aleem maqbool, bbc news, in fort hood in texas.he news, newsday is coming up at midnight. now on bbc news it's time for newsnight. time was, you would never have believed we could exist without cars fuelled by oil. now it's official policy that we will. we'll look ahead to how motor transport will work after 2040. but do we need to worry a little more about our oil—polluted air in the here and now? what the government was required to do was to prepare air quality plans which would reduce the levels of pollution in the shortest time possible. something which works in the next 23 years is not going to reduce those pollution levels in our towns and cities in the next few months and weeks. we'll test the government's ideas for cleaning up our atmosphere. in the midst of a week of drama here at the white house, i'm joined by one of donald trump's key lieutenants, sebastian gorka. what has the president achieved in the last six months? ten years ago, anita roddick, the environmentalist and founder of the body shop died, one of the most h

aleem maqbool reports from texas.here are thought to be thousands of members of the us military who identify as transgender. many have spent time in iraq or afghanistan. today, they woke up to a shock from the very president they serve. "after consultation with my generals and military experts," he tweeted, "please be advised that the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the us military." riley dosh has spent the last four years as an officer in training at the military academy at west point. she came out last year, after president 0bama lifted the ban on transgender people serving openly. she now has to find a newjob, even though it was a lifelong dream to serve the us. i just fell in love with this country, and even those that completely fundamentally disagree with me, ifelt this desire. i want to serve and defend you, and i want to defend your right to disagree with me. how do you feel now, when you are told you can't serve? i'm going to have to find

our correspondent aleem maqbool reports from texas. there are thought to be thousands of members of the us military who identify as transgender. many have spent time in iraq or afghanistan. today, they woke up to a shock from the very president they serve. "after consultation with my generals and military experts," he tweeted, "please be advised that the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the us military." riley dosh has spent the last four years as an officer in training at the military academy at west point. she came out last year, after president obama lifted the ban on transgender people serving openly. she now has to find a newjob, even though it was a lifelong dream to serve the us. ijust fell in love with this country. and even those that completely fundamentally disagree with me, ifelt this desire. i want to serve and defend you, and i want to defend your right to disagree with me. how do you feel now, when you are told you can't serve? i'm going to have to find

aleem maqbool, bbc news, in fort hood in texas. bombing two months ago and today the funeral of eight—year—old saffie roussos took place at the city's cathedral. she was a huge fan of the singer ariana grande and had been given a ticket to the concert as a christmas present. she was at the show with her mother, who was seriously injured in the attack. judith moritz reports from manchester cathedral. a moment of comfort on a painful day — lisa roussos is still recovering from the bomb which killed her daughter. she left her hospital bed to be with her family to say a final goodbye to saffie rose. to the sound of her idol, ariana grande, the eight—year—old was brought into the cathedral, her little coffin carried by her father andrew. honoured to be her dad. honoured. she's...was a superstar in the making. to become something in life, you need to have something, that something spark, that... charisma, that something, and saffie had that. she truly had that. the service was filled with emotion for those closest to the little girl, and

aleem maqbool reports from baltimore, where he visited a child receiving a similar experimental treatmentboy is now six years old. he has a similar syndrome to charlie gard. it effectively shuts down his muscles and organs. when he was one and a half years old, his parents were told to take their child home to die with dignity. they fought to get approvalfor with dignity. they fought to get approval for experimental treatment for their son. i didn't care if he was the first human to try this medication, because they told us he was going to die. we had already called a priest to give him the last rites because he hadn't opened his eyesin rites because he hadn't opened his eyes in a few days. so, luckily, we we re eyes in a few days. so, luckily, we were able to get the approval pretty fast. and then we were able to get their medication. little by little, he started to get stronger. doctors and courts in the uk say baby charlie gard has suffered too much irreversible brain damage to survive, and any further treatment could cause him significant harm. this child is extraordinary for so many

aleem maqbool, bbc news, in fort hood in texas.na in a couple of minutes i will be speaking on a transgender former pentagon employee. let's take a look at our other top stories. resident drama has attacked his attorney generaljeff sessions on twitter for the third day in a row. a short while ago, the white house director of communications defended his boss ‘s tone of communications defended his boss ‘stone in an interview with the bbc. i will not cut you off, i will talk about front stabbing. he has been front stabbed by some of the senators who voted down the repeal of obamacare. that is congressional setting, conversations go on, the team of rivals, it took president lincoln many times for the abolition of slavery, that was much tougher. even under president obama be voted to get rid of obamacare, only the president kept that going and under president trump... it took 22 months. we have six months so far with the president here and think of what we're trying to achieve withinjust one year, the president will make it so, we will

our correspondent aleem maqbool has been to baltimore to visit a child receiving a similar treatment told to take their child had to die with dignity. they fought to get approval to get experimental treatment for their son. i did not care if he was their son. i did not care if he was the first human to try these medications because they only told us he was going to die. we had already called a priest to give him the last rites because he hadn't opened his eyes in a few days. luckily we were able to get the approval pretty fast and then we we re approval pretty fast and then we were able to get him the medication so little by little he started to get stronger. doctors and the courts in the uk say that baby charlie gard has suffered too much irreversible brain damage to survive and any further treatment could cause him significant harm. this child is extraordinary for so many reasons. at the forefront of the campaign to keep charlie on life support is an anti—abortion pastor from washington, dc, the group that gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures to save him is also american an