hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. the us federal reserve cuts interest rates, for the first time in a decade. we decided today to lower the target for the federal funds rate we decided today to lower the target for the federalfunds rate by we decided today to lower the target for the federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a range of 2% in two and a quarter percent. making that cut the fed says the economic outlook in the us is "uncertain" — and says it will continue to act to "sustain the expansion". northern ireland is the latest stop for borisjohnson — britain's new prime minister holds talks on the backstop — the border question that holds the key to brexit the frontrunner steps up — last night was the turn of his challengers — tonightjoe biden is back in debate, for the democratic nomination.

and we'll ask why one of india's most succesful entrepreneurs — known as the coffee king — has died, in unexplained circumstances. over the last couple of hours, all eyes have been on this man, the chairman of the us federal reserve, jerome powell. he's announced a cut in interest rates by a quarter of one percent — for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis, when the american economy was in the depths of its worst recession since the 1930s. we decided today to lower the target for the federal funds rate we decided today to lower the target for the federalfunds rate by we decided today to lower the target for the federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a range of 2% to two and a quarter percent. the outlook for the us economy remains favourable and this design will support that outlook.

if we take a look at this graph you can see how us interest rates were close to zero for seven years after the financial crisis in 2008 but have been gradually rising since 2016. the main interest rate has been at a range of two and a quarter to two and a half per cent since december — as the us economy has continued to grow healthily and unemployment has been at a 50 year low. so what lies behind today's decision to cut rates? here's the view of one analyst. so there is some broad concerns that a recession is looming, there is concerns about growth whether it is from a global slowdown but from the president's trade wars. today's decision matters for the us economy in terms of helping businesses and making mortgages and loans more affordable for ordinary americans. but it also matters in a globalised economy where interest rates and the strength of the dollar affect other countries. let's speak to our business correspondent samira hussain who joins us from new york. michelle fleury, washignton. what do the experts

think the effect will be on the economy? as the strategist was saying just now, a lot of this has to do with the global economy and international concerns rather than domestic ones that are really intruding and shaping on american monetary policy. they are worried about the impact on trade tensions on american business, spending and on the manufacturing sector care which is been weak for the last six months, we have seen wea kness the last six months, we have seen weakness happening in the sector. the other thing they're looking at is overseas, interest rates and parts of the road are starting to come down in particular talking about weakness in europe but also in china and that is what i think is driving today's arguments. and do we expect more cuts to come? if you listen to some of the questions that he faced during the

press co nfe re nce , questions that he faced during the press conference, there was a sense of 0k, press conference, there was a sense of ok, if this is to address some of the concerns about trade, what is the concerns about trade, what is the impact that it will have? this isa the impact that it will have? this is a relatively new thing. that monetary policy responding to trade impacts is an area where there has not been much work done before but he did go further to say that look, this is not the start of a long series of interest rate cuts, like one might expect during a recession. he said this is what we think of as a mid—cycle adjustment and in other words, small shifts to reflect what they see as weakness and to make sure that the expansion in america continues. president trump has been very critical of the fed chairjerome powell,

and has been demanding this cut since the fed put up rates last december. on tuesday he tweeted this. so how much of today's decision is pandering to donald trump's demands? we never take into political considerations, there is no place for that. we do not conduct monetary policy to prove her independence. it is at the core of what they do here and yet he continues to be beset by these questions, which have their way the fed turns they are asked why not they can just respond to the president and in some ways they are, but not necessarily to the words that are coming out of the white house, but the actions, particularly on trade policy and

again, he was careful to try and not get drawn into a political debate saying that while he was trying to respond to the trade tensions in the impact he was having on the us economy, they did not want to evaluate trade policy, given a powerful remark to his strategies on trade. what do you think the impact might be on consumers under these cuts? domestically, normally, when you cut rates as any central bank around the road, it lowers the cost of borrowing so if you're applying for new credit card or a mortgage, and can be a little bit cheaper and the thing is that people will go out and spend more and maybe buy that dream home. in this case, the economists i've been speaking to have said it may not make that much ofa have said it may not make that much of a difference in part because this was highly anticipated and it is only a small cut. this is something he said look, despite keeping the

expansion going, we are starting to see it reach corners of the economy and has not before, in particular those at the bottom of the ladder. the poorest parts of american society. and that is why it was so important to keep it growing at this moment. borisjohnson has made his first visit to the northern ireland as british prime minister. and he's had some tricky conversations there, particularly over brexit. that's because northern ireland's future has become the main sticking point in the whole brexit debate. this was mrjohnson at the start of the day. i expect brexit may come up a little bit. i do not rule that out i think the crucial thing distress is that obviously attach each importance to the letter, the spirit of the belfast agreement and we will be insisting on that. we heard borisjohnson mention the good friday agreement. that's the 1998 peace deal that brought about an end to decades

of violence in northern ireland, known as the troubles. it led to the removal of checks on the border. but many people in northern ireland are worried that brexit means those checks will have to be put back in place. here's chris morris from bbc reality check to explain why. this line between the irish republic and northern ireland would be the only land border between the uk in the european union. and that matters for trade because in theory there should be checks on stuff crossing the border after brexit. but no one wants new inspections on the border. they bring back memories of 30 years of conflict in northern ireland. and checkpoints could become a target. so the uk and the eu have to agree a trade relationship in the future that keeps the border as open as open as it is now. but reaching that new agreement is less likely now the uk is considering leaving the eu without a deal. here's the leader of sinn fein on that prospect. this would be catastrophic for the irish economy, for irish livelihoods,

for our society, for politics and for our peace accord. that's the view of sinn fein. remember they would like to see northern ireland leave the uk and unite with the republic. on this trip borisjohnson also met a politician who wants the complete opposite — that's this woman arlene foster. she's the leader of the dup. its mps are currently keeping mrjohnson's conservative party in power. if they withdraw support his government falls. this was her after meeting the new pm. what we want to see is a sensible way forward that recognises that the whole of the united kingdom are leaving the european union, the republic of ireland remains in the singles market and we have to find a way of dealing with that. we can do that, i believe firmly we can do that. arlene foster was very clear to point out that "the whole of the uk" — including northern ireland — is leaving the eu. she's worried mrjohnson's government might look for a compromise that keeps northern ireland in the eu's single market and customs union,

while taking the rest of the uk out. that's a little too close to northern ireland leaving the uk and joining the republic for the dup‘s liking. so is a united ireland a possibility? here's our correspondent emma vardy in belfast. the brexit process it has really brought the arguments about a border pole irish unity back to the forefront, because conversely, sinn fein are very strongly opposed to brexit, northern ireland voted to remain within the eu, but the prospect of a no—deal brexit growing actually strengthens the possibility of a border pole and increases the likelihood and many peoples opinions of the prospect of irish unity, peoples opinions of the prospect of irish unity, something that perhaps the brexit referendum seemed quite a distant possibility. but conversely, sinn fein arguing for the softest possible brexit they would prefer not to have brexit at all. but actually have the hardest form of brexit in one way actually does, if you like, move them closer

to their ultimate goal in their ideology which is to create the set of circumstances needed for a border pole. but that is something that would have to be called by the secretary of state and be opposed very strongly by the democratic unionists here. stay with us on outside source — still to come. the other half of the huge deal would for the democratic candidate having their debate. an independent inquiry has found that hundreds of vulnerable children were repeatedly raped and sexually abused while in homes, or foster care in nottinghamshire. the abuse was known about, but tolerated and overlooked. the mpjohn mann —— represents 30 of the victims.

what i wanted to see was in there and it is hundreds of children who we re and it is hundreds of children who were impacted, it is thousands and many thousands and we should also bearin many thousands and we should also bear in mind, i am representing people covering six different local authorities, not just nottingham share. the only difference is that a group of survivors organised to get publicity. that is why the inquiry came to nottingham share. this been one of very many councils, this is not just the nottingham one of very many councils, this is notjust the nottingham problem and if people think that, they'll be missing the point entirely. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... the us federal reserve has cut interest rates for the first time, in over a decade. fed chairjerome powell said sustained pressure from president trump to cut rates did not influence their decision.

germany says it won't participate in any us—led naval mission to secure the strait of hormuz amid rising tension between iran and the west. the americans had appealed to the germans to take part in a european naval coalition proposed by britain. but germany's foreign minister said his country wanted to avoid any further escalation. president putin is sending in the russian army to fight wildfires raging across siberia. the blaze has been spreading through remote forests for at least a month and now covers nearly three million hectares —— roughly the size of belgium. as well as the immediate danger from fire, several regions have declared a state of emergency, because of heavy smog caused by the smoke. and this is the most watched video on our website. this toddler in chongqing, china survived falling six stories, from a tower block. passers—by on the street below stretched out a blanket to catch her, after she was spotted

dangling from a balcony. state tv reported that not only did she survive — she was completely uninjured after her fall. there's going to be another democratic debate in a few hours, in the process to to decide who will be nominated by the party to run against donald trump next year. tonight the front—runnerjoe biden will be on stage along with other leading names like cory booker, kirsten gillibrand and kamala harris. let's start with last night's debate. here are some highlights. right now, we have a dysfunctional health system. 87 million uninsured or underinsured, 500,000 dollars, 500,000 americans every year going bankrupt because of medical bills. i don't understand why anyone goes through all the trouble of running for president of the united states just to talk about will be really

just to talk about what we really can do and shouldn't fight for. can't do and shouldn't fight for. it is time to stop worrying about what the republicans will say. if it's true that if we embrace a far left agenda, they are going to say we are a bunch of crazy socialists. let's just stand up for the right policy and go up there and defend it. the participants in last night's debate were selected at random from the field of candidates. but one clear theme emerged — a clash so—called moderates, and progressives like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. here's cleve wootson from the washington post was watching the debate. we saw a really solid division and the debate outlined the choice that does before those voters. that is before those voters. whether they want a big giant structural change giant structural change in america and would do things here, versus a more pragmatic approach that some say may be more like trump. several of the moderates are saying, look, we have to convince a large swath of america, notjust democrats, notjust people

who believe what democrats believe and whether or not swinging extremely big going really extreme can convince most people in the middle as opposed to the people on the fringes. anthony zurcher is in detroit for the debates. i think elizabeth warren and bernie sandersjoined forces i think elizabeth warren and bernie sanders joined forces to defend their ideas which are ambitious against the host of moderate centrists were criticising them and i think elizabeth warren, as you heard, really crystallized her sides on why bother to run for president ifi on why bother to run for president if i you're going to do is criticise other plans as being too big and unrealistic. i think a lot of the people in the middle on this debate by people who could contend and need to break away from the pack, they really had some ground to make up

and it seemed like a lot of the attention was the clash between the progressives on one side and some of the lesser moderates really don't have much of a chance to win the denomination, so i think they probably came up with the short end of the stick. what do we have to look forward to tonight. is all the focus is onjoe biden? i think he is going to be at the centre of the stage in the centre of the spotlight because he had a less than universally acclaimed debate performance last time around, their criticisms that he was a bit too faltering about half a step too slow compared to the other candidates, he seems to have recovered his position after that performance, but they're going to be a lot of people watching a performance to see if there's a repeat of that if he has managed to sharpen his message because the criticism that we have heard from

elizabeth warren of the centrists we re elizabeth warren of the centrists were all they do is criticise. joe biden'sjob is to paint his were all they do is criticise. joe biden's job is to paint his sister is some sort of a plan —— system. and not say that the other ones are unrealistic. and he has to face off against some of the other candidates who may seem like trying to take him down a peg, cory booker and kristin is another, he has to be able to deflect some of these attacks and i think it's all going to be howjoe biden holds up under the pressure will stop my because of these candidates survive the next round of debates? there's going to be a lot of campaigning in iowa and new hampshire. there's going to be the continual pressure of raising the kind of money necessary to fuel these campaigns and you have to try and find some way of getting the

nationals attention outside of these debate stages to build up campaign donations and also pull standing because as of the two metrics that will qualify for the september debate where actual no, only two people are going to be on the stage and there only six left qualified so far to try and be the last four candidates to make it to that debate. stay with us and detroit. while the democrats are deciding how to take on donald trump, the bbc has been talking to one of the people that helped him win the presidency. steve bannon, the former manager of the trump campaign, has been speaking to our north america editor jon sopel next to the us border with mexico, about white house policy there. here we are with this privately built wall, donald trump came to power on the back of that powerful slogan, built the wall. he has now been office two and a half years and is responsible for next to nothing being built. because he's been fighting for this

from day one, but remember, it is political class he's been fighting, it's the courts he's been fighting and obviously the progressive democrats are, the open border types are really understanding that this is going to be essential to the 2020 election. so they're fighting in every step of the way. and the other charge that he has made against the president is that the way he does this is racist. i think that is the mainstream media isjust blowing it up. if you come down here, talk to the local people, it is the crime that is being brought here. it is the competition forjobs that is being brought here. it is actually anti—racist. what donald trump is trying to do is protect african—american and hispanic workers in these cities. steve bannon was also asked about statements like this earlier this month from president trump. the bbc and many other news organisations call this racist. but mr bannon does not agree.

when he talks to four american congresswomen who have got backgrounds from abroad and says you should go back to your own country. is that racist? i think when he says, here's the thing, he was making a point, it's not racist. particularly at congressman omar, which i am five, what she says is what she says. hang on. we should beat her at the polls, what somebody should do is run against her and beat her. i actually think she helps us because she is so anti—american. the president... the president of the united states has his own house style. anthony zurcher by detroit. and how much of a role does he have in political debate — on the airwaves in the usa now. not much of a role at all. he has been marginalised from the campaign.

he does not have access to donald trump any more. when he left the white house and was critical of some of the people around donald trump and donald trump himself. he took to twitter and blasted him as being crazy. so i think this is steve bannon looking back and analysing some of the strategies that he has and it does highlight some of his views as important way to win the election and the pipeline to the inner sanctum of the white house and thatis inner sanctum of the white house and that is long since dried up. this man, vg siddhartha was known as the coffee king of india. he founded what became india's largest coffee chain, cafe coffee day — but he's been found dead in unexplained circumstances. police says his body was found by a fisherman near a river here in the southern city of mangalore. it's still unclear what happened — but a letter was sent to his company's board of directors with a signature mr

siddhartha's family say is genuine. in it the businessman said he was in debt, saying: cafe coffee day was founded in 1996. it now has about 1750 cafes across india. its first outlet wooed customers by offering them free internet access with their cappuccinos. our business correspondent sameer hashmi has more. he was described as the coffee king of india because he really brought in the coffee culture in india. in a country which is a tea drinking nation. in that sense, he was a pioneer, he set up this huge cafe coffee day he set up this huge cafe coffee day brand which in a way also symbolised india as a rising economic growth story in the 1990s, that is when its economy was liberalised and started

to grow as an economy. it is really middled that growth of this country. so in that sense, it has left everyone shocked. he was a very shy person, kept a very low profile even though he ran such a huge business. didn't give too many interviews, didn't interact with the media much. and really wanted to stay away from the spotlight. you hardly saw him in the public eye are giving too many interviews but the brand he ended up creating, cafe coffee day was so magnanimous cafe coffee day was so magnanimous and synonymous with the success of india's economic growth story that he was pretty well—known, at least in the business and that is why it has left many people shocked and especially the business community because they always talked of him very highly and considered him as a success story. we'll be back in a few minutes on ooutside source minutes on outside source with more on our top story — the us federal reserve cutits key interest rate for the first time since 2008.

cut its key interest rate for the first time since 2008. we have heard from the fed chairman. remember. he has long been under pressure from president trump to cut rates. but he has said that today's decision was never a question of pandering to donald trump's demands. we never take into account political considerations, there's no room for we also did not conduct monetary policy to provide independence. we will be back with market reaction and a few minutes. critics argue that the rate cut will not help and that the rate cut will not help and that the rate cut will not help and that the fed is pandering to donald trump which he denies and cutting rates makes borrowing money a lot cheaper for businesses and support for the measure was not unanimous.

we would good evening. we will be heading to a few places we don't normally get to on the world whether round the bulletin. the first will be eastern parts of russia. particularly around the region of eastern russia where we saw historic flooding take place during june we saw historic flooding take place duringjune and we saw historic flooding take place during june and the same areas that been hit yet again. look at these amazing aerial shots and widespread flooding and massive amounts of destruction and bad news for those who live here as well because there is more heavy rain to come over the days ahead. further south to south china this is rather tropical storm is moving on toward, not much like we see in the area of low pressure and some intense rain in southwest

china and we have this low pressure system and lots of moisture across the south china sea, and storm clouds across southern china, hong kong has going to be seeing some sundry downpours as well as potentially damaging gusts of wind before easing in northern vietnam, the rain will get heavier and heavier. and another region. greenland. he had seen the heat wave peak across parts of europe, heading towards iceland and greenland. temperatures stay below freezing during the past 2a hours, and the summit camp. this is 3000 metres above sea level, it hit the freezing mark and if that exists, that will bea mark and if that exists, that will be a massive impact on the ice caps on agreement as well. the european heat wave, it will have a massive impact on the rivers. this is

france, it has been running lower in some parts and drop restrictions have been in place. if you're heading out to france in the next few weeks, you may be under stricter restrictions due to the valley having central zones. not much as we head into thursday with chances of showers for the south towards the region. across europe we have denmark and poland, down to the remaining bulgaria, but pretty chilly air, it will drop in the next couple of days and the heat across the rest of europe though nothing to severe. some of the harsher conditions to the mediterranean, breezy to the west, but there's denied to friday those in the alpine regions in the adriatic, some very severe storms and some mudslides too. but on the thunderstorms in the next few days, the showers become

fewer number and later as well. more on that and a half an hour.

hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. the us federal reserve cuts interest rates, for the first time in a decade. we decided today to lower the target for the federalfunding we decided today to lower the target for the federal funding rate we decided today to lower the target for the federalfunding rate by we decided today to lower the target for the federal funding rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a range of 2% to a two and half percent. making that cut the fed says the economic outlook in the us is "uncertain" — and says it will continue to act to "sustain the expansion". police in india open a murder investigation against a politician, after a car crash involving a teenager who accused him of rape. with thisjuly on track to be the hottest ever recorded — scientists say the ten years with the highest temperatures, have all happened since the turn of the millenium.

and we'l find out why a species of porpoise — also known as the senorita of the sea — has become so rare, fewer than 20, are thought to remain. the us central bank, the federal reserve, has announced its first cut in interest rates for more than a decade. cutting by 0.25% to a range of 2% to 2.25%. but the stock markets in new york haven't reacted well. they closed about half an hour ago and as you can see they were all down. dow and s&p 500 suffered their biggest daily percentage drops since the end of may because investors aren't clear about what's going to happen next the feds chairjerome powell has been explaining why the cut was made.

the performance of the economy has been reasonably good, the position of the economy is as close to our objective as its been in a long time. and the outlook is also good. what we had been monitoring since the beginning of the year is effectively the downside risk to the outlet from weakening global growth and we see that everywhere, weak manufacturing, we global growth particular the eu and china. in addition, we see trade policy developments which at times had been disruptive and lets out, and inflation writing below target. we see those as threats to wipe is clearly a favourable outlook and we see this action is designed to support them and keep that i look variable. samira hussain is our correspondent in new york. if he says the outlook is favourable, why has the market reacted like that? well, because it seems like this is probably going to bea seems like this is probably going to be a one half, we are not going to

see of rate cuts that from the press conference and the comments we have been hearing from mr powell, it really seems that this is when it does preventative kind of cuts and he doesn't expect to be doing a lot more of them. so from a market point of view, what they already knew this rate cut was going to happen, so they did what they called a price get in. so they already had boost from that rate cut bacon, so they know there's not going to be any good shares coming so they think we did not like what we are hearing. stay with us. one of the trade tensions jerome powell was talking about is the us china trade war. this is a tweet from the chinese state run newspaper global times saying that "the latest round of #china—us #tradetalks ended with "candid, constructive and efficient" in—depth exchanges in #shanghai and the next round will take place in the #us in september". and the white house agreed "the meetings were constructive, and we expect negotiations on an enforceable trade deal to continue in washington". let's go back to samira.

does it see my progress? it certainly is progress because both sides have been using positive language when describing these particular trade talks, and that they are still talking and they had set a new date for future trade talks. so that's all really good. but the big thorny issues still remain, how much of us agricultural products will china actually purchase? and then, how much will china or what kind of mood to china will make to protect american intellectual property? these had been the biggest sticking points and the sticking points remain. so what are the main hurdles they still have to ove rco m e are the main hurdles they still have to overcome dan? well it's really one of those two issues about the agricultural products and protecting us intellectual rights, and one thing we have heard from china at the end of these toxins that love, china will buy agriculture products

in the united states, but it has to be dictated by what is happening domestically or what the domestic needs are, and because of a massive call that's ongoing with lots of the pigs in china, —— call, at the need for lots of grain and soybean from the united states has really lessened, so that's one caveat which china is saying yeah, we will buy the stuff but only as much as we need. thank you very much connected to see you. this is from the business news website business insider "ryanair says it will cut 900 pilot and flight attendantjobs because of brexit concerns and the boeing 737 max grounding". london's stansted airport is one ryanair‘s biggest bases and staff there could well be affected. our correspondent tom burridge is there with more details.

the significant fall in profits of ryanair is the significant fall in profits of rya nair is partly the significant fall in profits of ryanair is partly down to the dog eat dog world at being a european budget airline. putting bums on seats at cheap prices and high fuel costs, but there are two factors ryanair says are playing here. first, possibility of britain leaving the eu without a deal, and possibility of that has gone up with a new government coming in and the rhetoric. ryanair says a new government coming in and the rhetoric. rya nair says it's a new government coming in and the rhetoric. ryanair says it's worried about the impact it will have on the basis but here in the uk and ireland. you see how big the base here is from the planes taking off. the other factor is a grounding of the 737 max. the boeing 737 max, remember that's the aircraft crashed twice in similar circumstances and neither of minds one in tunisia gather in ethiopia —— indonesia. they had ordered two more of those aircraft when they should have recited —— received them but they don't know when they will start

receiving those plans and how many insect injunctions because belling is trying to get the air back in and convince regulators it safe and it's not going to plan and keep skin pushed back, so therefore they're saying they have to lose jobs because it has a surplus going forward the 500 pilots and 400 cabin crew. now where the jobs will go is not clear yet, ryanair is vast across europe, but this is its biggest base here at london stanford said likely some of the jobs will go here. police in india have opened a murder investigation against a politician with the ruling bjp party, after a car crash involving a teenager who had accused him of rape. the alleged attack is said to have taken place here, in the city of unnao in the northern state of uttar pradesh. a 17 year old girl said this man, kuldeep sengar, raped her at his home in 2017. he was only taken in for questioning the following year, after the girl set herself on fire — in protest at the lack of action by authorities. the teenager is now critically ill

in hospital, after this car crash on sunday, which killed two of her aunts. her sister says this was a deliberate attempt on her life. we wa nt we want justice. we wantjustice. the legislator should be hanged. whoever did this should be hanged. whoever did this should be hanged. i am angry with the prime minister and the local administration. we have not got justice at five. they killed my aunts and now they want us eliminated. finish us if we are not going to dojustice eliminated. finish us if we are not going to do justice anyway. mr sengar has now been charged with rape and is injail awaiting trial — he has consistently denied the allegations. the case has triggered outrage with opposition groups accusing the government of moving too slowly to investigate claims that the family were being targeted. lawyer tamanna pankaj has tweeted "the family of #unnao rape survivor had complained 35 times to the authorities, that they feared for their lives and were being threatened.

yet, no action was taken. 35 times! yes, read that again." and sanjatha from the indian national congress party has tweeted "#unnao is a moment of reckoning for india: have we lost it? or have we all given up? does the word justice exist in our violent land?" the bbc‘s divya arya is outside the hospital where the teenager is being treated, and says the case is now being looked into by the country's highest court. the supreme court has said that there was a ladder that was supposedly written by the family talking about the threats they received from the ruling bjp lawmaker who has accused of raping to victim, who is housed there behind me and this hospital. but that letter in fact never reached at the chiefjustice that letter in fact never reached at the chief justice of that letter in fact never reached at the chiefjustice of india and he only found out about the letter now that the case is covered in the media today. and the supreme court is not going to hear and look at what the letter is saying, the chief justice of india has said he would try and do something constructive in

a situation which are right now is very distracted and volatility, as he says, and the letter as we now have said that there have been threats continuously and the family has faced this for almost a year. the doctor says the condition of the rain victim is still critical, though stable so not deteriorating since she has in the hospital, but it's a wait and watch. the family has cremated the bodies of the two aunts who died in the car crash today according to hindu rituals, the back of the hospital waiting, hoping that victim survived this ordeal and is able to continue what they say is i fight for justice. stay with us on outside source — still to come... they're stepping up precautions against ebola in central africa — after a second person dies from the disease, in a big city. more heavy rain is causing disruption across swathes of northern england — with flooding tonight in cheshire

and south manchester. yesterday a months worth of rain fell in just four hours in parts of north yorkshire. bridges collapsed and roads were washed away. judith moritz reports. pulled out of the flood, this toddler was carried out of raging water. his family were in the car when rescuers reached them. they came round the fields and waded through to the back of our car and rescued us and a few others from the boot of the car. from the boot of the car? the boot, yeah, i guess we were on a slope, it seemed like the water was lowest and slowest that way. this was a deluge, a flash flood which submerged cars, washed roads away and destroyed bridges. hailstones hammered down on this housing estate in leyburn. you could not believe what you were filming? no. alison was in disbelief as she videoed the storm on her phone. today she was left to clear up

and reflect on the speed with which the flood took hold. there was a carpet of hailstones across everywhere, it was like winter, like it had snowed. the next thing i heard was gurgling up my plughole in the bathroom. i have never heard that before. and the rain started and i went downstairs to make a cup of tea and realised the water was coming through the door. down the road the fire station was underwater. whilst the firefighters were working hard to help those affected, their own cars were flooded and written off. the fire station was one of the first victims tonight the region is dealing with the aftermath and hoping there is no more to come, but the environment agency said heavy downpours and flash flooding were the result of climate change and more intense weather events are likely in future. judith moritz, bbc news, north yorkshire.

this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... the us federal reserve has cut interest rates for the first time, in over a decade. fed chairjerome powell said sustained pressure from president trump to cut rates did not influence their decision. other stories... germany says it won't participate in any us—led naval mission to secure the strait of hormuz amid rising tension between iran and the west. the americans had appealed to the germans to take part in a european naval coalition proposed by britain. but germany's foreign minister said his country wanted to avoid any further escalation. president putin is sending in the russian army to fight wildfires raging across siberia. the blaze has been spreading through remote forests for at least a month and now covers nearly three million hectares — roughly the size of belgium. as well as the immediate danger from fire, several regions have

declared a state of emergency, because of heavy smog caused by the smoke. and this is the most watched video on our website. this toddler in chongqing, china survived falling six stories, from a tower block. passers—by on the street below stretched out a blanket to catch her, after she was spotted dangling from a balcony. state tv reported that not only did she survive — she was completely uninjured after her fall. a second person has died of ebola in the city of goma in the democratic republic of congo goma is an important transport hub here, on the border with rwanda. health authorities fear the virus could take hold in the densely populated city. here's the co—ordinator of the ebola response team for the drcs. a year of the ball and our country,

it's unusual. —— ebola. and we are there to stop the outbreak. we will work to avoid the spreading of this disease from crossing the borders and to other countries. so i am confident that we will work and stop his outbreak. it's been nearly a year since the ebola outbreak first began in the democratic republic of congo. we can see from this graph how the figures have risen since august — and now there have been more than two and a half thousand cases and nearly 1700 deaths. the world health organization had declared it a global health emergency. it's the highest level of alarm and has only been used four times previously — including the ebola epidemic that devastated parts of west africa from 2014 to 2016, and killed more than 11,000 people. dr margaret harris is from the world health organisation

and shejoins us live now from goma. thank you for speaking to us how worrying is this latest development? we have always been concerned a possibility of somebody coming here with the virus. because if the city close to 2 million people and as you mention, it's the gateway to other countries in the region, particularly rwanda, and there are land borders, it's got one of the busiest land crossings in the world, hundreds of thousands of people across. but, we have been watching and waiting and there's lots of work being done that when such an event happens, work swings into action and everything is done to prevent for the transmission stop live what specific actions can you put in place for an alarm like this that's raised?

place for an alarm like this that's raised ? one place for an alarm like this that's raised? one of the important things you can do is understand the community around with a person is infected. this is been a struggle at one of the things that's made it very difficult to work in this particular part of congo, as the professor said in his clip, it's unusualfor a condo professor said in his clip, it's unusual for a condo for an outbreak of this long, but this is a part of congo that never had ebola before. and there are many closed communities that did not believe that it was here. my impression of the city is that people had been aware of ebola and am now very aware that it's in their midst, and so they will work together to ensure transmission doesn't get further. i'm just wondering what sort of lessons were learned from the massive outbreak in west africa, how much easier it is that that's the right word to use, to tackle it this time round? i lesson we learned it, andi time round? i lesson we learned it, and i keep sounding about community engagement, that was in a lesson, andi engagement, that was in a lesson, and i think one of the lessons we

didn't quite learn what community engagement is not a 1—size—fits—all thing, and this is something you have to do group by group and place by place. one of the other things we had now that we did it last time is a very effective vaccine. but, it's only as effective as the people it gets into, so if you did not identify all the people who had been infected, and all the people who had been infected do not come forward for vaccination, then it's not the perfect tool. but we certainly think this outbreak would be a lot bigger and would have gone a lot further had we not had vaccinations. doctor margaret harris, thank you very much for taking the time to talk to. some breaking news to bring you. the united states on wednesday imposed sanctions on iranian foreign minister mohammad javad zarif.

the treasury department said it was imposing sanctions on zarif for acting on behalf of iranian supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei. a wildlife story now, and unfortunately not a good one. this is the vaquita porpoise, and scientists are warning it is heading towards extinction. it primarily lives here, in the gulf of mexico, and the main reason for its decline are these, illegalfishing nets called gillnets. it's so bad that scientists writing in the royal society open science journal say "we estimate fewer than 19 vaquitas remained as of summer 2018". now — as you can imagine with so few of them left, the animals are difficult and expensive to survey visually, but luckily they make echo—location clicks like this almost constantly. clicking.

i've been speaking to our reporter beth simms, about the story the bbc‘s beth timms who says the animals are known as the "senoritas of the sea". here's what else shes been telling me. one of the researchers i spoke today said they could be extinct within a year. and that's only since 2011 that such a short space of time for such a catastrophic definition of the population. yes and it's all happening because of these nets, basically in that area, they have fishing a specific fish called —— which is in then chinese medicine market, and the bladder can sell up to £9,000 sorry dollars, and there being overfished and a band has now been put on the fish, so now the next had been banned since 2015 by mexican government. and the porpoises are getting caught in them, but unfortunately, due to the demand for that fish, the purposes are still getting trapped in these

nets. so it's possible quite clearly to say it's entirely a man—made disaster for the species. exactly it's these nets that are to blame, but there is still hope. the mexican navy right now are trying to police this more effectively and also that organisations out there that have boats in the area trying to protect the small population of only ten, and the professor told me that while it's not impossible for the population to recover after reducing by such a large amount, subpopulations like the blue iguana and a weeping crane and the blackford barrett have all managed to recover after dwindling so much. there is still optimism basically, that we had 19 mt in the introduction beer saying he could be ten. yes they are monitoring at the moment and is being done visually and by echolocation, said the precise figure is not exact at the moment, but the experts had told me that it's between as few as 19 but

could be smallest time. that still quite challenging to find spoke a few creatures in this area that sets the biggest greater london stop live also a positive because it's a small area, it can be policed and protected. scientists say thisjuly is on track to be the hottest month ever recorded on earth — and 2019 the second hottest year. today the met office here in the uk has published a climate report tweet today the met office here in the uk has published a climate report with the headline: the "ten warmest years have all occured since 2002 and the ten coldest were all before 1963". you can see that "red heat trend" creeping up in this image. the uk also had its hottest ever day last week. david shukman reports. by the end of the first week injanuary, the sea had begun to freeze and our coasts and rivers began to look exactly like the arctic. the punishing winter of 1963. deepfreeze conditions

gripped the country. in one of the chilliest years in britain for more than a century, would this train make it through? but since then, we haven't had a year quite as cold. instead, scenes like this in the heat wave last week are becoming more familiar. trains stopped as power lines sagged, thousands of passengers left stranded. scientists say it is more evidence of our climate changing. we have noticed that the warmer years we are seeing are happening on a much more regular basis in the recent decades, and the colder years, the extreme cold, you have to go much, much further back in history to find the coldest years. this is creating winners and losers. air conditioning is now in huge demand. new met office figures make clear why. what is really striking about this analysis, stretching back to 1884, is how dramatically things have changed. air conditioning was hardly

thought of when britain had its ten coldest years. here they are, and the last of them was in 1963. but now look at the contrast with things more recently. this is britain's ten warmest years and they have all happened since 2002. air conditioning, of course, becoming a lot more common. it is absolutely manic. on any hot day where the temperature is 27, 28 or higher, we are probably taking, we are probably fielding somewhere between 5000 and 10,000 calls a day. we are set for more extremes of weather. this was richmond in yorkshire yesterday. the met office says our summers are becoming wetter as the average temperature keeps rising. some breaking news to bring you. the united states on wednesday imposed sanctions on iranian foreign minister mohammad javad zarif. the treasury department said it was imposing sanctions on zarif for acting on behalf of iranian supreme leader

ayatollah ali khamenei.. hello, the past week has seen the weather lurching from one extreme to another, record heat to flash flooding. ina another, record heat to flash flooding. in a few days, the weather will calm down a little bit. turning dry and showers will turn fewer. over the past 24 and 36 hours, this cloud has pushed across the uk in an area of low pressure bringing rain on tuesday. heavy downpour is on wednesday, but that's where the cloud in the central blood pressure heading to the north sea as you see that for thursday. we will start dry and some sunshine and bubble up showers again across scotland. perhaps seven counties in england as well, but showers fewer, more places dry with sunshine and temperatures

on thursday a shade higher than wednesday. potential for heavy showers around even the rumble of thunder continuing into early evenings as a go to nightfall, showers begin to fade away. by the end of the week, the area of low pressure and the bulk of showers and is and then your content with localised coming from this week ridge of high pressure. not preventing showers farming mind you, for developing through the day perhaps northern england and again southern counties as well. but a drier day in scotland. showers later by this stage, and lots of sunshine coming out feeling quite warm temperatures into the low 20s. heading into the weekend, another area of low pressure to contend with. it sits out here for a while and pushes ahead the weather friend from the atlantic. we see a patchy rain coming and to southern thailand, and the far southwest of england but i had a bit slimy spouse

and cried bubbling up through the day which could trigger if you like showers especially on the eastern side of the uk and one conditions in the southeast where it's likely to stay dry through the weekend. the weather front coming in from the atla ntic always weather front coming in from the atlantic always more active further northwest across the cape. this begins more in red on sunday, mainly bringing wet weather toward scotland and births in northwest england. drierfurther and births in northwest england. drier further south and east. and births in northwest england. drierfurther south and east. light wind and sunshine, turns out quite warm in the southeast of england and the temperature is about 27. pressed rather friend fading away, swallowed up rather friend fading away, swallowed up by rather friend fading away, swallowed up by the next line, that area of low pressure to the west for this time being. this is all that's left at the first weather friend to bringing patchy rain across northern scotland, the next one is wet weather in northern ireland. large

price of the uk have a dry day on monday and sunshine at times the temperature is and the low and mid 20s. looking further afield, we have to look at this jet stream, fast moving or a sudden position further south. stronger arm ofjet stream coming from newfoundland, bringing areas of low pressure moving across the yolk —— he an excellent coming in the back end of next week looking deep. unusually deep and far south across the uk for this time of year, essentially unsettled theme goes into next week but nothing particularly extreme and a little unusualfor particularly extreme and a little unusual for august.

the children abused in care in nottinghamshire, a report finds five decades of failings. foster homes and care homes, vulnerable children we re and care homes, vulnerable children were threatened, physically harmed and sexually assaulted. were threatened, physically harmed and sexually assaultedlj were threatened, physically harmed and sexually assaulted. ijust wa nted and sexually assaulted. ijust wanted to go home and that is all i kept on focusing on, thinking someone was kept on focusing on, thinking someone was going to come and fetch me and take me home. the report says repeated mistakes by the local council put more children in danger. also tonight... heavy rain brings flash flooding to large parts of the north of england, with some areas underwater. in north yorkshire, roads have been badly affected and more rain is on the way. boris

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