emer mccarthy reports.s landslide, which killed at least three people in the city less than 100 miles south—west of the capital caracas, is the latest disaster to hit venezuela. translation: i saw water coming, branches, cars, i it was horrible and the water came into the shop and i was there with two employees, and we barely managed to get out, thank god, it was horrible. wading through calf—deep mud, danielle�*s home isjust one that was destroyed. translation: the downpour of rain came down and - we heard the rumble, when we saw the garage door on the street and we saw an avalanche making pum, pum, pum sounds. all the river came in and filled our house, inside of the house there�*s a metre and a half of water and mud, wejust arrived to see what can be salvaged from inside the house. heavy rains have killed dozens and left hundreds homeless in the state of aragua in recent weeks. for nervous residents, rubble and rocks have now become makeshift flood barriers as they try to protect everything they can salv

emer mccarthy reports.of intense rains in malachi is laid bare. this landslide which killed at least three people in the city less than 100 miles south—west of the capital caracas, is the latest disaster to hit venezuela. i caracas, is the latest disaster to hit venezuela.— to hit venezuela. i saw water coming. _ to hit venezuela. i saw water coming, branches, _ to hit venezuela. i saw water coming, branches, cars, - to hit venezuela. i saw water coming, branches, cars, was| coming, branches, cars, was horrible and the order came to the shop and i was there with two employees we barely managed to get out, thank god, it was horrible stop.— to get out, thank god, it was horrible stop. wading through half dee- horrible stop. wading through half deep mud _ horrible stop. wading through half deep mud her _ horrible stop. wading through half deep mud her home - horrible stop. wading through half deep mud her home is i horrible stop. wading through | half deep mud her home isjust one that was destroyed. the downpo

emer mccarthy reports. another mystery of the red planet has been revealed.lent it dug up huge chunks of buried ice. most exciting of all, we saw clearly in the high—resolution images that a whole lot of water ice had been exposed by this impact. you can see in this flyover video of the 3d data, boulder—sized chunks of ice in the craters, as well as splotches of ice thrown across the landscape outside the crater. this was surprising, because this is the warmest spot on mars, the closest to the equator we've ever seen water ice. nasa says this is a crucial discovery as humans prepare to visit the red planet. discovery as humans prepare this is really an exciting result. discovery as humans prepare we know, of course, that there's water ice near the poles on mars. but in planning forfuture human exploration of mars, we'd want to land the astronauts as near to the equator as possible. and having access to ice at these lower latitudes, that ice could be converted into water, oxygen or hydrogen. that could be really useful. researchers calculate the falling space

emer mccarthy reports.y hide an illicit ingredient, coca, the base of cocaine, and the world's largest producer of the drug has broken its own record for coca productions. colombia harvested some 204,000 hectares of the plant last year, a 43% increase according to the un office on drugs and crime. it's also the highest figure since the body started monitoring colombia's cocaine production in 2001. the report found the increases are due to more productive varieties, better technical assistance, and the replanting of coca bushes. most of columbia's cocaine goes to the us and europe. at the presentation of the report in bogota, the country'sjustice minister said the numbers were clear evidence of the failure of the war on drugs. translation: iii of the war on drugs. translation: . ., ., translation: if we continue to do what we _ translation: if we continue to do what we have _ translation: if we continue to do what we have been _ translation: if we continue to do what we have been doing - translation: if we c

emer mccarthy reports.er the to on to the palace way to the presidential palace protest against last year�*s by general. takeover by the general. when they had to duck for cover, stopped in their tracks by forces firing tear grenades. and stun grenades. they nearly it. one of the palace before at sundown. one protester hit an tear gas and water cannon trained and and trained forces and military formations. demonstrators and trained forces and military forrr anti—to demonstrators have and trained forces and military forrr anti—to protests rators have and trained forces and military forrr anti—to protests almost ave held anti—to protests almost weekly for the past year and held anti—to protests almost wee say)r the past year and held anti—to protests almost wee say they: past year and held anti—to protests almost wee say they are st year and held anti—to protests almost wee say they are ;t y going i this the in fin history that n n 7 in history that we have a man lead a coup a manleada coup any progress on th

emer mccarthy, bbc news.ean coins. for now, they're under tight security — you need special permission just to touch one. but from december, they'll circulate alongside the queen's coins, which won't be withdrawn. keeping the currency current is a significant moment. martin was the man charged with creating the image and getting everything in proportion, knowing eventually his work would end up in millions of pockets and piggy banks. you don't want to make it, for example, too cheerful because this is a serious... this is a very serious symbol. and yet it needs to be light enough to put across his humanity. it's getting in the subtlest of possible ways those emotions, rather than, as it were, ears or nose or eyes. these days, cash isn't really king. only 15% of payments are used using coins and notes. but having a new monarch on the money still represents the biggest change here since decimalisation. archive: the buildings her majesty opened i house the processes involved in the converting of blank discs into

emer mccarthy, bbc news.ula da silva appears to be leading the race over far—right incumbentjair bolsonaro. our south america correspondent katy watson reports from sao paulo. these past few weeks on the road have been noisy and relentless. both lula and bolsonaro are well aware this has become a tight race. his support underestimated ahead of the first round, bolsonaro's camp came into the second round feeling confident, and rival lula knows this won't be an easy win, even if the polls put him in the lead for now. party shop ownerjanina is hoping for celebrations of her own this weekend. she has little faith in the polls and is convinced bolsonaro will win it. translation: i don't believe in the polls. i go to the demonstrations and they are peaceful, it's beautiful. the green and yellow colours, families, children, babies in buggies. so the streets say the exact opposite of the polls. if you just looked at the demonstrations across brazil, you'd see it's so different. in a campaign so prone to fake news, it

emer mccarthy reports.ince the body started monitoring colombia's cocaine production in 2001. the report found the increases are due to more productive varieties, better technical assistance, and the replanting of coca bushes. most of colombia's cocaine goes to the us and europe. at the presentation of the report in bogota, the country's justice minister said the numbers were clear evidence of the failure of the war on drugs. translation: if we continue to do what we have been doing _ for the last ten or 20 years, the result will not change. if we want to reverse the figure, we have to do something different, something new. that's a view held by the country's new president, gustavo petro. he has raised, among other things, an amnesty to gangsters willing to give themselves up and abandon the trade. he has also proposed purchasing arable land to redistribute to small farmers, to make a living from legal crops. in the past, the government has struggled to get farmers to move away from coca production, but pro

so i don't really think that kevin mccarthy has a place to stand there, but tom emmer, to the point, clint, when it comes to the steve scalise situation. emer, congressman emmer tried to roll that out. here's the difference, there was no advertising campaign by democrats saying that steve scalise ought to be shot. showing steve scalise inside of targets like they did with people like speaker pelosi, like they have done with president obama. he was not being hung in effigy. democrats were not leading a campaign saying that to be a patriot you need to consider those people to be a lethal threat to you and that you need to have a gun. you need to have as big a gun as you can get and go out and do target practice because those democrats, dot dot dot. that's the difference. you have a political party that is now running on the idea that true patriotism is to take up arms against the democrats because they are somehow your enemy and evil and that anything is possible because they are a bunch of what are they doing, qanon, they're saying they're hiding children in their basements to abuse them. why wouldn't somebody say, you know what, if i'm goin