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
With me, zeinab badawi. Few issues are as controversial as abortion when it comes to addressing womens rights. Pro life campaigners believe that womens right to control their fertility does not extend to abortion on demand. Injanuary, President Trump blocked us federal funding for organisations that provide or promote abortions. One such organisation is the ippf, the International Planned parenthood federation, which will lose millions of dollars as a result. My guest is its ethiopian born director general, tewedros melesse. Does he believe that the ippfs support of abortion mean it is right that it should forfeit Us Government funding . Tewedros melesse, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. What does the loss of us funding mean to you . Well you know, i take it from two parts. One is that the us has been the greatest contributor to developmental assistance. Now, today, the trump is cutting by 17 to 18 all development assistance. And when it comes to sexual Productive Health and rig
With me, zeinab badawi. Few issues are as controversial as abortion when it comes to addressing womens rights. Pro life campaigners believe that womens right to control their fertility does not extend to abortion on demand. Injanuary, President Trump blocked us federal funding for organisations that provide or promote abortions. One such organisation is the ippf, the International Planned parenthood federation, which will lose millions of dollars as a result. My guest is its ethiopian born director general, tewedros melesse. Does he believe that the ippfs support of abortion mean it is right that it should forfeit Us Government funding . Tewedros melesse, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. What does the loss of us funding mean to you . Well you know, i take it from two parts. One is that the us has been the greatest contributor to developmental assistance. Now, today, the trump is cutting by 17 to 18 all development assistance. And when it comes to sexual Productive Health and rig
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
With me, zeinab badawi. Few issues are as controversial as abortion when it comes to addressing womens rights. Pro life campaigners believe that womens right to control their fertility does not extend to abortion on demand. Injanuary, President Trump blocked us federal funding for organisations that provide or promote abortions. One such organisation is the ippf, the International Planned parenthood federation, which will lose millions of dollars as a result. My guest is its ethiopian born director general, tewedros melesse. Does he believe that the ippfs support of abortion mean it is right that it should forfeit Us Government funding . Tewedros melesse, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. What does the loss of us funding mean to you . Well you know, i take it from two parts. One is that the us has been the greatest contributor to developmental assistance. Now, today, the trump is cutting by 17 to 18 all development assistance. And when it comes to sexual Productive Health and rig