:00:07. > :00:13.President Trump returns to Texas, to meet victims of the storm
:00:14. > :00:15.that's killed 45 people, and forced more than
:00:16. > :00:20.Handing out food with the First Lady, he said
:00:21. > :00:21.he was hopeful Congress would approve, a multi-billion
:00:22. > :00:29.We're signing a lot of documents to get money into Houston.
:00:30. > :00:36.We signed it and it's going through a very quick,
:00:37. > :00:45.We'll be live in Texas with the very latest.
:00:46. > :00:47.Police confirm compensation has been paid to Lord Brammall
:00:48. > :00:49.and the family of the late Home Secretary Lord Brittan,
:00:50. > :00:51.both falsely accused of child sexual abuse.
:00:52. > :00:53.Thousands of Rohinga Moslems continue to flee a military
:00:54. > :00:55.crackdown in Myanmar, amid claims of atrocities
:00:56. > :01:06.Ben Woodburn, who's just 17, scores on his debut for Wales,
:01:07. > :01:25.in their World Cup qualifier against Austria.
:01:26. > :01:33.President Trump has been meeting survivors of Tropical Storm Harvey
:01:34. > :01:41.in Texas, his second visit to the state in a week.
:01:42. > :01:44.He's asked Congress for an initial near ?8 billion worth of funding
:01:45. > :02:05.to help the recovery effort after the devastating floods,
:02:06. > :02:07.but some say their situation has been made worse,
:02:08. > :02:09.by reports the White House is considering ending an amnesty
:02:10. > :02:12.for thousands of illegal migrants, who came to the US as children,
:02:13. > :02:16.Well, James Cook is in Houston for us tonight.
:02:17. > :02:20.The Merit Houston says more than 15 times the initial amount will be
:02:21. > :02:25.needed from Houston alone if it is to begin to recover -- the Mayor of
:02:26. > :02:26.Houston. It has also been a demanding week for the
:02:27. > :02:30.commander-in-chief, Donald Trump. He's expected, required, to show
:02:31. > :02:37.empathy, leadership and unity. Today, Donald Trump did deliver
:02:38. > :02:45.hugs and handshakes. And over the past week,
:02:46. > :02:47.the Commander-in-Chief's response to this hurricane has been praised
:02:48. > :02:49.as rapid and effective. As tough as this was,
:02:50. > :02:58.it's been a wonderful thing. I think even for the country to
:02:59. > :03:01.watch, and for the world to watch. So far, the storm has
:03:02. > :03:09.claimed more than 45 lives. It's damaged or destroyed 100,000
:03:10. > :03:13.homes, and left more And yet, President Trump spent
:03:14. > :03:17.the eve of this visit talking about scrapping a policy that
:03:18. > :03:19.protects young The devastation wreaked
:03:20. > :03:22.by Hurricane Harvey Texas is barely beginning
:03:23. > :03:31.to count the cost. And many people here are astonished
:03:32. > :03:33.that the President would choose this And we have a lot of distilled
:03:34. > :03:40.water for the babies. Jessica's home was flooded,
:03:41. > :03:43.and now she's helping others. Brought here illegally at the age
:03:44. > :03:46.of four, she's among 200,000 Texans who face being fired and deported
:03:47. > :03:48.if President Trump now I mean, you see people
:03:49. > :03:55.that are struggling, your initial reaction is to help
:03:56. > :03:57.them, and his is the He knows the effect that this
:03:58. > :04:03.will be in the community. The White House says
:04:04. > :04:05.the President will announce his Even as he lends a helping hand,
:04:06. > :04:13.unity may be out of reach. But amid the suffering
:04:14. > :04:19.here, there is beauty. For the victims and the survivors
:04:20. > :04:25.of Hurricane Harvey, The Metropolitan Police has
:04:26. > :04:38.confirmed it's paid compensation to the former Chief
:04:39. > :04:42.of the Defence Staff, Field Marshal Lord Bramall,
:04:43. > :04:44.and the family of the late Both men had been falsely
:04:45. > :04:47.accused of child sexual abuse by an informant,
:04:48. > :04:49.who's now being investigated, for allegedly perverting
:04:50. > :04:51.the course of justice. They were claims which seemed
:04:52. > :04:56.to go right to the heart After a 14 month investigation
:04:57. > :05:08.which went nowhere, a review But not before police had raided
:05:09. > :05:12.the homes of Lord Bramall, one of Britain's most senior
:05:13. > :05:14.former military figures. Lord Brittan, the former
:05:15. > :05:16.Home Secretary, who had died. And Harvey Proctor,
:05:17. > :05:20.once a Conservative MP. Names among those offered
:05:21. > :05:24.by this man, known as Nick, who still can't be named
:05:25. > :05:27.for legal reasons. A retired judge found police
:05:28. > :05:32.had failed to properly Applications for search warrants
:05:33. > :05:38.contained inaccuracies. And the investigation
:05:39. > :05:41.went on too long. It's thought Lord Bramall
:05:42. > :05:43.and Lord Brittan's family have received around ?100,000 each
:05:44. > :05:48.in compensation from the police. I've never complained
:05:49. > :05:51.about being investigated. It was only the heavy-handed
:05:52. > :05:55.and very unintelligent way I mean, I think they
:05:56. > :06:03.could have said... If they'd taken any trouble
:06:04. > :06:06.to put their effort onto questioning the so-called victim,
:06:07. > :06:08.I think they would have found He lost his job and his home
:06:09. > :06:17.when he became embroiled Negotiations between Mr Proctor's
:06:18. > :06:26.lawyers and the police continue. The man who made the original
:06:27. > :06:32.allegations is himself being investigated, to see
:06:33. > :06:34.whether he deliberately Tom Symonds, BBC
:06:35. > :06:53.News, Scotland Yard. Thousands of members
:06:54. > :06:54.of Myanmar's Rohinga Moslim minority, are continuing to flee
:06:55. > :06:57.across the border into They're escaping a military
:06:58. > :06:59.crackdown, after Rohinga militants attacked police positions
:07:00. > :07:01.a week ago. It's now thought nearly 60,000
:07:02. > :07:03.have fled, and human rights groups are accusing
:07:04. > :07:05.the Myanmar Army of atrocities. They claim satellite imagery shows
:07:06. > :07:08.hundreds of fires in Rohinga villages in Rakhine State,
:07:09. > :07:10.and in one area 700 Myanmar is a mainly
:07:11. > :07:12.Buddhist country, and the Moslem Rohingas according
:07:13. > :07:20.to the UN, are a Sanjoy Majumder has
:07:21. > :07:23.been to a refugee camp on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border,
:07:24. > :07:25.and sent us this report. Exhausted and traumatised
:07:26. > :07:29.after escaping death. Many of these Rohingyas have walked
:07:30. > :07:35.for hours across hills, and through paddy fields to avoid
:07:36. > :07:41.shot before making it here. These are fresh arrivals,
:07:42. > :07:43.Rohingyas who have just arrived And with every passing
:07:44. > :07:47.hour, there are more There is absolutely no
:07:48. > :07:51.space left any more, so they are just living on any piece
:07:52. > :07:57.of open ground that they can find, and many of them have the most
:07:58. > :08:01.disturbing testimony to share. I meet a man who is nursing
:08:02. > :08:05.a bullet wound in his foot. He tells me that his village,
:08:06. > :08:08.just across the border, was allegedly attacked
:08:09. > :08:10.by the Myanmar military TRANSLATION: So many
:08:11. > :08:15.people were killed. There were people whose throats
:08:16. > :08:23.were slashed with knives. They were shooting
:08:24. > :08:27.at us and I got hit. And from inside Myanmar's Rakhine
:08:28. > :08:29.state, the scars of violence. This is where the Myanmar military
:08:30. > :08:41.have been carrying out a massive crackdown,
:08:42. > :08:43.following an attack last week by a Rohingya militant group
:08:44. > :08:48.on dozens of police police. Rights campaigners say
:08:49. > :08:50.the use of force has been The situation seems to be one
:08:51. > :08:59.where it is rapidly sliding You have a situation where many
:09:00. > :09:05.people are on the move, significant areas of Rakhine state
:09:06. > :09:07.are on fire. As for those who have managed
:09:08. > :09:12.to flee the fighting, they are building temporary shelters
:09:13. > :09:14.and trying to make Bangladesh, after initially trying
:09:15. > :09:24.to stop them coming, For the survivors, this
:09:25. > :09:26.represents freedom. It's come at a cost
:09:27. > :09:29.and they are still uncertain Sanjoy Majumder, BBC News,
:09:30. > :09:38.at the Bangladesh Myanmar border. The UN now says as many as 41
:09:39. > :09:42.million people have been affected, by heavy monsoon rains
:09:43. > :09:48.across South Asia, leading to the worst flooding
:09:49. > :09:51.in the region for several years. Across India, Bangladesh and Nepal,
:09:52. > :09:53.and at least 1400 people Our correspondent, Justin Rowlatt,
:09:54. > :09:56.has sent us this report from the city of Katihar,
:09:57. > :09:59.in one of the worst affected regions, Bihar state,
:10:00. > :10:01.in north east India, Where we're going can
:10:02. > :10:08.only be reached by boat. The only dry place for miles around
:10:09. > :10:17.is on top of this great embankment, but the embankment that now protects
:10:18. > :10:20.the villagers is the reason the floods had such
:10:21. > :10:22.a catastrophic impact. The torrential rains transformed
:10:23. > :10:25.the normally placid river, So what happened, the embankment
:10:26. > :10:36.holding back the river breached and the water came crashing in here,
:10:37. > :10:39.sweeping away half the village, devastating their homes,
:10:40. > :10:47.devastating their lives. TRANSLATION: It felt
:10:48. > :10:49.like we were hit by an ocean of water, I just ran for my life,
:10:50. > :10:53.taking my children with me. This man showed me what the floods
:10:54. > :11:01.had done to his home. So, he said the whole place
:11:02. > :11:14.was flooded with water. The water was above his head
:11:15. > :11:18.and came rushing through here. You can see, it's just left
:11:19. > :11:23.absolutely terrible mud behind. So, he says for three
:11:24. > :11:27.days they had no food at all and then some people
:11:28. > :11:30.came, bringing food. He said there wasn't enough room
:11:31. > :11:38.to stay on the embankment so he had to bring his family down here,
:11:39. > :11:40.including his three-year-old child. It is Eid today, one
:11:41. > :11:45.of the great festivals of Islam. Like most of the village,
:11:46. > :11:50.this family is Muslim. For the first time since
:11:51. > :11:54.the catastrophe they are having meat, but there was little
:11:55. > :11:58.appetite for celebration. Tens of thousands of communities
:11:59. > :12:01.across South Asia have similar stories of horror
:12:02. > :12:07.and destruction to tell. The only good news here, is that
:12:08. > :12:13.everyone in this village survived. With all the sport,
:12:14. > :12:22.here's Karthi Gnanasegaram Wales have beaten Austria
:12:23. > :12:29.in their World Cup qualifier this evening with the winning goal coming
:12:30. > :12:32.from 17-year-old, Ben Woodburn, who Wales's win means they can qualify
:12:33. > :12:36.for the World Cup in Russia but they are still in third place
:12:37. > :12:49.in their group. Together, stronger, the slogan of
:12:50. > :12:53.the summer of 16, the spirit of that run to the semis of the Euros
:12:54. > :12:58.lingers, Wales are still together, but stronger, in World Cup
:12:59. > :13:03.qualifying they are yet to convince, too many chances not taken, close no
:13:04. > :13:10.longer good enough. To reach Russia they might need for victories from
:13:11. > :13:15.four, including against Austria, all very close, all very tense, and the
:13:16. > :13:20.pressure drove Wales forward, just in time for Gareth Bale. The
:13:21. > :13:23.Austrian keeper had seen him do that before, but Ben Woodburn still has
:13:24. > :13:28.the power of surprise and like Gareth Bale, he is only 17 and these
:13:29. > :13:32.were his first moments as an international footballer and this
:13:33. > :13:36.was his first shot. The teenager born in England who chose to play
:13:37. > :13:40.for Wales scoring the goal which keeps alive his nation's chances of
:13:41. > :13:42.reaching the World Cup, where on earth do you go from here? Wales
:13:43. > :13:46.will hope to Russia. The Republic of Ireland
:13:47. > :13:48.are in the same group as Wales and are unbeaten
:13:49. > :13:50.after seven matches. Martin O'Neil's side remain
:13:51. > :13:54.in second place after a 1-1 draw They are just two points behind
:13:55. > :13:58.group leaders, Serbia. Lewis Hamilton has broken the record
:13:59. > :14:02.for the number of pole The Mercedes driver surpassed
:14:03. > :14:07.Michael Schumacher's landmark by taking the 69th pole
:14:08. > :14:10.of his career in difficult, wet conditions at the
:14:11. > :14:17.Italian Grand Prix. Nottinghamshire Outlaws
:14:18. > :14:18.are cricket's Twenty20 champions after beating the Birmingham Bears
:14:19. > :14:21.by 22 runs at Edgbaston. The two sides won their semi
:14:22. > :14:24.finals earlier in the day. Nottinghamshire hit 190-4
:14:25. > :14:26.off their 20 overs in the Final but Birmingham struggled
:14:27. > :14:28.to reach their target. Nottinghamshire are now Champions
:14:29. > :14:31.of the T20 Blast and the 50 overs In rugby union, Saracens
:14:32. > :14:39.started their Premiership season with an excellent 55-24 win
:14:40. > :14:47.over Northampton Saints. Sean Maitland scored
:14:48. > :14:49.a first half hat-trick for the European Champions who ran
:14:50. > :14:52.in nine tries in total. While also today London Irish made
:14:53. > :14:54.a victorious return to the top And in the expanded Pro14,
:14:55. > :15:01.title holders Scarlets beat a new side in the competition,
:15:02. > :15:03.South Africa's Southern And there were wins for Ospreys,
:15:04. > :15:14.Leinster, Glasgow. The first pedestrians have walked
:15:15. > :15:21.across the Queensferry crossing, the new road bridge over
:15:22. > :15:26.the Firth of Forth. Among was them was the First
:15:27. > :15:31.Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and by the end of the weekend
:15:32. > :15:34.50,000 people are expected to have made the journey,
:15:35. > :15:36.taking in magnificent views. But crossing by foot
:15:37. > :15:38.is just for a few days, with the road officially opening
:15:39. > :15:40.to traffic next week. This is something
:15:41. > :15:47.we won't see again. For two days only, 50,000 people
:15:48. > :15:51.are getting the chance to walk over the new Queensferry Crossing,
:15:52. > :15:53.chosen in a ballot from almost a quarter of a million people
:15:54. > :15:56.who put their names forward for this This bridge could be
:15:57. > :16:00.operational for 120 years. This is something Isaac can tell
:16:01. > :16:04.all his family about. I know, we've taken lots of photos,
:16:05. > :16:07.so he'll have the memories in the photos if he doesn't
:16:08. > :16:10.remember it himself. It sits alongside the Forth Bridge,
:16:11. > :16:12.the railway crossing, And the Forth Road Bridge,
:16:13. > :16:17.opened in 1964. It's a chance to sample this
:16:18. > :16:22.feat of engineering, 1.7 miles long and the tallest
:16:23. > :16:25.in the UK. These are the people
:16:26. > :16:30.who have been lucky enough to be chosen to walk over
:16:31. > :16:33.the bridge, they are taking every This road will soon
:16:34. > :16:37.become a motorway so this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
:16:38. > :16:40.for these people to experience Nine-year-old Woody's family watched
:16:41. > :16:45.the bridge being built I was so excited, my
:16:46. > :16:55.heart was pounding. The First Minister joined
:16:56. > :16:56.walkers, taking pictures There's such a feeling
:16:57. > :17:03.of pride on the part of everyone I have spoken to,
:17:04. > :17:06.a real sense this is a Scottish icon and it will become one of the most
:17:07. > :17:09.recognisable bridges anywhere Today's memories will be passed
:17:10. > :17:13.down the generations. Catriona Renton, BBC News,
:17:14. > :17:16.on the Queensferry Crossing. You can see more on all of today's
:17:17. > :17:22.stories on the BBC News Channel. But from me and the team,
:17:23. > :17:35.have a very good night. We enjoyed some picture perfect
:17:36. > :17:38.weather to start the weekend with plenty of sunshine to most places,
:17:39. > :17:39.and this is