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tribunal is unlawful. the government has to pay back tens of millions of pounds. and adam peaty does it again a second gold medal at the world swimming championships. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news, novak djokovic is taking time off to recover from an elbow injury, a problem that forced him to retire from wimbledon earlier this month. good evening. environmental and health campaigners have criticised the government s long awaited clean air strategy, saying it doesn t go far or fast enough to tackle pollution in our towns and cities. the plan, ordered by the high court, includes a ban on new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2040, and measures which could allow local councils much sooner to change road layouts, remove speed humps, or penalise the dirtiest vehicles. the aim is to encourage us all to switch to electric vehicles. here s our science editor, david shukman. 0n the worst days, the pollution hangs like a mist over our cities. the gases and particles caus ....
lieutenant. good evening and welcome to bbc news. environmental and health campaigners have criticised the government s long awaited clean air strategy, saying it doesn t go far or fast enough to tackle pollution in our towns and cities. the plan, ordered by the high court, includes a ban on new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2040, and measures which could allow local councils much sooner to change road layouts, remove speed humps or penalise the dirtiest vehicles. the aim is to encourage us all to switch to electric vehicles. here s our science editor david shukman. 0n the worst days, the pollution hangs like a mist over our cities. the gases and particles cause asthma and heart 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 ....
them out completely. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news it s 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 gove ....
it is 8:00am in singapore, 1:00am in london and 8:00pm in washington, where president trump made a surprise announcement that he is banning transgender people from serving in the us military in any capacity. campaigners for transgender rights have called his decision shocking and ignorant. 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 ....
in the us military in any capacity. he says they risk burdening the military with large medical bills and disruption. even though during last year s election campaign he assured lgbtq people i will fight for you. i have your back. campaigners have called his decision shocking and ignorant. there are thousands of trans people already serving, what happens to them now is not clear. 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 pres ....