25/07/2017 World News Today

The US Attorney General comes under more fire from his boss.

Donald Trump lashes out at Jeff Sessions on Twitter,

just as the investigations into Russia interfering

The parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard go back to court,

this time fighting for him to die at home.

Some researchers have put it to the test, and we'll

The Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, is being undermined by his boss,

the President, in the most public way possible - on Twitter.

And unlike most workplace disputes, this one won't be resolved

The fate of America's top legal officer hangs in the balance.

And it's not the only story here in Washington.

In a short time, we'll find out whether the Senate will move forward

Well, with so much going on, we're calling in our North America

So, you can actually feel the tension in the air, can chew, in

Washington. The president is mounting a public campaign against

his own Attorney General. Does Jeff Sessions quit Rizzi filed? There's a

lot of reasons why Jeff Sessions will not want to quit. Firstly,

stories and the media saying he has no intention of quitting from people

close to him. Part of that as he gave up effectively a lifetime

tenure in the Senate to take up this job. He is trying to accomplish a

lot in his Attorney General's position as far as advancing Donald

Trump's agenda. He also has friends, not only in the Senate from serving

there, but in the conservative media. Breitbart, the website, has

defended him. He has friends in the Republican base. It will be hard to

pry him away and Donald Trump might still decide to fire him. That is in

his hands. Reminders, is this happening because the president is

furious with his Attorney General because he would not reduce him,

rather did recuse himself from the Russian investigation? Is that what

this is all about? In a recent weeks, Donald Trump said Donald

Trump was -- Jeff Sessions was not pursuing an investigation into

Hillary Clinton. But previously he said he did not want to investigate

Hillary Clinton any more, Donald Trump, he wanted to put that behind.

This is incrementally increased in the last few months. Reports in the

media said that Donald Trump was not happy about the recusal. Donald

Trump told the New York Times last week that he would not have

appointed Jeff Sessions if he knew he would recuse himself. He called

him the legal in that week yesterday. And he said that Jeff

Sessions was very weak. You see as this investigation into Russia picks

up an increasing agitation at Donald Trump, lashing out not only Jeff

Sessions but other people, James Comey, and others. What is gone to

happen in Washington today in the Senate on health care reform? It is

looking like there are enough votes to have a vote. We're not sure what

they will vote on. The original house bill, a Senate bill, straight

up the pool... They will try to get a point where they are on the floor,

wrangling over some kind of something, anything to pass. Once

they get that done, they can negotiate them of the house. There

is a chance of that but it could be a bare-bones Bill that comes from

the Senate. As if there weren't enough high

drama here in Washington, today the House of Representatives

is due to vote on a bill to It would also prevent

President Trump from lifting those The bill has already

gone through the Senate, and if it passes today,

would go to the President's desk. But the White House has

sent mixed messages For more on what's at stake,

I'm joined now by former US State Department official Vali Nasr,

who's now dean of the Johns Hopkins School

of Advanced International Studies. us, how much pressure will President

Trump be under to sign the sanctions bill against Russia if it goes

through the house? It depends on whether the vote in the house, the

Senate is veto proof. If so, you may as well do what is press spokesman

said, except the sanctions and find another way to weaken them down the

road. But he currently, if he vetoes the bill, there is a lot of

political pressure and it puts him on a confrontation path with

Congress on Russian policy. Congress could make it impossible for him to

do so. What possible argument does the White House have at this point

against sanctions on Russia, given their interference with the US

election and behaviour in The White House position is interference in

the election has not been proven. The president says this is the news.

He disagrees with his own intelligence agencies that this has

happened. Secondly, at least not officially, the White House position

is that they wish to elaborate with Russia and build better

relationships Andy Tsang Cinzano and obstacle for improvement of

relations. -- better relationships with Russia. This will make it very

difficult to work with Moscow. What impact with the sanctions being

proposed have on Vladimir Putin and his inner circle? Is there much than

to be upset about? It is a defeat for him. Because he gambled on

interfering in the US elections to get rid of sanctions. We are seeing

the meeting with Donald Trump Junior, when it happened, they

talked about the adoption issue, which is a code word for sanctions.

The mission of his previous ambassador here was to engage the

new administration coming in to get rid of sanctions. The reason they

did not want Hillary Clinton is because they did not see any path

where they could get rid of sanctions. Their own actions have

not only made it impossible to remove existing sanctions and this

is a pretty chic... -- strategic defeat for flooding you put in. What

you make of the spectacle of the president meeting against his top

legal officer in the land? The only way to read it is he does not want

to get his own hands dirty by firing him. You would like to get into goal

by publicly humiliating him and telling the world that the president

has no confidence in his Attorney General. The reason is that the

president would like to use the office of Italy general in a very

direct way in manipulating and managing the Russian investigation.

-- the office of the Attorney General. Or any other investigation

down the road. Essentially, it is either Jeff Sessions goes or stays.

That is what is being fought on Twitter. Thank you for joining us.

For weeks, we've watched the agonising case of baby

Charlie Gard play out in public, and today the terminally ill child's

Yesterday, the parents abandoned their battle

to keep Charlie alive, and now they are fighting

But lawyers for the hospital where Charlie is being treated say

there are real problems with that proposal.

A final decision is expected tomorrow.

Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh reports.

The legal battle over this desperately sick boy now centres

Charlie needs a mechanical ventilator to breathe.

Yesterday, his parents give up their fight to take him

to the United States and agreed no more treatment could help him.

But Charlie's mum, Connie, was back at court this afternoon

to make it clear she did not want him to die in the intensive

care unit where he's been since October.

The parents' lawyer said it was their last wish that

Charlie dies at home, for a few days of tranquillity

The hospital says it won't stand in the parents' way and yet,

Lawyers for the parents said they would pay private nurses

to take over his care and later seek to recover the costs from the NHS.

But the court heard there were practical

issues to be resolved, for example, whether Charlie's

ventilator would fit through their front door.

Great Ormond Street Hospital said it wanted to honour the parents' wishes

but the care plan must be safe and spare Charlie all pain.

Charlie is a child who requires highly specialised treatment.

It must be provided in a specialist setting by specialists.

The dispute over where and how soon Charlie should die

typifies the utter breakdown in the relationship between

The judge said this was a matter crying out for mediation.

Great Ormond Street said it offered that but the parents refused.

The judge said the parents were entitled to decide

where they spent the next few days but this should not

That would be unacceptable as it would simply extend

This woman lost her son, Guy, when he was five.

He was profoundly disabled and tube fed.

She, too, had searched for a cure for his condition.

They've got to learn to let him go at all sorts of levels.

Stuff happens and they must not be bitter because it

What they've got to do is look at all the positive things.

The hospital has offered a compromise for Charlie to be

transferred to a hospice, where doctors from Great Ormond

Street would supervise his palliative care and death

Charlie's parents said they want days, not hours, and a hospice

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has said he will keep up the freeze

of relations with Israel even after Israel removed metal detectors

from the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City.

They'll be replaced with CCTV cameras.

The new security measures were put in place after two Israeli

But Palestinians feared that Israel was extending its control

and days of deadly violence followed.

Our Middle East correspondent Yolande Knell reports.

Relative calm restored at the gates to the third holiest site in Islam.

Palestinian worshippers now hope to enter soon.

They are waiting for religious authorities to give their view

after Israel changed its security controls.

So Israel's removed the metal detectors that were just there.

Instead, it says it's going to do what it calls "smart checking",

using more surveillance around the old city.

It follows over a week of violence and tensions that

prove that they were not needed for security.

It was a political measure by Israel to impose on the ground

Guns were taken inside the al-Aqsa Mosque grounds and used

to kill two Israeli policemen at the gate.

When the mosque was re-opened with new metal detectors,

Palestinians continued praying outside, accusing Israel

of using security as an excuse to extend its control over the site

which is also the holiest place for Jews and known as Temple Mount.

In clashes with Israeli Security Forces, five

And in this West Bank settlement, a Palestinian stabbed to death three

Then an Israeli embassy guard killed two Jordanians,

Jordan is the custodian of Jerusalem's mosques.

Overnight, amid fears of a wider escalation, the metal detectors

This came after the US envoys following. Israel announced its

diplomatic row with Jordan was solved and it agreed new ways of

securing the site. We are trying to coordinate about the new ways Israel

is going to be... We have to make sure the balance is made. Tensions

with the Palestinians appear to be subsiding. But many years after the

old city of Jerusalem was occupied, recent days have showed how it

stands at the heart of this conflict.

Fires raging across the South of France and Corsica

are being fanned by high temperatures and strong winds.

Some 2,000 firefighters have been mobilised and dozens of homes

The BBC's Sophie Long has the latest.

Firefighters battling a fierce blaze on the holiday island of Corsica.

It ripped through 900 hectares of forest.

People left their houses and could do little more than watch

as the fire came threateningly close to their homes.

TRANSLATION: We were woken up by the smoke.

It was stifling, so we stayed in the house,

the children and my sister-in-law, who is pregnant.

A combination of heat and high winds are making the fire

A BBC journalist on the island says people are becoming

increasingly concerned about their homes and businesses.

It's still burning, pockets keep lighting up as this wind continues.

There is a real sense of worry that perhaps they won't be able to get

this under control and livelihoods and lives could be threatened.

In Carros in the hills above Nice, planes sprayed water from the air.

And crews the ground damped down amid the damage.

TRANSLATION: We were up to 70 hectares of fire.

The particularity of this fire is that we had hundreds and hundreds

of houses that were threatened in the forest areas.

Elsewhere in France, fires also raged near Lubron

Another battle to stop fires spreading just ten kilometres

from the seaside resort of St Tropez.

This mobile phone footage gives a sense of the high winds feeding

the fire's intensity, winds that are not expected

Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.

An international arrest warrant has been issued for a man who carried

out a chainsaw attack in Switzerland on Monday.

Five people were injured in the attack in the town

of Schaffhausen, one of them seriously.

Police have identified the man and warned the public that he is highly

dangerous. The two main rival leaders in Libya

have reached a joint agreement to try to bring stability

to their country. After talks brokered by the French

President Emmanuel Macron, and leader of the so-called

Libyan National Army in eastern Libya

committed themselves It's the first time the two leaders

have signed a joint agreement. At least eight people have died

after a four-storey building collapsed in the Indian

city of Mumbai. Emergency workers are still trying

to find others still thought to be Local reports suggest

part of the building was used as a nursing home,

and was being renovated at the time. On Wednesday, one of the Pope's most

senior advisors is due to appear in an Australian court,

facing charges of sexual assault. Cardinal George Pell has returned

from Rome saying he's innocent, As our Sydney correspondent

Howell Griffith explains, the case is the latest controversy

for the Catholic In George Pell's hometown,

people have become used to confronting the past,

and dealing with Ribbons mark the places

in Ballarat where members of the Christian Brothers Order

sexually assaulted Dozens ended their

lives prematurely. Phil Nagle was abused

as an eight-year-old. It took more than 20

years for his abuser Decades on, he still feels

the Catholic Church has not acknowledged

the suffering of victims. They don't make any admissions,

they make it as hard You know, when you go

to court, they're putting They're backing the guys,

the perpetrators, they don't Cardinal Pell was brought up

in Ballarat and became As an Archbishop, it

became his responsibility to deal with the allegations of abuse

against Ballarat's bretheren. Now, he is the one accused of sexual

assault, allegations As they wait for the legal process

to unfold, there is a feeling here in Ballarat that

people need answers. The details of the charges

against Cardinal Pell won't be made public

until his first court hearing. A moment which is likely to put

the spotlight back on this town. Those who work with abuse survivors

say every headline has an impact. Coverage over the last few years

has already caused more It was really difficult,

because it was exhausting. It would be in the local papers,

it would be on the local Across Australia, nearly 2,000

figures from the Catholic Church A four-year Royal Commission enquiry

has helped to break the silence. It has also made the head

of Ballarat's Catholic College speak out, giving a formal apology

to the victims and striking the names of convicted

abusers from its walls. There's no question that,

as a Church, we've got an enormous amount of work to do to build trust

with victims and survivors in the wider community,

but also within the Catholic And the only way to do

that is to come to the table to say that we acknowledge this openly,

we are so very sorry. That can only happen when people

here feel they have found the truth. They hope that is what

the courts can deliver. Now, it's long been said that money

can't buy you happiness, but now scientists in Canada have

put the saying to the test. They questioned 6,000 people

and discovered that it can, but only if you use the cash

to free up time. They found that spending money

on chores like cleaning, cooking or gardening is more likely

to make you feel happy than spending Jon Kay has been sorting

through the findings. Plenty of smiles in

Plymouth this afternoon. Psychologists have been all over

the world, asking thousands of people from all kinds

of backgrounds one simple question. If I was to give you ?30,

what would you spend it on? Hotdogs, ice cream

and a bottle of wine. Whether she spends it

on a meal out or a yacht, the study found that it is not

material things that make us She said she would sacrifice pretty

much any other luxury to pay for a cleaner to come once

a week week. She does extra shifts so Rachel can

blitz the house from top to bottom. Even though it is often a stretch,

she says the extra time it buys her with her family is far more

than any holiday or handbag. I make do with what I've got and any

spare money goes on Rachel. You wouldn't rather

have a handbag or a meal out? Back in the 90s, Mike,

on the riight, won millions of pounds on the lottery

and could afford almost Two decades later, he is back

selling antiques in Plymouth and he says he is much happier doing

things for himself Some people are used to having

things done for them. So they've got the

money, it's easier. But I have had things done

for me over the last 20 years, different things,

gardening and whatever. But a lot of the time

I prefer to do it myself. Critics say paying others

is all well and good, if you are comfortably off

in the first place. But the researchers behind the study

say investing in time, rather than possessions,

makes us all happier, whatever our And for more on the best tips

to finding happiness, I'm joined now by an expert

in the field - Caroline Adams Miller, author of Getting Grit

and Creating Your Best Life. Does the finding of this study

surprise you, that spending money on a cleaner rather than a handbag and

make you happier? No. We have known in the field of us that psychology

for ten years or longer that money does not buy happiness. Investing in

things does not make people happy. Experiences make people happier. The

interesting thing behind this study is it is a perception of time. That

is what really matters. What we think about the time we have

available? What if you are actually buying cleaning, gardening and other

things but not spending the time it gets you on anything meaningful.

That is where my concern would be. But you can fill it with anything.

Is it meaningful, however? Is this particularly applicable to women, so

often the head of the household and do so many chores and maybe don't

feel that they can pay someone else because they see it is their

responsibility? Should they go for that? The answer is yes. With women,

we see this worldwide phenomenon on the women dying at middle age

through despair. Sometimes this is because they do not feel purposeful.

If you have time, what are you going to do with it? What are you waking

up and what you plan to do that is meaningful to you? If you free up

time and you're not ready to answer that question, and you don't have

goals, particularly hard goals in place, you can just take that time

and threat of it away. When you have multitasking going on, you can

perceive that you don't have time and so simply been distracted crates

this innings 80. -- anxiety. What should we do with our goals? If I am

looking back on my life, I would ask, what have I done? If I don't

have a plan now... Women in particular, there we have this could

have, should have, would have phenomenon. If you don't go after

things now, the risks you take no other things you do not regret. The

ones you don't take other ones that make you less toxic. You have to

have this quality of great. Hard goals rings is the greatest joy and

the other most important to us. You have to have that you will not be a

finisher. With our current culture of instant ratification fuelled by

social media, that works against a long-term great culture? We cannot

pay attention to things now. Technology takes us off task. We as

human beings cannot even focus as long as a goldfish any more. Human

beings can focus for seven seconds and goldfish for eight seconds. So

we do have an instant gratification culture. I have written a lot about

this because we have to learn patience and self-regulation but we

have to have our goals ready for ourselves. Wonderful advice. Thank

you so much for joining us. Great advice. You can get in touch with me

and some of the team on Twitter. Thank you for watching, and we hope

to see you back here tomorrow. In the meantime, think about your

long-term goals and how you can be happier.