revenue savings

from health care to produce tax cuts and reform. That may be in peril. I

was out country and the Republicans on the ground still support

President Trump. They blame Congress, that they could not get

their act together and get on the same page. I think Trump supporters

will stick with him on this and put the finger up at Congress. What do

you think the president must be thinking right now? We have seen him

on Twitter. The statement coming out earlier today was a bit baffling. He

was going to blame the Democrats even though it was a Republican

Party problem. Republicans have majority and could not get it

together but he said the Democrats are obstructing, he is going to try

and blame them. I do not know if that works short-term or long-term.

What I think will be interesting is if there are some moderate Democrats

to put forward plans to want to try and fix ObamaCare, rising premiums

are a problem and in a lot of state we have Democrats in difficult

re-elections next year tried to play ball and say we have to do something

to compromise but it does not look like anybody is in a compromising

mood right now. Both sides are frustrated at what happened.

Democrats are happy and see it as a victory. Where does it leave the

rest of President Trump's agenda? You mentioned tax reform and he

needs to work with Congress on these things. And he needs to get his

party together. He has to decide as well as the Senate Majority Leader

if they are going to move away from ObamaCare, just say that we could

not get it done and move on to tax reform or infrastructure reform.

They are the other big priority is the president has put forward. I

think there are worries about tax reform, being able to do that

without ObamaCare but maybe you go ahead with a simple tax-cut,

something popular on both sides, or you do something bipartisan on

infrastructure reform, something important to a big state senators

with crumbling roads and bridges. But that is going to be TBD. I give

very much for joining us. -- thank you very much.

The father of an Australian woman fatally shot by a US police officer

has called for justice, hours after her death

Justine Damond was shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota

after calling police to report a possible sexual assault

Authorities are now questioning why the officer's body cameras weren't

turned on and an investigation is currently underway.

A cry for help that went horribly wrong. Shortly before midnight on

Saturday, police in Minneapolis got a report about a possible sexual

assault. 40-year-old just Dean Damond made the call, explaining a

crime was under way in an alleyway near her home in a quiet suburb of

the city. Two officers arrived and shortly after one of them drew their

weapon, fired, hit and killed just Dean. How and why she was shot

remains a mystery. Police have said little other than it was tragic and

they are investigating. She was supposed to be married in August.

She is an Australian who moved away from family in Sydney to be with her

fiance in Minnesota. They are all grieving their sudden loss. Justine

Damond was a beacon for all of us. We only ask the wider justice shines

down on the circumstances of her death. The death is a loss for

everyone who knew her. She touched so many people. With a loving and

generous heart. She was the teaching of so many and living a life of

openness, love and kindness. As her loved ones mourned her death they

also pressed the police to reveal more information about wide-body

cameras worn by the officers were not switched on during the incident.

The call was echoed by the city authority. I have questions that I

hope and anticipate will be answered in the next few days and I share

those questions with the community. The two officers who responded to

the emergency call have been placed on leave. In a message on Twitter

the chief police said she has asked for an accelerated investigation so

answers can be provided quickly to help many come to terms with a

heartbreaking tragedy. More than 500 members

of a world-famous boy's choir in Germany were subjected

to physical and sometimes That's according to a new report

published into six decades of abuse at the Regensburger Domspatzen

boarding school. 49 members of the Catholic Church

are accused of carrying out the abuse, and many more

of maintaining a culture of silence. The lawyer behind the report said

pre-school and high-school Preschool victims in the towns

described the institution as a prison, hell and a concentration

camp. Many of them called their time they're the worst of their life,

marked by violence, fear and helplessness. TRANSLATION: These are

not 547 cases where an individual was affected once, rather it was an

ongoing practice over decades. With 547 children tormented, abused, ill

treated and socially harm. They are severely traumatised to this day.

This upsets me. I thought I had got over it after a battle of 17 years

but in fact it greatly upsets me today.

Stefanie Bolzen, a journalist from Germany's Die Welt newspaper

The report proves that in the early 1990s, there were more than 500

victims of sexual and physical abuse. Daily beatings, fear and

intimidation, daily intimidation of very young kids. A shocking result.

It happened over decades. How did this emerge? It has gone on for a

long time. Like in Britain, Ireland and other places. People's spoke up.

It took a long time but since 2010 there has been more evidence of

abuse of children in institutions, particularly of the Catholic Church

in why is, in schools especially and this was one of them. It also came

out, the first people speaking out also went public in 2010. Now seven

years later the report is out. Shocking findings in this report.

Some of the victims have been speaking out. Yes, some victims have

been courageous enough to speak out. And also the church, some

representatives, have been very active, they have been meeting

victims, they have encouraged victims but not all representatives

of the Church have been so supportive. What kind of things have

the victims said? Very upsetting things. Especially the very young

ones in primary school. The Regensburger Domspatzen is a quiet,

more than 1000 years old. Still has about 350 students today. It is a

boarding school. Primary and secondary school. Half of the school

is a boarding and the others live at home. Especially in the old days in

the primary school, the kids were intimidated on a daily basis. They

were beaten, sexually abused and there was, they said, an atmosphere

of fear and helplessness. Because the institution was so strict they

did not know how to articulate their fears. And senior officials in the

Catholic Church turned a blind eye to what was going on, some of what

was going on, including the brother of Pope Benedict. Yes, he was

actually leading the choir for a long time. He said today how sorry

he felt about it. He is very engaged in helping to find out what was the

truce will stop but he has also been -- the truth. But they have been

slow in actively engaging with victims and helping the process to

be quicker. Let's take a look at some of

the other stories making the news. German prosecutors are trying

to verify reports that a 16 year old German girl has been arrested

in the Iraqi city of Mosul. The German newspaper Die Welt has

reported that the teenager, known only as 'Linda W',

was arrested along with four other women, on suspicion of being a part

of so-called Islamic State. Iraqi forces declared

victory over the militant group in Mosul last week,

but clashes are continuing Prosecutors are investigating

whether she is the same teenager who was suspected of

running away to join IS The head of the Spanish Football

federation has been arrested as part Angel Maria Villar and his son

were among five people The investigation focuses partly

on how international games involving Spain's national

team were organised. Mr Villar has headed the federation

for nearly thirty years. The Venezuelan government says it

will go ahead with plans to elect a new assembly which will rewrite

the constitution, despite threats by President Trump to impose

economic sanctions if the vote goes The Foreign Minister,

Samuel Moncada, said Venezuela wouldn't be intimidated by a threat

from what he called The city of Los Angeles is usually

associated with movie stars, But behind the glamour

is another side we rarely see. In the past year alone,

the number of homeless It's a staggering increase

which is being blamed on high rents and a lack of affordable homes -

with Hollywood particularly Hollywood Boulevard,

home to the Oscars and It's also an epicentre

for the homeless where the haves When you get off the freeway

and you see tents all along My kids are kind of afraid to come

down on the off-chance that somebody will come up to us and try to talk

to us or ask us for money. Many of Hollywood's homeless came

here in search of fame and fortune. But more often than not, the city

of stars delivers shattered dreams. The cost of living here is sky-high.

Affordable housing even for those in work is scarce.

This is an increasingly common scene, a makeshift

In this case, it's right next to a recreation centre.

It's a far cry from the image of Tinseltown.

Across LA County, an estimated 58,000 people are homeless.

It's a problem that extends far beyond Hollywood

Kitty and her daughter thought they could build a better life here.

We originally came from north eastern Nevada.

Lost our jobs there, went down to Arizona to family.

Became homeless and then came out here to start over.

We're going to go out and actually try to engage.

Outreach workers from the city funded LA Homeless

Services Authority head to the streets every day.

They hand out water and blankets and provide information

In March, residents of LA County voted for a tax increase to find

rent subsidies and services for the homeless -

At the same time we have this population rising so dramatically,

the voters have given us the resources to attack it.

That's where the optimism comes from.

Optimism to a point but La La Land looks different from the inside.

You wouldn't expect people on every corner, clothes

People come here to make their dreams come true,

I don't think they do that so much any more.

The underbelly of a city in dire need of a reality check.

Now, if you're interested in the search for extra-terrestrial

life, South Africa should now be on your radar.

The first stage of a giant new radio telescope is nearing completion.

It is so powerful that its makers say it will be able to see

three quarters of the way across the universe.

Andrew Harding has been to visit to see what it might find.

The most empty corner of South Africa. Some of the most sensitive

information on the planet. The array of radio telescopes. Nearly complete

now and already probing the far reaches of the universe. The radio

waves come from space and hits the primary... The head scientist takes

us closer but for filming here we have to take precautions. These

receivers are so delicate that any electronic interference could

destroy them. The dishes might pick up a mobile phone signal on Jupiter.

With this South African astronomy has become a world beater. Some

people had the vision and know-how, the guts and support of the whole

country fundamentally to do this and here we are. It is in Africa. It

will be world-class science no matter where it is, it happens to be

in South Africa, which is exciting. Soon they will be 64 individual

receivers which will join up with an international array which will be

10,000 times better than today's models. Better at space exploration,

exploring black holes and the images of our own galaxy. What you have

here are incredibly sophisticated buckets, designed to capture radio

waves travelling for so many billions of years across the

universe that they have within them secrets about what was going on not

long after the big bang and the more buckets you have and the more widely

spread they are, the clearer the picture. At the headquarters in Cape

Town, the biggest challenge now is to work out how to cope with an

impending tsunami of intergalactic data. We think we can probe the

deepest recesses of the universe. Who knows what we might find? Maybe

a never planet. Other colleagues in other parts of the world would think

focus on poverty problem. -- another planet. We say this is part of the

answer to poverty. You cannot neglect signs and believe you can

address your deepest problems. -- science. The distant radio waves

reaching the African continent. Who knows what secrets they might hold?

Among the first to use these telescopes are astronomers searching

for alien life, convinced this network could be their best chance

yet. It's taken 200 years to put

the "ten" into Austen, but today this became

Britain's newest banknote. One of our greatest

authors now adorns It will go into circulation this

September. It's taken 200 years to put

the "ten" into Austen, but today this became

Britain's newest banknote. One of our greatest

authors now adorns this latest addition

to our currency, and all of it unveiled exactly two

centuries after her death, We really need to look

at it in the round in order to capture it

and obviously, Jane Austen -

it's certainly not based on my opinion -

but the opinion of the British people, but also leading scholars,

really, at the top of the pantheon The new tenner is made

of polymer and has multiple It's also the first Bank

of England note to have raised dots, to help blind

and visually impaired people. For Jane Austen's army

of devotees at today's ceremony, the note is

a moment to cherish. I like all the little

touches that they've got going on of Winchester

Cathedral and the quill. So overall, marks out

of ten for the ?10? Some people have needed a bit

of "persuasion" over the Jane Austen Compare it to the original

portrait it was taken from, it's had critics talking

of an Austen airbrush. However Jane Austen looked,

when she died, 200 years ago today, ?10 would have been

worth around ?1,000. The new Jane Austen tenner

comes into circulation A stylish addition to a catalogue

of work universally

acknowledged to be priceless. Duncan Kennedy, BBC

News, in Winchester. That is it for now. You can get in

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