this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00pm: two people are airlifted to safety after becoming trapped in their home when a flash—flood swept through the fishing village of coverack, in west cornwall. appalling conditions in youth custody centres make a tragedy inevitable. that assessment comes from the chief inspector of prisons, who says he is staggered by the decline in standards in england and wales. we were unable to say that any of the young offender institutions or secure training centres that we inspect — we couldn't consider that any of them were safe to hold children and young people. the bbc will tomorrow unveil a list of its stars earning more than £150,000. and on newsnight, we look at the record of president trump, who this week passes the six—month milestone. half a year of the most controversial president in our lifetimes. we will ask is he as bad

as his critics feared, or as good as his supporters hoped? good evening and welcome to bbc news. heavy rain has caused serious flash—flooding at coverack, on the lizard peninsula in cornwall. the fire brigade has been rescuing people from their homes, and a coastguard helicopter has airlifted others to safety. 0ur correspondentjon kay is in coverack, and sent us this report. summer 2017, and an emergency rescue in cornwall, villagers winched from their rooftops as the rain came down. hail, wind, thunder and lightning, then three hours of torrential rain. coverack couldn't cope.

roads became rivers. it raced down the hills into the harbour, carrying tons of rocks and debris. the water was gushing across the road. there were standing waves. so you couldn't — physically couldn't drive through it. theresa told me she was on her way home from the shops when she found herself stuck in this. she was there for hours. it took eight burly firemen, or whatever, to corral you through the water and rubble and everything that's round there, and then literally dragged through a hedge to safety. roads down to the harbour have been so badly damaged, it is impossible for some people to reach their homes tonight. around 50 properties have been affected. i can't believe it. i mean, the amount of water going down is far in excess i've ever seen in my life before. how long have you lived here? 51 yea rs.

one of the most perilous rescues involved a double—decker bus. the driver and his schoolboy passenger stuck for three hours before being freed. he told me it was a frightening experience. huge boulders came and pummelled the back of the bus. some even the size of the wheels. the authorities say amazingly nobody seems to have suffered major injuries. but it will be tomorrow before the worst of the damage can be reached and assessed. bbc spotlight weather presenter david braine told me a little earlier that up to 80 mm had fallen in cornwall in two hours this afternoon. well, the first problem we have at the moment is there are not many rainfall gauges to give us an idea of exactly how much rain fell in the area. but we tracked the main thunderstorm, if you like, the main cell of the storm. it started at around 2:30pm in the afternoon, on the eastern

side of the lizard peninsula, travelling north very slowly. so, for about two hours, the rain was intense and pretty heavy, and we can work outjust how intense that rainfall is from the sort of colours that we get from the rain radar. the rain radar basically tells us how intense that rainfall has been falling. and we reckon — we estimate that it has been falling at 30—a0 mm in the hour. it has been across this part of the lizard peninsula for more than two hours. that gives you the rout of rainfall we are likely to see. we could have had 18 millimetres of rain. you can see where the colour is, you can see a large royal navy base at quartararo‘s, which isjust to the west of the main pollutant sealer. that had very little rainfall.

it is a very localised downpour. but along with the rain, came the hail and thunder. people describing the rain as out of the tropics, huge hailstones, which seems extraordinary on such a warm day. very, very large hailstones, the size of 50p pieces, we were told. well, particularly when you get big thunderstorms, you can get hail. that has been apparent not in just this area, but elsewhere. parts of somerset were also having temperatures of up to 28 degrees. you will have noticed on the screen, all the colour down here. that is approaching the isles of scilly at the moment, but it looks like it is going to travel northwards. at least, we hope it will travel northwards. the upper level winds should steer it to the north, away from the affected area. we will keep our fingers crossed. i know coverack well, i used to live there. i know the shops along the front could have been affected by those

downpours and floods. it is a close—knit community, it's an old fishing community, but the actual village itself has very steep approaches. any road you go down into coverack is very steep. i'm sure the roads have contributed to the rain coming down the roads, as well as the rivers. and is this kind of flash—flooding — does it happen often in that part of the world? not very often. the famous occurrence of a similar setup was way back with the floods that happened in boscastle. now, that was quite a few years ago. asimilarset up, an intense thunderstorm. we had rainfall gauges close to that, and they recorded in the afternoon some 200 mm of rain. i'm not sure we have seen that much in this area, but certainly, when you look at the intensity of the rainfall from 2:30pm to 4:30pm, i would not be surprised to hear we had recorded 80 mm of rain.

every single youth custody centre in england and wales has been described as unsafe. in the latest report from the chief inspector of prisons, peter clarke warns that a tragedy is inevitable, and the decline in standards is staggering. he attacks the conditions of men's prisons, too, saying he was often appalled by how inmates had to live. in response, the government says it acknowledges the issues raised, and plans to boost the number of frontline staff to address some of the challenges. our home affairs correspondent june kelly has the details. medway secure training centre, in kent, a place where young offenders are held and hopefully rehabilitated. 18 months ago, an undercover investigation by bbc panorama shone a light on daily life in medway. teenage inmates were seen being mistreated and abused. a number of staff were sacked, and the police launched a criminal investigation. medway, then run by gas,

is now the responsibility of the prison and probation service. but it is still struggling, and only last month, inspectors denounced it as inadequate. and it is not alone, according to today's damning report by the prison watchdog, which says: the chief inspector of prisons says he was so alarmed at what was found that he alerted ministers earlier this year. violence, giving rise to repressive regimes, more discipline, longer being locked in cells, i've seen children being held in cells for 22 hours a day. not eating any of their meals in association with other children. when inspectors went into feltham young 0ffenders institution, in west london, they found that violence was so acute that the site

was unsafe for both staff and boys. jennifer blake, who runs an anti—gang charity, was in feltham last month. their toilet system is overflowing. the stench in there. the fact that they're more afraid to be inside the prison, more than outside, because of the gang rivalry inside the prison. she began offending when she was 13, and spend 20 years involved in knife crime, drugs and robbery. through my own life experience, i know that i wasn't stopped and i went down the wrong path. so, if these young people are not stopped, they will take it through to their adulthood, and they will continue re—offending. the ministry ofjustice said no minister was available for interview and in a statement it said... ayearago, bbc news reports from wandsworth prison gave us the inside view of life on the wings. with prisoners self—harming,

and open drug abuse. when it comes to adultjails, today's report warns that the system can only be reformed if there is less violence, fewer drugs, and more time spent out of cells. and all these require extra staff. tomorrow the bbc will publish its annual report, which for the first time will include details of how much the corporation pays its stars. the government has forced the disclosure, which will affect presenters on salaries of more than £150,000. the bbc already publishes full details of executive pay and expenses. 0ur media editor amol rajan reports. they're the faces beamed out and broadcast to the nation on a regular basis, presenting shows that still command

an audience of millions. and tomorrow, for the first time, we get a clear indication of how much they are paid. the bbc‘s annual report will include the salaries of all broadcasters paid over £150,000 by the bbc, a result of tense negotiations over its royal charter agreement. tony hall, the director general of the bbc, was against the move. i don't think it's right that we should have names against salaries, for stars, for presenters and others. i believe that would be inflationary, which i think will be bad for licence fee payers, and i believe it will be a poacher‘s charter. we put the argument out there, we lost that. we are managing a situation which we didn't want, but we will do. but isn't it quite embarrassing, in this list that comes out tomorrow, that two—thirds of those paid over £150,000 whose salaries we find out about are men? my real ambition when i came back

to the bbc was to get to a position by 2020 where we have equality between men and women, on the screen and on the radio. and, over the last three years, of the new people we've either promoted or put on our screen or radios, 63% are women. is this progress enough? it's absolutely not. critics of the bbc argue that transparency can flush out waste, and the public have a right to know how their money is being spent. it can identify areas where there is fat left to trim, and it can help to inform priorities, whether the bbc should be competing in the marketplace for other providers for certain programmes, or deal with factual broadcasting. tomorrow will be an uncomfortable day for all bbc broadcasters, who will have to defend their salaries in public. it will be for the licence fee

payers to determine whether or not they are value—for—money. amol rajan, bbc news. there has been an unexpected fall in inflation. the rate as measured by the consumer prices index was 2.6% injune, compared with 2.9% in may. the drop is partly due to a fall in fuel prices. but some economists believe it isjust a blip, saying inflation is likely to rise again. here is our economics correspondent andy verity. we're used to petrol being the motor of inflation, but last month, it dragged it down. between may and june, the cost of fuel dropped by more than a percentage point. and, instead of edging higher, as many expected, inflation generally fell back from 2.9% to 2.6%. one of the biggest elements that held inflation down was culture and recreation, everything from theatre tickets, to sports tickets, to video streaming on the internet. and another big downward pressure came from these — cheaper tablet computers. this afternoon, the governor of the bank of england gave his reaction to the figures. i think the first thing is, one doesn't want to put too much weight on any specific data point.

the bigger picture remains the same. the reason why inflation is above the 2% target is because of the depreciation in the pound, following the referendum, or associated with the referendum. and that's a judgement of the market. we'll see in the fullness of time whether that judgment is right, but it's a judgment of the market, about the relative incomes in this country as a consequence of those decisions, over the medium term. this carpet factory in kidderminster is an example of a growing business dealing with that weaker pound. it means it has to pay more than it once did to buy the yarn that goes into its carpets from abroad. it has adapted to that, and more of its yarn now comes from british sheep. that has helped it to trim its costs and keep its price rises contained. our prices have had to go up. we've increased prices by around 2% this year, and that's been a natural consequence of increased wage costs, yarn costs and energy costs. we have had to pass that on to our customers. while inflation is lower than last month, prices are still rising faster than the average

worker's pay. the squeeze on living standards isn't over yet. it looks as if inflation might be dampened a bit by softer fuel price growth over the next few months. but underlying price pressures from post—brexit falls in sterling are still there, and they look set to continue to push inflation up a bit further as we move to the end of the year. for now, the pressure on the bank of england to tame inflation by raising interest rates sooner rather than later has eased. in the city, they are still betting a rise in interest rates will be needed, but not until next march. andy verity, bbc news. now on bbc news, it is time for newsnight. against the odds and against the experts, he managed to go from this... let's go, ladies! ...to this. and this week, he passes the six—month mark.