12/01/2018 World News Today

This is BBC World News. President

Trump has said he won't, for the

moment, pull out of the Iran nuclear

deal. He has described the 2015 deal

as one of the worst in American

history. He added that this new 120

day waiver will be the last.

President Trump also denies using an

offensive word to describe poor

countries when discussing

immigration. The United Nations is

among those calling his comments

racist.

These are shocking and

shameful comments from the president

of the United States. Sorry, but

there's no other word one can use

that racist.

A makeover for

Facebook. The social network

acknowledges that business posts are

crowding out personal connections.

You can't down to -- you can't look

down to read the speech. Because if

you did your neck would break.

And

weighty reflections on the crown,

Queen Elizabeth as you've never

heard or seen her before.

Welcome to World News Today.

President Trump has said he won't

pull out of the deal under which

Iran agreed to curb its nuclear

programme despite describing it as

one of the worst in American

history. That he's extended

sanctions relief for what he calls

one last time to allow Europe and

the US to fix what he says at the

nuclear deal's terrible flaws.

European allies of the US has warned

that the agreement is vital for

International security. Iran Foreign

Minister has tweeted that the deal

is known by its initials is not very

negotiable. I have been speaking to

our Washington correspondent.

He was speaking through senior

administration officials.

Effectively, he had to come to a

decision today about these

sanctions. These are the big

sanctions tied to the nuclear deal

itself. In other words, ran's

ability to export oil for its

banking system to rejoin

international finance system --

Iran's ability. He has decided to

keep those sanctions off of Iran for

a period 120 days but he says it's

the last time he was going to do it.

What he wants is European

counterparts to work on what he

calls a follow-up arrangement. It

will put new restrictions on Iran

but crucially it will remove any

kind of sunset clause from the

agreement. He doesn't want a man

ever to be able to develop a nuclear

weapons he thinks the Europeans

should agree to that. It does not

want to do that in consultation with

Iran, they should not be connected

directly.

Given the opposition from

the other signatories, how likely is

that he will get what you want in

120 days?

There are some things that

other European powers are concerned

about. Some of its support for

militants group in the region. What

they describe as meddling in other

countries. There is potential room

for the US and Europeans to work on,

on applying pressure to Iran in

those areas. But the last thing

France, Germany, the UK, Russia,

China, the others, the European

Union, the last thing they want to

do is an picked the current deal

which took a long time to negotiate.

And which they think is working

effectively. They will resist that

significantly.

The decision on Iran

comes hot on the heels of some crude

language President Trump is a

alleged to have used to describe

poor countries. His report comments

have caused international outrage.

He asked why the US should take in

people from places such as Haiti, El

Salvador and some African nations.

El Salvador's Foreign Minister has

said he sent a formal letter of

protest. The President is widely

reported to have used a vulgar and

Robert return, when you are about to

hear. President Trump is known to

have made racially charged remarks.

The context boards in these

comments, intense negotiations with

lawmakers about what to do about

migrants who come to the United

States illegally as children.

According to the Washington Post,

President Trump said:

.

These are shocking and shameful

comments from the president of the

United States. Sorry, but there's no

other word one can use but racist.

The president is understood to be

referring Polly Toohey ET, recently

hit by hurricane Matthew and one of

Central America's poorest nations.

There's been a strong reaction.

TRANSLATION:

If patients were to

leave the United States, this would

be bad for the American economy, not

just the workforce but people from

Haiti invest in the United States.

In addition to America's neighbours,

Donald Trump also spoke of African

nations in a derogatory way.

We do a

lot of business with Norway...

By

contrast, Donald Trump, who met the

Norwegian Prime Minister, is

reported to have wondered why the US

shouldn't have more people from that

country. Mr Trump has since tweeted:

shouldn't have more people from that

country. Mr Trump has since tweeted:

But many senior politicians were in

the room and said the

But many senior politicians were in

the room and said the president did

use the offensive terminology.

I

cannot believe that in the history

of the White House in that oval

office, any president has ever

spoken the words that I personally

heard our president speak yesterday.

We've seen the comments in the

press. I've not read one of them

that is inaccurate. To no surprise,

the president started tweeting this

morning, denying that he used those

words. It is not true. He said these

hate filled things. And he said them

repeatedly.

Mr Trump ignored press

questions about the issue as he

signed proclamation earlier.

Ironically, he declared a holiday in

honour of civil rights hero, Martin

Luther King Jr..

Doctor King is no

longer with us. His words and his

vision only grows stronger through

time. Today, we mourn his loss. We

celebrate his legacy and we pledge

to fight for his dream of the

quality, freedom, justice and peace.

But criticism of Mr Trump is now

coming from his own side. House

Speaker, Paul Ryan, calling the

comment is unfortunate and

unhelpful. Another of our Washington

correspondent, Nick Bryant, has more

on the offence these comments has

caused.

There's been a barrage of

international criticism. The United

Nations human rights official

describing these comments as racist.

Botswana has not only condemned it

but has actual P Championship

administration to find out whether

this is learnt that the president

allegedly used applies to them --

but has contacted the Trump

administration. The White House has

a different view. There are some

people in the White House who told

reporters that they think this

alleged remark will work well with

his Republican base. I have to tell

you there are a lot of Republicans

who are horrified by some of what

comes out of Donald Trump's mouth

and his Twitter feed. But there is

this political sense at the White

House that this is a plus for the

president with some of his

supporters. One reporter has been

told that last night in the west

wing the President was doing a

victory lap. What has been under

discussion at the White House this

week, President Trump at a televised

meeting for almost an hour where he

brought together lawmakers from both

Republican and Democratic parties,

they were trying to get a

compromise. Maybe the building of

the wall for Mr Trump and more

leniency for a so-called streamers

for the Democrats. They have not

been able to get a deal this week.

-- so-called streamers. There was

dramatic context for today's event.

I saw some day I never see above

what I have covered Washington for a

long time. A president of United

States appearing in the west wing of

the White House and being asked by

reporters, "Are you a racist"?

Extraordinary. This unfortunate and

contradictory setting of an event

where he was signing a presidential

proclamation in honour of the great

civil rights leader Martin Luther

King.

Nick Bryant. Let's take a look

at some more stories.

Women in Saudi Arabia have made

history by watching a football match

from the stands for the first time

at a stadium. The new measure comes

after the deeply conservative

kingdom announced it was lifting a

ban prohibiting women from driving.

A number of Catholic churches have

been vandalised in Chile ahead of a

visit by the Pope Francis. Police

said home-made bombs were used to

damage two churches in the capital,

Santiago. The attack has left

messages threatening the Pope,

saying the money for the visit could

be better spent on poor people. In

remaining oil tanker which burst

into flames in the East China Sea on

Saturday after colliding with a

freighter is drifting towards

Japanese waters from sea is

controlled by China. Chinese

firefighters are still battling to

put out the blaze.

Pakistan has deployed paramilitary

forces to suppress riots in the

eastern town of... Following the

rape and killing of a 60 watts girl.

Protesters are angry for them

failing to find people responsible

over a series of child murders. The

situation is tense that has been

brought under control after two days

of violence. We have more.

So far today, this place has

remained calm. There is a big police

presence. But there hasn't been that

kind of angry protests we've seen

over the past few days following the

discovery of the body of a

six-year-old. There is, though,

month the investigating team a sense

of urgency that whoever killed her

needs to be caught. We've seen a

police document in this city, over

the past year, 11 young girls have

been attacked. Traces of the same

DNA have been found on the bodies of

six of them. All of them were

abducted from close to their homes.

All of their bodies were later

recovered also nearby to their

homes. Only one of them survived.

She is currently in hospital. Her

relatives say she is unable to talk

and unable to move from the head

down. TRANSLATION:

If this happened

to the daughter of a politician,

they would have caught the attacker

by now. Our families work. So no one

cares. Her family have some

political connections, that's why

they've had so much attention.

All

six girls went missing from the same

small neighbourhood. The police have

a grainy CCTV image of the suspect

and a manhunt is under way to try

and find him. But many in this city

still pose the question, why wasn't

more done earlier?

Still to come, does a double

mastectomy increased some patients

chances of surviving breast cancer?

A study suggests not really.

Day one of operation Desert Storm to

force the Iraqis out of, it has seen

the most intense attacks since the

Second World War.

Tobacco is

America's oldest industry and it's

one of its biggest. But if industry

is nervous of this report and it may

tend to want people -- for people to

want to stop smoking cigarettes.

There is not a streak that is

unaffected. Huge part was to be

demolished as buildings crashed into

one another. This woman said she had

been given no help and advice by the

authorities. She stood outside the

ruins of her business.

Tens of

thousands of black children in South

Africa have taken advantage of laws

passed by the country's new

multiracial government and enrolled

at formerly white schools.

Tonight

sees the 9610th performance of the

-- long-running player, the

Mousetrap. The management considered

whether to cancel tonight's

performers but Agatha Christie would

have been the last person to want

such a thing.

Welcome back.

The latest headlines: Donald Trump

has said he won't, for the moment,

pull out of the Iran nuclear deal.

President Trump also denies using an

offensive word to describe some poor

countries when discussing

immigration. The United Nations is

among those calling his comments

racist.

Facebook has announced what it says

is a major change to its news feed.

Prioritising posts from family and

friends over those from media

organisations and businesses. The

BBC's media editor has more.

Mark Zuckerberg's social network has

become of the biggest

distributors of news in history.

Today the company went back

to its social roots.

He said he wants to make

sure the time we spend

on Facebook is time well spent.

Facebook's founder admits users

are being fed a heavy diet

of news and adverts,

together with the more personal

posts from friends and family.

In Bristol today, many young

Facebook users agreed.

It's quite clogged up with adverts

for shopping and baby

things at the moment,

stuff I search on Google.

So I think it would be a lot better

if it was just based around friends

and family without any adverts.

I just feel like I'm

being sold to, the whole time.

People are making assumptions

about my opinions, my tastes,

things I'm interested in.

Zuckerberg says he's changing

the goal to help you have more

meaningful social interactions.

That means less news

and more friends and family.

This is the biggest change

to Facebook for many years.

It follows controversy over

the promotion of fake news

with fears the platforms has been

used by foreign powers

to subvert democracy.

Today's changes aren't being driven

by those concerns over

disinformation but are clearly

an attempt to restore trust

in a global brand, and the impact

on our news ecosystem could be huge.

Mark Zuckerberg clearly accepts not

all news is of equal value

but his changes could damage some

reputable news providers who have

come to rely on his platform

for eyeballs and income.

The elephant in the room is fake

news and how they are trying

to clean up the timelines.

The fear for publishers like us

is that the baby gets thrown out

with the bath water and we lose

the really important real journalism

along with the fake news

that they are trying to get rid of.

Google is often described

as part of a duopoly

that is swallowing

the advertising and industries,

together with Facebook.

Today, in a rare interview,

Google's most senior British

executive seemed to see this

as an opportunity.

There's an upside to traditional

media moving to the digital world.

You can reach 5 billion

people within a couple

of years on any device,

you can use video.

You know yourself as a journalist,

there's a huge ability to tell

the important stories in new ways

and people are turning

to the digital world more than ever

before to understand the news.

For Facebook's young missionary

founder, a short-term hit

in revenues is worth it to alay

accusations that it's

becoming the anti-social network.

Sport now.

Are the only top four side playing

on Saturday and they could go second

for a day at least with victory over

them Leicester at Stamford Bridge --

Chelsea are the only top four side.

There are still adrift of Manchester

City and their manager Antonio Conte

has been once again casting doubt

over just how long he will stay at

the club.

I have another view on contract with

this club. -- another year. But as

you know, football anything is

possible. In one moment, I stay

here, in another moment you stay in

another place. Or another person

replaces you and your job.

Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez, will he or

won't he moved to Premier League

leaders Manchester City? The Chilean

forward has been told he can leave

as long as Arsenal finds a suitable

replacement. But this afternoon it's

come to light that City are not

willing to pay the £35 million plus

price tag for Sanchez and could let

him go to rivals Manchester United.

Here is what his manager at Arsenal

said... We will not hear from him

now, we will move on to Saudi

Arabia. History has been made today.

Women were allowed to watch a

football match live for the first

time. 300 women flocked to a stadium

to watch a football match. The Saudi

Premier League. They entered via a

special bed and sit in seats

reserved for families. The game was

the first in a series of matches

open to female spectators and is

part of long-awaited reforms of

women's rights in the country. The

Australian open starts next week and

the row over the name of one of its

arenas continues after the former

tennis great Billie Jean King once

again called for the Margaret Court

Arena to be renamed after the 24

time grand slam winner made

homophobic comments. King says as a

gay woman herself she would refuse

to play on it.

She's won more grand slam singles

titles than anyone else.

With a court at Melbourne Park named

after her, Margaret Court is an

Australian sporting icon but her

opposition to same-sex marriage and

views on the LGBT community have

bought the name of the arena into

question.

I would not play on it.

She's gotten really do rocketry.

When she talked about children of

transgenders being Devil puppet put

me over the edge. We are all God's

children.

While the tournament

director says courts views don't

echo those of the organisation or

the sport, he added that there are

no immediate plans to change the

name.

There's more than one

stakeholder. But there ongoing

conversation, I can say. As you

asked, formal process, no.

King is

attending the tournament for the

first time in eight years marking

the 50th anniversary of her title in

Melbourne. But while the American

said she wouldn't promote a boycott

of the stadium, she encouraged

players to look inside their hearts

before making a decision.

They have

to decide, each one of them. You can

have discussion around a bit.

Everyone is entitled to her opinion,

Margaret is entitled to her opinion.

I would be very welcoming to

Margaret. She will say, I welcome

you to, but she believes in

conversion. Like she thinks I can go

back to straight.

No current players

have said they would boycott playing

in the arena while the action on the

court bursts into life for two weeks

on Monday, looks at the issues of it

are going to be around for a lot

longer.

That's all the sport for now. Young

women with a gene mutation that

prompted actress Angelina Jolie to

have a pre-emptive double mastectomy

is not more likely to die after a

cancer diagnosis. The study found

there was no difference in the

overall survival for up to ten years

after diagnosis. Irrespective of

women having the BRCA gene mutation.

Diagnosed with breast cancer

when she was just 35 years

old and five months pregnant,

Laura faced childbirth

and then cancer treatment.

She carries a BRCA gene

mutation and so, like many

women in her position,

she opted to have

both breasts removed.

I decided to have

a double mastectomy.

My oncologist was keen for me

to have it and I was, as well,

because I was told that the risk

of me getting cancer again

was 50%, so it didn't seem

worth the risk, really.

A new study followed nearly 3,000

women aged 40 or younger diagnosed

with breast cancer in Britain.

It found no difference in survival

between those who carried

BRCA breast cancer genes

and those who didn't.

And it found no survival benefit

from a double mastectomy.

After ten years, around seven in ten

women survived in all groups.

So what does this mean for women

carrying a BRCA gene?

I think the key message is that it

allows them time to consider

all of their options.

So they may still need to go ahead

and have a double mastectomy

because of their risk

and for long-term survival.

But I think it encourages us

to think that they can

take their time and discuss

and consider all of

their options and make

the right decision for them.

This study didn't

look at prevention.

One in 450 women carry

faulty BRCA genes.

It means they have a 45-90% chance

of getting breast cancer,

and many women with a strong family

history of breast cancer

opt for preventative

double mastectomies,

which almost eliminates the risk.

Like Angelina Jolie,

the actress and campaigner

Like Angelina Jolie,

when the actress and campaigner

revealed she'd had preventative

surgery, it led to greatly-raised

awareness of BRCA gene mutations.

This study looked only

at young women, like Laura.

95% of breast cancers

are in the over 40s.

Laura says if she had her time

again, she might have delayed having

a double mastectomy,

but she has no regrets.

Fergus Walsh, BBC News.

As part of events to mark the 65th

anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's

coronation, the BBC is broadcasting

a programme called the crown jewels.

In the programme, the Queen shares

memories of the 1953 coronation

ceremony itself as well as memories

of her father, King George VI.

She famously doesn't do interviews.

This is probably as

close as she'll get,

a conversation with questions about

the Coronation, the Crown Jewels,

and the Imperial State Crown worn

by her and her father,

King George VI.

Fortunately, my father and I have

about the same sort of shaped head.

Once you put it on, it stays.

It just remains itself.

You have to keep your

head very still?

Yes.

It was huge then.

Yes.

Very unwieldy.

You can't look down to read

the speech, you have take the speech

up, because if you did,

your neck would break,

it would fall off.

It's difficult to always remember

that diamonds are stones,

so very heavy.

Yes.

So, there are some

disadvantages to crowns.

But, otherwise, they're

quite important things.

She rode to her Coronation

in the Gold State Coach.

It weighs four tons.

It's not built for comfort.

Horrible.

It's not meant for

travelling in, at all.

It's only sprung on leather.

So it rocks around a lot.

It's not very comfortable.

Were you in it for a long time?

Halfway round London.

Really?

We must have gone about

four or five miles -

we could only go at a walking pace.

The horses couldn't

possibly go any faster.

It's so heavy.

65 years after the event,

a monarch talking

about her Coronation -

the Crown - the real one.

Nicholas Witchell, BBC News.

ABC's Sarah Hancock was caught

completely by surprise when doing

this piece to camera.

Once stage one

wraps up today the athletes will

rest and prepare for... Excuse me.

So my God.

The truck managed to stop

further down the road with the

inflatable intact and it was quickly

re-erected in enough time for the

winner of the women's race. Even

more remarkably, nobody was hurt.

Let's get a reminder of our top

story. President Trump has held back

from reimposing sanctions on Iran,

keeping intact the 2015 deal under

which Teheran curbed its nuclear

programme. That's the way it's

looking, stay with us on BBC news.