hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. is this the final nail in the coffin for theresa may's chequers proposal? they suggested a framework for economic cooperation will not work. the british prime minister insists hers is the only viable plan for brexit — but has the rest of the eu 27 to convince. we will hear from the bbc europe editor. russia's national anti—doping organisation has had a three year suspension lifted — that move has provoked an angry reaction. and we're getting reports in of a ferry capsizing in tanzania with hundreds on board. we'll try and bring you the latest on that. this isn't what theresa may wanted to hear today.

everybody shared their view that why there are positive developments in the chequers proposal, the suggested framework for economic cooperation will not work. not least because it was undermining the single market. donald tusk there. so that's the representative of all the eu memebrs apart from the uk telling theresa may her plan won't work. and to hammer home the point — donald tusk posted this picture to instagram — it's captioned "a piece of cake, perhaps? sorry, no cherries." the message being the uk cannot pick and choose the elements of the single market which abut to access. the eu says this is a complete package. anyway — this was the prime minister's response. the only proposal on the table on the at the moment that will deliver on that frictionless movement of goods across the table is a proposal we have put forward in the white paper.

so yes, concerns have been raised, i want to know what those concerns are, there's a lot of hard work to be done but i believe that there is a willingness to do a deal, but let nobody be in any doubt, that as i've always said, we are preparing for no deal. it's worth us going over exactly what theresa may's chequers plan proposes: the uk would continue to observe eu rules on goods like manafactured products and food. that's key here in northern ireland where politicans on all sides are adament that new checks on the border are avoided. under the deal the uk would be free to decide most rules for services, like the finance and education sectors — and would decide who enters the country. but this may be entirely academic. eu now says chequers won't work, tory sceptics say chequers won't work, some tory remainers say chequers won't work....

can number ten really now cling on to it? katya adler, europe editor, salzburg. there's a big old storm now about the eu saying that key parts of the chequers plan are absolutely unworkable, they have said there are parts of the plan they really like, like on security. but when it comes to the economic plan and future trade relationships with the eu and uk, an absolute no from the eu side when it comes to theresa may's plan on how to avoid putting a new border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland and absolute no from the eu and that is now the focus after the summit. the fact that eu leaders also said here that they are more hopeful than at any point in the past that a deal can be reached this autumn thanks in part to theresa may's chequers proposal

the fact that there are numerous eu prime ministers here at the summit also said that concessions would not be needed from both sides including their own and that has all been eclipsed. we also have to bear in mind that there are plenty of critics of theresa may and political opponents that were watching this summit only to look for the storm clouds over the chequers proposal and they have absolutely found it. i think this boils down to, and the reason it happens in the stormy way is that i think neither side intended this summit is that all along for the negotiations, the eu has kind of misread the political situation that theresa may finds herself in. and she in her rejection of eu moves has misread them as well. i think that was absolutely crystal clear at the summit. does it mean no deal can be done? i don't think so yet. i don't think we can say that. i'm curious, in the uk there is a lot of angst about what no deal would mean

for the uk. is there a similar angst among the other 27 members about what no deal would mean for them? i tell you what. it is not news at this summit that the eu rejected key parts of the chequers plan. they have been saying it for a really long time. they are united behind that much to the frustration of theresa may. but they're also united in the fact that they want a deal this autumn because if there is a no deal scenario, it will be chaotic and costly for european businesses just as much as it will be for those in the uk. eu leaders are very mindful of that and voters back home. so they want a deal. actually, they came to the summit wanting to make gestures and words of support for theresa but these were gestures only and i think by only making a token effort, this was misreading theresa may's

position and she has rebuffed efforts and they took umbrage and that is why you've had a hard word from both sides. but i think if he take a cynical step backwards you can also say that at this critical point in negotiations, it kind of suits the uk and the eu for the public perception to be that this will be a very tough autumn of negotiations because then if a deal is reached, even over those tough issues like the future trade relationship and over the northern ireland border, it means that the perception of that and the understanding will be this deal is hard fought and hard won on both sides. that can only be to their advantage. right now leaders are mindful that theresa may battle now is not with them but with her opponents back home as she returns from this summit. one other thing to ask about, here is a quote from the hungarian prime minister. he says i don't like the approach to punish the british

because they decided. is it evidence of a schism or an aside that we shouldn't make too much of it? i think it is as an aside because he then went onto say that he stands behind michel barnier, you're not seeing that posted very much. he said one thing on one hand and something else on the other. he loves to stir the pot up at eu summit. that is what he did again today. i've been watching eu politics for more years than i care to admit to right now, and it is taking me by surprise as it has taken every other watcher and players by surprise on how united they have been in this process. it made sense in stage one when they were trying to get the money out of the uk, because they were all connected. when it comes to the future relationship there are some differences around countries of how flexible they should be. when it comes to protecting their single market, a single market that every member state benefits from economically, they do not want to compromise it

in generaljust to make a trade deal with the united kingdom. a very important country and important neighbour but they believe not important enough for them to make that compromise that could really disrupt the whole single market for them. she is part of the brexit team. subscribe to our podcast. i highly recommend. a terrible story from east africa now. there are fears hundreds may be dead in tanzania after a ferry collapsed on lake victoria. over 400 people were on board when the ferry overturned close to ukora island. pictures that we're getting into the newsroom show a large rescue operation. so farjust over 100 have been rescued. bbc swahili correspondent aboubakar famau is in dar es salaam.

there is a big number of rescue teams that are already on the ground. as we speak, according to the local authorities there, and the regional leadership, they are telling us that even the military personnel are there to help in the rescue. apart from that, we also have some volunteers, professional divers, people who are really good in swimming, they are already there. but also there is an order from the local authorities for other ferrys that are used in other islands to stop operating and also to move to the area where the accident happened. this is a way of trying to make sure there is enough personnel there and also enough equipment and also in terms of people who have

been rescued at the same. that is the hope there, but until now, we have roughly 102 people who have been rescued out of the more than 400 we just spoke about that were travelling when it sank. and also, 45 people are confirmed dead. the number is the big as we speak about, there is hope, but unfortunately, i can say it is a regard now so there are challenges of conducting such an operation during day and night. remember how russia systematically doped its athletes at the sochi winter olympics? well four short years later russia's anti—doping agency rusada has had its suspension lifted. wada is the world anti—doping agency. it says the majority of its executive committee

supported the decision. that doesn't tell the whole story. the whole story started with grigory rodchenkov, who was director of russia's anti—doping laboratory during the sochi games. he became a whistle—blower. he revealed the state—sponsored programme. for his troubles, he now lives in hiding in the us. his lawyer called today's ruling, "the greatest treachery against clean athletes". that is one perspective. or you can listen to the director general of rusada. translation: it is the first step and a significant one. it opens the way to international competition for our athletes and federations. moreover, it opens possibility for competitions to be nominated in the russian federation. in fact, this is a result of very very hard work. today's wada decision was taken at a meeting in the seychelles in the indian ocean. but sochi and moscow were the focus. rusada was suspended in 2015 over allegations that it had covered—up

state—sponsored doping. that was followed in 2016, by the 97 page mclaren report. it was commisisoned by wada but produced independently. it detailed a four—year, state—run "doping programme" involving more than 1000 russian athletes across 30 different sports during and after the sochi games. at its heart was the lab run by grigory rodchenkov. this graphic shows you the moscow lab in question, where positive drug samples were made to disappear. a secret service agent was employed as a plumber to help gain access to rooms containing supposedly tamper—proof bottles, meddle with their contents, and switch them for clean samples through a hole in the wall. well for rusada to be readmitted, russia was ordered to meet set criteria which included accepting the findings of the mclaren report, and granting access to the moscow laboratory.

it hasn't done either. so wada came up with a novel idea. here 5 a letter revealed by the bbc written by wada s president and director general to russia's sports minister in june. the letter suggests a "very modest change in wording" that would satisfy the first condition. on the second, they write that they're willing to work "in the spirit of compromise". this has gone down like a batch of tampered blood samples. i spoke to the bbc s sport editor, dan roan. many within the wada community and olympic movement will argue that russia have made real progress when it comes to their standards of anti—doping since the dark days when the scandal first erupted in 2015. there's also a degree of political pressure that russia is simply too

powerful and important to be out in the cold and in sporting exile for too much longer. this has been going on now for several years and we're in something of an impasse and i think the british president of wada argued that it was time to use pragmatism and practicality when it came to the criteria that have been laid down for russia to meet before the doping agency could be rendered agency could be rendered compliant and reinstated again. there are the arguments and the fact that doping is not purely a russian problem but as you have said, it has provoked a huge backlash from many athletes and also people within the olympic community who feel it was wrong that wada compromised on the demands. the issue for wada, for the organisation to work it needs credibility with athletic organisations all around the world.

you wonder if that credibility can survive. i think this is the biggest crisis they've had in their 19 year history. in the past, when the russian doping scandal erupted, wada claimed to be on the right side of the argument, and 2016 it demanded a russian ban and the ioc defied it. on this occasion, it is wada that has come under scrutiny and i think it will feel the sense of outrage from those athletes who have been mobilised unprecedented in recent days and i think perhaps they will be mindful of that and the fact there is a real danger that if they lose the faith of athletes and by extension anti—doping organisations around the world, there's a possibility and risk governments that provide half of their funding may decide to go elsewhere when it comes to investing in clean sport. they already have to survive a pretty meagre budget given that it is meant to be the global watchdog for claims court. ——clean sport. if governments start pulling

the funding as a result of this crisis, maybe the ioc provides the other 50% of funding follow suit and knows what the future holds. there is no doubt that i think his credibility has diminished. one way in which they can recover of that is when it comes to access to moscow's lab. russia has been reinstated but on the proviso that they allow data and samples from the moscow lab to be reviewed by an independent expert and they've been given until the end of the year to do that. if they fail to do that, they will be rendered noncompliant noncompliant again. athletes will be sceptical of that bow but nonetheless, it does at least give wada some chance of holding russia to account and make sure they mean what they say. russia has already had much to offer access to that laborde toured. we will keep you up—to—date on that. —— has already had much to offer access to the laboratories. stay with us on outside source — still to come... marine le pen has been ordered by a french court to attend a psychiatric assessment for sharing pictures of islamist atrocities on twitter. the mother of the westminster bridge

attacker has told an inquest that she is "utterly ashamed" by what he did. khalid masood killed four people when he drove a car at pedestrians on westminster bridge in march last year. she said that she learned of the attack on the ten o'clock news and she said as soon as she saw the body she said as soon as she saw the body she knew it was him and she said that all makes sense to her. what he had said and during her evidence, it became clear that there were difficult moments during their relationship, she said that he was an angry person, a fiery person when there was only one time that he had shown anger to her. it was over a chicken dinner. she said that he switched like the incredible hulk. the inquest was shown some e—mails that show the difficulties in their relationship. but she said her manager evidence that she was sorry

to the fabless. —— to the families of the victims. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is: european union leaders have rejected britain's current proposals for a future relationship after brexit as unworkable. there's been a mass shooting at a distribution centre in a town near baltimore. police say at least three people were killed. the suspect is in custody in critical condition. in libya, six people have been killed in the fighting in the capital, tripoli. the violence came after the announcement of new security arrangements for the capital. bbc arabic covers that. lots of you are admiring this 300m long spider web in greece. we're told tetra—natha spiders are responsible. they build large nests for mating. you would think that would do the

trick. amazon has unveiled a range of devices to make using all of amazon's services easier. greg and kim. already got world domination but looking for more. -- let's bring in camp. they want to ta ke let's bring in camp. they want to take over your home. that is what this was about. they revealed a 50 new products in less than 90 minutes including things like microwave that can be activated by his voice assistant alexa, the idea being that amazon wants to make alexa for your home what microsoft made its office products into the thing that you and i use every day at work. that is why there are unveiling all of these products and it is allan unveiling all of these products and it is all an effort to ensure that any place that we go we can talk and attach an amazon product. and probably the company hopes by something off the amazons website.

most of the devices are voice operated. the idea here is we are at home and whenever we want something we just say. yes. home and whenever we want something wejust say. yes. quite home and whenever we want something we just say. yes. quite an amazing video of a demonstrator trying to show how you could use amazon's voice—activated microwave by microwaving a potato. i don't know if that is something you might want to do in the future but it will be something that is possible at least in the idea is that there are a whole bunch of these of voice assistant speakers and products that are coming on the market. many of them made by amazon's rivals like google. amazon is trying to be the first to market and lock us into all of its various products and in that way you can double out the competition. one thing i wanted to ask you. here is another. a tweet from the wall streetjournal. highlighting what is happening to the stock market. there is a big sendoff on trade between china. no big impact. as this graph that was tweeted by the wall streetjournal us stock markets have set aside fears

of the trade war with china. that's led the s&p 500 and dowjones to both hit record highs. you get the idea from this graph up and out. which begs the question what if anything is going to shake these markets. you would think there we re these markets. you would think there were things like trade work which would give people pause for thought but apparently not. when it comes to investors the one thing they care about is the health of the us economy, so far they don't think this trade war is something that will significantly impact economic growth. that is because president donald trump has been in place many policies that are helping corporate america against tax cuts and because they have recovered for the deaths of the financial crisis and other modes of the us economy is doing quite well right now. that is what is propelling all of these investor optimism and we are seeing these industries hate is and unless there is some significant headway into the economic growth, which we are not come in the form of this escalating trade tensions, at least for the short term investors will be quite happy. i guess my am i say the trade wars will benefit america because the tariffs are good for

american business. -- i guess... but say. yes he would say that. many economists ami heard us economic growth but not by much. we saw the latest estimates from goldman sachs that it would then economic growth like .1% which is not a significant amount when sink an annual growth rate of over 4% here in the us. —— when you are saying an annual growth rate. thank you, tim. -- cam. for the last few years malaysia has been engrossed in a scandal which has allegedly seen billions of dollars go missing. it's centred on a government—backed investment fund called 1mdb — it was supposed to boost the economy, now it risks blowing a hole in the governments finances. today, 25 new criminal charges including money laundering were filed against malaysia's former prime minister. he denies them all. jonathan head has more. this is the third time that criminal

charges have been filed against him since he lost power in a shock election result back in may. the two earlier charges relate to a small sum of money found in his bank account which is the latest came from asus subsidiary of one hand they become the government linked investment fund which is now the subject of a renewed investigation in malaysia and has been investigated in several other countries around the world over what is alleged to be a massive transfer of illegal transfer of funds, more than $4 billion is alleged to have gone missing from that fund. this latest set of charges is potentially more serious to the former prime minister, connected to a simmer $680 million that was transferred into his personal bank account over years ago which he always argued was a donation from a member of the saudi royal family and the date said a lot of that donation was then sent back. well, the investigation have

highlighted a paper trail that suggest that there is a link between that money and funds from 1mdb, clearly the subject out of this malaysian investigation and these 21 charges of money—laundering and four charges of money—laundering and four charges of money—laundering and four charges of abuse of power. it is possible for charges might be filed against a former prime minister and indeed there is talk of his wife who's been accused in other investigations of using some of those misdirected funds to buy personal luxuries like jewellery and handbags, so we may see further charges against his close circle and the authorities investigating 1mdb also say one other big priorities is to try to get the money back, so much money is not to have gone and 1mdb isn't so much trouble it is hurting the government finances. they stated the government finances. they stated the government —— central bank money has been used to pay out some of 1mdb liabilities, a very important priority for them but i think for

the broader malaysian public, what they really want to know is exactly what happened and how it was allowed to happen and how many people were involved in what looks like one of the biggest financial scandals of modern times. thank you. that is your addition of outside source. after a few minutes turn to the korean peninsula. just one of a series of short in her images we have had from north korea in the past few days. president moon has been visiting kim jong—un and talking about the economic ties and they have been talking about denuclearization and again, kim jong—un has reiterated his desire to denuclearization by twenty20 or 2021 and of course sceptics are raising her eyebrows of saying words are fine but what about some actions? we speak about that after the break. hello. if you join me yesterday you

may well remember we were talking about virginia and the carolinas because there is more severe river flooding to come over the coming days and weeks. we have this large expense of cloud stretching from northern parts of the midwest the planes into montana doors colorado and new mexico and attached to this as heavy rain. shifting itself northeast over the coming days. some winds and a lot of rain for the midwest and plains falling on already saturated ground will be further flooding here and some very heavy rain developing across parts of texas. that will bring some flooding. over to the north, cold airand snowfor flooding. over to the north, cold air and snow for parts of the rockies into saskatchewan and further south, the very high temperatures and humidity field. our other storms of last week, this typhoon, the remnants of that still caught up in this area of high cloud running its way north eastwards across china and attached to that is some heavy rain. extending into

farce of south korea and also into japan. heading further south across china, things are looking it dry for hong kong and large swathes of china saying fewer showers by keeping to what i want the philippines, for the heavy showers here hampering the relief efforts and also the swirl to the east and the philippines. potentially bringing more heavy rain. across india, plenty of low pressure, by the time we get to saturday, it has slept his way north and west across india but before he does, it will deposit quite a lot afraid. to australia, the beginning of the weekend should be mainly dry for many. if you call so showers but keeping an eye on the new zealand coast this system will start to push his way towards the south island and it isa his way towards the south island and it is a possibly spring down here, would like to see significance snow developing through the latter half of the week. some very unsettled conditions across europe. areas of low pressure burling their way across the uk, the storm will bring

wet and windy weather to parts of england and wales and scotland overnight. before then gesturing eastwards into scandinavia through friday. but very strong winds in the forecast and much cooler air diving across europe behind this cold front. for us in the uk, here's our very wet and windy weather storm overnight. clearing away eastwards and behind it, due friday we see this area of high pressure developing so slowly the ones will start to die down and still quite a breezy day, it will fit across aperture rain into parts of southern scotla nd aperture rain into parts of southern scotland and northern england, further north, and south, something a little bit drier but for all of us, feeling much cooler. more details coming up in the next half—hour. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. there has been a lot of analysis of

what happened at these eu summit insult bird because this definitely was not what theresa may would have wa nted was not what theresa may would have wanted to hear. the suggested framework for economic corporation will not work. the prime minister responded that her plan for brexit is the only viable one but she has to convince the people in her party and the other members of the european union. russia's national anti—doping organisation has had a three year suspension lifted, that move has provoked an angry reaction. pilots forgot to turn on a switch that regulates cabin pressure on a passenger plane this morning. lots of people ended up with bleeding noses and ears. we have the story. we have another reassurance that north korea wants complete denuclearisation quickly. the message came from

south korea's president moonjae—in, who's been in pyongyang. chairman kim kim has reaffirmed his commitment towards denuclearization time again. he also expressed his desire to complete the denuclearization in the near future and focus on economic development. mr moon was speaking in south korea, just abck three days in the north. these pictures are from today. the leaders, and their wives visited mount paekttu on the chinese—north korean border. the peak is considered sacred by all koreans, because its the spiritual birthplace of the nation. there was no shortage of pomp and pageantry. it was the first visit by a southern leader to the north's captial in a decade. let's not forget, that these two leaders have come a long way, this time last year south korea

was condemming the north for its sixth nuclear test. these pages are extraordinary but people are raising the sceptical eyebrow, this is one south korean commentator we saw staying: tweet: @korea nforeigner says, "people are losing their minds over the moon—kim summit, and acting like peace has been achieved. but did you know that exactly 13 years ago, north korea "committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs?" this is all a sickjoke." well earlier us secretary of state mike pompeo said he was ready to restart negotiations. and that the aim was denuclearising north korea "by 2021". barbara plett—usher, washington dtl. i'm getting a bit confused here, the mood music has changed but i can't see anything that's actually changed. yes, that might be a good

way of putting it at today, the mood music certainly has changed, the dynamic has shifted, you have got this south korean president coming back from his trip to north korea saying, kim jong—un is back from his trip to north korea saying, kimjong—un is ready to back from his trip to north korea saying, kim jong—un is ready to the nuclear eyes, mr kim had earlier sent a message saying we want to do that with president trump's first term, apparently he now wants a summit with mrtrump term, apparently he now wants a summit with mr trump as soon as possible so that the two of them can get on with it. so that kind of dynamic or messaging is very positive but if you look at what the practicalities are, the concrete steps towards nuclearization yes, it's a bit thinner. what mr kim has offered is that he would dismantle a test site for missiles. he promised to do that earlier. now he's saying international observance can come and watch. that's a new watch movement, he is saying he would be willing to dismantle the main nuclear facility which could be significant except that that is conditional. he said he would do that if the americans take

corresponding steps and actually he has made such kinds of promises before the north koreans have made such kinds of promises before and they have dropped them when negotiations stalled. so experts are saying when you look at the practical stock it's a bit thin. are that americans planning a second summit with donald trump and kim jong—un? summit with donald trump and kim jong-un? i think they are thinking about it, i can save it about to happen but a week or two ago the white house said mr trump wanted another summit so they were looking into it. and then went kimjong—un came out with his offers, this week with a south koreans, mr trump was quite excited about it. each week that he was very excited. and now mr pompeo has said this is a good place to restart the negotiations on the nuclear negotiations, they will have high—level meetings already next week so i would assume that that those meetings they would be talking about some of these more concrete elements you americans would like to see but the aim would be to get to a summit because mr trump has said he

wa nts summit because mr trump has said he wants one and mr kim wants one and they seem to have this dialogue between themselves and the initiation people then have to facilitate. i have seen a lot of people suggesting that president moon is this bridge between america and north korea while they are not quite the eye to eye. what is that really a n quite the eye to eye. what is that really an accurate way to describe the south koreans given that they area the south koreans given that they are a staunch ally of the americans and likely to do mostly what donald trump would like? they are staunch allies. but at the same time, they have their own agenda, and president moon in particular has an agenda to have peace with the north koreans. they were very afraid last year, during that fire and fury period, when it looked as if the americans might get serious about actually military action and of course the south koreans would be in the first line of fire, that was quite scary for them. so, they are trying very ha rd to move for them. so, they are trying very hard to move towards this with north korea. they can't really do that poorly it seems without the americans, because the americans have sanctions on north korea, the

americans have south korea's back, they have for decades in case of any attacks, so they need to move in sync and mr president mont has taken on that role as facilitator trying to organise disarmament agreements between the us and north korea so he can move forward with peace. you get organised these and some punishment organised these and some punishment organise another one i guess as you see those images from the meeting this week you wonder at some point will be south koreans feel they can go forward on the road if the americans don't catch up. always good to talk to you, thank you very much. marine le pen has been ordered to undergo psychiatic evaluation. she's the leader of the far right national rally in france. she tweeted, @mlp—officialeng saying, "the french regime is getting scary." here's the court order, it says a judge wants her tested to determine if she suffers from mental illness and is "capable of understanding remarks and answering questions". the trial is because marine le pen tweeted images of islamic state group atrocities,

including one of carousel journalist james foley after he'd been executed. charles sapin, le figaro, paris. in this type of procedure, it's kind of, and because marine le pen is being prosecuted by the court for an old case, it was in 2015, she tweeted a picture of a daesh execution which constituted 48 the french and offence. in this type of case, the publishing of a violent picture or pornographic picture, the request for the expertise is automatic. marine le pen would say she's in good mind, she knows what

she's in good mind, she knows what she's doing, but that she apologise for sharing those pictures? not at all, because for her this was a kind of response for the french journalists who has a big show on in the morning and he was talking about the morning and he was talking about the far right party as a kind of intellectual terrorism and in 2015 at that time marine le pen sent those pictures to say you know, that's terrorism, we don't do things like that, you have to moderate your words. marine le pen has done very well in recent elections, she came second in the last presidential election, but she wants to go one further, are these kind of cases preventing her from expanding further, are these kind of cases preventing herfrom expanding her popularity? it depends, because this kind of case is used by a marine le

pen, for a strategy, for several yea rs pen, for a strategy, for several years now, pen, for a strategy, for several yea rs now, even pen, for a strategy, for several years now, even at the time when marine le pen's father was the head of the party, he used this strategy that consisted with announcing their prosecution of the system because you don't have money, because they are bad with you because you are suing courts or to present themselves as victims and therefore themselves as victims and therefore the people would vote for them, against what they described as ruling elites. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our website there is full coverage on bbc.com/news. those of you on the bbc news channel will carry on by talking about american politics. donald trump is on his way to las vegas for a campaign rally. it's six weeks til the midterm elections.

he's not on the ballot, but a lot of republican candidates are, and how they do will affect what he can get done in washington. barack obama's also been out campaigning in california and ohio. here he is in cleveland backing the democrat nominee for ohio governor. and then there's george w bush. he held a fundraiser in fort worth texas. that was for this man, republican candidate for the north dakota senate seat. jimmy carter wasn't going to be left out of the former presidents getting involved. he's 92. he appeared at an event in plains, georgia with the democrat nominee for georgia governor. rajini vaidyanathan, washington. it's always interesting to watch the

former president in action because previous elections have told us they don't always help as much as perhaps they think they will. exactly, let us they think they will. exactly, let us start with the current incumbent of the white house who really never really stops campaigning. the minute he won that election and remember a month after that election victory in 2016 going to one of his thank you rallies in ohio and it's clear they do have an effect. he's got a huge base and he would like to touch base with him quite maturely and see him speak. that is why he's going to some of these key states. in the run—up to these midterm elections. it's interesting when we looked at his predecessor barack obama who's also been out on the campaign trail, he's in pennsylvania philadelphia tomorrow in fact and that thing with him is you got some democratic candidates who are saying they don't actually want any one of any kind to

help them with these campaigns, there are some who feel perhaps barack obama there are some who feel perhaps ba rack obama buzz there are some who feel perhaps barack obama buzz buzz involvement in this campaign could actually backfire on the democrats and had just give the republicans another excuse to bash them. and in the case of george bush is particularly interesting because he's been openly sceptical about donald trump and some of its policies. so what platform is he campaigning, on a different —— different republican platform? , there's two things interesting about how he's campaigning, it's all closed—door events, use crucially squared on fundraising as we know these elections cost a lot of money. he speaking at events and trying to raise dollars for some of these candidates for this another thing that's interesting about where he's actually helping and he's actually trying to almost reach places that donald trump cannot. so recently he was in texas in a congressional district that donald trump lost to hillary clinton because in many ways, he's one of the faces of the trump campaign even though he was

carefully measured about how he criticised donald trump. and just quickly run us through how what happens across the country impact on what the president can do in washington. in november, all of the house of representatives seats in congress will be up and a third of the senate, that could dramatically change the face of congress and who make decisions because of course laws are passed to the house and through the senate before they end up through the senate before they end up at the president's desk. obviously it tends to be midterm elections the incumbent can suffer, we saw that with barack obama in the midterms that happened during his presidency. there is so much to pay for it here because we are in a kind of american politics and it's difficult to guess and really this is about the democrats and seeing if they can fight back after 2016. the republicans trying to keep the stronghold and even then within the republican party there are those who aren't that fond of donald trump who wa nt to aren't that fond of donald trump who want to try and keep seats and that base that donald trump held will

help donald trump win in 2016. so this allowed to pray for because this allowed to pray for because this really does decide how things are governed in washington, dc. thank you very much. let us switch from us politics to ugandan politics. we've talked a lot about bobi wine, he's a ugandan opposition politician who had to go the us for treatment after being badly injured while in detention. well he's back at his home just outside the capital kampala. he spoke to the bbc at the airport in kenya, just before he landed. where i am feeling better, and i hope to recover slowly by slowly. and this was the welcome he received from his supporters. cheering.

bbc‘s africa editor fergal keane was there. he posted these pictures. bobi wine was escorted back by police, apparently against his will. here he is greeting his fans. and here he is reunited with his family. remember bobi wine was a popstar before he became a politician. he was known as the ghetto president, this is one of his videos. (music) this is a message to the government expressing exactly what's on the people of mind. that background has helped, uganda has one of the youngest populations in the world, and politicians who can connect with younger voters have an advantage. here's some of his supporters. ijust request the government to settle down, to cool down, they should just comply with bobby instead of trying to disorganize his rights because he is a ugandan and we are ugandans and we have our

rights. i am so happy because he is struggling for us, he is fighting for us. we have never benefited from anything so i think i am happy and the others were so happy more than me i'm happy for him to become president because we are tired of this fake president. we youth have never benefitted anything from this government. however, let's be clear, yoweri museveni still holds most the cards. he's been in power since 1986,and is running for a sixth term in 2021. and the reason we're talking about ugandan politics is because of this. when bobi wine appeared at a court hearing earlier this month, he was using crutches and unable to stand on his own.

he alleges he was tortured in custody. the military denies this, but it provoked an outcry around the world. here's catherine byaruhanga in kampala. what bobby wine had expected is for his supporters he said other politicians, musicians to welcome him at the international airport, they would then proceed into kampala, the capital in a procession and he will go and visit relatives but the authorities were quite keen to make sure that this does not happen. so when he got off the aeroplane, he was immediately detained, he was then driven at breakneck speed, we saw him as he was driven past us in a convoy with police officers, he was then taken toa police officers, he was then taken to a local police station near his home, from there he was taken to his home, from there he was taken to his home and there were hundreds of people there waiting to see bobby

wein, when he arrived at his home, he got up on top of the police vehicle, he was helped onto the top of eight and from there he raised his fists up to his supporters and they then chanted in support. when you look at the faces of his supporters at his home today, many of them were excited, they described him as their mandanda, they said we wa nt him as their mandanda, they said we want him as our president. he is our future, they believe he really understands the challenges they face, challenges that a lot of ugandans deal with everyday. there was that lady we spoke to and she said when we go to the hospital we are not able to access medication, we hope bobby wine can support us and the present our ideas and never challenges. but there is a big, big issue that he's facing, and that is how to go —— galvanise all this popular support and turn this into an actual political movement. with structures that would enable him to potentially challenge presidents at

the next elections in 2021. that is switch from east africa to west africa. there's a serious health warning in place in nigeria because of floods in the last two weeks. we're told an outbreak of water—borne diseases like cholera and typhoid fever is likely. already more than 100 people have died in the floods so far. they were caused by the niger river and benue river bursting their banks after heavy rain. this is a satellite image shared by the the european union earth observation programme. you can see how much of it is covered in water. you can see how much of it is covered in water. ten states were affected. mayenijones has this report. the vintage has been underwater for three weeks. many people here lost their homes to the rising tide. as their homes to the rising tide. as the tide has slowly started to recede, people here are getting used to living with the floodwater. the

water started entering the houses, destroying everything, that fridges," my cupboards, all ourfood rations are gone and all our props for this year are gone, we will have to wait till next year. the problem now with all this stillwater is how to avoid illnesses. the nigerian centre for disease control has issued advice because they are worried about the spread of cholera, they say people should avoid drinking or bathing in floodwater but the villagers said they had no other choice. the state is no stranger to flooding but this year has been particularly bad. his vintage had not previously had any issues with writing. there has been so issues with writing. there has been so much rain and we also have droughts, the construction of dams, some communities, we are seriously affected by the flood. the government says communities have not

been resettled yet, because the assessment of their needs was down five years ago and now needs to be reviewed to fit market conditions. but with more rains expected over the coming weeks, and floods happening here every year, it's unclear what long term solutions are being offered to these communities. reports now about the spanish flu. one hundred years ago the spanish flu killed between fifty and a hundred million people. it was one of the worst pandemics the world has ever seen — spreading as troops moved between countries at the end of world war one. but strict wartime censorship means its history has almost been forgotten. here's smitha mundasad, the bbc‘s global health correspondent. in the final year of world war i, a flu virus like never before swept around the globe. it spread to almost every country. and in just 18

months, it had infected a third of the world's population. doctors, nurses and hospitals were overwhelmed. this is the diary of a doctor, he was a medical superintendent of the infirmary. it's one of the few written accounts to reveal what it was like to live through the pandemic. "each day, the difficulties became more pronounced as the patients increased and the nurses decreased, going down like ninepins themselves." people were warned to stay away from public gatherings and anyone who was unwell, but many suffered, starving of oxygen and going blue as they tried to take their last breath. you've got this virus that killed somewhere between 50 and 100 million people in a little over a year, but no one really knows that much about it. for me having read the personal accounts it really drives home how traumatic and experience this was for normal people. the modern world is a very different place. people are no longer weakened by years of world war. now transportation is much better, linking every major city, and while that means people can travel around much faster, the worry is any diseases

they carried could spread much faster too. if a new pandemic virus were to emerge, it could spread around the world to every global capital within 60 days of emergence. that doesn't leave a lot of time. experts also say these global threats need more attention so more vaccines can be made and better public health systems developed to stop worldwide spread. 100 years on, spanish flu is being remembered. this modern dance company is commemorating the virus that even affected political figures like david lloyd george, woodrow wilson and mahatma gandhi. shoba na jeyasingh‘s choreography illustrates warfare taking place inside and outside the body. while people were fighting each other, once they thought they had won, actually the virus at the same time was actually fighting a much bigger battle where everybody lost.

spanish flu was one of the greatest infectious disease disasters in history. the hope is the world is now better prepared to respond if it happens again. smitha mundasad, bbc news. some scary moments on a jetairways flight in india earlier. the pilots forgot to turn on a switch that regulates cabin pressure — and a passenger videod what happened next. there were 166 passengers on board. more than 30 of them needed treatment and five were hospitalised. this man was onboard. tweet: @satishnairk airplane lost pressure immediately after taking off...scores of passengers including me bleeding from nose.... and he tweeted this image of him wearing his mask. here are some more of the passengers. we were flying from him back to

jaipur when the oxygen masks came down, we did not know what was happening, iam down, we did not know what was happening, i am diabetic. down, we did not know what was happening, iam diabetic. no down, we did not know what was happening, i am diabetic. no one offered as any snacks or food, no one said anything. this airline is in worse shape than mum by's local trains, we weren't given any attention or information and we weren't attention or information and we we ren't updated attention or information and we weren't updated and there was no support system of any kind during the flight, before we landed or and —— afterlanding. the flight, before we landed or and -- after landing. plan was that the the plane was flying from mumbai tojaipur. this picture from flight radar shows its route. it was forced to stop climbing at 11,000 feet and turn back to mumbai. jet airways has put out a statement quote "the b737 aircraft, with 166 guests and 5 crew landed normally in mumbai. all guests were deplaned safely and taken to the terminal. first aid was administered see you next week. it's certainly been a busy couple of

days here in the weather centre, two main stars injust days here in the weather centre, two main stars in just two days. the second one across england and wales, gave torrential rain the day on thursday and thursday night and with ita thursday and thursday night and with it a stronger spell of wins in southern areas. the potential is still there by the time we get to friday morning of some trees down. now, as that blows away on friday just take that warm humid air we had with it away, but we keep the strong upper—level winds, the strong jet strea m upper—level winds, the strong jet stream which will continue to drive in further areas of low pressure. if the potential for more stormy weather this weekend. it certainly looks rather inclement to start friday, the rush hour will be nasty in some areas of central and eastern parts of england and seats on the hills, driving rain, poor visibility, those wins which as could did a lot of debris around first thing with potentially trees down but eventually it does start to

quiet down as the showers ease and the winds eased later in the day, will be much fresher and quite cooler in that breeze coming down from the northwest during the day on friday, we will notice it in the south but by the end of the day and start a saturday we have got a brief ridge of high pressure but it's already you can see saturday the have got the next area of rain starting to slide into the southwest. fine start, chilly start we should keep some fine weather in the north but even though there's still some uncertainty about what's happening in the south is starting to firm up now that we will get somewhat to weather moving in to the second half of the day. that's all tied in with the next area of low pressure and giving you quite a headache, computer models can't agree on where this area of low pressure is going to bush, and how deep it will be which means how windy it will be and how much rain it gives us at the moment the best guess is it will see it or move rather across england and wales. another dose of wet weather indeed

and potentially some stormy winds. with the chance that scotland and northern ireland may escape the worst but there's a lot of disagreement between the computer models, it could turn out to be quite a nasty storm. the hope is it will whisk away by the time we start the new week. there will be a chilly breeze on monday morning but it should easily and then the sun should easily and then the sun should come out and is around average for the time of year and that light wind will feel quite pleasant. for many, after the turbulent week the good news is into next week that high pressure should hang around. with the sunshine starting to weekend you do get some mist and fog in the morning and of course the risk of this as well. the sun comes out, the wenger front is kept at bay and temperature still reaching the high teens and he will feel quite pleasant. that's because that high pressure is keeping those

weather fronts at bay and the north of us to the south and east it looks quite stormy in the mediterranean. and that high we hope will last for most the week before possibly towards the end of next week going back out to the atlantic and pushing back out to the atlantic and pushing back west again. which just opened the doorfor a few back west again. which just opened the door for a few more weather systems to encroach into the north of the country but for most of us a much greater week. it will be warm in the sunshine but decent chilly nights and some patchy fog and of course before that the uncertainty over sunday. the prime minister's brexit plan is rejected by the european union, as she's told it will not work. at the summit in austria, theresa may had been hoping for some support from eu leaders for her chequers proposals — but the response was blunt. the suggested framework for economic

cooperation will not work, not least because it risks undermining the single market. let's sit down and look at those concerns, but what we need to ensure is that at the end of the day the deal that comes out of this is one that delivers for the british people. prime minister was looking for a polite reception. instead, her plans rebuffed. we live in salzburg as the prime ministerflies rebuffed. we live in salzburg as the prime minister flies home rebuffed. we live in salzburg as the prime ministerflies home into a storm. we'll be assessing how difficult the weeks ahead will now be