:00:15. > :00:17.Our top stories: I'm Tom Donkin.
:00:18. > :00:18.President Trump arrives in Texas to witness
:00:19. > :00:32.We want to be looked at in ten years from now as this is the way to do
:00:33. > :00:33.it. A new flood warning to tens
:00:34. > :00:48.of thousands of people in Houston - I live in taxes, whether flooding
:00:49. > :00:49.has been devastated. The president is here being briefed on the relief
:00:50. > :00:50.efforts. Anger as North Korea
:00:51. > :00:52.launches its latest missile, China says US and South Korean
:00:53. > :00:55.military exercises are For two decades it's given us
:00:56. > :01:03.the best views of Saturn. But now the Cassini mission
:01:04. > :01:17.is about to go out with a bang. Hello, and welcome
:01:18. > :01:19.to World News Today. President Donald Trump has
:01:20. > :01:21.arrived in Texas to assess the damage caused by Storm Harvey,
:01:22. > :01:24.as floodwaters across In Houston, more than thirty
:01:25. > :01:29.thousand people have been forced from their homes due
:01:30. > :01:32.to the tropical storm, which has set a new record
:01:33. > :01:35.for rainfall in the state. The rain has been falling
:01:36. > :01:38.since last Friday. Some places have seen more
:01:39. > :01:42.than a meter of rain. The greatest danger may be yet
:01:43. > :01:45.to come, with floodwaters rising in several rivers
:01:46. > :01:48.which are expected to flood. A major dam to the west
:01:49. > :01:51.of Houston has begun overflowing as Harvey pushes
:01:52. > :01:54.the reservoir past capacity. Engineers have tried
:01:55. > :01:57.to prevent nearby communities from being inundated
:01:58. > :02:00.by releasing some of the water Around 160 kilometers west
:02:01. > :02:04.of Houston is the small community of La Grange,
:02:05. > :02:08.that's where we can take you live to our North America
:02:09. > :02:26.correspondent Laura Trevelyan, Welcome to La Grange in Texas. This
:02:27. > :02:30.is a small community that is reeling from the devastating impact on the
:02:31. > :02:38.Hurricane Harvey. It is a microcosm of communities across Texas. More
:02:39. > :02:44.than 300 homes were evacuated as a Colorado River brokers back. Homes
:02:45. > :02:49.are being absolutely devastated. Liz says President Trump comes here to
:02:50. > :02:55.the Lone Star State. He landed in the last couple of hours, and right
:02:56. > :03:01.now and he has been proved in this situation. -- briefed on the
:03:02. > :03:05.situation. He is here to see for himself and as difficult questions
:03:06. > :03:09.about whether the kind of relief is being provided as my people need.
:03:10. > :03:15.Here is what the president had to stay shortly after landing. We want
:03:16. > :03:21.to be looked at in five years and ten years from now as this is the
:03:22. > :03:25.way to do it. Nobody has ever seen anything like this, and I'd just
:03:26. > :03:30.want to say that working with the governor and his entire team has
:03:31. > :03:35.been an honour for us. So, governor, thank you very much, we want sick
:03:36. > :03:50.and gradually since we don't want to do that. -- we want to say
:03:51. > :03:54.congratulations. President Trump is facing has vast natural disaster as
:03:55. > :04:01.president. He will of course be haunted by that of President George
:04:02. > :04:10.W Bush. It is a child anniversary of 911. President Trump is clearly
:04:11. > :04:14.determined to avoid their flat-footed response to that
:04:15. > :04:17.disaster. Houston has seen torrential rainfall and the impact
:04:18. > :04:23.of Harvey leading to extraordinary levels of awareness flooding. 9000
:04:24. > :04:27.people had to spend the night last night in a convention centre, and
:04:28. > :04:31.now the mayoral office and is expecting another 10,000 victims of
:04:32. > :04:36.the flood. My colleague James Kate has all the latest.
:04:37. > :04:40.The boats have come from all over the United States,
:04:41. > :04:46.Police, soldiers and civilians all working together.
:04:47. > :04:49.We're trying to get to a safe and dry place.
:04:50. > :05:01.From above, they can see the problem,
:05:02. > :05:04.A reservoir a few blocks away is overflowing.
:05:05. > :05:06.It was built 80 years ago to protect the
:05:07. > :05:11.young city of Houston, but no-one then imagined this.
:05:12. > :05:13.The level of the reservoir is still rising, so
:05:14. > :05:16.flooding is going to continue along the structures and the homes that
:05:17. > :05:19.are against the western edge of the pool.
:05:20. > :05:21.Streets will be flooding and will continue to flood.
:05:22. > :05:31.For the people being rescued here, this is
:05:32. > :05:34.clearly a nightmare, but it could yet get worse.
:05:35. > :05:36.These floodwaters will eventually make their way downstream
:05:37. > :05:37.to Houston, which is already struggling to cope.
:05:38. > :05:39.This shelter ran out of beds last night.
:05:40. > :05:41.More than 7000 people are here, tens of
:05:42. > :05:46.thousands more are looking for a haven.
:05:47. > :06:01.Little by little, the human cost is becoming clear.
:06:02. > :06:03.We now know that four children and their
:06:04. > :06:05.great-grandparents are among the dead, drowning in their car.
:06:06. > :06:07.For Houston and for the US, this is a
:06:08. > :06:10.The millions of people live around the rivers and swamps
:06:11. > :06:21.At Harvey makes landfall again, it's a question for another day.
:06:22. > :06:23.The storm no longer packs the power of a
:06:24. > :06:25.hurricane but remains dangerous and is heading east.
:06:26. > :06:27.Lying in wait is Louisiana, crippled by hurricane
:06:28. > :06:30.Back in Texas, those rescues roll on and on as
:06:31. > :06:34.There are a lot of people who need help, and I'm thankful for these
:06:35. > :06:37.I've never been through anything like this.
:06:38. > :06:42.And no wonder - 49 inches of rain has fallen.
:06:43. > :06:44.This is now officially a record-breaking disaster.
:06:45. > :06:53.On the line is Jeff Linder he's the Hydraulic operations
:06:54. > :07:06.Manager with the Harris County Flood Control District.
:07:07. > :07:14.Thank you for joining us. Can you let is not what the latest age as
:07:15. > :07:19.but those reservoirs? They continued to rise as water continues to move
:07:20. > :07:28.down. We do have releases going on right now by the army engineers.
:07:29. > :07:32.However on the northern side of addicts, we have a small amount of
:07:33. > :07:37.water going over this ballet, and that is expected to increase over
:07:38. > :07:44.the next 24 246 hours, and that will additional subdivisions along the
:07:45. > :07:46.side of the Addicks Reservoir. And side the reservoir, there are
:07:47. > :07:52.thousands of homes now flooding, some of them up to five feet deep of
:07:53. > :07:57.water. And on the north-east part of our county, we have water that is up
:07:58. > :08:05.to the rooftops or higher in some homes. Is that something you have
:08:06. > :08:07.ever seen before, one of the reservoir is fighting? Or is it a
:08:08. > :08:13.function of the trillions of gallons of water that have fallen on Texas?
:08:14. > :08:18.It is absolutely a function of the rainfall. We have never seen these
:08:19. > :08:22.reservoirs at this level. We have never been to this level since the
:08:23. > :08:27.1940s. Their previous record was actually said last year. We
:08:28. > :08:33.surpassed that by six feet already, and it is now rising. We have never
:08:34. > :08:37.engaged these belly before, so this is something that has never
:08:38. > :08:41.happened. We are in uncharted territory right now. We are not even
:08:42. > :08:52.sure how all the systems are going to behave as it the water continues
:08:53. > :08:58.to flow. The resulting damage is simply staggering. We know that
:08:59. > :09:04.Houston has more rainfall forecast. That the tropical storm is going to
:09:05. > :09:09.combat this city again. Presumably that just makes your job even more
:09:10. > :09:15.difficult. The centre of Hurricane Harvey is located just off of
:09:16. > :09:18.Galveston this morning. It is over the gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Harvey
:09:19. > :09:28.is beginning to move back to the north-east, and make by far just to
:09:29. > :09:33.the north-east. Heavy rain forced us to -- we have recorded almost 50
:09:34. > :09:38.inches of rain and alas four days, and we have some experts looking at
:09:39. > :09:44.right now, what kind of record that is. We think it maybe a US rainfall
:09:45. > :09:48.record. Thank you so much for taking the time away from your very
:09:49. > :09:51.difficult and important work to update us at BBC News about the
:09:52. > :10:00.situation there with those reservoirs. Thank you very much. He
:10:01. > :10:04.just said that that one area in his jurisdiction has received almost 50
:10:05. > :10:08.entries of rain, which they think is the US record, so the flooding that
:10:09. > :10:14.happens here and La Grange taxes, whether Colorado River also rose to
:10:15. > :10:19.as direct high of 55 feet, if ever that is nominally as five feet, once
:10:20. > :10:23.again if function of this extraordinary rainfall. We are not
:10:24. > :10:28.on the coast. People here were not expecting flooding, but what the
:10:29. > :10:32.flooding has done is that they work for mobile homes just a little bit
:10:33. > :10:36.away from where I was talking to you now. They got picked up by that
:10:37. > :10:41.flooding is it what went down the main streets. The bangs into one
:10:42. > :10:46.another, destroying people's homes, their belongings. One of those
:10:47. > :10:50.people who lost a home was that women who I talk to a little area. I
:10:51. > :10:58.began by asking Hunt what happened. It is devastating. I have not had a
:10:59. > :11:04.chance to take anything out, I was not able to go in there. There was
:11:05. > :11:09.close, and then you just go back this morning, and you can see the 80
:11:10. > :11:13.over at house is. It is still standing, but as far as water
:11:14. > :11:18.damage, pretty much everything is rain. The think there is any
:11:19. > :11:21.possibility you could live there again? Definitely. This is where I
:11:22. > :11:27.grew up, and there is no doubt that we will be starting all over and we
:11:28. > :11:31.will get another house right there. There is no way. This is our little
:11:32. > :11:35.place. Did you have any idea that this was going to happen? Did you
:11:36. > :11:43.feel you got enough warning that the flooding was on its way? No. We all
:11:44. > :11:47.know each other. Half of these people didn't think it would be this
:11:48. > :11:52.bad, so most of them just got some close just for the night so they
:11:53. > :11:58.could come back, but we never thought it would be a rabbi that
:11:59. > :12:08.would take most of these homes out. It is hard. -- a river that would
:12:09. > :12:12.take. Like so many thousands of victims of this tropical storm
:12:13. > :12:18.across the of Texas, she is trying to put her life back together back
:12:19. > :12:23.at the moment. President Trump is here in Texas. He has promised a
:12:24. > :12:28.full response to this disaster. Meanwhile, the tropical storm is out
:12:29. > :12:29.there lingering in the Gulf of Mexico, heading east to Louisiana.
:12:30. > :12:43.Back to you in this video. As you can see, the bottle has
:12:44. > :12:46.receded, but this stance is far from over. Let's move to another story.
:12:47. > :12:49.Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his country is facing
:12:50. > :12:50.an unprecedented threat after North Korea fired
:12:51. > :12:54.The missile was fired eastward from Pyongyang at six
:12:55. > :12:58.It potentially has the power to carry a nuclear warhead, and it
:12:59. > :13:01.fell into the North Pacific Ocean 700 miles off the Japanese coast.
:13:02. > :13:04.Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Tokyo.
:13:05. > :13:10.This is how people in northern Japan were awoken at just
:13:11. > :13:18.A missile is passing, the announcer says,
:13:19. > :13:26.At City Hall, there are frantic phone calls.
:13:27. > :13:40.A North Korean missile has just flown overhead.
:13:41. > :13:42.My phone was by my bed, says this woman.
:13:43. > :13:44.Suddenly it started ringing with alerts.
:13:45. > :13:55.We have nowhere to escape to, says this man.
:13:56. > :14:02.The missile that flew over Japan is thought to be one of these.
:14:03. > :14:07.It was first seen at this huge parade in Pyongyang in April.
:14:08. > :14:11.A month later, North Korea shocked the world by successfully firing
:14:12. > :14:17.Today, it has gone much further, forcing a grim-faced
:14:18. > :14:22.Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, to address the nation.
:14:23. > :14:26.TRANSLATION: This missile flown over Japan is an outrageous act,
:14:27. > :14:32.and a critical threat that we have not seen before.
:14:33. > :14:34.They will be many who say this North Korean missile launch
:14:35. > :14:37.is all about politics, that it is North Korean
:14:38. > :14:39.brinkmanship, and they are probably right.
:14:40. > :14:43.But it's not much consolation if you live here underneath it.
:14:44. > :14:46.This was an extremely aggressive act by Pyongyang,
:14:47. > :14:52.and it sends a very disturbing message to people here in Japan.
:14:53. > :14:55.He can now hit Tokyo with nuclear weapons, he can hit Okinawa
:14:56. > :15:00.You know, if you don't want to keep this game of escalation,
:15:01. > :15:05.we might want to sit down and start talking to each other.
:15:06. > :15:09.But right now, talking is the last thing on anyone's mind here.
:15:10. > :15:14.Today, South Korea sent F-15 fighter jets to bomb targets just south
:15:15. > :15:18.American heavy bombers could follow next.
:15:19. > :15:22.Each side now feels compelled to flex its military might,
:15:23. > :15:36.and so the spiral of tension is wound up yet again.
:15:37. > :15:37.The owner of the Rana Plaza garment
:15:38. > :15:39.factory in Bangladesh, which collapsed killing more
:15:40. > :15:42.than eleven hundred people in 2013, has been jailed for three
:15:43. > :15:46.Sohel Rana faces further charges, including murder.
:15:47. > :15:49.If he's found guilty, he could face the death penalty.
:15:50. > :15:56.Concern is growing over the fate of a nine-year-old girl
:15:57. > :15:58.who disappeared at a wedding in eastern France.
:15:59. > :16:00.The girl, Maylis de Araowjo, was last seen
:16:01. > :16:03.Extensive searches of the area around the wedding hall
:16:04. > :16:06.using a helicopter and police dogs have so far failed to find
:16:07. > :16:09.A kidnapping investigation has opened and police have issued
:16:10. > :16:16.Heavy rain has brought India's financial capital Mumbai
:16:17. > :16:19.to a virtual standstill, flooding streets and
:16:20. > :16:25.Dozens of flights and local train services were cancelled as rains
:16:26. > :16:28.lashed the coastal city of nearly 20 million people.
:16:29. > :16:42.British actor Ed Skrein has pulled out of a Hollywood movie role
:16:43. > :16:44.after he was cast as a character of Asian heritage,
:16:45. > :16:49.The initial casting of the Deadpool star prompted accusations
:16:50. > :16:56.Mr Skrein said he wasn't aware of the character's mixed-Asian
:16:57. > :16:59.heritage when he accepted the role in the comic book
:17:00. > :17:12.a professor of Sociology at Biola University in California.
:17:13. > :17:22.Thank you for joining us. I just want to get your thoughts about how
:17:23. > :17:26.significant you think this pool out by Mr Skrein is, given the
:17:27. > :17:32.controversy do we had some years ago. Haven't begun beyond this?
:17:33. > :17:40.Apparently we haven't, because whitewashing is still endemic in
:17:41. > :17:44.industry. I think it is really significant that Mr Skrein, who is
:17:45. > :17:50.not as well-known as an actor as some others, has courageously gone
:17:51. > :17:54.about declining this role after finding out that it should be cast
:17:55. > :18:00.as a Japanese American actor. Indeed. Many people saying it could
:18:01. > :18:05.be likened to career suicide at this stage, but obviously he has had lots
:18:06. > :18:09.of support already. What is your take on this? How do you think that
:18:10. > :18:19.we got to this point that there aren't the right act has been cast
:18:20. > :18:25.in the Rye", there has been a lot of excuses, like there aren't actors
:18:26. > :18:31.with the financial bill are the right colour. But Mr Skrein is not
:18:32. > :18:34.that well known, and a has-been actors who don't necessarily carry
:18:35. > :18:39.star power and Thames are being cast in these characters of colour, and I
:18:40. > :18:45.think that is why it is so significant that he has taken this
:18:46. > :18:50.step towards remedying this. Thinking about that recent movie
:18:51. > :18:57.with Matt Damon, The Great While, where he plays a role by an actor of
:18:58. > :19:01.easy heritage, that is a huge example of what we are talking
:19:02. > :19:08.about. As countries like China get into the movie business even more,
:19:09. > :19:14.and we naturally going to see odd pieces from these parts of the
:19:15. > :19:18.world? I think the ACE is that Hollywood style isn't there yet.
:19:19. > :19:23.They are really risk averse, so they want to cast what has worked before,
:19:24. > :19:28.and I think that they are hesitant to cast an Asian American actor in
:19:29. > :19:31.starring roles, but it is part of the problem is that they are not
:19:32. > :19:36.recognising the demographic changes, and that people are growing up in
:19:37. > :19:40.more diverse worlds, and so they want to see people on screen that I
:19:41. > :19:44.like themselves are like their friends, and Hollywood is Jess not
:19:45. > :19:49.dead yet in terms of film. In television, it is a little bit
:19:50. > :19:53.better. Thank you very much forgiving us your thoughts. It will
:19:54. > :19:56.be entered arresting to see who they cast in natural for Hellboy. This
:19:57. > :20:11.gets more the situation in North Korea.
:20:12. > :20:17.We are going to talk about what else is left to do in North Korea. No
:20:18. > :20:23.country should have mass is flying over them like those 130 million
:20:24. > :20:29.people in Japan. It is unacceptable. They have violated every single US
:20:30. > :20:37.security issue that we have had. Let's get the latest from Barbara
:20:38. > :20:42.who is at Washington monitoring the events that are happening in the UN.
:20:43. > :20:46.When a provocation like this happens, the attention of the world
:20:47. > :20:49.just to the UN to see what the response is going to be. We have had
:20:50. > :20:54.plenty of these responses before, but nothing has really carved North
:20:55. > :20:59.Korea's actions. At the UN out of options when it comes in North
:21:00. > :21:07.Korea's it Kevin De Bruyne sadly, because they recently passed quite
:21:08. > :21:14.tough sanctions Elia in the month. -- it kind of looks that way. They
:21:15. > :21:20.slashed many experts, which could cost the country up to $1 billion.
:21:21. > :21:27.The response was more defiance, not less defined. If the UN wants to
:21:28. > :21:31.make a difference, it has two apply eight fill an economic embargo. I
:21:32. > :21:34.think the Chinese are just not ready for that. They have surely a
:21:35. > :21:41.willingness to put the squeeze on North Korea, but they do not want to
:21:42. > :21:45.rebel village in to the extent that there might be if all of the regime.
:21:46. > :21:50.Absent that, there might be an attempt that another round of
:21:51. > :21:53.sanctions, particularly cutting of hard currency to North Korea. That
:21:54. > :21:58.is a strategy at the moment, being led by the US. They are doing it
:21:59. > :22:02.through the United Nations but also separately with them on at
:22:03. > :22:05.sanctions, so we might see more of that. You detonate in China there.
:22:06. > :22:11.They are the gatekeeper when it comes to North Korea, and terms of
:22:12. > :22:22.economic sanctions and diplomatic channels. Yes, that is true. It is
:22:23. > :22:27.the only major ally that North Korea has, although it has to be said it
:22:28. > :22:31.is a very difficult relationship, the leader has really floated all of
:22:32. > :22:36.China's concerns and has an even vetted the country since he took
:22:37. > :22:43.office. Certainly, the Chinese feel they will support the sanctions and
:22:44. > :22:48.negotiations alongside, even now, with this latest test, they have
:22:49. > :22:52.said we are reaching a critical juncture, but perhaps this will open
:22:53. > :22:57.the door to negotiations. That is something that seems not likely to
:22:58. > :23:00.happen, at least in the short-term, because the Americans, the secretary
:23:01. > :23:04.of state, although he has said the US is open to talks with North
:23:05. > :23:07.Korea, they have to be done on the basis that North Korea will be
:23:08. > :23:10.willing to give up its nuclear weapons, and more and more experts
:23:11. > :23:17.and observers are saying that it doesn't like it is going to happen.
:23:18. > :23:21.The only realistic option might be to have talks based on a freeze of
:23:22. > :23:23.these weapons, and that is something the US is not ready to do so far.
:23:24. > :23:28.For the moment, thank you very much. The countdown has
:23:29. > :23:30.started for the end The spacecraft - which has spent
:23:31. > :23:34.two decades in space - has performed its lowest orbit
:23:35. > :23:36.before it's destroyed Scientists say they're hoping this
:23:37. > :23:39.final phase of close-up exploration will solve
:23:40. > :23:42.some long-standing mysteries. Our science correspondent
:23:43. > :23:47.Rebecca Morelle has more. Instantly recognisable,
:23:48. > :23:51.Saturn and its spectacular rings. The Cassini spacecraft's revealed
:23:52. > :23:56.this planet in incredible detail and these are some of its latest
:23:57. > :24:00.close-up images, from its hexagonal North Pole to its ring
:24:01. > :24:05.system and even an aurora. But this mission's very
:24:06. > :24:08.nearly at its end. Cassini's been in
:24:09. > :24:11.space for 20 years. It's set down a probe,
:24:12. > :24:14.spotted plumes on one of Saturn's moons and discovered colossal
:24:15. > :24:18.storms, but now it's It's final days, though,
:24:19. > :24:23.will be crucial. We've learnt so much,
:24:24. > :24:26.but in that process we've also One of the things that we still
:24:27. > :24:31.don't understand about Saturn Over the last few months,
:24:32. > :24:37.Cassini's been exploring a region where no spacecraft's been before,
:24:38. > :24:39.swooping between Saturn and its rings and, in its final
:24:40. > :24:44.days, it will get closer still, giving us our best ever
:24:45. > :24:48.view of the planet, revealing its atmosphere
:24:49. > :24:52.and what lies beneath its thick clouds, but these last dives
:24:53. > :24:54.could also show us what's hidden within its rings,
:24:55. > :24:57.including a mysterious We noticed this smudge
:24:58. > :25:03.right at the edge... The blurry speck was spotted
:25:04. > :25:07.by Carl Murray in 2013 on his mother-in-law Peggy's
:25:08. > :25:10.birthday ,and the name stuck. The ball of dust, more than a mile
:25:11. > :25:14.wide, is either a moon being born or one in its death throes,
:25:15. > :25:17.and this is his last We need to understand
:25:18. > :25:25.what object Peggy really is. We've only got, literally,
:25:26. > :25:29.now a matter of days. Our last look at Peggy will be
:25:30. > :25:36.on September 14th abd I can't wait Our last look at Peggy will be
:25:37. > :25:39.on September 14th and I can't wait Time's running out, but this
:25:40. > :25:43.spacecraft will go out with a bang. Its last manoeuvre will be a death
:25:44. > :25:46.dive into Saturn's atmosphere, bringing this blockbuster mission
:25:47. > :25:47.to a close. Don't forget you can get
:25:48. > :25:57.in touch with me and some of the team on Twitter -
:25:58. > :26:05.I'm Tom Donkin BBC. Well, for most of us today it's been
:26:06. > :26:09.certainly a lot fresher