:00:11. > :00:19.Hello. To Outside Source. Donald Trump has taken about catastrophic
:00:20. > :00:23.flooding in Texas. It is an historic amount of water,
:00:24. > :00:28.there has never been anything like it. The people are handling it
:00:29. > :00:32.amazingly well. We will be live in Washington in a minute to get more
:00:33. > :00:37.on how the President is handling the first natural disaster of his term.
:00:38. > :00:40.And Indian Guru has been given 20 years for a double rape, although
:00:41. > :00:46.there was no repeat of the deadly riots that followed his conviction,
:00:47. > :00:50.the situation remains tense. The French President Emmanuel Macron has
:00:51. > :00:53.announced a 3-point plan to curb the flow of migrants across the
:00:54. > :00:58.Mediterranean. He is hosting a meeting of European and African
:00:59. > :01:01.leaders in France. A gruesome story from South Africa, five men
:01:02. > :01:06.suspected of involvement in cannibalism have appeared in court
:01:07. > :01:10.to face charges of murder, conspiracy to murder and possession
:01:11. > :01:11.of human body parts. In sport we have a report about boxing
:01:12. > :01:33.pensioners in South Africa. Welcome back to Outside Source.
:01:34. > :01:38.Let's begin by returning to our top story, the unfolding storm situation
:01:39. > :01:41.in Texas, there is lots of attention on how Donald Trump will handle the
:01:42. > :01:46.biggest natural disaster of his presidency so far. He is due to
:01:47. > :01:51.visit Texas on Tuesday. Here is what he has been saying a little while
:01:52. > :01:56.ago. To the people of Texas and Louisiana, we are 100% with you. We
:01:57. > :02:00.are praying for you, working closely with your leaders and officials, and
:02:01. > :02:07.I will visit the impact zone tomorrow to ensure you are receiving
:02:08. > :02:10.full support and cooperation from the federal government, and on
:02:11. > :02:15.Saturday we think we are going back to Texas and also we will be going
:02:16. > :02:19.to Louisiana. As Donald Trump tends to do he
:02:20. > :02:24.tweets his thoughts. There has been quite a lot about Hurricane Harvey,
:02:25. > :02:27.like this one. Grey coordination, he says, between agencies and all
:02:28. > :02:32.levels of government. Continuing rains and flash floods are being
:02:33. > :02:34.dealt with. Thousands rescued. In the past few days he has tweeted
:02:35. > :02:40.about the hurricane more than 20 times but it has been interspersed
:02:41. > :02:43.with things, Nafta, trade deal, the Mexican border and a recommendation
:02:44. > :02:48.for a friend's book. It raised some eyebrows but this is a tweet from a
:02:49. > :02:51.Conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro. If Trump is doing well
:02:52. > :02:56.enough with Federal hurricane response then all you can moan about
:02:57. > :03:01.artist tweets, he is doing fine. Let's go over to Anthony Zurcher who
:03:02. > :03:08.is in Washington, who is from Texas itself. How involved has President
:03:09. > :03:13.Trump been so far? We have seen instances of photo ups where he has
:03:14. > :03:18.participated in conferences, disaster relief efforts, the Federal
:03:19. > :03:22.emergency management agency and he said he has been keeping a prized of
:03:23. > :03:27.it and he will go to Texas tomorrow and go back to Texas and Louisiana,
:03:28. > :03:31.he just said, later in the week. The federal government obviously has an
:03:32. > :03:35.oversight coordinating role in the initial stages of a natural disaster
:03:36. > :03:39.like this, a lot of the responsibility falls on local and
:03:40. > :03:42.state facilities but the federal government should serve as a
:03:43. > :03:49.backstop, coordinating agency, and to provide any additional supplies
:03:50. > :03:51.needed for the immediate response. Where the federal government really
:03:52. > :03:57.steps in his father down the line in the rebuilding and construction and
:03:58. > :04:00.bringing aid to the people affected. We will see what happens with the
:04:01. > :04:04.administration at that point which will be a big test. How big a test
:04:05. > :04:12.is a natural disaster like this for a President. We all remember what
:04:13. > :04:16.happened to George Bush with Hurricane Katrina who just flew over
:04:17. > :04:19.the scene and that was met with condemnation by many. The problem
:04:20. > :04:23.with George W Bush's response was the apparent disorganisation at
:04:24. > :04:26.federal level, Fema, the emergency management agency, was not doing a
:04:27. > :04:33.very good job of coordinating between the different state agency
:04:34. > :04:37.and government and there was an optics problem as well, George W
:04:38. > :04:42.Bush captured playing the guitar when the hurricane was hitting,
:04:43. > :04:45.flying over the disaster area, he appeared looking out of the window,
:04:46. > :04:48.not taking it as seriously as many people wanted him to. It's obvious
:04:49. > :04:53.Donald Trump has tried to learn from those lessons and been active on
:04:54. > :04:56.Twitter with his comments today, going there twice, these are the
:04:57. > :05:00.sorts of things a President can do to reassure the nation that he is on
:05:01. > :05:04.top of the situation. We forget, though, that George W Bush earlier
:05:05. > :05:13.had overseen some successful disaster relief efforts in Florida
:05:14. > :05:17.during the 2003, early 2004. So it's not impossible to manage this, even
:05:18. > :05:21.for somebody like George W Bush. The potential for stumbling and
:05:22. > :05:26.potential pitfalls are great and we saw what happened and it essentially
:05:27. > :05:29.wrecked George W Bush's Presidency. Is there a sense in Washington that
:05:30. > :05:32.everybody for the moment is watching this on fold and being dealt with
:05:33. > :05:38.before the criticism of how the President might be handling it
:05:39. > :05:41.really begins? That's right. I think we are hearing some criticism of
:05:42. > :05:46.local officials about whether Houston should have been evacuated
:05:47. > :05:50.or not. Mind you, Houston is a city of upwards of 6 million people and
:05:51. > :05:52.to introduce widespread evacuation in the city would have been
:05:53. > :05:57.difficult to impossible but that will not stop people from
:05:58. > :06:00.second-guessing him. After any disaster they should be an amount of
:06:01. > :06:04.analysis on what did and did not work, how to improve force of the
:06:05. > :06:09.real test as I mentioned for the Trump administration, however, will
:06:10. > :06:13.be the rebuilding re-efforts, what to do with these people who have
:06:14. > :06:20.been evacuated and displaced and where to put them. That was the
:06:21. > :06:23.problem after Sandy hit New Jersey and New York, people were in
:06:24. > :06:27.trailers for a long time and it was a sore spot for the residents
:06:28. > :06:32.displaced. Anthony Zurcher, thank you, with us from Washington.
:06:33. > :06:35.The French President Emmanuel Macron announced that European and African
:06:36. > :06:39.leaders meeting in Paris have agreed a plan to curb the flow of migrants
:06:40. > :06:44.across the Mediterranean. We have more details on that coming up. To
:06:45. > :06:49.put this into context first, 120,000 people are thought to have entered
:06:50. > :06:54.Europe by sea so far this year according to the UN. More than 2400
:06:55. > :06:59.are thought to have died trying to reach Europe like that. This map we
:07:00. > :07:05.can show you has been put together from the EU emergencies response
:07:06. > :07:08.coordination Centre and it shows the central Mediterranean migration
:07:09. > :07:12.routes by many on their way into Europe. To find out what came out of
:07:13. > :07:16.today's talks I've spoken to the BBC's regional Europe editor. It is
:07:17. > :07:20.essentially a 3-point plan, some things we have heard before, they
:07:21. > :07:23.want to tackle people smuggling may delete coming from Libya, so they
:07:24. > :07:28.want to tackle people smugglers in Libya. The second point is to
:07:29. > :07:34.bolster security and the rule of law in Libya as well. There are about
:07:35. > :07:38.800,000 people in camps waiting for smugglers to take them across the
:07:39. > :07:42.Mediterranean, and many of these camps are run by the smuggling gangs
:07:43. > :07:46.themselves and criminals, and they want to do something about that. The
:07:47. > :07:51.third element would be providing more development aid to the
:07:52. > :07:53.countries downstream of Libya to stop the migrants coming through
:07:54. > :07:58.Libya in the first place, and that means places like Nigeria and Chad
:07:59. > :08:04.whose presidents were both present at today's meeting. We didn't just
:08:05. > :08:08.have European leaders, we also had African leaders present as well
:08:09. > :08:13.listening in and helping to make decisions -- new
:08:14. > :08:19.They were pressed into the big Europe- Africa Summit in Valletta
:08:20. > :08:24.when they came up for another plan for development aid. The fact they
:08:25. > :08:35.were there to really stressed that matter that you've got to tackle the
:08:36. > :08:40.problem at its root, and that means, as President of Niger said, you've
:08:41. > :08:45.got to give the people who do the smuggling another means of living
:08:46. > :08:49.otherwise why would they give it up? When you consider the state a
:08:50. > :08:54.country like Libya is in it is a difficult situation. They have the
:08:55. > :08:57.government in Tripoli and the alternative government controlling
:08:58. > :09:02.most of eastern Libya and they have not really reached a solution yet.
:09:03. > :09:09.That is a major problem. You have also got the problem that if they do
:09:10. > :09:15.institute some kind of centres to process asylum applications in Niger
:09:16. > :09:19.and Chad, won't the migrants simply try and evade those if they realise
:09:20. > :09:21.they have no chance of being accepted and find even more
:09:22. > :09:26.dangerous routes of getting across the Mediterranean into Europe? Mike
:09:27. > :09:28.Sanders. Now, let's start the sport on
:09:29. > :09:34.Outside Source with tennis because the US open is under way at Flushing
:09:35. > :09:39.Meadows. On the men's side of the draw Rafael Nadal is number one
:09:40. > :09:41.seed. In the women's Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic is
:09:42. > :09:44.the number one player at the tournament and all eyes will be on
:09:45. > :09:49.this player, Maria Sharapova, who takes to the Court in a few hours'
:09:50. > :09:55.time. What is her first Grand Slam appearance since serving a drugs
:09:56. > :10:01.ban. It is a really big occasion for her, isn't it? It is a big occasion
:10:02. > :10:05.for Maria Sharapova. Back to Sunday before we get a Maria Sharapova. The
:10:06. > :10:10.world number seven Johanna Konta has been knocked out in the first round
:10:11. > :10:14.by Aleksandra Krunic, beating her in three sets. Konta R1 the opening set
:10:15. > :10:19.but lost the next two, Krunic ranked 78 in the world, only the second
:10:20. > :10:23.time ever she has beaten a player inside the top ten. After making the
:10:24. > :10:27.Wimbledon semifinals last month Johanna Konta has gone out in the
:10:28. > :10:32.first round in New York at the US Open. Maria Sharapova has form at
:10:33. > :10:35.the US Open, in 2006 she won the event and plays world number two
:10:36. > :10:39.Simona Halep in a couple of hours' time. Coming back from those 15
:10:40. > :10:42.month drugs ban, this is her first Grand Slam. She pulled out of
:10:43. > :10:46.Wimbledon with injury, the French Open did not give her a wild card,
:10:47. > :10:52.so this is going to be her first Grand Slam of the season. The last
:10:53. > :10:57.couple of years after coming back from the 15 months drugs ban.
:10:58. > :11:00.Garbine Muguruza went through beating Varvara Lepchenko in
:11:01. > :11:06.straight sets rather easily. She moves through to the second round
:11:07. > :11:08.and will play two and Ying-Ying Duan stop in the women's game plenty to
:11:09. > :11:14.look forward to, no doubt whatsoever.
:11:15. > :11:17.Thank you very much from the BBC sports Centre.
:11:18. > :11:22.Boxing is a tough sport, not one you would normally associate with
:11:23. > :11:26.pensioners but in the South African township of Cosmo City one local gym
:11:27. > :11:29.is working hard to train grannies how to protect themselves while
:11:30. > :11:44.improving their fitness. Take a look at these ladies.
:11:45. > :11:50.One, two. If somebody tried to attack me I
:11:51. > :11:59.would punch them really, really I would hit him badly.
:12:00. > :12:07.Just go one, two, one, two. Right now we have more than about 30
:12:08. > :12:34.ladies, we take them from 60 and above. On your guard. On your guard.
:12:35. > :12:39.I have never trained somebody that old. I have always thought they are
:12:40. > :12:44.fragile, only to realise there is more to them and more to what they
:12:45. > :12:47.wanted to do so I gave them the opportunity and they ended up
:12:48. > :12:51.training me instead of me training them because their energy level was
:12:52. > :12:57.just too high. You know, I have found the team helped me a lot
:12:58. > :13:04.because I have diabetes, and I have asthma, high blood, and I found my
:13:05. > :13:11.diabetes and my high blood coming back to normal. I would like to say,
:13:12. > :13:15.support your elders, they need your support, wherever you see them,
:13:16. > :13:18.encourage them because at home that they are more than what you think
:13:19. > :13:21.they are and the more life you give them to give you fulfilment within
:13:22. > :13:52.yourself as well. Let's move. Let's move. Do not mess
:13:53. > :13:57.with them, that was brilliant. Stay with us on Outside Source. Still to
:13:58. > :13:59.come: we will take you to Iraq where government forces say they are on
:14:00. > :14:01.the brink of defeating so-called Islamic state in one of the last
:14:02. > :14:11.remaining strongholds. It's been the hottest late August
:14:12. > :14:15.bank holiday for 50 years in parts of the UK, which means hundreds of
:14:16. > :14:18.thousands of revellers have been enjoying the sunshine at the Notting
:14:19. > :14:22.Hill Carnival in London. Even as some people were enjoying
:14:23. > :14:25.festivities today, some carnival participants were already planning
:14:26. > :14:28.for next year's revelries. Elaine Dunkley has been in west London all
:14:29. > :14:32.day soaking up the atmosphere there. Everyone can be a king
:14:33. > :14:36.or queen at carnival. It's flamboyant,
:14:37. > :14:38.eccentric, extravagant. The heroes of the sound
:14:39. > :14:55.system, playing to crowds There was fierce competition
:14:56. > :14:59.amongst the DJs. This sound system, we're
:15:00. > :15:02.giving a message, yeah? A message of love and
:15:03. > :15:12.unity for everybody. But, as I hear the music,
:15:13. > :15:14.and that bass line resonates through my body, like I say,
:15:15. > :15:17.it's a spirit that wakes up, and it's just higher, higher,
:15:18. > :15:20.higher, until you just go, oh! Carnival is the Caribbean,
:15:21. > :15:29.with its culture and music. A celebration born out
:15:30. > :15:32.of the struggle of the West Indian immigrants living in London
:15:33. > :15:33.in the 1960s. They refused to be beaten, and so,
:15:34. > :15:38.with colour and pride, they marched proudly
:15:39. > :15:40.through the streets of Notting Hill. Today, it's the biggest
:15:41. > :15:44.street party in Europe. In terms of visitor numbers,
:15:45. > :15:46.Notting Hill is ten times There are 70 performing stages,
:15:47. > :15:58.and 40 sound systems. But, yeah, I really
:15:59. > :16:04.enjoy Carnival here. It is a one-year thing, the people
:16:05. > :16:11.that make the costumes. We've been doing it for 24 years
:16:12. > :16:15.now, it's part of our life. Once this is done, we start
:16:16. > :16:21.planning next year. And so, as the sun sets on another
:16:22. > :16:50.Notting Hill Carnival, You're watching Outside Source live
:16:51. > :16:55.from the BBC newsroom. The top story: and there is already
:16:56. > :16:58.catastrophic flooding in the US state of Texas, being described as
:16:59. > :17:04.unprecedented, and the water level is expected to rise even further
:17:05. > :17:08.over the coming days. Let's move to Iraq, because the
:17:09. > :17:13.government says it is preparing to reclaim the city of Tal Afar from
:17:14. > :17:16.so-called Islamic State after a week of intense fighting. It lies to the
:17:17. > :17:19.north of the country near the Syrian border, it is one of the militant
:17:20. > :17:23.group's last remaining strongholds and we can show you the latest
:17:24. > :17:27.pictures from the battle ground and you might be able to see some of the
:17:28. > :17:32.government troops making a V shape with their fingers indicating
:17:33. > :17:37.victory. Military officials said they faced tough resistance from IS
:17:38. > :17:40.on Monday and say they are being slowed by snipers, booby traps and
:17:41. > :17:46.roadside bombs. I have been speaking to BBC Arabic's reporter about the
:17:47. > :17:49.difficulty of getting Tal Afar back under government control. Tal Afar,
:17:50. > :17:53.according to the Iraqi government, is already back to the Iraqi army.
:17:54. > :17:58.The important thing now is that the battle has moved from Tal Afar to
:17:59. > :18:04.another smaller town and that town is basically 15 kilometres from Tal
:18:05. > :18:13.Afar, it is smaller but it is more important as it is closer to Raqqa,
:18:14. > :18:20.the town in Syria considered to be the caliphate of so-called Islamic
:18:21. > :18:25.State. The importance of that is according to the Iraqi government,
:18:26. > :18:32.Tal Afar has fallen under the Iraqi government in one week, which
:18:33. > :18:38.considers to be very fast falling back under the Iraqi government. If
:18:39. > :18:43.this proves to be right it will be like a landmark for the Iraqi
:18:44. > :18:48.government given that its 2000 fighters of Isis being defeated in
:18:49. > :18:51.one week. Because battles in other strategic towns and cities we have
:18:52. > :18:56.heard the news they were about to retake it and then it has been a big
:18:57. > :19:03.delay and weeks or months before they actually did. Yes, the Iraqi
:19:04. > :19:05.army say they have been using light weaponry, which is very
:19:06. > :19:12.strategically important for them to be using that, but there is one
:19:13. > :19:19.factor that we might be looking into with importance, which is that most
:19:20. > :19:23.of the fighters of Isis ran from Mosul, especially western Mosul, two
:19:24. > :19:29.Tal Afar, where foreigners running from this town to that town, so
:19:30. > :19:35.foreigners are really easy to define from the Iraqi Turkmen is living in
:19:36. > :19:40.Tal Afar. That was one point that made it easy to target them if that
:19:41. > :19:44.proves to be right. When these towns fall, as they continue to do, where
:19:45. > :19:52.does this leave so-called Islamic State? Thereafter two ways for them
:19:53. > :19:58.to go. Either for them to run into the tunnels and reappear in Raqqa in
:19:59. > :20:04.Syria, which is a little difficult for them to do now, because the way
:20:05. > :20:08.to do that is really not easy, or appear somewhere else in Iraq, which
:20:09. > :20:16.is very difficult for them to go. So we can say that by the end of the
:20:17. > :20:20.battle in Mosul, the end of the Islamic State in, we cannot say that
:20:21. > :20:27.it already ended, but it is about to end. By the end of Islamic State in,
:20:28. > :20:30.in Mosul, Tal Afar and a few other pockets in Iraq, the end of Islamic
:20:31. > :20:36.State in is about to happen in probably a few months. The problem
:20:37. > :20:43.is, they can form other pockets under other names of the Islamic
:20:44. > :20:47.State, and probably with different strategies, if you'd like to name
:20:48. > :20:51.it. So these people might pop up with a different flag that still
:20:52. > :20:54.prisoners and colour problem for the Iraqi government? Absolutely, and
:20:55. > :20:58.with different strategies as well. The problem is, according to a
:20:59. > :21:03.report that we played on BBC News on BBC Arabic a few years ago -- a few
:21:04. > :21:07.days ago, they are changing their strategies and reappearing in
:21:08. > :21:10.Europe, which is really dangerous now, because they are using
:21:11. > :21:14.different tactics. They might change their tactics and reappear in
:21:15. > :21:22.Europe, which means that the preparations in Europe and in the
:21:23. > :21:26.United States are going to increase, like their defences in those places,
:21:27. > :21:29.because they cannot follow the same strategies that they have been
:21:30. > :21:35.following since 2014 in the Middle East.
:21:36. > :21:39.BBC Arabic's Newsnight presenter. To South Africa now where five men
:21:40. > :21:42.appeared in court facing murder and conspiracy to murder charges in the
:21:43. > :21:45.story of alleged cannibalism that has gripped the country. They were
:21:46. > :21:49.arrested after one of them believed to be a traditional healer handed
:21:50. > :21:58.himself over to police told them he was tired of eating human flesh. Our
:21:59. > :22:02.correspondent was in court. Five men appearing in a South
:22:03. > :22:06.African court facing murder and cannibalism charges. The family of
:22:07. > :22:13.the young woman they allegedly murdered wants justice. The suspects
:22:14. > :22:19.are accused of killing 25-year-old Zanele Hlatshwayo, cutting her up,
:22:20. > :22:24.and eating parts of her body. Apparently to make themselves
:22:25. > :22:27.wealthy. One of the suspects, a traditional healer, went to the
:22:28. > :22:33.local police station and confessed to being tired of eating human
:22:34. > :22:39.flesh. He showed the police officers a hand and a foot as evidence. It
:22:40. > :22:42.had been days since Zanele Hlatshwayo disappeared and her
:22:43. > :22:51.dismembered body was found here, buried under these rocks. South
:22:52. > :22:56.Africa's traditional healers organisation has condemned these
:22:57. > :23:03.acts saying ritual killings are not part of healing. It is shocking to
:23:04. > :23:09.the country and it is not healing, of course not, it is cannibalism, if
:23:10. > :23:13.anything is associated with cannibalism should be criminality.
:23:14. > :23:18.This house was rented by the traditional healer accused of
:23:19. > :23:22.cannibalism. TRANSLATION: Tenants often complained of the foul smell
:23:23. > :23:25.which came from the traditional healer's house. I was shocked by his
:23:26. > :23:33.arrest, I still cannot believe that my brother is also implicated.
:23:34. > :23:42.And today, hundreds protested outside the court demanding to see
:23:43. > :23:47.the five suspects. The accused who abandoned the place were taken to a
:23:48. > :23:51.nearby prison for their own safety. Some of these protesters are
:23:52. > :23:55.demanding that the suspects be denied bail. They say it is time for
:23:56. > :23:59.them to take the law into their own hands, and yet not too far from here
:24:00. > :24:20.the family is grieving the loss of one of their own.
:24:21. > :24:29.TRANSLATION: Her bloodied clothes showed that she died a horrific
:24:30. > :24:37.death. I can only imagine how she begged her killers to spare her
:24:38. > :24:44.life. BBC News, KwaZulu-Natal.
:24:45. > :24:49.More on that story on the BBC website and also more on the
:24:50. > :24:53.situation in Texas as the fallout from storm Harvey continues. The
:24:54. > :24:58.flood levels unprecedented are still rising and expected to keep doing so
:24:59. > :25:02.over the next few days. I will be back at the same time tomorrow. From
:25:03. > :25:07.me and the rest of the team in London, goodbye.
:25:08. > :25:16.Hello, some mixed weather on the way over the next ten days. We are
:25:17. > :25:18.unlikely to break records whether it be for rainfall or temperatures,