well are you this is bbc news — the headlines: the us speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, has repeated her warning that congress will veto a us—uk trade agreement if brexit undermines the good friday this is bbc news with agreement — which secured peace the latest headlines in northern ireland. for viewers in the uk joe biden — the democratic and around the world. presidnetial candidate — i'm mike embley. has voice similar concerns. the us states of alabama, florida, and mississippi have declared states of emergency fresh warnings for after hurricane sally the uk from senior us battered coastal areas. experts at the national politicians — jeopardise hurricane centre said the storm the good friday agreement — and there will be no had caused catastrophic trade deal. hurricane sally makes and historic flooding landfall in america — causing catastrophic flooding, to the region. with winds exceeding 160km/h. the storm is now moving the former head of world athletics‘ governing inland at a walking body, lamine diack, pace, exacerbating flooding. is jailed for covering up evidence of russian doping. lamine diack — the former in south america, the amazon head of athletics' region is once again suffering govering body — has been sentenced to four years more devastating fires in prison — two of them as the brazilian government suspended — after being faces more calls to convicted of taking bribes to cover up positive drugs tests. he was also found guilty of delaying anti—doping procedures against russian athletes. protect the rainforest.

and we go to germany to find the syrian refugee who crossed europe in her wheelchair five years ago. the us house speaker nancy pelosi has repeated her warning that congress will veto a us—uk trade agreement if brexit undermines the good friday agreement, which secured peace in northern ireland. in a statement after she held talks in washington with the uk foreign secretary dominic raab. she said: raab earlier told congressional leaders that the good friday agreement was under threat from the "politicisation" of northern ireland by the eu.

and shortly after ms pelosi issued her statement, joe biden, the democratic candidate has tweeted this: we can cross live to our washington correspondent nomia iqbal. bring us up—to—date on this, this is quite a serious develop. that's right. the brexit talks of being high on the washington agenda here, dominic raabe has been here to try and reassure politicians and all the latest developments on brexit, and at the press conference he held with the secretary of state mike pompeo, the bbc asked that question about the concerns over the mining of the good friday agreement and mike pompeo said

he trusts the uk to do the right thing but as we heard, nancy pelosi, an incredibly powerfulfigure here, said there is no way it was going to be any us and uk trade deal if it does undermine that agreement and just add to the statement she released at the meeting, mr raab, she said, the good friday agreement is a beacon of hope for peaceloving people throughout the whole world. her party controls the lower house of congress. they can lower house of congress. they ca n veto lower house of congress. they can veto this and of course, joe biden running to be president, he said they will become president. there is no way they're going to back a deal that basically undermines the agreement. i want to ask you about president trump was mike latest claims about a vaccine being rolled out imminently in the united states. this is what he said a short while ago. we are on track to deliver and distribute the vaccine in a very, very

safe and affect of manner. we think we can start sometime in october. so as soon as it's announced, we are able to start. that will be from mid—october on, maybe a little bit later than that that we will be all set, so as soon as it's given the go—ahead and they are doing trials, as you know, and as soon as it's given the go—ahead, we will get it out, defeat the virus. obviously the president has an election to fight but on the most optimistic timescale that is extraordinary, isn't it, and seems contrary to what the scientists and medics are saying? extremely contradictory. i'm curious to know what kind of conversation he is going to have with robert redfield, the director of the centres for disease control and prevention. he has been testifying to a panel of senators today and he made it very clear, he said if a vaccine does become available, it will not be able to be

rolled out to the american public next summer. he was asked about the accusations that mr trump is trying to politicise the coronavirus response. in fact the press conference, he kept referring to the blue states is responsible for the high levels of coronavirus. the blue states are those that tend to vote for the democratic party in the election and mr redfield said that under his watch, his agency would not be compromised whatsoever. suitable be really interesting to see if they both indeed do have any conversations but mr trump was incredibly contradictory, saying mr redfield was confused, mistaken. the president has suggested that mr redfield is confused. yes, it was quite an extraordinary comment. he said, and i can give you the quote, he says i think its incorrect information, i called him, he didn't tell me that, i think

you got the message, his maybe confused, maybe it was stated incorrect but mr redfield was very clear in the testimony that he gave to the panel of senators today, and in fact he has just tweeted about half—an—hour ago, in which he said that vaccines are important but he reminded the american public that the best thing you can do right now to protect yourself from the virus is where a mask which is something that mr trump has contradicted before. all this only like to confuse everybody a little bit more u nfortu nately. a little bit more unfortunately. thank you very much, nomia. tropical storm sally has made landfall along the gulf coast in the us state of alabama, causing devastating flooding and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses. sally was downgraded to a tropical storm in the last few hours but the national hurricane center in the us says it could still drench the region with an estimated 60 centimetres of rain. alabama, florida and mississippi have all declared states of emergency.

as we've been here in this region for the last few days, several people have spoken with have said while the right necessarily concerns about where hurricane sally is going, as in its shifted east in the south—eastern part of the united states, they are concerned about those other tropical storms in that area for that reason. obviously, cities like a new orleans ora biloxi, mississippi — all in that kind of projected area that could be impacted by these hurricanes and so i think you're starting to see a lot of people, particularly officials, take the necessary precautions in terms of warning citizens to either evacuate or prepare their buildings — whether that's sandbags in front of the buildings or board up their windows to try to prevent as much storm damage as possible. but we're here in mobile, alabama that saw a significant

portion of the storm damage from hurricane sally. if you can look behind me, you can see several toppled over trees and things like that. this is one of the historic parks right in the middle of the city here, and basically what has been going on so far here is showers, heavy winds all throughout the day today. we had officials earlier today kind of rope off all of this park here just to try to get people from coming inside of the park because there's still several dozen trees here that could fall at any momentjust because of how wet and windy it is here in alabama. south america is currently going through one of its worst fire seasons on record — with the blazes extending beyond the amazon and into the world's largest wetlands, the pa nta nal. they're home to some of the planet's most unique species — some of which were already endangered — and which now face the loss of their home environment. katy watson has visited the amazonian state worst—affected by the fires and sent this report. above the canopy, unmissable signs that the amazon is burning. but it's on the ground where the damage has been done. this virgin forest

gone forever. this is one of dozens of fires we've seen while driving through the forest today and this is a specially protected area. clearly, few people are paying attention to the fact there's a fire ban that's been put in place after the international outcry we saw last year. you wonder what hope there is when the government says that the fires don't even exist. for raimundo, the fires are all too real. a cocoa producer, he shows me where the neighbouring cattle farm burnt its land a few weeks ago. and nearly destroyed his livelihood. translation: they set fire to the fields after the decree was introduced. i don't know why they didn't comply with the law. we often ask that. they must have special contacts. they know that they can commit the crimes and they aren't afraid of anything. small farmers like raimundo face powerful opposition, though. with the backing from the president, the agricultural lobby is more

formidable than ever. and they keep burning. this part of brazil has become a deforestation hotspot. then comes the burning to make way for the fields of cattle. there's nothing natural about these fires. and they keep burning. yet jair bolsonaro remains defiant. he slashed the budgets of brazil's environmental agencies, instead putting the army in charge of protecting the rainforest. and earlier this month he publicly called environmental ngos a cancer. the president has problems with democracy. he can't deal with people that have different opinions. the cancer against the future of brazil is the government action against the environment. it's notjust the amazon, though, that's burning. further south, the world's largest wetlands, known as the pa nta nal, is also ablaze. exacerbated by the worst drought jair bolsonaro sees the amazon

as a cash cow, a way for brazilians to prosper, but the way it's going, this is what the future will be, the slow death of the world's biggest forest, and time is running out for one of the most unique places on earth. katy watson, bbc news, in the amazon. he was once one of the most powerful men in world sport. but now lamine diack, the former head of the world athletics governing body, has been sentenced to four years in prison, two of them suspended. he was convicted of taking bribes from athletes to cover diack‘s laywers said they will appeal against the conviction. translation: we have just heard the verdict and we are telling you straightaway that diack‘s defence team will appeal that decision. this decision is unfairand inhumane. unfair because we see that the judges have tried to be politically correct and have wanted to use mr diack as a scapegoat. stay with us on bbc news — still to come: we go to germany —

to find the syrian refugee —— a un investigation says venezuela's government ordered the torture and murder of opponents. we'll speak to one of the report's authors 30 hours after the earthquake that devastated mexico city, rescue teams still have no idea just how many people have died. there is people alive and there is people not alive. we just can help and give whatever we got. a state funeral has been held for princess grace of monaco, at the church where she married prince rainier, 26 years ago. it looked as though they had come to fight a war. but their mission is to bring peace to east timor, and nowhere on earth needs it more badly. the government's case has been forcefully presented by monsieur badinter, the justice minister.

he's campaigned vigorously for abolition, having once witnessed one of his clients being executed. elizabeth seton has spent much of her time at this grotto, and every year hundreds of pilgrimages are made here. now that she has become a saint, it is expected that this area will be inundated with tourists. the mayor and local businesses regard the anticipated boom as yet another blessing of saint elizabeth. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: more warnings for the uk from senior us politicians — jeopardise the good friday agreement and there will be no trade deal. the united nations is accusing senior venezuelan officials of human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity. a human rights council investigation found what it says is evidence of systematic violence for the past six yea rs. it says president nicolas maduro and senior ministers were not only aware of the crimes, but gave the orders and the means to carry them out. i'm joined from santiago

in chile by one of the report's authors, francisco cox vial. thank you for your time. you are not allowed into the country and you are relying on anecdotal evidence. how sure are you that it is accurate? actually, we do have information that is strong in the sense that we interviewed... i don't know if you can hear me. the picture is frozen and we cannot hear sound. can you hear me? i am. yes. let's persevere and see if the link it gets stronger. specifically i should ask you where you see the report going now and what you expect the outcome to be? we have delivered our report and let me

get some of what i was saying in terms of the evidence and information we gathered. we spoke to people who are insiders who are still in the security forces and gave us the patterns and the decision—making in those agencies. this report is based on the information that we gathered and there are many experiences in which investigations are done abroad and not because, and due to that they failed so we are very confident on the information that we are providing. where we see the report going is that it will be delivered to the un human rights council and then what the un council and other people will do with it is, well, it is what they will do. we investigated and we have given our conclusions to the un

human rights council and two, basically, the international community to take steps to bring justice for victims. and the human rights council cannot sanction. i know the chief of the council called for special action forces to be disbanded and they were not. how confident are you that the security council will take action given the attitudes of russia and china? we are lawyers, we are not in competition with ambassadors or at the vests. we fulfilled our mandate, we gave the information and we stand by our conclusions and we believe that otherjudicial parties that will have to determine the responsibility of those people we mentioned. they may use the information we have gathered eventually in a trial, for example, the international criminal court could, at some point, use this information if they see the value to it and

therefore bring justice to victims. i hope we can talk to you again if this story develops. thank you very much. there's more evidence in the uk of the severe problems being faced by people who need a test for coronavirus and of thousands of results being delayed. the prime minister boris johnson blamed the shortage on what he called a ‘colossal spike' in demand — with the re—opening of schools being the prime cause of the spike. boris johnson‘s critics say it's also the case that the government has failed to deliver on its promises. our health editor hugh pym has the latest. long waits and frustration for people in southend queueing at a walk—in virus testing centre today — further evidence of the immense strain on the whole system. i dropped my daughter off with my granddaughter, she was about 350 people behind all these, to be told that they cannot get tested because they don't have enough. they only had enough tests to do for about 150 people. beth, who lives in surrey,

has been trying repeatedly since yesterday to book a test, but can't. she and two of her children have symptoms. it is extremely stressful, it has added a lot of stress to what is already an upsetting time for us while we are managing everybody being poorly. trying to get through and constantly trying to check my phone to try and hope that we find a test somewhere, and it is really frustrating, to be honest. the government says the uk is testing more than other leading european countries, and that is the case with the number expressed relative to the population. there are, though, some smaller european nations doing more. but laboratories analysing the tests here are struggling to keep up with the workload. the government says new labs are coming on stream, but not for a few weeks. back in july, people were being actively encouraged to get tests.

if you are just worried, if you have got a temperature, you've got a cough or you are just not quite sure that you feel right, the sensible thing to do in this covid world is to go and get a test. now it is very different. capacity is much tighter and the message is that only those with symptoms like high temperature should book a test. confusion over what to do it may well have added to the recent surge. hugh pym, bbc news. germany has announced plans this week to take more than 1,500 migrants following the fire at a detention centre on the greek island of lesbos which left thousands without refuge. the tragedy was a reminder of the scale of a crisis which has seen vast movements of people fleeing war and poverty. five years ago at the height of the migrant crisis the bbc‘s fergal keane reported the extraordinary story of nujeen mustafa, a syrian refugee, who crossed europe in a wheelchair. today five years on, fergal has met up with nujeen to hear how her life has changed. whatever happened to nujeen mustafa ? an extraordinary teenager in a tumultuous time. i'd love to be an astronaut,

to go out and see... and find an alien, yes. i want to meet the queen, yes. born with cerebral palsy, nujeen escaped war in syria's aleppo and travelled moo kilometres to reach the greek island of lesbos. when i met her on the hungarian border in 2015, surrounded by other refugees, nujeen was exhausted, but irrepressible, a girl who'd learned english by watching soap operas. you should fight to get what you want in this world, so... yes, it's a journey for a new life. hungary shut its doors to them, so nujeen and her sister nasrine pushed on across the balkans to a detention camp in slovenia, where i found her at her lowest ebb. nujeen, do you know where you're going?

i don't know. i'm lost, really. five years on, i'm on my way to meet nujeen in the german city of cologne. hey—hey! he laughs delightedly. oh dear! i wish i could hug you, but i can't. oh, my god. not with social distancing. memories flooded back. on that border, all those years ago. that day, where the magnitude of the whole situation just hit me. germany welcomed a child who experienced prejudice because of her disability in syria. even if some dreams have been deferred. i definitely still want to meet the queen, and i definitely still want to be an astronaut. but, you know, since i've been enrolled in school i found out that i'm absolutely terrible at maths, so i might have

to resort to plan b. the experiences of the refugee road defined nujeen‘s life. to help the victims of war and hunger, she's studying to become a psychologist. and she's become a prominent campaigner for disabled refugees, even addressing the un. people with disabilities are forgotten in times of peace. what do you think we expect in times of war? her calls could not be more urgent. on lesbos, where nujeen first reached europe, thousands have been left homeless after the moria refugee camp burned down. hello. her own parents are still marooned in turkey. a weekly video call unites those that have made it to germany and those still waiting. mwah! i guess the part that breaks my heart the most is that they don't get to see my life here,

so they don't get to see me go to school and have a productive life, and see me moving forward with my future. but that might change soon, nujeen hopes, so that her parents can see the life she's building, with courage and grace. fergal keane, bbc news, cologne. there are now fewer than 50 days until america chooses its next president. both the main political parties are in the process of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on trying to win the vote in november. but they could apparently save a lot of time and money by simply consulting some shamans in peru — as the bbc‘s tim allman explains. in this part of lima, political polling is completely unnecessary to instead, they rely on incidents, some maracas and the odd snake. a sacred ritual designed to eliminate the future and predict the next occu pa nt of the future and predict the next occupant of the white house.

so, who is it going to be? translation: joe biden is the one to win. he has everything to win. we have seen they are attacking him with witchcraft. all peruvian shamans are looking for a way to cleanse so that biden will be the next president of the united states. if you happen to be a joe biden supporter you may want to hold off on the celebrations. it seems shamanism, like politics, is farfrom a seems shamanism, like politics, is far from a precise art stop the spitting is a compliment, by the way. translation: today we did a ritual, ritual to good vibes and good energy to mr donald trump. why? because he is deserving and he needs good energies and good vibes from his followers. we are supporters of the gentleman and he will win. he is a winner. the verdict from lima, they will both win. may be the

electoral college not so bad after all. and briefly, 50 metres up and two apart, diners in belgium with a head for heights can once again enjoyed dinner in the sky with a new socially distanced feel. hoisted high up by a crane, they are strapped into seats that private tables for four while well—known chefs cook from a central platform. the venture has launched in many other countries since 2016. and one of the most powerful politicians in the united states, nancy pelosi, has repeated her warning that congress will veto any trade agreement between the us and the uk if the exit undermines the uk if the exit undermines the good friday agreement which occurred —— piece in ireland. joe biden has voiced similar concerns. that is it for now. much more on all the news for

you at any time on the bbc website and on the twitter feeds. hello there. it will be a notably fresher start to the day, particularly across the southern half of the uk because the transition was taking place further north yesterday. but there will still be plenty of dry weather on offer, some good spells of sunshine will break for the cloud and make it feel pleasantly warm. we have seen the transition as we come behind this cold front through yesterday and overnight to slightly fresher air back to where we should be for the time of year. quite a brisk easterly wind blowing in the south. always a little bit more cloud close to the north of scotland with this weather front, and there could be some patchy fog elsewhere first thing, the first couple of hours after dawn there could be some dense patches, but then it clears the way. as should the low cloud near the north sea coast, and the misty low cloud we have had in southern and western areas for the last couple of days.

the exception really to seeing that sunshine for most is the north and east of scotland. and with the return of the sunshine elsewhere in scotland and northern england i think it will feel warmer than it did yesterday, but the 27 we had in the south not being repeated. more like 21,22 which is where we should be for this time of year. and so under the clearest skies again through the coming night it's going to turn quite cool, and yes again the exception being northern scotland where we have those weather fronts close by. down into single figures quite widely in the countryside setting us up for another date with perhaps some patchy mist and fog again first thing. brisk wind in the south, but otherwise some good spells of sunshine. and even north as that weather front weekends at times it will be bright. 19 to 21 around about average for this time of year. and we keep that high pressure close by into the weekend particularly in the north. but this low pressure in the bay of biscay is giving us a little bit of a headache as it comes northwards it is likely to tighten the isobars. the winds will strengthen again, and possibly it's going to bring some showers close to southern parts

of england in particular. so a keen breeze coming off the north sea which will make it feel cooler. some low cloud as well plagueing the north sea coast. so here temperatures will be as high, but 19 to 22 further west. and then just the possibility of some showers, the question mark is how far north they will come into the southern half of the uk. they are still meandering around the area of low pressure into sunday as well. with that breeze coming off the north sea also risk a little bit more cloud around here, but still a good deal of dry and settled weather with high pressure largely in charge for the north. as ever, there is more on the website. 00:29:14,805 --> 2147483051:51:22,117 as yet another blessing 2147483051:51:22,117 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 of saint elizabeth.