david shukman, bbc news. proposals mean for the motor industry, and for those thinking of buying a new car? jon kay reports from bristol. it's not the rain that worries him. it's not the rain that worries him. it's what he's breathing. tim is so concerned about air quality here in bristol that he started wearing a device to measure the pollution from vehicles. shocked by the data he has gathered, he welcomes the government's plans. but as a commuter and as a father, he would like action sooner. it's good news in that they are paying attention to the problem, but it all feels a bit late in the day. 2040 is a long way away. it doesn't feel like the solutions they are coming up with will solve it in the short term. you see? at the taxi rank, we meet mike, who is thinking about a new car, but he's not sure an electric vehicle is practical. it is a good idea for the environment, certainly. but forthis game, it is not going to be viable, pure electric, unless you can get the milage. a lot of people do 120 miles a d

david shukman, bbc news. of the terminally ill baby boy charlie gard have accepted that their son will not die at home. at the high court lawyers accepted that he should be transferred to a hospice. but there's still no agreement on when the eleven month old's life support should be withdrawn. 0ur correspondent lisa hampele has more from the high court. this is the last day that the parents will have in court. the decision has been made. thejudge will rule, he has ordered that charlie will be taken to a hospice where he will be allowed to die. charlie, his parents agreed today, they conceded early this afternoon, that he will not be able to die at home. they had hoped that great 0rmond street hospital said yesterday it wasn't practical and his guardian was saying today that it was the fairest thing for him. the judge said yesterday that a hospice was the best decision, the best thing for charlie. but he gave a window to the family to find a specialist paediatric intensive care doctor to be able to get a team

david shukman, bbc news. the ban finally comes in, it'll mean huge changes for the cars we buy and the way we use them. of the millions of new cars registered last year in the uk, only a tiny fraction were electric. so how do drivers feel about the government's plans? 0ur wales correspondent sian lloyd has been finding out. row after row, all the vehicles on sale here run on petrol or diesel. this company sells around 600 used cars a week and targets buyers on a budget. you'll have your sat nav in there, you'll have your full leather seats... friends kyle and callum have come to browse. todays announcement hasn't put them off buying a diesel car in the short term. my thinking right now, it doesn't make much of a difference, because if you buy a car, like, at this moment in time, it probably won't be running by then. in ten years, maybe i'd be thinking about going along that route already, like prematurely. a decade ago, drivers were encouraged to buy diesel vehicles because of concerns at the time over carbon

david shukman, bbc news, in greenland. and you can get more by heading to our website.th me and most of the team on twitter — i'm @bbc mike embley. thank you so much for watching. hello there. many of us have had more than ourfair share of wet and cloudy weather of late, but that certainly hasn't been the whole story. monday brought some sunshine for many places. that was the scene across the scottish islands. the sunshine was not shared out equally though. suffolk seeing a lot of cloud. many eastern areas had rather cloudy conditions. 0ut west, in the atlantic, there's another lump of cloud hurtling its way in, that'll bring some rain on the wednesday but for tuesday we are between weather systems and that means actually a fair amount of fine and dry weather in the day ahead. where it has been so cloudy across eastern england and eastern scotland, that cloud will break up a little bit. there will be more in the way of sunshine. could just see the odd shower breaking up across the south—west and south wales later in the day. in the sunshine, this is problable where we'l

david shukman, bbc news, in greenland.ime minister modi's initiative to provide more toilets in india. it's a big issue: half a billion people don't have access to a functioning toilet and women are put at risk of attack because of poor sanitation. shabnam mahmood reports. music playing. song, dance and plenty of laughs but this indian movie also uncovers the taboo subject of open defecation. it is very relevant and people will understand what in this film we are trying to say, in a very commercial manner. i personally feel it is probably the toughest scene i've ever done. ijust could not get myself to pick my sari and squat. i felt violated, i felt humiliated. it was very, very, very disturbing. around 546 million people in india don't have access to a functioning toilet. many women tend to venture out at night, to avoid being seen, which puts them at risk of attack, even rape. the inspiration for the film comes from the prime minister modi's clean india campaign, of 2014, in which he promised sanitation for millions of h

david shukman, bbc news. you have been watching newsday. stay with us.ork giant has just reported a whopping 71% jump in quarterly profits. analysts attribute the jump to facebook‘s push into video advertising. shares in facebook are now trading near record highs. and before we go, let's head to finland where polar bears are getting a helping hand to stay cool. at this wildlife park in the north of finland, temperatures reaching are 25 degrees and a nearby ski centre came up with the idea of sending some snow to the wildlife park. it had been stored from last winter to use at the start of the ski season in october, but i think we can all agree that the bears are worthy recipients too. that's all for now. stay with bbc world news. hello. there is some downpour dodging to be done during the day ahead and in fact throughout the rest of this week. a mixed weather picture. some spells of sunshine and showers as well. some of those showers as well. some of those showers will be heavy, blown along bya showers will be heavy, blown along by a fairly blustery wind

david shukman, bbc news, in hertfordshire.t there should be a period of adjustment after brexit so that businesses have access to the migrant workers they need. 0ur deputy political editor john pienaar is at westminster. does this make the government's position over brexit clearer ? well, the eu wants more clarity. business leaders say they want more clarity, but they will have to wait, partly because so many key decisions have yet to be discussed, let alone decide by ministers. ministers are broadly agreed on the importance of getting a transitional period of maybe two years, although the chancellor and a number of civil serva nts chancellor and a number of civil servants would like longer to make sure trade continues to flow as freely as now between britain and europe on to give business time to prepare for a new customs system and to make sure there is no shock to the system that might deter investment. in the end, it'll come down to those negotiations in brussels, and the eu side are sure to try to attach conditions such a

david shukman, bbc news, in greenland.w about under your own skin? it's already being done in europe and a company in wisconsin is the first in the us to implant microchips inside its staff. so far more than half its employees have volunteered to have a chip put into their hand. earlier, i spoke to patrick mcmullan, director of that company, three square market. our employees, they are innovators. we are a technology company, they are excited about it and what it can mean. this is not a job performance tracker, there's no gps functionality. what it has is different things that help you identify who you are to our businesses, to use it as a form of payment. by no means is it something that we use to track where people are and what they are doing, not at all. i suppose, a company smart phone or swipe card can generate similar data, but employees can separate themselves from those quite easily. you have to think the ethical issues are going to get bigger, more sophisticated the chips become? we heard about a swedish railway c

david shukman, bbc news. last time as president, the national rebellion day. held every year on july the 26th it marks the anniversary of an attack in 1953 on the moncada barracks — seen as the beginning of the cuban revolution. raul castro is expected to step down as president next february. will grant reports from western cuba. in cuba it is known as the day of national rebellion when fidel castro led a group of young radicals in a failed attempt to overthrow a military barracks in 1953. it marked, in effect, the starting pistol for the cu ban revolution. every year, the authorities hold this event for the party faithful, attended by the handful of survivors who were there that day including the octogenarian president, raul castro. directory has remained the same over the years. president castro did not speak himself but the communist pa rty‘s castro did not speak himself but the communist party's second—in—command warned that the us president that any attempts to unseat the revolution was doomed to fail. t

david shukman reports. 0n the worst days, the pollution hangs like a mist over our cities.art trouble, maybe dementia. and there's evidence that dirty air shortens lives, linked to an estimated 40,000 premature deaths in britain every year. and the biggest source of pollution is diesel engines, and we have millions of them. so the government has a vision for a future where all our cars will be electric. norway will do this by 2025, france by 20110, and that's the year the government here has set to move away from conventional engines. we have to get rid of petrol and diesel cars off our roads if we're going to make sure not only that we deal with the health problems that air pollution causes, but also that we meet our climate—change targets. and the good news is that the car industry is already moving in this direction. so is electric power the answer? volvo has declared it will go electric from 2019. 0ther car—makers also have plans. but the boss of aston martin says the government hasn't thought through the implications. if you don't have the infrastructure, if you don't

david shukman, bbc news in greenland.ice have arrested a teenager on terror offences at stansted airport. the 16—year—old boy, from kent, was detained yesterday as he was due to fly out of the uk. he currently remains in police custody. ryanair says it could cut fares by as much as 9% on some routes, after similar comments by rival airlines in recent weeks. the company has reported a 55% rise in pre—tax profits, tojust over £350 million in the three months to the end ofjune. the scottish whiskey association is challenging the scottish government's plans to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol to reduce consumption. it claims there are already ways to do this such as an increase in excise duty, and that holyrood's approach contravenes existing eu laws. there'll be a judgement from the supreme court at a later date. when we go on holiday, we're paying hundreds of millions of pounds in unnecessary charges when we use our debit and credit cards overseas, according to a bbc investigation. the issue arises when we opt to

david shukman, bbc news, in greenland.en affected by the phenomenon, dubbed shrinkflation. some companies are blaming the rising costs of ingredients and materials for the trend. 0ur correspondent sophie long has been finding out more. andrex is soft, strong and unbeatably long. but now it‘s getting shorter. so spend your pennies wisely. love these. and maltesers... 187 calories of naughtiness, actually. will have even fewer calories, because you won‘t find as many of them in the bag. back in the olden days, when i was spending my pocket money on pick ‘n‘ mix, 50p certainly went a lot further. thank you. nowadays, though, some companies are choosing not to raise their prices, but make things smaller. which means they go more quickly. i‘d like some more cola bottles, please. while many of us could probably do with cutting back on our confectionery consumption, some products suffering so—called shrinkflation could be considered essentials. take andrex toilet roll for example. that‘s 19 sheets shorter. a packet of mcvitie‘s d

david shukman, bbc news.ol of nearly half the city of raqqa, the last remaining stronghold of so—called islamic state. the offensive has led thousands to flee the city, including some families of is militants. the bbc‘s shaimaa khalil has spoken to one of the is wives who has just fled the city and who's now being held on its outskirts. they came from different parts of the world with one aim — to join the self—proclaimed caliphate. now they've escaped and are being held by the kurdish forces in northern syria. iman and her husband left tunisia for raqqa, the so—called islamic state stronghold. he wanted to be a fighter. she says she wanted to live a proper islamic life. i had many questions and i managed to send them to her. iman, i'm just wondering if you saw other videos, videos of beheadings, of them burning people alive? were you not put off by that? how did you think that was proper islam? but she says when they arrived it wasn't what they expected. iman‘s husband is now in a kurdish—run prison outside

david shukman, bbc news, hertfordshire.in agreement that there should be a period of adjustment after brexit so that businesses have access to the migrant workers they need, but our deputy political editor is in westminster for us this evening. does make the government's position clearer? there has been a lot of squabbling in the cabinet lately but there has been more agreement over the shape of brexit. for now, brexit is still a work in progress. there is broad agreement now on the importance of keeping trade moving freely as now between britain and europe during a transitional period of perhaps two years. the chancellor and a lot of civil servants would like that period to be a lot longer. business will need that time to adjust to a new custom system and there is a worry that a sudden lurch into a new system could hit investment. ultimately, it will be about the negotiations in brussels. as far as freedom of movement of people is concerned, there has been no real discussion. not in cabinet, not in cabinet committee. that

david shukman, bbc news, in greenland. a climate expert from the ucla who was formerly based at cambridge university. i know you study the effect of changes in climate on ice levels. you seeing this reflected in ice melt across the globe? is accelerated everywhere? in 04 happily on the programme. i want to highlight that this type of process is one that is notjust important on bleachers in greenland, but across the world, from norway, to alaska, to the andes, kilimanjaro... this is a process that we need to study because it can have impacts across the globe. —— glaciers. because it can have impacts across the globe. -- glaciers. when the climate panel published their most recent report in 2013, it did not include the possibility of biological darkening in those estimates for sealevel rise, did it? and those estimates were pretty frightening. so this could be an acceleration on that? that is correct. it is concerning because it was not included in any of our readers estimates. so that means that our current forecasts might

our science editor david shukman reports. evening in hertfordshire. a key moment in the farming calendar. along with another important event, the arrival of the annual eu subsidies. the payments are based on how much land farmers own. so the richest benefit most. and the environment secretary wants brexit to change that. leaving the eu gives us a once in a lifetime opportunity to reform how we manage agriculture and fisheries. and, therefore, how we care for ourland, our rivers and our seas. and we can recast our ambition for our country's environment and for the planet. in short, leaving the european union should mean a green brexit. at the moment, eu farming subsidies are worth some £3 billion a year. it amounts to about 50% of the total of farmers' incomes. because 70% of uk land is farmed, any change in policy will have a big impact. the idea proposed by michael gove is to link future payments to farmers to better care of the soil, the water and the wildlife. one farmer, robert law, says he's worried the bureaucracy aroun

david shukman, bbc news.proposals mean for the motor industry, and for those thinking of buying a new car? jon kay reports from bristol. it's not the rain that worries him. it's what he's breathing. tim is so concerned about air quality here in bristol that he started wearing a device to measure the pollution from vehicles. shocked by the data he has gathered, he welcomes the government's plans. but as a commuter and as a father, he would like action sooner. it's good news in that they are paying attention to the problem, but it all feels a bit late in the day. 2040 is a long way away. it doesn't feel like the solutions they are coming up with will solve it in the short term. you see? at the taxi rank, we meet mike, who is thinking about a new car, but he's not sure an electric vehicle is practical. it is a good idea for the environment, certainly. but for this game, it is not going to be viable, pure electric, unless you can get the milage. a lot of people do 120 miles a day. what are you going to do, stop a

our science editor david shukman has this exclusive report on the latest research.orld. on the horizon, the ice sheet looms ahead of us. we havejoined a horizon, the ice sheet looms ahead of us. we have joined a team horizon, the ice sheet looms ahead of us. we havejoined a team of british scientists. they are trying to understand how the ice is changing. we touched down in one of the remotest corners of the planet. the first task is to set up camp, at home in an utterly barren wilderness. from the air, all you can really see is what looks like a vast expanse of endless white. but thatis vast expanse of endless white. but that is not the whole story, because what is hard to grasp as i stand here is that this is just the surface of a vast mass of ice that is unbelievably thick. let's imagine cutting it away right in front of me. the ice sheet stretches forasmuch as two miles, three kilometres, from the surface here right down to the rock below. in fa ct, right down to the rock below. in fact, it is so thick, you can take the world's tallest building, the burge khalif

david shukman who runs the veterans of ministers on our program, and he said he thought a combinationl, plus that are diagnoses, taking 30% of the cost out of health care. i know you have some skepticism about it but does that some plausible? dr. zeke emanuel: taking 30% out -- almost all of the experts say we have about 30% of unnecessary care, inefficiently delivered care, high prices, and fraud and abuse. i don't think we will get all 30% out but if we could get 10% out that is $300 billion a year. that is real money. getting 10% out will require a full assessment of how we pay doctors and get them to adopt the right practices. it is not going to happen if we just leave the system to itself. we've seen what happens when you leave it to itself. costs go up, unnecessary services go up. that is not the plays we need to be. we really need to focus on changing how we pay doctors and hospitals. that is going to be a really important. ere, that in th would be my focus. david: dr. zeke emanuel, thank you for joining us. bloombergou have a terminal, watch us online and click on our graphics