:00:00. > :00:07.A disaster of historic proportions - as America's fourth-largest city
:00:08. > :00:12.is hit by a year's rainfall in one week.
:00:13. > :00:15.Up to 2,000 people have been rescued - many plucked to safety
:00:16. > :00:18.from rooftops by helicopter - as the entire Texas National Guard
:00:19. > :00:25.We are just beginning the process of beginning
:00:26. > :00:32.As thousands flee Tropical Storm Harvey, forecasters warn that worse
:00:33. > :00:36.is to come and neighbouring Louisiana could be hit next.
:00:37. > :00:38.We'll be analysing the scale of the disaster, as Donald Trump
:00:39. > :00:43.Also tonight: the region tomorrow.
:00:44. > :00:46.Frustration in Brussels - as the third round of Brexit
:00:47. > :00:48.talks get under way, the EU's chief negotiatior tells
:00:49. > :00:54.Experts are investigating a mysterious gas cloud which left
:00:55. > :00:55.150 people needing hospital treatment after it hit
:00:56. > :01:03.Words that only three people can understand -
:01:04. > :01:10.we ask should dying languages be saved?
:01:11. > :01:12.And sizzling sun and sensational sounds -
:01:13. > :01:35.it can only be the Notting Hill Carnival.
:01:36. > :01:39.The authorities in Texas tonight said they were still very much
:01:40. > :01:41.in a search and rescue operation in the aftermath of
:01:42. > :01:43.Tropical Storm Harvey - which has brought devastation
:01:44. > :01:49.Aerial pictures today show the effect of the most powerful
:01:50. > :01:55.storm to have hit Texas in more than 50 years.
:01:56. > :01:57.Nearly half a million people are in need of help
:01:58. > :02:01.following severe flooding caused by torrential rains.
:02:02. > :02:03.Some 30,000 are temporarily homeless in Houston -
:02:04. > :02:06.the fourth largest city in the United States.
:02:07. > :02:08.Early estimates of losses are said to approach
:02:09. > :02:16.From Houston, James Cook sent this report.
:02:17. > :02:32.Wake up. Wake up. In Texas today, every stranger is a friend. You made
:02:33. > :02:40.it. Exhausted, unable even to stand, but she is safe. You made it. OK.
:02:41. > :02:45.All day long they have struggled to safety. Family after family
:02:46. > :02:51.abandoning their homes to the water. Anything that would float became
:02:52. > :02:54.part of this makeshift Armada. People are pulling together, but
:02:55. > :02:59.many say they had no choice. They had called for help, but no one
:03:00. > :03:04.came. We saw neighbours, we helped the neighbours, people came in with
:03:05. > :03:13.boats. But not enough help. None from the authorities? None, they
:03:14. > :03:18.have been useless. They have been overwhelmed by the scale of the
:03:19. > :03:26.crisis. Three days after Hurricane Harvey smashed into the state,
:03:27. > :03:31.Texans are still struggling. In the end it wasn't police or firefighter
:03:32. > :03:35.who came to the rescue here, but friends with a boat. They called 911
:03:36. > :03:39.and there was no answer. You have answered the call. We happened to be
:03:40. > :03:47.here and we had a boat and a truck. That is happening all over. Y all
:03:48. > :03:51.over Houston. In the cold and the rain, the helping hand was warmly
:03:52. > :03:56.welcomed. You must be grateful to those guys. Of course, grateful to
:03:57. > :04:00.the whole community, Houston being together and helping each other out.
:04:01. > :04:06.That is touching and I was saying to my mom, I wish I had something to go
:04:07. > :04:14.out and hope at moments like this we need it. This frenetic activity as
:04:15. > :04:17.boats go up and down the river. These vessel has rescued 30 people
:04:18. > :04:22.and the situation is developing quickly. On the roof tops of flooded
:04:23. > :04:27.houses, many more are still waiting to be rescued. In desperation, all
:04:28. > :04:33.they can do is to cling on and call for help. In Houston more than 20
:04:34. > :04:36.helicopters are flying rescue missions, but pulling people from
:04:37. > :04:46.the floods is delicate and dangerous. As Texas brings in the
:04:47. > :04:52.national guard, the state prepares for a presidential visit. It is a
:04:53. > :04:57.historic amount of water. There has never been anything like it. So the
:04:58. > :05:01.people are handling it well and the people of Texas have really
:05:02. > :05:06.persevered and when you watch the spirit and the enthusiasm and
:05:07. > :05:13.helping each other, the teamwork, it is something. Texas is now saturated
:05:14. > :05:19.and is struggling. Thousands have made to it safety. But the waters
:05:20. > :05:23.keep on rising. And the lone star state is swamped.
:05:24. > :05:26.Flooding has also been reported in towns in central Texas -
:05:27. > :05:30.where the Colorado River has reached levels not seen for a hundred years.
:05:31. > :05:33.Nada Tawfik is in La Grange - where a mandatory evacuation
:05:34. > :05:46.Well it has been days since Harvey has made land fall. But in
:05:47. > :05:51.communities here, they're just now feeling its impact. Here in La
:05:52. > :05:55.Grange we are more than one hundred miles west of Houston. Out of
:05:56. > :05:58.storm's path, but still within reach of its destruction.
:05:59. > :06:01.The only way into La Grange today was on the back of
:06:02. > :06:04.Authorities were left scrambling to evacuate those who
:06:05. > :06:08.were caught up in the storm's wide range.
:06:09. > :06:11.More than 50 residents at this nursing home were moved to the
:06:12. > :06:15.Tropical Storm Harvey has turned this town
:06:16. > :06:18.into an island in the middle of the Colorado River.
:06:19. > :06:26.All people can do now is look on in disbelief as the water
:06:27. > :06:32.The roof of the house might be sticking out of the water, which is
:06:33. > :06:36.So your entire house is now submerged?
:06:37. > :06:39.Yes, everybody's house back there is submerged.
:06:40. > :06:42.How much do you think you have lost in the flood?
:06:43. > :06:45.Oh it's, I couldn't put a price on it right now.
:06:46. > :06:51.The devastation here has absolutely shocked residents of
:06:52. > :06:57.Now the Colorado River, not from far here, burst its banks
:06:58. > :07:00.and has absolutely submerged this small town's main street and in
:07:01. > :07:05.some cases people have lost everything.
:07:06. > :07:09.Mike thought the mandatory evacuation was unnecessary.
:07:10. > :07:12.It took just a few hours for his house to be swallowed
:07:13. > :07:25.Tropical Storm Harvey has been unpredictable and merciless.
:07:26. > :07:36.It's left residents here numb and astonished in its wake.
:07:37. > :07:42.James - President Trump is heading to Texas tomorrow?
:07:43. > :07:51.That's right. He will find a state that is in a real state of crisis.
:07:52. > :07:56.And in which a disaster continues to unfold. I don't imagine he will be
:07:57. > :07:59.able to visit Houston, simply because the authorities here are
:08:00. > :08:03.finding it very difficult to cope with what is a continuing emergency
:08:04. > :08:07.and I don't really understand how they could manage to deal with a
:08:08. > :08:13.presidential visit at the same time. But maybe I will be wrong. We are
:08:14. > :08:18.being told he will go to Corpus Christi, about 30 miles from where
:08:19. > :08:23.Hurricane Harvey came ashore. But to give you an update here, people here
:08:24. > :08:28.are still being brought out. That has been happening all day. Hours
:08:29. > :08:32.and hours and hours has gone by and they keep coming. The scale of this
:08:33. > :08:37.is really enormous. There is more rain to come and it has rained very
:08:38. > :08:41.heavy all day. This is not over. Thank you.
:08:42. > :08:43.End the ambiguity - that was the seemingly frustrated message
:08:44. > :08:46.to the UK from the EU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier,
:08:47. > :08:49.as he sat down for a third round of talks on Brexit.
:08:50. > :08:51.He expressed concern about progress made so far
:08:52. > :08:53.and warned that UK "ambiguity" must be removed
:08:54. > :08:57.and progress on "separation" issues made.
:08:58. > :08:58.For his part, Brexit Secretary David Davis
:08:59. > :09:01.said both sides had to show "flexibility and imagination".
:09:02. > :09:11.From Brussels, Damian Grammaticas reports.
:09:12. > :09:18.Gliding into EU head quarters, David Davis, the summer almost over, it is
:09:19. > :09:24.now that the Brexit stakes get serious. Don't be fooled by the
:09:25. > :09:31.smiles between the negotiators. Serious tensions are brewing. To be
:09:32. > :09:42.honest I'm concerned. Time passes quickly. From the EU's Michel
:09:43. > :09:49.Barnier, frustration. We must start negotiating seriously. We need UK
:09:50. > :09:54.papers that are clear, in order to have constructive negotiations. It
:09:55. > :10:01.is money that he means. The UK's Brexit bill. From David Davis a
:10:02. > :10:07.Combative response. We want to lock in the points where we agree. Unpick
:10:08. > :10:13.the areas where we disagree and make further progress on the whole range
:10:14. > :10:18.of issues. But in order to do that, we will require flexibility and
:10:19. > :10:24.imagination from both sides. David Davis and his team stung by
:10:25. > :10:32.accusations they were unprepared the last time have prepared a raft of
:10:33. > :10:36.papers, but the EU say these lack detail and magical thinking they
:10:37. > :10:38.could them and they stay these are aspirational and not to do what is
:10:39. > :10:48.being talked about now. David Davis wants to get on
:10:49. > :10:57.discussing the future relationship with sea, but the EU will only for
:10:58. > :11:02.now addressed separation issues. It is EU leaders who have set these
:11:03. > :11:09.conditions. Today, Angela Merkel was meeting Emmanuel Macron in Paris,
:11:10. > :11:13.seemingly in lockstep. They insist the UK must agree to pay its dues
:11:14. > :11:17.before trade talks will begin. And another congregation for David
:11:18. > :11:23.Davis, the shifting politics back home, Labour now backing continued
:11:24. > :11:27.membership of the single market and customs union for a transition, a
:11:28. > :11:28.clear contrast to the Government's position. Damian Grammaticas, BBC
:11:29. > :11:31.News, Brussels. A lorry driver has appeared in court
:11:32. > :11:34.following a crash on the M1 motorway Two lorries and a minibus
:11:35. > :11:38.were involved in the collision Ryszard Masierak is charged
:11:39. > :11:41.with 12 counts of causing death or serious injury
:11:42. > :11:43.by dangerous driving and eight counts
:11:44. > :11:45.of causing death by drink-driving. Experts are still trying to work out
:11:46. > :11:49.what caused around 150 people to be treated in hospital
:11:50. > :11:52.after being affected by a chemical haze that drifted
:11:53. > :11:55.in off the sea on the south coast Amanda Akass sent
:11:56. > :11:59.this report from Birling Gap - the area near Beachy Head in East
:12:00. > :12:05.Sussex which was worst affected. for a bank-holiday day out
:12:06. > :12:09.at the seaside. But around five o'clock yesterday,
:12:10. > :12:11.the area was engulfed by a toxic chemical cloud which led
:12:12. > :12:15.to the evacuation of a whole stretch of coastline and 150 people needing
:12:16. > :12:19.treatment in hospital. We all panicked, everyone,
:12:20. > :12:23.you know, anxiety was high, and we were all shaking and getting
:12:24. > :12:26.really nervous and everything but We had itchy eyes, sore throat,
:12:27. > :12:34.throbbing head and nausea. The fumes also affected
:12:35. > :12:38.the lifeboat crews sent out to help. We actually went straight
:12:39. > :12:41.into this cloud, which we weren't aware about
:12:42. > :12:43.at the time, and we could feel our eyes
:12:44. > :12:46.burning straightaway. So we advised the coastguards,
:12:47. > :12:48.and we were told to stay inside the lifeboat,
:12:49. > :12:50.close all the doors This morning,
:12:51. > :12:56.Sussex Police announced the gas cloud had
:12:57. > :12:58.completely dissipated, but the authorities still
:12:59. > :13:00.don't know what was in it. As to what caused the haze,
:13:01. > :13:02.well, the coastguards say that the English Channel
:13:03. > :13:06.was particularly busy with shipping at the time,
:13:07. > :13:08.and they're currently looking into all the vessels
:13:09. > :13:11.in the area yesterday. While investigations continue,
:13:12. > :13:14.though, people on the beach today didn't want to let anything
:13:15. > :13:16.stop them getting Now to India,
:13:17. > :13:26.where a controversial guru has been jailed for 20 years
:13:27. > :13:30.for raping two of his followers. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's conviction
:13:31. > :13:33.last week triggered large-scale riots by his devotees
:13:34. > :13:36.in which 38 people were killed. Thousands of police have been
:13:37. > :13:40.deployed to the region where his movement is based
:13:41. > :13:44.amid fears of further unrest. A nurse serving a life sentence
:13:45. > :13:47.for murdering two patients in Germany is now a suspect
:13:48. > :13:50.in at least 84 other murder cases, Niels Hogel was convicted
:13:51. > :13:56.and jailed two years ago for giving lethal drug injections
:13:57. > :13:58.to intensive-care patients. If found guilty, it could make him
:13:59. > :14:01.Germany's worst post-war killer, In 2015, Niels Hogel was jailed
:14:02. > :14:18.for two murders. Today, police revealed
:14:19. > :14:21.they have evidence he killed around 90 other people
:14:22. > :14:24.in his care, and they suspect, though they can't
:14:25. > :14:30.prove, he murdered dozens more. TRANSLATION: If the clues had been
:14:31. > :14:33.duly investigated at the time, even in Delmenhorst Hospital,
:14:34. > :14:36.then the deaths of many patients, in our opinion,
:14:37. > :14:40.could have been prevented. Hogel's apparent motive -
:14:41. > :14:44.to impress his hospital colleagues. He would overdose patients,
:14:45. > :14:47.triggering a heart attack, Hard to imagine such
:14:48. > :14:55.a deadly pattern could go unnoticed. TRANSLATION: The current
:14:56. > :14:57.circumstances lead to the conclusion that Niels H had an unlawful
:14:58. > :15:05.and deadly impact on patients. Tonight, difficult questions -
:15:06. > :15:09.who suspected, who knew, and by turning a blind eye,
:15:10. > :15:14.for how long did they facilitate who may yet emerge as post-war
:15:15. > :15:22.Germany's deadliest serial killer? There are thought to be around 2,000
:15:23. > :15:33.languages spoken across Africa. But globalisation has increased
:15:34. > :15:35.concerns that languages that have held communities together
:15:36. > :15:38.for centuries could soon disappear, as people try to assimilate
:15:39. > :15:41.in the modern world. In the first of a series
:15:42. > :15:46.looking at changing Africa, Pumza Fihlani has spent time
:15:47. > :15:48.with the San - indigenous hunter-gatherers who were the first
:15:49. > :15:51.inhabitants southern Africa - to ask why dying languages
:15:52. > :16:00.should be kept alive. Catriona is one of the last three
:16:01. > :16:22.fluent speakers of Njuu. At 84, she and her older
:16:23. > :16:26.sisters are trying to preserve the language
:16:27. > :16:28.of their childhood - now acknowledged by the UN
:16:29. > :16:54.as severely at risk. Catriona has turned her house
:16:55. > :17:00.in the Northern Cape into a school. For a few hours a week,
:17:01. > :17:02.local children come here to learn the 112 distinct sounds
:17:03. > :17:14.and 45 different clicks of Njuu. Like many other
:17:15. > :17:16.African languages, it's been passed down
:17:17. > :17:18.orally through generation and that has threatened
:17:19. > :17:24.its survival. To stop it being consigned
:17:25. > :17:27.to the history books, Catriona and her family
:17:28. > :17:31.have joined with linguists to create an alphabet
:17:32. > :17:33.and basic rules of grammar - the beginnings of a
:17:34. > :17:43.documented language. She is working hard to make sure
:17:44. > :17:47.that their language outlives them. But her reach is restricted
:17:48. > :17:50.to these walls. About three hours from here, though,
:17:51. > :17:53.another indigenous community is looking to modern means
:17:54. > :17:59.for the answer. Here in Springbuck,
:18:00. > :18:02.Dina's radio show connects 70,000 Nama speakers
:18:03. > :18:08.across the continent. The era of apartheid left
:18:09. > :18:11.the people splintered, as one of South Africa's
:18:12. > :18:23.11 official languages. The white man come in, and they say,
:18:24. > :18:27."You don't speak Nama," and we have no power,
:18:28. > :18:30.because we cannot fight back, As traditional societies
:18:31. > :18:42.fight to remain relevant in a modern world,
:18:43. > :18:44.what is it about language that makes so it critical
:18:45. > :18:47.to the survival of a culture? If you don't have language,
:18:48. > :18:55.you don't have identity. That is Nama, but
:18:56. > :19:07.I'm talking in English to you. What am I, am I English,
:19:08. > :19:10.Scottish, what am I? So I want everybody
:19:11. > :19:14.to recognise me as a Nama. and therefore a legacy
:19:15. > :19:35.for future generations. Tennis now, and the British number
:19:36. > :19:39.one Johanna Konta has been knocked out of the US
:19:40. > :19:49.Open in the first round. She was beaten 2-1 by world number
:19:50. > :19:51.78 Aleksandra Krunic. Earlier in the day, there was better
:19:52. > :19:54.news for Britain's Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie, who reached
:19:55. > :19:57.the US Open second round, but compatriot Heather Watson
:19:58. > :19:59.is out. Well, it's been the hottest August
:20:00. > :20:02.late bank holiday for 50 years in parts of the UK,
:20:03. > :20:04.and hundreds of thousands of revellers descended
:20:05. > :20:06.on Notting Hill to enjoy the sunshine on the final
:20:07. > :20:08.day of carnival. Europe's biggest street festival
:20:09. > :20:14.didn't disappoint. Everyone can be king
:20:15. > :20:19.or queen at carnival. It's flamboyant, eccentric,
:20:20. > :20:21.extravagant - I'm going to say roots reggae
:20:22. > :20:32.music is earth music. Heroes of the sound system playing
:20:33. > :20:39.to crowds in their thousands. Through this sound system,
:20:40. > :20:42.we're giving a message, yeah? A message of love, hope
:20:43. > :20:48.and unity for everybody. But as I hear the music,
:20:49. > :20:53.and that bassline resonates through my body, like I say,
:20:54. > :20:56.it's a spirit that wakes up, and it's just higher, higher,
:20:57. > :21:00.higher until it just go boom! Carnival is the Caribbean,
:21:01. > :21:07.with its culture and music. ARCHIVE: This street festival
:21:08. > :21:09.in Notting Hill is itself part
:21:10. > :21:13.of a voluntary social service... It was a celebration started
:21:14. > :21:16.by West Indian immigrants facing racism and inequality
:21:17. > :21:20.in London in the 1960s. Now it's the biggest street party
:21:21. > :21:24.in Europe. Notting Hill is ten times bigger
:21:25. > :21:29.than Glastonbury. at least ten steel-pan bands
:21:30. > :21:37.and 40 sound systems. I'm from Rio de Janeiro,
:21:38. > :21:39.I'm from Rio, and there we celebrate
:21:40. > :21:41.carnival in February and yeah, but I really enjoy carnival here,
:21:42. > :21:45.I recommend them to come over here. It's a year thing, like the poeple
:21:46. > :21:47.that make the costumes, We've been doing it for 24 years
:21:48. > :21:52.now, it is part of our life, so we wouldn't ever miss it,
:21:53. > :21:54.we live for it. And so as the sun sets on another
:21:55. > :22:05.Notting Hill Carnival, That's all from me,
:22:06. > :22:09.stay with us on BBC One,