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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:12. | :00:12. | |
Huston continues to face flooding, and the storm has made landfall in | :00:13. | :00:29. | |
Louisiana. Never is more rain to come. North Korea says the firing of | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
this missile over Japan was only the first step. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
In Venezuela, the new constituent assembly has unanimously voted | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
to put opposition leaders on trial for treason. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
High Commissioner for Human Rights had to say about democratic | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
I think it must be barely alive, if still alive, is the way I would look | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
at it. It's less than a month to go | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
until the German election - will Angela Merkel win | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
a fourth term? In OS sport, we'll have a report | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
on a new pitch-side test to diagnose The new constituent assembly | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
in Venezuela has voted This is the assembly that | :01:07. | :01:40. | |
elected in a vote that Among the accused are | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
the Louisa Ortega - she was chief prosecutor | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
before being sacked. One of the members of this assembly | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
has called her 'scum'. Also, head of the | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
opposition-controlled Here is his reaction to these | :01:59. | :01:59. | |
accusations: The only one responsible is Maduro and it's time | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
he takes a look in the mirror With respect to Maduro, the | :02:10. | :02:31. | |
president was elected by the people. But since then, there has been an | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
erosion of democratic life. Very clearly, as was pointed out, he and | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
his colleagues have noted the wave of repression. It must be barely | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
alive, if still alive, is the way I would look at it. | :02:55. | :02:55. | |
For more on this I spoke with our Americas Editor, Candace Piette. | :02:56. | :03:05. | |
The constituent assembly is playing a role that is quite unusual and | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
fluid. It's not clear how legal it is. It was about 500 members that | :03:12. | :03:21. | |
were elected about a month ago, and really, they seem to be winging it, | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
working out what they are doing and how to run Venezuelan as they go | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
along. How does this assembly fit in alongside a parliament that already | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
exists and a judiciary which is supposed to be independent of the | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
politicians? When they started operating, they moved into the room | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
that is normally occupied by the National Assembly, who were just | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
chucked out. They announced a series of measures and decrees. All | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Government supporters, they tend to decide what ever Maduro and the | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
goverment approved for them. It is not about truth commission to | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
investigate so-called violence during the protests that we have | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
seen in Venezuelan, and also the ousting of the Attorney General. And | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
more recently, they have announced that they will start working on the | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
economic and financial position. They will legislate on that. So they | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
are operating like a kind of parallel Government, almost. When | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
Hugo Chavez began this movement, and Maduro took over when he died, it | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
had huge support from around the world from people with left-wing | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
sympathies. Are there still people who still believe this is | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
democratic, a just way of governing a country? President Maduro still | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
has a lot of support amongst die-hard Chavez supporters. And | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
there is a group of left-wing countries in Latin America that also | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
support Venezuela - Olivia, Ecuador partially, Nicaragua, and of course | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
Cuba, who have advisers in Venezuelan at the moment. -- | :05:22. | :05:32. | |
Bolivia. It has echoes of the single party assembly, the National | :05:33. | :05:32. | |
Congress in Cuba. Next on the programme, we will turn | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
to Myanmar. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
have fled Myanmar. According to one estimate, | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
18,000 have headed to Bangladesh The latest spike in this crisis | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
began on Friday when Rohingya insurgents attacked up | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
to 30 police stations. The group behind the attacks | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
said its primary aim is to protect the Rohingya Muslim minority | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
from state repression in Myanmar. The government denies that | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
and responded with military action. What followed was an exodus. These | :06:04. | :06:18. | |
are pictures obtained by the BBC of hundreds of people crossing a river | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
that forms the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh. | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
A spokesperson from the International Organisation | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
for Migration says thousands more are waiting at the border. | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
The BBC's Mir Sabbir is on the Bangladesh | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
The flow of Rohingyas started here in Cox's Bazar since last Friday, | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
but despite the high alert of the border guards in Bangladesh, | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
thousands of Rohingyas are coming in every day from Myanmar. | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
I have seen in the refugee camps in many | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
parts of Cox's Bazar, many Rohingyas are | :06:47. | :06:47. | |
sitting just in front of the | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
camps waiting for their relatives, holding their small sacks with all | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
their belongings, holding their small children. | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
The vast majority of them women and children. | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
And I've heard some dreadful stories from | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
Security forces came to their villages, shooting at people, | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
searching for young men and burning their homes. | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
So, they just grabbed anything they could and rushed to | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
And many of them have relatives in Cox's Bazar who came | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
Straight to another story about Bangladesh and Bangladeshis. | :07:24. | :07:43. | |
Bangladeshis are now one of the largest groups | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
Many are travelling from Bangladesh to | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
From there, crossing the Mediterranean to Europe. | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
And they pay great amounts of money to try and make that journey, too. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Half a million people leave Bangladesh every year, | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
hoping to make their fortunes overseas. | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Increasingly, many are making the extremely dangerous crossing | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
over the Mediterranean to try and get to Europe. | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Many of these people are headed to the Gulf or the Middle East, | :08:13. | :08:25. | |
which is the preferred route for those trying to get to Sudan, | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
And when you speak to them, you get a sense that | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
they're being driven by an air of desperation. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Even though so many of these journeys can end in tragedy. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Last year Abu Sayed left his home for Libya. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Like many others, he was lured with the promise of a good job. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
He cashed in all his savings to pay his way. | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
But in Libya, he was sold to traffickers. | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
They held him captive, demanding a ransom of $5,000. | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
TRANSLATION: They used to torture me. | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
They said, pay up, and then you can rest. | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
His wife was forced to borrow money to secure his release. | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
For many Bangladeshis migrating abroad is a ticket out of poverty. | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
Making them prime targets for those who look to | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
It takes us time, but we finally track down a trafficker | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
He is part of an elaborate criminal network, organising fake documents | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
and then escorting the migrants all the way to Libya. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
At no point are they stopped or challenged. | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
TRANSLATION: My bosses are in touch with officials. | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
The passports do not have valid visas, some are blank. | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
At the airport they just check the names against a list. | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
And the rush to leave Bangladesh continues. | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
There are simply not enough opportunities at home. | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Even though the journey ahead is fraught with risk. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
And there is much more information on the many forms the migrant crisis | :10:27. | :10:43. | |
in the Mediterranean takes on the BBC online. As we do every day, | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
let's catch up on some of the main sports stories. We'll start with the | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
tennis. I haven't had a moment to look at it today, so take us from | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
the top. There are 87 matches in total to be completed from Tuesday | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
because of the rain. Torrential rain here in New York on Tuesday. You | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
could hear it on the roof of the stadium during the opening session | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
24 hours ago. Maria Sharapova who beat Simona Halep on the opening | :11:22. | :11:38. | |
day, she is taking on Timea Babos. Babos is two up. Elina Svitolina is | :11:39. | :11:50. | |
through. She survived a third set to go through. In the men's draw, | :11:51. | :12:01. | |
Dominic Thiem resumed 1-0 up against his Australian opponent, and he took | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
less than half an hour to complete his win. The 22-year-old has never | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
made it past the fourth round at Flushing Meadows. The 2009 men's | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
champion, Juan Martin del Potro, is through in straight sets. We have | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
been hearing a lot about Petra Kvitova, who are after being | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
attacked in her home and suffering tendon and nerve damage in her hand | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
looked like she would not play again. She is up against alleys | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
Corneille. Rugby players here in the UK | :12:34. | :12:50. | |
will take part this season in the development of a new test | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
to diagnose concussion It could lead to a handheld device | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
to assess if a player This year, players will have their | :13:02. | :13:23. | |
saliva taken here at Twickenham if they have a head injury, as part of | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
a big new study into concussion. Professor Tony barely is here to | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
tell us about it. Tell us what happens if a player comes in with a | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
head injury. The player will be removed for assessment, as they are | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
now. They have two minutes for that assessment, so as part of the | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
process, for this season, during any premiership championship match, they | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
will also be doing an additional test, which is very straightforward. | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
They would be asked to collect about two millilitres of saliva into a | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
special bottle, that looks standard but is in fact that sophisticated | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
piece of equipment. That is then analysed in a lab at the University | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
of Birmingham. The endgame is to have a hand-held device that would | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
tell us instantly whether a player or not has been concussed - is that | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
right? That's right. The ultimate aim is to have a portable pitch- | :14:27. | :14:39. | |
side device. Ultimately, what we want is to have a portable test that | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
can be used by doctors in a professional game, or potentially a | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
parent, if it works as well as we hope. This is a prototype of a | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
device that we hope is going to be able to diagnose concussion so that | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
the player will be providing if you want just a drop of saliva, the | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
strip will be inserted into a reader, and within a couple of | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
minutes, it should be able to give you the diagnosis, either confirm | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
that the concussion has occurred, and a player will be removed, or | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
disprove it, so the player can return to the game. This trial will | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
take place through all premiership and championship games this season. | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
The results could be game changing. In a moment, we will turn to the | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
German election. We have a report from our correspondent, Jenny Hill, | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
who has been to the North Coast of Germany to see how Martin Schultz | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
and Angela Merkel are faring. Prince William and Prince Harry have | :15:50. | :16:05. | |
visited a memorial garden at Kensington Palace. They met | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
representatives of charities supported by Princess Diana and | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
looked at the tributes and flowers left by members of the public | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
outside the palace. The Duchess of Cambridge join the Princes on the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
tour, as Nicholas Witchell reports. The flowers and the tributes | :16:21. | :16:47. | |
are back at the gates A very small echo of how it was 20 | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
years ago but a reminder of feelings And this afternoon William and Harry | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
came to view the tributes. They took their time, | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
they looked, and they read. And they laughed at some | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
of the photographs showing them as It was impossible not | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
to be reminded of how it was 20 years ago when, | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
aged 15 and 12, on their return to London, they'd come out still numb | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
and bewildered to meet the people who'd gathered there and to see | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
for themselves the many thousands of Diana's boys are both | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
in their 30s now. William's settled and about to begin | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
full-time royal duty. He was accompanied by Catherine this | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
afternoon to view a memorial garden And Harry, not quite | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
so settled yet, but not far And both at this anniversary, | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
one must assume, reassured by the enduring regard | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
people feel for their mother. She meant same much | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
to so many people. That shows by how many | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
people are here today. William and Harry took | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
some of the flowers people had brought and placed them | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
at the Palace gates, replaying some of the moments from two decades ago | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
and acknowledging the desire that many still have to hold | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
onto Diana's memory. Today, briefly, they put | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
on their public, princely faces, to Tomorrow, though, | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
William and Harry will remain in private, remembering | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
the mother they lost in such tragic Nicolas Witchell, BBC News, | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
at Kensington Palace. Pictures of dramatic rescues in | :18:06. | :18:42. | |
Texas continue to come in. Louisiana is now facing Tropical Storm Harvey, | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
which has come ashore for a second time. | :18:46. | :18:46. | |
We've already mentioned Theresa May being in Japan | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
But the main aim of her trip is to pave the way for a trade deal | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
with Japan after Britain leaves the EU. | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
Here's our Asia business editor, Karishma Vaswani on how | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
I think that Theresa May, as she makes her way through over the next | :19:02. | :19:16. | |
couple of days while she is in Toko, meeting with the Japanese Prime | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
Minister, Shinzo Abe, and other delegates from both sides, she will | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
be trying to bang on about British business, but I think she will find | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
it very difficult to get the sort of agreements that she would like to | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
see. That is not to say that the Japanese don't want a deal with the | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
UK - they do - but the kinds of assurances they are looking for from | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
London and Theresa May, she is just not able to get them as yet. And | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
what they want to know is, what exactly will be the UK position in a | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
post-Brexit world with regard to the EU? Remember, Japan has invested | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
some ?40 billion into the British economy. There are more than 1000 | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Japanese companies there, and the majority of them have been using the | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
UK as a base to get into the EU. They want to make sure that that | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
bases secure. The German election | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
is on 24 September. And as Deutschewelle puts it: | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
@dw-politics "Campaign poster on the German highway: You know it's | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
already in the bag when you only have to mention the election | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
date #GermanyDecides". And this | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
is the picture they're referring to. Next, this is a poll | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
of polls from the FT. Angela Merkel's party | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
has a commanding lead. Martin Schulz is seen | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
as her main rival - It was close at one point in the | :20:40. | :20:53. | |
year, though it doesn't look close now. These other parties vying for | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
third place. As this Politico article | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
from today remarks, Those parties include | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
to the left Die Linke, the Greens and the right-wing | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
Alternative for Germany. If these polls are correct, | :21:07. | :21:07. | |
Mrs Merkel will serve Outside Source will be in Germany | :21:08. | :21:22. | |
next week, and of course, we will certainly be speaking to Jenny Hill, | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
Al corresponded in Germany. Here is her latest report. -- our | :21:30. | :21:30. | |
corresponded in Germany. Don't be fooled by | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
the political calm. Germany has survived | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
a turbulent year. It's heading in a | :21:35. | :21:35. | |
predictable direction. The likely winner of next month's | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
election is not as secure TRANSLATION: I think | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
she abandoned us fishermen, She only cares about the big | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
industry and what's She should look | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
after her own country. This international stateswoman must | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
please the home crowd now. TRANSLATION: She is | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
the perfect Chancellor. In truth Mrs Merkel knows she barely | :22:12. | :22:23. | |
survived the refugee crisis, perhaps only because there was no | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
one to replace her. No real challenge from | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Social Democrat Martin Schultz, nor from the anti-immigrant party, | :22:31. | :22:41. | |
AfD. Even so, they're fielding | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
a candidate in her own constituency. TRANSLATION: We want | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
to send Mrs Merkel back It's a challenge, we admit that, | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
but things are turning our way. He hopes to reel in voters | :22:55. | :23:04. | |
like Enis and Silka. They will not be voting | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
for Angela Merkel. TRANSLATION: The refugee | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
policy hasn't changed. She doesn't really address | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
all these terror attacks. She should speak up | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
for the German people. TRANSLATION: This party, that party, | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
they're all the same. Angela Merkel has been | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
in the job for 12 years. She has survived crisis | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
after crisis, and that's due Take, for example, Brexit, | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
and Donald Trump's election. For many German voters, | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
Mrs Merkel now represents security, stability, in a shifting | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
and uncertain world. She will need to find | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
coalition partners. But in reality, one hand | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
alone is likely to steer As I was saying before Jenny's | :24:00. | :24:19. | |
report, I will be in Germany next week on the campaign trail. I will | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
be back there on the 24th of September for election date. We will | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
have full coverage throughout September of the election. A | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
reminder of our lead story: Tropical Storm Harvey really went out into | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
the Gulf of Mexico but has come back to land in Louisiana, heading in a | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
north-easterly direction. You can see from this map the route it is | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
predicted to take. It is, though, still a potent storm. Overnight, to | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
make cities recorded 20 inches of rain, so the problems continue. | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
We'll bring you more tomorrow, of course. See you then. | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
Hello again. Over the next ten days, I doubt we will find out whether | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
lurching from one extreme to another quite as we have done over the last | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
day or two. This was London on Wednesday. Remember, the day before | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
in | :25:22. | :25:22. |