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Scientists think they are a step closer to preventing inherited | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
diseases being passed on in families. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
They've found a way to edit genes, removing the faulty DNA | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
A method of being able to avoid having an effect on children, | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
passing on the defective gene, could be really very important | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
for those families and allow them to get out of this. | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
"Tampered with" - the company providing the technology | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
for Venezeula's controversial election for a new assembly says | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Worth a quarter of a billion dollars - if Neymar moves | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
to Paris Saint-Germain it would be the world's biggest | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
And the end of an era - Prince Philip carries out his last | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
scheduled public engagement and retires at the age of 96. | :00:55. | :01:12. | |
Hello and welcome to World News Today. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
For the first time scientists have successfully repaired a faulty | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
They used a process known as "gene editing" to correct DNA that causes | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
The US and South Korean team allowed the embryos to develop for five days | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
The technique is still at the early research stage but it raises | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
the hope of preventing 10,000 gene disorders which pass | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh reports. | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
The goal could not be more ambitious, to eradicate | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
These scientists have taken an impressive first | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
step on a long road, editing DNA in human embryos. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Inside the nucleus of each of our cells is our genome, | :02:02. | :02:17. | |
It is the instruction manual for life. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
The scientists were targeting a faulty gene that causes | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
They fertilise the egg with the sperm of it a man who carried the | :02:25. | :02:37. | |
faulty gene. They then injected the gene editing | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
system, which scans the DNA It then cuts both strands | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
of the DNA, and removes the faulty gene, a healthy copy of the gene | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
from the egg is then Here are some of the embryos | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
from the study in the journal Nature after being edited, | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
42 of 58 embryos were corrected. They were allowed to develop | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
for five days, none was implanted. The research has been welcomed | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
by a team in London, who have a license | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
to edit human embryos. They say the technology | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
could eventually help many families. There are some nasty genetic | :03:11. | :03:19. | |
diseases like Huntingdon's, or a disease that affects heart | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
function later in life, which can blight families | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
for many generations. So a method of being able to avoid | :03:25. | :03:33. | |
having affected children, passing on the defective gene, | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
can be really very important Nicole Mowbray has the same | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
heart condition that was She now has a defibrillator | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
implanted in her chest, She has a 50% risk of passing | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
on the condition, but is unsure of whether she would | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
consider gene editing. I wouldn't want to pass on something | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
that caused my child to have a limited life or a painful | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
life, or a life of risk. That does, obviously, | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
come to the front of my mind I wouldn't want to create | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
the perfect child, in inverted commas, I feel like my condition | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
makes me me. Previous attempts at editing human | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
embryos in China led There is a lot of work needed before | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
this can be considered safe, and it raises ethical issues | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
about how far science should go In a deal that could be worth more | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
than a quarter of a billion - yes, billion - dollars, | :04:36. | :04:49. | |
the Brazilian football player Neymar appears to be a step closer | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
to leaving Barcelona and signing That figure is more than twice | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
the current world record transfer Our correpsondent Richard | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
Conway is in Paris. Fans visiting the club shop | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
here in the centre of Paris are getting excited because the deal | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
for Neymar is inching We have seen in the past few days | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
the player going from Shanghai where he was on commercial duties | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
and flying back to Barcelona. He has been excused from training | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
and now Barcelona are saying, pay us the money and Paris St Germain, | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
you can have the player. We will see how it plays out | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
in the coming hours and days. There is now an increasing | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
certainty that Neymar will be a Paris Saint-Germain player this | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
coming season and the indications for that are huge, of course | :05:46. | :05:56. | |
for Barcelona, who will be without one of their leading players | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
and for PSG who desperately want to bridge the gap | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
from being Champions League wannabes to winners and also for Uefa, | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
given Financial Fair Play, clubs have a requirement | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
to live within their means. The size of this deal and the money | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
involved in this potential transfer is such that many clubs | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
and individuals at the highest levels of football are looking at it | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
and wondering if PSG can live For now the fans here just | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
want to know one thing, With me is the football | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
journalist Tim Vickery. I read your article or later. Is | :06:23. | :06:40. | |
this a negotiating ploy or does look like a deal? It looks like it is | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
going to happen. The speculation and negotiation comes as no surprise | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
whatsoever. I am still a little surprised that it looks like it is | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Neymar's decision. He wants to go. I just hope it is his decision and | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
what he wants to do. Not what his entourage would prefer. It is not | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
quite as simple as signing Neymar, is it? He has a complicated | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
structure around him. Including his father. You always worries about | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
that because it condemns the footballer to a permanent | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
childishness, if you like. But his career has always been managed by | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
his father on a step-by-step basis. Amongst the final objectives is | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
winning the Fever world Player of the Year award. That is taken with | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
great importance in Brazil. Five Brazilians won on it different | :07:47. | :07:58. | |
occasions. Neymar will be seen by himself and many of his compatriots | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
as something of a disappointment that he does not win that a word. He | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
is unlikely to win it if he is not outstanding player in his own team. | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
And also if he does not have a team around him. People from his camp are | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
saying he has been seduced by this project of Paris Saint-Germain. And | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
it will be the World Cup sin, where he plays at 26 years old, closest to | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
his peak, and perhaps during the French lead they will be able to | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
coast a little more leaving him with enough gas in the tank for the World | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Cup next year. And still able to walk away from the experience of | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
playing up front with Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi. The people in his | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
entourage with the strategy do not have the joy he has, like a | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
collective childhood they have on a weekly basis with his players, there | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
is no animosity between them, they look like one force, and it is sad | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
in one way that he is turning his back on that and you just hope it | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
really is what he wants to do. And you can find that article on the BBC | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
sport website. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
plans to swear in a new assembly It follows a controversial election | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
in the country on Sunday, where the turn-out figure | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
was manipulated - that's according to the technology company | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
which provided the voting system. Antonio Mugica, the boss | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
of Smartmatic, said his firm estimated the difference | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
between actual participation and the one announced | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
by the authorities was at least It is therefore with the deepest | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
regret that we have to report that the turnout numbers on Sunday | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
30th of July for the constituent assembly in Venezuela | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
were tampered with. The automated election system used | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
in the Venezuela is tamper-evident and self-reports any attempts | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
to interfere with it. Our correspondent Will Grant | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
is in Caracas for us now. Has the government responded? Yes, | :10:25. | :10:39. | |
they are currently issuing the credentials for the new deputies in | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
quite a ceremony outside the building of the National electoral | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Council and every high-profile new deputy, including Nicholas Monroe's | :10:50. | :11:05. | |
wife -- Maduro's wife. There does not seem to be any recognition of | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
the comment about the tampered votes from them. Reuters started the day | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
saying they had seen an internal memo from the Venezuelan electoral | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
authorities that suggested by half past five on the day of voting only | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
3.7 million people had voted, and the polls were due to close a couple | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
of hours later, and the government said 8 million people voted, so how | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
something around 4.3 or 4.4 million people voted in just a couple of | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
hours is beyond most people's imagination in Venezuela. It strikes | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
me that almost everything in Venezuelan society has become | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
politicised. Can we say that this firm making these claims is neutral? | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
That is a very good question. The thing is, I think, that is | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
interesting and important here is that the government have heralded | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
that from themselves as the reason the elections are free and fair. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
They have done the elections and run the voting machines here since 2004, | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
so the idea that they suddenly wouldn't they, and they are all very | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
well respected company, used around the world for elections everywhere | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
from the Philippines to parts of Latin America, so you're right, | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
everything in Venezuela is politicised and no doubt this will | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
be too but the Maduro government has always pointed to this company and | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
their machines as the reason why results are believable. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
A man and a child have been killed after a small aircraft made | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
an emergency landing on a beach in Portugal. | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
Local media reports say the incident took place on a beach | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
at Caparica in Almada, south west of Lisbon. | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
Reports said the pair were sunbathing when the plane | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
A local newspaper said members of the plane's crew were unharmed | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
and were being interviewed by authorities. | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
The US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, has stressed | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
that his country is not seeking to topple the North Korean | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
government and it wants dialogue with Pyongyang. | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
Mr Tillerson said, "We are not your enemy", | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
but warned Pyongyang that its ballistic missile | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
tests were presenting an "unacceptable threat" to the US, | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
and Washington would have to respond. | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
The boss of Apple has said his company had no choice | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
but to stop providing apps in China that allow users to circumvent | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
the country's tough internet censorship. | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
Tim Cook said the technology firm would rather not have stopped | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
offering virtual private network, or VPN apps, but had | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
Amazon has also confirmed that customers using its cloud | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
computing services cannot now use unauthorised VPNs. | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
And we just want to show you one marine researcher's close encounter | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
Definitely not safe to go back in the water. | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
Well, luckily it was only a marine researcher's camera the shark | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
Greg Skomal was diving off the coast of Massachusetts in the US. | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Both he and his camera remained intact. | :14:19. | :14:32. | |
Scientists have used a process called gene editing to correct DNA | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
that causes a deadly heart condition. Fergus Walsh had the | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
story and I played his report earlier. How easily do the | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
techniques translate more broadly to genetic issues? This particular form | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
of gene editing, it was only discovered five years ago and it is | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
incredibly cheap and easy and efficient so it has been adopted by | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
medical researchers, animal and plant researchers, because you can | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
edit the DNA of any living object using this technique. The sky is the | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
limit regarding how it can be used. In terms of 10,000 inherited gene | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
disorders there is enormous potential. But we are really at the | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
foothills of a giant mountain that needs to be claimed in terms of | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
safety, efficiency. Some Chinese researchers had a previous call at | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
this. Embryos they used were not very good quality, they were not | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
clinical grade, and they had all sorts of errors and the one thing | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
you do not want to do is to do this in the clinic with couples wanting | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
to have a healthy child, a risk of passing on a fatal heart disorder, | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
and then find you have created another problem. So it is a long way | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
before we will see this in the clinic. Who decides the ethics of | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
this? Individual countries. There was a conference in Washington 18 | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
months ago that I attended and it called for research to continue but | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
a moratorium on using human embryo gene editing in the clinic. There | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
are observers who are unhappy that this team from the US and South | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
Korea have done this work. They said maybe they should be sticking to | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
check in on mouse embryos -- chicken or mouse embryos. One country | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
regarded internationally and sending good signals in terms of keeping an | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
eye on what is happening is the UK. A team in London has also been given | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
permission to do gene editing in human embryos and that has gone | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
through the regulator here and they will be publishing their research at | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
some point. They are also doing chicken and mouse embryos. The | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
concern is that when something is possible, and it really is very | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
easy, I have seen people do this gene editing in their garage in | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
California when I was doing a documentary on it. When something is | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
possible people will just do it. But then we had the same fears about | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
human cloning many years ago as well. If you want more information | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
on this story you can get it on the BBC news at. | :17:46. | :17:45. | |
Thousands of Syrian refugees and fighters are being | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
evacuated from camps on the Lebanese border today. | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
The operation is part of a ceasefire deal struck | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
between fighters belonging to the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
Over 100 buses will transport Syrian civillians, and also jihadi | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
fighters, back into Syria and our Correspondent Carine Torbey | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
is on the Lebanese border with the latest. | :18:00. | :18:17. | |
This is the road that around 150 buses carrying thousands | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
of civilians and hundreds of fighters from Jabhat Fateh | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
al-Sham, the previously known al-Nusra Front, | :18:23. | :18:23. | |
will be taking out of here, the outskirts of Arsal, | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
on the border between Lebanon and Syria, into Syria. | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
The convoy of buses will be accompanied by fighters | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
from Hezbollah who drove the militants out of these | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
mountains just two weeks ago in a six-day battle. | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
The journey between here and Syria is expected to be a long | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
and exhausting one and once the buses arrive to the opposition | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
held area of Idlib, five Hezbollah fighters who were held hostage | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
The completion of this whole operation will mark the end | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
of the presence of militants from what was previously known | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
as al-Nusra Front in Lebanon and is expected to further secure | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Poland is refusing to comply with a European Court order to stop | :19:10. | :19:23. | |
logging in Europe's last remaining tract of primeval forrest. | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
The government argues it's necessary to control a beetle outbreak. | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
If the dispute remains unresolved, it could lead to hefty financial | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
penalties and further strain the already tense relationship | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
A relic of ancient woodlands and home to one of the world's | :19:33. | :19:47. | |
largest population of European bison. | :19:48. | :19:48. | |
Covering almost 150,000 hectares on the border of Poland and Belarus, | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
the Unesco-listed Bialowieza forest is also the focus of a legal | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
tussle over logging that has gone all the way | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
It has issued a preliminary decision ordering the immediate | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
suspension of all logging, but Poland is refusing | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
to comply with the order, arguing it is trying to contain | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
TRANSLATION: We have to fulfil the protective measures planned | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
for the forest and this is what we are doing. | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
The Polish government says authorities are conducting | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
an experiment, which could last several years, to work out the best | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
By then, though, conservationists warn the logging will have | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
The dispute has led to scuffles on the ground. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
A cameraman was allegedly assaulted by a timber worker while trying | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
to film logging operations after the court order | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
The legal stand-off is just the latest challenge by Poland | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
to the European Union's authority and could lead to a 4 million euros | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
fine along with daily penalties if it continues unresolved. | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
After 65 years of official public engagements, Britain's Prince Philip | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
has made his final solo appearance on royal duty today. | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
He attended a parade by the Royal Marines, | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
Now 96, he's the longest serving consort in British history. | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell is at | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
It was the kind of afternoon weather-wise which might have made | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
Quite apart from the fact that in the Duke's case he's been doing | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
But there he was, on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace, a man of 96, | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
standing to attention in the pouring rain for the salute he has | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
There were many things to remind him of the past decade. | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
The parade had been mounted by the Royal Marines, | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
the fighting force which is part of his beloved Royal Navy. | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
And in the background was the Palace where he has | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
attended so many events, garden parties and the formal | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
And where his programme, 22,000 solo engagements, | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
more than 5,000 speeches, has been planned. | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
The Duke strode across the forecourt, no stick for him | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
and woe betide anyone who might suggest such a thing. | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
And as he went, the crowd outside the Palace applauded. | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
The Royal Marines gave him three cheers. | :22:28. | :22:38. | |
The Duke waved his hat and strode away. | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
And as he went the band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
After 70 years' service, and with his own separate programme | :22:48. | :23:01. | |
of royal engagements now concluded, who today would have | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
Nicholas Witchell, BBC News, Buckingham Palace. | :23:04. | :23:18. | |
President Donald Trump has called the Russia sanctions legislation | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
he just signed into law, quote, "significantly flawed". | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
The new legislation is in response to alleged Russian interfering | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
in the US election and limits Mr Trump's ability | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
to negotiate sanctions without Congressional approval. | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
For more, I'm joined by our correspondent | :23:35. | :23:35. | |
If he doesn't like it, why did he sign it? He was in a corner. | :23:36. | :23:50. | |
Congress went through with the legislation, unanimously approved by | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
Republicans and Democrats, and the way that American democracy works as | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
it landed on his desk. It sat there all weekend, he said he would sign | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
it and he has but he has issued a flurry of responses as the number of | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
reasons why he does not like it. One of those is that it will limit his | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
ability to lift or waive sanctions against Russia or any other country | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
in future but it also places limits on the amount of money that | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
Americans can invest in, for instance, Russian energy projects. | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
He believes some of these regulations will limit the ability | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
for American firms to do business in Russia. That is one reason why he | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
says he is finding this significantly flawed. But he does | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
feel that Congress is stepping on his toes, overreaching itself, | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
another reason why he says this is unconstitutional. Has Congress | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
restricted presidents in a similar way in the past? They have done in | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
the past but this is quite an unusual move by Congress and by | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
signing it Donald Trump is effectively making it law which | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
means he has to abide by it. He did try to work with Congress to try to | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
change the language of the bill but here we are, he has been boxed into | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
a corner, and Russia already retaliated over the weekend by | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
saying they would expel half of the diplomatic staff, US diplomatic | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
staff working in Russia. His hope of a new reset with Russia is in | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
tatters at the moment. Our top story, for the first time | :25:35. | :25:46. | |
scientists have prepared a faulty gene in human embryos using a | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
process known as gene editing to correct DNA against a deadly heart | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
Today was a pretty miserable day for large parts of the United Kingdom | :26:03. | :26:14. | |
and it remains pretty unsettled over the next few | :26:15. | :26:16. |