:00:18. > :00:25.source I'm Ross, I'm with source source. We begin with a chemical
:00:26. > :00:30.plant in Texas, there are fears that there could be toxic fumes, as there
:00:31. > :00:38.have been explosions. And Brexit.
:00:39. > :00:43.We did not get any of the disciplines on any of the subjects.
:00:44. > :00:46.I think it is fair to say we have seen concrete progress.
:00:47. > :00:51.Over 300 new species have been found in the Amazon. Many in areas
:00:52. > :00:56.threatened by human activity. BBC Brazil will cover this for us. To
:00:57. > :01:00.get in touch across the hour as we bring the main global stories of the
:01:01. > :01:18.day, the #is BBC OS. Well, there remains a possibility of
:01:19. > :01:24.an explosion at the chemical plant in Texas. The immediate area has
:01:25. > :01:29.been evacuated. This is happening north-east of Houston, which has
:01:30. > :01:34.been badly damaged by tropical storm, Harvey. We have pictures of
:01:35. > :01:39.the plant. You can see the fire and the smoke there that is rising. The
:01:40. > :01:45.problem is that the plant lost power, so that means that refridge
:01:46. > :01:48.raters keeping the chemicals coal are not working.
:01:49. > :01:54.The question is whether or not we can get in to assess the full scale
:01:55. > :01:57.of the impact from an environmental stand point to infrastructure stand
:01:58. > :02:02.point so. That is ongoing. The bottom line is we do what is called
:02:03. > :02:07.plume modelling. That is what we base the evacuations on. So by all
:02:08. > :02:09.means, yes, the plume is incredibly dangerous.
:02:10. > :02:13.This is a spokesperson for the company that runs the plant.
:02:14. > :02:17.These materials have to be maintained cold.
:02:18. > :02:21.If they start to warm up, they become unstable and they will
:02:22. > :02:26.decompose. When they decompose they generate heat and when they generate
:02:27. > :02:33.heat, there is the possibility of a fire and possible explosion. We do
:02:34. > :02:38.have nine containers, the materials are stored in these box containers,
:02:39. > :02:46.like you see over the road storage containers. One of those containers
:02:47. > :02:50.have been involved and the product in the container started to degrade.
:02:51. > :02:55.That happened this morning. We fully expect that the other eight
:02:56. > :02:59.containers will do the same thing. Water is in our facility and
:03:00. > :03:04.preventing us from accessing the facility. And in Texas, the
:03:05. > :03:09.authorities are saying that at least 33 people have died. That figure is
:03:10. > :03:12.certain to rise as the houses are searched. Trevor Nyakane has been
:03:13. > :03:21.reporting in and close to Houston all week. Today she is in Richmond,
:03:22. > :03:31.south-west of the city. -- Laura re-alien.
:03:32. > :03:42.Trevalenne. Laura, tell us where you are today?
:03:43. > :03:47.This is Richmond, Texas. An area that is expected to have further
:03:48. > :03:54.problems with more rain to come. All of this area has been covered in
:03:55. > :04:01.water after her her her. It is taken a while for the rivers to swell and
:04:02. > :04:09.they are here going to experience the peak of the flooding. So people
:04:10. > :04:13.here, I'm talking from a mobile home park, people who experienced
:04:14. > :04:18.flooding last year, which was traumatic for them, they are now
:04:19. > :04:22.going to get worse flooding. They are concerned about the debt for
:04:23. > :04:28.them. What it will do to the homes to the walls, to the floors, they
:04:29. > :04:34.cannot get possessions. So a very traumatic time as they wait for the
:04:35. > :04:39.waters to rise. Are they relying on state or federal help, or is it
:04:40. > :04:44.enable assistance that is helping the people to manage the situation?
:04:45. > :04:50.It is a bit of both. People have had to leave their homes, they cannot
:04:51. > :04:57.sleep. Some have gone to higher homes, to families, to friends, to
:04:58. > :05:03.motels. There has been an official here earlier, a bilingual official,
:05:04. > :05:08.she was speaking of the assistance that they could get but one man
:05:09. > :05:15.spoke about the assistance from last year, after the flooding then, it
:05:16. > :05:21.was short of what it was to cover the cost of his repairs to the
:05:22. > :05:25.trailer, he went into debt then and is expecting to go into debt now.
:05:26. > :05:30.Laura, in the area where you are now, are there people still stuck in
:05:31. > :05:35.their homes, or is everyone out? Here, I don't think so. It is not
:05:36. > :05:40.like Houston, so densely populated. This is a much smaller area, a
:05:41. > :05:44.smaller mobile home park. Everybody seems accounted for. Everybody got
:05:45. > :05:50.out. There was a mandatory evacuation order here. What is
:05:51. > :05:54.extraordinary is that in other areas of the county where I am speaking
:05:55. > :05:58.from, there was a mandatory evacuation order issued this
:05:59. > :06:03.morning. So people who did not think that they would be in a situation
:06:04. > :06:07.where they would have to evacuate their homes, this morning they were
:06:08. > :06:10.having to. This is the danger from the river fall, the rivers are
:06:11. > :06:15.swelling, they are bursting their banks. This will go on for a council
:06:16. > :06:21.of days yet. I appreciate the update.
:06:22. > :06:29.Let's switch from Laura in Texas, to Brussels. The third wound the Brexit
:06:30. > :06:35.talks ended. Here is the assessment of the EU's chief Brexit negotiator.
:06:36. > :06:38.We did not get decisive progress on the principle subjects. The
:06:39. > :06:44.discussion about Ireland was fruitful, though.
:06:45. > :06:51.The UK wants to take back control. Wants to adopt its on stand outs and
:06:52. > :06:54.regulations but it also wants to have these standards recognised
:06:55. > :06:59.automatically in the EU. That is what the UK papers are
:07:00. > :07:08.asking for. This is simply impossible.
:07:09. > :07:14.You cannot be outside the single market and shape its legal order.
:07:15. > :07:20.One view, here is another. Here is the UK's Brexit secretary. I think
:07:21. > :07:25.it is fair to say we have seen concreate progress. Our discussions
:07:26. > :07:30.have exposed that the UK's approach is more flexible and pragmatic than
:07:31. > :07:35.that of the EU. It avoids unnecessary disruption for the
:07:36. > :07:41.businesses and consumers. We propose pragmatic solutions and we urge the
:07:42. > :07:48.EU to be more flexily in their approach to the point.
:07:49. > :07:52.One of the main differences is on sequencing, or in other words, which
:07:53. > :07:57.negotiations happen when, the UK wishes to begin trade talks but the
:07:58. > :08:01.EU says that will happen when details of the withdrawal are
:08:02. > :08:12.agreed. There are different views on how this is going.
:08:13. > :08:25.David Allen Green says. Or Tim Montgomerie, until recently a
:08:26. > :08:30.columnist for the Times saying. And there he is referring to the
:08:31. > :08:34.so-called divorce bill, the money that the EU wants in exchange for
:08:35. > :08:38.the UK to be freed from the John going responsibilities. I've been
:08:39. > :08:41.speaking with Chris Morris from the BBC's Reality Check about the
:08:42. > :08:45.perspectives and which could be said to be right.
:08:46. > :08:50.No-one said this would be easy. Sometimes we are involved in looking
:08:51. > :08:53.at the detail of what happened today, yesterday, what is
:08:54. > :09:00.negotiating. We are unpicking 40 years of history. When somebody
:09:01. > :09:05.joins the EU, there is about 80,000 pages of rules and regulations to go
:09:06. > :09:10.through before they can join. We are taking that and unpicking it. So the
:09:11. > :09:14.idea it can happen in three rounds of negotiations is absurd. On the
:09:15. > :09:18.other hand there is the Article 50 period, the two year period before
:09:19. > :09:23.the UK is due to leave, the timetable is tight.
:09:24. > :09:27.In terms of the divorce bill, some would say it is unfair that the EU
:09:28. > :09:33.will say this is what you signed up for? That is emerging clearly, that
:09:34. > :09:38.the two sides see the issue as the most difficult issue to resolve.
:09:39. > :09:45.They come at it from very different angles. The EU is saying that there
:09:46. > :09:51.is a seven year budget period, where we have made all sorts of financial
:09:52. > :09:57.commitments, including on a credit card, which is a bill to be settled
:09:58. > :10:03.before we leave it is a large amount. The UK is saying, hang on,
:10:04. > :10:07.they have been going through this with the EU negotiators, and they
:10:08. > :10:12.are saying you cannot have financial commitments stretching into the
:10:13. > :10:16.distance, we make a budget, one we leave, we have left. So a big gap
:10:17. > :10:21.between the two sides. And the idea of a transition period
:10:22. > :10:27.is that being discussed in the talks, or is it just the idea
:10:28. > :10:32.hovering in the background? It is hovering but it could hold the key
:10:33. > :10:37.to several things, including a compromise on the financial
:10:38. > :10:43.arrangements. There is a seven year budget period, if the EU leaves to
:10:44. > :10:47.the beginning of 2019, there is a big hole in the budget. If during
:10:48. > :10:53.the transition, the UK was willing to pay into the budget, it would
:10:54. > :10:58.help the EU out of a hole and make the exit bill smaller. So a lot of
:10:59. > :11:02.people are hoping that the transition is the key to unlocking
:11:03. > :11:07.the puzzle but it is still explosive. And when talking about
:11:08. > :11:11.tens of billions of pounds, politicians don't wish to be seen to
:11:12. > :11:15.be backing down. Now, this statement came through a
:11:16. > :11:22.couple of hours back from the US State Department. It was ordering
:11:23. > :11:27.Russia to close firstly, this conlate in San Francisco and two an
:11:28. > :11:31.exes in Washington and New York. The State Department said it was a
:11:32. > :11:34.response to Russia reducing the US diplomatic mission there. Here is
:11:35. > :11:39.the State Department saying that this is all in the spirit of parity.
:11:40. > :11:43.It goes on to say that the US is prepared to take action as is
:11:44. > :11:50.necessary and warranted but perhaps just wanting to be positive, it also
:11:51. > :11:55.including a line that it tweeted out that America hopes to avoid further
:11:56. > :11:58.retaliation and move forward with improved relations and co-operation
:11:59. > :12:03.with Russia. Let's see if it comes to pass. Here is the BBC Russian
:12:04. > :12:08.correspondent, on what we know about the latest decision by the
:12:09. > :12:12.Americans. It is unclear at the moment, if the diplomatic staff will
:12:13. > :12:15.be cut. The representative of the State Department said that they are
:12:16. > :12:20.not insisting for diplomatic personnel to be cut. They are only
:12:21. > :12:24.asking the Russians to close the consulate.
:12:25. > :12:30.I can't Maginn the Russians are surprised this happened? Well, yes
:12:31. > :12:34.and no. Russians claim that they only react, that they retaliate
:12:35. > :12:38.because Americans were the first to cut the number of diplomatic
:12:39. > :12:43.personnel in December a few days before the New Year. Then the
:12:44. > :12:48.Russians decided to respond but to respond only later on this summer.
:12:49. > :12:54.Now the Americans are responding to Russian response. But of course
:12:55. > :12:58.probably the Russians were not expecting the consulate to be
:12:59. > :13:04.closed. What is really sad in the story is that now both sides are
:13:05. > :13:09.competing in who bites the other side in the most creative way. It is
:13:10. > :13:16.not helping both sides at the moment when relations at their lowest since
:13:17. > :13:21.the start of the Cold War. Often, there is a talk about the fact that
:13:22. > :13:26.America and Russia do not agree, what is happening to drive the
:13:27. > :13:30.escalation diplomatic tit-for-tat? The problem is that they keep
:13:31. > :13:38.disagreeing. There was hope from both sides that the election of
:13:39. > :13:42.Donald Trump could twist the situation some were afraid of it,
:13:43. > :13:50.the Russians were looking forward to it. But nothing happened. The
:13:51. > :13:55.American presidential camp is not taking steps as there is the
:13:56. > :13:58.involvement of alleged ties between Donald Trump and the Russian
:13:59. > :14:08.intelligence. So they cannot do much. The State Department is acting
:14:09. > :14:12.on its own there. Are huge diplomatic disagreements but there
:14:13. > :14:17.is news that there will be a meeting seen.
:14:18. > :14:23.So there is some good news. Now, in a few minutes on Outside
:14:24. > :14:29.Source, we are to hear of 300 new species discovered in the Amazon.
:14:30. > :14:33.The monkeys are one of them. In the last two years they have been
:14:34. > :14:37.discovered. BBC Brazil will help us with this.
:14:38. > :14:40.From today, parents of three and four-year-olds in England are to
:14:41. > :14:45.apply for 30 hours of free childcare a week. That doubles the current 15
:14:46. > :14:48.hours allowance with parents eligible if they earn less than
:14:49. > :14:53.?100,000 a year. The cost will be paid for by the
:14:54. > :14:56.government but critics, including Labour say that the funding is not
:14:57. > :15:00.enough. The ministers say that the schemes show it is able to work and
:15:01. > :15:04.funding has been increased where necessary.
:15:05. > :15:10.We have upped the funding there. Is ?1 billion a year going into it by
:15:11. > :15:17.2020. And additional funding in response to the nurseries that said
:15:18. > :15:21.it was not efficient. We have piloted and delivered 15,000 places,
:15:22. > :15:27.bodes well for the 200,000 parents that have signed up to the scheme.
:15:28. > :15:34.We have been warning the Government that the scheme is not properly
:15:35. > :15:38.funded. There is the risk of the expectations of parents who will
:15:39. > :15:49.worry that they cannot get the free childcare but also the quality. I'm
:15:50. > :15:54.Ros Atkins with Outside Source we are live in the BBC Newsroom. There
:15:55. > :16:00.are warnings that there could be an explosion at this chemical plant in
:16:01. > :16:08.Texas. Problems caused by flooding that the tropical storm Harvey
:16:09. > :16:12.brought to Texas. And from the BBC World Service, coverage in Iraq. The
:16:13. > :16:16.Iraqi government says that the province it is in, has been fully
:16:17. > :16:22.reclaimed from the Islamic State group. That is on BBC Arabic. 70,000
:16:23. > :16:30.people to be evacuated from their homes on Sunday after an explosion
:16:31. > :16:37.-- unexploded Second World War bomb was discovered in Frankfurt. It was
:16:38. > :16:42.a British bomb nicknamed Block dp buster for its ability to wipe out
:16:43. > :16:50.whole streets. And this video, is about a vet who goes into war zones
:16:51. > :16:55.to save animals left behind. At least 21 people have died in
:16:56. > :17:00.Mumbai after a residential build collapsed. Though has to are the
:17:01. > :17:03.pictures of the aftermath. The building was six storeys high. About
:17:04. > :17:06.40 peopled inside at the time it happened.
:17:07. > :17:11.Our correspondent from the BBC was at the scene.
:17:12. > :17:17.It was a routine warning for the residents in south Mumbai. At the
:17:18. > :17:21.time they heard a loud crash. It is a congested area, when they came
:17:22. > :17:26.out, this is what they saw, rubble and remnants of what was runs a
:17:27. > :17:31.residential building. About 40 people were inside the building at
:17:32. > :17:35.the time of the collapse. Right now, the rescue operations are under way.
:17:36. > :17:43.Three teams from the national disaster response force have been
:17:44. > :17:48.deployed. The locals are helping in the effort. This is the third
:17:49. > :17:54.building collapsed in one month in Mumbai alone. It is the monsoon
:17:55. > :18:01.season as well. On Tuesday several parts of Mumbai were flooded with
:18:02. > :18:05.water. It is in this time that old buildings are vulnerable. The
:18:06. > :18:10.challenge for the rescue efforts now is the congested areas. All of the
:18:11. > :18:15.buildings are stacked against one another and over narrow lanes. They
:18:16. > :18:20.are hoping that there will be no more showers and that they can
:18:21. > :18:25.rescue more people from here. That's from Mumbai on the west coast
:18:26. > :18:31.of India. Also millions of people in south Asia are affected by flooding.
:18:32. > :18:36.The worst monsoon season in decades. The region of 1200 people in India,
:18:37. > :18:41.Nepal and Bangladesh have lost their lives.
:18:42. > :18:45.Weeks after the worst flooding in decades, a third of Bangladesh is
:18:46. > :18:49.under water. Villages in the northern part of the country are
:18:50. > :18:56.still cut off. Aid agencies are trying to reach those affected. It
:18:57. > :19:00.is a similar situation Nahki over large parts of south Asia. The
:19:01. > :19:05.eastern India state of Bihar has been hit the hardest. Heavy rain and
:19:06. > :19:09.overflowing rifrts have hit large areas that are under water. More
:19:10. > :19:14.than 500 people have been killed here. Tens of thousands of people
:19:15. > :19:18.have lost their homes and are now staying in temporary camps.
:19:19. > :19:22.There is a lot of damage. A lot of people are out of their homes.
:19:23. > :19:28.People are surviving and getting on with things as they can. But there
:19:29. > :19:31.has been a lot of damage. India's financial capital, Mumbai, a city of
:19:32. > :19:38.more than 20 million, was brought to a stand still after the rain hit the
:19:39. > :19:41.city on Wednesday. It left the commuters stranded, transport
:19:42. > :19:47.services ground to a halt, forcing many to simply wade home.
:19:48. > :19:57.We are in the middle of the monsoon season, it has been raining
:19:58. > :20:04.intensely, that is in India but also Nepal and it has caused the worst
:20:05. > :20:08.flooding in decades. It has led to a massive humanitarian situation.
:20:09. > :20:12.South Asia is used to floods especially at this time of the year
:20:13. > :20:17.but the scale of the disaster this time around has meant that the
:20:18. > :20:24.authorities are struggling to cope. For the first story in OS business
:20:25. > :20:31.we are looking at the Indian economy. The level of growth was not
:20:32. > :20:39.expected. Predictions were 6.6%. And the reality is that the economy is
:20:40. > :20:45.growing at 5.7%. A lot of reasons, and a huge crackdown on money
:20:46. > :20:47.laundering could be one. 90% of banknotes were taken from
:20:48. > :20:53.circulation, that has had consequences.
:20:54. > :20:58.The latest economic growth figure clearly suggests that the economy is
:20:59. > :21:03.still to recover from the cash ban decision introduced last year. The
:21:04. > :21:12.government banned 90% of the cash in circulation, almost overnight. Since
:21:13. > :21:16.then, expansion plans have been affected, sleaze investments and
:21:17. > :21:24.small and medium-sized businesses have been affected.
:21:25. > :21:32.However, there are small sectors and some of the economic output that are
:21:33. > :21:37.not taken into account, so that means that the slowdown could be
:21:38. > :21:42.slower than the figures suggest. On Wednesday, it was said that 99% of
:21:43. > :21:47.the banknotes banned have already returned to the system. That makes
:21:48. > :21:54.the cash ban a failure. The exercise was aimed to weed out unaccounted
:21:55. > :21:58.wealth or black money. But the worst of the Indian economy could not be
:21:59. > :22:03.over after the tax that came into effect in July. It was supposed to
:22:04. > :22:10.overhaul the way that businesses pay tax. Small businesses are finding it
:22:11. > :22:18.difficult to adapt. This will delay expansion plans. The World Bank and
:22:19. > :22:22.the IMF has said that India's economy could grow up to 7%. But
:22:23. > :22:28.this target looks difficult to achieve.
:22:29. > :22:34.888.com, a British online gambling firm had to pay a record penalty of
:22:35. > :22:39.$10, as it failed to protect customers. 7,000 of them voluntarily
:22:40. > :22:43.banned themselves from the site but they could still access it and
:22:44. > :22:49.gamble. This is the chief executive of the UK's Gambling Commission.
:22:50. > :22:53.7,000 customers, sought to bar themselves from 888.com but that did
:22:54. > :22:58.not work as it should have done. As a result some were able to continue
:22:59. > :23:02.to gamble. On a second count an individual was gambling with the
:23:03. > :23:07.company over a long period of time. She was getting into debt and stole
:23:08. > :23:12.from her employer in order to fund the gambling, again, on both counts,
:23:13. > :23:20.the company did not spot the issues and the errors quickly enough.
:23:21. > :23:27.To the Amazon and a two-year stud Cambria from the World Wildlife Fund
:23:28. > :23:32.has found over 300 new species. They include these fire tail monkeys, no
:23:33. > :23:39.surprises for guessing where the name came from and a first new
:23:40. > :23:43.species of river dolphin to be discovered since the end of the
:23:44. > :23:47.First World War. And this puff fish, a new species of bird that was
:23:48. > :23:52.found. People are surprised about the
:23:53. > :23:57.amount of biodiversity that they can find in the Amazon. The 381 species
:23:58. > :24:02.of plants and animals were discovered only in the space of two
:24:03. > :24:07.years. But the scientists are saying as there are so many species we
:24:08. > :24:13.still don't know, there is a danger we only find out, sorry, or that we
:24:14. > :24:18.never find out about them or only when they have been made extinct or
:24:19. > :24:23.near extinction. There will be a few viewers thinking
:24:24. > :24:30.is this a coincidence we found out about the study now as there have
:24:31. > :24:35.been a over a few days the row over the mining decree, which was
:24:36. > :24:39.quashed? This study has been conducted for some time now. But
:24:40. > :24:45.obviously this announcement came at a very important time. Because at
:24:46. > :24:51.least four of those species found, four of the species of fish,
:24:52. > :24:57.according to the scientists are in areas in the national reserve that
:24:58. > :25:03.the government has just tried to open up for mining so. What the
:25:04. > :25:07.scientists say that the spreesis are in danger if the area is open to
:25:08. > :25:12.mining, then they could be in further danger. The government says
:25:13. > :25:16.that the conservation areas inside that space will be protected but
:25:17. > :25:20.obviously scientists say it is very hard to do this kind of protection
:25:21. > :25:24.over there. I guess that the question that all
:25:25. > :25:29.are asking is will there be another study to see what other species are
:25:30. > :25:36.there that we have yet to discover? Definitely. They are ongoing.
:25:37. > :25:42.If those over 300 species were discovered in only two years, over
:25:43. > :25:46.the past 16 years, ten years or so, they have discovered over 2,000. So
:25:47. > :25:52.those studies are ongoing. Scientists are rushing to find more
:25:53. > :25:56.about the Amazon before human activity over there can endanger
:25:57. > :26:00.even more species. I'm live with you here from the BBC
:26:01. > :26:09.News room in a couple of minute's time.
:26:10. > :26:10.It's