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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 ....
announcement that he is banning transgender people from serving in the us military. he says they risk burdening the military with large medical bills and disruption, even though during last year s election he assured lgbtq voters 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 poin ....
water to exist in liquid form, which means life could have developed there. as our science editor david shukman reports, the planets are orbiting a distant dwarf star known as trappist i. an artist s impression of a startling discovery deep in space, around a faint and distant star, much weaker than our sun, is a collection of planets that are surprisingly similar to earth. in all, seven of these worlds have been spotted, and astronomers think it may change the way we look at the night sky. the discovery gives us a hint that finding a second earth is notjust a matter of if, but when. an array of telescopes kept watch on one point in space and what the scientists were looking for were tiny clues about the light of a particular star becoming dimmer, on a regular basis, as planets orbited in front of it. they can t see these new worlds, but they know they re there. well we are extremely excited. this is the biggest amount of planets that we ve found in one go that look lik ....
the job seeking challenge faced by south africa s 2.8 million disabled people. iraqi security services say they ve arrested over 1,000 suspected islamic state members in eastern mosul since it was recaptured over a month ago. as militants attempt to fight off government forces for control of the western half of the city, the authorities say sleeper cells 0n the hunt for sleeper cells, these agents from the national security service are on their way to raid a addresses across eastern mosul, chasing those who fight for the so called islamic state. and it is not long before they track down their first suspect. after his arrest, he was questioned about other suspects. the agents learn there are more men in the house. three suspects are rounded up in this raid. including a teenager. this man claims he is innocent. a warning shot. in this area, everyone is treated with suspicion. security is so important in mosul at the moment, and it is a big concern. raids on sleeper cells ....
about new life saving technology. safety experts say a voice, rather than a beep, in a smoke alarm is much more likely to wake up the kids. and a bbc investigation finds a driver who is still legally on the road with 62 points on their licence tens of thousands of others have more than 12. a woman has been killed as storm doris continues to batter parts of the uk with winds of up to 100 miles an hour. ambulance staff said the woman suffered serious head injuries after being hit in the head by a piece of debris in wolverhampton. meanwhile, about 3,500 homes and businesses are still without power in northern ireland. that s down from more than 20,000 buildings that were plunged into darkness when the storm hit. network teams say trees and branches falling onto overhead electricity lines is the main cause of the damage. and there have also been extensive power cuts in scotland, where heavy snow is causing chaos on the roads. let s go to wolverhampton, where a woman died ....