this is bbc news. the headlines at 7pm. president trump has arrived in texas, to see for himself the damage caused by storm harvey. he'll also assess how much more the federal government can do, to help the relief effort. this was of epic proportion. we have never seen anything like this and i just want to say working with the governor and his entire team has been an honour for us. warning sirens sounded across japan,after north korea fired fired a missile over the island of hokkaido. the un security council is to hold an emergency meeting. the head of the eu commission has attacked the government's latest brexit proposals, suggesting they're not good enough. jean—claude juncker said official papers setting out britain's positions aren't satisfactory and an enormous amount of issues still need to be settled. police are investigating the death of a four—year—old boy at a swimming

pool in north devon. and it's war at waterloo station, in london, as signalling problems caused delays for commuters, for commuters, on the very day it fully reopened after a month of engineering works. good evening and welcome to bbc news. president donald trump has arrived in texas to assess the damage caused by storm harvey, as floodwaters across the state continue to rise. in houston, more than 30,000 thousand people have been forced from their homes due to the tropical storm, which has set a new record for rainfall in the state. the rain has been falling since last friday. some places have seen more than a meter of rain. the greatest danger may be yet to come, with floodwaters rising in several rivers.

a major dam to the west of houston has begun overflowing as harvey pushes the reservoir past capacity. engineers have tried to prevent nearby communities from being inundated by releasing some of the water held by addicks dam. around 160 kilometers west of houston is the small community of la grange, that's where we can take you live to our north america correspondent laura trevelyan, who is there for us. welcome to la grange, a small community reeling from the impact of storm harvey and it is a microcosm of communities across texas. more than 300 homes were evacuated as the colorado river broke its banks and homes were devastated, all of this as president trump comes here to texas. he landed in corpus christi within the last couple of hours and right now he is being briefed on the situation at corpus christi, one of the first places that storm harvey made landfall. he is here to see for himself exactly what is going on and to ask the difficult questions about

whether the kind of belief being provided is exactly what people on the ground need. here is what the president had to say shortly after landing. i want to look at this 510 years from now as this is the way to do it. this was of epic proportion, i'io do it. this was of epic proportion, no one has ever seen anything like this. ijust want to say that working with the governor and his entire team has been an honour for us. entire team has been an honour for us. thank you very much and we won't say congratulations, because we don't want to do that, but we will congratulate each other when it is all finished. president trump, facing his first natural disaster as president. he will of course be haunted by the example of one of his republican predecessors, george w bush. it is today the 12th anniversary of hurricane katrina. president bush was criticised for having a flat—footed response to

that disaster, something president trump is determined to avoid. we are about 100 miles west of houston and houston has seen tremendous rainfall with the impact of storm harvey, leading to extraordinary levels of ruinous flooding. 9000 people had to spend the night last night in a convention centre and now the mayor of houston is seeing the city is expecting another 10,000 victims of the flight. in the chaos some order, the flight. in the chaos some order, the boats have come from all over the boats have come from all over the united states and not a moment too soon. the operation was fast and smooth. police, soldiers and civilians working together. we are trying to get to a safer place. how was the baby doing? he is fine, just scared. from above they can see the problem and it is a big one. the

reservoir is overflowing. it was built 80 years ago to protect the young city of houston but nobody then imagine this. the reservoir is still rising so flooding will continue along the structures and the homes that are against the western edge of the pool, so streets will continue to flood, new streets will continue to flood, new streets will continue to flood, new homes will continue to flood, new homes will continue to flood. for the people being rescued this is clearly a nightmare but it could still get worse. these floodwaters will eventually make their way downstream to houston but it is already struggling to cope. this shelter run out of bed last night, more than 7000 people a year, tens of thousands more are looking for a haven. little by little the human costis haven. little by little the human cost is becoming clear, we now know that four children and their great—grandparents that four children and their great—grandpa rents are that four children and their great—grandparents are among the dead, groaning in their car. first used in the us this is a wake—up

yell. millions of people with in the rivers and swamps around the city, is that wise? this is a question for another day. the storm no longer packs the power of a hurricane but it remains dangerous and is heading east. louisiana lies to the east, crippled by hurricane katrina 12 yea rs crippled by hurricane katrina 12 years ago and oldest —— already rescues have began here. a lot of people need help and i am thankful for these people, people need help and i am thankful forthese people, ideally. i have never been through anything like this. and no wonder. 49 inches of rain has fallen. this is now officially a record—breaking disaster. and we can join the hydraulics operations managerfor the and we can join the hydraulics operations manager for the harris cou nty operations manager for the harris county flood control division. thank you forjoining us at this difficult

time. can you tell us what the latest state of players with those reservoirs u pstrea m latest state of players with those reservoirs upstream from euston? the reservoirs upstream from euston? the reservoirs continues to rise as water moves down into them. the us army corps of engineers are releasing water out of the reservoirs but on the northern side of addicks dam we have a small amount of water across the spillway and that is expecting to increase, and that is expecting to increase, and that is expecting to increase, and that will flood additional subdivisions along the side of the reservoir. inside the pool there are thousands of homes now flooding, some chords of five feet of water and in the north—east part of county, we have water up to the rooftops are higher of some homes. if that's something you have ever seen if that's something you have ever seen before, one of the reservoirs

flooding the river tay function of the trillions of gallons that have fallen on texas? it is absolutely a function of the rainfall that has fallen. we have never seen them rise to this level. they were built in the 1940s and we have never been to this level. the previous record was set last year and we surpassed that by 60 already and still rising. we have never engaged this spillway before, so do something that has never happened and we are in uncharted territory. we're not sure how all the systems will behave as the water flows down them, and the damage that is resulting from this is simply staggering. and we know that houston has more rainfall forecast, that tropical storm harvey is going to come back past houston as it heads east to louisiana and

presumably that just make as it heads east to louisiana and presumably thatjust make sure job even more difficult? the centre of circulation is located just off of galveston, around 65 miles south—east of houston. harvey is beginning to move back to the north—east and will make another landfall just to north—east and will make another landfalljust to the east of houston but heavy rain continues to spread into the county and as a matter of fa ct into the county and as a matter of fact one of flood warning gauges has recorded almost 50 inches of rain in the last four days, and we have some experts looking at that right now, what kind of record that is, because we think it might be a us rainfall records. thank you so much for taking time away from your difficult and important work to update us about the situation with those reservoirs. so a description of that unprecedented flooding and he just said one area in hisjurisdiction has received almost 50 inches of rain which they think is a us

record, so the flooding that happened here where the colorado river also rose to a historic high of 55 feet, a wrapper that is normally five feet, once again a function of this extraordinary rainfall, because we had in inland texas, not on the coast, and people we re texas, not on the coast, and people were not expecting flooding, but what it has done is to four mobile homesjust down what it has done is to four mobile homes just down the way from here, that were picked up by that flooding as the colorado river and went down the main streets, they all banged into one another, destroying people's combs and belongings. 0ne of those people, reyna salinas, i spoke to her lawyer. it is devastating. —— earlier. it wasjust important stuff and some clouds and you go back this morning and got to

see the area where our house is. it is still standing but as far as water damage pretty much everything is gone. do you think there is any possibility you could love then ain? possibility you could love then again? definitely, it is where i grew up and wear my childhood was. starting over i would get another house right there, this is our little place. did you have any idea that this was going to happen? did you feel you got enough warning that the flooding was on its way? all these people, we all grew up together, we all know each other. half of these people didn't think it would get this bad so most of them just got some clouds, just for the night, but we never thought the river was actually going to take most of these homes. it is hard. reyna salinas speaking to meet

earlier and like so many thousands of victims of this tropical storm across the state of texas, just trying to put their lives back together at this moment. as president trump is here in texas, about to fly to austen, he has promised a full response to this disaster. mean while the tropical storm is lingering in the gulf of louisiana firmly in its sights. the president of the european commission, jean—claude juncker, has delivered a new rebuke to the government over its handling of brexit negotiations. he said the latest official papers setting out britain's position were not satisfactory. david herzenhorn, is the chief brussels correspondent from the news website politico, and hejoins me now from our studio in brussels. thanks for being with us, we know of

the disquiet of the chief eu negotiator rantjean—claude juncker, but how widely shared by these views across the 27 eu states? is the uk perhaps dragging its feet on all this? it is less the dragging its feet than the ambiguity. there is the view that the uk just doesn't really know what it wants out of these talks, that there isn't enough consensus on the london side for negotiators to be clear on what their goals are. the suggestion is theresa may might be willing to appeal over the heads and go directly to the leaders of the 27 states to try to get some kind of flexibility in the timing of these talks and the issues that need to be discussed. could she find any traction there? that report is accurate because at times what the

eu has done upside down and on its head. barnier has been very clear that he is the one. has instructions have been very clear, the divorce issues need to be settled first, then moving on to the future relationship. the response on the us site is that the 27 are directing this to begin with and so there is no going over his head, because he isjust the no going over his head, because he is just the instrument no going over his head, because he isjust the instrument of no going over his head, because he is just the instrument of those leaders. is there no flexibility at all in sorting out the divorce and then the future relationship between then the future relationship between the uk and the european union? is mr barnier‘s modus operandi from the 27 fixed in stone? that is flexibility built into this process. what the eu side is looking for is a deal short

of good faith that the key divorce terms, the citizens rights and the irish border issues, those will be resolved. they didn't say they are needed to be total progress or agreement but there had to be sufficient progress. that is the standard set. the resistance, which is understandable on the london side, to a specific number for the financial settlement, is seen on the brussels said as a lack of good faith and an unwillingness to end one relationship before starting another. it sounds as if the talks haven't got anywhere even though we're into the third round of negotiations and we have had months of planning and so on. it sounds as though they haven't got anywhere. definitely slow progress, if any. no question that mr barnier said we need to start negotiating seriously and that prompts us to say, what have you been doing for three months? one of the reporters shouted at them, it sounds like groundhog

day. they keep saying the same thing, we are ready to roll up our sleeves and work. you are seeing what we are saying, it seems to be slow going. it sounds quite scary if it hasn't even got off the ground as yet. is there a possibility there may not even be ideal if in the time constraints ? may not even be ideal if in the time constraints? there is a two-year deadline from the moment the article was triggered to get to the withdrawal deadline. that is the deadline that matters. there's a possibility a deal doesn't get reached on both sides say they are for that but there is so much at sta ke for that but there is so much at stake and both sides are so willing is that the general consensus is the are still a possibility for them to get their act together and move quickly, even agreeing to a transition period, to get beyond those two years. thanks forjoining us. the headlines on bbc news. president trump has arrived

in texas, to see for himself the damage caused by storm harvey. he'll also assess how much more the federal government can do, to help the relief effort. warning sirens sounded across japan,after north korea fired a missile over the island of hokkaido.the un security council is to hold an emergency meeting. the head of the eu commission has tough words for the government's latest brexit proposals, saying they're not good enough. and we live at waterloo station as was always station was due to reopen after weeks of engineering works. japan's prime minister says his country is facing an unprecedented threat after north korea fired a missile over its territory. the missile was fired eastward from pyongyang at six in the morning local time. it potentially has the power to carry a nuclear warhead, and it fell into the north pacific ocean 700 miles off the japanese coast. rupert wingfield—hayes reports from tokyo.

siren. this is how people in northern japan were awoken atjust after six this morning. "a missile is passing", the announcer says. "a missile is passing, please find shelter immediately." at city hall, there are frantic phone calls. is there any damage? this is not a practice, this is real. a north korean missile has just flown overhead. translation: my phone was by my bed. suddenly it started ringing with alerts. i really shocked. translation: we have nowhere to escape to. that's the scariest thing. the missile that flew overjapan is thought to be one of these, a hwasong—12. it was first seen at this huge

parade in pyongyang in april. a month later, north korea shocked the world by successfully firing one into outer space. today it has gone much further, forcing a grim faced japanese prime minister, shinzo abe, to address the nation. translation: this missile flown over japan is an outrageous act, and a critical threat that we have not seen before. there will be many who say this north korean missile launch is all about politics, that its north korean brinkmanship, and they're probably right. but it's not much consolation if you live here, underneath it. this was an extremely aggressive act by pyongyang, and it sends a very disturbing message to people here injapan. it can now hit tokyo with nuclear weapons, it can hit 0kinawa with nuclear weapons. you know, if you don't want to keep this game of escalation, we might want to sit down and start

talking to each other. but right now, talking is the last thing on anyone's mind here. today, south korea sent f—15 fighter jets to bomb targets just south of the demilitarised zone. american heavy bombers could follow next. each side now feels compelled to flex its military might, and so the spiral of tension is wound up yet again. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. an investigation is underway after a four—year—old boy drowned in a swimming pool while on holiday in devon. the child, from weymouth, was staying at an activity centre near bideford. it was part of a summer retreat for families, which was organised by the charity, narcotics anonymous. kirk england reports. sealed off, the scene of a tragedy. a week—long family tragedy which

ended with the body of a four—year—old boy being found in a swimming pool. it was a hot bank holiday monday when the boy went missing. police say there was an extensive search, the boy was found in the pool and taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. people close by say they were shocked by what happened. we have two glorious boys and the thought of that happening to one of them is awful. a family on their last day going home, it isa family on their last day going home, it is a terrible, awful story, terrible shame. very, very sad because they are going home without a memberof theirfamily. because they are going home without a member of theirfamilylj because they are going home without a member of their family. i feel so sorry for the family, must be absolutely awful. the family from weymouth came to north devon to get away from it all, a holiday arranged by an organisation that helps support people with drink and drugs

addiction. in a statement, narcotics anonymous told us, very tragically something has gone horribly wrong and the young child of one of our members the roland in a pool. it is the six—year they have sent families here and noted one of the activities organised was supervised use of a swimming pool with trained lifeguards. the owners of the activity centres see their deepest sympathies go out to the boy's family and they say they are working with the police and authorities on the investigation and say that the grip from narcotics anonymous had self supervised access to the pool. police investigations continue and the death is being treated as unexplained. today was meant to see waterloo station in london get back to normal, after nearly a month of disruption because of engineering works. but rush hour services on several lines into britain's busiest railway station were cancelled, amid signalling problems. the head of network rail has apologised to passengers.

0ur correspondent dan johnson reports. the train now arriving at waterloo is delayed and crowded. what's the latest? you join what's the latest? youjoin me what's the latest? you join me at a very busy waterloo station. a very long three and a half weeks for commuters using the station. they we re commuters using the station. they were told to go on holiday or stay at home and avoid these nation altogether than they had hoped the work would be done today as was promised but they were sadly disappointed. the problems came when it came to signalling equipment at the station. network rail say the work to extend platforms to allow for more passengers went smoothly but when they were carrying out these checks that's when they saw there was a problem and that's what led to the delays and destruction for passengers here. we've had a bit ofa for passengers here. we've had a bit of a prep of information and at one point we were told the services would be back up to normal at 2pm

and that was moved to 4pm and eventually we were told destruction was last until the end of today. passengers didn't seem particularly surprised. i try to take it in my stride. i knew it would happen so i am not stressed. i am not surprised. we have been saying it, we were sure it would be overrunning. improvement is good but it is annoying. a project like this is extremely complicated and we have had 1000 people working around the clock seven days a week for the last three and a half weeks to deliver it. before 7am we reopened waterloo station completely delivering what will soon be an enormous benefits for passengers for decades to come. so network rail asking for some patients. unfortunately this isn't the only major london station where passengers have seen disruption. there are also issues at london

bridge, london charing cross, and waterloo east which serves south—eastern passengers. that is due to major works on the thames link programme, that will run until saturday, so not a happy time for commuters here in london. the united nations security council is expected to hold an emergency meeting about the north korean missile launch later. speaking ill of the us representative said something serious as to happen. we are going to talk about what else is left. no country should have missiles flying over them like those 130 million people in japan. it over them like those 130 million people injapan. it is unacceptable and they have violated every single un security council resolution we have had so i think something serious has happened. our

correspondent is in washington. nikki haley seeing something serious as the happen. we have already had sanctions agreed by the un security council in the last few weeks, what more can be done? that is a very good question whether anything serious can happen at least in the short term because those sanctions agreed a few weeks ago were quite serious, the doctors sanctions the un had agreed on so far. they target the north korean exports up to the tune of $2 billion and then response you get more defiance rather than less. it is not clear what more the un can do unless maybe it imposes a phil economic embargo on an oil embargo and that is something that china's main ally wouldn't support. it is willing to get tough with north korea and put the squeeze on it on it but it doesn't want to do

anything that destabilises the government and might cause a toppling of the regime. in the short term what you might see as an investigation of efforts to cut off ha rd investigation of efforts to cut off hard currency flows to north korea. that is the strategy at the moment, led by the us doing it to the un. also separately through its own sanctions. you might see more emphasis on that. what the chinese would love as for the joint military exercises between the south koreans and america do not happen again. is there any chance that it might be a way for words? not based on how the united states and south korea have responded. they see those military exercises are legitimate, they are defensive, and only happening because the north koreans pose a threat. you're right, the chinese have said we need to get a pox and we can maybe do that on the basis of a balance. you stop the military exercises and the north koreans will freeze their tests and then perhaps

we can get to some kind of negotiating arrangements. the americans, through the secretary of state, have said they want to get to talks but they have also said that those talks would have to be based on north korea being willing to give up on north korea being willing to give up its nuclear programme and that is something north korea have said it would never do and something more and more experts believe it will never do especially given the increased speed of tests and better technology for the weapons, so they say the only realistic option will be to have talks based on the freezing of the weapons programme and again it is something the us and said it is not prepared for. thank you. time to look at the weather. the hottest weather today was focused on the extreme south—east of england, 29 celsius and kent. cool and cloudy weather moving into the north but showers developing across essex.

into this evening and overnight not only do we keep the show is going but it will turn wet more widely across the south—east of england and we see some rain developing as clouds beckons from the midlands and parts of wales and the south—west. further north clear skies means it will be cooler with the winds easing down. sunshine and showers already for scotland and northern ireland, heavier developing in northern ireland. wet weather should move away from wales and eventually the south—west of england, keeping rain through much of the day for parts of midlands and east anglia and the south—east. the temperature typically 16—17, a significant drop from recent days. goodbye. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines. president trump has arrived in texas, to see for himself the damage caused by storm harvey. he'll also assess how much more the federal government can do, to help the relief effort. no one has seen anything like this

andi no one has seen anything like this and ijust no one has seen anything like this and i just want to say to the governor and his entire team has been amazing. warning sirens sounded across japan after north korea fired a missile over the island of hokkaido. the un security council is to hold an emergency meeting. the head of the eu commission has attacked the government's latest brexit proposals, suggesting they're not good enough. police are investigating the death of a four—year—old boy, at a swimming pool in north devon. there's been anger at waterloo station in london, as signalling problems caused delays for commuters, on the very day it fully reopened after a month of engineering works. more now on the emergency response to flooding in texas in the wake of tropical storm harvey. president trump has arrived in the state to meet officials dealing with the disaster.

in houston, more than thirty thousand people have been forced from their homes due to the storm, which has set a new record for rainfall in the state. some places have seen more than a meter of rain. the greatest danger may be yet to come, with floodwaters continuing to rise. with me now isjenelle eli, who is the director of international communications at the american red cross. good to see you. just explain how the red cross is involved in the relief effort. as you said the rain is continuing to fall and this is an ever—changing disaster. the red cross is focusing now on keeping people safe, shelter, food and providing comfort to people. throughout the night people were streaming into shelters, people who we re streaming into shelters, people who were rescued or came on the road and we're just making sure they have a roof over their head and they are able to deal with this challenging time they have ahead. do you have

the resources you need to help all those affected? things are ever—changing so we do not even know right now the total destruction of the disaster. with almost 1000 volu nteers the disaster. with almost 1000 volunteers on the ground, we are sending more as we speak and we even have 33 mexican red cross were in tea rs have 33 mexican red cross were in tears on the way to help in texas. —— who are on their way to help. we are asking for more resources on the website and just depending on the good work of volunteers who are doing a greatjob in texas and louisiana. and things could attach to get worse, another 50 inches of rain possible in the next couple of days? that is what we've heard. currently more than 700,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders and we expect more people to come into shelters and need services. we have more than 80

truckloads of things like hygiene items, blankets, and we are doing our best to move them to the places in need. as you can imagine with flooded roads, damaged infrastructure, it is difficult. some people may wonder, this is the richest country on earth, it has everything it wants and yet it seems to be having trouble dealing with this kind of emergency?” to be having trouble dealing with this kind of emergency? i think the nature of the disaster is that it is something that is difficult to handle. here in the us we have lots of different weather emergencies that are difficult to deal with, tornadoes, flooding, earthquakes. and we have structures that are able to withstand or better able to withstand these kind of emergencies but when you have a huge storm like harvey sometimes there's just nothing you can do except to be

prepared for it coming. i think in the us what we have is great emergency warning systems and even at the red cross we have emergency warning apps. we sent something like 14 billion alerts before harvey struck. so that people could at least try to prepare themselves for when the storm came. and given the scale of the devastation, the number of fatalities, every life that has gone is appalling but thankfully it is not as high as perhaps might have been expected given the record levels of rainfall that have damaged parts of texas. and now it seems could well be heading towards the neighbouring states. and affecting an area that already was devastated exactly 12 yea rs an area that already was devastated exactly 12 years ago by hurricane katrina. absolutely. and we have shelters open in louisiana and we are ready to help people. this is an ongoing disaster and people must be

ready for the challenging times ahead. we've spoken to lots of people in shelters and they are resilient and ready but they have a long slog ahead as we have seen with the nature of the disaster and how long it will last. thank you very much. the financial conduct authority says fewer than half of people who were mis—sold payment protection insurance, or ppi, have claimed compensation. the regulator is launching its own advertising campaign to encourage people to act, before the deadline in two years time. 0ur personal finance reporter kevin peachey has more. both were prolific in the ‘90s. payment protection insurance. and arnold schwarzenegger. surprise! now the actor is the head of a campaign by the financial regulator. come on! explaining that compensation claims will be terminated in two years' time.

after the 29th of august 2019 you will no longer be able to make a ppi complaint. bye bye's for the ppi. quite. ppi was designed to cover loan repayments if policyholders fell ill or lost theirjobs. it was mis—sold to people like eddie. he fought a three—year battle to get his money back. first offer that they gave was £2.86, whereas the actual amount they ended up paying me was a four figure sum. i had an account with this bank from when i was a little kid, i had my home insurance with them, i had my mortgage with them, i had pretty much everything with them and obviously i don't have that any more because there is a definite distrust between me and the bank i was with. eddie's were among the 64 million policies sold in the uk, not all of which were mis—sold. so far 12 million people have claimed a total of £27 billion in compensation. banks have set aside more than £37 billion to pay people back. a lot of our work over the last few years has shown that this

was in fact mis—sold on an industrial scale. so however those numbers go, we think there are millions of people out there who are probably still owed thousands of pounds. the two year deadline will encourage victims to make a claim, which they can do themselves and forfree. but it also means more of these, text messages and calls from claims management companies who will offer to do the paperwork but take a cut of up to one third of any pay—out. claims companies say without them many would not seek compensation at all. consumer groups want it to be easier to claim yourself. that's a good boy. either way, with billions available in refunds, it's still well short of what arnie might call a total recall. come on! kevin peachey, bbc news. the government says it will introduce a law to force listed companies to publish what bosses are paid compared to workers. it's part of a series of reforms to the way firms are run.

but its run into criticism from some who say the government's retreated from much stronger measures to curb boardroom pay. 0ur economics correspondent andy verity reports. ever since she entered downing street, the prime minister has attacked excessive executive pay. we all know that in recent years, the reputation of business as a whole has been bruised. that when a minority of businesses and business figures appear to game the system and work to a different set of rules. i'm putting you on warning, this can't go on anymore. a change has got to come, and this party is going to make it. last year, the chief executives of the 100 biggest companies listed in london were paid an average of £4.5 million, 129 times the salary of the average british worker. what an average worker earns in a year, a chief executive can make in less than three days. the government's plan is to force companies to publish how much

the chief executive earns compared to the average worker. when boards are setting pay and when they're disclosing pay, they shouldn't do itjust with an eye on pay in the board, but they should look at pay across the company and be prepared to set out publicly how they can justify boardroom pay in the context of the pay that the rest of the workforce get. the proposals have been welcomed by the accountants who report company figures to shareholders. anything which will boost transparency around this area and make people understand better how companies are run and the say different stakeholders can have and the potential for making a difference is vitally important. but the reforms can be confusing. charlie mayfield, chairman ofjohn lewis, which owns waitrose, was recently paid just over £1 million. 73 times the average pay of non—management staff. at the same time, the former uk head of investment bank goldman sachs, michael sherwood, was paid more than £15 million, only 45 times

as much as the highly paid employees who average more than £300,000 each. the problems with pay seem to be at the larger end of the corporate universe, the big companies. and if you look at the historical performance record of those who perform the least, they clearly have a lot of lobbying power in actually trying to resist a lot of this stuff. but the political impetus does seem to be growing for change. in today's reforms, there's no sign of a previous promise of annual binding votes by shareholders on director's pay. the pay gap between directors and employees will become more obvious than ever. it is less obvious how that gap might shrink. scientists have developed a virtual reality computer game as part of the world's biggest dementia research experiment. the game measures a player's spatial navigation skills — cone of the earliest things

to decline in people who have the disease. researchers hope the game will eventually lead to a test for dementia. 0ur health and science reporter james gallagher has been to try it. prepare to enter a virtual world. you are now captain of a boat. your challenge is to use your sense of direction to chart a course through complex waterways and icy oceans and even feed hotdog—loving sea monsters. but this is not only a game. it's collecting anonymous data while you play as part of the biggest dementia experiment in the world. this doesn't feel like medical research. it's fun. but one of the first things to go with dementia is our ability to navigate, and that's what you can test in virtual reality. the first version of this game was a smartphone app that had three million players and gave unprecedented insight into how our sense of direction declines with age. but making the leap

into virtual reality will allow scientists to study dementia in greater detail. the value for us is to create a much richer data set. we're capturing 15 times more data from the vr version because we are separating out where their head looks and where the boats are moving. researchers hope that spotting unusual declines in navigational ability could eventually be used to test for dementia at its earliest stage. one by one... his memories were lost. 850,000 people are already living with the disease in the uk. that figure is forecast to reach two million by 2051. most will have had the disease for more than a decade before their symptoms appear. what we really want to be doing is trying to identify people with dementia ten or 15 years earlier than we do at the moment with our classic ways of diagnosis. a game like sea hero quest

and understanding how we navigate will help us get to that much earlier diagnosis. this technology still has a long way to go but it is only by diagnosing dementia early that there is any hope of preventing the irreversible damage to the brain. james gallagher, bbc news. the top stories. president trump has arrived in texas to see the damage caused by storm harvey. he will also assess how much more of the federal government can do for the relief effort. warning siren sounded across japan after north korea fired a missile over the island of hokkaido. the un security council is to hold an emergency meeting. head of the eu commission has attacked the government latest brexit proposals suggesting they're

not good enough. and an update on the market numbers for you, here is how the ftse and the in london and germany ended the day. not looking too good. the dow and the nasdaq looking a little bit rosier. —— the ftse amp attacks. let's get more now on the disastrous flooding brought by tropical storm harvey. let's talk to our weather presenter, ben rich. how unprecedented has the rainfall in the affected areas been? when we look at the pictures of catastrophic flooding it seems to be a moot point how much went always had but with broken records now, harvey has broken a record of cooling —— according to the us national weather service, more rainfall than ina national weather service, more rainfall than in a tropical cyclone in texas on record. it has been

slow—moving, you can see the way that the wind has been driving more and more moisture in from the gulf of mexico. the centre of the storm has been sitting very close to the coastline and it is that that has brought the huge amounts of rainfall, up to 1250 millimetres of rain, overa rainfall, up to 1250 millimetres of rain, over a metre rainfall, up to 1250 millimetres of rain, overa metre of rainfall, up to 1250 millimetres of rain, over a metre of rain that has fallen in parts of texas. about 50 inches or so. so that rain falling over a period of a few days has caused the huge issues that we've seen and has now broken records. and what are the indications of that moving because the suggestion is it is heading north east towards louisiana. louisiana has already seen quite a lot of rain, 400 millimetres in places. dwarfed by the totals with had in texas but 400 millimetres in itself is enough to cause some significant flooding and louisiana will continue to seek areas of rainfall, potentially

thunderstorms or tornadoes. and then the storm will be further inland, the storm will be further inland, the problem is it has been so slow—moving but finally now it will get a bit of a move on. so parts of mississippi, arkansas, tennessee, starting to see some very wet weather. nothing like the scale of houston. although the forecast in houston. although the forecast in houston is for much sunnier and drier weather, the rivers are com pletely drier weather, the rivers are completely full. so overwater but will be falling into river catchment further upstream has to go somewhere. it is hard to work through the river system so the flooding could go on for many days and weeks to come. and the reservoirs are fit to bursting. you alluded to the fundamental problem of the slow—moving mixture of this thing, it isjust of the slow—moving mixture of this thing, it is just sitting there dumping were moisture with nowhere else to go. it made landfall as a

category four hurricane back on friday night. and we're now choose to evening and it is still essentially in the same place. it moved inland little and then moved back out to sea. that merely enhanced and strengthen the storm again. and those winds around the storm system have just been brilliant moisture from the gulf of mexico relentlessly. see temperatures well above 30 degrees at the moment so you have a reservoir of warm and moist air that has just been scooped in relentlessly towards the coastline. so no surprise that we've seen the kind of pictures coming out of texas. but none of catastrophic as a result. thank you. -- no less catastrophic. the countdown has started for the end of the cassini mission to saturn. the spacecraft — which has spent two decades in space — has performed its lowest orbit before it's destroyed on september 15th. scientists say they're hoping this final phase of close—up exploration will solve some long—standing mysteries. 0ur science correspondent rebecca morelle has more.

instantly recognisable. saturn and its spectacular rings. the cassini spacecraft revealed this planet in incredible detail and these are some of its latest close—up images, from its hexagonal north pole to its ring system. and even an aurora. but this mission is very nearly at its end. cassini has been in space for 20 years. it set down a probe, spotted plumes on one of saturn's moons, and discovered colossal storms. but now it's running out of fuel. its final days, though, will be crucial. we have learned so much, but in that process we have also raised many new questions. one of the things that we still don't understand about saturn is simply how long its day lasts. over the last few months cassini has been exploring a region where no spacecraft has been before. sweeping between saturn and its rings. and in its final days it will get closer still,

giving us our best ever view of the planet. revealing its atmosphere and what lies beneath its thick clouds. but these last days could also show us what is hidden within its rings. including a mysterious object nicknamed peggy. we noticed this smudge right at the edge of the a ring... the blurry speck was spotted by carl murray in 2013, on his mother—in—law peggy's birthday. and the name stuck. the ball of dust more than a mile wide is either an moon being born or one in its death throes. and this is his last chance to find out. we need to understand what object peggy really is. we have only got literally now a matter of days, our last look at peggy will be on september 14. and i can't wait to see those images. time is running out, but this spacecraft will go out with a bang. its last manoeuvre will be a death dive into saturn's atmosphere, bringing this blockbuster mission to a close.

rebecca morelle, bbc news. the queensferry crossing was lit up last night in a special show, to mark the formal handover of the new bridge to the scottish government. it will open to traffic tomorrow, joining the forth road and rail bridges connecting edinburgh and fife. 0ur scotland correspondent lorna gordon has this report. lighting up scotland's latest bridge. the queensferry crossing in the spotlight before opening to drivers for the first time. in its own right, it is a feat of design, engineering and construction. in its own right, it is absolutely amazing. it is in every sense, in every way, an amazing achievement. the scale of this construction is impressive. it's the longest bridge of its kind in the world and this is a chance for some of the many thousands who worked on it to celebrate its completion. whata night, eh?

i know, fantastic. it's the end of a long journey but it's been a wonderfuljourney. stressfuljourney but the most rewarding job i've ever been on and i've been on many a bridge. these guys have put a lot of work into this place. in years to come, there will be grandchildren of mine saying, "my grandad worked on that". that's what i want. there are now three bridges across this stretch of the forth, the legacy of the generations of workers who built them. for some, the story of these crossings, stretching back three centuries, is part of their family's history. my great grandad worked on the forth rail bridge, my grandad worked on the forth road bridge and i worked on the queensferry crossing. three bridges, three centuries, all special in their own way. which is your favourite and why? definitely the queensferry crossing because it feels most like my bridge. are you chuffed? after seeing it all come together, i'm fair away with it. i'm proud to have been

working on the bridge. those who travel this busy route have had to contend with plenty of roadworks as the new bridge has taken shape. so what can they expect tomorrow? there have been miles of cones out there for a long time now, while the bridge was under construction. there will be a 40mph limit. i'm sure people want to see what the bridge looks like. we ask people to drive carefully, keep their eyes on the road. for now, it's all about admiring the view. tomorrow, a chance for all to enjoy the journey across this latest bridge over the forth. 20 years afterjames judi 20 years afterjamesjudi dench first played victoria she returns to the role, the story of an unlikely friendship between the monarch and

the young muslim servant from india. we got exclusive access to the set. 0k, standby. 0n set for the filming of victoria and abdul... 1, 2, 3 — action! ..director stephen frears latest movie, starring judi dench as the oxygenarian queen and ali fazal as a young indian clerk with whom she develops a surprisingly special relationship. rani. rani, rani. um, um. 0oh. um. you're playing victoria at the age she was. yes, iam. yes, so the age you are now — that she was, that i am. you are. yes. so you're the age she was, that's what i'm trying to say. can you relate to that relationship she's having with abdul, do you understand it? yes, i think i do. then i've always been a rather susceptible person, so i understand that very much indeed. i think she was looking

for somebody that she didn't have to be formal with. but whatever you do, you must not look at her majesty. do you think she fell in love with him? well, isuppose, why not, he's so beautiful. could you fall in love with, i mean, what is he — somebody in their 30s? yes. oh, i expect so. what is it? a mango, your majesty. one moment, your majesty. it's off. sir henry, this mango is off. of all the things you've done, of all the parts you've played, which has been yourfavourite? i loved playing cleopatra because when i said i was going to do it, people were openingly quite rude. you know, they said — "cleopatra, is that your part?" i never thought that i'd be

in a bond film and i had the most glorious time bossing him about and sitting behind that desk. i loved it, loved it. absolutely. victoria and abdul is based on a true, if little—known story. a slice of victorian history about class, race and religious intolerance that speaks to today's multi—cultural britain. he's an indian, your majesty. and i'm the queen of england, i will have all the help i require. will gompertz, bbc news. more on the weather front now. the temperature today was higher than yesterday but the heat concentrated ina much yesterday but the heat concentrated in a much smaller area. yesterday we had the heat in lincolnshire, 28 degrees, today the highest temperatures in kent. up to 29 degrees just temperatures in kent. up to 29 degreesjust in this temperatures in kent. up to 29 degrees just in this corner. much

more cloud coming down from the north and ahead of that the heat has led to some sharp showers developing close to london and around essex. they continue overnight and develop more widely across the south east. at the same time more cloud across the midlands and the south west. to the midlands and the south west. to the north we are into that cooler air with clearer skies. heading into tomorrow temperatures will not rise a great deal. heading into rush—hour tomorrow there could be some heavy rain across parts of southern england. the south east of wales as well and the midlands. further north across wales and northern ireland a bit brighter with some sunshine around. also sunshine across northern ireland and scotland. and for scotland and northern ireland a day of sunshine and showers, some of those heavy. the wet weather moves

away from wales on but across the south—east of england it will remain wet all day. temperatures around 16, 17 degrees, fairly typical. a significant drop from today. the wetter weather continues into the evening across the south—east but eventually pulls away as low— pressure eventually pulls away as low—pressure heads towards scandinavia. then a mixture of sunshine and showers for thursday, some showers across the western parts of the uk initially which moved east through the day and could well be heavy. they will be hit and miss and quite slow—moving. and temperatures around 16, 20 degrees, normalfor temperatures around 16, 20 degrees, normal for the temperatures around 16, 20 degrees, normalfor the time of temperatures around 16, 20 degrees, normal for the time of year. for friday and saturday those numbers do not change very much. some sunshine for many areas. and a few showers. this is bbc news.

the headlines at 8:00pm. president trump has arrived in texas, to see for himself the damage caused by storm harvey. he'll also assess how much more the federal government can do, to help the relief effort. this is the scene live in east houston where rescuers are still trying to save people trapped in their homes. warning sirens sounded across japan, after north korea fired a missile over the island of hokkaido. the un security council is to hold an emergency meeting. also coming up, the head of the eu commission has tough words for the government's latest brexit proposals, saying they're not good enough. jean—claude juncker says an official paper setting out the uk's position ona paper setting out the uk's position on a range of issues are not satisfactory and there