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parent, and i don't know how, as a parent, or as and i don't know how, as a parent, orasa and i don't know how, as a parent, or as a doctor, you make that decision but there comes a point when it is kinder to let your baby died. i don't think any of us would ever be happy to make that decision ourselves. i think that is actually what has made this decision easier for thejudge and what has made this decision easier for the judge and further doctors, because they firmly believe that more treatment would put little charlie in more pain. i think that is right and i think this is a case where we all have to accept that everyone is acting in good faith and trying to do their best for charlie. i think it deserves its prominence oi'i i think it deserves its prominence on the front page because there are important societal issues here. who can we say it has the best interests of the child at heart? is it the parents or the judge? the judgment we nt parents or the judge? the judgment went to the hospital. he did his job. if ever there
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went to the hospital. he did his job. if everthere is went to the hospital. he did his job. if ever there is a case that needs to go to a higher court, this is the one. the parents say we think there is something else we would like to try. as a society we have exercised our duty of care getting him this farand exercised our duty of care getting him this far and the treatment we have given him so far, but if the parents do feel there is something else they want to drive, is it right that we should say they cannot do that? it is not about the cost on the nhs or anything like that, but there does come a point when it is not fair to put a child, orfor adults, we make this choice all the time, we have been battling for the right to die for adults. there is a point when you need to let people be and let people make their choice. i wouldn't want to be the judge, but they do have the right of appeal. it seems likely they will. they do have the right of appeal. they are considering whether they want to. they are right that there will come
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a point at which further treatment is inhumane, but he makes that decision, is it the state of the parents? that is something we do need a definitive legal ruling on. these cases do individually go to court because we are talking about a human life you. you mentioned people acting in good faith and doing their best. let's talk about boris johnson. front page of the eye. johnson. front page of the eye. johnson loses fight for russian sanctions. i spoke to the former foreign secretary today and i said if you had a particular policy you wa nted if you had a particular policy you wanted the rest of your colleagues in the g—7 wanted the rest of your colleagues in the 6—7 to come on board with, would you talk to them about it first before saying that this was the policy and i want these guys on board? he said yes, but that clearly didn't seem to happen in this case. we area didn't seem to happen in this case. we are a really been a lot of what we have something that we do not appear to have a functioning diplomatic operation at the moment.
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we have a buffoon as foreign secretary. i think many would disagree with that characterisation. theresa may would be won, she gives him the job. the point is that he has a relationship with other nations, the foreign secretary is that would allow him, when we need him to strike sums of arrangement, that we as a nation think is desirable, to get that done and he clearly cannot get that done because they clearly think he is a bit of a joke. i personally think foreign -- borisjohnson was a terrible appointment and is out of his depth. this shows that. i don't think foreign policy is made by foreign secretaries. it is made number ten. the problem is, we have france, germany and italy refusing to take action. they dragged their feet over economic sanctions over crimea. what
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happens if russia marks —— marches troops into an allied country? they are happy for innocent children to be gassed and they will do nothing. they should be ashamed. this is a collective failure of british diplomacy. it is a failure of germany, france and italy. the point is we have to persuade. if we have to persuade western democracies to ta ke to persuade western democracies to take action against a man who is it a tottering demagogue supporting a mass murderer, i'm not sure i want those people to be my allies. president obama didn't do anything. he has blood on his hands. i think president obama has a lot to answer for. a failure to take any action. that is the one blot on his presidency. we are not going to analyse the legacy of president obama. i would have voted for him but i don't think he was a great president. sometimes you don't get
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to choose your allies, sometimes you have to say what is the objective we all want and see if you can persuade them of the course of action? talking about the objective that most people would want, the front of the financial times. russia ramps up syria tension with claims us tricked into action. to drive a wedge between moscow and damascus, that clearly hasn't worked. in fact, it is driven them closer together. putin is dublin done. this is it, you are not quite a shame vladimir putin on this. this is a man who is happy to kill his own people. he has done it on london streets. this is a man who is shameless in every sense. there is no question. the claim that america was duped into an air strike, i think donald trump might have accidentally done the right thing but for the wrong reasons. he
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wa nted thing but for the wrong reasons. he wanted to get the aclaim, to be thought of as a strong man. he wa nted thought of as a strong man. he wanted to get rid of the niggling issues about whether he is just the puppet of vladimir putin? he thinks he has dealt with that. the big issueis he has dealt with that. the big issue is rex tillerson is in moscow. looking at economic sections, which is of the american company with the biggest investment in russia? his old company exxonmobil. the tentacles old company exxonmobil. the te nta cles of old company exxonmobil. the tentacles of russia and american business and the trumpet administration are so closely entwined now. we are in dangerous territory. whether rex tillerson can strong arm or sweden something with vladimir putin, i do not know. i don't hold much hope. what makes you nervous at the moment is the problems seem subacute and the people you are relying on notice of them don't seem up to it. i don't have that particular faith in rex tillerson. in some ways he might be conflicted. trump seems to make policy completely on the hoof. it
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might be the last week he did the right thing for completely the wrong reason. i think the thing that makes me nervous is not even the ideology, the ideology makes me nervous, but what really makes me nervous is that all the people we seem to be relying oi'i all the people we seem to be relying on to get us out of the sticks are pretty incompetent. john spicer, the american president's press secretary, went into a former press briefing and said how awful, awful assad was because not even hitler had gassed his own people. you could see everyone looking around. these people cannot walk straight and chew gum. he doesn't even know basic history. alexander litvinenko, his death in london streets, moscow of course denies that. i love that the bbc feels the need to say that. the russians did it. you wanted to
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mention the telegraph. it is laying into boris johnson's mention the telegraph. it is laying into borisjohnson's seeming failure of diplomacy here and borisjohnson used to be a writer for the telegraph. he did. £250,000 a year. it was chicken feed that.|j telegraph. he did. £250,000 a year. it was chicken feed that. i wouldn't get out of bed for that money. we could pay all the stuff on the guardian for that. he is in the cold from the g—7 and the united nations and his own government. i think theresa may doesn't trust for minute. let's go to the times. a breaking story this evening. this explosion, some kind of blast, involving the borussia dortmund football tea m involving the borussia dortmund football team on the way to the ground for the champions league game against monaco. very worrying. one of the players has been injured. all the people, the spectators honoured in the stadium waiting for the game. they were told to wait at least half an hour. they have rescheduled the
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match now for tomorrow night. very worrying. germany has had so many terror attacks. lots of speculation about who is behind it. certainly very worrying. roadside bombs appeared to be aimed at the travelling from the hotel to the stadium. very nervous time. westminster, sweden, now this. there isa westminster, sweden, now this. there is a heartening element, that is how people responded. there was a ground full of people who left in an orderly fashion. there were fans from monaco to work given beds for the night in germany. they were cheering for dortmund in the stadium. i think that is the way forward. you just can't stop these things. i was speaking to the cab driver on the way here and he said it isa driver on the way here and he said it is a high profile game, what would not protected ? it is a high profile game, what would not protected? how can you protect against that?|j would not protected? how can you protect against that? i am fed up with candlelit vigils when people
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die. i think we should start getting angrier. a lot of people get very angry when they saw the video uploaded online of the united airlines staff driving a passenger who paid money to be on the plane, they dragged him off and, frankly, this is the kind of pr blunder that is in every pr person's worst nightmare. it is absolutely extraordinary. the incident itself was so extraordinary. the incident itself was so problematic in terms of the decisions that they made, the questions they have to answer about what made those decisions, how they chose people to take off the flight. we know one of the reasons the fight was over but was because the airline was over but was because the airline was flung its own staff and they we re was flung its own staff and they were distancing paying customers to get their own stuff on. it is all very problematic. the stuff afterwards, the way the company reacted, it has been extraordinary. they said this guy was belligerent.
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i would be belligerent. they said this guy was belligerent. iwould be belligerent. it is they said this guy was belligerent. i would be belligerent. it is a textbook example of how not to do it. i like the fact that the pepsi chief executive but we had the worst pr disaster this month and united airlines said how that beer. the statement has changed. there is accusation that they were accommodating this passenger. it is sold and nothing else. the staff did nothing illegal and nothing against company policy. it was all according to procedure. you can drag someone this. it is different in america. they double click and overbook morphemes in america. we tend to get fights for longer journeys, but morphemes in america. we tend to get fights for longerjourneys, but even here, what they have done in the eu, they have upped the compensation pa rents after they have upped the compensation parents after plate which means they are parents after plate which means they a re less parents after plate which means they are less likely to do it. if they had paid someone have $1 million to get off that plane, they would still
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be quids in right now. this is america. someone would have cut off the fight for some money. we have to live there. it has been great having that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days a week at bbc.co.uk forward slash papers and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer thank you julia and hugh. goodbye. hello. another lovely sunset to end the day. too much cloud across parts of scotland, northern ireland in particular and a wet end to the day across western scotland. the rain easing in the highlands to clear spells and showers. posted conditions. tony white in the
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south—west scotland and northern ireland as we finish the night. the parisian crowd keeps temperatures and across england and wales, morkel around tonight. not quite as chilly to start tomorrow morning. a break in the stomach. cloudy conditions compared with the past figures. morning rain in southern scotland. the same for north—west england. the don't often in three parts of wales and the midlands. patchy rain and drizzle. not too much went into the afternoon sunshine and showers. bradley davies scotland and northern ireland concurred with today. temperatures 1516 in the south where it should stay dry. the overall trend continues to be a little bit cooler, especially by night. while there will be switching around, if you showers as well. this is bbc news. i'm clive myrie. the headlines at 11:00 —
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the us secretary of state is in moscow for crunch talks on syria, after g7 foreign ministers failed to reach agreement on targeted sanctions. back in washington — the white house press secretary sean spicer is criticised after saying hitler didn't sink to using chemical weapons. we didn't use chemical weapons in world war two. you know, you had a... someone as despicable as hitler who didn't even think to using chemical weapons. police say blasts were a ‘targeted attack against‘ the borussia dortmund team ahead of their champions league match earlier this evening. police do not know who was behind it. the parents of charlie gard say they're "devastated," and may appeal, after a judge gave doctors the right to withdraw life support,
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