:00:08. > :00:09.North Korea's most powerful nuclear weapons test to date sparks
:00:10. > :00:14.The test of a hydrogen bomb - which could be mounted
:00:15. > :00:17.on a long-range missile - is called a perfect success
:00:18. > :00:27.by Kim Jong-Un's regime. is called a perfect success
:00:28. > :00:30.We'll see. will you attack North Korea?
:00:31. > :00:32."We'll see," says President Trump as the US says any threat
:00:33. > :00:35.to its territories will be met with a massive military response.
:00:36. > :00:37.We'll be analysing what, if anything, will deter North Korea
:00:38. > :00:42.Also tonight: more perilous path.
:00:43. > :00:44.The prospect of a parliamentary battle over Brexit legislation
:00:45. > :00:51.made at the talks. at the Commission on progress
:00:52. > :00:53.An exodus of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims -
:00:54. > :00:59.persecution and violence. where thousands have fled
:01:00. > :01:03.entering Bangladesh. route for the Rohingyas
:01:04. > :01:13.On the other side of the mountain is Myanmar.
:01:14. > :01:16.A BBC investigation finds IS recruiters were trying to direct
:01:17. > :01:18.would-be attackers a year before Westminster and London Bridge.
:01:19. > :01:20.And Lewis Hamilton wins the Italian Grand Prix,
:01:21. > :01:43.spoiling the Ferrari party at their home race.
:01:44. > :01:46.Tensions over North Korea's nuclear programme increased dramatically
:01:47. > :01:55.nuclear test to date. and most powerful
:01:56. > :01:58.It claimed to have detonated a hydrogen bomb capable of being
:01:59. > :02:01.mounted on an intercontinental missile.
:02:02. > :02:04.In the last couple of hours, the US Defence Secretary has said
:02:05. > :02:08.military response. will be met with a massive
:02:09. > :02:14.to be agreed at the UN. for urgent new sanctions
:02:15. > :02:20.The blast detected near the Punggye-ri underground test site
:02:21. > :02:23.in northwestern North Korea is said by experts to have had more
:02:24. > :02:25.destructive power than the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city
:02:26. > :02:27.of Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
:02:28. > :02:35.but first Yogita Limaye in Seoul. and Tokyo in a moment -
:02:36. > :02:37.It was a perfect success, the newsreader declared,
:02:38. > :02:45.its nuclear goals. was close to achieving
:02:46. > :02:49.The country says it has detonated a hydrogen bomb
:02:50. > :02:55.small enough to be fitted to an intercontinental missile.
:02:56. > :03:00.claims is such a device. inspecting what North Korea
:03:01. > :03:03.If true, it would mean that Pyongyang is now capable
:03:04. > :03:05.of launching a nuclear attack on cities in the United States.
:03:06. > :03:13.This unprecedented threat prompted President Trump to say,
:03:14. > :03:15."South Korea's talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work.
:03:16. > :03:19."They only understand one thing," he declared.
:03:20. > :03:24.Any threat to the United States or its territories, including Guam,
:03:25. > :03:26.or our allies, will be met with a massive military
:03:27. > :03:35.response, a response both effective and overwhelming.
:03:36. > :03:37.It's a strong message to South Korea's president,
:03:38. > :03:40.who for months has said talking to North Korea was the solution.
:03:41. > :03:46.Today he expressed outrage and disappointment.
:03:47. > :03:50.TRANSLATION: North Korea has made an absurd tactical mistake
:03:51. > :04:00.by committing a series of provocations such as launching
:04:01. > :04:03.has high intentions a nuclear test which
:04:04. > :04:06.It will isolate them further. threatening world peace.
:04:07. > :04:09.South Korea is most worried because it has the most to lose.
:04:10. > :04:13.And that's why even though military measures like these bombing drills
:04:14. > :04:22.what further action can be taken. from North Korea, it's hard to see
:04:23. > :04:25.It's certainly our view that none of the military options are good.
:04:26. > :04:33.The distance between North Korea and Seoul is very, very small.
:04:34. > :04:37.even with conventional weapons. parts of the South Korean population
:04:38. > :04:42.Here in Seoul, a city that is home to tens of millions of people,
:04:43. > :04:45.we are only about 50 kilometres from the border with North Korea,
:04:46. > :04:50.in this direction. a mass of weapons is pointing
:04:51. > :04:53.And that's why rather than take a military route,
:04:54. > :05:01.But that isn't working either. trying to put economic
:05:02. > :05:05.And the impact of every move Kim Jong-Un makes is felt not just
:05:06. > :05:14.in the Korean peninsula, but also across the sea in Japan.
:05:15. > :05:20.the air for radiation. Japanese air force jet can sniff
:05:21. > :05:25.This afternoon, it roared off towards North Korea to do just that.
:05:26. > :05:31.missile across Japan. since North Korea fired this
:05:32. > :05:36.For Prime Minister Abe, this is becoming an unwelcome routine.
:05:37. > :05:40.TRANSLATION: Together with the US, South Korea, China and Russia,
:05:41. > :05:45.Japan will take determined action against North Korea.
:05:46. > :05:51.North Korea may now have tested a nuclear device that is small
:05:52. > :05:53.enough to put on top of a ballistic missile that
:05:54. > :05:56.could be fired at the United States, and for the government
:05:57. > :06:00.a very troubling question. disturbing, because it raises
:06:01. > :06:02.In future, will the United States be willing to risk one
:06:03. > :06:13.This afternoon, the US ambassador Denver, in order to
:06:14. > :06:20.This afternoon, the US ambassador rushed to see Japan's Foreign
:06:21. > :06:25.Minister to reassure him. No action taken by the North Koreans will in
:06:26. > :06:29.any way deter our commitment. Japan and the US may have the military
:06:30. > :06:34.might to deter North Korea, but they have few other levers to pressure
:06:35. > :06:43.Pyongyang. Only one country does, and that is China. China was quite
:06:44. > :06:49.literally shaken by the blast. North Korea's nuclear test site is only 60
:06:50. > :06:58.miles from the border. It will have sent a diplomatic jolt, too, coming
:06:59. > :07:01.just before President Xie Jin Ping opened this international summit.
:07:02. > :07:08.Although he made no direct reference, he warned of the
:07:09. > :07:14.challenges to world peace. On state TV, the message was more blunt, with
:07:15. > :07:17.an official statement strongly condemning the test. There can be
:07:18. > :07:22.little doubt that the government here in Beijing is rattled. Once
:07:23. > :07:26.again, it has had to order emerges irradiation monitoring along the
:07:27. > :07:33.border, but despite the frustration, it may be reluctant to punish North
:07:34. > :07:38.Korea too hard. China has recently been stopping cargoes of call and
:07:39. > :07:43.seafood in line with toughened UN sanctions. But its biggest fear is
:07:44. > :07:48.not nuclear weapons. It's the chaos that would come with the economic
:07:49. > :07:53.collapse of the impoverished state is shrouded in darkness on the other
:07:54. > :08:01.I'm joined in the studio by our BBC News, Beijing.
:08:02. > :08:05.I'm joined in the studio by our North America editor Jon Sopel. What
:08:06. > :08:08.has the US reaction been like? Was an act of extraordinary defines that
:08:09. > :08:15.we have seen from North Korea. The other thing worth pointing out is
:08:16. > :08:18.that for all Donald Trump's talk of fire and fury, of US weapons being
:08:19. > :08:21.locked and loaded, that seems to have had no effect on possibly could
:08:22. > :08:26.have made things worse, so you have the US looking at some not very good
:08:27. > :08:30.options. We've heard about the military solution not being great.
:08:31. > :08:34.And so you have a situation where everything will still have to go
:08:35. > :08:39.through China. So long as you have got China believing that a nuclear
:08:40. > :08:43.North Korea is preferable to a failing state North Korea, then it's
:08:44. > :08:46.hard to see any dramatic breakthrough. So not very good
:08:47. > :08:52.options, but what are the most likely one is to be pursued by the
:08:53. > :08:57.US? We have heard the Defence Secretary, Mattis, talking about the
:08:58. > :09:00.decisive response. We have also heard them talking about the
:09:01. > :09:05.possibility of stopping trade with any nation that is trading with
:09:06. > :09:08.North Korea. That means China. That would set the global economy back
:09:09. > :09:12.is a way of saying to China, we are is a way of saying to China, we are
:09:13. > :09:15.really serious about this and you have got to do something. It may be
:09:16. > :09:25.that there are back channels that are open and the Chinese are hurting
:09:26. > :09:26.pressure, but as things stand, we have North Korea, whose military
:09:27. > :09:28.capability is accelerated dramatically, and an American
:09:29. > :09:31.president who is saying, the time for talking is over. That's not a
:09:32. > :09:33.happy combination. Jon Sopel, thank you.
:09:34. > :09:35.Here, the Brexit Secretary David Davis has said
:09:36. > :09:37.that the European Commission is making itself look "silly"
:09:38. > :09:40.by saying that talks with Britain aren't making progress.
:09:41. > :09:43.The EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, says British people
:09:44. > :09:52.need to understand the "extremely serious consequences" of leaving.
:09:53. > :09:54.Theresa May faces a parliamentary battle this week
:09:55. > :10:01.The UK and the EU. on Brexit legislation,
:10:02. > :10:06.The divorce bill. at last week's talks.
:10:07. > :10:14.more than its fair share. would not be pressured into paying
:10:15. > :10:16.We are basically going through this very systematically,
:10:17. > :10:22.finding it difficult. way of doing it, and of course he's
:10:23. > :10:27.in the press conference. which is why the stance is this week
:10:28. > :10:34.were things we've achieved. silly, because they're plainly
:10:35. > :10:40.at Thursday's news conference. exchanges between the two men
:10:41. > :10:45.of Lake Como in Italy. the weekend on the banks
:10:46. > :10:50.He told the conference here he does not want to blackmail the UK,
:10:51. > :10:53.but added, "There are extremely serious consequences
:10:54. > :10:57.to the British people. and it hasn't been explained
:10:58. > :10:59."We intend to teach people what leaving the single market means.
:11:00. > :11:08."Far more important." important than Brexit.
:11:09. > :11:11.Meanwhile, the rows about leaving the EU return here this week.
:11:12. > :11:14.The planned new law that is needed to make it happen will be
:11:15. > :11:16.discussed in the Commons, and remember, the Prime
:11:17. > :11:27.She nurses a tiny majority. predicament is precarious.
:11:28. > :11:29.And that's why the debate on repealing this -
:11:30. > :11:33.the act that took us into the EU - matters so much.
:11:34. > :11:35.Labour says it will vote against the law as planned,
:11:36. > :11:38.which will eventually be stored here, unless it's changed,
:11:39. > :11:41.including the option of staying in the single market
:11:42. > :11:48.I've been very, very clear. period after Brexit.
:11:49. > :11:50.Whilst we accept the result of the referendum, we're not giving
:11:51. > :11:53.a blank cheque the Government to do it in whichever way it
:11:54. > :11:58.wants, because it's not in the public interest.
:11:59. > :12:00.This means any rebellion from just a handful of Conservative MPs
:12:01. > :12:02.would leave the Prime Minister in real trouble.
:12:03. > :12:04.Discussions on delivering Brexit are getting rather blustery.
:12:05. > :12:12.Chris Mason, BBC News, at Westminster.
:12:13. > :12:14.Thousands of members of Myanmar's Rohinga minority
:12:15. > :12:17.neighbouring Bangladesh. across the border into
:12:18. > :12:20.They're escaping a military crackdown after Rohinga militants
:12:21. > :12:26.attacked police positions a week ago.
:12:27. > :12:28.Nearly 73,000 have fled, and human rights groups accuse
:12:29. > :12:44.the Myanmar army of atrocities and indescriminate violence.
:12:45. > :12:49.The treatment of Myanmar's Muslim minority is the biggest challenge
:12:50. > :12:53.out for the persecuted minority. accused by critics of not speaking
:12:54. > :12:57.It is a long and torturous flight to from the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
:12:58. > :13:00.It is a long and torturous flight to freedom. The Rohingya who cannot
:13:01. > :13:06.make it on their own are helped along, leaving them behind could get
:13:07. > :13:11.them killed. So they labour on, bringing with them what ever
:13:12. > :13:16.possessions they could carry. Some far too young to understand what
:13:17. > :13:21.happened. This is the mainland route through which the Rohingyas are now
:13:22. > :13:27.entering Bangladesh. On the other side of the mountain is Myanmar, and
:13:28. > :13:31.they say they can slip in without being detected easily. But it also
:13:32. > :13:36.means that they have a steep climb through the mountains and they have
:13:37. > :13:42.to walk through the forests and wade through the streams before they can
:13:43. > :13:46.get to one of the refugee camps. But at least they're alive. They've lost
:13:47. > :13:51.their homes, their villages have been burned to the ground, and many
:13:52. > :13:57.have seen their relatives murdered. TRANSLATION: My brother was killed.
:13:58. > :14:02.They shot him in the chest. I couldn't even take him a proper
:14:03. > :14:07.grave. I somehow managed to bury him just buy a house, and then I left.
:14:08. > :14:13.It's hard to verify what is happening. No one is being allowed
:14:14. > :14:17.in. But fresh plumes of smoke can be seen from the Bangladesh side,
:14:18. > :14:20.presumably from burning villages. Bangladesh has now relaxed its
:14:21. > :14:25.borders, and the floodgates have opened. Rohingyas are streaming in
:14:26. > :14:30.by the hundreds every hour. Thousands of others are waiting to
:14:31. > :14:36.cross over. Those who have made it our exhausted and overcome.
:14:37. > :14:41.TRANSLATION: We've been on the road for four days. Our food ran out on
:14:42. > :14:46.the first night, and we haven't eaten since then.
:14:47. > :14:49.But space is running out for the new arrivals. They are squeezed into
:14:50. > :14:54.camps, schools, or just out in the open. Their first hurdle was to make
:14:55. > :15:02.it here alive. Now they have to figure out how to survive. Sanjoy
:15:03. > :15:05.Majumder, BBC News, on the Bangladesh border.
:15:06. > :15:08.Hospital managers in England have called for an emergency financial
:15:09. > :15:11.winter in recent years. themselves for the worst
:15:12. > :15:13.NHS Providers, which represents the vast majority of health trusts,
:15:14. > :15:18.for more staff and beds. funding is needed to pay
:15:19. > :15:20.But the Department of Health says the NHS is better prepared
:15:21. > :15:28.for winter this year than ever before.
:15:29. > :15:30.The chief executive of public relations company Bell Pottinger has
:15:31. > :15:34.into its activities in South Africa. of a report
:15:35. > :15:36.James Henderson stood down after complaints that the firm
:15:37. > :15:38.stirred up racial tensions of behalf of President Jacob Zuma.
:15:39. > :15:43."inappropriate and insensitive". elements of its campaign had been
:15:44. > :15:48.A BBC investigation has found the so-called Islamic State
:15:49. > :15:50.were secretly directing would-be extremists to murder people at both
:15:51. > :15:56.London Bridge and Westminster nearly a year before each attack.
:15:57. > :15:59.Recruiters pointed our undercover reporters to terror manuals
:16:00. > :16:07.victims with knives. at crowds and attack
:16:08. > :16:13.Nick Beake has more. to suffocate IS's ability to recruit
:16:14. > :16:17.Indiscriminate murder on the streets of London.
:16:18. > :16:20.Exactly the kind of attack so-called Islamic State had been calling for.
:16:21. > :16:25.Our investigation reveals the group were not only inspiring such plots,
:16:26. > :16:32.but issuing directions to target both Westminster and London Bridge.
:16:33. > :16:38.with IS recruiters active online. reporter made contact
:16:39. > :16:42.The authorities were fully aware of our communication.
:16:43. > :16:48.After inviting us to talk on a secret messaging site,
:16:49. > :16:49.IS agents pinpointed Westminster, promising, if you succeed
:16:50. > :16:55.with an attack there, it would be huge and damaging.
:16:56. > :17:01.with disbelievers and civilians. target because it was crowded
:17:02. > :17:06.a very complicated plan. people, and that it wouldn't require
:17:07. > :17:08.With hindsight, the instructions look like a blueprint
:17:09. > :17:14.for the Westminster attack eight months later.
:17:15. > :17:21.stabbed policeman to death. pedestrians and then
:17:22. > :17:34.Use truck, axe, anything. in conversation with another
:17:35. > :17:37.We were directed to terrorist guides on the so-called dark web.
:17:38. > :17:44.One of them showed how to use a vehicle to kill people.
:17:45. > :17:47.bombs for maximum impact. knives and home-made
:17:48. > :17:53.There was a description of how to create a fake suicide vest,
:17:54. > :17:58.are standing next to civilians. the police from attacking you if you
:17:59. > :18:00.The instructions bear all the hallmarks of the carnage
:18:01. > :18:04.nearly a year later at London Bridge.
:18:05. > :18:13.A van, knives, fake suicide belts and a stash of improvised bombs.
:18:14. > :18:15.Hanif Kadir, a former Al-Qaeda fighter, now
:18:16. > :18:16.tackling radicalisation, is alarmed at how quickly
:18:17. > :18:22.encrypted communication can radicalise young Britons.
:18:23. > :18:25.At that time in 2002, it still took me six to seven months.
:18:26. > :18:30.If they'd have had this kind of technology, I would...
:18:31. > :18:33.I would put my hand on my heart and I would say guaranteed
:18:34. > :18:36.within a few weeks you could have somebody so enraged with revenge,
:18:37. > :18:42.bomber or a terrorist. that they would become a suicide
:18:43. > :18:45.The Government has vowed to close down what it calls safe
:18:46. > :18:50.space where terrorists can both plot and recruit.
:18:51. > :18:57.difficult task now. have an unbelievably
:18:58. > :18:59.Encrypted apps or anonymous web browsers or the dark net,
:19:00. > :19:05.are proliferating very quickly. very difficult to properly monitor,
:19:06. > :19:08.And as their self-declared caliphate crumbles in the Middle East,
:19:09. > :19:10.IS are still making the most of secret communications,
:19:11. > :19:29.Nick Beake, BBC News. direct atrocities here in the UK.
:19:30. > :19:32.And you see the full investigation - Terror by Text - on the BBC iplayer
:19:33. > :19:36.Inside Out at 7.30. region on BBC One on
:19:37. > :19:38.The German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she believes Turkey
:19:39. > :19:40.will never become a member of the European Union.
:19:41. > :19:43.Mrs Merkel, who's trying to win a fourth term in office,
:19:44. > :19:48.ahead of next month's election. debate with her rival Martin Schulz
:19:49. > :19:53.accession to the EU. off talks over Turkey's
:19:54. > :19:56.The most devastating floods to hit South Asia in a decade have killed
:19:57. > :19:59.more than 1,400 people and focused attention on lack of preparedness
:20:00. > :20:11.to millions of destitute. as authorities struggle to get aid
:20:12. > :20:14.Justin Rowlatt is in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India
:20:15. > :20:16.and the worst affected by the floods.
:20:17. > :20:18.They're mixing up huge pots of vegetable curry and dhal.
:20:19. > :20:48.We were lucky to survive. destitute by the floods.
:20:49. > :20:50.But you can rebuild a house or replant a field.
:20:51. > :20:55.There are some things you never recover from.
:20:56. > :20:58.So they came down here to get provisions, and the water
:20:59. > :21:01.was just up to their knees, and then when they turned to go
:21:02. > :21:04.back, suddenly there was this great surge of water came down,
:21:05. > :21:07.and it dragged them away, dragged the father and the women away,
:21:08. > :21:10.and the women managed to grab hold of the trees down here.
:21:11. > :21:21.What do I do? as her father was swept away.
:21:22. > :21:26.Sometimes I wish I had been washed away with him.
:21:27. > :21:31.This was the worst flood in the region for decades.
:21:32. > :21:43.of Nepal and North India. two days across a vast area
:21:44. > :21:46.It came down the river as a great pulse of water.
:21:47. > :21:48.Just look at this enormous embankment, and just imagine
:21:49. > :21:53.for a moment the force needed to punch this hole into it.
:21:54. > :21:55.And the fear is that climate scientists say extreme weather
:21:56. > :22:00.going to get more common. they bring with them are only
:22:01. > :22:18.Justin Rowlatt, BBC News, Bihar. prospect for vulnerable
:22:19. > :22:26.Good evening. here's Karthi Gnanasegaram
:22:27. > :22:28.Lewis Hamilton has won today's Italian Grand Prix,
:22:29. > :22:32.for the first time this season. in Formula 1's World Championship
:22:33. > :22:43.Lewis Hamilton didn't need the drum started from a record 69th
:22:44. > :22:47.Lewis Hamilton didn't need the drum roll. He knew Monza was his moment.
:22:48. > :22:54.Starting in front for a record 60 night-time, his job was to stay
:22:55. > :22:57.there. His biggest test was the start, just stay clear and
:22:58. > :23:02.everything else would sort itself out. Races can deflate in second in
:23:03. > :23:06.the scramble. Watch out for the championship leader Sebastian Vettel
:23:07. > :23:11.in his Ferrari, up from sixth on the grid to third in the race. The more
:23:12. > :23:14.places Hamilton could put between himself and Sebastian Vettel, the
:23:15. > :23:19.war he could lead the standings by. Just when you think it looks easy,
:23:20. > :23:24.the circuit reminds you didn't. For the most part, you would have to
:23:25. > :23:28.look up to see dramatic manoeuvring, then Daniel Ricciardo took off. He
:23:29. > :23:34.never caught Vettel, and no one was catching Hamilton, who crashed the
:23:35. > :23:37.party in Ferrari country. Today the car was fantastic, and really a
:23:38. > :23:41.dream to drive, and a big thank you to all of the fans that came out
:23:42. > :23:46.today, and I look forward to coming back here next year. The love wasn't
:23:47. > :23:49.mutual from Ferrari fans, but Hamilton can only without the love.
:23:50. > :23:51.He now leads the drivers standings by three points. Patrick Geary, BBC
:23:52. > :23:53.News. Bath have won a fascinating
:23:54. > :23:55.encounter against Leicester on the first weekend of rugby
:23:56. > :23:57.union's Premiership season. competitive game since January.
:23:58. > :24:00.for Leicester in his first But Bath responded with three quick
:24:01. > :24:04.tries before the break, Bath won by 27 points to 23.
:24:05. > :24:11.running the full Britain's Chris Froome
:24:12. > :24:15.increased his overall lead at the Vuelta a Espana
:24:16. > :24:18.as he continues his attempt to win the Tour de France and the Spanish
:24:19. > :24:21.race in the same year. Froome, in the leader's red jersey,
:24:22. > :24:24.finished ahead of his nearest rival, The Vuelta finishes next Sunday.
:24:25. > :24:33.and one second advantage Details of the rest of the day's
:24:34. > :24:39.sport are on the BBC Sport website, Karthi, thank you.
:24:40. > :24:50.of Britain and the latest Finally, the music world has been
:24:51. > :24:52.paying tribute to the co-founder who's died at the age of 67.
:24:53. > :25:06.guitarist Walter Becker, Steely Dan had string of hits
:25:07. > :25:09.in the 1970s, including FM, Reelin' In The Years
:25:10. > :25:11.and Rikki Don't Lose that Number. Becker, along with Donald Fagan,
:25:12. > :25:14.created a brand of jazz-influenced rock that became a defining sound
:25:15. > :25:17.of west coast America in the '70s, That's all from me.
:25:18. > :25:25.million albums worldwide. Stay with us on BBC One, it's time
:25:26. > :25:34.for the news where you are.