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 wanna be looked at in five or ten years from now as this

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 gravest threat to our nation ever.

But China says US and South Korean military exercises are

And after more than a decade of exploring Saturn and its moons,

the Cassini space probe is about to go out with a bang.

And in OS sport - we'll catch up with the latest from the US Open.

We start in Texas where President Trump has arrived

to assess the damage left in the wake of hurricane,

This update has just reached us, from a global chemical company, they

said they are evacuating remaining workers from their chemical plant in

South East Texas amidst the risk of an explosion. The storm continues to

wreak havoc. Our North America Correspondent,

James Cook, is there. The boats have come from all over

the United States, Police, soldiers and civilians

all working together. We're trying to get

to a safe and dry place. How's the baby?

He's fine, just scared. From above, they can

see the problem, A reservoir a few blocks

away is overflowing. It was built 80 years

ago to protect the young city of Houston,

but no-one then imagined this. The pool of the reservoir

is still rising, so flooding is going to continue along

the structures and the homes that are against the western

edge of the pool. Streets will be flooding

and will continue to flood. New streets and homes

will continue to flood. For the people being

rescued here, this is clearly a nightmare,

but it could yet get worse. These floodwaters will eventually

make their way downstream to Houston, which is already

struggling to cope. This shelter ran out

of beds last night. More than 7000 people

are here, tens of thousands more are

looking for a haven. Little by little, the human

cost is becoming clear. We now know that four

children and their great-grandparents are among

the dead, drowning in their car. For Houston and for the US,

this is a wake-up yell. The millions of people live around

the rivers and swamps As Harvey makes landfall again,

it's a question for another day. The storm no longer

packs the power of a hurricane but remains dangerous

and is heading east. Lying in wait is Louisiana,

crippled by Hurricane Back in Texas, those rescues

roll on and on as well. There are a lot of people who need

help, and I'm thankful for these I've never been through

anything like this. And no wonder - 49 inches

of rain has fallen. This is now officially

a record-breaking disaster. 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 and we are going to talk about what else is left to do

to North Korea, and no country should have missiles flying over

them like those hundred and 30 million people in Japan. That is not

acceptable, they have by later did every single UN Security Council

resolution that we have had -- they have violated. I think something

serious needs to happen. Earlier the BBC spoke

with Balbina Hwang, who is a a former senior advisor

on Asian affairs at She said North Korea's continued

missile tests are an attempt to push This is essentially part of the

problem, that we are getting used to it and we are relegating this as to

essentially the same repeating the same kind of condemnations, this is

part of North Korea's long-term strategy. To incrementally Polish

the boundaries of what the international community is willing

to accept -- push. This is not justice one test or the previous

tests, this is the entire purpose of a long term strategy on the part of

North Korea -- this is not just one test. The question, is this time for

diplomacy or action, and I think that is the wrong way to look at it,

we had to understand that diplomacy is and always should be one of many

options and ways, just as defence, deterrence and even military strikes

might also be possible, but it is not a question of whether North

Korea is winning to talk, it is about whether those talks lead to

any result -- willing to talk. A desired result from the

international community. That is far more of what is in question.

Day two of the US Open is under way with some big names

I'll get to the that in a moment but first

I want to talk about this woman - Maria Sharapova.

In what is her first grand slam since returning from a drugs ban -

she has upset world number two Simona Halep in the first round.

The emotion was clear to see, the five-time grand slam champion had

not been on the game 's biggest stage since January last year and so

for Sharapova this first round victory at the US Open was a huge

step forward. You never really know what you are going to feel and who

you get match point and you can't really control your emotions and

what goes through your mind but you figure that everything you go

through is worth it just for this moment. You sometimes wonder why you

put in the work and this is exactly why. A doping ban had prevented

Sharapova from competing for 15 months but she showed she was still

more than capable at this level. Up against world number two Simona

Halep she made the 144 places between them look insignificant.

That ranking had kept the Russian out of the French Open and Wimbledon

but she looked well worth the wild card she had been granted to get her

into the final grand slam of the year, this hard-fought victory 2-1,

takes into the second round, but the nature of the victory and what it

means we'll give it Sharapova the hope she can go even further. --

will give. Let's go to Tulsen Tollett

in the BBC Sport Centre now. Tulsen, how are things

going on day two? Surly. It has been raining here --

Cerney. The games have been cancelled apart from the games

played on the Arthur Ashe court -- certainly. The Simona Halep going

from yesterday, that could have been seen as a shock from Sharapova,

beating the world number two, but it has got even worse for the seeds.

Angelique Kerber has lost, the defending champion. She has lost to

a 19-year-old Japanese buyer who grew up in New York, incidentally.

-- player. Not the greatest of years for Angelique Kerber since she had

the world number one position. Last year she won the US open and the

Australian open and she was runner-up at Wimbledon and a silver

medallist at the Olympics. The runner-up to Angelique Kerber last

year, Karolina Pliskova, she has gone through, winning 6-2, 6-1, so

no problems for her. She has taken over the world number one ranking.

She managed to get herself through to the next round. She has avoided

any slip-ups. Talking about players who may be have had a slip-up. Nadal

has not had the greatest form, but he's back to number one in the

world. He is in action. He is a 15 time grand slam winner and he has

won the first two sets. So it looks like he will go through. Roger

Federer has already won two major titles this year, the Australian

open and Wimbledon, and he is last on the Arthur Ashe Stadium. His last

win here was 2008. He takes to the court in the second match. As I

said, the rain has cancelled most of the matches, apart from those on the

Arthur Ashe Stadium which has a roof. Thanks for joining us.

Keeping with the tennis theme - I have to show you this funny

twitter exchange between Indian tennis star Mahesh

With Mumbai in the grips of some bad storms at the moment -

this was a tweet put out by Lara Dutta Bhupathi.

She's used the towels to stop water coming into the house.

Here's the response from her husband.

Bhupathi has won plenty of trophies - but he's clearly attached

Stay with us on Outside Source - still to come:

EU chief Jean Claude Juncker criticises the Uk's approach

to the Brexit negotiations - saying that the papers published

by the British government outlining its position just

20 years after Dame Judi Dench first played Queen Victoria

she returns to the role in the new film 'Victoria Abdul'

based on the true story of an unlikely friendship

between the Monarch and a young Muslim servant from India.

On set for the filming of Victoria and Abdul...

Director Stephen Frears latest movie, starring Judi Dench

as the oxygenarian Queen and Ali Fazal as a young Indian

clerk with whom she develops a surprisingly special relationship.

You're playing Victoria at the age she was.

Yes, so the age you are now - That she was, that I am.

So you're the age she was, that's what I'm trying to say.

Can you relate to that relationship she's having with Abdul,

Then I've always been a rather susceptible person,

so I understand that very much indeed.

I think she was looking for somebody that she didn't

But whatever you do, you must not look at Her Majesty.

Do you think she fell in love with him?

Well, I suppose, why not, he's so beautiful.

Could you fall in love with, I mean, what is he -

Of all the things you've done, of all the parts you've played,

I loved playing Cleopatra because when I said

I was going to do it, people were openingly quite rude.

You know, they said - "Cleopatra, is that your part?"

I never thought that I'd be in a Bond film and I had the most

glorious time bossing him about and sitting behind that desk.

Victoria and Abdul is based on a true, if little-known story.

A slice of Victorian history about class,

race and religious intolerance that speaks to today's

And I'm the Queen of England, I will have all the help I require.

This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.

President Trump is in Texas as devastating flooding continues.

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

It's day two of the third round of Brexit negotiations.

But the president of the European Commission,

Jean Claude Juncker, isn't exactly in a conciliatory mood

TRANSLATION: The British negotiation team is in Brussels and they are in

the process of talking with my friend Rachelle Barney and I would

like to be clear -- Michel Barnier. I will give the papers the necessary

attention, but none of them are satisfactory, so there are issues

which need to be settled. Some have taken issue

with Mr Juncker's statement - this is the Birmingham

Post's political editor. Damian Grammaticas

is in Brussels for us. Here's his take on

what Mr Juncker said. His comments, very critical of the

UK approach so far, they have irked the UK Government which has said it

has put out a lot of papers in the last few weeks and a lot of

positions, more than the European Commission, and it feels you need to

move on to discussing the future relationship pretty quickly because

many of the issues cannot be addressed without that, but this is

a high-stakes approach, engaging in a confrontation with the commission

and Jean-Claude Juncker, because they are overseeing the negotiations

and it is Jean-Claude Juncker and the commission especially the

negotiator who will recommend to EU leaders whether it is time to move

on and the crucial issue, by looking for movement from the UK on money.

Today the UK did not deliver what they want which is a calculation of

what the UK might be prepared to pay.

The flow of Rohingyas from Myanmar into neighbouring Bangladesh

is continuing for a fifth day, as more people are forced

But many - including women and children -

are being stopped by border guards and are now stranded

Those who do make it are being told they'll be returned to Myanmar under

The BBC's Mir Sabbir has been in the town of Teknaf in Bangladesh,

which is across the river from Myanmar.

These people came here in the cover of darkness, they crossed the river

in small boats but were caught by the banker Desha border guards, many

of them dropped their small children and one pregnant woman was sitting

in the corner -- by the Bangladeshi border guards. Many of them had

horrific stories. TRANSLATION: They are shooting at us without any

reason, burning our homes every day, those who are not able to flee our

being locked inside homes and they are setting them on fire. They are

shooting at people from a distance, killing them if they can.

TRANSLATION: If we return they will kill us and yesterday the military

shot at a boat and sank it and it was carrying elderly people, women

and children. We can't return. But even though they were able to make

it ashore in Bangladesh, they won't be able to stay long, because the

border guards said they are under strict instructions not to allow any

Myanmar National into the country and they will be sent back at

nightfall. They have said they tried to cross at night, but in the

daytime they have attempted to cross the river. The wits of the river

here is little more than the places in the North -- width. Normally in

the north they try more but here they also try with the boats. The

violence in Myanmar has become a familiar situation for people in

this Bangladesh city, Rohingyas have been coming here for decades to

escape the violence, last year a similar crackdown led to more than

70,000 Rohingyas to take shelter in Bangladesh, almost all of them are

still living here. The smoke behind me is from a area in Myanmar and the

locals say they have seen the smoke since last Friday and since then

thousands of Rohingyas tried to cross the North river which marks

the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar. Despite the current

restrictions on allowing Rohingyas to enter banker Desha, thousands

have managed to enter and are living in many areas -- to enter Bangladesh

will the government has more than 5000

undocumented Rohingyas. South Africa's health minister has

criticised African leaders who seek I don't like the fact that Africa is

the only continent on this planet whereby when it's heads of states

are sick they have got to be taking care of in another country. Or in

another continent for that matter. It is not a good sign, because the

only time we will see the health systems in Africa waking, is if

everyone is able to get treatment within the continent. I said to my

Cabinet colleagues, we all know the conditions and we all know the

hardships if we get treated here and we all know what they are

experiencing. I go to public hospitals with my family.

The most obvious example of a leader spending a lot of time abroad

getting medical treatment is Nigeria's President Buhari.

He has only just returned from about four months in London

where he was treated for an undisclosed illness.

Another notable one - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe

has taken three medical trips to Singapore this year.

And the leaders of Angola and Benin both sought medical care

Focus on Africa has been speaking to the former president

I think it really depends on why they are actually travelling abroad

because what actually happens is that I can't... I've heard your

statistics but sometimes there is a need to go abroad. The reason I'm

saying this is that I have no doubt that our human resources with

respect to doctors and nurses and other clinicians in Africa is

excellent, because we have to learn sometimes and a very trying

circumstances and our clinical skills are great but we have

problems with diagnostics, laboratory diagnostics, and other

imaging diagnostics that we need. So it depends on the circumstance, if

people are aware that whatever the person is doing outside cannot

necessarily be done easily back home, and I use the word easily

advisedly. Sometimes, though, it is frivolous, because some of the

things that they may seek for medical attention for outside may

not necessarily be something that is less sorry, but if it is and because

the population does not know what is going on, they can only speculate

and they can only get angry, because it is taxpayers money.

The countdown is on for the end of the Cassini mission to Saturn.

The spacecraft - which has spent two decades in space -

has performed its lowest orbit before it's destroyed

Scientists say they're hoping this final phase of close-up

exploration will solve some long-standing mysteries.

Our science correspondent Rebecca Morelle has more.

Instantly recognisable, Saturn and its spectacular rings.

The Cassini spacecraft's revealed this planet in incredible detail,

and these are some of its latest close-up images, from its hexagonal

north pole to its ring system and even an aurora.

But this mission's very nearly at its end.

Cassini's been in space for 20 years.

It's set down a probe, spotted plumes on one of Saturn's

moons and discovered colossal storms, but now it's

It's final days, though, will be crucial.

We've learnt so much, but in that process we've also

One of the things that we still don't understand about Saturn

Over the last few months, Cassini's been exploring a region

where no spacecraft's been before, swooping between Saturn

and its rings, and in its final days, it will get closer still,

giving us our best ever view of the planet,

revealing its atmosphere and what lies beneath its thick clouds.

But these last dives could also show us what's hidden

within its rings, including a mysterious

We noticed this smudge right at the edge...

The blurry speck was spotted by Carl Murray in 2013

on his mother-in-law Peggy's birthday, and the name stuck.

The ball of dust, more than a mile wide, is either a moon being born

or one in its death throes, and this is his last

We need to understand what object Peggy really is.

We've only got, literally now, a matter of days.

Our last look at Peggy will be on September 14th, and I can't wait

Time's running out, but this spacecraft will go out with a bang.

Its last manoeuvre will be a death dive into Saturn's atmosphere,

bringing this blockbuster mission to a close.

Thanks very much. It was great to see some of those pictures. Stay

with the BBC for updates on the stories we have been covering here

on Outside Source, like tropical Storm Harvey and also developments

regarding the North Korean missile launch. Thanks for watching Outside

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