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tens of thousands of families are homeless in southern india, after the worst flooding for a hundred years. in the last few hours, a break in the weather has allowed rescuers in the state of kerala more access to those affected. but landslides caused by intense monsoon rain have swept away entire villages. monsoon rain have swept the flooding is likely to cost the indian economy £2 billion. also tonight: the indian economy £2 billion. an ordeal at sea — the woman who fell from a cruise ship and spent ten hours in the water. in the southern united states, evangelical christians‘ support for donald trump. evangelical christians‘ his behaviour, a lot of people think, isn't that christian? well, as christians we all feel. think, isn't that christian? and ben stokes is out as england are overwhelmed by india at trent bridge. as england are overwhelmed good evening.
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more bodies have been recovered in the indian state of kerala, after devastating floods that have claimed nearly 200 lives in the last 10 days. that have claimed nearly 200 lives many were killed in landslides which have swept away entire villages. the flooding's been caused by the heaviest monsoon rains for a century, which have also left 300,000 people homeless. which have also left yogita limaye reports now from mala town in central kerala. the help they were waiting for has finally arrived. this baby was rescued from a southern district. the boy's mother had been airlifted just before him. they are among hundreds of thousands who have had to leave their homes, finding shelter at schools turned into relief centres. there are nearly 4000 people here. into relief centres.
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aid is being sent by the government but they are receiving supplies from people who want to help. but they are receiving supplies instead of running the school he normally heads, fatherjoe is managing the centre. he normally heads, fatherjoe it is more than our imagination, they are coming from all over. they had no time even to respond. they are coming from all over. they have no place to go anywhere. they are coming from all over. they leave everything and they came. they are coming from all over. and suddenly we open camps right now. this woman was visiting her sister when the flooding started. she was rescued by locals in a small fishing boat. translation: i thought i was going to die. even the boat i was rescued in almost capsized, my sister and i fell out of it, but somehow they were able to hold onto us. but somehow they were not but somehow they were everyone was able to esca
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heavy not everyone was able to escape. heavy rainfall caused a mudslide which destroyed this house. nine people died here. among them were this man's wife and brother. he works in dubai and came here a day after the tragedy. my after the tragedy. my wife was my partner of 30 years. and now she has left me. my brother has gone and his children. ijust can't bear it. neighbours and relatives gathered together offering prayers for the dead. 0utside, together offering prayers for the dead. outside, the rain has stopped for the first time since the 8th of august. this road was flooded earlier but because it hasn't rained in the past 12 hours, the water levels have receded and cars can pass again. it has made the work of people like those in these lorries behind me, indian navy personnel and rescuers, it has made their life
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easier. uprooted trees and rocks had also blocked roads. troops had been clearing them. bridges are being repaired so that relief material can get to even the most remote areas of the state. no rain is expected for the state. no rain is expected for the next few days. but even now large parts of corral are underwater. it would be a while before they will get to go home. —— people get to go home. the government is preparing to publish advice designed to prepare the uk for the possibility of a no—deal brexit. for the possibility the notices, to be released on thursday, will include information for citizens, businesses and public bodies. they come as a founder of the fashion brand, superdry, donated a million pounds to the campaign for a public vote on the final deal, saying brexit was going to be a disaster. leila nathoo reports. was going to be a disaster. and we stare into the abyss of no deal. this weekend in edinburgh, the latest in a series of rallies being held by those calling for the public to have their say on the final brexit deal.
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to have their say on the final the people's vote campaign is demanding another referendum. now it's been given a boost — a £1 million donation by the businessman, julian dunkerton. if people think that this brexit is going wrong, if they think it's being botched, if they think that the politicians are making a mess of it, they have every right to demand that they take back control of this brexit and have a people's vote. parliament would have to pass a law for there to be another vote. the government has repeatedly ruled that out. for now, labour is not backing the idea either. and it's a prospect that incenses brexiteers. the only poll that counts is the referendum and people voted to leave. counts is the referendum the people's vote talk about democracy. actually their declared intent is to overturn the democratic decision of 2016, to leave the european union. they want a second vote only to remain in the european union. time is now running out to do the deal. brexit secretary dominic raab will
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go to brussels again this week for further talks. much is still to be resolved. britain's relationship with the eu will be once we leave. negotiations are still ongoing. both sides are still aiming for an agreement. the government insists it is very unlikely that won't happen. as the clock ticks down so preparations for a no deal are being stepped up. this week the department frexit in the european union will publish a series of papers giving advice for people, businesses, what to do in the event of no deal. ministers insist this is about ensuring stability whatever happens. there are those in westminster who do favour that outcome. there are
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others so alarmed by the prospect they fear it is increasingly likely and they think the divisions in parliament will be, might scupper any possible deal. they think it is time for the public to step in. the indonesian island of lombok was shaken by further earthquakes today, two weeks after one that killed more than a50 people. two weeks after one that killed three quakes occurred in the span of a0 minutes, with fires thought to have begun in the aftermath. the most powerful of the tremors is reported to have had a magnitude of 6.9. is reported to have had a british woman has been rescued in the adriatic sea, more than 10 hours after falling from a cruise liner off the croatian coast. from a cruise liner off she's now recieving treatment after her ordeal — and says she feels lucky to be alive. she fell from a cruise ship at about midnightand she fell from a cruise ship at about midnight and spent ten hours on her own at sea.
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but kay looked pretty well on this, own at sea. the final leg of her rescue by the croatian coastguard. one very grateful holiday—maker back on dry land. and this is the moment she was rescued. i fell off the back of the norwegian star, and i was in the water for ten hours. so these wonderful guys rescued me. for ten hours. kay fell from the back deck down into the adriatic. the ship had docked in dubrovnik and was heading north towards venice when, just before midnight last night, kay went overboard about 60 miles off the croatian coast. too much sun the only visible effect, but what an ordeal. i am very lucky to be alive. effect, but what an ordeal. there effect, but what an ordeal. has been no comment| fell. the coastguard said she was exhausted when they pulled her from the water. she was exhausted tom burridge, bbc news. she was exhausted brazil is sending troops to its border with venezuela, after local people attacked camps housing venezuelan migrants, in an attempt to drive them out. housing venezuelan migrants,
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it comes amid economic and political turmoil that's led more than two million venezuelans to leave their country in the last three years. venezuelans to leave their country that's more than 7% of the entire population, in a country where 1.3 million people are malnourished. the latest violence is centred on the town of pacaraima on the border with brazil. on the town of pacaraima but the flow of venezuelan migrants is affecting nations across south america, including chile, argentina and peru. 0ur south america correspondent, katy watson, has been following the story. katy watson, has been venuzuela's neighbours have long said the migration crisis is getting out of hand. said the migration crisis is getting this weekend it reached breaking point. angry about the stabbing of a local resident, these people took revenge on the venezualans they held responsible. on the venezualans amid chants of, "go back
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to venuzuela," hundreds of migrants did just that. to venuzuela," hundreds forced to return to the place they'd escaped from. in april, i visited the same camp. they'd escaped from. these young families had fled venuzuela. yet, with no money, they had little option but to sleep here, just metres away from the border. option but to sleep here, just many told me about the tensions in town between locals and venezualans. the tensions in town "the situation in venuzuela is critical," said nicole, "every month food prices go up." is critical," said nicole, she came to brazil for a better future for her daughter. for a better future but she worried that with more and more venezuala ns coming, things were going to get worse. president nicholas maduro is doing this to stop his country's economic freefall. this to stop his country's last week, he announced plans to devalue the country's currency — an attempt to reign in inflation that the international monetary fund said could hit one million per cent by the end of the year. but venezualans are worried this latest announcement willjust make the crisis worse. this latest announcement this weekend, ecuador
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said its borders would be shut to venezualans without a passport. said its borders would be shut peru announced similar measures. said its borders would be shut for those trying to get out, it is a worrying development. out, it is a worrying translation: we really want to contribute, we have to work, because of our kids. want to contribute, we have to work, if we don't, our kids will die. want to contribute, we have to work, our kids will literally starve to death. this is one of worst mass migration crises in the history of latin america and one that is expected to get worse as venuzuela's economy continues to decline. katie watson, bbc news in brazil. now some of the day's other news. homes have been evacuated due to explosions and smoke from a fire on an industrial estate near east midlands airport. the blaze has also caused problems for travellers, with train cancellations on the midland mainline in nottingham and sheffield. a british man in the united states has been placed on the fbi's most wanted list. james ward, who was born in glasgow, is suspected of conning people out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. wreaths and poppy
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crosses have been laid at a memorial service to mark the 30th anniversary of the ballygawley bus bombing in county tyrone. eight soldiers were killed and twenty eight people injured in an ira attack. the ministry of defence is investigating allegations that british vessels shipwrecked in asia during world war ii have been targeted by scavengers. the defence secretary, gavin williamson, says he's "very concerned" to hear claims that four shipwrecks off the malaysian and indonesian coasts had been looted. chi chi izundu has the details. i name this ship prince of wales. cheering and applause may 1939. the launch of a new warship a few months before the outbreak of the second world war. in 1941, that same vessel was used to host a secret meeting between winston churchill and the american president franklin roosevelt.
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in that same year, both the prince of wales and repulse were lost in the java sea. the warships were sunk trying to intercept a japanese invasion force that was headed to malaysia, then called malaya. over 800 sailors died, making the wrecks war graves. as a naval officer and as a historian, i feel very disturbed about this sort of thing, because you essentially have criminals, scrap dealers, going in and disturbing the graves of people who fought for their country, but also destroying historical wrecks, which sometime in the future might be of significance to future generations. it is thought the salvage of one ship alone can fetch up to £1 million. the wrecks are ransacked for their steel, which has very little radiation and could be used to make sensitive instruments. diving experts think at least ten british warships are in those south east asian seas. the looting of sunken warships breaches the un international salvaging convention and breaks british, indonesian and malaysian laws. defence secretary gavin williamson has said that he is very concerned over these allegations, and is working with those governments to investigate these claims.
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but with defence resources under pressure, any kind of effective policing of designated naval war graves could be difficult. chi chi izundu, bbc news. president trump has again called the special counsel robert mueller‘s probe into the 2016 us election "a witch hunt", after news that the top white house lawyer has been cooperating with it for months. in the past week, the administration has faced further negative headlines after a book published by a former trump aide. but as nick bryant has been discovering in tennesee, the president's support among evangelical christians remains strong. it wasn't just the post—industrial landscape of the rust belt that provided lush political terrain for donald trump, but the southern bible belt as well. congregations such as
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the thousand hills cowboy church in central tennessee. making sausage, i love it! white evangelicals, who in the presidential election gave the new york billionaire a higher level of support than ronald reagan or george w bush. we would like somebody who would just say what is on their mind, speak whatever it is you want to say, and say it as plain—spoken as you can. i don't agree with some of the words he uses, but he is doing more than any other president has ever done in the past. his behaviour, a lot of people think, is not that christian. well, as christians we all fail, that is why we need jesus christ in our lives. many white evangelicals feel besieged and isolated in what they fear is becoming an increasingly godless america. many also feel sneered at by east and west coast elites,
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a grievance shared by donald trump. there is a mutual sense of victimhood that the president has exploited. 0n policy too, pastor adam says that trump's support for gun rights and his zero—tolerance approach to immigration resonates in these churches, too. it is a very tough situation to jail mommas, daddies and babies that are left here. it is a tough situation. but you don't blame donald trump? i don't blame donald trump, i blame mommas and daddies that chose to come to this country illegally. evangelicals have become even more right wing over the past 50 years, partly because the gospel of prosperity has been preached in so many mega—churches across the country. the former property tycoon is a beneficiary of that trend. the evangelical movement
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has always liked a showman, charismatic speakers with star power on tv. but it is notjust what donald trump is — it is what he isn't, a democrat pushing a socially liberal agenda. i like ilike trump, i like trump, he is not scared to say what he thinks. it is what he sees as the wreckage of a permissive america that concerns this junkyard owner. it is important to preserve the right—wing majority on the supreme court, and for social conservatives a former playboy is delivering exactly that. even american people in tennessee have had a person in the white house who may be a woman eyes of versus a person any white house that is for 93v person any white house that is for gay marriage. it is that important here? if you had to pick one of the
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two, they will pick the womanising. white evangelicals used to be the demographic most likely to believe that politicians' private immorality would impact their behaviour in public life. polling now shows that they are the demographic least likely to think that. they have become more forgiving since the advent of donald trump. nick bryant, bbc news, tennessee. with all the sport now, here's john watson at the bbc sport centre. good evening. england were bowled out for 161 runs, as they lost all ten wickets between lunch and tea on day two of the third test. it leaves india in control and well placed to reduce england's lead in the series with victory at trent bridge. patrick gearey reports. not a glorious sunday morning scene unless you have a cricket ball in hand. cloud cover is the preferred climate of the english swing bowler. few understand by the ball looks like this. one of four indian wickets to fall before lunch. 329 all out. but england had to bat.
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clearly not easy — after a decent start alastair cook was first to fall, the next ball, new over, keaton jennings, 54—2. 0llie pope went and it was felt thatjoe root was next but he disagreed. he did not think the ball had carried to the field. sometimes the more you see something, the more confusing it is. they stuck with the umpire, unpopular but unsurprising. as was what happened next, england collapse. ben stokes went out for ten as trent bridge watched sunday afternoon repeats. five wickets fell for 20 runs as the indians ripped through the english batting. jos buttler hit a few back, but he could not stop england losing all ten wickets. still 168 runs behind. india batted for the second time today, now in full control. stokes managed to bowl kl rahul,
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a therapeutic wicket, but as the sun finally comes out, it feels as if it has set on england. patrick geary, bbc news. both manchester clubs were in action today. match of the day 2 follows the news, so if you dont want to know the scores, then avert your attention for the next few moments. brighton scored three first half goals to beat manchester united 3—2, while the champions manchester city brushed aside huddersfield 6—1. there was a win for manchester united women who made their return to football, 15 years after the team disbanded. head coach casey stoney overseeing a 1—0 win against liverpool in the continental cup. joe currie reports. from a former england captain to the new manchester united women's manager, casey stoney arriving for a fresh chapter in the club's history. for united fans, a long wait to see a female team represent the badge
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again. it is great notjust for manchester but women's football as well. usually it is just manchester but women's football as well. usually it isjust man united man, but now women can support it. united will play in the second tier this season, but today they were whetting the appetite with an away league cup tie against top division liverpool. goalless at the break, it was left to lizzy yarnold two slices of individually books, the first women's player to score for the club in this new era. kirsty smith almost made a two when she found the woodwork. before liverpool did the same at the other end through christie murray's free kick. but united did enough to claim the win. these are the new faces of manchester united, players who have the potential to inspire a whole new generation of fan. today they became history makers, and the expectation is that before long they will be at the top of the women's game. there's more on the bbc sport website tonight, including the draw for the scottish league cup quarterfinals. for now though, it's back to you, mishal. there's more throughout the evening
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on the bbc news channel. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. goodnight. hello. this is bbc news with julian worricker. hundreds of people have attended a service to mark the 30th anniversary of the ballygawley bus bombing in county tyrone. eight soldiers were killed and 28 people injured in an ira attack. survivors and relatives of the victims laid wreaths and poppy crosses near the scene. 0ur reporter kevin sharkey was there. the scene of carnage along this road around this countryside three decades ago, well, it's hard to imagine in the northern ireland of today. but the accounts, the memories of those who were there that night, survivors, local people, and members of the emergency services who came here to help in the minutes and hours after the attack, they recall scenes of devastation in the dark, in the dead of night. james, you were a young soldier, at 21, you were on the bus that night. yes, iwas, yeah.
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i was one of the survivors of the bomb. that was 20th of august '88. i lost eight good friends. the minutes before and after the attack? the minutes before, we were all jolly. we were happy to actually be back, because as soon as we get back, it's time to go home for leave. as soon as we get back into work, get back into motion again... but that night, we never actually got back to the barracks. oh, it's just devastating. and what are your memories of that particular moment? yeah, yeah, at first we thought we had a massive big accident, until afterwards, when, you know, i think i was knocked out, i was trapped underneath the wreckage. and then it wasjust hearing people in the background, the coaches behind us.
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two bands came down, and we realised what had happened after i came round and was found underneath the wreckage. the first thing that we were actually saying was, "are all the lads 0k?" we were all shouting for one another. when you shout and there was no response. . . just... you just... you just assumed that they were gone. so, yeah, we were surprised that only eight were killed that night, there could have been a lot more if it wasn't for the people from the band, the emergency services. so we owe them our lives. and such remote location in the dark, the dead of night. it was pitch black, the same weather as today, funnily enough. it's like deja vu, you know?
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30 years on, we're all still here. the people of 0magh. and people around this area have dedicated a beautiful memorial to the lads. and your own life in the days, weeks and years after the attack? i tried to get back into the army system, but ijust couldn't do it because i suffered ptsd, a broken back. i tried to get back, and i couldn't. i ended up being medically discharged. and that's when i found it really hard. because i had nobody... like, the regiment, the battalion, they were my family, my brothers. and when you're out, you've got nothing. and i found it really hard when i first got out. and here you are today, three decades later. and you've brought your family
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here, and your children for the first time. yes, i brought my wife and my three children, they're over there now amongst the crowd. they want to see where their dad got injured. basically, i'm their hero. but we were only here doing a job. the real heroes are the people from northern ireland, they are the heroes in my eyes. and what does this event here today mean to you? it means a lot. that 30 years on, the young soldiers who died that evening are still remembered, 30 years on. notjust by us, but by everybody. as you can see, the crowd isjust unbelievable. and every time we come over, we've been over every november, we always go to the 0magh memorial garden, and we lay flowers there for the 0magh townspeople, which, you know, there was a lovely lady yesterday, i've known her for years, just come up to me yesterday and giving me a big hug and saying, "welcome home". 0magh is like a second home to us.
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james, thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. and many of the people who were here that night who helped so vividly recall the events. many of them recall witnessing the worst of humanity alongside the best of humanity in the hours after the attack. it's time for a look at the weather with stav. hello there. the weekend was a bit disappointing regarding sunshine, many places staying down band break, but the sunshine made a brief appearance in places, particularly sunday afternoon, and it was pretty warm, albeit rather humid. 0ur airflow has been coming in off the atlantic for
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the last few days and will do so as we head towards much of the working week, the weather front trailing back into the central atlantic, bringing thicker cloud at times, deep oranges here indicating some warmth there on the south—westerly wind. so starting monday on a great note once again, but a warm and muqqy note once again, but a warm and muggy one with temperatures starting at 15-i7d muggy one with temperatures starting at 15—17d across england and wales. with a presence of a weather front through central areas, light rain or drizzle in places. where you get any sunshine, feeling quite pleasant, temperatures change —— generally 28 and 25 degrees. we are still picking up and 25 degrees. we are still picking up the airfrom a and 25 degrees. we are still picking up the air from a south—westerly, but this weather front marks the boundary of something cool and fresher, to the north of it, warmer,
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more humid airto fresher, to the north of it, warmer, more humid air to the south. things will be turning cooler across scotla nd will be turning cooler across scotland and northern ireland, and on tuesday the arrival of that weather front will bring outbreaks of rain to the west of scotland, northern ireland, something cooler into stornoway, but elsewhere and other day of variable cloud, sunny spells and warm and humid too. bad weather front steps further south on wednesday to allow some of that cooler but brighter edge to push into the north—west, where central parts of the country, with that weather front, we'll have parts of the country, with that weatherfront, we'll have more parts of the country, with that weather front, we'll have more cloud with outbreaks of rain. to the north of it, it would be cooler, temperatures into the mid to high teens celsius, and to the south and east of it, given sunshine, we could be looking at 26 or 27 celsius, and other warm and humid day there. this weather front tends to cause cloud across central areas, but we look to the north—west for cold and fresher air. after what thursday, quite
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