hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. hurricane michael has made landfall on the gulf coast of florida — packing winds of 240 kilometres an hour. some 4 million people are under a hurricane warning. this is the worst storm the florida panhandle has seen in a century. hurricane michael is upon us and now is the time to seek refuge. video images emerge of what's thought to be saudi intelligence officals arriving at istanbul airport, just before journalist jamal khashoggi disappeared. now president trump has weighed in. it's a very sad situation. it's a very bad situation, and we want to get to the bottom of it. plus we'll have stories from china, nicaraga and nepal. nicaragua and nepal. that's all coming up on outside source. hurricane michael has made landfall in florida.

it's a category 4 storm with winds of 240 kilometres per hour. forecasters say it's the largest storm to hit the region a century. the footage we've had coming into the newsroom show the power of this storm. this is navarre beach near pensacola in western florida earlier. and the big swells were already hitting hard. the national hurricane center has warned that some areas may get storm surges of four metres. how's this for a view? this is what hurricane michael looks like from the international space station. it's hundreds of kilometres across and you can see the great swirl of cloud and the eye in the centre. you can understand, people are

getting ready, preparing for this immense storm, considering how big it is. people have been preparing. residents in panama city beach have been boarding up their businesses to try and avoid the worst of it. for the past couple of days, people have been warned to prepare for "extensive devastation". mandatory evacuation orders are in place for more than 120,000 people. but the message now is, if you haven't evacuated already, it's too late. here's florida governor rick scott. hurricane michael is a deadly category 4 storm. this is the worst storm the florida panhandle has seen in more than 100 years. again, this is the worst storm that the florida panhandle has seen in a century. hurricane michael is upon us and now is the time to seek refuge. 0ur correspondent gary 0'donohue is in panama city beach, which right now is in the path of the hurricane. we caught up with him moments ago.

they've got really pretty bad in the last couple of hours. the wind speeds have really risen and it's been doing some pretty severe damage to the hotel we are in, in fact. it's taken bits of the roof off and other things, too. other buildings around here have also been suffering some damage. there are power lines down, of course. the rain has started to ease off a little bit. that is just temporary, i think. we are likely to get the back—end of the eye coming through as well at some point which should bring, or is likely to bring a lot more water with it. it made landfall about 30 miles along the coast from here, just east of here, on mexico beach. we have no idea what is going on along there at the moment because the emergency services are not out at the moment. they are staying indoors, like most other people, waiting for the storm to pass before they can get out and attend to people who need help. at the moment, it is everyone hunkering down and trying to keep safe until the force of michael passes. gary 0'donoghue, there, who is now safely inside.

we're very lucky that at 0utside source we live next door to the bbc‘s weather centre. so for stories like this, we can talk to them. a little bit earlier, i got the latest from bbc weather presenter susan powell. we ended up with a category four harry kane in the end, yesterday, we we re harry kane in the end, yesterday, we were talking about two but thanks to the warm waters of the gulf of mexico, we've got a stronger system than anticipated, not great news. this satellite picture is a thing of beauty for a meteorologist but not for the florida panhandle, clearly. you can see the well—defined eye of the storm, this is a textbook major storm moving in. we saw the conditions gary was experiencing, really bad on the ground. in every possible way, the strong, damaging winds, lots of heavy rain dumping out of the cloud as it moves onshore and the worst bit along the coast will be the storm surge because it is such a low—lying area, right way around gulf coast. you're talking 14 feet,

two men high worth of water pushing in and that is going to cause some damage. you can hide from the wind and almost hunker down but you can't get out of the way of that amount of water. now it has made landfall, will it weaken? yes, quite considerably now. the source of the energy for the hurricanes is the warm water under the them and would you make landreau, you lose the moisture and warmth and it will we give into an area of low pressure but it was. have a lot of moisture with it as it heads up across the ca rolinas, with it as it heads up across the carolinas, georgia with it as it heads up across the ca rolinas, georgia and with it as it heads up across the carolinas, georgia and south east in virginia. ithink carolinas, georgia and south east in virginia. i think it will still cause problems, not so much from the wind but the rain as we go through the next 48 hours. thanks to susan powell and the team at the bbc weather centre which is just behind us. weather centre which is just behind us. they use this screen as well, so useful to catch up with the latest. in other news now. donald trump has said he is speaking to saudi officials at the highest level about the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi in turkey. here's the president's take on it. this is a bad situation.

we can't let this happen, to reporters, to anybody, we can't let this happen. we're going to get to the bottom of it. people saw him go in but they didn't see him come out, as they understand it. we're going to take a very serious look at it. it's a terrible thing. the president is asking questions. the turkish government is continuing to ramp up pressure on saudi arabia, with the use of some pro—government media. today, the turkish newspaper, sabah, published this front page with pictures of 15 men that it claims are the saudi intelligence team involved in the disappearance of mr khashoggi. many of them are officers in the saudi army and air force. one of them is a forensic expert who has worked at the saudi interior ministry for 20 years. turkish broadcaster trt have released cctv footage, which they say tracks the movement of the team. this is footage

showing a private jet, which turkish media say carried nine saudi nationals, arriving in istanbul early on the morning of tuesday 2nd october. this is cctv footage allegedly showing saudi nationals at two hotels in istanbul, the movenpick and the wyande grand. this is footage outside the saudi consulate, showing jamal khashoggi arriving through the front entrance. we have put it on a loop so you can see it continuously. he goes through the front door. the time stamp is highlighted in red, 1.14pm, 2nd october. this is the last known sighting of him. this is also cctv footage, showing

two blacked out vehicles arriving at the saudi consulate. turkish authorities allege khashoggi was killed in the consulate. of course, saudi arabia denies this. let's get an idea of where those locations are on a map. they are all in quite close proximity. here's the movenpick hotel. it's located very near to the saudi consulate, as is the residence of the saudi consul, which is only 500 yards away. turkish authorities have been given permission to search the saudi consulate. turkish media report 13 saudis travelled to istanbul's attaturk airport, and that they flew out on two private planes. earlier, i spoke to 0nur erem from bbc turkish about how this media campaign will impact the saudi government. they say that there hasn't been any special team coming from saudi arabia to turkey. but today, after seeing this footage, i think we will be hearing new explanations

from saudi arabia about the identity of these people, because the turkish media reports that some of them are high—ranking officials in the saudi army or the forensics department. jamal‘s fiancee has written in the washington post, she believed that he said he felt safe, he'd been to the consulate beforehand, this was his second trip there. in terms of relations between turkey and saudi arabia, what are they like, diplomatically? it was already in crisis before this case because of the relationship between qatar and saudi arabia. turkey supported qatar back then and also turkey is accused by riyadh for supporting the muslim brotherhood, which saudi arabia designated a terrorist organisation. so given such a background, it is important for turkey to provide security to a journalist from saudi arabia who is criticising the saudi government, the saudi kingdom.

it has been a case for prestige for turkey as well because the turkish opposition is accusing the government of turning the country into a place where a third world country can run a covert operation like this. khashoggi went to the saudi consulate last week to get a document certifying his divorce from his ex—wife, so that he can marry his fiancee, this woman, hatice cengiz. she went with him, and waited outside for 11 hours, but he never returned. as i mentioned before, yesterday she wrote this op ed in the washington post, the newspaper he worked for, calling for donald trump to intervene. today, he responded. he intervened. let's have a listen

to what he said. we had a call in to his wife. his wife wrote us a letter and addressed it to my wife and myself. we are in contact with her now and we want to bring her to the white house. it is a very sad situation, a very bad situation and we want to get to the bottom of it. with donald trump inviting the fiancee, what impact will this have? kind of getting involved and calling questions as well. washington post saying us inteligence sources had itercepted inteligence sources had intercepted comms btween saudi officials discussign a possible plan to lure khashoggi to saudia arabia. barbara plett usher is my doing this for us, it is getting quite complicated but when donald trump gets involved, what impact do you

think that will have? if you mean what impact will it have on saudi arabia, it is hard to say because he hasn't really threatened any kind of consequences. but the saudis have so far stuck to their line that jamal khashoggi left the consulate, that he disappeared after he left there, but now, if they are getting persistent questions from the white house that a high level, which it seems they are, president trump making a vocal, he said, and also phone calls from other senior white house administration officials, jared kushner, donald trump's son—in—law, john bolton, the national security arise, mike pompeo, the secretary of state, all calling crown prince mohammed bin salman in the last 24 hours, pressing him for more information and transparency, and also in congress, you had republican senators saying they had seen us intelligence reports which points to the possibility that jamal khashoggi was killed. that pressure may

possibly start to be felt in saudi arabia. analysts here are wondering whether there might be a reassessment of the crown prince mohammed bin salman within the monarchy and within riyadh if it looks as though he may be damaging relations with the us by some brazen action that he might have taken. but i think we really don't know right now what impact it will have.” wa nted now what impact it will have.” wanted big up on what you said because we've got a washington post correspondent talking about what barbara plett usher just correspondent talking about what barbara plett usherjust mentioned, chilling details, a team of saudi agents believed to have lain in wait forjamal and the us intelligence communications intercepting a possible plan to capture jamal khashoggi and draw him to saudi arabia barbara, which really will damage relations between the us and saudi arabia. well, it really does complicate things. at the moment, again, we don't have clear evidence so again, we don't have clear evidence so far, at least not public evidence

so so far, at least not public evidence so until we do, there's plausible deniability, i think. so until we do, there's plausible deniability, ithink. but so until we do, there's plausible deniability, i think. but there are a number of things at stake. the administration has to balance its long—term interest with the saudi alliance up against this incident which is causing a lot of pressure for them. also, this administration in particular has fully embraced crown prince mohammed bin salman as the reformer, someone they can work with in terms of investment and otherwise in saudi arabia. there may be pressure to reassess that. there is certainly pressure from congress and there will be more pressure from congress, i was on capitol hill today and there was a lot of anger from both democrat and republican senators today, you had the republican senator lindsey graham saying there will be hell to pay if in fact the saudis are behind this. another republican senator said that relations with the saudis and the zenit were already not very good and this will drive them off a cliff. they are preparing specific steps,

they say, that they will put forward in terms of how to deal with this. reaction coming in thick and fast. barbara plett usher, for the time being, many thanks from washington. as and when we get any more reaction on the disappearance ofjamal khashoggi, thejournalist, we will bring it to you. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come... we've got a special report from our science editor who's been investigating the illegal trade of chimpanzees. bbc news understands that the democratic unionist party's ten westminster mps are planning to vote down the budget later this month, if the government agrees a brexit deal which treats northern ireland differently from the rest of the uk. we cannot have a customs or a regulatory barrier in the irish sea because that would cause us to be a rule takerfrom europe but we wouldn't be able to participate in uk trade

deals in future. essentially, it would give the european union veto over northern ireland's trading future and that's not something we can countenance. now, it's not something the prime minister could countenance either, because she's a unionist. she's made a loss of her unionist credentials over the years and since she came into downing street. so what is important for us is to say to her very clearly that any impediment on the two—way access in the uk single market would not be good for the union and would not be good for the economy of northern this is 0utside source, live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story. hurricane michael has made landfall on the florida coast. officials are warning that it is now too late to flee the path of the storm. this is one of many protesters in nicaragua who often

wear blue and white, the colours of the national flag. they are calling for an end to the government of president daniel 0rtega. he's serving his third consecutive term as president. people have been taking to the streets since april. let's look at some images. there's been a violent crackdown against the protests. the government says 250 people have been killed, but human rights groups say it's double that. trials have begun against dozens of protesters who were arrested. many of them are students. a un report has been released which says detainees at a prison in managua are reportedly being tortured. president 0rtega says the report is biased. he has expelled the investigators from the country. will grant has this report from the

capital. matt romero is among the dead. the latest victim, he was just 16 years old when he was struck down by a bullet, fired by, his family says, either radical pro—government sympathisers or the police. his funeral was held the very next day. his mother, tanya, barely able to tear herself away from his side. today, she remains in a grief—stricken trance. the pain of losing her boy, who she says was just demonstrating for the rights of all nicaraguans, is still sinking in. translation: he used to say, "people are going to know my name, mum. i'm going to be someone important". so i used to tell him, "you already are". if matt romero's fate is the very worst mother can imagine for her child, this is probably a close second. these three student protesters are facing at least 25 years

in prison for terrorism, charges theirfamilies say are false and amount to summary justice. their mothers, gathered outside the courtroom, weren't even allowed in, our mobile phone pictures the only way they could see their children in the dock. brenda's son rodrigo is considered the ringleader and is being held in maximum security. only once a week, she is allowed to bring a food parcel to the jail on the outskirts of managua. brenda has no doubt her son, a 21—year—old engineering student, is a political prisoner under president daniel ortega. translation: i tell him to brace himself because this government is capable of anything. if they condemn you, you must remain calm, as you are not guilty and be confident you will be released once the government falls. for president ortega's supporters, though, the former cold war guerrilla leader is here to stay.

will grant reporting and our thanks to him for bringing us up—to—date on the situation. time for the business news. wall street could be looking at its longest losing streak of the trump presidency. the dowjones has been down as much as 600 points today. let's go straight to kim gittleson in new york. what on earth is behind the sell—off? what on earth is behind the sell-off? i have two update you because the dowjones closed over 800 points here on wall street and it was the nasdaq that was worth it, which closed down over 4% because we have seen a huge sell—off when it comes to technology stocks, both amazon and netflix were down significantly. these underlying assumptions, it is always hard to figure out what investors are thinking at times like these, but many people are selling out of the technology stocks ahead of fourth—quarter earnings season which begins on friday. the idea is that we saw record profits from a lot of

the technology companies over the summer the technology companies over the summer but many investors don't think that will continue into the fourth quarter of the year, because there are lots of pressures on corporate earnings from rising inflation to interest rates, which are set to increase, to of course the import tariffs that we talk about all the time, many of which went into effect over the summer. good that you have updated us, i was going to ask whether this will continue but what is the longer term trend, then, do you think? it is a lwa ys trend, then, do you think? it is always ha rd to trend, then, do you think? it is always hard to guess what will happen, whether this is a one—day thing led by panic or whether it will be sustained. i want to mention that since earnings season does not begin until friday, we have another date for investors to mull over whether they think corporate america will not be as profitable going forward and whether they think that actually, the share price of many of these companies has declined enough that many of them might want to purchase them, thinking they are cheap. who is to say but it will bear watching when the markets reopen on thursday. we will watch

and wait. as always, thanks for keeping us up to date from new york. one of the most comprehensive studies of the state of banking and markets since the financial crisis warns that "dangerous undercurrents" are a rising threat to the world economy. the international monetary fund's financial stability report says that although banks are far safer than they were in 2008, there are new risks. the imf is meeting in bali, and karishma vaswani is there for us. she says emerging ecomomies could be especially at risk. in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, there was all this cheap money flowing around because of low interest rates and that meant that emerging market economies, notjust in turkey and argentina but out here to in indonesia and india, for instance, their companies borrowed loans in us dollars and now they are going to have to pay them back. it's going to get quite painful. yesterday we brought you the news that nikki haley, the us ambassador to

the un, was resigning. it came as a shock. haley is known to be a close supporter of the president. as she faced the media, she reserved some of her warmest praise for this man, jared kushner, the president's son—in—law. but is that praise deserved? we saw kim and barbara earlier but they have been looking into this for us as they have been looking into this for us as well. jared is such a hidden genius that no one understands. i have not sought the spotlight. i can't say enough good things about jared and ivanka. ivanka has been a great friend and they do a lot of things behind the scenes that i wish more people knew about. i mean, to redo the nafta deal the way he did...

while he might have had difficulty getting in the door, when it comes to getting canada to the table, it's jared who is credited with saving the nearly two and a half decades old free trade agreement between the us, mexico and canada. that's because he knew mexico's foreign minister from his days on wall street and he formed close relationships with canada's trade delegates which helped when talks nearly broke down. whether that's a mark of genius or simply negotiations 101, well, that depends on who you ask. what i've done in working with him on the middle east peace plan, it is so unbelievably well done. he has been working very hard on that but his peace plan is indeed very hidden. we're told that it's detailed but we don't know what the detail is.

we are told there are things both sides will like and both sides will not like but in fact, in public, jared kushner and the trump administration have pretty much sided with one party, israel, and alienated the other, the palestinians, who are not even talking to him. so we will soon see how jared kushner applies his genius to that situation, because the president has said the peace plan will be announced in the next two to four months. they do a lot of things behind the scenes that i wish more people knew about because we are a better country because they are in this administration. nikki haley, there are, praising jared kushner. a bit later on outside source, we will speak to anthony zettel jerk about who nikki haley's successor will be because the white house has already named who would they would like it to be and it is not going to be ivanka trump. stay with us for that. lots of storms around at the moment,

the biggest one is the one that is hitting florida right now. there's never been a category four harry kane to make land fall in the florida panhandle before, —— a category four storm to hit the florida panhandle before. hurricane michael with a master hour winds, and the storm surge could be quite significant in a low—lying part of florida, the wall awards are pushing its way inland together with the damaging winds and heavy rain which we are seeing already. as the eye of the storm moves overland, it will tend to weaken and the wind will gradually drop by the rain keeps going for a while, the storm surge as well. moving quickly so we will see wet weather pushing into georgia and on thursday, into the carolinas, this is a different system to hurricane florence, stronger and more powerful but moving much more quickly. but it will bring some flooding rains, as much as 12 inches in some parts of the southeast of the us. away from here, we are

seeing cooler air coming down from canada and across central and northern parts of the us, over the rockies, there's likely to be some snow. we moved back down here into mexico and this area of rain is tropical storm sergio which will move into northern mexico and eventually bring some rain into texas on saturday, where in some areas, there is currently a drought. it is cyclone season around india. we've got two which is very unusual, one in the bay of bengal, this area of cloud and another cyclone in the arabian sea. these tend to move away from india and the track of this particular storm takes it very close to oman, getting wind and rain, probably making landfall along the coast of yemen on sunday but already, we have seen some very rough seas and some big waves and damaging winds and some flash floods as it moves overland. the other cyclone is moving inland on thursday, across auris in india. it will weaken as it hits land but take

heavy rain all the way to west bengal and keep the rain is going in the north—eastern states of india and bangladesh. moving into europe, and bangladesh. moving into europe, and you may have seen the storms and flooding that we had in mallorca, and that storm cloud is moving north up and that storm cloud is moving north up into southern parts of france and into the mediterranean. moving on into the mediterranean. moving on into thursday, there are warnings of heavy rain and thunderstorms, this time for sardinia and the north—west of italy. no doubt there will be impacted here. it means it is much drier and sunnier across the balearics and the eastern side of mainland spain on thursday. lots of warm air across central and western parts of europe. eastern europe dry with sunshine. what is happening in the uk is a storm on the way, i year. more on that and the longer forecast later. hello, i'm kasia madera. this is outside source. hurricane michael has made landfall on the gulf coast of florida — packing winds of 240 kilometres an hour. some 4 million people are under a hurricane warning.

this is the worst storm the florida panhandle has seen in a century. hurricane michael is upon us and now is the time to seek refuge. china admits for the first time that is has set up re—education camps to "transform" people it claims have been influenced by extremism. and if you want to get in touch at any time, bbc outside source is the place to go. -- #bbcos. let's pick up on one of our headlines. china has admitted it's setting up re—education camps in xinjiang, the autonomous region in western china, which is home to approximately 10 million uighur muslims. authorities in china have long denied the existence of internment camps there, despite testimonies from people who say they've been held in them and mounting evidence

from official documents. i want to show you this particular one. this is a public calling, calling out for contractors made in april. to build large compounds, which include quarters for security forces. make of that what you will. in august, a united nations human rights panel claimed up toi million uighur muslims had been forced into grounds that resemble massive internment camps in xinjiang. china denied the allegations then. but the chinese government has now admitted the re—education and resettlement of uighurs saying it's to "educate and transform people influenced by extremism". in august the bbc‘s newsnight programme spoke to a man called omar, who says he was a prisoner in a re—education centre. translation: they have

a chair called the tiger. my ankles were shackled, my hands locked into the chair. i couldn't move. they wouldn't let me sleep. they also hung me up for hours. and they beat me. they had thick wooden and rubber batons, whips made from twisted wire, needles to pierce the skin, pliers for pulling out your nails... all these tools were displayed on the table in front of me ready for use at any time. and you could hear other people screaming, as well. you have no freedom at all. you must do everything according to the rules set by the communist party. recite what they say, sing red songs, thank the party, think like a robot. you do whatever you were told. omar was speaking to newsnight a little bit earlier on in the year.

human rights groups say detainees are made to swear loyalty to president xijinping and criticise or renounce their faith. kenneth roth, the executive director at human rights watch tweeted: "first china denied that it was detaining upwards of i million uighur muslims for "re—education." now it tries to "legalize" the practice though it's still arbitrary. drjoanne smith finley is a senior lecturer in chinese studies at newcastle university. she told me a little bit more about all of this. i think what they would like to do is give a veneer of propriety, an air of above allness. and they have basically been forced into a situation where they have to admit that re—education camps exist because of investigative journalism, and the publicity that they've had over the last few months. now tell us a little bit more about what the camps are like. they are described as re—education camps but some people are talking

about them like being prison camps more like. they are essentially extrajudicial internment camps. some people have even called them concentration camps. people are disappeared into them and once they disappear, their family members and theirfriends have no idea where they've gone. they cannot contact them, they have no recourse to see a lawyer. and then they are subjected to a sort of daily indoctrination, a literal indoctrination regime which involves singing songs that praise xijinping and the communist party, renouncing islam and undergoing coercive chinese language lessons. explain to us, would you, why the chinese government is so concerned about the uighur community? well, xinjiang is a politically contested territory, it has been for a long time. and during the 1990s, there was... there were a few years, particularly after the collapse of the soviet union,

when some young uighurs aspired to political independence. however, the state very quickly quashed that and in the second half of the 1990s, i think it's fair to say that most uighurs accepted that this was not going to happen, that independence wasn't an option. and that they would have to work within... with the state and work towards ethnic equality. and that became the main goal. what is your opinion benefit the future of the mac ones there was a lot i think the state needs to reassess the regime. since it began, the current system has been very interested. for sample sending

police and state agents in the homes. taking off a win in pasay bales, shaving men's beards, confiscating carranza and so forth. this has led to spontaneous retaliatory violence rather than solving the problem. —— confiscating the koran. doctorjoann smith from newcastle university. now a follow—up to a report we showed you last year. in 2017 david shukman travelled to nepal to investigate the illegal trade in chimpanzees. now, following up the bbc report, police have broken up a major smuggling ring which traded in baby chimps. here's david's report. a baby chimpanzee clings to the hand of a keeper. at this age it should be with its mother, but the tiny animal is a victim of wildlife traffickers. seized in west africa, two chimps were being smuggled halfway around the world when they were intercepted here in nepal. the men accused of smuggling

them are awaiting trial. it's terrible what these little animals have been through, captured in the jungle when they were just a few months old. drugged, crammed into a packing case, driven across nigeria, flown to istanbul and then here to kathmandu. and if they hadn't been rescued here, they'd have been driven on to a buyer in india and an unknown fate. the deal began when one of the men now facing trial posted this video. the chimps were on offer for $12,000 each. but after a tip—off, the police in nepal were keeping watch on kathmandu airport. a large crate arrived, containing some birds which can be legally imported. but detectives thought there was more to it, so they followed the delivery, and it was then they discovered the two baby chimps. the policeman in charge says he was shocked that they looked so like human babies.

so, they were just like a small baby human. they were just sucking their thumbs. and when you look closely into their eyes, obviously you feel, you know, sorry for them, because... i know they don't speak, but the way they look, you can make out that they were very tired and in a very bad condition. this is the place of the hiding. the smugglers were using a technique that we exposed last year, with a crate specially designed to hide animals that aren't allowed to be traded, like chimpanzees. the monkey, here it is. the chimp also. our investigation had revealed how baby chimps are in big demand as pets, but how capturing one infant alive involves killing the adults in its family. police! a police raid in the ivory coast led to the country's first convictions for wildlife crime.

and when our coverage was seen in nepal, detectives there launched their own investigation. the bbc story is now taught to undercover officers in kathmandu. the police know that nepal is seen as an easy transport route by animal traffickers. and the chimps themselves, they are doing well, gaining weight, but they are caught in a diplomatic tussle. nigeria wants them back, but nepal says they are evidence for the trial. so, for the moment, this small cage is their home. david shukman, bbc news, in kathmandu. let's hope that they do get home soon. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our website. we've got full coverage on all the stories we've been covering on the programme today, as well as in—depth analysis from our correspondents around the world.

we go to us politics. the vermont governor's debate is due to get under way this evening and it throws up an intriguing clash between two very contrasting candidates. you have the incumbent republican candidate, phil scott. he's running for his second two—year term. the democrats are putting forward christine hallquist, the first openly transgender governer nominee from a major party. this is what she's said about mr trump's presidency. 2024, or some years from now, we will look back at 2018 and say, "that's when we made history. that's when our democracy survived a despot". strong words there from christine hallquist. christine hallquist faces phil scott who may be a republican but even he describes his views as socially liberal. last year in this article on the vermont news website, the burlington press, mr scott called

president trump's response to the charlottesville march "unacceptable". he also wants to implement gun control. earlier i spoke to anthony zurcher who is at the debate in vermont. she does have an uphill fight, although we have to remember that governor phil scott, you mentioned that he supported gun control, he actually signed sweeping gun—control legislation earlier this year after what he said was a foiled attempt to shoot up a school here in vermont. that lost him a lot of republicans abroad. -- -- a lot of republican support. i've been talking to gun rights activists and they view phil scott as a traitor, that he backed away from his word and his assurances he would not support gun—control. christine hallquist, on the other side, she continues to talk about gun control and she talks about how vermont embraced her as a transgender candidate coming out and that she is repaying the warmth that vermont has shown her by trying to run for public office. anthony, just under four weeks to go until the midterms. we've had all the drama of the supreme court nomination. how is the lay of the land now?

we're waiting to see whether the drama has legs. obviously, the brett kavanaugh confirmation fight has activated the republican base. they are very engaged right now but four weeks is a very long time in us politics. i've been watching the local tv campaigns for members of congress here in vermont and in new york, this new england area and they are not talking about the brett kavanaugh fight. they are talking about health care. you saw donald trump writing an op—ed accusing the democrats of trying to undermine medicare for the elderly. i think health care may be a bigger issue four weeks from now than brett kavanaugh, when that cools down. and just briefly, we had the shock resignation of the nikki haley as us ambassador to the un. ivanka trump is not going to be a candidate for the job but the white house is talking to dina powell. dina powell, a former deputy national security adviser. she's gone back to goldman sachs. she's one of reportedly five candidate although there are people in the white house who want more of a hardliner, somebody like rick grenell, who is the us ambassador to germany, who has taken a very tough attitude.

john bolton, the national security adviser, seems to be in favour of somebody more like that. so we will find out in a few weeks. anthony's erker waiting for that debate to start and vermont. around the world a person commits suicide every 40 seconds. today the first ever global mental health summit opened in london. and yesterday this new report published by the lancet which reveals that the majority of countries are failing to address the mental health needs of more than a billion people worldwide. according to the world health organization some low—income countries spend just 0.5% of their health budget on mental health. in a country like ghana that means there is just one psychiatrist to treat every 1.2 million people. because of the lack of medical support many people look for dubious alternatives.

the bbc‘s sulley lansah sent us this report. praying away their problems. these worshippers at a prayer camp believe they are possessed by the devil and are in need of deliverance. because of a lack of psychiatrists in ghana, desperate families pay prayer camps to treat them mentally ill relatives. prayer camps to treat their mentally ill relatives. backstage, it's a different story. the most vulnerable live here in these basic shelters, chained to the walls and the floor. this is how they treat people like us. they think we are mad or something. the government outlawed chaining last year but the leader of this church says the change must be done slowly. we're gradually going away from it but it's not easy, because we don't have the facilities to confine them. the moment we stop what we are

doing, you will see a whole lot of mental people walking on the streets of ghana. this is one of seven psychiatric hospitals in ghana. it's expensive and only has space for 20 patients. the owner believes you don't need any form of restraints. chaining is wrong. a lot of the times, what you find out is that the aggression and violence is actually from anger from being violated, etc. that violation doesn't just include chaining. we have been told that this prayer camp is using cages to beat the ban on chains. i visited the camp with a secret camera. a member of staff told me how they deal with difficult patients. but that room is full of cages.

you can see the patients lying on the floor. i went into one of the cages. i felt restricted and couldn't stand up straight. not idealfor someone with mental health issues. the camp insist that the conditions are good and that they are protecting society from what they call deranged people. caging somebody is a human rights violation. it's unlawful and i condemn it in no uncertain terms as a human rights lawyer. i believe that the commission on human rights, the ghana police, the ministry of health, the ghana health service, should move in to address and stop caging of mental health patients in prayer camps in ghana. we then went to a traditional healing centre that also helps the mentally ill. we found 16 men chained in one room. one of them told us he had been there for seven years. the government is trying to enforce this ban on the use of chains

but for centres like this, it is too expensive to build rooms for each patient. they claim chaining is the only option. chaining is banned and we are taking steps to make sure we go around the country to enforce the ban. so those who are now caging them, which is even more of a human rights issue, what are you doing about it? like with the chaining, so what we are doing is we are bringing them for training, in the prayer camps, the ministers. after you've done the training, whoever passes will be taken as having violated the law. mental health is a worldwide challenge and ghana's government is failing to help those most in need. sulley lansah, bbc news, ghana. the four—time olympic gold medallist, simone biles, has told the bbc she feels empowered after speaking out about the team doctor who abused her

and other young gymnasts. larry nasser was sentenced to 125 years?injail. speaking ahead of the world championships in doha, the american gymnast says she hopes sharing her story will encourage other people to tell theirs too. the bbc‘s natalie pirks went to her hometown in texas to meet her. commentator: the final move of her olympic championships... in 2016, in the heat of rio, simone biles set the sporting world ablaze. how does she do it? five olympic medals was her reward, four of them gold. now everyone knew her name. but what goes up, must come down. when she returned here, to her hometown of spring, texas, she took an 18 month break to heal her body and mind. she told me she knows her achievement in rio, though, keep the spotlight firmly on her.

it's almost more pressure because you know exactly what to expect and the pressure that will be put on you, rather than your first time. you are kind of so excited to be there. now you have those expectations. after her break, she came back with a bang at the us nationals in august, sweeping gold in every event, to make american gymnastics history. it was like she had never been away, yet some things have changed. the teal leotard she wore at nationals was in solidarity with victims of sexual abuse, a part of her history she felt she had to speak out about. us team doctor larry nasser abused more than 150 young women and girls under the guise of medical treatment. biles confirmed in a statement that she, too, had been one of his victims. earlier this year, he was sentenced to 175 years in prison. your decision to assault was precise, manipulative, devious, despicable.

the judge was absolutely amazing on her part, so we were very proud of her. it was kind of a relief because he kind of got what he deserved. what prompted you to make that decision to write that statement? it's very hard but i figure people do look up to me and so they are like, "if simone can be strong enough, hopefully i can, too". that's kind of the message i wanted to give. but i was kind of relieved when it came out. you know, it was a lot of pressure off my shoulders. it was that the home of the us coaches where nasser abused us women's gymnasts. when biles said it would be heartbreaking to return their anti—us gymnastics then ended a 17 year association with the ranch. how did that feel? i don't know. it kind of felt empowering, even though that's, like an overused word right now, but really, yeah. simone biles is moving on in the best way she knows. already the most decorated world championship gymnast

of all time, she could reach new heights this month but even she accepts there are limits. for my first olympic games, to walk away with five medals, i think it is kind of unbeatable, even for myself. so we'lljust go in there with an open mind and see what happens! win or lose, the 21—year—old is guaranteed to soar. natalie pirks, bbc news, texas. she certainly is. phenomenal talent there. all this week on outside source we're looking at populism in europe tonight ros and the team are in munich, the capital of bavaria, and tomorrow night outside source will come live from there. one of the reaons we chose to go to munich is that on sunday people there will vote in the local elections. from the bavarian parliament, ros sent this. well, this is one of the most beautiful buildings i've ever seen, the bavarian parliament here in munich. what is becoming clear is that

sunday's election is about far more than regional politics. one of the parliamentary staff has agreed to show me around. so the prime minister at the end of the bench, looking to his own party, the csu, and the other parties, we have four, the social democrats, the green party and the so—called freie wahler, which i cannot translate. how much power does this parliament have over what happens in bavaria, compared to how much power the federal government has? well, germany is a federal country, so these states have quite a lot of power over, for example, education, police, security is a main subject. compared to other countries like france, which is completely centrist, it is quite important for the people who live here, what happens here inside. here is the media setting up. i saw one journalist saying this feels like a referendum on angela merkel. are you getting more attention than perhaps normally?

we do have a lot of attention, that is for sure. we have some 1000 journalists. 1000? on sunday night, yes. one other thing i wanted to ask you and it is christian crosses. this one here has been here for many, many years. since the ‘50s, yeah. there was a lot of coverage earlier this year, though, about a new ruling that all public buildings must now have christian crosses in reception. all public buildings that are referring to the government, so the parliament, for example, wouldn't have do have a cross because we are an institution for ourselves. and when they made that announcement, was it controversial? yes, it was there was quite a discussion in public, you. a discussion in public, yes. thank you very much for showing us around. we appreciate it. you are in for a very busy night on sunday and that decision about christian crosses is an interesting one. the csu's connection with the roman catholic church is long established, it's called the christian social union but the timing

of the announcement may not be unrelated to the fact we have these elections on sunday and the csu is under pressure from the far right afd party which has been running posters saying things like, "keep islam out of schools". it sees immigration as in some ways diluting german identity. it is yet more evidence that the issue of immigration, along with identity and populism, are all bound up as one. many issues there. the report from the bavarian parliament. outside source will be live for munich tomorrow. for me and the whole outside source team, thanks for watching. good night. hello. it may well be the middle of october but temperatures have been above what we would expect to see in the middle ofjuly. wednesday was a particularly warm day. the top temperature just shy of 25 celsius, 24.6 degrees at northolt in london and quite widely, temperatures

the low to mid 20s across the country. things are going to turn a bit cooler, as we see a cold front approaching from the west, bringing in colder air mass, but for thursday, we still have southerly winds importing some pretty warm air. by the end of the week, things are set to change because storm callum is approaching, bringing some really strong winds combined with some heavy rainfall, particularly in the north and west. thursday will see some showery rain, initially for eastern england and parts of scotland, then a swathe of sunshine in between before the next area of rain moves in from the west. we still have pretty warm air across east anglia and the south—east where temperatures will get to 21 or 22 again but you will notice the drop in temperature from the west behind this band of rain. a bit of a mixed day on thursday. when the cold front pushes off towards the east, then we start to turn our attention to storm callum, this developing area of low pressure which will bring some very windy conditions

on friday, especially for northern ireland, scotland, western parts of england and wales where they are likely to see gusts of 50—60 mph. it's notjust the wind but also some heavy rain across wales, parts of northern england, into southern scotland as well. the south—east of england avoiding the rain but it is going to be windy and wet wherever you are. we keep the strong winds and heavy rain through into saturday as the storm hangs around, the tail end of system bringing more heavy rain through the day on saturday. there could be some flooding impact, particularly across the higher ground of wales and north—west england. on either side of that band of cloud and rain, there should be some dry and writer weather and we still have all my with us on saturday in the south—east, where temperatures could well reach 23 degrees or so. it will be much cooler from the north west behind this frontal system. as the front clears away slowly towards the east, into the second half of the weekend, sunday should bring a phone proved a across the board. we are likely to hold onto some rain first thing across parts

of south—east england which should slowly ease but for the rest of the country, the wind will be lighter on sunday and it will be drier, too, more sunshine but much cooler than it has been with temperatures generally about 12—17. fairly typical for the time of year. and then things are going to get more interesting, all down to hurricane michael, which has made landfall across the panhandle of florida, bringing a devastating storm surge, very heavy rainfall and devastatingly strong winds, too. if we follow the path of the hurricane, it won't be a hurricane in the next few days, as it weakens, we will push into the atlantic and then it will get wrapped up in another area of low pressure before approaching the uk through monday and on into tuesday. so that could well bring us some pretty wet and windy weatherfor a time. later next week, it looks like low pressure will sit to the west of the uk and higher pressure likely to be across continental europe. the outlook for next week, then, is for that spell a very wet and windy weather down to the remnants of hurricane michael

through the window of the week and then blustery winds and showers in the north—west with low pressure close by and milder and largely dry conditions are likely to hold on in the south—east. goodbye for now. tonight at ten, a four—year legal battle which started with a cake decoration has ended in victory for the baker. the supreme court rules that the baker was within his right to refuse to make a cake with a slogan supporting same—sex marriage. the supreme court emphatically accepted what we have said all along. we did not turn down this order because of the person who made it but because of the message itself. as the business in belfast celebrated the outcome, the customer who placed the order said the implications were worrying. that made me feel like a second—class citizen, and the judgment today tells me that that's ok. we'll be looking more closely at the implications for freedom of expression. also tonight, a minister's bodyguard recalls how he shot dead

the man responsible for the westminster bridge attacks last year.