Back when this monday would be the day that he was able to get on with business and so it has proved, he took a big swipe at global free trade and has put a curb on government hiring and reinstated a ban on funding for Abortion Related Services overseas. We can speak to barbara live from the state department. Can you explain more about which organisations were funded and what work they were doing and where . This is a global order. It is about us funded groups that are not allowed under the circumstances now to perform abortions or to have any referrals or counselling. So no Abortion Services whatsoever. It has to do with Womens International non Governmental Organisations that receive money from the us government. This is something that changes with administrations so when republican administrations come in they tend to issue this restriction on funds to organisations that offer restrictions and whether democrats come in they revoke this. So mr trump was right with tradition in this c
Back when this monday would be the day that he was able to get on with business and so it has proved, he took a big swipe at global free trade and has put a curb on government hiring and reinstated a ban on funding for Abortion Related Services overseas. We can speak to barbara live from the state department. Can you explain more about which organisations were funded and what work they were doing and where . This is a global order. It is about us funded groups that are not allowed under the circumstances now to perform abortions or to have any referrals or counselling. So no Abortion Services whatsoever. It has to do with Womens International non Governmental Organisations that receive money from the us government. This is something that changes with administrations so when republican administrations come in they tend to issue this restriction on funds to organisations that offer restrictions and whether democrats come in they revoke this. So mr trump was right with tradition in this c
We do not comment on the operational details for National Security reasons. A series of failures led to a prisoners suicide. His family say the prison authorities had been warned. Doctors in sheffield are pioneering the use of a small mri brain scanner, designed for use on premature babies. And nicola adams, the double Olympic Boxing champion, talks to us about turning professional. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news, Bernie Ecclestones ao year reign formula one boss is over, as he is replaced by the sports new owners. Good evening. President trump has opened his first full week in office by signing an order formally withdrawing the us from a major free trade deal with pacific rim countries. The tra ns Pacific Partnership deal was negotiated by the Obama Administration but it was never ratified by congress. During the day, mr trump met Business Leaders and warned that he will penalise American Companies that move jobs overseas. The white house confirmed trade would feature prominen
a dog called north has saved the life of a mountaineer after he fell 150 metres while climbing in croatia on new year s day. the eight month old alaskan malamute, who fell without injuries, curled up and kept the mountaineer s body warm while he lay in a ravine for 13 hours. the croatian mountain rescue service say the dog s loyalty didn t even stop when rescuers arrived, adding that north can teach us all about caring for each other . and new research suggests dogs are able to detect speech and distinguish between languages. the research involved training dogs to lay motionless in a brain scanner, where they were played speech excerpts of the little prince in both spanish and hungarian.