29/08/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Nuala McGovern, this is Outside Source.

President Trump is in Texas as devastating flooding continues.

He says he wants the relief effort to stand as an example of how

We want to be looked at in five years and ten years from now as,

this is the way to do it. But there's a new flood warning

to tens of thousands of people in Houston - two dams

are overflowing. Anger as North Korea

launches its latest missile, TRANSLATION: The missile that passed

over our nation poses the greatest and greatest threats to our nation

ever. military exercises are provoking

Pyongyang. The Chilean president

has signed a bill that would legalise same-sex marriage,

and sent it to congress for debate. We'll speak to our regional

Americas editor about that. We start in Texas where

President Trump has arrived to assess the damage left

in the wake of tropical Before we bring you the latest

from the President's visit, let's first touch on the latest

concern for authorities. Just outside the city of Houston,

are the Addicks and Barker dams. Their reservoirs have now

been pushed to capacity by the unrelenting rainfall,

causing the dams to overspill. While that won't cause

the dams to fail - it will add to flooding

in the areas close to the main This is the Barker Dam,

officials had been trying to release water from the reservoirs to try

and prevent those overspills. About 30,000 people have been driven

into emergency shelters and now the Mayor of Houston has

made a plea for federal aid to shelter further 10,000

with existing shelters bursting As I mentioned earlier,

President Trump They touched down in Corpus Christi

near where the then Hurricane There they received a briefing

on relief and recovery efforts with local leadership

and relief organisations. That was the governor of Texas next

to Donald Trump. After that briefing the President

went outside and waved a Lone Star flag, the flag of Texas,

to the crowd waiting for him. He also said a few words,

let's take a listen. I just want to say, we love you. You

are special. We are here to take care. It's going well, and I want to

thank you for coming out. We are going to get you back and operating

immediately. Thank you, everybody. What a crowd, what a turnout. I will

tell you, this is historic, epic, what happened. But you know what, it

happened in Texas and Texas can handle anything. Thank you all,

folks. Our correspondent Laura Trevelyan

who is at La Grange in Texas - Good to have you back with us. Tell

us a little bit of what are the main lines you are hearing about where

you are. You are about equities to between Austin and Houston. --

equity still -- equal distance. We have the mayor of La Grange with us

on the BBC. Now you have had a chance to inspect the damage caused

by this historic flooding your experience, what is your assessment?

The days we planned for the hurricane and the disaster and the

preplanning was really good, so it has left us in a pretty good

position. But the heartbreak of it comes now in UCD human element

involved and the loss... We have had no loss of life so far, but the loss

of property is so severe. The city has never seen the likes of the

rainfall and hurricane effects before. The river was projected to

go up about 49 feet and it actually went up 54 feet. We anticipated

almost correct, but it surprised us a little bit. We have about 250

residents that are finding they have no homes. That's the building

itself. There are more families and people in those families. You are

talking to us right now in front of a mobile home park. So many people

have had to leave those homes. Where are they now? We have an evacuation

centre set up for them. We encourage them to seek out family and friends

to shelter with. Not realising the damage was going to be so severe.

Right now the city is in a mode of short-term planning for housing for

these people who have been displaced. At least 130 families

will not be able to return to their homes. These were those that were in

the mobile homes and manufactured homes. President Trump is here now

in a state of Texas, being briefed on everything that has happened. Is

there more help you could do with here in La Grange? We have been

contacted by our congressmen, Mike McCall, and the senator, Ted Cruz.

We have contact numbers to get help from them. We have been in contact

with FEMA. The waters recede in this morning. We have crews going into

properties that were flooded and deeming them safe for people to

enter. We haven't completed the assessment as to what the needs will

be from the federal government. Did you ever dream the Colorado River

would break its banks to this extent, and as you said, Crest at 54

feet. This is inland Texas, not on the Gulf Coast. Nothing like this.

They built the Highland Lakes in Austin after 1935 which alleviated a

lot of the flooding occurring down this way. I think it was 62 feet,

the modern-day high. We haven't seen that since the Highland Lakes were

built. This is totally out of the realm. I have been mayor for 17

years and this is the first disaster like this we have had. What has been

the impact on you personally? You have been mayor for 17 years, so to

see the devastation in the heart of your community? It's

heart-wrenching. An experience like this is heart-warming and

heartbreaking at the same time. Your heart breaks for the community, it's

like a family, and for family members who are suffering. Yet it is

heart-warming because the whole community pulls together and comes

out. We are inundated with phone calls. I will get back and there

will be messages all over my desk from people calling to offer

assistance. It's heart-warming to see that a disaster can pull people

together even tighter than they were before. Thank you so much for

joining us on BBC News. That's the view from the mayor of this small

town of the last 17 years. Like she said, heartbreaking and

heart-warming all at the same time. The aftermath of hurricane Harvey

and the devastation it has wrought here. Thank you to you both.

The international condemnation over North Korea's latest missile

The latest launch travelled over Japan in the early

The UN Security Council is meeting right now in an emergency meeting.

This was US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley before the meeting.

The United States, along with Japan and South Korea, have called for an

emergency security council meeting this afternoon. We are going to talk

about what else is left to do to North Korea. No country should have

missiles flying over them, like those 130 million people in Japan.

It's unacceptable. They have violated every single UN Security

Council resolution we have had. I think something serious has to

happen. The ambassador Nikki Haley. What de we know about this latest

launch by North Korea? It was fired from an airport

near the North Korean It travelled over the Japanese

island of Hokkaido, This graphic shows

the actual trajectory. It travelled 2700 kilometres and

reached a height of 550 kilometres. And this is the missile believed

to have been launched. It's a Hwasong-12, a newly developed

intermediate range weapon. This was the response from

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. TRANSLATION: North Korean missile

has launched and passed over our nation and landed in the Pacific

Ocean. The government had been monitoring the launch from the

moment it was fired. We have done our utmost to ensure the safety of

the people. The missile which passed over our nation represents the

greatest and gravest threat to our nation ever. It's also a threat to

the peace and stability of the Asia Pacific region.

That was Japan's response - this was Donald Trump's.

In a White House statement the President said...

"Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase

the North Korean regime's isolation in the region and among

They say the blame for the escalation lies

TRANSLATION: The US have held one round after another of joint

military exercises, and they exerted military pressure on the DPRK. After

so many cycles they feel they are near to the peaceful settlement of

the issue. The facts are proven that the pressure and assumptions cannot

fundamentally solve the issue. The issue is complex and sensitive, and

the only where out is through dialogue and consultation to

peacefully address the legitimate concerns. Barbara Plett-Usher is in

Washington, DC for us. Good to have you with us on outside source. A

number of hours since this missile was actually launched. How would you

say are the main talking points in Washington, DC in response? You are

saying they're about Mr Trump's response, talking about condemning

the act and also saying all military options are on the table, all

options are on the table, suggesting military ones are. That's something

every administration has said, all options are on the table, including

military ones. Before it has been seen as barely credible because of

the potential risk of North Korea having a deadly counterstrike

against South Korea. But this administration has really made a

point of trying to make it seem more credible. We had some officials

talking openly about the possibility of what they called a pre-emptive

war, and by that they mean striking first to take out North Korea's

nuclear facilities. We don't know how much of that is actually

posturing. Clearly that's something the administration wants North Korea

and China to take seriously. We had some of that in Mr Trump's

statement. Concrete details we had around that, we had the secretary of

defence talking more in defence of terms saying that they want to

strengthen missile defences in the region, in Japan and South Korea.

They also want to strengthen military preparedness to strengthen

themselves against missile attack from North Korea. He as well as the

Secretary of State and other senior administrative officials say the

situation now is a diplomatic one of economic and diplomatic pressure.

Part of the discussion has been about the military exercises that

have been carried out, some calling them a provocation. Is there ever

any talk about perhaps the US pulling back on that, or minimising

the amount of exercising they carry out? No, the reverse, actually. They

say quite strongly that these are defensive measures that the military

exercises are to try to prepare South Korea and Japan, mostly South

Korea at the moment, to defend themselves against North Korea and

as North Korea demonstrates more and more of a threat they become more

and more justified. Certainly the Chinese have tried to work with

this, saying they should all step back a bit. Freeze or end those

military exercises and the North Koreans stop their tests, freeze

their nuclear weapons production, and maybe we could get to talks. But

the Americans have been quite clear they don't want to equate the two.

Barbara Plett-Usher from Washington, DC, thank you.

Stay with us on Outside Source - still to come.

Chile's president signs a bill to legalise marriage and adoptions

It's a move that follows a string of liberal reforms

in one of Latin America's most conservative nations.

President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has fresh

criticism over the UK Government over its handling of Brexit

negotiations. It is the latest papers are not satisfactory. Here is

how European correspondent Damian Grammaticas.

Jean-Claude Juncker, it is important to listen to him

because his negotiators in that building are the ones

who are sitting today and tomorrow with the UK side.

He appointed Michel Barnier to conduct the negotiations and they

will make the recommendations to the other countries

about whether the UK has done enough to unravel those issues to do

And what we are hearing very clearly from the chief

negotiator Michel Barnier and from Jean-Claude Juncker

and from the president of the European Parliament,

a real spread of opinion, is that the UK, they believe,

They are not satisfied the UK has delivered enough

Outside source life from the BBC newsroom. Our top story...

President Trump is in Texas as devastating flooding continues.

He says he wants the relief effort to stand as an example of how

We can take a look at some of the stories our language services are

covering today. Heavy rain has brought India's

financial capital Mumbai to a virtual standstill -

flooding streets and Dozens of flights and local train

services were cancelled. A Bangladesh court has found

the owner of a garment factory that collapsed in 2013

guilty of corruption. More than 1,100 people died

in the collapse near Dhaka. Sohel Rana received the maximum

three-year sentence for failing to declare his personal wealth

to Bangladesh's He faces further charges,

including murder, over the disaster. One of the most popular

stories on our website - British actor Ed Skrein has pulled

out of a role in the upcoming That's after a backlash

because he was cast as a character of

mixed-Asian heritage. Mr Skrein said he did not know

the race of the character The President of Chile,

Michelle Bachelet, has sent a bill to congress to legalize marriages

and adoptions by same-sex couples. For President Michelle Bachelet,

who is currently the only female leader in Latin America,

this bill is the latest in a wave of liberal reforms

that she was determined to launch TRANSLATION: It cannot be that old

prejudices are stronger than love. That's why, as promised, Chile is

now taking this historic step in favour of marriage. A child will be

able to be legally adopted by a heterosexual or homosexual married

couple, just by the fact they are married, without needing to modify

adoption laws. Well there has been some

reaction on Twitter. Americas Quarterly has tweeted "

With just 6 months left in office, Bachelet's progressive agenda may

finally be taking shape in Chile. Well, the problem for this bill

is President Bachelet does indeed not have long left in her

presidency and this is her conservative rival Sebastian Pinera

who is currently favoured in the polls to win

the upcoming election. Let's speak now to Candace

Piette who is the BBC's This move by Bachelet, was it

expected? Chile is a very conservative society and it's taken

a long time to get here. A series of legislative steps in the last few

years to get this position. Even today there is a lot of resistance.

You have talked about Pinera, the conservative politician. His view is

that he completely opposes this bill and believes marriage should remain

something that is about procreation between a man and woman. So we are

seeing now that Bachelet will be leaving office in March and there

will be an election. If Mr Pinera gets in in November then we don't

have much time to have this bill passed. It's only a couple of

months. If Congress needs to debate it and reach a decision. Absolutely,

and this will take a long time. The process has been along all the steps

that Chile has taken towards more liberal legislation. You have to

remember that Chile is a country that even in 1990 was under military

rule underpin O'Shea -- under Pinochet. This has been welcomed by

gay advocates in Chile saying it's a step in the right direction towards

getting rid of discrimination. That's why it matters so much. They

are pleased with what has happened but there is a long way to do. Why

did Bachelet choose now to push the agenda? She is a woman of quite

liberal tendencies, although quite conservative in her own way. She did

lead the UN women department of the UN for a time. I think she wanted to

leave a legacy for Chile and the women of Chile and poor minorities

who have been gender repressed, so to speak. This is her legacy for

Chile to return it to what it once was, a liberal society. We'll what

happens. The US dollar weakened today -

hitting an 18 month low against the euro as the prospect

of an interest rate Tropical Storm Harvey has led

analysts to assume the US central bank will not want to risk curbing

economic growth by raising rates. How do people understand this

change? 1.20 of the dollar to the Euro. We have seen the dollar hit a

16 month low against the euro. A lot of this has to do with what they

think this storm will mean for the US economy as well as that North

Korean missile launch. Broadly speaking there have been concerns

about the strength of the US economy in the wake of this. You have the

fourth-largest city in America essentially shut down for at least a

week. Economists are starting to try to calculate how much that means in

terms of lost economic output. Beyond that you have the oil

industry, a huge and important region within the oil industry, the

Houston area. About half of America's refining capacity is in

that area. All of that at the moment, a lot of it is locked down,

about 16% shut down because of this tropical storm. As we start to move

forward, people are looking at models to say, hang on a second,

this could potentially shave off one or two tenths of a percentage point

of economic growth in the next quarter. That's why investors are

starting to bet, if we thought the Federal Reserve would raise rates

one more time this year because of this, they will rethink it. And

getting into the North Korean missile crisis and hurricane Harvey

with that answer. Drilling down in Houston, what numbers are we talking

about that could actually, the amount of money that may not flow

from Houston in the coming months? At the moment we are talking about

businesses being shut down for at least a week. As I mentioned you

have the oil industry there. There has been lots of speculation about

cost, whether it's 6- $8 billion. How many billion dollars in lost

output? Further down the road you will get into rebuilding. People are

estimating the storm could cost, certainly not as much perhaps as

hurricane Katrina did, or superstorms Sandy, but possibly on a

scale after that. That's the kind of cost that they think about after

this storm. When you talk about figures that big, it has a knock-on

effect on the economy and that's where you get to the idea that the

federal rate is lower to try to stimulate the economy and give it

time to recover. That will bring some growth back to the area, all

the construction required when the water recedes. Thank you for

speaking to us. Australia is in the grips

of a national orange shortage and some drinks manufacturers

are having to import from abroad because there isn't

enough home-grown fruit. Groan under the South Australian

sun, these trees might look laden with oranges, but however fast they

are picked, there's not to go round. Shoppers are warned they can no

longer expect their juice to be made with Australian oranges, which is

confusing where then seems to be plenty and shops. Jeff says growers

have been hit with a perfect storm. Over the years production costs have

gone up and so few have been producing Valencia oranges for

juicing. But now there is a surge in demand for all oranges led by China.

We have just come out of probably the worst six months in my memory. I

have been in this since high school. Massive demand for even Valencia

oranges. It follows through on to the Valencia season being sucked up

by Asia. We finished up doing something I never thought we would

do, we actually imported container after container of whole oranges,

juicing Valencia oranges from Egypt, of all places. Australia exports two

thirds of the food it grows, and China has become its biggest and

hungriest customer. After huge success exporting iron on cold to

China in the last decade, some argue Australia should become a food bowl

for Asia. There is demand for oranges, apples and grapes and

Australian meat. When it comes to oranges it's a trading success story

that has put the squeeze on the Australian supplies. Hywel Griffith,

BBC News, Adelaide. One scottish beer-maker has found

a new way to keep its workers happy. Brewdog, the craft beer producer,

has pledged to give 20% of its profits away -

to staff and charity. If Brewdog hits its profit

targets, it will giveaway $58 million dollars over

the next 5 years. Two major world weather stories to

bring you tonight. First of all, the catastrophic weather warning from

hurricane Harvey. Over a metre has fallen at the official weather

service site in