this is outside source. and these are the main story is here at the bbc newsroom. there is a warning that another 300,000 rohingya refugees may flee me am after. these new arrivals, people in makeshift homes they have built for themselves. very little help being given to these people is quite 22 teenage boys among those killed at a fire at a religious boarding school in the capital of malaysia, kuala lumpur. these pictures are very large—scale war games that belarus and russia are taking part in. their neighbours are not too happy about them. if you want to get in touch, them. if you want to get in touch, the hashtag is bbc os. hello, and welcome to outside source. 2a people have been killed

ina source. 2a people have been killed in a devastating fire that took place at an islamic boarding school in malaysia. now, it happened in the capital, kuala lumpur, at a religious school. the fire took place at... let's take a look. at this particular school. it broke out in the early hours of the morning. and, out of the 2a people that were killed, 22 were boys aged between 13 and i7, and also two members of staff lost their lives. this building only had one door, and it also had metal grilles on the windows. the people who came to try to help those people get out, well, they could only hear them scream. the bbc‘s and the hutton has this report. the dormitory of the school had just one way in... and out. many of the bodies of the schoolboys were found piled on top of each other,

indicating a possible stampede as they tried to escape the blaze. blocked by bars on some of the windows. unfortunately, this morning i had bad news. and then... i met him last night. a number of schoolboys managed to escape the blaze by jumping from schoolboys managed to escape the blaze byjumping from the burning building. translation: i escaped through the window. we dismantled the window grille, opened the window and climbed down the water pipe. this woman's son is being treated in hospital. she says that his face was burned so black she didn't recognise him. officials say that the fire was probably caused by a short circuit. but that safety checks had not been carried out recently because the school's request was still being processed. the disaster has renewed

calls for greater scrutiny of so—called. .. schools calls for greater scrutiny of so—called... schools where students learn to memorise the command. —— the koran. they are monitored by the religious department, not the education sector. for the grieving families who have lost their sons and brothers, there is only one message — safety must come first. as you can see, the malaysian prime minister has tweeted that all of the buildings of these centres are obliged to comply with safety regulations, as this involves life. this disaster has renewed calls for more scrutiny of unregulated religious schools. we have a report on this story from kuala lumpur.m is still under investigation at the moment. but the fire authorities said that the school had applied for approval to, like, apply for approval to, like, apply for approvalfor the fire approval to, like, apply for approval for the fire safety plan, but it hadn't yet been approved. so

they didn't have the required permits to operate, and the government is looking to review the school's license. the prime minister also said that they have tried to get these schools to set up their own volunteer firefighting programmes so that they know how to act when such incidents happen. but i think that some schools feel that the government is meddling with the administration, and haven't complied. so i think this is a wake—up call for a lot of the pa rents wake—up call for a lot of the parents who send their students to be schools, and also to the authorities, that if they are going to allow these schools to operate, there must be much tighter regulation. russia and belarus have launched a large joint military exercise together. just take a look at this. they have created an imaginary fictitious war games, taking places in and around belarus. these are the exact site of the exercises. this scenario or role—play is an armed uprising by terrorists and backed by a pretend country. it is pretty detail. they

have gone into a lot of detail, because they have created this imaginary country with the belarussians even imaginary country with the bela russians even publishing imaginary country with the belarussians even publishing a map of that fake country's borders. russian forces are deployed to belarus to help crush that rebellion. we asked a bbc russian reporter to tell us more about the purpose of these games. this is a huge military exercise which takes place every four years. the last time we have seen exercises called the zapad in the west in 2013, it was a different world than, before the russian alex asian of crimea and before the conflict with ukraine had started. so the annexation of crimea. these are usual and unusual at the same time. during those yea rs, at the same time. during those years, russia has made a significant reform of its armed forces. they have moved to a completely different type of operation, so that's why they need to practice it all. and they need to practice it all. and they are quite eager, actually, to show how strong their military is.

you know, how is that for by reforms were. because it's very important to show for them that they are prepared, they are prepared to show force, and that is exactly what they do here both during the e exercises, and for example in syria, where russians are operating on a number of levels, including quite expensive missile launchers from battleships. aerospace operations, militaryjet operations. all this shows that mr putin basically shows his muscles and shows that he is ready to withstand pressure, and he is ready for high—stakes game both at home and especially on the international arena. unsurprisingly, these exercises have led to many of russia's neighbours to voice concerns. russia's neighbours to voice concerns. here is older again. all eyes a re concerns. here is older again. all eyes are on russia now. because its military has been acting quite extensively, both in ukraine and in

syria. and of course, russia's neighbours, is dunure, latvia and lithuania are worried. during those exercises, russia and belarus are rehearsing a black leader type of activities which happened in crimea and ukraine —— exactly the type of activities. they are fighting insurgents, they are also practising how to be insurgents, this worries their neighbours a lot. also, the west tries to understand which strategies russia might adopt, which tactics it might adopt. also, there area tactics it might adopt. also, there are a lot of calls and concerns that actually the number of soldiers taken by the exercise is three or four times higher than officially announced figures. however, these we re announced figures. however, these were not confirmed independently. concerted effort to force so—called islamic state out of their stronghold city of raqqa in syria has been going on forfour months now. a combination of coalition air and us backed ground forces are

trying to drive the militants out of the city. tens of thousands of civilians have fled. but it's unclear how many are still there. quentin sommerville has more. one thing you really notice here in raqqa city, apart from the destruction, which is pretty much everywhere all around us, is the absence of people. when we've been into other cities, in mosul, when is have that, people were always coming out. but not here. the reason for that —— when is have fled. we just had coalition as trikes not long ago. you can hear artillery, and the artillery shelling is almost osmond. the real fighting —— artillery shelling is almost osmond. the realfighting —— almost co nsta nt. the realfighting —— almost constant. the fighting is going on about two kilometres from where i am, there, people are facing is snipers, minefields, and coalition bombardments from artillery and jets. the city is just down here. imagine living in that for a moment. if you look up here... this was

somebody‘s home. look at the bullet holes all over that. it almost isn't a building in the city that we have passed that has been untouched by the violence. if we just moved down here a bit closer, beyond that, note inside raqqa, almost an ironclad death trap has been created for people, where they are facing snipers, minefields, i heard some artillery just then. snipers, minefields, i heard some artilleryjust then. there is no option of escape for civilians. it's much betterfor them at option of escape for civilians. it's much better for them at the option of escape for civilians. it's much betterfor them at the moment, there is less risk, if they stay in there is less risk, if they stay in the midst of all of that in is territory than try to escape. that is why the streets are so empty. more gunfirejust is why the streets are so empty. more gunfire just in the background. one of the things to bear in mind, there is about 20—25,000 people still inside the city, trapped by is and those coalition as trikes. about half of them are children. there very limited at the moment —— air

strikes. you can get more detail on the websites of all their options are very limited. now, n ow, exa ctly now, exactly one month ago this month, this mudslide in sierra leone claimed the lives of an estimated 800 people. 7000 others lost everything, and they've been displaced. now, the mudslide took place in the capital, freetown. and it happened at the very top of sugarloaf mountain. completely smothering the community below it. a bbc reporter has been to the affected area and sent this report. the scale of this disaster is immense. no warnings, no time to escape. they all died. the whole family died. the whole family, each one. one month on, a steady stream

of grieving people still return to the site. the photographs of those who were killed. the country had never seen any thing like it. it has rained for days. the mudslide was accompanied by flash flooding in several areas. with no proper emergency service, volunteers took the lead. chaos ensued. shouting ina shouting in a matter of minutes, on the 14th of august, thomas lost eight members of august, thomas lost eight members of his family. he takes me back to the pile of mud and rubble that was once his family home. the pile of mud and rubble that was once his family homelj the pile of mud and rubble that was once his family home. i started to shout and call my younger sister. then we were hearing her voice, calling. in pain? yes, she was in deep pain. i was so depressed. i started to remove the sticks

aggressively. i ran into this place to get a pickaxe, a shovel, and a hammer. so you move the nails from this thing and the sticks around. then i started to use my bare hands to re m ove then i started to use my bare hands to remove the mud. then i found a full hand of my younger sister. dozens of families in this middle—class neighbourhood have their own harrowing stories to the following what's happened here in what is now sierra leone's ground zero. it's believed that over 1000 bodies still lie between the mud and rubble in the wake of what is the latest tragedy to befall sierra leone. fryday unlike most victims whose bodies were mangled by mud and rocks, thomas can give his sister, nephew and niece a proper burial. crying eventide has not consoled the

bereaved families. —— even time. the catholic church in the philippines has taken a very public stand against president rodrigo quintana tim bosma war on drugs, which has left thousands of people dead right across the country, church bells have fronted signal opposition to what the church describes as a reign of terror. now, it comes after the philippines‘ lawmakers voted to slash the budget of the country‘s human rights commission, who are investigating this controversial war on drugs. last year, the commission received $15 million worth of money in its budget. the philippines congress has voted to give them this time... oh! lets try and bring it up. i can tell you, it is nowhere near as much.

that is the right figure, just $20. let‘s find out why. we can speak to our expert, an expert on the philippines from a university in london. what is your initial reaction to that immense, joke budget cut? my initial reaction was a mixture of disgust and kind of embarrassment. it probably is a good thing ina embarrassment. it probably is a good thing in a sense. the mockery in itself will kind of galvanise people to look at this whole travesty, really, of what‘s happening in the philippines. will this get through? well, it has to go to the senate. and to see if it will be approved. and to see if it will be approved. and there will be some sort of negotiations on the budget. but i‘m hoping it won‘t, yeah, i don‘t think it will stop right now, of course, many filipino people are devout catholics. what impact will the

involvement of the church have in this? of course, this is a political issue. well, they are in a real kind of... the thing that made them come out in the news was the death of della santos, part of the parish, and this priest had come out to talk about this more visibly, i think. remind usa about this more visibly, i think. remind us a little bit about him? he was a 17—year—old kind of student, really, who was killed. there were cctv cameras that show that really, there was drugs that was planted on him and different things. it is clearly sort of an unjust killing, in that sense. there was a huge turnout of protests against it. because, for the first time, there was actual evidence, sort of, to show that, yes, there is a real problem. about the drug war,

so—called. problem. about the drug war, so-called. so, this budget cut, it could actually backfire for the government? yes, i think so. i am already hearing a lot of people talking about raising more money to support the commission outside of the government. more international outcry against it. it‘s just really a mockery. i mean, it‘s an extreme sort of push towards... this war on drugs of president duterte, just give us a description on how it impacts people day—to—day? give us a description on how it impacts people day-to-day? it's interesting that his popularity is still pretty high in the philippines. and it‘s probably because the killings are mostly in urban areas. and it‘s very kind of removed from people in the other provinces, for example. so a lot of people feel safer, in that sense. but i think it has turned because of this killing of the 17—year—old,

because he was a student, he was... he had an overseas filipino worker mother, for example. so there was a lot of news about the incident. thank you for bringing that to our attention. now, russia is known to be progressive, or it used to at least be when it comes to women‘s rights. 100 years ago, the russian revolution brought women unprecedented equality. women got the vote in 1917, abortion was legalised soon after, and the ussr sent the first female cosmonaut into space. but today, modern russian women are battling discrimination once again. both over there appearance and there ability. one moscow correspondent sarah rainsford has been to meet two women who are challenging that sexism in court. at

this airline, slim is in. this is the look that russia‘s national airline wants to present. but when it linked flight attendants‘ page on their dress size, it came unstuck. —— paid to their dress side. this woman spent 17 years working there. last year, she discovered it did not so will she did not fit their new image or slimmer uniforms. you had to add this bit! to make it big enough! then she realised it wasn‘t just her uniform that had trunk, it was her salary. translation: i was in shock at first. it made no sense. how could they cut your pay because of your dress size? but an airline document said the success of a stewardess depended on her size. of course, that really offended me. this job was a childhood dream for her, but it‘s gone sour. the airline denies

discrimination, but she says hundreds of women have their pay cut and were moved to lower paid, domestic flights. judged, as they say themselves, too old, too fat or too ugly. sexual equality is a principal soviet russia once prided itself upon. something it celebrated in statues like this, with images of strong and independent women. but yea rs strong and independent women. but years later, russian women are once again battling discrimination. they are not onlyjudged on the way they look, they are also barred from almost 500 professions just for being female. this woman was the ultimate trailblazer. in 1963, she was the first woman in space. but today, this woman is fighting for the right to captain a boat. svetla na tells the right to captain a boat. svetlana tells me she has spent yea rs svetlana tells me she has spent years suing for discrimination. she was denied a job under a law that supposedly protects women‘s reproductive health, whether they

wa nt reproductive health, whether they want children or not. the list of dangerousjobs includes want children or not. the list of dangerous jobs includes driving trucks and trains, and even carpentry. translation: i don't think there's equality in russia. it‘s a very patriarchal country. maybe they name women to some state positions, but this list speaks for itself. this woman took the airline to court too. there, its lawyers tried to defend the pay cut, saying every extra kilo of weight costs more fuel. but the judge ruled against them. and they notched up one victory in a much bigger battle for equal weights. sarah rainsford, bbc moscow. hashtag bbc os if you want to get in touch about that story. we have spoken about that story. we have spoken about ben venezuela‘s food prices many times here on outside source, but we haven‘t come across this plan. plan rabbit, before. this is president nicolas maduro urging venezuelans to breed rabbits for food. but there has been a problem

with the pilot programme. a government minister gave 15 communities rabbit kittens, only to discover upon returning that, and this is what the president said about this, that people had only gone and put little bows on their rabbits and were keeping them as pets! it was an early setback, i will say that, to plan rabbit. the opposition has called this whole plan a bad joke. but, opposition has called this whole plan a badjoke. but, in a opposition has called this whole plan a bad joke. but, in a country where, as you can see, at least half of the children are malnourished, you can see why this is actually serious. i‘ve been speaking about this story to a bbc correspondent, this story to a bbc correspondent, this is what she said. nicholas monroe made his announcement in front of the rest of his cabinet. and they were giggling, as the agriculture minister said that he had had problems with the initial plan because, venezuelans just worked culturally accepting this plan. they were keeping the rabbits as pets, and theyjust couldn‘t see them as 2.5 kilos of good, local

restau ra nt them as 2.5 kilos of good, local restaurant meat. do they eat rabbits? no, this is a cattle ranching country. so it‘s beef and rice and beans and salad and chicken. so rabbit is normally not on their menu. so this is a very big change for venezuela ns. on their menu. so this is a very big change for venezuelans. president maduro is describing this as just a pa rt maduro is describing this as just a part of the fight against the economic war against imperialist forces. big words, what does he mean by that? he tends to talk about economic war, which he says is an imperialist war, which is usually governed, in his words, by the united states and by big business and by the opposition, who he says represents big business. so he argues that these forces are trying to usurp his government by creating, by destroying economic lead his country, by raising prices, by withdrawing food —— destroying economic lead his country. the opposition says this is the governments economic mismanagement, thatis governments economic mismanagement, that is responsible for the economic

and food crisis that venezuelan outhouse. remember, now there is almost three quarters of all venezuelans. this year a survey found out that they have lost nine kilos in weight. that‘s how much there is a lack of food in the country. let's has some good news, shall we? the giant flurry and the tortoise has come back from the brink of extinction. for the past 150 years, experts had believed that this galapagos islands resident was well and truly extinct. but, not so fast, excuse the pun! the species has made a dramatic, if slow, comeback. nothing happens to quickly in the tortoise world. but this is a comeback worth the wait. the flurry are not taught us, once thought wiped out, has been on the extinction list for a century and a half. now, with careful

conservation, the species is being brought back from the dead. translation: today, we are announcing to the world some very good news. we have managed to recover a species that was once thought to be extinct. and was listed as such for the last 150 yea rs. listed as such for the last 150 years. the species became extinct from its home island during the mid—19th century. after hunting and exploitation from the first settlers. some of the tortoise as we re settlers. some of the tortoise as were dropped on other islands, breeding with other tortoise is. but now the original species is slowly and steadily staging its return. a breeding programme at the galapagos national park has yielded dozens of pure bred tortoises, with hopes of thousands more in the coming years. good to end the programme on a positive story. thanks for watching this episode of outside source. hello. i was last on whether for the

week ahead due to this time last week. and this time last week, we we re week. and this time last week, we were saying that for this time this week i hope you‘re keeping up, that high pressure would be building across the middle part of the atlantic. lo and behold, here it is. we were thinking this would cut off the flow of the low pressure systems, crossed the atlantic, it has done that. but around this area of high pressure we are left with a chilly flow of air from the north and plenty of showers. it is u nsta ble and plenty of showers. it is unstable air. temperatures are struggling. more of us are reaching for the heating. we need to change that to warm things up a bit. there are signs it is going to happen next week. but right now, and for friday, here it is, the arrows indicating where the air is coming from. it is ina warm where the air is coming from. it is in a warm direction, the showers too. some sunny spells around. as ever, some places may avoid the showers and stay dry. temperatures 12-16d. in the showers and stay dry. temperatures 12—16d. in the sunshine it may not feel too bad. catch a shower and it feels quite cold. during saturday, again, the aircoming feels quite cold. during saturday, again, the air coming down from the north, sunshine and showers across

the uk. some places may avoid them. evenif the uk. some places may avoid them. even if you catch one or two showers, it made us by ten wet minutes out of the date and the rest of the day will be dry. it doesn‘t write off the day, but be prepared for catching showers. saturday night looks really quite chilly. because the winds are easy. clear skies. temperatures may get close to freezing for a touch of frost in a few spots. high pressure building across the uk for part two of the weekend. that means the wind is easing. it is cutting off the flow of showers as well. one or two p°ppin9 of showers as well. one or two p°pping up of showers as well. one or two popping up through parts of england and south wales. dry and lighter winds, feeling less chilly by sunday. into monday, a chilly start. a fairly pleasant day to come. week whether for coming a fairly pleasant day to come. week whetherfor coming in a fairly pleasant day to come. week whether for coming in from the west bringing more proud to northern ireland, maybe a few outbreaks of rain in perhaps western parts of scotla nd rain in perhaps western parts of scotland —— weather front. rain in perhaps western parts of scotland —— weatherfront. most rain in perhaps western parts of scotland —— weather front. most of us scotland —— weather front. most of us will have a fine day with the exception of the old road show on monday. on tuesday, we are looking at the weather system that may

filter in cloud and rain. and on northern ireland. the main thing to point out, look at the arrows, they are no longerfrom point out, look at the arrows, they are no longer from the point out, look at the arrows, they are no longerfrom the north, they are no longerfrom the north, they are coming from the south, a milder direction. so the feel of the weather will begin to change. temperatures are not going to rocket up, but it will feel different. more moist air, it will feel less risk, less chilly, and overnight it will not be as cold. for the middle of the week it looks like another area of low— pressure the week it looks like another area of low—pressure targeting us, pushing wind and rain across the uk. once that has moved through, and we get to the end of the week, high pressure will stop to build back in across us. so, by the end of the week, and perhaps into the following weekend, there are signs of things becoming a bit more so. still a possibility that the weather systems may brush parts of western scotland and northern ireland, so we‘ll keep and northern ireland, so we‘ll keep an eye that. the flow of air will be from a milder, warmer direction. pa rt from a milder, warmer direction. part of the southeast maton rather warm. but there‘s still some uncertainty, tied in with what is going on on the other atlantic with

tropical weather systems. in particular with hurricane jose. jose, as you can see on the satellite picture, has been wobbling around for a few days and not doing much. but it looks like it‘s starting to make a move to the north—west and curving to the north—east and going back across the atlantic. computer models are struggling to get a grip with what is going to do, and that affect our long range forecast with that uncertainty. what i‘ve talked about at the moment is our best thoughts right now. tonight at ten: the public inquiry into the grenfell tower fire opens, as the man leading it promises to get the truth. exactly three months after at least 80 people died in west london, the inquiry‘s chairman explained what it would do. it can and will provide answers to the pressing questions of how a disaster of this kind could occur in 21st century london. but already there‘s some disquiet

from survivors about how the inquiry is being handled. naturally myself and members of the community, survivors, are not confident in the inquiry, but we‘re being optimistic and we‘re trying to keep an open mind. we‘ll be looking at the key issues the inquiry will try to tackle. also tonight: a warning from the bank of england interest rates may go up in the coming months for the first time in a decade.