:00:00. > :00:10.Kenya's Supreme Court has declared the results of last
:00:11. > :00:15.President Kenyatta says he respects the ruling,
:00:16. > :00:21.even though it means re-running the entire vote.
:00:22. > :00:28.I personally disagree with the ruling that has been made today. But
:00:29. > :00:30.I respect it. As nearly 40,000 Rohingya Muslims
:00:31. > :00:33.flee Myanmar in the space of a week, the UN calls for restraint
:00:34. > :00:36.from Burma's military. The worst floods in decades
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:00:53. > :00:57.had a cow and a goat. They were both killed. My house is totally broken
:00:58. > :00:58.and I'm just left here sitting by the side of the road!
:00:59. > :01:01.And the grainy images which show a close shave for planet Earth,
:01:02. > :01:03.as the biggest asteroid for a century passes
:01:04. > :01:20.Hello and welcome to World News Today.
:01:21. > :01:23.Kenya's opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has described
:01:24. > :01:26.the country's Electoral Commission as "rotten" after the Supreme Court
:01:27. > :01:30.declared last month's presidential poll "null and void"
:01:31. > :01:35.Fresh elections must be held within 60 days.
:01:36. > :01:37.After the verdict there were celebrations in
:01:38. > :01:41.Mr Odinga's hometown, as well as other opposition areas.
:01:42. > :01:43.President Kenyatta said he disagreed with the court's ruling,
:01:44. > :01:56.Celebrating a new lease of life, veteran politician Raila Odinga
:01:57. > :01:59.gets one more chance to run for president.
:02:00. > :02:01.A last-minute decision to challenge the result
:02:02. > :02:05.of the presidential election paid off.
:02:06. > :02:10.The presidential election held on the 8th of August 2017 was not
:02:11. > :02:17.conducted in accordance with the constitution,
:02:18. > :02:19.under the applicable law, rendering the declared results
:02:20. > :02:33.Outside the court, celebrations erupted among opposition supporters.
:02:34. > :02:36.It's now back to the drawing board for presidential candidates.
:02:37. > :02:48.I disagree with it because, as I have said, millions of Kenyans
:02:49. > :02:58.And six people have decided that they will go
:02:59. > :03:05.The judges, however, found no evidence of misconduct
:03:06. > :03:11.The judges did not limit themselves to what happened on election day
:03:12. > :03:16.Rather, they looked at the electoral process in its totality,
:03:17. > :03:18.from voter registration to civic education, as well as
:03:19. > :03:21.the campaigning and the procurement of electoral materials.
:03:22. > :03:25.So, in a sense, this judgment sets a strong precedent for election
:03:26. > :03:27.disputes globally and a high threshold for the
:03:28. > :03:33.The court directed the Electoral Commission to organise a fresh
:03:34. > :03:36.election but the opposition says it has no confidence in
:03:37. > :03:50.And therefore we are going to ask for prosecution of all
:03:51. > :03:54.the Electoral Commission officers who have caused this monstrous crime
:03:55. > :03:59.The Constitution states that a new election must be
:04:00. > :04:05.For now, though, opposition supporters across the country
:04:06. > :04:18.are basking in the glory of the court victory.
:04:19. > :04:22.One of the big questions is where does this leave the international
:04:23. > :04:28.observers who said they saw no sign of anyone manipulating the count. We
:04:29. > :04:30.will be live from Nairobi to answer that question in a few minutes's
:04:31. > :04:32.time. The plight of Myanmar's Rohingya
:04:33. > :04:34.minority risks becoming a humanitarian catastrophe,
:04:35. > :04:35.according to UN Secretary He is urging the country's security
:04:36. > :04:39.forces to exercise restraint and says he is concerned by reports
:04:40. > :04:42.of what he called "excesses during security operations"
:04:43. > :04:46.in Rakhine state. According to the UN,
:04:47. > :04:48.nearly 40,000 refugees from Myanmar's Rohingya minority
:04:49. > :04:52.have crossed into neighbouring They're fleeing fighting
:04:53. > :04:58.between Rohingya insurgents Here's the BBC's South East Asia
:04:59. > :05:05.correspondent, Jonathan Head. This is the Naf River,
:05:06. > :05:09.dividing Bangladesh from Myanmar. It's two days ago, and people
:05:10. > :05:13.are swarming across wading, This dramatic exodus of ethnic
:05:14. > :05:21.Rohingyas continuing even now speaks of a terrible conflict
:05:22. > :05:24.on the other side. Inside Rakhine state,
:05:25. > :05:28.Rohingyas are watching and recording from a safe distance the destruction
:05:29. > :05:33.of village after village. It's a scorched earth campaign
:05:34. > :05:36.by Myanmar's security forces as they wipe out the communities
:05:37. > :05:39.which they believe harbour Rohingya militants who, last week,
:05:40. > :05:42.launched a series of armed attacks Bangladesh doesn't want
:05:43. > :05:48.them but the Rohingyas A stream of humanity, all telling
:05:49. > :05:56.the same terrible stories. Of homes burnt, husbands shot dead
:05:57. > :06:02.and of flight on foot to the border. But where the river is widest,
:06:03. > :06:06.some of the boats floundered. The death toll in six days
:06:07. > :06:13.of violence right across northern Rakhine state can only
:06:14. > :06:17.be guessed at. Years of repression
:06:18. > :06:20.and discrimination have led to this. Public sentiment inside Myanmar
:06:21. > :06:24.towards the Rohingyas is almost Now a new generation of militants
:06:25. > :06:31.have armed themselves and attacked the Myanmar security forces
:06:32. > :06:36.in multiple locations. And the civilian population
:06:37. > :06:40.is feeling the backlash. Over the river, the smoke
:06:41. > :06:43.from wrecked communities sends an ominous warning that this
:06:44. > :06:47.conflict isn't over, Let's take a look at some of
:06:48. > :06:57.the other stories making the news. The speaker of the US House
:06:58. > :06:59.of Representatives has urged president Trump not to scrap
:07:00. > :07:02.a programme that protects young undocumented migrants,
:07:03. > :07:06.known as dreamers, from deportation. Republican Paul Ryan
:07:07. > :07:08.said Mr Trump should let Police in north-west
:07:09. > :07:18.England say the former national football captain,
:07:19. > :07:20.Wayne Rooney, has been They say the Everton striker
:07:21. > :07:23.was stopped in his Volkswagen Beetle He's been freed on bail and will
:07:24. > :07:27.appear at Stockport Magistrates' Last month, Rooney announced his
:07:28. > :07:31.retirement from the England European football's governing body
:07:32. > :07:36.Uefa has put the French club Paris Saint-Germain under formal
:07:37. > :07:38.investigation in connection with the signing of Neymar
:07:39. > :07:41.from Barcelona for a world In a statement, Uefa said
:07:42. > :07:46.the investigation would focus on the requirement that
:07:47. > :07:53.teams broadly break even. The full impact of the devastating
:07:54. > :07:56.floods across South Asia is now Heavy rains at this time
:07:57. > :08:01.of year are not unusual, but the monsoon in India,
:08:02. > :08:04.Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh Millions of people have been
:08:05. > :08:09.forced from their homes. A third of Bangladesh
:08:10. > :08:11.is still under water. The BBC's Justin Rowlatt reports
:08:12. > :08:16.from Bihar in northern India. Those least able to cope
:08:17. > :08:25.are the hardest hit by the floods. Budhia Devi says her
:08:26. > :08:31.life has been ruined. My house is totally broken
:08:32. > :08:40.and I'm just left sitting The people here are subsistence
:08:41. > :08:50.farmers, some of the poorest The floodwaters have
:08:51. > :08:59.begun to drain back. Only to reveal the wreckage
:09:00. > :09:06.of homes and of lives. More than 500 people have died just
:09:07. > :09:09.in this one Indian state, 17 million affected,
:09:10. > :09:14.and now there are new concerns - houses, schools, roads -
:09:15. > :09:17.they all need to be rebuilt and then of course there is
:09:18. > :09:23.the danger of disease. Filthy water, hot weather,
:09:24. > :09:26.and the lack of basic sanitation can People remained in water
:09:27. > :09:33.three days, four days. Their homes were
:09:34. > :09:37.submerged in the water. They remained in the water but due
:09:38. > :09:39.to water-borne dieases, they were drinking contaminated
:09:40. > :09:45.water, so it's a huge risk. And this is a snapshot from just one
:09:46. > :09:50.tiny part of a catastrophe that is unfolding across much
:09:51. > :09:58.of South Asia. The region floods every year,
:09:59. > :10:02.but this is different. Exceptional rains have
:10:03. > :10:04.brought devastation right across the foothills
:10:05. > :10:08.of the Himalayas, from Bangladesh in the east, across India and Nepal,
:10:09. > :10:12.all the way to the West coast The death toll from the collapse
:10:13. > :10:21.of a single building in the Indian financial capital,
:10:22. > :10:27.Mumbai, rose to 33 today. Police suspect it was weakened
:10:28. > :10:33.by the torrential rains. And 16 people have died
:10:34. > :10:37.in flash floods in Karachi, Eid, one of the holiest dates
:10:38. > :10:43.in the Muslim calendar, is tomorrow. It is typically one of the busiest
:10:44. > :10:47.periods for the city as families More rain is forecast
:10:48. > :10:57.across the region. President Trump is expected to ask
:10:58. > :11:05.Congress for almost $6 billion to help people affected
:11:06. > :11:09.by Storm Harvey in Texas. The latest pictures show
:11:10. > :11:12.the devastation to flooded areas The total cost of repairing
:11:13. > :11:16.the damage, and compensating residents whose homes have been
:11:17. > :11:19.flooded, is estimated In Houston, Texas, and beyond,
:11:20. > :11:29.there is little sign After more than four feet of rain
:11:30. > :11:37.in less than a week, it could be days before the water
:11:38. > :11:41.levels fully recede. Thousands of people have now been
:11:42. > :11:44.rescued from their homes, grabbing what they can carry
:11:45. > :11:48.and getting out. Overnight, the storm moved
:11:49. > :11:56.on to Tennessee, bringing more I was walking in the grass
:11:57. > :12:03.and I was walking, and I stepped down, and something just
:12:04. > :12:06.swept me up under. My head was hit, I seen
:12:07. > :12:08.light up under there, and I came out and I tried to grab
:12:09. > :12:12.a tree, and it's And I grabbed onto another tree,
:12:13. > :12:17.and I asked the Lord to help me, and I just started pulling myself up
:12:18. > :12:20.out of there. The Vice-President, Mike Pence,
:12:21. > :12:22.flew into Texas to see This is a key moment
:12:23. > :12:30.for the embattled and historically We are here today, we will be
:12:31. > :12:42.here tomorrow, and we will be here every day until this city
:12:43. > :12:48.and this state and this region rebuild bigger
:12:49. > :12:54.and better than ever before. But this level of devastation
:12:55. > :12:58.is going to take vast Later today, the White House
:12:59. > :13:03.is expected to ask Congress for an initial $5.9 billion
:13:04. > :13:08.in emergency funding. But the authorities in Texas alone
:13:09. > :13:13.say the state might eventually need People here are
:13:14. > :13:20.vulnerable and in need. Recovery and rebuilding is going
:13:21. > :13:25.to take months, if not years. Britain's Chief Brexit
:13:26. > :13:36.negotiator David Davis, says he's a "determined optimist"
:13:37. > :13:38.about the country's future His comments on a visit
:13:39. > :13:41.to Washington, come after Trade Secretary,
:13:42. > :13:43.Liam Fox, accused the EU, of trying to "blackmail" Britain,
:13:44. > :13:45.into accepting a Brexit divorce bill, as the price for
:13:46. > :13:48.beginning trade talks. Here's our political
:13:49. > :13:56.correspondent Eleanor Garnier. The Prime Minister,
:13:57. > :13:59.showing how it's done. At a meeting with the Emperor
:14:00. > :14:01.of Japan, a lesson But it seems her Trade Secretary
:14:02. > :14:06.hadn't got the memo. Speaking in Japan, he accused the EU
:14:07. > :14:09.of bullying the UK into agreeing a Brexit divorce bill before it
:14:10. > :14:14.will start negotiating any We can't be blackmailed into paying
:14:15. > :14:20.a price on the first part. We think that we should begin
:14:21. > :14:23.discussions on the final settlement, The outcome of this week's
:14:24. > :14:28.negotiations in Brussels revealed that money remains a key sticking
:14:29. > :14:33.point in the talks. It's clear the UK doesn't feel
:14:34. > :14:39.legally obliged to honour Nobody will pretend it was anything
:14:40. > :14:45.but a tough exchange this week. But I think the British taxpayer
:14:46. > :14:48.would expect nothing less. It's no surprise there
:14:49. > :14:50.is a bit of rough-and-tumble It's significant Liam Fox didn't
:14:51. > :14:55.repeat the word blackmail when asked A moment perhaps when frustration
:14:56. > :15:01.got the better of him. But it's certainly not
:15:02. > :15:03.a phrase you can expect Fresh from his talks in Brussels,
:15:04. > :15:09.the Brexit Secretary gave a speech to business leaders
:15:10. > :15:12.in Washington today. He tried to laugh away his
:15:13. > :15:16.colleague's controversial comments. I never comment on other ministers'
:15:17. > :15:22.views on these things. Look, we are in a difficult, tough,
:15:23. > :15:26.complicated negotiation. I have said from the beginning
:15:27. > :15:30.that it will be turbulent. What we're having at the moment
:15:31. > :15:33.is the first ripple. And there will be many more
:15:34. > :15:36.ripples along the way. Critics here claim Liam Fox's talk
:15:37. > :15:39.of blackmail will only This is sabre-rattling
:15:40. > :15:49.from a Trade Secretary who is twiddling his thumbs
:15:50. > :15:52.because he cannot do anything until the trade position of the UK
:15:53. > :16:00.has been resolved with the EU. The Prime Minister rounded
:16:01. > :16:02.off her trip cheering on the GB But when it comes to Brexit,
:16:03. > :16:07.the government is still searching for some big points and will be
:16:08. > :16:11.hoping for more Eleanor Garnier, BBC
:16:12. > :16:18.News, Westminster. Drinking too much alcohol causes 3.3
:16:19. > :16:21.million people to die every year. That's roughly 6% of all deaths,
:16:22. > :16:24.according to the World In many developed countries it's
:16:25. > :16:28.so bad that it's considered With this in mind, more and more
:16:29. > :16:34.people are choosing to give up alcohol, either temporarily
:16:35. > :16:36.or for good. Katie Silver has been speaking
:16:37. > :16:39.to some of them and hearing about the programme that's helping
:16:40. > :16:44.them stick to it. This might look like a typical catch
:16:45. > :16:47.up of women over cocktails, It is because these women
:16:48. > :16:57.are all going alcohol free. I was a binge drink,
:16:58. > :17:00.so it wouldn't be that I wanted to drink every night,
:17:01. > :17:02.but when I did, I was like a different
:17:03. > :17:14.person when I was tricky. If I went for a weekend
:17:15. > :17:22.away, it was 30 pints They signed up to a programme
:17:23. > :17:26.called a one-year no beer. It is the brainchild
:17:27. > :17:28.of Rory Fairbanks. Hypothetically, I signed up
:17:29. > :17:31.to the 90 day challenge. And then we start sending
:17:32. > :17:36.you daily e-mails. Inside is a little snippet
:17:37. > :17:39.of the science which links you back to the site where we have broken
:17:40. > :17:43.things down into sprints. This is a wider explanation
:17:44. > :17:53.about the science behind what you're doing to rewire your brain,
:17:54. > :17:56.and a video which is proven People pay to sign up
:17:57. > :18:03.to the programme and the challenges you to go 30 or 90 days
:18:04. > :18:06.without alcohol, with the help of a Facebook group and a daily
:18:07. > :18:10.newsletter as support. He set it up when he realised
:18:11. > :18:12.alcohol was causing I was probably drunk two times
:18:13. > :18:16.per week on average. It wasn't that acceptable any more
:18:17. > :18:24.to be hungover or coming home He aims to change the peer pressure
:18:25. > :18:31.around giving up drinking and to give you tactics
:18:32. > :18:37.for being in the pub. Stealth drinks are great,
:18:38. > :18:40.you tip the barman, put a bit of nonalcoholic beer with lemonade
:18:41. > :18:43.into a pint glass and nobody knows. Doctors say while such a programme
:18:44. > :18:54.is unlikely to help people with severe alcohol dependency,
:18:55. > :18:56.it could help those at risk of developing
:18:57. > :18:58.an addiction later in life. I think that the studies
:18:59. > :19:01.and the programme is really good for people that have hazardous
:19:02. > :19:04.drinking, who are drinking excessively, but not
:19:05. > :19:07.necessarily harmfully, who are on a slippery slope
:19:08. > :19:11.and will eventually become maybe the dependent drinkers
:19:12. > :19:15.in the future. If you have somebody
:19:16. > :19:17.in their 30s, that can For these women, getting off alcohol
:19:18. > :19:26.is already providing many rewards. Everything I want to
:19:27. > :19:37.do, I can go and do. And that's something we can
:19:38. > :19:46.all raise a mocktail to. Let's get more now on our top story,
:19:47. > :19:49.the annulment of the Presidential The court's ruling is being seen
:19:50. > :19:53.as a setback for the international election observers who had praised
:19:54. > :19:56.the election as free and fair. Opposition leader Raila Odinga has
:19:57. > :19:59.called for investigations into their conduct, saying
:20:00. > :20:03.they had "sanitised fraud". Earlier, the head of the EU's
:20:04. > :20:05.Observer Mission responded Well, I can only speak
:20:06. > :20:14.from my own EU election observation mission, which is very
:20:15. > :20:15.independent, impartial. We have a very rigid methodology
:20:16. > :20:19.that we have followed. And in our preliminary statement,
:20:20. > :20:24.we have pointed to irregularities. We've always encouraged
:20:25. > :20:25.the competent Kenyan authorities to deal with them,
:20:26. > :20:28.encouraged all parties who wanted to challenge
:20:29. > :20:32.the results to go to court. And, so, we've been clear
:20:33. > :20:36.that our work is ongoing. My team was in the courtroom until
:20:37. > :20:39.this morning to hear the ruling, to look at the proceedings,
:20:40. > :20:58.to see how it went. I suppose Odinga must feel
:20:59. > :21:02.vindicated while there are big questions about the judgment, the
:21:03. > :21:10.verdict of the international observers. That's right. That is why
:21:11. > :21:15.his party has been celebrating because they didn't actually expect
:21:16. > :21:20.this victory. And their strategy in court was to challenge the process
:21:21. > :21:25.rather than the results. So the Electoral Commission offered to
:21:26. > :21:33.provide the documents upon which they relied, but that was an offer
:21:34. > :21:38.that was rejected by the petitioner, the opposition coalition in this
:21:39. > :21:41.case. This is an interesting judgment in the sense that it looks
:21:42. > :21:46.at the process and whether the law was followed in that process rather
:21:47. > :21:52.than whether the result, the end result, was credible and whether
:21:53. > :21:56.Kenyatta actually won. When he was announced winner, the Electoral
:21:57. > :22:03.Commission said he had more than eight points 2 million votes against
:22:04. > :22:08.Rail Odinga six million. People saw that as a decisive lead so they
:22:09. > :22:15.didn't expect the court would allow that result. And some observers,
:22:16. > :22:20.some analysts are saying this is in a roundabout way a rather proud
:22:21. > :22:24.moment for Kenya, that the debate around the election and the outcome
:22:25. > :22:28.was had in court, in a calm way and not on the streets, not leading to
:22:29. > :22:32.the sort of bloodshed we saw previously when there was a
:22:33. > :22:39.controversial and close election. That's right. It is a big plus for
:22:40. > :22:45.the court, especially. They have asserted their independence and
:22:46. > :22:48.shown that they can actually make certain unprecedented decisions. We
:22:49. > :22:54.have been talking to some lawyers and they say that across the
:22:55. > :22:59.Commonwealth, the judges generally exercise restraint when making such
:23:00. > :23:01.judgments but this one, they strictly followed the law. OK, many
:23:02. > :23:07.thanks indeed. An astronomer has captured images
:23:08. > :23:09.of the biggest asteroid to pass close to Earth in more
:23:10. > :23:11.than a century. Asteroid 3122 Florence,
:23:12. > :23:13.which can be seen here crossing the background stars,
:23:14. > :23:15.came within seven million kilometres The space rock measures five
:23:16. > :23:23.kilometres across and is the most substantial since the first
:23:24. > :23:24.near-Earth asteroid I'm joined now by Professor Alan
:23:25. > :23:46.Fitzsimmons an Astronomer I'm delighted we can speak, how
:23:47. > :23:51.close shave was this? In cosmic terms, it is our back garden, but in
:23:52. > :23:56.absolute terms, and this is as good as a mile, and although this is
:23:57. > :24:03.relatively close to us, it isn't going to come this close again until
:24:04. > :24:08.2500 A.D. Is so we are happy to sit back and watch chipped go past and
:24:09. > :24:17.perform observations of it to help us understand the nature of these
:24:18. > :24:22.asteroids. Would anyone have been able to actually see this without
:24:23. > :24:28.specialist equipment? It isn't bright enough to see by the unaided
:24:29. > :24:32.eye. But it has been followed tonight and tomorrow night by, to
:24:33. > :24:35.astronomers using just small backyard telescopes, so even large
:24:36. > :24:41.pairs of binoculars, because this is a very large near Earth asteroids.
:24:42. > :24:46.We found 16,000 of these so far in the surveys of our solar system. And
:24:47. > :24:54.while many of them are relatively small, this is kind of a big beast.
:24:55. > :24:58.It's over two miles across. Because it is so large, that makes it
:24:59. > :25:04.relatively bright when it passes close to so it makes it relatively
:25:05. > :25:10.easy to see. The asteroid is called Florence. Why Florence? When an
:25:11. > :25:15.asteroid has its orbit around the sun well as this one has done for
:25:16. > :25:17.many years or many decades, astronomers number it in the
:25:18. > :25:22.catalogues and are allowed to give it a name and this one is named
:25:23. > :25:26.after Florence Nightingale. It is kind of strange, actually, having an
:25:27. > :25:33.asteroid named after one of the most famous people in medical history in
:25:34. > :25:37.the UK. And it is foreign astroid, of course, that could one day in
:25:38. > :25:45.thousands or tens of thousands of years' time hit us, causing much
:25:46. > :25:46.devastation. What a sobering thought end on. Professor, thank you very
:25:47. > :25:48.much indeed. Don't forget you can get
:25:49. > :25:50.in touch with me and some of the team on Twitter,
:25:51. > :25:52.I'm @BenMBland. This is BBC World News, thank you
:25:53. > :26:11.for watching. We have a weekend of two halves
:26:12. > :26:16.coming up, and here's Y. High-pressure holding on for the
:26:17. > :26:17.start of the weekend. Here it is, this finger