this is bbc news. the headlines at 11pm: president trump has arrived in texas, to see for himself the damage caused by storm harvey. officials have said at least 11 people have died following the storm, including one police officer. leader of the scottish labour party, kezia dugdale, has resigned as head of the party with immediate effect. she had been in charge forjust over two years. warning sirens sounded across japan, after north korea fired a missile over the island of hokkaido. the un security council is holding a meeting to discuss how to respond. and on newsnight, hurricane harvey becomes a test for the president. donald trump lands in texas as the storm waters rise. and we ask if the knives are now out for boris johnson. good evening and welcome to bbc news.

president trump has arrived in texas to meet officials dealing with the devastating flooding in the wake of tropical storm harvey. more than four foot of rain has now fallen in houston, texas, since the storm swept in on friday. more than 30,000 people have been forced from their homes by the storm. two dams near the city have begun overflowing and a river has burst its banks. it's set a new record for rainfall in the state. the dark blue areas on this map show where the rain has been falling most heavily. and the authorities are warning that water levels will continue to rise. 0ur correspondent james cook reports from houston. baby cries don't worry, it's ok! he's not the only one finding it tough. it's now four days since the hurricane, and still the rescues roll on and on. we're trying to get to a safer, drier place so...

how's the baby doing? 0h, he's fine, he's just scared. are you scared? just a little bit, yeah. in the chaos, though, there is some order. the boats have come from all over the united states, and not a moment too soon. there are a lot of people, they need help, and i'm thankfulfor these people, really am, i've never been through anything like this. this operation was fast and smooth. police, soldiers, civilians, all working together. from above, they can see the problem, and it's a big one. a reservoir a few blocks away is overflowing. it was built 80 years ago to protect the young city of houston, but nobody then imagined this. the pool of the reservoir is still rising, so flooding is going to continue along the structures and the homes that are against the western edge of the pool. so streets are going to be flooding. they will continue to flood.

new streets will continue to flood, new homes will continue to flood. this is now what much of houston and its surrounding suburbs look like. it's eerie here. everyone seems to have fled. and although the scale of this disaster is striking, it may yet get worse. much of this water will eventually work its way downstream to the city itself where they are already struggling to cope. this shelter ran out of beds yesterday. since then, 4,000 more people have arrived. even that is just a fraction of the number looking for a haven. when it's raining outside, some people can't imagine a sunny day. and it's been raining for a week. so imagine what's in people's minds. the lines are so big and so long. we need more physicians, more doctors, more health care, for everybody in the whole facility. for houston, and for the us, this is a wake—up yell. a giant of global commerce has been paralysed. should the city have been evacuated? the mayor says no. you can't put 6.5 million people on the road two days before a storm

when you don't know where it's going. it is absurd. but the fabric of this city is now tearing. even motorways are giving way, and as more deaths are reported, including one police officer, the strain is beginning to show. 0nce our dive team got there, it was too treacherous to go under and look for him. so we made the decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning. because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we couldn't put more officers at risk for what we knew in our hearts was going to be a recovery mission. every hour brings news of more rescues, more people trapped, and more damage. with nearly 50 inches of rain, this is now a record—breaking disaster. the leader of the scottish

labour party, kezia dugdale, has resigned with immediate effect. the msp for lothian, seen here withjeremy corbyn five days ago, has been the leader of the party for just over two years. in an interview she said she was leaving the party in a good position. most political leaders quit at a moment of crisis, something terrible has happened. i've decided that i think the labour party is very much on the up. it has made a huge amount of progress to 2.5 years ago. i've taken the party forward, it in a better state than when i found it. now it's time to pass that pattern onto the next person. we've had five national elections in 2.5 years, so it's time for the next person to have for years to build the next one. how has it been being leader? it sounds like there's been a weariness to it. the labour party in scotla nd

weariness to it. the labour party in scotland is —— was in terrible trouble when i took over 2.5 years ago. we've gone from just 41 to one mp. there was a lot of work to be done and i've devoted every waking moment of my life to that task in the last 2.5 years and i feel i've made a lot of progress. the party is now ready for the future, but i have to pass that baton on to the next person. why? have you found it frustrating and difficult? i think you say in your resignation letter it has been fulfilling but also challenging. i inherited a party and people didn't really know what the party stood for any more. so i've made the case for progressive taxes, forfederalism. made the case for progressive taxes, for federalism. then why go? i think i've established this as the biggest issues in scottish politics, not least education and equality, and i've enjoyed sparring with the first minister. but the work that has to happen now to take the labour party to the next date of the journey to make sure it is ready to serve the

people in scottish government in 2021, that's people in scottish government in 202i, that's for the next person to do. i've done the hard lifting, i was told i had the toughestjob in scottish politics, i'd like to think i'd made it easierfor the next person. that was kezia dugdale speaking to us earlier. an emergency meeting of the united nations security council is taking place to discuss north korea's firing of a missile overjapan. japan's prime minister says his country is now facing an unprecedented threat. the missile was fired from near pyongyang in the early hours of this morning. rupert wingfield—hayes reports from tokyo. siren blares 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. "we have nowhere to escape to", says this man, "that's the scariest thing." the missile that flew overjapan is thought to be one of these, a hwasong—i2. 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 it's 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 okinawa 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—is 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. a brief look at some of the day's other news stories. investigations are continuing into the death of a four—year old boy in devon.

the youngster‘s body was found in the swimming pool of an activity centre after he had been reported missing. he had been on holiday. the head of network rail has apologised after passengers travelling into london waterloo, the uk's busiest railway station faced yet more delays. the station had reopened today after three weeks of engineering works. but rush hour services on several lines into waterloo this morning were cancelled, after signalling problems. and euston station in london has reopened after an exploding e—cigarette sparked an evacuation. the station was closed for around 90 minutes while british transport police investigated the incident. officers explained that a "small contained explosion" had caused the security alert and that nobody was injured. theresa may has been accused of "watering down" plans to tackle excessive executive pay. from nextjune, britain's biggest firms will have to reveal how much more their chief executives are paid, compared with the average worker.

but critics have called the government's attempt to make boardrooms more transparent and accountable "feeble" and not as radical as originally planned. our business editor simonjack reports. 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 it 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 £45 million in total pay. that's a 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 and 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. 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. i think 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 is the one who appointed michelle barnier to conduct the negotiations. they will make the recommendation as to whether the uk has done enough to unravel all of thoseissues has done enough to unravel all of those issues to do with the past and what we are hearing very clear from the chief negotiator, mr barnier, from jean—claude juncker and from the president of the p in parliament, a whole spread of opinion, is that the uk really needs to do more. they aren't satisfied the uk has delivered enough detail

are enough progress. there's a deadline coming up month for sorting, or at least in october, for sorting, or at least in october, for sorting a lot of these issues out. what happens if that deadline isn't that? yes, it's not a hard deadline. in october, that's the next time those 27 other eu countries other leaders, will meet here 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. but if they aren't happy at that point, or if the commission is not happy and doesn't even recommend that they consider moving forward, then you have to wait until december as the next chance to do that. so the problem for the uk side is that the problem for the uk side is that the lease will start to happen and as that will see in the pressure will mount and the stakes