welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm mike embley. our top stories: the governor of texas warns the worst is not over from the devastation triggered by tropical storm harvey. there will be ongoing challenges both during the time that rain continues to fall as well as for approximately four days to a week to come. president trump says talking to north korea is not the answer. so what comes next in this international standoff? the brother of the manchester bomber is to go on trial in libya in connection with the attack in may which killed 22 people. and 20 years on from the death of their mother, princes william and harry make a poignant appearance at a memorial garden dedicated to diana. the governor of texas says the worst is not overfor some parts

of the state as torrential rain continues to fall in the wake of tropical storm harvey. the flooding has forced a number of oil and gas refineries to shut down, affecting almost a quarter of america's fuel output. at least 20 people are known to have died. the storm has now moved on to neighbouring louisiana. from houston, james cook reports. this is what hurricane harvey did to houston. believe it or not, the water has gone down and still swathes of the city look like this. lives have been lost, homes have been ruined and people are still trapped. from the air, we spotted this couple, desperate for help. what's happening now is that we've seen these people in the water down below, they‘ re clearly in need of help. there's a boat, just a few blocks away, but it can't get to them. it can't see them, so we're going to use the helicopter to try to guide them in.

slowly, carefully, we help them find one another. a helicopter directing a boat along a leafy street, suburban america turned upside down. they made it. just seconds later we spotted this, fire and flood and no way in for the firefighters. this was a five—minute slice of the drama which has been unfolding in the skies over houston for days. and not just houston, this is port arthur in neighbouring louisiana where harvey has hit again. the hurricane may have been downgraded to a tropical storm, but it still packs a powerful punch. with a0 inches of rain here, they're taking what they can as they help their children escape. back in downtown houston, still dazed, but at least they're dry. the people of this city do now have a chance to take stock and they know there are struggles ahead. make some room.

thank you, guys. rodman young is now homeless in his own city after his house was flooded when two reservoirs spilt over. it's sad. it is sad and you feel a little bit hopeless because you're losing all your stuff and they only gave us, from the point we woke up, a couple of hours‘ sleep and we were fighting the waters at our house. here people formed a chain to help an elderly man trapped in his car. the human touch that has brought people together plain to see. as it moves across the southern united states the wake of this storm is widening and so is the damage. the bleak legacy of hurricane harvey will be felt for years to come. james cook, bbc news, houston. president trump has said talking is not the answer

to the north korea missile crisis. pyongyang warned yesterday's missile test overjapan was the first step of military operations in the pacific. despite the president's comments, the american defence secretary, james mattis, insisted there is still room for diplomacy in dealing with north korea. from tokyo, rupert wingfield—hayes reports. these are the first pictures of north korea's latest and most provocative missile launch. as expected, kim jong—un was on hand to give his personal guidance. the north korean dictator gazes skywards as the missile flies towards japan. and along with the pictures came this statement from north korea's state media. north korea's statement shows the ultimate target of yesterday's test was not here injapan, but the us pacific island of guam,

with its huge military bases, and that north korea intends more such tests. so what can be done to stop it? last night in new york, the un security council members, including china, were unanimous in condemning north korea. today, the cracks have already begun to appear. from president trump came this tweet, ruling out any prospect of talks. here injapan, prime minister theresa may said china must now do something. we want to work with international partners to see what further pressure can be brought on north korea. and of course particularly look at what china can do. in beijing, china's foreign ministry spokeswoman had this rather caustic response. translation: some countries dash forward when it comes to imposing sanctions but hide away when it comes to asking for peace talks. this is not the attitude

of a responsible nation. there is growing suspicion that north korea could not have developed this new missile so fast by itself. there is also agreement that it must be stopped. but there is none on how to do it. china wants talks. the us, britain and japan, more sanctions. meanwhile, north korea is almost certainly preparing for its next test. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the red cross says bangladesh is suffering its worst flooding in decades and that it's being largely ignored by the international community. it says entire communities have been cut off and many are short of food and clean water. more than 1,200 people have now died across india, bangladesh and nepal in the worst flooding to strike south asia in years.

the us military has acknowledged that there are about 11,000 american troops currently in afghanistan, significantly more than previously disclosed. officials say the new figure includes temporary and covert units as well as regular forces. last week president trump announced plans to send another 4,000 more personnel to fight taliban insurgents. the brother and son of guatemala's president have gone on trial for corruption in a case involving several hundred fake food deliveries. the mother of the son's then girlfriend billed the government for $12,000 for breakfasts that were never delivered. the alleged episode took place two years beforejimmy morales became president but it has damaged his popularity nonetheless. the european parliament's co—ordinator for the brexit negotiations, guy verhofstadt, has said there's increasing evidence that eu citizens in britain and british citizens in the eu were being treated like foreigners.

he told a committee of meps that such behaviour was against the law, while britain remained part of the bloc. the brother of the manchester bomber will go on trial in libya in the next two months in connection with the attack in may which left 22 people dead. hashem abedi was arrested in libya shortly after the suicide attack carried out by his brother salman. but in an exclusive interview with the bbc‘s 0rla guerin, the prosecutor in the case said their father has been released. the bbc has learned he's been directly questioned here several times by british police. libya's chief investigator told us the authorities here believe he played a key role in the attack. translation: all the signs point to hashem being

directly involved, assisting his brother and collecting the materials for the suicide bombing, which took a lot of innocent lives in manchester. do you expect to see hashem ed davey on trial here this year? of course, all the investigations will be completed in two months at most. anything needed from the general prosecutor or the police will be ready for the court. the authorities here have detained another relative of the abedi brothers, mohammed abedi. they say his credit card was used to buy ingredients for the bomb and they have given police a list of others in the uk they want to be interviewed. translation: these people should be questioned to get more information about the suspects, their movements, their ideologies, if there were any sign they were going to carry out the attack. they're not necessarily suspects themselves but it's important to get information from them. but libyan

investigators have now finished with ramadan abedi, the father of hashem and salman. we went to his home on the outskirts of tripoli. he's already back here with his family but we were told he was tired and did not want to comment. well, we have tried to speak to ramadan abedi but he's been unwilling to see us. authorities have told us they have no reason to hold him any longer in this case. he is now a free man but not free to leave the country. they wa nt not free to leave the country. they want him to remain in libya in case they have any further questions and he'll have to check in with police from time to time. a relative told us from time to time. a relative told us ramadan abedi was shocked at what his son, salman, had done. no father wa nts his son, salman, had done. no father wants his trial to be a suicide bomber, he said. he told us the family was now happy at the release ofan family was now happy at the release of an innocent man. 0rla guerin, bbc news, tripoli. let's go back to our top story:.

america's fourth largest city has borne the brunt of the rainfall, with large parts of the city underwater, forcing thousands of people to flee there homes. some tragic stories of deaths, some in cars? that's right, so many got trapped in the floodwater and they started driving down a highway or roadway and it seemed fine and they get to a point where there's really no turning back, so many getting out of their vehicles, trying to swim to safety a nd of their vehicles, trying to swim to safety and not making it. heartbreaking images and seems starting to emerge. some other images mercifully of local people pulling together with official rescue teams so overstretched, that extraordinary footage that many will have seen of local people literally

forming a human chain to get a guy out of a car? yeah, and we've seen that too in all this devastation and tragedy, we've also seen the best of humanity, the best of this city and this state. in one case we saw folks band together to form a human chain to pull a woman from her house and get her into a vehicle. she was in labour and eventually gave birth to a baby girl. today i spent a couple of hours with volunteer search and rescue teams who drove from neighbouring louisiana to come and help complete strangers, they went door to door with local law enforcement officers today to find people still stuck in their homes and ended up rescuing a number of families and pets from their homes. many of the people who have been rescued have fled their homes, very difficult to know where to put them and how to look after them. i know some of the rescue teams saying they had trouble getting themselves said. well, that six ugly right and right

now i'm standing in front of the convention centre in downtown houston —— said —— that's exactly right. 10,000 people if not more inside this temporary shelter so officials have had to open up neighbouring mega facilities to accommodate the spill over. right now there's some 230 shelters in and around the city with 17,000 evacuees, mike. kenneth, has the mayor's call for emergency aid been met? well, he's still looking for more emergency aid and more financial aid. he said that is the biggest thing right now for the city. the volunteer turnout is remarkable. thousands and thousands of volu nteers remarkable. thousands and thousands of volunteers from all over who have come to help, but that doesn't solve anything, everything. there also needs to be financial support, and he needs that and that will be ongoing. kenneth craig from cbs, thank you so much again. absolutely. tropical storm harvey has been

wreaking havoc on the heart of the us energy industry. at least 18 refineries in texas have been closed or partially closed, including the country's largest at port arthur, near houston. and as the storm system moves into louisiana there is concern for a number of plants in its trajectory. the damage has already sent domestic fuel prices up, and it's likely to take weeks until production can return to normal. andy lipow is a houston energy consultant and expert on the industry, and joins me from new york. what is the latest picture? 31% of what is the latest picture? 3196 of the us refining industry has been affected and to put that in perspective, prior to this those refineries were processing 6 million barrels of crude oil a day, now it is down to1 barrels of crude oil a day, now it is down to 1 million barrels of crude oil a day, now it is down to1 million barrels barrels of crude oil a day, now it is down to 1 million barrels a day. that's resulting in the tightness in gasoline, jet fuel and diesel markets. obviously water causes

damage to a electrical installations, how long does it take to get a refinery back up and running, how well protected are they from this kind of thing? we've really experienced the most flooding in the beaumont what are the area and if that rises to a level where it submerges electrical motors you could see six to eight weeks —— port arthur area. but good news, could see six to eight weeks —— port arthurarea. but good news, in corpus christi we had a wind event rather than a rain event and those refineries are getting ready to start up. in the houston area the issue has been the delivery of crude oil to local refineries and we've seen a oil to local refineries and we've seen a few oil to local refineries and we've seen a few announcements oil to local refineries and we've seen a few announcements in the last 21: seen a few announcements in the last 26 hours to preliminary start—up. are the consumers feeling the impact of this yet? they have. we arsene the wholesale price of gasoline into the wholesale price of gasoline into the pipelines rise 20 cents a gallon

—— we are seeing. consumers the pipelines rise 20 cents a gallon —— we are seeing. consumers are seeing the price rise 3 cents a gallon every day and that's likely to continue over the next five to seven days. some concerns about jet fuel? yes, if you think about jet fuel, the only place it comes from is from refineries and with so much capacity off—line on the gulf coast, airports such as atlanta, charlotte or washington, dc, they're going to start to see some tightness unless we can get those refineries back up and operating. in fact, what wejust saw is a cargo ofjet fuel from the middle east diverted from europe to the us. as harvey moves into louisiana, what are your particular concerns there? the biggest concern is the beaumont port arthur area followed by like giles, there are three refineries, all three have been cut back on. —— lake charles. are not concerned about the mississippi river near new orleans, which has 40% of the nation's

capacity, this storm will be headed north through central wheezy and antenna the —— i'm not. north through central wheezy and antenna the -- i'm not. thanks so much. thanks for having me -- and tennessee. there is some serious human misery out there, but some amazing rescue stories from texas on our website. you will also find some detailed mapping on how far the waters have risen. just go to bbc.com/news to access all the text, graphics and video. sorry about that. the technology is behind us or ahead. thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the death of princess diana in paris. her sons william and harry have visited a memorial garden that's been created at london's kensington palace in memory of their mother. the white garden is dedicated to princess diana's life and work. 0ur royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. the flowers and the tributes are back at the gates of kensington

palace. a very small echo of how it was 20 years ago, but a reminder of feelings which the years have not erased. and this afternoon, william and harry came to view the tributes. they took their time, they looked and they read. they laughed at some of the photographs showing them as small children with their mother. it was impossible not to be reminded of how it was 20 years ago when, aged 15 and 12, on their return to london, they'd come out, still numb and bewildered, to meet the people who'd gathered there and to see for themselves the many thousands of bouquets which had been left. diana's boys are both in their 30s now. william's settled and about to begin full—time royal duty. he was accompanied by catherine this afternoon to view a memorial garden to diana. and harry, not quite so settled yet, but not far off, one suspects. and both at this anniversary, one must assume, reassured by the enduring regard people feel for their mother. she gave us so much.

we were so privileged to have her. she meant so much to so many people. she touched everybody and it shows by how many people are here today. william and harry took some of the flowers people had brought and placed them at the palace gates, replaying some of the moments from two decades ago and acknowledging the desire that many still have to hold onto diana's memory. today, briefly, they've put on their public, princely faces, to view some of the tributes. tomorrow though, william and harry will remain in private, remembering the mother they lost in such tragic circumstances, 20 years ago. nicolas witchell, bbc news, at kensington palace. britain is halving the amount of money it gives in humanitarian aid to nigeria from next year. they have said the country must do more to defeat

boko haram extremists. visiting the affected areas, the international development secretary priti patel said other countries needed to share the burden offunding. james robbins reports from nigeria. british soldiers are not themselves fighting boko haram, but they are training nigerian forces to be far more effective against them. the nigerian army has had some successes retaking territory in the north—east, but the government is widely blamed for claiming some sort of victory when violence still rages. in this city, these are some of the victims of boko haram being cared for by the international red cross. we were asked not to use her name, but this woman was badly injured, one of her children was killed. two suicide bombers, she told me, both teenage girls, blew themselves up close to our home. listening to the stories, many of them harrowing stories from these patients, underscores one of the grimmest features of this conflict — increasing reliance of boko haram

on children as suicide bombers. estimates vary, but the united nations believe 80 children have been used as suicide bombers in this region alone. starvation is one consequence, as people flee their homes and farms. over 400,000 children have severe acute malnutrition. britain is helping about a quarter of them. today, borisjohnson and priti patel met one recovering child, but the international development secretary says britain must reduce its humanitarian aid next year, others should do more. myjob isn'tjust to give aid and to give money. myjob is to make sure that that aid goes further, and that we leverage with the nigerian government to get them to step up and do more. nigerian soldiers relax at the end of another arduous day of british training, but their country has

nothing to celebrate. the war against boko haram is very far from over. james robbins, bbc news, nigeria. a land dispute between the tanzanian authorities and the masaai community in loliondo in the north of the country has taken a new twist. the government wants to move the masaai out of the area bordering the wildlife—rich serengeti national park. it says human settlement there threatens important natural resources and wildlife movement. but the pastoralists say they'd rather die than move from the land. the bbc‘s sammy awami went to area and sent us this report. structures torched to ashes. this family lost everything after authorities came the night before and burnt down their house and everything inside. they spent the night on that rock. translation: we have lost almost everything that we've had,

a couple of stuff i was able to rescue is there on that rock. that's all i managed to save. some of our animals are also missing. we don't know where they've gone. many other families share her story. village authorities say over 500 families have been left homeless and hundreds of their animals are missing. herding is an integral part of maasai cultural identity, and the loss of indigenous traditions like this cannot be compensated by either cash payments or promised of development. at the centre of this conflict is a 1500 square kilometre piece of land that the government says is crucial for conservation and tourism. this area is a source of water for the river. it provides 60% of water to wildlife in serengeti. it is also a breeding area of the

wildebeests and other animals. the maasai on the other hand claim this is their ancestral land. and they are willing to die defending it. translation: our resolve is to die, because we don't have anywhere to go. where will we go? and we don't have a country we know we'll run to. we don't know any other place. we have been born here, our ancestors left us here. where will we go? we will die here, we don't have any other way. this meeting has made a unanimous decision — fight to the end. the maasai are devastated. they even wonder whether this experience is punishment for their sins against their creator — hence a repentance prayer to god. a couple of months ago prime minister kassim majiliwa formed a commission to investigate the dispute, but its report is yet to be made public. this is the latest example in east africa of the growing tensions between wildlife conservation, which attracts tourists, and the need for locals to have pastoral land, especially during droughts.

sammy awami, bbc news, in northern tanzania. just finally, some pitches have come out on a slow motion nightmare from the occupants of each cart in china, which headed backwards into a river. it is thought that the driver hit the accelerator, not the break. a mother and daughter were inside, but amazingly they suffered no serious injuries. itjust took 11 seconds. it was noticed by a swimmer, who with a pedestrian pulled them out of the car. that main news is that texas has not seen the worst of the flooding caused by triple storm harvey. it is still affecting the oil supply, with more pipelines and refineries cut in the wake of the disaster. more and —— more on all

that and all the news on our website. thank you for watching. hello there. we're moving into the last day of august, but in some places, yesterday, it felt like september had already arrived. because there was a lot of cloud, there was some rain around, and temperatures across some south—eastern areas only got up to 13 degrees. but further north and west, the day brought brighter skies and some spells of sunshine. just a few showers. and that's the sort of weather that we will take with us into thursday. the cloud has now been chased away to the east. we've got some clear skies following on behind, with just a few shower clouds. and during the day ahead, we are going to see a mixture of sunshine and showers. the showers quite heavy from the word go in western areas. and then extending eastwards as the day goes on. but with some bright or sunny spells between those downpours. so, let's take a closer look at 11:00pm in the afternoon. across the west of england, we'll see quite a few showers in places, with some sunny spells in between. temperatures around 16—17 degrees. some showers stretching across the southeastern into east anglia.

but a big improvement in temperatures here. 20 degrees in london, 19 for ipswich. some heavy showers across the midlands, up into north—eastern england. some of the showers could contain the odd rumble of thunder. and for scotland, it is that mixture of spells and showers. 16 degrees in aberdeen, 17 in glasgow. for northern ireland, some decent sunny breaks between the showers. i think some places will avoid the showers and stay dry all day long. and a similar story for wales. sunny spells, the odd downpour coming along, here and there. some of those showers will be heavy, but they will then tend to fade away as we go through the evening. through the night, into the early hours of friday, we'll see some fog around, and a chilly night. towns and cities 9—12, but in rural areas, one, two, three, four degrees. quite a cool start if you're out and about early on friday morning. but the prospects of friday are fairly promising. a lot of dry weather and some spells of sunshine. still the chance of a shower, particular to the east, but many will stay dry.

17 in london, about where we'd expect to be. and then we get on into the weekend, and it is not bad news, —— 17 in glasgow, 21 in london, about where we'd expect to be. and then we get on into the weekend, and it is not bad news, especially if you like dry weather. this area of high pressure will give us a fine start to the weekend. weather systems, you'll notice, out west, they won't make much progress into eastern parts, so even on sunday, eastern areas of scotland, eastern england, should stay dry, with some spells of sunshine. further west, a fine saturday, a chilly saturday night, but then cloud and rain with some strong winds will work in from the west on sunday. this is bbc news, the headlines: the governor of texas says the worst is not overfor some parts of the state as torrential rain continues to fall in the wake of tropical storm harvey. the flooding has forced a number of oil and gas refineries to shut down. at least 20 people are known to have died.

president trump has said talking is not the answer to the north korea missile crisis. pyongyang warned tuesday's missile test overjapan was the first step of military operations in the pacific. but the us defence secretary, james mattis, has insisted there is still room for diplomacy. thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the death of princess diana in paris. her sons william and harry have visited a memorial garden that's been created at london's kensington palace in memory of their mother. the white garden is dedicated to princess diana's life and work. now on bbc news, hardtalk.