:00:12. > :00:13.Hello, I'm Nuala McGovern, this is Outside Source.
:00:14. > :00:16.President Trump is in Texas as devastating flooding continues.
:00:17. > :00:19.He says he wants the relief effort to stand as an example of how
:00:20. > :00:26.We want to be looked at in five years and ten years from now as,
:00:27. > :00:28.this is the way to do it. But there's a new flood warning
:00:29. > :00:31.to tens of thousands of people in Houston - two dams
:00:32. > :00:39.are overflowing. Anger as North Korea
:00:40. > :00:48.launches its latest missile, TRANSLATION: The missile that passed
:00:49. > :00:49.over our nation poses the greatest and greatest threats to our nation
:00:50. > :00:50.ever. military exercises are provoking
:00:51. > :00:55.Pyongyang. The Chilean president
:00:56. > :00:57.has signed a bill that would legalise same-sex marriage,
:00:58. > :01:00.and sent it to congress for debate. We'll speak to our regional
:01:01. > :01:22.Americas editor about that. We start in Texas where
:01:23. > :01:25.President Trump has arrived to assess the damage left
:01:26. > :01:27.in the wake of tropical Before we bring you the latest
:01:28. > :01:31.from the President's visit, let's first touch on the latest
:01:32. > :01:37.concern for authorities. Just outside the city of Houston,
:01:38. > :01:41.are the Addicks and Barker dams. Their reservoirs have now
:01:42. > :01:45.been pushed to capacity by the unrelenting rainfall,
:01:46. > :01:48.causing the dams to overspill. While that won't cause
:01:49. > :01:50.the dams to fail - it will add to flooding
:01:51. > :01:53.in the areas close to the main This is the Barker Dam,
:01:54. > :02:05.officials had been trying to release water from the reservoirs to try
:02:06. > :02:11.and prevent those overspills. About 30,000 people have been driven
:02:12. > :02:21.into emergency shelters and now the Mayor of Houston has
:02:22. > :02:26.made a plea for federal aid to shelter further 10,000
:02:27. > :02:28.with existing shelters bursting As I mentioned earlier,
:02:29. > :02:32.President Trump They touched down in Corpus Christi
:02:33. > :02:38.near where the then Hurricane There they received a briefing
:02:39. > :02:43.on relief and recovery efforts with local leadership
:02:44. > :02:48.and relief organisations. That was the governor of Texas next
:02:49. > :02:53.to Donald Trump. After that briefing the President
:02:54. > :02:57.went outside and waved a Lone Star flag, the flag of Texas,
:02:58. > :03:02.to the crowd waiting for him. He also said a few words,
:03:03. > :03:12.let's take a listen. I just want to say, we love you. You
:03:13. > :03:16.are special. We are here to take care. It's going well, and I want to
:03:17. > :03:21.thank you for coming out. We are going to get you back and operating
:03:22. > :03:28.immediately. Thank you, everybody. What a crowd, what a turnout. I will
:03:29. > :03:35.tell you, this is historic, epic, what happened. But you know what, it
:03:36. > :03:36.happened in Texas and Texas can handle anything. Thank you all,
:03:37. > :03:38.folks. Our correspondent Laura Trevelyan
:03:39. > :03:47.who is at La Grange in Texas - Good to have you back with us. Tell
:03:48. > :03:51.us a little bit of what are the main lines you are hearing about where
:03:52. > :04:03.you are. You are about equities to between Austin and Houston. --
:04:04. > :04:09.equity still -- equal distance. We have the mayor of La Grange with us
:04:10. > :04:13.on the BBC. Now you have had a chance to inspect the damage caused
:04:14. > :04:18.by this historic flooding your experience, what is your assessment?
:04:19. > :04:22.The days we planned for the hurricane and the disaster and the
:04:23. > :04:26.preplanning was really good, so it has left us in a pretty good
:04:27. > :04:33.position. But the heartbreak of it comes now in UCD human element
:04:34. > :04:39.involved and the loss... We have had no loss of life so far, but the loss
:04:40. > :04:46.of property is so severe. The city has never seen the likes of the
:04:47. > :04:51.rainfall and hurricane effects before. The river was projected to
:04:52. > :04:59.go up about 49 feet and it actually went up 54 feet. We anticipated
:05:00. > :05:05.almost correct, but it surprised us a little bit. We have about 250
:05:06. > :05:09.residents that are finding they have no homes. That's the building
:05:10. > :05:14.itself. There are more families and people in those families. You are
:05:15. > :05:19.talking to us right now in front of a mobile home park. So many people
:05:20. > :05:24.have had to leave those homes. Where are they now? We have an evacuation
:05:25. > :05:31.centre set up for them. We encourage them to seek out family and friends
:05:32. > :05:36.to shelter with. Not realising the damage was going to be so severe.
:05:37. > :05:41.Right now the city is in a mode of short-term planning for housing for
:05:42. > :05:47.these people who have been displaced. At least 130 families
:05:48. > :05:53.will not be able to return to their homes. These were those that were in
:05:54. > :05:56.the mobile homes and manufactured homes. President Trump is here now
:05:57. > :06:01.in a state of Texas, being briefed on everything that has happened. Is
:06:02. > :06:10.there more help you could do with here in La Grange? We have been
:06:11. > :06:14.contacted by our congressmen, Mike McCall, and the senator, Ted Cruz.
:06:15. > :06:25.We have contact numbers to get help from them. We have been in contact
:06:26. > :06:31.with FEMA. The waters recede in this morning. We have crews going into
:06:32. > :06:37.properties that were flooded and deeming them safe for people to
:06:38. > :06:41.enter. We haven't completed the assessment as to what the needs will
:06:42. > :06:45.be from the federal government. Did you ever dream the Colorado River
:06:46. > :06:50.would break its banks to this extent, and as you said, Crest at 54
:06:51. > :06:59.feet. This is inland Texas, not on the Gulf Coast. Nothing like this.
:07:00. > :07:04.They built the Highland Lakes in Austin after 1935 which alleviated a
:07:05. > :07:10.lot of the flooding occurring down this way. I think it was 62 feet,
:07:11. > :07:16.the modern-day high. We haven't seen that since the Highland Lakes were
:07:17. > :07:20.built. This is totally out of the realm. I have been mayor for 17
:07:21. > :07:25.years and this is the first disaster like this we have had. What has been
:07:26. > :07:31.the impact on you personally? You have been mayor for 17 years, so to
:07:32. > :07:36.see the devastation in the heart of your community? It's
:07:37. > :07:39.heart-wrenching. An experience like this is heart-warming and
:07:40. > :07:44.heartbreaking at the same time. Your heart breaks for the community, it's
:07:45. > :07:48.like a family, and for family members who are suffering. Yet it is
:07:49. > :07:52.heart-warming because the whole community pulls together and comes
:07:53. > :07:55.out. We are inundated with phone calls. I will get back and there
:07:56. > :07:59.will be messages all over my desk from people calling to offer
:08:00. > :08:07.assistance. It's heart-warming to see that a disaster can pull people
:08:08. > :08:13.together even tighter than they were before. Thank you so much for
:08:14. > :08:19.joining us on BBC News. That's the view from the mayor of this small
:08:20. > :08:21.town of the last 17 years. Like she said, heartbreaking and
:08:22. > :08:25.heart-warming all at the same time. The aftermath of hurricane Harvey
:08:26. > :08:33.and the devastation it has wrought here. Thank you to you both.
:08:34. > :08:35.The international condemnation over North Korea's latest missile
:08:36. > :08:38.The latest launch travelled over Japan in the early
:08:39. > :08:42.The UN Security Council is meeting right now in an emergency meeting.
:08:43. > :08:50.This was US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley before the meeting.
:08:51. > :08:54.The United States, along with Japan and South Korea, have called for an
:08:55. > :09:00.emergency security council meeting this afternoon. We are going to talk
:09:01. > :09:05.about what else is left to do to North Korea. No country should have
:09:06. > :09:10.missiles flying over them, like those 130 million people in Japan.
:09:11. > :09:13.It's unacceptable. They have violated every single UN Security
:09:14. > :09:15.Council resolution we have had. I think something serious has to
:09:16. > :09:18.happen. The ambassador Nikki Haley. What de we know about this latest
:09:19. > :09:22.launch by North Korea? It was fired from an airport
:09:23. > :09:24.near the North Korean It travelled over the Japanese
:09:25. > :09:27.island of Hokkaido, This graphic shows
:09:28. > :09:36.the actual trajectory. It travelled 2700 kilometres and
:09:37. > :09:42.reached a height of 550 kilometres. And this is the missile believed
:09:43. > :09:46.to have been launched. It's a Hwasong-12, a newly developed
:09:47. > :09:53.intermediate range weapon. This was the response from
:09:54. > :10:04.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. TRANSLATION: North Korean missile
:10:05. > :10:08.has launched and passed over our nation and landed in the Pacific
:10:09. > :10:11.Ocean. The government had been monitoring the launch from the
:10:12. > :10:17.moment it was fired. We have done our utmost to ensure the safety of
:10:18. > :10:21.the people. The missile which passed over our nation represents the
:10:22. > :10:25.greatest and gravest threat to our nation ever. It's also a threat to
:10:26. > :10:27.the peace and stability of the Asia Pacific region.
:10:28. > :10:32.That was Japan's response - this was Donald Trump's.
:10:33. > :10:34.In a White House statement the President said...
:10:35. > :10:38."Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase
:10:39. > :10:40.the North Korean regime's isolation in the region and among
:10:41. > :10:51.They say the blame for the escalation lies
:10:52. > :11:06.TRANSLATION: The US have held one round after another of joint
:11:07. > :11:15.military exercises, and they exerted military pressure on the DPRK. After
:11:16. > :11:21.so many cycles they feel they are near to the peaceful settlement of
:11:22. > :11:25.the issue. The facts are proven that the pressure and assumptions cannot
:11:26. > :11:30.fundamentally solve the issue. The issue is complex and sensitive, and
:11:31. > :11:36.the only where out is through dialogue and consultation to
:11:37. > :11:42.peacefully address the legitimate concerns. Barbara Plett-Usher is in
:11:43. > :11:49.Washington, DC for us. Good to have you with us on outside source. A
:11:50. > :11:56.number of hours since this missile was actually launched. How would you
:11:57. > :12:03.say are the main talking points in Washington, DC in response? You are
:12:04. > :12:06.saying they're about Mr Trump's response, talking about condemning
:12:07. > :12:11.the act and also saying all military options are on the table, all
:12:12. > :12:15.options are on the table, suggesting military ones are. That's something
:12:16. > :12:19.every administration has said, all options are on the table, including
:12:20. > :12:23.military ones. Before it has been seen as barely credible because of
:12:24. > :12:27.the potential risk of North Korea having a deadly counterstrike
:12:28. > :12:30.against South Korea. But this administration has really made a
:12:31. > :12:34.point of trying to make it seem more credible. We had some officials
:12:35. > :12:38.talking openly about the possibility of what they called a pre-emptive
:12:39. > :12:41.war, and by that they mean striking first to take out North Korea's
:12:42. > :12:46.nuclear facilities. We don't know how much of that is actually
:12:47. > :12:49.posturing. Clearly that's something the administration wants North Korea
:12:50. > :12:54.and China to take seriously. We had some of that in Mr Trump's
:12:55. > :13:02.statement. Concrete details we had around that, we had the secretary of
:13:03. > :13:04.defence talking more in defence of terms saying that they want to
:13:05. > :13:07.strengthen missile defences in the region, in Japan and South Korea.
:13:08. > :13:11.They also want to strengthen military preparedness to strengthen
:13:12. > :13:17.themselves against missile attack from North Korea. He as well as the
:13:18. > :13:21.Secretary of State and other senior administrative officials say the
:13:22. > :13:24.situation now is a diplomatic one of economic and diplomatic pressure.
:13:25. > :13:27.Part of the discussion has been about the military exercises that
:13:28. > :13:32.have been carried out, some calling them a provocation. Is there ever
:13:33. > :13:38.any talk about perhaps the US pulling back on that, or minimising
:13:39. > :13:44.the amount of exercising they carry out? No, the reverse, actually. They
:13:45. > :13:50.say quite strongly that these are defensive measures that the military
:13:51. > :13:53.exercises are to try to prepare South Korea and Japan, mostly South
:13:54. > :13:58.Korea at the moment, to defend themselves against North Korea and
:13:59. > :14:01.as North Korea demonstrates more and more of a threat they become more
:14:02. > :14:06.and more justified. Certainly the Chinese have tried to work with
:14:07. > :14:11.this, saying they should all step back a bit. Freeze or end those
:14:12. > :14:15.military exercises and the North Koreans stop their tests, freeze
:14:16. > :14:19.their nuclear weapons production, and maybe we could get to talks. But
:14:20. > :14:23.the Americans have been quite clear they don't want to equate the two.
:14:24. > :14:27.Barbara Plett-Usher from Washington, DC, thank you.
:14:28. > :14:29.Stay with us on Outside Source - still to come.
:14:30. > :14:32.Chile's president signs a bill to legalise marriage and adoptions
:14:33. > :14:35.It's a move that follows a string of liberal reforms
:14:36. > :14:47.in one of Latin America's most conservative nations.
:14:48. > :14:52.President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has fresh
:14:53. > :14:56.criticism over the UK Government over its handling of Brexit
:14:57. > :14:58.negotiations. It is the latest papers are not satisfactory. Here is
:14:59. > :15:03.how European correspondent Damian Grammaticas.
:15:04. > :15:05.Jean-Claude Juncker, it is important to listen to him
:15:06. > :15:07.because his negotiators in that building are the ones
:15:08. > :15:10.who are sitting today and tomorrow with the UK side.
:15:11. > :15:12.He appointed Michel Barnier to conduct the negotiations and they
:15:13. > :15:16.will make the recommendations to the other countries
:15:17. > :15:19.about whether the UK has done enough to unravel those issues to do
:15:20. > :15:22.And what we are hearing very clearly from the chief
:15:23. > :15:26.negotiator Michel Barnier and from Jean-Claude Juncker
:15:27. > :15:29.and from the president of the European Parliament,
:15:30. > :15:31.a real spread of opinion, is that the UK, they believe,
:15:32. > :15:35.They are not satisfied the UK has delivered enough
:15:36. > :16:01.Outside source life from the BBC newsroom. Our top story...
:16:02. > :16:03.President Trump is in Texas as devastating flooding continues.
:16:04. > :16:06.He says he wants the relief effort to stand as an example of how
:16:07. > :16:12.We can take a look at some of the stories our language services are
:16:13. > :16:14.covering today. Heavy rain has brought India's
:16:15. > :16:16.financial capital Mumbai to a virtual standstill -
:16:17. > :16:18.flooding streets and Dozens of flights and local train
:16:19. > :16:21.services were cancelled. A Bangladesh court has found
:16:22. > :16:29.the owner of a garment factory that collapsed in 2013
:16:30. > :16:34.guilty of corruption. More than 1,100 people died
:16:35. > :16:37.in the collapse near Dhaka. Sohel Rana received the maximum
:16:38. > :16:39.three-year sentence for failing to declare his personal wealth
:16:40. > :16:41.to Bangladesh's He faces further charges,
:16:42. > :16:50.including murder, over the disaster. One of the most popular
:16:51. > :16:53.stories on our website - British actor Ed Skrein has pulled
:16:54. > :16:56.out of a role in the upcoming That's after a backlash
:16:57. > :17:04.because he was cast as a character of
:17:05. > :17:06.mixed-Asian heritage. Mr Skrein said he did not know
:17:07. > :17:09.the race of the character The President of Chile,
:17:10. > :17:20.Michelle Bachelet, has sent a bill to congress to legalize marriages
:17:21. > :17:24.and adoptions by same-sex couples. For President Michelle Bachelet,
:17:25. > :17:27.who is currently the only female leader in Latin America,
:17:28. > :17:30.this bill is the latest in a wave of liberal reforms
:17:31. > :17:45.that she was determined to launch TRANSLATION: It cannot be that old
:17:46. > :17:49.prejudices are stronger than love. That's why, as promised, Chile is
:17:50. > :17:54.now taking this historic step in favour of marriage. A child will be
:17:55. > :17:57.able to be legally adopted by a heterosexual or homosexual married
:17:58. > :17:58.couple, just by the fact they are married, without needing to modify
:17:59. > :18:00.adoption laws. Well there has been some
:18:01. > :18:03.reaction on Twitter. Americas Quarterly has tweeted "
:18:04. > :18:07.With just 6 months left in office, Bachelet's progressive agenda may
:18:08. > :18:10.finally be taking shape in Chile. Well, the problem for this bill
:18:11. > :18:14.is President Bachelet does indeed not have long left in her
:18:15. > :18:17.presidency and this is her conservative rival Sebastian Pinera
:18:18. > :18:18.who is currently favoured in the polls to win
:18:19. > :18:27.the upcoming election. Let's speak now to Candace
:18:28. > :18:40.Piette who is the BBC's This move by Bachelet, was it
:18:41. > :18:44.expected? Chile is a very conservative society and it's taken
:18:45. > :18:49.a long time to get here. A series of legislative steps in the last few
:18:50. > :18:55.years to get this position. Even today there is a lot of resistance.
:18:56. > :19:00.You have talked about Pinera, the conservative politician. His view is
:19:01. > :19:03.that he completely opposes this bill and believes marriage should remain
:19:04. > :19:09.something that is about procreation between a man and woman. So we are
:19:10. > :19:14.seeing now that Bachelet will be leaving office in March and there
:19:15. > :19:17.will be an election. If Mr Pinera gets in in November then we don't
:19:18. > :19:22.have much time to have this bill passed. It's only a couple of
:19:23. > :19:26.months. If Congress needs to debate it and reach a decision. Absolutely,
:19:27. > :19:30.and this will take a long time. The process has been along all the steps
:19:31. > :19:35.that Chile has taken towards more liberal legislation. You have to
:19:36. > :19:46.remember that Chile is a country that even in 1990 was under military
:19:47. > :19:50.rule underpin O'Shea -- under Pinochet. This has been welcomed by
:19:51. > :19:56.gay advocates in Chile saying it's a step in the right direction towards
:19:57. > :19:59.getting rid of discrimination. That's why it matters so much. They
:20:00. > :20:05.are pleased with what has happened but there is a long way to do. Why
:20:06. > :20:09.did Bachelet choose now to push the agenda? She is a woman of quite
:20:10. > :20:15.liberal tendencies, although quite conservative in her own way. She did
:20:16. > :20:22.lead the UN women department of the UN for a time. I think she wanted to
:20:23. > :20:25.leave a legacy for Chile and the women of Chile and poor minorities
:20:26. > :20:33.who have been gender repressed, so to speak. This is her legacy for
:20:34. > :20:34.Chile to return it to what it once was, a liberal society. We'll what
:20:35. > :20:39.happens. The US dollar weakened today -
:20:40. > :20:44.hitting an 18 month low against the euro as the prospect
:20:45. > :20:46.of an interest rate Tropical Storm Harvey has led
:20:47. > :20:50.analysts to assume the US central bank will not want to risk curbing
:20:51. > :21:11.economic growth by raising rates. How do people understand this
:21:12. > :21:15.change? 1.20 of the dollar to the Euro. We have seen the dollar hit a
:21:16. > :21:18.16 month low against the euro. A lot of this has to do with what they
:21:19. > :21:23.think this storm will mean for the US economy as well as that North
:21:24. > :21:27.Korean missile launch. Broadly speaking there have been concerns
:21:28. > :21:32.about the strength of the US economy in the wake of this. You have the
:21:33. > :21:36.fourth-largest city in America essentially shut down for at least a
:21:37. > :21:41.week. Economists are starting to try to calculate how much that means in
:21:42. > :21:45.terms of lost economic output. Beyond that you have the oil
:21:46. > :21:50.industry, a huge and important region within the oil industry, the
:21:51. > :21:54.Houston area. About half of America's refining capacity is in
:21:55. > :21:59.that area. All of that at the moment, a lot of it is locked down,
:22:00. > :22:04.about 16% shut down because of this tropical storm. As we start to move
:22:05. > :22:09.forward, people are looking at models to say, hang on a second,
:22:10. > :22:12.this could potentially shave off one or two tenths of a percentage point
:22:13. > :22:19.of economic growth in the next quarter. That's why investors are
:22:20. > :22:22.starting to bet, if we thought the Federal Reserve would raise rates
:22:23. > :22:27.one more time this year because of this, they will rethink it. And
:22:28. > :22:31.getting into the North Korean missile crisis and hurricane Harvey
:22:32. > :22:36.with that answer. Drilling down in Houston, what numbers are we talking
:22:37. > :22:42.about that could actually, the amount of money that may not flow
:22:43. > :22:45.from Houston in the coming months? At the moment we are talking about
:22:46. > :22:52.businesses being shut down for at least a week. As I mentioned you
:22:53. > :22:57.have the oil industry there. There has been lots of speculation about
:22:58. > :23:02.cost, whether it's 6- $8 billion. How many billion dollars in lost
:23:03. > :23:07.output? Further down the road you will get into rebuilding. People are
:23:08. > :23:12.estimating the storm could cost, certainly not as much perhaps as
:23:13. > :23:15.hurricane Katrina did, or superstorms Sandy, but possibly on a
:23:16. > :23:21.scale after that. That's the kind of cost that they think about after
:23:22. > :23:24.this storm. When you talk about figures that big, it has a knock-on
:23:25. > :23:30.effect on the economy and that's where you get to the idea that the
:23:31. > :23:38.federal rate is lower to try to stimulate the economy and give it
:23:39. > :23:41.time to recover. That will bring some growth back to the area, all
:23:42. > :23:45.the construction required when the water recedes. Thank you for
:23:46. > :23:48.speaking to us. Australia is in the grips
:23:49. > :23:51.of a national orange shortage and some drinks manufacturers
:23:52. > :23:53.are having to import from abroad because there isn't
:23:54. > :24:07.enough home-grown fruit. Groan under the South Australian
:24:08. > :24:13.sun, these trees might look laden with oranges, but however fast they
:24:14. > :24:16.are picked, there's not to go round. Shoppers are warned they can no
:24:17. > :24:19.longer expect their juice to be made with Australian oranges, which is
:24:20. > :24:24.confusing where then seems to be plenty and shops. Jeff says growers
:24:25. > :24:28.have been hit with a perfect storm. Over the years production costs have
:24:29. > :24:33.gone up and so few have been producing Valencia oranges for
:24:34. > :24:37.juicing. But now there is a surge in demand for all oranges led by China.
:24:38. > :24:41.We have just come out of probably the worst six months in my memory. I
:24:42. > :24:50.have been in this since high school. Massive demand for even Valencia
:24:51. > :24:54.oranges. It follows through on to the Valencia season being sucked up
:24:55. > :24:58.by Asia. We finished up doing something I never thought we would
:24:59. > :25:03.do, we actually imported container after container of whole oranges,
:25:04. > :25:10.juicing Valencia oranges from Egypt, of all places. Australia exports two
:25:11. > :25:14.thirds of the food it grows, and China has become its biggest and
:25:15. > :25:22.hungriest customer. After huge success exporting iron on cold to
:25:23. > :25:27.China in the last decade, some argue Australia should become a food bowl
:25:28. > :25:31.for Asia. There is demand for oranges, apples and grapes and
:25:32. > :25:36.Australian meat. When it comes to oranges it's a trading success story
:25:37. > :25:37.that has put the squeeze on the Australian supplies. Hywel Griffith,
:25:38. > :25:39.BBC News, Adelaide. One scottish beer-maker has found
:25:40. > :25:43.a new way to keep its workers happy. Brewdog, the craft beer producer,
:25:44. > :25:46.has pledged to give 20% of its profits away -
:25:47. > :25:56.to staff and charity. If Brewdog hits its profit
:25:57. > :25:59.targets, it will giveaway $58 million dollars over
:26:00. > :26:14.the next 5 years. Two major world weather stories to
:26:15. > :26:18.bring you tonight. First of all, the catastrophic weather warning from
:26:19. > :26:21.hurricane Harvey. Over a metre has fallen at the official weather
:26:22. > :26:22.service site in