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 is an enormous amount of work still to do. police are investigating the death ofa 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 angered commuters on the very day it reopens after weeks of engineering works. president 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 people have been forced from their homes. there have been record levels of rainfall, with areas sinking under a metre of water. but the greatest danger may be around the corner, with rising levels of several rivers. a major dam to the west of houston has begun overflowing, as harvey pushes the reservoir over capacity. let's go live to our correspondent laura trevelyan who's

at la grange in texas, about a 100 miles west of houston. welcome to lagrange in texas, a small community reeling from the devastating impact of the flooding in the wake of hurricane harvey. it's a microcosm of communities across texas. what's happened is more than 300 homes were evacuated as the colorado river broke its banks. homes have been absolutely devastated. all of this as president trump comes here to the lone star state of texas, landing in corpus christi in the last couple of hours. right now he is being briefed on the situation in corpus christi, which was one of the first places in texas where hurricane harvey made landfall. he's here to see for himself exactly what's going on and to ask difficult questions as to whether the kind of relief being provided is exactly what people on the ground need. this is what the president had to say shortly after landing in corpus christi. it will

be looked at in five or ten years from now, as this is the way to do it. this is of epic proportion. nobody has ever seen anything like this. i want to say that working with the governor and his entire team has been an honour for us. governor, again, thank you very much. we won't say congratulations. we don't want to do that. we will congratulate each other when it's all finished. but you have been terrific. president trump there, facing his first natural disaster as president. he will be haunted by the example of one of his republican predecessors, president george w bush. today is the 12th anniversary of hurricane katrina which hits new 0 rlea ns. of hurricane katrina which hits new 0rleans. president bush was criticised for having a flat—footed and slow response to disaster, something president bush is determined to avoid. houston has

seen determined to avoid. houston has seen torrential rainfall and the impact of harvey has led to extraordinary levels of ruinous flooding. 9000 people had to spend last night in a convention centre. now the mayor of houston is saying the city is expecting another 10,000 victims of the foot. james cook has the latest. in the chaos, some order at last. 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 all working together. we are trying to get to a safe and dry place. how is that they be doing? he's fine, just scared. are you scared? just a little, yes. from above they can see the problem and it's a big one. a reservoirjust a few blocks away is overflowing. it was built in 18 years ago to protect the young city of houston. but nobody then imagined this.

the young city of houston. but nobody then imagined thisfi the young city of houston. but nobody then imagined this. b pool of the rising so flooding is going to continue along the structures and homes along the western edge of the pool homes along the western edge of the pool. streets are going to flood, they will continue to flood. new streets and homes will continue to flood. for the people being rescued here, this is clearly a nightmare, but it could get worse. these floodwaters will eventually make their way downstream to houston, which is already struggling to cope. this shelter ran out of beds last night. more than 7000 people are here. tens of thousands more are looking for a haven. little by little the human cost is becoming clear. we now know four children and their grandparents are dead, drowning ina their grandparents are dead, drowning in a car. for houston and the us this is a wake—up yell. millions of people live around the rivers and swamps surrounding the city. is that wise? that's a question for another day. the storm

no longer packs the power of a hurricane but it remains dangerous and it's heading east. in white lies the neighbouring state of louisiana. crippled by hurricane katrina 12 yea rs crippled by hurricane katrina 12 years ago. already rescues have begun here as well. back in texas, those rescues roll on and on. there area those rescues roll on and on. there are a lot of people that need help. i'm thank you for these people. i really am, because i've never been through anything like this. this subdivision has never flooded. and no wonder. 49 inches of rain has fallen, and this is now officially a record—breaking disaster. james cook, bbc news comic houston. we can now join jeff we can nowjoinjeff linda, who appeared in that package, the hydraulics managerfor the appeared in that package, the hydraulics manager for the county. what's the latest state of play with those reservoirs that are upstream from houston? the reservoirs continue to rise as water continues

to move down into them. we have programmes with the us army corps engineers releasing water out of the reservoirs, but on the northern side we have a small amount of water going across the spillway. that is expected to increase over the next 24 to 36 hours. that will flood additional subdivisions on the side of the reservoir. inside the reservoir, inside the pool, there are thousands of homes now flooding. some of them are up to five feet deep with water. in the north—east of the county in the central river basin we have water up to the rooftops or higher of some homes. basin we have water up to the rooftops or higher of some homesm that something you have ever seen before? the reservoirs flooding, or is ita before? the reservoirs flooding, or is it a function of the trillions of gallons of water falling on texas? it's absolutely a function of the rainfall that has fallen. we have

never seen these reservoirs rise to this level. they were built in the 19405 this level. they were built in the 1940s and they have never been to this level. the previous record was set last year in 2016, and we have already gone past that by six feet and it still rising. we have never engaged the spillway before. this is something that has never happened. we are in uncharted territory right now, and we are not even sure how these systems will behave as the water continues to flow down them. the damage that is resulting from this is simply staggering. we know houston has more rainfall forecast. tropical storm harvey is going to come back past houston's great as it heads east to louisiana. presumably that makes yourjob even more difficult. the centre of circulation of harvey is located just off galveston this morning, about 60

miles south—east of houston, over the gulf of mexico. harvey is beginning to move back to the north—east and will make another la ndfall north—east and will make another landfall just east of north—east and will make another landfalljust east of houston. but heavy rain is continuing to spread into the county. as a matter of fa ct, into the county. as a matter of fact, one of our flood warning gauges has recorded 50 inches of rain in the last four days. we have experts looking at that right now and seeing what kind of record it is. we think it might be a us rainfall record. thank you for taking the time away from your very difficult and important work to update us on bbc news about the situation. jeff describing the unprecedented flooding. he said that one area in hisjurisdiction has received almost 50 inches of rain, which they think is a us record. the flooding that happened here in la

grange texas where the colorado river rose to 35 feet, usually at five feet, we are at england's texas here, not on the coast. people were not at expecting flooding here. there were four mobile homes down from where i'm talking to you now, those homes were picked up by the flooding as the colorado river went down the main streets in the town. they all banged into one another, destroying people's homes and belongings. 0ne destroying people's homes and belongings. one of those people who lost her home, i spoke to her earlier. i asked what happened. it's devastating to see your home under water, not able to go in there. i haven't had a chance to take anything out. important stuff, a couple of clothes. we went back this morning, we could see from the back area where the house is, the good thing is, it's still standing, but as far as water damage, everything

is gone. do you think there is any possibility you could live there ain? possibility you could live there again? definitely. this is where i grew up, it's where my child has was. no doubt i will start over and get another house there. —— where my childhood was. it's our place. did you have any idea this would happen. did you get enough warning the flooding was on its way? no, all of us people, we all grew up together and we all knew each other, half the people didn't think it would get this bad. most peoplejust got people didn't think it would get this bad. most people just got some extra clothes for the night, ready to come back, but we never thought the river would take most of these homes out here. it's hard. 0ne victim of the flood speaking to me earlier. like so many thousands of victims of this tropical storm across the state of texas, but in

their lives back together at this moment. president trump is in texas, in corpus christi and about to fly to austin. he has promised a full response to the disaster. meanwhile, the tropical storm is out there lingering in the gulf of mexico, heading east and the state of louisiana is now firmly in its sights. back to you in the studio. studio: we can show you some live pictures on the latest situation. this is east houston. a lot of the pictures we have been seeing over the last couple of days have been in west houston. the storm is moving east, and we can see people on jet skis, the easiest way to get around. this is the eastern half of the city at the moment. president trump is on his way to austin. that's the state capital, he will be there for talks. and to assess what more the federal authorities can do to try to help in

this situation. as we were hearing from ben rich earlier in the programme, this storm is moving further inland and north—east towards louisiana. the irony of ironies, it's exactly 12 years ago to the day that hurricane katrina started causing enormous problems for the folk of new orleans to the east of where these pictures are being filmed now. this is the latest situation in east houston. as storm harvey continues to deluge the area. so far something like 40—50 inches of rain has fallen. the prediction over the next couple of days is that there could be another 50 inches on top of all of this. as we have heard throughout the evening, local levies have had their banks burst. and reservoirs as well have been topped

to the point where they are overflowing. a lot of continuing problems there. joining me now from houston is michelle lamb, who is a reporter with a local radio station. thank you forjoining us. have you seen anything like this in your area before? never seen anything like this at all. this is unprecedented territory for myself and the houston area, possibly the entire us. are the authorities coping, do you think? they are doing the best they can. resources are stretched and officials are telling people, do not call 911 unless you are in imminent danger. for those people by the reservoirs where they are doing the controlled water release, they are asking people, if you want to evacuate, do so now, because once the water is out over the roadways it will be impossible for you to

leave. where they are working now, they are planning to allow a controlled release and let the water out to the side. that's to two ditches over the side. they think it shouldn't exceed those ditches too much, but if the forecast changes and there is more rain, that will cause a problem for the people living close to the river. big concerns about the reservoirs. we heard one local officials say he has never seen this level of rain in the water catchment areas. yes, they have never seen anything of this magnitude. during a press conference yesterday officials were saying this isn't something that the government can essentially do a lot with that this time with the resources. it will take community effort. i'm seeing that definitely with the city of houston with the community coming together. people from all over the country are coming together.

celebrities are offering donations. people are getting in boats and helping people to higher ground. it's all hands on deck. at our radio station we have people calling and asking, where can we go and seek shelter. at one point they thought their neighbourhood was safe, and their neighbourhood was safe, and the next thing they know they are trying to find shelter for their family, some of our colleagues included. the storm is moving inexorably north—east towards louisiana, the neighbouring state. exactly 12 yea rs louisiana, the neighbouring state. exactly 12 years ago the scene of some devastating problems as a result of hurricane katrina. yes, it's moving in that direction. houston was a safe haven for people following katrina. some of them are still in this area. with harvey being so unpredictable we have no idea what the storm will do next. while houston was figuring out how we would brace ourselves for what is next with regard to the controlled water release and trying to assess,

if we can, how much damage will be done here. one of the measuring gauges for the one of the reservoirs, the gauge broke and they are trying to get somebody in to put are trying to get somebody in to put a temporary gauge on so we can truly assess how much water is there and how much is getting out. we don't even have an idea of how much it can affect houston or how bad it can be. if louisiana are hit with the same magnitude or worse, it will be a lot worse than we can even imagine. we arejust worse than we can even imagine. we are just looking at live pictures of some of the rescue crews, winching people to safety with helicopters. is the fear that some are still trapped in their homes? there is the fear that some are still in our homes. we did not foresee this storm happening. there are people who thought, 0k, based on what we are seeing, we originally thought harvey

would hit as a category one hurricane. we knew there would be rain, but we didn't have an idea it would be catastrophic flooding. 0vernight you have people going from, iam 0vernight you have people going from, i am going to be safe, to grabbing their valuables and getting to safety. with the controlled release, there are neighbourhoods who probably didn't feel they would be in danger, but they are now. some people are trying to figure out how to get to safety. the roads they would have taken as an evacuation route, those roads are essentially un—passable now. route, those roads are essentially un-passable now. some people using jet skis to get around parts of east houston now. thank you for speaking to us, michelle in houston. thank you. and we'll find out how this story, and many others, are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 this evening in the papers. our guests joining me tonight are kate mccann from the telegraph and kate forrester from the huffington post. the top stories on bbc news...

president trump has arrived in texas to see for himself the damage caused by storm harvey. he will 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. sport now, and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, an incredible win for the west indies and test cricket is still alive. we'll start with cricket and an historic day at headingley where the west indies won their first test match in this country for 17 years when they beat england by five wickets to win

the second test and level the three—match series. it was also a special day for their young batsman shai hope. patrick gearery was watching in leeds. a remarkable test match ends with a five wicket victory for west indies in the closing overs of the final day with gloom all around us in leeds. this was a victory very people have expected of them before the test match. the rupee people expected before this estate was that england had set them 322 runs to win and took two wickets in the morning session, kieran powell and kyle hope, of russia to be run out at the non—striker‘s end. then kraigg brathwaite, who had been dropped at the morning session, went about with shai hope. things got pretty flat here. england got brathwaite before the tea break, caught off the

bowling of moeen ali, brathwaite five short of his century. they couldn't back it up with any more quick wickets. they got roston chase thanks to a great catch from substitute fielder mason kring. then jermaine blackwood set about attacking the england bowling, trying to get the runs before the west indies ran out of time. —— mason crane. shai hope got his second hundred of the game, the first man to ever do that in a test match at headingley. fittingly it was shai hope to score the winning ru ns to was shai hope to score the winning runs to secure a famous victory for west indies. this series goes to the final test at lord's. if it's half as good as this, it will be some games. we are test cricketers for a reason. we came here to play cricket. we had a fight and belief and players to do it. we just needed to execute. at no point were we complacent. we looked at the conditions, it was spinning. the fifth day, we took the positive option of wanting to win the game. a positive side that wants to win test matches. unfortunately we couldn't do that today. if you are right on

it and we took all our chances then it and we took all our chances then it might have been slightly different, but credit to the west indies, they played fantastically well today. we understand manchester city are due to make a formal approach to sign alexis sanchez from arsenal. the chile international is out of contract next summer and is yet to agree a new contract at the emirates. sanchez scored 24 league goals for arsene wenger last season. pep guardiola, the city boss, sold sanchez to arsenal when his was in charge at barcelona. well this summer's transfer window has seen all kinds of records broken. republic of ireland assistant manager roy keane believes the fees demanded by what he describes as "average" players are mind—boggling. and he's also claimed former team—mate ryan giggs would be worth £2 billion in today's market. which players were you talking about? you played some players. van nistelrooy. .. on the

about? you played some players. van nistelrooy... on the market is about? you played some players. van nistelrooy. .. on the market is now ruud van nistelrooy would probably worth 1 ruud van nistelrooy would probably worth1 billion. ruud van nistelrooy would probably worth 1 billion. david ruud van nistelrooy would probably worth1 billion. david beckham? 1 billion. ryan giggs? 2 billion. roy keane? 3.75 billion! after britain's world number 7 johanna konta was knocked out of the us open last night there has been another major shock at flushing meadows. world number 45 naomi 0saka from japan beat defending champion and sixth seed angelique kerber 6—3, 6—1 injust over an hour. the first time in 13 years the champion has been knocked out in the opening round. britain's chris froome has maintained his 36 second lead after stage ten of the vuelta a espana. after 102 miles in the saddle italy's matteo trentin held off spain's jose joaquin rojas to claim victory. froome crossed the line four and a half minutes later alongside his main rival esteban chaves. although the colombian is nowjoint second with ireland's nicolas roach who made up time on the final

descent. that's all the sport for now. the prime minister of japan says his country is facing an unprecedented threat, after north korea fired a missile over its territory. the launch happened at six in the morning local time, with the missile potentially having the power to carry a nuclear warhead. 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 was 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. today was meant to see waterloo station in london get back to normal, after nearly a month of disruption due

to engineering works. but rush hour services on several lines into britain's busiest railway station were cancelled, after signalling problems. the head of network rail has apologised to passengers. this is what some commuters had to say. ijust decided this is what some commuters had to say. i just decided to take it in this is what some commuters had to say. ijust decided to take it in my stride. i knew it was going to happen so i'm not going to let it stress me. i'm not surprised, let's face it, we are all saying we were sure it would be overrunning. improvement is good but it's a bit annoying. a project like this is extremely compensated. we've had 1000 people working round—the—clock, 24 hours a day and seven days a week for the last three and a half weeks to deliver. it's important to remember that before 7am this morning we reopened waterloo station completely, delivering what will soon be of enormous benefit to passengers for decades to come. philip haigh from rail magazine is with me in the studio. interesting couple of vox pops

there, saying they will take it in their stride and they are not surprised. a sad indictment of the way network rail get stuff done. possibly, it's also a pragmatic view. this project, running for three and a half weeks of feverish activity at waterloo, it overran by about three hours. when you step back far enough from it and look at it, it's annoying that it in late, but in the grand scheme of things, the project is now finished. those platforms are open, the trains are using them and commuters are using them. they are longer than they were before, so we can run, network rail cameron, south—western rail can run longer trains with more seat passengers. it's about making a better railway. —— network rail can run. so you are not surprised? not ina run. so you are not surprised? not in a least because in the middle of this work they had a deal raiment and collision, which will have disrupted their efforts to extend

the platforms. it will have taken effo rts the platforms. it will have taken efforts to fix and put right and find out what went wrong. it will have used that some of their contingency time. so three hours late after three and a half weeks... it could be better but it's not too bad. you say, stuff happens. and the bottom line, as network rail say, because you have such an increase in passenger numbers in recent times, you have got to have more rolling stock in order to deal with this. as a result of the platforms have to get longer. absolutely. longer trains, more seats, more space for passengers to stand, and many of them will be standing. it's a bit like the underground, plenty of space to stand. and a new operator who took over in the middle of all the works, south—western railway, that's keen to build a bigger and better service for passengers. what the public satisfaction as regards the public satisfaction as regards the railways at the moment? passengers and commuters will always

complain when things don't go right. pa rt complain when things don't go right. part of it is we are taking them to work and not everybody enjoys going to work. so the railways are on a bit of a hiding to nothing. whoa, you are blaming dissatisfaction with british rail is on the back people have to commute to work! i'm not, in saying that everybody enjoys the job. some of us are very lucky and we do, but not everyone. prices rising at the rate of inflation, but salaries not rising at the rate of inflation has something to do with it. that it does. when railway fares go it. that it does. when railway fares 9° up it. that it does. when railway fares go up every year, it makes passengers unhappy, because nobody likes paying more for a product that is improving, although it's improving very slowly. and now time for a look at the weather. the hottest weather today was focused in the extreme south east, 29 degrees in kent. cooler and

cloudy weather moving down from the north, not much rain in that, but we have seen heavy showers developing, especially across essex. as we had overnight, we will keep the showers and it will turn a wet widely across the south east and also rain developing as the cloud thickens across the midlands. further north, clearer skies, it will be cooler and the winds easing down. sunshine and showers for scotland and northern ireland tomorrow, and this wet weather should move away from wales, eventually the south west of england but we will keep the rain through much of the day across the midlands, east anglia and the south—east especially. temperatures, 16, 17, a significant drop from recent days in the south—east. goodbye. 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. this was of epic proportion, nobody has seen anything like this. ijust wa nt to has seen anything like this. ijust want to say we are working with the governor and his entire team and it's been an honourfor us. 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 4—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. the president of the european

commission, jean—claude juncker, has fresh criticism for the uk government, over its handling of brexit negotiations. he says the latest official papers setting out britain's position are not satisfactory. but our correspondent in brussels, damian grammaticas, told me it's important to remember that mrjuncker, himself, is not directly involved in the negotiations. jean—claude juncker, it is jean—claudejuncker, it is important to listen to him because his negotiators in that building are the ones who are sitting today and tomorrow with the uk side. he appointed michel barnier to conduct the negotiations and they will make the negotiations and they will make the recommendations to the other countries about whether the uk has done enough to unravel those issues to do with the past, and what we are hearing very clearly from the chief negotiator michel barnier and from jean—claude juncker and from the president of the european

parliament, they spread of opinion, is that the uk, they believe, needs to do more, they are not satisfied the uk has delivered enough detail for summer enough progress. —— or enough progress. there a deadline coming up in october. at these issues, what happens the deadline is not met? it is not a hard deadline, but in october, that is the next time those 27 other eu countries, their leaders will meet in brussels and that is the first opportunity they would have to say they are happy with what the uk is proposing for the separation agreement and that they would be prepared to move onto talks about a future trade deal. they, though, if they are not happy at that point or if the commission is not happy and doesn't even recommend that they consider moving forward, you have to wait until december, the next chance to do that. the problem for the uk is that today's will start to happen and as that builds the pressure will

mount and the stakes will get higher. most of us expect our bosses to earn more than we do — but how much more should that be? that's the question at the heart of new government proposals to tackle what many are calling corporate excess. under the plan, the biggest companies in the uk will be forced to reveal the pay gap between chief executives and their employees. but as our business editor simon jack reports critics are already saying the government has not gone far enough. a leadership and an election pitch to a party and a public that had lost faith in big business. 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 any more, a change has got to come and this party is going to make it. applause since then, promises have

been gradually shelved. a pledge to put workers on company boards was dropped, as was a plan to give shareholders a binding annual vote on executive pay. however, by forcing companies to publish the difference between its top earner and its average earner, this government has gone further than previous ones. when boards are setting pay, and when they're disclosing pay, they shouldn't do itjust for... 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. those numbers could prove embarrassing. last year, the average boss of a top 100 company made £4.5 million in total pay. that's 129 times as much as his or her average employee and that's compared to 20 years ago,

when the boss earned only 47 times as much as the average worker. this is an important development. we haven't been able to track the gap between top pay and the rest without these pay ratios based on good data. no government has put this through before. the truth is, if you want to know how much a fat cat weighs, you do have to put them on the scales every now and again. there's already some evidence that the pay gap between the top floor and the shop floor is beginning to narrow and this extra transparency can only help that, but for many, today's package of reforms falls a long way short of the big business shake—up that was promised by a leader trying to portray the conservatives as the party of the worker, notjust of the boss. the prime minister has broken repeated promises to tackle boardroom greed, to put workers on the board and shake—up corporate culture and instead she's delivered a feeble package of proposals. business groups were generally supportive of today's proposals, perhaps glad that promises made

in the bubble of campaigning can often be hard to deliver in the real world. simon jack, bbc news. an investigation is under way, after a four—year—old 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 holiday which ended with the body of a four—year—old boy being found in a swimming pool here at the knapp house activity centre. 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're shocked by what happened. we have two sons, two glorious boys, and the thought of that happening

to one of them is awful. a family on their last day here, going home without one of them, it is a terrible, awful story, terrible shame. very, very sad because they are going home without a member of their family. it's terrible. 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 drug addictions. in a statement, narcotics anonymous told us: it is the sixth year they have sent members and their families here and noted one of the activities

organised at knapp house was supervised use of a swimming pool with trained lifeguards. the owners of the knapp house activity centres say that 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 group from devon narcotics anonymous had self—supervised access to the pool here. police investigations continue and the death is being treated as unexplained. kirk england, bbc south. the financial conduct authority says more than half of people mis—sold payment protection insurance, or ppi, may not yet have claimed compensation. it's launching a multi—million pound advertising campaign aimed at encouraging those affected to claim before a deadline runs out 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 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‘s 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's very nearly at its end. cassini's been in space for 20 years. it's set down a probe, spotted plumes on one of saturn's moons and discovered colossal storms, but now it's running out of fuel. it's final days, though, will be crucial. we've learnt so much, but in that process we've 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's been exploring a region where no spacecraft has been before, swooping 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 dives could also show us what's hidden within its rings, including a mysterious object, nicknamed peggy. we noticed this smudge right at the edge... 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 a 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've only got, literally, now a matter of days. our last look at peggy will be

on september 14th, and i can't wait to see those images. time's 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 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 attacked the government's latest brexit proposals, suggesting they're not good enough. an update on the market numbers for you — here's how london's and frankfurt ended the day.

they ended the day both in negative territory. and in the the united states this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on. they are both up. more now on the emergency response to flooding in texas in the wake of tropical storm harvey. officials say they expect nearly half a million disaster victims to seek assistance. the federal emergency agency fema says 30,000 people will need temporary shelter. the salvation army of greater houston is providing relief across east and south texas. kevin smith is their incident commander. thanks forjoining us. my pleasure. how are you coping with all of this? it isa how are you coping with all of this? it is a lot to take in, it is a tragedy but also a great opportunity to witness people at their best, coming together and helping each

other and i'm honoured to be a part of this. how are you practically helping the people having issues? right now, we are getting our teams in from across the country, we have mobile feeding units which give a hotmail, comfort and —— which give a hot meal, and comfort in this time of chaos, we are getting to the places where these people are being pulled off their roofs and taken to a dry location and trying to find a way to get those basic needs to them, like water and a hot meal, and a way to give them some comfort, so we are helping to get those resources to them. the resources are staged around the area to get there. we are going through truckloads of product and this is a massive logistical effort. we are very supportive and we are very thankful to those who are entrusting their resources to the salvation army to

do the best with what is given to us. have you got enough supplies for the demand? that is a hard question to a nswer the demand? that is a hard question to answer because we are going to be needing supplies for a long time. we are ruling product through as fast as we can “— are ruling product through as fast as we can —— moving. we will continue needing support to make that happen, so there will be days when i need ten truckloads and i have gone through everything i have on hand. do i have everything i need? no, but the public will support us to serve these people who have gone through so much tragedy. you are bringing in volunteers from across the united states? yes, even our neighbours to the north in canada, we have teams from all over bringing their expertise, people who have been through tragedies before, andi have been through tragedies before, and i myself have come from florida to help this effort. people are coming together. like we have seen

in previous disasters. it is a great opportunity to see people at their best. have you seen anything like this disaster before? best. have you seen anything like this disaster before ?|j best. have you seen anything like this disaster before? i have seen a large number of disasters and i've served with the salvation army many times, but i've never seen anything of this magnitude, as to how widespread and how significant this is and the number of people that have been impacted. it really is beyond anything you can imagine. you can't capture it all on tv, when you come here and you see how bad it is and how many people have been affected. this storm is moving ever so slowly north—east heading towards louisiana. there could be a big problem there, as well. that is right. we already had units supporting people who have been evacuated even in the louisiana area and we have resources there as well. we just need people to support us

financially if they can, we have a website set up for people, especially internationally, to support our efforts. it is taking so much the joysticks to do such a massive relief —— so much the gist ticks. we appreciate people taking their time to help these people who have suffered so much. you are appealing for more people to come forward and to put their hands in their pockets because this crisis will be lingering for some time? that is right. i have the opportunity to respond to 9/11 as well as katrina, and i have seen tragedy, but we have got the chance to ta ke tragedy, but we have got the chance to take these resources to the

people who need them the most and thatis people who need them the most and that is why we need the help of the public. i'm sure they appreciate your help and that of the other of urgency services, trying to bring a bit of relief to this dreadful situation. kevin smith from the salvation army of greater houston, thanks forjoining us. thanks. a cancer survivor from cornwall has set off on a gruelling challenge to paddle board the south west coast, using just his hands. brown cardoo, who had a brain tumour removed last year, is part of a four—man team attempting to paddle nonstop from plymouth to his home town of bude. they got under way this morning. john danks was there to see them off. a year ago, brown cardoo was lying on the operating table having a brain tumour removed. today, he is lying on a paddle board about to take on a new challenge. to paddle 298 miles around the cornish coastline, basically with our hands only, so we lie on a big long surfboard,

one hand at a time, paddle, and we are going to try and do 24 hours a day, through the night, pitch black, and see what happens. the team of four will be paddling in relay on a board which was used by a double olympic gold medallist. this is a very special board, an 18—foot—long oceangoing paddle board, usually used in hawaii and this board was actually paddled across the channel byjames cracknell when he broke the channel record. he has actually come along and signed it, as you can see, and it says, "don't read this, keep paddling." we have spent six months now training with each other and a lot of mickey taking, pushing the boundaries to see who can break first, but nothing's happened, so... and we are all fairly experienced, outdoor pursuits backgrounds, so we all push each other and help each other out. brown is raising money for two cancer charities but one lasting impact from his treatment is that he now suffers from seasickness.

i'm lifeboat crew and i have never been seasick in my life. the last time i went out, we were paddling plymouth to foye through the night, i was just losing my guts constantly. and even on the board, the boards that tip you, i was seasick on that, as well, so there is nowhere to hide. so that's it, the challenge has begun, and if everything goes well they will end up in bude in a few days' time. and if the conditions are right, that could be as soon as sunday. 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. time for a look at the weather. you have the forecast for here and also in the united states where they are having terrible problems. yes, good evening, we have some rain on the way here but this pales into insignificance compared to what has been happening in houston texans. where we have had already a metre of rain -- where we have had already a metre of rain —— texas. it is to training there. we have had more rain from this particular storm than any other storm which has hit texas —— it is still raining there. this is the radarfrom still raining there. this is the radar from early still raining there. this is the radarfrom early on, the rain has extended into new orleans across louisiana. within the next 6—12

hours the rain will stop in houston because the system will move north east and then move inland. at home we have a few showers in the north—west and also some in the english channel and these are likely to move into the south east anglia overnight, and the cloud further north will be giving some rain into the midlands and across wales and the midlands and across wales and the south west, and to the north we have the colder air, and it will be a good deal milder, but a wet start to the day across the south west. some rain in the south—east of wales and also wet in the south—east of england and east anglia, into the midlands potentially, as well. north wales and northern england, there is a handbag of cloud but also sunshine and sunshine for scotland and northern ireland —— hang back. the heaviest showers will be developing in northern ireland, slow—moving downpours. in the afternoon, the

rain will have cleared away from much of wales, eventually from the south west, a few showers, but it stays wet in the south east, maybe some showers in east anglia and into lincolnshire. typical temperatures, not great, 15—16 at best in east anglia and the south—east, very different from the heat we have had recently. the hot air is further into central parts of europe along with the thundery rain and that will track away from our shores, and by the early hours probably thursday morning, it leaves us with sunshine, showers developing, especially wales and western parts of england, slow—moving heavy downpours, but hit and missed, and it should be a dry and missed, and it should be a dry and warm day for the south—east and east anglia. many areas further north and west will be fine and the start of the weekend looks pretty

good, most places will be dry with sunshine and those temperatures are normalfor sunshine and those temperatures are normal for the sunshine and those temperatures are normalfor the time of sunshine and those temperatures are normal for the time of year. hello, i'm nuala mcgovern, this is 0utside source. president trump is in texas as devastating flooding continues. he says he wants the relief effort to stand as an example of how to respond to a storm. we wa nt we want to be looked at in five yea rs we want to be looked at in five years and ten years from now as, this is the way to do it. but there's a new flood warning to tens of thousands of people in houston — two dams are overflowing. anger as north korea launches its latest missile, this time overjapan. translation: the missile that passed over our nation poses the greatest and greatest threats to our nation ever. but china says us and south korean military exercises are provoking pyongyang. the chilean president has signed a bill that would legalise same—sex marriage, and sent it to congress for debate.