From the president against a member of his own cabinet this week, calling the Attorney General wea k and beleaguered. All this on the very day he struggled to get a major piece of legislation on reforming health care through congress. And into this maelstrom walks the British International Trade Secretary, liam fox. He wants a big International Trade agreement with the United States. He needs it desperately if brexit is to be a success. President trump rolled out Senior Republicans to meet dr fox, including the house speaker, paul ryan. But when trump tweets that a uk trade deal is big and exciting, who does he mean will benefit . Before we came on air, i spoke to liam fox about trump, trade and yes chicken. Well hear his thoughts in a moment. First, The Big Picture of whats at stake. At 4 16am this morning, the president of the United States twitter account enthused over liam foxs visit. Our Special Relationship with the uk is going to be even better, the us Trade Representative and u
Them out completely. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is Bbc World News its newsday. Good morning. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington were President Trump has made a Surprise Announcement that he is banning transgender people from serving in the us military in any capacity. He tweeted their risk burdening the military with large medical bills and disruption. Campaigners have called his decision shocking and ignorant. The fate of current transgender military ignorant. The fate of current tra nsgender Military Personnel ignorant. The fate of current transgender Military Personnel has not been made clear. 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
Them out completely. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is Bbc World News its newsday. Good morning. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington were President Trump has made a Surprise Announcement that he is banning transgender people from serving in the us military in any capacity. He tweeted their risk burdening the military with large medical bills and disruption. Campaigners have called his decision shocking and ignorant. The fate of current transgender military ignorant. The fate of current tra nsgender Military Personnel ignorant. The fate of current transgender Military Personnel has not been made clear. 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
Our Breaking News this hour the australian Prime Minister says his country has foiled a plot to bring down an aeroplane. Malcolm turnbull says four people have been arrested in what he called a majorjoint Counter Terrorism operation. There are few further details at this point. Additional security has been put in place at all Australian Domestic and international airports. The australian public, as andrew and mick observed, can have great confidence in our security arrangements, and in particular our Security Screening Procedures at airports. However, what we have done is increased them so that there will be more bags being checked, it is really intensifying what we are already doing. And some of that will be visible, some of it will not be visible. But it will take more time. The bbcs phil mercers live in sydney for us. What more do you know about this plot . Well, the Australian Federal police say they have no specific details of time, date or location, but they believe they have cre
Our Breaking News this hour the australian Prime Minister says his country has foiled a plot to bring down an aeroplane. Malcolm turnbull says four people have been arrested in what he called a majorjoint Counter Terrorism operation. There are few further details at this point. Additional security has been put in place at all Australian Domestic and international airports. The australian public, as andrew and mick observed, can have great confidence in our security arrangements, and in particular our Security Screening Procedures at airports. However, what we have done is increased them so that there will be more bags being checked, it is really intensifying what we are already doing. And some of that will be visible, some of it will not be visible. But it will take more time. The bbcs phil mercers live in sydney for us. What more do you know about this plot . Well, the Australian Federal police say they have no specific details of time, date or location, but they believe they have cre