Welcome to bbc news. The parents of the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard Have ended their legal battle to take him to the us for experimental treatment. Charlies father, chris gard, gave an emotional statement outside the high court, saying they were going to spend their last precious moments with their son, who would not now make his first birthday in just under two weeks time. Earlier, their lawyer told the court that time had run out for the baby, as an american doctor who examined charlie had said he could no longer offer the therapy after seeing the results of a new mri scan last week. Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital say the treatment could never have worked. Heres our medical correspondent fergus walsh. Raw emotion outside the high court, while inside, charlie gards parents we re while inside, charlie gards parents were expect accepting their fight was over. The devastating news their son should be allowed to die. They emerged from an emotional hearing to pay tribute to c
Welcome to bbc news. The parents of the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard Have ended their legal battle to take him to the us for experimental treatment. Charlies father, chris gard, gave an emotional statement outside the high court, saying they were going to spend their last precious moments with their son, who would not now make his first birthday in just under two weeks time. Earlier, their lawyer told the court that time had run out for the baby, as an american doctor who examined charlie had said he could no longer offer the therapy after seeing the results of a new mri scan last week. Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital say the treatment could never have worked. Heres our medical correspondent fergus walsh. Raw emotion outside the high court, while inside, charlie gards parents we re while inside, charlie gards parents were expect accepting their fight was over. The devastating news their son should be allowed to die. They emerged from an emotional hearing to pay tribute to c
Welcome to bbc news. The parents of the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard Have ended their legal battle to take him to the us for experimental treatment. Charlies father, chris gard, gave an emotional statement outside the high court, saying they were going to spend their last precious moments with their son, who would not now make his first birthday in just under two weeks time. Earlier, their lawyer told the court that time had run out for the baby, as an american doctor who examined charlie had said he could no longer offer the therapy after seeing the results of a new mri scan last week. Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital say the treatment could never have worked. Heres our medical correspondent fergus walsh. Raw emotion outside the high court, while inside, charlie gards parents we re while inside, charlie gards parents were expect accepting their fight was over. The devastating news their son should be allowed to die. They emerged from an emotional hearing to pay tribute to c
Led to an unprecedented rise in the murder rate. Around 2,000 people were killed in just the first two months of the crackdown. Jonathan head reports on the philippines deadly war on drugs. The war on drugs is reaching all corners of the philippines. Even here, in the jails. Many of these men are already serving long sentences for drug use. In cells, so packed with bodies, its hard to breathe. It says something about the extent of the drug problem here in the philippines that the police have had to come here and raid one of the biggest prisons around manila. There are clearly concerns about real Drug Problems here. The focus, as with so much of this campaign, are the people at the very bottom of the trade, not the people running it. At least here they can stay alive. But not here. The bodies of dealers and addicts are discovered every night in the slums of manila, killed either by the police or by shadowy hit squads. It started when this man, an outspoken Crime Fighting mayor was elect
Led to an unprecedented rise in the murder rate. Around 2,000 people were killed in just the first two months of the crackdown. Jonathan head reports on the philippines deadly war on drugs. The war on drugs is reaching all corners of the philippines. Even here, in the jails. Many of these men are already serving long sentences for drug use. In cells, so packed with bodies, its hard to breathe. It says something about the extent of the drug problem here in the philippines that the police have had to come here and raid one of the biggest prisons around manila. There are clearly concerns about real Drug Problems here. The focus, as with so much of this campaign, are the people at the very bottom of the trade, not the people running it. At least here they can stay alive. But not here. The bodies of dealers and addicts are discovered every night in the slums of manila, killed either by the police or by shadowy hit squads. It started when this man, an outspoken Crime Fighting mayor was elect