hello, this is outside source. votes are being counted in pakistan's general election, but one side has already rejected the results alleging the count is not fair. in greece, the search goes on for dozens of people still missing after the wildfires near athens that have killed at least 80. survivors speak of their terror when i was in the house and the fire was going over, i thought, "i'm not going to make it. "this is the end". when it comes time for the fan and saying? what financing? -- for the financing. secret recordings between donald trump and his former lawyer show the president did know about a payment to buy the silence of a former playboy model. these are the live pictures coming into the newsroom from the white house. we'll keep you up to date with any news that comes out of that. between president trump and european commission presidentjean—claude juncker. polls have closed in the pakistani

elections, and although no official results have been announced, the encumbent pml—n party have already rejected them. local media have reported that the pti party led by cricketer turned politician imran khan, are in the lead. pml—n, led by shehbaz sharif, brother ofjailed former prime minister nawaz sharif, are projected to have come in second. omar quraishi has tweeted these early results suggest a hung parliament is likely, here is pakistani senator iftikhar ahmad to explain why that's a concern. there will be, in all likeliness, a hung parliament and that will result in obviously a coalition government. which will not augur very well for the conditions that pakistan's going through at the moment.

because there is the economy which is down the drain, there is security situation, pakistan's virtually at war and we saw the signs of that today on the bordering town of rajasthan during the elections. therefore, the task will be very tough for the new government and if that government relies on coalition or... other parties‘ views and their attitudes towards the foreign policy, that will create problems. today's vote has been marred by violence. a polling station in the city of quetta, near the border with afghanistan, was attacked by a suicde bomber. this is footage of the aftermath. at least 31 people were killed in the attack, dozens more were wounded. the attack was claimed by the islamic state group. as well as the suicide attack in quetta, in balochistan province, one person died in a grenade attack in khuzdar, and another died

in a shooting between political rivals in swabi, khyber pakhtunkhwa province. the election campaign has been marred by violence, with campiagn rallies being targeted by suicide bombers, and a number of candidates being killed. despite that, analysts say the level of violence in this year's poll was lower than the last election in 2013. this will be only the second time that one civilian government has handed power to another after serving a full term in pakistan's history. i have been asking the bbc‘s correspondent in pakistan outlawed it will be in the way of the official restart —— result. it will be in the way of the official restart -- result. there'll be about 70 seats of the parliament. 95 political parties are in the

selection. and there are more than 11,000 candidates. it will be a long time until the results are announced. but the should become clear by the early morning as was backin clear by the early morning as was back in 2013. why has this been called the dirtiest election in pakistan's history? the campaign has been overshadowed by the concerns of fraud and there were political parties who had been campaigning that they are not being allowed to campaign freely. at the same time never before leaders of any party are undergoing trials on corruption charges alongside the election. he was elected by a dictator and was ousted by the supreme court of pakistan. there has been certain concern by different political parties but at the same time, the

commission of pakistan also had showed that when it came to the election campaign. and then there was also an element of concern around different groups which are different religious groups. different people who have been part of organisations in the past. there have been these concerns in the country. the situation was better than 2013, but there were concerns when it comes to the political campaign of both parties. we will keep you posted on any developments. the authorities in greece are continuing to look for survivors of the wildfires that have killed at least 80 people. they began on monday near the capital athens — and they spread across the attica region causing devastation in the seaside towns of mati and rafina on the east coast. the greek authorities say there are around a0 to 100 people are still missing,

some of whom, they say, will have escaped to the sea. lots has also been made of the fact that there still isn't an organised communications centre to co—ordinate the rescues. and now relatives of those reported missing have started posting photographs online in the hope of eventually tracing their whereabouts somehow. these are some recent pictures just to give you a sense of the scale of the operation ahead. this is aerialfootage showing the forests ravaged by the fire as it made its way towards the coastal towns of mati and rafina. they're mostly ash now. and these are pictures of the town of mati now. the whole town is uninhabitable and nearly all of it will have to be destroyed before any rebuilding can be done and citizens can properly return to live here. and these are pictures coming in from the town of rafina, just south of mati. local residents there are leading the aid effort by gathering food, water and other vital supplies, which they're delivering to survivors of the blaze that have been made homeless. our correspondent mark lowen has

visited the town of mati, and has been speaking to residents there, including to the families of those who died. they had hope, until now. but the family of 88—year—old angeliki giannopoulo have just heard the worst. that she was the 80th person killed by the wildfires. her charred remains were discovered in her home. so unrecognisable was she, only her dna identified her. for her son, nicos, a mix of shock and rage. fortunately, i didn't find her by myself because i couldn't face the view. the body is totally burned. when the pain will calm down, i will prosecute to all levels everybody that is responsible for this catastrophe. i will not stop until i will die.

it's still not known how the spark was lit, but the gale force winds meant the flames galloped down the mountains. dozens are missing and almost 200 were injured. like susan stephos from britain, burnt by the fire as she ran from her home. it is hard to find words for such a tragedy. when i was in the house and the fire was going over, i thought, "i'm not going to make it. "this is the end". but... prayers were answered. and i managed. the streets of mati are like a burnt—out ghost town. the scorched shells are all that remain of family homes, and some still bear the trace of the inferno. for the engineers, the task of assessing what can still stand and what must be torn down. dora matsios says it's as if an earthquake struck.

dora matsia says it's as if an earthquake struck. something very, very bad has happened here. and it's just the feeling of walking along in a place that i knew was full of green and trees and all these things. it's very difficult, and i have to cope with people that have psychological problems right now. it's quite difficult for everyone. these are the people going in the water. volunteer lifeguards scour the coast for any sign of life or death. hundreds of people were rescued as they ran into the sea to escape the flames. the hope of finding any more survivors has virtually gone, so the aim now is to look for belongings and bodies. for some, the sea marked their salvation from the flames. for others, it was the end. the memories of that night lie buried here and in the remains of a part of greece scarred forever. let's head to washington.

donald trump is hosting european commission president jean—claude juncker. mrjuncker is trying to fend off a global trade war. they're due to speak to the media in the next hour. —— to the media soon. there are journalists gathering in the rose garden. and no one has appeared to speak. we'll bring you those updates. but the media's attention today has been on the release of a secret recording between these two men — the american president and his former lawyer michael cohen. the tape is from two months before the 2016 us election when mr trump was a candidate. the pair can be heard discussing a payment over an alleged affair with this woman. former playboy model karen mcdougal. the audio was released by mr cohen's lawyer, and obtained by american network cnn. take a listen. cohen: i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding ourfriend david.

so, i'm going to do that right away. i've actually... trump: bring it to me. i've spoken to alan weiselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding... trump speaks inaudibly yes. i've been thinking about that. all the stuff. it's all the stuff. because, you know, you never know where that company... maybe he gets hit by a truck. correct. so, i'm all over that. and i spoke to alan about it. when it comes time for the financing which will be... what is it? what financing? you won't have to pay. i won't have to pay in cash? no, no, no. i've got this. no, no, no... the president has hit back on twitter. "what kind of a lawyer would tape a client? is this a first, never heard of it before? why was the tape so abruptly terminated while i was presumably saying positive things?" well the last part of the conversation is of particular focus. the president can be heard saying "pay with cash." it's not clear if he's suggesting to do so, or not to do so.

the president's current lawyer, rudy guiliani, has put out his own version of the transcript. he says mr trump says: "don't pay with cash." adding: "the president wanted to do it the right way. if you wanted to hide something, you would not do it by corporation or cheque." steve rogers is on the advisory board for donald trump's 2020 re—election campaign. here's his view of the recording. it seems to me that the president was actually trying to steer things ina was actually trying to steer things in a legal direction. but there was never any payment. i have to tell you at the end of the day and this may not come out the way i want it to come out but the american people don't care about that stuff. they ca re don't care about that stuff. they care about other things. their quality of life, the fact that our taxes are lower. there is more money in our pockets. the economy is going. and on and on. as the mainstream media in this country

continues to create narratives that are anti—trump, the president's popular it is growing and growing rather significantly. now, this tape is reported to be one of several discovered by fbi agents during a raid on mr cohen's property in new york earlier this year. to pick it apart, let's go to washington. speak to anthony zurcher. americans don't care about this. some these locations are out there during the campaign and he won anyway. they want him to a shock as many americans but donald trump may have been involved in trying to keep women who are rich and affairs with him quiet. there was no payment in this case but there was a payment to stormy daniels, the adult film star who says she had an affair with donald trump. around the same time as karen mcdougal. but when you talk but donald trump's overall popularity, the polls still show he is relatively unpopular. one cannot today showing himself at 30%

approval where was one yesterday that had them at 45%. but that is still in the net disapproval rating. -- 38% still in the net disapproval rating. —— 38% approved. they may not put a lot of particular stock in the story but they are rallying behind donald trump on the whole. the fact that this is one of many recordings that we have not heard it begs the question what else might be out there? exactly. this could have some sort of impact on an investigation into some sort of campaign finance violation. whether that money was given to stormy daniels or if a sheu given to stormy daniels or if a shell company was set up for the purpose of violating campaign—finance law but that is a smart question to the larger issue that michael, and apparently now is operating in an adversarial... —— absurd position to his former client. he was his fixer and waterfront to ten years. he has said

that in the past he would take a bullet for donald trump. here he is sharing secret records of donald trump with the media and says there are more kids out there. and he has hired a lawyer who is a long—time democratic operative. these are the kind of things you do if you are going to be cooperating with the republican president. those are the things you do if you're getting ready to go toward him. —— those are not the kind of things do with you co—operate with the president. why not put the pictures from the los angeles. stay with me anthony, let's look at these pictures from los angeles, the president's star of the hollywood ‘walk of fame' has been all but destroyed. it had been vandalised several times before, but nothing like this. you can see the perpetrator‘s weapon of choice — a pick—axe. so, while mr trump's base remain steadfast, some are willing to go to extreme lengths to show their displeasure with the president. this is a sign i suppose of how polarised america is right now. absolutely and we look at a wide range of issues whether it comes to russia, whether it comes to tray, whether it comes to the upcoming

midterm elections, everything is divided along these ideological lines and donald trump's base is fanatically lines and donald trump's base is fa natically supportive of lines and donald trump's base is fanatically supportive of have. his op—ed it —— opposite support —— base is equally unsupportive of him. as you look to these elections the next three months, it comes down to which side comes more motivated and which side comes more motivated and which side will show up in order to make a statement at the ballot box. right 110w statement at the ballot box. right now indications are that there are a lot of democrats with very motivated to turn out whether that will translate into democratic gains in congress come november, that is the big question. anthony, thank you very much. anthony zurcher, washington. stay with us on outside source — still to come... we'll be talking about the meeting with donald trump and jean—claude juncker. we're still waiting for the two to come out in the rose garden and talk to the media. a police report into historical claims of children being drugged and abused at a psychiatric hospital in derbyshire has said that the dr running it

would have been questioned if he were still alive today. the late dr kenneth milner would have been interviewed over rape and child cruelty claims between the 19405 and 19705, when he ran aston hall. former patients described the hospital as a place of "pure hell". i was injected with sodium amateur i did not know what was then. it lets you out. it was about the room with shutters and they close it out. it was dark. the dr would come in and then he would... basically immediately you never ever seen him, a mask with disco slam on your face. you would never see it. i always wondered what it look like for yea rs. wondered what it look like for years. and is evidently you would feel this fluid on your face neutral unconscious. —— and you go unconscious. —— and you go unconscious. and... yeah, it was quite bad. this is outside source live

from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is votes are being counted in pakistan's general election, preliminary results show the the pti party led by imran khan is in the lead. european commission president jean—claudejunkcer is holding talks with donald trump today to try and avert one of the world's biggest trading relationships from turning into a trade war. speaking before the talks, mr trump struck an optimistic and conciliatory tone. if we could have no tariffs and no barriers and no subsidies, the united states would be extremely pleased. we have many countries, we won't say european union, we have many countries where they have massive barriers, they have massive tariffs. and we have to follow. you

can call retaliation but i'd rather just say that we want reciprocal. what is with the european union or others, it has to reciprocal in nature at a minimum and we are working on that and i think we're making tremendous strides. paul blake is in new york. he sent io he sent iq is taking a rhetorical departure from how he normally talks about trade with the eu. that's right he said he was expecting a positive meeting withjean—claude juncker. but that came after a morning of quite bodacious tweets from the president. he talked about having no we does in the face of these tweets with various allies not just the eu in the various trade disputes. he repeated his claim that the us was being ripped off in its various trade relationships amongst others the eu, china and various others the eu, china and various other countries. this comes off the back of weeks of quite harsh rhetoric against the eu. he described him as a foe when it comes toissues

described him as a foe when it comes to issues of trade. —— then as a. he said if he did not get what he wa nted said if he did not get what he wanted a couple weeks ago, if he did not get what he wanted when it comes to trade with the eu, he would enact tremendous reputation was his worst was at retribution. what has jean—claude juncker had to was at retribution. what has jean—claudejuncker had to say for his part about the talks? he was setting the bar quite well going into it. he described his mood as "not very optimistic". he is picked up "not very optimistic". he is picked up on that phone line for the president. he said that the us and the eu are close partners, not enemies. he underscored the significance of the trade relationship between the two sides saying that it covered half of the entire world's trade. so the trade representing half of global trade and with the significance he said the two sides needed to talk to one another rather that at one another. iam another rather that at one another. i am wondering how much criticism the president is facing on the home

front for how he is navigating this trade policy. you have her member of the republican party which is his own party is traditionally the party of big business, free trade, enterprise. certainly his recent actions on trade has pitted him against his party and put many republicans in the precarious spot of having to decide between whether to agree with the president, agreed with the white house or stick to some old principles. and we have seen mixed results there. the president getting criticism from many members of his own party. then sass, a republican who is been a frequent critic of the president, said district policies will not make america great again. they will take back to 1929 which was the start of the great depression. —— ben sass. we are ishiguro and go live to the white house and here .com speaking out. chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical products. as well as soy is

a big deal. the european union is going to start almost immediately to buy a lot of soybeans. they are tremendous market by a lot of soybeans from our farmers. tremendous market by a lot of soybeans from ourfarmers. in tremendous market by a lot of soybeans from our farmers. in the midwest primarily. i thank you for that, jean—claude. this will open the markets for farmers and workers, increase investment and lead to greater prosperity in both the united states and the european union. it will also make trade fair 01’ union. it will also make trade fair orand union. it will also make trade fair or and more reciprocal. my favourite word, reciprocal. secondly, we agreed to a strengthened and strengthening of our strategic cooperation with respect to energy. the european union wants to import more liquefied natural gas from the united states and they are going to bea united states and they are going to be a very big buyer. we're going to make it much easierfor them but they are going to be a massive buyer

of lng. so they will be able to direct —— diversify their energy supply. they want very much to do. and we have plenty of it. thirdly, we agreed today to watch a close dialogue on standards in order to ease trade. reduce bureaucratic obstacles and slash costs dramatically. fourthly, we agreed to join forces to protect american and european companies from better and really better than ever, we have never done like what we're doing, i can say from the standpoint of the united states, we have never done this well but we're going to do a lot better after we do this deal and other deals that we are currently working on. likewise, the european union is going to do better. stronger, bigger. we will therefore work closely together with like—minded partners to reform the

wto and to address unfair trading practises including intellectual property theft, forced technology transfer, industrial subsidies, distortions graded by state owned enterprises and overcapacity. we decided to set up a immediately an executive working group of very intelligent people on both sides. they will be our closest advisers and they are going to carry out this joint agenda. in addition, it will identify short—term measures to facilitate commercial exchanges and assess existing tariff measures and what we can do about that to the betterment of both. while we are working on this, we will not go against the spirit of this agreement u nless against the spirit of this agreement unless either party terminates the negotiation. so, we are strained the negotiation. so, we are strained the negotiation right now but we know very much where it is going. ——

we're starting the negotiation. we will also resolve the steel and aluminium tariff issues and we will resolve retaliatory tariffs. we have some tariffs that are retaliatory and that will get resolved as part of what we are doing. and with that, jean—claude, please. of what we are doing. and with that, jean-claude, please. the president made his and gentlemen. when i was invited to the white house, i had the intention to make a deal today. and we made a deal today. we have identified a number of areas on which to work together. work towards zero terrace on industrial goods. that was my main intention. —— tariffs on industrial goods. for both to come down to zero tariffs on industrial goods. we've decided to strengthen cooperation on energy. we

will import more liquefied natural gas from the us. this is also a message for others. we agreed to establish a dialogue on standards. as faras establish a dialogue on standards. as far as agriculture is concerned, european union can import more slogans than the us and it can be done. and we also agree to work together on the reform of the wto. “ more together on the reform of the wto. —— more soybeans. this is on the understanding that as long as we are negotiating unless one party would stop the negotiations, we will hold off further tariffs and reassessed is this an terrace on steel and aluminium. this is a good constructive meeting, bangkok. thank you very much. -- donald satellite wa nt you very much. -- donald satellite want to conclude by saying this was

a very big day for free and fair trade. very big day indeed. thank you very much everybody. thank you. a big day for free and fair trade fair says president trump but after his meeting with the european commission presidentjean—claude juncker, some very positive sounding announcements coming out of that. let's go through them with paul blake. listening in new york, what have we been hearing and why are we hearing at? this is a joint press comes between donald trump and jean—claude juncker, te you president. we were to expect in this. this was organised during that meeting between donald trump. and jean—claude juncker. the president came out and described it as a new phase in the relationship between the us and the eu. he said they were working towards zero tariffs on not auto goods. he said the you would be buying more us soybeans. and working towards by more at work fine natural

gas. he described the eu has been a massive buyer in the future. john caughtjunker massive buyer in the future. john caught junker reiterated that massive buyer in the future. john caughtjunker reiterated that and said that he had the intent to make a deal, and intention to make a deal. and that the two have made a deal. and that the two have made a deal. —— jean—claude juncker. he said he was brentwood zero terrace on industrial goods imported from the us into the eu and said the eu can and will import more soybeans and what were the words importing more liquefied natural gas. he said they would work together and have a dialogue to address various other trade concerns as budget concerns that the president has including reforming dwt or and other concerns coming of the right has in recent weeks. how difficult has things been between the two going into this meeting? it was interesting to watch some of the tweets and reaction from both sides going into the meeting and go into the white house tosses afternoon. jean—claude juncker for his part said he was not very optimistic setting the bar quite low there. but he did say that he had a relationship with donald trump and knew him quite well. the president

for his part has been lashing out in recent weeks at the eu especially on theissue recent weeks at the eu especially on the issue of trade talking about the us being ripped off and describing at one point the eu as a fellow of the united states when it came to the united states when it came to theissue the united states when it came to the issue of trade. certainly weren't going into this with totally positive vibes. looking at the two men were able to come to some sort of consensus and some sort of agreement here in the last few hours. you saw the joint press conference here hastily organised this afternoon to come out and announce what they had agreed to. paul, thank you very much. paul blake their reporting from new york. and what we just saw there that meeting between donald trump and the european commission president jean—claude juncker, both men european commission president jean—claudejuncker, both men saying the meeting had been very positive. you're watching outside source. hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source.

votes are being counted in pakistan's general election, but one side has already rejected the results alleging the count is not fair. in greece, the search goes on for dozens of people still missing after the wildfires near athens that have killed at least 80. survivors speak of their terror when i was in the house, i was going over. i thought i wasn't going to make it. this is the end. when it comes time for the financing which will be... what financing? secret recordings between donald trump and his former lawyer show the president did know about a payment to buy the silence of a former playboy model. polls have closed in the pakistani elections, and although no official results have been announced, the encumbent pml—n party have

already rejected them. let's go live to lahore. urdu's umer draz nangiana joins us live from lahore. we are being told we don't have a connection at the moment but we have been hearing that the pml and say this is not been a fair account and they will not be accepting that. my led by the brother of the former prime minister, sharif, who is jailed. —— pml—n led by the brother. they say they will not accept the result. the scope to him now. what more they saying there? this a while ago, mr sharif he had a press conference and he displayed certain documents citing that counting in different constituencies was not correct because the polling agents

we re correct because the polling agents were present and stations were not handled the official forms which declared the candidates and the number they did. there is an official way where the returning officer in the stations he or she handed over the official forms to the polling agents and now mr sharif alleges that the party publications we re alleges that the party publications were kicked out of the polling stations and were not handed those official forms. pls that the general election and counting on the whole was massively rigged and he would not accept that. the pml—n are not the only party who are saying this 01’ the only party who are saying this or rejecting the results. guess. the pakistan people's party also came up with a similar accusations and they also announced that the elections on the whole were massively rigged. and

although they didn't want it, they said the whole exercise could be null and void. but they did not intend to go in a direction at this point but they did allege that. the camera with a similar accusations that mr sharif camera with that. mr sharif also indicated that his party would talk to the parties with similar activations and they would then talk out a plan of action they are likely to announce tomorrow morning. we may have an answer what exactly or effect this will have in the morning. yes. it looks like the pml-n the morning. yes. it looks like the pml—n would lead the way and the other parties would join in because there were other with who came out with similar activations and mr sharif indicated that his party would talk to all of them and only then they would declare the next plan of action. thank you for

joining us. two major parties there saying the result is not valid in the pakistani elections and announcing their plan of action tomorrow morning. i want to update you on developing news from washington. the us government says it will not accept russia's annexation of crimea from ukraine. the declaration came via update this statement from us secretary of state mike pompeo. "the united states rejects russia's attempted annexation of crimea and pledges to maintain this policy until ukraine's territorial integrity is restored." it was released just an hour before mr pompeo began testifying before congress about last week's helsinki summit. there he said this. finally, i want you to know that president trump has stated that he accepts our intelligence community's conclusion that russia meddled in the 2016 election. he has a complete and proper understanding of what happened. i know. i briefed him on it for over a year. this is perfectly clear to me personally. i am also certain he deeply respects

the difficult and dangerous work that our patriots in the intelligence community do every single day and i know that he feels the same way about the amazing people that work that the united states department of state. that is, of course, referrence to the american president saying this while standing next russia's leader. people came to me, dan coates came to me and some others and said they think it is russia. i have president putin, he just said it is not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. the president, of course, corrected the record. he says he meant to say he didn't see any reason why it "wouldn't" be russia. it was one of a number of fires he and the white house have been trying to extinguish following the summit. barbara plett usher is watching proceedings in washington. the statement about crimea in

response to concerns that these issues simply were not dealt with in helsinki in a satisfactory way. yes. concern about that press conference which the senator who opened this committee hearing said mr trump added been submissive to mr putin at which was kind of the view here in washington and thought that he had sided with vladimir putin against us interests and so they were concerned about the private meeting that he had with the russian president and afraid he made some concessions. a lot of the questions we heard is what was said at that meeting and then he hold the line on this or the line on that. getting into very testy exchanges at one point with senator menendez who insisted on knowing what happened and mr pompeo princess and the presidents right to hold private meetings but has approached has been to restate and confirm and affirm us policy and said us policy has not changed on russia and it hasn't changed and no

easing of sanctions and we gave $200 million to ukraine since the summit and nothing changing their and he said the president was well aware of how the russians meddled in the election and said to congress mr pompeo that he personally had told the russians that if there was going to be any more election interference there would be severe consequences and also said there is no change in policy on syria, some suggestions from the russians that there was an aduu from the russians that there was an adult agreement that. mr pompeo said no change in terms of the military stature and cooperation with the russians. that has been his general a nswer russians. that has been his general answer and the president has the right to say what he wants to to the countries at rent private. but i am telling you the policy has not changed and that did the policy has not changed and that doesn't seem to have satisfied the senator very much. but they also having getting off their own test their frustrations with not having been in the loop about all of this. i believe this hearing is actually supposed to be about north korea but russia was added to the agenda because of the concerns. that is right. the senators haven't been

told about. the summit injune between trump and the north koreans, they statement about denuclearization and mr pompeo went to north korea to fill in the details and they haven't heard anything more about that. it's also being asked questions about that, do you have any concrete evidence that north korea is ready to the nuclear rise. he said yes there is, but then he tells the senators only about the discussions they had and said they we re discussions they had and said they were at the table. he had a really released any more information. although he has welcomed the decision reported by the north koreans to begin dismantling a missile site. —— he has not really release it. the analysis will be a long process and said there will be discussions and disagreements about the timing and everything so he has said this will somewhere to go but he hasn't really given much detail about any concrete evidence that the north koreans are ready to take steps to dismantle their nuclear programme. thank you.

yesterday, we told you about the dam in laos that collapsed, unleashing a wall of water that killed 26 people with at least 130 still missing. today two south korean contractors said they reported damage at least a day before parts of the structure gave way. the dam is located in atta—poh province in the south—east of the country move near the borders with vietnam and cambodia. one of the firms involved in the project, from thailand, has issued a statement saying it would "like to express their deepest condolences to all the people, families and sectors affected by the collapse of the dam". that's a change from the statement they issued yesterday where they made no mention of the loss of life at all. here's olivia crellin. dazed, but alive. survivors of the collapse of a dam in laos wait for safety. there are few of the almost 12,000 people affected. according to local media, 3000 are still in need of rescue. walls of water broke through this remote area of laos yesterday,

entirely submerging at least seven villages. the south korean firm that built the dam says heavy rains from this season's monsoons caused the collapse. the company reported small fractures in the structure on sunday and they tried to fix it, and began ordering an evacuation. now that same company is cooperating with the laos and south korean governments to help rescue villages near the site. today, south korean president moon offered their assistance in the emergency response efforts. translation: president moon issued the order to provide aid without hesitation. as our companies are participating in the construction of the dam. we are looking into because of dam accident. laos, one of asia's poorest countries, had embarked on an ambitious dam building scheme to become the battery of asia, but environmental groups have warned repeatedly that those plans

could have human and environmental costs. and they did. singapore and thailand have also offered to help with the damage caused by water, but conditions will make the operation difficult for all who attempt it. joining me now is professor bent flu—bear from oxford university. he's an expert on megaproject management, and has studied dams like these. i believe —— do believed this tamsin i have been built in the first place. —— you believe this tamsin i have been built. that is right. this is an extreme example of the bad things that can happen but we find the pattern in the hundreds of dams we studied around the world that they are very risky. this is an extreme example but bad things happen. the ground conditions are

not right. big delays. they cost over. it turns out the dams are actually not good business. the vast majority of them produced at a loss and that is not even taking into account the set like the safety or environmental issues which also is a big drawback. there are environmental negative effects on the rivers, don rivers, fishing, sedimentation, and other things.|j believe you studied hundreds of dams all over the world. what about a country like laos, a poor country, its aspiration to become richer through power like this at the battery of asia? would do something like this leave that aspiration? this shows that the aspiration is very fragile. i believe the strategy should make the laos government reconsidered the plans of becoming

the battery of asia. it is a very fraught economic said as he likely to go wrong. and leave the country settled with big debts and that will be difficult to pay off because the price of electricity is being pressured now from other clean energy sources like wind power and solar energy which is produced in large masses in china and elsewhere. so looking at the future, the prospect for laos becoming the battery of asia is not very good and this damn collapsed should be a reminder and hatred of the government to reconsider the strategy. i know your study was more looking to economic and environmental impact, but is there a nyway environmental impact, but is there anyway get the project like this could done better? yes. it could be. it can be prepared better and you could take considerations more into account so we know that the weather is changing now. becoming more

extreme and this might be one of the things that have gone wrong. we don't know yet but there is indication that might have been. when a letter. certainly, the usual way is to secure the ends like this they do not hold up any more with they do not hold up any more with the more extreme weather. that means it is more a more likely things like this happened and we should remember dam collapses are not that unusual. they happen every few years around the world. they have devastating consequences. it is pretty and mild accident here in the larger scheme of things of them accidents. going forward , of things of them accidents. going forward, given the extreme weather conditions it is likely to get worse. thank you. stay with us on outside source — still to come... scientists say they've found evidence of liquid water on mars. and that could mean there's a much stronger chance of finding life there. the met office says friday could be the hottestjuly day ever,

with temperatures possibly breaking the all—time record of over 38 degrees, before thunderstorms mark the peak of the current heatwave in the uk. the heat is causing problems for the vunerable, frail and elderly. danny savage has this report. the heat is rising again. the land is cracking up and trains are running slow in places over concerns about rails expanding and buckling. but rain is expected, deluges which could see a swing to another extreme of british weather. it's not going to be that useful rain that many people want. it could run off very quickly and create local flooding, so downpours causing localised flooding and that could cause some serious problems. gin and tonic! sangria! that wasn't really what was on offer at the bupa southlands care home in harrogate this morning. but the serious point was about keeping the elderly hydrated in this heatwave.

if we don't drink enough, and old people don't want to drink, it can then cause infections come which can then cause hospital admissions. so the advice for hot weather is not "nanny state"? well, no, because some old people just won't do it. especially if you're living on your own, you won't think to get up and get that drink. out in the countryside of north yorkshire, this is what some of the dales rivers look like. the upper reaches, like here in littondale, have nothing in them. if you take a closer look at the river bank here, you can see all this debris. it shows where the water got to in the winter and early spring. where it's left is just how high the water got. now, compare that to now and the difference is extraordinary. mile after mile of this riverbed is completely dry. an awful lot of rain will have to fall over these hills to get the water flowing again. and nobody will be surprised if the uk's record high temperature is broken over the next 48 hours.

danny savage, bbc news, north yorkshire. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... votes are being counted in pakistan's general election, preliminary results show the the pti party led by imran khan is in the lead. other stories from the bbc world service. islamic state fighters have killed scores of people in a wave of attacks on government—held areas in south western syria. several suicide bombings hit the main city in the region. activists say that up to 150 people have been killed, including civilians and pro—government fighters. the american airlines group has become the latest international carrier to comply with a chinese demand to change the way it refers to taiwan, even though the white house had described china's order as orwellian nonsense.

beijing asserts that taiwan is part of china. a republican politician in the united states has resigned after he was tricked into exposing his buttocks and using racist language by the british comedian, sacha baron cohen. he was taking part in what he thought was an anti—terrorist training class run by mr baron cohen, who was posing as a former colonel in the israeli army. he refused to step down from the georgia house of representatives after the footage was broadcast on sunday, but relented after widespread criticism. it's been nearly four months since protests broke out along israel's border with the gaza strip. since they began — dozens of palestinians have been shot dead by israeli soldiers. thousands more have been wounded. but behind the dramatic scenes, health workers are worried about something much more long term — the deteriorating mental health of gaza's nearly two million people. our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, reports. on the busy streets of gaza,

a man sets fire to himself. the flames are doused, the man is bundled into a taxi. he makes it to hospital but dies two days later. what drove musical, newly—married fathi harb to take his own life? the baby, sleeping in his grandmother's arms, is fathi's own son, born two days after he died. translation: nobody knows why he did it, but the boy asked himself, "what kind of life are we living?" so i think of the same question. every palestinian asks himself the same question. committing suicide is a terrible sin in islam, and yet, fathi harb chose to do it out in the street in front of dozens of people. he was clearly desperate, and so it seems are more and more people here. gaza's boiling border has been in and out of the news since march, but un staff have been worried about gaza's young men for months. it has become, like,

a trend, if i can say that, because we started to receive more cases, mainly among the youth, teenagers, with suicidal thoughts, with suicide attempts or even act and sometimes succeeded. and it's notjust suicide. domestic abuse is another alarming sign. at a un clinic, local women are discussing stress management. with unemployed depressed husbands and angry, restive children, women are under strain. translation: when a person gets depressed, lots of bad thoughts come to mind, but you have to be strong for the family, so a mother has to be an example to her children and teach them how to be happy, even if they are miserable. if she's not that example, life will lose its meaning. gaza has been crumbling for decades.

war, economic isolation and poverty have taken their toll. the water is undrinkable. electricity is on for three hours a day. people talk about resilience. but, you know, that doesn't mean that you don't suffer, and anybody who lives under these conditions, you have an erosion of coping, you have an erosion of coping skills at the individual level. the youngest need help too. save the children, which runs this centre, says 95% of gaza's children experience psychological distress. they're terrified of explosions, plagued by nightmares. yet another palestinian generation exposed to the corrosive consequences of a conflict apparently without end. pauladams, bbc news, gaza. scientists have found evidence of liquid water on mars. this is huge because not only it means there's a much stronger chance of finding life,

but scientists also know where to look for it now. what they believe is a lake sits beneath this, the south polar ice cap, and is about 20 kilometres wide. the discovery was made by italian researchers from the european space agency. here's the president of the italian space agency. we knew that mars from years ago was full of water, and something has happened in between and most of the atmosphere, the water has gone. but we knew that ice, from observation, we had evidence that below the ice, deep below the surface of mars, there are lakes and bodies of water. this is clearly exciting because we know that water is almost everywhere in space, and the real proof on our planet that where water is, life can prosper. the announcement of the big moves.

let me show you this animation. it illustrates how previous research discovered signs of intermittent liquid water flowing on the martian surface. it simulates a fly—around look at one of the places on mars where dark streaks advance down slopes during warm seasons, possibly involving liquid water. but the discovery announced today is the first sign of a present—day body of water. here's victoria gill. it's an echo from underneath the surface of that polar ice cap at the south pole, where they've seen a tell—tale sign of what they are saying is water, a persisting body of water, and they are calling it a lake. that's exciting because the mantra in the search for life on mars recently has really been, "follow the water, pinpoint where it is, because that's a potential habitat. " all life on earth, as we understand it, needs liquid water to exist, so the search for water is sort of the x marks the spot

on the treasure hunt. we are looking for more of these signals, because there are orbiters, landers, roving vehicles all over the planet at the moment, and not really any of them are specifically looking for life. not since nasa sent the viking landers in the ‘70s has there been an experiment designed to detect the presence of life on mars, and they didn't find evidence. they showed that the surface is an inhospitable desert but underneath the desert a more interesting picture seems to be emerging. a lot more on that discovery on the bbc website. back at the same time tomorrow. thank you for watching. hello. the summer of two dev 18 is

going to be remembered for her prolonged dry and sunny weather. —— 2018. in temperature. july has been remarkable and every single day so far, 25 celsius or above. the temperatures are set to rise even further the next few days, especially in the southeast, the mid 30s celsius making the warmer spell of the year so far. but there are going to be some changes. taking place because of relative weather systems together bring style and the olympic, something we haven't seen for quite a long time. a heading in towards our direction. —— in the collective. the first was a front arriving across western parts of britain during the course of thursday. increasing cloud and breeze and a few showers but further east going to be a dry and sunny and hot one. temperatures reaching the mid 20s celsius across central

southern scotland and 30 or 31 across northern england and the mid—30s celsius and the southeast. now we start to see changes going towards friday. these weather systems pushing their weight for that so quite a different feel to things across northern ireland and western scotland and parts of the wealth. i had a bit a line of hit and miss thunderstorms which could bring some gusty winds and teresa downpours and also a risk of pale. not as hot as on thursday but again in the southeast we could see temperatures get 35 to 36 potentially. then we start to see cooler air moving in for the weekend. these weather fronts cooler air moving in for the weekend. these weatherfronts pushed their way eastwards and the first with a friend brings the thunderstorms and showers on friday and moving to the north. on saturday but did state further bands of showers pushing across northern averages. for england and wales, sunny spells, wanted to showers and

a lot cooler with a mid—20s celsius at best, 10 degrees down from what we saw on thursday and friday. things looking more unsettled and going into sunday. low pressure moving again, fairly breezy weather and other stakeholders, much cold air mass. more cloud on sunday, showers in the west and will be blustery. strong south—westerly winds against women seemed for a while. temperatures from the high teens in the north. —— ones that we haven't seen for a while. monday, ridge of high pressure coming in. things settling down here but we will see further showers pushing onto northern ireland eventually. again, feeling much cooler, 19 to 25 degrees. pleasant and the sunshine. after we goes on we start to see high pressure building in again and initially across england and wales with low—pressure starting to the

northwest of the uk compared to where we will see most of the rain but a big area of low pressure building by the end of the week but what does that mean? stronger early august sunshine, and where the winds warning light again, do we tap into any of the sunshine? temperatures will be rising again. into next week, starting off on a much fresher note than what we are used to and some rain. and then turning out again later on. that's returning hot again. claims that scores of children were drugged, stripped and abused over decades at a hospital in derbyshire. former patients say aston hall, where the historical offences are said to have taken place, was pure hell. the doctor would come in, and he would... basically immediately, you never, ever seen would... basically immediately, you never, ever seen it, a mask would go slam on your face.

police say they would have questioned a doctor, kenneth milner, for rape and child cruelty if he'd still been alive. also tonight... donald trump talks trade with the eu but is he resetting relations with russia? after the deadliest ever wildfires recorded in greece, survivors tell of their terrible ordeal. when i was in the house, the fire was going over, i thought, i'm not