28/07/2017 World News Today

Charlie Gard, the terminally ill British baby whose medical care

was the subject of a court battle has died, a week before

The Pentagon confirms that North Korea has test-fired a second

It flew for 45 minutes before landing in the sea.

Donald Trump takes cover after a setback in the Senate and a public

row between two of his closest aides.

Also, volunteers trying to save Canada's wild horses from hunters

before it's too late. Hello and welcome

to World News Today. In the last hour it's been confirmed

that the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard has died,

a week before his first birthday. It's thought he was moved

to a hospice today from Great Ormond Street children's

hospital where he was being treated. This is Charlie Gard without

breathing or feeding tubes, before his devastating genetic condition

emerged, which causes progressive By his side throughout

have been his parents, They refused to accept Charlie had

suffered catastrophic brain damage and raised funds online for

experimental treatment in the United Great Ormond Street Hospital applied

to court to end Charlie's life-support, and every

judge backed them. At the UK Supreme Court, with

Charlie's parents sitting behind, the hospital's barrister

said his suffering should end. The reality is that Charlie

can't see, he can't hear, he can't move,

he can't cry, he can't swallow. Immensely sadly, his condition

is one that affords An American doctor offering

to treat Charlie with this experimental powder had not

seen his full medical records and it took six months before he came

to London to Finally, at the High Court,

Charlie's parents abandoned their legal fight, saying

that time had run out. 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 A private family tragedy

was fought out in public. Doctors and nurses at

Great Ormond Street, renowned children's hospitals,

received abuse and even death threats, which Charlie's

parents condemned. Pro-life groups adopted the cause

and Charlie's plight became an international issue

when both the Pope and Donald Trump The judge said it was

a pitfall of social media that people commented

without knowing the facts. Charlie would have been

one on August the 4th. His parents said

they were sorry they could not save him, but would set up

a foundation to help other sick The Pentagon says it believes

North Korea has conducted another There are reports that the missile

landed in Japanese waters. The Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary

said it flew for about 45 minutes. That's longer than the missile

tested in July which Pyongyang claimed was an intercontinental

ballistic missile capable Our correspondent,

Rupert Wingfield Hayes - who's in Tokyo - says this latest

missile test is not a surprise. What do we know about this latest

test? We have just heard from the department of defence in Washington,

who say their telemetry shows that it flew for about 1000 kilometres.

They say they are still working on the exact data to try to work out

what range this missile might have been, but they say it was an

intercontinental ballistic missile. That is what they called it,

although strangely they said it posed no threat to the USA. There

some other specialist who disagree with that because North Korea's

recent test, this one tonight and the one on July four, clearly are

aimed at extending the range of North Korea's missile force well

beyond Japan and the Western Pacific. And having a missile

capable of reaching the mainland US. The fact that this one a night

sleeper 45 minutes may be some indication that this a longer range

missile than they have tested before because that is the longest any test

flight has taken so far. How concerned are Japan for what is

happening right now and what it means for the months and years

ahead? Japan is deeply concerned about these tests. Not only because

of what it represents in the growing capability of North Korea's missile

arsenal, but because these are falling close to Japanese waters and

this one tonight in side -- inside Japan's exclusive zone. There will

be shipping and fishermen out fishing tonight. We don't get anyone

in these tests and so even these tests are a threat to Japanese

people and Japanese livelihoods and the Japanese Goodman is deeply

concerned. Thank you very much. Even by the standards

of his chaotic administration, its been a wild few hours

for President Donald Trump. The Senate has rejected yet another

attempt to repeal the health care And two of his top staffers appear

to be virtually at war. The BBC's Jon Sopel

reports from Washington. The history books will

record that before 2am this morning, Donald Trump's

promise to repeal and replace Obamacare that he said

would be so easy, crashed and burned

on the floor of the Senate. Outside, opponents who had

been waiting celebrated. The coup de grace was delivered

by Senator John McCain To gossips and sharp intakes

of breath, the person the president had hailed as a hero earlier

in the week from returning from treatment to vote,

now the villain of the piece. It left the Senate leader ruing

a humiliating defeat. This is clearly a disappointing

moment, from skyrocketing costs to the plummeting choices,

and collapsing markets, our constituents have suffered

through an awful lot under But that wasn't the only

drama unfolding. Here at the White House,

the most extraordinary bare knuckle cage fight has broken out among

the three most senior people in the West Wing

who aren't the president. The new communications director

Anthony Scaramucci talking in abusive and obscene terms

about the Chief of staff, and Anthony Scaramucci has apologised

for the language used, In his conversation

with the New Yorker magazine, Anthony Scaramucci said

of the Chief of staff: And earlier in the week,

Anthony Scaramucci told the BBC that his style was

going to be more direct. One of the things I cannot stand

about this town is the Where I grew up, we are front

stabbers, we tell you where Donald Trump left Washington

a short while ago to fly to Long Island, New York, to look

at efforts to curb into gang rivalry Laura Bicker is in

Washington for us. Donald Trump is touching down. We

will go to his speech as soon as it begins. This has been an incredibly

tough week, a tough few days for him again. Well, it started off the week

on Monday with Jarrod Krishna, his son-in-law being questioned by those

investigating the alleged Russian meddling in the US presidential

election. They tried to draw a line under that and then the weekly to

get more and more tumultuous love there was those transgender in the

military tweets that he put out early in the morning, catching the

Pentagon off-guard to the point where, in fact, they are not quite

sure what the policy is going forward. And now here we are as he

takes the stage, his own White House appears to be at civil war and at

loggerheads. We have yet to hear how on earth that debacle is going to be

sorted out. Let alone when it comes to the health care vote. One of his

key promises, his key pledges that he made from coast to coast. Today

he is concentrating on gang violence and disrupting drug cartels. Spent a

lot of time right here. I was in Queens, so I'd come here and this

was like the luxury location for me and I love it, I love the people

here. Even coming from the airport, I sat with Nicky Helly who is here

someplace. Our ambassador who was so incredible. She has seen crowds in

her life and she said, boy, those are really big crowds. Rows of

people... If Donald Trump refers to any of the questions that have come

up this week, we will go back to that speech. On the question of

health care, which is a key policy pledge, what happens next? Part of

the problem is we have now got a Republican party that is bruised and

battered and trying to pick up the pieces. How do they move forward?

The Speaker of the house, Paul Ryan, said earlier today that he is

disappointed, frustrated, but he wants to move forward. John McCain,

the one person who cast that decisive vote, a veteran senator, 80

years old, came back despite having that diagnosis of brain cancer to

cast that decisive vote. He too says he wants to see more working across

the aisle. How Democrats and Republicans worked together on the

health care bill is something else entirely, because simply working

between party lines just doesn't seem to work. How they move forward,

we will just have to wait and see in the next few days. Thank you very

much indeed for that. We will keep across Donald Trump's speech in case

there is any update on health care or his Warringah team in the White

House there. Let's move on. Supporters of Pakistan's former

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif say he will use all the legal options

available to defend his name. Mr Sharif was forced to resign,

after the supreme court disqualified him from office

for life over It's the climax of a saga

prompted two years ago by the Panama Papers -

leaks which linked Mr Sharif's three children with offshore companies

that allegedly enabled money laundering or tax evasion

during the buying of Our Pakistan correspondent

Secunder Kermani reports. For opponents of the Pakistani Prime

Minister, today's court decision is a huge and unprecedented victory

for accountability in a country where politicians often

have a reputation for corruption. Today, Nawar Sharif resigned

after the highest court A panel of five judges unanimously

decided he had not been honest when explaining his and his family's

financial dealings to The Supreme Court has

led from the front. And insha'Allah,

democracy will strengthen. Democracy will evolve in Pakistan

and insha'Allah, we will be able The allegations against Sharif

revolve around four luxury The documents from the Panama Paper

leaks revealed were linked The Pakistani Supreme Court has been

trying to establish where the money The Prime Minister's

daughter, widely seen as his political successor,

as well as her father, will now face further inquiries

by the national anticorruption body. No Prime Minister in

Pakistan has ever completed Sharif served twice in the '90s, but

was overthrown in a military coup. Some of his supporters have claimed

the allegations against him now are an attempt by the country's

powerful army to oust him again. His family have always

denied any wrongdoing and outside the court some

of his ministers remained defiant. TRANSLATION: No matter

who becomes the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister in the hearts

of the Pakistani people The ruling party will now have

to nominate a new leader, but with elections due to take place

by the middle of next year, the country is

facing real uncertainty. We're going to return to our top

story. News has emerged in the last hour that the baby Charlie Gard has

died. Of course it was very tragically expected news, but it is

incredibly sad. It has been such an awful saga. This was a boy that was

born in 11 months ago, apparently are normally healthy boy, but it

soon became apparent he had this rare genetic condition that lead to

terrible brain disorders and also muscle wastage and doctors in March

in London decided that his life was no lover tenable. To ease the

suffering they would have the right as doctors did turn off his

life-support systems and his parents thought that to the snail. This

became a very protracted, public battle between the parents, who said

they had the job's best interest at heart and they should be able to

take into the USA for what they said was revolutionary treatment, was

unproven, never been tested on anybody before. They have the money

to do that. But the courts and doctors were acting in their belief

in the best interests of the baby, a baby who was clearly not very well.

The doctors said it would not have been in his best interest to taken

away. It was a very public protracted battle and sadly the boy

has died. It was awful for the parents. They have released a short

statement. Our beautiful little boy has gone. We are so proud of you,

Charlie. That was Connie Yates, Charlie's mother. She has had an

awful time. She believe right up to the last midst that the hospital

have let them down. She accused yesterday of denying them their last

wish. The parents having accepted in the court this week that Charlie

could no longer be saved. They wanted to take him home to spent the

last few days with him, but doctors again said that would not have been

possible because the conditions, the medical equipment simply wasn't

there and that Charlie had to be allowed to die in a medical

environment. He was taken to a hospice and his life-support system

was turned off. Great Ormond is a world-renowned children's expert

Centre. It has been very difficult for them. What does this mean for

future difficult cases? I am not sure it will change much. Of course

the parents have a right under the law in the UK, but still the courts

and doctors will act in the child's best interest. At the start of this

case, great Ormond contacted specialist from around the world in

this condition to see if anything could be done and they clearly

decided nothing could be done. Thank you.

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

Police in Germany say a man armed with a knife has attacked people

in a supermarket in the northern city of Hamburg.

Police say one person was killed and four others injured.

The police say a man - who attacked apparently

people at random - has been detained.

The police say they have no clear idea of the motive and are not

One person has been killed in Helsinki after a man

Four others have been taken to hospital.

Police say the driver - a man in his 50s -

They say the man appeared to be drunk.

A court in Istanbul has ordered the release of seven suspects

in the controversial trial of staff from a prominent Turkish

They were jailed on charges of "supporting terrorism",

in a trial seen as a test for press freedom under President

The judge ordered that four other journalists from the Cumhuriyet

Aid workers in Greece say they're dealing with hundreds of extremely

vulnerable refugees being held on the island of Lesbos.

Many have been tortured and sexually abused by members of the so called

Those who ARE classed as extremely vulnerable,

are supposed to be moved to Athens for specialist treatment.

Life inside Moria migrant camp, Lesbos.

Rare footage from a place journalists are banned.

It shows tents have been replaced by containers,

a reflection of Europe's waiting room being made more

long-term for the 4,000 being held on the island.

Violence, writing and fires are becoming routine. The camps are full

and migrant boats are still going. Since so-called Islamic State

started to lose ground, many who have arrived in Greece have escaped

detention. Men tortured by firefighters, women used as six

slaves. Some are pregnant. It is worsening problem on an Origi

volatile island. We're very worried, we think we need

to improve the healthcare If they're vulnerable they need

to be recognised as such and may need to move somewhere

where they can get care. The reality is there isn't this care

here on the island and they need to move to the mainland

to receive it. Scars from years of torture,

Osama was once a Syrian policeman but was caught by rebel groups

and sold to IS. He said he was regularly beaten

and sexually abused by his captors. TRANSLATION: I've been

in captivity for three years, I lost my family, I lost my wife,

I haven't heard anything about them. He tells me he was able to escape,

hoping for a new life in Europe. TRANSLATION: The tension

will only rise here. Sometimes I feel if I had been

killed in Syria it would be better The Greek refugee policy is clear

that extremely vulnerable migrants should be taken off the island

quickly for specialist I would like at this point to remind

that 30,000 people have come through the island since March,

2016, so there can be individual cases, some individual cases,

where they may not have been The Greek government is promising

to take extremely vulnerable Those needing the most help,

for the moment, are still This weekend Europe will mark

the centenary of the First World War The campaign, fought north

of Ypres in Belgium, lasted over three and half months

and led to around half One of those killed

was George Baxter Lowson. He was 30 and came from

Tottenham in London. His story has inspired

two local teenagers - who have learning disabilities -

to pay their own musical tribute, Jonathan and Zach from

the Vale School in Tottenham are about to record their tribute

to a man they'll never meet, but a man who's become

part of their lives. We looked up where the grave

of George Baxter Lowson was, Because we've got disabilities, it's

very hard, but I feel me doing this song has made me more confident

because I'm not doing it for myself. This isn't just a tribute -

it's an expression of # All I see is death, death, death,

death in those places # Names, the names,

the names with no faces # Soldiers lost and

gone without traces As Ypres prepared for this

weekend's commemorations, Vale School performed

their tribute in a city Their words and music are a new

connection to one man from I think he would be proud of

this music, proud and pleased. He's not with us,

but with this song, So we just wanted

to give him something. For more than a century horses known

as wildies have roamed free But recently their numbers

on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains

have been dwindling. Natural predators and culls

to prevent them from harming Today less than 800 wildies remain

and now a team of volunteers is taking a new approach

to save them. One only has to go out

there and watch a herd roaming the hills just to really get a sense

of what it used to be If we lost the Alberta Wildies,

I think we'd be losing a big part They were just

considered feral, stray. Nobody cared about them,

nobody wanted anything to do with them, and so they were rounded

up, they were killed, In the wild horse herds,

one that lived closer to the private land and the forest,

the young boys get kicked out by themselves and maybe

join up with a couple Most of the boys that we have

in the barn right now, They got onto private land,

trying to get close to find The contraceptive is administered

via a dart, so it's a disposable It is a true contraceptive,

it's not sterilisation. The mare will get bred

and she will have normal behaviour, I didn't start with horses

until about ten years ago. My daughter got a horse

and when she went off to college, Every day, there's something

you learn and can teach them, too. I go out in the woods and I'm on my

horse or I'm just in my vehicle. I still get really excited

and my heart just, oh, it just warms me up

inside and the more people I can bring out there to show them

and the more people I can tell Don't forget you can get

in touch with me and some of the team on Twitter -

I'm @geetagurumurthy We will be speaking to some from the

Japanese Embassy a little later. Stay with us if you can.

So we come to the weekend. The last weekend of July and it's looking

more autumnal than