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

was the subject of a court battle has died.

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

Hello and welcome to World News Today.

The Pentagon says it believes North Korea has conducted another

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

The Prime Minister convened the National Security Council and

expressed his strongest condemnation against North Korea and announce

that our Prime Minister will take every possible measure to ensure the

safety of the Japanese people. It is important at this critical juncture

that such key allies as the United States, South Korea, and Japan

closely coordinate and rigorously implement economic sanction measures

that have been agreed upon, and that were also announced to give pressure

to North Korea so that it would come to its senses. It has been reported

the head of the American and South Korean military has discussed

military response options, what does that mean, does Japan supported? It

has been expressed that Japanese Government supports the American

administration's position that all options are on the table. There is

no question about it. We will continue to closely coordinate with

such key Alex Mowatt the United States and South Korea. At the

moment it is important to recognise that the military option is the last

resort. What is important right now is to implement rigorously and

completely economic sanction measures that were agreed by the

Security Council, that also includes China and Russia, which also have

great influence over North Korea. What should China and Russia to that

they are not at the moment? Russia and China are permanent members of

the United Nations Security Council, the bear a big responsibility in

dealing with North Korea's elastic missile programmes, and as far as

China is concerned, 90% of North Korea's trade is with China. What is

making it possible for North Korea to develop its ballistic and nuclear

programme is its massive foreign currency revenue. It is critically

important. In that regard China can play a far more important role than

it is currently doing. Do you think they are serious about stopping

North Korea or not? China's position on North Korea nuclear and missile

programme is clear, they would never condone North Korea becoming a

nuclear power. They have been quite explicit about it. China is in a

very good position and is serious about declaring North Korea becoming

a nuclear power. But it's obvious that the ballistic missiles that

have been launched our delivery systems of such weapons. Let us know

get more on this from Washington. What does talk of a military

response mean? It could mean increasing the US

military footprint in the region, or a pre-emptive military strike. There

are various options available. The military has recently updated those

options and they are ready to be presented to the President should he

ask for them. That reality has not changed. Secretary of defence

regularly says he does not want this option, a military cough edition

would be a catastrophe, but equally they are watching with concern the

ad -- the advancing technological ability of North Korea with regard

to ballistic missiles and the concern about long-range runs and

the ability for these missiles to ultimately hurt the United States.

What other options are possible? What about the influence of China?

Can the US do more to exert pressure on the Chinese? The US is preparing

to do more to put pressure on the Chinese. A State Department official

said the CPR drawing up a list of things that they said were sanctions

busting. They have started to do that. They have signalled that they

are prepared to do more. But that this within the range of policy that

is being pursued now which is sanctions and diplomacy trying to

squeeze -- trying to squeeze North Korea with the goal of getting it to

a giddy to D nuclear lies. There is the question being asked,

can you convince them to do this at this point. Either you have a

military response or you have talks and agreed to freeze North Korea

where they are in their nuclear programme. That is something that

the administration is not willing to consider, at least publicly, at this

point. 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. The hospital has released a

statement sending their condolences to the family.

In March of this year specialists at great Ormond Street that decided

that his treatment should be withdrawn. His parents rejected

this. They said there were doctors in America offering experimental

treatment that could help Charlie Gard. They hang on to the

possibility that they would be allowed to take him to America. But

after further tests they admitted defeat and said it was time to let

him go. Our son is an absolute warrior and

we could not be prouder of him and we will miss him terribly. His body,

heart and soul will soon be gone but his spirit will live on for eternity

and he will make a difference to people's lives for years to come.

The campaign was relentless. A petition was handed and with 350,000

signatures. An online appeal raised more than ?1 million to pay for

experimental treatments. Support for Charlie Gard was global. A statement

from Pope Francis said he was playing for his parents and that he

hoped that they wished to a company and cheat their child until the end

was not elected. -- and treat their child.

But doctors at great Ormond Street and the legal system saw things

differently. Judges at every level up to this European Court of Human

Rights determined that further treatment would not be in the

interests of Charlie Gard and that he should be allowed to die with

dignity. Through out the legal process the relationship between the

parents and the hospital deteriorated stop I cannot get my

head around it. We too him into hospital, they do not want to do the

treatment. They basically just kept him a prisoner there. Our parental

rights have been stripped the military we took in there, in

hindsight we lost him. -- the moment we took him in there. His parents

thank nurses at great Ormond that they said the hospital and the

courts had denied them their final wish by determining that the

life-support treatment should end sought -- shortly after he was moved

to a hospice rather than allowing them to move to a home environment.

The money raised will now set up a foundation to help other desperately

ill children. The parents thank everyone who supported Charlie Gard

and said that by the time his short life came to an end he was loved by

thousands of people. His parents have released a

statement. They say the hospital denied them their final wish. They

just wanted quality time. Most people will not have to go through

what we went through. We had no control over his life or his death.

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

The court said Nawaz Sharif had been dishonest and not disclosing his

earnings. He has denied any wrongdoing.

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 suspect is no indication. The police say they have no idea of

motive and are not ruling anything out.

The US Government says it plans to rhetoric the amount of nicotine in

cigarettes. They think reducing nicotine levels will make cigarettes

less addictive. They will look at ways of shifting smokers to

electronic cigarettes. The volunteers trying to save

Canada's wild horses from hunters before it is too late.

An independent review will be carried out into building

regulations and fire safety after that Grenfell Tower fire.

The Government has announced an independent review of fire safety

and building regulations. Many of the questions were left their

regulations were adequate. The former chairperson of the

manufacturers organisation will over see this. It will report to the

Communities Secretary and to the Home Secretary. They will explore

many of these aspects of regulation being sufficient. Whether

sufficiently applied. It sounds at this early stage.

The latest headlines. The United States and South Korea discuss a

military response option after North Korea test a second intercontinental

ballistic missile. And Charlie Gard, the terminally ill baby, whose

medical care was subject to a court battle, has died.

It has been an incredible few hours for President Donald Trump. The

Senate has rejected another attempt to reveal Obamacare, and three of

the top figures are, Donald Trump's promised to repeal Obamacare that he

said would be so easy, crashed and burned on the floor of the Senate.

Outside, opponents celebrated. John McCain delivered the news with a

dramatic thumbs down. Two gasps and intakes of breath that person that

the President had hailed as a key role was note the villain of the

piece. This is a disappointing moment. From

skyrocketing costs, plummeting choices, collapsing markets, our

constituents have suffered through an awful lot under Obamacare. That

was not the only drama unfolding. At the White House the most

extraordinary bare-knuckle cage fight has broken out among the three

most senior people in their West wing who are not the President. The

new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, talking in abusive and

obscene terms about the chief of staff, and the chief strategist.

Anthony Scaramucci has apologised for the language used, but not the

sentiments expressed. In his conversation with the New

Yorker magazine, Anthony Scaramucci said of the Chief of staff.

Of Steve Banning he said. 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 backstabbing.

Where I grew up, we are front stabbers. We like to tell you where

we are from and what we are doing. Donald Trump left Washington a short

while ago to fly to Long Island, New York, to look up efforts to curb

inter-gang rivalry and violence. He could have stayed at home.

If the President was disheartened by the Senate's decision to vote down

their health care Bill he was not showing during a speech he made in

the last couple of hours then Long Island. Discussing measures on

immigration and law enforcement he said he would still get the job done

on health care. We need more resources from Congress and we are

getting them. Congress is actually opening up and really doing the job.

They should have approved health care last night that you can't have

everything. They have been working on that one for seven years. Can you

believe that? This one. But we will get it done. I said from the

beginning, let Obamacare implored, and then do it. That turned out to

be right. Obamacare, implored. I spoke to our Washington

correspondent about why Obamacare is so divisive.

I have been speaking to a number of people over the past few months

about Obamacare and health care provision. On the one hand you have

a number of Americans who rely on three health care, on the measures

brought in by President Obama. They typically don't get the treatment

they need. On the other hand you have middle-class Americans who are

working very hard boost unions have shot up. Their health care now costs

more than mortgage or rent sometimes. They cannot understand

why they are paying for health care for those that they believe have

made choices in life that they do not understand, that perhaps they

are paying for health care for people who need certain treatments

or who have had many children. I spoke to one woman who said why

should I pay for another mother who needs to give birth for perhaps

their fifth child? I said is that not the way health care works? She

said that is not how it should work in the United States. That is what

the two camps, that Republicans are trying to coalesce around. They have

a problem. The measures for some of the particle too far. They fear that

millions will lose health coverage. For others in the party,

conservatives, they believe the measures do not go far enough, they

want more of Obamacare repealed. Last night they try to bring those

sides together. It is with some course until John McCain cast that

full. They are bruised, battered, and on recess. It is not likely we

will see health care floor any time soon. On recess that they meant the

number of troubles it has been a difficult week and a difficult

couple of days. It is hard to sum up this week. It started with the

President's son-in-law going to the Senate to give testimony about

meeting various members of either the Russian Government Russian

representatives. It's all these investigations into whether or not

Russia medal in the US presidential elections. Then we Donald Trump

treating saying that transgender people would be banned from the

military, catching his own military off-guard, and that directive is no

uncertain. Nobody from the White House has given the military the

idea of how they are taking this policy forward.

Last night we had the drama surrounding health care. And then

the White House itself seems to be at civil war with the likes of

Anthony Scaramucci. We have not seen a resolution to that either. They

have been on the same plane on the way to that rally that you have just

seen. We have not seen how that situation will resolve itself. It is

Friday afternoon. You just never know what is going to happen next in

this White House. Here is the sport.

How has the crickets gone? It is going very well for England. The

third test. A brilliant day for them against South Africa at the Oval,

particularly for debit and Toby Roland-Jones, 4-39. Alistair Cook

was hoping to make his 31st test century that he fell for it yet. Ben

Stokes was the mainstay, it brilliant 112. Kagiso Rabada took

three wickets after returning from a one match ban at in the first test.

But it was Toby Roland-Jones, a knock of 25 with the bat, and he

also took four wickets. It is a pretty special day coming into it.

We knew that we wanted to try and push ourselves as hard as possible.

Still pretty testing conditions at times out there. I thought it was

outstanding and elevating us to a score that we always thought would

be very competitive in the game. It is very helpful when you have got

players at the end of your remark with the experience of Stuart Broad

and Jimmy. They were calm and be guided me through the opening few

overs and then I'd use the adrenaline to keep me going from

there. The bad they for South Africa has been compounded. Philander will

spend the night in hospital on a drip. He has missed large spells of

the tests so far with a stomach bug. Usain Bolt's Killie could go on and

on according to Justin Gatlin. He is still going at age 35 and thinks

Usain Bolt might reconsider his decision to quit. When they miss

competing at the highest level? It's as not just a figure, it is going to

be filled by such young athletes, athletes who want to make a name for

themselves. But he has the opportunity to come back. Once he

leaves he can still come back. He can have a year of rest and say, I

cannot believe it's too soon stop do you think he might do that? He has

that rock star mentality. He could travel the world, have fun, party in

different places, come back and say he wants to take this seriously

again. The President of cycling's world governing body has hit back at

critics as he seeks free election to meet the body. Lance Armstrong and

Pat McQuaid have both been vocal in their dislike of his tenure.

I could not want better endorsements. Neither Lance

Armstrong nor Pat McQuaid like what I have been doing with cycling. They

are the people in their own different ways who took cycling to

the brink of disaster. I do not want their support. That tells its own

story. That has all the sport for now.

There is more online. 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. Don't forget you can get

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

I'm @geetagurumurthy