after the supreme court annulled last month's presidential election and ordered a re—run. president uhuru kenyatta said the decision is political, but he will accept the ruling. he had won byjust over a million votes. the opposition claimed there were widespread irregularities. fire is burning out of control at a chemical plant in texas which flooded in the wake of hurricane harvey. the area has been evacuated. the plant's owners have warned that its cooling systems have failed. president trump will head back to the area affected by flooding on saturday. it is now believed more than 1,400 people have died, after catastrophic flooding across several south asian countries. this year's annual monsoon season has been particularly heavy. in all, around 41 million people have been affected. many have been displaced or left homeless. the british security company gas has suspended nine workers at an immigration removal centre for allegedly abusing detainees. it follows a bbc investigation

claiming officers mocked and assaulted people. it is alleged there was widespread self—harm and attempted suicide at the centre, which houses migrants who are about to be expelled. alison holt has more. brook house immigration removal centre sits a couple of hundred metres from the runway at gatwick airport. it is run by the global security firm gas. here, foreign national prisoners facing deportation at the end of their sentence are detained alongside asylum seekers, illegal migrants, and those who have overstayed their visas. covert filming by the bbc‘s panorama programme shows a chaotic place awash with drugs, with self—harm commonplace amongst the men held there. there are officers doing their best, but the undercover investigation alleges some staff mock, abuse,

or even assault detainees. the incidents picked up by the hidden camera worn by another officer. callum tully has worked at brook house for two years. there's a culture of violence at brook house. when i started working there, i wasjust... ..quite quickly became just disturbed by what i was seeing and hearing about. it is the latest scandal to hit gas. last year, another panorama investigation at medway secure training centre in kent led to allegations of the mistreatment of some teenagers held there. the company says it is waiting to see the brook house footage, but has suspended nine staff, and put five others on restricted duties. my initial reaction is i'm absolutely disgusted by the alleged behaviour.

it's totally unacceptable to me, to the organisation, to anybody else who would work in this kind of vocation. what does that tell you about the culture of brook house, but also the culture of gas? because culture comes from on high. my expectations are very clear. that we care for people, we look after people. on occasion we challenge people. and we do that in a way that is accepted, that is clearly laid down. it is understood an ex—gas officer who now works for the home office has also been suspended. the home office decides who is detained in centres like brook house. it says it condemns any actions that put the safety or dignity of detainees at risk, adding that gas needs to ensure there is a thorough investigation into the allegations. the company says it has alerted the police. now on bbc news, it is time for from out of town. for decades, our country has lived

through the greatestjobs left in the history of the world. you know it better than anybody in pennsylvania. ourfactories it better than anybody in pennsylvania. our factories were shuttered, our steel mills closed down, and our jobs shuttered, our steel mills closed down, and ourjobs were stolen away and shipped far away. how did donald trump pull off his surprise victory? he did it partly by appealing to the feeling that across the usa, small towns have ta ken feeling that across the usa, small towns have taken a battering. main street. there is plenty of room here. room for the individual to expand, to plan for himself and his children. the small towns of america, where once life was good. the less densely populated the place

you lived, the more likely you were to back trump for president. while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land. washington versus real america, wall street versus real america, wall street versus main street. the small town has long been the home of sunny american innocence. while the big bad city was the source of all corruption. if only, trump seemed to say, the innocence of the small town could be recaptured, we could make america great again. it is still a powerful story, but was it ever really that simple? in the i9a0s and 19505, really that simple? in the i9a0s and

1950s, big bad city ‘s really came to dominate and overshadow america. and, as they did so, they inspired a whole new style of cinema. in film noir, the american city is dark, and anonymous, and frightening. people are not what they seem. you can trust no one. everyone is out for themselves. it is no place for the innocent. yes, i know, i am... i am being foolish. in doa, dead on arrival, frank bigelow makes the mistake of leaving his small home town and his girlfriend for a sneaky vacation in san francisco. within hours, he has been fatally poisoned, and is tearing around the city trying to find his killer. i am adam

smith, a historian of america, and in this programme, i am going to investigate what film noir and its sharp contrast between corrupt city and innocent small town can tell us about america today. after i9a5, americans moved to the cities, and especially the booming suburbs, in huge numbers. many of them found what they were looking for, but there was also this sense that they had lost the sense of the community they had had in the small towns they'd left behind. so film noir is not only about the city. it also plays on the contrast with the small town. against this innocent background, the dodgy, sophisticated incomers from the cities standout. in some film noirs, the small town is the place you run to the try to escape your past. and it is where

your enemies from the city catch you running a gas station. that is what happens to robert mitchum's character, geoff bailey, in out of the past. in the i9a0s, america was becoming the land of the car, and that meant it was getting harder and harderfor that meant it was getting harder and harder for small towns that meant it was getting harder and harderfor small towns to that meant it was getting harder and harder for small towns to be the isolated islands they had once been. if you wanted to avoid marauders from the cities, a gas station was about the last place in a small town to work. long time. hello, joe. wish it was nice to see you. everyone sure miss you, jeff. it was nice to see you. everyone sure miss you, jeff. bailey discovers that even hiding in the eternal innocence of bridport, his urban past will finally catch up with him. i had to find you? i owe you something? geoff bailey clearly

hadn't watched burt lancaster in the killers, where more or less the same thing happens. pay you! look at the oil, will you? driving into the small town where he is hiding comes the man he really didn't want to meet again —— hey, you! in the killers, a man's big—city past comes to him in the shape of two hitman hired by the man he once doublecrossed. they tracked him to that centre of smalltown life, diana —— hitmen. and the men don't exactly hide their opinion of the place their victim has run two. this is a hot town.

what do you call it? brentwood. did you ever hear of brentwood? what do you ever hear of brentwood? what do you do with your nights? they eat the dinner. they all come here and beat the big dinner. the killers go and kill burt lancaster's character, peter lund, but brentwood newjersey can at least consoled itself that it remained on standby this viciousness from the city. the way i look at it, this killing doesn't rightly concerned brentwood at all. what concerns us concerned brentwood at all. what concerns us is protecting the lives and integrity of our citizens. this man lund lives here, that's all. the killers came from out of town. man lund lives here, that's all. the killers came from out of townm man lund lives here, that's all. the killers came from out of town. it is pa rt of killers came from out of town. it is part ofan killers came from out of town. it is part of an american attitude which says that, if you want a safe, secure, comfortable life, live in somewhere like bre ntwood. secure, comfortable life, live in somewhere like brentwood. and that notion persists to this day, and it is one of the great ideas and fallacies behind trump, that there

is an america that is settled, rural, or semirural, provincial, let's say. where life goes a long at a leisurely but acceptable, regular pace, and people are good to one another. it is a myth, but it is a very prevalent myth. and it was very prevalent than. but sometimes the man who runs to the small town is secretly the bad guy, likejoseph cotton in alfred hitchcock's shadow ofa cotton in alfred hitchcock's shadow of a doubt. uncle charlie appears quite briefly as an urban character, but then —— in wonderfully telling ways, you see him lying on his bed ina new ways, you see him lying on his bed in a new room, in a mean building, you don't quite know where you are, but it is urban. and there is a

sense, i think, but it is urban. and there is a sense, ithink, of but it is urban. and there is a sense, i think, of whatever damage he has done to others or to himself, that it has been an expression of that it has been an expression of that urban world. and he wants to get out, he wants to retreat. so he goes to santa rosa, in fact, and his niece, charlie, lives there with her family. and it is another america from that city that uncle charlie has come from. and it is in america thatis has come from. and it is in america that is really half asleep. it is not thinking about anything very much. it is a conflict between that darkness that uncle charlie has seen in the brightness that nice charlie likes to believe is going to sustain america after the war —— niece. likes to believe is going to sustain america after the war -- niece. the ariza right place a smalltown girl who is over the moon when her urbane uncle charlie, who she reveres,

comes to town —— theresa wright. until, that is, she realises he is a serial killer. you're just an ordinary little girl, living in an ordinary little girl, living in an ordinary little girl, living in an ordinary little town. you wake up every morning of your life you know perfectly well there is nothing in the world to trouble you. you go through your ordinary little day, and that night you sleep your untroubled little sleep filled with peaceful, stupid dreams. and i brought you nightmares. and really what that seen in the diner is saying is, this girl has got to grow up. and probably her growing up could break down. and then you sort of save yourself, well, maybe uncle charlie was a nice guy wants. whether the invader was a villain or a victim, these movies portray the small town as a land of innocence. and here in sierra madre, near los angeles, this place still has a lovely smalltown feel. there is a

wonderful old theatre over there, some great cafes. it is a very good pleasant, peaceful place. you can see why the smalltown a deal still has its appeal. but, even as it was becoming a symbol of nostalgia, these films were already unsettling division of the smalltown. for hitchcock tom i think, it is a way of saying to that very secure, settled american attitude to itself, don't trust it. shadow of a doubt. what does that title mean? it doesn't really seem to spring out of the film, but a shadow of a doubt is where —— what a smart viewer is going to feel about america when the film is over. in the stranger, another charming outsider rings per share of evil to a small town. orson

welles as a teacher in harper, connecticut, and is about to cement his position in the little town by marrying loretta young. but then edward g robinson tracks into the town, and makes her confront who her new husband really is. surely you don't think... you might. they look like other people. the act like other people. when it is to their benefit. a gas chamber. but if nice mr rank and is really a nazi, who can you trust, even in harper connecticut? when he is exposed, the desperate kindler hides in the church bell tower and the people of the town come together to hunt him down. citizens of hopper have come after you. the ones who have been

laughing at. you can't fall them any more. if the target is an escape nazi, that is one kind of story. but the smalltown mobs in these movies we re the smalltown mobs in these movies were not always quite like that. sometimes they went a big step further. instead of casting the smalltown as an innocent place to show up the evils of the big city, they turned the american heartland of self into a nightmarish landscape. in some films, it is the smalltown itself which harbours corruption. and these films suggest the flipside to community come together is. the code of silence. the wall of hostility. i could punch him in the

face, i tell you. hostility. i could punch him in the face, itell you. you know hostility. i could punch him in the face, i tell you. you know what they used to do to guys like that in a place like this? they would be carried out on a stretcher. perhaps that vision of the world also has something darker to tell us. about trump's america. you see somebody getting ready to throw a potato. knock the crap out of them, seriously. i promise you, iwill knock the crap out of them, seriously. i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees, i seriously. i promise you, i will pay for the legalfees, i promise. people coming together as a community can be a lovely thing. but not when they come together as a crowd against one outsider. spreading the violent propaganda of race hatred. in the wake of world war two, many race hatred. in the wake of world wartwo, many on race hatred. in the wake of world war two, many on the left were worried about aisea stick tendencies in america. like hitler's yang, they thrive on persecution, hatred and violence. if that boy isn't alive

when the troops get here, you are going to get hurt where it counts. again and again, left—wing filmmakers express this through images of that most passionate version of a community coming together as one. the lynch mob. in trial, their target is a terrified his to meet —— hispanic boy wrongly branded a sex attacker. in the sound of urea, the mob do managed to kill the murderers they are after. -- the sound of fury. if the media'sjob is to be honest and tell the truth, then i think we would all agree the media deserves a very, very big fat failing grade. looking back at these films today, it is striking to find the mob focused on one of donald trump's favourite targets. those interfering big—city outsiders, the

media. warner brothers's storm warning was an attack on the ku klux klan. as ginger rogers, a new york model visiting her sister in a small town, discovers. the victim we soon find out if an undercover reporter who had been investigating them. many times today on the streets, in a resta u ra nt many times today on the streets, in a restaurant in the hotel, people have come up to us and asked us not tojudge the whole have come up to us and asked us not to judge the whole town by the brutal criminal action of woodlands last night. bob? bob. these decent individuals sincerely upset...

astonishingly, the filmmakers decided not to mention the clan's racism, at instead, the film explicitly connects far right extremism with smalltown hostility to outsiders, protected by a wall of silence. looking at the faces of the men and women this afternoon at the courthouse, it isn't always easy to tell on which side they stand. no wonder some people in small towns get fed up with the way hollywood and the media represent them. around this time,, in the lawless, another boy was accused of a sex attack. the townsfolk turned on the newspaper which has defended the boy. it would be hard to find a more vivid image of mob hatred of the media. where are you? what is most striking is that the newspaper that gets destroyed is trying to be honest. the situation has been whipped up by

another paper, peddling what you might call fake news. now, a big hit. now, try and rememberjust what happened. we went to the bar and he jumped out of the dark. she was a very self—conscious, very... very heart on his sleeve liberal who saw not just the chance, heart on his sleeve liberal who saw notjust the chance, but heart on his sleeve liberal who saw not just the chance, but the heart on his sleeve liberal who saw notjust the chance, but the needle to make a story about racism in a smalltown community, but also of about the general danger of vigilantes spirit taking law into its own hands. the lawless was written by daniel mannering had also read the film who helped set the template for the smalltown love, out

of the past. mannering gripe in a small town in northern california and though he was brilliant at evoking their particular atmosphere, he wasn't particularly sentimental about it. if you have never been tempted to take part in a lynch mob, perhaps it can take these films in your stride. but another film script of the 1950s, also written by daniel mannering, shows the growth of the mob which is even more unsettling. in invasion of the body snatchers, the people of a small town in california are not scarily angry, but scarily blank. gradually, the town's doctor and his girlfriend realise that the townsfolk have been taken over realise that the townsfolk have been ta ken over by realise that the townsfolk have been taken over by alien pods. that idea

that i can barely believe in is that the world is populated by hordes, those of vegetables and they have no emotions —— pods. they bathe, they eat, they go to work, they eat again, they go to sleep. they have no cultural aspirations. the local psychiatrist thinks the advent of total conformity is just what the town needs. suddenly while you are a sleep they will absorb your minds. your memories. and you are reborn into an untroubled world. where everyone is the same? exactly. i think what it is saying is the very things that we think of as precious ina free things that we think of as precious in a free society, like education, like love, like differences of opinion, like sexual expression,

they may be great threats to social control. so the conformist crowd turned on the two dissidents. it has the arrival of bank conformity come from out of town to ruin the innocent townspeople? is it like communism or consumerism, or is it their own community spirit that has made them obedient and conformist? the invasion —— invasion of the body snatchers gets under your skin, because the crowd is going to do the right thing. even the town's well—meaning policeman joined the chase. they went this way! the film refuses to tell you who to blame. are the townsfolk villains or victims? but today, the message coming out of the pass from those old film nawaz is that there is no

perfect place, not even in the would—be paradise of smalltown america. one way to keep america divided is for trump's opponents in the big cities to sneer at his supporters as losers left behind in flyover cou ntry. and another is to look back to nostalgically at the smalltown life of the real america. before the took over. this whole dream risks hardening the divide between the big—city and the smalltown. exactly the division of these old movies more than 60 years ago tried to dissolve. hi there. we've got some decent weather coming up to start the weekend. with high pressure in charge, we'll have some sunshine to start the day on saturday. mind you, some of you might have been woken in the night by the odd rumble of thunder.

a few storms from lincolnshire, down through cambridgeshire, hertfordshire and essex, as well, all clearing out of away, and starting off then on saturday with relatively cool air in place. temperatures 10—12 degrees in the towns and cities, but cooler than that out in the countryside, so certainly a chill in the air. will be a fine start to the day, though, on saturday. i mentioned the high pressure with us, that is going to bring some sunny spells. but the second half of the weekend will bring a change in the weather. we'll have a bright start for many, but outbreaks of rain will work in from the west. ok, here is saturday's weather forecast, and it should be a glorious start to the day, with clear blue skies for many of us first thing saturday morning. into the early stage of the afternoon, there will be a little bit of cloud bubbling up, particularly across parts of southern and eastern scotland, eastern areas of england, and that cloud could bring one or two very isolated, light showers. but the vast majority will enjoy fine and dry weather. it will tend to cloud over, though, for western counties of northern ireland as we go through saturday afternoon, the breeze picking up here ahead of a weather front. but for england and wales,

plenty of sunshine around, and in the sunshine, widely, we'll see temperatures climbing into the high teens to low 20s. the highest temperatures probably around london and the south—east of england, at around 22 celsius, so very similar to what we had yesterday. it will feel pleasantly warm in that sunshine, but there are those isolated showers towards the coastline of essex and into parts of east anglia. here is the charts from saturday into sunday. we lose this area of high pressure. these weather fronts on the way. they will begin to show their hand as we go through the night time, with an area of rain working into northern ireland first, and then later in the night we'll start to see the cloud thicken, and outbreaks of rain arrive on strengthening winds across the south—west, wales, the north—west of england, and western parts of scotland, too. it will be a relatively mild night, though, as the clouds continue to work in, 12 to 15 degrees for saturday night. here is the chart for sunday — well, quite a different day. a bright start, yes, for eastern scotland and central and eastern england, but the brightness will not last. we will see the cloud thicken up, as this band of rain pushes its way east, with with one or two

heavier bursts around. even behind that rain, at will probably stay cloudy at times, before brighter spells come in. temperatures between 15 and i9 celsius, so a cooler day. monday will have a few spots of light rain and drizzle across western coasts and hills, and more persistent rain working into the north—west. despite the cloudy conditions, temperatures are not doing too badly, highs again about 22. that's your weather. this is bbc in use. my name is gavin grey. our top stories: this is bbc in use. my name is gavin grey. ourtop stories: —— bbc this is bbc in use. my name is gavin grey. our top stories: —— bbc news. celebrations in kenya as the supreme court declares last month's presidential election null and void. president kenyatta said he'll abide by the decision. i personally disagreed with the ruling that was made today. but i respect it. a large fire is burning at a chemical plant in texas which flooded in the wake of hurricane harvey — the area has been evacuated. at least ia00 people have now died

after heavy monsoon rains across large parts of south asia. more than 500 people have died, just in this one indian state.